Campaign

Overview

Orchestrates the production of 15+ skills across multiple sessions by driving them through the full SKF pipeline (brief, generate, compile, test, export) in dependency order. File-based state (_campaign-state.yaml) survives context death, enabling resume from any point.

Conventions

• Bare paths (e.g. references/step-01-setup.md) resolve from the skill root.
• references/ holds the stage-chained step files plus reference specs (e.g. the _campaign-directive.md contract at references/campaign-directive-spec.md); templates/, scripts/, and assets/ hold templates, deterministic helpers, and the state schema.
• {skill-root} resolves to this skill's installed directory (where customize.toml lives).
• {project-root}-prefixed paths resolve from the project working directory.
• {skill-name} resolves to the skill directory's basename.
• Module-level path exception: bare paths beginning with knowledge/ or shared/ resolve from the SKF module root ({project-root}/_bmad/skf/ installed, src/ in dev), not the skill root; e.g. shared/health-check.md and the envelope schemas under shared/scripts/schemas/.
• Sibling skills: a path that names another SKF skill's folder (skf-<name>/...) resolves from the SKF module root, and that skill must be installed with this one.

Role

You are a campaign orchestrator operating in Ferris's Management mode. You sequence workflows, track per-skill state, enforce quality gates, and ensure every skill reaches its target tier, while the individual pipeline workflows handle the actual artifact production.

On Activation

Run these steps once, in order, before dispatching to Mode Routing.

1. Load config. Read {project-root}/_bmad/skf/config.yaml and {sidecar_path}/preferences.yaml in one batched message (independent files). From config resolve project_name, user_name, communication_language, document_output_language, skills_output_folder, forge_data_folder, sidecar_path. If the config file is missing, fall back to forge_data_folder = forge-data.

1. Resolve `{headless_mode}`: true if --headless or -H was passed as an argument, or if headless_mode: true in {sidecar_path}/preferences.yaml. Default: false.

1. Resolve workflow customization. Run:

   uv run {project-root}/_bmad/scripts/resolve_customization.py --skill {skill-root} --project-root {project-root} --key workflow

It merges the bundled {skill-root}/customize.toml with {project-root}/_bmad/custom/skf-campaign.toml (team overrides, committed) and .user.toml (personal overrides, gitignored). When it exits non-zero, prints no JSON or is missing, print one line, [activation/warn] customization_resolver_unavailable: <reason> (<reason>: its first stderr line, not found when the script is missing, no JSON when it printed none). If the resolver cannot run, read {skill-root}/customize.toml alone and use its bundled defaults: the {project-root}/_bmad/custom/ overrides do not apply to this run. In that case, unless the invocation is campaign status (which writes nothing), log customization_resolver_unavailable: <reason> as an event in the decision log once {campaignWorkspacePath} is bound below (references/campaign-contracts.md, Decision Log).

Resolve each scalar now (so step files never repeat the conditional) and stash as workflow-context variables:

• {campaignWorkspacePath} ← workflow.campaign_workspace_path if non-empty, else {forge_data_folder}/_campaign
• {qualityGateHard} / {qualityGateSoftTarget} / {qualityGateSoftFallback} ← the quality_gate_* scalars (defaults zero-critical-high / 90 / 80): the base gate, which step-01 §2 and scripts/campaign-quality-gate.py adjust with the brief and the directive
• {reportTemplatePath} ← workflow.report_template_path if non-empty, else templates/campaign-report-template.md
• {kickoffTemplatePath} ← workflow.kickoff_template_path if non-empty, else templates/kickoff-template.md
• {briefTemplatePath} ← workflow.brief_template_path if non-empty, else templates/campaign-brief-template.yaml
• {onComplete} ← workflow.on_complete (empty = no-op)
• {emitEnvelopeHelper} ← {project-root}/_bmad/skf/shared/scripts/skf-emit-result-envelope.py, else {project-root}/src/shared/scripts/skf-emit-result-envelope.py (the first that exists)

Load workflow.persistent_facts (literal sentences and file: references, globs expanded: the bundled default loads every project-context.md under {project-root}; an entry prefixed ! drops each earlier entry it names and loads nothing itself, so an override's "!file:{project-root}/**/project-context.md" turns that default off) and keep them in mind for the whole campaign: they are injected into every per-skill kickoff, whose loader drops a ! entry the same way. Run any activation_steps_prepend now, right after the resolve: the config and preferences of steps 1 and 2 are already loaded, so a prepend step can read them but cannot run before them. activation_steps_append runs at step 5, once the CLI overrides are parsed.

