The first mate drives these; interactive entrypoints work by hand too, while *-lib.sh files are sourced helpers.
Each file also starts with a short header comment.
| Script | Description |
|---|---|
fm-session-start.sh |
The one command AGENTS.md sections 3 and 5 run at every session start: composes fm-lock.sh, fm-bootstrap.sh (its three mutating sweeps gated on holding the lock via FM_BOOTSTRAP_DETECT_ONLY), and fm-wake-drain.sh, then prints a full context digest (data/projects.md, data/secondmates.md, data/captain.md, data/learnings.md, each ABSENT-marked when missing) and fleet-state digest (data/backlog.md, every state/*.meta, a bounded state/*.status tail, state/.afk, and a cheap per-task endpoint-liveness read); prints a loud read-only banner and skips every mutating step when the lock is held elsewhere; never arms the watcher itself |
fm-bootstrap.sh |
Detect required toolchain and version problems, dispatch profile JSON errors or active-rule blocks, default backlog-backend status, primary-checkout TANGLE: problems, and actionable clone refresh outcomes; refresh project clones best-effort; locally sync live secondmate homes and propagate declared inheritable config; set up opt-in X mode; install tools only after consent; FM_BOOTSTRAP_DETECT_ONLY=1 skips the three mutating sweeps and prints advisory-only TANGLE: wording without a checkout command |
fm-fleet-sync.sh |
Fetch clones, fast-forward safe default-branch states, self-heal clean detached ancestor drift, report unsafe drift as STUCK:, and safely prune branches whose remote is gone |
fm-update.sh |
Self-update the running firstmate repo and registered secondmate homes with fast-forward-only pulls from origin |
fm-backlog-handoff.sh |
Move already-judged in-scope queued backlog items from the main home into a seeded secondmate home |
fm-brief.sh |
Scaffold a ship brief with a worktree-isolation assertion, a report-only scout brief with --scout, or a secondmate charter with --secondmate |
fm-ensure-agents-md.sh |
Ensure project AGENTS.md is the real memory file and CLAUDE.md symlinks to it |
fm-guard.sh |
Warn when the primary checkout is tangled, when queued wakes are pending, or when a stale or missing watcher needs a prominent banner; FM_GUARD_READ_ONLY=1 keeps the alarms but suppresses drain, arm, and checkout repair commands |
fm-home-seed.sh |
Lease/provision a secondmate home transactionally, clone projects, initialize gates, and maintain data/secondmates.md |
fm-spawn.sh |
Spawn one task, several id=repo pairs, or a persistent secondmate with --secondmate; accepts concrete --harness, --model, --effort, and --backend axes; ship/scout spawns require an explicit resolved harness when dispatch profiles are active and an isolated treehouse worktree, install per-harness turn-end signaling, and secondmate spawns resolve the secondmate harness plus optional config/secondmate-harness model/effort tokens, locally sync the home, propagate declared inheritable config, and land herdr tabs in the target home's workspace before launch |
fm-backend.sh |
Runtime session-provider backend selector with explicit/env/config/runtime auto-detection precedence, meta helper, selector resolver, and operation dispatcher; defaults absent backend= meta to tmux; fm_backend_target_exists is a cheap read-only alive/dead endpoint check that never starts a server or session |
backends/tmux.sh |
Verified tmux session-provider adapter used by fm-backend.sh; owns create, send, capture, current-path, live-window, and kill primitives |
backends/herdr.sh |
Experimental herdr session-provider adapter used by fm-backend.sh; owns version/tool gating, per-home workspace/tab creation, session-scoped CLI calls, send, capture, native busy-state, current-path, label-based live discovery, and kill primitives |
fm-config-push.sh |
Config-only mid-session push of declared inheritable local config into live secondmate homes; reports each item as pushed, unchanged, skipped, or error without fast-forwarding tracked files or nudging agents |
fm-project-mode.sh |
Resolve a project's delivery mode and +yolo flag from data/projects.md |
fm-merge-local.sh |
Fast-forward a local-only project's local default branch after approval |
fm-review-diff.sh |
Review a crewmate branch against the authoritative base, with optional --stat output |
fm-marker-lib.sh |
Shared from-firstmate request marker and detector sourced by fm-send.sh, fm-brief.sh, and tests |
fm-watch-arm.sh |
Verified per-home watcher re-arm; reports started, healthy, or FAILED; --restart relaunches only this home's watcher |
