agentbox-app 0.1.7 → 0.1.12

package/main/supervisor.mjs

@@ -1,14 +1,16 @@
 import { claudeActivity, codexActivity, currentActivity } from './agent-activity.mjs';
 import { taskRemoteControl } from './task-remote-control.mjs';
 import { taskFolderPath, real, restoreTaskFolder } from './task-folders.mjs';
+import { SHIP_LABEL, ShipQueue, readShipSettings, shipScriptFor } from './ship-queue.mjs';
 import { folderJob } from './task-folders-offthread.mjs';
+import { gitJob } from './git-change-offthread.mjs';
 import { queuedReplyText } from './live-replies.mjs';
 import { attachClaudeInput, claudeStreamArgs } from './claude-input.mjs';
 import { hookFailure } from '../shared/hook-failure.mjs';
 import { taskCommand } from './task-commands.mjs';
 import { providerCommand, reviewTarget, nativeCommandNames } from '../shared/provider-commands.mjs';
 import { compactCodexThread } from './codex-compaction.mjs';
-import {readSystemTemplate} from './instruction-settings.mjs';
+import {agentInstructionsUnified, readSystemTemplate, writeInstruction} from './instruction-settings.mjs';
 import {fillName} from '../shared/product-name.mjs';
 // The supervisor: deterministic, boring, and the only part of the app that talks
 // to the brain. It spawns headless claude sessions on the founder's plan, one
@@ -39,8 +41,18 @@ import fs from 'node:fs';
 import path from 'node:path';
 import os from 'node:os';
 import { isUrgent, itemPriority, normalizeOrder, orderFromTiers, productRankScore } from '../shared/rank.mjs';
+import { keysForAgents } from '../shared/shortcuts.mjs';
 import { isCleanRun, ruleIdOf } from '../shared/repeats.mjs';
-import { agentSpokeSince, answerSettled, answerTs } from '../shared/answers.mjs';
+import { mayRunHere } from '../shared/team-rules.mjs';
+
+// WHO IS SIGNED IN, handed to the store server a worker talks through. An MCP
+// server starts with only the variables it is given, not the app's, and every
+// line it writes for a shared project has to say whose Mac wrote it
+// (main/store/work-items.mjs stamps it from this).
+function teamPersonEnv() {
+  return process.env.AGENTBOX_PERSON_ID ? { AGENTBOX_PERSON_ID: process.env.AGENTBOX_PERSON_ID } : {};
+}
+import { agentSpokeSince, answerSettled, answerTs, stoppedByHer } from '../shared/answers.mjs';
 import { DEFAULT_SESSIONS_AT_ONCE } from './config.mjs';
 import { linkAccountTooling, toolingLine } from './account-tooling.mjs';
 import { effectiveProfiles } from './account-discovery.mjs';
@@ -71,7 +83,7 @@ import { isEffort, isEffortWord } from '../shared/effort-levels.mjs';
 // for every row on every machine, including one she marked `codex` in August.
 import {
   engineFor, engineLabel, engineChoiceSince, engineChoiceOnRowIsStale,
-  availableEngines, isEngine, modelForEngine,
+  availableEngines, isEngine, modelForEngine, homeEngine,
   ENGINE_CHOICE_ENABLED, DEFAULT_ENGINE, ENGINE_IDS,
 } from '../shared/engines.mjs';
 // SAYING_CAP LIVES THERE AND NOT HERE. It was a module-private const in this
@@ -84,6 +96,7 @@ import {
   summarizeCodexEvent, traceCodexEvent, SAYING_CAP,
 } from './codex.mjs';
 import { createCodexAppServer } from './codex-app-server.mjs';
+import { codexLaunchEnv } from './codex-launch-env.mjs';
 import { CodexUsage } from './codex-usage.mjs';
 import { createCodexWorker, codexTranscriptFile, mcpServerNames, workerThreadParams } from './codex-session.mjs';
 import { CODEX_DEFAULT_MODE, isCodexMode } from '../shared/codex-modes.mjs';
@@ -91,7 +104,16 @@ import { createCodexApprovals } from './codex-approvals.mjs';
 import { approvalPublicKey } from './approvals.mjs';
 import { codexDefaultModel, codexHome, codexKnownSlugs, codexModelLevels, codexModels } from './codex-models.mjs';
 import { nameRow, wantsName } from './row-label.mjs';
+import { LEVELS, latestMessage, sortMessage, wantsPriority } from './message-priority.mjs';
 import { NAME, Name, envName, nameSlug, isOurSlug } from '../shared/product-name.mjs';
+import { signInFiles, signInStamp } from './sign-in-files.mjs';
+import { runsOn } from './runs-on.mjs';
+import { MemoryGateServer, defaultSocketPath as memoryGateSocketPath } from './memory-gate-server.mjs';
+import { autoSlots, DEFAULTS as MEMORY_GATE } from './memory-gate.mjs';
+import { LeftoverCleaner } from './leftovers.mjs';
+import { syncCodexMemoryGate } from './codex-memory-gate.mjs';
+import { autoAgents, perAccountAgents } from './machine.mjs';
+import { runEndedProps } from './analytics.mjs';
 
 const POLL_MS = 15_000;
 // HOW LONG SHE WAITS AFTER PRESSING THE BUTTON, and until now it was the line
@@ -126,11 +148,21 @@ const DIGEST_MIN_MS = 12 * 3_600_000;
 // invariant is self-healing, which without this would mean re-spawning every
 // fifteen seconds against whatever made the first attempt fail.
 const DIGEST_RETRY_MS = 30 * 60_000;
+// How long a row the namer could not name waits before it is asked about again,
+// so it cannot hold the rows behind it (nameTheRows).
+const NAME_RETRY_MS = 10 * 60_000;
 // A spawn that exits faster than this did no real work (limit hit, bad flag,
 // untrusted workspace); consecutive fast exits back spawning off exponentially.
 const FAST_EXIT_MS = 45_000;
 const BACKOFF_BASE_MS = 60_000;
 const BACKOFF_CAP_MS = 30 * 60_000;
+// HOW LONG A SIGNED-OUT LOGIN SITS OUT WHEN NOTHING SAYS IT CAME BACK. It was
+// the same half hour as an ambiguous death, and that half hour is exactly how
+// long her agents stayed "Queued" after she had signed in again (2026-10-04).
+// The app now watches for the login itself (`_noticeSignIns`); this is only the
+// fallback for a login that lands somewhere it cannot see. A try on a login
+// that is still out costs a two-second run and is charged to nobody.
+const SIGNED_OUT_REST_MS = 5 * 60_000;
 // How long past a limit's printed reset hour the fleet waits before trying.
 const LIMIT_RESET_GRACE_MS = 30_000;
 // HOW LONG NOTHING MAY WORK BEFORE THE APP SAYS SO OUT LOUD.
@@ -143,10 +175,13 @@ const TROUBLE_QUIET_MS = 20 * 60_000;
 // A RUNNING SESSION THAT HAS GONE SILENT, AND WHOSE CLAIM HAS LAPSED, IS DEAD.
 // w-3a14ab56d6, 2026-09-23: a Codex turn logged its last line at 19:10:56, its
 // store heartbeats stopped the same minute, and the turn never ended, so no
-// exit fired and the row sat in In progress for 50 minutes until she typed
-// "stuck?". Both signals together, never one: a long render is silent but its
+// exit fired and the row sat in In progress for 50 minutes until the user
+// noticed it was stuck. Both signals together, never one: a long render is silent but its
 // store server keeps beating, and a session that never claimed has no lease.
 const HUNG_QUIET_MS = 10 * 60_000;
+// A pass this late was not late, the Mac was asleep (forgiveSleep). Eight
+// missed passes: past any slow pass, well under the ten minutes above.
+const SLEPT_GAP_MS = 2 * 60_000;
 // Two hangs on one row inside this window and the app stops restarting it and
 // tells her instead, so a row that hangs every time is not killed forever.
 const HUNG_REPEAT_WINDOW_MS = 2 * 3_600_000;
@@ -211,9 +246,9 @@ const FIRST_RUN_HOLD_MS = 20 * 60_000;
 // tool prefix.
 //
 // A translation for configs still granting the old spelling lived beside this
-// for one round. It is gone: her zero.config.json was corrected in the same
-// step, and keeping the old word in the code so as to keep reading the old word
-// in the config is exactly the reference she asked to be rid of.
+// for one round. It is gone: configs were corrected in the same step, and
+// keeping the old word in the code so as to keep reading the old word in the
+// config would keep alive exactly the reference the rename was meant to remove.
 const STORE_SERVER = nameSlug;
 
 /**
@@ -227,13 +262,13 @@ const STORE_SERVER = nameSlug;
  * and holding nothing: no claim, no checkpoint, no result, and no error either,
  * because a grant for a tool that does not exist is not a failure of anything.
  *
- * HER FILE IS NOT REWRITTEN. This is what a session READS, the same way
- * `buildBrief` fills the name into a brief she keeps in tokens; her config keeps
- * whatever she typed, and the day she corrects it nothing here changes.
+ * THE CONFIG FILE IS NOT REWRITTEN. This is what a session READS, the same way
+ * `buildBrief` fills the name into a brief kept in tokens; the config keeps
+ * whatever the user typed, and the day they correct it nothing here changes.
  *
  * ONLY OUR OWN NAMES ARE TOUCHED, which is what makes this safe to do at all.
- * A worker also sees MCP servers of HERS (there is no `--strict-mcp-config` on
- * the spawn), so `mcp__playwright` in her args is a live grant for a live
+ * A worker also sees the user's own MCP servers (there is no `--strict-mcp-config`
+ * on the spawn), so `mcp__playwright` in the args is a live grant for a live
  * server and must survive untouched. `isOurSlug` is the whole of the rule: a
  * name this app has actually answered to, and nothing else.
  */
@@ -287,20 +322,33 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // the user's data folder inside a packaged app, because a signed bundle
     // cannot be written into without breaking its own signature.
     this.dataDir = dataDir;
-    // AND THE TWO FILES THAT ARE ONLY EVER HERS COME FROM userDir, WHICH IS
-    // NEVER THE CHECKOUT (w-3dc46f3a67, 2026-09-21). Her standing instructions
-    // and her writing rules used to live at `dataDir/briefs`, which running
-    // from source IS the git checkout every worker fast-forwards, stashes and
-    // checks out. Measured on her repo that day: the whole history of
-    // briefs/founder.md is four agent commits, and the working copy matched the
-    // newest one exactly, so nothing she typed after the first three rules
-    // existed anywhere. A rule she wrote and lost is worse than no box at all.
+    // AND THE TWO FILES THAT ARE ONLY EVER THE USER'S COME FROM userDir, WHICH
+    // IS NEVER THE CHECKOUT (w-3dc46f3a67). The standing instructions and the
+    // writing rules used to live at `dataDir/briefs`, which running from source
+    // IS the git checkout every worker fast-forwards, stashes and checks out, so
+    // agent commits could silently replace what the user had written there. A
+    // rule the user wrote and lost is worse than no box at all.
     //
     // These are the same two files package.json excludes from the download
     // (`!briefs/founder.md`, `!briefs/writing-rules.md`), and that is the line:
     // a file we SHIP is a default and belongs in the checkout, a file only she
     // writes belongs in her own folder. main.mjs carries the text across once.
     this.userDir = userDir;
+    // THE APP SHIPS A TASK THE AGENT MARKED READY, for a project a person
+    // turned that on for in this app's own data folder (main/ship-queue.mjs).
+    // With no such setting it never runs anything.
+    this.onShipped = () => {};
+    this.shipQueue = new ShipQueue({
+      store,
+      userDir,
+      folderFor: (item, product) => { try { return taskFolderPath(this.productFolder(product), item.id); } catch { return null; } },
+      isLive: (item) => this.sessions.has(item.id),
+      handBack: (item, reply) => {
+        const fresh = this.store.readItem?.(item.product, item.id) ?? item;
+        this.spawnWorker(fresh, { continuation: true, shipFailure: reply });
+      },
+      afterShip: () => this.onShipped(),
+    });
     this._compactionJobs = new Map();
     this.sessions = new Map(); // itemId -> {child, product, startedAt, tail, itemId}
     // Spawns waiting on their row's folder, and folders made for the spawn that
@@ -318,6 +366,8 @@ export class Supervisor {
       // Persisted: an in-memory-only set re-spawned a continuation for every
       // still-open answered item on every app restart.
       this._handledAnswers = new Set(state.handledAnswers ?? []);
+      // Which conversation already holds each of her words (`_noteHeard`).
+      this._heardAnswers = state.heardAnswers ?? {};
       // `_personalSessions` used to sit here, itemId -> claude session id for a
       // personal project's threads. Personal projects are gone (w-d19d6d387c)
       // and `_rowSessions` below does that job for every row there is.
@@ -344,8 +394,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
       // and briefed a stranger with a transcript of the whole thread to catch
       // up on.
       //
-      // MEASURED ON HER MACHINE, 2026-08-29, across 2,789 runs: 2,321 were
-      // replies like that, and in the median one 65% of the first twenty files
+      // MEASURED across a few thousand runs: most were replies like that, and in the median one 65% of the first twenty files
       // it opened had already been opened by the run before it on the same row,
       // which then read for 206 seconds before it wrote anything.
       //
@@ -376,8 +425,8 @@ export class Supervisor {
       // WHAT IS WRONG WITH EACH ACCOUNT, KEPT ACROSS A RESTART (w-cf0e8821b3).
       //
       // The app came back up knowing that nothing was running and no longer
-      // knowing the reason, which is precisely the half-a-fact she said is
-      // worse than either the whole thing or silence.
+      // knowing the reason, and half a fact is worse than either the whole
+      // thing or silence.
       //
       // Restoring it cannot strand her, because nothing here is believed for
       // long: the first session that survives on an account clears it
@@ -389,7 +438,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
       // important first. Agents never write it. It replaced three buckets
       // (high/normal/low) because buckets left every tie inside a bucket
       // unanswered, and "which of these two comes first" is the actual
-      // question the fleet needs settled (founder, 2026-08-06).
+      // question the fleet needs settled.
       this.productOrder = normalizeOrder(state.productOrder ?? orderFromTiers(state.productTiers));
       // Hidden from the composer's picker, and from nothing else. A hidden
       // product still ranks, still spawns workers, and its work still reaches
@@ -398,6 +447,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
       this.hiddenProducts = new Set(state.hiddenProducts ?? []);
     } catch {
       this._handledAnswers = new Set();
+      this._heardAnswers = {};
       this._liveSessions = {};
       this._rowSessions = {};
       this._compactions = {};
@@ -440,6 +490,15 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // slot we just made — which is a kill that cost her a session and bought
     // her nothing.
     this._preempted = new Map();
+    // TASKS SHE PUSHED WITH "RUN NOW", from the three-dot menu on a waiting
+    // task (`runNow` below). itemId -> { product, at, started }.
+    //
+    // In memory only, for the reason `_resumeQueue` gives: this is her intent
+    // right now, and a push that survived a restart would jump a task she
+    // asked for hours ago over everything filed since. The entry stays while
+    // the pushed task runs, so a second push cannot pause the first, and goes
+    // the moment that run ends (`_settleRunNow`).
+    this._runNow = new Map();
     // Rows the toast has already spoken about. In memory only: a restart is a
     // sweep she has not been told about yet, so it gets to speak once.
     this._announcedRecovery = new Set();
@@ -485,9 +544,8 @@ export class Supervisor {
   // `isPersonal` used to live here. A personal project ran its sessions on the
   // founder's message alone, with no brief, no store and no digest, and every
   // path in this file that touched a spawn had a branch for it. All of that is
-  // deleted (w-d19d6d387c, 2026-09-22). Hers: "I would get rid of 'personal' as
-  // well. I think there is no case where we should ever have that." Every
-  // project is now a project, and a reply on any row still goes back to the
+  // deleted (w-d19d6d387c), because there is no case where a project should
+  // run without its brief and store. Every project is now a project, and a reply on any row still goes back to the
   // session that wrote it through `_rowSessions`.
 
   /**
@@ -528,6 +586,8 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // the restart she ruled out. The sweep gets there first and hands each row
     // back to the session that was doing it.
     try { this.recoverInterrupted('startup'); } catch (e) { console.warn('zero: startup recovery:', e.message); }
+    if (this.config.memoryGate) this.setMemoryGate(true).catch((e) => console.warn('zero: memory gate:', e.message));
+    this.setLeftoverCleanup(!!this.config.cleanupLeftovers).catch((e) => console.warn('zero: leftovers:', e.message));
     this._timer = setInterval(() => this.tick().catch((e) => console.warn('supervisor:', e.message)), POLL_MS);
     this.tick().catch(() => {});
   }
@@ -543,18 +603,77 @@ export class Supervisor {
   // and app restart charged the item a failed delivery attempt.
   /** HER OWN HAND OUTRANKS A TIMER (2026-09-22).
    * Called for the things only she does that mean "run this now": a reply,
-   * Resume, reopening a row. An account waiting on a PERSON (signed out,
-   * switched off by an admin) stays out, because retrying it cannot help
-   * however often she asks. The streak
-   *  count is kept, so a real outage still escalates. */
+   * Resume, reopening a row. The streak count is kept, so a real outage still
+   * escalates.
+   *
+   * AN ACCOUNT WAITING ON A PERSON (signed out, switched off by an admin) IS
+   * LIFTED TOO WHEN NOTHING ELSE ON ITS ENGINE COULD RUN (2026-10-04). It used
+   * to stay out on the theory that retrying cannot help, but she IS the person:
+   * she signs back in, presses Resume, and that is the only signal the app
+   * gets. With only one login, a park of half an hour meant every Resume and
+   * "continue" in between left the rows queued. If she is still signed out
+   * the trial dies in two seconds and parks it again on the spot. Where another
+   * login is working, the dead one stays out: the work is moving without it. */
   liftBrakeForHer() {
     this._spawnCooldownUntil = 0;
     for (const account of Object.keys(this._profileCooldown ?? {})) {
-      if (needsHerHands(this._profileTrouble?.[account]?.cause)) continue;
+      if (needsHerHands(this._profileTrouble?.[account]?.cause) && this._anotherAccountCanRun(account)) continue;
       this._profileCooldown[account] = 0;
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * A LOGIN THAT LANDED PUTS ITS ACCOUNT STRAIGHT BACK.
+   *
+   * Trouble on an account is only cleared by a session surviving on it, and a
+   * signed-out account was benched so that no session could start on it. So
+   * nothing she did could bring it back, and the bench ran out on its own half
+   * an hour later (2026-10-04). Here every tick asks whether the files a login
+   * writes have moved since the account was found signed out. If they have,
+   * the account gets one try now. The trouble itself stays until that try
+   * survives, so a write that was not a login (another Claude window touching
+   * the same file) buys one two-second try and no more: the stamp moves with
+   * it, and the next lift needs the next write.
+   */
+  _noticeSignIns() {
+    let lifted = false;
+    for (const [key, trouble] of Object.entries(this._profileTrouble ?? {})) {
+      if (trouble?.cause !== 'signed-out') continue;
+      const stamp = signInStamp(this._signInFilesFor(key));
+      if (!stamp || stamp <= (trouble.stamp ?? trouble.at ?? 0)) continue;
+      trouble.stamp = stamp;
+      if (this._profileCooldown) this._profileCooldown[key] = 0;
+      if (!key.startsWith('codex:')) this._spawnCooldownUntil = 0;
+      lifted = true;
+    }
+    if (lifted) this._saveState();
+    return lifted;
+  }
+
+  /** Which files one account's login writes, by the key its trouble is kept under. */
+  _signInFilesFor(key) {
+    const home = this.config.home || os.homedir();
+    if (key.startsWith('codex:')) {
+      const profile = key.slice('codex:'.length);
+      return signInFiles({ engine: 'codex', folder: this._codexProfileHome(profile), home });
+    }
+    return signInFiles({ folder: key === 'default' ? null : key, home });
+  }
+
+  /** Whether one Codex login has a sign-in on disk at all. Only the file's time is read. */
+  _codexSignedIn(profile) {
+    return signInStamp(this._signInFilesFor(`codex:${profile}`)) > 0;
+  }
+
+  // Whether some OTHER login on this account's engine could run once her hand
+  // has lifted what time alone would lift, i.e. one not waiting on a person.
+  _anotherAccountCanRun(account) {
+    const engine = String(account).startsWith('codex:') ? 'codex' : DEFAULT_ENGINE;
+    return this._profilesFor(engine)
+      .map((p) => this._accountKey(engine, p))
+      .some((key) => key !== account && !needsHerHands(this._profileTrouble?.[key]?.cause));
+  }
+
   _kill(session) {
     if (!session) return false;
     session.stoppedByUs = true;
@@ -574,7 +693,15 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // a stopped fleet and spawn one more worker on the way out.
     clearTimeout(this._wakeTimer);
     this._wakeTimer = null;
-    // And a spawn still waiting on its folder never starts.
+    // And a spawn still waiting on its folder never starts. ITS REPLY GOES BACK
+    // IN LINE: the tick saved the reply as delivered when it picked it, and a
+    // start that never happened delivered nothing. Left standing, the saved
+    // mark had the restarted app skip the reply for good, with no agent on it:
+    // an Urgent task sat over an hour while a Medium in its project ran
+    // (w-53a72e6e7f, tests/a-reply-waiting-for-its-folder-survives-a-restart).
+    for (const { item, opts } of this._preparing?.values() ?? []) {
+      if (opts?.continuation && item?.answer) this.redeliverAnswer(item, item.answer);
+    }
     this._preparing?.clear();
     for (const s of this.sessions.values()) this._kill(s);
     this.sessions.clear();
@@ -589,6 +716,18 @@ export class Supervisor {
     return this._kill(session);
   }
 
+  // SEND NOW, on a message of hers already waiting for the agent's current step
+  // to end: cut that step so the message is answered at once
+  // (`interrupt` in claude-input.mjs). The run goes on; only the step stops.
+  // An engine with no way to cut a step takes the message at its next one.
+  async sendNow(product, itemId) {
+    const session = this.sessions.get(itemId);
+    if (!session || session.product !== product) return { ok: false, interrupted: false };
+    if (typeof session.child?.interrupt !== 'function') return { ok: true, interrupted: false };
+    const { interrupted } = await session.child.interrupt();
+    return { ok: true, interrupted };
+  }
+
   // App quit: take the workers down with the supervisor. Killing the app used
   // to orphan every running claude session; six orphans from before a restart
   // kept working under stale permission rules and flooded the founder with
@@ -597,6 +736,8 @@ export class Supervisor {
   killAll() {
     for (const session of this.sessions.values()) this._kill(session);
     this._closeCodex(`${Name} is quitting`);
+    this.stopMemoryGate();
+    clearInterval(this._leftoverTimer);
   }
 
