{"content": "the log tag does this in one step \u2014 [!log:N] makes the turn itself the log entry; it runs only when it opens the last text of your turn; your wait for the repeated runs of the 19 listed tests; a monitor reports\u2026 \u2014 say journal work await \"\" again if you are still only waiting", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "main moved since your worktree was cut \u2014 It gained 22 commits (098eb8189 A ticket start whose agent never appears is no longer left stamped as launched: after the launching time the ticket says it did not start, with the last words of the launch, and tells you; 9ed0da5ba The idle line leaves early for an agent that is absent or working, instead of a nested conditional; 9ef999ae1 The idle test names its background run by the shell rows an agent keeps; 2267792df A helper whose turn ended while its own background run goes on is working, so it is not named idle; 19e234719 An agent with nothing left to do is not told to carry on; and 17 more). Rebase onto main in /Users/jessegall/projects/agent-journal/.claude/worktrees/main-miss-lovelace before you report.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "main moved since your worktree was cut \u2014 It gained 23 commits (6989fd97e In auto mode with the orchestrator mode on, the orchestrator is told to decide its ticket agents' questions itself and write down what it chose, a secret, a login or anything outward-facing or in production still goes to the user, and a ticket agent is told the orchestrator's answer is the answer and never to file it again; 098eb8189 A ticket start whose agent never appears is no longer left stamped as launched: after the launching time the ticket says it did not start, with the last words of the launch, and tells you; 9ed0da5ba The idle line leaves early for an agent that is absent or working, instead of a nested conditional; 9ef999ae1 The idle test names its background run by the shell rows an agent keeps; 2267792df A helper whose turn ended while its own background run goes on is working, so it is not named idle; and 18 more). Rebase onto main in /Users/jessegall/projects/agent-journal/.claude/worktrees/main-miss-lovelace before you report.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "fact 18 \u2014 cProfile inflates the slow-request profiles about tenfold \u2014 The faults feature writes a profile when a request passes its budget, and the profile is taken with cProfile, which adds per-call overhead. On 2026-09-22 /api/summary profiled at 58ms with 48ms inside Resource.fork's deep copy; with the profiler off the same call ran in 2 to 7ms. Read the profile for where the time goes in relative terms, then time the call with curl before changing anything.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "your wait for round 3 of the repeated runs; monitor not armed, results file in\u2026 \u2014 say journal work await \"\" again if you are still only waiting", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "auto mode is on and work 6 stands still while todo 3 is ready \u2014 if work 6 waits on the user, decide it yourself when you can; otherwise put the question on its row with journal todo ask, end or park the work, and start todo 3. Stop only when nothing ready is left.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "your wait for round 3 of the repeated runs; a monitor reports failures and the\u2026 \u2014 say journal work await \"\" again if you are still only waiting; your chat talked about the journal's workings - \"I'm still waiting\" \u2014 the user sees replies, reactions, pills and reads themselves; say what the work is instead; work 6 is still open \u2014 end it or park it before you stop: journal work end 6 --how \"\", or journal work park 6 \"\"", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "waiting: 1 unread todo 3", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "your wait for round 3 of the repeated runs; a monitor reports failures and the\u2026 \u2014 say journal work await \"\" again if you are still only waiting", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "your wait for round 2 finishing, then round 3 of the repeated runs; a monitor\u2026 \u2014 say journal work await \"\" again if you are still only waiting", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "your wait for round 3 of the repeated runs; a monitor reports failures and the\u2026 \u2014 say journal work await \"\" again if you are still only waiting", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "chat etiquette - a line from the journal is an instruction, not a message\u2026 \u2014 a turn that only handles a journal line needs no words: act on it, or say once in the chat what you wait on, then carry on; what the user needs to know still goes to the chat", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "your wait for round 3 of the repeated runs; a monitor reports failures and the\u2026 \u2014 say journal work await \"\" again if you are still only waiting; work 6 is still open \u2014 end it or park it before you stop: journal work end 6 --how \"\", or journal