fm-watch.sh |
Singleton-safe always-on watcher and default pull-based event source; uses backend-native busy state when available before the shared regex fallback, absorbs no-verb signal and stale wakes only when the crew is provably working, queues and exits for actionable wakes, and reverts to daemon-owned one-shot behavior while state/.afk exists |
fm-supervise-daemon.sh |
Presence-gated sub-supervisor for walk-away (/afk) supervision: wraps fm-watch.sh, uses the shared wake classifier and backend-aware stale rechecks, self-handles routine wakes in bash, and escalates only captain-relevant events as one verified, batched, single-line digest prefixed with a sentinel marker |
fm-crew-state.sh |
Print one stable current-state line for a crew by reconciling its matching no-mistakes run-step, even when the pane has closed, with backend-aware pane and status-log fallback |
fm-tangle-lib.sh |
Shared default-branch resolution and primary-checkout tangle classification sourced by bootstrap and guard |
fm-ff-lib.sh |
Shared guarded fast-forward helper for /updatefirstmate origin pulls and no-fetch local secondmate syncs |
fm-config-inherit-lib.sh |
Shared primary->secondmate inheritable-config propagation (a declared, extensible item list - currently config/crew-dispatch.json, config/crew-harness, and config/backlog-backend) sourced by spawn, bootstrap, and config push |
fm-tasks-axi-lib.sh |
Shared backlog-backend selector and tasks-axi compatibility probe sourced by bootstrap and teardown |
fm-wake-drain.sh |
Atomically drain queued watcher wakes before handling supervision work, then run the watcher-liveness guard |
fm-wake-lib.sh |
Shared durable wake queue and portable lock helpers sourced by the watcher, drain, arm, guard, and daemon |
fm-classify-lib.sh |
Shared captain-relevant wake classifier sourced by the watcher and daemon, plus the watcher's provably-working predicate |
fm-send.sh |
Send one verified literal line (or --key Escape) through the target's recorded runtime backend; exits non-zero on confirmed swallowed Enter; bare kind=secondmate targets are marked as from-firstmate; slash commands and codex $... skill invocations get popup-settle before Enter; text sends pause FM_SEND_SETTLE seconds after success |
fm-tmux-lib.sh |
Shared tmux pane primitives for busy detection, dim-ghost-aware and border-aware composer detection, and verified submit retry |
fm-peek.sh |
Print a bounded tail of a crewmate endpoint through the target's recorded runtime backend |
fm-pr-check.sh |
Record pr= and GitHub's pr_head= when available for a PR-ready task, then arm the watcher's merge poll |
fm-pr-merge.sh |
Require a full GitHub PR URL, record pr= and available pr_head= via fm-pr-check.sh, parse it into gh-axi pr merge <n> --repo <owner>/<repo>, default to --squash unless a merge method is forwarded, and reject malformed URLs or repo overrides |
fm-promote.sh |
Promote a scout task in place so it becomes a protected ship task |
fm-teardown.sh |
Return a clean, landed ship worktree or retire/release a secondmate home; requires scout reports, checks child work, removes firstmate-owned hook artifacts, and prints the backlog-backend reminder |
fm-harness.sh |
Detect the running harness; resolve the effective crewmate (crew) or secondmate-launch (secondmate) harness; expose optional config/secondmate-harness model and effort tokens with secondmate-model and secondmate-effort |
fm-lock.sh |
Per-home firstmate session lock |
fm-x-lib.sh |
Shared X-mode .env, alternate env-file, relay, dry-run config, reply-thread splitting, outbound image payloads, and task-to-X-request meta-link helpers |
fm-x-poll.sh |
Do one bounded X relay poll; without FMX_PAIRING_TOKEN it is silent, with a pending mention it stashes the full inbox JSON, including in_reply_to, and prints x-mention <request_id> |
fm-x-reply.sh |
Post or dry-run preview a composed public-safe X answer or --followup, auto-splitting long text into {request_id,text,texts} threads and optionally attaching --image <path> to the opener; reads text from an argument, stdin, or --text-file |
fm-x-dismiss.sh |
Dismiss or dry-run preview a skipped X mention without replying by sending {request_id} to the relay's connector/dismiss endpoint |
fm-x-link.sh |
Link a spawned task to its originating X mention by recording x_request= and x_request_ts= in state/<id>.meta |
fm-x-followup.sh |
Detect, post, and clear the single completion follow-up for an X-linked task, forwarding optional --image <path>, enforcing the local 24h window, and retrying only when the relay post fails |