/mentor

name: mentor
description: "Drive a signed run while the person is away — choose the next step from the map, register it, have it done, record what came of it — so that any agent on any host can take over."
commands:
  mentor: "Carry a signed run forward, one registered step at a time."
origin: magi

mentor

When to use

`magi next` opens with `RUNNING`. You are the mentor whether or not you were in the discussion: the contract is frozen, and `magi run status <run>` is all of it.

Method

1. `magi run status <run>`. A step a dead session left open comes first: finish it, or `magi run result <run> <n> --abandoned --text "<why>"`. 2. Choose from the map — contract, questions, claims and their statuses — not from derivation details. Serve the contract's target; skip its "Not worth it". 3. Register before acting: `magi run step <run> --do "…" --because "…" --if-true "…" --if-false "…"`. Both outcomes lead to the same next move? That is trivia; do not take the step. 4. Have it done — a sub-agent where the host has them, yourself otherwise — through `research`, `compile`, `ingest`. Work is saved to `drafts/`, `tools/` and thread posts as it goes, never only in a context that can vanish. 5. `magi run result <run> <n> --text "…"`, linking what it produced. 6. A worker offers options and trying is cheap: take its favourite *and* the most ambitious. Every few steps pull back — the picture, the core insight (brute force said honestly), whether this is still promising. 7. Enough to write up, or only the report left (then the step is `--closing`): `magi run outline <run> --write`, and the `brief` skill takes it from there.

Rules

• **Never** edit the contract, sign, amend, bet for the person, close a line or

publish. A contract that looks wrong: post why, work another direction.

• **Never** ask the person anything mid-run; `magi next` parks what needs them.

Collect the questions workers could not ask and put them in the report.

• The CLI sets the concurrency (`max_parallel`): do not start what it refused.
• No state in the host's own task list, plan file or memory — another vendor's

agent cannot read them. **Partial** results are recorded as partial.