Issue #10 promoted the old box-local dispatch pattern into the mica.wtf repo.

Use ~/.hermes/scripts/micawtf-agent-dispatch.sh for unattended agent work that may need to fall back between Claude and Codex.

• Probes agent availability with command -v.
• Uses a primary agent if available, otherwise a fallback agent.
• Runs with explicit PATH and working directory.
• Writes logs to /tmp/micawtf-agent-*.log.
• Starts a watcher for async runs.
• Treats EXIT:0 as the only success signal. This avoids false positives from agent prose that says “done” before the process exits.
• On failure, sends a Telegram message with an exact resume command and the failed log path.
• Supports --resume-from <log> to build a continuation prompt from the original prompt plus the previous log tail.

~/.hermes/scripts/micawtf-agent-dispatch.sh --probe

~/.hermes/scripts/micawtf-agent-dispatch.sh \
  --task mica-example \
  --prompt-file /home/hermes/micawtf/prompts/article-writer.md \
  --workdir /home/hermes/micawtf \
  --primary claude \
  --fallback codex \
  --timeout 5400

The command returns immediately with a PID and log path. The watcher sends Telegram when the task exits.

When a run fails, the watcher sends a command shaped like:

~/.hermes/scripts/micawtf-agent-dispatch.sh \
  --task mica-example-resume \
  --prompt-file /home/hermes/micawtf/prompts/article-writer.md \
  --workdir /home/hermes/micawtf \
  --primary codex \
  --fallback claude \
  --timeout 5400 \
  --resume-from /tmp/micawtf-agent-mica-example-<run>.log

The resume prompt tells the next agent to continue from the current repository state and includes the tail of the previous log. This is intentionally not a magical state database; Git state plus the previous log is the handoff.

Claude:

claude -p < "$PROMPT_FILE"

Codex:

codex exec "$(cat "$PROMPT_FILE")"

The checked-in template intentionally uses normal CLI commands. If a local box needs more permissive flags, that should be an explicit local wrapper decision, not the repo default.

The canonical script is ops/hermes/scripts/micawtf-agent-dispatch.sh. It is installed into ~/.hermes/scripts/ by:

ops/hermes/install.sh scripts-only

Do not edit the installed copy directly.