afk
Away mode is a POSTURE of the one supervision session, not a second architecture.
Being away changes exactly two things: how the captain is informed, and what happens at a captain-owned decision point (hold for return, or the answer the captain's away words already gave).
It never changes the authority set.
The posture is a file, state/.afk-contract, written only by bin/fm-afk-contract.sh in the same turn as /afk; nothing infers the posture from chat.
A record carrying quiet mode (bin/fm-afk-contract.sh mode) is not this posture: the captain is present, so none of this skill's holds for a return apply to it (the quiet skill owns it).
Typing /afk is itself the go: the captain may not look at the screen again, so entry never waits for a further human response, and no read-back gates it or asks for a go.
Hold-for-return is the default and the only reach profile this release records: there is no phone channel, and the entry announcement says so aloud every time.
Entering: /afk [words]
- Write the record first, in this same turn.
Before any other work, run
bin/fm-afk-launch.sh enter --words-file <path> [--expected-return <UTC ISO 8601>] [--spend <n>](or--words <text>). It writesstate/.afk-contractat once, with no separate confirmation step, then prints the entry announcement and the record's read-back. The words are the whole mandate:bin/fm-afk-contract.shrecords them exactly as given, with no clause fields, verbs, ids, or merge-grant list, and by the captain's mandate no parser, tokenizer, classifier, or grammar reads them anywhere. Readbin/fm-afk-contract.sh --helpfor the flags rather than memorizing them. Plain/afkwith no words is a valid entry with no mandate; the announcement says no instructions were recorded. Re-invoking/afkwhile already away with no new words is a refresh and leaves the standing record untouched; new words replace the mandate at once, preserve the original session entry, and archive the superseded words for the return brief. - Per harness, after the record exists:
- Pi and pi-signed: nothing to launch; go on to the announcement.
The away daemon is no longer launched on Pi; the ordinary supervision session (
docs/pi-supervision-branch.md) keeps running with the record present, andbin/fm-afk-launch.sh startrefuses on these harnesses. With the record present main is parked: the supervision branch takes every safe actionable wake, captain outcomes accumulate for the return brief, and main's standing authority relocates to the branch through the guarded scripts (docs/pi-supervision-branch.md"Postures"); only a wake the branch declines (including a broken branch or unsafe scan) or a watcher failure wakes main./quietneeds nothing extra on Pi: the attended branch already keeps routine wakes out of this conversation, so quiet-while-present is the attended posture's own shape there. - A home that runs the supervision host (a Claude home unless
config/supervision-host-offopts it out, or a Cursor, OpenCode, omp, Grok, or Codex home withconfig/supervision-hostand no opt-out;docs/configuration.md"Supervision host"): nothing to launch for/afk; go on to the announcement. The supervision host (docs/supervision-host.md) is the away session there: it runs the branch's contract on a headless engine under the record while main is parked, andbin/fm-afk-launch.sh startandstart-nativerefuse the away daemon on that home. Ifenterprinted aSupervision host: no engine ...line, every away wake reaches this conversation instead; say so in the announcement./quietenters nothing there where the attended host runs, and otherwise still launches the daemon below (the quiet skill'squiet-checkdecides). - Harness WITH a native in-pane tracked-background tool (claude's and grok's, on a home that does not run the supervision host): run
bin/fm-afk-launch.sh start-native, then runFM_AFK_STATE_PREPARED=1 bin/fm-afk-start.shthrough that native tool. This is a deliberate no-separate-terminal exception because the harness-hosted job creates no terminal or layout mutation, and a shell launcher cannot invoke a harness-native background tool. If the native launch fails, runbin/fm-afk-launch.sh stopto roll back the prepared lifecycle. Do not wrap it innohup ... &(Codex/herdr can reap fire-and-forget shell children after a tool call returns). - Every other harness (codex, opencode, omp, and cursor on a home that does not run the supervision host, and kimi): run
bin/fm-afk-launch.sh start. It is the single owner of the daemon terminal: it creates a NON-VISIBLE tracked terminal for the current backend and passes the captain pane in asFM_SUPERVISOR_TARGETso the daemon injects into the captain, not its own new pane (docs/herdr-backend.md "Away-mode supervisor support"). Both daemon paths require the recordenterwrote and sharebin/fm-afk-start.shas the daemon entry. The daemon is presence-gated: it injects escalations only whilestate/.afkexists, and stays quiet otherwise.
