jedarden 71a3a70a84 Investigate starvation alert: all beads blocked by dependency chain (bf-5bl)

All open beads are transitively blocked waiting on bf-64s (Phase 6, in_progress).
No configuration error — sequential dependency chain is working as designed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-06-09 23:59:09 -04:00

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Starvation Alert Investigation — bf-5bl

Finding

No configuration error. The starvation alert is expected behavior given the project's dependency chain.

Root Cause

All 5 open beads are blocked by a strict sequential dependency chain:

bf-64s (in_progress, claimed by claude-glm-glm47-alpha)
  └── bf-64k (blocked)
        └── bf-2f1 (blocked)
              ├── bf-42j (blocked)
              │     └── bf-4no (blocked)
              └── bf-10t (blocked)
                    └── bf-4no (blocked)

br ready returns nothing because every open bead is transitively blocked by bf-64s (Phase 6).

Secondary Issue

The bead-worker skill uses br pluck — a command that does not exist in bead-forge. Bead-forge uses br claim instead. Even with the correct command, no beads would be claimable because none are unblocked.

Resolution

No action needed. Once claude-glm-glm47-alpha closes bf-64s (Phase 6: Stop Poller), bf-64k (Phase 7) will become ready and the worker can proceed.

The bead-worker skill's use of pluck instead of claim is a latent bug, but it only manifests when beads are actually ready to claim.

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