decisions: the venture loop on Claude seats, today's pacing, Ponytail on prod

AGENTS.md

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  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. |

docs/decisions.md

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 - 2026-10-18 · **A card names its base branch, and venture cards say `Base: gh-pages`.** The ventures live on `gh-pages`, an orphan branch; the worker cuts its branch from the card's `Base:` line and opens the PR against it, and every venture card carries the line. Why: the worker had branched from `main` whatever a card said, which is why #60, #63 and #95 ran out of turns and #109 landed the right files on the wrong branch. (time #117)
 - 2026-10-18 · **Claude seats call Anthropic's own Messages API with prompt caching.** The OpenAI-compatible endpoint has no caching; `TIME_ANTHROPIC_API=compat` is the way back if the native path misbehaves. Why: a 43-step run re-sent its whole context at full price every step and cost $2.80 for nothing; the same run with caching costs a fraction. (time #119)
 - 2026-10-18 · **A card is what a Terra worker finishes in forty turns; larger work is split before it is queued.** A spec-sized issue (time #72, #60, #63) is a parent labelled `planned`, never `queued`, and its children carry their own `DONE:` lines. Why: three cards died at the turn ceiling; each one cost a full run and produced nothing.
+- 2026-10-18 · **The venture loop runs on Teahub with the Claude seats, every 6 hours.** Fable chairs (the launch plan, the launch drafts) and judges the build; haiku, sonnet and opus pitch, vote and write plans; `claude:sonnet` builds and `claude:opus` takes the second fix round. The engine had coerced every builder to a Venice seat, which is where the token burn that paused the 20-minute loop came from. Ported to Gitea in time#140 (three council rounds with haiku; the second found that the loop would have written over the yolopreneur.lol portfolio), schedule in time#141. The GitHub-era venture cards were closed: their migrated history is authored by `teahubxyz`, Time trusts only its own beats, and they would have been re-pitched as new ventures. Why: the owner's call, to try the loop on the Claude API with fable leading and the other three voting and executing.
+- 2026-10-18 · **Daily pacing at $25 for today's first Claude venture run**, on the owner's OK; back to $15 once it is through. `TIME_MONTHLY_USD` stays 100 (the month was at $30.40). The andon (time#136) is closed. Why: the day's $15 was spent before the loop came back, and the owner wanted the run now rather than after midnight.
+- 2026-10-18 · **Ponytail on prod.** Seat workers, and the venture builder through them, carry Ponytail's rules (DietrichGebert/ponytail, MIT, vendored at time `.github/time/rules/ponytail.md`); reviewers, Astra and the board don't (a coding ruleset distorts answers that aren't a diff). `TIME_PONYTAIL=off` drops it. Why: the owner's call; it had run on hb-5's seats since 2026-10-12 and prod never had it. (time#145)