rein-aharness/deploy/docs/timer-cutover.md

# Timer cutover (REIN-A-0002-T05)

After claim-loop is the proven executor path, demote host oneshot timers to
**break-glass only**.

## Proof window

Before disabling timers, record **5 clean cycles** (weekday schedule fires or
forced operator triggers):

| # | Date | Trigger | ops_run id | approach | result |
| - | ---- | ------- | ---------- | -------- | ------ |
| 1 | 2026-08-04 | FI daily schedule | `0f42b137-4fef-4978-b82b-557c28a46df9` | `fi-research-brief` | succeeded |
| 2 | 2026-08-04 | Binky daily schedule | `13fcbed2-7c2c-45dd-91d0-2632fe84bf1b` | `brief-daily` | succeeded |
| 3 | 2026-08-05 | FI daily schedule | `951f2716-35c7-46df-ac4c-1a9dfc95af47` | `fi-research-brief` | succeeded (`skipped_existing`) |
| 4 | 2026-08-05 | Binky daily schedule | `eeccd98a-bd2b-4247-9289-2bf17aa22301` | `brief-daily` | succeeded |
| 5 | 2026-08-06 | FI daily schedule | `9d6de3da-4845-470b-a16b-656ff1687eec` | `fi-research-brief` | succeeded |

Each row: `open` → `claimed` → `succeeded` (or `skipped_existing` complete),
with domain completion event (`fi_daily_brief` / `binky_daily_brief`).

Verified from the production claim-loop journal on 2026-08-08. Three further
clean scheduled cycles completed on August 6–7. At verification time,
`rein-aharness-claim-loop.service` was active, the FI timer was disabled and
inactive, and the Binky timer was not installed and inactive.

## Demote FI timer

```bash
systemctl --user disable --now fi-research-brief-daily.timer
# Keep unit files installed for break-glass:
# systemctl --user start fi-research-brief-daily.service
```

## Demote Binky rhythm timer

```bash
# unit names from binky-control/scripts/railiance-rhythm/systemd/
systemctl --user disable --now binky-brief-daily.timer 2>/dev/null || true
systemctl --user list-timers --all | grep -E 'binky|fi-research' || true
```

## Keep break-glass

- Install scripts remain; document “manual start if claim-loop down”.  
- Do **not** delete domain rhythm scripts.  
- activity-core schedule stays authority for *when due*.

## Rollback

```bash
systemctl --user enable --now fi-research-brief-daily.timer
# investigate claim-loop journal + actcore /ops-runs
```