sahil87 · sahil-noon · Sep 9, 2026 · Sep 9, 2026 · Sep 9, 2026 · Sep 9, 2026
diff --git a/docs/memory/runtime/index.md b/docs/memory/runtime/index.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ description: "Agent & process runtime — fab pane primitives + the `@rk_pane_ag
 |------|-------------|
 | [agent-primitives](agent-primitives.md) | Agent CLI interaction: profile-resolved spawning, receiver-aware skill prompts, shell quoting, pane readiness and delivery, process inspection, waiting, and provider invocation recipes. |
 | [dispatch](dispatch.md) | `fab dispatch {start,open,ready,deliver,restart,status,wait,logs,kill,reap,clean}` manages headless and pane stage workers: pane open/ready/deliver (including resume), headless start, preference-bounded pane → native → headless descent, valid user providers that omit interactive grammar, identity-checked pane liveness (the `pane_pid` restart-alias discriminator), state layout, observation, recovery, placement (the column invariant and its `min_cols`/`min_rows` geometry floor), and reaping. |
-| [operator](operator.md) | Operator coordination across repositories and tmux sessions: monitoring, gated command routing, receiver-aware skill prompts, targeted worker spawning, dependencies, autopilot, watches, the rk-cron operator-tick cadence (with the Claude-only /loop fallback), and the delegated or built-in operator launcher. |
+| [operator](operator.md) | Operator coordination across repositories and tmux sessions: monitoring, gated command routing, receiver-aware skill prompts, targeted worker spawning, dependencies, autopilot, watches, the rk-cron operator-tick cadence with tracked-set-verb mute/lease quiescence (and the Claude-only /loop fallback), and the delegated or built-in operator launcher. |
 | [pane-commands](pane-commands.md) | `fab pane {map,capture,process,window-name,open,ready,deliver,kill,questions}` reference: map delegates enumeration to `rk mux panes`, enriches with change/stage, and declares the identity-key contract (`pane`+`server`/`window_id` identity; `session`/`window_index` display-only); `open` spawn + `ready`/`deliver` primitives, `--server`/`-L`, exit codes 2/3. capture/process/kill are dispatch-internal (skill-facing rides `rk mux` twins); questions: the skill-facing exception (policy-bearing sweep). |
 | [providers-and-profiles](providers-and-profiles.md) | Provider mechanics and role policy — session/workers depth knobs, environment and launch overrides, four pane-capable built-ins with independent interactive/native/headless grammar and per-role fills, six roles, precedence, stage mapping, `fab agent` YAML resolution, deprecated `fab resolve-agent` compatibility, dispatch-mode descent, and consumers. |
 | [runtime-agents](runtime-agents.md) | Agent-state divestment: fab reads the `@rk_pane_agent_state` tmux pane option (`state:epoch_seconds[:pid]`; active/waiting/idle, absent = unknown; legacy `@rk_agent_state` read as a fallback during run-kit's deprecation window) via plain tmux — a data convention, NOT a run-kit software dependency; run-kit's `rk agent setup` is the writer. The former `.fab-runtime.yaml` `_agents` producer pipeline is deleted; fab is a pure consumer via the pure `parseAgentState` parser + `FormatIdleDuration`. |
diff --git a/docs/memory/runtime/operator.md b/docs/memory/runtime/operator.md
diff --git a/docs/specs/skills.md b/docs/specs/skills.md
@@ -1111,13 +1111,13 @@ Explicit skill sends and spawn prompts follow `_cli-agents.md` § Skill Prompts,
 **Flow**:
 
 ```text
-Started via `fab operator`; cadence is run-kit's seeded operator-tick cron entry delivering bare `operator tick` firings (payload: never a slash command; Claude-only /loop fallback when the entry cannot exist)
+Started via `fab operator`; cadence is run-kit's seeded, guard-free operator-tick cron entry delivering bare `operator tick` firings — muted/unmuted by the tracked-set verbs (`rk cron mute <id>` / `--off`); lease (`--for`) = bounded snooze (payload: never a slash command; Claude-only /loop fallback when the entry cannot exist)
 ├─ Tick: Bash: fab operator tick-start --diff --quiet (snapshot + deltas + fleet or fleet_summary; re-derive before every action: Bash: fab pane map --all-sessions — never trust cached values)
 ├─ Auto-answer routine agent questions (rk mux send --answer); nudge stalled agents; route commands via rk mux send (raw tmux send-keys fallback)
 └─ Drive autopilot queues (/fab-new → /fab-fff); spawn each task in a fresh worktree
 ```
 
-**Tools**: Bash (`fab operator tick-start`, `fab pane questions`, `fab pane map`, `rk mux send` (`command -v rk`-gated; raw `tmux send-keys` when rk is absent), `wt create`); cadence delivered by run-kit's `rk cron` operator-tick entry (`Skill (/loop)` only as the Claude fallback clock); helpers `_cli-agents`, `_cli-fab`, `_cli-external`.
+**Tools**: Bash (`fab operator tick-start`, `fab pane questions`, `fab pane map`, `rk mux send` (`command -v rk`-gated; raw `tmux send-keys` when rk is absent), `wt create`); cadence delivered by run-kit's guard-free `rk cron` operator-tick entry, muted/unmuted by the tracked-set verbs; the skill's own rk uses are `rk cron list --json` (clock verification) and `rk cron mute --for` (a user-requested bounded quiet window) (`Skill (/loop)` only as the Claude fallback clock); helpers `_cli-agents`, `_cli-fab`, `_cli-external`.
 
