fix(overseer): hub-inferred stale silence is captured-only, not inbox-promoted#54
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The hub silence sweep (checkStaleSessions) emitted `stale` events with
attention_candidate=1, so every idle session auto-promoted into the operator
inbox. On a fleet with N persistent-but-idle agents this floods the inbox with
N identical "No agent output for 30 minutes" items - the "narrating log file"
failure mode the framing doc explicitly warns against ("under-surface rather
than over-surface", build-sequence Step 2.5 risk).
Inferred silence is ambient awareness, not an operator-action signal
(operator_action_required was already 0). Flip attention_candidate to 0 so the
event is still recorded - the Overseer/replay harness can synthesize a coalesced
"N sessions idle" view when it judges it worth attention - but it no longer
auto-floods the inbox. A worker that EXPLICITLY self-reports `stalled` keeps
attention_candidate=1 via deriveAttentionCandidate; only this inferred sweep
becomes captured-only.
Belongs to the events-substrate sweep (#22); branched off the inbox-substrate
tip (#23) to be soup-able without disturbing the live #22/#23 worktrees.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Stacked on the overseer inbox substrate. Flips the hub silence sweep (checkStaleSessions) from attention_candidate=1 to 0 so idle sessions no longer flood the operator inbox with one item each ('narrating log file' failure mode). The event is still recorded for the Overseer/replay to query; only auto-promotion is suppressed. A worker that explicitly self-reports 'stalled' still surfaces. Belongs upstream in the events sweep (#22 wave); rebase the overseer stack onto upstream/main (drops garden) before the upstream PR. Adds a regression test locking captured-only behavior.
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