Gaia Curate Dynamic

Read ../gaia-curate/CURATION-CORE.md. Every worker returns one schema-valid discovery-packet-v2; this extension may orchestrate packets but may not relax the core lifecycle or cross its L4 stop. V1 remains readable only for compatibility and is not normative output.

Roles

Role	Default tier	Bounded responsibility
orchestrator	Sol preferred; Terra acceptable	preflight, source shards, budgets, merge, arbitration, L4 synthesis
harvester	Luna Light	fetch/parse/normalize a bounded source shard
mapper	Luna Light	choose among at most three supplied generic options or defer
proposer/refuter	Luna High or equivalent	isolated adversarial review of risky candidates only
repair	Luna High or equivalent	one schema-repair attempt against frozen input
assembler	deterministic first	validate, dedupe, merge, persist, render L4 output

Model names are runtime configuration, not part of this skill. Do not silently substitute an unapproved model tier.

Mandatory runtime preflight

Discovery is read-only. Before dispatch, resolve the active harness through explicit overrides such as CLAUDE_BIN, CODEX_BIN, or HERMES_BIN, then PATH. Do not assume a binary location and never edit user configuration.

Persist preflight.json with:

{
  "harness": "claude-code|codex|hermes|other",
  "version": "...",
  "spawnMode": "subagent|process|sequential",
  "requestedConcurrency": 3,
  "observedConcurrency": 1,
  "structuredOutput": true,
  "usageReporting": "native|external|null",
  "budgetEnforcement": "native|orchestrator|null",
  "models": {"orchestrator": "...", "lunaLight": "...", "lunaHigh": "..."}
}

A config value is advisory. Establish capacity with a read-only canary: one Luna Light task, then a two-worker wave. Increase only after both succeed. Effective concurrency is the minimum of requested capacity, observed harness/provider capacity, remaining shards, and remaining budget. On 429/overload, reduce concurrency; do not increase retries. If routing or capacity cannot be established, continue sequentially or stop with the exact missing operator action.

Harness recipes, when configured:

# Claude Code
"$CLAUDE_BIN" -p --model "$LUNA_LIGHT_MODEL" --output-format json < "$PROMPT_FILE"

# Codex; read-only sandbox, explicit working directory
"$CODEX_BIN" exec -m "$LUNA_LIGHT_MODEL" -s read-only -C "$WORKTREE" - < "$PROMPT_FILE"

# Hermes one-shot process; children spawned with delegate_task inherit the parent model
"$HERMES_BIN" chat -Q -q "$BOUNDED_PROMPT" -m "$LUNA_LIGHT_MODEL" \
  --provider "$HERMES_PROVIDER" --max-turns 12 --source tool

Use only the recipe supported by the active harness. Never expose prompts, transcripts, secrets, or auth files in the ledger.

Sharding and convergence

1. Shard by source or repository affinity, with a bounded source list and output ceiling per harvester. Do not create one process per raw lead.
2. Validate and exact-dedupe mechanically before semantic or adversarial work.
3. Send each mapper one candidate plus at most three generic options. Invalid or ambiguous output becomes DEFER; do not infer intent.
4. Skip adversarial calls for exact duplicates and straightforward existing-generic mappings.
5. Run isolated proposer/refuter passes only for NEW_GENERIC, fusion proposals, attribution conflicts, and unresolved semantic duplicates. Freeze identical input and hide each response from the other.
6. Sol/Terra arbitrates disagreements only. Conflicting mappings become DEFER, never a silent merge.
7. Present one consolidated L4 checkpoint and stop.

Retry and budget policy

Failure	Action
429, overload, 5xx, transport timeout	retry at most twice with backoff; reduce concurrency
capacity rejection	split/downshift the wave; do not count as candidate failure
invalid structured output	one Luna High repair against the same frozen input
validator or generic-reference failure	no blind retry; defer with exact validator output
unavailable or contradictory source	defer
budget exhausted	stop dispatch, preserve partials, mark run blocked

Never rerun a successful shard.

Resumable state and cost log

Use generated-output/curate-discovery/<run-id>/. Write state atomically and append one usage.jsonl event per attempt:

{
  "runId": "...", "taskId": "...", "shardId": "...", "attempt": 1,
  "role": "harvester", "tier": "luna-light", "harness": "...",
  "modelResolved": "...", "startedAt": "...", "finishedAt": "...",
  "status": "succeeded", "inputTokens": null, "outputTokens": null,
  "cacheReadTokens": null, "estimatedCostUsd": null, "pricingSource": null,
  "failureClass": null, "inputDigest": "sha256:...", "outputDigest": "sha256:..."
}

Use native usage when exposed, or an approved external cost tool. Store null when unavailable; never invent token or cost values. Resume only failed/incomplete tasks after revalidating the core contract digest and generic snapshot digest.

Discovery mode has no mutation or ship stage. Runtime ledgers and partial worker output stay under generated-output/curate-discovery/<run-id>/, but the deterministic assembler copies each final schema-valid review packet to the Core-owned canonical review path registry-for-review/discovery-packets/ before presenting L4. It must not create intake batches, branches, commits, issues, or PRs. Only the separate explicit post-L4 ratification seam via gaia dev ratify and gaia push in Core may create intake artifacts.