feat(config): role prompts, concepts doc, and skill labels for the Manager taxonomy (RIG-3076, RIG-3077, RIG-3078) - #802
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…nager taxonomy (RIG-3076, RIG-3077, RIG-3078) The config + docs layer of the frozen Manager-role-taxonomy record (docs/designs/product/compass-manager-role-taxonomy/design.md, RIG-3066): - config/prompts/supervisor/SYSTEM.md + config/prompts/owner/SYSTEM.md: the two new role block-0 prompts, split out from the manager prompt's skeleton. supervisor owns the whole tree (intake/routing, incidents, top-down broadcasts, operator first-contact, grows the subtrees); owner owns one domain end to end (decomposes to child managers, aggregates up, grows its own subtree). Both carry every common invariant (coordinator-not-typist, subagents-are-not-mesh-nodes, async/never-block, operator-merges, compact-often, name-by-function pointer). (RIG-3076) - config/prompts/manager/SYSTEM.md: add the three-role taxonomy line; reshape the spawn-approval gate to steer a leaf whose lane has grown into a domain toward proposing an owner reshape (approval requirement kept). (RIG-3076) - docs/concepts/agent-roles.md: new concepts doc — the taxonomy, the role-selects-block-0 mechanic (replace) vs persona (append), name-by-function composition, and the workers-are-subagents model framed as structural. Cross-linked with comms-model.md both directions. (RIG-3077) - config/skills/management-trees/SKILL.md: name the root's role supervisor, annotate all four example tree shapes with per-node role labels, and expand the roles-compose-with-names note into a closed-set subsection. The name-by-function tenet body is unchanged. (RIG-3078) Prompts are authored here; they ship to agents once the config bundle admits prompts/<role>/SYSTEM.md (RIG-3075), and the root seeds as supervisor once that prompt ships (RIG-3079). Spec-impact: none — role prompts + concept/skill docs; no externally-visible behavior. The delivery + seed-flip surfaces are RIG-3075 / RIG-3079. Refs: RIG-3076, RIG-3077, RIG-3078, RIG-3066 Co-authored-by: Matt Wilkinson <matt@rigel.build>
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Matt ruled the owner tier supports multiple owner levels ("middle
managers"): an `owner` may spawn a child `owner` for a coherent sub-domain,
not only child `manager`s, and owner tiers nest as deep as the domain needs.
The taxonomy already permits this (record DL-new-E multi-tree; DL-new-F made
`ManagerResolver` walk to the nearest ancestor of ANY Manager-class role
precisely so an owner-under-owner is not skipped), and the `management-trees`
skill already draws it (`department Managers [each owner]`) — but the owner
block-0 prompt named only child `manager`s on every action line. This closes
that gap so the prompt matches the frozen model.
`config/prompts/owner/SYSTEM.md`: the position, grow-subtree, coordinator,
work-loop, and operator-approval lines now name child `owner`s alongside
`manager`s, and add the role-selection rule — a coherent sub-domain that is
itself decomposable gets a child `owner`; a single function/lane gets a
`manager`. Mirrors the supervisor prompt's existing "spawn `owner`s and
`manager`s" phrasing one tier down. The compact-context line is now
role-agnostic ("the work lives in your subtree") so it covers child owners.
`docs/concepts/agent-roles.md`: the `owner` bullet now names delegating a
sub-domain to a child `owner` (owner tiers nest), consistent with the prompt.
`config/skills/management-trees/SKILL.md`: the compact `owner` role summary
now names delegating sub-domains to child `owner`s (it previously read "child
managers" only), matching the concepts doc and the example tree.
No code change; the bind-3 taxonomy is unchanged (RIG-3074/#810 stays as-is —
depth carries hierarchy, the role set stays exactly supervisor/owner/manager).
Spec-impact: none. Refs RIG-3076
Co-authored-by: Matt Wilkinson <matt@rigel.build>
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The config + docs layer of the frozen Manager-role-taxonomy record
(docs/designs/product/compass-manager-role-taxonomy/design.md, RIG-3066):
new role block-0 prompts, split out from the manager prompt's skeleton.
supervisor owns the whole tree (intake/routing, incidents, top-down
broadcasts, operator first-contact, grows the subtrees); owner owns one
domain end to end (decomposes to child managers, aggregates up, grows its own
subtree). Both carry every common invariant (coordinator-not-typist,
subagents-are-not-mesh-nodes, async/never-block, operator-merges,
compact-often, name-by-function pointer). (RIG-3076)
the spawn-approval gate to steer a leaf whose lane has grown into a domain
toward proposing an owner reshape (approval requirement kept). (RIG-3076)
role-selects-block-0 mechanic (replace) vs persona (append), name-by-function
composition, and the workers-are-subagents model framed as structural.
Cross-linked with comms-model.md both directions. (RIG-3077)
annotate all four example tree shapes with per-node role labels, and expand
the roles-compose-with-names note into a closed-set subsection. The
name-by-function tenet body is unchanged. (RIG-3078)
Prompts are authored here; they ship to agents once the config bundle admits
prompts//SYSTEM.md (RIG-3075), and the root seeds as supervisor once that
prompt ships (RIG-3079).
Spec-impact: none — role prompts + concept/skill docs; no externally-visible
behavior. The delivery + seed-flip surfaces are RIG-3075 / RIG-3079.
Refs: RIG-3076, RIG-3077, RIG-3078, RIG-3066
Co-authored-by: Matt Wilkinson matt@rigel.build