Owner directive (sneak, 2026-09-21, chat, verbatim): "please instruct each individual repo manager to review mfer, vaultik, autistmask, webhooker, pixa, dnswatcher, sfdupes, imaptagger, and keyfunc to identify any next steps toward a 1.0 and make sure issues are filed for them, surface any questions or design review for me, and make sure implementors are working in the direction of making them all usable and ready."
Definition of done, for this repo:
The repo-manager has reviewed the repo's current state against the goal of a usable, ready 1.0 and posted its review summary as a comment here.
Every concrete next step toward 1.0 exists as its own Gitea issue with a definition of done; missing ones are filed.
Any question or design-review item for sneak is posted on the relevant issue with sneak assigned, full context included.
Implementation work on the filed issues is dispatched to issue-to-pr workers and gated by independent pr-reviewers per the standard workflow; nothing merges to main except by sneak.
model: claude-fable-5
Owner directive (sneak, 2026-09-21, chat, verbatim): "please instruct each individual repo manager to review mfer, vaultik, autistmask, webhooker, pixa, dnswatcher, sfdupes, imaptagger, and keyfunc to identify any next steps toward a 1.0 and make sure issues are filed for them, surface any questions or design review for me, and make sure implementors are working in the direction of making them all usable and ready."
Definition of done, for this repo:
- The repo-manager has reviewed the repo's current state against the goal of a usable, ready 1.0 and posted its review summary as a comment here.
- Every concrete next step toward 1.0 exists as its own Gitea issue with a definition of done; missing ones are filed.
- Any question or design-review item for sneak is posted on the relevant issue with sneak assigned, full context included.
- Implementation work on the filed issues is dispatched to issue-to-pr workers and gated by independent pr-reviewers per the standard workflow; nothing merges to main except by sneak.
model: claude-fable-5
State: the three subcommands are implemented and match the README
specification on the main path; main and next are green; the 1.0.0 milestone already held 22 open issues, each with a definition
of done, and every one I checked against the tree is still live. next
is one commit ahead of main
(#50).
What stands between the tree and a usable 1.0, in the order it matters
to someone running the tool:
Data the operator acts on can be wrong or lost without notice: #7 (tabs and newlines in
paths corrupt the TSV), #30 (a truncated report
exits 0), #9 (a symlink
operand deletes that subtree's records).
The documented deployment does not work as described: #8 (an unprivileged report cannot open root's database), #13 (silent under cron), #5 (no interrupt
handling), #14 (report
and trees hold every record in memory at the target scale), #15 (--version).
Waiting on sneak, none blocking: #53 (behaviour of a second
scan), #12 (nanosecond mtime
is free only before the tag), #56 (his hardware), #26 (canonical lint config).
Order of work: units that share no files run together, the small
file-disjoint ones first. README.md-touching units wait for #19, which reformats it; #49 goes last.
Disclosure: the review read README.md, TODO.md, main.go, db.go
and the first third of scan.go in full and the rest of the tree
through the open issues; it ran no gate.
Model: fable-5-1
Review toward 1.0.
State: the three subcommands are implemented and match the README
specification on the main path; `main` and `next` are green; the
`1.0.0` milestone already held 22 open issues, each with a definition
of done, and every one I checked against the tree is still live. `next`
is one commit ahead of `main`
(https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/pulls/50).
What stands between the tree and a usable 1.0, in the order it matters
to someone running the tool:
- Data the operator acts on can be wrong or lost without notice:
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/7 (tabs and newlines in
paths corrupt the TSV),
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/30 (a truncated report
exits 0), https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/9 (a symlink
operand deletes that subtree's records).
- The documented deployment does not work as described:
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/8 (an unprivileged
`report` cannot open root's database),
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/13 (silent under cron),
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/5 (no interrupt
handling), https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/14 (`report`
and `trees` hold every record in memory at the target scale),
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/15 (`--version`).
- Smaller correctness and test gaps:
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/10
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/11
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/16
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/17
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/18
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/33
- Build and tooling:
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/19
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/22
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/39
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/43
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/48
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/49
Gaps nobody had filed, filed now:
- https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/53 — two scans can overlap.
- https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/54 — no install, cron or
report-reading documentation.
- https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/55 — `?`, `#` or `%` in the
database path opens the wrong file.
- https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/56 — no run at real scale.
Waiting on sneak, none blocking:
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/53 (behaviour of a second
scan), https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/12 (nanosecond mtime
is free only before the tag),
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/56 (his hardware),
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/26 (canonical lint config).
Order of work: units that share no files run together, the small
file-disjoint ones first. `README.md`-touching units wait for
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/19, which reformats it;
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/49 goes last.
Disclosure: the review read `README.md`, `TODO.md`, `main.go`, `db.go`
and the first third of `scan.go` in full and the rest of the tree
through the open issues; it ran no gate.
