What your agent reads at the start of a session
Before it writes code, the agent reads its policy and rules, the standards and what changed.
For: Team developer, Solo builder
Order
- Agent policy and rules (
get_agent_policy), with the solution's open initiatives, its maintenance initiative and the session's choice. - Standards that apply (
get_standards). - Changes since it last looked (
get_changes). - For the item it works on, the work context (
get_work_context).
Keep in mind
In Claude Code the plugin loads the binding records at session start. CorPole flags an agent that writes before reading the policy and tells it to read first.
With more than one open initiative and no choice yet, the agent asks you once which one you work on and records it with select_initiative (kept for 12 hours). Defects go to the maintenance initiative unless you name another.