- Pi and pi-signed: nothing to launch; go on to the announcement.
The away daemon is no longer launched on Pi; the ordinary supervision session (
- Announce, then read back after entry.
Relay the announcement in spirit: hold-for-return only, no phone channel, your instructions are recorded and the away session will carry them out where it can, anything it is unsure of, or that needs you, waits for your return, and destructive, irreversible, and security-sensitive actions are never pre-authorizable whatever the words say.
Then give your own plain-sentence restatement of the words in
AGENTS.mdsection 9 language - what you read them as asking for, sentence by sentence, never a numbered field list - beside the expected return, the spend cap, and the one-sentence reach announcement. Say plainly which sentence, if any, you could not act on while away (a red merge, a discard, anything on the never-set, local-only landing); it waits for their return. This read-back is informational: the record already stands, so never ask for a go or wait for a reply; a captain who wants a different reading sends/afkagain with new words. - Do not separately arm
fm-watch.shwhere the daemon runs. The daemon manages the watcher as its child; the singleton lock no-ops a stray arm harmlessly. On Pi nothing changes about arming: the supervision session's own cycle continues.
While away
- The record exists, so the watcher never rechecks an item held for the captain, in either supervision shape; the return brief lists it instead.
Declared external waits keep their condition-aware, hours-long recheck cadence (
bin/fm-watch.sh,bin/fm-classify-lib.sh). - The away session acts on the captain's words.
It reads them at the tail of every wake, decides by its own judgment whether the event in front of it is the moment they name, acts on them only through the guarded scripts under standing authority, never by analogy, holds with verdict captain on doubt, and opens every outcome summary for an action taken under the words with "per your away instructions:" (
bin/fm-branch-prompt.sh"Postures" owns the execution rules). Destructive, irreversible, and security-sensitive actions are never pre-authorizable whatever the words say, and ask-user findings keep theask-user-authoritypolicy unless the words pre-answer the exact decision; anything else that needs the captain holds for their return. - On Pi, main is parked and the supervision branch handles every safe actionable wake under main's standing authority, through the same guarded scripts main would use: any pull request green at its live head may merge (which one the words meant is the branch's reading), queued work whose blockers cleared - already queued, or filed by the branch because the words explicitly call for it - dispatches within the spend cap, and a decision is answered with the captain's own pre-stated answer or under
ask-user-authority. Anything else holds for the return, a red merge never proceeds while away, local-only landing always waits for the captain, and only a wake the branch declines (including a broken branch or unsafe scan) or a watcher failure wakes main (docs/pi-supervision-branch.md"Postures"). - On a non-Pi home that runs the supervision host, the host's engine is that branch under the same rules, and a wake it hands back reaches main through that harness's own wake path (
Stop hook feedbackon Claude, awatcherfollow-up on Cursor, OpenCode, and omp, the arm's background-task-completed notification on Grok, the checkpoint's output on Codex) with asupervision-host:line: that is automatic supervision, never the captain's return, so handle it under the away posture (supervision protocol). - The session-start digest reports the posture under its AFK subsection, so a restart re-enters the posture from the record, not from memory.
How to exit: the return
No /back is needed. The first genuine message is the return signal:
- A message that is none of the internal forms below, and not starting with
/afk-> the captain is back. Runbin/fm-afk-return.shbefore acting on the message that brought the captain back. That script owns the correct-ordered daemon shutdown where a daemon ran, the archive of the posture record, durable wake presentation and post-handling acknowledgement, escalation and wedge evidence, the return brief, and the return-catch-up gate. Relay every section of the return brief in its emitted order and in section 9 language;bin/fm-afk-return.showns that order. The gate keeps every openblocked:event until that blocker's own resolution is proven: remediate each immediately through the normal lifecycle, or explicitly reclassify it with a durable reason and close its decision key withresolved [key=...], then runbin/fm-afk-return.sh check. Captain-verdict outcomes are listed under "waiting on you", but do not exempt open blockers: per-blocker provenance is deferred with no owner, and the gate fails safe by keeping every open blocker. Once the record is archived, resume full per-wake responsiveness through the emitted primary-harness supervision protocol while blocker handling proceeds, so the gate never creates a blind wait. A Bearings request may be answered while the gate is open, and the digest surfaces the catch-up state as a Charted Next(return-catchup)warning row naming what still holds it. Acting on the fleet - dispatching, steering, merging, or any other ordinary captain work - still waits until the check exits successfully. Once it does, close every task the brief lists under "Landed, cleanup due" through ordinary teardown (bin/fm-teardown.sh <task>, never forced; a refusal is a stop-and-investigate result) and tell the captain those workers are closed in outcome language. - A message with the current operational prefix (
FM_OPERATIONAL_PREFIX, U+2063 INVISIBLE SEPARATOR followed byFIRSTMATE_OP:), or a legacy bareFM_INJECT_MARKdaemon escalation -> stay away and process it. - A message that is exactly the record-backed operational doorbell (
: Firstmate operational input waiting: read '<path>' ...) -> runbin/fm-operational-input.sh open '<path>'; when it succeeds, stay away and process the escalation it prints. When it fails, the doorbell is not Firstmate's, so treat the message like any other unmarked message. Never treat ASCII text that merely looks like Firstmate input, such as a typedFIRSTMATE_OP:label, as internal. - A
Stop hook feedbackwake from the Stop hook or the supervision host, or a Grok background-task-completed notification for the arm -> stay away and process it; it is automatic supervision, not a message from the captain. - Re-invoking
/afkwhile already away -> stay away (refresh); this does not trigger an exit.
