Established a production, provider-neutral _nocontext routing control plane, reconciled the first 14 immutable fragments to 12 accepted and 2 pending destinations, and preserved all source evidence without moving or copying raw context.

_nocontext routing control and historical reconciliation

Scope

• Hosts changed: rdmsm4x, rdmbair13m5, rdmbair15m5, rdmpw3275m, and jdmbair13m5
• Canonical project root: /Users/richh/dev/_nocontext
• Coordinator task: 01a040ae-f560-7d32-a77e-ecc0ffe1a18d
• Mode: Production
• No destination repository, provider task database, raw transcript, credential store, source chat, or referenced project file was edited.
• The historical heartbeat remains paused. Operation is event-driven.

Files created

• /Users/richh/dev/_nocontext/AGENTS.md — cross-provider topic-drift, privacy, lifecycle, pending, archive, scheduling, publication, and naming rules.
• /Users/richh/dev/_nocontext/README.md — canonical root, current aggregate state, layout, and operating model.
• /Users/richh/dev/_nocontext/ROUTING-STATE.json — mutable lifecycle ledger kept separate from immutable evidence manifests.
• /Users/richh/dev/_nocontext/pending/README.md — explicit non-blocking holding state for unresolved owners and acceptances.
• /Users/richh/dev/_nocontext/_archive/README.md — archive gate and integrity contract.
• /Users/richh/dev/_nocontext/inbox/2026-08-27/arista-stencils-bny-plan-pointer-01a040d8/README.md
• /Users/richh/dev/_nocontext/inbox/2026-08-27/arista-stencils-bny-plan-pointer-01a040d8/manifest.json

File updated

• /Users/richh/.agent-coordination/checkins/codex-rdmsm4x-nocontext-watcher-relay-20260826.json — current owner, scope, lifecycle counts, protected paths, pending destinations, privacy evidence, and peer-sync status.
• /Users/richh/.agent-coordination/AGENT_COORDINATION.md on the five reachable hosts — additive rule 29 for non-blocking drift detection, pointer-only capsule routing, source-task compaction, pending-before-creation, evidence-separated lifecycle, and event-first reconciliation.

Routing result

• Existing normalized fragments: 14.
• Sanitized pointers: 39.
• Destination fragments explicitly received and accepted: 12, covering 27 pointers.
• Pending destination fragments: 2, covering 12 pointers:
  • Portfolio consolidation — existing root/task found; the destination has an active writer and emitted no visible receipt, so no duplicate task or mutation was attempted.
  • RDReceipt — live canonical root /Users/richh/dev/apps/RDReceipt is clean on main at aa0875c854ffd596a60c3db0e25ccd9df0b18a57; its own SESSION-STATE.md proves RDReceipt is the permanent personal project and receiptROO is a later fork; explicit destination receipt is still pending.
• Apple Shortcuts explicitly received and accepted pointer ownership. Its historical workspace remains outside the canonical dev estate; no speculative new project was created.
• Mem0 explicitly received and accepted pointer ownership through fleet-bus receipt 20260827-070215-24C6077E.
• Arista Stencils handoff was explicitly accepted by this coordinator. Only the provenance pointer for /Users/richh/dev/lib/arista/arista_stencils/PLAN (1).md was routed toward BNY. The tracked file remains in place and unchanged.
• Fleet-bus fallbacks were dispatched for BNY, RDReceipt, and portfolio consolidation. No reply has yet proven destination receipt or acceptance.
• rdmpw3265m was unreachable during bus synchronization; the other four peers synchronized successfully with rdmsm4x.

Commands and tools used

• Used Codex task inspection and bounded waits to identify existing destination tasks and require exact RECEIVED / ACCEPTED lifecycle replies.
• Used the fleet message bus for provider-neutral fallback delivery and receipt requests.
• Used find, rg, jq, git status, git rev-parse, stat, and shasum -a 256 for read-only root, task, JSON, repository, and integrity reconciliation.
• Used gitleaks 8.30.1 with full redaction for two private directory scans.
• Used apply_patch for every file-content change.
• Compared the global coordination policy SHA-256 on all reachable peers before mutation. Three peers matched the full rdmsm4x pre-image; jdmbair13m5 was proven byte-for-byte equal to the first 44 lines and was missing only the newer tail. Each reachable peer received a host-local backup, a staged copy, staged-hash validation, an atomic rename, and a post-write hash check.
• Ran the fleet Notes changelog helper from the Aqua session, then mirrored its result into the required per-host rdmsm4x Notes folder because the current helper now defaults to the shared llmlog folder.

