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2026-10-18 — The coordination pass runs on demand (facilitator-on-delegation, itd-2610170634394993 planning prep): land, build, drain and status run the pass from the records they have just fetched before they act; there is no timer lease and no process that must stay alive, and every deadline and expiry is derived when the records are read, as a reservation's release already is (grounds: the draft's research note on controllers; kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/architecture/controller; brief invariant 7; itd-2609151838312703 decision 14; itd-2609091034175565 decision 13)
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2026-10-18 — The coordination pass runs on demand (facilitator-on-delegation, itd-2610170634394993 planning prep): land, build, drain and status run the pass from the records they have just fetched before they act; there is no timer lease and no process that must stay alive, and every deadline and expiry is derived when the records are read, as a reservation's release already is (grounds: the draft's research note on controllers; kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/architecture/controller; brief invariant 7; itd-2609151838312703 decision 14; itd-2609091034175565 decision 13)
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| id | dcn-2610180720366282 |
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| type | decision |
| date | 2026-10-18 |
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- adr-2610222026262980Coordination between headless agents is bounded by deadlines, fenced by the claim's tip, version-checked, and done under each session's own credential
- adr-2610222222326104abcd drives agents with no host session only on the person's own invocation, on the person's own account behind a wall, and hands back what it cannot finish
- dcn-26102222163502282026-10-22 — The plain-terminal drain's driver is a loop inside abcd drain, entered only by --drive, not a new verb and not a background service (facilitator, on delegation, itd-2610222215485265): the loop repeats the moves a host repeats, so the move logic stays one code path, and the terminal session is its lifetime, so nothing runs that the person did not start and cannot see (grounds: dcn-2610180720366282, no process that must stay alive; commands/drain.md, one move per call)
- itd-2609091034175565Before an agent starts on an item, it reserves it on the shared remote, and everyone who works on the project sees the reservation
- itd-2609151838312703Sessions under any account, on any machine or in the cloud announce what they are doing through short fixed-form announcements on the shared remote, a person reads everyone's status with one command, and what is really a hold stays a reservation
- itd-2610170634394993Headless agents in parallel coordinate through the shared remote, not conversation
- spc-2610230758581403several-headless-agents-work-one