epic(openchamber): session dispatch + babysitting — OpenChamber as the fleet's workhorse executor

Session dispatch + babysitting (OpenChamber program)

Purpose

Move the fleet's larger code work off Claude cron shifts — whose every turn re-buys a large context — onto OpenChamber-hosted OpenCode sessions running on plan pools, watched by ONE babysitter worker instead of one worker per issue. Design record: openchamber-dispatch-babysitter-design-2026-10-26.md (keep-the-four-repos-healthy goal workspace, files/).

Scope

Locations abstraction: a session executor is a location (kind: openchamber | opencode-server | openclaw | codex-aster) with an adapter + capacity, so more OpenChamber machines, an OpenClaw gateway, or a Codex .aster route plug in without changing the babysitter loop. First location: the laptop's OpenChamber.
Dispatcher with admission control: hands queue tasks marked executor: openchamber to sessions only when a slot is free and the routed pool passes the quota measurement gate; otherwise hands the task back (parked executor-saturated, noted on the issue) — never a silent backlog.
One babysitter: rounds over every bound session — progress verdicts, one stall nudge then escalation, quota walls as named parks, harvesting finished sessions into verified terminal queue states. Reports quota per pool and a routing ledger (pool used per session, escalations, burn per landed task).
Routing, Workhorse-first: Fast / Workhorse (default) / Frontier tiers per the POOL MAP; Frontier only on evidence or for the design half of a split (Frontier plans, Workhorse/Fast implements).
OpenClaw long-term path: babysitting-by-comment — the monitor's routine issue comment is the control channel; OpenClaw reports and obeys in-thread. Reached via pilot → mirror mode → handover (see the design record).

Execution mode

Online. Builds land as fleet job bodies, helper tooling, and Supabase/queue conventions under the fleet goal; session work happens on the laptop location.

Dependencies

Babysitter v1 (OpenChamber babysitter v1: one worker, session rounds, quota + progress report (report-only) #1185) depends on the session-API inventory pilot (Pilot: OpenChamber session API inventory for a remote babysitter #1188).
Dispatch v1.1 (OpenChamber dispatch v1.1: admission control, hand-backs, stall nudges, harvesting, Workhorse-first routing #1187) is blocked by OpenChamber babysitter v1: one worker, session rounds, quota + progress report (report-only) #1185, Pilot: OpenChamber session API inventory for a remote babysitter #1188, and the quota-attribution pilot (Pilot: per-session pool attribution + quota read coverage for babysitter reports #1189).
Routing thresholds wait on the routing pilot (Pilot: Workhorse-first vs Frontier-plan split on comparable effort/m tasks (routing evidence) #1191); stall detection waits on the stall-taxonomy pilot (Pilot: session stall taxonomy — observable signatures of stalled vs healthy long sessions #1192); OpenClaw mirror mode waits on the comment-loop pilot (Pilot: OpenClaw comment loop — status request, session report, instruction obedience on one issue #1190).

Acceptance

The babysitter runs as one worker regardless of session count; every dispatched task ends in a verified terminal state or a named hand-back.
A week of babysitter reports shows per pool: sessions run, landed rate, Frontier escalations with reasons, quota burn per landed task.
OpenClaw comment-loop pilot produces a go/no-go for mirror mode with the comment format pinned if go.

Filed by Muse (operator) 2026-10-26 under Drew's direction (design + issues filed the same evening; this epic groups them for the roadmap and PM dashboard).

CODE-366

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state: reviewed (coverage loop-back)
Coverage pass 2026-11-03, loop-back review: this issue was re-reviewed (drift / overlap / already-handled / stale / blockers / ordering) so every open issue in the four repos is reviewed and in the system. Verdict: still live; in the system as task 7221 (triage, queued, priority 50) in repo-health-code-pilot. Labels audited and synced. If it is already handled at current main, its triage closes it with evidence; if oversized, the triage files the split; blockers belong on this issue.
Found via: coverage loop-back 2026-11-03

🤖 Agent note · picked up

Agent: queue worker (repo-worker-code), OpenChamber scheduled lane
Session / ID: OpenCode session ses_e5e5c92c976ffecr0afyhIsazx; queue task 7221 (triage)
Found via: atomic queue claim
Task: Revalidate epic(openchamber): session dispatch + babysitting — OpenChamber as the fleet's workhorse executor #1234 against current GitHub state and map its active children against the current conductor/babysitter state.
Expectation: Evidence-backed triage, blockers named on the issue, and a concrete fix route or close-out.
Links: task 7221; epic(openchamber): session dispatch + babysitting — OpenChamber as the fleet's workhorse executor #1234; Move opencode executions to laptop-side scheduled tasks — retire the Muse boot handoff #3026

🤖 Agent note · triaged — CONFIRMED live umbrella; active delivery remains owned by the decomposed child issues

