# Prun > Parallel delegation fan-out on Agy. The coordinating session decomposes and integrates while task units run in parallel as Agy processes (Gemini through the Antigravity CLI), never on the coordinator and never on Claude-side workers such as Sonnet subagents. Each unit runs unattended in a scratch dir or throwaway clone and gets follow-up turns while slower units finish. Codex is not a prun executor either. Unit count follows the dependency graph rather than a small fixed cap. Units may read or write code; workers never commit or push, and the session plus the user are the final integration gate. - Skill: `yzhao062/prun` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 15 files) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add yzhao062/prun` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/yzhao062/prun/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Integrations & APIs, AI & ML - Author: yzhao062 (https://skillmd.com/u/yzhao062) - Updated: 2026-09-17 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/yzhao062/prun --- # prun (parallel run) ## Overview `prun` fans a task out into independent units that run in parallel while the current session only coordinates. **Every worker is an Agy process** running Gemini through the Antigravity CLI, on the Google AI plan authenticated in `agy`. The coordinator decomposes the task, dispatches the units, gathers their results, reviews their diffs, and integrates. It never runs a unit itself. **No Claude-side workers.** A Sonnet subagent, a Workflow agent, or any other Agent-tool worker draws on the same Claude account as the coordinating session, so a fan-out of them spends that account's quota at the rate of the fan-out. That is the pool the coordinating session itself needs, and it drained fast once `prun` routed units to Sonnet. **Codex is not a prun executor** either; its higher-cost quota is reserved for the default `/vet` gatekeeper role. Exact plan buckets can change, so inspect current Agy quota before a large batch. ## Relationship to the native Workflow tool The native Workflow tool fans a task out across **Claude** subagents under a deterministic script, with structured output, judge panels, and resume. A Workflow run counts against the Anthropic plan's usage and rate limits, and its agents use the session model unless the script routes a stage to a different Claude model. `prun` is the fan-out that stays off that account. Its units run on Agy and use the Google AI plan; the coordinating session spends only the small Anthropic amount it needs to decompose, dispatch, read results, and integrate. `prun` therefore never starts a Workflow or a Claude subagent, not as a unit, a fallback, or a second panel. When the user explicitly asks for a Claude panel, that is a Workflow run the user asked for, and it happens outside `prun`. A cross-vendor read on staged work is what `/vet` is for. When the Agy Gemini group cannot accommodate the next batch, queue or defer units instead of moving them onto the Claude account. Read the meter with `agent-quota`, including snapshot age and reset times, and do not silently shrink a genuinely parallel task to an arbitrary two or three workers. The dispatcher's own quota route, described under dispatch-task usage, already stops a unit from launching into an empty group. ## When to use Use `prun` when the task splits into **independent units that can run at once** (different modules, separate research questions, parallel analyses). Units may be heterogeneous, and there can be **many of them**: a dozen or twenty in parallel is normal when the task warrants it. Do not use `prun` when the task is one sequential unit, or units depend on each other's output, or a unit's result cannot be checked without redoing it. ## Executors | Executor | Quota | Notes | |---|---|---| | Agy (`agy`) | Google AI plan authenticated in Antigravity | **The only worker.** Gemini 3.8 Flash High at `high` effort; fast, separately funded, and dispatched with full unattended tool permission inside a scratch dir or throwaway clone. | | Claude session (this session) | Current Claude account; check Settings > Usage for the applicable limits or credits | Coordinator and integrator only, on whatever model is selected. Never a unit. | Rules: - **Every unit runs on Agy.** Research, verification, extraction, cross-checks, and code-writing units in a throwaway clone all go through `dispatch-task-agy`. The dispatcher gives a unit the same unattended capability as the `/vet` Agy reviewer, so it can verify numbers, run experiments, and fetch the web. Agy defaults to `gemini-3.8-flash-high` at the CLI's maximum `high` effort. - **Never a Claude-side worker.** Do not spawn an Agent-tool subagent (Sonnet or any other model) or a Workflow agent for a unit, including as a fallback when the Agy pool is short. Those workers spend the coordinating session's own Claude account. When Agy cannot take a batch, queue it or tell the user. - **Codex is excluded from prun.