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# Planner Memory

## 2026-03-21 — Second planner run

### Milestone state
- **Foundation**: COMPLETE. Agent loop, supervisor, planner, multi-project all working.
- **Adoption**: IN PROGRESS. Bootstrap (#393), docs (#394), dashboard (#395), example project (#466) all in backlog. No work started yet — issues were unlabeled until this run fixed them.
- **Scale**: PARTIALLY started (multi-project works for 3 repos).

### Patterns
- **Predictor over-signals on transient ops issues**: 4/6 predictions this run were orphaned tmux sessions or crashed reviews — things the supervisor handles automatically. Expected to continue until predictor learns to filter supervisor-handled issues.
- **Label loss on issue creation**: The 3 Adoption issues created last run had no labels when checked this run. Root cause unknown — could be a silent API failure in the planner's issue creation, or labels removed by another process. Watch for recurrence.
- **Long tech-debt backlog blocks features**: ~20 small backlog items (tech-debt, bug fixes) will be processed before Adoption features due to sequential pipeline and lower issue numbers. Not a problem per se — maintains factory health — but means Adoption work won't start for weeks unless manually prioritized.
- **needs_human is a silent pipeline killer**: When a dev-agent writes PHASE:needs_human and no human responds, the pipeline stalls silently. Supervisor doesn't escalate. Filed #465 to fix.

### Strategic direction
- Adoption remains the leverage multiplier. All 4 Adoption issues are now in backlog: #393 (init) → #394 (docs) → #395 (dashboard), plus #466 (example project, depends on #393).
- The critical path is: #393 (init) must land first — docs and example project both reference it.
- #465 (supervisor needs_human escalation) is operational leverage — prevents the kind of silent stall observed via #446.

### Watch list
- Label persistence: verify #393/#394/#395 retain their backlog labels next run
- Tech-debt throughput: how fast is the dev-agent clearing the backlog queue?
- #357 (in-progress): action-agent runtime isolation — track completion
- #448 (prediction/backlog): disk at 75%, trend improving
- #446 (prediction/backlog): harb needs_human pattern — is #465 picked up?
