Build Log

Owner Loop Operator Pause Resume

September 11, 2026

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.

MedinaCHFOwner LoopCouncilSchema

new table + 1 fencing column

adversarial tests, all passing

production row repaired

Timeline

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

20m

Council review (architect, full depth)

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

Charge doc + core implementation

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

1h30m

First stop — reported to Zeb

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

1h45m

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

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

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