feat: make /quiet a statement when attended supervision is ready

[kunchenguid]

Intent

stop the ongoing runs and then force upgrade. otherwise we are in dead lock. i want those two stuck changes to start from clean slate by an opus crewmate after the upgrade. i worry it is already polluted by the loop and want a clean slate crewmate to look at what is done and only pick the clean parts and try to land them via new clean branches.

Context: the machine was stuck on no-mistakes v1.83.1, whose document-after-review push-refusal loop (fixed in no-mistakes v1.84.0) kept every run from publishing; both old runs were aborted and the machine is now on v1.84.0. This task is one of those two stuck changes. Its original ask follows, verbatim:

yes do A.

Context: that chose option A for PR #5631 (AFK revamp rung 3c): land the approved repeated-escalation fix first, then re-cut 5631 from the branch's final validated tree into four PRs in dependency order - 3c-1 broken-session latch; 3c-2 dialog mirror for Claude and Cursor; 3c-3 attended posture core with the two drain fixes and the reconciled prompt rule, keeping every Pi home unchanged; 3c-4 the /quiet statement - and move Codex attended support to rung 3d. Each PR ships through no-mistakes and the captain merges. 3c-1 (#5701), 3c-2 (#5707), and 3c-3 (#5748) have landed, and PR 5631 is closed; this is 3c-4, the last piece.

The AFK revamp's standing words also apply: "2 should be done by opus crewmates" and "this is a major architectural revamp so i want it to do very careful live validation including regression in isolated live environments with some real complex sessions before calling it done. it's ok to use my real llm tokens here".

Substance of the referenced assessment for 3c-4: making /quiet a statement on the supervision host - bin/fm-afk-launch.sh's quiet-check and quiet refusals, the quiet and afk skill text, and the tests in tests/fm-afk-launch.test.sh - roughly 80 production, 165 test, and 15 doc lines, behind the config/supervision-host opt-in. The assessment noted /quiet readiness has many states (engine, tools, verified writer, identifiable main session, valid mirror, latch pause) - each with a reason, heavy for what the plan called a statement, but acceptable.

i want to wait for that fix, then live validate the second mate path as well. is that doable?

Context: that later captain request holds /quiet until the new-span wake-scope fix lands and re-validates /quiet live with a second mate present.

What Changed

• Make /quiet enter nothing on opted-in homes where the attended supervision host is ready; quiet-check reports readiness or a paused session without writing a record or starting a daemon.
• Refuse quiet entry while an away record is live. When attended supervision is unavailable, name the missing part and use the quiet daemon, carrying quiet mode through the record and archiving it if startup fails.
• Update the quiet and AFK procedures and documentation, with tests for readiness, fallback, refusal, and failed startup.

Risk Assessment

⚠️ Medium: The failed-start rollback matches the authorized narrow containment, but /quiet still depends on several readiness and daemon-lifecycle transitions, with the broader posture distinction explicitly deferred.

Testing

The targeted launcher test passed. In a disposable single-server tmux lab, the ready host handled two second-mate wakes off main, while a malformed mirror caused /quiet to start a daemon that self-handled a wake; /quiet off and the later /afk return restored the expected posture. Failed quiet and away starts produced the expected differing record states. The lab was removed. Evidence is terminal-pane and CLI transcripts rather than screenshots because this was a headless terminal session.

• Live validation: ✅ go - 4 of 4 scenarios driven live against the product

Scenario	Result	Live	Evidence
With a live second mate, /quiet on a ready host starts nothing and handles a routine wake off main	✅ pass	live	quiet-secondmate-live.txt: Claude's /quiet response, absent posture state, and attended host handling of mate.status without a new primary turn
An unreadable mirror makes /quiet start a quiet daemon that self-handles a mate wake; /quiet off stops it and archives its record	✅ pass	live	quiet-secondmate-live.txt: malformed-mirror response, quiet record and flag, daemon self-handle log, and /quiet off archive
After /afk with words, /quiet completes the return first and the repaired host again handles a mate wake off main	✅ pass	live	quiet-secondmate-live.txt: typed /afk and /quiet responses, cleared return state, and second attended host handling of mate.status
A failed quiet start leaves no live quiet record or flag, while a failed away start retains its record	✅ pass	live	quiet-start-failure-live.txt: real launcher CLI exit statuses, quiet archive and absent flag, and retained away record; afk-launch-targeted.log covers the unsupported-backend regression path