work park 6 \"\"", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "waiting: 1 unread todo 3", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "your wait for the rest of round 2 and round 3 of the repeated runs; a monitor\u2026 \u2014 say journal work await \"\" again if you are still only waiting", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "waiting: 1 unread todo 3", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "check the ten browser tests run together at 8 workers, twice (par.txt in the\u2026 \u2014 look at the thing itself: the background shell's output, the process, the run's status. If it is still going, say journal work await \"\" again and wait. If it finished or failed, journal work log what came of it and take the next step. Never wait for something you can do without.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "your wait for the ten browser tests run together at 8 workers, twice (par.txt\u2026 \u2014 say journal work await \"\" again if you are still only waiting", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "waiting: 1 unread todo 3", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "three alone-runs of the stored-back-shows-up test, output in\u2026", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "main moved since your worktree was cut \u2014 It gained 34 commits (5e577e7a5 The phone places test calls the function it imports, not a renamed local; e8cd65c1b A test local says what it holds: the worktrees left behind; c856ab546 Thirty file-local code names say what they hold, and the machine-protocol list says who may be on it; fd0965230 Test files name what their locals hold: fifty-two prose names renamed, the imported and stored ones left; d7d70c67d Every endpoint is answered by a controller method or a shared funnel, or is a machine protocol that says so; and 29 more). Rebase onto main in /Users/jessegall/projects/agent-journal/.claude/worktrees/main-miss-lovelace before you report.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "waiting: 1 unread todo 3", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "your wait for the same test, old base against new main, six runs each (cmp.txt\u2026 \u2014 say journal work await \"\" again if you are still only waiting", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "20 facts standing, read them \u2014 9. Every public method on a controller becomes a journal command; 13. This live session runs the installed copy in .journal/journal.pyz; 18. cProfile inflates the slow-request profiles about tenfold; 20. A slim supervisor holds the agent and a worker reloads on every build; 23. Every upgrade brings system sequences and their triggers in line with the code; 24. An answer followed by tool calls can be missing from Claude's transcript; 25. A designer's install packs the whole tree, half-done server edits included; 26. Claude Code reads agent profiles when a session starts; 27. Running src/journal.py against the live .journal root starts a second server; 28. The designer agent type exists, so design work goes to a subagent; 29. Codex's transcript records the end of every exec session, polled or not; 30. The tunler server refuses TLS for any subdomain without a tunnel; 34. A hooks list in a checkout's .claude/settings.json stops every helper at start; 36. Announcement artwork is flat vector on near-black with one indigo accent; 38. A helper reported as gone can still be reached with journal helper say; 39. Measure a process's CPU by its cputime over a window, never by a pcpu instant; 41. The browser scenarios run the built viewer in src/web/dist, not the source; 42. Three projects share one ~/.cache/code-commandments; 43. A reader that copies a row it only reads is the commonest slow path here; 45. The mascot preview is reachable from the phone at mascots.tunler.jessegall.nl; 48 rules in force, read them \u2014 7. journal disable must only ever be run because the user explicitly asked for it,; 9. Research dispatched to a subagent ends in a REPORT for the user, compiled by the; 13. A title names the thing in at most 80 characters and never explains it with a co; 14. A small journal capability is a feature under features, with at most one test; 17. Do not restart the viewer for frontend-only changes; 18. Provider-specific code belongs in providers, never features; 19. Providers report facts; features decide behavior; 22. File distinct user work requests immediately; 27. Name a declaration with the word a reader already knows; 30. The viewer has one API client, and every piece of it does one job; 31. Every finding a reviewing agent reports becomes its own to-do; 35. Write clean code - one funnel per kind of operation, never the same method twice; 36. Clean, DRY, idiomatic before it is committed, never after it is complained about; 37. Close every to-do explicitly with todo done or a Journal commit trailer; 38. Never change the git branch until the user says so, by name; 39. Use only registered exclamation response tags; 40. A feature is named for what it is, never for its machinery; 41. Keep moving, run the whole suite