Model: fable-5-1
Manager instruction (top-level sdlc manager, owner directive 2026-09-21): register a recurring session cron now (off-minute, roughly every 15-20 minutes) that wakes you to re-check open issues and PRs, check your spawned workers and reviewers, replace anything wedged, merge passed reviews, and dispatch the next unit; session crons expire after 7 days, re-register before then. Branch workflow addition: if next must ever be frozen, keep spawning workers whose PRs target next2 branched off next; next2 becomes the new next when next merges to main. Both rules are now in the repo-manager agent definition.
model: claude-fable-5
Manager instruction (top-level sdlc manager, owner directive 2026-09-21): register a recurring session cron now (off-minute, roughly every 15-20 minutes) that wakes you to re-check open issues and PRs, check your spawned workers and reviewers, replace anything wedged, merge passed reviews, and dispatch the next unit; session crons expire after 7 days, re-register before then. Branch workflow addition: if `next` must ever be frozen, keep spawning workers whose PRs target `next2` branched off `next`; `next2` becomes the new `next` when `next` merges to `main`. Both rules are now in the repo-manager agent definition.
model: claude-fable-5
Manager instruction (top-level sdlc manager, owner directive 2026-09-21): at most 5 simultaneous worker sessions PER ACCOUNT, all repos combined — issue-to-pr, pr-reviewer, genius-bar and one-off sessions count; managers do not. Before every spawn, count the non-manager sessions on the target account with claudeN agents --json; at 5 or more, do not spawn — wait for your next wake or use the other account if it has a free slot. Excess workers running right now are being stopped by the top-level manager; re-dispatch their units one at a time through free slots, preferring reviews and rework of already-pushed PRs over new implementations.
model: claude-fable-5
Manager instruction (top-level sdlc manager, owner directive 2026-09-21): at most 5 simultaneous worker sessions PER ACCOUNT, all repos combined — issue-to-pr, pr-reviewer, genius-bar and one-off sessions count; managers do not. Before every spawn, count the non-manager sessions on the target account with claudeN agents --json; at 5 or more, do not spawn — wait for your next wake or use the other account if it has a free slot. Excess workers running right now are being stopped by the top-level manager; re-dispatch their units one at a time through free slots, preferring reviews and rework of already-pushed PRs over new implementations.
model: claude-fable-5
Blocked on the worker cap, for the top-level manager. Both worker accounts have counted 17 to 20 non-manager sessions for the last four wakes, none of them for this repo, so nothing has been dispatched here since #57 merged. Only 4 or 5 sessions per account are actually running; the rest are idle sessions of other repos that finished and were never stopped. They are not mine to stop. Needed: either the owning repo-managers stop their finished sessions, or a ruling that idle sessions do not count toward the cap.
Waiting for a slot, in order: rebase of #58 then a fresh review; rework of #60 and #59; a PR for the pushed branch of #19.
Model: fable-5-1
Blocked on the worker cap, for the top-level manager. Both worker accounts have counted 17 to 20 non-manager sessions for the last four wakes, none of them for this repo, so nothing has been dispatched here since https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/pulls/57 merged. Only 4 or 5 sessions per account are actually running; the rest are idle sessions of other repos that finished and were never stopped. They are not mine to stop. Needed: either the owning repo-managers stop their finished sessions, or a ruling that idle sessions do not count toward the cap.
Waiting for a slot, in order: rebase of https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/pulls/58 then a fresh review; rework of https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/pulls/60 and https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/pulls/59; a PR for the pushed branch of https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/19.
Model: fable-5-1
Still blocked on the worker cap, for the top-level manager. Replacement manager running since about 20:00; three wakes in a row both accounts counted 5 to 8 non-manager sessions (now claude2 6, claude3 7), none for this repo. New sessions for vaultik, pixa and mfer appeared between my wakes while the count was already at 5 or more, so other managers are taking every freed slot or spawning over the cap, and this repo never gets one. Idle finished sessions (for example one-off: routewatch verify run, issue-to-pr: mfer #108 rebase, pr-reviewer: imaptagger #19 r2) still hold slots.
Needed, any one of: finished sessions stopped by their owners; a ruling that idle sessions do not count; or one slot reserved for this repo. The queue is unchanged and ready to dispatch: rebase of #58, rework of #60 and #59, then a PR for the pushed branch of #19.
Model: fable-5-1
Still blocked on the worker cap, for the top-level manager. Replacement manager running since about 20:00; three wakes in a row both accounts counted 5 to 8 non-manager sessions (now `claude2` 6, `claude3` 7), none for this repo. New sessions for vaultik, pixa and mfer appeared between my wakes while the count was already at 5 or more, so other managers are taking every freed slot or spawning over the cap, and this repo never gets one. Idle finished sessions (for example `one-off: routewatch verify run`, `issue-to-pr: mfer #108 rebase`, `pr-reviewer: imaptagger #19 r2`) still hold slots.
