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name: chief-of-staff-incubate
description: Route a verified Detect receipt to its existing project and task.
---
# Incubate

## Purpose and approved evidence
Consume one current Detect receipt; verify its evidence, human owner, approved sources, allowed project directories, and actual task capabilities.

## Procedure
1. Reject missing, stale, `no_change`, or unowned Detect receipts.
2. Map the request to approved project directories only; read project-level `AGENTS.md` only when supported and specifically authorized.
3. Inspect existing tasks through supported, approved capabilities only; match objective, owner, evidence, and current status.
4. Propose continuing or bumping the correct existing task. Continue, resume, update, or advance it only after specific human approval.
5. Propose a new task only if no suitable existing task exists; create or start it only after separate explicit human approval.

## Receipt and failure
Return `state=review_ready|continued|blocked|no_change; detect_receipt=[reference]; project=[approved path]; task=[verified match or none]; owner=[role]; approval=[verified or missing]; next_step=[proposal]`. Record `continued` only after the approved action is verified.

## Approval boundary
Do not assume task, directory, scheduler, account, or project access. Do not scan unrelated work, duplicate existing tasks, send, schedule, or mutate without exact approval.