Worker Lifecycle

Use this skill when you need to manage worker runtime state inside your team.

Principles

• You may manage only workers in your own team.
• Use team-state.json to decide whether a worker is idle.
• Use hiclaw worker status --team <team> to inspect runtime state before taking action.
• Prefer ensure-ready when a worker has active work and might be sleeping.

Commands

# List runtime state for all workers in your team
hiclaw worker status --team <team-name>

# Wake a worker that should resume work
hiclaw worker wake --name <worker-name> --team <team-name>

# Ensure a worker is ready before or after task assignment
hiclaw worker ensure-ready --name <worker-name> --team <team-name>

# Sleep a worker only after team-state.json shows no active work for that worker
hiclaw worker sleep --name <worker-name> --team <team-name>

Decision Guide