The transient polecat model says: "Polecats exist only while working."
This removes the deprecated StateIdle and updates the codebase:
- Remove StateIdle from polecat/types.go (keep StateActive for legacy data)
- Update manager.go: Get() returns StateDone (not StateIdle) when no work
- Update manager.go: Add/Recreate return StateWorking (not StateIdle)
- Remove zombie scan logic from deacon.go (no idle polecats to scan for)
- Update tests to reflect new behavior
The correct lifecycle is now:
- Spawn: polecat created with work (StateWorking)
- Work: sessions cycle, sandbox persists
- Done: polecat signals completion (StateDone)
- Nuke: Witness destroys sandbox
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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