tetsuo-ai/dad

DAD is a plugin for Grok Build, which is xAI's coding agent command-line tool. The plugin is designed for situations where an AI agent has to keep working on a task for a long stretch without a human watching it, such as a multi-step refactor, a security audit, or a release plan. Its job is to act as a second layer of judgement that decides when the working agent is actually making progress and when it has stalled or declared a task done without proof. Inside one tmux window (tmux is a terminal that can split into multiple panes), DAD creates two roles. A pane called the Son runs the actual work using the Grok agent. A pane called Dad supervises that work, restarts it if it gets stuck at a prompt, repairs the recurring scheduler entries that drive it, and writes a stream of evidence to disk. The supervision logic runs in three loops at different speeds: a fast loop every two minutes for nudges and watchdog checks, a deep loop every twelve minutes for evidence gates, and a strategic loop every thirty minutes for higher-level review. The central rule that the author keeps repeating is that prose is not proof. When the Son writes something like "the change is complete", DAD treats that as a claim that has to be backed by command output, file changes, event traces, or explicit verification gates. Gates cover transcript integrity, action effect, stale git state, and workspace identity. If a check fails, DAD pushes the Son back to work with one bounded next action. Installation goes through the Grok Build /plugins menu, after which a /dad command takes an objective and a mode. Three modes are offered: safe for normal work, review-only for audits that should not change files, and yolo for high-autonomy builds. Other slash commands let the user check status, pause and resume, repair the run, or stop it. The plugin requires Linux, tmux, bash, python3, git, and a small set of standard utilities, and ships a doctor script to verify the environment.