   // PUT A WORKER BACK ON THESE ROWS, WHATEVER STATE THEY ARE IN.
@@ -623,10 +764,19 @@ export class Supervisor {
     const out = { resumed: 0, queued: 0, working: 0, missing: 0 };
     if (!only.size) return out;
     this.liftBrakeForHer();
+    // RESUMING IS STILL ASKING TO RUN ON THIS MAC, so it obeys the same team
+    // rule the tick does (w-7fc38861be). It did not: on 2026-10-05 "Resume
+    // Agents" over a handful of ticked rows reached two conversations with
+    // teammates, and an agent turned up in the middle of each, reading the
+    // last thread reply as an instruction. Asking by name outranks a delivery
+    // mark and the attempt cap below; it does not make a row this Mac's to run.
+    const productBySlug = new Map((this.store.listProducts?.() ?? []).map((p) => [p.slug, p]));
+    const me = process.env.AGENTBOX_PERSON_ID || null;
 
     for (const item of this.store.listItems(Date.now())) {
       if (!only.has(item.id)) continue;
       only.delete(item.id);
+      if (!mayRunHere(item, productBySlug.get(item.product), me)) continue;
       // A row with a worker on it is already resumed. Saying so is the honest
       // answer; killing the session to restart it would throw away the work in
       // flight, which is never what "resume" meant.
@@ -729,11 +879,12 @@ export class Supervisor {
   // worker is on it, and that promise is exactly what sleep breaks. So a
   // stranded row is a row she cannot see.
   //
-  // HER RULE, and the only reason this is not three lines: resume, never
+  // THE RULE, and the only reason this is not three lines: resume, never
   // restart. A row whose session is still on disk gets that session back, with
   // everything it had read and written. A row whose session is not gets NOTHING
   // done to it: no fresh worker, no cleared mark, no stranger briefed from
-  // zero. It waits for her, which is what she chose over restarting it.
+  // zero. It waits for the user, which is deliberately preferred over
+  // restarting it.
   recoverInterrupted(reason = 'startup') {
     const out = { reason, resumed: 0, waiting: 0, queued: 0, running: 0, resting: 0, missing: 0, resumedIds: [], waitingIds: [], missingIds: [] };
     this._recoverPending = false;
@@ -784,12 +935,12 @@ export class Supervisor {
       // Resume forces the row's own profile, and it has to: the session lives
       // in that account's home and in no other, so a resume is only a resume on
       // the account that made it. That is exactly why this path walked past the
-      // quarantine `_pickProfile` respects, and on 2026-08-24 that cost her
-      // seven and a half hours. Her second subscription's login expired at
-      // 10:39; two rows had their sessions on it; every sweep resumed both,
-      // both died in two seconds, both were still stranded for the next sweep.
-      // Four dead spawns a minute, two of her three slots gone to them on every
-      // pass, and the healthy account never got to start anything.
+      // quarantine `_pickProfile` respects, and that once cost seven and a
+      // half hours. A second subscription's login expired; two rows had their
+      // sessions on it; every sweep resumed both, both died in two seconds,
+      // both were still stranded for the next sweep. Four dead spawns a minute,
+      // two of three slots gone to them on every pass, and the healthy account
+      // never got to start anything.
       //
       // Resting is not `waiting`. Waiting is her word for a session that is
       // gone off disk and needs a person; this session is intact and this
@@ -878,14 +1029,11 @@ export class Supervisor {
   //
   // Ordering was already fixed and was not enough. put every spawnable row into
   // one scored queue, which decides who gets the NEXT FREE slot; nothing frees
-  // one. Measured over her whole store for the five days since that fix landed
-  // (08-19 19:37 to 08-24): 68 answers on Urgent rows, median wait to start 1.7
-  // minutes, and 23 of them waited longer than five. Seventeen of those 23 had
-  // a lower-priority session running at the moment the urgent one finally
-  // started. In the 19 clearest cases — where a lower-priority session was
-  // already running when her answer landed — her urgent work spent 7.8 hours
-  // waiting, the worst single wait 61.5 minutes, and the sessions in front of
-  // it ran a median of 21 minutes.
+  // one. Measured over the five days after that fix landed: about a third of
+  // answers on Urgent rows waited longer than five minutes to start, most of
+  // them behind a lower-priority session that was already running, the worst
+  // single wait an hour, and the sessions in front of them ran a median of 21
+  // minutes.
   //
   // WHAT MAKES THIS SAFE IS THAT THE WORK IS KEPT, and it is kept by machinery
   // that already existed rather than anything invented here. `_kill` marks the
@@ -910,7 +1058,15 @@ export class Supervisor {
   // she would have lost a running worker for nothing. So the candidate list is
   // scoped to the engine the urgent row is going to spawn on, and a full fleet
   // on the OTHER engine is simply not this row's problem.
+  //
+  // A ROW SHE PUSHED WITH "RUN NOW" TAKES A SLOT TOO, by the same door and with
+  // the same promise that what it pauses comes back as itself. Two things are
+  // different, both because she asked for this row by name, this minute: it
+  // may pause anything that is not itself pushed, whatever its project or tag,
+  // and the empty-runs rule below does not apply to it.
   _preemptFor(item, items, engine = DEFAULT_ENGINE) {
+    const pushed = this._runNow.has(item.id);
+    if (pushed) return this._takeSlotFor(item, items, engine, (victim) => !this._runNow.has(victim.id));
     if (!isUrgent(item)) return null;
     // A ROW WORKERS KEEP LEAVING ALONE MAY NOT KILL ANYTHING.
     //
@@ -929,12 +1085,24 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // answer restores the interrupt immediately — which is the case that
     // matters most, an Urgent row she has just replied to.
     if (this._emptyRuns(item) > 1) return null;
+    // STRICTLY lower. Equal scores do not interrupt each other: two Urgent
+    // rows in the same product would otherwise take turns killing each
+    // other for as long as they both existed. Nor does it pause a row she
+    // pushed with Run now, which she asked for by name.
+    const want = this._score(item);
+    return this._takeSlotFor(item, items, engine,
+      (victim) => this._score(victim) < want && !this._runNow.has(victim.id));
+  }
+
+  // The half of an interruption both doors share: pick the session to pause,
+  // pause it, and hold it out of the queue until `item` is running.
+  // `mayTake(victim)` is the door's own rule about whom it may pause.
+  _takeSlotFor(item, items, engine, mayTake) {
     // A slot taken for a row that cannot take it is a kill that buys her
     // nothing. The queue's own guards cover the answered case; this covers a
     // lease somebody else still holds, which would refuse this worker the
     // claim whatever we killed to make room for it.
     if (this.claimHeldElsewhere(item)) return null;
-    const want = this._score(item);
     const candidates = [];
     for (const session of this.sessions.values()) {
       const id = session.itemId;
@@ -949,10 +1117,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
       // since been archived. We cannot score it and we cannot resume it onto
       // anything, so it is left alone.
       if (!victim) continue;
-      // STRICTLY lower. Equal scores do not interrupt each other: two Urgent
-      // rows in the same product would otherwise take turns killing each
-      // other for as long as they both existed.
-      if (this._score(victim) >= want) continue;
+      if (!mayTake(victim)) continue;
       const rec = this._liveSessions[id];
       // The two halves of "the work is kept". Without the record there is no
       // session id to resume; without the transcript the CLI's --resume exits
@@ -998,12 +1163,60 @@ export class Supervisor {
       const done = this.sessions.has(rec.forItem)
         || !target
         || (target.status !== 'open' && target.status !== 'claimed')
-        || !isUrgent(target)
+        || (!isUrgent(target) && !this._runNow.has(target.id))
         || now - rec.at > PREEMPTION_HOLD_MS;
       if (done) this._preempted.delete(id);
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * RUN THIS ONE NOW: the three-dot menu's row on a waiting task.
+   *
+   * Her tag on a task could not do this. A project's place in her order is
+   * worth a hundred times any tag (shared/rank.mjs), so an Urgent task in a
+   * lower project waited behind a Low one in a higher project and could not
+   * interrupt it either; lowering the other tasks only reordered the waiting
+   * line, never a running one. So this is not a priority at all. It is a
+   * one-time push: the task goes to the front of the line, and if every slot
+   * on its engine is full the tick pauses the least important running task to
+   * make room (`_preemptFor`), which comes back as its own session afterwards.
+   * The task's tag and everything else's order are left exactly as they were.
+   */
+  runNow(product, id) {
+    const item = this.store.listItems(Date.now()).find((i) => i.id === id && i.product === product);
+    if (!item) return { ok: false, reason: 'missing' };
+    if (this.sessions.has(id)) return { ok: false, reason: 'running' };
+    // A PUSH NOTHING WILL ACT ON IS REFUSED OUT LOUD. The menu now offers Run
+    // now on anything In progress (renderer/src/run-now.ts), which takes in
+    // rows the tick is not going to start. Accepting those would read as Up
+    // next while nothing moved, so each says why instead.
+    if (this.paused) return { ok: false, reason: 'paused' };
+    if (!this.store.isDue(item, Date.now())) return { ok: false, reason: 'scheduled' };
+    if (this.claimHeldElsewhere(item)) return { ok: false, reason: 'held' };
+    this._runNow.set(id, { product, at: Date.now(), started: false });
+    // Asking for a row by name outranks a rest the fleet earned on it, the
+    // same way `resumeItems` treats it.
+    if (this._fruitless[`${product}:${id}`]) {
+      delete this._fruitless[`${product}:${id}`];
+      this._saveState();
+    }
+    this.onChange?.();
+    this.wake();
+    return { ok: true };
+  }
+
+  // A push lasts while its task runs, so a second push cannot pause the first,
+  // and ends with that run. One that never starts ends when the row stops being
+  // open work: finished, archived, or gone.
+  _settleRunNow(items) {
+    for (const [id, rec] of [...this._runNow]) {
+      const item = items.find((i) => i.id === id && i.product === rec.product);
+      if (!item || (item.status !== 'open' && item.status !== 'claimed')) { this._runNow.delete(id); continue; }
+      if (this.sessions.has(id)) rec.started = true;
+      else if (rec.started) this._runNow.delete(id);
+    }
+  }
+
   // AN ACCOUNT THAT IS OUT OF THE ROTATION RIGHT NOW.
   //
   // The cooldown and nothing else, deliberately. `_liveProfiles` falls back to
@@ -1020,14 +1233,13 @@ export class Supervisor {
    * AN ACCOUNT ONLY A PERSON CAN MEND HOLDS NO CHAT.
    *
    * A row is a chat, and a chat lives on one account: `_rowSessions` records
-   * which, and every reply she writes goes back there, because a transcript
+   * which, and every reply the user writes goes back there, because a transcript
    * sits under one profile's home and under no other.
    *
-   * It was. Measured on her store that afternoon: 28 of 67 remembered chats
-   * were on ~/.claude-work, whose organization has Claude Code switched off,
-   * and one of them died four times in four hours, each death about twenty
-   * seconds after she wrote on the row, while her other subscription worked
-   * throughout. Two of those four spawns went out INSIDE the thirty-minute
+   * It was. Chats remembered on an account whose organization had Claude Code
+   * switched off died again and again, each death about twenty seconds after a
+   * reply on the row, while another subscription worked throughout. Some of
+   * those spawns went out INSIDE the thirty-minute
    * quarantine this file had already put that account in: `_recoverPending`'s
    * sweep checks the quarantine and the reply path never did.
    *
@@ -1042,11 +1254,11 @@ export class Supervisor {
    * Losing a chat costs one fresh brief, which is what every row got before
    * chats existed, so the worst case of this guard is the old normal.
    *
-   * A USAGE LIMIT IS NOW A THIRD HALF, and a PER-ENGINE one (2026-09-24,
-   * w-ca48e69535). "Worth waiting out" was written about a five-hour limit.
-   * Her Codex work login hit a WEEKLY one, four days from resetting, and her
-   * reply sat on it while the other login was at 0%. Her words: "it should be
-   * running because I switched the account". So an account resting on its
+   * A USAGE LIMIT IS NOW A THIRD HALF, and a PER-ENGINE one (w-ca48e69535).
+   * "Worth waiting out" was written about a five-hour limit. A Codex login
+   * that hits a WEEKLY one can be days from resetting, and a reply sat on it
+   * while the other login was at 0%. A user who has switched accounts expects
+   * the work to run on the new one. So an account resting on its
    * limit gives the chat up too, when another account on the SAME engine can
    * run. This used to read `_healthyProfiles` and an unkeyed trouble entry,
    * both Claude-only, so it could never fire for a Codex row at all. */
@@ -1103,11 +1315,11 @@ export class Supervisor {
 
   /**
    * Whether this Mac has the harness at all, which is a different question
-   *  from whether it has a free slot. Claude Code is always the answer for
-   *  itself: the app refuses to open an inbox without it and says so in its own
-   *  words (main/claude-bin.mjs), so a second sentence here would be noise. */
+   *  from whether it has a free slot. Claude Code answers yes for itself unless
+   *  this Mac runs on Codex alone: with neither, the app refuses to open an
+   *  inbox and says so in its own words, so a second sentence here is noise. */
   _engineCanRun(engine) {
-    return engineOf(engine) === DEFAULT_ENGINE ? true : !!this.config.codexBin;
+    return engineOf(engine) === DEFAULT_ENGINE ? this._homeEngine() === DEFAULT_ENGINE : !!this.config.codexBin;
   }
 
   /**
@@ -1124,7 +1336,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
     const word = engineLabel(engine);
     try {
       this.store.recordSessionResult(item.product, item.id, {
-        result: `This task was being worked on in ${word}, which is not installed on this Mac, so ${NAME} has not put a session back on it. It is not lost: install ${word} and the same session picks up where it stopped.`,
+        result: `This task was being worked on in ${word}, which is not installed on this computer, so ${NAME} has not put a session back on it. It is not lost: install ${word} and the same session picks up where it stopped.`,
         status: 'open',
       });
     } catch (e) { console.warn('zero: could not say the harness is missing:', e.message); }
@@ -1239,15 +1451,15 @@ export class Supervisor {
   //
   // Until this, every session on a product ran in the one checkout the product
   // registers, and staying out of each other's way was a rule in the worker
-  // brief rather than anything the app did. Measured on her Mac that day: 25
-  // leftover copies of this repository holding 26 GB, twelve of them carrying
-  // edits committed nowhere, because the rule's first half (make a copy) is
-  // kept by almost every session and its second half (fold it back, delete it)
-  // by almost none. Her decision, the same day: "the app makes the folder for
-  // both agents." main/task-folders.mjs is the whole of how.
+  // brief rather than anything the app did. Measured: 25 leftover copies of
+  // this repository holding 26 GB, twelve of them carrying edits committed
+  // nowhere, because the rule's first half (make a copy) is kept by almost
+  // every session and its second half (fold it back, delete it) by almost
+  // none. So the app makes the folder, for both engines. main/task-folders.mjs
+  // is the whole of how.
   //
   // THE PRODUCT'S OWN CHECKOUT IS STILL THE ANSWER for a product with no
-  // repository (most of hers), for a personal chat, and any time making the
+  // repository, for a personal chat, and any time making the
   // folder fails. Nothing here may ever stop a spawn: a session that runs in
   // the shared checkout is what happened yesterday, and a session that does not
   // run is a row she never hears back on.
@@ -1353,6 +1565,39 @@ export class Supervisor {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * A SESSION LETS GO OF ITS ROW, AND ONLY OF ITS OWN ROW.
+   *
+   * One entry in the session map per row, so two sessions on one row share it,
+   * and an exit used to delete that entry whoever it belonged to. Measured on
+   * w-4d722ecf92, 2026-09-30: the row's folder had been built at the path a
+   * session runs in, a tick mid-build started a worker in it, the finished
+   * build started a second worker on the same row, and when the first exited it
+   * deleted the entry belonging to the one still running and handed its folder
+   * back. A folder freshly made at main is clean and already in main, which is
+   * exactly the case `releaseTaskFolder` DELETES rather than keeps, so the
+   * ground went out from under a live agent about a minute in.
+   *
+   * The build is atomic now (`buildingFolderPath`) so two sessions should not
+   * reach one row at all. This is the second lock on the same door, because the
+   * cost of being wrong here is an agent's work deleted mid run.
+   */
+  endSession(item, session, product) {
+    if (session && this.sessions.get(item.id) !== session) {
+      console.warn(`zero: a later session is on ${item.id}, so this one leaves its folder alone`);
+      return Promise.resolve(null);
+    }
+    this.sessions.delete(item.id);
+    // The run is over, said by the only app that runs this row; what it left
+    // running may now be stopped on the cleaner's clock (main/leftovers.mjs).
+    this._leftoverCleaner?.ended(item.id);
+    // The row's folder goes back. It is only deleted when losing it costs
+    // nothing, so the usual answer is that it stays, holding work she has not
+    // approved. The same call sweeps the folders whose work has since landed in
+    // main, which is what stops them piling up unseen.
+    return Promise.resolve(this.releaseWorkFolder(item, product));
+  }
+
   /**
    * THE ROW'S FOLDER, MADE BEFORE THE SPAWN AND NOT ON THIS THREAD.
    *
@@ -1379,9 +1624,18 @@ export class Supervisor {
     const base = this.productFolder(product);
     let folder = null;
     try { folder = taskFolderPath(base, item.id); } catch { return false; }
-    if (fs.existsSync(folder)) return false;
+    // WHO IS ALREADY MAKING ONE IS ASKED BEFORE THE DISK IS, and that order is
+    // the whole of it. A build takes about ten seconds, and it used to leave a
+    // directory at this path for all of them, so a tick arriving mid-build read
+    // "the folder is there" and started a session in a folder holding almost
+    // none of the code. The build then finished and started its own session on
+    // the same row: two workers, and the second one's claim refused
+    // (2026-09-30, w-4d722ecf92). The folder is built elsewhere and moved in
+    // now, so the disk no longer lies here, and this answers first anyway
+    // because a row somebody is already preparing is never a row to spawn on.
     const held = this._preparing.get(item.id);
     if (held) { held.item = item; held.opts = opts; return true; }
+    if (fs.existsSync(folder)) return false;
     const entry = { item, opts, engine };
     this._preparing.set(item.id, entry);
     folderJob('restoreTaskFolder', base, item.id)
@@ -1393,6 +1647,13 @@ export class Supervisor {
         // Stopped, or the app quit, while the folder was being made.
         if (this._preparing.get(item.id) !== entry) return;
         this._preparing.delete(item.id);
+        // AND A SESSION THAT ARRIVED WHILE WE WERE BUILDING ALREADY HAS THIS
+        // ROW. Starting a second one here is what gave w-4d722ecf92 two workers
+        // and had the second one's claim refused. A spawn cannot reach this
+        // point through `_folderFirst` any more, but a remote-control spawn
+        // skips it entirely, so the one place that starts a worker without
+        // anybody having just checked asks for itself.
+        if (this.sessions.has(item.id)) { this.onChange?.(); return; }
         this._madeFolders.set(item.id, cwd);
         try { this.spawnWorker(entry.item, entry.opts); }
         catch (error) { console.warn(`zero: could not start ${item.id}:`, error.message); }
@@ -1402,6 +1663,45 @@ export class Supervisor {
     return true;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * THE CHECKOUT, PHOTOGRAPHED OFF THE MAIN THREAD BEFORE THE RUN STARTS
+   * (2026-10-01, main/git-change-offthread.mjs says why). The same pending
+   * entry `_folderFirst` uses, so a row being photographed counts against its
+   * slot and Stop cancels it exactly as it cancels a folder being made.
+   */
+  _photoFirst(item, product, engine, opts) {
+    if (opts.remoteOnly) return false;
+    this._photos ??= new Map();
+    if (this._photos.has(item.id)) return false;
+    const held = this._preparing?.get(item.id);
+    if (held) { held.item = item; held.opts = opts; return true; }
+    let cwd = null;
+    try { cwd = this.workFolderFor(item, product); } catch { return false; }
+    // Only a folder that is itself a checkout (a task folder carries a `.git`
+    // file, a repository a `.git` folder). Anything else has nothing to
+    // photograph, and keeps starting in the same call as before.
+    if (!cwd || !fs.existsSync(path.join(cwd, '.git'))) return false;
+    this._preparing ??= new Map();
+    const entry = { item, opts, engine, madeFolder: this._madeFolders?.get(item.id) };
+    this._preparing.set(item.id, entry);
+    gitJob('snapshotRepo', cwd)
+      .then((photo) => photo ?? null, () => null)
+      .then((photo) => {
+        if (this._preparing.get(item.id) !== entry) return;
+        this._preparing.delete(item.id);
+        this._photos.set(item.id, photo);
+        if (entry.madeFolder !== undefined) { this._madeFolders ??= new Map(); this._madeFolders.set(item.id, entry.madeFolder); }
+        try { this.spawnWorker(entry.item, entry.opts); }
+        catch (error) { console.warn(`zero: could not start ${item.id}:`, error.message); }
+        finally {
+          this._photos.delete(item.id);
+          if (entry.madeFolder !== undefined) this._madeFolders?.delete(item.id);
+        }
+        this.onChange?.();
+      });
+    return true;
+  }
+
   /**
    * THE FOLDERS OF ROWS THAT ARE FINISHED, PUT AWAY.
    *
@@ -1464,6 +1764,15 @@ export class Supervisor {
         if (item) break;
       }
       if (item && item.status !== 'done') continue;
+      // AND NEVER A ROW SOMEBODY IS STILL HOLDING, which is the rule the bug
+      // report asked for: whatever cleans folders up must not remove one whose
+      // row is claimed by a live session. The session map above is only
+      // the sessions THIS process started, so a worker the app has lost track
+      // of, or one whose lease has not run out yet, is invisible to it. The
+      // claim in the ledger is the fact that outlives this process. The cost of
+      // reading it is that a finished folder waits out a lease; the cost of not
+      // reading it is an agent's folder deleted while it works (w-4d722ecf92).
+      if (item?.claim && !item.claimExpired) continue;
       if (busy(folder.id)) continue;
       if ((await folderJob('parkTaskFolder', base, folder.id)).parked) put += 1;
     }
@@ -1497,7 +1806,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
   // But a bigger cap is not what makes it safe either, because CLAUDE CODE
   // DELETES ITS OWN TRANSCRIPTS AT THIRTY DAYS and an entry whose transcript
   // is gone is already refused by `rowSessionFor`. Measured the same day
-  // across both her logins: 3,808 transcript files, oldest 31.0 days, exactly
+  // across a real set of transcripts: 3,808 files, oldest 31.0 days, exactly
   // one over 30. So thirty days is the true life of a chat whatever we set
   // here, and the honest prune is by age, with the count left as a backstop
   // far above where it can bite: replaying her 1,605 real replies through this
@@ -1507,7 +1816,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
   // at 500. Re-run it all with `scripts/replay-the-forgetting-rule.mjs`.
   static get ROW_SESSION_CAP() { return 2000; }
 
-  // Claude Code's own `cleanupPeriodDays`, which neither of her settings files
+  // Claude Code's own `cleanupPeriodDays`, which a settings file rarely
   // overrides. Past this the transcript is gone and the entry is dead weight.
   static get ROW_SESSION_MAX_AGE_MS() { return 30 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000; }
 
@@ -1595,6 +1904,20 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // throw away every chat she is in the middle of.
     const folders = product ? this.workFolders(item, product) : [];
     if (folders.length && rec.cwd && !folders.includes(rec.cwd)) return null;
+    // A CHAT ON THE WRONG LOGIN IS NOT RESUMED IN A TIED PROJECT, and this is
+    // the one question asked ahead of the health of the account. A chat started
+    // before the project was tied lives on whatever account the rotation gave
+    // it, and resuming it there would send the next reply -- and everything the
+    // transcript already holds -- to exactly the login the tie exists to keep it
+    // off. Dropped here, the row is briefed fresh on the right account.
+    //
+    // AND A TIED PROJECT KEEPS ITS CHAT WHILE THE PINNED ACCOUNT IS ILL, which
+    // is why the test below is not simply "also check `_profileCannotHoldAChat`".
+    // That guard moves a chat to a HEALTHIER account; a tied project has none to
+    // move to, so firing it would throw the thread away and buy nothing.
+    if (this._projectProfile(item.product, rec.engine)) {
+      return this._profileFitsProject(rec.profile, item.product, rec.engine) ? rec : null;
+    }
     // The account this chat lives on cannot run anything until somebody acts.
     // Null here is the fresh brief, which is exactly what this row needs: it
     // goes to a working account carrying its own thread.
@@ -1620,14 +1943,18 @@ export class Supervisor {
     const parts = [
       'The founder has replied on the work item you were just working on. This is',
       'that same session: everything you read and wrote is still here, so do not go',
-      'back over the files or the item to catch up. Read her words and carry on.',
+      'back over the files or the item to catch up.',
+      '',
+      'Their newest message is the last one below, and it outranks anything',
+      'before it. Do what it asks first, before you go back to anything you were',
+      'doing; if it says to keep going afterwards, keep going then.',
       '',
       'Two things did change while you were stopped. Your claim on the row was',
       'released when your last run ended, so claim it again before you write to it.',
-      'And the row itself may have been rewritten since, by her or by another',
+      'And the row itself may have been rewritten since, by them or by another',
       'session, so read it back before you trust what you remember of it.',
       '',
-      'What she said:',
+      'What they said:',
       '',
       String(item?.answer ?? ''),
     ];
@@ -1635,9 +1962,39 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // attached to the reply that woke it.
     const files = product ? this.attachmentBlock({ ...item, body: '', result: '', note: '' }, product) : '';
     if (files) parts.push(files);
+    // A resumed session never saw the full brief's ship section if it began
+    // before the project shipped through the app, and her "merge it" is
+    // exactly when it needs it.
+    if (product && this.shipsThroughTheApp(product)) parts.push(this.shipBrief());
     return parts.join('\n');
   }
 
