McRitchie Studio

Agent Context

Operator-driven DevOps cycle upgrade. Three decisions locked with the operator: (1) 'agentic intent' (the agent that STARTS a stage's work, for the live ticker) is stored as a new kind ('transition'|'intent') on the existing append-only TaskEvent spine — NOT a separate table or task.metadata. One unified event log powers the consolidated timeline; live tickers read OPEN intent rows (an intent whose stage has not yet produced its transition). (2) Live /deployments updates use a custom ActionCable channel + the existing Alpine kanbanBoard() for animated, non-jumpy updates — that is the SEPARATE follow-up task on this same release train. (3) Split into 2 flat tasks: THIS one = intent model + consolidated timeline + Steffon/Avi fix; the websockets task depends on this one. ROOT CAUSE of Steffon/Avi missing from Stage Crew: bin/release writes the reviewed->assembled and assembled->shipped TaskEvents with a BLANK actor/source, so stage_agent_groups emits nothing for those stages. Fix is two-pronged: stamp actor=steffon on reviewed->assembled and actor=avi on assembled->shipped at the conductor (bin/release), AND make the crew helper fall back to each stage's canonical owner when the actor is blank/unresolved. Intent owners by stage: build lane = the task's pokemon mascot (already assigned at create); submitted->review = the ReviewerSelector pair (carl/shannon heavy/light) recorded when the 'Review submitted PRs' workflow starts; reviewed->assembled QA = steffon; assembled->shipped e2e = avi. seconds_in_from duration math must look back to the last TRANSITION event, ignoring intent rows. Key files: app/models/task_event.rb, app/models/task.rb (stage_event creation ~L520-600), app/helpers/stage_agents_helper.rb, app/views/components/_stage_agent_avatars.html.erb, app/views/tasks/show.html.erb (L207-258 crew+timeline), bin/task, bin/release, bin/reviewer-select, app/controllers/api/v1/tasks_controller.rb.