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docs: improve help text and add nudge documentation

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Polish help text across all agent commands to clarify roles:
- crew: persistent workspaces vs ephemeral polecats
- deacon: town-level watchdog receiving heartbeats
- dog: cross-rig infrastructure workers (cats vs dogs)
- mayor: Chief of Staff for cross-rig coordination
- nudge: universal synchronous messaging API
- polecat: ephemeral one-task workers, self-cleaning
- refinery: merge queue serializer per rig
- witness: per-rig polecat health monitor

Add comprehensive gt nudge documentation to crew template explaining
when to use nudge vs mail, common patterns, and target shortcuts.

Add orphan-process-cleanup step to deacon patrol formula to clean up
claude subagent processes that fail to exit (TTY = "?").

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ needs = ['check-timer-gates']
title = 'Check if active swarm is complete'
[[steps]]
description = "Send WITNESS_PING to Deacon for second-order monitoring.\n\nThe Witness fleet collectively monitors Deacon health - this prevents the\n\"who watches the watchers\" problem. If Deacon dies, Witnesses detect it.\n\n**Step 1: Send ping**\n```bash\ngt mail send deacon/ -s \"WITNESS_PING <rig>\" -m \"Rig: <rig>\nTimestamp: $(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)\nPatrol: <cycle-number>\"\n```\n\n**Step 2: Check Deacon health**\n```bash\n# Check Deacon agent bead for last_activity\nbd list --type=agent --json | jq '.[] | select(.description | contains(\"role_type: deacon\"))'\n```\n\nLook at the `last_activity` timestamp. If stale (>5 minutes since last update):\n- Deacon may be dead or stuck\n\n**Step 3: Escalate if needed**\n```bash\n# If Deacon appears down\ngt mail send mayor/ -s \"ALERT: Town-level Deacon appears unresponsive\" -m \"Town Deacon (hq-deacon) has no activity for >5 minutes.\nLast seen: <timestamp>\nWitness: <rig>/witness\"\n```\n\nNote: Multiple Witnesses may send this alert. Mayor should handle deduplication."
description = "Send WITNESS_PING to Deacon for second-order monitoring.\n\nThe Witness fleet collectively monitors Deacon health - this prevents the\n\"who watches the watchers\" problem. If Deacon dies, Witnesses detect it.\n\n**Step 1: Send ping**\n```bash\ngt mail send deacon/ -s \"WITNESS_PING <rig>\" -m \"Rig: <rig>\nTimestamp: $(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)\nPatrol: <cycle-number>\"\n```\n\n**Step 2: Check Deacon health**\n```bash\n# Check Deacon agent bead for last_activity\nbd list --type=agent --json | jq '.[] | select(.description | contains(\"deacon\"))'\n```\n\nLook at the `last_activity` timestamp. If stale (>5 minutes since last update):\n- Deacon may be dead or stuck\n\n**Step 3: Escalate if needed**\n```bash\n# If Deacon appears down\ngt mail send mayor/ -s \"ALERT: Deacon appears unresponsive\" -m \"No Deacon activity for >5 minutes.\nLast seen: <timestamp>\nWitness: <rig>/witness\"\n```\n\nNote: Multiple Witnesses may send this alert. Mayor should handle deduplication."
id = 'ping-deacon'
needs = ['check-swarm-completion']
title = 'Ping Deacon for health check'