Session

Keep continuity small enough to verify on arrival. The tracker and project docs own intent; Fabric and runs own execution; a checkpoint points back to them.

Orient

Check directory, branch and git log --oneline -5; reopen the parent issue and approved criteria, and inspect provenant status. Read the explicit host-session checkpoint with provenant workflow session show SESSION. Verify its claims against current owners, then run a relevant smoke check before new work. An injected checkpoint supplies context, never authority. Recover an existing graph with status, output and retry before launching replacement work. Use run --route junior for a bounded continuation, or run --use plan when its shape needs changing; orchestrate owns composites.

Read repository branches, checks and state paths in AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING and runbooks.

Continue toward the goal

A continuing goal needs measurable done-criteria, an authority envelope, one-way doors, a progress artefact, a stop rule, a resume trigger and a reporting cadence. Use the goal template when these are missing. Reuse the owner's existing specification rather than inventing a parallel mission queue.

For a bounded goal, continue until its criteria and required verification hold. For a standing mission explicitly defined to run until STOP, only the owner's STOP ends the mission.

For outstanding work, use one provenant status --wait --target lane:ID --target graph:ID --target pr:N call instead of repeated status reads or a sleep loop. Use --until all for all-terminal completion, or --follow --json for a monitor. The configured timeout is bounded; --wait=30m overrides it, and expiry leaves targets running. Reconcile the returned event before resuming graph work. An idle run or empty queue means no eligible work now; record the waiting condition and resume trigger, leaving the mission open. An invocation may end at its budget or waiting boundary without claiming the mission is done.

Make engineering decisions within authority and record reversible assumptions. Send unresolved one-way-door choices to the originating chair's human inbox, with a recommendation. Park that branch and continue independent authorised work. A blocked decision is not a reason to idle the whole session. STOP ends new work; reconcile active work and report its disposition within authority.

Checkpoint and report

Before compaction, handoff or substantial interruption, rewrite a checkpoint near 2 KiB with goal, authority pointers, decisions, evidence, next actions and resume trigger. Use the continuity reference for its single content contract and schema-v2 lane handoffs. Save with provenant workflow session save SESSION --file checkpoint.md --client codex, selecting the actual harness client. Use the host-supplied session ID.

Append one short milestone through provenant chair log append --session SESSION --file update.json; read history with provenant chair log list --session SESSION. The JSON requires kind, markdown and channel. Keep history there and current context in the rewritten checkpoint. For earlier saves, use provenant workflow session diff SESSION REVISION.

Graduate durable knowledge to its project owner before scratch expires. Keep lane progress outside commits and end lane results with their current handoff. Report changed work, criterion evidence, omissions and remaining gates using deliver's outcome report.

Runtime details live in session checkpoints, Claude hooks and the human inbox. Cross-host provenant workflow session handoff can transfer content and launch a peer session; inspect its dry run and existing disclosure authority first.