# Mosaic Fleet — NORTH STAR

> **Generated file — do not edit by hand.**
> Projected deterministically from [`NORTH_STAR.yaml`](./NORTH_STAR.yaml) by the pure
> generator in `packages/mosaic/src/commands/fleet.ts` (`renderNorthStarMarkdown`).
> Edit the YAML, then regenerate. Self-contained Mosaic.

## Mission

A self-driving Mosaic system that 24/7 unattended converts a machine-readable goal set into merged, CI-green, budget-bounded change — looping plan→backlog→assign→execute→verify→merge→reassess — on Mosaic's OWN native backlog/dispatch engine. Mosaic is general-purpose: the user declares the system type they want (software delivery, personal assistant, research, business/operations, …) and the orchestrator provisions the matching persona roster and structure; the delivery fleet is one profile among many.

## Substrate

The Mosaic Backlog is the backlog of record + dispatch engine, built on Mosaic's native Postgres storage service (@mosaicstack/db drizzle; PGlite-embedded by default, full Postgres by config).

## Standing objectives

- **NS-1** — Single machine-readable source (this file) drives planning; prose docs are projections.
- **NS-2** — Every backlog item is an independently-shippable unit with stable id, priority, depends_on DAG, represented as a Mosaic Backlog card; spend tracked as advisory projection.
- **NS-3** — The supervisor guarantees movement: no idle agent while ready dependency-satisfied work exists; no empty backlog without a replan request; assignment via Mosaic native dispatch/claim.
- **NS-4** — Exactly one merge-gate approver; nothing reaches main except via pr-merge.sh after pr-ci-wait.sh success; Gitea branch protection is the backstop.
- **NS-5** — Every unit bounded by wall-clock TTL on its claim; token caps enforced only where a real meter exists, else advisory.
- **NS-6** — Context cleared between tasks for ephemeral runners (reset_between_tasks); persona+mission re-injected per task.
- **NS-7** — Meta-loop (session-review + enhancer) continuously proposes small fleet-improvement PRs.
- **NS-8** — Single operator-flippable PAUSE kill-switch (fleet/run/PAUSED) honored before every dispatch and every merge.
- **NS-9** — Mosaic is a general-purpose multi-agent system: the user declares the SYSTEM TYPE to run (e.g. software delivery, personal assistant, research, business/operations) and the orchestrator provisions the matching persona roster and org structure from a cross-domain baseline persona library; the delivery/coding fleet is one profile among many.
- **NS-10** — An adoption is not complete until the mechanism it replaces is removed. Two live conventions for one concern is the defect, not a transition state. Measured 2026-08-20: brain-home adopted by 9 modules and not 10; MOSAIC_HOME honored in 4 places, each re-deriving it; backlog cards declared while TASKS.md files stayed authoritative. Every one was decided correctly and left half-applied.

## Success criteria

- **AC-NS-0** (tier 0) — The operator launches an agent on any configured harness with one command, observes its state and sends it work without attaching to a terminal multiplexer.
- **AC-NS-1** (tier 1) — The supervisor keeps a two-agent floor (1 orchestrator + >=1 enhancer) healthy across reboot.
- **AC-NS-2** (tier 1) — A goal added to this YAML is decomposed to cards and either merged or escalated, with no human in the loop.
- **AC-NS-3** (tier 1) — No PR merges with failure/error/no-status/timeout CI, and none bypass pr-merge.sh.
- **AC-NS-4** (tier 1) — TTL is enforced on claims; token caps remain advisory until a real meter exists.
- **AC-NS-5** (tier 1) — Flipping fleet/run/PAUSED halts dispatch and merges within one tick.
- **AC-NS-6** (tier 2) — A user can declare a system type and the fleet provisions the matching persona roster + topology from the baseline library, with no code change.
- **AC-NS-7** (tier 2) — A user-customized persona (edited or added via the orchestrator) survives mosaic update: baseline reseed never clobbers user overrides.

## Workstreams

| id  | title                                                                                                       |
| --- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| A   | Substrate — Mosaic Backlog on native Postgres storage service                                               |
| B   | Supervisor — movement guarantee, two-agent floor, dispatch/claim                                            |
| C   | Planner — goal decomposition into independently-shippable cards                                             |
| D   | Merge-gate — single approver, pr-merge.sh after CI wait                                                     |
| E   | Meta-loop — session-review + enhancer improvement PRs                                                       |
| F   | Safety-rails — TTL claims, advisory spend, PAUSE kill-switch                                                |
| G   | Kill-switch — operator PAUSE honored before dispatch and merge                                              |
| H   | Personas & system profiles — cross-domain library, system-type provisioning, update-surviving customization |
| I   | Operator surface — launcher, fleet visibility, reliable steering (tier 0)                                   |
| J   | Web control plane — browser surface over the gateway (tier 1)                                               |
| K   | Clients — desktop and mobile over the same backend (tier 2)                                                 |
| L   | Auth profiles — per-provider accounts, per-session selection (tier 2)                                       |

