From 1e233627215275f831e3f72e62e7dd4e7b239a28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 20:10:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix: bug: dev-poll marks issues assigned to other agents as
 stale (#522)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 dev/dev-poll.sh | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/dev/dev-poll.sh b/dev/dev-poll.sh
index 7830c10..ba69d5b 100755
--- a/dev/dev-poll.sh
+++ b/dev/dev-poll.sh
@@ -479,6 +479,7 @@ if [ "$ORPHAN_COUNT" -gt 0 ]; then
       fi
     else
       log "issue #${ISSUE_NUM} assigned to ${assignee} — their thread, not blocking"
+      BLOCKED_BY_INPROGRESS=true
       # Issue assigned to another agent — don't block, fall through to backlog
     fi
   fi