📖About & Usage

Owner agent — accountability this droid serves

Merlin owns tactical execution of initiatives: translating strategic plans into running tasks, dispatching work to the team, and driving task-level replans. SQ-01 covers the execution slice—taking a phase plan and actually running it step by step.

Droid responsibility

SQ-01 is Merlin's execution engine for a single phase. It deduplicates steps, analyzes dependencies, runs them in sequence, self-heals when things break, and monitors for hangs. This frees Merlin to focus on task-level replan decisions and overall coordination across multiple initiatives.

What the droid actually does

• Deduplicates pending steps and removes redundant ones
• Builds a dependency tree and determines execution order
• Runs steps sequentially with memory limits (keeps RAM under 60%)
• Automatically diagnoses and fixes failures, then retries
• Detects stuck execution (no progress for 15+ minutes) and alerts
• Reviews task feedback to identify material issues that warrant a re-run
• Creates prerequisite steps on-the-fly when the execution plan needs them

Boundaries

• Executes only one phase at a time (no cross-phase orchestration)
• Cannot redesign the step structure itself (Merlin or Elrond must replan that)
• Assumes all steps target known executor endpoints; does not bootstrap new integrations
• Retries are bounded: 2 attempts per step, 3 phase runs maximum
• Does not make strategic go/no-go decisions about the initiative

👤Owner

📚Recent initiatives

Initiatives that touched this droid — a short summary each; open one for the full story.