## Goals (backlog projection)

| id  | title                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | tier | phase | priority    | depends_on     |
| --- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---- | ----- | ----------- | -------------- |
| A1  | Machine-readable NORTH_STAR.yaml + Markdown projection                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | 1    | 1     | must-have   | —              |
| A2  | Mosaic Backlog schema + storage-service card store (drizzle/PGlite)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | 1    | 1     | must-have   | A1             |
| A3a | Card lifecycle — create/claim/release with stable ids + depends_on DAG                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | 1    | 1     | must-have   | A2             |
| A3b | TTL-bounded claim enforcement (wall-clock) on cards                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | 1    | 1     | must-have   | A3a            |
| A4  | Advisory spend projection per card (degrades to TTL, no real meter)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | 1    | 1     | should-have | A3a            |
| B1  | Supervisor tick — readiness scan, two-agent-floor health check                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | 1    | 2     | must-have   | A3a            |
| B2  | Native dispatch/claim — assign ready dependency-satisfied work                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | 1    | 2     | must-have   | A3b, B1        |
| B3a | Planner decompose — goal added to YAML → cards                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | 1    | 2     | must-have   | A2, B1         |
| B3b | Replan request on empty backlog; escalate on no-decompose                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | 1    | 2     | should-have | B3a            |
| G1  | PAUSE kill-switch + merge-gate honored before dispatch and merge                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | 1    | 2     | must-have   | B2             |
| H1  | Cross-domain baseline persona library (exec, marketing, ops, research, assistant + engineering roles)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | 2    | 1     | must-have   | A1             |
| H2  | System-type profiles — declarative mapping of system type to persona roster + topology                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | 2    | 2     | must-have   | H1             |
| H3  | System-type provisioning — user declares type; orchestrator instantiates the matching roster + structure                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | 2    | 2     | must-have   | H2             |
| H4  | Update-surviving persona customization — ad-hoc edits/additions persisted in a PRESERVE-protected override layer (baseline merged with overrides)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | 2    | 2     | must-have   | H1             |
| A5  | NORTH_STAR schema validator — every goal's workstream declared, every workstream has a goal, every depends_on id exists, every tier has a success criterion; runs in CI beside the Markdown regeneration check                                                                                                                                                                     | 0    | 1     | must-have   | A1             |
| I1  | One home resolver — a single function resolving MOSAIC_HOME with a sane default, adopted by every module. Today brain-home.ts is imported by 9 modules while 10 still use DEFAULT_MOSAIC_HOME, and MOSAIC_HOME is re-derived ad hoc in 4 places. NS-10 applies - finish the adoption and delete the second path                                                                    | 0    | 1     | must-have   | —              |
| I2  | mosaic fleet ps sees the fleet that is actually running. Three measured blockers: the roster declares socket `mosaic-fleet` which does not exist, the 18 live sessions are on the default socket, and nothing writes a roster because seats are launched outside the CLI. Make the socket configurable and the roster written at launch, or make ps read tmux + seat dirs directly | 0    | 1     | must-have   | I1             |
| I3  | Migrate fleet steering onto mosaic agent send --verify (exists, FLEET-OBS-005, spec FR-5) and retire tools/tmux/agent-send.sh, which forges the sender (D33) and returns an uninformative rc (D16, D34). FR-5 predates those defects by a month                                                                                                                                    | 0    | 1     | must-have   | I1             |
| I4  | mosaic fleet absorbs what launch-seat.sh does and launch-seat.sh is deprecated: compose the prompt file set, force the skill set, wire the style hook, fail closed on any unreadable input, export per-seat git identity, and register the seat in the roster. launch-seat.sh was a manual method; it is the reference implementation, not the destination                         | 0    | 1     | must-have   | I1, I5         |
| I5  | Harness probe matrix — verify a working prompt-injection path for claude, codex, opencode and pi, and refuse any runtime whose path is unverified. AC-NS-0 clause 1 ("any configured harness") rests on this. The probe work in docs/plans/2026-08-19_launch-seat-multi-runtime.md (brain, untracked) transfers; its launch-seat.sh target does not                                | 0    | 1     | must-have   | —              |
| I6  | Finish the heartbeat responder (FLEET-OBS-002, the only Phase-2 task still in-progress; spec FR-2). Health must mean "answered a heartbeat", not "pane alive" — pane state measured two seats wrong on 2026-08-20                                                                                                                                                                  | 0    | 1     | must-have   | —              |
| I7  | Independent review and live-fleet dogfood of the Phase-2 verbs (FLEET-OBS-008), then land them (FLEET-OBS-009). Implementation is done and verification is not; "done" in a task file frozen five weeks is not evidence                                                                                                                                                            | 0    | 1     | must-have   | I2, I3, I4, I6 |
| I8  | Neutralize misleading documentation — supersede headers on docs that state a stale status, a false blocker or a retired mechanism. Cheap, and it is tier 0 because a stale doc does not merely fail to help an agent, it actively misroutes one. Rebuilding the documentation is a separate and later job                                                                          | 0    | 1     | must-have   | —              |
| I9  | Study t3code's agent-attach and multi-provider auth methods and record what transfers. Reference only — Mosaic implements its own within the stack, never adopts the code and never takes the dependency. Informs HOW I/J/K/L are built, not whether                                                                                                                               | 0    | 1     | should-have | —              |
| J1  | Web control plane over the gateway — fleet visibility and steering in a browser, same data source as I2                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | 1    | 3     | must-have   | I2             |
| K1  | Desktop and mobile clients against the gateway, authenticated                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | 2    | 4     | must-have   | J1             |
| L1  | Per-provider auth profiles with per-session selection                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | 2    | 4     | must-have   | I4             |

## Assumptions (vetoable)

- **ASM-1** (vetoable) — The Mosaic Backlog on the native Postgres storage service is the backlog of record.
- **ASM-2** (vetoable) — Claude gate roles have no native busy status, so readiness = pane-idle + heartbeat.
- **ASM-3** (vetoable) — Two-agent floor = 1 orchestrator + >=1 enhancer.
- **ASM-4** (vetoable) — Baseline personas ship in framework/fleet/roles/ (reseeded on update); user overrides live in a separate PRESERVE_PATHS-protected layer and win on merge.

## Spend

- **advisory:** true
- No per-task token meter yet; budgets degrade to TTL. Spend is tracked only as an advisory projection alongside each card.