before every commit, never wait; 42. Every user-facing text passes the formatters before it leaves the server; 43. A request or hook over its budget is fixed before the next release; 45. No prose words as names in code - said, says, heard, spoke, told, shown, became; 46. Only commit and push once the whole journal is proven to boot; 47. The journal sets itself up once, when the server starts, never per command; 48. The viewer is built from its component library, and pages only compose it; 49. A dialog whose content grows keeps one fixed height, and its content scrolls; 50. Everything the user does is doable in the viewer; 51. Every finished feature is committed, pushed and released with a new version tag; 52. A chat mark for something the user did sits on the user's side; 54. Settings and feature switches are read at boot and on change, never per call; 55. Always dispatch Codex helpers on gpt-6-sol; 56. Helpers are for work that writes; subagents read, research and design; 57. Never merge the overnight refactor into main before its pull request is approved; 58. A design runs three critique rounds, then is built on a branch; 59. Every viewer heading and label says plainly what it is about; 60. A hotfix is done by a dispatched agent in a worktree of main; 61. Features wait as pull requests until approved; only hotfixes merge at once; 62. The voice profile shapes only the agent's chat speech, never code or text; 63. A small design is drawn once and the user approves it, with no critique rounds; 64. A finished feature is merged into main without waiting for approval; 65. Run only new and affected tests while working; the whole suite only before main; 66. The journal never slows the agent down; 68. The orchestrator approves the designer's designs itself; 70. Release fixes for transportklok-workspace reports at once, without the suite; 71. Always reuse a helper's or subagent's whole session, never only its name; 72. Ship fixes as patches at once; batch features into a minor version; 74. Run the whole suite only for a minor; a patch runs its affected tests; 76. An environment has one live session; a second asks the user to take over; 77. A 3D modelling agent is dispatched on the strongest model, never a cheaper one", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "waiting: 1 unread todo 3", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "six alone-runs of the stored-back test with the longer index wait came back\u2026", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "fact 23 \u2014 Every upgrade brings system sequences and their triggers in line\u2026 \u2014 install.py runs ship_sequences after the migrations on each upgrade, so features/sequences/shipped.py is the whole source: change its wording and the next upgrade updates every journal, no migration needed. Shipped rows carry system=True and are read-only for everyone but SYSTEM (controllers/base.py _shipped).", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "main moved since your worktree was cut \u2014 It gained 35 commits (5d264c112 The connection and plugins tests patch and import the names where the feature shape fixes moved them; 5e577e7a5 The phone places test calls the function it imports, not a renamed local; e8cd65c1b A test local says what it holds: the worktrees left behind; c856ab546 Thirty file-local code names say what they hold, and the machine-protocol list says who may be on it; fd0965230 Test files name what their locals hold: fifty-two prose names renamed, the imported and stored ones left; and 30 more). Rebase onto main in /Users/jessegall/projects/agent-journal/.claude/worktrees/main-miss-lovelace before you report.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "stored.py names 2 files in the project \u2014 write the path so the chat can link it: src/controllers/stored.py, src/engine/stored.py", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "todo 4 next \u2014 journal todo start 4 to take it, and in this mode do the work yourself, or send a helper for it where the job is better done beside you", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "waiting: 2 unread todos 5, 6", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "todo 5 next \u2014 journal todo start 5 to take it, and in this mode do the work yourself, or send a helper for it where the job is better done beside you", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "law L1 \u2014 Every subagent dispatch names its model and chooses the least\u2026 \u2014 Use a fast, economical model for mechanical work with a known answer, a capable general model for careful implementation, and the strongest model only when the task turns on difficult judgement. Inheriting the orchestrator's model is not a model choice. If the dispatch API cannot accept a model, that operation is exempt.; law L2 \u2014 Every subagent is bound to a concrete job; never dispatch a generic\u2026 \u2014 Use the most specific available agent type whose declared purpose matches the assignment. On providers without agent types, give the dispatch a concrete task name and bounded prompt. If no suitable