** Its quota is intentionally reserved for the `/vet` reviewer role. Do not route a prun unit to `codex exec`, even if a legacy dispatcher remains on disk for compatibility with old state directories. - **Session-internal tools stay outside the fan-out.** An Agy process cannot use the coordinator's MCP, email connectors, or Artifact tool. Gather what a unit needs from those tools in the coordinating session before dispatch, and put it in the unit prompt; leave a small action that needs them to the coordinator as one inline step. A task whose substantive work needs those tools throughout is not a `prun` task. - **Keep the Agy pool busy with follow-up turns.** Units return at different times. When one returns while others are still running, dispatch a follow-up unit rather than idling, provided the follow-up discharges real work: an acceptance criterion the result left open, a claim it made without evidence, a source it cited but did not fetch, a check it proposed but did not run, or the next independent unit in the queue. A slower sibling is not by itself a reason to invent work. `--continue-from ` resumes the same conversation, so the follow-up keeps the earlier context; a fresh prompt with a fresh result path is the alternative. Record each follow-up in the ledger like any other unit. - **The Claude session stays the coordinator, never a unit.** Independent substantive work belongs in Agy workers. **Why Agy alone.** Its pool is separate from the Claude plan, it is fast, and it adds an independent model family without spending the higher-cost Codex pool used by `/vet`. The earlier split put Sonnet beside Agy on the grounds that the two draw on separate pools. They do, but Sonnet's pool is the coordinator's own Claude account, so every Sonnet worker spent the quota the coordinating session runs on, and a wide fan-out consumed it quickly. The coordinator still reviews every result and every diff. Check current quota before a large batch, but do not convert changing meter readings into an arbitrary low worker cap. ## Concurrency The orchestrator decides the unit count autonomously. Partition the task by **dependency structure** (split only along genuinely independent boundaries) and **balanced workload** (roughly equal-sized units, each worth a full worker run). High autonomy is the intent: do not target a fixed number, and do not cap artificially. A dozen-plus in parallel is fine when the task genuinely decomposes that way. Two soft bounds, not hard rules: local CPU/RAM (enough concurrent workers eventually contend and the excess queues) and the headroom of the Agy pool. `agent-quota` reads the current snapshot of both Agy groups. The usual real ceiling is **integration bandwidth**, since the orchestrator must read and reconcile every result, so prefer fewer well-scoped units over many tiny ones. Over-splitting into trivial units wastes worker startup and tends to produce thin results. Dispatch in batches that fit the runtime's concurrent-worker limit and the available quota, and leave the rest queued; a runtime's in-flight limit is separate from how many units a run may have in total. ## What a unit may do, and the one rule A unit may **read or write code**, run commands, and fetch the web, with full access. The single hard rule: a worker **never commits, pushes, or runs destructive git** (`commit`, `push`, branch/tag mutation, `reset --hard`, `clean`). Everything else is allowed. The final gate is **the Claude session integrating the results and the user deciding**; workers never touch the real repo history. This is enforced structurally, not by trust: - **Read-only / research units** run from a per-unit scratch cwd, so accidental writes stay out of the repo. `dispatch-task` does this by default. - **Code-writing units** run inside a **throwaway local clone** of the repo with its remote removed: ``` git clone --local -c core.longpaths=true # longpaths: Windows MAX_PATH safety git -C remote remove origin ``` The worker edits freely in the clone. An accidental `git push` has no remote to reach (GitHub / Overleaf stay untouched); an accidental `git commit` only lands in the throwaway clone. The coordinator reads `git -C diff`, integrates the wanted changes into the real tree, and **the user approves the actual commit**. That is the only gate. No credential scrubbing or sandbox wall: the user writes the prompts, the clone has no path to the real remotes, and the Claude session plus the user are the integration gate. That is the whole safety model. ## Flow 1. **Gate**: confirm the task splits into independent, checkable units. Else use a single worker. 2. **Decompose**: write one prompt per unit. State the task; for a code-writing unit, that the working dir is a throwaway clone to edit freely but **not** commit or push; that the unit writes a result summary to its result file (a fresh path, in one write). 