Autopilot Tickets

Ownership

• dispatch-tickets owns per-ticket readiness, branch/worktree setup, worker prompting, and subagent lifecycle.
• autopilot-tickets owns fresh-state looping, blocker detection, draft promotion, merge gates, and stopping.

Use configured tracker/forge tools. Delegate to the dispatch-tickets skill; if unavailable, manually apply its readiness/lifecycle rules and report the fallback. Subagent dispatch is delegated to dispatch-tickets. If the harness cannot dispatch subagents, stop the loop after reporting the missing capability — do not simulate workers in the parent session unless the user explicitly requests fallback inline work.

Loop

Repeat from fresh state:

Invoking this skill grants standing authorization for the full run to promote and immediately merge every in-scope PR/MR once all Merge Gates pass. Execute the merge without requesting per-PR confirmation. This authorization does not waive Merge Gates or authorize out-of-scope changes. Replace unavailable workers, send targeted follow-ups, and repair loop-created changes within the same ticket scope autonomously.

1. Run git status --short --branch; fetch, identify the base branch, and resolve the repo root.
2. Query open ready-for-agent tickets, tracked PRs/MRs, labels, links, project fields, milestones, comments, dependencies, and blockers.
3. Rebuild global dependencies/blockers. Treat a parent Spec/PRD/map link as scope, not a blocker: its open state never gates a child implementation ticket. Only an unfinished implementation-level dependency, an explicit human decision, or a real merge/review/policy gate blocks dispatch; leave per-ticket dispatchability to dispatch-tickets.
4. Process tracked PRs/MRs first and merge only after every gate passes. If none is mergeable, call the dispatch-tickets skill for all safe tickets without a fixed skill-level concurrency limit.
5. Wait for all dispatch results. Only the parent may promote a verified draft; refresh after promotion, then merge only if every gate still passes.
6. After each merge, confirm the linked ticket closed or updated, then remove its exact clean ledger worktree with git worktree remove after worker activity ends; record failure instead of forcing removal. Refresh tracker, dependencies, and blockers before evaluating another PR/MR or dispatching more work. If nothing merges, refresh before another round.

Foundational/shared-contract implementation work must merge and appear in the refreshed state before dispatching dependents. An open parent Spec/PRD/map does not need to close first.

Merge Gates

Merge only PRs/MRs that pass every gate:

• Created by this loop or a tracked prior round; linked to its assigned ticket.
• Source branch and exact worktree match the dispatch ledger.
• Parent verified DONE, branch, commit, changed-file scope, PR/MR description, and tests.
• Parent promoted the verified draft to ready-for-review; current diff remains within acceptance criteria.
• Required checks pass; no checks are failed.
• No unresolved review comments, merge conflicts, requested human decisions, new blocker labels/comments, or dependency changes since dispatch.
• No repo rule, branch protection, missing approval, or policy blocks merge.

Use the repo's normal merge method; do not invent squash/rebase/merge policy. Do not auto-merge broadened scope, human-authored changes, production secrets, deployment controls, destructive migrations/data changes, payments, auth/access policy, or legal/compliance text without explicit authorization and all required reviews.

Stop And Report

Final-answer gate: The loop is incomplete while the dispatch ledger contains any running worker or any expected draft/MR without a collected terminal status. In that state, wait for the result and resume the loop. Emit a final response only after every dispatched worker is terminal and one stop condition below is true.

Stop under any condition below; record the blocker rather than dispatching dependent or adjacent work:

• No open ready-for-agent implementation ticket remains, or none can be safely dispatched.
• Foundational/shared-contract implementation work is blocked/awaiting review, or a failed merge gate blocks dependents.
• Forge, tracker, git, or subagent tools are unavailable, or failed tests/checks resist safe targeted follow-up.
• The repo has dirty/conflicting state the loop did not create.
• A new product, scope, security, or policy decision requires human input, or repo protection blocks progress. Routine confirmation of a gate-passing merge is never a human decision or stop condition.

Carry forward the dispatch ledger and add:

• Round number and draft/ready state.
• Current verification commands/results, gate result, merge SHA or reason not merged, and linked-ticket closure.
• Undispatched ready tickets grouped by reason, exact stop condition, and next-loop conditions.