One tick polls in-flight runs, posts results, classifies the first line and
moves state/assignee; failures get a structured note with transient retry and
backoff, timeouts are killed and handed over, resume failures and long threads
rebuild with a handoff summary. Then the lowest Todo items are dispatched within
terminal concurrency and serialize groups, and a heartbeat is written.
CLI: tick, new, show, comment, state, assign, smoke, check-config.