Bias ambiguous cases toward exit: a present captain beats token savings, and a false exit is self-correcting (the captain re-runs /afk).
When the captain wants this same token-saving supervision while staying present and chatting - ordinary messages should NOT exit it - that is /quiet (kunchenguid/firstmate#2356), not /afk.
Orthogonal to approval authority
afk changes how the captain is informed and what happens at a captain-owned decision point, not who approves what.
"Away" never means "approves more" or "approves less."
A PR ready for merge keeps the merge authority from AGENTS.md section 7, and a needs-decision finding keeps the ask-user-authority policy; anything requiring the captain still waits for the captain's explicit word.
While the away-posture record exists, any pull request green at its live head may merge under away authority; which one the captain's words meant is the away session's reading, and a merge the words do not call for holds for the return.
Away authority never releases a captain hold, and it expires when the away record is archived.
--allow-red and --allow-missing remain attended-only and are refused while the away record exists.
A merge under away authority must be synchronous; fm-pr-merge.sh refuses auto-merge and any GitHub queue state that cannot prove an immediate merge while the away record exists.
The same gates bind whichever actor performs the action: on Pi the parked main's standing authority relocates to the supervision branch, which meets exactly these rules, and the spend cap recorded at entry is enforced by fm-spawn.sh for both actors while the away record exists.
The captain's away words are their explicit instruction given before leaving, recorded verbatim and acted on by the away session's judgment at the moment an event makes them relevant; the words cover nothing they do not say, are never applied by analogy, and die at archive.
Destructive, irreversible, and security-sensitive actions are never pre-authorizable whatever the words say.
The daemon, where it still runs
On the harnesses that still launch the daemon (every verified harness except Pi and pi-signed, and except away mode on a home that runs the supervision host), the mechanics below are unchanged.
Operational prefix contract
The daemon constructs each current escalation as the away-supervisor kind owned by bin/fm-operational-input.sh; its envelope begins with FM_OPERATIONAL_PREFIX: FM_INJECT_MARK (U+2063 INVISIBLE SEPARATOR) followed by the stable FIRSTMATE_OP: label.
The bare FM_INJECT_MARK form remains accepted for legacy daemon escalations during rollout.
U+2063 has no normal keyboard keystroke and survives terminal transport as UTF-8 text, but Claude Code (verified on 2.1.280) removes it, with every other invisible character, from each submitted prompt, whether typed, pasted, or passed as the launch prompt.
For a primary harness the owner lists as stripping the marker (Claude Code), the daemon instead writes the envelope as a record in this home's state/operational-inbox and types only the owner's plain doorbell naming it.
That doorbell is Firstmate's only when open verifies the record in this home, so the doorbell shape alone never counts; a verbatim copy of a live doorbell line, pasted back while its record still exists, is treated as Firstmate's, because the carrier does not track consumption.
This is how firstmate tells a daemon escalation apart from a real message in the same pane.
For other harnesses, the operational prefix travels with the message text; neither carrier relies on harness-level typed-vs-injected detection.
