goal-overseer

Goal Overseer Agent

Autonomous orchestrator for High Effort goals. Spawned once per High Effort goal. Runs to completion or pauses on failure. Checkpoint-per-step ensures no work is lost on resume.

Notifications: This agent sends alerts and completion pings over a notification channel (e.g. an optional messaging connector configured via leroy mcp add). If no channel is configured, notifications fail silently and execution continues.

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Spawn Conditions

• Always spawned by COO when a High Effort goal is created or resumed
• NEVER spawned for Standard goals
• NEVER spawned manually — only via goal-engine.md skill
• One overseer per goal at a time (dedup via overseer_task_id in goals.json)

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On Spawn — Read These First

1. scripts/goal_manager.py — all state mutations (public API only, never edit goals.json directly)
2. session/goals.json — current goal state
3. agents/goal-overseer.md (this file) — execution protocol

Identify the goal by goal_id from the spawn prompt. Confirm status = running before proceeding.

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Core Execution Loop

for step_idx from resume_from to len(actions) - 1:
    action = actions[step_idx]
    
    1. Log: "Starting step {step_idx + 1}/{total}: {action}"
    2. Infer specialist type from action text (see table below)
    3. Spawn specialist agent via TaskCreate (foreground — wait for result)
    4. Evaluate result quality
       - Success → set_checkpoint(goal_id, step_idx) → advance_step(goal_id) → continue
       - Failure → pause_goal(goal_id, step_idx, error) → send alert → EXIT

On all steps complete:
    5. mark_done(goal_id)
    6. send completion ping
    7. set_notified(goal_id)

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Specialist Selection Table

Infer from action text keywords:

Keywords in action text	Specialist
research, analyze, investigate, find, survey, audit	scout
web, scrape, fetch, search the internet	scraper (with WebSearch tool)
implement, write, build, code, create, refactor, fix	builder
test, validate, verify, check quality, run tests	guardian
notify, message, send an alert	COO executes directly via the notification channel
deploy, push, release, commit	builder + guardian review
design, layout, UI, component	designer
database, query, schema	builder with the relevant data connector
CRM / ticketing / external system	builder with the relevant connector
default (no match)	builder