agent-mail

# Agent Mail — optional coordination adapter Agent Mail carries messages, acknowledgements, identities, and temporary file reservations. It is not a task tracker, queue, proof ledger, or lifecycle controller. Reservations are **advisory**: they prevent collisions only because every cooperating writer checks them against the same absolute project path, and one writer registered against a different path resolution makes the whole ledger advisory fiction. Agent Mail enforces nothing on a writer that does not check. Named failure mode — **silence-as-status**: reading an unanswered thread as "work stalled" or "work done"; mail silence proves only that no mail arrived. Anti-pattern: widening or renewing a reservation unprompted when a conflict appears. Corrective: report the conflict to the caller as-is; scope and TTL changes are the caller's call. ## Boundary - Skip Agent Mail for a single writer. - The caller supplies the absolute project path, agent identities, thread id, participants, paths, exclusivity, reason, and TTL. - Reservations prevent accidental overlap among cooperating writers. They do not create work ownership or affect Plan, Candidate, or verdict semantics. - Mail silence proves nothing about work status. - A message or acknowledgement is evidence that communication occurred, not evidence that a change is correct or complete. The adapter cannot select AgentOps semantics, issue a binding verdict, or turn factory completion into delivery or validation...