Evidence: Live Claude, second-mate, host, daemon, and posture transcript

Source: Live Claude, second-mate, host, daemon, and posture transcript

=== ready /quiet and first mate wake ===
primary before wake
  Ran 4 shell commands

⏺ The startup-network check finished cleanly. Its report surfaced one skip diagnostic (SECONDMATE_SYNC: secondmate mate: skipped), which I traced to root cause: this home's local
  copy sits on a detached HEAD with no resolvable default branch, so convergence structurally can't fast-forward the secondmate "mate" - not a divergence, and nothing that touches
  the project. Bootstrap continued and the secondmate keeps running on its existing checkout. No captain-facing action. Acknowledging the wake.

  Ran 1 shell command

⏺ Captain, shipshape. The startup checks finished; the only note was a secondmate sync skip caused by this home's local copy being parked on a detached branch with no default to
  sync against - it doesn't block anything and needs no action.

✻ Worked for 1m 13s · done 12:32 PM

❯ /quiet

  Ran 1 shell command

⏺ Captain, supervision here already works the way quiet mode aims for: routine fleet events stay off this conversation on their own, and only things that need you - decisions,
  failures, credentials, or review-ready work - come to you. So there's nothing to switch on, and no /quiet off needed later. Aye, carry on.

✻ Baked for 9s · done 12:33 PM





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mirror rc=0
mate pane
lab:zsh:%0
lab:fm-mate:%4
lab:primary:%5
mate state
state: unknown · source: none · no current-state source available
host arm
-rw-r--r--@ 1 kunchen  wheel  199 Sep 27 12:32 /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/p/state/.supervision-host
-rw-------@ 1 kunchen  wheel   42 Sep 27 12:32 /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/p/state/.supervision-host-arm.DtNDR6
-rw-r--r--@ 1 kunchen  wheel  182 Sep 27 12:32 /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/p/state/.supervision-host.log
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 kunchen  wheel   56 Sep 27 12:32 /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/p/state/.watch.lock -> /private/tmp/fmq.98UIsr/p/state/.watch.lock.owner.ibLnlU
host log before
1790537493	start	gen=host-88952-1790537492	primary=claude
1790537494	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1790537567	start	gen=host-45009-1790537567	primary=claude
host log after
1790537493	start	gen=host-88952-1790537492	primary=claude
1790537494	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1790537567	start	gen=host-45009-1790537567	primary=claude
primary after wake

⏺ The startup-network check finished cleanly. Its report surfaced one skip diagnostic (SECONDMATE_SYNC: secondmate mate: skipped), which I traced to root cause: this home's local
  copy sits on a detached HEAD with no resolvable default branch, so convergence structurally can't fast-forward the secondmate "mate" - not a divergence, and nothing that touches
  the project. Bootstrap continued and the secondmate keeps running on its existing checkout. No captain-facing action. Acknowledging the wake.

  Ran 1 shell command

⏺ Captain, shipshape. The startup checks finished; the only note was a secondmate sync skip caused by this home's local copy being parked on a detached branch with no default to
  sync against - it doesn't block anything and needs no action.

✻ Worked for 1m 13s · done 12:32 PM

❯ /quiet

  Ran 1 shell command

⏺ Captain, supervision here already works the way quiet mode aims for: routine fleet events stay off this conversation on their own, and only things that need you - decisions,
  failures, credentials, or review-ready work - come to you. So there's nothing to switch on, and no /quiet off needed later. Aye, carry on.

✻ Baked for 9s · done 12:33 PM





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posture
ls: /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/p/state/.afk: No such file or directory
ls: /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/p/state/.afk-contract: No such file or directory
relaunch
ls: /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/p/state/.secondmate-relaunch-mate: No such file or directory
=== ready host handled routine wake ===
1790537493	start	gen=host-88952-1790537492	primary=claude
1790537494	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1790537567	start	gen=host-45009-1790537567	primary=claude
1790537714	handled	turn=host-45009-1790537567.1	posture=attended	rc=0	reports=1	error=0 cost=0.073908 conversation_cost=0.073908 input=14 cache_read=101911 cache_write=11367 output=803 turns=7	signal: /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/p/state/mate.status
primary latest

  Ran 1 shell command

⏺ Captain, shipshape. The startup checks finished; the only note was a secondmate sync skip caused by this home's local copy being parked on a detached branch with no default to
  sync against - it doesn't block anything and needs no action.

