tools-only Scuttle and Re-Form: Mission Abort
Use when the mission cannot succeed under current conditions and continuing wastes budget.
Triggers:
- Budget (token or time) is exhausted with critical tasks still pending.
- Mission outcome is no longer achievable due to discovered constraints.
- Admiral determines that remaining risk exceeds acceptable threshold.
Procedure:
- Admiral halts all in-progress work immediately.
- Each agent saves current partial outputs and documents their last known state.
- Admiral produces an abort log using the Captain's Log Template with:
- Reason for abort.
- Tasks completed and their outputs.
- Tasks abandoned and their partial state.
- Conditions required before re-attempting the mission.
- Admiral issues shutdown requests to all agents.
- Admiral presents the abort log to the human (Admiralty) with a recommendation: retry with new constraints, descope, or abandon.