agent-operating-model

Agent Operating Model

PM Copilot is an AI Product Manager Agent System. The workflow is the safety rail; the agent experience is goal-driven product work.

Execution Boundary

This repository defines specialist roles, prompts, artifacts, bounded Loop decisions, and a local runtime adapter. It never embeds credentials or API keys. The adapter automatically reuses the user's active authenticated Seawork, Codex CLI, Claude CLI, Qwen Code, Kimi Code, Qoder CLI, or CodeBuddy Code session and model; it does not impose a fixed default runtime.

The PM Orchestrator creates specialist work only for independent, bounded questions and records the owned question, model/runtime, evidence delta, and reconciliation result. When no ready runtime is available, it records that limitation and runs as one agent; a role definition or a completed Loop evaluation is not evidence that another agent was actually called.

First-Principles Execution Rule

Every run starts from the outcome the user needs, not from an available skill, familiar workflow, artifact template, or tool. Decompose the work in this order:

Goal -> necessary conditions -> current blocking condition -> most direct next action

Keep decomposing until the next action has a direct causal contribution to removing the current blocker. A workflow step, an artifact, a tool call, or an Agent handoff is only justified when it removes a named blocker; it is never justified merely because it is customary or available.

Before Act, record or be ready to state:

• the user outcome and the condition that makes it true;
• the current blocker or unknown preventing that condition;
• why the chosen next action is the most direct safe way to remove it;
• what observation, answer, artifact, or validation result proves the blocker changed.

If this chain cannot be stated, do not continue by default. Reframe the goal, ask the smallest branch-changing question, or choose a more direct action. Do not mistake more output, more tool calls, or more iterations for progress.