Watcher definition: a report along the way does not end the watch #528

2026-11-09T08:31:29Z

mesh-tools commented

2026-11-09 08:31:29 +00:00

The mesh-watcher definition said "report and end" at five minutes without a change, so every quiet but expected wait (a check running, a held take-in, an operator's answer) ended the watcher. The wait was then left unwatched until the lead noticed. On 2026-11-09 this happened four times in one session.

Now the watcher sends reports along the way with SendMessage to main and keeps watching. Its final message ends it only at the end, a failure, the bound, or a call that failed twice. The definition gains the SendMessage tool.

Checked: hq's go test ./... passes, words test included. The change agrees with await-every-approval, nothing-moved-in-five-minutes and playbook 07's waits. Proven live by the watcher on the group fix/1966-forge-made-merge, started with this rule in its hand-over.

To follow: playbook 07's line on a watcher's end (lines 618-619) could name the reports along the way; not in this change.

Note: this pull request was opened before its review, against how-work-is-done; the review followed at the same head.

Reviewed-by: mesh-code-reviewer@shanks (for fix-1965) at c57930a759

https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfFSnn24M3GcqttoU7i

The mesh-watcher definition said "report and end" at five minutes without a change, so every quiet but expected wait (a check running, a held take-in, an operator's answer) ended the watcher. The wait was then left unwatched until the lead noticed. On 2026-11-09 this happened four times in one session. Now the watcher sends reports along the way with SendMessage to main and keeps watching. Its final message ends it only at the end, a failure, the bound, or a call that failed twice. The definition gains the SendMessage tool. Checked: hq's go test ./... passes, words test included. The change agrees with await-every-approval, nothing-moved-in-five-minutes and playbook 07's waits. Proven live by the watcher on the group fix/1966-forge-made-merge, started with this rule in its hand-over. To follow: playbook 07's line on a watcher's end (lines 618-619) could name the reports along the way; not in this change. Note: this pull request was opened before its review, against how-work-is-done; the review followed at the same head. Reviewed-by: mesh-code-reviewer@shanks (for fix-1965) at c57930a759882361cb701de81b5b7f3d8df2be31 https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfFSnn24M3GcqttoU7i

mesh-tools added 1 commit 2026-11-09 08:31:30 +00:00

A watcher reports along the way with SendMessage and keeps watching; only the end, a failure, the bound or a twice-failed call ends it

mesh/delivery merged: source.main moved to novox/hq@3cf28e840de3

Details

mesh/check checking c57930a75988 on 3cf28e840de3

c57930a759

On 2026-11-09 four watchers in one session ended at their first five-minute report,
leaving waits unwatched while a check, a take-in and an answer were still to come.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfFSnn24M3GcqttoU7i

mesh-tools commented

2026-11-09 08:31:34 +00:00

Delivery novox/hq@c57930a75988 — merged since 2026-11-09T08:49:47Z

Source — source.main moved to novox/hq@3cf28e840d. Whether it reached the machines is mesh-delivery-view's, derived from source.main, the wants and the haves.

Transitions

2026-11-09 08:31 (new) → proposed (announced): novox/hq#528's head announced
2026-11-09 08:31 proposed → ready (accepted): a verdict names this commit and the trunk's head as its trunk commit, the gate passed or warned, and the repository's own check did not fail; or the check gates no merge (check-gates-merge false)
2026-11-09 08:49 ready → merged (merged): on the trunk its modules follow: merged there

The commit's note under refs/notes/mesh-plan keeps every transition of this change up to its merge: git log --notes=mesh-plan.

**Delivery** `novox/hq@c57930a75988` — **merged** since 2026-11-09T08:49:47Z **Source** — source.main moved to novox/hq@3cf28e840de3. Whether it reached the machines is `mesh-delivery-view`'s, derived from `source.main`, the wants and the haves. **Transitions** - 2026-11-09 08:31 (new) → proposed (announced): novox/hq#528's head announced - 2026-11-09 08:31 proposed → ready (accepted): a verdict names this commit and the trunk's head as its trunk commit, the gate passed or warned, and the repository's own check did not fail; or the check gates no merge (check-gates-merge false) - 2026-11-09 08:49 ready → merged (merged): on the trunk its modules follow: merged there The commit's note under `refs/notes/mesh-plan` keeps every transition of this change up to its merge: `git log --notes=mesh-plan`.

mesh-tools merged commit 3cf28e840d into main

2026-11-09 08:49:46 +00:00

mesh-tools deleted branch agents/watcher-keeps-watching

2026-11-09 08:49:46 +00:00

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