The venture loop on Claude seats; Ponytail on prod (AGENTS.md, decisions) (#17)

The venture loop on Claude seats; Ponytail on prod (AGENTS.md, decisions) (#17)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017K4vyY3yUD3GsvoZaAtKkD

AGENTS.md

@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ record; nothing here is scaffolding from before 2026-10-14.
  seat, gets each PR reviewed by the council, and merges on approve + green CI, engine code included. Only the workflow
  directories (`.github/workflows/`) stay a human's merge: the CEO batches them. A card whose PR already exists (Codex, a
  chat, the CEO) is adopted: labelled `ready`, it is reviewed and landed, never rebuilt. Housekeeping sweeps daily (13:17).
+ Ventures: `venture.yml` every 6 hours (TIME_VENTURE=on). Fable chairs and judges; haiku, sonnet and opus pitch and
+ vote; `claude:sonnet` builds. Each venture lives at <slug>.yolopreneur.lol (gh-pages `ventures/<slug>/`); the
+ portfolio at yolopreneur.lol is gh-pages `ventures/index.html`, made by hand, and reads `ventures.json`.
+ Seat workers (and the venture builder) carry Ponytail's rules (time `.github/time/rules/ponytail.md`); reviewers don't.
  Tiers: Luna = haiku (Codex: luna), Terra = sonnet (terra), Sol = opus (sol), Astra = fable (astra), the C level. Venice
  seats (kimi, grok, ...) break ties. The operator hears from the Astra tier only on exception or check-in.
  Spend: every model call is booked to time/ledger/<YYYY-MM>.jsonl, cached tokens priced. TIME_MONTHLY_USD=100 is the
@@ -55,6 +59,7 @@ What to do when you meet one of these. Each row names the procedure; the procedu
 | The reviewer objected; the PR is `needs-human` | Read the objection on the PR. If it is right and small, comment `/time retry` on the card: the worker gets the review text and answers on the same branch. If it is wrong, say so on the PR as yourself (Approve/Object comments from trusted users count) and remove the label. |
 | A PR is approved but `mergeable: false` | It fell behind its base. Until time#123 lands, a human re-cuts the branch from the base and re-applies the change (or merges the base into the branch); a `Closes #N` line keeps the card's adoption. |
 | A worker stopped at the turn ceiling ("stopped without a PR after N steps") | First check the card's `Base:` line (a venture card without `Base: gh-pages` cannot find its files). Then split the card; never retry the same card unchanged twice. |
+| An open venture card whose history is comments by a person, not `gitea-actions` (the GitHub-era cards, migrated) | Close it. Time counts only its own beats, so the loop takes such a card as unstarted and pitches a new venture on it (batch time#26 was reused that way on 2026-10-18). The venture itself stays in `ventures.json`. |
 | An `andon` issue: spend cap reached | Read the ledger for the day. The daily cap is pacing (the CEO may raise it with the owner's OK; log it in `docs/decisions.md`); the monthly cap is the owner's alone. Close the andon once handled; Astra queues nothing while one is open. |
 | A PR head shows `heartbeat / tick: failure` | Not a check. Time's own workflow statuses (heartbeat, mention, venture, astra, doctor, update, steward) are ignored by the merge gate (time#124). CI decides. |
 | Housekeeping posted a stale list on the Astra log | Follow `.agents/skills/housekeeping/SKILL.md` in teahubxyz/time: decide each `needs-human`, idle PR, parked or `error` card. Housekeeping never acts on the list itself. |