Hforge Recursive Investigate

HForge Recursive Investigate

Trigger Signals

• the root cause is unclear and needs staged evidence gathering
• the task crosses multiple modules, services, or ownership boundaries
• the prompt is getting expensive and would benefit from compact root frames and durable artifacts
• the work needs Typed RLM, bounded code cells, proposal artifacts, or replayable investigation state
• a normal one-pass repo scan is likely to lose context or miss intermediate findings

Do not use this for straightforward single-file edits where ordinary repo inspection is enough.

Inspect First

• AGENTS.md
• .hforge/agent-manifest.json
• .hforge/generated/agent-command-catalog.json
• .hforge/runtime/index.json
• .hforge/runtime/recursive/language-capabilities.json
• .hforge/runtime/recursive/runtime-inventory.json
• .hforge/runtime/recursive/escalation-heuristics.json
• .hforge/runtime/recursive/sessions/
• commands/hforge-recursive-investigate.md

Workflow

1. confirm the workspace is initialized with hforge status --root . --json
2. if runtime artifacts are missing, initialize first with hforge bootstrap --root . --yes
3. inspect recursive support with hforge recursive capabilities --root . --json
4. inspect host-runtime posture with hforge recursive runtimes --root . --json
5. provision Python or PowerShell explicitly with hforge recursive provision-runtime <python|powershell> --root . --json only when a workspace-managed alias is helpful
6. create a durable session with hforge recursive plan "<objective>" --task-id <taskId> --root . --json
7. prefer hforge recursive execute with a typed bundle before using freeform structured-analysis snippets
8. use hforge recursive run only for one bounded fallback step when Typed RLM is not the right fit
9. inspect iterations, subcalls, cells, promotions, meta-ops, score, and replay to summarize the work from durable artifacts
10. stay honest about support posture, especially for Cursor and OpenCode where recursive support is translated rather than native

Output Contract

A good recursive-investigate result should include:

• the reason recursive mode was chosen
• the session id and the posture discovered from recursive capabilities and runtime inventory
• whether the agent used Typed RLM, bounded structured analysis, or both
• the most relevant iteration, scorecard, replay, or proposal artifacts
• the next recommended action based on the durable evidence