feat(orchestrator): budget-pressure steering + non-destructive cutoff (IDE-210) - #71
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… (IDE-210) Add two adapter-agnostic mechanisms so converging agent work is not lost when a run approaches its continuation cap (IDE-189): - Mechanism A (steering): inject a budget-pressure directive into the continuation prompt within `agent.budget_pressure_turns` of `max_turns`, telling the agent to commit now via the `commit` skill. Best-effort. - Mechanism B (cutoff): new `SymphonyElixir.Git.preserve_uncommitted_work/4` snapshots a dirty tree (modified + staged + untracked) to a `refs/symphony/wip/<id>` commit via temp-index `commit-tree`, without touching HEAD, the branch, or the working tree. Fired before every session stop and on the `max_turns_reached` cutoff. This is the correctness guarantee; preservation is gated on `agent.preserve_uncommitted_work`. New config: `agent.budget_pressure_turns`, `preserve_uncommitted_work`, `preserve_uncommitted_work_branch`, `cutoff_timeout_ms`. Docs updated in SPEC.md (§6, §9.4.1), README.md, elixir/README.md, WORKFLOW.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Context
IDE-189: a near-cap run was stopped with converging work that was never committed, so the fresh restart lost it (a brand-new untracked file). This adds steering + a non-destructive safety net.
TL;DR
Steer the agent to commit near the turn cap, and snapshot any dirty tree to a WIP ref before stopping a session.
Summary
SymphonyElixir.Git.preserve_uncommitted_work/4: temp-indexcommit-treesnapshot torefs/symphony/wip/<id>(captures modified + staged + untracked); non-destructive (no HEAD/branch/worktree mutation); no-op on clean tree; local + SSH paths.append_budget_pressure_directive/2seam inagent_runner.ex, injected on continuation turns withinagent.budget_pressure_turnsof the cap, never on the final turn.terminate_running_issue(terminal/Backlog/non-active/stall/dependency/shutdown) and on the:max_turns_reachedDOWN path, before any workspace reclaim.agent.*config:budget_pressure_turns(2),preserve_uncommitted_work(true),preserve_uncommitted_work_branch(false),cutoff_timeout_ms(60000) +Configaccessors.Alternatives
git stash createrejected: it silently drops untracked files — exactly the IDE-189 stranded work.before_removehook rejected: only fires on workspace deletion; the max_turns/Backlog stops keep the workspace, so it would never run.Test Plan
make -C elixir allmix test test/symphony_elixir/git_test.exs(non-destructive capture, clean no-op, non-git, branch, HEAD-less, ref sanitization):max_turns_reachedDOWN + Backlog/non-active stop both preserve a dirty workspace to a WIP ref (IDE-189 regression)