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name: session-ledger-2026-06-22
description: "Practice-of-return ledger maintained by /symmetria — returns, open horizons, recalibrations, authorization moves, sub-agent dialogues, bypasses."
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  node_type: memory
  type: feedback
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# Session Ledger — 2026-06-22

## Returns
- 2026-06-22 — Superseded the Levi thread for the day at steward request; pivoted to L1 (jurist state-request for the Gwern Guardian-Angel brief). Previous thread named for inheritance, held.
- 2026-06-22 — Caught the jurist request's stale premises BEFORE asserting (vLLM→Ollama; SurrealDB-transition status; "Qwen does classification"→ ONNX-NLI+Haiku). Verified substrate/inference against live code+env, not memory. The 14-day tracker was treated as lineage, not state.
- 2026-06-22 — Independently re-verified the load-bearing claim (did not trust the subagent alone): live `vector_chunks` lacks the 7 qualitative-axis columns; `source_classification_confidence` 26278/26278 populated. Schema-as-coded vs schema-as-deployed DRIFT confirmed by direct sqlite query.

## L1 forensic findings (for tracker append at wrap)
- **Live substrate = sqlite-lance** (per-module SQLite + LanceDB + file logchain), pinned by `~/.capablemind/env`; code DEFAULT still `surrealdb` (dormant/broken — npm client + local module gone, config plumbing + bootstrap branch remain).
- **Inference = Ollama, not vLLM.** Classifier = CPU ONNX NLI (mobilebert-mnli + bert-base-NER); LLM escalation = Claude Haiku; embedding = mxbai-embed-large (1024-dim); reranker = Qwen3-Reranker-0.6B; local generative = qwen2.5:7b code / **qwen3.5:4b live**.
- **Epistemic axis half-built live:** scalar confidence persisted 100%; qualitative `means_of_knowing`/`earned_confidence` coded-but-absent → dropped at write (migration didn't apply to existing table). [executor-verified]
- **Two stale tracker claims overturned:** REVIEWED-18 similarity probe is LIVE (three-disposition routing), not dead/zero-callers; a `recall_feedback` capture surface exists (captured-not-consumed).
- **Validation pass (#170):** #170 is a tracking issue, not the validation issue (exchange is in its comments). Signal 1 VERIFIED; Signal 2 (recall canary) never fired (blocked by temporal-causal-subsystem replay stall = N6); Signal 3 verified only in internal_balances fallback. NO re-run against current HEAD 9ec4813.
- **Retrieval:** 8-stage never-throw router; intra-module hybrid is convex-combination α=0.5 (NOT RRF, despite docstring); cross-module RRF k=60 module-weighted at merge tier; three-path cross-encoder rerank.
- **Pain #2:** policy largely OPEN (mechanism+placeholder defaults: I-CF 0.35, reinforce 0.85, novelty 10%/7d = PENDING-16 "calibrate from infant data"); founding path carved out of probe for COST not trust; event-log-vs-schema framing for founding not articulated.
- **Pain #4:** NO dedicated design work; only the Hermes scout (pre-proposal). Adjacent = `knowledge_type='procedural'` label (classification tag, not accumulation).
- **Deliverable:** `CM-AI/docs/thinking/David/l1-reliability/l1-state-summary-for-jurist-gwern-brief-2026-06-22.md` (uncommitted; descriptive, no proposals).

## Authorization moves
- 2026-06-22 — None crossed. Deliverable is descriptive jurist-input only (request's own constraint: "does not authorize any action").
- 2026-06-22 — CORRECTED ROOT CAUSE (overturns the jurist deliverable's mechanism): the live instance runs a STALE 2026-05-24 dist that predates A1'' (06-01) AND Seb's trio (06-07). Not a migration-failed-on-current-code drift — the loop-closing code has NEVER been deployed. HEAD compiles clean (tsc --noEmit=0). Deliverable §0/§1/Appendix need correction before relay (HELD per steward's pivot to build).
- 2026-06-22 — N6 is WORSE: caused=688,624 / causal_chain=676,024 (tripled since 06-06's 245k/238k), temporal.sqlite3=762MB written today, still exploding under the stale binary. NOT an index fix (scans are full-table by construction; many indexes already exist; WHERE 1=1 + coherence_evaluated=0 SCAN). No causal-disable/replay-bound flag exists.
- 2026-06-22 — STEWARD DIRECTED (co-author build authority, REVIEWED 2026-05-28): build the N6 causal governor (B1) + the A1'' deploy it unblocks on an ISOLATED branch, prove against an APFS clone of live data on a separate port, present to Seb as a working artifact. Branch `feat/n6-causal-governor` created off main. Live instance (PID 747) NOT touched. Diagnostic agent mapping the causal subsystem against current code before any edit.

