2026-10-18 — The slice keeps the core host-agnostic and is reachable without a host (facilitator-on-delegation, itd-2610180912189125 planning): the away record, the owed-work reading and the stop verdict are a core package returning data, and the front doors format it: abcd hook stop maps the host's Stop payload and answers in its decision format, and a bare abcd mode prints the away record, the queue and the owed items, so the check runs with no plugin host present. The plugin's hook manifest gains a Stop entry with the same bootstrap and home checks as its other hooks, and the status line names the away mode and its end, so the person never wrongly believes agents are working or waiting. Nothing is written under the host's own settings directory (grounds: brief invariant 3; AGENTS.md transport-agnostic core and wired or it isn't done; the product thinker's ruling of 2026-10-05 that nothing in the host's settings calls abcd beyond the consented status line; itd-2610170638184486 decisions)

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• dcn-26101809371819292026-10-18 — The person's return report, the status line and the bare abcd mode print move from the slice back to the checklist draft (facilitator-on-delegation, itd-2610180912189125 review round 1; supersedes dcn-2610180913431985 for the slice, and the status-line and bare-print halves of dcn-2610180913445272): both reviewers of 2026-10-18 recommended the split, so the security and bug-fix cut waits only on the away record, the stop check and the question reroute. The spec's step 6 and the return half of its step 5 leave the slice: the report shown once on the first prompt after the window ends (the queue, the window's decisions and the recorded stops); the window's decisions gathered from every working copy by abcd decide appending each id to the away record under its lock (review finding 8); showing on return who ended the mode (finding 13); the status line naming the away mode and its end; a bare abcd mode printing the record, the queue and the owed items; and the brief's surface text for them. They become named remaining work in the scope of itd-2610170638184486. The slice keeps what its own behaviour needs: abcd mode back prints the queue and the recorded stops as it ends the record, so a queued step is never unread; brief invariant 7 gains the away mode's forge listing; and the plugin page and the brief's surface chapters describe the verbs and hooks the slice ships, so nothing it ships is undocumented. The slice is re-estimated at five working days (grounds: the plan review of 2026-10-18, size and split; the coordination prep's decision that the cut waits on this slice alone; AGENTS.md wired or it isn't done; brief invariant 7)
• 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