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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.