.github/time/router.py

@@ -38,7 +38,30 @@ DONE = re.compile(r"^\s*DONE:", re.M | re.I)
 NEW_VENTURE = {"key": "venture:new", "n": None, "title": "Start a new venture: research, pick, build and launch one page",
                "body": "The venture loop (venture.py): one venture, researched and picked by the lead, built and judged.",
                "labels": [], "lined_up": False, "actionable": False, "kind": "venture", "unblocks": 0, "created": "",
-               "why_not": "not wired to the router yet; the venture loop is paused (TIME_VENTURE=off)"}
+               "why_not": "the venture loop isn't in router mode (TIME_VENTURE=router, and Astra needs TIME_VENTURE_MODE=router)"}
+
+
+def new_venture(mode: str) -> dict:
+    """"Start a new venture": actionable only when Astra is told the loop is in router mode (the loop then starts a card
+    only when asked). Its size and cost come from the seat like any card's."""
+    return {**NEW_VENTURE, "actionable": True, "why_not": ""} if mode == "router" else dict(NEW_VENTURE)
+
+
+def v2_candidates(reg: dict) -> list[dict]:
+    """A "v2 of <venture>" for every live venture with signups: the studio's next version of what people asked for."""
+    out = []
+    for v in reg.get("ventures") or []:
+        try:
+            signups = int(v.get("signups") or 0)
+        except (TypeError, ValueError):
+            continue
+        if v.get("status") != "live" or signups <= 0 or not v.get("slug"):
+            continue
+        name = _txt(v.get("name") or v["slug"], 60)
+        out.append({**NEW_VENTURE, "key": f"venture:v2:{v['slug']}", "title": f"v2 of {name} ({signups} signups)",
+                    "body": _txt(f"{v.get('one_liner', '')} Next: {v.get('next', '')}", 400), "actionable": True, "why_not": "",
+                    "slug": v["slug"], "name": name, "next_v": int(v.get("version") or 1) + 1})
+    return out
 
 
 def _num(v, default: float, lo: float = 0.0, hi: float = 100.0) -> float:

.github/time/venture.py

@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ Measure: after 7 days, distinct people who signed up or 👍'd the signal issue,
   lines: iterate (a v2 card), kill, or watch one more week and then park.
 Batch (TIME_VENTURE_BATCH=k, off by default): one card scouts and pitches a field, the board's top k become cards in one milestone,
   launched together after a hold, with one batch retry for a held child and a cohort retro (see "batches" below).
+TIME_VENTURE=router (a third mode beside on / off): no daily card on the schedule; a card starts only when asked
+  (TIME_VENTURE_START, the dispatch input start=true), which is how Astra's router starts a venture. The tick still
+  advances and measures the open venture cards, as under off.
 Nothing is posted outside the repo: launch posts are drafts for the chair.
 """
 from __future__ import annotations
@@ -2025,6 +2028,9 @@ def tick() -> int:
     except Exception as e:  # noqa: BLE001  chores never block the cards
         print("chores failed:", e)
     fresh, yes = [], ("1", "true", "yes")
+    if env("TIME_VENTURE", "off") == "router" and env("TIME_VENTURE_START", "").lower() in yes:
+        # router mode: no daily card; Astra's pick (venture.yml dispatched with start=true) starts one, the tick below advances it
+        fresh.append(new_card(next_title({c["title"] for c in venture_cards("all")})))
     if env("TIME_VENTURE", "off") == "on":
         asked_batch = env("TIME_VENTURE_BATCH_START", "").lower() in yes
         if batch_size() or asked_batch:  # batches replace the daily single card