RESEARCH KERNEL · COCKROACHDB × AWS

PHOENIX — Kill the agent. The work does not die.

Workers are cattle. The work is a row. Continuity is a CockroachDB transaction.

CRDB VECTOR INDEX Managed MCP ccloud backup list AWS Lambda / S3
EPOCH
OWNER
LEASE
STATE
LAST COMMIT TS

Work board one row = durable work · not a chat session

work kind state owner epoch lease next act
Core empty. SPAWN WORK to STORE a refund row.

RETRIEVE · playbooks vector tenant_id + kind prefix · C-SPANN

Tick after spawn. Hits appear here.

RETRIEVE · episodes vector second index · same prefix rule

Outcome memory for this tenant + kind.

AS OF SYSTEM TIME successor reconstructs last_commit_ts

KILL, then TICK. Successor continues — no restart.

MCP EXPLAIN Auditor skill · runtime, not Cursor

EXPLAIN — Managed MCP explain_query + skill triaging-live-sql-activity.

Kernel log STORE / RETRIEVE / ACT / KILL — not a transcript

SPAWN WORK → TICK → KILL → TICK → DOUBLE CLAIM → EXPLAIN.

RESEARCH KERNEL SHIPS · VISION (changefeeds / multi-region / shadow replay) — NOT SHIPPED