Overview

Systematic upgrade of the TARS Personal AI Infrastructure to leverage Claude Opus 4.6 capabilities — primarily Agent Teams (parallel Task tool), extended context compaction, and Managed Agents API.

Scope: 3 waves, 28 tasks across coordination layer, specialist tools, and fleet integrations.

Current Status

active

Wave 1 (Coordination Layer) is complete. Wave 2 (Specialist Tools) in progress.

Wave Structure

Wave 1 — Coordination Layer (Complete)

  • SQLite persistence for tasks, costs, and activity log
  • Hook integrations (pre/post tool, notification)
  • Evaluation CLAUDE.md patch
  • Session state serialization

Wave 2 — Specialist Tools (In Progress)

  • BlackBeltSuite Agent Teams parallelism
  • Newsletter parallel research agents
  • Job search campaign orchestration
  • Research multi-agent synthesis

Wave 3 — Fleet Integration (Planned)

  • CASE/RANGER/PLEX coordination protocols
  • Cross-fleet task routing
  • Shared R2 artifact passing

Key Decisions

The decision to use Postgres (Neon) for the knowledge layer is documented at decisions/2026-04-22-postgres-knowledge-layer .

Stack

  • Runtime: Bun + TypeScript
  • DB: Neon Postgres + SQLite (local coordination)
  • Orchestration: Claude Code Task tool
  • Secrets: sops + age
  • Cloud workspace: ~/cloud/projects/tars-upgrades/
  • Task tracker: ~/cloud/projects/tars-upgrades/02-working/

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