+  /** Whether this Mac ships this project's tasks itself (main/ship-queue.mjs). */
+  shipsThroughTheApp(product) {
+    return !!shipScriptFor(product, readShipSettings(this.userDir));
+  }
+
+  // HOW A TASK SHIPS, when the app does it. The agent's last step is a label,
+  // not a push: a push or a move of another checkout from inside an agent
+  // session is what Claude Code's safety check refuses, and a refusal asks
+  // nobody, so the task just stopped.
+  shipBrief() {
+    return [
+      '',
+      '# How this task ships',
+      '',
+      `${Name} ships this project's work itself. When the work is done and its tests`,
+      'pass, commit it on your branch in your task folder, then add the label',
+      `\`${SHIP_LABEL}\` to this work item (update_work_item, keeping its other labels)`,
+      'and end your turn as usual. Whether to wait for approval first is set by the',
+      'instructions you were given, not by this.',
+      '',
+      `Do NOT push, do NOT merge into main, and do NOT touch any other folder. ${Name}`,
+      'merges the latest main into your branch, runs the tests, pushes, and updates',
+      'the app folder. If that fails you will be woken with its exact words.',
+    ].join('\n');
+  }
+
   // WHAT A RESUMED WORKER IS TOLD, and why it is six lines rather than a brief.
   // Everything it knew is still in the session it is being handed back: the
   // work item, her instructions, every file it read. A second copy of
@@ -1654,13 +2011,15 @@ export class Supervisor {
       'and re-read the work item if you need to.',
     ];
     if (continuation && item?.answer && item.answer !== '(withdrawn)') {
-      parts.push('', 'The founder has answered since you stopped:', '', String(item.answer));
+      parts.push('', 'The founder has answered since you stopped. Their newest message is the',
+        'last one below: do what it asks before you carry on with anything else.', '', String(item.answer));
       // A resumed session has everything it read still in it, EXCEPT anything
       // she attached to the reply that woke it. That is new, and it is the one
       // thing a six-line wake-up can genuinely be missing.
       const files = product ? this.attachmentBlock({ ...item, body: '', result: '', note: '' }, product) : '';
       if (files) parts.push(files);
     }
+    if (product && this.shipsThroughTheApp(product)) parts.push(this.shipBrief());
     return parts.join('\n');
   }
 
@@ -1668,12 +2027,10 @@ export class Supervisor {
    * THE FIRST WORDS A FORK HEARS, AND WHY IT NEEDS DIFFERENT ONES.
    *
    * A forked session is the old conversation continued under a new id, so it
-   * remembers everything, INCLUDING which work item it was on. On 2026-09-23
-   * that is exactly what it did: the fork of `w-5ebf7bf7bb` kept writing its
-   * results onto `w-5ebf7bf7bb`, so one thread in her inbox had two agents
-   * talking in it and the fork's own row sat silent. Her words the next day: "I
-   * thought I answered this in a different agent but this one picked it up...
-   * Could this indicate that our fork is not working?"
+   * remembers everything, INCLUDING which work item it was on. That is exactly
+   * what it did: the fork of `w-5ebf7bf7bb` kept writing its results onto
+   * `w-5ebf7bf7bb`, so one thread in the inbox had two agents talking in it and
+   * the fork's own row sat silent, which looked as if forking did not work.
    *
    * It was working. Nobody had told it that it had moved. So the fork's first
    * message says which row it is on now, that the row it remembers belongs to
@@ -1689,7 +2046,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
       `Your work item is now ${item.id}: ${item.title}`,
       ...(from ? [`The row you remember, ${from}, belongs to another session now. Do not`, 'write on it, claim it, or answer on it. Everything you have to say goes on', 'your own row.'] : []),
       '',
-      'What she asked this fork to try:',
+      'What they asked this fork to try:',
       '',
       String(item.body ?? '').trim() || '(nothing beyond the fork itself)',
     ];
@@ -1698,8 +2055,8 @@ export class Supervisor {
     return parts.join('\n');
   }
 
-  // Which delivery this is. Keyed on WHEN she wrote, not only on what she
-  // wrote: two identical nudges four minutes apart are two asks, and a key made
+  // Which delivery this is. Keyed on WHEN the user wrote, not only on what
+  // they wrote: two identical nudges four minutes apart are two asks, and a key made
   // of the words alone made the second one already-handled, silently and
   // permanently. The old text-only key is still honoured on read so the marks
   // already on disk keep suppressing the spawns they were written for; they age
@@ -1717,6 +2074,24 @@ export class Supervisor {
       || this._handledAnswers.has(this._legacyAnswerKey(item, answer));
   }
 
+  // WHICH CONVERSATION ALREADY HOLDS THESE WORDS, which is not whether a run
+  // finished carrying them. A stop releases the delivery mark on purpose, so
+  // the row gets another run, and the resume used to read that release as
+  // "never heard" and hand the same conversation everything again: on
+  // w-f37a34def6 a 2,000-character round of feedback it had acted on for forty
+  // minutes, ahead of the one short ask it had not seen, which it then missed.
+  // Written when a run starts on the words or takes them mid-run, and never
+  // released, because a stop does not unhear anything.
+  _noteHeard(item, sessionId, answer = item?.answer) {
+    if (!sessionId || !item?.wrote?.answer) return;
+    (this._heardAnswers ??= {})[this._answerKey(item, answer)] = sessionId;
+    this._saveState();
+  }
+
+  _heardIn(item, sessionId, answer = item?.answer) {
+    return !!sessionId && this._heardAnswers?.[this._answerKey(item, answer)] === sessionId;
+  }
+
   // SOMEONE ELSE IS STILL HOLDING THIS ROW, so a worker sent to it now would be
   // refused it and could do nothing at all.
   //
@@ -1748,14 +2123,13 @@ export class Supervisor {
   // session exits, and the reason "stopped · 5h" rows existed at all.
   //
   // The mark is written at SPAWN, which is a promise that a worker will carry
-  // her words, not a record that one did. Releasing it was already understood
-  // to be necessary and was wired to the wrong predicate: sessions dying inside
-  // 45 seconds. Three of her items sat stranded for two, two and six hours
-  // against that, because they died at two to four minutes with
-  // `error_during_execution` — past the window, so the mark stood, so no tick
-  // would ever look at them again. Nothing retried and nothing said so. Her
-  // words were in the ledger and no worker would ever read them (2026-08-06,
-  // The Frontier / /).
+  // the user's words, not a record that one did. Releasing it was already
+  // understood to be necessary and was wired to the wrong predicate: sessions
+  // dying inside 45 seconds. Items sat stranded for hours against that, because
+  // they died at two to four minutes with `error_during_execution`, past the
+  // window, so the mark stood, so no tick would ever look at them again. Nothing
+  // retried and nothing said so. The user's words were in the ledger and no
+  // worker would ever read them.
   //
   // Duration was never the question. A SESSION THAT DID NOT FINISH DELIVERED
   // NOTHING, however long it took not to finish, so the predicate is the
@@ -1769,7 +2143,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
   //
   // `session.stoppedByUs` is how that is known, and the signal is not. The CLI
   // traps SIGTERM and exits itself, so `signal` arrives null on our own kills
-  // and this branch never once ran in production; three of her ordinary actions
+  // and this branch never once ran in production; three ordinary user actions
   // on one row exhausted its retries and stranded it for good. The signal is
   // still honoured for a child that dies without handling one.
   //
@@ -1781,7 +2155,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
   // AND "FINISHED" IS ABOUT THE ROW, NOT ABOUT THE PROCESS. A session that
   // exits with a result and no error has told us nothing about her item; the
   // only proof her answer was carried is a word an agent left on the row after
-  // she wrote. Without that check the mark was written on sessions that touched
+  // the user wrote. Without that check the mark was written on sessions that touched
   // nothing, and the row came straight back to her inbox saying what it said
   // before she answered (five times in two days; 22 seconds on). Treated as a
   // delivery that did not happen, which is what the retry counter below is
@@ -1793,7 +2167,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
     } catch { return true; }
   }
 
-  // WHICH OF HER WORDS THIS SESSION ACTUALLY RECEIVED, which is not always the
+  // WHICH OF THE USER'S WORDS THIS SESSION ACTUALLY RECEIVED, which is not always the
   // one it was spawned for.
   //
   // A reply typed at a session that is RUNNING is steered straight into it
@@ -1805,15 +2179,14 @@ export class Supervisor {
   // "stopped" on the row, and nothing coming, because the live reply is marked
   // delivered and no continuation will ever be spawned for it.
   //
-  // MEASURED on her own ledgers, 2026-09-22: of 1,841 settlements ever written,
-  // 62 recorded an older answer than the newest one on the row at that moment,
-  // across 39 rows. One of them is the row she photographed for w-72aa8c0b8d,
-  // where three rounds in a row settled the answer before the one she had just
-  // sent (19:09, 19:38 and 19:48 the same evening), so a finished round with the
-  // result written on it never once reached her inbox.
+  // MEASURED on real ledgers: a few percent of all settlements recorded an older
+  // answer than the newest one on the row at that moment. On one row
+  // (w-72aa8c0b8d) three rounds in a row settled the answer before the one just
+  // sent, so a finished round with the result written on it never once reached
+  // the inbox.
   //
   // So the newest word the session held, which is the spawn's answer or the
-  // last one steered into it, whichever she wrote later.
+  // last one steered into it, whichever was written later.
   carriedThrough(item, session) {
     return Math.max(answerTs(item), answerTs(session?.lastLiveReply));
   }
@@ -1826,7 +2199,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
     if (reply) this.redeliverAnswer(reply, reply.answer);
   }
 
-  // A REPLY SHE TYPED INTO A RUN THAT WAS NOT CARRYING AN ANSWER AT ALL.
+  // A REPLY THE USER TYPED INTO A RUN THAT WAS NOT CARRYING AN ANSWER AT ALL.
   //
   // `settleDelivery` is only reached on a continuation, a session spawned
   // BECAUSE she had spoken. The other half of the same day is ordinary fresh
@@ -1836,7 +2209,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
   //
   // Same three outcomes as a continuation, without the retry counter: this
   // delivery was never a spawn, so there is nothing to count and nothing to
-  // give up on. Either the run spoke after her words, or the word goes back in
+  // give up on. Either the run spoke after the user's words, or the word goes back in
   // the queue for the next one.
   settleLiveReply(item, session) {
     const carried = answerTs(session?.lastLiveReply);
@@ -1855,7 +2228,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
    * @param {{ command?: boolean }} [how] `command` means her reply WAS one of
    * Claude Code's own commands and the run was that command, not a worker. Such
    * a run answers in the thread and deliberately writes nothing on the row, so
-   * the ordinary test below — did an agent speak on the row since she wrote —
+   * the ordinary test below (did an agent speak on the row since the user wrote)
    * is one it can never pass. Without this it would be redelivered to the retry
    * cap and she would read the same context table three times.
    */
@@ -1875,7 +2248,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
       catch (e) { console.warn('zero: could not record the settled answer:', e.message); }
       return 'delivered';
     }
-    // THE WORD SHE TYPED INTO THE RUNNING SESSION IS NOT SETTLED EITHER, so it
+    // THE WORD THE USER TYPED INTO THE RUNNING SESSION IS NOT SETTLED EITHER, so it
     // must go back in the queue with the one this session was spawned for.
     // Steering it in marks it delivered (live-replies.mjs), and a mark nothing
     // releases is a word no worker will ever be sent to carry.
@@ -1889,7 +2262,10 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // answered read "stopped", which CLAUDE.md says must never mean "and
     // nothing will retry". The account health of the engine is still charged
     // for it, in `noteExitForBackoff`; only the delivery is spared.
-    if (signal || session?.stoppedByUs || session?.transportFault) {
+    // AND A FOURTH: the ACCOUNT refused it (signed out, out of usage, switched
+    // off). Her words never reached a worker, so they wait for the account
+    // rather than being spent on it (`accountFault`, noteExitForBackoff).
+    if (signal || session?.stoppedByUs || session?.transportFault || session?.accountFault) {
       this.redeliverAnswer(item, answerAtSpawn); // saves state
       return 'interrupted';
     }
@@ -1906,16 +2282,15 @@ export class Supervisor {
   /**
    * SETTLE THE DELIVERY, AND WHEN WE STOP TRYING TO CARRY HER ANSWER, SAY SO.
    *
-   * This is the worst shape of the silence she reported, because she did
-   * something first. She answers a row, a session is spawned to carry the
+   * This is the worst shape of silence, because the user did something
+   * first. They answer a row, a session is spawned to carry the
    * answer, it dies, three attempts go by and `settleDelivery` returns 'given
    * up' having written nothing anywhere she can see. The row goes on showing
    * the message she was replying to, so it reads exactly like a row nobody has
    * got to yet, and it reads that way forever.
    *
-   * MEASURED on her store 2026-08-28 by scripts/what-her-answers-got-back.mjs:
-   * of 556 rows carrying an answer of hers, 2 had a run die after she spoke
-   * with nothing said back, 9 dead runs between them.
+   * MEASURED by scripts/what-her-answers-got-back.mjs: it is rare, but it
+   * happens, and a row it happens to has several dead runs and nothing said back.
    *
    * ONLY ON 'given up'. A retry that is still coming may well work, and a
    * sentence written before then would be undone by the next run.
@@ -1989,13 +2364,36 @@ export class Supervisor {
     return seen.runs;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * THE LAST WORDS ON THIS ROW ARE OURS, ABOUT AN ACCOUNT, NOT AN AGENT'S.
+   *
+   * A fresh row whose run died on a signed-out login (or a usage limit) gets
+   * our own sentence written onto it ("Claude Code could not sign in... it
+   * picks straight up"), so she knows. That write is an agent-sourced result,
+   * and `awaitingHer` reads any such result as an agent having answered her,
+   * so the fresh-work pass walked past the row for good: the account came back
+   * and the row never ran, the opposite of what the sentence promised. Proved
+   * with real processes in
+   * tests/a-signed-out-claude-comes-back-on-its-own-end-to-end (no run at all
+   * after signing in, before this). True only when what we said was about the
+   * account and nothing has been written on the row since, so a real answer
+   * still waits for her. When the row may run is still `restingUntil`'s call.
+   */
+  _onlyWeSpokeForAnAccount(item) {
+    const seen = this._fruitless[`${item.product}:${item.id}`];
+    if (!seen?.saidTs || !(needsHerHands(seen.saidWhy) || seen.saidWhy === 'at-limit')) return false;
+    return (item.wrote?.result?.ts ?? 0) <= seen.saidTs;
+  }
+
   restingUntil(item) {
     const seen = this._fruitless[`${item.product}:${item.id}`];
     const runs = this._emptyRuns(item);
     if (!runs) return 0;
-    // AN URGENT ROW NEVER CLIMBS THE LADDER: "Urgent tasks are being
-    // prioritized below high priority tasks, when urgent tasks are so important
-    // they are even meant to INTERRUPT high and below."
+    // Rested because its ACCOUNT refused it: awake as soon as the account is.
+    if (seen?.account && !this._profileResting(seen.account)) return 0;
+    // AN URGENT ROW NEVER CLIMBS THE LADDER. Urgent outranks High, and is
+    // even meant to INTERRUPT High and below, so it must never end up waiting
+    // behind them.
     //
     // Both fixes she already has are about the ORDER of the queue: one scored
     // list, then an Urgent row taking a slot off a lesser session. Neither
@@ -2004,11 +2402,10 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // row is never ranked against anything at all. Priority only ever decided
     // who wins among the awake.
     //
-    // Measured on her own state the day she filed it:, Urgent, three empty
-    // runs, asleep 14:23 to 18:23;, Urgent, five empty runs, asleep a full
-    // twenty-four hours. She wrote the complaint at 14:46, twenty-three minutes
-    // into that four-hour sleep, and 58 sessions started on 20 other rows
-    // inside it, every one of them High, Medium or Low.
+    // Measured: an Urgent row with three empty runs slept for four hours and
+    // another with five slept a full twenty-four, while dozens of sessions
+    // started on other rows inside that sleep, every one of them High, Medium
+    // or Low.
     //
     // The cap is the FIRST RUNG rather than nothing at all, and it is the same
     // answer this file already gives a spawn that died on arrival: fifteen
@@ -2037,7 +2434,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
   // blocked it, finished it, or drew an answer out of the founder has moved it,
   // and the count is dropped.
   /**
-   * PUT THE FAILURE ON THE ROW, IN HER WORDS.
+   * PUT THE FAILURE ON THE ROW, IN PLAIN WORDS.
    *
    * Whether a run needs this said for it is `saidNothingSheCanUse` at the foot
    * of this file, which is the rule that decides between the two writers.
@@ -2071,6 +2468,26 @@ export class Supervisor {
    * says so on the row and parks it with her, because a third try is unlikely
    * to go differently and a silent loop is the thing being fixed.
    */
+  /**
+   * TIME THE MAC SPENT ASLEEP IS NOT SILENCE.
+   *
+   * Both of the hang check's signals are made by a sleep: no output, because
+   * nothing ran, and a lapsed claim, because the heartbeats were frozen too.
+   * So the first pass after the lid opened stopped every worker that had been
+   * waiting on its helpers (the landing page thread, 2026-10-03: asleep 03:36
+   * to 03:52, stopped two seconds after the wake;
+   * tests/a-worker-whose-helpers-are-still-working-does-not-come-back-to-you).
+   *
+   * A pass normally comes every fifteen seconds, so a gap of minutes means the
+   * process was not running. Every worker's quiet clock starts again from
+   * now, which gives a genuinely hung one ten more minutes, not a pass.
+   */
+  forgiveSleep(now = Date.now()) {
+    if (!this._lastTickAt || now - this._lastTickAt < SLEPT_GAP_MS) return false;
+    for (const session of this.sessions.values()) session.lastOutputAt = Math.max(session.lastOutputAt ?? 0, now);
+    return true;
+  }
+
   reapHungSessions(items, now = Date.now()) {
     if (!this.sessions.size) return [];
     const byId = new Map((items ?? []).map((i) => [i.id, i]));
@@ -2146,7 +2563,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
         runs,
         resetsAt,
       });
-      this.store.recordSessionResult(item.product, item.id, { result, status: 'open' });
+      const written = this.store.recordSessionResult(item.product, item.id, { result, status: 'open' });
       // REMEMBER THAT WE SAID IT, keyed on the run we said it about. The pass
       // below re-reads every resting row on every tick, and without a
       // watermark it would write the same sentence onto the same row every
@@ -2154,6 +2571,9 @@ export class Supervisor {
       const seen = this._fruitless[`${item.product}:${item.id}`];
       if (seen) {
         seen.saidAt = seen.endedAt ?? Date.now();
+        // The stamp of OUR write, so `_onlyWeSpokeForAnAccount` can tell it
+        // from anything written on the row afterwards.
+        seen.saidTs = written?.wrote?.result?.ts ?? Date.now();
         // AND WHY, WHICH IS THE HALF THE COUNT ABOVE HER LIST READS. Writing
         // the watermark alone told the pass below "this row has been dealt
         // with" and nothing else, so the row went silently uncounted and the
@@ -2180,10 +2600,9 @@ export class Supervisor {
    *
    * That covers exactly one moment and nothing either side of it:
    *
-   *  - A row that died BEFORE this code existed is never revisited. Four of her
-   *    Codex rows died for the last time at 13:48 and 13:51 on 2026-08-27, the
-   *    fix went in at 15:02, and at 15:48 all four still carried not one word.
-   *    That is the screen she was looking at when she wrote the line above.
+   *  - A row that died BEFORE this code existed is never revisited. Codex rows
+   *    that died for the last time shortly before the fix went in still carried
+   *    not one word an hour after it.
    *  - A row whose death was noticed while the app was closing loses it with the
    *    process, because the only record was the handler that never finished.
    *
@@ -2222,22 +2641,123 @@ export class Supervisor {
    * binary, a bad exit, a timeout or a reply that is not a name, and `nameItem`
    * treats '' as a no-op. A row that cannot be named keeps her own title, which
    * is what every row in her store had before this existed.
+   *
+   *   A MISS WAITS TEN MINUTES. Newest first with no memory of a failure meant
+   *   one row that could not be named was picked again every tick, and every
+   *   row behind it waited for good (tests/a-row-is-named-on-an-account-that-has-room).
    */
-  nameTheRows(items) {
-    if (this._naming) return;
+  nameTheRows(items, now = Date.now()) {
+    if (this._naming) return undefined;
+    this._nameMisses ??= new Map();
+    const key = (i) => `${i.product}:${i.id}`;
     const next = items
-      .filter((i) => wantsName(i))
+      .filter((i) => wantsName(i) && !(now - (this._nameMisses.get(key(i)) ?? -Infinity) < NAME_RETRY_MS))
       .sort((a, b) => (b.updatedAt ?? 0) - (a.updatedAt ?? 0))[0];
-    if (!next) return;
+    if (!next) return undefined;
     this._naming = true;
-    nameRow(next, { claudeBin: this.config?.claudeBin })
+    return this._askSmall((opts) => nameRow(next, opts), { product: next.product })
       .then((label) => {
-        if (label) this.store.nameItem(next.product, next.id, label);
+        if (!label) { this._nameMisses.set(key(next), now); return; }
+        this._nameMisses.delete(key(next));
+        this.store.nameItem(next.product, next.id, label);
       })
       .catch((e) => console.warn('zero: could not name a row:', e.message))
       .finally(() => { this._naming = false; });
   }
 
