2026-10-18 — abcd's count of blocks resets only when the host is not already continuing (facilitator-on-delegation, itd-2610180912189125 review round 2, choice (b); refines dcn-2610180936577720): the count is set to one on a block with `stop_hook_active` false and adds one with it true; a change in the owed set no longer resets it, since the host's count does not, and a reset abcd made on one could leave a stop the host forced unrecorded. A stop recorded at the cap is labelled "possibly forced by the cap", because the host's count also resets on a tool call abcd cannot see, and the live capture checks where the host's count resets (grounds: plan review round 2, choice (b); the host's hooks page on the Stop cap)

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• dcn-26101809365777202026-10-18 — While the person is away a session is only working or waiting, and abcd never allows a stop with work owed (facilitator-on-delegation, itd-2610180912189125 review round 1; supersedes the bound in dcn-2610180913413137 and refines dcn-2610180913421109): while away a stop is allowed only when the session has a qualifying wake and either nothing is owed or the owed set is unchanged since this session's last block; it then reads waiting, and the wake's next fire time is kept as its next look in the session's own state file in the local tier, beside the owed-set fingerprint and a count of consecutive blocks. Every other stop while away is blocked, whatever stop_hook_active says, naming the next item, or with nothing owed asking the session to take the next ready item first and only then schedule its next look. The host's cap of eight consecutive continuations, or the cap its documented environment variable sets, is the outer bound, and the block abcd counts as reaching it records stopped with work owed in the away record. The old row that allowed an unchanged owed set once stop_hook_active was true reproduced the stall, since a reply of awaiting the person with no tool call ended the turn until morning. This matches the coordination prep's decision that while the person is away a session with work never stops and one with nothing it can do is waiting with its next look, and the draft's ruling that stopped is allowed only while the person is present (grounds: the plan review of 2026-10-18, findings 2, 5 and 12; code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks Stop input and continuation cap; itd-2610170638184486 decisions)
• 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