Record context pressure signal requirement

notes/epiphany-core-harness-surfaces.md

@@ -201,12 +201,17 @@ Current operating rule:
 
 Future runtime behavior should:
 
-- detect context pressure before the hard limit
+- expose context pressure as a real runtime signal before the hard limit
 - checkpoint at safe points when possible
 - preserve role-specific resume packets
 - distinguish what survived from what was discarded
 - make compaction visible instead of pretending continuity is magic
 
+Until that signal exists, agents can only infer pressure from indirect cues:
+long transcripts, compaction warnings, quota pressure, and a shrinking safe
+landing zone. That is a scar, not a sensor. Automatic CRRC needs typed
+pressure/freshness telemetry instead of vibes with a clipboard.
+
 Compaction should squeeze scratch, not the map.
 
 ## Persistent State Hygiene

notes/epiphany-fork-implementation-plan.md

@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ The next unknowns are:
 
 - how to expose live long-running job progress without making the GUI authoritative
 - when watcher-driven invalidation becomes necessary instead of merely tempting
+- how to expose context pressure as a real runtime signal for automatic CRRC
 - how much automatic CRRC coordination belongs in runtime before it becomes ceremony machinery
 - what Phase 6 should prove before specialist scheduling begins
 
@@ -139,7 +140,7 @@ These remain later work:
 - richer evidence and graph-shard inspection beyond the landed targeted context read
 - role-scoped specialist-agent registry and scheduling
 - mutation gates that warn or block broad writes when map freshness is stale
-- automatic CRRC runtime coordination
+- automatic CRRC runtime coordination with typed context-pressure telemetry
 - GUI workflows for graph, evidence, job, invariant, and frontier steering
 
 Do not start these from vibes. Each one needs a source-grounded slice plan and a

notes/fresh-workspace-handoff.md

@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ Live `thread/epiphany/scene`, `thread/epiphany/jobs`, and
 - automatic observation promotion
 - specialist-agent scheduling
 - GUI-as-source-of-truth
-- automatic runtime CRRC coordinator
+- automatic runtime CRRC coordinator with real context-pressure telemetry
 - live long-running job execution or `thread/epiphany/jobsUpdated`
 - broad event stream beyond the landed state update notification