strategy-router

Goal:

• Produce the current state/STRATEGY_PLAN.json bundle for configuration, generation, review, evolution, or overview routing.

Inputs:

• current run-local artifacts
• RUN_POLICY.yaml
• state/RESOLVED_RUN_CONFIG.json
• optional state/PIPELINE_STATE.json
• optional state/CURRENT_STAGE.json
• optional state/EVOLUTION_STATE.json
• optional state/COMPLETION_DECISION.json

Outputs:

• updated state/STRATEGY_PLAN.json
• appended state/STRATEGY_DECISIONS.jsonl

Context Loading:

• Open skills/shared-references/schema-index.md.
• Read packages/agent_contracts/strategy_plan.py and confirm the exact StrategyPlanContract shape before writing state/STRATEGY_PLAN.json.
• Read packages/agent_contracts/pipeline_control.py when completion or evolution signals are present.
• Read persisted stage information from state/PIPELINE_STATE.json and state/CURRENT_STAGE.json before inferring a route.

Execution Contract:

• This skill is deterministic and must not call an LLM.
• Use python -m tools.policy.plan_strategy <run_dir> [--phase <Configuration|Generation|Evolution|Insights from Reviews|Proximity|Ranking|Research Overview>] as the canonical invocation surface.
• The underlying implementation lives in tools/policy/plan_strategy.py.
• The router must honor the effective run policy, resolved numeric config, persisted stage artifacts, and completion advisories while still emitting one explicit next-action artifact.
• When research_plan/RESEARCH_PLAN.json is missing or invalid, the router must emit next_action = run_configuration before any generation or evolution work.
• Omit --phase when refreshing routing from persisted state/PIPELINE_STATE.json or state/CURRENT_STAGE.json.
• Use an explicit --phase override only when the caller is intentionally forcing a fresh stage transition instead of resuming the persisted one.

Execution Steps:

1. Open skills/shared-references/schema-index.md, then read packages/agent_contracts/strategy_plan.py before writing state/STRATEGY_PLAN.json.
2. Read RUN_POLICY.yaml, state/RESOLVED_RUN_CONFIG.json, and the current persisted run-state artifacts.
3. Run python -m tools.policy.plan_strategy <run_dir> for persisted-state refreshes, or add --phase <...> only when explicitly forcing a new stage route.
4. Persist the returned StrategyPlanContract to state/STRATEGY_PLAN.json.
5. Append the matching decision record to state/STRATEGY_DECISIONS.jsonl, unless the canonical router detects an equivalent unconsumed open continue_evolution decision and only refreshes state/STRATEGY_PLAN.json.
6. Validate both artifacts before declaring completion.

Artifact Rules:

• The strategy audit log is append-only and must preserve prior decisions for replay and debugging.
• Call this skill before every generation batch and before every individual evolution round rather than only once at bootstrap.
• When the returned plan is run_configuration, configuration must write and validate research_plan/RESEARCH_PLAN.json before the caller refreshes routing again.
• When the returned plan stays in continue_evolution, the selected parent set in signals.selected_parent_ids is the only valid parent set for the next child hypothesis in that round.
• Repeated refreshes of the same unconsumed continue_evolution route must not create duplicate open decisions. A new decision is valid only when the pre-round state changed or the earlier equivalent decision has already been consumed by a completed EVOLUTION_ROUNDS.jsonl receipt.
• The router must preserve the island-selection outcome for the round:
  • signals.selection_strategy
  • signals.selected_parent_ids
  • signals.selected_island_ids
• For next_action = continue_evolution, all router signals must describe the state immediately before the next child is created:
  • signals.hypothesis_count and signals.viable_hypothesis_count come from currently persisted hypothesis artifacts.
  • signals.convergence_count and signals.entered_top_k_last_round come from state/EVOLUTION_STATE.json.
  • signals.top_hypothesis_ids comes from the current persisted top-k frontier.
  • signals.selected_parent_ids must only select viable hypotheses that already exist.
  • signals.selected_island_ids must match the selected parents' persisted island_id values.
  • Do not set signals.entered_top_k_last_round = true while signals.convergence_count is positive.
• The router does not finalize the concrete evolution strategy itself. It emits the allowed bundle, and evolution-strategy-supervisor must choose one strategy from that bundle before child generation.

Completion Rule:

• This skill is complete only when state/STRATEGY_PLAN.json has been updated through the canonical router surface, any required new state/STRATEGY_DECISIONS.jsonl record has been appended by that surface, and both artifacts validate.