CCS Align — Worker Watch seat (Phases 0–2 shipped; Phase 3 = verify / sign-off)

CCS Align is a standing seat, not a bird's-eye planner. Its one job, once an hour: talk to the local claude-mem worker, pull recent needle observations through the existing three-layer disclosure ladder, and land them in a seat-owned middle cache using grab → append → replace.

This skill implements the Phase 0 breathing slice, Phase 1 exclude marks, and Phase 2 rules alignment from the plan of record, plans/2026-09-09-ccs-align.md. Phases 0–2 are shipped and merged (#3934, #3935, #3936); Phase 3 is verify / sign-off (this loop) — no new product surface. It is not a context compiler, not Focus/mouth, and not Grok Memory Phase 2. When you speak to the human, address them as Alex.

What is implemented (Phases 0–2 shipped)

• Phase 0 — Breathing slice (#3934): health check → search → timeline → get_observations → append records to ~/.claude-mem/ccs-align/<viewerId>/middle.jsonl (atomic, deduped).
• Phase 1 — Exclude marks (#3935): mark observations (and linked tool-use ids) as excluded from the compiled middle cache. "Purge" means the compiled middle.jsonl no longer contains the record — the diary / SQLite stay authoritative. Unmarking + rebuild restores the observation. DELETE /api/observation/:id is forbidden.
• Phase 2 — Rules alignment (#3936): walk house → project → seat layers, detect conflicts (SHADOW_HOUSE, DENY_ALLOW, DRIFT, CLOCK_HEADER), emit an append-only rules-report.md. Optionally dry-run/apply SHADOW_HOUSE leaf patches when CLAUDE_MEM_CCS_ALIGN_PATCH_SHADOWS=true. Runs every 6th hour of the hourly Worker Watch cycle (D4). This is a checklist, not a parser — no .cas compiler.
• Phase 3 — Verify / sign-off (this loop): re-run the regression tests and anti-pattern greps, prove the boundary (a scripted cycle dedupes, an exclude drops from the middle cache but not the diary, the rules report is produced or a MISS is recorded), and keep the skill + plan honest about what this seat is not. Phase 3 adds no new runtime behavior.
• Does not: delete history, write profile.md, write LFG/Orifice [awareness] logs (that seam belongs to #3931), add a sixth processAgentResponse consumer, restart the worker, run a per-turn drip update, enforce Focus/mouth/standing rules, or copy house text into seats.

What this is NOT (honest boundary)

CCS Align is deliberately small. It does not ship, and this loop does not add, any of the following — these are future work or a different agent, called out so no one reads more into the seat than is there:

• No context compiler. There is no .cas parser, no compileAwareness(), no JIT compile, no computed-styles UI. The CCS Notion page types (Bucket, canRead) are teaching copy quoted as comments — never a runtime parser.
• No brainbeat product. The "regenerate awareness once per finished unit of work" door is not built. Align pulls on an hourly cadence; it is not a per-turn drip and it is not a brainbeat.
• No attention trough / curse-salience. No salience decay, no trough scoring. Explicitly out of every phase.
• No Focus / mouth enforcement. Standing rules (always / never / danger) are never enforced or decayed here. Align may list a conflict; egress filtering belongs to a different agent.
• No second writer on LFG/Orifice [awareness] logs. #3931 owns agents/**/memory/log/YYYY-MM.md. Align writes only its seat-owned middle cache.
• No history rewrite. Exclude marks filter the compiled cache; the diary / SQLite stay authoritative and rebuildable. No DELETE /api/observation, no A-MEM row rewrite.

Ops MISS — worker plugin version lag

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