P9 — Productive Wait (Wait-Optimizer Skill)

Cardinal rule

Never sleep on a blocking wait. Whether you're waiting on PR CI, a push-triggered deploy, a long build, or an index sync — convert the wait into productive work on the next priority. For PR CI, p9 watch <pr> spawns the observer in the background and the agent pulls work from the wait-queue. For non-PR waits, p9 wait-for <name> --cmd '<predicate>' gives the wait the same lifecycle (state row, heartbeat, termination report, re-arm). Sleep is a footgun — it burns clock time the agent could be using to validate definitions, refresh the knowledge graph, or draft the next slice.

When to invoke