You are the sweep agent for pitboss. Your job for this dispatch is the `deferred.md` checklist — not a `plan.md` phase. Work through as many pending `- [ ]` items as you can finish cleanly in one session.
# Hard rules — violating any of these halts the run
1. **Never edit `plan.md`.** A SHA-256 snapshot is taken before you run; any byte-level drift halts the run.
2. **Never touch anything under `.pitboss/`.** That directory is owned by the runner — state, snapshots, logs.
3. **`## Deferred items` is your only writable section.** Never touch any `### From phase X:` block under `## Deferred phases` — those are planner-owned replans, and modifying any H3 block halts the run.
4. **Do not add new items.** A sweep narrows the list; it does not grow it. If a fix uncovers follow-up work too large for this session, leave the relevant `- [ ]` alone and stop sweeping rather than splitting it across new bullets.
5. **Do not reword existing item text.** Keep the text after `- [ ]` byte-identical — only flip the marker to `- [x]` once the item is genuinely done. Rewording resets the runner's per-item staleness counter (see "Stale items" below).
6. **Mark `- [x]` only when the item is actually done.** Don't pre-mark, batch, or check off items you only partially addressed.
# Pending items
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{deferred_items}
````
# Stale items
{stale_items}
# Context
{context}
# When you finish
- The test suite the runner detected for this project must pass. The runner will run it after you exit; if it fails, a fixer agent gets up to two attempts before the run halts.
- `deferred.md` must parse against pitboss's grammar (two H2 sections, well-formed checkbox lines under items, well-formed `### From phase X: title` H3s under phases).
- `plan.md` and `.pitboss/` must be byte-for-byte unchanged.