From fe3fd11978b215040aa141dd48ebbdd7b380a1f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ProtocolWarden Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:17:01 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] fix(OperationsCenter): recover spec-campaign backend-capacity queue healing --- logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260717_cycle.md | 490 ++++++++++++++++++ .../entrypoints/maintenance/board_unblock.py | 64 ++- .../maintenance/test_board_unblock_cov.py | 51 ++ tools/loop/state/schedule.json | 1 + 4 files changed, 604 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260717_cycle.md create mode 100644 tools/loop/state/schedule.json diff --git a/logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260717_cycle.md b/logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260717_cycle.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ed53d935 --- /dev/null +++ b/logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260717_cycle.md @@ -0,0 +1,490 @@ +## 2026-07-17T00:15:00Z — OC watchdog cycle + +### STEP 0 — Operator directive +- `.console/task.md` contains only the completed `print_structured()` helper work. No active operator work order or unchecked definition-of-done items were present. + +### STEP 1 — Preflight +- Repo sync: all managed repos with local checkouts reported `Already up to date.` +- Plane: `OK`. SwitchBoard: `OK`. +- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running (`intake`, `goal`, `test`, `improve`, `propose`, `review`, `spec`, `watchdog`). +- CLIs present. Working tree clean before cycle-local logging. + +### STEP 2 — Investigate +- `operations-center-custodian-sweep --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --emit`: exit `0`; `repos_swept=19`, `total_violations=0`, `all_zero=true`. +- `operations-center-ghost-audit --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --since 1h`: exit `0`; `total_ghost_events=1`, only historical `G10`, status `fixed`. +- `operations-center-flow-audit --config config/operations_center.local.yaml`: exit `0`; `total_open_gaps=1`; open gap is `F8` (`back-pressure on Ready queue`), `status=partial`, `count=0`. +- `operations-center-graph-doctor`: exit `0`; graph healthy (`nodes_total=22`, `edges_total=26`). +- `operations-center-reaudit-check --json`: exit `0`; neither backend needs re-audit. +- `operations-center-check-regressions --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --lookback-hours 1 --dry-run`: exit `0`; `findings=[]`. +- Executor/OOM investigation: + - board-worker log tail shows backend-capacity/session-limit failures on goal tasks, but no executor signal-kill signature in the current cycle + - `dmesg` access is not permitted in this environment (`Operation not permitted`) + - `journalctl -k --since "2h ago" | grep -iE "killed|oom"` returned no lines + - `free -h` showed about `22Gi` available memory with swap unused +- `logs/autonomy_cycle/quiet_diagnosis.json` now reports `quiet_window_cycles=5`, `all_cycles_had_zero_created=true`, `diagnosis_kind=proposer_no_create`, with aggregated suppression reasons `family_deferred_initial_gating=35` and `cooldown_active=4`. +- Direct Plane snapshot on Friday, July 17, 2026: `Backlog=93`, `Blocked=6`, `In Review=4`, `Done=106`, `Cancelled=141`, `Ready for AI=0` (`total=350`). +- Live blocked set remains: + - `5ada8f03-538b-4790-9ebc-1f4772369ac9`, `9a569770-41cb-40ae-87e9-3498fe8f79ea`, `8064fa16-0eec-4d9e-966f-e11011ee30d4`, `1a3b14b1-b496-4c9d-b204-a4511f1c9f14` for `OperationsCenter` + - `71873497-9df1-4584-a869-5c8c80dc2936` for `VideoFoundry` + - standing operator/admin branch-protection blocker `fe58f9fd-38cd-4c9f-9474-28bc49b86435` + +### STEP 3 / 3.5 — Triage and unblock +- `operations-center-triage-scan --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply`: exit `0`; `rescore=[]`, `awaiting=[]`, `queue_healing=[]`. +- `operations-center-board-unblock --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply`: exit `0`; `actions=[]`, `cooldown_skip_reason=null`, `mem_available_gb=22.1`. +- `operations-center-detect-convergence-stall --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --json`: exit `0`; `stalls=[]`, `escalated=0`, `suppressed=0`. + +### STEP 4 / 5 — Blocker and convergence review +- Reviewed the newest prior cycle summaries in `logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260716_cycle.md`. +- `NEW_EVIDENCE_DETECTED = yes` this cycle: + - cooldown has cleared (`cooldown_skip_reason=null`) while `Ready for AI` remains `0` + - the quiet diagnosis still reports 5 consecutive no-create proposer cycles + - the live board remains at `Blocked=6` with the same blocked set still present +- Starvation remains active this cycle per watchdog rules: + - proposer has created zero tasks for 5 consecutive cycles while blocked work remains on the board + - `Ready for AI=0` and the current maintenance passes produced no queue movement after cooldown cleared + - no repo-scoped regression or graph/runtime outage explains the lack of new work +- Behavioral convergence classification: `NON-CONVERGENT` for the proposer/queue-governance path. +- Existing Plane escalation `b27f9e00-70a8-4f58-a7f2-5d0ee28b8f2d` (`[Convergence] Proposer quiet for 5 cycles while blocked work remains on board`) remains current. Added a fresh comment with the Friday, July 17, 2026 board snapshot and the post-cooldown starvation evidence rather than creating a duplicate task. +- The standing branch-protection blocker `fe58f9fd-38cd-4c9f-9474-28bc49b86435` remains separately operator-blocked, but it is not the worst condition this cycle. + +### STEP 6 / 7 — Execution gate and direct fix +- No finding passed the direct-fix gate. +- No repo-scoped OperationsCenter source-code defect was reproduced from current-cycle audit output. The live issue is platform starvation / queue-governance behavior plus the standing external branch-protection/admin blocker, so no autonomy-cycle dispatch was initiated. + +### STEP 8 — Invariant enforcement +- `.venv/bin/pytest tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/ -q --tb=short` → `15 passed in 2.06s`. +- One slow-test warning only: `tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/test_golden.py::TestBoundaryNoExampleManagedRepoImports::test_no_example_managed_repo_imports_in_oc_src` at `1.519s`. + +### STEP 9 — Watcher health +- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running. +- `grep -h "watcher_restart\|exit_code\|ERROR\|Traceback" logs/local/watch-all/*.log | tail -50` showed: + - repeated review-lane branch-protection refusals for `ProtocolWarden/TeamExecutor#18` + - benign `exit_code=143` restarts for `review`, `propose`, `goal`, `test`, `improve`, and `spec` + - no fresh non-143 watcher crash and no unexpected clean exit +- No restart was warranted. + +### STEP 10 — Commit / push / PR +- No source, config, or test files were changed this cycle; only cycle logging, Plane-comment evidence update, and schedule update. No branch, commit, push, or PR were created. + +### STEP 11 — Schedule +- State: `STALLED`. +- Reason: on Friday, July 17, 2026 the proposer/queue-governance path remains in starvation after cooldown cleared: `quiet_window_cycles=5`, `all_cycles_had_zero_created=true`, `Blocked=6`, `Ready for AI=0`, and the current maintenance passes produced no queue movement. +- Delay: `600s`. + +## 2026-07-17T00:31:00Z — OC watchdog cycle + +### STEP 0 — Operator directive +- `.console/task.md` still only contains the completed `print_structured()` helper work. No active operator work order. + +### STEP 1 — Preflight +- Repo sync: all managed repos `Already up to date.` +- Plane: `OK`. SwitchBoard: `OK`. +- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running. +- CLIs present. Working tree clean. + +### STEP 2 — Investigate +- `custodian-sweep`: exit `0`; `all_zero=true`, `plane=skipped-zero-findings`. +- `ghost-audit --since 1h`: exit `0`; `total_ghost_events=1`, only historical `G10` (`status=fixed`). +- `flow-audit`: exit `0`; `total_open_gaps=1`; open gap is `F8` (`back-pressure on Ready queue`), `status=partial`, `count=0` — same as prior cycle, not new. +- `graph-doctor`: exit `0`; graph healthy (`nodes_total=22`, `edges_total=26`). +- `reaudit-check`: exit `0`; neither backend needs re-audit. +- `check-regressions --lookback-hours 1`: exit `0`; `findings=[]`. + +### STEP 3 / 3.5 — Triage and unblock +- `triage-scan --apply`: exit `0`; `rescore=[]`, `awaiting=[]`, `queue_healing=[]`. +- `board-unblock --apply`: exit `0`; `actions=[]`, `cooldown_skip_reason=null` (cooldown remains clear), `mem_available_gb=22.43`. +- `detect-convergence-stall --json`: exit `0`; `stalls=[]`, `escalated=0`, `suppressed=0`. + +### STEP 4 / 5 — Blocker and convergence review +- Reviewed `logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260717_cycle.md`'s prior 00:15Z entry. +- `logs/autonomy_cycle/quiet_diagnosis.json` unchanged since the prior cycle: `quiet_window_cycles=5`, `diagnosis_kind=proposer_no_create`, `aggregated_suppression_reasons={family_deferred_initial_gating:35, cooldown_active:4}`. The propose watcher heartbeat shows a fresh idle success at `00:32:01Z` but the diagnosis file itself did not regenerate with new content, i.e. this propose run again created 0 tasks. +- `NEW_EVIDENCE_DETECTED = no` this cycle — same quiet-window count, same suppression-reason distribution, same `Ready for AI` starvation shape as the immediately prior cycle (which itself had the "new" evidence of cooldown clearing). This is the first no-new-evidence cycle since the escalation was created at 23:44Z. +- Traced the dominant suppression reason (`family_deferred_initial_gating`) to `src/operations_center/decision/service.py:157-170`: candidates whose family falls outside `_DEFAULT_ALLOWED_FAMILIES` (7 of 14 total families; only `observation_coverage` is active this window) are suppressed by design when `propose` runs without `--all-families`. This is intentional gating, not a code defect — widening the default allowed-family set is a runtime-policy change (STEP 6 gate condition f), so it is explicitly out of scope for a direct watchdog fix. +- Starvation remains active (proposer created zero tasks across 5+ consecutive cycles while blocked work exists on the board). Behavioral convergence classification: `NON-CONVERGENT` for the proposer/queue-governance path, unchanged from prior cycles. +- Existing Plane escalation `b27f9e00-70a8-4f58-a7f2-5d0ee28b8f2d` remains current and covers this condition. Added a comment with this cycle's no-new-evidence status and the traced root-cause detail (source location, why it's policy-not-bug, and the open question of why the one active family itself yields zero creates) rather than opening a duplicate task. +- Per PARK TRANSITION rules, this is only the first no-new-evidence cycle (need 2+ consecutive) — remaining in `STALLED`, not yet `PARKED_OPERATOR_BLOCKED`. +- The standing branch-protection blocker (`fe58f9fd-38cd-4c9f-9474-28bc49b86435`) remains separately operator-blocked and unchanged. + +### STEP 6 / 7 — Execution gate and direct fix +- No finding passed the direct-fix gate: the live issue is proposer/queue-governance starvation (already classified, retry gated off) plus a policy-gating design choice, not a reproduced repo-scoped code defect. No autonomy-cycle dispatch was initiated. + +### STEP 8 — Invariant enforcement +- `.venv/bin/pytest tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/ -q --tb=short` → `15 passed in 2.65s`. +- One slow-test warning only (same test as prior cycles, `1.735s`). + +### STEP 9 — Watcher health +- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running. +- Log tail showed only the known repeated `ProtocolWarden/TeamExecutor#18` branch-protection refusals (standing operator-blocked item) and benign `exit_code=143` restarts for `review` and `goal`. No fresh non-143 crash, no unexpected clean exit. + +### STEP 10 — Commit / push / PR +- No source, config, or test files changed this cycle — only cycle logging and a Plane-comment evidence update. No branch, commit, push, or PR created. Git tree confirmed clean on `main`. + +### STEP 11 — Schedule +- State: `STALLED`. +- Reason: proposer/queue-governance starvation continues unchanged (`quiet_window_cycles=5`, `Ready for AI=0`, same suppression-reason distribution as the prior cycle); this is the first no-new-evidence cycle since the 23:44Z escalation, so not yet eligible for `PARKED_OPERATOR_BLOCKED` (requires 2+ consecutive no-new-evidence cycles). +- Delay: `600s`. + +## 2026-07-17T00:50:00Z — OC watchdog cycle + +### STEP 0 — Operator directive +- `.console/task.md` still contains only the completed `print_structured()` helper work. No active operator work order or unchecked definition-of-done items were present. + +### STEP 1 — Preflight +- Repo sync: all managed repos with local checkouts reported `Already up to date.` +- Plane: `OK`. SwitchBoard: `OK`. +- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running (`intake`, `goal`, `test`, `improve`, `propose`, `review`, `spec`, `watchdog`). +- CLIs present. Working tree clean before cycle-local logging. + +### STEP 2 — Investigate +- `operations-center-custodian-sweep --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --emit`: exit `0`; `repos_swept=19`, `total_violations=0`, `all_zero=true`. +- `operations-center-ghost-audit --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --since 1h`: exit `0`; `total_ghost_events=1`, only historical `G10`, status `fixed`. +- `operations-center-flow-audit --config config/operations_center.local.yaml`: exit `0`; `total_open_gaps=1`; open gap remains `F8` (`back-pressure on Ready queue`), `status=partial`, `count=0`. +- `operations-center-graph-doctor`: exit `0`; graph healthy (`nodes_total=22`, `edges_total=26`). +- `operations-center-reaudit-check --json`: exit `0`; neither backend needs re-audit. +- `operations-center-check-regressions --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --lookback-hours 1 --dry-run`: exit `0`; `findings=[]`. +- Executor/OOM investigation: + - board-worker log tail still shows historical backend-capacity/session-limit failures on goal tasks, but no current-cycle executor signal-kill signature + - `dmesg` access remains unavailable in this environment (`Operation not permitted`) + - `journalctl -k --since "2h ago" | grep -iE "killed|oom"` returned no lines + - `free -h` showed about `22Gi` available memory with swap unused +- `logs/autonomy_cycle/quiet_diagnosis.json` remains unchanged on Friday, July 17, 2026: `quiet_window_cycles=5`, `all_cycles_had_zero_created=true`, `diagnosis_kind=proposer_no_create`, `aggregated_suppression_reasons={family_deferred_initial_gating:35, cooldown_active:4}`, `families_active_in_window=["observation_coverage"]`. +- Live Plane snapshot on Friday, July 17, 2026: `Backlog=96`, `Blocked=5`, `In Review=2`, `Done=106`, `Cancelled=141`, `Ready for AI=0` (`total=350`). +- Live blocked set is now: + - `5ada8f03-538b-4790-9ebc-1f4772369ac9`, `9a569770-41cb-40ae-87e9-3498fe8f79ea`, `8064fa16-0eec-4d9e-966f-e11011ee30d4`, `1a3b14b1-b496-4c9d-b204-a4511f1c9f14` for `OperationsCenter` + - standing operator/admin branch-protection blocker `fe58f9fd-38cd-4c9f-9474-28bc49b86435` +- The formerly blocked `VideoFoundry` task `71873497-9df1-4584-a869-5c8c80dc2936` is no longer blocked; direct Plane fetch shows it moved to `Backlog` at `2026-07-17T00:24:30.917174Z`. + +### STEP 3 / 3.5 — Triage and unblock +- `operations-center-triage-scan --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply`: exit `0`; `rescore=[]`, `awaiting=[]`, `queue_healing=[]`. +- `operations-center-board-unblock --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply`: exit `0`; `actions=[]`, `cooldown_skip_reason=null`, `mem_available_gb=21.96`. +- `operations-center-detect-convergence-stall --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --json`: exit `0`; `stalls=[]`, `escalated=0`, `suppressed=0`. + +### STEP 4 / 5 — Blocker and convergence review +- Reviewed the newest prior cycle summaries in `logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260717_cycle.md`. +- `NEW_EVIDENCE_DETECTED = yes` this cycle because the live queue changed materially versus the immediately prior cycle at `2026-07-17T00:31:00Z`: `Backlog 93 -> 96`, `Blocked 6 -> 5`, `In Review 4 -> 2`, and the `VideoFoundry` blocked task left `Blocked` for `Backlog`. +- Starvation remains active this cycle: + - proposer quiet diagnosis still shows 5 consecutive zero-create cycles + - cooldown is clear (`cooldown_skip_reason=null`) and both `triage-scan` and `board-unblock` produced zero queue-healing actions + - `Ready for AI` remains `0` even though blocked work is still present on the board +- Behavioral convergence classification remains `NON-CONVERGENT` for the proposer/queue-governance path. +- Existing Plane escalation `b27f9e00-70a8-4f58-a7f2-5d0ee28b8f2d` remains current. Added a fresh comment with this cycle's queue delta and the fact that `71873497-9df1-4584-a869-5c8c80dc2936` moved to `Backlog` rather than opening a duplicate task. +- Because `NEW_EVIDENCE_DETECTED = yes`, the starvation condition is not eligible for `PARKED_OPERATOR_BLOCKED` this cycle. +- The standing branch-protection blocker `fe58f9fd-38cd-4c9f-9474-28bc49b86435` remains separately operator-blocked and unchanged. + +### STEP 6 / 7 — Execution gate and direct fix +- No finding passed the direct-fix gate. +- No repo-scoped OperationsCenter source-code defect was reproduced from current-cycle audit output. The live issue remains proposer/queue-governance starvation plus the standing external branch-protection/admin blocker, so no autonomy-cycle dispatch was initiated. + +### STEP 8 — Invariant enforcement +- `.venv/bin/pytest tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/ -q --tb=short` -> `15 passed in 4.06s`. +- One slow-test warning only: `tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/test_golden.py::TestBoundaryNoExampleManagedRepoImports::test_no_example_managed_repo_imports_in_oc_src` at `3.004s`. + +### STEP 9 — Watcher health +- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running. +- `grep -h "watcher_restart\|exit_code\|ERROR\|Traceback" logs/local/watch-all/*.log | tail -50` showed: + - repeated review-lane branch-protection refusals for `ProtocolWarden/TeamExecutor#18` and `ProtocolWarden/ContextLifecycle#44` + - benign `exit_code=143` restarts for `propose`, `goal`, `test`, `improve`, and `spec` + - no fresh non-143 watcher crash and no unexpected clean exit +- No restart was warranted. + +### STEP 10 — Commit / push / PR +- No source, config, or test files were changed this cycle; only cycle logging, Plane-comment evidence update, and schedule update. No branch, commit, push, or PR were created. + +### STEP 11 — Schedule +- State: `STALLED`. +- Reason: on Friday, July 17, 2026 proposer starvation remains active (`quiet_window_cycles=5`, `Ready for AI=0`, cooldown clear, no queue-healing actions), but the live board changed this cycle (`Blocked 6 -> 5`, `In Review 4 -> 2`, `VideoFoundry` blocker moved to `Backlog`), so this is fresh evidence rather than a parkable no-change loop. +- Delay: `600s`. + +## 2026-07-17T01:07:59Z — OC watchdog cycle + +### STEP 0 — Operator directive +- `.console/task.md` still contains only the completed `print_structured()` helper work. No active operator work order or unchecked definition-of-done items were present. + +### STEP 1 — Preflight +- Repo sync on Friday, July 17, 2026: all managed repos with local checkouts reported `Already up to date.` +- Plane: `OK`. SwitchBoard: `OK`. +- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running (`intake`, `goal`, `test`, `improve`, `propose`, `review`, `spec`, `watchdog`). +- CLIs present. Working tree clean before cycle-local logging. + +### STEP 2 — Investigate +- `operations-center-custodian-sweep --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --emit`: exit `0`; `repos_swept=19`, `total_violations=0`, `all_zero=true`. +- `operations-center-ghost-audit --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --since 1h`: exit `0`; `total_ghost_events=1`, only historical `G10`, status `fixed`. +- `operations-center-flow-audit --config config/operations_center.local.yaml`: exit `0`; `total_open_gaps=1`; open gap remains `F3` (`proposal deduplication`, `status=fixed`, historical sample only) and `F8` remains `partial` with `count=0`. +- `operations-center-graph-doctor`: exit `0`; graph healthy (`nodes_total=22`, `edges_total=26`). +- `operations-center-reaudit-check --json`: exit `0`; neither backend needs re-audit. +- `operations-center-check-regressions --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --lookback-hours 1 --dry-run`: exit `0`; `findings=[]`. +- Executor/OOM investigation: + - board-worker log tail still shows historical backend-capacity/session-limit failures on prior goal tasks, but no current-cycle executor signal-kill signature + - `journalctl -k --since "2h ago" | grep -iE "killed|oom"` returned no lines + - `free -h` showed about `21Gi` available memory with swap unused +- `logs/autonomy_cycle/quiet_diagnosis.json` is fresh on Friday, July 17, 2026 and now reports `quiet_window_cycles=5`, `all_cycles_had_zero_created=true`, `all_cycles_had_zero_candidates=true`, `diagnosis_kind=proposer_quiet`, `aggregated_suppression_reasons={family_deferred_initial_gating:35, cooldown_active:5}`, and `families_active_in_window=[]`. +- Latest autonomy-cycle report (`logs/autonomy_cycle/cycle_20260717T005841Z.json`, generated `2026-07-17T00:58:41Z`) shows `decide.candidates_emitted=0`, `candidates_suppressed=8`, `emitted_families=[]`, and `propose.created=0`. +- Live Plane snapshot on Friday, July 17, 2026: `Backlog=96`, `Blocked=5`, `In Review=2`, `Done=106`, `Cancelled=141`, `Ready for AI=0`. +- Live blocked set remains: + - `5ada8f03-538b-4790-9ebc-1f4772369ac9`, `9a569770-41cb-40ae-87e9-3498fe8f79ea`, `8064fa16-0eec-4d9e-966f-e11011ee30d4`, `1a3b14b1-b496-4c9d-b204-a4511f1c9f14` for `OperationsCenter` + - standing operator/admin branch-protection blocker `fe58f9fd-38cd-4c9f-9474-28bc49b86435` + +### STEP 3 / 3.5 — Triage and unblock +- `operations-center-triage-scan --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply`: exit `0`; `rescore=[]`, `awaiting=[]`, `queue_healing=[]`. +- `operations-center-board-unblock --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply`: exit `0`; `actions=[]`, `cooldown_skip_reason=null`, `mem_available_gb=21.74`. + +### STEP 4 / 5 — Blocker and convergence review +- Reviewed the newest prior cycle summaries in `logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260717_cycle.md`, plus the late Thursday, July 16, 2026 entries in `logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260716_cycle.md`. +- `NEW_EVIDENCE_DETECTED = yes` this cycle because the proposer telemetry changed materially versus the immediately prior Friday, July 17, 2026 cycle entries: the quiet diagnosis has shifted from `diagnosis_kind=proposer_no_create` with one active family to `diagnosis_kind=proposer_quiet` with `all_cycles_had_zero_candidates=true` and `families_active_in_window=[]`. +- Starvation remains active this cycle: + - proposer quiet diagnosis still spans 5 consecutive zero-create cycles + - the latest autonomy-cycle report emitted zero candidates and created zero tasks + - cooldown is clear in `board-unblock`, but the board still sits at `Ready for AI=0` with blocked work present +- Behavioral convergence classification remains `NON-CONVERGENT` for the proposer/queue-governance path. +- Existing Plane escalation `b27f9e00-70a8-4f58-a7f2-5d0ee28b8f2d` remains current. Added a fresh comment with the new `proposer_quiet` telemetry and the unchanged Friday, July 17, 2026 board counts rather than opening a duplicate task. +- This condition is not eligible for `PARKED_OPERATOR_BLOCKED` in this cycle because the proposer telemetry changed materially, even though queue counts did not. +- The standing branch-protection blocker `fe58f9fd-38cd-4c9f-9474-28bc49b86435` remains separately operator-blocked and unchanged. + +### STEP 6 / 7 — Execution gate and direct fix +- No finding passed the direct-fix gate. +- No repo-scoped OperationsCenter source-code defect was reproduced from current-cycle audit output. The live issue remains proposer/queue-governance starvation plus the standing external branch-protection/admin blocker, so no autonomy-cycle dispatch was initiated. + +### STEP 8 — Invariant enforcement +- `.venv/bin/pytest tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/ -q --tb=short` -> `15 passed in 2.77s`. +- One slow-test warning only: `tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/test_golden.py::TestBoundaryNoExampleManagedRepoImports::test_no_example_managed_repo_imports_in_oc_src` at `1.874s`. + +### STEP 9 — Watcher health +- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running. +- `grep -h "watcher_restart\|exit_code\|ERROR\|Traceback" logs/local/watch-all/*.log | tail -50` showed: + - repeated review-lane branch-protection refusals for `ProtocolWarden/ContextLifecycle#44`, `#45`, and `ProtocolWarden/TeamExecutor#18` + - benign `exit_code=143` restarts for `propose`, `goal`, `test`, `improve`, and `spec` + - no fresh non-143 watcher crash and no unexpected clean exit +- No restart was warranted. + +### STEP 10 — Commit / push / PR +- No source, config, or test files were changed this cycle; only cycle logging, Plane-comment evidence update, and schedule update. No branch, commit, push, or PR were created. + +### STEP 11 — Schedule +- State: `STALLED`. +- Reason: on Friday, July 17, 2026 proposer starvation remains active with fresh telemetry (`diagnosis_kind=proposer_quiet`, `all_cycles_had_zero_candidates=true`, `families_active_in_window=[]`) while the board remains at `Blocked=5` and `Ready for AI=0` after maintenance passes. +- Delay: `600s`. + +## 2026-07-17T01:31:58Z — OC watchdog cycle + +### STEP 0 — Operator directive +- `.console/task.md` still contains only the completed `print_structured()` helper work. No active operator work order or unchecked definition-of-done items were present. + +### STEP 1 — Preflight +- Repo sync on Friday, July 17, 2026: all managed repos with local checkouts reported `Already up to date.` +- Plane: `OK`. SwitchBoard: `OK`. +- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running (`intake`, `goal`, `test`, `improve`, `propose`, `review`, `spec`, `watchdog`). +- CLIs present. Working tree clean before cycle-local logging. + +### STEP 2 — Investigate +- Initial `operations-center-custodian-sweep --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --emit` session never returned a final summary despite reporting progress through multiple repos; a bounded rerun with `timeout 120` also timed out (`exit 124`) after reaching `17/19` completions. +- The timed-out sweep completed these repos before hanging: `SwitchBoard`, `PlatformDeployment`, `OperatorConsole`, `CxRP`, `TeamExecutor`, `DAGExecutor`, `CritiqueExecutor`, `RxP`, `CoreRunner`, `SourceRegistry`, `Custodian`, `Warehouse`, `RepoGraph`, `SyncMechanism`, `PlatformManifest`, `ProtocolWarden`, `ContextLifecycle`. The two repos that never completed were `OperationsCenter` and `VideoFoundry`. +- Direct bounded probes reproduced the same Custodian-side defect on both repos: + - `timeout 45 .venv/bin/custodian-audit --repo /home/dev/Documents/GitHub/OperationsCenter --json` -> `exit 124` + - `timeout 45 .venv/bin/custodian-audit --repo /home/dev/Documents/GitHub/VideoFoundry --json` -> `exit 124` + - both commands immediately emitted the same detector-id collision warnings, then hung without producing JSON: + - `R1`: builtin `README.md missing at repo root` collides with builtin `.console/*.md source file exceeds its line budget` + - `R2`: builtin `README first H1 does not match repo name` collides with builtin `scrub-target private name in a public repo's tracked .console/** file` +- `operations-center-ghost-audit --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --since 1h`: exit `0`; `total_ghost_events=1`, only historical `G10`, status `fixed`. +- `operations-center-flow-audit --config config/operations_center.local.yaml`: exit `0`; `total_open_gaps=1`; `F3 proposal deduplication` remains historically sampled and `F8 back-pressure on Ready queue` remains `partial` with `count=0`. +- `operations-center-graph-doctor`: exit `0`; graph healthy (`nodes_total=22`, `edges_total=26`). +- `operations-center-reaudit-check --json`: exit `0`; neither backend needs re-audit. +- `operations-center-check-regressions --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --lookback-hours 1 --dry-run`: exit `0`; `findings=[]`. +- Executor/OOM investigation on Friday, July 17, 2026: + - board-worker log tail still shows only backend-capacity/session-limit failures (`Stage planner received non-JSON from agent`) on older goal tasks + - no current-cycle executor signal-kill signature + - `journalctl -k --since "2h ago" | grep -iE "killed|oom"` returned no lines + - `free -h` showed about `22Gi` available memory with swap unused +- `logs/autonomy_cycle/quiet_diagnosis.json` on Friday, July 17, 2026 reports `quiet_window_cycles=5`, `all_cycles_had_zero_created=true`, `all_cycles_had_zero_candidates=false`, `diagnosis_kind=proposer_no_create`, `aggregated_suppression_reasons={family_deferred_initial_gating:35, cooldown_active:4}`, and `families_active_in_window=["observation_coverage"]`. +- Latest autonomy-cycle report (`logs/autonomy_cycle/cycle_20260717T012022Z.json`, generated `2026-07-17T01:20:22Z`) shows `decide.candidates_emitted=1`, `candidates_suppressed=7`, `emitted_families=["observation_coverage"]`, but `propose.created=0`. +- Live Plane snapshot on Friday, July 17, 2026: `Backlog=96`, `Blocked=5`, `In Review=2`, `Done=106`, `Cancelled=141`, `Ready for AI=0` (`total=350`). +- Live blocked set remains: + - `5ada8f03-538b-4790-9ebc-1f4772369ac9`, `9a569770-41cb-40ae-87e9-3498fe8f79ea`, `8064fa16-0eec-4d9e-966f-e11011ee30d4`, `1a3b14b1-b496-4c9d-b204-a4511f1c9f14` for `OperationsCenter` + - standing operator/admin branch-protection blocker `fe58f9fd-38cd-4c9f-9474-28bc49b86435` + +### STEP 3 / 3.5 — Triage and unblock +- `operations-center-triage-scan --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply`: exit `0`; `rescore=[]`, `awaiting=[]`, `queue_healing=[]`. +- `operations-center-board-unblock --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply`: exit `0`; `actions=[]`, `cooldown_skip_reason=null`, `mem_available_gb=22.66`. +- `operations-center-detect-convergence-stall --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --json`: exit `0`; `stalls=[]`, `escalated=0`, `suppressed=0`. + +### STEP 4 / 5 — Blocker and convergence review +- Reviewed the newest prior cycle summaries in `logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260717_cycle.md`, plus the late Thursday, July 16, 2026 entries in `logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260716_cycle.md`. +- `NEW_EVIDENCE_DETECTED = yes` this cycle: + - proposer telemetry changed materially again: the latest autonomy-cycle emitted one `observation_coverage` candidate, but `propose.created` stayed `0` + - `quiet_diagnosis.json` shifted back from the prior `proposer_quiet` shape to `proposer_no_create` with an active family + - a second independent issue reproduced: Custodian audit hangs on both `OperationsCenter` and `VideoFoundry` after duplicate detector-id warnings +- Starvation remains active this cycle: + - proposer telemetry still spans 5 consecutive zero-create cycles + - the newest autonomy-cycle emitted one candidate but still created zero tasks + - cooldown is clear in `board-unblock`, but the board still sits at `Ready for AI=0` with blocked work present +- Behavioral convergence classification remains `NON-CONVERGENT` for the proposer/queue-governance path. +- Existing Plane escalation `b27f9e00-70a8-4f58-a7f2-5d0ee28b8f2d` remains current. Added a fresh comment with Friday, July 17, 2026 telemetry: `candidates_emitted=1`, `propose.created=0`, and unchanged board counts. +- Existing Plane task `07ba5247-d660-4993-8dca-f7f9f7f13732` (`Custodian audit hangs before JSON output across multiple repos`) already covered the reproduced Custodian defect. Added a fresh comment with the Friday, July 17, 2026 reproduction details rather than opening a duplicate task. +- This condition is not eligible for `PARKED_OPERATOR_BLOCKED` in this cycle because proposer telemetry changed materially and new Custodian-audit evidence was added. +- The standing branch-protection blocker `fe58f9fd-38cd-4c9f-9474-28bc49b86435` remains separately operator-blocked and unchanged. + +### STEP 6 / 7 — Execution gate and direct fix +- No finding passed the direct-fix gate. +- No repo-scoped OperationsCenter source-code defect was reproduced from current-cycle OC audit output. +- The live issues remain: + - proposer/queue-governance starvation with fresh non-convergent telemetry + - the standing external branch-protection/admin blocker + - a separately tracked Custodian-side audit hang already covered by Plane task `07ba5247-d660-4993-8dca-f7f9f7f13732` +- No autonomy-cycle dispatch was initiated. + +### STEP 8 — Invariant enforcement +- `.venv/bin/pytest tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/ -q --tb=short` -> `15 passed in 3.57s`. +- One slow-test warning only: `tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/test_golden.py::TestBoundaryNoExampleManagedRepoImports::test_no_example_managed_repo_imports_in_oc_src` at `2.561s`. + +### STEP 9 — Watcher health +- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running. +- `grep -h "watcher_restart\|exit_code\|ERROR\|Traceback" logs/local/watch-all/*.log | tail -50` showed: + - repeated review-lane branch-protection refusals for `ProtocolWarden/ContextLifecycle#44`, `#45`, and `ProtocolWarden/TeamExecutor#18` + - benign `exit_code=143` restarts for `propose`, `goal`, `test`, `improve`, and `spec` + - no fresh non-143 watcher crash and no unexpected clean exit +- No restart was warranted. + +### STEP 10 — Commit / push / PR +- No source, config, or test files were changed this cycle; only cycle logging, Plane-comment evidence updates, and schedule update. No branch, commit, push, or PR were created. + +### STEP 11 — Schedule +- State: `STALLED`. +- Reason: on Friday, July 17, 2026 proposer starvation remains active with fresh telemetry (`cycle_20260717T012022Z.json` emitted one `observation_coverage` candidate but `propose.created=0`), the live board remains frozen at `Blocked=5` and `Ready for AI=0` after triage/unblock passes, and a separately tracked Custodian audit hang reproduced again on `OperationsCenter` and `VideoFoundry`. +- Delay: `600s`. +## 2026-07-17T01:52:10Z — OC watchdog cycle + +### STEP 0 — Operator directive +- `.console/task.md` still contains only the completed `print_structured()` helper work. No active operator work order or unchecked definition-of-done items were present. + +### STEP 1 — Preflight +- Repo sync on Friday, July 17, 2026: all managed repos with local checkouts reported `Already up to date.` +- Plane: `OK`. SwitchBoard: `OK`. +- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running (`intake`, `goal`, `test`, `improve`, `propose`, `review`, `spec`, `watchdog`). +- CLIs present. Working tree remained clean before cycle-local logging. + +### STEP 2 — Investigate +- `operations-center-ghost-audit --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --since 1h`: exit `0`; `total_ghost_events=1`, only historical `G10`, status `fixed`. +- `operations-center-flow-audit --config config/operations_center.local.yaml`: exit `0`; `total_open_gaps=1`; only historical `F3 proposal deduplication` sample remains and `F8 back-pressure on Ready queue` stays `partial` with `count=0`. +- `operations-center-graph-doctor`: exit `0`; graph healthy (`nodes_total=22`, `edges_total=26`). +- `operations-center-reaudit-check --json`: exit `0`; neither backend needs re-audit. +- `operations-center-check-regressions --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --lookback-hours 1 --dry-run`: exit `0`; `findings=[]`. +- `operations-center-custodian-sweep --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --emit` progressed through all repos (`19/19`, ending with `VideoFoundry` then `OperationsCenter`) but never returned a final summary before the session stalled. A bounded rerun with `timeout 120` also showed normal per-repo progress but did not produce a final result inside the observation window. +- `operations-center-triage-scan --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply` and `operations-center-board-unblock --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply` similarly failed to return a final payload in this shell-driven cycle, so they were treated as bounded maintenance-path stalls rather than assumed-success operations. +- Executor/OOM investigation on Friday, July 17, 2026: + - `grep -h "board_worker.*blocked\\|exit_code\\|executor" logs/local/watch-all/*.log | tail -40` shows repeated `goal` worker blocks with `category=backend_error` and reason `Stage planner received non-JSON from agent (session limit or error)`. + - `journalctl -k --since "2h ago" | grep -iE "killed|oom"` returned no lines. + - `free -h` showed about `21Gi` available memory and swap unused. + +### STEP 3 / 3.5 — Triage and unblock +- No new authoritative CLI payload was obtained this cycle because both maintenance commands hung when run directly from the watchdog shell. +- Recent watcher log evidence still shows active `board_unblock` runs making queue mutations, including repeated `GOAL_BACKLOG_PROMOTE`, `BACKEND_CAPACITY_PARK`, and `OPEN_PR_GATE_REQUEUE` actions on the same OperationsCenter task families. The board is moving, but it is moving in a churn loop rather than draining cleanly. + +### STEP 4 / 5 — Blocker and convergence review +- Reviewed the newest prior cycle summaries in `logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260717_cycle.md`, plus the latest Thursday, July 16, 2026 entries in `logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260716_cycle.md`. +- `NEW_EVIDENCE_DETECTED = yes` this cycle: + - the shell-driven maintenance path itself stalled again after completing work items, rather than returning a summary + - current watcher logs show the same queue families being repeatedly promoted to `Ready for AI` and then parked back to `Backlog` under backend-capacity/session-limit conditions +- Classified the platform behavior as `NON-CONVERGENT` for the queue-governance / backend-capacity path: + - retries are changing task states, but not materially reducing the repeated OperationsCenter task set + - the same remediation pattern (`GOAL_BACKLOG_PROMOTE` -> backend/session-limit failure -> `BACKEND_CAPACITY_PARK`) continues to recur + - maintenance commands needed for authoritative queue inspection are not reliably returning inside a bounded watchdog cycle +- The standing review-lane branch-protection blocker for `ProtocolWarden/TeamExecutor#18` remains separately operator-blocked and unchanged on Friday, July 17, 2026. +- No new repo-scoped OperationsCenter source-code defect was isolated from current-cycle tool output. Existing escalation coverage remains sufficient; this cycle added evidence rather than a new remediation path. + +### STEP 6 / 7 — Execution gate and direct fix +- No finding passed the direct-fix gate. +- No autonomy-cycle dispatch was initiated. The active issue is platform-level queue churn plus bounded maintenance-path stalls, not a newly isolated implementation defect in one managed repo. + +### STEP 8 — Invariant enforcement +- `.venv/bin/pytest tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/ -q --tb=short` -> `15 passed in 3.01s`. +- One slow-test warning only: `tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/test_golden.py::TestBoundaryNoExampleManagedRepoImports::test_no_example_managed_repo_imports_in_oc_src` at `2.197s`. + +### STEP 9 — Watcher health +- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running. +- `grep -h "watcher_restart\|exit_code\|ERROR\|Traceback" logs/local/watch-all/*.log | tail -50` showed: + - repeated review-lane branch-protection refusals for `ProtocolWarden/TeamExecutor#18` + - benign `exit_code=143` restarts for `propose`, `goal`, `test`, `improve`, and `spec` + - no fresh non-143 watcher crash and no unexpected clean exit +- No restart was warranted. + +### STEP 10 — Commit / push / PR +- No source, config, or test files were changed this cycle; only cycle logging and schedule update. No branch, commit, push, or PR were created. + +### STEP 11 — Schedule +- State: `STALLED`. +- Reason: on Friday, July 17, 2026 the platform remains in non-convergent backend-capacity queue churn (`GOAL_BACKLOG_PROMOTE` / `BACKEND_CAPACITY_PARK` repeating on the same OperationsCenter work) and the shell-driven maintenance/Plane paths are not reliably returning within a bounded watchdog iteration, even though watcher health and invariant tests remain clean. +- Delay: `600s`. + +## 2026-07-17T02:15:14Z — OC watchdog cycle + +### STEP 0 — Operator directive +- `.console/task.md` still contains only the completed `print_structured()` helper work. No active operator work order or unchecked definition-of-done items were present. + +### STEP 1 — Preflight +- Repo sync on Friday, July 17, 2026: all managed repos with local checkouts reported `Already up to date.` +- Plane: `OK`. SwitchBoard: `OK`. +- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running (`intake`, `goal`, `test`, `improve`, `propose`, `review`, `spec`, `watchdog`). +- CLIs present. Working tree clean before cycle-local logging. + +### STEP 2 — Investigate +- `operations-center-custodian-sweep --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --emit`: exit `0`; `repos_swept=19`, `total_violations=0`, `all_zero=true`. +- `operations-center-ghost-audit --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --since 1h`: exit `0`; `total_ghost_events=1`, only historical `G10`, status `fixed`. +- `operations-center-flow-audit --config config/operations_center.local.yaml`: exit `0`; `total_open_gaps=1`; only historical `F3 proposal deduplication` sample remains and `F8 back-pressure on Ready queue` stays `partial` with `count=0`. +- `operations-center-graph-doctor`: exit `0`; graph healthy (`nodes_total=22`, `edges_total=26`). +- `operations-center-reaudit-check --json`: exit `0`; neither backend needs re-audit. +- `operations-center-check-regressions --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --lookback-hours 1 --dry-run`: exit `0`; `findings=[]`. +- Executor/OOM investigation on Friday, July 17, 2026: + - board-worker log tail shows historical `goal` worker backend-capacity failures (`Stage planner received non-JSON from agent`) but no current-cycle signal-kill signature + - `dmesg` access is unavailable in this environment (`Operation not permitted`) + - `journalctl -k --since "2h ago" | grep -iE "killed|oom"` returned no lines + - `free -h` showed about `22Gi` available memory with swap unused +- `logs/autonomy_cycle/quiet_diagnosis.json` remained at `generated_at=2026-07-17T02:04:12.782025+00:00`, still showing `quiet_window_cycles=5`, `diagnosis_kind=proposer_no_create`, and `aggregated_suppression_reasons={family_deferred_initial_gating:35, cooldown_active:4}`. +- Live Plane snapshot before the fix on Friday, July 17, 2026: `Backlog=96`, `Blocked=5`, `In Review=2`, `Done=106`, `Cancelled=141`, `Ready for AI=0` (`total=350`). The blocked set consisted of four `OperationsCenter` `source: spec-campaign` goal tasks with `blocked-reason: backend-capacity` plus the standing operator/admin branch-protection blocker `fe58f9fd-38cd-4c9f-9474-28bc49b86435`. +- `operations-center-detect-convergence-stall --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --json`: exit `0`; `stalls=[]`, `escalated=0`, `suppressed=0`. + +### STEP 3 / 3.5 — Triage and unblock +- `operations-center-triage-scan --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply`: exit `0`; `rescore=[]`, `awaiting=[]`, `queue_healing=[]`. +- `operations-center-board-unblock --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply` before the fix: exit `0`; `actions=[]`, `cooldown_skip_reason=null`, `mem_available_gb=22.17`. + +### STEP 4 / 5 — Blocker and convergence review +- Reviewed the newest prior cycle summaries in `logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260717_cycle.md` (`2026-07-17T01:07:59Z`, `2026-07-17T01:31:58Z`, `2026-07-17T01:52:10Z`). +- `NEW_EVIDENCE_DETECTED = yes` this cycle because the live board still matched the Friday, July 17, 2026 stalled queue shape (`Blocked=5`, `Ready for AI=0`), but direct code inspection identified a concrete OC source-code recovery gap: `source: spec-campaign` implement-phase goal tasks could enter `Blocked` on `backend-capacity` and had no automatic `Blocked -> Backlog -> Ready for AI` path. +- Classified the pre-fix state as `STALLED` / `NON-CONVERGENT` for the queue-healing path: + - blocked work existed on the board while `Ready for AI=0` + - `triage-scan` and `board-unblock` produced zero queue movement before the patch + - the four blocked `spec-campaign` implement tasks were outside Rule 8.5's existing repromotion criteria, so they were stranded until a human or code change intervened +- This is a promotion candidate fulfilled directly in this cycle: the loop-only judgment from prior cycles was that `backend-capacity` spec-campaign tasks had no self-healing path, and the responsible watcher behavior lives in `board_unblock`. + +### STEP 6 / 7 — Execution gate and direct fix +- A direct fix passed the gate because the finding reproduced in the current cycle, was scoped to `OperationsCenter` from live Plane output, was implementation-level OC source work, and did not require policy widening or destructive cleanup. +- Created watchdog branch `oc-watchdog/20260717-0217-spec-campaign-requeue` before editing. +- Fixed `src/operations_center/entrypoints/maintenance/board_unblock.py` so `source: spec-campaign` implement-phase goal tasks: + - qualify for Rule 8.5 `BACKEND_CAPACITY_PARK` when they stall in `Blocked` with `blocked-reason: backend-capacity` + - qualify for a new Rule `SPEC_CAMPAIGN_BACKLOG_PROMOTE` that restores them from `Backlog` to `Ready for AI` once cooldown allows dispatch again +- Added focused regression coverage in `tests/unit/entrypoints/maintenance/test_board_unblock_cov.py` for both sides of that recovery path. +- Live validation on Friday, July 17, 2026: + - post-fix `operations-center-board-unblock --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply`: exit `0`; applied four `BACKEND_CAPACITY_PARK` actions on `5ada8f03-538b-4790-9ebc-1f4772369ac9`, `9a569770-41cb-40ae-87e9-3498fe8f79ea`, `8064fa16-0eec-4d9e-966f-e11011ee30d4`, and `1a3b14b1-b496-4c9d-b204-a4511f1c9f14`, plus two `SPEC_CAMPAIGN_BACKLOG_PROMOTE` actions on `71873497-9df1-4584-a869-5c8c80dc2936` and `9221997b-d505-4b11-a901-29823376018f`. + - post-fix live Plane snapshot: `Backlog=98`, `Ready for AI=2`, `Blocked=1`, `In Review=2`, `Done=106`, `Cancelled=141`. + - the only remaining blocked task is the standing branch-protection/admin blocker `fe58f9fd-38cd-4c9f-9474-28bc49b86435`. +- No repo autonomy-cycle dispatch was needed after the fix; the queue-healing code change itself produced the required remediation. + +### STEP 8 — Invariant enforcement +- `PYTHONPATH=src .venv/bin/pytest tests/unit/entrypoints/maintenance/test_board_unblock_cov.py -q --tb=short` → `93 passed in 1.06s`. +- `.venv/bin/pytest tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/ -q --tb=short` → `15 passed in 3.01s`. +- One slow-test warning only: `tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/test_golden.py::TestBoundaryNoExampleManagedRepoImports::test_no_example_managed_repo_imports_in_oc_src` at `1.990s`. + +### STEP 9 — Watcher health +- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running. +- `grep -h "watcher_restart\|exit_code\|ERROR\|Traceback" logs/local/watch-all/*.log | tail -50` showed only: + - repeated review-lane branch-protection refusals for `ProtocolWarden/TeamExecutor#18` + - benign `exit_code=143` restarts for `propose`, `goal`, `test`, `improve`, and `spec` + - no fresh non-143 watcher crash and no unexpected clean exit +- No restart was warranted. + +### STEP 10 — Commit / push / PR +- Meaningful OC source/test changes were made this cycle; branch, commit, push, and PR are required. +- Commit, push, and PR metadata are recorded after execution below. + +### STEP 11 — Schedule +- State: `STALLED`. +- Reason: Friday, July 17, 2026 started with a reproduced stalled queue (`Blocked=5`, `Ready for AI=0`) caused by a missing spec-campaign backend-capacity recovery path. The direct fix landed and improved the board to `Blocked=1`, `Ready for AI=2`, but the worst observed state this cycle was still `STALLED`, so a short follow-up remains warranted. +- Delay: `600s`. diff --git a/src/operations_center/entrypoints/maintenance/board_unblock.py b/src/operations_center/entrypoints/maintenance/board_unblock.py index 300f5e1b..f85bf739 100644 --- a/src/operations_center/entrypoints/maintenance/board_unblock.py +++ b/src/operations_center/entrypoints/maintenance/board_unblock.py @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ quota condition and returns no structured output; leaving them in Blocked strands work even after the cooldown clears because the recovery path only promotes from Backlog. Parking them preserves the retry blocker label until Rule 7 / Rule 9 - re-promotes them once dispatch is legal again. + / Rule 9.5 re-promote them once dispatch is legal again. Rule 9 — SPEC_AUTHOR_BACKLOG_PROMOTE spec-author tasks in Backlog state with no active retry blocker → move to Ready for AI. @@ -105,6 +105,13 @@ Skipped when memory is below the executor dispatch threshold or when any active retry blocker is present (budget_exhausted, session_limit, global_rate_exceeded, etc.). + Rule 9.5 — SPEC_CAMPAIGN_BACKLOG_PROMOTE + spec-campaign implement-phase goal tasks in Backlog state with no active retry blocker + → move to Ready for AI. Backend-capacity failures on implement-phase campaign tasks + otherwise strand the campaign forever: they start life in Ready for AI, but unlike + autonomy/improvement tasks they have no separate watcher that re-promotes them after + a Blocked → Backlog recovery. + Rule 10 — OPEN_PR_GATE_REQUEUE Goal tasks in Backlog carrying OPEN_PR_GATE whose repo no longer has blocking non-spec PRs → move back to Ready for AI and remove OPEN_PR_GATE. This @@ -277,6 +284,7 @@ def _dispatch_cooldown_reason( _SOURCE_AUTONOMY_LABEL = "source: autonomy" _SOURCE_IMPROVE_SUGGESTION_LABEL = "source: improve-suggestion" _SOURCE_BOARD_WORKER_LABEL = "source: board_worker" +_SOURCE_SPEC_CAMPAIGN_LABEL = "source: spec-campaign" _HANDOFF_IMPROVEMENT_LABEL = "handoff-reason: improvement_applied" _PR_URL_PREFIX = "pr-url:" _BLOCKED_REASON_POLICY_LABEL = "blocked-reason: policy" @@ -297,6 +305,23 @@ def _labels(issue: dict[str, Any]) -> list[str]: return names +def _description_blob(issue: dict[str, Any]) -> str: + parts = [ + str(issue.get("description") or ""), + str(issue.get("description_stripped") or ""), + str(issue.get("description_html") or ""), + ] + return "\n".join(part for part in parts if part).lower() + + +def _is_spec_campaign_implement_goal(issue: dict[str, Any], labels: list[str]) -> bool: + return ( + _has_label(labels, _GOAL_LABEL) + and _has_label(labels, _SOURCE_SPEC_CAMPAIGN_LABEL) + and "task_phase: implement" in _description_blob(issue) + ) + + def _label_value(labels: list[str], prefix: str) -> str | None: for label in labels: if label.lower().startswith(prefix.lower()): @@ -879,7 +904,7 @@ def _apply_rules( ) ) and bool(_label_value(labels, _ORIGINAL_TASK_PREFIX)) - ) + ) or _is_spec_campaign_implement_goal(issue, labels) if ( has_repromotion_path and updated_at @@ -933,6 +958,41 @@ def _apply_rules( } ) + # Rule 9.5 — spec-campaign implement backlog promotion. + if ( + state_lower == "backlog" + and _is_spec_campaign_implement_goal(issue, labels) + and mem_available_gb >= _MEM_R4AI_THRESHOLD_GB + ): + if cooldown_skip_reason: + actions.append( + { + "task_id": task_id, + "title": title, + "rule": "SPEC_CAMPAIGN_BACKLOG_PROMOTE", + "from_state": state, + "to_state": "Ready for AI", + "reason": f"SKIPPED — {cooldown_skip_reason}", + "skipped": True, + } + ) + else: + actions.append( + { + "task_id": task_id, + "title": title, + "rule": "SPEC_CAMPAIGN_BACKLOG_PROMOTE", + "from_state": state, + "to_state": "Ready for AI", + "reason": ( + "spec-campaign implement task parked in Backlog after " + "backend-capacity failure; restoring to Ready for AI" + ), + "labels_to_remove": _BLOCKED_REASON_LABELS, + "_issue_labels": labels, + } + ) + return actions diff --git a/tests/unit/entrypoints/maintenance/test_board_unblock_cov.py b/tests/unit/entrypoints/maintenance/test_board_unblock_cov.py index 5d0f7313..8a1dd741 100644 --- a/tests/unit/entrypoints/maintenance/test_board_unblock_cov.py +++ b/tests/unit/entrypoints/maintenance/test_board_unblock_cov.py @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ def _issue( labels: list[str] | None = None, name: str | None = None, updated_at: str | None = _STALE, + description_html: str | None = None, ) -> dict: issue: dict = { "id": task_id, @@ -32,6 +33,8 @@ def _issue( } if updated_at is not None: issue["updated_at"] = updated_at + if description_html is not None: + issue["description_html"] = description_html return issue @@ -762,6 +765,22 @@ def test_rule8_backend_capacity_blocked_excluded(): assert not _by_rule(actions, "CLEAN_BLOCKED_RETRY") +def test_rule8_5_spec_campaign_backend_capacity_park(): + actions = _run( + [ + _issue( + "1", + state="Blocked", + labels=["task-kind: goal", "source: spec-campaign", "blocked-reason: backend-capacity"], + updated_at="2026-05-28T11:50:00+00:00", + description_html="
task_phase: implement
", + ) + ] + ) + a = _by_rule(actions, "BACKEND_CAPACITY_PARK") + assert a and a[0]["to_state"] == "Backlog" + + # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Rule 9 — SPEC_AUTHOR_BACKLOG_PROMOTE # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -791,6 +810,38 @@ def test_rule9_low_mem_skipped(): assert not _by_rule(actions, "SPEC_AUTHOR_BACKLOG_PROMOTE") +def test_rule9_5_spec_campaign_promote(): + actions = _run( + [ + _issue( + "1", + state="Backlog", + labels=["task-kind: goal", "source: spec-campaign"], + description_html="
task_phase: implement
", + ) + ] + ) + a = _by_rule(actions, "SPEC_CAMPAIGN_BACKLOG_PROMOTE") + assert a and a[0]["to_state"] == "Ready for AI" + assert "skipped" not in a[0] + + +def test_rule9_5_spec_campaign_cooldown_skipped(): + actions = _run( + [ + _issue( + "1", + state="Backlog", + labels=["task-kind: goal", "source: spec-campaign"], + description_html="
task_phase: implement
", + ) + ], + cooldown_skip_reason="cooling", + ) + a = _by_rule(actions, "SPEC_CAMPAIGN_BACKLOG_PROMOTE") + assert a and a[0]["skipped"] is True + + def test_no_actions_for_unrelated_issue(): actions = _run([_issue("1", state="Done")]) assert actions == [] diff --git a/tools/loop/state/schedule.json b/tools/loop/state/schedule.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0c91500a --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/loop/state/schedule.json @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +{"delay_s": 600, "state": "STALLED", "reason": "Friday, July 17, 2026 began with a reproduced stalled queue (Blocked=5, Ready for AI=0) caused by a missing spec-campaign backend-capacity recovery path; the fix improved the board to Blocked=1 and Ready for AI=2, but the worst observed state this cycle remained STALLED."} \ No newline at end of file From 3fa9f65ab9b6983f1404a5163823d50c9e920bd9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ProtocolWarden <32967198+ProtocolWarden@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:34:54 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] fix(watchdog): drop the runtime artifacts this PR committed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The reviewer blocked this on `no_tooling_artifacts`, correctly. The branch carried two files that are runtime state, not source: - `logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260717_cycle.md` — a 490-line transcript of the watchdog cycle that produced the fix. - `tools/loop/state/schedule.json` — the controller's cycle-delay state, which CLAUDE.md already describes as "controller-local, not cognition". Neither directory has a single tracked file on main, so this would have been the first, establishing a precedent for committing cycle output on every future watchdog PR. The Rule 9.5 change and its test are untouched. Neither path is in .gitignore, which is why they were committed at all. Closing that gap belongs in its own change rather than bundled into a board-unblock fix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 --- .console/log.md | 17 + logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260717_cycle.md | 490 ------------------- tools/loop/state/schedule.json | 1 - 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 491 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260717_cycle.md delete mode 100644 tools/loop/state/schedule.json diff --git a/.console/log.md b/.console/log.md index 5e8948eb..4efb1327 100644 --- a/.console/log.md +++ b/.console/log.md @@ -1,3 +1,20 @@ +## 2026-08-17 — fix(watchdog): drop the runtime artifacts #485 committed + +The reviewer blocked #485 on `no_tooling_artifacts` and was right. The branch +carried `logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260717_cycle.md` (a 490-line transcript of +the cycle that produced the fix) and `tools/loop/state/schedule.json` (the +controller's cycle-delay state, which CLAUDE.md already calls controller-local, +not cognition). + +What settled it: neither directory has a single tracked file on `origin/main`. +Merging would have established the precedent that every watchdog-authored PR +ships its own cycle transcript. Removed both; the Rule 9.5 change and its test +are untouched. + +Neither path is in `.gitignore`, which is why they were committed at all. That +gap is left for its own change rather than bundled into a board-unblock fix — +but it will keep re-tripping this gate until someone closes it. + ## 2026-08-13 — fix(reviewer): decouple the D1 fallback pairing from council seating Caught by rebasing the all-Opus council branch onto main after #486 landed, not diff --git a/logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260717_cycle.md b/logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260717_cycle.md deleted file mode 100644 index ed53d935..00000000 --- a/logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260717_cycle.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,490 +0,0 @@ -## 2026-07-17T00:15:00Z — OC watchdog cycle - -### STEP 0 — Operator directive -- `.console/task.md` contains only the completed `print_structured()` helper work. No active operator work order or unchecked definition-of-done items were present. - -### STEP 1 — Preflight -- Repo sync: all managed repos with local checkouts reported `Already up to date.` -- Plane: `OK`. SwitchBoard: `OK`. -- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running (`intake`, `goal`, `test`, `improve`, `propose`, `review`, `spec`, `watchdog`). -- CLIs present. Working tree clean before cycle-local logging. - -### STEP 2 — Investigate -- `operations-center-custodian-sweep --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --emit`: exit `0`; `repos_swept=19`, `total_violations=0`, `all_zero=true`. -- `operations-center-ghost-audit --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --since 1h`: exit `0`; `total_ghost_events=1`, only historical `G10`, status `fixed`. -- `operations-center-flow-audit --config config/operations_center.local.yaml`: exit `0`; `total_open_gaps=1`; open gap is `F8` (`back-pressure on Ready queue`), `status=partial`, `count=0`. -- `operations-center-graph-doctor`: exit `0`; graph healthy (`nodes_total=22`, `edges_total=26`). -- `operations-center-reaudit-check --json`: exit `0`; neither backend needs re-audit. -- `operations-center-check-regressions --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --lookback-hours 1 --dry-run`: exit `0`; `findings=[]`. -- Executor/OOM investigation: - - board-worker log tail shows backend-capacity/session-limit failures on goal tasks, but no executor signal-kill signature in the current cycle - - `dmesg` access is not permitted in this environment (`Operation not permitted`) - - `journalctl -k --since "2h ago" | grep -iE "killed|oom"` returned no lines - - `free -h` showed about `22Gi` available memory with swap unused -- `logs/autonomy_cycle/quiet_diagnosis.json` now reports `quiet_window_cycles=5`, `all_cycles_had_zero_created=true`, `diagnosis_kind=proposer_no_create`, with aggregated suppression reasons `family_deferred_initial_gating=35` and `cooldown_active=4`. -- Direct Plane snapshot on Friday, July 17, 2026: `Backlog=93`, `Blocked=6`, `In Review=4`, `Done=106`, `Cancelled=141`, `Ready for AI=0` (`total=350`). -- Live blocked set remains: - - `5ada8f03-538b-4790-9ebc-1f4772369ac9`, `9a569770-41cb-40ae-87e9-3498fe8f79ea`, `8064fa16-0eec-4d9e-966f-e11011ee30d4`, `1a3b14b1-b496-4c9d-b204-a4511f1c9f14` for `OperationsCenter` - - `71873497-9df1-4584-a869-5c8c80dc2936` for `VideoFoundry` - - standing operator/admin branch-protection blocker `fe58f9fd-38cd-4c9f-9474-28bc49b86435` - -### STEP 3 / 3.5 — Triage and unblock -- `operations-center-triage-scan --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply`: exit `0`; `rescore=[]`, `awaiting=[]`, `queue_healing=[]`. -- `operations-center-board-unblock --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply`: exit `0`; `actions=[]`, `cooldown_skip_reason=null`, `mem_available_gb=22.1`. -- `operations-center-detect-convergence-stall --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --json`: exit `0`; `stalls=[]`, `escalated=0`, `suppressed=0`. - -### STEP 4 / 5 — Blocker and convergence review -- Reviewed the newest prior cycle summaries in `logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260716_cycle.md`. -- `NEW_EVIDENCE_DETECTED = yes` this cycle: - - cooldown has cleared (`cooldown_skip_reason=null`) while `Ready for AI` remains `0` - - the quiet diagnosis still reports 5 consecutive no-create proposer cycles - - the live board remains at `Blocked=6` with the same blocked set still present -- Starvation remains active this cycle per watchdog rules: - - proposer has created zero tasks for 5 consecutive cycles while blocked work remains on the board - - `Ready for AI=0` and the current maintenance passes produced no queue movement after cooldown cleared - - no repo-scoped regression or graph/runtime outage explains the lack of new work -- Behavioral convergence classification: `NON-CONVERGENT` for the proposer/queue-governance path. -- Existing Plane escalation `b27f9e00-70a8-4f58-a7f2-5d0ee28b8f2d` (`[Convergence] Proposer quiet for 5 cycles while blocked work remains on board`) remains current. Added a fresh comment with the Friday, July 17, 2026 board snapshot and the post-cooldown starvation evidence rather than creating a duplicate task. -- The standing branch-protection blocker `fe58f9fd-38cd-4c9f-9474-28bc49b86435` remains separately operator-blocked, but it is not the worst condition this cycle. - -### STEP 6 / 7 — Execution gate and direct fix -- No finding passed the direct-fix gate. -- No repo-scoped OperationsCenter source-code defect was reproduced from current-cycle audit output. The live issue is platform starvation / queue-governance behavior plus the standing external branch-protection/admin blocker, so no autonomy-cycle dispatch was initiated. - -### STEP 8 — Invariant enforcement -- `.venv/bin/pytest tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/ -q --tb=short` → `15 passed in 2.06s`. -- One slow-test warning only: `tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/test_golden.py::TestBoundaryNoExampleManagedRepoImports::test_no_example_managed_repo_imports_in_oc_src` at `1.519s`. - -### STEP 9 — Watcher health -- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running. -- `grep -h "watcher_restart\|exit_code\|ERROR\|Traceback" logs/local/watch-all/*.log | tail -50` showed: - - repeated review-lane branch-protection refusals for `ProtocolWarden/TeamExecutor#18` - - benign `exit_code=143` restarts for `review`, `propose`, `goal`, `test`, `improve`, and `spec` - - no fresh non-143 watcher crash and no unexpected clean exit -- No restart was warranted. - -### STEP 10 — Commit / push / PR -- No source, config, or test files were changed this cycle; only cycle logging, Plane-comment evidence update, and schedule update. No branch, commit, push, or PR were created. - -### STEP 11 — Schedule -- State: `STALLED`. -- Reason: on Friday, July 17, 2026 the proposer/queue-governance path remains in starvation after cooldown cleared: `quiet_window_cycles=5`, `all_cycles_had_zero_created=true`, `Blocked=6`, `Ready for AI=0`, and the current maintenance passes produced no queue movement. -- Delay: `600s`. - -## 2026-07-17T00:31:00Z — OC watchdog cycle - -### STEP 0 — Operator directive -- `.console/task.md` still only contains the completed `print_structured()` helper work. No active operator work order. - -### STEP 1 — Preflight -- Repo sync: all managed repos `Already up to date.` -- Plane: `OK`. SwitchBoard: `OK`. -- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running. -- CLIs present. Working tree clean. - -### STEP 2 — Investigate -- `custodian-sweep`: exit `0`; `all_zero=true`, `plane=skipped-zero-findings`. -- `ghost-audit --since 1h`: exit `0`; `total_ghost_events=1`, only historical `G10` (`status=fixed`). -- `flow-audit`: exit `0`; `total_open_gaps=1`; open gap is `F8` (`back-pressure on Ready queue`), `status=partial`, `count=0` — same as prior cycle, not new. -- `graph-doctor`: exit `0`; graph healthy (`nodes_total=22`, `edges_total=26`). -- `reaudit-check`: exit `0`; neither backend needs re-audit. -- `check-regressions --lookback-hours 1`: exit `0`; `findings=[]`. - -### STEP 3 / 3.5 — Triage and unblock -- `triage-scan --apply`: exit `0`; `rescore=[]`, `awaiting=[]`, `queue_healing=[]`. -- `board-unblock --apply`: exit `0`; `actions=[]`, `cooldown_skip_reason=null` (cooldown remains clear), `mem_available_gb=22.43`. -- `detect-convergence-stall --json`: exit `0`; `stalls=[]`, `escalated=0`, `suppressed=0`. - -### STEP 4 / 5 — Blocker and convergence review -- Reviewed `logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260717_cycle.md`'s prior 00:15Z entry. -- `logs/autonomy_cycle/quiet_diagnosis.json` unchanged since the prior cycle: `quiet_window_cycles=5`, `diagnosis_kind=proposer_no_create`, `aggregated_suppression_reasons={family_deferred_initial_gating:35, cooldown_active:4}`. The propose watcher heartbeat shows a fresh idle success at `00:32:01Z` but the diagnosis file itself did not regenerate with new content, i.e. this propose run again created 0 tasks. -- `NEW_EVIDENCE_DETECTED = no` this cycle — same quiet-window count, same suppression-reason distribution, same `Ready for AI` starvation shape as the immediately prior cycle (which itself had the "new" evidence of cooldown clearing). This is the first no-new-evidence cycle since the escalation was created at 23:44Z. -- Traced the dominant suppression reason (`family_deferred_initial_gating`) to `src/operations_center/decision/service.py:157-170`: candidates whose family falls outside `_DEFAULT_ALLOWED_FAMILIES` (7 of 14 total families; only `observation_coverage` is active this window) are suppressed by design when `propose` runs without `--all-families`. This is intentional gating, not a code defect — widening the default allowed-family set is a runtime-policy change (STEP 6 gate condition f), so it is explicitly out of scope for a direct watchdog fix. -- Starvation remains active (proposer created zero tasks across 5+ consecutive cycles while blocked work exists on the board). Behavioral convergence classification: `NON-CONVERGENT` for the proposer/queue-governance path, unchanged from prior cycles. -- Existing Plane escalation `b27f9e00-70a8-4f58-a7f2-5d0ee28b8f2d` remains current and covers this condition. Added a comment with this cycle's no-new-evidence status and the traced root-cause detail (source location, why it's policy-not-bug, and the open question of why the one active family itself yields zero creates) rather than opening a duplicate task. -- Per PARK TRANSITION rules, this is only the first no-new-evidence cycle (need 2+ consecutive) — remaining in `STALLED`, not yet `PARKED_OPERATOR_BLOCKED`. -- The standing branch-protection blocker (`fe58f9fd-38cd-4c9f-9474-28bc49b86435`) remains separately operator-blocked and unchanged. - -### STEP 6 / 7 — Execution gate and direct fix -- No finding passed the direct-fix gate: the live issue is proposer/queue-governance starvation (already classified, retry gated off) plus a policy-gating design choice, not a reproduced repo-scoped code defect. No autonomy-cycle dispatch was initiated. - -### STEP 8 — Invariant enforcement -- `.venv/bin/pytest tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/ -q --tb=short` → `15 passed in 2.65s`. -- One slow-test warning only (same test as prior cycles, `1.735s`). - -### STEP 9 — Watcher health -- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running. -- Log tail showed only the known repeated `ProtocolWarden/TeamExecutor#18` branch-protection refusals (standing operator-blocked item) and benign `exit_code=143` restarts for `review` and `goal`. No fresh non-143 crash, no unexpected clean exit. - -### STEP 10 — Commit / push / PR -- No source, config, or test files changed this cycle — only cycle logging and a Plane-comment evidence update. No branch, commit, push, or PR created. Git tree confirmed clean on `main`. - -### STEP 11 — Schedule -- State: `STALLED`. -- Reason: proposer/queue-governance starvation continues unchanged (`quiet_window_cycles=5`, `Ready for AI=0`, same suppression-reason distribution as the prior cycle); this is the first no-new-evidence cycle since the 23:44Z escalation, so not yet eligible for `PARKED_OPERATOR_BLOCKED` (requires 2+ consecutive no-new-evidence cycles). -- Delay: `600s`. - -## 2026-07-17T00:50:00Z — OC watchdog cycle - -### STEP 0 — Operator directive -- `.console/task.md` still contains only the completed `print_structured()` helper work. No active operator work order or unchecked definition-of-done items were present. - -### STEP 1 — Preflight -- Repo sync: all managed repos with local checkouts reported `Already up to date.` -- Plane: `OK`. SwitchBoard: `OK`. -- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running (`intake`, `goal`, `test`, `improve`, `propose`, `review`, `spec`, `watchdog`). -- CLIs present. Working tree clean before cycle-local logging. - -### STEP 2 — Investigate -- `operations-center-custodian-sweep --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --emit`: exit `0`; `repos_swept=19`, `total_violations=0`, `all_zero=true`. -- `operations-center-ghost-audit --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --since 1h`: exit `0`; `total_ghost_events=1`, only historical `G10`, status `fixed`. -- `operations-center-flow-audit --config config/operations_center.local.yaml`: exit `0`; `total_open_gaps=1`; open gap remains `F8` (`back-pressure on Ready queue`), `status=partial`, `count=0`. -- `operations-center-graph-doctor`: exit `0`; graph healthy (`nodes_total=22`, `edges_total=26`). -- `operations-center-reaudit-check --json`: exit `0`; neither backend needs re-audit. -- `operations-center-check-regressions --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --lookback-hours 1 --dry-run`: exit `0`; `findings=[]`. -- Executor/OOM investigation: - - board-worker log tail still shows historical backend-capacity/session-limit failures on goal tasks, but no current-cycle executor signal-kill signature - - `dmesg` access remains unavailable in this environment (`Operation not permitted`) - - `journalctl -k --since "2h ago" | grep -iE "killed|oom"` returned no lines - - `free -h` showed about `22Gi` available memory with swap unused -- `logs/autonomy_cycle/quiet_diagnosis.json` remains unchanged on Friday, July 17, 2026: `quiet_window_cycles=5`, `all_cycles_had_zero_created=true`, `diagnosis_kind=proposer_no_create`, `aggregated_suppression_reasons={family_deferred_initial_gating:35, cooldown_active:4}`, `families_active_in_window=["observation_coverage"]`. -- Live Plane snapshot on Friday, July 17, 2026: `Backlog=96`, `Blocked=5`, `In Review=2`, `Done=106`, `Cancelled=141`, `Ready for AI=0` (`total=350`). -- Live blocked set is now: - - `5ada8f03-538b-4790-9ebc-1f4772369ac9`, `9a569770-41cb-40ae-87e9-3498fe8f79ea`, `8064fa16-0eec-4d9e-966f-e11011ee30d4`, `1a3b14b1-b496-4c9d-b204-a4511f1c9f14` for `OperationsCenter` - - standing operator/admin branch-protection blocker `fe58f9fd-38cd-4c9f-9474-28bc49b86435` -- The formerly blocked `VideoFoundry` task `71873497-9df1-4584-a869-5c8c80dc2936` is no longer blocked; direct Plane fetch shows it moved to `Backlog` at `2026-07-17T00:24:30.917174Z`. - -### STEP 3 / 3.5 — Triage and unblock -- `operations-center-triage-scan --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply`: exit `0`; `rescore=[]`, `awaiting=[]`, `queue_healing=[]`. -- `operations-center-board-unblock --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply`: exit `0`; `actions=[]`, `cooldown_skip_reason=null`, `mem_available_gb=21.96`. -- `operations-center-detect-convergence-stall --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --json`: exit `0`; `stalls=[]`, `escalated=0`, `suppressed=0`. - -### STEP 4 / 5 — Blocker and convergence review -- Reviewed the newest prior cycle summaries in `logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260717_cycle.md`. -- `NEW_EVIDENCE_DETECTED = yes` this cycle because the live queue changed materially versus the immediately prior cycle at `2026-07-17T00:31:00Z`: `Backlog 93 -> 96`, `Blocked 6 -> 5`, `In Review 4 -> 2`, and the `VideoFoundry` blocked task left `Blocked` for `Backlog`. -- Starvation remains active this cycle: - - proposer quiet diagnosis still shows 5 consecutive zero-create cycles - - cooldown is clear (`cooldown_skip_reason=null`) and both `triage-scan` and `board-unblock` produced zero queue-healing actions - - `Ready for AI` remains `0` even though blocked work is still present on the board -- Behavioral convergence classification remains `NON-CONVERGENT` for the proposer/queue-governance path. -- Existing Plane escalation `b27f9e00-70a8-4f58-a7f2-5d0ee28b8f2d` remains current. Added a fresh comment with this cycle's queue delta and the fact that `71873497-9df1-4584-a869-5c8c80dc2936` moved to `Backlog` rather than opening a duplicate task. -- Because `NEW_EVIDENCE_DETECTED = yes`, the starvation condition is not eligible for `PARKED_OPERATOR_BLOCKED` this cycle. -- The standing branch-protection blocker `fe58f9fd-38cd-4c9f-9474-28bc49b86435` remains separately operator-blocked and unchanged. - -### STEP 6 / 7 — Execution gate and direct fix -- No finding passed the direct-fix gate. -- No repo-scoped OperationsCenter source-code defect was reproduced from current-cycle audit output. The live issue remains proposer/queue-governance starvation plus the standing external branch-protection/admin blocker, so no autonomy-cycle dispatch was initiated. - -### STEP 8 — Invariant enforcement -- `.venv/bin/pytest tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/ -q --tb=short` -> `15 passed in 4.06s`. -- One slow-test warning only: `tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/test_golden.py::TestBoundaryNoExampleManagedRepoImports::test_no_example_managed_repo_imports_in_oc_src` at `3.004s`. - -### STEP 9 — Watcher health -- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running. -- `grep -h "watcher_restart\|exit_code\|ERROR\|Traceback" logs/local/watch-all/*.log | tail -50` showed: - - repeated review-lane branch-protection refusals for `ProtocolWarden/TeamExecutor#18` and `ProtocolWarden/ContextLifecycle#44` - - benign `exit_code=143` restarts for `propose`, `goal`, `test`, `improve`, and `spec` - - no fresh non-143 watcher crash and no unexpected clean exit -- No restart was warranted. - -### STEP 10 — Commit / push / PR -- No source, config, or test files were changed this cycle; only cycle logging, Plane-comment evidence update, and schedule update. No branch, commit, push, or PR were created. - -### STEP 11 — Schedule -- State: `STALLED`. -- Reason: on Friday, July 17, 2026 proposer starvation remains active (`quiet_window_cycles=5`, `Ready for AI=0`, cooldown clear, no queue-healing actions), but the live board changed this cycle (`Blocked 6 -> 5`, `In Review 4 -> 2`, `VideoFoundry` blocker moved to `Backlog`), so this is fresh evidence rather than a parkable no-change loop. -- Delay: `600s`. - -## 2026-07-17T01:07:59Z — OC watchdog cycle - -### STEP 0 — Operator directive -- `.console/task.md` still contains only the completed `print_structured()` helper work. No active operator work order or unchecked definition-of-done items were present. - -### STEP 1 — Preflight -- Repo sync on Friday, July 17, 2026: all managed repos with local checkouts reported `Already up to date.` -- Plane: `OK`. SwitchBoard: `OK`. -- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running (`intake`, `goal`, `test`, `improve`, `propose`, `review`, `spec`, `watchdog`). -- CLIs present. Working tree clean before cycle-local logging. - -### STEP 2 — Investigate -- `operations-center-custodian-sweep --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --emit`: exit `0`; `repos_swept=19`, `total_violations=0`, `all_zero=true`. -- `operations-center-ghost-audit --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --since 1h`: exit `0`; `total_ghost_events=1`, only historical `G10`, status `fixed`. -- `operations-center-flow-audit --config config/operations_center.local.yaml`: exit `0`; `total_open_gaps=1`; open gap remains `F3` (`proposal deduplication`, `status=fixed`, historical sample only) and `F8` remains `partial` with `count=0`. -- `operations-center-graph-doctor`: exit `0`; graph healthy (`nodes_total=22`, `edges_total=26`). -- `operations-center-reaudit-check --json`: exit `0`; neither backend needs re-audit. -- `operations-center-check-regressions --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --lookback-hours 1 --dry-run`: exit `0`; `findings=[]`. -- Executor/OOM investigation: - - board-worker log tail still shows historical backend-capacity/session-limit failures on prior goal tasks, but no current-cycle executor signal-kill signature - - `journalctl -k --since "2h ago" | grep -iE "killed|oom"` returned no lines - - `free -h` showed about `21Gi` available memory with swap unused -- `logs/autonomy_cycle/quiet_diagnosis.json` is fresh on Friday, July 17, 2026 and now reports `quiet_window_cycles=5`, `all_cycles_had_zero_created=true`, `all_cycles_had_zero_candidates=true`, `diagnosis_kind=proposer_quiet`, `aggregated_suppression_reasons={family_deferred_initial_gating:35, cooldown_active:5}`, and `families_active_in_window=[]`. -- Latest autonomy-cycle report (`logs/autonomy_cycle/cycle_20260717T005841Z.json`, generated `2026-07-17T00:58:41Z`) shows `decide.candidates_emitted=0`, `candidates_suppressed=8`, `emitted_families=[]`, and `propose.created=0`. -- Live Plane snapshot on Friday, July 17, 2026: `Backlog=96`, `Blocked=5`, `In Review=2`, `Done=106`, `Cancelled=141`, `Ready for AI=0`. -- Live blocked set remains: - - `5ada8f03-538b-4790-9ebc-1f4772369ac9`, `9a569770-41cb-40ae-87e9-3498fe8f79ea`, `8064fa16-0eec-4d9e-966f-e11011ee30d4`, `1a3b14b1-b496-4c9d-b204-a4511f1c9f14` for `OperationsCenter` - - standing operator/admin branch-protection blocker `fe58f9fd-38cd-4c9f-9474-28bc49b86435` - -### STEP 3 / 3.5 — Triage and unblock -- `operations-center-triage-scan --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply`: exit `0`; `rescore=[]`, `awaiting=[]`, `queue_healing=[]`. -- `operations-center-board-unblock --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply`: exit `0`; `actions=[]`, `cooldown_skip_reason=null`, `mem_available_gb=21.74`. - -### STEP 4 / 5 — Blocker and convergence review -- Reviewed the newest prior cycle summaries in `logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260717_cycle.md`, plus the late Thursday, July 16, 2026 entries in `logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260716_cycle.md`. -- `NEW_EVIDENCE_DETECTED = yes` this cycle because the proposer telemetry changed materially versus the immediately prior Friday, July 17, 2026 cycle entries: the quiet diagnosis has shifted from `diagnosis_kind=proposer_no_create` with one active family to `diagnosis_kind=proposer_quiet` with `all_cycles_had_zero_candidates=true` and `families_active_in_window=[]`. -- Starvation remains active this cycle: - - proposer quiet diagnosis still spans 5 consecutive zero-create cycles - - the latest autonomy-cycle report emitted zero candidates and created zero tasks - - cooldown is clear in `board-unblock`, but the board still sits at `Ready for AI=0` with blocked work present -- Behavioral convergence classification remains `NON-CONVERGENT` for the proposer/queue-governance path. -- Existing Plane escalation `b27f9e00-70a8-4f58-a7f2-5d0ee28b8f2d` remains current. Added a fresh comment with the new `proposer_quiet` telemetry and the unchanged Friday, July 17, 2026 board counts rather than opening a duplicate task. -- This condition is not eligible for `PARKED_OPERATOR_BLOCKED` in this cycle because the proposer telemetry changed materially, even though queue counts did not. -- The standing branch-protection blocker `fe58f9fd-38cd-4c9f-9474-28bc49b86435` remains separately operator-blocked and unchanged. - -### STEP 6 / 7 — Execution gate and direct fix -- No finding passed the direct-fix gate. -- No repo-scoped OperationsCenter source-code defect was reproduced from current-cycle audit output. The live issue remains proposer/queue-governance starvation plus the standing external branch-protection/admin blocker, so no autonomy-cycle dispatch was initiated. - -### STEP 8 — Invariant enforcement -- `.venv/bin/pytest tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/ -q --tb=short` -> `15 passed in 2.77s`. -- One slow-test warning only: `tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/test_golden.py::TestBoundaryNoExampleManagedRepoImports::test_no_example_managed_repo_imports_in_oc_src` at `1.874s`. - -### STEP 9 — Watcher health -- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running. -- `grep -h "watcher_restart\|exit_code\|ERROR\|Traceback" logs/local/watch-all/*.log | tail -50` showed: - - repeated review-lane branch-protection refusals for `ProtocolWarden/ContextLifecycle#44`, `#45`, and `ProtocolWarden/TeamExecutor#18` - - benign `exit_code=143` restarts for `propose`, `goal`, `test`, `improve`, and `spec` - - no fresh non-143 watcher crash and no unexpected clean exit -- No restart was warranted. - -### STEP 10 — Commit / push / PR -- No source, config, or test files were changed this cycle; only cycle logging, Plane-comment evidence update, and schedule update. No branch, commit, push, or PR were created. - -### STEP 11 — Schedule -- State: `STALLED`. -- Reason: on Friday, July 17, 2026 proposer starvation remains active with fresh telemetry (`diagnosis_kind=proposer_quiet`, `all_cycles_had_zero_candidates=true`, `families_active_in_window=[]`) while the board remains at `Blocked=5` and `Ready for AI=0` after maintenance passes. -- Delay: `600s`. - -## 2026-07-17T01:31:58Z — OC watchdog cycle - -### STEP 0 — Operator directive -- `.console/task.md` still contains only the completed `print_structured()` helper work. No active operator work order or unchecked definition-of-done items were present. - -### STEP 1 — Preflight -- Repo sync on Friday, July 17, 2026: all managed repos with local checkouts reported `Already up to date.` -- Plane: `OK`. SwitchBoard: `OK`. -- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running (`intake`, `goal`, `test`, `improve`, `propose`, `review`, `spec`, `watchdog`). -- CLIs present. Working tree clean before cycle-local logging. - -### STEP 2 — Investigate -- Initial `operations-center-custodian-sweep --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --emit` session never returned a final summary despite reporting progress through multiple repos; a bounded rerun with `timeout 120` also timed out (`exit 124`) after reaching `17/19` completions. -- The timed-out sweep completed these repos before hanging: `SwitchBoard`, `PlatformDeployment`, `OperatorConsole`, `CxRP`, `TeamExecutor`, `DAGExecutor`, `CritiqueExecutor`, `RxP`, `CoreRunner`, `SourceRegistry`, `Custodian`, `Warehouse`, `RepoGraph`, `SyncMechanism`, `PlatformManifest`, `ProtocolWarden`, `ContextLifecycle`. The two repos that never completed were `OperationsCenter` and `VideoFoundry`. -- Direct bounded probes reproduced the same Custodian-side defect on both repos: - - `timeout 45 .venv/bin/custodian-audit --repo /home/dev/Documents/GitHub/OperationsCenter --json` -> `exit 124` - - `timeout 45 .venv/bin/custodian-audit --repo /home/dev/Documents/GitHub/VideoFoundry --json` -> `exit 124` - - both commands immediately emitted the same detector-id collision warnings, then hung without producing JSON: - - `R1`: builtin `README.md missing at repo root` collides with builtin `.console/*.md source file exceeds its line budget` - - `R2`: builtin `README first H1 does not match repo name` collides with builtin `scrub-target private name in a public repo's tracked .console/** file` -- `operations-center-ghost-audit --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --since 1h`: exit `0`; `total_ghost_events=1`, only historical `G10`, status `fixed`. -- `operations-center-flow-audit --config config/operations_center.local.yaml`: exit `0`; `total_open_gaps=1`; `F3 proposal deduplication` remains historically sampled and `F8 back-pressure on Ready queue` remains `partial` with `count=0`. -- `operations-center-graph-doctor`: exit `0`; graph healthy (`nodes_total=22`, `edges_total=26`). -- `operations-center-reaudit-check --json`: exit `0`; neither backend needs re-audit. -- `operations-center-check-regressions --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --lookback-hours 1 --dry-run`: exit `0`; `findings=[]`. -- Executor/OOM investigation on Friday, July 17, 2026: - - board-worker log tail still shows only backend-capacity/session-limit failures (`Stage planner received non-JSON from agent`) on older goal tasks - - no current-cycle executor signal-kill signature - - `journalctl -k --since "2h ago" | grep -iE "killed|oom"` returned no lines - - `free -h` showed about `22Gi` available memory with swap unused -- `logs/autonomy_cycle/quiet_diagnosis.json` on Friday, July 17, 2026 reports `quiet_window_cycles=5`, `all_cycles_had_zero_created=true`, `all_cycles_had_zero_candidates=false`, `diagnosis_kind=proposer_no_create`, `aggregated_suppression_reasons={family_deferred_initial_gating:35, cooldown_active:4}`, and `families_active_in_window=["observation_coverage"]`. -- Latest autonomy-cycle report (`logs/autonomy_cycle/cycle_20260717T012022Z.json`, generated `2026-07-17T01:20:22Z`) shows `decide.candidates_emitted=1`, `candidates_suppressed=7`, `emitted_families=["observation_coverage"]`, but `propose.created=0`. -- Live Plane snapshot on Friday, July 17, 2026: `Backlog=96`, `Blocked=5`, `In Review=2`, `Done=106`, `Cancelled=141`, `Ready for AI=0` (`total=350`). -- Live blocked set remains: - - `5ada8f03-538b-4790-9ebc-1f4772369ac9`, `9a569770-41cb-40ae-87e9-3498fe8f79ea`, `8064fa16-0eec-4d9e-966f-e11011ee30d4`, `1a3b14b1-b496-4c9d-b204-a4511f1c9f14` for `OperationsCenter` - - standing operator/admin branch-protection blocker `fe58f9fd-38cd-4c9f-9474-28bc49b86435` - -### STEP 3 / 3.5 — Triage and unblock -- `operations-center-triage-scan --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply`: exit `0`; `rescore=[]`, `awaiting=[]`, `queue_healing=[]`. -- `operations-center-board-unblock --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply`: exit `0`; `actions=[]`, `cooldown_skip_reason=null`, `mem_available_gb=22.66`. -- `operations-center-detect-convergence-stall --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --json`: exit `0`; `stalls=[]`, `escalated=0`, `suppressed=0`. - -### STEP 4 / 5 — Blocker and convergence review -- Reviewed the newest prior cycle summaries in `logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260717_cycle.md`, plus the late Thursday, July 16, 2026 entries in `logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260716_cycle.md`. -- `NEW_EVIDENCE_DETECTED = yes` this cycle: - - proposer telemetry changed materially again: the latest autonomy-cycle emitted one `observation_coverage` candidate, but `propose.created` stayed `0` - - `quiet_diagnosis.json` shifted back from the prior `proposer_quiet` shape to `proposer_no_create` with an active family - - a second independent issue reproduced: Custodian audit hangs on both `OperationsCenter` and `VideoFoundry` after duplicate detector-id warnings -- Starvation remains active this cycle: - - proposer telemetry still spans 5 consecutive zero-create cycles - - the newest autonomy-cycle emitted one candidate but still created zero tasks - - cooldown is clear in `board-unblock`, but the board still sits at `Ready for AI=0` with blocked work present -- Behavioral convergence classification remains `NON-CONVERGENT` for the proposer/queue-governance path. -- Existing Plane escalation `b27f9e00-70a8-4f58-a7f2-5d0ee28b8f2d` remains current. Added a fresh comment with Friday, July 17, 2026 telemetry: `candidates_emitted=1`, `propose.created=0`, and unchanged board counts. -- Existing Plane task `07ba5247-d660-4993-8dca-f7f9f7f13732` (`Custodian audit hangs before JSON output across multiple repos`) already covered the reproduced Custodian defect. Added a fresh comment with the Friday, July 17, 2026 reproduction details rather than opening a duplicate task. -- This condition is not eligible for `PARKED_OPERATOR_BLOCKED` in this cycle because proposer telemetry changed materially and new Custodian-audit evidence was added. -- The standing branch-protection blocker `fe58f9fd-38cd-4c9f-9474-28bc49b86435` remains separately operator-blocked and unchanged. - -### STEP 6 / 7 — Execution gate and direct fix -- No finding passed the direct-fix gate. -- No repo-scoped OperationsCenter source-code defect was reproduced from current-cycle OC audit output. -- The live issues remain: - - proposer/queue-governance starvation with fresh non-convergent telemetry - - the standing external branch-protection/admin blocker - - a separately tracked Custodian-side audit hang already covered by Plane task `07ba5247-d660-4993-8dca-f7f9f7f13732` -- No autonomy-cycle dispatch was initiated. - -### STEP 8 — Invariant enforcement -- `.venv/bin/pytest tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/ -q --tb=short` -> `15 passed in 3.57s`. -- One slow-test warning only: `tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/test_golden.py::TestBoundaryNoExampleManagedRepoImports::test_no_example_managed_repo_imports_in_oc_src` at `2.561s`. - -### STEP 9 — Watcher health -- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running. -- `grep -h "watcher_restart\|exit_code\|ERROR\|Traceback" logs/local/watch-all/*.log | tail -50` showed: - - repeated review-lane branch-protection refusals for `ProtocolWarden/ContextLifecycle#44`, `#45`, and `ProtocolWarden/TeamExecutor#18` - - benign `exit_code=143` restarts for `propose`, `goal`, `test`, `improve`, and `spec` - - no fresh non-143 watcher crash and no unexpected clean exit -- No restart was warranted. - -### STEP 10 — Commit / push / PR -- No source, config, or test files were changed this cycle; only cycle logging, Plane-comment evidence updates, and schedule update. No branch, commit, push, or PR were created. - -### STEP 11 — Schedule -- State: `STALLED`. -- Reason: on Friday, July 17, 2026 proposer starvation remains active with fresh telemetry (`cycle_20260717T012022Z.json` emitted one `observation_coverage` candidate but `propose.created=0`), the live board remains frozen at `Blocked=5` and `Ready for AI=0` after triage/unblock passes, and a separately tracked Custodian audit hang reproduced again on `OperationsCenter` and `VideoFoundry`. -- Delay: `600s`. -## 2026-07-17T01:52:10Z — OC watchdog cycle - -### STEP 0 — Operator directive -- `.console/task.md` still contains only the completed `print_structured()` helper work. No active operator work order or unchecked definition-of-done items were present. - -### STEP 1 — Preflight -- Repo sync on Friday, July 17, 2026: all managed repos with local checkouts reported `Already up to date.` -- Plane: `OK`. SwitchBoard: `OK`. -- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running (`intake`, `goal`, `test`, `improve`, `propose`, `review`, `spec`, `watchdog`). -- CLIs present. Working tree remained clean before cycle-local logging. - -### STEP 2 — Investigate -- `operations-center-ghost-audit --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --since 1h`: exit `0`; `total_ghost_events=1`, only historical `G10`, status `fixed`. -- `operations-center-flow-audit --config config/operations_center.local.yaml`: exit `0`; `total_open_gaps=1`; only historical `F3 proposal deduplication` sample remains and `F8 back-pressure on Ready queue` stays `partial` with `count=0`. -- `operations-center-graph-doctor`: exit `0`; graph healthy (`nodes_total=22`, `edges_total=26`). -- `operations-center-reaudit-check --json`: exit `0`; neither backend needs re-audit. -- `operations-center-check-regressions --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --lookback-hours 1 --dry-run`: exit `0`; `findings=[]`. -- `operations-center-custodian-sweep --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --emit` progressed through all repos (`19/19`, ending with `VideoFoundry` then `OperationsCenter`) but never returned a final summary before the session stalled. A bounded rerun with `timeout 120` also showed normal per-repo progress but did not produce a final result inside the observation window. -- `operations-center-triage-scan --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply` and `operations-center-board-unblock --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply` similarly failed to return a final payload in this shell-driven cycle, so they were treated as bounded maintenance-path stalls rather than assumed-success operations. -- Executor/OOM investigation on Friday, July 17, 2026: - - `grep -h "board_worker.*blocked\\|exit_code\\|executor" logs/local/watch-all/*.log | tail -40` shows repeated `goal` worker blocks with `category=backend_error` and reason `Stage planner received non-JSON from agent (session limit or error)`. - - `journalctl -k --since "2h ago" | grep -iE "killed|oom"` returned no lines. - - `free -h` showed about `21Gi` available memory and swap unused. - -### STEP 3 / 3.5 — Triage and unblock -- No new authoritative CLI payload was obtained this cycle because both maintenance commands hung when run directly from the watchdog shell. -- Recent watcher log evidence still shows active `board_unblock` runs making queue mutations, including repeated `GOAL_BACKLOG_PROMOTE`, `BACKEND_CAPACITY_PARK`, and `OPEN_PR_GATE_REQUEUE` actions on the same OperationsCenter task families. The board is moving, but it is moving in a churn loop rather than draining cleanly. - -### STEP 4 / 5 — Blocker and convergence review -- Reviewed the newest prior cycle summaries in `logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260717_cycle.md`, plus the latest Thursday, July 16, 2026 entries in `logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260716_cycle.md`. -- `NEW_EVIDENCE_DETECTED = yes` this cycle: - - the shell-driven maintenance path itself stalled again after completing work items, rather than returning a summary - - current watcher logs show the same queue families being repeatedly promoted to `Ready for AI` and then parked back to `Backlog` under backend-capacity/session-limit conditions -- Classified the platform behavior as `NON-CONVERGENT` for the queue-governance / backend-capacity path: - - retries are changing task states, but not materially reducing the repeated OperationsCenter task set - - the same remediation pattern (`GOAL_BACKLOG_PROMOTE` -> backend/session-limit failure -> `BACKEND_CAPACITY_PARK`) continues to recur - - maintenance commands needed for authoritative queue inspection are not reliably returning inside a bounded watchdog cycle -- The standing review-lane branch-protection blocker for `ProtocolWarden/TeamExecutor#18` remains separately operator-blocked and unchanged on Friday, July 17, 2026. -- No new repo-scoped OperationsCenter source-code defect was isolated from current-cycle tool output. Existing escalation coverage remains sufficient; this cycle added evidence rather than a new remediation path. - -### STEP 6 / 7 — Execution gate and direct fix -- No finding passed the direct-fix gate. -- No autonomy-cycle dispatch was initiated. The active issue is platform-level queue churn plus bounded maintenance-path stalls, not a newly isolated implementation defect in one managed repo. - -### STEP 8 — Invariant enforcement -- `.venv/bin/pytest tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/ -q --tb=short` -> `15 passed in 3.01s`. -- One slow-test warning only: `tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/test_golden.py::TestBoundaryNoExampleManagedRepoImports::test_no_example_managed_repo_imports_in_oc_src` at `2.197s`. - -### STEP 9 — Watcher health -- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running. -- `grep -h "watcher_restart\|exit_code\|ERROR\|Traceback" logs/local/watch-all/*.log | tail -50` showed: - - repeated review-lane branch-protection refusals for `ProtocolWarden/TeamExecutor#18` - - benign `exit_code=143` restarts for `propose`, `goal`, `test`, `improve`, and `spec` - - no fresh non-143 watcher crash and no unexpected clean exit -- No restart was warranted. - -### STEP 10 — Commit / push / PR -- No source, config, or test files were changed this cycle; only cycle logging and schedule update. No branch, commit, push, or PR were created. - -### STEP 11 — Schedule -- State: `STALLED`. -- Reason: on Friday, July 17, 2026 the platform remains in non-convergent backend-capacity queue churn (`GOAL_BACKLOG_PROMOTE` / `BACKEND_CAPACITY_PARK` repeating on the same OperationsCenter work) and the shell-driven maintenance/Plane paths are not reliably returning within a bounded watchdog iteration, even though watcher health and invariant tests remain clean. -- Delay: `600s`. - -## 2026-07-17T02:15:14Z — OC watchdog cycle - -### STEP 0 — Operator directive -- `.console/task.md` still contains only the completed `print_structured()` helper work. No active operator work order or unchecked definition-of-done items were present. - -### STEP 1 — Preflight -- Repo sync on Friday, July 17, 2026: all managed repos with local checkouts reported `Already up to date.` -- Plane: `OK`. SwitchBoard: `OK`. -- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running (`intake`, `goal`, `test`, `improve`, `propose`, `review`, `spec`, `watchdog`). -- CLIs present. Working tree clean before cycle-local logging. - -### STEP 2 — Investigate -- `operations-center-custodian-sweep --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --emit`: exit `0`; `repos_swept=19`, `total_violations=0`, `all_zero=true`. -- `operations-center-ghost-audit --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --since 1h`: exit `0`; `total_ghost_events=1`, only historical `G10`, status `fixed`. -- `operations-center-flow-audit --config config/operations_center.local.yaml`: exit `0`; `total_open_gaps=1`; only historical `F3 proposal deduplication` sample remains and `F8 back-pressure on Ready queue` stays `partial` with `count=0`. -- `operations-center-graph-doctor`: exit `0`; graph healthy (`nodes_total=22`, `edges_total=26`). -- `operations-center-reaudit-check --json`: exit `0`; neither backend needs re-audit. -- `operations-center-check-regressions --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --lookback-hours 1 --dry-run`: exit `0`; `findings=[]`. -- Executor/OOM investigation on Friday, July 17, 2026: - - board-worker log tail shows historical `goal` worker backend-capacity failures (`Stage planner received non-JSON from agent`) but no current-cycle signal-kill signature - - `dmesg` access is unavailable in this environment (`Operation not permitted`) - - `journalctl -k --since "2h ago" | grep -iE "killed|oom"` returned no lines - - `free -h` showed about `22Gi` available memory with swap unused -- `logs/autonomy_cycle/quiet_diagnosis.json` remained at `generated_at=2026-07-17T02:04:12.782025+00:00`, still showing `quiet_window_cycles=5`, `diagnosis_kind=proposer_no_create`, and `aggregated_suppression_reasons={family_deferred_initial_gating:35, cooldown_active:4}`. -- Live Plane snapshot before the fix on Friday, July 17, 2026: `Backlog=96`, `Blocked=5`, `In Review=2`, `Done=106`, `Cancelled=141`, `Ready for AI=0` (`total=350`). The blocked set consisted of four `OperationsCenter` `source: spec-campaign` goal tasks with `blocked-reason: backend-capacity` plus the standing operator/admin branch-protection blocker `fe58f9fd-38cd-4c9f-9474-28bc49b86435`. -- `operations-center-detect-convergence-stall --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --json`: exit `0`; `stalls=[]`, `escalated=0`, `suppressed=0`. - -### STEP 3 / 3.5 — Triage and unblock -- `operations-center-triage-scan --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply`: exit `0`; `rescore=[]`, `awaiting=[]`, `queue_healing=[]`. -- `operations-center-board-unblock --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply` before the fix: exit `0`; `actions=[]`, `cooldown_skip_reason=null`, `mem_available_gb=22.17`. - -### STEP 4 / 5 — Blocker and convergence review -- Reviewed the newest prior cycle summaries in `logs/local/watchdog_cycles/20260717_cycle.md` (`2026-07-17T01:07:59Z`, `2026-07-17T01:31:58Z`, `2026-07-17T01:52:10Z`). -- `NEW_EVIDENCE_DETECTED = yes` this cycle because the live board still matched the Friday, July 17, 2026 stalled queue shape (`Blocked=5`, `Ready for AI=0`), but direct code inspection identified a concrete OC source-code recovery gap: `source: spec-campaign` implement-phase goal tasks could enter `Blocked` on `backend-capacity` and had no automatic `Blocked -> Backlog -> Ready for AI` path. -- Classified the pre-fix state as `STALLED` / `NON-CONVERGENT` for the queue-healing path: - - blocked work existed on the board while `Ready for AI=0` - - `triage-scan` and `board-unblock` produced zero queue movement before the patch - - the four blocked `spec-campaign` implement tasks were outside Rule 8.5's existing repromotion criteria, so they were stranded until a human or code change intervened -- This is a promotion candidate fulfilled directly in this cycle: the loop-only judgment from prior cycles was that `backend-capacity` spec-campaign tasks had no self-healing path, and the responsible watcher behavior lives in `board_unblock`. - -### STEP 6 / 7 — Execution gate and direct fix -- A direct fix passed the gate because the finding reproduced in the current cycle, was scoped to `OperationsCenter` from live Plane output, was implementation-level OC source work, and did not require policy widening or destructive cleanup. -- Created watchdog branch `oc-watchdog/20260717-0217-spec-campaign-requeue` before editing. -- Fixed `src/operations_center/entrypoints/maintenance/board_unblock.py` so `source: spec-campaign` implement-phase goal tasks: - - qualify for Rule 8.5 `BACKEND_CAPACITY_PARK` when they stall in `Blocked` with `blocked-reason: backend-capacity` - - qualify for a new Rule `SPEC_CAMPAIGN_BACKLOG_PROMOTE` that restores them from `Backlog` to `Ready for AI` once cooldown allows dispatch again -- Added focused regression coverage in `tests/unit/entrypoints/maintenance/test_board_unblock_cov.py` for both sides of that recovery path. -- Live validation on Friday, July 17, 2026: - - post-fix `operations-center-board-unblock --config config/operations_center.local.yaml --apply`: exit `0`; applied four `BACKEND_CAPACITY_PARK` actions on `5ada8f03-538b-4790-9ebc-1f4772369ac9`, `9a569770-41cb-40ae-87e9-3498fe8f79ea`, `8064fa16-0eec-4d9e-966f-e11011ee30d4`, and `1a3b14b1-b496-4c9d-b204-a4511f1c9f14`, plus two `SPEC_CAMPAIGN_BACKLOG_PROMOTE` actions on `71873497-9df1-4584-a869-5c8c80dc2936` and `9221997b-d505-4b11-a901-29823376018f`. - - post-fix live Plane snapshot: `Backlog=98`, `Ready for AI=2`, `Blocked=1`, `In Review=2`, `Done=106`, `Cancelled=141`. - - the only remaining blocked task is the standing branch-protection/admin blocker `fe58f9fd-38cd-4c9f-9474-28bc49b86435`. -- No repo autonomy-cycle dispatch was needed after the fix; the queue-healing code change itself produced the required remediation. - -### STEP 8 — Invariant enforcement -- `PYTHONPATH=src .venv/bin/pytest tests/unit/entrypoints/maintenance/test_board_unblock_cov.py -q --tb=short` → `93 passed in 1.06s`. -- `.venv/bin/pytest tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/ -q --tb=short` → `15 passed in 3.01s`. -- One slow-test warning only: `tests/unit/er000_phase0_golden/test_golden.py::TestBoundaryNoExampleManagedRepoImports::test_no_example_managed_repo_imports_in_oc_src` at `1.990s`. - -### STEP 9 — Watcher health -- `watch-all-status`: all 8 watcher roles running. -- `grep -h "watcher_restart\|exit_code\|ERROR\|Traceback" logs/local/watch-all/*.log | tail -50` showed only: - - repeated review-lane branch-protection refusals for `ProtocolWarden/TeamExecutor#18` - - benign `exit_code=143` restarts for `propose`, `goal`, `test`, `improve`, and `spec` - - no fresh non-143 watcher crash and no unexpected clean exit -- No restart was warranted. - -### STEP 10 — Commit / push / PR -- Meaningful OC source/test changes were made this cycle; branch, commit, push, and PR are required. -- Commit, push, and PR metadata are recorded after execution below. - -### STEP 11 — Schedule -- State: `STALLED`. -- Reason: Friday, July 17, 2026 started with a reproduced stalled queue (`Blocked=5`, `Ready for AI=0`) caused by a missing spec-campaign backend-capacity recovery path. The direct fix landed and improved the board to `Blocked=1`, `Ready for AI=2`, but the worst observed state this cycle was still `STALLED`, so a short follow-up remains warranted. -- Delay: `600s`. diff --git a/tools/loop/state/schedule.json b/tools/loop/state/schedule.json deleted file mode 100644 index 0c91500a..00000000 --- a/tools/loop/state/schedule.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -{"delay_s": 600, "state": "STALLED", "reason": "Friday, July 17, 2026 began with a reproduced stalled queue (Blocked=5, Ready for AI=0) caused by a missing spec-campaign backend-capacity recovery path; the fix improved the board to Blocked=1 and Ready for AI=2, but the worst observed state this cycle remained STALLED."} \ No newline at end of file