Busy-guard and composer guard
The daemon never injects into an in-use pane. Two checks run before every
injection, dispatched through bin/fm-backend.sh for the supervisor's own
backend (tmux or herdr; see "Auto-discovered supervisor pane" below):
- Primary-pane busy guard -
pane_is_busytrusts Herdr nativebusywhen available, otherwise matches rendered output against only the detected primary harness's signature. This narrow delivery guard never classifies a recorded worker task and never uses a global union of vendor patterns. - Composer-state guard -
inject_msgreads the fullempty/pending/pending-unproven/unknownverdict fromfm_backend_composer_stateand injects only when it is affirmativelyempty. Every other or future verdict defers, including an unreadable pane, ambiguous geometry, a blank unidentified row, and a bare shell prompt left after the agent exits. Each adapter contributes only capture and capability facts to the fleet-wide screen classifier inbin/fm-composer-lib.sh, which owns every shape and verdict. It preserves proven idle composers as empty but requires a genuine container around shell glyphs; seedocs/herdr-backend.md"Composer and injection safety" for the operator contract.pane_input_pendingis the tested fail-closed predicate for callers that need to know whether the composer is unsafe: it treats every result except exactemptyas pending.
A busy primary pane, or any composer verdict other than empty, defers the injection; the buffered escalation survives in state/.subsuper-escalations and is retried on the next housekeeping tick.
In afk mode the composer guard is belt-and-suspenders (no human is typing), but it protects against the race window between the captain returning and their message landing, a dead shell, and the daemon's own previous injection sitting unsent.
Max-defer escape (the daemon must never silently wedge).
If anything stays buffered past FM_MAX_DEFER_SECS (default 300), the daemon
attempts one normal flush, which still requires an idle pane and an affirmatively empty composer.
The alarm is defense in depth rather than a substitute for keeping every genuinely idle supported composer injectable.
If that submit cannot be confirmed, it raises a loud, rate-limited wedge alarm:
an ERROR in the daemon log naming the last delivery failure, a durable
state/.subsuper-inject-wedged marker (the return brief's health line carries it), a tmux status-line flash when applicable, and a configurable backend-independent active alert.
docs/wedge-alarm.md owns the alert channel setup, and docs/verification/supervision.md "Wedge-alarm channels" owns active evidence.
So a guard false-positive becomes a visible stall, never an unbounded silent no-op.
Submit model
The digest is typed once (send-keys -l on tmux, pane send-text on
herdr - both literal, non-submitting sends), then submitted with Enter and
verified through the selected backend's submit primitive.
Enter is retried (Enter only, never a retype) until the backend confirms the
submit landed.
A failed delivery is logged with its stage (initial send or Enter delivery, where no confirmation retry ran and the text may already be typed on backends such as herdr whose Enter could not be sent, or Enter confirmation), the payload's byte count, and the transport's own error output.
For tmux that confirmation is normally a proven cleared composer from the shared classifier; an idle baseline transitioning to busy across this submit's own Enter also confirms that the turn started when a working harness hides its composer.
Without that baseline, busy state never converts an unknown composer into confirmation.
For herdr, idle-baseline submits first seek native agent-state showing a real turn started, then use the shared classifier when native state remains idle: a cleared composer confirms delivery, while pending text retries Enter and reaches the shared busy-queue verdict only after the retry budget.
A bordered-empty or ghost-only composer is recognized as empty where that backend uses composer confirmation, rather than mistaken for a swallowed Enter.
fm-send.sh uses the same primitive only on its typed plane and exits non-zero when that plane's Enter is positively swallowed; ordinary local text steers use the durable inbox and do not treat doorbell submission as delivery proof.
Busy-queued Enter exception (opencode 1.18.4). OpenCode keeps queued text visible while it is mid-turn, so tmux and herdr delegate the final delivery decision to fm_composer_queued_enter_verdict in bin/fm-composer-lib.sh rather than treating visible text alone as a swallowed Enter.
The daemon still clears its buffer only on the backend's empty success verdict; docs/tmux-backend.md and docs/herdr-backend.md own the backend-specific confirmation signals.
Classification policy
The daemon wraps fm-watch.sh, runs the watcher as a child, presents every durable wake after each actionable watcher close, classifies each presented record in bash, and acknowledges the presented generation only after routing completes.
It self-handles the routine majority without consuming a firstmate turn.
Captain-relevant events, plus a bounded recheck of a declared external wait that is still declared, escalate to firstmate's context as one pre-read, single-line, batched digest.
