Fix A run's agent session that

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- Workflow: plan
- Change set: 01M6N9AF69ZGMTB1EEG5RK9MPD: Fix A run's agent session that
- Worktree: /home/rhiza/code/rhiza.fix-a-run-s-agent-session-that
- Autonomous: yes
- Started: 2026-11-05T07:21:17Z

## Steps

- interview (visit 1): pass, then milestone-check, session f0ae9dff-3406-48f0-9c7d-01a1aa956836: said done and until held
- milestone-check (visit 1): pass, then review: exit 0
- review (visit 1): pass, then critic, session 79e74383-3cd5-449e-9f61-01a1aa9af60c: said done and until held
- critic (visit 1): pass, then check, session 00606f26-13a4-4018-9aa8-01a1aa9c0504: said done and until held
- check (visit 1): fail, then revise: exit 1
    rhiza: run review-check: review round 1 of run 01M6N9AD8M02D7GA9GYPPSNPD5 has 1 confirmed finding(s); revise the plan and review it again:
    - f1 contradiction on daemon-nudges-stalled: The leaf and Decision idle-run-session-stalls gate the nudge on the daemon's --autonomous flag, but the code starts every daemon with it (internal/api/daemon_startstop.go daemonArgs = {"daemon", "--autonomous"}, used by both the systemd unit and the Rex tab), and whether a run actually goes without the owner is decided per run by the autonomy config (internal/api/daemon.go daemonPoll1: rhiza.autonomy.signoff/ship = owner clears autonomous before daemonStart). So owner-attended runs, which the Decision says the owner nudges with n in the inbox, would also be auto-nudged, and the acceptance's 'without --autonomous no poll sends any' tests a daemon mode the shipped daemon never runs in. The nudge should key on the run's own Autonomous (run.State / RunInfo.Autonomous), with the acceptance testing an autonomous run nudged and an owner run under the same daemon not. — confirmed: Verified: internal/api/daemon_startstop.go:26 daemonArgs = {"daemon","--autonomous"} is used by both the systemd ExecStart (daemon_service.go:115) and the Rex tab (daemon_startstop.go:133), so every shipped daemon has --autonomous; per-run autonomy is decided in daemonPoll1 (daemon.go:640-645, signoff=owner clears autonomous before daemonStart) and recorded on the run's journal State().Autonomous (run/journal.go:205-208, used by engine.go:649). Gating the nudge on the daemon flag would auto-nudge owner-attended runs, contradicting Decision idle-run-session-stalls's 'owner nudges with n' path, and the acceptance's 'without --autonomous' case tests a mode never run. Keying on the run's own Autonomous fixes it.
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- review (visit 2): pass, then critic, session 83b2addf-b263-4a9e-80b1-01a1aa9daf2f: said done and until held
- critic (visit 2): pass, then check, session d2f8effc-1664-46dc-9855-01a1aa9eb5c6: said done and until held
- check (visit 2): fail, then revise: exit 1
    rhiza: run review-check: review round 2 of run 01M6N9AD8M02D7GA9GYPPSNPD5 has 2 confirmed finding(s); revise the plan and review it again:
    - f1 contradiction on stalled-after-20-minutes: The landed Decision stalled-after-20-minutes still says only a working session can stall and 'blocked and idle sessions are never stalled'. The new Decision idle-run-session-stalls makes an idle session that has not said done stall after 20 minutes. The plan neither supersedes nor retires the old Decision, and run-status-stalled-session and inbox-stalled-items stay decided-by both, so the model holds two opposite rules. — confirmed: Verified in the change set's what-if view: landed Decision stalled-after-20-minutes still states 'blocked and idle sessions are never stalled', has no supersedes link in or out and is not retired, and the change set's ops touch it nowhere; run-status-stalled-session and inbox-stalled-items are decided-by both it and idle-run-session-stalls, which makes an idle not-done session stall. Two opposite rules in the model.
    - f2 contradiction on run-status-stalled-session: The plan rewrites only this landed capability's acceptance. Its statement still says run status marks a session stalled 'when its hook status is working', which contradicts the new capability run-session-idle-stall and the Decision idle-run-session-stalls, both of which also stall idle sessions without done and also exclude Asked sessions. Update the statement as well as the acceptance. — confirmed: Verified: in the what-if view run-status-stalled-session's acceptance was rewritten to defer idle to run-session-idle-stall, but its statement still reads 'marks a live session stalled when its hook status is working ... unless paused for a usage limit', contradicting idle-run-session-stalls (idle without done stalls; Asked excluded). The statement needs updating with the acceptance.
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- revise (visit 2): pass, then review, session 41a0a296-efb1-413e-9301-01a1aa9fc29e: said done and until held
- review (visit 3): pass, then critic, session e5cb03ac-bfd8-462a-8cb4-01a1aaa14e17: said done and until held
- critic (visit 3): pass, then check, session 1ecced47-4013-4a91-8c9b-01a1aaa35267: said done and until held
- check (visit 3): pass, then gate: exit 0
- gate (visit 1): pass, then open-pr: exit 0
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- wait-pr (visit 1): pass, then pr-green: held after 27 checks
- pr-green (visit 1): pass, then rebase: exit 0
- rebase (visit 1): pass, then wait-rebased: exit 0
- wait-rebased (visit 1): pass, then rebased-green: held after 25 checks
- rebased-green (visit 1): pass, then merge: exit 0
- merge (visit 1): pass, then close-out: exit 0
- close-out (visit 1): pass, then end: exit 0

