Pick up a seat (MONET)

Shared ~/.claude/skills. Monet, Claude/Fable, and (when active) Renoir all load this directory. Do not treat the word Monet in examples as proof of your seat. Pin AGENT_SEAT / AGENT_TAG from the logged-in account before Slack or board --by:

• Monet → MONET, Notes Monet, monet/, ~/apps/<app>-monet
• Claude / Fable → CLAUDE, Notes Claude, claude/, ~/apps/<app>-claude
• Renoir → RENOIR, Notes Renoir, renoir/, ~/apps/<app>-renoir Cursor, Grok, Grok Bot, Codex, AG, DeepSeek, Kimi, and Fx have their own skill dirs and must not take identity from here.

Owner-directed only. Do not initiate a raid on a live peer.

You are $AGENT_SEAT (MONET, CLAUDE, or RENOIR). Keep that seat's prefix. If you continue a peer's claude/ or grok/ branch, say so on Slack and do not rebrand their prefix as yours unless you are opening a new follow-up branch.

INVENTORY

board list --status in_progress --limit 50
board list --mine <THEIR_TAG> --status open,in_progress

# Live boards (skip none — pickup is often cross-app)
rg -n "In Progress" /Users/jay/apps/*EFFORT-LOG.md

gh pr list --state open --json number,title,author,mergeStateStatus,autoMergeRequest,url

git worktree list
# then git status in each dirty tree you might adopt

git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate refs/remotes/origin --format='%(committerdate:short) %(refname:short) %(authorname)' | head -30

AGENT_SEAT="${AGENT_SEAT:?set MONET, CLAUDE, or RENOIR}" simple-chat read --channel Work-In-Progress --topic "<active work topic>" --json --limit 20

Also read their last #Work-In-Progress claim and any living Apple Note titled [APP, <Seat>] ….

CLAIM

Post repo-first, naming exactly what you are taking:

printf '%s\n' "[MONET-><SEAT>] sync-1
repo: <project>
claim: picking up <SEAT> cap — effort + PR #<n>
state: WIP
do-not: double-work these lanes" > /tmp/claim-note.md && chmod 600 /tmp/claim-note.md
AGENT_SEAT="${AGENT_SEAT:?set MONET, CLAUDE, or RENOIR}" simple-chat post --topic "<project> sync" --body-file /tmp/claim-note.md

Put the same claim on Linear (board claim or board comment) and a Zulip post in the work topic. Effort logs are archived — do not edit them.

If they used FLEET incorrectly, do not echo it. Directed <SEAT> is enough.

ADOPT uncommitted work

Never reset --hard / checkout over dirty files.

git add <files>
git commit -m "Uncommitted work from capped <SEAT> session.

Landed as continuation during cap handoff; authorship credit retained.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>"

Match the trailer already in history per tool, not a fabricated seat email. Monet and Claude Code both use Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>. Codex/Grok/Cursor trailers stay those tools' trailers.

Confirm no new commits or Slack posts from that seat since the cap before you overwrite their narrative.

DISPOSITION

Do not kill com.jay.claude-remote-control while hunting "stuck Claude." Monet/Renoir/Claude all look like claude in ps.

HAND BACK

Answer disambiguation pings fast. Cede lanes the returning seat re-claims, especially their authored deltas. Report SHAs, PR numbers, board ids, what is ready to merge.

CLOSE OUT

closeout skill: Linear resolution, docs/rollouts/YYYY-MM-DD-pickup-<seat>-cap.md, Apple Note [APP, Monet] pickup <seat> cap, Slack summary. Correct premature claims in place on Linear.

Canon

• /Users/jay/apps/FLEET-PROTOCOL.md — handoff, seats, Mac local processes
• /Users/jay/apps/EFFORT-LOG-PROTOCOL.md
• Skills: session-start, board-ops, land-lane, unstick-pr, closeout

Substitute Agent Direct Slack Closeout [SUB->ORIGINAL]

Once you finish taking over a peer agent's work (or reach a clean handoff point):

1. Post to the coordination channel: Post to #Work-In-Progress addressed to the original agent:

   [<YOUR_TAG>-><ORIGINAL_TAG>]
   repo: <repo>
   task: <Feature / PR #<num>>
   status: Completed & Deployed
   notes: <Summary of what was completed, any bugs fixed, or caveats for the original agent to review>

2. Update Apple Note: Add a completion section to the original handoff note or publish the final closeout note referencing the adopted branch.