2026-10-18 — A declared dependency constrains only the landing (facilitator-on-delegation, itd-2610170634394993 planning prep): a branch that waits on an open pull request is held only from being queued; its merge from the default branch, its fixes, its review and its preflight run now, and only its landing waits for the dependency, so the stop check counts a stacked branch with an open base as owed work (grounds: iss-2610170619247185, second instance; the draft's first acceptance criterion; the decision that a waiting branch is rebuilt by merging)

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• dcn-26102220252306802026-10-22 — Waiting holds up one item, never a whole session, and this is written up as a standing principle (product thinker's ruling of 2026-10-22, itd-2610170638184486 K-split ii): routed through the decomposition table as a stance, so it becomes a principle under .abcd/development/principles/; the principle states the stance behind dcn-2610180905291297, that a declared dependency holds only the landing
• iss-2610170619247185An agent session told to work autonomously overnight sat idle for about ten of the eleven and a half hours between 20:48 BST on 2026-10-16 and 07:13 BST on 2026-10-17, while it held owed work it could have done alone.
• itd-2610170634394993Headless agents in parallel coordinate through the shared remote, not conversation
• itd-2610180912189125A session left to work on never stops while it has work
• spc-2610180914469489A session left to work on never stops while it has work
• waiting-holds-one-item-never-a-sessionWaiting holds one item, never a session