## Accepted in the owner's place

- 2026-11-05T07:43:16Z accepted change set 01M6N9AF69ZGMTB1EEG5RK9MPD (log entry 01M6NAJVVND10F17W73YYAKWZZ)

## Questions put to the arbiter

- question-f0ae9dff-1 (01M6N9DXRSKHJWY3GARDJ68ETG): Change set 01M6N9AF (idle session with a background shell never flagged): today session.Stalled counts only hook-status 'working' sessions silent >20 min; an idle session that never said `rhiza session done` waits forever. What should count as stalled? / Once such a session counts as stalled, who nudges it? — decision idle-run-session-stalls
- review-01m6n9ad-r3-f1 (01M6NAB0JB7YTF7RJ68MP9DF2H): Plan review round 3 left finding f1 (contradiction on run-session-idle-stall): The widened rule stalls any live run-step session idle >20 min without done, excluding only Status.Asked, usage-paused, blocked and exited. But in an owner-attended run an interactive step (e.g. a plan run's planner interviewing the owner, see rhiza-plan and the plan workflow) sits idle at its prompt waiting on the owner's reply, not on itself; Status.Asked is only set for autonomous sessions (internal/session/status.go), so such a session would be listed as 'stalled' in the inbox and run status, and the inbox's n would send it carryOn ('You have been silent...') when it is the owner who owes the next word. The Decision idle-run-session-stalls and this leaf's statement/acceptance should say how an attended session awaiting the owner is told apart (e.g. stall idle only in autonomous runs, or only for non-interactive steps), or state explicitly that it is accepted noise. The critic confirmed it: Verified: Status.Asked is set only when rec.Autonomous (internal/api/session_run.go:794-809), so an attended session's question to the owner never sets it. The plan workflow's interview step (internal/workflow/builtin/plan.toml) is an agent step that ends only on `rhiza session done` and spends most of its life idle at its prompt waiting for the owner's reply. Under run-session-idle-stall and idle-run-session-stalls, which exclude only Asked, usage-paused, blocked and exited, that session counts as stalled after 20 idle minutes. It would show in run status and the inbox, and the owner's n would send it carryOn, when it is the owner who owes the next word. The leaf and Decision must say how a session waiting on the owner is told apart, or accept that noise in so many words. How should it be settled? — decision idle-stall-autonomous-only, not yet delivered

