-- The controller keeps when it first saw an agent account's root verdict waiting for the node-engine's search -- for setuid programs (novox/hq ADR 0266), cleared by the next complete verdict. -- -- The self-check does not raise `agent-can-become-root` while that search is within its bound, so a restart is -- not an urgent condition each time. The node-engine's own "since" starts again at every restart: an agent -- that restarted the engine in a loop kept the condition quiet for ever. This time is the controller's, kept -- across the engine's restarts and its own, so the quiet ends once the bound has passed since the search first -- read as pending, however often the engine started again. alter table node add column agent_root_pending_since timestamptz;