✻ Worked for 1m 13s · done 12:32 PM

❯ /quiet

  Ran 1 shell command

⏺ Captain, supervision here already works the way quiet mode aims for: routine fleet events stay off this conversation on their own, and only things that need you - decisions,
  failures, credentials, or review-ready work - come to you. So there's nothing to switch on, and no /quiet off needed later. Aye, carry on.

✻ Baked for 9s · done 12:33 PM





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ls: /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/p/state/.afk: No such file or directory
ls: /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/p/state/.afk-contract: No such file or directory
ls: /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/p/state/.afk-return-catchup: No such file or directory
host before
1790537493	start	gen=host-88952-1790537492	primary=claude
1790537494	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1790537567	start	gen=host-45009-1790537567	primary=claude
1790537714	handled	turn=host-45009-1790537567.1	posture=attended	rc=0	reports=1	error=0 cost=0.073908 conversation_cost=0.073908 input=14 cache_read=101911 cache_write=11367 output=803 turns=7	signal: /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/p/state/mate.status
1790537848	pass-through	the away daemon's flag exists	signal: /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/p/state/mate.status
1790537890	start	gen=host-3383-1790537890	primary=claude
mate window
zsh zsh
fm-mate pi-launcher
primary 2.1.283
host after
1790537493	start	gen=host-88952-1790537492	primary=claude
1790537494	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1790537567	start	gen=host-45009-1790537567	primary=claude
1790537714	handled	turn=host-45009-1790537567.1	posture=attended	rc=0	reports=1	error=0 cost=0.073908 conversation_cost=0.073908 input=14 cache_read=101911 cache_write=11367 output=803 turns=7	signal: /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/p/state/mate.status
1790537848	pass-through	the away daemon's flag exists	signal: /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/p/state/mate.status
1790537890	start	gen=host-3383-1790537890	primary=claude
primary after
  routine fleet events on its own while you're out.

  Reading your words back: you're asking me to keep routine progress and status updates below deck while you step out. That's exactly the away posture's default, so nothing changes
  the authority set - I still won't merge anything you haven't approved, won't do anything destructive or irreversible, and hold any real decision, failure, credential need, or
  review-ready work for your return. Spend cap is 4 concurrent workers.

  Nothing in your words needs an action I couldn't take while away, so there's nothing being deferred on that account. One worker (the disposable-lab mate) is still running. See
  you when you're back.

✻ Baked for 17s · done 12:38 PM

❯ /quiet

⏺ The captain is back and now asking for quiet mode while an away record is live. Per protocol this first ends the away posture, then evaluates quiet mode fresh.

  Ran 2 shell commands

⏺ Away posture ended - nothing happened in that 39-second window, one worker still running, catch-up clear. Now re-checking quiet mode fresh.

  Ran 1 shell command

⏺ Captain, welcome back - I ended the away posture (nothing happened while you were out). And supervision here is back to handling routine fleet events on its own, so quiet mode
  has nothing to switch on: only decisions, failures, credentials, or review-ready work will reach you. Nothing to turn off later either.

✻ Cogitated for 28s · done 12:39 PM

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relaunch
ls: /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/p/state/.secondmate-relaunch-mate: No such file or directory
posture after
ls: /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/p/state/.afk: No such file or directory
ls: /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/p/state/.afk-contract: No such file or directory
=== third mate wake completed ===
1790537714	handled	turn=host-45009-1790537567.1	posture=attended	rc=0	reports=1	error=0 cost=0.073908 conversation_cost=0.073908 input=14 cache_read=101911 cache_write=11367 output=803 turns=7	signal: /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/p/state/mate.status
1790537848	pass-through	the away daemon's flag exists	signal: /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/p/state/mate.status
1790537890	start	gen=host-3383-1790537890	primary=claude
1790538063	handled	turn=host-3383-1790537890.1	posture=attended	rc=0	reports=1	error=0 cost=0.034221 conversation_cost=0.108129 input=12 cache_read=106996 cache_write=1812 output=555 turns=6	signal: /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/p/state/mate.status
primary still idle
✻ Baked for 17s · done 12:38 PM

❯ /quiet

⏺ The captain is back and now asking for quiet mode while an away record is live. Per protocol this first ends the away posture, then evaluates quiet mode fresh.

