factory

/factory — the queue frontend

Contract: this command is the human-triggered replacement for a polling daemon. It resolves the tracker, shows what is authorized, claims one ticket, and hands it to the workflow that owns that stage. It contains no build phases of its own — implementation is /sonu:build, review is the skills build already runs, and merging is /sonu:ship. It never applies a trigger, and it merges only by delegation: the ship route (Phase 6) hands a human-authorized ticket to /sonu:ship, where the human's factory-ready-to-ship trigger is the merge authorization. Outside that route, it never merges.

Two front doors reach the same build engine. Describe work in chat and /sonu:build runs its own design gate. Route work through a ticket and this command claims it, then invokes that same /sonu:build — with the design gate already satisfied by the human-approved spec.

Apply this to $ARGUMENTS — the text typed after the command. If that token appears literally or is empty, run the default pass in Phase 3.

Shell discipline — every Bash call is a fresh shell. No variable survives between snippets. Each fence below declares what it uses; substitute literal values where a snippet says to. Never drop a leading declaration because "it was set earlier" — it was not, and an empty variable here fails silently: an empty ticket id turns a claim into a no-op that reads as success.

Phase 0 — Resolve the tracker

Load Skill(sonu:ticket-lifecycle) and resolve the configured tracker from .sonu/factory-config.md, falling back to ~/.sonu/factory-config.md. Read only the resolved tracker's adapter.

CONFIG=""
if [ -f .sonu/factory-config.md ]; then CONFIG=".sonu/factory-config.md"
elif [ -f "$HOME/.sonu/factory-config.md" ]; then CONFIG="$HOME/.sonu/factory-config.md"
fi
# Three outcomes, never two — a config that exists but cannot be read must NOT
# report "no config" (that message sends the user to re-init a file they have).
if [ -z "$CONFIG" ]; then
  echo "STOP: no factory config — run /sonu:factory init"
elif [ -s "$CONFIG" ] && sed -n '2,/^---$/p' "$CONFIG"; then
  echo "config: $CONFIG"
else
  echo "STOP: config exists at $CONFIG but is empty or could not be read — fix it before running a pass"
fi