Change a line's stations

A line's stations are the station blocks of its spotlight_line resource, in the order they appear on the board. You need the line in Terraform. If your factory isn't in Terraform yet, make the factory yours first.

Change a stationCopy Anchor Link

Edit the station's block. A station keeps its tasks through any change except a change to its key.

station {
  key       = "implementation"
  name      = "Implementation"
  harness   = "claude-code"
  model     = "<model>"
  effort    = "high"
  prompt    = file("${path.module}/prompts/core/delivery/implementation.md")
  decisions = true
  memories  = true
  tools     = [spotlight_integration.core_linear.tools["comment"]]
  skills    = [spotlight_skill.core_grafana.key]
  passes_to = ["code-review"]
}

• To change what the agent is told, edit the station's prompt file under prompts/. The downloaded module reads each prompt with file().
• To change the agent, set harness to claude-code, codex or cursor, and optionally model and effort. Left out, model and effort are the harness's own defaults.
• To change where a task may go next, list station keys in passes_to.

Station fields lists the rest, such as ends, diffs, check, decisions and memories. Tools, skills and profiles have guides of their own: Give stations a tool from an HTTP API, Give stations a skill and Limit what agents may do.

Run terraform apply, then open the station from the board to check the result. The Station page shows its harness, model, prompt and skills.

Add a stationCopy Anchor Link

Add a station block between the backlog and the completed station, at the place it should appear on the board, and add its key to the passes_to of each station that hands tasks to it:

station {
  key       = "spec"
  name      = "Spec"
  harness   = "claude-code"
  prompt    = file("${path.module}/prompts/core/delivery/spec.md")
  passes_to = ["implementation"]
}

Leave out kind; a station without one is a work station, where agents run. Run terraform apply.

Remove a stationCopy Anchor Link

If tasks still stand on the station, Terraform reports that the line "would strand work" at it and names how many tasks stand there. Move them and run terraform apply again. Changing a station's key counts as removing the station and adding another, so the same applies.

If Terraform refuses the layoutCopy Anchor Link

• If it reports the stations "must open with their backlog", move the station with kind = "backlog" to the top.
• If it reports they "must close with completed", move the station with kind = "completed" to the bottom.
• If it reports they "must end where they end", remove passes_to from the completed station.
• If it reports a station "must hand on to a station work is done at", remove the backlog or completed station from that station's passes_to.
• If it reports stations "must not hand on to themselves", remove the station's own key from its passes_to.
• If it reports that a repository "has to say how its checkout is made ready", a station has both check and diffs = true: give every repository of the line a setup.

RelatedCopy Anchor Link

• Layout rules, in the line reference.
• Built-in lines: the stations Delivery and Review start with.
• Lines, stations and tasks