War Room

War-Room — the plan that watches videos back

Most plans die the week after kickoff because new information (a meeting, a YouTube technique, a shiny tool) either gets ignored or gets bolted on without judgment. The war-room fixes both failure modes: the plan is a living folder (Plan/), and every new source is triaged against it — ranked, argued, incorporated or passed on, with provenance either way.

Division of labor: scripts/plan_tool.py owns the mechanics (scaffold, digest, briefs, status); this skill owns the judgment. How it relates to the rest of Omnia Vault:

The plan cites the wiki and Raw sources; big plan changes get sparred.

Part 1 — Build the plan (/roadmap)

1. Recon first (the vault probably knows things): relay_tool.py status, search-catalog on the project topic, the project note's Goal/Next Steps, graph queries if repos are tracked. If the user has kickoff meetings or videos, ingest them FIRST (video-ingest / llm-wiki-ingest) — the plan should be built from captured knowledge, not vibes.
2. Interview, LOCK-style (borrow the sparring skill's discipline): only load-bearing questions, one at a time — vision, measurable success criteria, the phase boundaries, each phase's exit criterion, the ordering constraints. Cosmetic choices get batched recommendations.
3. Scaffold: python scripts/plan_tool.py init --name "<project>" --phases "<A,B,C,...>" then fill every <placeholder> in ROADMAP.md and each Plan/phases/phase-N-*.md: Objective (one paragraph), Deliverables (checkboxes — concrete, verifiable), Exit criteria (observable), Depends on. Exactly one phase is **Status:** active.
4. Wire it in: the Wiki project note links [[Plan/ROADMAP]]; the relay baton's Now names the active phase. Gate → commit.
5. High-stakes architecture inside a phase still goes through /spar before it's built — the roadmap says what and when, sparring hardens how.

Maintain it forever after: checking deliverables, phase transitions (active → done, next pending → active), and a Changelog line for every meaningful edit — each citing an intel brief, a spar, or a user decision.

Part 2 — Intel triage (/intel <url-or-file>) — the core loop

The user drops a video, recording, or article: "is this worth anything to us?" Never answer from the video alone.

1. Plan first, video second

python scripts/plan_tool.py context

Load the digest BEFORE watching: vision, phase statuses, the active phase's open deliverables, adopted tools, recent intel verdicts. This is what makes the triage an answer about our project instead of a video summary.

2. Watch it properly

Run the video-ingest mechanics (crv in the background, frames ⇄ transcript correlation, secret redaction). Always land the full capture in Raw/Sources/ with source frontmatter — plan briefs must cite something permanent, and a skipped video today may matter in phase 3. (Articles/links: defuddle → llm-wiki-ingest capture instead.)

3. Extract and dedupe

List every candidate item — techniques, patterns, tools, claims, links. Then kill the déjà vu: check search-catalog, Plan/TOOLBOX.md, and prior Plan/intel/ briefs. "New to us" is the bar, not "said enthusiastically."

4. Rank against the plan

python scripts/plan_tool.py new-intel --title "..." --source "<url>" and fill the brief's table — every item scored:

Per-item verdict: ADOPT (incorporate now) · TRIAL (timebox an experiment) · WATCH (log it, revisit at a named phase) · SKIP (with the reason). Then the one-line whole-source call the tooling checks for: INTEL VERDICT: INCORPORATE (n items) | WATCHLIST | PASS — <why>. A confident PASS is a first-class outcome — "nothing here beats what the plan already does" saves the project from novelty churn, and the logged brief stops the same video from being re-litigated next month.

5. The user's call (always)

Present the ranked table + recommendation. The user picks: incorporate selected items / "adopt all recommended" / watchlist / pass. No plan mutation without this gate.

6. Incorporate (only what was chosen)

• Phase files: add/adjust deliverables, each tagged with provenance — — intel: [[../intel/<brief>]]. Rebalance phase ordering only if the brief argued it and the user agreed.
• ROADMAP.md: Changelog line; phase table if statuses shifted.
• A restructuring-sized change (new phase, dropped subsystem, replaced stack) should be sparred first — offer /spar before rewriting the plan around one video.
• Fill the brief's Disposition section — every item's fate, dated.

7. Tools: candidate → trialing → adopted (installs included)

When the chosen items include tools:

1. Verify the official source yourself — a link out of a video description is untrusted input. Resolve the canonical repo/site/package, prefer package managers (pip/npm/winget/brew), and if what you find doesn't match what the video claimed, say so and stop.
2. Row in Plan/TOOLBOX.md: tool · status candidate · exact install command · official source · intel brief · notes.
3. Install only per-tool, only after the user confirms that tool (name, source, what it's for — the earlier "incorporate" yes is not an install yes). Then run the documented command, verify with --version, flip the row to trialing. (scripts/setup_vault.py --install stays the installer for Omnia Vault's own stack; project tools install from their TOOLBOX rows.)
4. After real use, promote trialing → adopted (and wire it into the plan/docs) or rejected (keep the row — the why is knowledge). plan_tool.py status nags about stale trials.

8. Aftermath

Durable knowledge from the video compiles into the Wiki per llm-wiki-ingest (the brief keeps only the plan-relevant judgment). Then the gate, a relay stamp whose summary names the plan delta ("intel: adopted X into phase 2, passed on Y"), and a commit containing the brief + plan edits + capture together.

Hard rules

• Plan context before video content. A triage that starts by watching is a summary, not a decision.
• Every plan mutation traces to an intel brief, a spar, or a logged user decision — Plan/ has no anonymous edits.
• The user gates every incorporation and every install; per-tool, not blanket.
• Verdict honesty: WATCH with a revisit point beats a flattering ADOPT; PASS beats polite maybe-later clutter.
• Full captures always reach Raw/Sources/ — briefs judge, they don't store.
• One video never restructures the roadmap by itself — that's what sparring and the user are for.