+  /**
+   * ONE SMALL-MODEL QUESTION, ASKED ON AN ACCOUNT THAT HAS ROOM.
+   *
+   * The namer and the message sorter used to spawn with the app's own
+   * environment, which bills the default Claude account and nothing else. On
+   * 2026-10-06 that account hit its weekly limit; agents moved to the second
+   * account and the namer did not, so every call died in two seconds and no
+   * row was named for a day.
+   *
+   * So every account is tried in turn, the ones not resting first, and the
+   * first answer wins: the home engine's accounts, then the other engine's when
+   * this Mac offers it (`engineChoices`, so a Codex nobody opted into is never
+   * billed). Each is asked once, so a Mac with every account at its limit costs
+   * one call per account and then waits for the next pass. The environment is
+   * a worker's (`_workerEnv`), so no API key from the app's own shell reaches
+   * the call, and the account rides it the way it does on a worker's spawn.
+   *
+   * A PROJECT TIED TO ONE ACCOUNT IS NOT WALKED, AND THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT OF
+   * THE TIE. The prompt here carries the row's own text -- its title, the first
+   * lines of its body, a teammate's message -- so a walk would put an
+   * employer's row in front of a personal subscription, which is the one thing
+   * the setting promises will not happen. So a tied project gets ONE call on
+   * ONE account: the pinned login, resting or not, and no fallback to the other
+   * engine either, because Codex is a different vendor's account and a walk
+   * onto it breaks the same promise the walk across logins does. The cost of
+   * getting nothing is the row keeping its own title, which is what every row
+   * had before the namer existed.
+   */
+  async _askSmall(ask, { product = null } = {}) {
+    const home = this._homeEngine();
+    const other = home === 'codex' ? DEFAULT_ENGINE : 'codex';
+    const engines = this._projectProfile(product)
+      ? [DEFAULT_ENGINE]
+      : [home, ...(this.engineChoices().some((e) => e.id === other) ? [other] : [])];
+    for (const engine of engines) {
+      for (const env of this._smallModelEnvs(engine, product)) {
+        const answer = await ask({ claudeBin: this.config?.claudeBin, codexBin: this.config?.codexBin, engine, env });
+        if (answer) return answer;
+      }
+    }
+    return '';
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * One environment per account on an engine, the accounts not resting first --
+   * or the one account a tied project named, which is a list of one.
+   */
+  _smallModelEnvs(engine, product = null) {
+    const env = this._workerEnv(engine);
+    const now = Date.now();
+    const resting = (p) => {
+      const key = this._accountKey(engine, p);
+      return (this._profileCooldown?.[key] ?? 0) >= now || !!this._profileTrouble?.[key];
+    };
+    const pinned = this._projectProfile(product, engine);
+    const all = pinned ? [pinned] : this._profilesFor(engine);
+    return [...all.filter((p) => !resting(p)), ...all.filter(resting)].map((p) => {
+      if (engine === 'codex') return { ...env, CODEX_HOME: this._codexProfileHome(p) };
+      return p === 'default' ? env : { ...env, CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR: p };
+    });
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * SORT ONE TEAMMATE'S MESSAGE A TICK by how urgent it is
+   * (main/message-priority.mjs). Paced like the namer above: one call at a
+   * time, newest first, not awaited by the tick. Each message is asked about
+   * once per run of the app, so a write that does not take is not retried
+   * every fifteen seconds.
+   */
+  sortTheMessages(items, me) {
+    if (this._sortingMessages || !me) return undefined;
+    this._sortedMessages ??= new Set();
+    const products = new Map((this.store.listProducts?.() ?? []).map((p) => [p.slug, p]));
+    const next = items
+      .filter((i) => wantsPriority(i, products.get(i.product), me))
+      .map((i) => ({ item: i, latest: latestMessage(i) }))
+      .filter(({ item, latest }) => !this._sortedMessages.has(`${item.product}:${item.id}:${latest.ts}`))
+      .sort((a, b) => b.latest.ts - a.latest.ts)[0];
+    if (!next) return undefined;
+    this._sortingMessages = true;
+    this._sortedMessages.add(`${next.item.product}:${next.item.id}:${next.latest.ts}`);
+    return this._askPriority(next.latest, next.item.product)
+      .then((level) => {
+        if (level) this.store.prioritizeItem(next.item.product, next.item.id, LEVELS[level]);
+      })
+      .catch((e) => console.warn('zero: could not sort a message:', e.message))
+      .finally(() => { this._sortingMessages = false; });
+  }
+
+  _askPriority(latest, product = null) {
+    return this._askSmall((opts) => sortMessage(latest, opts), { product });
+  }
+
   sayItOnEveryStrandedRow(items, now = Date.now()) {
     let dirty = false;
     // AND THE SAME PASS COUNTS THEM, for the line above her list. The count
@@ -2313,7 +2833,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
         // (`stderr` in shared/dead-run-trace.mjs is stderr AND the error
         // result), so the hour was there to be read the whole time.
         const resetsAt = cause === 'at-limit' ? limitResetsAt(trace.stderr) : null;
-        this.store.recordSessionResult(product, id, {
+        const written = this.store.recordSessionResult(product, id, {
           result: deadRunSentence({
             engineWord: 'Claude Code',
             cause,
@@ -2323,6 +2843,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
           status: 'open',
         });
         seen.saidAt = seen.endedAt ?? now;
+        seen.saidTs = written?.wrote?.result?.ts ?? now;
         seen.saidWhy = cause;
         // KEPT, because the line above the list wants the same hour and the
         // trace it came off is not read again after this pass.
@@ -2380,7 +2901,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
    *   on arrival: it never got as far as being a session, so what it proves is
    *   that the machine is broken, not that this row has nothing in it.
    */
-  noteFreshRun(item, { everRan = true } = {}) {
+  noteFreshRun(item, { everRan = true, account = null } = {}) {
     const key = `${item.product}:${item.id}`;
     // Re-read: `item` is the snapshot taken at spawn, and the whole question is
     // what the session did to the row since.
@@ -2404,16 +2925,21 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // worth less than the first. It is wrong for a worker that never started,
     // because nobody has looked at the row at all.
     //
-    // Measured the day this landed: her Codex tasks could not start, and two
-    // of them earned five strikes each and went to sleep for twenty-four
-    // hours. The engine was fixed at 15:04 and those two rows would still not
-    // have been tried again until 13:48 the following afternoon, serving a
-    // sentence earned entirely by a bug that no longer exists.
+    // Measured the day this landed: Codex tasks could not start, and two of
+    // them earned five strikes each and went to sleep for twenty-four hours.
+    // Once the engine was fixed, those two rows would still not have been
+    // tried again until the following afternoon, serving a sentence earned
+    // entirely by a bug that no longer exists.
     //
     // The first rung still applies, so a broken engine is not hammered: fifteen
     // minutes between attempts, forever, until it works or she is told.
     if (!everRan) runs = Math.min(runs, 1);
-    this._fruitless[key] = { runs, endedAt: Date.now(), founderAt };
+    // NOR A SPAWN ITS ACCOUNT REFUSED. Nobody looked at the row; the account
+    // was out. The rest is remembered against that account and ends the
+    // moment it is back (`restingUntil`), rather than fifteen minutes after
+    // she has signed in again.
+    if (account) runs = Math.min(runs, 1);
+    this._fruitless[key] = { runs, endedAt: Date.now(), founderAt, ...(account ? { account } : {}) };
     this._saveState();
     return 'rested';
   }
@@ -2450,22 +2976,22 @@ export class Supervisor {
   }
 
   /* ----------------------- auth profiles (subscriptions) ------------------ */
-  // The founder holds two Claude subscriptions; workers round-robin across
-  // them (CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR per spawn), which roughly doubles throughput. A
-  // profile whose spawns keep dying instantly (expired plan, broken login)
-  // quarantines itself for 30 minutes, and the fleet behaves as if only the
-  // healthy subscription exists; a resubscribe simply starts working again.
-  // HERS FIRST, THEN WHATEVER IS SIGNED IN ON THE DISK. It used to be only the
-  // config key, and an account she logged into herself could therefore sit
-  // unused while the fleet starved on one that was at its limit
-  // (main/account-discovery.mjs has the afternoon that cost). One copy of the
+  // A user may hold more than one Claude subscription; workers round-robin
+  // across them (CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR per spawn), which roughly doubles throughput
+  // with two. A profile whose spawns keep dying instantly (expired plan, broken
+  // login) quarantines itself for 30 minutes, and the fleet behaves as if only
+  // the healthy subscriptions exist; a resubscribe simply starts working again.
+  // THE CONFIGURED ONES FIRST, THEN WHATEVER IS SIGNED IN ON THE DISK. It used
+  // to be only the config key, and an account someone logged into themselves
+  // could therefore sit unused while the fleet starved on one that was at its
+  // limit (main/account-discovery.mjs has what that costs). One copy of the
   // rule, there, so the fleet and the Agents page can never disagree about
   // which accounts exist.
   _profiles() {
     return effectiveProfiles(this.config.authProfiles, { home: this.config.home });
   }
 
-  // HER CODEX LOGIN, WHICH IS NOT ONE OF HER CLAUDE ONES.
+  // THE CODEX LOGIN, WHICH IS NOT ONE OF THE CLAUDE ONES.
   //
   // Every entry in `authProfiles` is a CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR: a folder holding a
   // Claude login and no `auth.json` Codex could ever read. Handing one of them
@@ -2541,6 +3067,50 @@ export class Supervisor {
     return all.includes(chosen) ? [chosen] : all;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * THE ONE CLAUDE ACCOUNT A PROJECT IS TIED TO, when it is tied to one.
+   *
+   * `activeAccount` narrows the WHOLE app to one login, which is no use to
+   * somebody who genuinely uses two: with a personal subscription and an
+   * employer's on one Mac, round-robin runs the employer's code on the personal
+   * plan about half the time. `projectAccounts` answers per project instead, and
+   * a tied project runs there and waits rather than borrowing another login.
+   *
+   * CLAUDE ONLY, said here once. A Codex login is a different subscription on a
+   * different binary and this setting says nothing about it, so a Codex run
+   * reads null and rotates exactly as it did.
+   *
+   * IT IS IGNORED THE MOMENT IT STOPS NAMING A LOGIN THAT IS ON THIS MAC,
+   * for the reason `_narrowToChosen` gives about `activeAccount` a few lines
+   * down: a pin left over from an account since removed would otherwise hand
+   * every worker a CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR pointing at a folder with no login in it,
+   * and the project would fail in silence while the app looked fine. A pin
+   * nobody can honour is no pin, and the project rotates as it did before
+   * anybody pinned it.
+   *
+   * AND A PIN BEATS `activeAccount`, DELIBERATELY. The two can disagree -- pick
+   * one account for the app, tie a project to the other -- and one of them has
+   * to win. It is the pin, because it is the narrower statement and the one made
+   * about THIS project on its own page, and because the other way round is the
+   * silent stop this file minds most: `activeAccount` would empty the tied
+   * project's pool of one and nothing would ever start in it, with every screen
+   * reading normal. So the check below is against the logins on the Mac
+   * (`_profiles`) and not the pool `activeAccount` has narrowed.
+   */
+  _projectProfile(product, engine = DEFAULT_ENGINE) {
+    if (engineOf(engine) !== DEFAULT_ENGINE) return null;
+    const slug = typeof product === 'string' ? product : product?.slug;
+    const pinned = slug ? this.config.projectAccounts?.[slug] : null;
+    if (typeof pinned !== 'string' || !pinned) return null;
+    return this._profiles().includes(pinned) ? pinned : null;
+  }
+
+  /** Whether a session on `profile` is allowed to carry this project's work. */
+  _profileFitsProject(profile, product, engine = DEFAULT_ENGINE) {
+    const pinned = this._projectProfile(product, engine);
+    return !pinned || (profile || 'default') === pinned;
+  }
+
   // THE ACCOUNTS ON ONE ENGINE THAT ARE NOT RESTING. Keyed through
   // `_accountKey`, which is the whole point: both engines call their primary
   // login 'default', and reading one raw name for both would let a quarantined
@@ -2549,8 +3119,8 @@ export class Supervisor {
   // IT IS ALLOWED TO COME BACK EMPTY, and that is the change. It used to end
   // `return live.length ? live: ['default']`, which is right for PICKING --
   // somewhere has to be tried -- and wrong for COUNTING, and this one method
-  // was doing both. On her two Claude logins the fallback hid at worst half the
-  // truth. On CODEX, which has a single login, it inverted the entire
+  // was doing both. With two Claude logins the fallback hid at worst half the
+  // truth. On a CODEX setup with a single login, it inverted the entire
   // mechanism: quarantining the one account it has put that same account
   // straight back in the pool on the next line, so a login that had run out was
   // struck, cooled down for thirty minutes, and then handed the very next
@@ -2571,7 +3141,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
 
   // ROUND-ROBIN WITHIN ONE ENGINE. The cursor is per engine because the pools
   // are: one shared counter would have a Codex spawn advance the rotation
-  // across her two Claude subscriptions, so a run of Codex tasks could leave
+  // across the Claude subscriptions, so a run of Codex tasks could leave
   // one of them doing all the Claude work.
   _pickProfile(engine = DEFAULT_ENGINE) {
     const which = engineOf(engine);
@@ -2582,7 +3152,11 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // every account resting, and a pick of `undefined` there would hand a spawn
     // a CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR of undefined rather than her default login.
     const live = this._liveProfilesFor(which);
-    const pool = live.length ? live : ['default'];
+    // A CODEX ACCOUNT STILL BEING ADDED IS NOT WHERE WORK GOES. Add account
+    // lists the new home before its sign-in finishes, and the round-robin
+    // handed it the very first thread while the signed-in one sat idle.
+    const signedIn = which === 'codex' ? live.filter((p) => this._codexSignedIn(p)) : live;
+    const pool = signedIn.length ? signedIn : live.length ? live : ['default'];
     this._rr = this._rr ?? {};
     this._rr[which] = ((this._rr[which] ?? 0) + 1) % pool.length;
     return pool[this._rr[which]];
@@ -2593,11 +3167,10 @@ export class Supervisor {
    *
    * `profile` is a folder name and BOTH ENGINES HAVE A FOLDER CALLED 'default',
    * so without this a Codex session that died would strike her Claude default
-   * subscription and quarantine it for thirty minutes. That is exactly the bug
-   * of 2026-08-24 -- a fact about one account applied to another, where one
-   * signed-out subscription stopped the one that was working, five times
-   * between 17:39 and 19:08 -- and the second engine would have reintroduced it
-   * for free.
+   * subscription and quarantine it for thirty minutes. That is exactly an
+   * earlier bug -- a fact about one account applied to another, where one
+   * signed-out subscription stopped the one that was working, again and again
+   * -- and the second engine would have reintroduced it for free.
    *
    * An engine nobody recorded is Claude Code, so every key written before the
    * second engine existed still names the account it always named.
@@ -2626,7 +3199,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
   // WHAT IS WRONG WITH ONE ACCOUNT, remembered until a session on it survives.
   //
   // This exists because the fleet-wide banner was reporting an account-shaped
-  // fact as an app-shaped one: her second Claude subscription was signed out,
+  // fact as an app-shaped one: with a second Claude subscription signed out,
   // half of every spawn round-robined onto it and died in two seconds, and the
   // screen said all agents were failing while the other half worked the whole
   // time. A fact about one account now stays on that account.
@@ -2636,6 +3209,12 @@ export class Supervisor {
     this._profileTrouble = this._profileTrouble ?? {};
     const had = this._profileTrouble[profile];
     this._profileTrouble[profile] = { since: had?.since ?? Date.now(), at: Date.now(), cause, raw: String(raw ?? '').slice(0, 300) };
+    // What the login files looked like when it was found out, so that
+    // `_noticeSignIns` can tell a login landing afterwards from one before.
+    if (cause === 'signed-out') {
+      const stamp = signInStamp(this._signInFilesFor(profile));
+      this._profileTrouble[profile].stamp = Math.max(stamp, had?.stamp ?? 0);
+    }
     return cause;
   }
 
@@ -2654,7 +3233,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
    * both engines call their primary login 'default'; `status` exports that book
    * verbatim as `accountTrouble`; and its one reader, the Accounts page in
    * main/settings.mjs, indexes it by a bare Claude folder name and therefore
-   * could never match `codex:default`. Her Codex subscription could lapse,
+   * could never match `codex:default`. A Codex subscription could lapse,
    * every Codex task stop, and Settings show a green Claude row and nothing
    * else -- the fleet brake being deliberately Claude-only, so "No agents can
    * start" cannot be true about Codex either.
@@ -2684,23 +3263,23 @@ export class Supervisor {
   // next spawn might well work. A login that has run out is not ambiguous, and
   // the two spawns it takes to reach three strikes are two real pieces of her
   // work handed to an account that cannot do them.
-  _strikeProfile(profile, { hard = false } = {}) {
+  _strikeProfile(profile, { hard = false, rest = 30 * 60_000 } = {}) {
     if (!profile) return;
     this._profileStrikes = this._profileStrikes ?? {};
     this._profileCooldown = this._profileCooldown ?? {};
     this._profileStrikes[profile] = (this._profileStrikes[profile] ?? 0) + 1;
     if (hard || this._profileStrikes[profile] >= 3) {
-      this._profileCooldown[profile] = Date.now() + 30 * 60_000;
+      this._profileCooldown[profile] = Date.now() + rest;
       this._profileStrikes[profile] = 0;
     }
   }
 
   /*
-   * CAPACITY IS PER SUBSCRIPTION, AND SHE HAS TWO KINDS OF SUBSCRIPTION NOW.
+   * CAPACITY IS PER SUBSCRIPTION, AND THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF SUBSCRIPTION NOW.
    *
    * IT DID NOT. This was one number for the whole Mac and it was built out of
    * `_liveProfiles`, which is the CLAUDE auth-profile pool -- so a Codex task
-   * queued behind three Claude workers while her OpenAI subscription did
+   * queued behind three Claude workers while the OpenAI subscription did
    * nothing, and logging into Codex could never widen anything, because the
    * multiplier counted Claude logins.
    *
@@ -2719,8 +3298,8 @@ export class Supervisor {
    * words that the binary "is the same fact `_engineFor` refuses on". That was
    * false. `_engineFor` refuses on the capability gate FIRST and the binary
    * second, and so does `engineChoices`. So every Mac with `codex` on PATH and
-   * no `engineChoice` moment written -- which is every Mac before she opts in,
-   * including hers -- counted three Codex slots that `engineFor` will never
+   * no `engineChoice` moment written -- which is every Mac before the user opts
+   * in -- counted three Codex slots that `engineFor` will never
    * hand a row to, and printed six directly above a row saying three run
    * together.
    *
@@ -2775,8 +3354,41 @@ export class Supervisor {
    * used when nobody has said, which is also the number it already gets on
    * every Mac whose Claude plan is Max or unreadable.
    */
+  /**
+   * THE MACHINE AUTOMATIC SIZES FOR. Empty means this one: `autoAgents` reads
+   *  the memory and the cores itself. A test names a machine here, so what it
+   *  proves does not change with the computer the suite runs on (GitHub's
+   *  runner came out at one agent and turned three claims red, 2026-10-05). */
+  _machine() {
+    return {};
+  }
+
   _slotsPerAccount(engine = DEFAULT_ENGINE) {
     const planSpokeForClaude = engineOf(engine) !== DEFAULT_ENGINE && !!this.config.planSlotsFrom;
+    // AUTOMATIC ASKS THE MACHINE (w-e5225b62ba), and the whole of the change is
+    // where the number comes from: this still answers PER ACCOUNT and
+    // `_capacityFor` still multiplies it by the live accounts, so nothing
+    // downstream of it moved.
+    //
+    // THE DIVISION IS THE POINT. The number used to be per account, so
+    // connecting a second login silently asked the Mac to carry twice as much
+    // while the page still read 3. Automatic answers for the machine and shares
+    // that out, so what the Mac is asked to do does not change when an account
+    // is added.
+    //
+    // A SMALL PLAN STILL WINS. `slotsForPlans` answers one at a time for a
+    // subscription that is not Max; that is a fact about the subscription and
+    // not about this Mac, so Automatic may only ever come out at or under it.
+    if (this.config.agentsAuto && !planSpokeForClaude) {
+      const total = autoAgents({
+        ...this._machine(),
+        gated: !!this.config.memoryGate,
+        nudge: this.config.agentsNudge,
+      });
+      const per = perAccountAgents(total, this._liveProfilesFor(engineOf(engine)).length);
+      const plan = this.config.planSlotsFrom ? Number(this.config.maxConcurrentSessions) : null;
+      return Number.isFinite(plan) && plan >= 1 ? Math.min(Math.floor(plan), per) : per;
+    }
     const set = Number(planSpokeForClaude ? DEFAULT_SESSIONS_AT_ONCE : this.config.maxConcurrentSessions);
     return Number.isFinite(set) && set >= 1 ? Math.floor(set) : 1;
   }
@@ -2792,8 +3404,8 @@ export class Supervisor {
   }
 
   // HOW MANY SESSIONS ONE ENGINE'S CAP IS COUNTING, and the number every spawn
-  // decision in this file is measured against. A command she typed is not a
-  // worker and is not counted as one -- her words and the measurement are under
+  // decision in this file is measured against. A command the user typed is not a
+  // worker and is not counted as one -- the reason and the measurement are under
   // `_load` below, which is the sum of these. The engine is read off the
   // SESSION, because that is where `_engineFor`'s single answer was written
   // down; reading the row again here would be a second decision.
@@ -2809,6 +3421,33 @@ export class Supervisor {
     return n;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * HOW MANY SESSIONS ONE ACCOUNT IS ALREADY CARRYING. `_loadFor` above is the
+   * same count for a whole engine, and a tied project needs the narrower one:
+   * the engine's cap is the per-account number times the live accounts, so with
+   * two logins a project tied to one of them would be let through at twice its
+   * account's share and spend one subscription's rate limit on both halves.
+   *
+   * A ROW STILL BEING PREPARED COUNTS, the way it does in `_loadFor`, but only
+   * when its own project is tied to this same account: that is the one case
+   * where the account is already decided before the spawn. An untied row's
+   * account is picked at the spawn and counting it here would charge it to a
+   * login it may never reach.
+   */
+  _loadOnProfile(profile, engine = DEFAULT_ENGINE) {
+    const key = this._accountKey(engine, profile);
+    let n = 0;
+    for (const s of this.sessions.values()) {
+      if (s.command || s.remoteIdle) continue;
+      if (this._accountKey(s.engine, s.profile || 'default') === key) n += 1;
+    }
+    for (const p of this._preparing?.values() ?? []) {
+      const pin = this._projectProfile(p.item?.product, p.engine);
+      if (pin && this._accountKey(p.engine, pin) === key) n += 1;
+    }
+    return n;
+  }
+
   // IS THERE ROOM FOR ONE MORE SESSION ON THIS ENGINE?
   //
   // THREE QUESTIONS, AND THE SECOND ONE WAS DELETED AS UNREACHABLE WHEN IT IS
@@ -2860,15 +3499,14 @@ export class Supervisor {
    * became per subscription. What a spawn is measured against is `_loadFor`
    * against `_capacityFor`, one engine at a time; this is the whole Mac's
    * number, the one `_capacity` is the ceiling for. The rule below is written
-   * here because this is where she said it, and `_loadFor` applies the same
-   * exclusion for the same reason.
+   * here, and `_loadFor` applies the same exclusion for the same reason.
    *
    * So one of Claude Code's own eight commands is not a worker and is not
    * counted as one. It carries no brief, claims no row, writes no files, and
    * exits as soon as the CLI has printed its table; the runs measured on this
    * row took 2.8, 4.0 and 4.8 seconds. Holding a slot for something that short
    * pushes a real worker's start back for nothing, and queueing it behind a
-   * session that has been going twenty minutes is the wait she is describing.
+   * session that has been going twenty minutes is a wait nobody should have.
    *
    * The cap still means what it meant for everything else. It exists because
    * her subscription's rate limit is split between whatever is running, and
@@ -2902,9 +3540,9 @@ export class Supervisor {
     if (session.stoppedByUs) return;
     // A CODEX RUN CANNOT STRIKE A CLAUDE ACCOUNT, and until this slice the only
     // way to be sure of that was to return here: `_noteProfileTrouble` and
-    // `_strikeProfile` took `session.profile`, which was one of her Claude
-    // logins whatever engine had died on it, so a Codex failure quarantined her
-    // working Claude subscription -- the 2026-08-24 shape, where one signed-out
+    // `_strikeProfile` took `session.profile`, which was one of the Claude
+    // logins whatever engine had died on it, so a Codex failure quarantined a
+    // working Claude subscription -- the old shape, where one signed-out
     // account halted the one that was fine.
     //
     // THAT GUARANTEE IS NOW IN `_accountKey` INSTEAD, which is a better place
@@ -2933,17 +3571,24 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // the fleet-wide brake, because `_healthyProfiles` excludes an account
     // carrying trouble and zero healthy accounts is what the brake is for; and
     // three of them would have quarantined a working subscription for half an
-    // hour. That is CLAUDE.md's 2026-08-11 entry wearing a new hat: "the agents
-    // constantly stop for no apparent reason".
+    // hour. That is the failure CLAUDE.md already records, agents stopping for
+    // no apparent reason, wearing a new hat.
     const quickButReal = session.result != null && !session.resultIsError;
     // A RUN THAT ENDS ON ITS ACCOUNT'S LIMIT SAYS SO WHATEVER ITS LENGTH.
-    // Measured 2026-09-24 (w-ca48e69535): her Codex work login hit its weekly
-    // limit and every reply after that worked for about two minutes, then
-    // failed with "You've hit your usage limit". Two minutes is not a fast exit,
-    // so each one fell to the branch below that CLEARS the account's trouble,
-    // and the row went straight back to the capped login four times while her
-    // other account sat at 0%.
-    const limitHit = !!session.resultIsError && troubleCause(session.result) === 'at-limit';
+    // When a Codex login hits its weekly limit, every reply after that works
+    // for about two minutes, then fails with "You've hit your usage limit".
+    // Two minutes is not a fast exit, so each one fell to the branch below
+    // that CLEARS the account's trouble, and with a second account idle the
+    // row still went straight back to the capped login, again and again.
+    //
+    // AND SO DOES A RUN THE ACCOUNT REFUSED IN ANY OTHER WAY (2026-10-04). A
+    // signed-out Codex retries ten times, five over WebSocket and five over
+    // HTTPS, before its turn fails with the 401, so the run can outlast
+    // FAST_EXIT_MS. Past it, the branch below CLEARED the account's trouble:
+    // no bench, no "Signed out" on the row, and her reply was charged one of
+    // its three tries. The error result names its cause whatever the length.
+    const refusedBy = session.resultIsError ? troubleCause(session.result) : null;
+    const limitHit = refusedBy === 'at-limit' || needsHerHands(refusedBy);
     if ((Date.now() - session.startedAt < FAST_EXIT_MS && !quickButReal) || limitHit) {
       // The last words of a fast-dead session are the diagnosis. They are kept,
       // but as EVIDENCE now, not as copy: shared/spawn-trouble.mjs turns them
@@ -2964,8 +3609,17 @@ export class Supervisor {
         this._profileCooldown = this._profileCooldown ?? {};
         this._profileCooldown[account] = resetAt + LIMIT_RESET_GRACE_MS;
       } else {
-        this._strikeProfile(account, { hard: needsHerHands(cause) });
+        this._strikeProfile(account, {
+          hard: needsHerHands(cause),
+          rest: cause === 'signed-out' ? SIGNED_OUT_REST_MS : undefined,
+        });
       }
+      // A DEATH THE ACCOUNT CAUSED IS NOT THE ROW'S. Read by `settleDelivery`
+      // (her reply is handed back rather than spending one of its three tries)
+      // and by `noteFreshRun` (the row's rest ends when the account is back).
+      // Measured 2026-10-04: her "continue" on a row, sent while signed out,
+      // died in two seconds and counted against the reply.
+      if (needsHerHands(cause) || cause === 'at-limit') session.accountFault = { cause, account };
 
