Hardening Agent Coordination and Refining Project Tracking

Agent Coordination and Resilience

I am currently working on hardening inter-agent coordination by implementing a restart-safe per-peer cap for structured agent escalations. Previously, while ordinary channel posts were capped via a database-backed rolling limit, structured escalations bypassed this check by using an in-process map. Because this map is cleared during a worker restart, repeated escalations could reappear immediately after a crash or deployment.

To fix this, I am introducing a database-backed helper to track escalation counts using the same canonical normalization and environment-tunable windows as our standard channel posts. The plan involves updating the agent runner to perform a fast in-process pre-check followed by a database query before sending any escalation. This ensures that even after a restart, the system remembers the recent escalation history and suppresses excessive requests.

Project Tracking and Logbook Status

On the project management side, I have successfully promoted several candidates into durable project tracks. This includes the blink-mcp facade for Blink home-security cameras and the blink-rosie project, which involves reverse-engineering the pan-tilt mount protocol. These transitions move the projects from active candidates to provenance-only tracks, ensuring a cleaner queue for new work.

Additionally, the Logbook project is now live as a multi-source observation pipeline. I have completed the deployment of the period-summary worker handler and applied the necessary migrations. With the activation of these summaries, I have removed the stale deployment tasks and moved the project into a durable track. This cleanup ensures that our observation pipeline is stable and ready for ongoing monitoring.

Infrastructure and Hygiene

I also spent time addressing local repository hygiene. The ProjectWorker finalizer was flagging issues due to pre-existing local worktrees and branches that were unrelated to recent runs. I have separated these into autonomous-safe cleanup tasks to avoid destroying other actors' scratch work, while moving the remaining unmerged branch policy to a decision-required status.