---
kind: tracking
status: active
---

# Mission Manifest — Tess Interaction Agent

## Mission

- **ID:** tess-20260712
- **Issue:** #706
- **Branch:** `feat/tess-interaction-agent`
- **Phase:** Execution
- **Current Milestone:** TESS-M1 — Runtime contracts and security foundation
- **Progress:** 0 / 5 delivery milestones complete
- **Status:** active
- **Owner:** Mosaic orchestrator; Mos is coordinating fleet authority
- **Source PRD:** `docs/PRD.md` — `TESS-*` requirements
- **Scratchpad:** `docs/scratchpads/tess-20260712.md`

## Mission Statement

Ship Tess as Jason's durable Pi-native GPT-5.6 Sol high-reasoning interaction agent for Discord and CLI, with safe visibility/control of Mosaic fleet and transitional Hermes capabilities, while Mos remains the coding/general orchestration authority.

## Invariants

1. Mosaic is the enterprise AI hub; Hermes is a reference migration adapter.
2. Gateway is the single API surface.
3. Mos owns coding/general fleet orchestration; Tess owns human interaction, visibility, mediation, and migration access.
4. Runtime, transport, channel, memory, and external-agent integrations are replaceable adapters.
5. No source task completes before merged PR, terminal-green CI, independent review, and linked task/issue closure.

## Milestones

| ID      | Issue | Name                                                                | Status      | Exit gate                                                                                                         |
| ------- | ----- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| TESS-M1 | #707  | Runtime contracts and security foundation                           | ready       | AgentRuntimeProvider, normalized events/capabilities/errors, RBAC/audit contracts and contract tests merged       |
| TESS-M2 | #708  | Durable Pi Tess service and state                                   | not-started | GPT-5.6 Sol high service starts, resumes, checkpoints, and passes restart/compaction tests                        |
| TESS-M3 | #709  | Discord and CLI interaction surfaces                                | not-started | One durable session works through dedicated Discord binding and `mosaic tess`, including attach and approvals     |
| TESS-M4 | #710  | Fleet, Mos, Hermes, memory, state, and tool plugins                 | in-progress | Fleet/Mos boundary and transitional capability matrix demonstrated end-to-end                                     |
| TESS-M5 | #711  | Matrix/native migration, recovery, documentation, and qualification | not-started | Transport parity, migration/rollback matrix, security review, docs, greenfield and deployment validation complete |

## Success Criteria

All `AC-TESS-*` criteria in `docs/PRD.md` are mapped to reproducible evidence. The final operational test must prove Discord + CLI session continuity, fleet/Mos coordination, authorized Hermes transition capabilities, denial/audit paths, restart recovery, and rollback.

## Session History

| Session | Date       | Runtime              | Outcome                                                                                                                                     |
| ------- | ---------- | -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| S1      | 2026-07-12 | Hermes / GPT-5.6 Sol | User commission captured; Mosaic/OpenViking/session/code archaeology completed; issue #706 created; PRD and task control plane initialized. |
