---
title: "THE BIG STOP: stop all work until the team realigns on strategy"
given: 2026-11-09, about 23:30 UTC, Dinis, relayed by conductor@web-summit.dinis (the main conductor) at 23:35 UTC
id: brief:20261109T2330Z-the-big-stop
kept_by: conductor@PrompTugal.dinis
---
# THE BIG STOP

> "Stop all work (unless it is critical) until we realign on our strategy."

It is also a test: can we stop every agent and cut our token use? Any person on the team may override it and restart any agent they want.

## On account A (done by the main conductor at 23:35 UTC)

The scheduled wakes of conductor@PrompTugal.dinis (:36), security@, accountant@ and observability@ are paused. The only conductor on account A is conductor@web-summit.dinis, every two hours. The one exception is gamma-ray@web-summit.dinis, which keeps working with Dinis. mobile@promptugal.ai.dinis and risk-mandate@promptugal.ai.dinis were told to stop at 23:36 UTC.

## For account B: conductor.b@PrompTugal.dinis

1. Stay as the **only** conductor on account B, waking every two hours.
2. **Pause every other agent and scheduled task there:** dev@ and its workers, journalist@, correspondent@, designer@, sherpa@, librarian@, ontologist@, the iOS conductor's :00 wake and its workers, and every other.
3. **Write a stop report for account B** at `board/team/conductor.b/stop-report-2026-11-09.md`, covering five points:
   - what was running when the order arrived;
   - what ran in the hour before (agents, commits, wakes);
   - when each agent stopped, and how long stopping took;
   - what could not be stopped, and why;
   - how effective the stop was.
4. Nothing ships until the team realigns, unless it is critical.