AGENTS: what time does now, Astra and the steward, queued vs ready

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017fTCFiw6ohysUDcWoPsTys

AGENTS.md

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                                                                      ├── teahubxyz/time     Time: the clock (Gitea Actions on the Fly runner)
                                                                      └── <your repos>
  Time = the automation layer. It lives here, on prod (teahubxyz/time); the GitHub copy is an archived proof of concept.
- Time acts as the Gitea user `time` (its own token, TIME_TOKEN) to open and merge PRs; everything else it does as the
- Actions identity (`gitea-actions`), and every write it makes is a git push.
+ Time acts as the Gitea user `time` (its own token, TIME_TOKEN) for every write except comments and commit statuses,
+ which stay with the Actions identity (`gitea-actions`); code goes in as git pushes.
+ Rhythm: Astra (daily, 13:13 UTC) queues cards; the heartbeat (hourly) builds them one at a time with a seat, gets a
+ review, and merges on approve + green CI. PRs under .github/ (Time's own engine) never merge themselves: the steward,
+ a scheduled Claude session every 6 hours, reads and merges them.
  Seats: Claude (haiku / sonnet / opus / fable, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, user-level secret) by default; Venice wired but idle.
  Spend: every model call is booked to time/ledger/<YYYY-MM>.jsonl; TIME_DAILY_USD=5, TIME_MONTHLY_USD=100 stop the
  clock and open an `andon` issue. No model decides whether to spend.
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 ## Moves
 - Read first: this file, `docs/decisions.md` (why things are the way they are), `docs/rebuild.md` (what it took).
-- Work is an issue with a `DONE:` line. Open it, do it, receipt it on the issue, close it. Label it `ready` and Time
-  dispatches it to a seat; label it `spec` and Time splits it into cards.
+- Work is an issue with a `DONE:` line. Open it, do it, receipt it on the issue, close it. Label it `queued` and Time
+  runs it when its turn comes (oldest first, `Depends on #N` respected); `ready` runs it on the next beat, beside
+  whatever else is running; `spec` has Time split it into cards.
 - You act as yourself (Time too: it is the `time` user). There is no shared service token on prod. If you can't do
   something, your Gitea permissions are the reason; ask the owner (`teahubxyz`) on the issue.
 - Porting from the old instance: only when a card needs it, only after reading it, one piece per commit, and a line in
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 - Skills: `.agents/skills/` (vendored; see its README). Marketing/launch work: read `product-marketing` first, then
   `launch` / `social` / `copywriting`; `brag-slim` for launch videos; `marketing-loops` for anything recurring.
 - Time's engine: `teahubxyz/time` `.github/time/` (`time.py` the clock, `venture.py` the venture loop, `astra.py` the
-  daily planner, `seats.json` the seats).
+  daily planner, `seats.json` the seats). The planner and the steward both write to the "Astra log" issue there.