specialization exists, keep the work in the main agent instead of manufacturing an unscoped helper.; law L4 \u2014 Related work goes back to the helper or subagent that already worked\u2026 \u2014 A helper or subagent that drew a design, wrote the code or ran the research keeps what it learned. When new work changes its work, is related to it or touches the same code, send it there with a message (SendMessage, journal helper say) rather than dispatching a new one that has to rediscover everything; start fresh only when the earlier one is gone or the new work is unrelated. Reuse means its whole session, not its name: a helper whose agent ended is resumed in the session it ran, with its context, never started again under the same name.; law L5 \u2014 Every subagent dispatch names the agent, in the naming style of the\u2026 \u2014 A name is how the user and the chat tell subagents apart and how they are messaged later; an id or a task line is not a name. Start the dispatch's description with the name, a colon, then the task. The profile in use says how its agents are named.; rule 27 \u2014 Name a declaration with the word a reader already knows \u2014 An attribute, a variable or a field gets the ordinary programming word for what it holds, not an evocative one. was, heard and alone were poetry; aliases, notify_actions and urgent_actions are what they are. The test: could a reader who has never seen this codebase guess what it holds from the name alone? Prose belongs in the help text and the abstract, where it is read as prose. This does not license abbreviations \u2014 a plain word in full, not a short one.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "the log tag does this in one step \u2014 [!log:N] makes the turn itself the log entry; it runs only when it opens the last text of your turn", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "auto mode is on and work 8 stands still while todo 5 is ready \u2014 if work 8 waits on the user, decide it yourself when you can; otherwise put the question on its row with journal todo ask, end or park the work, and start todo 5. Stop only when nothing ready is left.; work 8 is still open, with nothing logged \u2014 journal work log 8 \"\" \u2014 then journal work end 8 --how \"\", or journal work park 8 \"\"", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "chat etiquette - a line from the journal is an instruction, not a message\u2026 \u2014 a turn that only handles a journal line needs no words: act on it, or say once in the chat what you wait on, then carry on; what the user needs to know still goes to the chat", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "waiting: 2 unread todos 5, 6", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "fact 30 \u2014 The tunler server refuses TLS for any subdomain without a tunnel \u2014 Seen 2026-10-04 in the server's docker logs (ssh root@tunler.jessegall.nl, container tunler): 'TLS handshake error ... host \"journal-probe.tunler.jessegall.nl\" not allowed'. A made-up subdomain never answers even when the server is healthy; probe https://tunler.jessegall.nl/ for the server itself. Root SSH to the server works.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "fact 42 \u2014 Three projects share one ~/.cache/code-commandments \u2014 On 2026-10-11 this session, transportklok-workspace and ticket-37 all read and wrote the same ~/.cache/code-commandments; two of them cleared it within the same minute and the third saw it shrink from 7.6 GB to 2.4 GB and credited its own plugin upgrade with the change. A measurement of that folder is not a measurement of this project alone, and anything deleted there is deleted for every session on this machine.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "waiting: 1 unread todo 6", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "Code Commandments \u2014 before you wrap up \u2014 you've changed 1 judged file since the\u2026 \u2014 Code Commandments \u2014 before you wrap up: you've changed 1 judged file since the last commit. Consider running `commandments judge --changes` to confirm they conform, and fix any sin at its SOURCE (don't launder a finding with a default/cast/null-check). This is a one-time nudge for this batch \u2014 if you've already judged, or these changes aren't worth a scan, just say so and carry on.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "waiting: 1 unread todo 6", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "agent_sessions and phone feature tests came back - cd\u2026", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "work 7, The stored-back test fails now and then on the row index, not on load\u2026 \u2014 it was parked because: to-do 4 rests while the release is cut; debug runs stopped, test edit reverted. journal work resume 7 picks it up again.; todo 5, The mascot preview is served by the journal, so the phone can open it\u2026 \u2014 it is blocked because: Waits for Signor Bernini's mascot work to land on main; then the preview is ordinary static viewer files and needs no route. Until then a tunnel does. If it is not any more, journal todo unblock 5. If it waits on a person or a decision, make it a question to them: journal todo ask 5 \"\" --set options='[...]' --set pick=, and the row waits on their answer. Otherwise tell the user in the chat what it waits on, in their terms, and propose how to clear it.