😺🤖 obot.agent — implementation report & RC readiness

2026-07-11 · Requirement obot.roadmap#17 · Design 17_design.html · v0.1.0 released

1 → 1repos: safety.agent renamed to obot.agent, history intact

5sub-issues decomposed & linked under #17

3PRs merged with @jwildfire's approval (#11 → #16 → #17)

0skills living in two places; all 8 workspace symlinks resolve live

RC readiness — the verdict

v0.1.0-rc1 tagged 2026-07-11. All three gates landed the same evening (merges approved by @jwildfire via the stack review):

Stacked PRs merged in order: #11 (housekeeping, d01af76) → #16 (session skills in, 52341f0) → #17 (overlay restructure, 66d6769; retargeted to main after #11).
obot.roadmap#23 second half complete — hub session-skill copies removed (be147f0), workspace symlinks repointed to the obot.agent copies and verified resolving. No skill lives in two places.
v0.1.0 released (published on @jwildfire's approval). First tagged as v0.1.0-rc1, then promoted to final the same evening per @jwildfire — the release now sits on main tip 68e061d, which adds the post-RC docs refresh (#19: README/agent.md rewritten, session-init color note).

Explicitly not RC blockers: #14 (upstream contributions — outbound, lands on Gilead's timeline) and #15 (keynote stylesheet — additive, blocked on the safety.viz v1.0 push).

What happened today (2026-07-11)

PR #10 merged — obotclaw[bot] authorship rule codified (@jwildfire approval). done
Rename executed — GitHub repo, local clone, remote, workspace CLAUDE.md; obotclaw app installation verified post-rename with a minted token. done
Full audit — every artifact read against gsm.agent; headline: near-zero true duplication, the AGENTS.md was already overlay-shaped. done
Design published + signed off — 17_design.html; D1 deferred (TDD gate, revisit at gsm.agent Q3), D2 (bot author + trailer), D3 (frontmatter), D4 (delete superseded app files) approved. done
Decomposition — 5 sub-issues posted, linked via GitHub sub-issue relationships, mirrored into #17's Tasks. done
Implementation — 3 draft PRs up; hub-side skill adoption committed direct to main (66e758e). done
Stack merged — #11 → #16 → #17 marked ready, self-reviewed, and merged one-by-one with @jwildfire's explicit approval; worktrees + branches cleaned per the standing grant. done
#23 closed out — hub session-skill copies removed (be147f0), five workspace symlinks repointed to obot.agent and verified; pre-removal diff confirmed no hub-side edits lost. done
v0.1.0-rc1 tagged — annotated tag by obotclaw[bot] on 66d6769; release notes staged for @jwildfire to publish. done

The three-layer architecture now in force

Layer	Owns	Repo
gsm.agent (upstream)	Ecosystem conventions: drafts, attribution, approval gates, worktrees, TDD; skills `tdd`, `issue-review`, `sub-issue-linking`	`Gilead-BioStats/gsm.agent` (cloned as `.github/`)
obot.agent (overlay)	Mission + GxP stance, gsm.viz/JS reference, requirement matrices, renderer + identity + P004 skills, session skills (PR #16), terminology doc, keynote stylesheet home	`jwildfire/obot.agent`
obot.roadmap (hub)	Requirements + lifecycle, requirement skills (adopted today), design docs, diary, site, reports	`jwildfire/obot.roadmap`

One documented divergence from upstream: commit attribution (D2) — obotclaw[bot] is the git author and commits keep the agent Co-Authored-By trailer. Everything else defers upward.

Work inventory

Item	What	Status
obot.agent PR #11	Rename housekeeping: README/agent.md retitle, dead obot-claw links → hub, staging-fork policy → obotclaw model, whitelist fix	merged `d01af76`
obot.agent PR #16	Absorb 5 session skills from the hub (3 cross-repo links repointed); closed #13	merged `52341f0`
obot.agent PR #17	Overlay restructure (+110/−128): overlay-contract AGENTS.md, `docs/terminology.md`, D2 mechanics, frontmatter ×6, D4 deletions, OpenClaw fix; closed #12	merged `66d6769`
obot.roadmap#23	Skills swap: requirement skills adopted (`66e758e`) ✓ · session-skill copies removed (`be147f0`) + symlinks repointed ✓	closed
obot.agent#14	Upstream interview workflow + generic test-driver to gsm.agent (staged locally for review before any push to Gilead)	queued — post-RC
obot.agent#15	Land the shared keynote stylesheet	blocked — safety.viz v1.0 push

#17 success criteria — scorecard

Criterion	State
Workspace agents inherit gsm.agent conventions automatically	met — CLAUDE.md imports upstream AGENTS.md; PR #17 makes the contract explicit
obot.agent contains only obot-specific material	met — D4 deletions + overlay rewrite merged (PR #17)
No convention stated in two places	met — audit found near-zero duplication; PR #17 removed the residue
Upstream improvements flow without copying	met — overlay points at upstream; divergences must be documented (one exists: D2)
No stale obot-claw references (living docs)	met — PRs #11 + #17 merged; historical records stay verbatim by design (§8)
Skill symlinks resolve to live repos	8/8 — requirement-* → hub; session-* → obot.agent (#23 second half, verified resolving)

Scorecard at release time (v0.1.0, 2026-07-11 evening): all six criteria met. The one residual noted at RC time — the absorbed session-init skill predating the siblings-are-green color convention — was fixed in the docs-refresh PR (#19), which is included in the v0.1.0 release.