Session Closeout: Free Games System Paused (2026-04-24)

Context & Motivation

User requested pausing the entire free games claiming system. The system is broken and needs a significant overhaul before it should run again.

Actions Taken

• VM: Stopped epic-checkout (was online). free-games and epic-claimer were already stopped.
• Local WSL: Stopped local-checkout (was online).
• Ran pm2 save on both machines so processes stay stopped across reboots.

Open Items

• System needs a comprehensive debugging/fix pass before restarting
• Restart procedure: pm2 start epic-checkout (VM) + pm2 start local-checkout (local) + pm2 save on both
• No urgency; free games rotate weekly/biweekly

Repos Touched

• freeGames (context.md added, no code changes)
• privateContext (closeout document)