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…t tick-start (Aaron 2026-05-03 'important to survival') Aaron 2026-05-03: "i'd remember this now if i were you, sounds importatant to survival" — pointing at the tick-start mechanical- check discipline (bun tools/hygiene/check-no-op-cadence-pattern.ts). Existing tool catches the failure mode at decision-time: - ≥5 minimal-observation in last 7 shards OR - Most recent shard >15 min old Without it, agent drift into ~20-tick-acknowledgment-only patterns goes unnoticed until human maintainer surfaces manually (per the corrective lineage at 0913Z + 0918Z + #1366 shards earlier today). Step 0 split: 0a no-op-cadence mechanical check; 0b cadence-tracker grep (existing). Both run at tick-open before priority-ladder. Future-Otto reads docs/AUTONOMOUS-LOOP.md at session-start via CLAUDE.md tick-must-never-stop bullet's pointer; the discipline is now discoverable as carved-sentence-plus-index Layer-3 substrate.
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Pull request overview
This PR updates the autonomous-loop playbook so tick-open work begins with a new mechanical safeguard before the existing cadence-tracker scan. In the broader codebase, it strengthens the operational guidance around per-tick hygiene and liveness checks for autonomous-loop execution.
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- Split priority-ladder step 0 into 0a mechanical no-op-cadence checking and 0b CADENCE-TRACK grep.
- Documented why the no-op-cadence check is considered survival-critical for the tick loop.
- Added more explicit guidance on how cadence-tracker observations should influence tick behavior.
…rom ~50 lines verbose prose → ~22 lines dense operational form
…xplicit 'tick shards X + Y, plus PR #1366'
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Aaron 2026-05-03 directive: tick-start mechanical-check (
bun tools/hygiene/check-no-op-cadence-pattern.ts) is critical to tick-loop survival. Existing tool catches the no-op-cadence failure mode at decision-time. Step 0 now split: 0a mechanical check + 0b cadence-tracker grep. Future-Otto reads via CLAUDE.md tick-must-never-stop pointer.