rulesets/docs/specs/2026-07-20-silent-until-signal-monitors-spec.org, branch main

feat: extend the silent-until-signal heartbeat to the two MCP monitor loops

2026-07-20T18:39:29+00:00

Auto triage-intake and auto inbox-zero now collapse an empty check to a single " at HH:MM: nothing" line, matching the sentry quiet-fire heartbeat from Phase 1. Detection stays in-session, so the MCP-auth sources are scanned in full and only the output collapses. Inbox already had an acknowledge-only-on-empty rule, now unified to the standard format; triage's three-section sweep output gains the empty-sweep collapse. Completes the silent-until-signal spec (Phases 2-5): the spec is the shared-policy home the three workflows reference, and a manual-testing entry covers the live-loop verification. Spec flipped to IMPLEMENTED.

feat(sentry): a quiet fire collapses to a one-line heartbeat

2026-07-20T17:30:51+00:00

A sentry fire whose passes all probe-skip or no-op now writes a single "sentry at HH:MM: nothing" line instead of a full per-pass digest block. A fire that runs or queues anything writes the full digest as before. This is Phase 1 of the silent-until-signal policy. The live trial's fires 3-8 were walls of no-op digests, the noise this removes. The "no silent skip" discipline is reconciled, not broken: inside a working fire every pass still writes its ran/skipped line, and a quiet fire's heartbeat is the explicit "nothing to do" record rather than a hidden skip.

docs: spec the silent-until-signal monitor policy

2026-07-20T17:16:33+00:00

An in-session monitor loop (sentry, auto triage-intake, auto inbox-zero) fires the model every interval and narrates a full turn even when nothing changed, so a session fills with quiet-fire noise. The spec settles the fix as a policy, not a watcher: detect first, and on an empty check collapse to one labelled heartbeat line, spending a full turn only on a real item. Keeping detection in-session dissolves the MCP-auth split (triage's sources need the session's auth, which a detached watcher can't reach), so it applies uniformly across all three loops. DRAFT, decisions resolved live. Links a [#B] build task.