  Ran 2 shell commands

⏺ Away posture ended - nothing happened in that 39-second window, one worker still running, catch-up clear. Now re-checking quiet mode fresh.

  Ran 1 shell command

⏺ Captain, welcome back - I ended the away posture (nothing happened while you were out). And supervision here is back to handling routine fleet events on its own, so quiet mode
  has nothing to switch on: only decisions, failures, credentials, or review-ready work will reach you. Nothing to turn off later either.

✻ Cogitated for 28s · done 12:39 PM

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mirror valid
mirror check=0
mate no relaunch
no relaunch attempts
mate pane still real
fm-mate pi-launcher
primary 2.1.283

Evidence: Failed quiet versus away start CLI transcript

Source: Failed quiet versus away start CLI transcript

=== quiet failed start ===
Away posture recorded at 2026-09-27T19:41:43Z: hold-for-return only. No phone channel is configured; anything that needs you waits for your return. Your away instructions are recorded verbatim; the away session will carry them out where it can, and anything it is unsure of, or that needs you, waits for your return. Destructive, irreversible, and security-sensitive actions are never pre-authorizable, whatever the words say. Expected return: not given. Spend cap: 4 concurrent workers.
Away posture (recorded):
  entered: 2026-09-27T19:41:43Z
  expected return: not given
  spend cap: 4 concurrent workers
  reach: hold-for-return only. No phone channel is configured; anything that needs you waits for your return.
  your words (verbatim):
    disposable lab mandate
enter status=0
fm-afk-launch: the away daemon is no longer launched on pi; the away-posture record is the posture there (run bin/fm-afk-launch.sh enter and stop)
fm-afk-launch: the quiet daemon did not start; ending quiet mode so its record does not outlive it
fm-afk-launch: away-posture record archived at /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/quiet/state/afk-contracts/1790538103.afk-contract
fm-afk-launch: away mode stopped; no daemon terminal was running, .afk cleared, and the posture record archived
start status=1
active record
ls: /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/quiet/state/.afk: No such file or directory
ls: /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/quiet/state/.afk-contract: No such file or directory
archive
total 8
-rw-------@ 1 kunchen  wheel  342 Sep 27 12:41 1790538103.afk-contract
quiet-check
check status=1
=== away failed start ===
Away posture recorded at 2026-09-27T19:41:43Z: hold-for-return only. No phone channel is configured; anything that needs you waits for your return. Your away instructions are recorded verbatim; the away session will carry them out where it can, and anything it is unsure of, or that needs you, waits for your return. Destructive, irreversible, and security-sensitive actions are never pre-authorizable, whatever the words say. Expected return: not given. Spend cap: 4 concurrent workers.
Away posture (recorded):
  entered: 2026-09-27T19:41:43Z
  expected return: not given
  spend cap: 4 concurrent workers
  reach: hold-for-return only. No phone channel is configured; anything that needs you waits for your return.
  your words (verbatim):
    disposable lab mandate
enter status=0
fm-afk-launch: the away daemon is no longer launched on pi; the away-posture record is the posture there (run bin/fm-afk-launch.sh enter and stop)
start status=1
active record
ls: /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/away/state/.afk: No such file or directory
-rw-------@ 1 kunchen  wheel  330 Sep 27 12:41 /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/away/state/.afk-contract
archive
ls: /tmp/fmq.98UIsr/away/state/afk-contracts: No such file or directory
quiet-check
check status=1