3. **Assign**: every unit goes to Agy. Gather anything a unit needs from session-internal tools first and write it into that unit's prompt. Pick read-only (scratch) or code-writing (clone) mode, and record the mode in the ledger. 4. **Dispatch in parallel**: run ` scripts/dispatch-task-agy.py` in the background for each unit. With no `--mode` it runs `accept-edits` with `--dangerously-skip-permissions` in a scratch directory it creates. A caller-supplied workspace, meaning `PRUN_SCRATCH_CWD` (a throwaway clone for a code-writing unit) or `--add-dir` (a clone or snapshot the unit should see), requires an explicit `--mode accept-edits` or `--mode plan`, so the write-capable mode is a named choice for any directory the dispatcher did not create. `--continue-from ` resumes an earlier unit's conversation for a follow-up turn. 5. **Monitor (do not go idle)**: launch `scripts/monitor.{sh,ps1} ...` in the background (`run_in_background=true`) and wait on its completion. It wakes you on the first actionable event: all done, any unit **stalled** (tail no-growth for `PRUN_STALL_THRESHOLD`, default 10 min), or any unit **failed** (`FALLBACK` result or dead dispatch), printing a per-unit digest. On a stall, surface it to the user with a likely cause (capacity or concurrency pressure; suggest lowering the worker count or re-dispatching) rather than waiting silently; act, then re-launch the monitor on the still-running units until all are done. `monitor` only observes. The Agy dispatcher relies on the CLI's bounded `--print-timeout`; it does not scan for or terminate unrelated agent processes. (`gather.{sh,ps1}` remains for the plain wait-for-all case.) 6. **Reconcile, then integrate**: before integrating, **reconcile the ledger**: every dispatched unit must have a non-empty result. If any is missing or empty, do **not** integrate the partial set; recover the worker's output from its `/tail` (dispatch-task-agy also salvages the tail into the result file automatically under a `FALLBACK` header). If no usable result can be recovered, re-dispatch that unit or flag the user. Then the coordinator reads each result plus each clone's `git diff`, merges the wanted changes into the real tree, runs verification, and **asks the user before any commit**. Resolve scripts via this order, first hit wins: `skills/prun/scripts/`, then `.claude/skills/prun/scripts/`, then `.agent-config/repo/skills/prun/scripts/`. ## dispatch-task usage (Agy) ``` scripts/dispatch-task-agy.py --prompt-file --result-file --unit-id ``` - Emits exactly one stdout line `STATE-DIR `; Agy stream events and stderr land in the state directory, the conversation id from Agy's `init` event is recorded to `/conversation-id`, and the final response is published atomically to the result path. - Defaults to `gemini-3.8-flash-high` at `high` effort. Override with `ANTIGRAVITY_DISPATCH_MODEL` and `ANTIGRAVITY_DISPATCH_EFFORT`. Agy takes `--effort` for its Gemini models only, so the dispatcher omits the flag for the second group below rather than having Agy reject the whole call. - Agy Ultra exposes a second quota group for `claude-sonnet-4-6`, `claude-opus-4-6-thinking`, and `gpt-oss-120b-medium`. Keep Gemini as the default: it is the larger group, and it keeps a unit's model family independent of the Claude coordinator that reviews the result. The second group is an explicit overflow option through `ANTIGRAVITY_DISPATCH_MODEL`; it adds quota, not reviewer-family diversity. **Naming it is the user's call.** A fan-out that reached for it on its own spent 646 generations of that group in a day, on units a Gemini worker would have taken, and the group is the smaller of the two. - **The dispatcher checks group quota before launching.** The two groups are metered separately, and one dispatch names one model, so a batch aimed at an empty group fails once per unit: on 2026-09-11 four units of a seven-unit fan-out died in a row, each carrying `Individual quota reached ... Resets in 34m`. Before launching, the dispatcher reads the snapshot `agent-quota` maintains and decides: - The Claude and GPT group is empty and Gemini is not: dispatch the Gemini default instead, and record the swap. The line `MODEL-FALLBACK from=... to=... reason=claude-and-gpt-quota-exhausted resets=...