2026-10-18 — A wake qualifies only when its next fire time falls before the session's earliest renewal due, and a background task never counts (facilitator-on-delegation, itd-2610180912189125 review round 1; refines dcn-2610180913421109): a session_crons entry qualifies when the next time its cron expression matches after now, read in the machine's local time, is no later than the earliest renewal due among the live reservations under this copy's key minus the lease skew allowance, a renewal being due halfway between a reservation's claim or last renewal and its expiry; with no live reservation it must fire within half the default lease. The next fire time comes from a small five-field cron parser of abcd's own (minute, hour, day of month, month, day of week, with lists, ranges, steps and the wildcard), since the host documents schedule as a cron expression and a new dependency would need sign-off; an expression it cannot parse never qualifies. A background task does not count on its own while the person is away, since a shell task such as a long sleep or a tail that never ends reports as in flight however distant its wake. So a cron at 09:00 seen at 21:00, or a wake that fires after a lease lapses, no longer passes (grounds: the plan review of 2026-10-18, finding 3; code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks session_crons and background_tasks fields; internal/core/lease; AGENTS.md new dependencies need sign-off)

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• dcn-26101809134211092026-10-18 — A session with nothing owed stops only with its next look scheduled (facilitator-on-delegation, itd-2610180912189125 planning): while the away mode holds, a stop with no owed work is allowed when the host reports a scheduled wake for the session or a background task in flight, and is then waiting; otherwise it is blocked once, asking the session to schedule its next look sooner than half its reservations' lease (under an hour for the two-hour lease) through the host's own scheduling, and the bound in the stop-check decision applies. The host documents that its Stop input carries session_crons (wakes from CronCreate, ScheduleWakeup and /loop) and background_tasks so a hook can tell a finished session from one paused for work that will wake it. abcd starts no process of its own and schedules nothing itself. The check covers the overnight gap after the two-hour watcher ended; the checklist draft's own timed wakes and trigger promises stay there. It matches the coordination prep's decision that a waiting session wakes before half its lease, and the product thinker's ruling that a waiting session records when it looks again and is never kept spinning (grounds: code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks Stop input; itd-2610170638184486 decisions; iss-2610170619247185 idle spans)
• dcn-26101810034557312026-10-18 — A wake qualifies only when it fires, the host's lateness included, within a short ceiling (facilitator-on-delegation, itd-2610180912189125 review round 2, blocker 1 and choice (c); refines dcn-2610180936579498): the deadline is the earlier of the earliest renewal due among this copy's live reservations minus lease.Skew, and now plus a ceiling of 30 minutes while work is owed or one hour when none is, because a release reservation's 24-hour lease put its renewal 12 hours on and let a 07:00 cron seen at 21:00 qualify. The fire time compared with it is the next match, read in the machine's local time, plus the latest the host may run it: for a recurring task, half the gap to its following match, at most 30 minutes, and nothing for `*/5 * * * *`; a one-shot task is taken as matched, since the host only ever runs one early. The parser follows vixie cron, as the host says it does: a day field written from `*` (`*/n`) counts as unrestricted for the either-day rule, 7 is Sunday as 0 is, and `a-b/n` steps a range. The live capture compares the computed fire time with the next run the host lists (grounds: plan review round 2, blocker 1 and choice (c); the host's scheduled-tasks page on jitter, local time and day-of-week; the release reservation's default lease in the reserve verb)
• 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