 **Sub-agents**: None (spawns agent sessions, not sub-agents).
 

diff --git a/fab/changes/260909-qvek-operator-cron-mute-lease/.history.jsonl b/fab/changes/260909-qvek-operator-cron-mute-lease/.history.jsonl
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
 {"action":"enter","driver":"fab-new","event":"stage-transition","stage":"intake","ts":"2026-09-09T08:16:56Z"}
 {"args":"Operator drives the rk cron clock explicitly — mute/unmute on tracked-set transitions, lease as bounded snooze, docs realigned to the guard-free entry","cmd":"fab-new","event":"command","ts":"2026-09-09T08:16:56Z"}
 {"delta":"+1.7","event":"confidence","score":1.7,"trigger":"calc-score","ts":"2026-09-09T08:22:02Z"}
+{"cmd":"fab-clarify","event":"command","ts":"2026-09-09T12:26:25Z"}
+{"delta":"+2.6","event":"confidence","score":4.3,"trigger":"calc-score","ts":"2026-09-09T12:31:19Z"}
+{"delta":"+0.3","event":"confidence","score":4.6,"trigger":"calc-score","ts":"2026-09-09T12:47:34Z"}
+{"cmd":"fab-switch","event":"command","ts":"2026-09-09T12:48:39Z"}
+{"cmd":"fab-fff","event":"command","ts":"2026-09-09T12:50:25Z"}
+{"action":"enter","driver":"fab-fff","event":"stage-transition","stage":"apply","ts":"2026-09-09T12:54:46Z"}
+{"action":"enter","driver":"fab-fff","event":"stage-transition","stage":"review","ts":"2026-09-09T13:09:57Z"}
+{"action":"enter","driver":"fab-fff","event":"stage-transition","stage":"hydrate","ts":"2026-09-09T13:12:56Z"}
+{"event":"review","result":"passed","ts":"2026-09-09T13:12:56Z"}
+{"action":"enter","driver":"fab-fff","event":"stage-transition","stage":"ship","ts":"2026-09-09T13:16:22Z"}
+{"action":"enter","driver":"git-pr","event":"stage-transition","stage":"review-pr","ts":"2026-09-09T13:18:37Z"}
+{"event":"review","result":"passed","ts":"2026-09-09T13:25:38Z"}
diff --git a/fab/changes/260909-qvek-operator-cron-mute-lease/.status.yaml b/fab/changes/260909-qvek-operator-cron-mute-lease/.status.yaml
@@ -5,31 +5,52 @@ created_by: sahil-noon
 change_type: fix
 issues: []
 progress:
-    intake: ready
-    apply: pending
-    review: pending
-    hydrate: pending
-    ship: pending
-    review-pr: pending
+    intake: done
+    apply: done
+    review: done
+    hydrate: done
+    ship: done
+    review-pr: done
 plan:
-    generated: false
-    task_count: 0
-    acceptance_count: 0
-    acceptance_completed: 0
+    generated: true
+    task_count: 13
+    acceptance_count: 34
+    acceptance_completed: 34
 confidence:
-    certain: 11
-    confident: 7
+    certain: 14
+    confident: 5
     tentative: 0
-    unresolved: 1
-    score: 1.7
+    unresolved: 0
+    score: 4.6
     fuzzy: true
     dimensions:
-        signal: 75.0
+        signal: 90.5
         reversibility: 82.4
-        competence: 76.6
-        disambiguation: 73.7
+        competence: 83.2
+        disambiguation: 80.8
 stage_metrics:
-    intake: {started_at: "2026-09-09T08:16:56Z", driver: fab-new, iterations: 1}
-prs: []
+    intake: {started_at: "2026-09-09T08:16:56Z", driver: fab-new, iterations: 1, completed_at: "2026-09-09T12:54:46Z"}
+    apply: {started_at: "2026-09-09T12:54:46Z", driver: fab-fff, iterations: 1, completed_at: "2026-09-09T13:09:57Z"}
+    review: {started_at: "2026-09-09T13:09:57Z", driver: fab-fff, iterations: 1, completed_at: "2026-09-09T13:12:56Z"}
+    hydrate: {started_at: "2026-09-09T13:12:56Z", driver: fab-fff, iterations: 1, completed_at: "2026-09-09T13:16:22Z"}
+    ship: {started_at: "2026-09-09T13:16:22Z", driver: fab-fff, iterations: 1, completed_at: "2026-09-09T13:18:37Z"}
+    review-pr: {started_at: "2026-09-09T13:18:37Z", driver: git-pr, iterations: 1, completed_at: "2026-09-09T13:25:38Z"}
+prs:
+    - https://github.com/sahil87/fab-kit/pull/660
+true_impact:
+    added: 1064
+    deleted: 78
+    net: 986
+    excluding:
+        added: 657
+        deleted: 22
+        net: 635
+    tests:
+        added: 395
+        deleted: 1
+        net: 394
+    computed_at: "2026-09-09T13:18:37Z"
+    computed_at_stage: ship
+summary: 'Realigned runtime/operator memory to the guard-free clock: tracked-set verbs mute/unmute the cron entry, lease as bounded snooze, cross-repo state-file contract, 4 new Design Decisions'
 # true_impact: lazily created on first stage-finish that computes it (no placeholder here).
-last_updated: 2026-09-09T08:22:20Z
+last_updated: 2026-09-09T13:25:38Z