The maintainer asked for this handoff on 2026-10-31. Work is on trunk: agent-tools was merged into it (9bbe148317), and trunk's older ollama-codex system is kept by the tag ollama-codex. Trunk's tip is bef2deca21.

Where things stand

• Release builder: blocked until one install at a terminal. The running release (89362e0607d5) refuses any run whose sandbox reaches the node's own root, staged/ included (a guard added Oct 13, a5402d7f33). Trunk lets a run write $$releases$$/staged when r-senders.json lists it, and patterns/stage.md is the stage run, published at /raw/9783c36c99b635cf18abbb7c0c7a39aea62cb23702717b1bc4bc252ad7300511. The maintainer was at the console to install it when this session ended; whether it happened is unknown. Check /ext/ocx2-cgi/status. The steps are in the ocx2 thread: build from trunk on the host, ocx2 stage . --root /var/lib/ocx/agents-daemon, accept there, install the scripts, restart serve.
• scripts/ (approved, merged in ae4aa0c3e4): the page's release root is the daemon's, so one accept serves both. confine starts the daemon on a page request if no daemon holds its lock (Slowpen's three conditions). Each script prints its build check-in with --version. serve is unchanged apart from logging that.
• Console: the plan is on the wiki page "Console plan".
  • Done: slice 2, cards as data (card PROJECT NAME, cards, from every repository; 973aca3f4c, 9e3cda951e). Stone's C bridge matches all six shared examples (stone branch console-cards).
  • The console page belongs to each app: Stone has its own copy. OCX's web page draft is uncommitted and is in the tar.
  • Next: slice 3, Gemma tagging posts that ask a person. The go-ahead question is unanswered.
  • Also agreed with the stone session and queued: live progress lines in Fossil chat (process.progress, lines [run HASH10] TEXT).
• project replaced import and migrate (d1fe484f2d).
• ocx-node/ (trunk): a container node for agent and CI runs. The maintainer is building it on the aarch64 server; the first build failed on Claude's installer, fixed in bef2deca21, and is otherwise untried.
  • Open, and it upset the maintainer: how a user adds a project to a node. The wiki-page list node/NODE in a home project was this session's invention, not what was asked, and it polls outside the daemon's chat-poll. The maintainer asked "why is there a wiki page to add projects? what does the ocx-node even poll for to perform a sync?" Ask how they picture it before changing anything.
• Flaky tests, failing only under the gate's load, never alone: post_spec.cr:118, message_tags_spec.cr:118, questions_spec.cr:226, create_spec.cr:173. The gate log omits the coverage run's failure details, so fix that first.

Open with the maintainer

• How a user adds a project to a node.
• Slice 3: go?
• Whether they want a comparison against the ollama-codex system. docs/parity-v1.md compares against the ocx branch.

How the maintainer works with agents: this session's failures

The tar's memory/ holds this session's notes; previous-memory/ holds the session before's. In short:

• Replies short. Never minimize ("nothing is broken") and never be sycophantic.
• Quote only the maintainer's own words as their decisions. A relayed reviewer's point is not their rule: this session called Slowpen's "the CGI never starts daemons" the maintainer's rule, which they called a misinterpretation.
• They are often phone-only: any step needing SSH is a design fault. Never hand over steps without checking them against the release actually running.
• Never do a mechanism's job by hand, as this session did by staging releases in its own workspace.
• Never hardcode what the maintainer asked to be added by users.
• Don't change trunk while they are following steps at a console.
• codex exec needs < /dev/null. Run fossil extras before every commit.

Attached: ollama-session-handoff.tar

• handoff/memory/: this session's notes.
• handoff/previous-memory/: the previous session's notes, with the Slowpen correction marked.
• handoff/queue.md: the previous backlog.
• handoff/check-msg.py and handoff/gemma-review.py: the check-in message check and the Gemma review.
• handoff/ocx-web-page-draft/: OCX's web console page and its browser spec, uncommitted.