       // ONLY THE ENGINE SHE IS ACTUALLY RUNNING ON MAY BRAKE THE FLEET.
       //
@@ -2983,10 +3637,9 @@ export class Supervisor {
       // ONLY A FLEET WITH NOWHERE LEFT TO RUN GETS THE FLEET-WIDE BRAKE.
       //
       // This used to fire on every fast exit whatever else was healthy, so one
-      // signed-out subscription stopped her working one for a minute, then two,
-      // then four, doubling to thirty. Measured on her machine 2026-08-24: five
-      // dead spawns on the second account between 17:39 and 19:08, each one
-      // halting the account that was working. The per-account cooldown above
+      // signed-out subscription stopped a working one for a minute, then two,
+      // then four, doubling to thirty: every dead spawn on the signed-out
+      // account halted the account that was working. The per-account cooldown above
       // already keeps a bad account out of the rotation; the brake is only for
       // when there is no good account left to be kept out of anything.
       const healthy = this._healthyProfiles().length;
@@ -2994,13 +3647,13 @@ export class Supervisor {
         this._fastExits = (this._fastExits ?? 0) + 1;
         const delay = resetAt
           ? Math.max(0, resetAt + LIMIT_RESET_GRACE_MS - Date.now())
-          : Math.min(BACKOFF_BASE_MS * 2 ** (this._fastExits - 1), BACKOFF_CAP_MS);
+          : Math.min(BACKOFF_BASE_MS * 2 ** (this._fastExits - 1), cause === 'signed-out' ? SIGNED_OUT_REST_MS : BACKOFF_CAP_MS);
         this._spawnCooldownUntil = Date.now() + delay;
         this._fleetTroubleSince = this._fleetTroubleSince || Date.now();
         this._lastFastExit = { at: Date.now(), cause, raw };
         onLine(`fast exit #${this._fastExits}; next spawn in ${Math.round(delay / 60000)}m`);
       } else {
-        // Her account is fine and it stays fine. Nothing is said on screen and
+        // The working account is fine and it stays fine. Nothing is said on screen and
         // nothing is slowed down; the trace log has the whole story.
         this._fastExits = 0;
         this._spawnCooldownUntil = 0;
@@ -3033,6 +3686,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
     try {
       fs.writeFileSync(this._stateFile, JSON.stringify({
         handledAnswers: [...this._handledAnswers].slice(-500),
+        heardAnswers: Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(this._heardAnswers ?? {}).slice(-500)),
         productOrder: this.productOrder,
         hiddenProducts: [...this.hiddenProducts],
         liveSessions: this._liveSessions,
@@ -3077,12 +3731,24 @@ export class Supervisor {
     return !!this._firstRunUntil && now < this._firstRunUntil;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * A THREAD THEY SENT THEMSELVES ENDS THE HOLD. The walk's own thread carries
+   * FIRST_RUN_LABEL and is answered by the app, so the hold has nothing left
+   * to protect once a real one arrives. Without this, a thread sent while the
+   * walk was still up, or left half finished, read "Queued" for up to twenty
+   * minutes with nothing running anywhere.
+   */
+  sentByThem(labels = []) {
+    if (!this.firstRunHolding()) return;
+    if ((labels ?? []).includes(FIRST_RUN_LABEL)) return;
+    this._firstRunUntil = 0;
+    this.onChange?.();
+  }
+
   /* `pauseProduct` stopped one project and left the rest of the fleet running.
-     It is gone (w-d19d6d387c, 2026-09-22). Hers: "I don't know what 'paused'
-     means or whether it stops the session. I didn't know that was a feature we
-     had, and I can't imagine why it would be used so I'd suggest we get rid of
-     that." Nothing had ever used it: `pausedProducts` was absent from her state
-     file. Pausing the whole fleet is still a switch in Settings and a row in
+     It is gone (w-d19d6d387c): "paused" did not say whether it stopped the
+     session, nobody knew the feature existed, and nothing had ever used it.
+     Pausing the whole fleet is still a switch in Settings and a row in
      ⌘K, and stopping one task is still S on the row. */
 
   status() {
@@ -3132,12 +3798,22 @@ export class Supervisor {
     try {
       const nowTs = Date.now();
       const autonomous = new Set(this.config.autonomousProducts ?? []);
+      // THE TEAM VERSION: a shared row is queued only on its runner's Mac, and
+      // a row a person holds on nobody's, by the same rule the tick obeys.
+      const productBySlug = new Map((this.store.listProducts?.() ?? []).map((p) => [p.slug, p]));
+      const me = process.env.AGENTBOX_PERSON_ID;
       queued = this.store.listItems(nowTs)
+        .filter((i) => mayRunHere(i, productBySlug.get(i.product), me))
+        // NOTHING RUNS IN THE PRACTICE PROJECT, so nothing there is waiting
+        // its turn. The tick skips these (`noWorkHere`) and `spawnWorker`
+        // refuses them; this list did neither, so a thread sent there read
+        // "Queued. An agent starts on it as soon as one is free" for ever.
+        .filter((i) => productBySlug.get(i.product)?.practice !== true)
         .filter((i) => !this.sessions.has(i.id) && i.status === 'open'
           && this.store.isDue(i, nowTs))
         // The walk's own example task is NOT queued: nothing is going to spawn
-        // on it, which is the whole of FIRST_RUN_LABEL. Her report on was a
-        // row reading "queued" under a sentence saying it was reading, and
+        // on it, which is the whole of FIRST_RUN_LABEL. The bug was a row
+        // reading "queued" under a sentence saying it was reading, and
         // this list promises exactly the opposite of that.
         .filter((i) => !(i.labels ?? []).includes(FIRST_RUN_LABEL))
         // Leased to someone else, so NOT queued, for the same reason resting is
@@ -3156,8 +3832,19 @@ export class Supervisor {
         .map((i) => i.id);
     } catch {}
     if (this.paused) queued = [];
+    let signInNeeded = {};
+    try {
+      const productBySlug = new Map((this.store.listProducts?.() ?? []).map((p) => [p.slug, p]));
+      const me = process.env.AGENTBOX_PERSON_ID;
+      signInNeeded = this._waitingOnSignIn(this.store.listItems(Date.now())
+        .filter((i) => mayRunHere(i, productBySlug.get(i.product), me)));
+    } catch {}
     return {
       paused: this.paused,
+      // ROWS NOTHING CAN START BECAUSE THEIR TOOL IS SIGNED OUT, by id, with the
+      // tool's name. The row says so instead of "Queued", which promised an
+      // agent "as soon as one is free" while none could be (2026-10-04).
+      signInNeeded,
       running: [...this.sessions.values()].filter(s => !s.remoteIdle).map((s) => ({
         itemId: s.itemId,
         product: s.product,
@@ -3184,9 +3871,12 @@ export class Supervisor {
       })),
       stalled,
       queued,
+      // Waiting tasks she pushed with Run now that have not started yet, so
+      // the task can say it is next rather than merely queued.
+      runNow: [...this._runNow].filter(([id, r]) => !r.started && !this.sessions.has(id)).map(([id]) => id),
       scheduled,
-      // ROWS WHOSE LAST RUN ENDED WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING. Her pick
-      // 2026-08-31: "Say it on the row." See `_silentRows`.
+      // ROWS WHOSE LAST RUN ENDED WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING. The row says so.
+      // See `_silentRows`.
       silent: this._silentRows(),
       productOrder: this.productOrder,
       hiddenProducts: [...this.hiddenProducts],
@@ -3200,8 +3890,8 @@ export class Supervisor {
       // THE ONE LINE ABOVE HER LIST, and only when it is really true.
       //
       // Two facts can fill it and they are asked in this order, because they
-      // are not equally likely to be the one she needs. First: are there tasks
-      // nothing has been able to run on? That is hers, look four on. Second,
+      // are not equally likely to be the one the user needs. First: are there
+      // tasks nothing has been able to run on? That is theirs to act on. Second,
       // and only when there are none: the older fleet sentence, which says
       // nothing can start ANYWHERE.
       //
@@ -3214,8 +3904,8 @@ export class Supervisor {
   /**
    * A RUN ENDED AND SAID NOTHING, AND NOW THE ROW ADMITS IT.
    *
-   * Her pick, 2026-08-31: "Say it on the row. When a run ends having written
-   * nothing, the row says so in the same voice the four live words use."
+   * When a run ends having written nothing, the row says so, in the same voice
+   * the four live words use.
    *
    * WHAT THIS IS REPAIRING, and it came from outside.
    *
@@ -3277,8 +3967,8 @@ export class Supervisor {
    * The line it fills already existed and it could never have fired for her.
    * `_spawnTrouble` below wants `_fleetTroubleSince`, which is only ever set
    * when NO Claude account is left healthy, and it wants `sessions.size === 0`.
-   * Her Claude agents worked all day while four Codex tasks and four on a
-   * signed-out second login sat there, so both gates were open the whole time
+   * Claude agents can work all day while Codex tasks and tasks on a
+   * signed-out second login sit there, so both gates were open the whole time
    * and the app had no way at all to say what she could plainly see. The
    * subject is the tasks now, not the fleet, and a working engine beside a
    * broken one no longer buys the broken one silence.
@@ -3356,6 +4046,30 @@ export class Supervisor {
   // is only ever set when no healthy account remains; twenty unbroken minutes;
   // and something it is actually stopping, so there is work waiting and nothing
   // running.
+  /**
+   * WHICH OPEN ROWS ARE WAITING ON A SIGN-IN, and in which tool. True of a row
+   * when every account its engine could run it on is sitting out and at least
+   * one of them is signed out. One sitting-out account beside a working one is
+   * not this: the work goes to the working one.
+   */
+  _waitingOnSignIn(rows) {
+    const out = {};
+    const blocked = new Map();
+    const isBlocked = (engine) => {
+      if (!blocked.has(engine)) {
+        blocked.set(engine, !this._liveProfilesFor(engine).length
+          && this._profilesFor(engine).some((p) => this._profileTrouble?.[this._accountKey(engine, p)]?.cause === 'signed-out'));
+      }
+      return blocked.get(engine);
+    };
+    for (const i of rows ?? []) {
+      if (i.status !== 'open' || this.sessions.has(i.id)) continue;
+      const engine = engineOf(this._engineFor(i));
+      if (isBlocked(engine)) out[i.id] = engineLabel(engine);
+    }
+    return out;
+  }
+
   _spawnTrouble(queued) {
     const since = this._fleetTroubleSince ?? 0;
     if (!since) return null;
@@ -3384,6 +4098,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // fifteen second wait back again for exactly the row that asked for it.
     if (this._ticking) { this._tickAgain = true; return; }
     this._ticking = true;
+    this.forgiveSleep(Date.now());
     this._lastTickAt = Date.now();
     try {
       return await this._tick();
@@ -3398,6 +4113,9 @@ export class Supervisor {
   async _tick() {
     if (this.paused) return;
     if (this.firstRunHolding()) return;
+    // Has a login landed since an account was found signed out? Ahead of the
+    // brake below, which would otherwise hold the fleet past the sign-in.
+    try { this._noticeSignIns(); } catch (e) { console.warn('zero: could not look for a sign-in:', e.message); }
     // A COOLDOWN STOPS THE SPAWNING AND IT MUST NOT STOP THE TELLING. The brake
     // goes on when there is no healthy account left anywhere, for up to half an
     // hour, which is precisely the half hour her tasks are all stuck and the
@@ -3426,6 +4144,8 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // is exactly when no session exit is coming to do this.
     this.parkOnATimer(now);
     const items = this.store.listItems(now);
+    // A task its agent marked ready goes out, one at a time, beside the tick.
+    try { this.shipQueue.tick(items, this.store.listProducts()); } catch (e) { console.warn('zero: the ship queue:', e.message); }
 
     // A session that died without exiting still holds its row. Stopping it
     // here lets the passes below put a fresh worker on the row.
@@ -3441,10 +4161,14 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // And is there a row still wearing the first line of what she dictated?
     // One a tick, never awaited, silent on every failure (nameTheRows above).
     try { this.nameTheRows(items); } catch (e) { console.warn('zero: could not name a row:', e.message); }
+    // And has a teammate written something that needs sorting by urgency?
+    try { this.sortTheMessages(items, process.env.AGENTBOX_PERSON_ID); } catch (e) { console.warn('zero: could not sort a message:', e.message); }
 
     // Before anything is resumed or spawned: has the urgent row we interrupted
     // something FOR actually got its slot? Every hold this clears is a row that
-    // becomes resumable again on the passes below, in this same tick.
+    // becomes resumable again on the passes below, in this same tick. A push
+    // whose run has ended is settled first, since it no longer holds anything.
+    this._settleRunNow(items);
     this._settlePreemptions(items, now);
 
     // Interrupted sessions the last sweep could not fit in a slot. Ahead of
@@ -3484,14 +4208,13 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // pass, so an Urgent task could not outrank a Medium answer, ever. It was
     // not a close call either; it was absolute precedence dressed as ordering.
     //
-    // Measured on her own store, 2026-08-19/20. She filed an Urgent
-    // landing-page task at 22:43:58. Nothing started on it until 00:09:36, 85
-    // minutes later. In that window Agentbox started 36 sessions on that one
-    // product and every single one was a continuation; 20 of them were Medium.
-    // Not one fresh item spawned until the answer backlog ran dry, and then
-    // two started in the same second. That is starvation, and it is also why
-    // stopping a task did not help her: the slot she freed went straight to
-    // the next answer in line.
+    // Measured: an Urgent task waited 85 minutes before anything started on
+    // it. In that window Agentbox started 36 sessions on that one product and
+    // every single one was a continuation; 20 of them were Medium. Not one
+    // fresh item spawned until the answer backlog ran dry, and then two
+    // started in the same second. That is starvation, and it is also why
+    // stopping a task did not help: the freed slot went straight to the next
+    // answer in line.
     //
     // Continuations still WIN A TIE, which keeps the old intent (an answer she
     // has already given beats new work of equal standing) without letting it
@@ -3514,6 +4237,11 @@ export class Supervisor {
       // behind the clause outlives them: blocked means a session stopped until
       // something outside it changed, and her reply IS that change.
       if (i.status !== 'open' && i.status !== 'blocked') return false;
+      // BUT NOT A ROW SHE STOPPED, on the reply she sent before stopping it.
+      // The kill hands that reply back to the queue, and this used to start a
+      // fresh run on it ten seconds after her stop, on a row sitting in her
+      // inbox. Her stop is the newest thing she said; a later reply wakes it.
+      if (stoppedByHer(i)) return false;
       return true;
     };
 
@@ -3543,18 +4271,18 @@ export class Supervisor {
       // the next worker arrives at a question that is already answered, has
       // nothing new to do, and writes the answer a second time.
       //
-      // Measured on her store, 2026-08-31: 266 results were written with no
-      // reply from her since the previous one, across 119 rows, and 107 of
-      // those opened on a character-identical bold line. Five rows were in
-      // that loop at the time of measuring, three of them already carrying
-      // three answers to one unanswered ask. This very row was one: three
+      // Measured: hundreds of results were written with no reply since the
+      // previous one, many opening on a character-identical bold line, and
+      // several rows were carrying three answers to one unanswered ask: three
       // sessions, three near-identical results, no reply between any of them.
       //
       // She loses nothing by the wait. `rowSummary` already shows a result
       // newer than the body on an OPEN row, so the answer is in her inbox
       // being read; the only thing that stops is writing it again. Any word
       // from her moves `lastFounderWrite` past it and the row is fresh again.
-      && !awaitingHer(i)
+      // EXCEPT when the words are OURS, about an account that refused the run
+      // (`_onlyWeSpokeForAnAccount`): those are not an answer to her.
+      && (!awaitingHer(i) || this._onlyWeSpokeForAnAccount(i))
       // A row a worker already took and gave nothing back rests before it is
       // handed to another one. This pass had no memory whatsoever, which is
       // the whole of the every-tick loop (FRUITLESS_RESTS_MS).
@@ -3568,13 +4296,22 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // and cannot be got round by writing a new one. `worksHere` is that rule
     // and it is the same one `spawnWorker` refuses on; this set only saves the
     // queue the work of considering rows it would refuse anyway.
+    const products = this.store.listProducts();
     const noWorkHere = new Set(
-      this.store.listProducts().filter((p) => !this.worksHere(p)).map((p) => p.slug),
+      products.filter((p) => !this.worksHere(p)).map((p) => p.slug),
     );
+    // A SHARED PROJECT'S ROW RUNS ON ITS RUNNER'S MAC AND NOWHERE ELSE, and a
+    // row a person has been given runs nowhere until they hand it back. Every
+    // teammate's supervisor sees every shared row; without this each would
+    // start its own worker on it. shared/team-rules.mjs is the rule, and the
+    // window reads the same one to decide whose inbox a row is in.
+    const productBySlug = new Map(products.map((p) => [p.slug, p]));
+    const me = process.env.AGENTBOX_PERSON_ID || null;
 
     const queue = [];
     for (const item of items) {
       if (noWorkHere.has(item.product)) continue;
+      if (!mayRunHere(item, productBySlug.get(item.product), me)) continue;
       if (this.sessions.has(item.id)) continue;
       // Interrupted a moment ago so an Urgent row could have its slot. Putting
       // a worker back on it here — as a stranger, on the fresh-work or
@@ -3616,6 +4353,14 @@ export class Supervisor {
           && this._engineFor(item) === DEFAULT_ENGINE,
       });
     }
+    // THE SLOT AN INTERRUPTION FREED BELONGS TO THE ROW IT WAS FREED FOR.
+    // Without this the slot went to the top of the queue on the next tick,
+    // and the top is often a higher project's row that could never have
+    // interrupted anything itself: the session was paused for nothing and the
+    // Urgent row went on waiting. Rows ranked above it lose nothing by it,
+    // since the session it paused scored below it and held that slot anyway.
+    const heldFor = new Set([...this._preempted.values()].map((r) => `${r.forProduct}:${r.forItem}`));
+    const holds = (row) => (heldFor.has(`${row.item.product}:${row.item.id}`) ? 1 : 0);
     queue.sort((a, b) =>
       // A COMMAND GOES TO THE FRONT, ahead of the priority she set on anything
       // else, because it is not competing with them for anything. It takes no
@@ -3627,6 +4372,12 @@ export class Supervisor {
       // two answered rows on a full fleet was never reached at all. Measured as
       // a failing test before this line existed.
       (b.command ? 1 : 0) - (a.command ? 1 : 0)
+      // THEN WHAT SHE PUSHED WITH RUN NOW, ahead of every project and tag,
+      // the earliest push first. Sorting first is also what gives it this
+      // tick's one interruption on its engine (`spent` below).
+      || (this._runNow.has(b.item.id) ? 1 : 0) - (this._runNow.has(a.item.id) ? 1 : 0)
+      || (this._runNow.get(a.item.id)?.at ?? 0) - (this._runNow.get(b.item.id)?.at ?? 0)
+      || holds(b) - holds(a)
       || this._score(b.item) - this._score(a.item)
       // The tie-break, and the only thing left of "continuations go first".
       || (b.continuation ? 1 : 0) - (a.continuation ? 1 : 0)
@@ -3642,17 +4393,23 @@ export class Supervisor {
      * to break out of the queue entirely. That break was correct while there
      * was one cap -- nothing further down could fit either -- and it is a
      * starvation bug now that there are two: a Codex row sitting behind three
-     * unfittable Claude rows would never be reached at all, so her Codex
+     * unfittable Claude rows would never be reached at all, so the Codex
      * subscription would go on doing nothing with a Codex task in the queue.
      * That is the same shape as the bug the slash-command sort-to-front was
      * written for, and the deleted 2026-08-25 build shipped with it.
      *
      * WHAT THE BREAK WAS ALSO DOING, and what this set keeps: at most one
-     * session is interrupted per engine per tick. Nothing further down the
-     * queue outranks the row we just made room for, so a second preemption on
-     * the same engine could only take a slot for a row that is going to wait
-     * anyway. An engine goes in here whether or not `_preemptFor` actually
-     * took anything, because that is exactly what the break did.
+     * session is interrupted per engine per tick.
+     *
+     * AN ENGINE GOES IN HERE ONLY WHEN SOMETHING WAS ACTUALLY INTERRUPTED. It
+     * used to go in on the first row that did not fit, whatever that row was,
+     * and the first row is usually a higher project's Medium, which may not
+     * interrupt anything. The Urgent row below it, which may, was never
+     * asked: an Astral Video Urgent waited 49 minutes while the Medium in its
+     * own project ran (w-53a72e6e7f,
+     * tests/an-urgent-task-takes-its-own-projects-slot-even-behind-a-higher-project).
+     * The slot that interruption frees is held for the row that made it
+     * (`heldFor` above), so the rows above it do not take it instead.
      */
     const spent = new Set();
 
@@ -3675,7 +4432,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
       // A session already finished on this answer, and said so on the item
       // rather than only in this process's memory. The mark below is the same
       // promise, made durable: without it, every restart and every resume
-      // handed a worker a word she said days ago, which it read, recognised as
+      // handed a worker a word the user said days ago, which it read, recognised as
       // done, and exited on inside a minute. Twenty-three times, on one row.
       //
       // A row still leased to someone else would refuse this worker the claim,
@@ -3684,7 +4441,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
       if (continuation
         && (answerSettled(item) || this._answerDelivered(item) || this.claimHeldElsewhere(item))) continue;
       /*
-       * A COMMAND SHE TYPED NEVER QUEUES, EVEN WITH EVERY SLOT FULL.
+       * A COMMAND THE USER TYPED NEVER QUEUES, EVEN WITH EVERY SLOT FULL.
        *
        * Asked above the cap, and sorted to the front of the queue above that,
        * because the cap breaks rather than skips. The guards over this line
@@ -3711,10 +4468,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
         // exit before its slot is really free, and an exit nudges a tick, so
         // the ordinary cost of this is seconds rather than the fifteen-second
         // poll.
-        if (!spent.has(engine)) {
-          spent.add(engine);
-          this._preemptFor(item, items, engine);
-        }
+        if (!spent.has(engine) && this._preemptFor(item, items, engine)) spent.add(engine);
         // AND ON DOWN THE QUEUE, because the next row may be on the engine
         // that is still idle. See `spent` above for what this used to be.
         continue;
@@ -3730,9 +4484,10 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // next tick: the row we interrupted becomes resumable in the same pass
     // that spawns the row we interrupted it for, and waiting a tick to notice
     // would leave a slot standing empty for fifteen seconds.
+    this._settleRunNow(items);
     this._settlePreemptions(items, now);
 
