bro work sweep
Gated lifecycle disposal for closed beads — the backlog's outflow stage.
Closed beads accumulate forever, and bd prune alone would burn lessons
nobody harvested. bro work sweep gates the burn on a harvest marker: a
closed bead is harvested when it carries the sweep:distilled state
label. The marker is the gate's only input — no heuristics, no second
channel.
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
bro work sweep status | Read-only — harvested vs unharvested counts, age vs sweep.olderThanDays, the would-burn set |
bro work sweep distill [--dry-run] | Materialize harvest work — learn-cited beads auto-mark sweep=distilled; the rest pour as an agent molecule (bro flow convoy run / bro fleet agents up executes them) |
bro work sweep run [--dry-run] [--force] [--no-flatten] | The gated pipeline: gate → archive → sync-verify → bd prune --older-than → bd flatten |
The gate
run refuses while unharvested closed beads are older than
sweep.olderThanDays (default 30). A closed bead with no closed_at
also blocks — a row that can't be dated can't be proven safe.
--force is the explicit override; the refusal is the feature, so use
it only when the burn is intended.
The archive must land inside the synced set (.agents/ or the
configured debt dir — see sweep.dir) so
bro work sync carries it to the data ref before prune runs.