The board draining to 280/280 done left the company idle under a
still-active goal, with 24 markdown files and zero code as its life's work.
Two structural gaps caused it: goals had no lifecycle (status was written
once as 'active' and never read again — nothing re-engages anyone when the
last task closes), and nothing anywhere distinguished plans from product,
so every "engineering" objective closed on documents.
The loop, closed:
- tasks.origin (migration 055) records provenance: chat_wake for mention
vehicles (backfilled from their runs), goal_review for checkpoints, null
for real work. Chatter and checkpoints can therefore never count as
progress.
- spawnGoalReviews (each worker tick): an active goal with zero open tasks
and real progress since the last review gets ONE review task for the goal
owner. The review demands evidence — list the workspace, read the code,
run the tests; documents are how work starts, not proof it happened — and
must end in exactly one of: complete_goal, or the next wave of tasks with
requires_filesystem engineering. A review closed with neither spawns
nothing: termination is structural, not a counter.
- complete_goal (CEO or goal owner) finally lets someone say a goal is
achieved, audited.
- CEO and department-head voices now state the doctrine: a goal that
promises software closes on code that builds and passes tests in the
workspace, and implementation is delegated with requires_filesystem: true.
On the live profile this arms one review: the active platform goal has 0
open tasks and 21 real completed ones, so the CEO gets the checkpoint on
next launch and the company starts building instead of stopping.
Two operator asks, one review gate:
Avatar portraits (migration 052): the avatar editor gains "Upload
photo" - the renderer downscales the chosen picture to a ~96px cover
crop and stores it as a small data URL (PNG keeps transparency, the
rest compresses to JPEG), so the snapshot stays light and the CSP needs
nothing new. The portrait wins over emoji and initials everywhere the
shared Avatar renders (chat, org chart, office card, sidebar), and
"Remove photo" falls back cleanly. The main process validates scheme
and size (base64 image data URL, <=300k chars) so a rogue caller cannot
re-bloat the snapshot. e2e uploads a real PNG through the profile
dialog and sees the portrait land in the sidebar.
Global pause (migration 053): when agents start talking in circles,
one topbar toggle - visible on every page - pulls the handbrake.
app_state.autorun_paused survives restarts; the queue worker checks it
each tick and neither enqueues nor claims while set (the run already in
flight finishes). Queued work simply waits and the paused state renders
as an amber "resume" pill. A unit test drives the real worker: paused
leaves a queued run untouched through many ticks, resuming claims it
within moments; e2e flips the toggle in the live shell.
- Migration 049: avatar_emoji/avatar_color on agents and employees
- updateAgent accepts a new name (mention-name validated) and avatar;
new updateEmployeeProfile renames the operator and sets their avatar
- Avatars are emoji-on-color tiles (renderer CSP blocks remote images);
an AvatarDirectoryContext built from the snapshot lets the shared
Avatar component honor custom looks at every call site - chat rows,
conversation list, org chart, office card, sidebar - without
threading props through pages
- Team edit dialog gains Name + avatar editor (CEO included); the
sidebar foot opens an Edit-profile dialog for the operator
- e2e: rename an agent to a new mention handle with an emoji avatar,
edit the operator profile, both verified in the live shell
The legacy application - its src, tests, landing site, promo assets, docs,
release tooling, CI workflows, and root configs - leaves the tree; it stays
reachable in history. Everything under AgentCompany-New moves up unchanged:
same package name, so the production userData/database path is untouched,
and e2e/build scripts already resolved paths relative to the project. The
developer cred.txt stays gitignored at its new location. Full verify:ci
passes from the new root.
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