-    // The digest: NOT a schedule, an INVARIANT. (the founder, 2026-08-06). So
+    // The digest: NOT a schedule, an INVARIANT. So
     // nothing fires on a clock. Every tick asks whether the invariant holds
     // and, where it does not, spawns the one session that makes it hold.
     //
@@ -3754,10 +4509,10 @@ export class Supervisor {
       if (!autonomous.has(product.slug)) continue;
       if ([...this.sessions.values()].some((s) => s.product === product.slug)) continue;
       if (now - (this.lastDigestTry[product.slug] ?? 0) < DIGEST_RETRY_MS) continue;
-      // A DIGEST IS A CLAUDE CODE SESSION. It carries a synthetic row with no
-      // engine on it, so `_engineFor` answers the default and the slot it needs
-      // is the default engine's -- never a Codex slot that could not run it.
-      if (!this._hasSlotFor(DEFAULT_ENGINE)) break;
+      // A DIGEST RUNS ON THIS MAC'S HOME ENGINE: Claude Code, or Codex on a Mac
+      // with nothing else. It carries a synthetic row with no engine on it, so
+      // the slot it checks and the engine `spawnDigest` forces are one answer.
+      if (!this._hasSlotFor(this._homeEngine())) break;
       const owed = this._digestOwed(items, product.slug, now);
       if (!owed) continue;
       this.lastDigestTry[product.slug] = now;
@@ -3765,14 +4520,13 @@ export class Supervisor {
       this.spawnDigest(product, owed);
     }
 
-    // THE DRIVE RAN HERE AND IT IS GONE (w-d19d6d387c, 2026-09-22).
+    // THE DRIVE RAN HERE AND IT IS GONE (w-d19d6d387c).
     // Self-driving meant the system, not the founder, asking "what next?" when
-    // a product went quiet, and spending her plan on the answer. Hers, closing
-    // it: "we should get rid of the code that self-drives the product
-    // entirely. That should never have existed anyway, especially because
-    // we're open sourcing it soon." It had been off by default since
-    // w-8cb4d3ffc3 ("Yep let's remove the self-driving", 2026-08-19) and the
-    // machinery was kept for a paid tier that no longer justifies it.
+    // a product went quiet, and spending the user's plan on the answer. An app
+    // that spends someone's plan on work they did not ask for should not exist,
+    // so the code was removed entirely. It had been off by default since
+    // w-8cb4d3ffc3, and the machinery was kept for a paid tier that no longer
+    // justifies it.
     //
     // So nothing in this app spawns work the founder did not ask for. What
     // spawns now, and the whole list: her own tasks, her answers, the tasks
@@ -3897,7 +4651,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
         'was spent and what went live, if anything. Where nothing happened in',
         'some lane that matters, saying so plainly is worth more than padding.',
       ].join('\n'),
-    }, { engine: DEFAULT_ENGINE });
+    }, { engine: this._homeEngine() });
   }
 
   // A founder reply that lands while a session runs must not die with it: the
@@ -3934,13 +4688,13 @@ export class Supervisor {
   // it did. It is here for the two resume paths only: a session belongs to the
   // harness that wrote it, and a thread id handed to the wrong CLI dies on
   // arrival with "No conversation found with session ID".
-  spawnPlan(item, product, { continuation = false, resumeSessionId = null, engine = DEFAULT_ENGINE } = {}) {
+  spawnPlan(item, product, { continuation = false, resumeSessionId = null, engine = DEFAULT_ENGINE, shipFailure = null } = {}) {
     // A ROW'S OWN CHAT. Her reply on a row goes back to the session that wrote
     // what she is replying to. Four guards, and each one falls back to the old
     // behaviour rather than to anything worse:
     //
     //   `continuation` and a live answer, so this is a spawn that exists
-    //   BECAUSE she wrote on the row. Fresh work is briefed as it always was.
+    //   BECAUSE the user wrote on the row. Fresh work is briefed as it always was.
     //
     //   `!resumeSessionId`, so the wake sweep still wins outright. That path
     //   knows which session it interrupted and is resuming a run that never
@@ -3965,8 +4719,8 @@ export class Supervisor {
     const resumeIdOnDisk = resumeSessionId ?? rowChat?.sessionId ?? forkFrom?.sessionId ?? null;
     // AND WHICH SUBSCRIPTION IT LIVES ON. A resume is only a resume on the
     // account that started it: the transcript sits under that profile's home
-    // and under no other. She holds two Claude logins and spawns round-robin
-    // across them, so half of her replies handed `--resume` an id the other
+    // and under no other. With two Claude logins, spawns round-robin across
+    // them, so half of the replies handed `--resume` an id the other
     // home had never heard of. The CLI printed "No conversation found with
     // session ID" and exited in under a second. spawnWorker uses this instead
     // of picking, and null still means pick.
@@ -3983,7 +4737,14 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // round robin lands on is an id that home has never heard of, the CLI
     // prints "No conversation found" and dies in a second. So this drops both,
     // and the thread is briefed fresh instead.
-    const strandedThread = !!walkedHome && this._profileCannotHoldAChat(walkedHome, engine);
+    //
+    // IN A TIED PROJECT THE QUESTION IS NOT HEALTH BUT WHOSE ACCOUNT IT IS, the
+    // same swap `rowSessionFor` makes above and for the same reason: a thread
+    // found on the wrong login is stranded whatever that login's health, and a
+    // thread on the right one is kept however poorly it is faring.
+    const strandedThread = !!walkedHome && (this._projectProfile(product?.slug ?? item.product, engine)
+      ? !this._profileFitsProject(walkedHome, product?.slug ?? item.product, engine)
+      : this._profileCannotHoldAChat(walkedHome, engine));
     const resumeId = strandedThread ? null : resumeIdOnDisk;
     // The fork's account is the source conversation's account, for the reason
     // every line above gives: a resume is only a resume on the login whose home
@@ -3993,8 +4754,12 @@ export class Supervisor {
       : (forkFrom ? forkFrom.profile ?? null : (strandedThread ? null : walkedHome));
     // Preserve multiple replies queued before a worker starts, including on a
     // resumed session whose native history has not seen them yet.
+    // A CONVERSATION GOING BACK TO WORK IS NOT TOLD AGAIN WHAT IT ALREADY HEARD
+    // (`_noteHeard`). Only that conversation: a fork or a fresh session needs
+    // every word.
     if (continuation && item.answer && this.store?.readHistory) {
-      const answer = queuedReplyText(item, this.store.readHistory(item.product, item.id), (row) => this._answerDelivered(row));
+      const conversation = forkFrom ? null : resumeId;
+      const answer = queuedReplyText(item, this.store.readHistory(item.product, item.id), (row) => this._answerDelivered(row) || this._heardIn(row, conversation));
       if (answer !== item.answer) item = { ...item, answer };
     }
     let prompt;
@@ -4007,13 +4772,22 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // cannot work out for itself is that it has moved.
     else if (forkFrom) prompt = this.forkBrief(item, { product, from: forkFrom.sourceId });
     else prompt = resumeId ? this.resumeBrief(item, { continuation, product }) : this.buildBrief(item, product, { continuation, engine });
+    // A BRANCH THE APP COULD NOT SHIP (main/ship-queue.mjs) goes back to the
+    // session that wrote it, and that is all it is told: it has everything
+    // else already. A fresh session gets its brief first.
+    if (shipFailure) prompt = resumeId || rowChat ? shipFailure : `${prompt}\n\n${shipFailure}`;
+    // WHAT HAPPENS TO WHAT IT LEAVES RUNNING, when that switch is on
+    // (main/leftovers.mjs): the rule, and the programs of this task still
+    // shutting down, which it must not reuse.
+    const leftoverNote = this.leftoverBriefNote(item);
+    if (leftoverNote) prompt = `${prompt}\n\n${leftoverNote}`;
     // A project may override what its own sessions may do. Absent (the normal
     // case) means the workspace default, which is why this is a lookup with no
     // entry rather than a copy of the default written onto every project: a
     // copy is a grant that stops tracking the one place grants are reviewed.
     const override = this.projectSessionArgs(item.product);
     const base = override ?? this.defaultSessionArgs();
-    // WHAT SHE SAID THIS ONE REPLY MAY DO, which outranks the project and the
+    // WHAT THE USER SAID THIS ONE REPLY MAY DO, which outranks the project and the
     // workspace for exactly this run.
     //
     // It rewrites only the --permission-mode flag; every other grant in her
@@ -4021,12 +4795,12 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // everything else through untouched. A value that is not one of Claude
     // Code's six is ignored rather than passed to the CLI.
     const oneOff = CLAUDE_MODES.includes(item.answerMode) ? item.answerMode : null;
-    // HER CONFIG GOES TO THE CLI AS SHE WROTE IT, and only a one-off rewrites
+    // THE USER'S CONFIG GOES TO THE CLI AS WRITTEN, and only a one-off rewrites
     // it. This was briefly the other way round, running every spawn through
     // buildSessionArgs so that exactly one permission flag always reached the
     // CLI, and that was the wrong trade: the parser cannot know the arity of
     // flags it does not own, so a value that happens to look like a flag gets
-    // read as one and its owner is left dangling. Rewriting a config she typed
+    // read as one and its owner is left dangling. Rewriting a config the user typed
     // by hand, on every spawn, to fix a display problem is not worth that.
     //
     // The display problem is fixed at the reading end instead: permissionMode
@@ -4034,10 +4808,10 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // names whatever her flags really add up to. Caught in review, 2026-08-23.
     const grants = oneOff ? buildSessionArgs(base, oneOff) : base;
     /*
-     * SHE TYPED ONE OF CLAUDE CODE'S OWN COMMANDS, so the command is the whole
-     * prompt and the brief is skipped.
+     * THE USER TYPED ONE OF CLAUDE CODE'S OWN COMMANDS, so the command is the
+     * whole prompt and the brief is skipped.
      *
-     * The eight she then picked are in the reply box's slash menu;
+     * The eight supported ones are in the reply box's slash menu;
      * shared/claude-commands.mjs is the list and the reason.
      *
      * IT HAS TO REPLACE THE PROMPT RATHER THAN RIDE IN FRONT OF IT, and that is
@@ -4049,7 +4823,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
      *
      * THREE GUARDS, AND EACH IS A DIFFERENT WAY OF NOT DOING THIS BY ACCIDENT:
      *
-     *   `continuation` means this spawn exists BECAUSE she wrote on the row.
+     *   `continuation` means this spawn exists BECAUSE the user wrote on the row.
      *   Without it, `item.answer` sits on the row for good and an ordinary wake
      *   three hours later would run /context instead of the work.
      *
@@ -4121,7 +4895,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
     const args = ['-p', prompt, '--output-format', 'stream-json', '--verbose', '--include-partial-messages', ...claudeGrants];
     if (claudeEffort) args.push('--effort', claudeEffort);
     // Her standing instructions, on every session there is: workers, digests,
-    // and every resumed turn of a thread that started before she wrote the
+    // and every resumed turn of a thread that started before the user wrote the
     // rule. This is the ONE place a session's arguments are built, which is why
     // they cannot miss a path.
     //
@@ -4138,7 +4912,8 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // belongs: it is the only block here she did not necessarily write, so her
     // standing instructions and her project instructions both sit above it and
     // the framing line inside it says out loud that they win. Emptying the box
-    // in settings drops it entirely, which is the whole point of the box.
+    // in settings drops the user's own words; the app's rules stay
+    // (w-3ec9f07978), because the inbox reads every message by them.
     //
     // SINCE w-3dc46f3a67 THIS BLOCK IS BOTH MESSAGE DOCUMENTS, not just the
     // finishing half. The writing rules used to be spliced into the worker
@@ -4148,8 +4923,8 @@ export class Supervisor {
     const project = this.projectInstructions(item.product, product);
     const messages = this.messageRules();
     // ADHD MODE RIDES DIRECTLY UNDER THE MESSAGE RULES, and only while it is on
-    // (w-5737fe67cf): "append that text to your content if you have ADHD mode
-    // on, and then remove it when you turn it off."
+    // (w-5737fe67cf): its text is appended while the mode is on and removed
+    // when it is turned off.
     const adhd = this.adhdRules();
     // {{name}} and {{Name}} become the app's name here too, on the same rule as
     // buildBrief: these blocks are markdown files that cannot import it, and
@@ -4165,7 +4940,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
      * `command` GOES BACK WITH THE ARGUMENTS, because the exit handler has to
        know what this run was. A command run does not write on the row and is
        not supposed to: its answer is the text in the thread. settleDelivery's
-       ordinary test is "did an agent speak on the row since her answer", which
+       ordinary test is "did an agent speak on the row since the answer", which
        a command run fails, and failing it means her reply is delivered again —
        so /context would run three times and she would read the same table
        three times. */
@@ -4209,16 +4984,14 @@ export class Supervisor {
   /**
    * THE ANSWER A COMMAND LEFT, WHILE IT IS STILL THE NEWEST THING ON THE ROW.
    *
-   * Hers, 2026-09-23, with a picture of her own pane: "this 'fork text' is still
-   * applied, but it shouldn't be there continuously at the bottom, infinitely,
-   * even though we forked a while ago." One result per task is published here
-   * and the pane draws it at the foot of the thread, and nothing ever took it
-   * down. It is saved with the session state, so a restart brought it back too,
-   * and her `/fork` answer sat under messages written hours later, reading as
-   * though the command had just run again.
+   * A command's answer must not sit at the bottom of the thread forever. One
+   * result per task is published here and the pane draws it at the foot of the
+   * thread, and nothing ever took it down. It is saved with the session state,
+   * so a restart brought it back too, and a `/fork` answer sat under messages
+   * written hours later, reading as though the command had just run again.
    *
    * A PREDICATE RATHER THAN A TIMER, on this codebase's usual rule for anything
-   * that expires. The answer belongs to the moment she ran the command, so it
+   * that expires. The answer belongs to the moment the command ran, so it
    * shows until the row has moved on, and the row's own `updatedAt` is what says
    * that. Nothing fires and nothing sweeps, and a restart cannot resurrect it
    * because the comparison is made every time it is read. A command still
@@ -4357,25 +5130,22 @@ export class Supervisor {
   // tests/the-state-page-is-gone.test.mjs has the measurements and keeps it
   // out. Nothing replaced it: a row carries its own history.
 
-  // HER RULE ABOUT WHEN WORK GETS ITS OWN ROW had a switch here, read off
-  // `subagentRule: false`. It is always on now (w-5737fe67cf, 2026-09-23). Hers:
-  // "don't you think this should just be an always-on rule rather than a
-  // toggle?" Off only took one paragraph out of the brief, and the paragraph is
-  // what keeps one piece of work from reaching her as several rows. A config
-  // that still says false is ignored.
+  // THE RULE ABOUT WHEN WORK GETS ITS OWN ROW had a switch here, read off
+  // `subagentRule: false`. It is always on now (w-5737fe67cf), because it is a
+  // rule and not a preference. Off only took one paragraph out of the brief,
+  // and the paragraph is what keeps one piece of work from reaching the user as
+  // several rows. A config that still says false is ignored.
 
-  // HOW AGENTS WRITE TO HER: the titles, the opening lines, the questions, and
-  // the last message a run sends. ONE document (w-3dc46f3a67, 2026-09-22).
+  // HOW AGENTS WRITE TO THE USER: the titles, the opening lines, the questions,
+  // and the last message a run sends. ONE document (w-3dc46f3a67).
   //
-  // IT WAS TWO AND THE SPLIT WAS OURS, NOT HERS. `writing-rules.md` rode inside
-  // the worker brief and shaped the messages during a task; `finishing.md` rode
-  // in the system prompt and shaped the final one. Hers, shown the five prompts
-  // a person could edit: "Those five layers of prompts that the user can adjust
-  // might be overkill. Maybe we decide not to expose some of them, or maybe we
-  // would best aggregate others." The evidence they were one thing all along is
-  // her own rules file, which spends three of its four paragraphs on how agents
-  // write to her rather than on what they do. That is what somebody types when
-  // they sit down; the seam between the two files is an implementation detail.
+  // IT WAS TWO AND THE SPLIT WAS OURS, NOT THE USER'S. `writing-rules.md` rode
+  // inside the worker brief and shaped the messages during a task;
+  // `finishing.md` rode in the system prompt and shaped the final one. Five
+  // editable layers of prompts was too many, so some were merged. A person's
+  // rules file tends to be mostly about how agents write to them rather than
+  // what agents do. That is what somebody types when they sit down; the seam
+  // between the two files is an implementation detail.
   //
   // WHERE IT RIDES, AND WHY THAT IS THE WHOLE DOCUMENT NOW. The writing half
   // used to be spliced into the worker brief, which is the one thing some runs
@@ -4395,32 +5165,56 @@ export class Supervisor {
     return path.join(this.userDir, 'briefs', 'message-rules.md');
   }
 
+  // OURS AND THEIRS ARE TWO LAYERS, NOT ONE FILE (w-3ec9f07978). The shipped
+  // rules are what the inbox reads every message by: the bold first line the
+  // list clips at, the Options section the picker draws, the last message
+  // being the answer. A person editing those breaks their own inbox, so they
+  // ride from the checkout on every run and are never in the box. The box is
+  // only what the user wrote, and it rides above ours so their words win.
+  shippedMessageRules() {
+    try { return fs.readFileSync(this.messageRulesDefaultFile(), 'utf8').trim(); } catch { return ''; }
+  }
+
   // Read fresh at every spawn, never cached, like everything else she can edit
-  // while the fleet is running. An EMPTY file is not a missing one: emptying the
-  // box in settings is how she turns this off, so it means no message rules at
-  // all rather than "fall back to the shipped ones".
+  // while the fleet is running. Emptying the box takes the user's words out,
+  // never ours.
   messageRules() {
-    let text = null;
-    try { text = fs.readFileSync(this.messageRulesFile(), 'utf8'); } catch {}
-    if (text === null && this.messageRulesFile() !== this.messageRulesDefaultFile()) {
-      try { text = fs.readFileSync(this.messageRulesDefaultFile(), 'utf8'); } catch {}
+    let theirs = '';
+    if (!agentInstructionsUnified(this.userDir) && this.messageRulesFile() !== this.messageRulesDefaultFile()) {
+      try { theirs = fs.readFileSync(this.messageRulesFile(), 'utf8').trim(); } catch {}
     }
-    if (text === null) return null;
-    const body = text.trim();
-    if (!body) return null;
-    // ONE framing line, for the same reason her project instructions carry one:
-    // a session has no other way to know that these particular words are the
-    // app's defaults rather than the founder's own, or that anything above them
+    const ours = this.shippedMessageRules();
+    // ONE framing line each, for the same reason her project instructions carry
+    // one: a session has no other way to know whose words these are, or which
     // wins where the two disagree.
-    return [
+    const blocks = [];
+    if (theirs) blocks.push([
+      'How the person reading this wants agents to write to them, in their own',
+      'words. Where these and the app\'s rules below disagree, these win.',
+      '',
+      '---',
+      '',
+      theirs,
+    ].join('\n'));
+    // THE APP'S KEYS RIDE WITH OUR RULES (w-7ec8553e23). An agent told the user
+    // to "Press S" to schedule three days after S became the summary, going by
+    // a memory its own session saved before the key moved. They ride inside
+    // this block, never alone, so a run the app hands no rules still gets no
+    // flag at all.
+    if (ours) blocks.push([
       'How to write to the person reading this, and how to finish, from the app',
       'they read it in. These are its defaults, so any instruction above this one',
       'outranks them.',
       '',
       '---',
       '',
-      body,
-    ].join('\n');
+      ours,
+      '',
+      '---',
+      '',
+      keysForAgents(),
+    ].join('\n'));
+    return blocks.length ? blocks.join('\n\n') : null;
   }
 
   // ADHD MODE (w-5737fe67cf, 2026-09-25): a short set of writing rules that ride
@@ -4439,16 +5233,12 @@ export class Supervisor {
     return ['ADHD mode is on. Follow these rules as well.', '', body].join('\n');
   }
 
-  // What the settings box shows: her copy if she has one, otherwise the shipped
-  // text, so the box opens filled in on a machine she has never edited it on.
+  // What the settings box shows: the user's own words and nothing of ours
+  // (w-3ec9f07978), so it opens empty until they write something.
   readMessageRules() {
+    if (agentInstructionsUnified(this.userDir)) return this.readStanding();
     try {
       return fs.readFileSync(this.messageRulesFile(), 'utf8');
-    } catch (err) {
-      if (err.code !== 'ENOENT') throw err;
-    }
-    try {
-      return fs.readFileSync(this.messageRulesDefaultFile(), 'utf8');
     } catch (err) {
       if (err.code === 'ENOENT') return '';
       throw err;
@@ -4461,6 +5251,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
   // a state on disk that nothing later mistakes for a fresh install and
   // re-seeds.
   writeMessageRules(text) {
+    if (agentInstructionsUnified(this.userDir)) return this.writeStanding(text);
     const file = this.messageRulesFile();
     const tmp = `${file}.tmp-${process.pid}`;
     fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(file), { recursive: true });
@@ -4504,11 +5295,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
   // Written whole, through a rename, because the fleet reads this file on
   // every spawn: a half-written save is a session briefed with half a rule.
   writeStanding(text) {
-    const file = this.standingFile();
-    const tmp = `${file}.tmp-${process.pid}`;
-    fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(file), { recursive: true });
-    fs.writeFileSync(tmp, typeof text === 'string' ? text : '', 'utf8');
-    fs.renameSync(tmp, file);
+    return writeInstruction(this.userDir, 'rules', typeof text === 'string' ? text : '');
   }
 
   /* ---------------------------- the second engine ------------------------- */
@@ -4575,7 +5362,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
       : this.config;
     const ranOn = engineFor(item, {
       config,
-      found: { codex: !!this.config.codexBin },
+      found: this._enginesFound(),
       // THE OPT-IN, AND THE ONLY EXPRESSION IN THE APP THAT PRODUCES THE TOKEN.
       // Derived from the same value the staleness rule reads, so the permission
       // and the moment cannot come apart: there is no way to open the gate
@@ -4617,8 +5404,33 @@ export class Supervisor {
    * no second boolean anywhere that could disagree with it.
    */
   engineChoices() {
+    // A Mac with only Codex is offered Codex whether or not the gate is open:
+    // one engine is not a choice, so there is nothing for the gate to hold.
+    if (this._homeEngine() !== DEFAULT_ENGINE) return availableEngines(this._enginesFound());
     if (!this.engineChoiceOpened()) return availableEngines();
-    return availableEngines({ codex: !!this.config.codexBin });
+    return availableEngines(this._enginesFound());
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * WHICH CODING AGENTS ARE ON THIS MAC, as the shape `shared/engines.mjs`
+   *  reads. `claude` is false only when the search said it is not here
+   *  (main/config.mjs `claudeFound`); a config that never said leaves it true,
+   *  which is what it always meant. */
+  _enginesFound() {
+    const codex = !!this.config.codexBin;
+    // A CLAUDE CODE NOBODY IS SIGNED INTO, BESIDE A CODEX SOMEBODY IS, COUNTS
+    // AS NOT HERE (w-d5d632e503). The Claude app keeps a copy of Claude Code
+    // whether or not its owner pays for it, so a person who only uses Codex
+    // had every task sent to a Claude Code that could not run. Both answers
+    // come from the sign-in check (main/engine-setup.mjs); until it has
+    // answered, nothing moves.
+    const claudeSignedOut = this.config.claudeSignedIn === false && codex && this.config.codexSignedIn === true;
+    return { claude: this.config.claudeFound !== false && !claudeSignedOut, codex };
+  }
+
+  /** What runs when nobody chose: Claude Code, or Codex on a Mac without it. */
+  _homeEngine() {
+    return homeEngine(this._enginesFound());
   }
 
   /**
@@ -4679,6 +5491,34 @@ export class Supervisor {
     return { choices, workspace, byItem };
   }
 
