The Deacon patrol formula now uses `gt mol step await-signal` with
exponential backoff instead of vague "sleep 60s" instructions.
How it works:
- Subscribes to `bd activity --follow` (beads activity feed)
- Returns IMMEDIATELY when any gt/bd command triggers activity
- On timeout, waits exponentially longer: 60s → 120s → 240s → max 10m
- Tracks idle:N label on hq-deacon bead across invocations
This connects the designed-but-unintegrated backoff mechanism to the
actual patrol loop. Idle towns let Deacon sleep; active work wakes it.
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* feat(costs): redesign session cost tracking with wisps and daily digests
Implement the wisp-based cost tracking architecture per gt-cm900:
- gt costs record now creates ephemeral wisps (not exported to JSONL)
to avoid log-in-database pollution with O(sessions/day) events
- gt costs digest aggregates yesterday's session wisps into a single
permanent "Cost Report YYYY-MM-DD" bead for audit purposes
- gt costs query updated: --today queries wisps, --week queries
digest beads + today's wisps
- gt costs migrate closes legacy open session.ended beads
- Deacon patrol formula updated with costs-digest step
The new architecture:
Session ends -> Wisp (fast, N/day) -> Patrol digest -> Bead (1/day)
This preserves audit trail while keeping issues.jsonl clean.
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* chore: sync canonical formula with embedded copy
Update .beads/formulas/ with the costs-digest step added to
mol-deacon-patrol.formula.toml. The go:generate copies from
.beads/formulas/ to internal/formula/formulas/.
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The Deacon patrol formula's zombie-scan step now:
- Only detects zombies via --dry-run, never kills directly
- Files death warrants for Boot to handle interrogation/execution
- Includes psychological weight language about termination gravity
This prevents accidental destruction of worker context, mid-task
progress, and unsaved state. Kill authority belongs to Boot.
Bumped version to 5.
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Updates mol-deacon-patrol formula to be silent when the town is idle:
- Added "Idle Town Principle" to formula description
- health-scan step now checks for active work before sending nudges
- loop-or-exit step specifies 60+ second sleep (2-5 min when idle)
- Explains that daemon (10-min heartbeat) is the safety net
This prevents flooding idle agents with health checks every few seconds.
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Previously, the Deacon patrol formula sent HEALTH_CHECK nudges to
Witnesses and Refineries on every patrol cycle (~1-2 minutes). This
disturbed idle agents constantly and wasted their context.
Now health check nudges are only sent when concerning signals are
detected:
- Agent not running or no heartbeat
- Status check hangs or fails
- Queue stuck or merge failures
The status commands (gt witness status, gt refinery status) provide
sufficient liveness info for healthy agents. Reserve nudges for
actual problems.
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Add gt deacon zombie-scan command that provides defense-in-depth
against Witness cleanup failures. The command:
- Scans all rigs for polecats that are idle, have no session running,
no hooked work, and are stale (>10 min inactive)
- Reports found zombies with details
- Optionally nukes them and notifies the mayor
Flags:
--dry-run Preview only
--threshold Custom staleness threshold (default 10m)
--nuke=false Report only, do not clean up
Also adds zombie-scan step to mol-deacon-patrol formula.
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- Delete 5 legacy .formula.yaml files (have .toml replacements)
- Remove unused FileConfigYAML constant
- Add TODO for beads config.yaml → config.json migration (bd-10wg)
- Update docs to use JSON examples instead of yaml code blocks
- Change plugin frontmatter from YAML to TOML in docs
- Add .toml to code file detection in branch_check.go
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The health-scan step now includes gt nudge commands that serve dual purposes:
1. Liveness verification - agent responds to prove it's alive
2. Backoff reset - any nudge resets agent's backoff to base interval
This ensures patrol agents (witness/refinery) remain responsive even during
quiet periods when the feed has no mutations. Since Deacon patrols every
~1-2 minutes, maximum backoff is bounded by the ping interval.
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Major changes to mol-deacon-patrol.formula.toml v4:
- Add DOG_DONE message handling in inbox-check step
- Add dog-pool-maintenance step for idle dog availability
- Change orphan-check to detect-only (dispatches to dogs via sling)
- Change session-gc to detect-only (dispatches to dogs via sling)
The Deacon now stays lightweight by detecting issues and dispatching
heavy work to dogs rather than executing inline. This prevents context
bloat and keeps patrol cycles fast.
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Added three new patrol steps for convoy orchestration:
- check-convoy-completion: Watch for tracked issue closures, auto-close convoys
- resolve-external-deps: Propagate cross-rig dependency resolution
- fire-notifications: Notify Overseer/Witnesses of convoy and dep events
Updated health-scan to depend on fire-notifications (runs after convoy steps).
(gt-wthcc)
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Added WITNESS_PING protocol for monitoring Deacon health:
Witness patrol (mol-witness-patrol):
- Added ping-deacon step after survey-workers
- Sends WITNESS_PING mail to Deacon each patrol cycle
- Checks Deacon agent bead last_activity timestamp
- Escalates to Mayor if Deacon appears unresponsive
Deacon patrol (mol-deacon-patrol):
- Added WITNESS_PING handling in inbox-check
- Added second-order monitoring section to description
- Bumped formula version to 2
This prevents the "who watches the watchers" problem - if Deacon dies,
the collective Witness fleet detects it and escalates.
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New step evaluates pending async gates each patrol cycle:
- Lists open gates via bd gate list
- For timer gates, checks if elapsed time exceeds timeout
- Closes elapsed gates and notifies waiters
- Runs in parallel with trigger-pending-spawns
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Converted all .formula.json files to .formula.toml using bd formula convert.
TOML provides better ergonomics:
- Multi-line strings without \n escaping
- Human-readable diffs
- Comments allowed
Original JSON files retained for backwards compatibility.
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