` goes to stderr and to `/quota-note`. `/model` always names the model that actually ran, so the ledger's executor column is not the model the caller asked for when the two differ. - The Gemini group is empty: exit `75` without launching, and say so. It does not escalate into the metered group on its own; the message names `ANTIGRAVITY_DISPATCH_MODEL` for the operator who wants that. - Both groups are empty: exit `75` with both reset times. - A group the snapshot does not report is unknown rather than empty, and an unreadable snapshot skips the check entirely. The gate stops a dispatch only into a group it read as empty. `PRUN_AGY_QUOTA_GATE=off` disables it. A run that fails at the backend forces a snapshot refresh before exiting, past the readout's own five-minute TTL, because the meter it just hit is newer evidence than the snapshot. Later units then route on what it recorded. This is not a guarantee: a refresh that cannot run, a meter that is unavailable, and units already in flight can still produce repeated quota errors. - `--mode` defaults to `accept-edits` with `--dangerously-skip-permissions`, the same unattended capability the implement-review Gemini reviewer already runs with, so a unit can verify numbers, run experiments, and fetch the web without a permission prompt. The default applies only to the scratch directory the dispatcher creates. When the caller supplies a workspace through `PRUN_SCRATCH_CWD` or `--add-dir`, the dispatcher refuses to launch until `--mode` is given, because the write-capable mode could otherwise reach a directory it did not create. Safety stays structural either way: point those at a throwaway clone with no remote or a read-only snapshot, never the real tree. `--mode plan` is the strictly read-only opt-in; it keeps request-review permissions and never gets the skip flag. In headless use a tool request that needs an approval nobody can give (`run_command`, `read_url`, browser tools) is denied, and the process can still exit 0 with a normal-looking result that reports it could not verify. A normal result file therefore does not prove those checks ran; read its `Verification` and `Open items` fields. If the worker has not written a non-empty result file, a missing, empty, or shorter-than-20-byte final response produces `FALLBACK`, and so does a final `result` event whose `status` is not `SUCCESS`. A standing `permissions.allow` rule in Agy's own `settings.json` (`~/.gemini/antigravity-cli/settings.json`, entries such as `read_url(*)` or `command(*)`) is the alternative for a plan-mode unit. - `--add-dir PATH` (repeatable) adds a directory outside the unit's working directory to its workspace without copying a repository into the scratch area, in either mode; it requires an explicit `--mode`. Point it at a clone or a read-only snapshot, never the real tree, since `accept-edits` can write there. The dispatcher resolves each path to absolute and refuses to launch if it is empty or not an existing directory. - `--continue-from STATE_DIR` resumes the conversation recorded at `/conversation-id` for a follow-up dispatch that should keep the earlier turn's context instead of re-embedding the prior result in a new prompt. It still needs its own fresh `--result-file`; an empty `STATE_DIR` argument, or one whose conversation id file is missing or empty, is a pre-launch error. - Requires a fresh result path and refuses to overwrite an existing result. The final response is published to that path, unless the worker already wrote a non-empty result file there itself: then the worker's file is kept and the final response lands beside it as `.response.`, so a one-line closing reply never replaces a full result. If no non-empty worker result exists, a failed preflight, launch, worker run, or timeout, or an unusable final response, produces an atomic `FALLBACK` result with captured tails. - Both signals decide the outcome. A non-zero process exit fails the unit, and after an exit of 0 the final `result` event's `status` is consulted, because Agy exits 0 when it stops on a quota limit and that `ERROR` event still carries the opening narration in `response`. Publishing that response would hand the coordinator work that never happened. Any status other than `SUCCESS` fails the unit and carries the event's `error` text into the `FALLBACK` result. The one exception is a status that is missing or blank, which counts as success so that an older Agy keeps working. - A failed run whose worker had already written its own result keeps that file, because the worker may have finished before the backend stopped. The partial response lands beside it as `.response.`, and the dispatcher exits non-zero with the backend error on stderr. Both monitors classify a stable worker-written result as `done` without reading the backend status. Before integrating such a unit, wait for the dispatcher to finish and check its exit code. When that code is unavailable, read the `result` event's `status` and `error` in `/tail` and the captured dispatch diagnostics. The sibling response is supporting context: a successful run writes one too, and it records no status. - `ANTIGRAVITY_DISPATCH_TIMEOUT_SECONDS` defaults to 2700 and is passed to Agy's bounded `--print-timeout`. The dispatcher never enumerates or terminates another agent process. - The dispatcher omits Agy's `--sandbox` flag by default. On Windows that sandbox starts an elevated admin broker and raises a UAC prompt for every unit that runs a command; a declined prompt fails the command. `PRUN_AGY_SANDBOX` controls whether the flag is added; it does not disable a sandbox enabled in Agy's own settings (`enableTerminalSandbox`). Accepted values are `1`/`true`/`yes`/`on` to add the flag and `0`/`false`/`no`/`off`, empty, or unset to omit it. Values ignore case and surrounding whitespace; anything else exits 2 before state creation or launch. Scratch directories and throwaway clones reduce accidental changes to the working repository. They do not enforce filesystem or network isolation; the worker must follow the prompt's ban on commit, push, and destructive git. - The legacy `dispatch-task.