hephaestus-network

Hephaestus Agent Workforce Network

The active host LLM staffs the task. Agentlas Core federates content menus from registered Local, owner Cloud, and public Hub inventory. No source and no deterministic layer is the decision-maker or a server-side LLM executor.

Source scopes are exact:

• network: Local + Cloud + Hub;
• local: registered Local packages only;
• cloud: the signed-in owner's Cloud packages only;
• hub: public Hub packages only.

Before an unpinned search uses the Local source, Core refreshes every active registered source folder and creates a new immutable release when its safe content snapshot changed. This is discovery freshness; a prepared or goal-bound roster remains pinned to its exact release. network reindex is a rebuildable card-cache operation and is not required to refresh a registered Local release. New folders still require explicit local-register.

Public demos and distribution proof use explicit hub scope. They must not use private Local/Cloud inventory as evidence of public availability.

Resolve the runner and sign in

Network can query owner Cloud and public Hub inventory, so establish the same saved Agentlas session before staffing:

RUNNER=""
for c in \
  "$HOME/.agentlas/runtime/current/bin/hephaestus" \
  ./bin/hephaestus
do [ -x "$c" ] && RUNNER="$c" && break; done
if [ -z "$RUNNER" ]; then
  for cache in \
    "$HOME/.claude/plugins/cache/agentlas-core-engine/hephaestus" \
    "$HOME/.codex/plugins/cache/agentlas-core-engine/hephaestus"; do
    newest="$(ls -d "$cache"/*/bin/hephaestus 2>/dev/null | sort -V | tail -1)"
    [ -n "$newest" ] && [ -x "$newest" ] && RUNNER="$newest" && break
  done
fi
if [ -n "$RUNNER" ] && [ "${HEPHAESTUS_AUTH_AUTOPOPUP:-1}" != "0" ]; then
  "$RUNNER" auth ensure >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
fi

The browser opens only when no reusable local sign-in exists. In CI or another headless environment, set HEPHAESTUS_AUTH_AUTOPOPUP=0.

Required MCP sequence

First confirm the typed tool menu contains workforce.preflight_work_order and that its _meta.protocolVersion is at least 2026-08-20.1. If the tool is absent, the host is still attached to a preflight-less runtime. Do not fall back to model-authoring the strict wire WorkOrder and do not retry the same invalid call. Return the machine-readable boundary workforce_protocol_upgrade_required; let the runtime's normal verified auto-update finish, then reload the host/MCP session. An explicit hephaestus hep-update remains an operator action, never an implicit skill side effect.