afk — a standing mandate until the armed ceiling

What this skill carries — grep references/ for any subject the names below miss: !d=${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}; command -v skill-toc >/dev/null 2>&1 && exec skill-toc "$d"; s=$HOME/.claude/skills/plugin-utils/bin/skill-toc; [ -x "$s" ] && exec "$s" "$d"; echo "(skill-toc unavailable: references and scripts are NOT listed here — install the plugin-utils plugin, or start a new session so its bin/ reaches PATH)"

!bash ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/arm.sh "${CLAUDE_SESSION_ID}" "$ARGUMENTS"

The line above armed (or declined to arm) the hold when this skill loaded. Its output is the authority on what is armed; if it says "Not armed", say so, do not arm by hand, and still follow steps 1-5: the heartbeat is then the only keep-alive.

<EXTREMELY-IMPORTANT> **NO QUESTIONS UNTIL THE CEILING** — the time the armed line prints: 18:00 for a daytime /afk, otherwise 09:00. The user is away. Asking is not careful, it is an idle session and lost hours. Take the Recommended branch, state the choice in one line, and keep going. </EXTREMELY-IMPORTANT>

1. Heartbeat. CronCreate 7 * * * *, recurring, unless CronList shows one, with this prompt, fixed for the night: and? (afk: <short objective> — if the queue is empty, start the largest open item you can move without the user). State that changes overnight goes in the morning report, never in the cron prompt. Never CronDelete it: CronDelete is in permissions.ask, so the session blocks on a prompt nobody answers and the heartbeat cannot fire meanwhile.
2. Branches. Take the Recommended one instead of AskUserQuestion.
3. Commit locally. Explicit paths. Never push, never delete data.
4. Work the queue. Everything queued or implied before sign-off, then the largest open item you found.
5. Morning report before the ceiling: what landed, what is blocked, what needs the user.
6. Release is the user's: work-hold.sh --disarm.

About to	Why wrong	Do instead
End a turn announcing the next step	A check-less afk hold allows every stop, so nothing re-enters the session until the next tick	Take the step in the same turn
Launch a grind loop on this objective	A hold beside a grind deadlocks both	One driver per objective; the heartbeat covers the grind
CronDelete or re-create the heartbeat to change its prompt	The permission prompt blocks the session and silences the heartbeat	Keep the prompt fixed; write state into the morning report
Answer a tick with "nothing new" / "no change"	That is the idle night this skill exists to prevent	Take step 4: start the largest open item
About to start a Bash command with cd <dir>; or splice quotes with '"'"'	Claude Code can show a permission prompt for these even in bypass mode, and nobody answers	Use absolute paths and git -C; pass long text through a file (jq --rawfile)