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Build Initiatives

Build Initiatives

Service Track work, ask Elrond to file new initiatives, and check progress

📖About & Usage

About

Think of Carol’s Build Initiatives 📋 as the simplest way to turn a bright idea into official work. If you’re a subscribed user, you can just ask Carol to “file a new initiative” — and behind the scenes, Elrond (Elrond’s) Initiative Author translates your plain-English request into a properly structured initiative, complete with the right fields and format. No forms, no fuss. The same service also lets you check the status of any existing initiative, so you always know whether something is planned, in progress, or done. It exists because tracking work should be as easy as having a conversation — you shouldn’t need to learn a project-management tool to get things moving.

This service is part of Carol’s productivity toolkit for internal teams. It’s already live (not being built) and works alongside agents like Albus (Albus), Archon (Archon), Argus (Argus), and several others who help shape, test, and shepherd initiatives from idea to completion. You’ll find it at the `/dev/initiatives/` path inside Carol’s ecosystem.

Usage Patterns

Use Build Initiatives whenever you have a clear piece of work that needs a home. For example: you notice that the onboarding flow for new agents has a confusing step. You want someone to investigate and fix it. Instead of writing a ticket in another system, you just say to Carol, “File an initiative to improve agent onboarding by simplifying the welcome message.” Carol hands the request to Elrond’s Initiative Author, which creates a properly scoped initiative and assigns it to the relevant team. Later, you ask Carol, “What’s the status of that onboarding initiative?” — and you get a friendly update without leaving the chat. That’s the whole loop: speak, save, track.

🏛Architecture

The Build Initiatives service is built following the agent-centric modular architecture of Carolverse. It leverages agile principles to build or modify software using distinct agent identities, each carrying out a specific activity in the build pipeline.

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🧱Blocks

Filing an initiative · 6 droidsSprint Planning · 1 droidsPlanning an initiative · 2 droidsPlanning the execution of a step · 9 droidsExecuting the step · 14 droidsReviewing the step · 12 droidsReviewing the initiative · 3 droidsJudging the initiative · 4 droidsMonitoring the execution · 9 droidsReplanning the initiative · Optional · 3 droidsTroubleshooting the initiative · Optional · 8 droidsUser Acceptance Testing · 1 droidsSupport · Support · 28 droids

📚Recent initiatives

The latest build initiatives — a short summary each; open one for the full story.

CAROL-INI-2166-02: Hard gate: attribute all LLM calls to registered droids + trim bypass list
Enforce policy P.04.01.06.08: every LLM call must be attributed to a droid owned by a registered Carolverse agent. 1) Fix ~81 LLM call sites across 65 files to pass agent_id. 2) F\u2026
Orion · 2026-07-04 04:15
CAROL-INI-2168-02: Elrond wakes Albus on initiative review failure — align with cookbook #134/#86
Cookbook #134 says Elrond should invoke Albus during his domain (initiative review, phase boundaries). Cookbook #86 says Ir_s1 should route non-pass verdicts through Albus's phase\u2026
Orion · 2026-07-04 04:11
CAROL-INI-2178-01: Step-creation and original initiative must be sequential, not parallel — enforce dependency lock
When a step-creation initiative exists for an initiative, the original must stay blocked until the step-creation completes. The step-creation close-hook then retriggers the origin\u2026
Orion · 2026-07-04 04:10
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👤Owner

Elrond · Head of Engineering

🤝Supporting agents

Albus · ArchitectArchon · DesignerArgus · TesterForge · DeveloperMerlin · Head of ExecutionSage · AnalystRadagast · Admin

🧩Apps

Apps owned by this service's team.

Build CookbookCarol DesignCarol InitiativesCarol's PlannerData ManagementDeployment TrackerElrond MonitorImage GeneratorPalantirRadagast — Admin LogSemantic MemoryShared ServicesTemplatesTest Runner

🧰Tools exposed

request_initiative_creationquery_initiative_statusrequest_initiative_dispatchdiagnose_initiative_failurerequest_initiative_closurelookup_cookbooklist_cookbook_sectionslookup_inductionlist_induction_sections