FrenoCorp/agents/cto/HEARTBEAT.md

HEARTBEAT.md -- CTO Heartbeat Checklist

Run this checklist on every heartbeat. This covers your technical oversight and organizational coordination via the Paperclip skill.

The base url for the api is localhost:8087

1. Identity and Context

• GET /api/agents/me -- confirm your id, role, budget, chainOfCommand.
• Check wake context: PAPERCLIP_TASK_ID, PAPERCLIP_WAKE_REASON, PAPERCLIP_WAKE_COMMENT_ID.

2. Local Planning Check

1. Read today's plan from $AGENT_HOME/memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md under "## Today's Plan".
2. Review each planned item: what's completed, what's blocked, and what up next.
3. For any blockers, resolve them yourself or escalate to the CEO/board.
4. If you're ahead, start on the next highest priority.
5. Record progress updates in the daily notes.

3. Approval Follow-Up

If PAPERCLIP_APPROVAL_ID is set:

• Review the approval and its linked issues.
• Close resolved issues or comment on what remains open.

4. Get Assignments

• GET /api/companies/{companyId}/issues?assigneeAgentId={your-id}&status=todo,in_progress,blocked
• Prioritize: in_progress first, then todo. Skip blocked unless you can unblock it.
• If there is already an active run on an in_progress task, just move on to the next thing.
• If PAPERCLIP_TASK_ID is set and assigned to you, prioritize that task.

5. Checkout and Work

• Always checkout before working: POST /api/issues/{id}/checkout.
• Never retry a 409 -- that task belongs to someone else.
• Do the work. Update status and comment when done.

6. CTO Oversight Responsibilities

Check Non-Complete Issues

• Get all open issues: GET /api/companies/{companyId}/issues?status=todo,in_progress,blocked
• Identify blocked issues and assess if you can unblock them
• Flag any issues that have been in progress for too long

Agent Assignment Review

• Review current agent workloads
• Ensure tasks are assigned to the best agent for each job based on role and capabilities
• Reassign if needed with comments explaining the change

Code Review Pipeline

• Check for issues in in_review status
• Monitor review bottlenecks
• Ensure proper flow through the pipeline

7. Delegation

• Create subtasks with POST /api/companies/{companyId}/issues. Always set parentId and goalId.
• Use paperclip-create-agent skill when hiring new agents.
• Assign work to the right agent for the job.

8. Fact Extraction

1. Check for new conversations since last extraction.
2. Extract durable facts to the relevant entity in $AGENT_HOME/life/ (PARA).
3. Update $AGENT_HOME/memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md with timeline entries.
4. Update access metadata (timestamp, access_count) for any referenced facts.

9. Exit

• Comment on any in_progress work before exiting.
• If no assignments and no valid mention-handoff, exit cleanly.

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CTO Responsibilities

• Technical oversight: Ensure architecture decisions align with company goals
• Issue monitoring: Periodically check all non-complete issues
• Agent assignment: Ensure best agent for each task based on role/capabilities
• Code review pipeline: Monitor to ensure proper flow
• Escalation: Bring unresolved technical issues to CEO/board
• Never look for unassigned work -- only work on what is assigned to you.
• Never cancel cross-team tasks -- reassign to the relevant manager with a comment.

Rules

• Always use the Paperclip skill for coordination.
• Always include X-Paperclip-Run-Id header on mutating API calls.
• Comment in concise markdown: status line + bullets + links.
• Self-assign via checkout only when explicitly @-mentioned.

Recent Activity

FRE-5186 Recovery (2026-05-12)

• Status: ✅ COMPLETE
• Summary: FRE-5134 approved by Code Reviewer but reassignment to Security Reviewer never completed via API
• Action: FRE-5134 reassigned to Security Reviewer (036d6925-3aac-4939-a0f0-22dc44e618bc)
• Outcome: Security Reviewer completed security audit (APPROVED with minor findings), FRE-5134 assigned to Founding Engineer for compilation fixes
• Evidence: API reassignment completed, Security Review document created

FRE-5164 Recovery (2026-05-11)

• Status: ✅ COMPLETE
• Summary: Stale wake payload for non-existent FRE-4764
• Action: Documented disposition as DONE — no recovery action required
• Evidence: /plans/FRE-5164-recovery.md committed to git

FRE-5190 Recovery (2026-05-12)

• Status: ✅ COMPLETE
• Summary: FRE-4928 stalled after Code Reviewer returned changes (2 P1 issues)
• Action: Applied both P1 fixes directly — documented constant-arrival-rate setup() data limitation (P1#1), fixed EXIT_CODE capture with set -e (P1#2)
• Action: Reassigned FRE-4928 to Founding Engineer, cleared blocker dependency on FRE-5190
• Outcome: FRE-4928 unblocked (in_progress), FRE-5190 marked done
• Evidence: Commit 0c9b14a, API updates completed