The mergemaster agent was burning all 30 turns polling get_merge_status
every 2 seconds while the merge pipeline takes ~2 minutes. It would
exhaust turns, exit, restart, and repeat — never seeing the result.
merge_agent_work now blocks with a 10-second internal poll loop and
returns the final result directly. The agent calls it once and gets
the answer. No more polling turns wasted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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