cast-conventions

What problem does it solve?

This Skill enforces a consistent operational protocol and conventions for CAST agents to prevent missing status reports, inconsistent startup behaviors, and gaps in observability across multi-agent teams.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Startup protocol: Require emission of a task_claimed event and loading of local agent memory before beginning work.
• Structured status reporting: Mandate a standardized Status block in every response and machine-readable status files for automation and auditability.
• Governance and error handling: Enforce commit conventions, route errors to the debugger agent, require internal code-review handoffs, and impose response budget limits to ensure safe, predictable orchestration.
• Use case: Operate a code-writer agent within a CAST swarm that must record its progress, update memory, produce a status file, and trigger the code-reviewer after each logical unit of change.

Quick Start

Start your agent by emitting the task_claimed event, load the agent memory file, and finish each response with the required Status block and machine-readable status file.