stack/docs/plans/2026-09-08_publication-recovery-trial.md

Publication and planned-restart trial

Owner: Jason. Coordinator: Darkwing. Authorized by Jason's final agreed after ms-grill-me rounds 1–4. Baseline HEAD: 3b7fd19d08, branch refactor, canonical checkout /mnt/storage/src/mosaic-stack.

Outcome

Publish the remaining reviewed repository changes and prove a useful development assignment survives one planned participating-agent restart without Jason reconstructing its briefing. The operator performs the restart only after checkpoint readiness is established. This is a planned-checkpoint test, not crash recovery or production orchestration certification.

Scope and owner decisions

Publish reviewed source, tests, skills, records, agent definitions/launchers and useful design drafts. Exclude credentials, private transcripts, runtime/session state, dependencies and generated caches. Inspect evidence/screenshots for publication safety and license provenance; do not decide from filename alone. Agent relocation to ~/.mosaic-dev is deferred. Existing tracked agents are not removed. C1 and ACT-1 remain held. Registry alignment is deferred behind this owner-prioritized trial, not automatically resumed.

Design drafts may be published with explicit pending-owner-acceptance labels. Publication does not approve WUI branding or authorize implementation/deployment. No force push, next/main merge, agent relocation, live config change or runtime authority expansion. Commit/push authorization is this trial's reviewed refactor changes only.

Roles and stages

1. Darkwing inventories candidate paths and captures an exact review manifest; original authors retain ownership of their active files.
2. Rocko is requested for bounded publication inventory/checkpoint work, separate from HELD Archify C1. No source ownership transfer. He reports any conflict rather than absorbing another active assignment.
3. Dewey is requested to identify his publishable WUI draft boundary, original/license sources, test limits and active writes. Do not freeze or adopt his work without reconciliation.
4. Filbert independently reviews the exact frozen publication candidate and recovery evidence. He must report any authorship/conflict; no self-approval.
5. Rocko writes a durable checkpoint covering assignment/authority, decisions, evidence, incomplete work, unknown external outcomes and exact next action. He stops before that next action. Darkwing checks it without injecting an alternate briefing. Jason restarts Rocko when told ready.
6. After normal resume, Rocko recovers the records without a reconstructed task prompt, states the checkpoint and performs the declared next bounded action once. Verify with artifacts and command/result evidence, not self-reported recall alone. If normal resume fails, record that failure before any assisted recovery; do not manufacture a pass.
7. Applicable source and isolated launcher suites, publication-safety review and independent candidate approval precede selective commits and push. Verify fresh origin/refactor identity. Present end-to-end evidence to Jason for acceptance.

Gates and current state

• Authorized plan: confirmed.
• Initial inventory: 94 untracked candidate paths under agents/scripts/skills plus modified launchers/persona/shared records. Counts are a snapshot, not a safety verdict.
• Worker assignment and author boundary: complete. WUI exact 53-file draft independently approved at a585c1ee, pending owner design acceptance.
• Planned checkpoint recovery: independently SUPPORTED; curated summary 0e17757c APPROVED. Operator-reported restart, inferred resume mode and worker-reported execution count remain qualified. Raw runtime records stay local.
• Source approval: 23 original candidates at 8900faf1, with six Sonnet revisions superseded by approved c5ad6306. Independent isolated tests 5/5 passed.
• Final publication inventory and candidate-tree verification: complete. Filbert approved 90 frozen files at 3f8e765b plus two metadata units, total 92. Since approval, the executive-update skill changed, the tracked ms-agent-watch skill was deleted locally, and additional untracked skills appeared. These newer changes have no trial review or ownership handoff; preserve and exclude them, including the executive-update compatibility note. Do not restore deleted files or silently publish stale skill bytes.
• Publication and remote verification: complete at 29c1defe29. Exact committed paths/bytes verified; committed-tree isolated fixtures 5/5 passed; push succeeded and fresh origin/refactor SHA matched. Jason accepted the bounded trial after the plain-language recommendation and said "Proceed." #1497 closed; receipt: docs/plans/reviews/2026-09-08_publication-trial-owner-acceptance.md. No WUI design acceptance, live launches, production-readiness claim or unrelated skill migration is authorized.

No new /goal lifecycle is claimed by this document. Use this task plan and artifacts for tracking; an operator-set goal extension remains sole lifecycle owner.