# Ufo Foundation

> Use when porting Microsoft UFO² constellation machinery — async DAG task orchestration with a ready-task claim loop, two-copy agent/orchestrator state merging with advancement-priority ladders, fail-open modification waits, dual-flag cancellation ladders, error-funneling task execution with event publication, Kahn's-algorithm DAG validation, dependency-condition promotion of newly ready tasks, status-dispatched agent state-machine rounds, fire-and-forget orchestration with typed completion-event drains, merged-base editing, fail-fast device-assignment validation, busy-device queue contracts, and device-scoped pending-task disconnect cancellation.

- Skill: `ryan-brosas/ufo-foundation` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 16 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add ryan-brosas/ufo-foundation`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/ryan-brosas/ufo-foundation/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: AI & ML
- Author: ryan-brosas (https://skillmd.com/u/ryan-brosas)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/ryan-brosas/ufo-foundation

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# ufo: Constellation DAG Orchestration Foundation

## Foundation contract

This is a cold, source-specific foundation, not an operational procedure. It is
historical, revision-pinned evidence rather than timeless guidance. Current
project source, tests, requirements, and runtime behavior outrank this
projection and decide what ships.

## Provenance and revision

- Source record: `ufo`; portable upstream identity, license, coverage caveats, and retrieval history are preserved in the index.
- Recorded revision: `main@96983c73ed09e884a5f1d7ff8936c953b234b684`.
- Full provenance, coverage caveats, boundaries, and preserved evidence:
  `references/index.md`.

## Topic map

- Representative topics: Ready-task claim loop; Two-copy DAG state merge;
  Modification wait, fail-open; Cancellation ladder; Error funnel; DAG
  validation; Dependency-condition promotion; Round state-machine pump.
- Scope and retrieval questions: `references/index.md#use-this-for`.
- Complete capsule chooser: `references/index.md#load-the-matching-source-dump`.
- Detailed grouped map: `references/index.md#capsule-map`.
- Source limitations and portability boundaries: `references/index.md#boundaries`.

## Retrieval

Open the index, choose one capsule matching the active question, and load only
that capsule. Revalidate its cited source and revision before relying on it. Do
not bulk-load the inventory, treat historical claims as current truth, or apply
this foundation as a procedure.