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-# 🤝 HANDOFF: Deacon Heartbeat MOTD Feature
-
-## Current State
-Just finished a productive session enhancing all tmux status bars with:
-- Mail subject previews (instead of just counts)
-- Current work display (in_progress issues from beads)
-- Compact formatting (removed redundant role icons)
-- Cat emoji (😺) for polecat counts
-
-All pushed to main.
-
-## Next Task: Deacon Heartbeat MOTD
-
-The deacon gets a heartbeat/nudge every ~minute. It's a thankless patrol role.
-Make it more fun by adding rotating motivational/educational messages.
-
-### Requirements
-1. Add MOTD (Message of the Day) tips to deacon heartbeat
-2. Rotate through messages - don't repeat consecutively
-3. Mix of:
-   - Gratitude: "Thanks for everything you do!"
-   - Encouragement: "This is Gas Town's most critical role."
-   - Inspiration: "You are the heart of Gas Town! Be watchful!"
-   - Educational tips about Gas Town architecture and theory of operation
-
-### Where to Look
-- Deacon heartbeat logic: likely in `internal/daemon/` or `internal/cmd/deacon.go`
-- Look for where nudges/heartbeats are sent to deacon
-- The message appears in the deacon's tmux pane
-
-### Example Messages to Include
-- "Thanks for keeping the town running!"
-- "You are Gas Town's most critical role."
-- "You are the heart of Gas Town! Be watchful!"
-- "Tip: Polecats are ephemeral workers - spawn freely, kill liberally."
-- "Tip: Witnesses monitor polecats; you monitor witnesses."
-- "Tip: The Refinery handles merge conflicts so polecats don't have to."
-- "Tip: Beads track work across all agents via git-synced issues."
-- "Tip: Mail routes through town-level beads at ~/gt/.beads/"
-- "Tip: Wisps are ephemeral molecules for patrol cycles - never synced."
-- "Tip: Each rig has its own Witness, Refinery, and beads."
-
-### Implementation Ideas
-- Create a slice of messages in a new file (e.g., `internal/deacon/motd.go`)
-- Use time-based or counter-based rotation
-- Maybe store last index in a file to avoid repeats across restarts
-- Or just random selection with simple dedup (don't repeat last message)
-
-### Also Note
-There's a sqlite migration bug in the mail system - "duplicate column name: replies_to".
-May need to fix that or delete the db to reset.
-
-Good luck! 🦉