1. Parse CLI overrides into the workflow context:

If --brief or --manifest is set, force {headless_mode} = true (log "headless: coerced by --brief/--manifest" if it was false). This is deliberate: a seeded run is an unattended run (CI), so it takes the default at every gate. To review the plan and the export, give the same file at the Setup question instead, which stays interactive. step-01 §1 documents the manifest format and validates every target.

1. Run any activation_steps_append, then dispatch per Mode Routing below.

Workflow Rules

These rules apply to every step in this workflow:

• State-first: write state to disk before chaining to the next step or workflow
• Every state write goes through scripts/campaign-state.py (State Contract in references/campaign-contracts.md); never edit the state or its .bak by hand
• Validate _campaign-state.yaml on every load by running uv run scripts/campaign-validate-state.py --state-file {stateFile} and HALT (exit code 3, invalid-state) on non-zero; never hand-validate the schema
• Zero memory dependency: campaign state is 100% recoverable from disk; never rely on conversation context for progress tracking
• A sub-skill's result is what the step that runs it reads (an SKF_*_RESULT_JSON envelope or a verdict): a missing, unparseable or error result is a sub-skill failure, and never write partial state from an unparsed envelope
• Log every operator decision, headless default and event (skip/force, overwrite, export cancel/proceed, .bak recovery, user-cancel, a failed skill) as one typed entry in the append-only {campaignWorkspacePath}/_campaign-decision-log.md through campaign-state.py log (references/campaign-contracts.md), so rationale survives compaction and resume
• Universal cancel affordance: at any interactive gate between Setup and the Export gate, cancel/exit/:q triggers a HARD HALT with exit code 12 (`user-cancelled`): log it and leave state intact and resumable. Exception: the Export gate's own [C]ancel stays exit code 11 (export-cancelled); never also emit 12 there, so an automator's exit-code branch stays deterministic.
• Always communicate in {communication_language}
• If {headless_mode} is true, auto-proceed through confirmation gates with their default action and log each auto-decision
• If {headless_mode} is true, emit a single-line JSON progress event to stderr at each step's entry, exit, and HARD HALT, and at every HARD HALT the error envelope (references/campaign-contracts.md: Headless Progress Events, Result Contract on HARD HALT)

Stages

Stage numbering: campaign.current_stage is 0-indexed, so step-NN runs stage NN - 1; campaign-state.py resume maps a resumed campaign to its step file.

Invocation Contract

Contracts

Exit codes, the HARD-HALT error envelope, the State Contract (scripts/campaign-state.py), the decision log and per-step progress events live in references/campaign-contracts.md: consult it when you HALT, write state, or log. The envelope's one definition is shared/scripts/schemas/skf-campaign-result-envelope.v1.json; step-11 emits its success line.

Mode Routing

On invocation:

1. `campaign resume [--from=<skill>]`: load references/step-resume.md (validates state, recovers from backup, chains to the stage campaign-state.py resume computes). --from=<skill> overrides the resume point to the named skill.
2. `campaign` (new, no existing state) to run from stage 0 (Setup).
3. `campaign` (state exists): when {campaignWorkspacePath}/_campaign-state.yaml or its .bak exists, prompt resume (via references/step-resume.md) or overwrite. On overwrite, first run uv run scripts/campaign-state.py archive --state-file {campaignWorkspacePath}/_campaign-state.yaml --brief-file {campaignWorkspacePath}/campaign-brief.yaml, which moves the state, its .bak and the brief into a new folder under {campaignWorkspacePath}/archive/, and log the archive_dir it returns (type decision) before chaining to step-01 (its init refuses to overwrite a state or backup). A --brief that named the workspace's campaign-brief.yaml is then read from archive_dir. GATE [default: resume]: in headless mode, default to resume (never silently clobber); archive-and-overwrite only when --brief/--manifest explicitly seeds a new campaign.
4. `campaign status` (read-only): load {campaignWorkspacePath}/_campaign-state.yaml, validate it via campaign-validate-state.py, then run uv run scripts/campaign-status.py --state-file {campaignWorkspacePath}/_campaign-state.yaml and display its summary (campaign name, current stage, completed-vs-total, per-status counts) followed by the last ~15 lines of {campaignWorkspacePath}/_campaign-decision-log.md for the recent decision trail, then stop. No backup, no mutation, no chaining. Exit 0 (or 9 if the state is unrecoverable).