pproenca Report the board
Read-only. Report what .squad/ says and change nothing.
Procedure
1. Handle the empty cases
No .squad/ — say the squad is not initialised here and point at
/swarmforge:squad-init. .squad/ with an empty backlog — say so and point at
/swarmforge:squad-backlog.
2. Read the state
Read config.json, every backlog/*.md front matter, and every
stories/*/state.json. Do not read story artifacts unless reporting on a single
story.
3. Report
Lead with what needs a human:
- Pending gates — story, gate, and the artifact path to review. This is the first thing the operator needs.
- Blockers — story, the obstacle, and where it was recorded.
Then the board, one row per story: id, title, stage reached, stages remaining, gate status. Then open backlog items not yet started, and finally completed stories as a count rather than a list.
Close with the single most useful next action — approve a named gate, resolve a named blocker, or start a named item.
4. A single story
When given a story id, report that story only: its stages with each marked done, current or pending; every artifact written with its path; its gate decisions with notes; and its handoff history in order.
Reporting honestly
Report what the files say, including states that look wrong: a story whose stage
cursor disagrees with its completed list, an approval for a gate no stage owns, a
story directory with no state.json. Name the inconsistency rather than smoothing
it over — it usually means a run was interrupted mid-stage.