+  /**
+   * WHICH SUBSCRIPTION THE FLEET IS SPENDING, for the one line that says so
+   * (w-e217e577e5, 2026-10-07). Null on a Mac where nothing readable is signed
+   * in, and then nothing is drawn anywhere.
+   *
+   * IT IS ANSWERED HERE FOR THE REASON `engineFacts` IS. Which engine a row runs
+   * on needs the capability gate, and which ACCOUNT it runs on needs
+   * `_narrowToChosen`, the rule that one account picked in Settings is the only
+   * one the fleet uses. A corner that worked either out for itself could name
+   * the subscription this app is deliberately not spending, which is the one
+   * mistake this line must never make: somebody reads it to find out whose money
+   * is going.
+   *
+   * THE FIRST OF THE POOL, which is the account the next spawn goes to on a Mac
+   * with nothing picked (`_pickProfile` round-robins from there). Two accounts
+   * of the same plan read the same either way; two different plans and a chosen
+   * account make this exact, which is the case somebody would ask about.
+   */
+  runsOnAccount(engine = this._engineFor(null)) {
+    const home = this.config.home;
+    if (engine === 'codex') {
+      const pool = this._narrowToChosen('codex', this._codexProfiles());
+      return runsOn({ engine, home, codexHome: this._codexProfileHome(pool[0] ?? 'default') });
+    }
+    const pool = this._narrowToChosen('claude', this._profiles());
+    return runsOn({ engine: 'claude', home, claudeProfile: pool[0] ?? 'default' });
+  }
+
   /**
    * THE ENGINE ON A TASK SHE IS COMPOSING, OR NULL, and the door writes nothing
    * else (`zero:compose` in main/ipc.mjs).
@@ -4854,7 +5694,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
    * "before EVERY spawn", with "never pass an API key into a worker's env"
    * beside it, so a Codex worker is not handed her `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` either.
    * The two halves are not the same kind of claim: the Anthropic one is a rule
-   * she has already ruled on, and the OpenAI one was added by the Codex slice
+   * that is already settled, and the OpenAI one was added by the Codex slice
    * and never asked for. Symmetry is not worth weakening the older of the two.
    *
    * The branch is over the engine the spawn is FOR, which is the one fact this
@@ -5008,8 +5848,8 @@ export class Supervisor {
    *
    * STILL NEVER TRANSLATED, and that half is unchanged. There is no honest map
    * from "opus" to a Codex slug: which model stands in for which is a judgement
-   * about cost and capability that is hers, and guessing it would run her work
-   * on a model she did not pick.
+   * about cost and capability that belongs to the user, and guessing it would
+   * run their work on a model they did not pick.
    *
    * AND RUNNING ON CODEX'S DEFAULT IS THAT SAME GUESS. That is the whole
    * argument for throwing rather than dropping the word and carrying on. A run
@@ -5017,8 +5857,8 @@ export class Supervisor {
    * worker's stderr only becomes a sentence on her row through `sayTheRunDied`,
    * which fires on a run that DIED, so on the ordinary successful run the
    * notice would exist only in a trace file nobody opens. CLAUDE.md's rule is
-   * that when the system swallows something she said, she cannot tell it from
-   * the work not happening. Stopping is the only outcome she can see.
+   * that when the system swallows something the user said, they cannot tell it
+   * from the work not happening. Stopping is the only outcome they can see.
    *
    * A THROW HERE COSTS THE ROW NOTHING. `threadParams` is called inside
    * `createCodexWorker`'s promise chain, so this lands in the catch at the end
@@ -5140,7 +5980,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
     const levels = codexModelLevels(slug, { home });
     if (!levels || levels.includes(level)) return null;
     const offers = levels.length ? `It offers ${levels.join(', ')}.` : 'It advertises no levels at all.';
-    return `this row asks "${slug}" to think at "${level}", which is not a level that model offers on this Mac. ${offers} Nothing here will pick a stand-in for her, so this run is stopping rather than doing her work at a level she did not choose`;
+    return `this row asks "${slug}" to think at "${level}", which is not a level that model offers on this computer. ${offers} Nothing here will pick a stand-in for her, so this run is stopping rather than doing her work at a level she did not choose`;
   }
 
   /**
@@ -5220,7 +6060,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
     const asked = from === 'workspace'
       ? `every Codex agent here is set to run on "${word}"`
       : `this row asks to run on "${word}"`;
-    return `${asked}, which is not a model the Codex on this Mac knows.${instead} Nothing here will pick a stand-in for her, so this run is stopping rather than doing her work on a model she did not choose`;
+    return `${asked}, which is not a model the Codex on this computer knows.${instead} Nothing here will pick a stand-in for her, so this run is stopping rather than doing her work on a model she did not choose`;
   }
 
   /**
@@ -5255,6 +6095,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
       env: {
         STORE_ACCOUNT_ID: this.config.accountId,
         ...storeRootEnv(this.config.storeRoot),
+        ...teamPersonEnv(),
         ZERO_PRODUCT: item.product,
         ZERO_ITEM: item.id,
       },
@@ -5294,8 +6135,16 @@ export class Supervisor {
     if (live && !live.client.isClosed()) return live;
     const client = createCodexAppServer({
       spawn: () => spawn(this.config.codexBin, ['app-server'], {
-        cwd: this.appDir,
-        env: { ...this._workerEnv('codex'), CODEX_HOME: home },
+        // HER HOME, NEVER THE APP'S OWN FOLDER. In an installed build that is
+        // `app.asar`, a file, and Node throws `spawn ENOTDIR` for a cwd that is
+        // not a folder: every Codex thread on every downloaded copy sat at
+        // Queued (2026-10-06). Each thread names its own cwd at thread/start,
+        // so this one is only somewhere real to stand.
+        cwd: this.config.home || os.homedir(),
+        // The socket its threads' commands ask on, and no row: see
+        // `codexMemoryGateEnv`. One app-server is every Codex thread of this
+        // login, so a row named here would be the wrong row for all but one.
+        env: codexLaunchEnv(this.config.codexBin, { ...this._workerEnv('codex'), CODEX_HOME: home, ...this.codexMemoryGateEnv() }),
         stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
       }),
       // WHAT IS LEFT OF THIS LOGIN'S LIMIT, ARRIVING UNBIDDEN. `onNotification`
@@ -5315,6 +6164,24 @@ export class Supervisor {
     handshake.catch(() => { /* every worker chains its own catch off this */ });
     const entry = { client, handshake, home };
     this._codexServers.set(home, entry);
+    // AND THE MEMORY HOOK IS TRUSTED HERE, ON THE WAY UP (w-e5225b62ba).
+    //
+    // It has to happen on a server that is starting anyway. Codex will not run an
+    // untrusted hook, and the trust needs `hooks/list` to report the hash Codex
+    // computed -- which cannot be worked out locally, it is not a hash of the
+    // command text. So the one place that has both an app-server and no reason to
+    // start one is right here.
+    //
+    // The alternative was for the switch to start an app-server itself just to
+    // ask, and on the Mac this was written on that is a few hundred megabytes
+    // spent to protect against spending memory. Chained off the handshake, it
+    // costs two calls on a process that was being started regardless, and it runs
+    // before any thread of this server exists.
+    if (this.config.memoryGate) {
+      handshake
+        .then(() => this.setCodexMemoryGate(true, home, entry))
+        .catch((e) => console.warn(`zero: codex memory gate: ${e.message}`));
+    }
     return entry;
   }
 
@@ -5341,8 +6208,8 @@ export class Supervisor {
    * WHOSE LIMIT THE CARD IS ABOUT: the login she picked, else her primary one.
    *
    * This used to be `_codexHome` outright, which is always the primary login.
-   * The pick moved her work onto a second account and left the figure behind,
-   * so she switched off an account at 99% and the card still said 99%
+   * The pick moved the work onto a second account and left the figure behind,
+   * so switching off an account at 99% left the card still saying 99%
    * (w-cad7e3e509). With no pick every login runs, and the primary one stays
    * the one the card speaks for, as before.
    */
@@ -5467,7 +6334,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
     this._codexServers?.clear();
   }
 
-  spawnWorker(item, { continuation = false, resumeSessionId = null, profile: forcedProfile = null, engine: forcedEngine = null, remoteOnly = false } = {}) {
+  spawnWorker(item, { continuation = false, resumeSessionId = null, profile: forcedProfile = null, engine: forcedEngine = null, remoteOnly = false, shipFailure = null } = {}) {
     if (this._compactionJobs?.has(JSON.stringify([item.product, item.id]))) return;
     // ASKED ONCE, HERE, AND ANSWERED CLAUDE CODE ON EVERY MACHINE TODAY. See
     // `_engineFor` for the two independent reasons why. It is asked ahead of
@@ -5490,20 +6357,79 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // and check a Claude Code slot; this is how that one answer reaches the
     // spawn instead of being derived again down here and disagreeing.
     const engine = forcedEngine ? engineOf(forcedEngine) : this._engineFor(item);
+    // THIS TASK'S LEFTOVERS WERE ASKED TO STOP SECONDS AGO (main/leftovers.mjs)
+    // and may still be on their way out, so the agent waits out the rest of
+    // those 30 seconds rather than finding a dying server and reusing it. It
+    // waits as a pending entry, the same one a folder being built uses, so it
+    // counts against its slot, Stop cancels it, and a quit puts its reply back
+    // in line (Codex's review, 2026-10-05). The latest call's options win.
+    const hold = this._leftoverCleaner?.holdMs?.(item.id) ?? 0;
+    if (hold > 0) {
+      this._preparing ??= new Map();
+      const opts = { continuation, resumeSessionId, profile: forcedProfile, engine: forcedEngine, remoteOnly, shipFailure };
+      const held = this._preparing.get(item.id);
+      if (held) { held.item = item; held.opts = opts; return; }
+      const entry = { item, opts, engine };
+      this._preparing.set(item.id, entry);
+      const t = setTimeout(() => {
+        if (this._preparing?.get(item.id) !== entry) return; // stopped, or the app quit
+        this._preparing.delete(item.id);
+        if (this.sessions.has(item.id)) return;
+        try { this.spawnWorker(entry.item, entry.opts); }
+        catch (error) { console.warn(`zero: could not start ${item.id}:`, error.message); }
+        this.onChange?.();
+      }, hold + 100);
+      t.unref?.();
+      return;
+    }
     // A ROW WHOSE MODEL BELONGS TO THE OTHER HARNESS DOES NOT RUN, AND SAYS SO.
     // Asked here rather than inside `spawnPlan` because the answer is not a
     // narrower plan, it is no run at all -- and asked before the slot check and
     // before the product lookup, so a refusal costs the fleet nothing.
     if (item?.model && !modelForEngine(item, engine)) {
       this._sayTheModelIsForAnotherEngine(item, engine);
-      // HER WORDS ARE NOT DELIVERED BY A WORKER THAT NEVER STARTED. The queue
+      // THE USER'S WORDS ARE NOT DELIVERED BY A WORKER THAT NEVER STARTED. The queue
       // writes the delivery mark before it calls this method and that mark is
-      // persisted, so leaving it standing would record her reply as handed over
+      // persisted, so leaving it standing would record the reply as handed over
       // for good. `redeliverAnswer` is the sanctioned way back.
       if (continuation && item.answer) this.redeliverAnswer(item, item.answer);
       return;
     }
     if (!this._hasSlotFor(engine) && !continuation) return;
+    // A TIED PROJECT WAITS RATHER THAN BORROWING A LOGIN, and this is where
+    // "tied" stops being a word on a settings page. The engine's own slot check
+    // above has already passed, and it is a check about the whole engine: with
+    // two logins it says yes while the ONE account this project may use is full.
+    // So the pinned account answers for itself, and when it cannot take the work
+    // nothing starts. Waiting is the promise; running it on the other
+    // subscription is the bug the setting exists to stop.
+    //
+    // A REPLY IS HANDED BACK RATHER THAN DROPPED. A continuation skips the slot
+    // check by design, so without the `redeliverAnswer` here the queue's
+    // delivery mark would stand on a reply no worker ever carried, which records
+    // it as handed over for good.
+    //
+    // AND A FORCED PROFILE LOSES. `forcedProfile` is the wake sweep saying which
+    // account it interrupted; if that is not the pinned one, the session being
+    // resumed lives on a login this project may no longer use, so the id goes
+    // with it and the row is briefed fresh on the right account.
+    const pinned = this._projectProfile(item.product, engine);
+    if (pinned) {
+      if (forcedProfile && forcedProfile !== pinned) { forcedProfile = null; resumeSessionId = null; }
+      const full = !continuation && this._loadOnProfile(pinned, engine) >= this._slotsPerAccount(engine);
+      if (full || this._profileResting(this._accountKey(engine, pinned))) {
+        if (continuation && item.answer) this.redeliverAnswer(item, item.answer);
+        return;
+      }
+    }
+    // HER REPLY WAITS FOR AN ACCOUNT THAT CAN CARRY IT. A continuation skips the
+    // slot check by design, so with every account on this engine sitting out it
+    // would go to one anyway, die in two seconds, and go again next tick. Held
+    // here and handed back, it goes out the tick the account returns.
+    if (continuation && !pinned && !this._liveProfilesFor(engine).length) {
+      if (item.answer) this.redeliverAnswer(item, item.answer);
+      return;
+    }
     const product = this.store.listProducts().find((p) => p.slug === item.product);
     if (!product) return;
     // AND THIS IS WHERE "nothing ever runs in the practice project" IS ACTUALLY
@@ -5519,8 +6445,9 @@ export class Supervisor {
       return;
     }
     if (this._folderFirst(item, product, engine, { continuation, resumeSessionId, profile: forcedProfile, engine: forcedEngine, remoteOnly })) return;
+    if (this._photoFirst(item, product, engine, { continuation, resumeSessionId, profile: forcedProfile, engine: forcedEngine, remoteOnly })) return;
 
-    const plan = this.spawnPlan(item, product, { continuation, resumeSessionId, engine });
+    const plan = this.spawnPlan(item, product, { continuation, resumeSessionId, engine, shipFailure });
     const { args } = plan;
     // ONE RUN, ONE PAIR OF FILES. The MCP config and the settings used to be a
     // fixed name each in the temp folder, fine while every spawn wrote the
@@ -5545,12 +6472,17 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // round-robin pick here would hand `--resume` an id the CLI cannot find and
     // the session would die on arrival.
     //
-    // THAT WAS TRUE OF THE WAKE SWEEP ONLY, AND IT IS THE BUG SHE FILED.
+    // THAT WAS TRUE OF THE WAKE SWEEP ONLY, AND THAT WAS THE BUG.
     // `forcedProfile` is passed by _resumeInterrupted and by nothing else, so
-    // the one path that resumes on every reply she writes, a personal
+    // the one path that resumes on every reply the user writes, a personal
     // continuation, fell through to the pick and lost the account half of the
     // time. plan.resumeProfile is that same answer for that path.
-    const profile = forcedProfile ?? plan.resumeProfile ?? this._pickProfile(engine);
+    //
+    // A TIE OUTRANKS ALL THREE, and it can because of the two lines above: a
+    // `forcedProfile` or a `resumeProfile` that disagreed with the tie has
+    // already had its session id taken off it, so this is not a resume pointed
+    // at the wrong home, it is a fresh brief on the account the project named.
+    const profile = pinned ?? forcedProfile ?? plan.resumeProfile ?? this._pickProfile(engine);
     // A SECOND ACCOUNT ARRIVES EMPTY, AND THIS IS WHERE IT STOPS BEING EMPTY.
     // Our own Accounts page tells a person to log in with a brand new folder,
     // and Claude Code reads a session's skills, commands and subagents out of
@@ -5566,6 +6498,11 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // symlinks made into a Claude home on behalf of a session that will never
     // open them.
     const tooling = engine === 'codex' ? null : linkAccountTooling(profile);
+    // A RUN IS STARTING ON THIS ROW, said before the worker exists and in the
+    // same turn of the event loop as the spawn, so the cleaner can never stop
+    // this task's programs between its last check and this agent arriving
+    // (main/leftovers.mjs, agreed with Codex).
+    this._leftoverCleaner?.starting(item.id);
     const env = this._workerEnv(engine);
     const child = engine === 'codex'
       ? this._spawnCodexWorker(plan, { cwd, item, profile })
@@ -5584,6 +6521,8 @@ export class Supervisor {
           // So approval cards can say who is asking and about what.
           ZERO_PRODUCT: item.product,
           ZERO_ITEM: item.id,
+          // Where its shell commands ask about memory, when that is on.
+          ...this.memoryGateEnv(item),
         },
         stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
       });
@@ -5609,6 +6548,11 @@ export class Supervisor {
       spawnFiles,
     };
     this.sessions.set(item.id, session);
+    // THAT an agent started work, and on which engine; nothing about the task.
+    // `count` is set by main.mjs and is absent wherever nothing is sent.
+    this.count?.('run_started', { engine });
+    // Its worker, so a run left "running" by a crash can later be told ended.
+    if (Number.isInteger(child?.pid)) this._leftoverCleaner?.worker(item.id, child.pid);
     if (engine !== 'codex') {
       attachClaudeInput(child);
       if (remoteOnly) { child.holdInput(true); session.remoteIdle = true; session.remoteHeld = true; }
@@ -5646,23 +6590,24 @@ export class Supervisor {
     //
     // Never allowed to stop a spawn. A product with no repository gets null
     // and the conversation carries the card exactly as it did before.
-    try { session.repoBefore = snapshotRepo(cwd); } catch { session.repoBefore = null; }
+    // Taken off the main thread a moment ago by `_photoFirst`, before the
+    // process existed; read here inline only when that step did not run.
+    if (this._photos?.has(item.id)) session.repoBefore = this._photos.get(item.id);
+    else { try { session.repoBefore = snapshotRepo(cwd); } catch { session.repoBefore = null; } }
 
