agent-compose features
Inventory of what ships today.
Composition engine
agent-compose composeturns a KDL request into an immutable bundle.roster:corehas 7 seats and 10 personalities. Each seat melds one signature trait with one bond shared with a sibling seat, and every boundary reaches all seven as one owner, two scoped, and four deferring. Role briefings own each charter.- External person packages and local personality libraries replace the default.
personality-library "roster:core"lets an external package bind the embedded core personalities by slug instead of vendoring their bodies. Roles, seats, and identity stay package-exclusive..agents/roles.kdlowns skill-provider repos, skills, and repository policy.- Three model tiers declare Core role deployment compatibility without changing selected context.
- Materialization promotes admitted
COMPOSED.mdto nativeSKILL.md. - Resolver traces provider and content outcomes with budgets.
boundary-omitdrops a defer-side boundary whose owning seat the deployment does not have, and refuses a scoped grant. See boundary omission.- Atomic materialization verifies staged and reused bundles.
- Canonical skills use identity cards and compiled fallback. Role bodies cap at 400 words, role boundaries under a separate one.
- Role adjacency names each role's two likeliest absorptions.
Load-point projection
agent-compose projectplaces verified bundles transactionally at repo or container-home load points for four harnesses.- Sidecar ownership protects foreign files and restores prior owned state.
Launch-time refresh
- Launch adds color, an Enter gate, and a Codex intro.
- A Claude launch passes identity flags, not files.
- Refresh uses validated fallback unless
external-onlyforbids it. launch --nestedstarts a second seat from inside a session, one hop deep and never over the caller's own load points.
Inspection
config validatestrictly checks staged host configuration without writes.agent-compose describerenders a collapsible decision tree.--whyfollows one item from consideration to outcome.agent-compose diffreports semantic changes.verifychecks entry points, delivery, traces, and selected identities.- Catalogues and export provide inspection, reproducible archives, and logical content diff.
composerenders the role metadata and the identity texture.--explainadds the briefing, the credits, the expressions, and the decisions.- Evaluation derives the board from the roster, runs it with
evalkit, and grades it by hand with the sharedaos-eval. No mechanical scorer anywhere in the loop. - V2 migration maps v1 roles without aliases.
- TTY colors use canonical identity and pass an OKLab legibility gate.
Redirects and
NO_COLORstay plain.
Identity surfaces
- Identity primitives give every personality an ordered emblem
name list, a
motif, ageometry, a prosebody, and asound-mark, and give every role a prosestance. The body and stance are what a generating renderer needs to draw the creature without hand-authoring it. - Identity renderers cover the palette, overlays, the
acompose statuslinerow,--subagentrows, and the short id.whoamiprints it. The overlay carries a separation-solved windowbackgroundbeside the accent, so a renderer no longer tints its own. native-uiemits per-role Claude Code themes.
Roster artifact and cascade
agent-compose roster --out <dir>renders lazy-loaded role and personality skills plus native adaptation.- Bare convergence emits deterministic
person.json. cascadeemits harness doctrine and the role/residencyrepository-plan.yamlwith sealed provenance.bundle materializereturns a verified role/harness bundle with provenance.- Bare
acomposeconverges hosts.--reapplyforces the layout,--verbosetracessource => destination, and-- <command>refreshes then execs. Ward smoke proves idempotence. - Local skill catalogues consume AOS roots.
- Release publishes unreleased product deltas, including roll-forward recovery, under a hold.
See also
- ../README.md - product boundary and current status.
- ../AGENTS.md - repo-specific operating rules.
- ../justfile - development recipes.
- ../.ward/ward.yaml - catalog metadata.
- Catalog trifecta.