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BINKY-WP-0004 finished: retire workstation cron, Railiance rhythm timers
Complete T06 cutover: remove binky rhythm bridge crontab, install
scripts/railiance-rhythm systemd user timers on railiance01 (Europe/Berlin),
document residual continuous-intake gaps as BINKY-WP-0006. Three completion
event types verified (daily_brief, mail_intake on Railiance, weekly_review).
DEC-2026-003 marked resolved/executed.
2026-07-21 23:51:43 +02:00

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Operating Rhythm

Status: v0 — 2026-07-16 (BINKY-WP-0002-T05). The cadence that keeps the control plane honest. Blue lane: agents run it; the founder consumes it.

Daily brief

One brief per active day, written by whichever agent closes the day's work, stored in briefs/YYYY-MM-DD-daily-brief.md. Hard cap: one screen. Format:

# Daily Brief — <date>

## Decide now          (03 items, each linked to DecisionQueue)
## Progress            (what moved, milestone-relevant only)
## Risks               (changes to RiskRegister only — no restating)
## Best next hour      (single highest-leverage founder action)

Rules:

  • Decide now only lists prepared decision packages. Never raw questions.
  • Best next hour is one item. If nothing needs the founder, say so — "no founder action needed today" is a valid and desirable outcome.
  • Anything that can't fit the cap goes into a queue, not the brief.

Queue hygiene (every agent session touching this repo)

  1. DecisionQueue.md — resolved items get status: resolved set in place (not moved to a separate log — CUST-WP-0061-T05); nothing older than 14 days without escalation (RISK-003 rule).
  2. OfficeHourQueue.md — every queued item has prepared material before the next command day; done items get status: done in place; stale items pruned.
  3. AutopilotWorkQueue.md — never empty; agents with idle capacity pull from the top; closed items get status: closed in place (CUST-WP-0061-T05).
  4. Workplan files match hub state (fix-consistency covers drift).
  5. WORK-RECORDS.md (generated, all three queues above) stays current — statehub fix-consistency regenerates it automatically (C-33); nothing to hand-maintain.

Scheduler (workstation-independent)

Status: workstation cron bridge retired 2026-07-21 (BINKY-WP-0004-T06 / DEC-2026-003). Cadence is owned by activity-core definitions (binky-daily-rhythm, binky-weekly-mail-intake, binky-weekly-review-prep, all enabled: true). Execution on Railiance:

Path Role
activity-core Temporal schedules When work is due (Europe/Berlin)
host systemd user timers Invoke agent-harness on railiance01 (interim) — scripts/railiance-rhythm/
agent-harness Green/Blue tool profiles, hub completion events

Health: ssh railiance01 'systemctl --user list-timers | grep binky' and tail ~/.cache/binky-control/rhythm/railiance-rhythm.log on that host.

Rollback (emergency only): re-add workstation cron 23 8 * * 1-5 /home/worsch/binky-control/scripts/rhythm-session.sh # binky rhythm bridge and pause railiance timers. Script kept for one month as break-glass.

Known residual (BINKY-WP-0006): activity-core ISSUE_SINK_TYPE=state-hub emits progress events, not claimable issue-core tasks; agentic daily/review on Railiance need claude CLI on that host (mail-scan is deterministic and already runs there). Until Claude is installed on railiance01, agentic slots may still be run from a laptop harness session with the same task files.

Weekly review (founder, ~15 min)

Read the newest brief + SuccessMilestones.md. One question: did anything move a milestone? If two consecutive weeks show activity without milestone movement, RISK-005 escalates.