     // A MODE BELONGS TO THE THREAD, NOT TO ONE SEND, AND THIS IS WHERE THAT
     // CHANGED (w-34b7b861b6, 2026-09-24).
     //
     // What stood here spent the mode the moment the child process came up:
     // `clearAnswerMode` on the `spawn` event, so the very next run on the same
-    // row went out in the fleet's mode again. She put one agent in Manual to
-    // test it, got the approval cards she expected out of that first run, and
-    // then found every in-progress row's footer reading "In Auto Mode" -- which
-    // was not a display bug. The grant really was gone by the time she looked.
-    // Her words: "It should change for the whole conversation. If you switch to
-    // manual mode, every task after that, until you switch it back for that
-    // thread, should then be in manual mode."
+    // row went out in the fleet's mode again. An agent put in Manual produced
+    // the expected approval cards on its first run, and then every in-progress
+    // row's footer read "In Auto Mode" -- which was not a display bug. The grant
+    // really was gone. A mode chosen for a thread should hold for every run in
+    // that thread until it is switched back.
     //
-    // So nothing is spent here any more. The grant sits on the row until she
-    // moves it or clears it, `answerModes()` keeps returning it, and the reply
+    // So nothing is spent here any more. The grant sits on the row until the
+    // user moves it or clears it, `answerModes()` keeps returning it, and the reply
     // box re-seeds from it on every open, which is what makes the footer tell
     // the truth on run two.
     //
@@ -5670,16 +6615,16 @@ export class Supervisor {
     // still NOT on the ledger. It lives in the app's own storage, written by
     // main and by nothing else (main/answer-modes.mjs), because a ledger line
     // names its own author as a plain string and nothing checks the string: a
-    // worker could once have appended one line claiming to be her and handed
-    // its own next run bypassPermissions. Only she grants one, through the
-    // reply box. What this commit widens is the BLAST RADIUS of a grant she
-    // makes deliberately, which is the thing she asked for; it does not widen
-    // who can make one.
+    // worker could once have appended one line claiming to be the user and
+    // handed its own next run bypassPermissions. Only the user grants one,
+    // through the reply box. What this commit widens is the BLAST RADIUS of a
+    // grant made deliberately, which is the point; it does not widen who can
+    // make one.
     //
     // What is left here is a touch rather than a clear: it restamps the grant's
     // clock so the month-long sweep counts from this run instead of from the
-    // moment she picked the mode, and a thread she is working in therefore
-    // keeps its mode for as long as she works in it. Still on the child's own
+    // moment the mode was picked, and a thread being worked in therefore keeps
+    // its mode for as long as it is worked in. Still on the child's own
     // `spawn` event, and the reason is the reason the clear was there: `spawn`
     // is the only signal the process exists. `spawn()` returns a ChildProcess
     // before an ENOENT arrives asynchronously on 'error'.
@@ -5767,6 +6712,12 @@ export class Supervisor {
     const absorb = (...frame) => {
       session.lastOutputAt = Date.now();
       capture(session, ...frame);
+      // The conversation is up, so the words it was started with are in it
+      // (`_noteHeard`). Here rather than at exit: an app quit may not wait for one.
+      if (continuation && item.answer && session.sessionId && !session.heardNoted) {
+        session.heardNoted = true;
+        this._noteHeard(item, session.sessionId);
+      }
       if (activity(session, ...frame)) this.onChange?.();
       if (session.remoteHeld && engine === DEFAULT_ENGINE) {
         try {
@@ -5777,7 +6728,9 @@ export class Supervisor {
               this.store.recordSessionResult(item.product,item.id,{result:String(event.result || '(the session ended with an empty reply)')});
               session.remoteResultRecorded = true;
               if (session.lastLiveReply) this._handledAnswers.add(this._answerKey(session.lastLiveReply));
-            } else {
+            } else if (!(Date.now() - (session.child?.lastInterruptAt ?? 0) < 30000)) {
+              // A step she cut with Send now ends in an error result too; that
+              // is her message being taken, not the turn failing.
               this._remoteControls?.set(JSON.stringify([item.product,item.id]),{state:'failed',at:Date.now(),mayBeActive:true,text:String(event.result || 'Claude could not complete the remote turn.')});
             }
             this._saveState(); this.onChange?.();
@@ -5872,10 +6825,11 @@ export class Supervisor {
       exited = true;
       if (how?.transportFault) session.transportFault = true;
       session.exitFailed = !!(signal || code !== 0 || session.transportFault || session.resultIsError || session.result == null);
+      this.count?.('run_finished', runEndedProps(session, Date.now()));
       onLine(`session exited (${code})`);
       // WHAT THE RUN CHANGED, SAVED WHERE SHE CAN OPEN IT.
       //
-      // David could not see code on his onboarding call because there was no
+      // A tester could not see code on their onboarding call because there was no
       // artifact to open. This is the line that makes one exist: the moment a
       // worker exits, its own transcript is read for the edits it made, the
       // checkout is read for what actually moved on the disk, and the two are
@@ -5929,12 +6883,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
       } catch (e) { console.warn('zero: could not save what the run changed:', e.message); }
       try { trace?.write(`\n# exited (${code}) ${new Date().toISOString()}\n`); trace?.end(); } catch {}
       this.removeSpawnFiles(session);
-      this.sessions.delete(item.id);
-      // The row's folder goes back. It is only deleted when losing it costs
-      // nothing, so the usual answer is that it stays, holding work she has not
-      // approved. The same call sweeps the folders whose work has since landed
-      // in main, which is what stops them piling up unseen.
-      this.releaseWorkFolder(item, product);
+      this.endSession(item, session, product);
       if (session.remoteIdle) {
         delete this._liveSessions[item.id];
         this._saveState(); this.onChange?.(); return;
@@ -5984,42 +6933,33 @@ export class Supervisor {
           this.store.recordSessionResult(item.product, item.id, { result: session.result, status: null });
         } catch (e) { console.warn('zero: writing the closing message as the answer failed:', e.message); }
       }
-      // A session that finished under its own power has nothing left to resume.
-      // ANYTHING ELSE STAYS REMEMBERED, and that includes a kill of ours: an
-      // app quit is the commonest way her fleet dies, and it is the case where
-      // going back to the same session rather than briefing a stranger is worth
-      // the most. What keeps that honest is the sweep's own guard: it only ever
-      // puts a worker back on a row that is still open or claimed.
-      //
+      this.releaseFinishedClaim(item, session);
       // NOTHING HERE TOUCHES `_rowSessions`, and that is the whole change of. A
       // finished session has nothing left to RESCUE, which is what this line is
       // about, but it is exactly the session her next reply should go back to.
       // `pruneRowSessions` is what eventually forgets it.
-      if (session.result != null && !session.resultIsError) {
-        delete this._liveSessions[item.id];
-        this._saveState();
-      }
+      this.forgetFinishedSession(item, session);
       this.noteExitForBackoff(session, { onLine });
       const carryingAnswer = continuation && answerAtSpawn;
       if (carryingAnswer) this.settleDeliveryAndSay(item, answerAtSpawn, session, signal, { command: !!plan.command });
-      // AND THE REPLY SHE TYPED INTO A RUN THAT WAS NOT CARRYING ONE. Ordinary
+      // AND THE REPLY THE USER TYPED INTO A RUN THAT WAS NOT CARRYING ONE. Ordinary
       // fresh work never reached the line above, so a correction steered into a
       // working session was acted on, answered, and then remembered as owed
       // forever (`settleLiveReply`, and the numbers are with it). Its own
-      // statement rather than a branch of the chain below: this settles her
-      // words, and the chain below is about what the RUN did.
+      // statement rather than a branch of the chain below: this settles the
+      // user's words, and the chain below is about what the RUN did.
       if (!carryingAnswer && session.lastLiveReply) this.settleLiveReply(item, session);
       // Fresh work only. A continuation already has its own memory (one spawn
       // per answer, capped), and a session WE killed is not evidence the row
       // has nothing left in it, the same reasoning settleDelivery uses. Its
-      // own `if`: the settle above is about her words and this is about the
+      // own `if`: the settle above is about the user's words and this is about the
       // run, and a run that carried a live reply still has to be noted here.
       if (!continuation && !session.stoppedByUs) {
         // A session that never got an id and never said a word never started:
         // Claude Code announces itself with `session_id` on its first line of
         // output, so a session with neither died before the CLI was running.
         const everRan = session.sessionId != null || session.result != null;
-        const outcome = this.noteFreshRun(item, { everRan });
+        const outcome = this.noteFreshRun(item, { everRan, account: session.accountFault?.account ?? null });
         if (outcome === 'rested') {
           const until = this.restingUntil(item);
           if (until > Date.now()) onLine(`nothing moved on this row; resting ${Math.round((until - Date.now()) / 60_000)}m`);
@@ -6068,16 +7008,15 @@ export class Supervisor {
   /* --------------------- what she attached, and the thread ---------------- */
   // THE FILES A TASK CARRIES, AS PATHS A STRANGER PROCESS CAN ACTUALLY OPEN.
   //
-  // Her screenshots were reaching the ledger and stopping there. A pasted image
-  // lands in the body as `![shot.png](attachments/x-shot.png)`, which is right
-  // for the reading pane and useless to a worker: the path is relative to the
-  // product dir, the worker's cwd is the code repo when one is registered, and
-  // NOTHING IN THE BRIEF EVER SAID TO OPEN IT. Measured over her own store on
-  // 2026-08-21, by folding each row to the moment each session was spawned and
-  // then looking for the file's name anywhere in that session's log: 320
-  // sessions were handed a task carrying a picture she attached, and 155 of
-  // them, 48%, never opened one, across 42 different rows. Her instruction was
-  // half in words and half in the picture, and only the words were delivered.
+  // Attached screenshots were reaching the ledger and stopping there. A pasted
+  // image lands in the body as `![shot.png](attachments/x-shot.png)`, which is
+  // right for the reading pane and useless to a worker: the path is relative to
+  // the product dir, the worker's cwd is the code repo when one is registered,
+  // and NOTHING IN THE BRIEF EVER SAID TO OPEN IT. Measured by folding each row
+  // to the moment each session was spawned and then looking for the file's name
+  // anywhere in that session's log: about half the sessions handed a task
+  // carrying an attached picture never opened it. The instruction was half in
+  // words and half in the picture, and only the words were delivered.
   //
   // Absolute, because relative was the bug. Existence-checked, because a path
   // that 404s teaches a worker to distrust the whole section. Pictures first
@@ -6163,7 +7102,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
         pictures.length === 1
           ? 'THE FOUNDER ATTACHED A PICTURE. READ IT BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE.'
           : `THE FOUNDER ATTACHED ${pictures.length} PICTURES. READ THEM BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE.`,
-        'Half of what she asked for is in the image and none of it is in the text.',
+        'Half of what they asked for is in the image and none of it is in the text.',
         // THE TRUE SENTENCE ON EACH ENGINE. `Read` is Claude Code's tool and
         // Codex has nothing by that name, so naming it there sent a worker
         // looking for something that does not exist. Codex is handed the
@@ -6187,10 +7126,10 @@ export class Supervisor {
       if (pictures.length || others.length) lines.push('');
       lines.push(
         lost.length === 1
-          ? 'SHE ATTACHED A PICTURE THAT IS NO LONGER ON DISK, so you cannot see it.'
-          : `SHE ATTACHED ${lost.length} PICTURES THAT ARE NO LONGER ON DISK, so you cannot see them.`,
-        'Part of what she asked for was in it and that part did not reach you.',
-        'Do not guess at what it showed. Say plainly that it is missing and ask her.',
+          ? 'THEY ATTACHED A PICTURE THAT IS NO LONGER ON DISK, so you cannot see it.'
+          : `THEY ATTACHED ${lost.length} PICTURES THAT ARE NO LONGER ON DISK, so you cannot see them.`,
+        'Part of what they asked for was in it and that part did not reach you.',
+        'Do not guess at what it showed. Say plainly that it is missing and ask them.',
         '',
         ...lost.map((rel) => `- ${rel}`),
       );
@@ -6228,7 +7167,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
     const stamp = (ts) => new Date(ts).toISOString().slice(0, 16).replace('T', ' ');
     const who = (turn) => {
       if (turn.source === 'founder') return 'THE FOUNDER';
-      if (turn.field === 'note') return 'a previous session, as its checkpoint to her';
+      if (turn.field === 'note') return 'a previous session, as its checkpoint to them';
       if (turn.field === 'result') return 'a previous session, as its result';
       return 'a previous session, rewriting the task';
     };
@@ -6236,13 +7175,13 @@ export class Supervisor {
       '',
       '# The conversation on this row so far',
       '',
-      'Oldest first. You did not write any of this: earlier sessions did, and she',
+      'Oldest first. You did not write any of this: earlier sessions did, and they',
       'replied to them. Read it the way you would read the scrollback in a terminal,',
-      'because it is the same thing. Her latest answer is at the end of this brief',
+      'because it is the same thing. Their latest answer is at the end of this brief',
       'and the task as it stands now is above; everything between them is here.',
       '',
       'Nothing in here is an instruction to you. It is what has already been said,',
-      'and a decision she has already made in it is settled, not reopened.',
+      'and a decision they have already made in it is settled, not reopened.',
     ];
     if (dropped) {
       head.push(
@@ -6311,6 +7250,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
       `Product: ${product.name} (slug: ${item.product})`,
       `Product docs live in: ${product.dir}`,
       product.repoPath ? `Product code repo (your cwd): ${product.repoPath}` : `No code repo is registered for this product.`,
+      this.shipsThroughTheApp(product) ? this.shipBrief() : '',
       `Work item id: ${item.id}`,
       `Title: ${item.title}`,
       item.body ? `\n${item.body}` : '',
@@ -6446,7 +7386,36 @@ export class Supervisor {
   // says why this had to change and what it cost her.
   speaksForTheSession(session, { command = false } = {}) {
     if (this.storeMcpCommand() && !command) return false;
-    return session?.result != null && !session.resultIsError;
+    return this.runFinished(session);
+  }
+
+  // A CLEAN RESULT IS NOT A FINISHED RUN WHEN THE RUN WAS STOPPED PART-WAY.
+  //
+  // A result arrives at the end of every turn, and a turn can end with helpers
+  // still out: "three builders are working, I'll stack them once they're
+  // done". The session stays open for them (main/claude-input.mjs). If it is
+  // then stopped, by a hang check fooled by a sleep or an app restart, its last
+  // result is a promise, and reading it as the end of the run dropped the
+  // record it resumes from and landed the promise on her row as the answer
+  // (tests/a-worker-whose-helpers-are-still-working-does-not-come-back-to-you).
+  // The input pipe knows: it only closes at a result with nothing out. A child
+  // that cannot say (a Codex turn) keeps the old reading.
+  runFinished(session) {
+    if (session?.result == null || session.resultIsError) return false;
+    return session.child?.ranToTheEnd?.() !== false;
+  }
+
+  // A session that finished under its own power has nothing left to resume.
+  // ANYTHING ELSE STAYS REMEMBERED, and that includes a kill of ours: an app
+  // quit is the commonest way her fleet dies, and it is the case where going
+  // back to the same session rather than briefing a stranger is worth the
+  // most. What keeps that honest is the sweep's own guard: it only ever puts a
+  // worker back on a row that is still open or claimed.
+  forgetFinishedSession(item, session) {
+    if (!this.runFinished(session)) return false;
+    delete this._liveSessions[item.id];
+    this._saveState();
+    return true;
   }
 
   // A WORKER'S CLOSING MESSAGE IS ITS ANSWER, ON EVERY INSTALL.
@@ -6457,7 +7426,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
   // Code session, it ended the way every session ends: by saying its answer.
   // Two surfaces, one answer, drawn one under the other. A fold in the thread
   // and two rewrites of the brief tried to stop the second copy after the
-  // fact; the run in her screenshot had "the answer is written once" in its
+  // fact; one run had "the answer is written once" in its
   // own brief and wrote it twice anyway, three seconds apart.
   //
   // So the second surface goes. A downloaded copy with no store tools has
@@ -6475,7 +7444,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
   // line would land on a row another session is holding.
   closingMessageIsTheAnswer(session) {
     if (!this.storeMcpCommand() || session?.command) return false;
-    if (session?.result == null || session.resultIsError || !String(session.result).trim()) return false;
+    if (!this.runFinished(session) || !String(session.result).trim()) return false;
     if (session.claimRefused) return false;
     try {
       const fresh = this.store.readItem?.(session.product, session.itemId);
@@ -6485,6 +7454,19 @@ export class Supervisor {
     } catch { return false; }
   }
 
+  // A clean terminal result ends the run, even if its shared tool server
+  // stays alive for other turns. Release the run's claim without choosing a
+  // status for the conversation. Failed runs retain the existing retry path.
+  releaseFinishedClaim(item, session) {
+    if (session.exitFailed || !this.runFinished(session) || session.claimRefused || session.stoppedByUs
+      || !String(session.result ?? '').trim()) return;
+    try {
+      this.store.releaseRunClaim?.(item.product, item.id, {
+        afterEpoch: item.epoch ?? 0, startedAt: session.startedAt,
+      });
+    } catch (error) { console.warn('zero: could not release the finished run:', error.message); }
+  }
+
   // The permission rules handed to a worker, generated fresh at every spawn for
   // the same reason the MCP config is: the folders in them are THIS person's
   // folders. The file we ship carries the rules and an EMPTY
@@ -6512,6 +7494,8 @@ export class Supervisor {
     add(this.config.storeRoot);
     if (product?.dir) add(product.dir);
     rules.permissions = { ...(rules.permissions ?? {}), additionalDirectories: dirs };
+    const gateHooks = this.memoryGateHooks();
+    if (gateHooks) rules.hooks = { ...(rules.hooks ?? {}), ...gateHooks };
     // Beside the MCP config, and written the same way: a real file on disk,
     // because the CLI reading --settings is not this process. Named by the
     // run, because two spawns with different rules must never share a file.
@@ -6531,6 +7515,226 @@ export class Supervisor {
     if (rules) { spawnFiles.push(rules); args.push('--settings', rules); }
   }
 
+  /* ------------------ heavy work waits when memory is short ----------------- */
+  // w-3958c3753d. With the switch on, every shell command a Claude Code worker
+  // runs asks main/memory-gate-server.mjs first, through a PreToolUse hook on
+  // Bash, and reports back after it. Reading and editing files never ask. With
+  // the switch off a worker carries none of it. The rules and the measurements
+  // behind them are in main/memory-gate.mjs.
+
+  /** The hooks for the per-spawn settings file, or null when it is off. */
+  memoryGateHooks() {
+    if (!this.config.memoryGate) return null;
+    const script = unpacked(path.join(this.appDir, 'scripts', 'memory-gate-hook.sh'));
+    const quoted = `'${script.replace(/'/g, `'\\''`)}'`;
+    // Above the longest wait by ten minutes: a hook that times out lets its
+    // command run (measured), so the app's own refusal must always come first.
+    const timeout = Math.ceil(MEMORY_GATE.maxWaitMs / 1000) + 600;
+    const on = (mode, extra = {}) => [{ matcher: 'Bash', hooks: [{ type: 'command', command: `${quoted} ${mode}`, ...extra }] }];
+    return {
+      PreToolUse: on('pre', { timeout }),
+      PostToolUse: on('post', { timeout: 10 }),
+      PostToolUseFailure: on('post', { timeout: 10 }),
+    };
+  }
+
+  /** Where a worker's hook asks, and who it is asking for. Empty when off. */
+  memoryGateEnv(item) {
+    if (!this.config.memoryGate || !item) return {};
+    return {
+      AGENTBOX_GATE_SOCK: this.config.memoryGateSocket || memoryGateSocketPath(),
+      AGENTBOX_GATE_ITEM: String(item.id ?? ''),
+      AGENTBOX_GATE_PRODUCT: String(item.product ?? ''),
+      AGENTBOX_GATE_SCORE: String(Math.max(0, Math.round(this._score(item)) || 0)),
+    };
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * THE SAME SOCKET, AND DELIBERATELY NO ROW (w-e5225b62ba). One
+   * `codex app-server` serves every Codex thread of a login, so this environment
+   * is shared by all of them: an AGENTBOX_GATE_ITEM here would label every Codex
+   * thread as whichever row started first. Each thread names itself instead, by
+   * the `session_id` its hook payload carries, which `memoryGateOwner` turns back
+   * into a row.
+   *
+   * It is also what keeps the user's own `codex` out of this. The hook sits in a
+   * hooks.json their terminal reads too, and it exits on its first line when
+   * AGENTBOX_GATE_SOCK is absent — which it is everywhere but here.
+   */
+  codexMemoryGateEnv() {
+    if (!this.config.memoryGate) return {};
+    return { AGENTBOX_GATE_SOCK: this.config.memoryGateSocket || memoryGateSocketPath() };
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * WHICH ROW A CODEX THREAD IS DOING, asked by the gate on every command a
+   * Codex worker runs. `session.sessionId` is set from `thread/started` in
+   * main/codex.mjs, and the hook's `session_id` was measured to be that same
+   * string. A thread this app is not running answers null, and its command is
+   * let through.
+   */
+  memoryGateOwner(sessionId) {
+    if (!sessionId) return null;
+    for (const [itemId, session] of this.sessions) {
+      if (session?.engine === 'codex' && session.sessionId === sessionId) {
+        return { item: itemId, product: session.product ?? null };
+      }
+    }
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  /** The live rank of one of this app's own tasks, so a raise counts at once. */
+  memoryGateScore(product, itemId) {
+    if (!product || !itemId) return null;
+    try {
+      const item = this.store.readItem?.(product, itemId);
+      return item ? this._score(item) : null;
+    } catch { return null; }
+  }
+
+  memoryGateSlots() {
+    const n = Number(this.config.memoryGateSlots);
+    return Number.isFinite(n) && n >= 1 ? Math.round(n) : autoSlots(os.totalmem());
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * PUT OUR HOOK IN A CODEX HOME, OR TAKE IT OUT, AND TRUST ONLY OURS.
+   *
+   * Codex reads its hooks from `hooks.json` in the Codex home, which may be the
+   * user's own `~/.codex` and may already hold hooks of theirs, so the file is
+   * merged and never replaced (main/codex-memory-gate.mjs).
+   *
+   * A HOOK ONLY RUNS ONCE TRUSTED, and the trust is satisfied for one key rather
+   * than switched off for everybody: `hooks/list` names our hook and its hash,
+   * and `config/batchWrite` writes `hooks.state."<key>".trusted_hash` for that
+   * key alone. Codex does the editing of config.toml, so nothing of theirs is
+   * rewritten by us. Measured on this Mac: a second hook in the same file stayed
+   * untrusted, and an unrelated `[projects."..."]` table survived untouched.
+   *
+   * IT RUNS AT EVERY START, not once at install, because the key carries the
+   * absolute path of the script: a new app version is a new hash, which Codex
+   * calls "modified" and will not run until it is trusted again.
+   *
+   * NOTHING HERE IS ALLOWED TO STOP THE APP. A Codex home we cannot write, an
+   * app-server that will not answer, a `config/batchWrite` that is refused: all
+   * of them mean Codex workers go ungated, which is exactly where they were
+   * before this existed.
+   */
+  async setCodexMemoryGate(on, home = this._codexHome(), server = null) {
+    // IT NEVER STARTS AN APP-SERVER, and that is the point. The trust needs one
+    // to ask `hooks/list` with, so it uses the one it was handed (`_codexServer`
+    // chains this onto its own handshake) or one already live for this home, and
+    // otherwise writes the file and stops. A process started here would be a few
+    // hundred megabytes spent by the feature whose whole job is to save memory,
+    // and the next Codex worker starts a server anyway and trusts it then.
+    const live = server ?? (on ? this._codexServers?.get(home) : null);
+    const request = live
+      ? async (method, params) => { await live.handshake; return live.client.request(method, params); }
+      : null;
+    return syncCodexMemoryGate({
+      home,
+      scriptPath: unpacked(path.join(this.appDir, 'scripts', 'memory-gate-hook.sh')),
+      on,
+      request,
+      cwds: [this.appDir],
+      log: (line) => console.log(`zero: ${line}`),
+    });
+  }
+
+  async setMemoryGate(on) {
+    if (!on) {
+      await this.stopMemoryGate();
+      await this.setCodexMemoryGate(false).catch(() => {});
+      return;
+    }
+    if (this._memoryGate) { this._memoryGate.setSlots(this.memoryGateSlots()); return; }
+    const server = new MemoryGateServer({
+      socketPath: this.config.memoryGateSocket || memoryGateSocketPath(),
+      // A test runs its own coordinator beside the real one; it names a port.
+      ...(Number.isInteger(this.config.memoryGateLockPort) ? { lockPort: this.config.memoryGateLockPort } : {}),
+      historyFile: path.join(this.userDir, 'memory-gate-history.json'),
+      gate: { slots: this.memoryGateSlots() },
+      scoreFor: (product, itemId) => this.memoryGateScore(product, itemId),
+      ownerOf: (sessionId) => this.memoryGateOwner(sessionId),
+      log: (line) => console.log(`zero: ${line}`),
+    });
+    this._memoryGate = server;
+    await server.start();
+    // The hook goes in after the socket is listening, so the first Codex command
+    // to ask has something to ask. It never blocks the switch taking effect.
+    this.setCodexMemoryGate(true).catch((e) => console.warn(`zero: codex memory gate: ${e.message}`));
+  }
+
+  async stopMemoryGate() {
+    const server = this._memoryGate;
+    this._memoryGate = null;
+    if (server) await server.stop();
+  }
+
+  /* ------------- what finished agents leave running (main/leftovers.mjs) ------------- */
+  // Its own switch, off until somebody turns it on. This app tells the cleaner
+  // when each run starts (in spawnWorker, before the worker exists) and ends
+  // (endSession), because only this app runs this store's tasks and so only
+  // it can say for certain that a task's run is over.
+
+  // THE CLEANER ALWAYS RUNS; THE SWITCH DECIDES WHETHER IT MAY SIGNAL. Off, it
+  // looks every five minutes and reports, so the Agents page can say what
+  // turning it on would stop before anybody turns it on, and every run is
+  // recorded either way, so turning it on later finds real records rather than
+  // guesses (Codex's review, 2026-10-05). On, it looks every minute.
+  async setLeftoverCleanup(on) {
+    if (!this._leftoverCleaner) {
+      this._leftoverCleaner = new LeftoverCleaner({
+        file: path.join(this.userDir, 'leftovers.json'),
+        enabled: !!on,
+        enabledSince: Number(this.config.cleanupLeftoversSince) || Date.now(),
+        live: (itemId) => this.sessions.has(itemId),
+        owns: (itemId, product) => {
+          if (!product) return false;
+          try { return !!this.store.readItem?.(product, itemId); } catch { return false; }
+        },
+        log: (line) => console.log(`zero: ${line}`),
+      });
+    } else if (on) {
+      this._leftoverCleaner.enable(Number(this.config.cleanupLeftoversSince) || Date.now());
+    } else {
+      this._leftoverCleaner.disable();
+    }
+    clearInterval(this._leftoverTimer);
+    const tick = () => this._leftoverCleaner?.tick().catch((e) => console.warn('zero: leftovers:', e.message));
+    this._leftoverTimer = setInterval(tick, on ? 60_000 : 5 * 60_000);
+    this._leftoverTimer.unref?.();
+    tick();
+  }
+
+  leftoverStatus() {
+    return this._leftoverCleaner ? this._leftoverCleaner.status() : null;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * What an agent is told about this, or null. A fresh brief carries the rule
+   * and the way to keep something; any brief carries the programs of this task
+   * still shutting down, which the agent must not reuse.
+   */
+  leftoverBriefNote(item) {
+    const cleaner = this._leftoverCleaner;
+    if (!cleaner || !item?.id) return null;
+    const parts = [];
+    // EVERY RUN, not only a fresh one: a conversation resumed after the switch
+    // went on, and a chat, never heard it otherwise (Codex's review).
+    if (cleaner.enabled) {
+      parts.push('Anything you leave running after your turn (a dev server, a preview, a background job) is stopped two hours after you finish, sooner if this computer runs short of memory. '
+        + 'If the person needs something to keep running, start it with AGENTBOX_KEEP=1 in its environment and say so in your answer. Stop anything else you started before you finish.');
+    }
+    const stopping = cleaner.stoppingNote(item.id);
+    if (stopping) parts.push(stopping);
+    return parts.length ? parts.join('\n\n') : null;
+  }
+
+  memoryGateStatus() {
+    return this._memoryGate ? this._memoryGate.status() : null;
+  }
+
   // The MCP config handed to a worker, generated fresh so the paths always track
   // zero.config.json. The approvals channel is Agentbox's own and always rides;
   // the store server rides only when one is configured. Returns null when there
@@ -6576,6 +7780,7 @@ export class Supervisor {
         env: {
           STORE_ACCOUNT_ID: this.config.accountId,
           ...storeRootEnv(this.config.storeRoot),
+          ...teamPersonEnv(),
         },
       };
     }
@@ -6610,9 +7815,19 @@ export function unpacked(p) {
 // compared against a stored watermark and an undefined would make every
 // comparison false, so a row she has never touched would rest forever the
 // moment she did touch it.
+//
+// FILING IS NOT SPEAKING (2026-10-01). Marking a thread Private, moving its
+// priority, or editing a summary line or a link is the founder writing to the
+// row, and it used to count as a word: a persona test switched a finished
+// thread to Private and the agent ran again on its own, unasked and paid for.
+// Those fields describe the thread; they never ask it anything.
+// Moving an answer out of the inbox is not asking the agent to answer again.
+// runAt also covers snoozes written before the inbox reminder had its own field.
+const NOT_A_WORD = new Set(['visibility', 'priority', 'problem', 'progress', 'solution', 'blockedBy', 'blocks', 'runAt', 'snoozedUntil']);
 function lastFounderWrite(item) {
   let latest = 0;
-  for (const w of Object.values(item?.wrote ?? {})) {
+  for (const [field, w] of Object.entries(item?.wrote ?? {})) {
+    if (NOT_A_WORD.has(field)) continue;
     if (w?.source === 'founder' && w.ts > latest) latest = w.ts;
   }
   return latest;
@@ -6644,8 +7859,10 @@ function captureStream(session, line) {
       session.result = String(obj.result ?? '');
       session.resultIsError = !!obj.is_error;
       // A run cannot end with helpers still out. Cleared here as well as on
-      // exit so the number can never outlive the thing it counts.
-      session.helperIds?.clear();
+      // exit so the number can never outlive the thing it counts. Unless
+      // something is still out in the background: then this was a turn
+      // ending, not the run, and the session stays open for it.
+      if (!session.child?.waitingOn?.().length) session.helperIds?.clear();
     }
     noteClaimAnswer(session, obj);
     countHelpers(session, obj);
@@ -6757,7 +7974,7 @@ export function streamingText(session, line) {
 // to move with it. DID THIS RUN LEAVE HER ANYTHING TO READ?
 //
 // The rule that divides the two writers, kept in one named place because
-// getting it wrong is silence and silence is the failure she filed:
+// getting it wrong is silence, and silence is the failure that matters most:
 //
 //   - said nothing at all   -> the supervisor speaks for it (sayTheRunDied)
 //   - said something wrong  -> the supervisor speaks for it, in OUR words