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Fixes the "toggle enabled true, run, toggle back to false" workaround that gbrain doctor's extract_atoms_backlog message implicitly recommends and that #2860's reporter had to script around: with an external orchestrator running `gbrain dream --phase patterns` on a cadence outside the autopilot, the only way to run patterns once was `config set dream.patterns.enabled true` -> run -> `config set ... false`. A crash between steps left the flag stuck true, and the autopilot (which polls the same flag) re-enqueued patterns every cycle -- 119 LLM jobs / ~$400 over 24h before it was caught. Root cause: `--phase X` only controls which phase FUNCTION cycle.ts calls; it does not bypass that phase's own `dream.<phase>.enabled` / `cycle.<phase>.enabled` config read. Each gated phase (patterns, synthesize, conversation_facts_backfill, enrich_thin, skillopt) reads its enabled flag internally and skips regardless of how the phase was selected -- confirmed by reading each phase module, not assumed. extract_atoms/synthesize_concepts are a DIFFERENT mechanism entirely (pack-declaration via packDeclaresPhase, not a config .enabled read) and already have a working one-shot escape hatch: `--drain`. The existing doctor message for extract_atoms already says `--phase extract_atoms --drain --window 120`, so no doctor text needed updating there -- verified by reading src/commands/doctor.ts directly rather than assuming the paraphrase in the issue was literal. Design: `gbrain dream --phase <name> --once`. Requires an explicit --phase (bare --once is a usage error, exit 2) so it can never force-enable every disabled phase at once in a full/default cycle -- that would recreate the same unbounded-spend risk the flag exists to prevent. Threaded through CycleOpts as `onceForPhase?: CyclePhase` (the literal phase name, not a boolean) so the bypass can never leak to a phase other than the one named, even if a future programmatic caller passes a wider `phases` array than the CLI does. Never reads or writes config -- the phase still evaluates its .enabled gate every call; --once only overrides the boolean OUTCOME for that one invocation, mirroring the existing --unsafe-bypass-dream-guard / --input precedents (stderr warning at the bypass point, no new config-touching code path). Rejected alternatives (documented per task instructions): - Making explicit --phase X always bypass .enabled: breaking change for existing crons that rely on the disabled flag as a cheap no-op; an upgrade would silently start running LLM/write phases. - A new subcommand: adds a whole dispatch/help/arg surface that internally routes through the same override anyway. - Extending --once to also bypass packDeclaresPhase for extract_atoms/synthesize_concepts: conflates two different gating mechanisms (config toggle vs. pack membership) under one flag; extract_atoms already has --drain, which is purpose-built for its batched/windowed execution model. Design was cross-validated by an independent second-model review (external design consultation) before implementation; its recommendation to also update the extract_atoms doctor message to `--once` was NOT adopted because that phase has no .enabled gate to bypass -- doing so would be a documented no-op, contradicted by reading src/commands/doctor.ts:3264 directly. Tests: 9 new (structural CLI-flag wiring in dream-cli-flags.test.ts; a real PGLite E2E test in dream-patterns-pglite.test.ts proving the bypass fires AND that dream.patterns.enabled is never written; 4 runCycle-level tests in cycle.serial.test.ts proving onceForPhase does not leak across phases). Verified 6 of 9 fail against the pre-fix source (via git stash of source-only changes) to confirm they're meaningful regressions, not tautologies. Closes #2860 Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>