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orion v0.5.0

August 27, 2026

Orion was flat: no concept of parent, sub-task, or children in tracker, work, or watch — the queue was just a label search, and the unit of work was whatever carried the label. A story broken into sub-tasks had two bad options: label the story and the agent never learns the sub-tasks exist, or label each sub-task and get separate branches/PRs/CI runs that can collide — FCIA-8 and FCIA-10 both created src/fcia/cli.py from scratch as sibling tasks under the same story, and only avoided conflict by luck.

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  • A claimed story now works its sub-tasks itself, in one branch, one commit series, one pull request. Orion reads the children with one JQL query (parent = KEY ORDER BY Rank ASC, covering both classic sub-tasks and a team-managed project's child-issue shape), drops any already Done, and hands the agent the rest as a numbered checklist to report against by key. A sub-task whose parent is also queued is silently dropped from watch — the parent already covers it — rather than refused as a mistake. On merge, the story's sub-tasks are transitioned to Done and commented with the PR link, best-effort so a tracker hiccup never turns a successful merge into a reported failure. A tracker that can't answer the parent query (unusual project shape, missing permission) isn't a failure either — Orion falls back to working the ticket as itself and says so.
  • The turn/time budget for a claimed story now scales with how many sub-tasks it carries, instead of applying one fixed allowance regardless of size: 120 turns / 30 minutes with no sub-tasks, up to 600 turns / 180 minutes at 40. A story above 20 sub-tasks gets a warning, not a refusal — it used to hard-refuse above 15, which broke on the twenty-five-task stories people actually write. An explicit --max-turns or --max-minutes always wins over the computed budget and is never raised automatically, since naming a bound is a deliberate choice to cap spend. A story queried for children is still capped at one page (100) — more than that is a data problem, not a plan.

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