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  "title": "Stretches of the handoff loop, by how each ended",
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  "snapshot": "Snapshot, not live: exported by hand from records kept on one machine.",
  "source": "autonomy-record.generated.json, local.loop.stretches, written by scripts/export-unattended-record.mjs",
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  "unreadable_run_files": 4,
  "not_shown": "Halts and pauses are kept as totals, not times. Idle time is one total per stretch. A restart is inferred from a start line.",
  "cite_as": "Orbyt Labs, Autonomous operation, loop stretches (2026-11-03T14:09:00Z), https://www.orbytlabs.ai/research/autonomous-operation/loop-stretches.json",
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