flow-discover

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Compaction-Resistant Contract

• Dispatch MUST go through background agents that call ${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/orchestrate.sh probe-single; direct single-model research is not a valid substitute.
• Use the dynamic fleet from build-fleet.sh; the plugin can route across Codex, Gemini, Antigravity, Copilot, Qwen, OpenCode, Ollama, Perplexity, OpenRouter, Cursor Agent, and Claude depending on local availability.
• Before synthesis, run ${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/orchestrate.sh agent-summary and use only providers reported as ok, degraded, or timeout with usable output.
• For standard and deep research, require at least 2 usable provider outputs unless fewer providers are installed; failed/rejected providers are reported as gaps, not cited as evidence.

Pre-Discovery: Project Initialization

Before starting discovery:

1. Check if .octo/ directory exists
2. If NOT exists: Call ./scripts/octo-state.sh init_project to create it
3. Update .octo/STATE.md:
4. current_phase: 1
5. phase_position: "Discovery"
6. status: "in_progress"

# Check and initialize .octo/ state
if [[ ! -d ".octo" ]]; then
  echo "📁 Initializing .octo/ project state..."
  "${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/octo-state.sh" init_project
fi

# Update state for Discovery phase
"${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/octo-state.sh" update_state \
  --phase 1 \
  --position "Discovery" \
  --status "in_progress"

Native Plan Mode Compatibility (v7.23.0+)

IMPORTANT: claude-octopus workflows are designed to persist across context clearing.

Detecting Native Plan Mode

Check if native plan mode is active:

# Check for native plan mode markers
if [[ -n "${PLAN_MODE_ACTIVE}" ]] || claude-code plan status 2>/dev/null | grep -q "active"; then
    echo "⚠️  Native plan mode detected"
    echo ""
    echo "   Claude Octopus uses file-based state (.claude-octopus/)"
    echo "   State will persist across plan mode context clears"
    echo "   Multi-AI orchestration will continue normally"
    echo ""
fi

State Persistence Across Context Clearing

How it works:

• Native plan mode may clear Claude's memory via ExitPlanMode
• claude-octopus state persists in .claude-octopus/state.json
• Each workflow phase reads prior state at startup
• Context is automatically restored from files

No action required - state management handles this automatically via STEP 3 in the execution contract.

⚠️ EXECUTION CONTRACT (MANDATORY - CANNOT SKIP)

This skill uses ENFORCED execution mode. You MUST follow this exact sequence.

STEP 1: Detect Work Context (MANDATORY)

Analyze the user's prompt and project to determine context:

Knowledge Context Indicators:

• Business/strategy terms: "market", "ROI", "stakeholders", "strategy", "competitive", "business case"
• Research terms: "literature", "synthesis", "academic", "papers", "personas", "interviews"
• Deliverable terms: "presentation", "report", "PRD", "proposal", "executive summary"

Dev Context Indicators:

• Technical terms: "API", "endpoint", "database", "function", "implementation", "library"
• Action terms: "implement", "debug", "refactor", "build", "deploy", "code"

Also check: Does project have package.json, Cargo.toml, etc.? (suggests Dev Context)

Capture context_type = "Dev" or "Knowledge"

DO NOT PROCEED TO STEP 2 until context determined. Context type (Dev vs Knowledge) determines which provider prompts to use — wrong context produces irrelevant research that wastes provider credits.

STEP 2: Display Visual Indicators (MANDATORY - BLOCKING)

MANDATORY: You MUST use the Bash tool to run this provider check BEFORE displaying the banner. Do NOT skip it. Do NOT assume availability.

bash "${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/helpers/check-providers.sh"

Use the ACTUAL results below. PROHIBITED: Showing only "🔵 Claude: Available ✓" without listing all providers.

If OCTO_ALLOWED_PROVIDERS is set, treat it as the source of truth for which providers may participate. Providers filtered out by that allowlist are intentionally reported as unavailable; do not invoke or recommend them in the workflow.

Display this banner BEFORE orchestrate.sh execution:

For Dev Context:

🐙 **CLAUDE OCTOPUS ACTIVATED** - Multi-provider research mode
🔍 [Dev] Discover Phase: [Brief description of technical research]

Provider Availability:
🔴 Codex CLI: ${codex_status}
🟡 Gemini CLI: ${gemini_status}
🧭 Antigravity CLI: ${agy_status}
🟣 Perplexity: ${perplexity_status}
🔵 Claude: Available ✓ (Strategic synthesis)

💰 Estimated Cost: $0.01-0.08
⏱️  Estimated Time: 2-5 minutes

For Knowledge Context:

🐙 **CLAUDE OCTOPUS ACTIVATED** - Multi-provider research mode
🔍 [Knowledge] Discover Phase: [Brief description of strategic research]

Provider Availability:
🔴 Codex CLI: ${codex_status}
🟡 Gemini CLI: ${gemini_status}
🧭 Antigravity CLI: ${agy_status}
🟣 Perplexity: ${perplexity_status}
🔵 Claude: Available ✓ (Strategic synthesis)

💰 Estimated Cost: $0.01-0.08
⏱️  Estimated Time: 2-5 minutes

DO NOT PROCEED TO STEP 3 until banner displayed. The banner shows users which providers will run and what costs they'll incur — starting API calls without this visibility violates cost transparency.

STEP 3: Read Prior State (MANDATORY - State Management)

Before executing the workflow, read any prior context:

# Initialize state if needed
"${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/state-manager.sh" init_state

# Set current workflow
"${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/state-manager.sh" set_current_workflow "flow-discover" "discover"

# Get prior decisions (if any)
prior_decisions=$("${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/state-manager.sh" get_decisions "all")

# Get context from previous phases
prior_context=$("${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/state-manager.sh" read_state | jq -r '.context')

# Display what you found (if any)
if [[ "$prior_decisions" != "[]" && "$prior_decisions" != "null" ]]; then
  echo "📋 Building on prior decisions:"
  echo "$prior_decisions" | jq -r '.[] | "  - \(.decision) (\(.phase)): \(.rationale)"'
fi

This provides context from:

• Prior workflow phases (if resuming a session)
• Architectural decisions already made
• User vision captured in earlier phases
• If claude-mem is installed, its MCP tools (search, timeline, get_observations) are available — use them to check for relevant past session context before launching research agents

DO NOT PROCEED TO STEP 4 until state read.

STEP 3.5: Parse Intensity & Build Agent Fleet (MANDATORY)

Parse the breadth and intensity parameters from the skill args. The args string may start with [breadth=light|standard|exhaustive] and/or [intensity=quick|standard|deep]. If only breadth is specified, map light -> quick, standard -> standard, and exhaustive -> deep. If neither is specified, default to "standard" (backward compatible with /octo:embrace which doesn't pass intensity).

Build the fleet dynamically using build-fleet.sh — this is the single source of truth for provider-to-perspective assignment. It detects ALL available providers (codex, gemini, agy, copilot, qwen, opencode, ollama, perplexity, openrouter) and assigns perspectives with model family diversity enforcement.

FLEET_OUTPUT=$("${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/helpers/build-fleet.sh" research "${INTENSITY}" "${PROMPT}" 2>/dev/null)

The output is one line per agent: agent_type|label|perspective_prompt

Parse each line into the fleet array:

• agent_type: the provider to dispatch (codex, gemini, agy, copilot, qwen, opencode, claude-sonnet, perplexity, etc.)
• label: human-readable name (e.g., "Problem Analysis", "Ecosystem Overview", "Contrarian Analysis")
• perspective_prompt: the angle-specific prompt to send to that provi