Evidence: Targeted AFK launcher test output

Source: Targeted AFK launcher test output

ok - clear-stale: removes escalations buffer, sidecar, wedge marker, and unknown-wake acknowledgements
ok - clear-stale: leaves the durable wake-queue intact (no pending work dropped)
ok - enter: one call writes the record with the words, expected return, and spend cap, reads it back without asking for a go, and launches no daemon
ok - enter: the retired --grant flag is refused by name and leaves the standing record alone
ok - enter: refuses while the prior return catch-up is pending
ok - propose: the retired wait-for-go step is refused by name, writes nothing, and releases the launcher lock
ok - confirm: the retired wait-for-go step is refused by name, writes nothing, and releases the launcher lock
ok - pi: start refuses to launch the daemon and writes no state
ok - pi: start-native refuses to prepare a daemon
ok - pi-signed: start refuses to launch the daemon and writes no state
ok - pi-signed: start-native refuses to prepare a daemon
ok - FM_TEST_HARNESS seam is inert without the test marker
ok - pi enter stop: reports that no daemon terminal was running
ok - daemon entry: no daemon lifecycle starts without the away-posture record
ok - daemon entry: enter then start-native run back to back with no confirmation between them
ok - failed start: preserves the posture record enter wrote
ok - stop: clears the away flag and archives the posture record under its entry time
ok - launcher paths: relative home and state ignore CDPATH before daemon command construction
ok - launcher paths: absolute symlink spellings are preserved
ok - launcher paths: unresolved relative FM_HOME fails loudly
ok - launcher paths: unresolved relative FM_STATE_OVERRIDE fails loudly
ok - refresh: daemon already alive - stale artifacts preserved (current session's buffer kept)
ok - mode: a fresh entry with FM_AFK_MODE=quiet writes quiet
ok - mode: a fresh entry with FM_AFK_MODE unset defaults to away
ok - mode: a bare refresh (FM_AFK_MODE unset) of an already-running quiet daemon preserves quiet, never resets to away
ok - mode: an empty (legacy pre-mode) flag reads as away
ok - mode: a bare-epoch-timestamp (legacy pre-mode) flag reads as away
ok - mode: unrecognized content falls back to away
ok - mode: a missing flag reads as away
ok - stop-ordering: daemon SIGTERM'd while .afk still present (flush is not a no-op)
ok - stop-ordering: .afk cleared last
ok - stop-ordering: daemon-terminal record removed
ok - stop identity: stale lock cannot signal an unrelated live process
ok - failed start: away flag and delivery artifacts roll back
ok - concurrent start: one serialized daemon terminal remains tracked
ok - launcher lock: incomplete publication receives initialization grace
ok - launcher signal: TERM exits and releases the lifecycle lock
fm-afk-launch: daemon launched in non-visible herdr workspace ws-partial (pane lab:pane-exact), supervising lab:captain
ok - herdr create: malformed response recovers durable exact ownership
fm-afk-launch: herdr create failed after returning exact ids; closing lab:pane-exact
fm-afk-launch: recorded terminal teardown is unconfirmed; preserving exact id
ok - herdr create error: unconfirmed exact id is persisted for reconciliation
fm-afk-launch: failed to run daemon in herdr pane lab:pane-exact; closing it
fm-afk-launch: recorded terminal teardown is unconfirmed; preserving exact id
ok - herdr run failure: unconfirmed exact id remains reconcilable
ok - herdr daemon terminal: runs with the captain's primary harness
ok - tmux daemon terminal: runs with the captain's primary harness
fm-afk-launch: failed to persist daemon terminal record; closing tmux:exact-session
ok - record failure: newly created terminal is closed by exact id
fm-afk-launch: daemon did not become ready; closing tmux:exact-session
ok - readiness failure: exact terminal and durable record roll back
fm-afk-launch: daemon did not become ready; closing tmux:exact-session
fm-afk-launch: recorded terminal teardown is unconfirmed; preserving exact id
ok - readiness failure: unconfirmed terminal retains its reconciliation id
ok - tmux absence: clean missing differs from transport probe failure
ok - native lifecycle: launcher owns state with no terminal
ok - native lifecycle: uniform stop clears state without closing a terminal
ok - supervision host: away start-native on a claude home refuses the daemon and keeps the record
