PRD — HMI Main Agent ("Jarvis") · Workstream J
Status: DRAFT for ratification · Source of truth once landed: NORTH_STAR.yaml goals J1–J5
Depends on upstream: H2 (system-type profiles), A3a (card lifecycle), B1 (supervisor tick), F4/K1 (Matrix connector)
Mission
Every Mosaic system gets exactly one always-on human-machine-interface agent — default alias Jarvis, unit mosaic-agent@main.service — that owns the human relationship: conversation, idea development, schedule, email, tasks, knowledge. It delegates all engineering/research/ops work to the orchestrator (Mos, mosaic-agent@orchestrator.service) through the Mosaic Backlog, and reports fleet status to the user without ever interrupting the orchestrator.
This solves the observed failure mode: a busy orchestrator that can't respond, accumulates conversational context rot, and derails over time. Post-split, the orchestrator's context is execution-only.
Requirements
Persona & runtime (J1)
| ID |
Requirement |
| J-R1 |
Jarvis is provisioned from the personal-assistant persona baseline via system-type profiles (H2/H3); alias, model tier, host, and channel are profile fields, not code. |
| J-R2 |
Default model tier Opus (ratified D11); the orchestrator's tier is independent. |
| J-R3 |
Jarvis survives reboot under systemd (mosaic-agent@main), participates in the fleet heartbeat protocol, and is counted in the supervisor's health floor. |
| J-R4 |
Persona customization is update-surviving per H4 (override layer wins on merge). |
PA toolchain (J2)
| ID |
Requirement |
| J-R5 |
Jarvis executes personal-assistant mutations directly in the user's workspace via the product API: tasks, events/calendar, knowledge entries, ideas, tickets. No delegation for PA ops (ratified D4). |
| J-R6 |
External PA integrations (email, external calendars, helpdesk) are workspace-scoped integrations with credentials in the product credential vault; actions flagged requires_approval route through the permission relay (workstream P). |
| J-R7 |
Until tenant-1 migration (X2) completes, Jarvis may read/write the jarvis-brain flat files as a transitional adapter; the adapter is deleted at X2 cutover. |
Delegation contract (J3)
| ID |
Requirement |
| J-R8 |
The Jarvis→Mos handoff is only via Mosaic Backlog cards: goal, acceptance criteria, priority, depends_on, advisory budget. Never via chat messages to the orchestrator. |
| J-R9 |
Jarvis translates conversation outcomes into card sets; ambiguity is resolved with the user before card creation — the orchestrator receives only decision-complete work. |
| J-R10 |
Card authorship is attributed (author=main-agent, ratified-by=user where applicable) for audit. |
| J-R11 |
Authority line: Mos holds all execution and merge authority (NS-4). Jarvis relays the user's GO/NO-GO gates as card state, and never acquires fleet mutation, merge, or dispatch rights. |
Passive observability (J4)
| ID |
Requirement |
| J-R12 |
Jarvis answers "what's the fleet doing" from read-only sources: heartbeat files, mosaic fleet ps JSON, backlog card states, CI status. Zero messages to the orchestrator for status. |
| J-R13 |
Jarvis proactively surfaces to the user: blocked cards, failed CI on user-ratified missions, approval requests pending, budget advisories. (PDA-friendly phrasing per SOUL.md.) |
Channel (J5)
| ID |
Requirement |
| J-R14 |
Jarvis's conversation lives in a dedicated Matrix room on the self-hosted homeserver via OrchestratorConnector(matrix) (K1). Matrix-first: no Discord channel is created for Jarvis (ratified D1). |
| J-R15 |
Multi-platform user reach arrives via mautrix bridges (K2); Jarvis's code path is Matrix-only. |
Acceptance criteria
- AC-NS-8: user converses with Jarvis under full orchestrator load; latency unaffected; orchestrator receives zero conversational traffic.
- AC-NS-9: a conversationally-agreed mission round-trips (cards → drained → completed → reported by Jarvis) with no chat handoff.
- Kill the orchestrator mid-conversation: Jarvis conversation is unaffected; Jarvis reports the outage from heartbeat state.
!sys-equivalent admin verbs work in the Matrix room (status/logs/clear/restart of the main agent).
Non-goals
- Jarvis executing code/infra changes (that is Mos + fleet).
- Horizontal sharding of the main agent (rejected in the Matrix charter: split-brain).
- Per-workspace fleets (post-MVP per ASM-6).
Open items (for Mos's planner)
- Context hygiene: Jarvis's durable memory is the workspace (tasks/knowledge/ideas); define its resume protocol (KICKSTART-equivalent) so
/clear is cheap. ASSUMPTION: mirror the MOS-KICKSTART two-file pattern until the product grows a native session-resume feature.
- Reconcile the old
apps/api matrix-bot-sdk workspace bridge with the F4 connector design (one Matrix stack, not two).