archon-cli
GitHub管理 Archon CLI 的 AI 工作流,包括运行、监控、审批及配置。指导 Agent 通过 CLI 驱动多步骤任务,涵盖工作流编排、状态管理及提示词优化,而非直接执行编码。
Trigger Scenarios
Install
npx skills add coleam00/Archon --skill archon-cli -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "archon-cli",
"description": "Drive Archon through its CLI: run AI workflows on a repo, manage those runs\n(inspect, approve, reject, cancel, resume), set up Archon or change its config,\nauthor new workflows, and improve workflow prompts. Use when the user says \"use archon\", \"run archon\",\n\"archon workflow\", \"fix issue #N with archon\", \"have archon review this PR\",\n\"what's running \/ check run <id>\", \"approve\/reject\/cancel\/resume that run\",\n\"set up archon\", \"configure archon\", \"change my archon config\",\n\"create a workflow\", \"author a workflow\", or asks how to write a better Archon prompt.\nNOT for: doing the coding work yourself — Archon delegates it to isolated runs.\n",
"argument-hint": "[workflow | run-id | intent]"
}
Archon CLI
Archon runs multi-step AI workflows through the archon CLI. Git projects use
isolated worktrees by default; registered folder projects run in place. This
skill has five capabilities; route by intent:
| User wants to... | Read |
|---|---|
| Run workflows on real work | running-workflows/running-workflows.md |
| Manage existing runs (inspect/approve/reject/cancel/resume) | manage-run/manage-runs.md |
| Set up Archon or change config | setup-and-config/setup-and-config.md |
| Author a new workflow | authoring-workflows/authoring-workflows.md (+ its node-reference.md) |
| Improve prompts for workflow nodes or run messages | prompting-mistakes/prompting-mistakes.md |
Routing rules:
- Intent is clear from the request ("build me a workflow for X", "run archon-ship on issue #42") → route directly. Do not ask.
- Genuinely ambiguous → ask the user which capability they want, listing these five.
- First contact with an unconfigured machine →
setup-and-config/setup-and-config.mdbefore anything else.
Quick spine: running a workflow
Most requests land here. The short version; details in the running reference:
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Discover what exists with the compact catalog:
archon workflow list --json. Use its previews to identify plausible candidates, and treatdescriptionTruncated: trueas an explicit signal that a description is incomplete — never assume names from memory. -
Fetch each plausible candidate's untouched description with
archon workflow list <name> --full. Choose from the full descriptions, not a truncated preview. -
Check the input before spending anything. The message (or the issue, or the document the run reads) is the contract the whole run is measured against. Hold it against the six in
running-workflows.md— problem, why it matters, why now, outcome, invariants, acceptance. If any is missing, say which, propose a corrected input, and get the user's agreement before launching. Do not silently improve it, and do not launch anyway. -
Invoke detached by default (workflows are long-running):
archon workflow run <workflow> --branch <branch-name> "<the work, as a clear message>" --detach -
Find the run id (
archon workflow runs --json), then armarchon workflow wait <run-id> --jsonas a background task of your harness — it blocks until the run ends or needs a human decision, waking you at exactly the right moment.archon workflow get <run-id> --jsonis for on-demand state, not a polling loop. -
When a run pauses at a gate, resolve it deliberately: see
manage-run/manage-runs.md.
Four hard rules:
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Never launch against a thin brief. A weak input does not produce a weak result — it produces a confident, well-formed answer to the wrong question, at full price.
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A fresh launch of an interactive-class workflow refuses
--detach. Run that launch in the foreground as a background task of your harness. Once the run pauses,resume/approve/reject/respond --detachare supported continuation actions. -
Prefer
--detachif the workflow is not interactive. -
One workflow per shell; multiple tasks = separate invocations, separate branches.
Gotchas
- The current directory selects the project for workflow discovery, launches, and
project listings.
workflow statusandworkflow runsdefault to that project; use--allonly when install-wide visibility is intended. Their JSON output setsscopeFallback: truewhen an unregistered project produces an install-wide result.workflow statusfails if the registry lookup itself fails; it does not disguise the error as an unregistered-project fallback. Commands given a full run ID remain globally addressable. For a git project, run from the repo root. Register a non-git project withworkflow run --folder. - A completed run does not mean the work succeeded. Use
workflow get <run-id> --jsonfor the normalizedoutcomeandleave_behind.artifactFiles; use a separate--verbose --jsoncall for node summaries. - Prefer
--jsonwhenever you will parse output.
Resources
running-workflows/running-workflows.md— discovery, invocation, isolation, monitoringmanage-run/manage-runs.md— every run-control verb, gate semantics, JSON shapesmanage-run/troubleshooting.md— log locations, JSONL event types, jq recipessetup-and-config/setup-and-config.md— install, doctor, config.yaml scopes, provider authauthoring-workflows/authoring-workflows.md— designing a workflow: primitives, gates, promptsprompting-mistakes/prompting-mistakes.md— common prompt mistakes, for authored nodes and for the messages you pass when invoking workflows
Version History
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bde2930
Current 2026-09-09 09:59
更新工作流监控指南,推荐使用 'workflow wait' 替代轮询;新增完成运行后的发现侧车(discovery sidecars)路由与处理规范。
- dd2838c 2026-08-28 13:16