ok - supervision host: quiet start-native and a plain refresh of the quiet daemon still prepare the daemon
ok - supervision host: away mode on an opted-in cursor, opencode, omp, grok, or codex home launches no daemon
ok - supervision host: enter names a missing engine on an opted-in home and says nothing otherwise
ok - supervision host: /quiet is a statement where the attended host runs, and a quiet enter writes nothing there
ok - supervision host: quiet-check says the supervision session is paused while its latch holds, and starts nothing
ok - supervision host: quiet-check names what the attended host lacks
ok - supervision host: an unready host's quiet entry records its mode, which carries the daemon start
ok - supervision host: /quiet under a live away record refuses and names it until the return
ok - supervision host: /quiet under a live away record over a fallback quiet daemon refuses until the return
ok - supervision host: a failed quiet start archives its quiet record so the present captain is not parked
ok - supervision host: a failed away start keeps its away record
ok - native entry: launcher-prepared lifecycle state is not rewritten
fm-afk-launch: reconciling leaked daemon terminal tmux:exact-session
fm-afk-launch: recorded terminal teardown is unconfirmed; preserving exact id
ok - teardown failure: exact terminal record is preserved
ok - record publication: failed atomic rename preserves the complete prior record
fm-afk-launch: daemon terminal record is malformed; refusing to act on it
ok - record read: malformed record fails closed without acting on a partial id
fm-afk-launch: daemon terminal record is malformed; refusing to act on it
fm-afk-launch: malformed daemon terminal record; refusing to stop away mode
ok - stop: malformed terminal record preserves away state and fails closed
fm-afk-launch: failed to create detached tmux daemon session 'fm-afk-daemon-1654217276-21500-5209-1790537309'
ok - tmux launch: planned exact target is recorded before creation and removed on failure
fm-afk-launch: failed to create detached tmux daemon session 'fm-afk-daemon-1325688114-21554-16364-1790537309'
ok - tmux launch: unique names eliminate collision teardown
ok - stop validation: malformed record causes no daemon or state side effects
ok - launcher lock: incomplete metadata fails acquisition and releases lock
fm-afk-launch: failed to clear away-mode flag
fm-afk-launch: away mode stopped; terminal teardown or the record archive remains recorded for retry
ok - stop state: away-flag removal failure is surfaced
fm-afk-launch: away-mode daemon did not exit after SIGTERM; preserving lifecycle state
ok - stop liveness: captured live daemon preserves lifecycle state after lock release
fm-afk-launch: an away-posture record is required; run enter before starting the daemon
fm-afk-launch: an away-posture record is required; run enter before starting the daemon
ok - refresh record: malformed terminal identity fails closed
fm-afk-launch: an away-posture record is required; run enter before starting the daemon
ok - clear failure: native entry aborts and restores prior state
fm-afk-launch: reconciling leaked daemon terminal tmux:exact-session
fm-afk-launch: terminal close command failed, but exact absence was confirmed
ok - confirmed absence: cleanup succeeds and removes the stale record
fm-afk-launch: rollback restoration incomplete; backup retained at /var/folders/5x/4nqprlbx0518k3ybcb1sz6gr0000gn/T//fm-afk-restore-fail.cKHrF0/state/.afk-launch-backup.HPWY9E
ok - rollback restore: incomplete restoration retains its recovery backup
fm-afk-launch: an away-posture record is required; run enter before starting the daemon
ok - flag failure: lifecycle aborts without active state
ok - herdr e2e: captain tab pane count unchanged after start (no split)
ok - herdr e2e: daemon launched in a separate non-visible workspace
ok - herdr e2e: daemon pane is NOT in the captain's tab
ok - herdr e2e: daemon terminal scoped to the lab session
ok - herdr e2e: captain tab pane count restored after stop
ok - herdr e2e: daemon workspace removed by exact id on stop
ok - herdr e2e: record + .afk cleared on stop
ok - tmux e2e: captain window pane count unchanged after start (no split-window)
ok - tmux e2e: daemon launched in a separate detached session
ok - tmux e2e: captain window pane count unchanged after stop
ok - tmux e2e: daemon session killed by exact id on stop
ok - tmux e2e: record + .afk cleared on stop