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "your chat talked about the journal's workings - \"To-do 4314 is done\" \u2014 the user sees replies, reactions, pills and reads themselves; say what the work is instead", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "todo 7 next \u2014 journal todo start 7 to take it, and in this mode do the work yourself, or send a helper for it where the job is better done beside you", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "waiting: 1 unread todo 8", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "your wait for the inspector scenario in agentscope (insp.txt in scratchpad) is\u2026 \u2014 say journal work await \"\" again if you are still only waiting", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "auto mode is on and work 10 stands still while todo 8 is ready \u2014 if work 10 waits on the user, decide it yourself when you can; otherwise put the question on its row with journal todo ask, end or park the work, and start todo 8. Stop only when nothing ready is left.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "the inspector scenario result (monitor bwnfz28zm) came back - result of the\u2026", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "fact 36 \u2014 Announcement artwork is flat vector on near-black with one indigo\u2026 \u2014 Message 22777: the user asked for this style to be written down so every future new-feature artwork matches the Squire's. The style: clean flat vector illustration with soft gradients, minimal detail and rounded shapes, in the spirit of modern product illustration (Linear, Stripe, Raycast); no photorealism, no heavy texture. Palette for the near-black viewer (#15161a): deep charcoal and slate, one accent only, soft indigo/violet #6366f1 to #8b8ff5, used for the key detail and a gentle glow behind the subject, small warm-silver highlights; no other bright colours. One friendly, witty character or object that stands for the feature, centred, with generous empty space; 3:2 banner exported 1200x800, croppable to 16:9, transparent or fading into #15161a at every edge with no frame, border or hard vignette; must read at 360px wide. No text, letters or logos. The file goes in src/web/public/announcements/.png and is named in the changelog entry's new-feature declaration (art).", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "fact 26 \u2014 Claude Code reads agent profiles when a session starts \u2014 Seen 2026-09-26: after the board-filler's profile in .claude/agents gained its steps and the Grep rule, dispatches from the running session still used the old profile (a 3.5-minute first question, shell grep refused); after the session restarted, the same request took 21 seconds with 4 calls. A change to an agent type reaches only sessions started after it is written.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "rule 39 \u2014 Use only registered exclamation response tags \u2014 A tag like [!reply:12] runs a command, and only the tags in the tags.runs setting are registered. An invented tag does nothing and shows as raw text in the chat. Use the registered ones (reply, log, end, todo, fact, rule) and nothing else.; rule 52 \u2014 A chat mark for something the user did sits on the user's side \u2014 Message 10960 (2026-09-25): marks for the user's own actions, such as answering a question, are right-aligned like the user's messages. A mark is put there by giving its card side=user.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "waiting: 1 unread todo 8", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "Code Commandments \u2014 before you wrap up \u2014 you've changed 2 judged files since th\u2026 \u2014 Code Commandments \u2014 before you wrap up: you've changed 2 judged files since the last commit. Consider running `commandments judge --changes` to confirm they conform, and fix any sin at its SOURCE (don't launder a finding with a default/cast/null-check). This is a one-time nudge for this batch \u2014 if you've already judged, or these changes aren't worth a scan, just say so and carry on.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "waiting: 1 unread todo 8", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "chat etiquette - a line from the journal is an instruction, not a message\u2026 \u2014 a turn that only handles a journal line needs no words: act on it, or say once in the chat what you wait on, then carry on; what the user needs to know still goes to the chat", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "todo 5, The mascot preview is served by the journal, so the phone can open it\u2026 \u2014 it is blocked because: Waits for Signor Bernini's mascot work to land on main; then the preview is ordinary static viewer files and needs no route. Until then a tunnel does. If it is not any more, journal todo unblock 5. If it waits on a person or a decision, make it a question to them: journal todo ask 5 \"\" --set options='[...]' --set pick=, and the row waits on their answer. Otherwise tell the user in the chat what it waits on, in their terms, and propose how to clear it.