{sh,ps1}` Codex scripts remain shipped only so older deployments and state directories retain their recovery tooling. Current `prun` routing never selects them. ## gather usage ``` scripts/gather.sh ... ``` - Prints `GATHER-START count=N timeout=Ss`, then `DONE ` per file as it lands; exits 0 when all land, exits 2 with `TIMEOUT remaining=`. - A file is "landed" when it exists, is non-empty, and has been quiet for the stable window (default 10s); no startup-snapshot race. - **Use a fresh result path per unit per run** (delete any stale file before dispatch). Have each unit write its result in one operation. ## monitor usage ``` scripts/monitor.sh ... ``` - Takes the `STATE-DIR` paths from each dispatch (not result files); reads each unit's `tail` (growth), `result-file` (done/fail), and `dispatch-pid` (liveness). - Prints `MONITOR-START units=N stall-threshold=Ts timeout=Ss`, then on the first actionable event `MONITOR-EVENT ` and one `UNIT ` line per unit (`done` / `failed(fallback)` / `failed(dispatch-dead)` / `stalled(Ns)` / `growing`). - Exit: `0` all done, `3` attention needed (a stall or fail), `2` hard timeout. - Env: `PRUN_STALL_THRESHOLD` (default 600, ten minutes; raise it for long code-writing units), `PRUN_MONITOR_POLL` (default 15), `PRUN_MONITOR_TIMEOUT` (default 3600), `PRUN_MONITOR_STABLE_WINDOW` (default 10). - Run it in the background; after handling a stall or fail, re-launch on the still-running units so a resolved unit is not re-flagged. ## report-state usage ``` scripts/report-state.sh [--root DIR] [--json] [--summary] [--sort path|tail-bytes-desc] [--min-tail-bytes N] [--include-legacy-pid] scripts\report-state.ps1 (same flags) ``` Read-only. It inspects `prun-task-*` directories left behind by earlier runs and writes nothing at all, which `tests/test_prun_report.py` checks by hashing the tree before and after a run. Reach for it when a fan-out was interrupted and you need to know which unit output survived. `--root` repeats, and defaults to the system temp directory. Every unit carries two independent fields instead of one verdict. A single label such as "salvageable" would read as permission to act, and this command cannot support that reading without the process identity it deliberately does not record. | `result_path_state` | Meaning | |---|---| | `resolved` | the unit recorded a result path and it could be read | | `absent-entry` | no `result-file` entry was written | | `invalid-entry` | the entry was empty, or a relative path escaping its unit | | `unreadable` | the entry exists but could not be read | | `result` | Meaning | |---|---| | `present` | the result file exists and holds bytes | | `empty` | the result file exists and is zero bytes | | `missing` | the recorded path does not exist | | `unknown` | nothing is claimed: either the path never resolved, or it resolved and the target could not be observed | `result` is `unknown` for every `result_path_state` other than `resolved`, and `resolved` may also carry it. Only `FileNotFoundError` proves a target is gone; a denial or an I/O error yields `resolved`/`unknown` plus an entry in that unit's `errors`, so a failed observation is never reported as an outcome. No other pairing can be emitted, and `test_no_illegal_pair_can_be_emitted` checks that against the table the module exports. Remaining JSON fields: | Field | Meaning | |---|---| | `schema_version` | `1`; bump on any field change | | `roots` | absolute directories inspected | | `unit_count` | units inspected, counted before any display filter | | `discovery_errors` | roots or matching entries that could not be listed or stated | | `unit` | absolute path of the unit directory | | `tail_bytes` | size of the unit's `tail`, `0` when absent, or `null` when it could not be stated or is not a regular file | | `result_target` | the resolved result path, or `null` | | `errors` | per-unit observation failures; see the table below | | `legacy_pid_unverified` | shown only under `--include-legacy-pid` | | `safety` | the sentence below, present on every run | Each `errors` entry is `{"stage": , "error": }`. The value is an exception class name, or one of two names for a condition that raises nothing: `NotARegularFile` when the path exists but is a directory, FIFO, or