Fleet context-routing pause

Rich directed every fleet agent to pause while the _nocontext project-family map, routing thresholds, and recovery prompts are designed; the directive was broadcast fleet-wide and sent directly to the known active _nocontext and ScanRoo tasks.

Scope

• Initiating host: rdmsm4x
• Intended recipients: all six fleet Macs and all agent harnesses reachable through the shared mailbox
• Direct Codex task recipients:
  • _nocontext watcher/relay: 01a040ae-f560-7d32-a77e-ecc0ffe1a18d
  • ScanRoo primary/fragment lane: 01a040aa-6945-7d11-92d8-9bb8b25a5be0
  • ScanRoo history-consolidation lane: 01a0408b-c7dc-7b10-b8dd-489e41a804f5

Exact local state touched

• Created immutable fleet message: /Users/richh/.agent-coordination/mail/20260826-211758-DBA606C0__from-codex-rdmsm4x__to-all__context-routing-design-pause-20260826.md
• Created this changelog only.
• No project source, intake packet, destination repository, provider database, credential store, task database, Git branch, worktree, or project index was edited by this task.

Commands and actions

• Broadcast a high-priority context-routing-design-pause-20260826 message with AGENT_LLM=codex through /Users/richh/.agent-coordination/agent_msg.zsh.
• Synchronized the immutable mailbox through the same tool.
• Sent direct pause prompts through supported Codex task messaging to the three known active _nocontext and ScanRoo lanes.
• Used bounded supported task waits to distinguish delivery, acknowledgement, and actual idle state.

Verification evidence at 2026-08-26 21:23:56 EDT

• Mailbox message ID: 20260826-211758-DBA606C0.
• Mailbox sync reported success for rdmbair13m5, rdmbair15m5, rdmpw3275m, and jdmbair13m5; rdmpw3265m was unreachable, so its receipt remains pending for normal immutable-mail catch-up.
• _nocontext watcher/relay is idle and reported PAUSED. Its recurring route-nocontext-handoffs automation was explicitly paused. The source intake packet remains unarchived.
• ScanRoo history consolidation is idle and reported PAUSED at clean checkpoint 323e6a6873cd4c8fdc85fb27a93145d37340211a; it is not merged or pushed.
• ScanRoo primary acknowledged the pause. Its already-running fragment checksum inventory completed atomically, and it stated that it would perform no additional writes, integration, merge, push, build, routing, handoff, archival, task creation, or cleanup. The task still appeared active after repeated bounded waits, so final idle/lease-release evidence is pending and is not claimed.

Backups and preservation

• The pause message is immutable and replicated to every reachable host; no destructive rollback is appropriate.
• The _nocontext source packet and all ScanRoo worktrees/checkpoints remain preserved in place.
• No source backup was needed because this task did not edit source data.

Resume and undo

• Do not delete the immutable pause message. Supersede it with a new explicit owner resume message when Rich is ready.
• On resume, first revalidate the current owner, exact root/worktree, branch, full commit, dirty/untracked state, task lifecycle, and destination receipts.
• Unpause the route-nocontext-handoffs automation only after Rich approves the routing design and the watcher task confirms its exact automation ID and current state.
• Recheck rdmpw3265m mailbox delivery when that host becomes reachable.

Outstanding owner action

• Rich must explicitly say when the fleet and the parked _nocontext project-family Q&A/prompt-design work may resume.