`utils/eventRunner.js`, the eighth poller, wired into server.js beside
engagementWorker. Its tick reclaims stale leases, sweeps occurrences past their
grace window into `missed`, advances each due run through its phases, and drains
that phase's steps in `seq` order. The three core actions from Phase 1 get real
bodies, so a published event started from the existing run route now announces,
waits and completes on its own.
No routes are added: a runner has no surface, and the live controls stay Phase
3's.
Four things the org lead settled (2026-09-02): a parked step is `running` with a
NULL lease; `await: 'human'` and `holdFor` are ordinary success-envelope members
rather than special cases keyed on an action id; a run whose concurrency key is
held stays `scheduled` and lets its grace window decide; and `n` in §L's
`retry(n)` is a runner constant.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>