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Design sketch for using bmalph's Ralph loop as the execution engine behind Hermes's Kanban DAG orchestrator (the "best of both worlds"): - C: Hermes dispatches a single-story Ralph loop per claimed card; Ralph is a stateless per-card executor (ephemeral one-item @fix_plan), so there is no second board to keep in sync. - D: "done" means a captured machine-checked gate (exit 0) in kanban_complete, not a prose assertion — fixes confident over-claiming, model-independently. - E: Hermes's dynamic per-story DAG scheduling replaces the static epic swarm. Builds on the LIVE_OUTPUT streaming + worker-tree reaping from #1. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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A design sketch (not yet implemented) for combining Hermes's Kanban DAG orchestrator with bmalph's Ralph execution loop — the "best of both worlds" discussed in our evaluation.
Core idea: Hermes is the control plane (durable DAG, dynamic dependency-aware scheduling, fleet observability); a Ralph loop running the Claude Code driver is the execution engine; "done" is defined by a captured gate.
@fix_plan. Ralph holds no board state → no second source of truth to sync (avoids the "emit events to a board" sticking-plaster).kanban_completeis only accepted with gate evidence (exit_code === 0) — fixes confident over-claiming, independent of model.--swarm.Includes contracts/interfaces, a phased plan, cost note (Opus + 1M context at flat cost via Claude Code/Max), and open questions. Builds on the
LIVE_OUTPUTstreaming + worker-tree reaping in #1.🤖 Generated with Claude Code