Type-Based Autonomy

Transform your agent from reactive to autonomous worker on specific task types.

Concept

The agent pulls from tasks/QUEUE.md but only works on tasks tagged with specific types:

📚 Research  → ✅ Autonomy works on these
✍️ Writing   → ✅ Autonomy works on these
🔍 Analysis  → ✅ Autonomy works on these

🧹 Maintenance → ❌ Autonomy SKIPS these (cron handles)
💾 Backup      → ❌ Autonomy SKIPS these (cron handles)

Cron jobs handle backups, cleanup, security audits. Autonomy handles research, writing, analysis.

How It Works

1. Task Queue Structure

Every task in tasks/QUEUE.md has a @type: label:

## 🔴 Ready

### 📚 Research (@type:research)
- [ ] @priority:high @type:research Competitor pricing for X product
- [ ] @priority:medium @type:research Ollama model alternatives

### ✍️ Writing (@type:writing)
- [ ] @priority:medium @type:writing Blog post on memory systems
- [ ] @priority:low @type:writing Documentation update

### 🔍 Analysis (@type:analysis)
- [ ] @priority:medium @type:analysis Review weekly metrics
- [ ] @priority:low @type:analysis Analyze token patterns

### 🧹 Maintenance (@type:maintenance)
→ Autonomy IGNORES, cron handles
- [ ] @priority:medium @type:maintenance Old log cleanup

2. Heartbeat Flow

Heartbeat → Check urgent → No → Read QUEUE.md → Filter by @type → Pick task → Work → Update QUEUE → Log

Filter logic:

• Read all tasks in 🔴 Ready section
• ONLY pick tasks with @type:research | @type:writing | @type:analysis
• SKIP tasks with @type:maintenance | @type:backup | @type:security

3. Task Completion

1. Mark task as In Progress: @agent: @type:research [task description]
2. Work on it
3. Move to Done Today with completion notes
4. Log to memory/[today].md
5. Check GOALS.md and .learnings/ for follow-up tasks

Task Types

Research (@type:research)

Definition: Information gathering, investigation, discovery

Examples:

• Competitor analysis
• API documentation research
• Technology exploration
• Market research
• Best practices investigation

Output format:

## Research: [Topic]

### Findings
- Key point 1
- Key point 2

### Sources
- [Source 1](url)
- [Source 2](url)

### Recommendations
- Recommendation 1
- Recommendation 2

Add follow-up task to Ideas:

- [Idea: @type:analysis @priority:medium Analyze research findings for X]

Writing (@type:writing)

Definition: Content creation, documentation, communication

Examples:

• Blog posts
• Documentation updates
• Email drafts
• Announcements
• Guides/tutorials

Output format:

# [Title]

[Content]

Post-completion:

• If email: Add to Ideas for review by RA
• If blog/doc: Add to Ideas for publishing
• If announcement: Add to Ideas for distribution

Analysis (@type:analysis)

Definition: Data review, metrics analysis, pattern finding