ao session bootstrap — the universal init prompt

One-line value: every agent in the swarm starts with the same orientation report, regardless of model.

When to invoke

Every agent spawned into an AgentOps repository runs this first. No exceptions. The bootstrap is the contract that makes the future fungibility charter (soc-vuu6.29) operational: identical starting frames let you swap Claude for Codex (or vice versa) on any bead without re-orienting.

Triggers:

• Manual spawn — operator just spawned a fresh agent into the repo: ao session bootstrap.
• SessionStart hook (opt-in) — AgentOps 3.0 ships no SessionStart hook. If you author one via the hooks-authoring skill, it can fail-open auto-fire ao session bootstrap --robot and discard the exit code.
• Pipeline submit — the orchestration substrate (the reference is NTM + MCP + managed-agents) and headless CI agents call ao session bootstrap --json before claiming work.

If you spawned without running it: stop, run it, then resume.

What it does

Four fail-open substeps, each producing a field in the session-bootstrap.v1 schema: