code: protected void handleJSONMessageAsDummy(JSONObject obj) throws Exception {
          hostLog.info("Generating dummy response for ops request " + obj);
          sendOpsResponse(null, obj, OPS_DUMMY);
      }
docs: For OPS actions generate a dummy response to the distributed
  work to avoid startup initialization dependencies. Startup can take
  a long time and we don't want to prevent other agents from making progress