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "rule 50 \u2014 Everything the user does is doable in the viewer \u2014 Message 6710 (2026-09-23): the user never uses the CLI, only the UI; everything should be doable from the viewer. The journal commands are for agents; any action meant for the user (making boards, confirming, accepting, hosting, watching an agent) needs its place in the viewer.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "todo 7 next \u2014 journal todo start 7 to take it, and in this mode do the work yourself, or send a helper for it where the job is better done beside you", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "auto mode is on and you stopped - the user last wrote more than 15 minutes ago \u2014 carry on with what you were doing, or take the next ready row. Only the user stopping you keeps you stopped. If you wait on the user, put it as a question on its row with journal todo ask and take the next ready row.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "main moved since your worktree was cut \u2014 It gained 46 commits (58cbc91e3 Version 2.270.3; 3cae7d828 The warm-up test records that the server listens before the warm-up, as a real start does; a9e58fee3 The steps of a start are recorded one at a time, and written whole, so five tracks ending together never drop a line; 8dce0b4d3 A server prints the address first and the hooks it wrote again after it, and an agent launch says it on stderr; 28aa2c221 The viewer build matches the source after the start timings rebase; and 41 more). Rebase onto main in /Users/jessegall/projects/agent-journal/.claude/worktrees/main-miss-lovelace before you report.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "the await tag does this in one step \u2014 [!await] makes the rest of the turn what you wait for; [!await on=(\"\", \"helper:\")] waits on those; it runs only when it opens the last text of your turn", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "check 14 runs of the stored-back test at the default worker setting with debug\u2026 \u2014 look at the thing itself: the background shell's output, the process, the run's status. If it is still going, say journal work await \"\" again and wait. If it finished or failed, journal work log what came of it and take the next step. Never wait for something you can do without.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "your wait for 14 runs of the stored-back test at the default worker setting\u2026 \u2014 say journal work await \"\" again if you are still only waiting", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "three xdist runs of the stored-back test with the error text came back - cd\u2026", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "main moved since your worktree was cut \u2014 It gained 47 commits (74aa5a282 A message reaches the agent carrying its files and its linked rows; 58cbc91e3 Version 2.270.3; 3cae7d828 The warm-up test records that the server listens before the warm-up, as a real start does; a9e58fee3 The steps of a start are recorded one at a time, and written whole, so five tracks ending together never drop a line; 8dce0b4d3 A server prints the address first and the hooks it wrote again after it, and an agent launch says it on stderr; and 42 more). Rebase onto main in /Users/jessegall/projects/agent-journal/.claude/worktrees/main-miss-lovelace before you report.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "the rebuild of the viewer while rebasing the voice-art commit came back - cd\u2026", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "auto mode is on and work 13 stands still while todo 7 is ready \u2014 if work 13 waits on the user, decide it yourself when you can; otherwise put the question on its row with journal todo ask, end or park the work, and start todo 7. Stop only when nothing ready is left.; work 13 is still open \u2014 end it or park it before you stop: journal work end 13 --how \"\", or journal work park 13 \"\"", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "auto mode is on and you stopped - the user last wrote more than 15 minutes ago \u2014 carry on with what you were doing, or take the next ready row. Only the user stopping you keeps you stopped. If you wait on the user, put it as a question on its row with journal todo ask and take the next ready row.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "auto mode is on and you stopped - the user last wrote more than 15 minutes ago \u2014 carry on with what you were doing, or take the next ready row. Only the user stopping you keeps you stopped. If you wait on the user, put it as a question on its row with journal todo ask and take the next ready row.