#Lazy activity report

Window: 2026-05-22T15:13:09.025Z → 2026-05-23T15:13:09.025Z

#Brief

Window centered on the v0.14 release hub absorbing a second wave of child merges and finalizing the CHANGELOG, plus the landing of unify-stop-and-harden-ask which fixed the ask-mode hang and unified stop semantics. Two smaller tasks supported the release: builder-prompt documentation for lazy_ask/lazy_stop, and a stop-semantics test fixture that didn't actually exercise the stop path.

• v0.14 scope expanded from 2 to ~10 child merges; CHANGELOG retitled to "New commands, safer accept, restored close/reject" and finalized as d21d9c4.
• unify-stop-and-harden-ask accepted in one pass: unified stop → blocked, fixed 10-minute ask hang via ErrorResponse write, replaced plan-mode with explicit tool denials.
• Builder prompt and MCP tool descriptions now document lazy_ask/lazy_stop usage (awaiting review).
• Stop-semantics test fixture ran too fast to exercise the new stop path; left as an unconsumed fixture in blocked.
• Release announcement headline settled on five user-visible items; tag push remains out-of-window pending MR #428 merge.

#For the engineering manager

Release

• v0.14 release hub (release-v014) accepted ~10 child merges this window and is queued for ship via MR #428; the tag is pushed after the merge.
• Patch number derives from git rev-list --count HEAD (0.14.1064) — no manual version bumps needed.
• Announcement headline: lazy stop/lazy_stop, lazy report, lazy_ask, restored lazy close/lazy reject, unified lazy watch. Honorable mentions: safer accept, audible offline mode.

Direction / decisions

• Stop semantics consolidated: lazy stop now lands tasks in blocked (not a separate state); lazy resume demoted to deprecated alias.
• Ask-mode permission model shifted from Claude's --permission-mode plan to explicit --disallowedTools denials — denial is now the source of truth, defense-in-depth via system prompt.
• README ownership stays with the human; agent delivered a structured recommendation list (not edits) on request.

Risk / follow-ups

• Stop-semantics behavior shipped without an end-to-end validation pass — the test-stop-semantics fixture finished before stop could land. Worth flagging for manual smoke before tag push.
• Builder-prompt doc placement (under "Reviewing workflow" vs. "Lazy tools" catalog) is a judgment call awaiting review on document-ask-and-stop-usage.

#For the engineering lead

#v0.14 release hub

• release-v014 (8d689a8e) absorbed the second wave: 7 direct child merges (fix-safe-branch-delete, fix-ask-protocol-version, add-graceful-exit-timeout, add-stop-command-redo-1, unify-task-watch-redo-1, fix-accept-confirmation-ux, drop-tmux-window-title), a recover-v014-branches squash carrying 6 earlier children, and an origin/main merge pulling lazy report in.
• CHANGELOG header rewritten from [0.14.1041] - Offline awareness and subagent discovery to [0.14.1064] - New commands, safer accept, restored close/reject; finalize commit d21d9c4.
• Same-window merge of lazy/unify-stop-and-harden-ask (e644b2f / 4b14a09) folded the ask/stop fix into the hub — this had been flagged in the opening turn as previously stuck behind a plan-mode bug.
• README recommendations returned as a proposal only (per human's "don't write" boundary): drop lazy resume from troubleshooting in favor of lazy unblock; sharpen task-status taxonomy; add lazy close next to lazy reject in Quick Start; three new Advanced-Features subsections (lazy report, lazy stop+lazy_ask paired workflow, lazy watch unified timeline); optional "New in v0.14" header callout. Explicitly excluded: subagent MCP internals, builder-prompt polish, ask-mode hardening internals.
• Out of scope: tag push (deferred to post-MR-merge). Smoke test (bun test test/e2e/ + per-command host checks) documented but not run in-window.

#Stop + ask hardening

• unify-stop-and-harden-ask (2273b54c) accepted in one pass, no iteration:
  • lazy stop transitions to blocked with user_stopped=true; lazy resume is now a deprecated alias.
  • Post-kill, lazy stop writes an ErrorResponse to response.json so the daemon's ask RPC unblocks in ≤500ms instead of waiting out the 10-minute timeout — real latency cliff for anyone interrupting an ask.
  • Ask permission model: dropped --permission-mode plan, switched to --disallowedTools "Bash Write Edit".
  • LAZY_MCP_READ_ONLY=1 propagates supervisor → claude → MCP through the Docker config-spawn chain; three write-tool handlers gained actionable read-only guards.
  • Ask system prompt tightened to reinforce read-only on the model side as well.
• test-stop-semantics (7a87e94c) was meant to exercise the new behavior via a deliberately slow read-and-summarize job (10 files, paced for mid-flight stop) writing to notes/stop-test-exploration.md.
  • Stop never landed in time: agent finished all 10 summaries and committed (8fc33892) before the human could trigger it — the stop path was not actually validated.
  • Human merged origin/lazy/release-v014 @ d21d9c46 into the task branch (clean, HEAD 8fc33892 → 2e8a3bbe) to pull in the v0.14 CHANGELOG.
  • Task ends blocked post-second-system-block as an unconsumed fixture.

#Documentation

• document-ask-and-stop-usage (914689b1, blocked awaiting review):
  • Builder system prompt (src/prompts/builder-system-prompt.md) gained two H3 sections under "Reviewing workflow" — "Asking the agent for clarification" (lazy_ask) and "Halting an agent on the wrong path" (lazy_stop) — with Good uses / Don't structure and post-stop options list.
  • Placement is a judgment call: sections went under "Reviewing workflow" next to "Feedback first, reject last" rather than under the "Lazy tools" reference catalog. Flag for reviewer sanity check.
  • lazy_ask and lazy_stop MCP tool descriptions in src/mcp/tools.ts each picked up a one-line usage hint.
  • lazy_resume deprecation notice confirmed already in place from prior unify-stop-and-harden-ask work.
  • Docs-only, no new tests; bun run typecheck clean modulo four pre-existing version module errors on the parent branch. Shipped as single commit a9d44f4.

#Other notable activity

• Nothing else in this window beyond the four tracked tasks above; no untracked builder/engineer conversations.