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Bifrost

Bifrost is an autonomous AI fleet management system. The public board is https://bifrost.0xray.dev. Every PR, issue and comment becomes a card on one board and a line in the right seat's inbox, and the seat is woken to act on it.

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ INPUT LAYER                                                │
│   ┌──────────────┐ ┌──────────────┐ ┌───────────────────┐  │
│   │ GitHub       │ │ seat         │ │ Railway deploys,  │  │
│   │ PR / issue / │ │ presence +   │ │ /healthz probes   │  │
│   │ comment      │ │ activity     │ │                   │  │
│   └──────┬───────┘ └──────┬───────┘ └─────────┬─────────┘  │
│          └────────────────┴───────────────────┘            │
└─────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┘
                              v
┌─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┐
│ PROCESSING LAYER            v                              │
│   ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐   │
│   │ collector board (live_mesh.py) on Railway          │   │
│   │ PR, issue, review, push, and merge → beats         │   │
│   │ inbox lines use routing/inbox-roles.json           │   │
│   └──────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┘   │
└──────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┘
                               v
┌──────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┐
│ OUTPUT LAYER                 v                             │
│   ┌──────────────┐ ┌──────────────────┐ ┌───────────────┐  │
│   │ the board    │ │ seat inboxes +   │ │ seat presence │  │
│   │ (cards)      │ │ wake webhooks    │ │ + archive     │  │
│   └──────────────┘ └──────────────────┘ └───────────────┘  │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

The governor runs inside the server (house/live/app/server.mjs). Bifrost is optional. When LIVE_URL is unset, the board is hand-kept house/WAVEBOARD.md. When LIVE_URL is set, the board is Bifrost (GET /cards). When nothing on the board moves for BIFROST_TRIPWIRE_MINUTES (default 30), the tripwire starts a timed run. On a stalled board, every seat with open work is woken with a deadline. On an empty board, blinky (seats.coord) is woken to pull the next work, unless weekly burn is at or above 75% (BIFROST_WEEKLY_BURN of 0.75 or 75): that empty-board wake stays quiet and no seat is woken. Below 75% the empty board still wakes blinky. The same burn keeps a due plan card quiet. blinky can start the same run with POST /clock. Wave timing stays Bifrost. The plan-next-wave card stays blinky. A seat's move clears the clock.

A new pull request starts packet-first: a short packet (scope, files, plates and docs, tests, out of scope) gets critic PASS before any code. While a PR's cloud is live, follow-ups collapse into one batch string. That string flushes on run_end or ci_pass only. A green head queues critic on run_end when the checks are already green, and on ci_pass when the run has already ended. A collector ci row carries head_sha when it has no sha. A green event seen before run_end is not replayed. A required-check failure on run_end goes back to the worker. A pending check waits. A buffered PR stays in-beat, so nudge L1 does not fire while events are waiting.

evalNudges is the one nudge path. A live card with no beat for NUDGE_L1_S (default 3600) sends L1 to the next owner, or else the card owner. L3 repeats to that L1 seat after NUDGE_L2_S plus NUDGE_L3_S. An unacked inbox line steps L1, L2, and L3 on that same seat, NUDGE_LINE_S apart (default 900). A missing handoff nudges the owing seat at L1, again at L2, and again at L3. CoS is not woken to reassign. A seat with no route, and a seat whose wake has gone quiet, holds that nudge on itself.

A cloud agent is its own board row (cloud_agents, also copied onto board.cloud_agents): bcId, owning seat, linked card, pr, and state running, finished, or failed. The Cursor webhook and seat activity kind: cloud_agent feed that row. The pull URL is the row's pr.

The live page draws those cards again as a kanban directly above the activity list. Columns are the card stages open, review, fix, merge, retest, and done. A click opens that card's timeline. The GitHub link stays on the card face.

Kanban note. The live page shows a read-only kanban above Activity. Columns are open, review, fix, merge, retest, and done. The deep link is ?card=.

History note. Every activity line is archived to history. The word owner is the owner via LIVE_OWNER or the owner-name.

Board rule. On every owner message run live-inbox <seat> --prompt --from owner --note "<gist>". Ack a handled line with live-inbox <seat> --ack <id>, or live-inbox <seat> --ack all once every open line is handled. A cloud agent run uses live-inbox <seat> --turn start --tag "bc-<first8> <track>" and live-inbox <seat> --turn end --tag "bc-<first8>". --from owner is required today.

The public board does not serve the history archive or the kanban yet.

A packet post creates the card; the chat refuses a missing card id; the cloud agent pushes; the seat App opens the pull request; the server attaches both; the activity line gains no new field.

Code lives under house/live/ (collector, board, inbox routing, server). house/live/feed/live_mesh.py runs the collector and the board. house/live-mesh/fetch_feed.py is the upstream feed the deploy assembles. Deploy only via house/live/app/deploy.sh. A Railway build straight from git stops in the Dockerfile with ERROR: collector/ is not assembled. The plate that belongs here is house.

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