The digest is byte-bounded so every transport can carry it; when it cuts an event or omits events past its budget, it names a state/.subsuper-digests/ file that holds every buffered event verbatim, so read that file before acting on a cut event.
The captain-relevant verb set, declared-wait vocabulary, status-span classifier, and presentation-marker contract live in shared bin/fm-classify-lib.sh, while each supervisor owns its routing and fleet scan as a consumer of that policy.
While state/.afk exists the daemon owns the watcher, so the watcher reverts to one-shot and lets the daemon do the triage - the two never run their triage at the same time.
Classify each wake this way:
signalwhose newly classified status span contains captain-relevant events -> escalate every event in source order. A nonterminal progress verb remains nonterminal even when its prose contains a legacy free-text token such asPR ready,checks green,ready in branch, ormerged; only a bare legacy line with such a token escalates. Other signals with no captain-relevant event in the span -> self-handle.signalorstalewhose latest status declares a wait, either apaused:external wait or a verifiedcaptain-heldtransfer, tracks the pause rather than a wedge whether its pane reads idle or busy. An unreported captain-relevant event in the newly classified span still escalates immediately while the current declaration independently keeps the pause cadence. With no unreported actionable event, the wake self-handles, and the current declaration outranks an enriched possible-wedge reason so it never escalates on theFM_STALE_ESCALATE_SECScadence. If a declared external wait is still declared pastFM_PAUSE_RESURFACE_SECS(default four hours), housekeeping sends one recheck and resets the pause window; a captain-held transfer is never rechecked while the posture record exists. The window ages against the crew's own latest status line, so only a status append that stops declaring the wait ends this routing and restores wedge detection.check-> always escalate. Check scripts print only when firstmate should wake.stalewith a terminal status, a bare legacy captain-relevant line, or an unrecognized status prefix such asparked:-> escalate. Nonterminal progress remains transient even when its prose contains a legacy free-text token or its seen-status marker already matches, so record a marker and self-handle. If the pane is still idle pastFM_STALE_ESCALATE_SECS(default 240s), housekeeping escalates it as a possible wedge. This bounds wedge-detection latency to the threshold plus a tick: a delay, never a loss. Healthy crewmates are autonomous and do not wait on firstmate mid-task.heartbeat-> self-handle. The daemon runs its own cheap bash fleet scan everyFM_HEARTBEAT_SCAN_SECS(default 300s) as the catch-all for captain-relevant events still unread by the per-wake classifier.- An unknown wake reason escalates fail-safe. After that escalation is delivered, its exact distilled line is acknowledged and the same identity does not escalate again during that away session. A new away session starts with no acknowledgements, so a handled identity can present once more. An identity that was not delivered still escalates. Status-read uncertainty follows the shared one-report-without-position-advance contract referenced under Dedupe below.
Escalations are buffered up to FM_ESCALATE_BATCH_SECS (default 90s; 0 = immediate) and flushed as one single-line digest carrying pre-read status summaries and a recommended action.
The single-line format makes submission unambiguous across harnesses; the carrier described above distinguishes it from an ordinary captain message.
Injection hardening
- Single-line digest - embedded newlines are collapsed to a literal separator before injection, so submission is unambiguous regardless of harness.
