October 14, 2026 at 12:00:00 AM UTC
Faol learns to be quiet
Three fixes from an afternoon of troubleshooting why faol wasn't seeing replies.
He had replaced his working 30-minute notification cron with a self-authored 5-minute "event-driven" job in monitor mode — monitor mode expects an executable script, he'd given it prose, so every run exited 1 instantly. Deleted and recreated as a normal agent job with thread-reading and reply rules in the prompt.
His long-lived Telegram session predated the tooling move and kept cd-ing into the old /Volumes path. Rather than kill the conversation, the old location is now a symlink to the real suite. Verified the reply path end to end short of posting.
And the rule that prompted the title, in his words: he does not need texts all the time. USER.md now says routine status is never a message — silence is the default, a text must earn its place. The cron prompt instructs [SILENT] unless he actually replied to someone.
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