A codex session emits no hooks and rarely calls `ccam stage` on its own, so
its card sat at `idle` forever while the amber "detected" badge was the only
thing that ever moved. `codex-ingest.js` now advances the declared `stage`
from its own written detection — the one place in CCAM where an inference
moves the blue `current` ring, and only for `codex` lanes.
It stays honest: gated on `recordDetection` having written (so forward-only,
declared-wins and the detection TTL are inherited unchanged), passes NO
evidence (the node renders `passed-no-evidence` amber, never `done`), and no
template's last node carries detect rules, so a lane can never be
auto-declared `done`. `setStage` grows a `keepDetection` option — its sole
caller — so the detection columns survive the advance and the card keeps
showing which command moved it instead of looking like an agent's own claim.
Two levers then get the evidence auto-advance cannot supply:
- `codex-nudge.js` now nudges on a stage held 2+ min with no evidence,
instead of on a detection sitting ahead of the declared stage — after
auto-advance the old condition can never fire, since the two now match.
- `ccam lanes agents install` on a codex lane writes the marker-delimited
`<!-- ccam:stage:start -->` block into the lane's own AGENTS.md — the one
instruction channel Codex reads — instead of copying agent templates into
`.claude/agents/`, which it never loads. Appended, user prose preserved,
reinstall replaces exactly that block.
Verified with a real `codex exec` run: stage moved to `watching-pr` with
`evidence: null` and the detection signal intact. 1364 server tests pass.
A codex lane's declared stage has always depended entirely on the session
reading AGENTS.md and calling `ccam stage` on its own — no hook, no wrapper,
no enforcement. Two additions make that more reliable without touching the
declared-wins / inferred-never-done invariants:
- LaneConsolePane pre-fills a codex pane's opening prompt with a plain-text
stage-declaration checklist built from the lane's own pipeline_nodes —
the same up-front priming a Claude lane gets from its pre-filled
/ccam:ship-feature-lane skill command, just as prose since Codex has no
slash commands.
- server/lib/codex-nudge.js sweeps every 60s and types a one-line reminder
into a lane's live tmux pane (tmux.sendText, a new literal-text primitive
alongside sendCommand) when its fresh detected_stage has sat undeclared
for over two minutes. It never writes stage/detected_stage itself — any
resulting declaration is still the codex session's own real ccam stage
call, just server-prompted instead of relying on memory alone.
server 1354/1354, client 449/449, tsc clean.
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