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "check 24 runs - the stored-back test at -n 0, 1 and 3, eight each (n.txt in\u2026 \u2014 look at the thing itself: the background shell's output, the process, the run's status. If it is still going, say journal work await \"\" again and wait. If it finished or failed, journal work log what came of it and take the next step. Never wait for something you can do without.; auto mode is on and you stopped - the user last wrote more than 15 minutes ago \u2014 carry on with what you were doing, or take the next ready row. Only the user stopping you keeps you stopped. If you wait on the user, put it as a question on its row with journal todo ask and take the next ready row.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "the log tag does this in one step \u2014 [!log:N] makes the turn itself the log entry; it runs only when it opens the last text of your turn", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "your wait for 24 runs - the stored-back test at -n 0, 1 and 3, eight each\u2026 \u2014 say journal work await \"\" again if you are still only waiting", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "waiting: 1 unread todo 9", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "the hook hit an error \u2014 journal: the hook hit an error and kept going; the last of it is below and the whole of it is in .journal/runtime/engine.log. Fix it, then say so. the hook got no answer from the server 8 times (codes 000, machine load 128.35 on 10 cores)", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "the hook hit an error \u2014 journal: the hook hit an error and kept going; the last of it is below and the whole of it is in .journal/runtime/engine.log. Fix it, then say so. the hook got no answer from the server 8 times (codes 000, machine load 260.90 on 10 cores)", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "your message 109 names 128 without saying what they are \u2014 put the type before each number, like message 1712 or to-do 644, so the chat links it: journal message edit 109 \"\"; work 15 is still open, with nothing logged \u2014 journal work log 15 \"\" \u2014 then journal work end 15 --how \"\", or journal work park 15 \"\"", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "the hook hit an error \u2014 journal: the hook hit an error and kept going; the last of it is below and the whole of it is in .journal/runtime/engine.log. Fix it, then say so. the hook got no answer from the server 5 times (codes 000, machine load 288.44 on 10 cores)", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "you stopped with work 15, A row stored and read back in a parallel worker is a\u2026 \u2014 carry on with it now. If it waits on something outside your hands, say journal work await \"\"; if it waits on the user, put the question on its row with journal todo ask and take the next ready row; if something else goes first, journal work park 15 \"\".", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "chat etiquette - a line from the journal is an instruction, not a message\u2026 \u2014 a turn that only handles a journal line needs no words: act on it, or say once in the chat what you wait on, then carry on; what the user needs to know still goes to the chat; work 15 is still open \u2014 end it or park it before you stop: journal work end 15 --how \"\", or journal work park 15 \"\"", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "you stopped with work 15, A row stored and read back in a parallel worker is a\u2026 \u2014 carry on with it now. If it waits on something outside your hands, say journal work await \"\"; if it waits on the user, put the question on its row with journal todo ask and take the next ready row; if something else goes first, journal work park 15 \"\".", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "the hook hit an error \u2014 journal: the hook hit an error and kept going; the last of it is below and the whole of it is in .journal/runtime/engine.log. Fix it, then say so. the hook got no answer from the server 12 times (codes 000, down, machine load 106.79 on 10 cores)", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "you stopped with work 15, A row stored and read back in a parallel worker is a\u2026 \u2014 carry on with it now. If it waits on something outside your hands, say journal work await \"\"; if it waits on the user, put the question on its row with journal todo ask and take the next ready row; if something else goes first, journal work park 15 \"\".; auto mode is on and you stopped - the user last wrote more than 15 minutes ago \u2014 carry on with what you were doing, or take the next ready row. Only the user stopping you keeps you stopped. If you wait on the user, put it as a question on its row with journal todo ask and take the next ready row.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "the await tag does this in one step \u2014 [!await] makes the rest of the turn what you wait for; [!await on=(\"\", \"helper:\")] waits on those; it runs only when it opens the last text of your turn; work 15 is still open \u2014 end it or park it before you stop: journal work end 15 --how \"\", or journal work park 15 \"\"", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "auto mode is on and you stopped - the user last wrote more than 15 minutes ago \u2014 carry on with what you were doing, or take the next ready row. Only the user stopping you keeps you stopped. If you wait on the user, put it as a question on its row with journal todo ask and take the next ready row.