Dashboard/Competitive Intelligence/logs/2026-06-29-argus-ci-agent-implementation.md
Competitive Intelligence

logs/2026-06-29-argus-ci-agent-implementation.md

Argus CI Agent Implementation Log

What Was Verified

Live Chowmes CI cron is mechanically healthy:

  • competitive-research-daily is active at 0 9 * * *.
  • competitive-research-weekly is active at 0 9 * * 0.
  • Both are still no-agent jobs, so scripts run and stdout is delivered through the default gateway.
  • Last forced daily run was ok.
  • Last forced weekly run was ok.

Live model routing is healthy:

  • Default Hermes/Athena model is direct Gemini gemini-2.5-flash.
  • Delegation/judgment model is direct Gemini gemini-2.5-pro.
  • /model fast smoke-tested through Algolia inference.
  • Provider watch returned exit 0.

What Was Not True Yet

CI did not yet have its own live agent profile or bot identity.

The pipeline was functional but ownerless:

Hermes cron -> no-agent script -> default Telegram delivery

That means Athena was still the visible delivery surface, even though the product decision says Athena should supervise CI rather than deliver routine CI.

Implemented

  • Created Argus profile document.
  • Created Argus soul document.
  • Created CI discipline brief for Argus.
  • Accepted Argus dedicated-agent ADR.
  • Updated workspace state/team/index and skill documentation to reflect Argus ownership.
  • Created live Hermes profile argus on Chowmes.
  • Added ci_run_self_check.py as Argus's post-run validation muscle.
  • Wired daily and weekly wrappers to write run audit artifacts after report generation and dashboard publishing.

Pending

Dedicated Argus Telegram bot/channel activation is pending Arijit's bot token.

Until that token exists, do not migrate or pause the working CI cron jobs.

Verification Completed

  • hermes -p argus smoke test passed. Argus identified himself as the dedicated Algolia CI agent and named Athena as supervisor.
  • CI skill tests passed locally: 30 passed.
  • VPS skill contract shows competitive-research version 1.1.0, author Argus supervised by Athena, and Gemini synthesis path.
  • CI skill contract was upgraded again to 1.2.0 after the self-check muscle was added.
  • CI self-check tests passed in both standalone repo and workspace skill copies: 34 passed.
  • CI skill contract was upgraded to 1.3.0 after the Argus post-run review and learning-log muscle was added.
  • CI run review tests passed in both standalone repo and workspace skill copies as part of the full suite: 38 passed.
  • Added ci_run_review.py to convert self-check outcomes and output quality warnings into Argus review artifacts, owner-specific improvement actions, and run-reviews/argus-learning-log.md.
  • The first live Argus run review caught a daily quiet-day missing_links warning even though the self-check passed. The quality gate was patched so full-coverage quiet-day reports are not penalized for lacking material-signal URLs, while material/actionable claims without links still fail the link gate. Standalone and workspace test suites now pass with 39 passed.
  • Live rerun for 2026-06-29 daily local synthesis produced quality score 1.00, self-check pass, and Argus run review healthy with no discrepancies.
  • Chowmes health check passed with --repair --send-test: gateway running, Parallel web backend healthy, no recent permission errors, Telegram smoke sent, and no post-check ownership drift.
  • Argus profile env contains Gemini and Algolia inference keys by name and intentionally does not inherit Athena/Chowmes Telegram bot credentials.
  • Added scripts/chowmes-argus-status in the ChowMes repo as the read-only activation/preflight gate for Argus.
  • scripts/chowmes-argus-status verified live state: Argus profile present, gateway stopped, daily/weekly cron active, self-check wired into wrappers, latest daily audit passing, and activation blocked only by missing dedicated Argus Telegram token/channel.
  • Added scripts/chowmes-argus-activate as a guarded activation helper. It defaults to dry-run, refuses to run without a dedicated Argus Telegram token, and only starts/smoke-tests the Argus gateway with explicit --execute.
  • Added scripts/chowmes-argus-migrate-ci-cron and its container runtime helper. The migration helper defaults to dry-run, refuses without a dedicated Argus Telegram token, refuses unless the Argus gateway is running, copies the daily/weekly CI wrappers into /opt/data/profiles/argus/scripts/, and creates Argus-profile cron jobs only with explicit --execute. It never pauses the current default CI cron jobs.

Current Truth

CI is mechanically healthy and automated through Hermes cron. It is not yet fully separated into the final dedicated-bot delivery path because the Argus Telegram token/channel does not exist yet.

The honest state is:

daily/weekly CI automation: healthy
Argus Hermes profile: created and smoke-tested
Argus Telegram bot: pending Arijit's token
Athena role: supervisor, but default gateway still carries delivery until Argus bot activation

Activation Gate

Before enabling Argus Telegram delivery, run:

scripts/chowmes-argus-status
scripts/chowmes-argus-activate
scripts/chowmes-argus-migrate-ci-cron

Do not migrate or pause the existing daily/weekly CI cron until:

  • Argus has a dedicated Telegram bot token/channel.
  • Argus gateway starts cleanly.
  • Argus sends a Telegram smoke message to the dedicated channel.
  • Daily and weekly CI delivery under Argus has been smoke-tested.
  • The default Athena gateway is no longer the only proven delivery route.

Current activation helper result without token:

argus_activation_ready=no
argus_activation_blocker=dedicated Argus Telegram bot token/channel is not configured

Current cron migration helper result without token:

argus_cron_migration_ready=no
argus_cron_migration_blocker=dedicated Argus Telegram bot token/channel is not configured