What problem does it solve? Coordinating a governed software change pipeline—evidence collection, external review, task decomposition, agent dispatch, CI verification, and policy gating—requires many manual steps that are easy to skip or execute inconsistently. This Skill runs the full Open Design loop as a deterministic state machine so every change follows the same auditable path from user request to merge. ## Core Features & Use Cases - End-to-End State Machine: Runs stages from evidence collection through conflict detection, external review, task DAG decomposition, Devin dispatch, and a fail-closed policy gate returning PASS, REPAIR, ESCALATE, or BLOCK. - Bounded Repair Loop: Re-dispatches failed work to Devin with a cost- and attempt-bounded repair budget (max 3 attempts by default), escalating to a human when limits are hit. - Evidence-Bound Policy Gate: Builds a canonical EvidenceManifest v1 tied to the head SHA and CI status, so merges cannot pass on unverified or fabricated evidence. - Use Case: Ask Hermes to implement a feature on a real repository; the Skill collects repo evidence, gets an adversarial Codex review, decomposes tasks into the Ops DB, dispatches Devin, checks CI, and only allows merge after the policy gate passes. ## Quick Start Run the Open Design loop on my repository in dry-run mode with a mock reviewer and stop after the policy gate stage.
