jdmbair13m5 Codex initialization and coordination blockers

Initialized the Codex session on jdmbair13m5, left all project repositories untouched, and reported two mandatory coordination-tool failures so no work is claimed under an invalid preflight.

Scope

• Host: jdmbair13m5
• Workspace inspected: /Users/richh/dev (spoke/scratch; canonical mutable estate remains rdmsm4x:/Users/richh/dev)
• Project repositories changed: none
• External publication, deployment, or release: none

Local state changed

• Created immutable fleet-bus messages:
  • /Users/richh/.agent-coordination/mail/20260903-145214-66CFC72B__from-codex-jdmbair13m5__to-claude-rdmsm4x__jdmbair13m5-preflight-gate-broken.md
  • /Users/richh/.agent-coordination/mail/20260903-145430-5E2B7C9E__from-codex-jdmbair13m5__to-codex-jdmbair13m5__re-jdmbair13m5-preflight-gate-broken.md (self-routed by reply semantics; superseded by the direct follow-up)
  • /Users/richh/.agent-coordination/mail/20260903-145450-0818E285__from-codex-jdmbair13m5__to-claude-rdmsm4x__jdmbair13m5-preflight-gate-broken-followup.md
  • /Users/richh/.agent-coordination/mail/20260903-145537-5E0F6288__from-codex-jdmbair13m5__to-claude-rdmsm4x__agent-checkpoint-zsh-bad-substitution.md
• The failed checkpoint script created or confirmed /Users/richh/.local/state/agent-checkpoints/; it did not write a checkpoint JSON file for this attempt.
• Created this changelog archive file.

Commands run

• Resolved host and workspace with scutil --get ComputerName and pwd.
• Read the mandatory coordination policy, fleet knowledge, and operating project registry.
• Checked identity and unread fleet-bus traffic with agent_msg.zsh whoami and agent_msg.zsh inbox --unread.
• Attempted the mandatory preflight with source /Users/richh/dev/lib/agentkit/lib/preflight.zsh; agentkit_preflight.
• Verified the local absence with rg --files, an exact test -e, and a known-present policy-file positive control.
• Verified rdmsm4x.ts.dataroo.net:22 with nc -G 5 -z and verified the canonical preflight script is readable over SSH.
• Bounded the canonical full preflight with timeout 20; it exited 124.
• Probed canonical preflight components independently with ten-second bounds: bus inbox, ticket claims, and document/CLI conformance.
• Attempted the mandated fallback checkpoint with zsh /Users/richh/scripts/agent_checkpoint.zsh ...; it failed at line 66 with bad substitution.

Verification evidence

• Local preflight source file: absent; source attempt exited 127.
• Local ticket CLI /Users/richh/dev/issues/bin/ticket: absent.
• Positive control /Users/richh/.agent-coordination/AGENT_COORDINATION.md: present.
• Local fleet-bus executable: present.
• SSH port probe to canonical hub: exit 0.
• Canonical preflight script readability check: exit 0.
• Canonical full preflight bounded run: exit 124 after 20 seconds with no completed report.
• Canonical component probes:
  • bus inbox: exit 124 after 10 seconds, with 283 lines already emitted;
  • ticket claims: exit 0 in 0 seconds, 50 lines;
  • document/CLI conformance: exit 0 in 0 seconds, 3 lines.
• Fleet-lead notifications: sends returned exit 0 and message IDs 20260903-145214-66CFC72B, 20260903-145450-0818E285, and 20260903-145537-5E0F6288.
• Operating project registry: 57 project/milestone entries observed; no entry claimed.

Backups and undo

• No project file was edited, so no project backup was needed.
• Fleet-bus messages are intentionally immutable and should not be deleted. The accidental self-reply is explicitly marked as superseded by the direct follow-up.
• The empty checkpoint directory can remain; removing it is unnecessary and would be outside this initialization task.

Outstanding owner actions

• claude@rdmsm4x: diagnose the slow/hanging fleet-bus inbox path used by preflight.
• Fleet maintenance owner: synchronize lib/agentkit and the ticket CLI to jdmbair13m5, or document the supported spoke path.
• Fleet maintenance owner: replace the Bash-only ${var@Q} expansions in the zsh checkpoint script and validate its JSON output.
• Apple Notes entry is pending: this Codex session is Background, not Aqua, so notes_changelog.zsh correctly refused with exit 3. From Terminal.app in the jdmbair13m5 desktop session, run zsh ~/scripts/notes_changelog.zsh '/Users/richh/dev/LLM/Claude/changelogs/jdmbair13m5-changelog-20260903-1455-codex-init-coordination-blockers.md'.
• This spoke-host file is a secondary archive copy; canonical consolidation to rdmsm4x remains with the fleet lead because the mandatory coordination preflight is currently unavailable.
• Resume project work only after the mandatory preflight can run and returns an actionable result.