Agent Foundry

End-to-end lifecycle for GECX conversational agents: build, test, debug, iterate.

Step tracking — MANDATORY (Phase 0, blocking)

Before doing ANY work — including running setup, asking questions, or scaffolding files — initialize <project>/todo.md from the relevant sub-skill's checklist (verbatim). The checklist is a contract, not a suggestion. If todo.md doesn't exist for the current task, refuse to proceed and create it first.

Long debug/build runs skip verification steps under pressure (e.g., pushing without linting, scaffolding without a TDD, claiming "deployed" without actually pushing). The checklist exists because of this. The instinct to skip a step is the moment the checklist earns its keep — that's when you must consult it, not the moment to bypass it.

Quick Reference

# Lint: dispatch agents/lint-fixer.md sub-agent — DO NOT run `cxas lint` on the main thread.
# Lint output is verbose; keep it inside the sub-agent context.

# Push local files to platform (only after lint-fixer returns status: clean)
cxas push --app-dir <project>/cxas_app/<AppName> \