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2026-10-18 — The away mode is held once per repository on the machine, not per working copy (facilitator-on-delegation, itd-2610180912189125 planning): the record lives in abcd's machine store under the repository's root commit, beside the worktree store's key, so every working copy of the repository and every session in it reads the same record; the issue's remedy words it per checkout, but the stall began with an instruction relayed by a peer between sessions in separate working copies, and the person's absence is a fact about them, not about one copy. It is not machine-wide, so a repository the person never left running is unaffected. A session on another computer or in the cloud does not see it until the checklist draft's shared options land (grounds: iss-2610170619247185 what happened; AGENTS.md worktree store; principle the-users-directory-is-theirs)