Gradient Bang Files

Changed

• Corp-ship combat now preempts normal task work by waking active TaskAgents into a combat goal or starting an idle ship task through the normal task path, while preserving the existing combat prompt and doctrine injection flow.
• BYOA harnesses can now customize active combat wake behavior with an @app.on_combat_wake hook.

Fixed

• start_task now uses Pipecat 1.3's watch_workers(...) API and disables duplicate auto-watch registration when adding local TaskAgents, unblocking player/corp task startup on the released package.
• TaskAgent._inject_steering now injects steer text as a single <event name="task.steered"> user message with a short priority line followed by the raw steer text inline. Same event-xml shape as task.progress / task.cancelled the agent already reads — without it, the steer was just another peer instruction to the original task description (which is itself a plain user message). Orchestrator side drops its now-redundant "Steering instruction: " text prefix.
• start_task and steer_task now pre-flight the target's finishing state. If the in-process TaskAgent has already called finished (or been cancelled), the steer would race the terminal turn and silently drop. start_task handles this transparently: the public entrypoint waits up to TASK_STEER_CLOSING_WAIT_SECONDS (default 5s) for the slot to free, then retries the start cleanly — the LLM never sees the intermediate state. Explicit steer_task returns error: "task_closing" for the LLM to chain start_task itself. Personal and corp in-process ships symmetric; BYOA skips the check.
• Voice agent prompt: removed the contradictory "do NOT call start_task if all slots are occupied" line; added a short note that for steered instructions the agent should read the task.completed message and mention any unfulfilled intent to the commander.