The queue shows 317 blocked items, which reads as a crisis. Reading each one shows it is mostly two well-organised backlogs plus a small surface of real work. This sorts all 317 and points at the few moves that free the most.
226 plus 91 is 317. The check holds.
Two live ladder items own the bulk of the queue: a Parks and Recreation deep-cards ladder over 122 episodes, and a Community ladder over 104 episodes. Each per-episode task was folded under its ladder on 2026-07-03, so the ladder is the single tracker and the 226 children are its ordered work-list. Both ladders remain open and queued.
| Bucket | Count | Disposition | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disk and drive crisis | 13 | Root cause. Free space to unblock the whole cluster at once. | Brandon |
| Chiron batch-16 render chain | 16 | Self-clears when the discovery step writes _batch16.json. | Auto |
| Vercel deploy-cap parks | 18 | Cap reset weeks ago. Confirm each is still wanted, then unblock. | Review |
| Long tail, distinct tasks | 17 | Review each. Holds the 5 decision items below. | Review |
| Chiron render lane | 10 | Owned by the active chiron-video-tracker chat. Leave in that lane. | Parked |
| Tarot voice 1B-gate chain | 5 | Self-clears when Phase 1B ships the gate. | Auto |
| Recovered orphans | 5 | Confirm still wanted; several need the Chrome extension. | Review |
| Cross-Mac file sync | 3 | Waiting on files that live on the other Mac. | Parked |
| TTS token expired (chiron-matilda) | 3 | Reroute to the Lester XTTS path that is already in progress. | Parked |
| User-paused, out of scope | 1 | Gilmore index is a ChatGPT skill Brandon paused. Close candidate. | Brandon |
| Real surface | 91 |
Thirteen items are blocked on a full disk, and this is the same problem the health check flagged at 98 percent used with 20Gi free. The queue records both external drives at 100 percent full and a 356G relocation that the earlier move script could not complete. Freeing space unblocks the largest single cluster and clears the health warning at the same time. This one needs Brandon.
Five items are parked purely on a choice only Brandon can make. Each answer unblocks its item immediately.
The 16 chiron batch-16 slots, the 5 tarot 1B-gate items, and the 10 chiron render-lane items need no triage action. They unblock on their own when the discovery step, the Phase 1B gate, or the tracker chat completes. Counting them as stuck overstates the real backlog.
Set aside the 226 ladder backlog, the 13 disk items, the 5 decisions, and the 31 self-clearing chains, and about 36 remain: 18 stale Vercel-cap parks, 5 recovered orphans, and a handful on cross-Mac sync or an expired token. Every one of those is a simple "still want this?" for Brandon, and the recovered orphans plus the food order and the paused Gilmore index are the likeliest closes.
shift_queue.jsonl latest-by-id, filtered to blocked, classified by blocker string and title, verified bucket sums (226 ladder + 91 surface = 317; surface buckets sum to 91) · ladder parents q-2026-07-03-e1c06e (Parks) and q-2026-07-03-fa6106 (Community) confirmed live before any close was considered · no items modified.