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Bernardo's Meet calls lost their microphone because our own dock-audio reprobe restarted PipeWire/Pulse/WirePlumber on every monitoradded (#100). Chromium's audio service does not reconnect when the server disappears under it, so it kept running and enumerated nothing; Zoom, started fresh into a settled graph, looked fine and made it read like a browser bug. reprobe now escalates cheapest-first — select → repair a parked card's profile → restart the graph — so an ordinary plug never touches the graph and no client loses its connection. wait_for_dock_sink polls for the sink the plug is about to publish, so "not yet" is not mistaken for "not ever" and cannot fall through to the restart. The restart stays as rung 3 for the codec that only publishes its route after a re-probe: the one claim the original comment made, and the only one it never demonstrated. Verified on the dev box against the live graph: rung 1 selects the same sink the restart-first path picked (HiFi__HDMI1__sink) in 2.0s instead of ~3.5s with pipewire/pulse/wireplumber MainPIDs unchanged; rung 3 reachable and restarts+retries. Diagnosis proof was ordering across four boots — restart-after-Chromium in both broken sessions, 24s before it in the healthy one — and Bernardo reproduced on demand with a dock/undock. Sweep: BACKLOG #138 deleted, ROADMAP gets the design record (incl. the stale restart-first sentence in the #100 entry), V3 queued on the dev box (relogin first — the watcher is exec-once), journal entry. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Agent instructions + loop state
Everything an AI agent needs to work on Nomarchy, vendor-neutral and git-tracked. Protocol: LOOP.md. Entry point for every harness: repo-root AGENTS.md.
Instructions (how to work)
| File | Who writes | Role |
|---|---|---|
| LOOP.md | Human | One-iteration protocol (orient → pick → work → verify → commit → record) + the V0–V3 ladder |
| VERIFICATION.md | Human (agents propose) | Enforcement: preflight, honesty rules, visual protocol, hardware-blocked checks, reporting |
| DELEGATION.md | Human (agents propose) | Capability tiers, scout/runner roles, token economy, parallel fan-out |
| GOALS.md | Human (agents propose) | Pillars, quality bars, non-goals |
| CONVENTIONS.md | Human (agents propose) | How to write code/menu/state while shipping |
| THEME-DESIGN.md | Human (agents propose) | Theme/visual design instructions |
State (what's happening)
| File | Who writes | Role |
|---|---|---|
| BACKLOG.md | Both | Prioritized queue — only executable work list |
| JOURNAL.md | Agents | Append-only iteration log (read last 3–5 entries; older → JOURNAL-ARCHIVE.md) |
| MEMORY.md | Agents | Curated durable gotchas |
| HARDWARE-QUEUE.md | Agents append, human checks | On-hardware V3 tests only Bernardo can run |
Product / design docs (not a queue)
| File | Role |
|---|---|
| ../docs/VISION.md | v1.0 product themes — agents slice into BACKLOG PROPOSED |
| ../docs/ROADMAP.md | Design history + shipped log |
| ../docs/README.md | Full docs map |
Harness adapters (vendor-specific, thin)
Shared content never lives in an adapter — adapters only register/route into the files above, in whatever format their harness requires.
| Path | Harness | Role |
|---|---|---|
| ../AGENTS.md | any | Entry point (CLAUDE.md is a symlink to it) |
| ../.claude/settings.json | Claude Code | Tool permissions |
| ../.claude/agents/ | Claude Code | nomarchy-scout / nomarchy-runner role defs (contracts in DELEGATION.md) |
Do not put backlog items, vision text, or policy under an adapter directory — it is not shared with other agent runners.
Rules of thumb
- Execute from BACKLOG only (NOW → NEXT; never PROPOSED without human triage).
- Orient with GOALS + CONVENTIONS + MEMORY + last journal + BACKLOG; when the task is product-shaped, also read the relevant VISION §.
- Record lasting design in ROADMAP ✓ when something ships that future humans should know; delete the BACKLOG line.
- v1 branch is human-only — never advance from an agent session.