A running drain's pace cannot be changed: abcd drain refuses --pace, --sub-agents and --fix-rounds while a drain is in progress ('a pace is set when a run starts'), and there is no verb to end a drain early, so the only way to move a drain started on the bundled 120/300 pace (two hours of work, five of pause) to continuous work is to wait for it to end or to discard its local state by hand. Met 2026-10-07 when the product thinker asked a drain started minutes earlier to work throughout.

A running drain's pace cannot be changed: abcd drain refuses --pace, --sub-agents and --fix-rounds while a drain is in progress ('a pace is set when a run starts'), and there is no verb to end a drain early, so the only way to move a drain started on the bundled 120/300 pace (two hours of work, five of pause) to continuous work is to wait for it to end or to discard its local state by hand. Met 2026-10-07 when the product thinker asked a drain started minutes earlier to work throughout.

Evidence 2026-10-07

The handover sequence 'record lane 1, then retire the drain and start a re-paced one' cannot be followed cleanly: the drain move that recorded lane 1's outcome also opened lane 2 (iss-2610042333573913, run-2610071648273024) under the old 120/300 pace before the drain could be retired, and that lane was then driven by hand as a standalone run.