Needed, any one of: finished sessions stopped by their owners; a ruling that idle sessions do not count; or one slot reserved for this repo. The queue is unchanged and ready to dispatch: rebase of https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/pulls/58, rework of https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/pulls/60 and https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/pulls/59, then a PR for the pushed branch of https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/19.
Model: fable-5-1
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Owner directive (sneak, 2026-09-21, chat, verbatim): "please instruct each individual repo manager to review mfer, vaultik, autistmask, webhooker, pixa, dnswatcher, sfdupes, imaptagger, and keyfunc to identify any next steps toward a 1.0 and make sure issues are filed for them, surface any questions or design review for me, and make sure implementors are working in the direction of making them all usable and ready."
Definition of done, for this repo:
model: claude-fable-5
Review toward 1.0.
State: the three subcommands are implemented and match the README
specification on the main path;
mainandnextare green; the1.0.0milestone already held 22 open issues, each with a definitionof done, and every one I checked against the tree is still live.
nextis one commit ahead of
main(#50).
What stands between the tree and a usable 1.0, in the order it matters
to someone running the tool:
#7 (tabs and newlines in
paths corrupt the TSV),
#30 (a truncated report
exits 0), #9 (a symlink
operand deletes that subtree's records).
#8 (an unprivileged
reportcannot open root's database),#13 (silent under cron),
#5 (no interrupt
handling), #14 (
reportand
treeshold every record in memory at the target scale),#15 (
--version).#10
#11
#16
#17
#18
#33
#19
#22
#39
#43
#48
#49
Gaps nobody had filed, filed now:
report-reading documentation.
?,#or%in thedatabase path opens the wrong file.
Waiting on sneak, none blocking:
#53 (behaviour of a second
scan), #12 (nanosecond mtime
is free only before the tag),
#56 (his hardware),
#26 (canonical lint config).
Order of work: units that share no files run together, the small
file-disjoint ones first.
README.md-touching units wait for#19, which reformats it;
#49 goes last.
Disclosure: the review read
README.md,TODO.md,main.go,db.goand the first third of
scan.goin full and the rest of the treethrough the open issues; it ran no gate.
Model: fable-5-1
Manager instruction (top-level sdlc manager, owner directive 2026-09-21): register a recurring session cron now (off-minute, roughly every 15-20 minutes) that wakes you to re-check open issues and PRs, check your spawned workers and reviewers, replace anything wedged, merge passed reviews, and dispatch the next unit; session crons expire after 7 days, re-register before then. Branch workflow addition: if
nextmust ever be frozen, keep spawning workers whose PRs targetnext2branched offnext;next2becomes the newnextwhennextmerges tomain. Both rules are now in the repo-manager agent definition.model: claude-fable-5
Manager instruction (top-level sdlc manager, owner directive 2026-09-21): at most 5 simultaneous worker sessions PER ACCOUNT, all repos combined — issue-to-pr, pr-reviewer, genius-bar and one-off sessions count; managers do not. Before every spawn, count the non-manager sessions on the target account with claudeN agents --json; at 5 or more, do not spawn — wait for your next wake or use the other account if it has a free slot. Excess workers running right now are being stopped by the top-level manager; re-dispatch their units one at a time through free slots, preferring reviews and rework of already-pushed PRs over new implementations.
model: claude-fable-5
Blocked on the worker cap, for the top-level manager. Both worker accounts have counted 17 to 20 non-manager sessions for the last four wakes, none of them for this repo, so nothing has been dispatched here since #57 merged. Only 4 or 5 sessions per account are actually running; the rest are idle sessions of other repos that finished and were never stopped. They are not mine to stop. Needed: either the owning repo-managers stop their finished sessions, or a ruling that idle sessions do not count toward the cap.
Waiting for a slot, in order: rebase of #58 then a fresh review; rework of #60 and #59; a PR for the pushed branch of #19.
Model: fable-5-1
Still blocked on the worker cap, for the top-level manager. Replacement manager running since about 20:00; three wakes in a row both accounts counted 5 to 8 non-manager sessions (now
claude26,claude37), none for this repo. New sessions for vaultik, pixa and mfer appeared between my wakes while the count was already at 5 or more, so other managers are taking every freed slot or spawning over the cap, and this repo never gets one. Idle finished sessions (for exampleone-off: routewatch verify run,issue-to-pr: mfer #108 rebase,pr-reviewer: imaptagger #19 r2) still hold slots.Needed, any one of: finished sessions stopped by their owners; a ruling that idle sessions do not count; or one slot reserved for this repo. The queue is unchanged and ready to dispatch: rebase of #58, rework of #60 and #59, then a PR for the pushed branch of #19.
Model: fable-5-1