triggerSelfWake fired only when the completing agent had at least one
actionable task (todo / in_progress). A CEO in team_building mode has
zero tasks by definition — each heartbeat hired one or two agents,
returned, and then waited for the next 2-minute timer tick. Operators
watched bootstrap crawl: in the captured field log, six heartbeats
burned 12 minutes before the first hire landed.
Teach triggerSelfWake to also chain when the agent is a top-level CEO
with active goals, zero active direct reports, and no already-pending
hire_agent approvals — the exact state team_building.en.md is telling
the model to resolve. The existing circuit breaker (MAX_CONSECUTIVE_WAKES
without progress) still applies, so a CEO that keeps returning without
filing hires gets paused and its manager wake — the board / human —
is raised instead.
Once reports activate or all intended hires are filed, the predicate
flips to false and runs resume the normal heartbeat cadence.
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