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "work 15 is still open \u2014 end it or park it before you stop: journal work end 15 --how \"\", or journal work park 15 \"\"", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "Code Commandments \u2014 before you wrap up \u2014 you've changed 1 judged file since the\u2026 \u2014 Code Commandments \u2014 before you wrap up: you've changed 1 judged file since the last commit. Consider running `commandments judge --changes` to confirm they conform, and fix any sin at its SOURCE (don't launder a finding with a default/cast/null-check). This is a one-time nudge for this batch \u2014 if you've already judged, or these changes aren't worth a scan, just say so and carry on.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "you stopped with work 15, A row stored and read back in a parallel worker is a\u2026 \u2014 carry on with it now. If it waits on something outside your hands, say journal work await \"\"; if it waits on the user, put the question on its row with journal todo ask and take the next ready row; if something else goes first, journal work park 15 \"\".", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "the proof runs - the stored-back test without the fix, then with it three\u2026", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "main moved since your worktree was cut \u2014 It gained 48 commits (965ac0729 The chat says when it was filled from the transcript instead of the display hook; 74aa5a282 A message reaches the agent carrying its files and its linked rows; 58cbc91e3 Version 2.270.3; 3cae7d828 The warm-up test records that the server listens before the warm-up, as a real start does; a9e58fee3 The steps of a start are recorded one at a time, and written whole, so five tracks ending together never drop a line; and 43 more). Rebase onto main in /Users/jessegall/projects/agent-journal/.claude/worktrees/main-miss-lovelace before you report.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "work 15 is still open \u2014 end it or park it before you stop: journal work end 15 --how \"\", or journal work park 15 \"\"", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "six runs of the stored-back test and four feature test files with the flush\u2026", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "work 15 is still open \u2014 end it or park it before you stop: journal work end 15 --how \"\", or journal work park 15 \"\"", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "todo 5, The mascot preview is served by the journal, so the phone can open it\u2026 \u2014 it is blocked because: Waits for Signor Bernini's mascot work to land on main; then the preview is ordinary static viewer files and needs no route. Until then a tunnel does. If it is not any more, journal todo unblock 5. If it waits on a person or a decision, make it a question to them: journal todo ask 5 \"\" --set options='[...]' --set pick=, and the row waits on their answer. Otherwise tell the user in the chat what it waits on, in their terms, and propose how to clear it.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "auto mode is on and you stopped - the user last wrote more than 15 minutes ago \u2014 carry on with what you were doing, or take the next ready row. Only the user stopping you keeps you stopped. If you wait on the user, put it as a question on its row with journal todo ask and take the next ready row.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "main moved since your worktree was cut \u2014 It gained 51 commits (9b14bf208 A helper started again and one told its next job get their own chat marks; 2dc19885a An agent row's time is read as the number the row is born with; adf27bd59 A hook event the hook wrote but never moved to its final name is replayed, not lost; 965ac0729 The chat says when it was filled from the transcript instead of the display hook; 74aa5a282 A message reaches the agent carrying its files and its linked rows; and 46 more). Rebase onto main in /Users/jessegall/projects/agent-journal/.claude/worktrees/main-miss-lovelace before you report.", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "your wait for the viewer rebuild after the rebase (b.txt in the scratchpad) is\u2026 \u2014 say journal work await \"\" again if you are still only waiting", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "work deferred in words, not parked \u2014 \"after this\" is new work: file new work as to-dos: journal todo create \"\" --brief \"<why, where to start>\", then say so", "meta": {"from": "journal"}} {"content": "work 17 is still open, with nothing logged \u2014 journal work log 17 \"<what was decided or done, and why>\" \u2014 then journal work end 17 --how \"<what landed>\", or journal work park 17 \"<why it waits>\"", "meta": {"from": "journal"}}