approve-gepa-changes

name: approve-gepa-changes description: Use when approving, rejecting, or marking implemented Herald GEPA pending approval items, including requests like "approve GEPA changes", "approve all pending GEPA", or approval of a specific queue key from docs/superpowers/gepa-pending-approvals.md.

Approve GEPA Changes

Use this skill for Herald's GEPA approval lane. Approval records a user's decision about workflow suggestions recovered from autopilot self-reflection; it does not implement the approved improvement unless the user separately asks for implementation.

Sources

Use the existing Herald autopilot queue tooling:

• Visible backlog: docs/superpowers/gepa-pending-approvals.md
• State file: .superpowers/autopilot/state/pending-approvals.json
• Sync script: .agents/skills/herald-autopilot/scripts/sync_pending_approvals.py
• Decision script: .agents/skills/herald-autopilot/scripts/update_pending_approvals.py

Do not manually edit the state JSON or generated markdown queue except to repair tooling after a script failure.

Preflight

Run from the repo root:

git status --short
git diff -- docs/superpowers/gepa-pending-approvals.md

If docs/superpowers/gepa-pending-approvals.md is already dirty, inspect the diff before running queue scripts. Proceed when it is only a generated queue refresh. Ask before overwriting if it contains unrelated hand-written edits.

Refresh the queue from published run reflections:

python3 .agents/skills/herald-autopilot/scripts/sync_pending_approvals.py --repo-root .
sed -n '1,140p' docs/superpowers/gepa-pending-approvals.md

Summarize the current pending items by title, queue key, why, approval prompt, and number of source runs.

Choosing Targets

Interpret user intent conservatively:

• If the user gives a queue key, update that key.
• If the user says "approve all pending", use --all-pending.
• If the user says "approve GEPA changes" and exactly one item is pending, approve that one.
• If multiple items are pending and the user did not say "all", show the pending list and ask which keys to approve.
• Use rejected, implemented, or pending only when the user explicitly asks for that status.

Apply Decision

Approve specific keys:

python3 .agents/skills/herald-autopilot/scripts/update_pending_approvals.py \
  --repo-root . \
  --status approved \
  --key "<queue-key>" \
  --note "Approved by user: <brief source phrase>"

Approve every pending item:

python3 .agents/skills/herald-autopilot/scripts/update_pending_approvals.py \
  --repo-root . \
  --status approved \
  --all-pending \
  --note "Approved by user: <brief source phrase>"

For other explicit decisions, replace approved with rejected, implemented, or pending. Keep notes short and factual.

Verify

Read back the updated queue:

sed -n '1,180p' docs/superpowers/gepa-pending-approvals.md
git diff -- docs/superpowers/gepa-pending-approvals.md

Confirm:

• selected keys moved to the requested status section
• snapshot counts changed as expected
• decision note appears when the status is not pending
• no unrelated files were modified except the generated .superpowers state file and docs/superpowers/gepa-pending-approvals.md

Do not commit approval changes unless the user asks.

Final Response

Report:

• approved, rejected, implemented, or reset queue keys
• updated pending and approved counts
• files changed by the queue tooling
• whether a commit was created