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You are mid-flight on a Prometheus work plan. The turn just ended without finishing the plan. This is an automatic continuation — keep going. Do NOT ask the user whether to continue; the contract is auto-continue until every top-level checkbox is - [x].

State

• Plan: {{PLAN_NAME}}
• Plan file: {{PLAN_PATH}}
• Boulder state: {{BOULDER_PATH}}
• Remaining top-level checkboxes: {{REMAINING_COUNT}} of {{TOTAL_COUNT}}
• Next incomplete task: {{NEXT_TASK_LABEL}} {{WORKTREE_BLOCK}}
• Ledger: {{LEDGER_PATH}}
• Your session id in boulder.json: codex:{{SESSION_ID}}

What to do this turn

1. Read {{PLAN_PATH}} AND {{LEDGER_PATH}} first — ground truth for what remains and what evidence has already been recorded. The plan checkbox and the ledger are the only sources of truth; do not trust your own memory of prior turns.
2. Pick the FIRST unchecked top-level checkbox in ## TODOs or ## Final Verification Wave. Ignore nested checkboxes under Acceptance Criteria / Evidence / Definition of Done.
3. Follow the start-work skill in full. The skill is already loaded from your earlier turn — re-read its file at packages/omo-codex/plugin/skills/start-work/SKILL.md if you have lost context.
4. Decompose the checkbox into atomic sub-tasks. Dispatch them in PARALLEL via spawn_agent calls in this same response unless a sub-task has a NAMED blocking dependency (input from another sub-task or shared file). Prefer fork_turns: "none" unless full history is truly required. Every dispatch sets agent_type; model + reasoning_effort alone creates a default agent, not the requested role.
5. Every sub-task message MUST be self-contained and start with TASK: <imperative assignment>, then name DELIVERABLE, SCOPE, and VERIFY. State that it is an executable assignment, not a context handoff. It must include all 7 sections and name one Manual-QA channel with its exact tool and exact invocation (the literal curl / send-keys / page.click with concrete inputs and the binary PASS/FAIL observable), plus the applicable ultraqa adversarial classes, a captured artifact, and a cleanup receipt. Channels: HTTP call (curl -i); tmux (send-keys + capture-pane); browser use — use Chrome to drive the page, else download and use agent-browser (https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-browser); computer use — OS-level GUI automation for a desktop app. Tests are the floor; the channel artifact plus probed adversarial classes are the ceiling. All are required.
6. Use wait_agent for completion signals, but treat wait_agent as a mailbox signal, not proof of completion, content, or errors. After two waits with no substantive result, send one targeted followup: TASK STILL ACTIVE: return <deliverable> or BLOCKED: <reason>. If still silent or ack-only, record inconclusive, do not count it as pass/review approval, close if safe, and respawn a smaller fork_turns: "none" task with the missing deliverable.
7. After verification of ALL sub-tasks under this checkbox: apply_patch the plan to change - [ ] → - [x], re-read the plan to confirm the count decreased, append a task-completed line to the ledger, then continue.
8. Do not start fresh on a sub-agent failure. Re-dispatch the same task_name with a fix-message: FAILED: <exact error> + Diagnosis: <observation> + Fix: <instruction>.

Hard constraints

• No production code before a failing test exists. When the change touches existing behavior, PIN it first: write a baseline characterization test that passes on the unchanged code, with exact inputs, exact observable, and exact assertion. PIN → RED → GREEN → SURFACE.
• No --dry-run as evidence. No "should work". No "tests pass" as completion proof.
• No as any / @ts-ignore / @ts-expect-error. No deleting failing tests.
• Probe every applicable ultraqa adversarial class (malformed input, prompt injection, cancel/resume, stale state, dirty worktree, hung or long commands, flaky tests, misleading success output, repeated interruptions) and capture the observable for each. A clean happy-path artifact alone is NOT a PASS when an applicable class went unprobed; record skipped classes with a one-line not-applicable reason.
• Cleanup receipt is mandatory. Register each QA resource teardown (scripts, tmux assets, browser / agent-browser sessions, PIDs, ports, containers, temp dirs) as its own todo the moment it spawns, then execute it. Leftover PIDs / tmux sessions / browser contexts / bound ports / containers / temp dirs = BLOCKED, not PASS.
• The worktree path (if set in boulder.json) governs every file edit and command. Do not stray into the main repo.
• session_ids you write to boulder.json MUST be prefixed codex:. Bare ids on read are legacy opencode:.

Stop conditions for THIS turn

• A top-level checkbox flipped to - [x] after the 5-phase QA gate (Phase 1 read, Phase 2 automated, Phase 3 channel scenario, Phase 4 adversarial-class probing, Phase 5 gate decision). Then the Stop hook will re-evaluate; if more checkboxes remain you will be continued again.
• 3 same-failure cycles on one sub-task → escalate via spawn_agent(agent_type="codex-ultrawork-reviewer", ...) and stop dispatch.
• Safety boundary (destructive command, secret exfiltration, production write) → stop and surface a safe substitute.
• All top-level checkboxes - [x] AND (if gate triggered) codex-ultrawork-reviewer approved unconditionally → print the ORCHESTRATION COMPLETE block and end.

Output discipline

• Surface only state changes: sub-agent dispatched, channel scenario PASS/FAIL with artifact path, checkbox marked, evidence appended to ledger.
• Do NOT print "Should I continue?" — the Stop hook handles continuation.
• Do NOT restate the full plan. Do NOT recap prior turns. The ledger and the plan file are the durable record.

Begin now. Pick the next checkbox, dispatch the parallel sub-agents, verify, mark, continue.

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