An overnight request changes the lifecycle of a task. It does not expand authority.
Name the goal, finish condition, checkout, allowed writes, and stop condition:
$poteto-mode keep working overnight in a fresh worktree from <base>. Migrate every caller to the new parser. Done means the old-call scan is empty and the full test suite passes. Do not push, open a pull request, or merge. Stop on an external credential or product decision.
The worktree keeps the run separate from other checkouts. A decision log makes the morning review shorter:
$show-me-your-work record the decisions for this run.
Codex may use a durable goal and a thread heartbeat only because the request asks for continued overnight work. The workflow checkpoints progress through supported task tools. It does not keep a shell process alive with a sleep loop.
A scheduled task, recurring monitor, or separate user-owned task still needs an explicit request for that object. The phrase "overnight" does not authorize an external message, pull request, merge, deployment, or new repository.
In the morning, inspect:
- the finish-condition evidence.
- the integrated diff and current branch.
decisions.tsvif the run created one.- the agent receipt, including missing lanes, fallbacks, and observed or unverified model pairs.
- remaining processes, worktrees, and scratch outputs.
Treat every subagent report as a claim until the main agent checks the artifact.
For a coupled PR queue, Autopilot-stack prepares one reviewed base-branch chain and leaves every landing action to the operator.
Benny is a polling automation pack, not an overnight shortcut. Use $setup-benny only when you intend to configure Slack, tracker, repository, control-adapter, and canonical-state integration.
Setup does not activate Benny. It can reconcile exactly two PAUSED project automations only after explicit authority. A later request is required to activate them after the six canaries pass. Polling may add up to one schedule interval of latency, and overlap windows can reread events. Destination idempotency prevents duplicate effects.
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