- Busy and composer guards on the supervisor pane - before injecting, the daemon runs the detected-primary-harness rendered busy guard and reads
fm_backend_composer_statedirectly. Onlyemptypermits injection;pendingprotects half-typed or swallowed input, andunknownprotects unreadable panes and bare dead-shell prompts. Every other result preserves the buffer for retry, so the daemon never merges its digest into the captain's half-typed line or types it into a shell. - The active backend passes its capture plus declarative styled, cursor, identity, and row capabilities to the shared screen classifier; all structural recognition and verdict logic remains in
bin/fm-composer-lib.sh. Styled captures let that owner remove dim/faint and dark-TRUECOLOR ghost or placeholder text while shape detection uses the ANSI-stripped screen, so a dark border is not lost with ghost content. A ghost-only or idle bordered composer such as claude's│ > ... │therefore reads empty without allowing an unbordered shell prompt to do the same.FM_COMPOSER_IDLE_REoverrides the shared idle-placeholder regex, but a match alone never bypasses the classifier's shape-specific position and ANSI de-emphasis safety gates.FM_BUSY_REGEXoverrides the rendered delivery guards plus Grok's isolated task-state fallback. A blank or otherwise unidentified input row carries no positive container proof and defers injection, so a modal dialog or a mid-redraw pane is never an injection target. - Max-defer escape - the daemon must never silently wedge. If anything stays
buffered past
FM_MAX_DEFER_SECS(default 300s), the daemon attempts one normal flush, which still requires an idle pane and an affirmatively empty composer. If that cannot confirm a submit, it raises a loud, rate-limited wedge alarm: ERROR log, durablestate/.subsuper-inject-wedgedmarker, a tmux status-line flash when applicable, and a backend-independent active alert. A composer false-positive surfaces as a visible stall, never an unbounded silent no-op. - Verified type-once submit model - the digest is typed once (
send-keys -lon tmux,pane send-texton herdr), then submitted with Enter and verified. Enter is retried, Enter only and never a retype, until the backend submit primitive reportsemptyas its caller-facing success verdict. For tmux that verdict normally means the shared classifier proved the composer cleared; a baseline-gated idle-to-busy transition may instead prove this Enter started the turn. For herdr's idle-baseline path it means native agent-state observed a turn start, the shared classifier proved the composer cleared, or the shared queued-Enter verdict proved delivery while busy. This lets ghost-only or bordered-empty composers count as empty where a composer read is the active confirmation signal. - Marker strip -
strip_injection_markerremoves the current operational prefix or legacy bare marker before classification or relay, so the digest text firstmate sees is clean;openprints a record-backed doorbell's digest already stripped. - Portable singleton lock - the daemon uses the repo's portable lock helper
(
fm-wake-lib.sh) instead offlock, which is absent on macOS. - Dedupe across signal/stale/scan - all three paths use the shared status presentation markers defined by
bin/fm-classify-lib.sh, so a successfully classified span is not re-escalated by another path in the same digest. Never treat a reported unreadable state as classified; the shared library header owns that marker contract, and the marker does not clear or suppress possible-wedge aging for a nonterminal progress line. - Auto-discovered supervisor pane - the daemon resolves its own BACKEND
(tmux vs herdr) and TARGET independently, mirroring
bin/fm-backend.sh's own runtime auto-detection. Backend:FM_SUPERVISOR_BACKENDoverride, then$TMUX_PANEset (tmux), then$HERDR_ENV=1with$HERDR_PANE_IDpresent (herdr), then a tmux fallback. Target:FM_SUPERVISOR_TARGEToverride (a tmux target or a herdr"<session>:<pane-id>"target), then$TMUX_PANE, then"${HERDR_SESSION:-default}:${HERDR_PANE_ID}"under herdr, then afirstmate:0fallback with a warning. Both resolution sources are logged at startup so a wrong-but-resolving fallback is detectable. Other runtime backends, including zellij, orca, and cmux, are not yet supported as supervisor backends; the daemon refuses loudly at startup instead of misapplying tmux primitives to a pane that isn't one (docs/herdr-backend.md "Away-mode supervisor support").
Stale-artifact lifecycle
Treat state/.subsuper-escalations, its .since sidecar, state/.subsuper-inject-wedged, and state/.subsuper-unknown-acked as session-scoped delivery artifacts, not as the durable work record.
Always enter through bin/fm-afk-launch.sh, which clears prior-session artifacts only for a fresh entry and preserves the current session's buffer on refresh.
Always exit through bin/fm-afk-launch.sh stop, which keeps state/.afk present through the daemon's shutdown flush, clears it, and archives the posture record last.
docs/herdr-backend.md "Away-mode supervisor support" owns the current mechanism, and docs/verification/runtime-backends.md "Away-mode transport" owns active evidence.
Reliability properties
These properties must hold:
- Nothing is lost after queue publication. The daemon leaves every presented wake durable until routing completes and post-handling acknowledgement succeeds, so interruption replays the same work to the daemon or its successor.
- Wedge detection is bounded-latency, not lossy.
- Declared external waits are rechecked on a separate, bounded, condition-aware cadence rather than being mislabeled as wedges; items held for the captain are not rechecked while the posture record exists.
- The catch-all scan backs up the keyword classifier.
- The daemon preserves a single-instance portable lock, crash-loop backoff, a pane-gone guard, and a signal-trapped shutdown that flushes buffered escalations before exit.
FM_INJECT_SKIP (default heartbeat) force-self-handles matching kinds,
overriding classification.
Use it sparingly.