device, and `EntryTooLarge` when a `result-file` or `dispatch-pid` entry exceeds 64 KiB. That size limit reports rather than truncates. A truncated entry can strip down to a real path and be mistaken for a complete one. Consumers branch on `stage`: | `stage` | What could not be observed | |---|---| | `result-entry` | the unit's `result-file` exists but could not be read | | `result-target` | the recorded path could not be stated, or is not a regular file | | `result` | classification raised unexpectedly; the unit is still reported | | `tail` | the unit's `tail` could not be stated, or is not a regular file | | `legacy-pid` | `dispatch-pid` exists but could not be read, under `--include-legacy-pid` | Discovery failures sit apart from any unit, in a top-level `discovery_errors` array whose entries carry `stage` (`root` or `unit-entry`), the offending `root` or `unit`, and `error`. They are separate because a root that cannot be listed produces no unit to attach a failure to, and used to read as an empty corpus. Any entry in either place sets exit `1`. `--summary` adds two byte counters that never overlap. `missing_or_empty_result` covers units whose result path resolved to a file that is missing or empty. `unresolved` covers units whose result was never classified while their tail still holds bytes. Each counter names what was observed rather than what may be done about it, because neither a missing target nor an empty one proves that no other copy exists or that a live producer will not fill it. Both appear because the second group is easy to lose: across a live corpus of 220 units the first counter read 24.3 MiB while another 0.4 MiB sat in a unit nothing had classified. Under `--json`, those counters arrive in a `summary` object: | Summary field | Meaning | |---|---| | `units` | units inspected, matching `unit_count` | | `by_result` | count per `result` value | | `by_path_state` | count per `result_path_state` value | | `missing_or_empty_result_units` / `missing_or_empty_result_bytes` | resolved path, result file missing or empty, tail holds bytes | | `unresolved_units` / `unresolved_bytes` | result never classified, tail holds bytes | `--min-tail-bytes` hides small units from the listing and moves no unit between classes; `unit_count` still counts them. `--include-legacy-pid` stays off by default. A recorded PID may be stale, or reused by an unrelated process, so it can never show that a worker is alive. Exit codes: `0` every root was listed and every unit inspected cleanly, `1` at least one entry was recorded in a unit's `errors` or in `discovery_errors` while everything readable was still reported, `2` a usage error. An unreadable root is never reported as an empty one. ## snapshot-tail usage ``` scripts/snapshot-tail.sh --unit DIR [--dest DIR | --output FILE] [--json] scripts\snapshot-tail.ps1 (same flags) ``` Copies one unit's `tail` into a ZIP holding exactly two members, `tail.bin` and `manifest.json`, both stored without compression. Only a regular file, or a symlink to one, may be snapshotted; a directory, FIFO, or device exits `4` and publishes nothing. Without that rule a device such as `/dev/null` reported zero bytes and published an empty archive as a complete capture, and a FIFO with no writer blocked the open indefinitely. The copy is byte-for-byte, so a tail carrying NUL or CR arrives unchanged. Given neither `--dest` nor `--output`, the archive lands in a per-user state directory: `%LOCALAPPDATA%\anywhere-agents\prun\snapshots` on Windows, and `$XDG_STATE_HOME/anywhere-agents/prun/snapshots` elsewhere, falling back to `~/.local/state` when that variable is unset. On POSIX the command creates the directory mode `0700` and the archive mode `0600`. A snapshot extends the lifetime of prompts and tool output, so a directory that already exists and is group- or world-accessible is refused, with the `chmod` that fixes it named in the message. Publication goes through `os.link`. That is the one portable operation which is both atomic and refuses to replace: `os.replace` overwrites, `os.rename` differs by platform, and checking first races. An existing destination therefore exits `3` and leaves the file byte-identical. Six concurrent attempts on one name produce exactly one winner. Any other link failure exits `6` rather than falling back to an operation that could overwrite. | Manifest field | Meaning | |---|---| | `schema_version` | `1` | | `captured_at` | UTC timestamp of the capture | | `source_path` | absolute path of the tail that was read | | `source_size_at_open` | size taken from `fstat` on the already-open handle | | `bytes_copied` | bytes actually written | | `sha256` | digest of the copied bytes, re-verified after the archive closes | | `source_may_be_live` | always `true` | | `capture_outcome` | `complete_bounded_read` when the two counts agree, `short_read` otherwise | | `note` | records that equal counts