- Outcome: 🔧 1 issue found → no changes applied (3) ✅ across 4 runs (42m6s)

Pipeline

Updates from git push no-mistakes

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✅ **Rebase** - passed

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🔧 **Review** - 1 issue found → auto-fixed ✅

• 🚨 bin/fm-afk-launch.sh:275 - A quiet fallback writes mode: quiet to the record (bin/fm-afk-contract.sh:225), but this gate treats any existing quiet record as a reason not to use the attended host. If the mirror is missing at quiet entry and becomes available before the daemon starts—or the daemon later stops and its flag disappears—the host still treats that record as away (bin/fm-supervision-host.sh:718,959,1022), parks the present captain, and withholds outcomes. The watcher likewise silences captain-held rechecks based on record presence (bin/fm-watch.sh:410). This leaves the failure the statement is meant to prevent reachable through the authorized fallback. Make the quiet-versus-away distinction hold at the shared posture consumers, including those sibling paths.

🔧 Fix applied.
✅ Re-checked - no issues remain.

🔧 **Test** - 1 issue found → no changes applied (3) ✅

• ⚠️ live validation verdict: inconclusive (3 of 4 scenarios were driven live against the product); untested: A present captain requests quiet while a live second mate is present and routine wakes stay off the captain’s main
• Live validation: ⚠️ inconclusive - 3 of 4 scenarios driven live against the product

Scenario	Result	Live	Evidence
A present Claude captain requests quiet with an attended-ready host and no daemon or away record is created	✅ pass	live	quiet-lab-lifecycle.txt: first quiet-check and quiet enter
A missing dialog mirror selects quiet fallback; a failed daemon start archives the quiet record and restores present posture	✅ pass	live	quiet-lab-lifecycle.txt: fallback, failed start, archived record, and subsequent quiet-check
A captain cannot replace a live away record with quiet, but can use quiet again after returning	✅ pass	live	quiet-lab-lifecycle.txt: away entry, quiet refusals, stop, and final quiet-check
A present captain requests quiet while a live second mate is present and routine wakes stay off the captain’s main	⏸️ untested	no	The disposable Claude lab established a real primary but not a second-mate home or endpoint. The available second-mate Herdr E2E uses a gate bypass and a separate repository clone, so it cannot be use…

• tests/fm-afk-launch.test.sh (targeted regression suite)
• Launched a real Claude primary on a private fm-lab tmux socket and drove bin/fm-afk-launch.sh quiet-check, enter, start, and stop against a disposable opted-in lab home
• Inspected the lab’s posture record, daemon flag, and archived records after each lifecycle step

🔧 No changes applied.
2 warnings still open:

• ⚠️ The attended-host scenario with a live second mate remains unproven: the lab’s Claude Stop hook repeatedly closed without a wake, while mate recovery opened a different private tmux socket. The staged routine status was not handled by the attended host. The captain must decide whether to proceed without that proof or rerun it in a corrected lab.
• ⚠️ live validation verdict: inconclusive (3 of 4 scenarios were driven live against the product); untested: With a live second mate, an attended host handles its routine wake without opening a turn on the captain’s main
• Live validation: ⚠️ inconclusive - 3 of 4 scenarios driven live against the product

Scenario	Result	Live	Evidence
A present captain asks for /quiet with a readable mirror and receives a no-entry statement	✅ pass	live	quiet-live-transcript.txt: captain /quiet, main response, and absence of posture files before fallback
A present captain asks for /quiet with an unreadable mirror; the fallback daemon self-handles a live second mate’s routine status, and /quiet off archives the posture	✅ pass	live	quiet-live-transcript.txt: fallback response, daemon self-handle: signal: ...mate.status, return response, and absent live posture files
A quiet entry whose daemon start fails leaves no live quiet record, while a failed away start retains its record	✅ pass	live	failed-start-cli.txt: real launcher exit codes, archive output, and resulting state listings
With a live second mate, an attended host handles its routine wake without opening a turn on the captain’s main	⏸️ untested	no	Tried a real Claude primary, a spawned Claude second mate, a valid mirror, a staged mate.status, and a direct watcher cycle. The lab Stop auto-arm did not produce a handled wake; mate auto-relaunch…

• claude primary and spawned Claude second mate in marked disposable lab homes on a private tmux socket; typed /quiet and /quiet off into the primary
• Appended a malformed lab dialog-mirror line, then staged a routine mate.status update and inspected the daemon log and primary transcript
• Ran fm-afk-launch.sh enter and start against a disposable lab home with an unsupported backend for both quiet and away modes
• Repaired the injected mirror line, retried /quiet, staged another mate status, and inspected the supervision-host log and wake queue

