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Generated from bd help --doc reclaim. Revert in_progress issues whose lease has gone stale back to ready. When a worker claims an issue it takes a lease that expires after a TTL, kept alive by ‘bd heartbeat’. A worker that dies stops heartbeating, so its lease expires and its issue would otherwise stay in_progress forever. reclaim is the reaper: it finds in_progress issues whose lease expired more than —older-than ago, clears the assignee, and sets them back to open so another worker can claim them. The previous owner’s stale lease is recorded as a recovery event. —older-than is a grace window past lease expiry: only leases that expired at least this long ago are reclaimed, so a worker briefly paused (GC, clock skew) is not robbed of live work. Run it from a supervisor on a timer with a window of roughly 2× the claim TTL. Examples: bd reclaim # default grace window (2× the lease TTL) bd reclaim —older-than 10m # reclaim leases expired >10m ago bd reclaim —older-than 0s # reclaim every currently-expired lease 
bd reclaim [flags]
Flags: 
      --older-than duration   Only reclaim leases that expired at least this long ago (grace window) (default 10m0s)