do not prove the source held still | The read is bounded by `source_size_at_open`, and it is best-effort. Equal counts do not establish that the source held still, because bytes can arrive from different generations of a growing file and still total the same number. Read `complete_bounded_read` as "the reader returned `source_size_at_open` bytes before EOF", never as "the source was unchanged" or "this is a consistent point-in-time copy". A truncate-and-regrow sequence can also total exactly that many bytes. JSON output adds `published`, the final path, and `warning`, which is `null` on a clean run. A warning appears when the archive is linked into place but the temporary file could not be removed. The snapshot is valid in that case, so the command still exits `0`. Exit codes: `0` published, `3` the destination already existed, `4` the tail could not be opened or is not a regular file, `5` archive validation failed, `6` publication failed. Every failure other than `3` leaves no file at the final name. ### The safety sentence **Snapshotting a tail is the only safe operation offered here. This output does not establish that deleting, overwriting, or promoting any unit is safe.** `report-state` prints those words on every run, in both text and JSON. `snapshot-tail` does not repeat them, so apply them yourself after a successful capture: holding a snapshot does not make the unit disposable. Deciding that a unit is finished needs process identity, which this slice records nowhere. See anywhere-agents#29 Part B. ## Return contract (every unit writes this) ``` # result Conclusion: Files: Open items: Verification: ``` ## Ledger Keep a simple run ledger (a file in a scratch area) recording each unit: id, executor, mode, prompt file, clone-dir, result file, status (dispatched / done / failed), start/end, and the unit's state-dir. Take the executor column from `/model`, which names the model that actually ran, so a quota fallback shows in the ledger. Use the ledger to report progress and to relaunch only units whose result is missing or fails validation. **Where a unit's own files go**: four kinds of file belong under an `agent-io` directory inside the scratch area. They are the per-unit prompt, the result file, the shared-context file every worker reads, and the run ledger. The directory name tells the writing-style hook to skip them, because none of that text is the coordinator's prose to rewrite. A unit prompt is an instruction to a worker, and a result file holds what the worker sent back. Anything the fan-out produces for a human reader stays outside `agent-io`. ## Web access **Agy** runs on the user's local machine, so its requests leave from the user's local network rather than the cloud fetcher's egress IP, often a residential IP. That can reach some pages a cloud fetcher gets `403` on, though a hardened site can still block on bot score, fingerprint, or rate. It also surfaces pages a cloud fetch would miss. The dispatcher's default mode grants the web and the shell unattended, so a worker can fetch through `read_url` or a local-shell curl. It does not ask for Agy's own `--sandbox`: on Windows that sandbox starts an elevated admin broker (`agy --exebox-admin-broker`), which raises a UAC prompt for every unit that runs a command, and a declined prompt fails the command. Set `PRUN_AGY_SANDBOX=1` to add the flag where the broker is acceptable. Only `--mode plan` withholds the web and the shell: it runs Agy in `request-review` mode, and a headless run denies the permission prompt. The process can still exit 0 with a result that says the fetch did not happen, so read a plan-mode result's `Verification` and `Open items` fields before trusting it. Web units, all on Agy: - **Discover a page when the URL is unknown**: give the unit the question and let it search; ask it to list the candidate URLs it considered, so a thin search shows up in the result. - **Fetch a known URL**: the unit fetches unattended through `read_url` or curl in the default mode. - **A page that blocks the fetch**: have the unit retry through curl from the local network, and record which path failed and the HTTP status each returned. - **A high-stakes fact that might be stale or blocked**: dispatch a second unit that verifies the claim from an independent source, and have the coordinator compare the two results. An Agy web-fetch unit can use curl in the default mode (`--mode plan` denies it). Report the HTTP status per URL so a cloud-vs-local block shows up in the result. In Windows PowerShell, name the binary `curl.exe`, since a bare `curl` can resolve to the `Invoke-WebRequest` alias instead: ```bash curl -sSL -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0 Safari/537.36" -o -w "%{http_code} %{url_effective}\n" ``` ```powershell curl.exe -sSL -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0 Safari/537.36" -o -w "%{http_code} %{url_effective}\n" ```