Build Log · September 11, 2026

Owner Loop Operator Pause Resume

Replaced ad-hoc hand-edits that broke the Owner Loop's coordinator reply UI with a Council-reviewed, non-mutating pause/resume mechanism, built, tested, and shipped to production in one continuation of the vacation-catchup session.

  • MedinaCHF
  • Owner Loop
  • Council
  • Schema
new table + 1 fencing column
1

new table + 1 fencing column

adversarial tests, all passing
9

adversarial tests, all passing

production row repaired
1

production row repaired

Timeline

  1. Start

    Zeb rejected the first-draft design

    Detailed review: pause corrupted owner_outcome/dispatch_status, resume was over-broad, no fencing for in-flight Actors

  2. 20m

    Council review (architect, full depth)

    Corrected the design: separate table, non-mutating pause, generation-based fencing, no snapshot/restore

  3. 1h

    Charge doc + core implementation

    New table, transitionIntent events, pause/resume scripts, dev migration, 7 adversarial tests

  4. 1h30m

    First stop — reported to Zeb

    Design + tests done, production untouched, per the stop condition

  5. 1h45m

    Zeb: 'keep going... take it to prod'

    Continued: remaining fencing sites, redispatch-safety gate, production migration, row repair, deploy

  6. 2h30m

    Shipped

    Migrated to prod, repaired the malformed row, deployed medinaCHF, verified live

What shipped

  • admin_intent_pauses table (products/medinaCHF/lib/db/schema.ts) — separate from admin_intents' 5 lifecycle columns, one active pause per intent enforced by a DB-level partial unique index

  • admin_intents.execution_generation column — fencing/concurrency-control counter, deliberately not a 6th lifecycle state

  • operator_pause / operator_resume events in forgekit-os/scripts/lib/intent-transitions.mjs — the first non-column-projecting events in that module

  • forgekit-os/scripts/pause-owner-loop-request.mjs and resume-owner-loop-request.mjs — the sanctioned CLI replacement for hand-editing lifecycle columns

  • Generation fencing added to: the dispatcher's claim query, markDispatched, markFailed, both real write branches of resolve-owner-intent.mjs, finalize-owner-intent.mjs's real branch, record-promotion-outcome.mjs's canonical branch, and 2 reconcile* reset paths (pause veto)

  • 9 adversarial tests (forgekit-os/scripts/tests/owner-loop-pause-resume-fencing.test.mjs) against real dev-DB rows, covering every scenario the design required

  • Redispatch-safety checklist added to .claude/rules/gates.md's Verification Gate

  • Migrated to production Neon; repaired the one still-malformed production row (644bc391); deployed medinaCHF

“why stop. keep going and finish the implementation and then to take it to prod”
— Zeb, after the design+tests stopping point was reported