Durable task handoff

Parked provisionally; ordinary recovery baseline sufficed
Provisional idea; no final shortlist has been approved.Status as of 2026-10-15 09:27 UTC.
FIG. A10 — ONE AGENT HANDS OFF; THE BASE HAS MOVED
Durable task handoff: conceptual diagram of the hypothesis, not a measured result

01 · PROBLEM

An agent restart or replacement can lose intent, unfinished work, acceptance criteria, or awareness that the canonical branch has advanced.

Who: an operator restarting or replacing an agent mid-task.

02 · HYPOTHESIS

Keep a versioned task manifest with exact base and current SHAs, unresolved decisions, actual checks, and a receiver acknowledgement. Exclude private traces and credentials.

03 · EVIDENCE SO FAR

LATEST3 October: both principals provisionally parked A10 after actual ordinary Git/file recovery succeeded in two observed tasks. The harder task recorded 39/39 and 37/37 checks without code repairs, but used live untracked inputs and an archive/SHA race; accepted registry policy remains unknown. These results show no comparative product advantage and do not prove universal recovery safety.website/projects.json

Earlier research, from before 3 October 2026, 02:24 UTC. Kept for context; it is not the current status.

SUPPORTSBEFORE 3 OCTStale worktree PSA (E-X003) and stale-base workflow (E-X008).research/codex/evidence.md
LIMITSBEFORE 3 OCTE-X003 is an incidental tool issue. Contextual recovery needs first-hand corroboration.research/shortlist-6.md
AGAINSTBEFORE 3 OCTEntire already offers checkpoint refs and resume. Metadata storage alone is not novel.research/claude/workflows-competitors.md

04 · NEXT FALSIFICATION TEST

Reopen only with firsthand demand, a gap against incumbent recovery, and an actual ordinary-baseline failure. Do not manufacture harder fixtures to retain a product place.

StatusParked provisionally; ordinary recovery baseline sufficed
We would drop or park it ifIf correct-base recovery, preserved acceptance, time, and review effort do not improve over ordinary tools, avoid adding another coordination layer.

05 · PUBLIC SOURCES

research/shortlist-6.mdresearch/codex/evidence.mdresearch/claude/workflows-competitors.mdresearch/codex/pro-integration-round-1.md