## Review rounds

- Round 1: 1 finding, 1 confirmed
  - f1 contradiction on daemon-nudges-stalled: The leaf and Decision idle-run-session-stalls gate the nudge on the daemon's --autonomous flag, but the code starts every daemon with it (internal/api/daemon_startstop.go daemonArgs = {"daemon", "--autonomous"}, used by both the systemd unit and the Rex tab), and whether a run actually goes without the owner is decided per run by the autonomy config (internal/api/daemon.go daemonPoll1: rhiza.autonomy.signoff/ship = owner clears autonomous before daemonStart). So owner-attended runs, which the Decision says the owner nudges with n in the inbox, would also be auto-nudged, and the acceptance's 'without --autonomous no poll sends any' tests a daemon mode the shipped daemon never runs in. The nudge should key on the run's own Autonomous (run.State / RunInfo.Autonomous), with the acceptance testing an autonomous run nudged and an owner run under the same daemon not. — confirmed: Verified: internal/api/daemon_startstop.go:26 daemonArgs = {"daemon","--autonomous"} is used by both the systemd ExecStart (daemon_service.go:115) and the Rex tab (daemon_startstop.go:133), so every shipped daemon has --autonomous; per-run autonomy is decided in daemonPoll1 (daemon.go:640-645, signoff=owner clears autonomous before daemonStart) and recorded on the run's journal State().Autonomous (run/journal.go:205-208, used by engine.go:649). Gating the nudge on the daemon flag would auto-nudge owner-attended runs, contradicting Decision idle-run-session-stalls's 'owner nudges with n' path, and the acceptance's 'without --autonomous' case tests a mode never run. Keying on the run's own Autonomous fixes it.
- Round 2: 2 findings, 2 confirmed
  - f1 contradiction on stalled-after-20-minutes: The landed Decision stalled-after-20-minutes still says only a working session can stall and 'blocked and idle sessions are never stalled'. The new Decision idle-run-session-stalls makes an idle session that has not said done stall after 20 minutes. The plan neither supersedes nor retires the old Decision, and run-status-stalled-session and inbox-stalled-items stay decided-by both, so the model holds two opposite rules. — confirmed: Verified in the change set's what-if view: landed Decision stalled-after-20-minutes still states 'blocked and idle sessions are never stalled', has no supersedes link in or out and is not retired, and the change set's ops touch it nowhere; run-status-stalled-session and inbox-stalled-items are decided-by both it and idle-run-session-stalls, which makes an idle not-done session stall. Two opposite rules in the model.
  - f2 contradiction on run-status-stalled-session: The plan rewrites only this landed capability's acceptance. Its statement still says run status marks a session stalled 'when its hook status is working', which contradicts the new capability run-session-idle-stall and the Decision idle-run-session-stalls, both of which also stall idle sessions without done and also exclude Asked sessions. Update the statement as well as the acceptance. — confirmed: Verified: in the what-if view run-status-stalled-session's acceptance was rewritten to defer idle to run-session-idle-stall, but its statement still reads 'marks a live session stalled when its hook status is working ... unless paused for a usage limit', contradicting idle-run-session-stalls (idle without done stalls; Asked excluded). The statement needs updating with the acceptance.
- Round 3: 1 finding, 1 confirmed
  - f1 contradiction on run-session-idle-stall: The widened rule stalls any live run-step session idle >20 min without done, excluding only Status.Asked, usage-paused, blocked and exited. But in an owner-attended run an interactive step (e.g. a plan run's planner interviewing the owner, see rhiza-plan and the plan workflow) sits idle at its prompt waiting on the owner's reply, not on itself; Status.Asked is only set for autonomous sessions (internal/session/status.go), so such a session would be listed as 'stalled' in the inbox and run status, and the inbox's n would send it carryOn ('You have been silent...') when it is the owner who owes the next word. The Decision idle-run-session-stalls and this leaf's statement/acceptance should say how an attended session awaiting the owner is told apart (e.g. stall idle only in autonomous runs, or only for non-interactive steps), or state explicitly that it is accepted noise. — confirmed: Verified: Status.Asked is set only when rec.Autonomous (internal/api/session_run.go:794-809), so an attended session's question to the owner never sets it. The plan workflow's interview step (internal/workflow/builtin/plan.toml) is an agent step that ends only on `rhiza session done` and spends most of its life idle at its prompt waiting for the owner's reply. Under run-session-idle-stall and idle-run-session-stalls, which exclude only Asked, usage-paused, blocked and exited, that session counts as stalled after 20 idle minutes. It would show in run status and the inbox, and the owner's n would send it carryOn, when it is the owner who owes the next word. The leaf and Decision must say how a session waiting on the owner is told apart, or accept that noise in so many words.

## Sessions

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