# JOURNAL — phase porepo (Builder)

## 2026-06-13T19:05Z — Bootstrap / orientation

Read the phase plan, `plan-agent-orchestrator.md`, and the harness README at
`/home/loops/aoeng/agent-orchestrator/README.md`. Key facts established:

- Harness `agent-orchestrator` is built + tagged `v0.1.0` (tag object `a89d30f` → commit `289ef07`).
  Working clone: `/home/loops/aoeng/agent-orchestrator`. Repo is **public** on Gitea
  (`private:false`), so a fresh `git clone --recurse-submodules` fetches `engine/` without creds.
- `engine/agents.py status` only needs a valid `agents.toml` (it reads config, prints a table;
  does not require running sessions or live backends). So a PO config with one persistent
  `project-orchestrator` agent will pass `status`.
- Config schema (README): `[watchdog]`, `[backend.<name>]`, `[defaults]` (session_prefix + log_dir
  REQUIRED), `[[agent]]`/`[[service]]`, `[loop]`. `project_dir` resolves relative paths.
- One-directional knowledge: the PO repo holds the fleet registry (`fleet.toml`); a project repo
  holds NO PO/fleet metadata — engine submodule pin + PO's fleet.toml are the only record of
  project↔harness↔ref.

Decision: pin `engine/` at the **commit** the `v0.1.0` tag points to (`289ef07`), per DoD wording
"pinned to agent-orchestrator v0.1.0". The tests commit `cdcece9` is *after* the tag and is not
required.

Gitea API reachable with bot creds (200); `recipe-maintainers/project-orchestrator` does not yet
exist (404); org `recipe-maintainers` exists (id 65).

### File-ownership coordination note
The Adversary had pre-created STATUS-porepo.md / JOURNAL-porepo.md as placeholders before I started.
Per protocol §6.1 these are Builder-owned (STATUS is the authoritative `## DONE` handshake file the
Adversary verifies against; JOURNAL is my reasoning). I took them over and left REVIEW-porepo.md +
the `## Adversary findings` section of BACKLOG-porepo.md to the Adversary. Sent an ADVERSARY-INBOX.md
heads-up so it keeps its tracking in REVIEW.