AK Plan v2

Model the project as Boards, Tasks, dependencies, Repositories, and Claims. Assignment and review outcomes are Task fields and status transitions. Realmroot grants provide authority; there are no Agent role classes, maintainer, mailbox, handoff-routing, or AK-owned Agent/Machine runtime entities. AK exposes Agency-backed Agent and Machine projections as product resources.

Plan before creating

Read the repository and existing AK resources before decomposition:

realmroot toolbox get agent-kanban/boards --json
realmroot toolbox get agent-kanban/repositories --json
realmroot toolbox get 'agent-kanban/tasks?boardId=<board-id>' --json

Define the architecture direction, shared contracts, ownership boundaries, and dependency graph. Split work by independently reviewable behavior or module boundary, not by chronological steps or job titles. Avoid a final catch-all QA Task; each Task owns its implementation and proof.

Show the user the complete Board/Task preview and get confirmation before any creation. Include every Task's goal, assignee, repository, dependencies, and acceptance checks.

Create resources

Use Toolbox's generic verb-first operations. Create a Board or Repository only when it does not already exist:

realmroot toolbox post agent-kanban/boards --content-type application/json @board.json --json
realmroot toolbox post agent-kanban/repositories --content-type application/json @repository.json --json

Discover executable Agents through AK's Agency-backed projection and select only an Agent that currently reports schedulable: true:

realmroot toolbox get 'agent-kanban/agents?schedulable=true' --json

Use the selected Agent's subject as the Assignment actor ID. If no suitable Agent exists and the caller is authorized to provision one, create it through AK's generic /agents collection operation; AK owns the Identity-plus-Agent orchestration. Do not call Agency directly or create an AK-local Agent row.

For each approved work item, create an unassigned Task, then patch its assignedTo field:

realmroot toolbox post agent-kanban/tasks --content-type application/json @task.json --json
realmroot toolbox patch agent-kanban/tasks/<task-id> \
  --content-type application/merge-patch+json \
  '{"assignedTo":"<realmroot-agent-actor-id>"}' --json

Realmroot Toolbox v0.5.0 or newer generates the required idempotency key and reuses it across transient retries of this invocation. Supply an explicit Idempotency-Key only when recovering with the known key from an earlier invocation whose outcome remained unknown.

Encode real prerequisites in dependsOn. Tasks with overlapping files or contracts should be combined or ordered; only independent Tasks should run in parallel. Do not create AK-local Agent, Machine, Session, or subagent rows.

Execute and review

After creation, continue until every Task is terminal unless the user asks to stop. Use bounded waits with continuation cursors:

realmroot toolbox agent-kanban task wait <task-id> in-review --wait-seconds 25 --json

As Tasks reach review, follow the review procedure in the installed ak-task skill: read the current Task, verify the work, then patch it to in-progress with a reason or to done from a different verified actor. A rejection creates another work iteration and a new Task representation.

When one prerequisite completes, continue monitoring its dependents. Agency owns Agent execution; AK only exposes the updated dependency and Task state. Report the final Task states, review outcomes, and unresolved external blockers.

Ordinary published resource operations use generic verbs. Toolbox generates the required idempotency key for Task, Task Note, Agent, and Machine creation and reuses it across transient retries. Board and Repository creation do not require the header. Board labels and destructive management remain browser-owned in this release. Only bounded Task Event waiting retains the generated resource-first task wait command. All Task and Claim writes use generic Toolbox verbs. Never invoke the removed ak CLI or removed lifecycle aliases.