Agent Factory

A Hermes-orchestrated software factory. A human posts an idea in a Linear project's backlog; five named agents carry it to verified, merged code with no human action in between.

Backlog → To Refine → To Architect → Ready for Dev → In Progress → In Review → Done
              │                         │                                        │
        stakeholder, PM            architect                              tester
        (scope, PRD)            (plan, sub-issues)        (developer: PR + TDD)

Role	Owns	Produces
Stakeholder	To Refine (pass 1)	Scope note — problem, user, success metric, in/out of scope, build/don't-build
Product Manager	To Refine (pass 2)	PRD with Given/When/Then criteria (hard gate)
Architect	To Architect	Tech plan + criterion→test mapping + sub-issues with blocking relations
Developer	Ready for Dev → In Progress	Commits + PR (Closes SMA-N), TDD
Tester	In Review	Per-criterion PASS/FAIL/UNVERIFIED evidence + verdict

The whole contract is in this repo: SPEC.md (normative) · WORKFLOW.md (per-project config) · agents/*.md (role definitions) · projects/<slug>/BRIEF.md (project docs) · docs/ (Linear setup, runbook, decision log).

Status

• SPEC.md — v0.2. Decisions resolved (§18). Conformance checklist: §17 (C-1 … C-14).
• Linear project: Agent Factory in the SMART BAMBOO (SMA) team, status Backlog.
• Blocked on: the To Architect and Attempt Halted workflow states must be created in the Linear UI (no API for workflow-state creation), and the first pilot idea must be chosen (§18 D-8) before WORKFLOW.md and projects/<slug>/BRIEF.md can be written.

Non-goals

Not a CI system, not a general-purpose agent framework, not multi-tenant, and no product code lives here — the Developer agent works in the pilot project's own repository.

See SPEC.md for the normative specification.