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2026-10-18 — The overnight stall is fixed first, not deferred (facilitator-on-delegation, iss-2610170619247185 and itd-2610170638184486 planning prep): the critical record of the session that sat idle overnight is not given a one-cycle deferral; the security and bug-fix release waits for the smallest slice that removes its core cause, filed as itd-2610180912189125. This rests on the product thinker's standing rulings, restated: of 2026-10-11, that a major finding is fixed before a cut, never deferred, and building carries on; of 2026-10-12, that when a deferred question is all that stands between an intent and its plan, the facilitator decides it on delegation and plans it; of 2026-10-17, that in an autonomous run the agent decides and records rather than ending on a wait for the person. The stop check itself is the product thinker's settled design, in the checklist draft's decisions of 2026-10-17: a stop with work owed is refused only while they are recorded as away, and while they are present it is allowed and pointed out. It agrees with the coordination prep's decision that this fix ships as the bundle's first slice without waiting on the coordination intent (grounds: iss-2610170619247185 remedy; itd-2610170638184486 decisions; the coordination prep's ship-first decision of 2026-10-18)
2026-10-18 — The overnight stall is fixed first, not deferred (facilitator-on-delegation, iss-2610170619247185 and itd-2610170638184486 planning prep): the critical record of the session that sat idle overnight is not given a one-cycle deferral; the security and bug-fix release waits for the smallest slice that removes its core cause, filed as itd-2610180912189125. This rests on the product thinker's standing rulings, restated: of 2026-10-11, that a major finding is fixed before a cut, never deferred, and building carries on; of 2026-10-12, that when a deferred question is all that stands between an intent and its plan, the facilitator decides it on delegation and plans it; of 2026-10-17, that in an autonomous run the agent decides and records rather than ending on a wait for the person. The stop check itself is the product thinker's settled design, in the checklist draft's decisions of 2026-10-17: a stop with work owed is refused only while they are recorded as away, and while they are present it is allowed and pointed out. It agrees with the coordination prep's decision that this fix ships as the bundle's first slice without waiting on the coordination intent (grounds: iss-2610170619247185 remedy; itd-2610170638184486 decisions; the coordination prep's ship-first decision of 2026-10-18)
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| id | dcn-2610180913379049 |
|---|---|
| type | decision |
| date | 2026-10-18 |
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- 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-2610170638184486Every session keeps a checklist on disk, so no run stalls and no stall spreads
- itd-2610180912189125A session left to work on never stops while it has work