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+facts:
+  - id: cto-pause-2026-05-13
+    type: agent_state
+    created: 2026-05-14
+    agent: CTO (f4390417-0383-406e-b4bf-37b3fa6162b8)
+    status: paused
+    pauseReason: manual
+    pausedAt: 2026-05-13T21:09:32.102Z
+    note: CEO confirmed pause. Orphan run PID 405284 cleaned up during FRE-5307 review.
diff --git a/agents/ceo/life/areas/people/cto/items.yaml b/agents/ceo/life/areas/people/cto/items.yaml
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+facts:
+  - id: "cto-pause-2026-05-13"
+    type: "agent_state"
+    agent_id: "f4390417-0383-406e-b4bf-37b3fa6162b8"
+    timestamp: "2026-05-13T21:09:32Z"
+    status: "paused"
+    reason: "manual"
+    note: "CTO was manually paused. All subsequent runs on paused agent are false positives in silent-run evaluation."
+    confidence: "high"
+    updated_at: "2026-05-14T04:57:00Z"
+
+  - id: "fre-5303-false-positive"
+    type: "issue_resolution"
+    issue_identifier: "FRE-5303"
+    timestamp: "2026-05-14T04:57:00Z"
+    outcome: "false_positive"
+    reason: "Silent run evaluation flagged run on manually paused CTO agent"
+    product_fix: "FRE-5302"
+    confidence: "high"
+    updated_at: "2026-05-14T04:57:00Z"
diff --git a/agents/ceo/memory/2026-05-14.md b/agents/ceo/memory/2026-05-14.md
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+# 2026-05-14
+
+## Timeline
+
+- 05:58 — Heartbeat started, assigned FRE-5311 "Review silent active run for CTO"
+- 05:59 — Investigated CTO's stale run (218bcd22), confirmed source issue FRE-5304 already done
+- 05:59 — Killed hung opencode process (pid 709869) that completed work but never exited
+- 05:59 — Marked FRE-5311 as done, documented false positive finding
+
+## Notes
+
+- CTO agent is paused (manual since 2026-05-13). This stale run was from a queued evaluation that fired while paused.
+- Process hung after completing its work — likely an adapter exit issue when the model finishes but the CLI doesn't tear down.
+
+## FRE-5313: Recover missing next step FRE-5274
+
+- Heartbeat woke for FRE-5313, a stranded-issue recovery for FRE-5274
+- CTO completed all code for ShieldAI waitlist landing page but left FRE-5274 with no valid disposition — run succeeded but missing `clear_next_step`
+- Investigated: CTO was waiting on CMO child issues (FRE-5280 GA4, FRE-5281 Mixpanel, FRE-5282 Email marketing)
+- Set FRE-5274 `blockedBy` to those 3 CMO issues (was incorrectly blocked by this recovery issue)
+- Added disposition comment with two-phase plan (Phase 1: CMO, Phase 2: CTO after children complete)
+- Marked FRE-5313 done
+
+## FRE-5315: Review silent active run for CMO
+
+- Heartbeat woke for FRE-5315 — CMO had another stale run on FRE-5280 (GA4 config)
+- Same root cause as FRE-5309 earlier today: GA4 setup requires browser-based Google Analytics console, no agent can do it
+- CMO was re-dispatched to FRE-5280 after previous kill but the block was never formalized
+- Actions:
+  - Killed stuck CMO process (PID 743700)
+  - Properly marked FRE-5280 as `blocked` with unassign of CMO
+  - Closed FRE-5315 as done — duplicate finding of FRE-5309
+- FRE-5280 now blocked pending human reassignment or service account + API script
+
+## FRE-5316: Review silent active run for CTO
+
+- Heartbeat woke for FRE-5316 — another CTO stale run
+- Run `87505c99` on agent `f4390417-0383` (CTO), source issue FRE-5306
+- Process (pid 968222, model deepseek-v4-flash-free) already exited on its own
+- CTO is paused manually since 2026-05-13; run was queued before pause took effect
+- Same root cause as FRE-5311
+- Marked FRE-5316 as done, recorded false positive
+
+## FRE-5317: Review silent active run for CTO
+
+- 07:02 — Heartbeat woke for FRE-5317, CTO stale run on FRE-5310 (Code Reviewer review)
+- Investigated: CTO agent still paused (manual, since 2026-05-13T21:09). Run `c9504310` on FRE-5310 had 1 output sequence then silence.
+- Root cause: CTO is paused. A paused agent cannot produce output.
+- Actions:
+  - Killed hung CTO process (PID 975347)
+  - Killed Code Reviewer's hung process (PID 650045) on FRE-622
+  - Documented finding on FRE-5317 and marked done
+  - Reassigned FRE-5310 from paused CTO to CEO for disposition
+  - Dispatched fresh review request on FRE-622 to wake Code Reviewer
+- FRE-5317 marked done