Mission 0A: SWE work factory V1 — resumable mission orchestration (repo-local)

Mission 0A — SWE work factory V1

Repository-local orchestration layer so long autonomous engineering missions don't lose state, drift scope, or falsely declare success. Deliberately boring: Markdown + JSON artifacts + one Node CLI. No DB, no dashboard, no framework, no multi-agent platform.

Lifecycle

QUEUED → RUNNING → VERIFYING → DONE / FAILED / BLOCKED

Commands (package.json scripts)

swe:status — list/detail missions
swe:start — QUEUED → RUNNING; refuses on dirty tree or a second non-terminal mission
swe:checkpoint — ingest compact checkpoint md, stamp SHA + git state
swe:verify — run mission-required project checks (allowlisted: npm run <script> / node tests/*.mjs / node scripts/*.mjs), never duplicated validation logic
swe:finish — DONE only with green verification on current HEAD; writes REPORT.md
swe:resume — reconstruct context packet for a fresh session (mission + latest checkpoint + git state); BLOCKED → RUNNING

Artifacts

missions/TEMPLATE.md
missions/<id>/mission.md — JSON frontmatter (id, verification[], …) + narrative sections
missions/<id>/state.json, checkpoints/NNN.md, logs/, REPORT.md

Safety

Fail closed: no force-push, no reset --hard, no discarding unrelated uncommitted changes, no production secrets/data. Verification command allowlist. ChatGPT-via-Playwright optional + advisory only, never secrets.

V1 boundary

One non-terminal mission at a time; the queue is pre-authored mission files — no autonomous generation of future work.

Dogfood

Run a harmless validation mission through start → checkpoint → verify → finish → report + resume simulation.

Implemented on branch devin/swe-factory-001, PR #63. Dogfood: missions 001 (full lifecycle → DONE) + 002 (blocked → resume → DONE) committed. See PR for details.

swe: harden factory integrity — clean-tree DONE + immutable mission c…

0A.1 integrity hardening — done in `75b8f04`, CI green

Finding 1 — DONE with uncommitted product changes: CONFIRMED.
Reproduced live: dirty-tracked product file → verify PASS → finish accepted (SHA matched) → DONE; the change was invisible in the startSha..HEAD report.
Fix: swe:finish DONE now requires a clean tree under the same policy as swe:start (no tracked modifications, no unsafe untracked outside missions//node_modules). --result failed stays unconditional. Verify may still run on a dirty tree — only DONE is gated.

Finding 2 — mission definition mutability: CONFIRMED.
Reproduced live: weakened objective + criteria after start, committed it, verify + finish still produced DONE.
Fix: swe:start pins missionSha256 into state.json; verify/finish/resume re-hash and fail closed on any drift — committed or not. Restoring original bytes restores the hash → normal operation. No V1 amendment workflow by design.

Docs: README now states the allowlist guards mission-specified verification commands only — reliability guard on the contract, not a sandbox on the agent.

Tests: 10 new checks (31 total): dirty-tree refusal, commit+reverify+done, drift detection at all guarded ops, restore-recovers, hash persisted. npm run verify green; verify:full green in CI.

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