Verification evidence

• All JSON manifests and the new routing/check-in JSON parse successfully with jq -e.
• All 58 entries in /Users/richh/dev/_nocontext/context-fragment-SHA256SUMS-2026-08-26.txt verify OK; no immutable fragment changed.
• The Arista/BNY referenced file still hashes to 27004a13a6abed5373fb77211b7fce469dc0bdda6c8e4669376104b1b89fb846.
• The final redacted gitleaks scan inspected about 229.67 KB and found zero leaks.
• ROUTING-STATE.json computes 14 fragments, 12 accepted, 2 pending, 27 accepted pointers, 12 pending pointers, and archive_eligible: false.
• The original source-packet release hashes remain verified from the current task's preflight, and its 58 normalized-fragment checksums remain intact after the control files were added.
• Apple Notes contains exactly one per-host copy named rdmsm4x-changelog-20260827-0702-nocontext-routing-control in the rdmsm4x folder; the shared llmlog copy created by the current helper was retained.
• Global policy rule 29 verifies at SHA-256 b0bad0134913cb2d68befd9eee7a50f1c5770942d0047e6c89a8a72a4fb0e539 on rdmsm4x, rdmbair13m5, rdmbair15m5, rdmpw3275m, and jdmbair13m5.
• Fleet-bus broadcast 20260827-071421-8F8F484B announced the rule, hash, verified hosts, pending offline host, and event-first/no-raw-scrape boundary to every fleet agent address.
• Pre-change backups are at /Users/richh/dev/_backups/nocontext-global-policy-20260827-0708/AGENT_COORDINATION.md.before on rdmsm4x and /Users/richh/.agent-coordination/backups/nocontext-global-policy-20260827-0711/AGENT_COORDINATION.md.before on each updated peer. The three matching peers retain pre-hash 7cb5d8e0f260d5b4ce3f3cc20f34b857de43b5fa6ac164cb1a55c1cb4e8a93af; jdmbair13m5 retains its verified 44-line pre-hash 05bd19a7031d40141b81640f94fe6c9ae1d5e0e74571f41005b472166f6d3ce2.

Archive decision

No packet was archived. The released source packet at /Users/richh/dev/_nocontext/inbox/2026-08-26/scanroo-thread-quiesce-01a04090 remains immutable and is not archive-eligible until Portfolio consolidation and RDReceipt explicitly accept their fragments. The new Arista-to-BNY pointer packet also remains in inbox until BNY accepts it.

Rollback

• No existing source packet or fragment content needs restoration because none was changed.
• To roll back the new control plane, move only the seven newly created control/packet files listed above to the macOS Trash and restore the prior fields in the single _nocontext check-in from this task's pre-change record.
• Do not remove, rewrite, or relocate either intake packet or any of the 14 immutable fragment folders as part of rollback.
• To roll back global rule 29, restore each host's exact backup only after confirming its current policy hash still equals the deployed hash; do not overwrite later peer edits.

Outstanding owner actions

• Destination owners must explicitly receive and accept Portfolio consolidation, RDReceipt, and the separate BNY pointer packet.
• After both remaining original-fragment acceptances land, re-run the 58-entry checksum validation and redacted secret scan, verify a collision-free archive destination, and relocate only the released ScanRoo source packet.
• After BNY accepts, archive only the Arista-to-BNY pointer packet; never move the tracked PLAN (1).md source file.
• The canonical iCloud PROJECTS.md was not edited because the active dev.ecs0.net writer currently owns that shared file. Fold this milestone into the index after that ownership is released.
• rdmpw3265m remains offline and did not receive global rule 29. Apply it only after the host returns and its then-current policy is reconciled; do not treat the pending host as fleet-wide completion.
• Pending-host bus message 20260827-071614-ADC23996 carries the exact hash, backup, merge-before-overwrite, staged-validation, and acceptance instructions and will replicate when rdmpw3265m returns.
• Keep the heartbeat paused unless Rich explicitly resumes it.