2026-10-18 — While the person is away a question is routed by the act it asks about, not by its chip (facilitator-on-delegation, itd-2610180912189125 review round 1; supersedes the chip routing in dcn-2610180913431493): the guard still refuses every question on the host's question tool while the away mode holds, now with one reason whatever the chip. It tells the agent to queue with abcd mode queue, and carry on with other work, a question about any act only the person may approve: an approval the repository binds to the person per act (an embargo close's --approve digest, which commands/embargo.md says is never supplied unless the person has read the text and said yes in that session; a release sign-off); publishing anything or changing a repository's visibility; adding a dependency; a secret, a credential or an App; a step only a website or a browser can do; a destructive act (deleting what the session did not create, overwriting uncommitted work, a force push, discarding a peer's work); and anything that spends money. Every other question is decided and recorded with abcd decide, with its grounds and how to reverse it. The away mode, set on the person's word, is their ask for the session to commit and push its own branches and open their pull requests, which is the owed work itself; merging follows the repository's own rule. The Setup chip marks the setup interview's questions (visibility, keys, oracles), not a step only the person can take, so routing by chip would have sent an embargo approval, or the creation of a new App asked under a Product chip, to be decided by the agent (grounds: the plan review of 2026-10-18, finding 4; commands/embargo.md approval one per act; brief invariant 22; AGENTS.md new dependencies and commits; internal/surface/cli guard question chips)

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• dcn-26101809134314932026-10-18 — While the person is away no question waits for them (facilitator-on-delegation, itd-2610180912189125 planning): while the away mode holds, the guard refuses every question on the host's question tool, abcd's or another tool's, because a question nobody is there to answer stalls the session. A product or technical question is refused with a reason telling the agent to decide it, record it with abcd decide marked as decided on delegation with its grounds and how to reverse it, and carry on; a step only the person's hands can do (a browser step, a secret, a new App) is refused with a reason telling the agent to queue it with abcd mode queue "<step>" and carry on with other work. abcd mode product-thinker or facilitator is refused the same way. Decisions in the window are not asked first, technical trade-offs included, since the product thinker ruled on 2026-10-17 that in an autonomous run the agent decides and records and only steps that need them on the website wait (grounds: iss-2610170619247185 remedy; itd-2610170638184486 framing; internal/surface/cli guard question check)
• dcn-26101810034771942026-10-18 — The acts only the person may approve are completed, end in a catch-all, and are classified by the agent (facilitator-on-delegation, itd-2610180912189125 review round 2, blocker 6; refines dcn-2610180937177502): the list the question reroute queues gains the embargo triage verdict (commands/embargo.md), the drain's hand-back (commands/drain.md), the confirmed apply verb for remote configuration (brief invariant 10), a push or merge beyond the session's own branches (the default branch, a tag, a release cut, another person's pull request, a branch only checked out to review), and a comment or message posted outward other than the session's own pull request, and it ends with any act a command page or a brief invariant names as the person's. A release sign-off is a cut, or a step of one, that asks for the person by name or that no standing instruction of theirs allows; a standing permission for automatic cuts stands, and the away mode adds none. Nothing detects the act mechanically: the agent classifies its own question from the refusal's list, and the guard's existing entries enforce only what they name, a force push and a skipped hook among them (grounds: plan review round 2, blocker 6; commands/embargo.md; commands/drain.md; brief invariant 10)
• 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