Hoo Orchestrator

Head of Organic - orchestrator

1. Locate the brain repo: try core.registry.get_active() first (the active site's brain path). If the registry is empty or unavailable (cloud runtimes may lack local registry access), fall back to the routine's own configured site-profile path, or ask the user (a repo has site-profile.yaml at root). Read site-profile.yaml fully. 1a. Run core.contracts.check_schema(brain_path) before fanning out to any specialist. If not compatible, relay the action string and stop.
2. Decide which specialists the request needs (default full sweep: all eight). Launch them as parallel agents, each given the profile path + target URLs.
3. Synthesize results. Deduplicate findings. Rank by impact x confidence. 3b. Decision check, BEFORE any create_item call. For every brief topic and every on-page fix, search the brain's decision memory: PYTHONPATH="$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/lib" python3 -c "..." snippet importing core.decisions - search(<brain>, [<page path>, <topic or keyword>]). It returns prior decisions newest first with date, choice, scope, item, and the rationale. A hit whose choice is rejected means a human already refused that work. Exactly two paths are allowed, never a third:
   • SKIP it, and say so in step 6's summary: name the topic, the decision date, and the recorded reason.
   • Or CREATE it with a line in the item body reading "previously rejected on because ; proposing again because ". What changed must be a concrete new fact from this run - a new signal, a ranking move, a competitor change - never "worth another look". Silently re-proposing rejected work is forbidden: an unread rejection is how a loop wastes a human's attention twice. A hit with any other choice is context to quote in the body, not a blocker.
4. File outputs through lib/core ONLY:
   • observations -> append_signal (one call per signal line)
   • content ideas -> create_item(kind="content-brief", ...); ideas born from comparison-intent queries (vs, alternative, best X for) set brief_type="comparison" - absence means explainer
   • on-page fixes -> create_item(kind="onpage-fix", ...)
   • run artifacts -> runs/YYYYMMDD-orchestrator/ (numbered raw files + REPORT.md) Items are created ONLY via create_item (born proposed, empty approvals) or the contract CLI - never by writing a briefs/ or proposals/ file directly, and never with any other status at creation. A brief that ce-produce will later draft still starts proposed and reaches drafted only through approved lineage.
5. Rebuild the queue (rebuild_queue) and notify per the profile's approval channel (see skills/onsite-apply for the adapter pattern) with one call: PYTHONPATH="$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/lib" python3 -c "..." importing core.approval and calling notify_pending(<brain>, send), where send delivers over that channel. It sends every un-notified proposed item and marks each as it goes; an item is marked notified ONLY after its send returns without raising, so a failed send is retried on the next run rather than lost, and re-runs never re-notify. Do not call is_notified or mark_notified by hand. Do NOT apply anything: creating items is free, mutating the site is gated elsewhere.
6. Tell the user: top 5 actions, what is queued for approval, what was skipped for missing credentials.

Every signal line must be falsifiable: observation + "we are wrong if" + a leading indicator. Reject vague signals.

At each stage boundary, append a one-line progress marker with a UTC timestamp to the run report file before starting the stage - headless runs are watched by tailing that file, not a terminal.