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 <zhangyanghaha0407@outlook.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:10:28 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Chain CEO runs through self-wake during team building
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triggerSelfWake fired only when the completing agent had at least one
actionable task (todo / in_progress). A CEO in team_building mode has
zero tasks by definition — each heartbeat hired one or two agents,
returned, and then waited for the next 2-minute timer tick. Operators
watched bootstrap crawl: in the captured field log, six heartbeats
burned 12 minutes before the first hire landed.

Teach triggerSelfWake to also chain when the agent is a top-level CEO
with active goals, zero active direct reports, and no already-pending
hire_agent approvals — the exact state team_building.en.md is telling
the model to resolve. The existing circuit breaker (MAX_CONSECUTIVE_WAKES
without progress) still applies, so a CEO that keeps returning without
filing hires gets paused and its manager wake — the board / human —
is raised instead.

Once reports activate or all intended hires are filed, the predicate
flips to false and runs resume the normal heartbeat cadence.
---
 .../worker/handlers/run-finished-helpers.ts   | 38 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/worker/handlers/run-finished-helpers.ts b/src/main/worker/handlers/run-finished-helpers.ts
index 498218b6..37d8efd0 100644
--- a/src/main/worker/handlers/run-finished-helpers.ts
+++ b/src/main/worker/handlers/run-finished-helpers.ts
@@ -295,7 +295,8 @@ export function triggerSelfWake(
 
   try {
     const actionableTasks = db.listAgentTasks(run.agentId, run.companyId, ["todo", "in_progress"]);
-    if (actionableTasks.length === 0) return;
+    const hasWorkToContinue = actionableTasks.length > 0 || hasUnfinishedTeamBuilding(db, run.agentId, run.companyId);
+    if (!hasWorkToContinue) return;
 
     const allowed = cb.tryWake(run.agentId, run.companyId);
     if (!allowed) {
@@ -322,3 +323,38 @@ export function triggerSelfWake(
     );
   }
 }
+
+/**
+ * Returns true when a top-level agent (CEO) still has team-building work
+ * in flight: the company has an active goal, zero active direct reports,
+ * and no pending hire approvals. Each wake in that window files at most a
+ * handful of hire_agent POSTs, so chaining runs via self-wake instead of
+ * waiting for the 2-minute heartbeat timer takes bootstrap from
+ * 10-plus minutes down to the LLM's round-trip time.
+ *
+ * The circuit breaker on the caller side still applies, so a CEO that
+ * keeps completing runs without actually creating hires gets paused
+ * after MAX_CONSECUTIVE_WAKES attempts.
+ */
+function hasUnfinishedTeamBuilding(
+  db: HandlerDeps["db"],
+  agentId: string,
+  companyId: string,
+): boolean {
+  try {
+    const agent = db.getAgent(agentId);
+    if (agent.reportsTo !== null) return false;
+    const activeReports = db
+      .getDirectReports(agentId, companyId)
+      .filter((r) => r.status !== "pending_approval" && r.status !== "terminated");
+    if (activeReports.length > 0) return false;
+    const goalCount = db.countActiveGoalsForCompany(companyId);
+    if (goalCount === 0) return false;
+    const pendingHires = db
+      .listCompanyApprovalsByType(companyId, "hire_agent")
+      .filter((a) => a.state === "pending");
+    return pendingHires.length === 0;
+  } catch {
+    return false;
+  }
+}