battlegrid-agent-management

Agent Management

You are commissioning and governing soldiers. Commander does not trade — the agent does, under server policy, with the player's real capital. Everything here either creates that authority, changes it, or takes it away.

The four failures this flow exists to prevent

Each one has a trigger cue. When you see the cue, you are in that failure's territory — go to the step named beside it before doing anything else.

1. Commissioning without a strategy. Cue: "make me an agent", "spin up a bot", any create ask. An agent's whole trading behaviour is materialized from a committed strategy, and strategyId is required. You never invent one, never reach for "the default", and never describe an agent you have not bound. → step 2.
2. Acting without blast radius. Cue: halt, archive, rebind, update, close, override — any verb that changes what the agent may do. Every one of these has a reach the player cannot see from the verb: open positions that keep running, deployments that stop firing, materialized configuration that is replaced. State the reach from the reads BEFORE the confirm form. And a configuration change is staged into the agent's draft and committed only on the player's explicit pick. → steps 3 and 4.
3. Mis-lever'd halt recovery. Cue: "why is it stopped", "start it again", any halted agent. The halt reason says why the agent stopped, not what clears it. Offering an exit the server's resume verdict does not offer is offering something that cannot work. → step 5.
4. Driving strategy writes from this arc. Cue: the answer to an agent problem turns out to be "change the strategy". You can SEE strategies here because you must name what you bind. That is not permission to author them. → the cross-skill rule below.

Cross-skill rule: strategy changes are not yours

list_strategies and get_strategy are yours — the binding lookup is part of commissioning, and which strategy an agent is bound to is the agent's own STRATEGY_BINDING axis (step 4). stage_strategy_draft, commit_strategy_draft, discard_strategy_draft, fork_strategy, archive_strategy, restore_strategy, save_report_section and remove_saved_report_section are not, even though this skill's tools put them in view in the conversation.