🔧 No changes applied.
2 warnings still open:

• ⚠️ The attended-host wake with a live second mate remains unproven in this rerun. A private tmux socket inside the permitted worktree fails with “File name too long”; the corrected lab recipe requires a short socket path outside it, which the workspace boundary forbids. A boundary-compliant short socket path is needed to rerun the primary, mate, and host on one server.
• ⚠️ live validation verdict: inconclusive (2 of 5 scenarios were driven live against the product); untested: With a live second mate, /quiet on a ready host states that nothing starts and handles a routine wake off main, With a live second mate, an unreadable mirror makes /quiet use the daemon, absorb a routine wake, and /quiet off archive its record, After an /afk return, /quiet again states that the ready host needs nothing and keeps a mate’s routine wake off main
• Live validation: ⚠️ inconclusive - 2 of 5 scenarios driven live against the product

Scenario	Result	Live	Evidence
A failed quiet daemon start leaves the present captain without a live quiet record or away flag	✅ pass	live	quiet-cli.txt: quiet start exit 1; live record=no, flag=no, archive present
A failed away daemon start retains the captain’s away record	✅ pass	live	quiet-cli.txt: away start exit 1; live record=yes, flag=no
With a live second mate, /quiet on a ready host states that nothing starts and handles a routine wake off main	⏸️ untested	no	The corrected recipe needs one private tmux server. Both an absolute worktree-local socket and a relative TMUX_TMPDIR socket exceeded the Unix socket path limit. The short /tmp socket required by fm-l…
With a live second mate, an unreadable mirror makes /quiet use the daemon, absorb a routine wake, and /quiet off archive its record	⏸️ untested	no	The corrected single-server lab could not start through a worktree-local tmux socket because its path is too long. A short disposable socket path outside the worktree requires a workspace-boundary exc…
After an /afk return, /quiet again states that the ready host needs nothing and keeps a mate’s routine wake off main	⏸️ untested	no	The private tmux server could not start with a worktree-local socket, and the short /tmp socket specified by the corrected recipe is outside the permitted write boundary. Allow that disposable socket…

• bin/fm-lab-home.sh create and direct bin/fm-afk-launch.sh enter/start in a disposable worktree-local lab for quiet and away failure paths
• tmux -S <worktree-lab>/tmux/default new-session and TMUX_TMPDIR=. tmux new-session to probe boundary-compliant private sockets
• bin/fm-host-mirror.sh verified claude; checked claude --version and cleaned the lab

🔧 No changes applied.
✅ Re-checked - no issues remain.

• Live validation: ✅ go - 4 of 4 scenarios driven live against the product

Scenario	Result	Live	Evidence
With a live second mate, /quiet on a ready host starts nothing and handles a routine wake off main	✅ pass	live	quiet-secondmate-live.txt: Claude's /quiet response, absent posture state, and attended host handling of mate.status without a new primary turn
An unreadable mirror makes /quiet start a quiet daemon that self-handles a mate wake; /quiet off stops it and archives its record	✅ pass	live	quiet-secondmate-live.txt: malformed-mirror response, quiet record and flag, daemon self-handle log, and /quiet off archive
After /afk with words, /quiet completes the return first and the repaired host again handles a mate wake off main	✅ pass	live	quiet-secondmate-live.txt: typed /afk and /quiet responses, cleared return state, and second attended host handling of mate.status
A failed quiet start leaves no live quiet record or flag, while a failed away start retains its record	✅ pass	live	quiet-start-failure-live.txt: real launcher CLI exit statuses, quiet archive and absent flag, and retained away record; afk-launch-targeted.log covers the unsupported-backend regression path

• bash tests/fm-afk-launch.test.sh
• Typed /quiet, /quiet off, /afk hold routine updates while I step out, and /quiet into a real Claude primary with a live second mate; staged three routine mate status updates and inspected the primary pane, host log, daemon log, and posture records.
• Ran bin/fm-afk-launch.sh enter, start, and quiet-check against disposable quiet and away homes to exercise failed starts.

✅ **Document** - passed

✅ No issues found.

✅ **Lint** - passed

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✅ **Push** - passed

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