Agent: queue worker (repo-worker-code), OpenChamber scheduled lane
Session / ID: queue task 7221 (triage), lane 1a180ae5-384f-4e71-8d77-08f7b1652c75
Found via: atomic queue claim
Task: Revalidate epic(openchamber): session dispatch + babysitting — OpenChamber as the fleet's workhorse executor #1234 and map its child work against the current dispatcher/babysitter state.
Verdict: epic(openchamber): session dispatch + babysitting — OpenChamber as the fleet's workhorse executor #1234 remains OPEN as the design/pilots record; the active build-out is tracked by fleet epic epic(fleet): pool & routing intelligence — lanes everywhere, live dispatch + babysitting, quota stewardship, reviewer oversight, AA + measured-speed model #1334. Do not close this umbrella or enqueue duplicate fix packets. The Muse conductor stand-down is complete: Move opencode executions to laptop-side scheduled tasks — retire the Muse boot handoff #3026 is CLOSED and task 5983 is done. Children OpenChamber babysitter v1: one worker, session rounds, quota + progress report (report-only) #1185 (babysitter v1), Pilot: OpenChamber session API inventory for a remote babysitter #1188 (session API inventory), Pilot: per-session pool attribution + quota read coverage for babysitter reports #1189 (quota attribution), Pilot: session stall taxonomy — observable signatures of stalled vs healthy long sessions #1192 (stall taxonomy), Routing policy alignment: map OpenChamber routing categories to the fleet's Workhorse-first tiers + POOL MAP gates #1272 (routing alignment), and Reconcile OpenChamber scheduled-tasks with the fleet queue: one scheduling system of record #1273 (scheduled-task reconciliation) are CLOSED.
Open work and blockers:
- OpenChamber dispatch v1.1: admission control, hand-backs, stall nudges, harvesting, Workhorse-first routing #1187 remains OPEN/parked for natural saturation/stall occurrences; Dispatcher v1 live: scheduled launches of OpenCode/OpenChamber sessions for queued issues #1337 dispatcher acceptance is still open (a prior packet-defect was recorded on task 6669). Pilot: Workhorse-first vs Frontier-plan split on comparable effort/m tasks (routing evidence) #1191 routing-evidence pilot remains live and is sequenced to OpenChamber dispatch v1.1: admission control, hand-backs, stall nudges, harvesting, Workhorse-first routing #1187; Controlled pool tests: A/B real task batches before any pool change lands #1342 consumes its results.
- Babysitter live: interval rounds over all OpenCode sessions with verdicts, quota, and pool attribution #1338 babysitter acceptance remains open on the Switch pool-review consumers to conductor-log #3735 log-continuity gap; task 7230 is queued for re-triage.
- Babysitter access: enroll a paired OpenChamber client for sandbox → laptop, and document the credential home #1271 paired-client access remains OPEN/blocked (task 1287 blocked), so remote babysitter/dispatcher access is not complete.
- Pilot: OpenClaw comment loop — status request, session report, instruction obedience on one issue #1190 OpenClaw comment-loop pilot remains OPEN/parked on openclaw: main-session runs fail — Command Code login expired, all model attempts fail #3061 (still OPEN); task 4649 is parked until its gate can be rechecked.
- Fleet reporting convention: queue task IDs and GitHub issue numbers collide — always prefix #1274 reporting-convention verification remains OPEN/parked; task 4650 is waiting for a later clean full-day sample.
Route: Those child issues/tasks already own the remaining work; no new packet is needed. The active program parent epic(fleet): pool & routing intelligence — lanes everywhere, live dispatch + babysitting, quota stewardship, reviewer oversight, AA + measured-speed model #1334 is itself queued for triage as task 7228. epic(openchamber): session dispatch + babysitting — OpenChamber as the fleet's workhorse executor #1234 stays open for its historical design/pilot scope.
Links: epic(fleet): pool & routing intelligence — lanes everywhere, live dispatch + babysitting, quota stewardship, reviewer oversight, AA + measured-speed model #1334; Move opencode executions to laptop-side scheduled tasks — retire the Muse boot handoff #3026; OpenChamber dispatch v1.1: admission control, hand-backs, stall nudges, harvesting, Workhorse-first routing #1187; Pilot: OpenClaw comment loop — status request, session report, instruction obedience on one issue #1190; Pilot: Workhorse-first vs Frontier-plan split on comparable effort/m tasks (routing evidence) #1191; Babysitter access: enroll a paired OpenChamber client for sandbox → laptop, and document the credential home #1271; Fleet reporting convention: queue task IDs and GitHub issue numbers collide — always prefix #1274; Dispatcher v1 live: scheduled launches of OpenCode/OpenChamber sessions for queued issues #1337; Babysitter live: interval rounds over all OpenCode sessions with verdicts, quota, and pool attribution #1338

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