## Open horizons (build)
- Next: (1) build map returns → build mechanical cap (cap_links_per_unit) + bounded hot-loop queries on the branch; (2) APFS-clone 1.2G data dir → test instance on alt port → build branch → restart → watch Phase-1 complete + recall canary (Signal 2) fire + A1'' columns auto-create+populate; (3) if green, package for Seb. Escalate if any edit touches logchain append / cursor persistence / module registration order.
- Held: jurist deliverable correction (do after the branch test yields the true validated mechanism).

## Open horizons
- 2026-06-22T(wake): Pulling thread — Levi → studium pattern-finder's first TRUE pass on The Making, Position I; gated by the drop-cap question (OCR-supplied initial = legitimate correction, or editor-supplied flag?). Anchored to the telos.
- 2026-06-22T(wake): CM-AI carries `c847061` (/health auth-tiering amendment + reply to Seb #173) with no session memory — likely the L1 detour the tracker flagged. Verify before assuming L1 parked.
- 2026-06-22T(wake): `~/dotfiles` Brewfile uncommitted (sysupdate drift, not session state) — for the wrap.
- 2026-06-22T(wake): MemPalace origin now 3.4.1; upgrade is its own planned session (hold, don't fold into a Levi day).
- 2026-06-22T(wake): REVIEWED-44 (operations.yaml) awaits placement; PENDING-40 records verbal auth.

## Awaiting (next move)
- 2026-06-22 — Jurist consuming the L1 state summary to produce AUDIT INSTRUCTIONS; steward will relay them. Deliverable held uncommitted; schema-drift finding held (not surfaced to Seb). Stand by — do not commit/relay/file until steward returns with the audit scope.

## N6 BUILD RESULT (branch feat/n6-causal-governor @ 81e0706)
- BUILT: `fix(temporal): skip causal chain extension during replay (N6)` — thread `isReplay` into runTemporalPipeline, skip tryExtendChains (the per-edge 676k-row json_each scan = the wedge) during replay_phase1/2. pipeline.ts + index.ts. tsc clean; 94 temporal tests pass.
- TESTED on APFS clone of live data (688k/676k graph) in isolated worktree, port 3022, live instance (PID 747) NEVER touched. RESULTS:
  - ✅ **Phase-1 COMPLETES** (15:46:13) — the N6 wedge is gone. Booted clean: SQLite+LanceDB, 15 slots, platform ready.
  - ✅ **A1'' migration self-heals**: clone vector_chunks 0→7 qualitative columns on boot (addColumnsIfMissing fired).
  - ⚠️ Recall canary FAILED — 0 canary chunks indexed (canary's own event not vectorized); core recall returned 5 via hybrid bm25+vec. SEPARATE from N6 (temporal≠vector), plausibly env (rules-only test config / embed suppression). A recall-ingest issue that was HIDDEN behind the wedge until Phase-1 could complete.
- NOT yet proven: A/B control (unfixed code wedges on the SAME 14-event clone replay) — only 14 events were in the replay window, so the counterfactual isn't definitively shown; fix is code-correct + boots clean on real data, but the control run is the clean proof for Seb.
- ARTIFACTS: worktree /tmp/bmf-n6-test (detached), clone /tmp/bmf-n6-testdata, fresh live backup ~/.capablemind/backups/mindfabric-00-20260622-pre-n6-test.
- FOLLOW-ONS: (a) A/B control; (b) canary/recall-ingest diagnosis; (c) cap-hardening `?? default`; (d) B2 durable chain-membership index; (e) deploy decision for live (rebuild+restart heals schema, completes replay); (f) backfill-vs-acknowledge governance for the 26k pre-A1'' rows.

## Protocol package for Seb (DONE)
- Branch feat/n6-causal-governor pushed to origin (CapableMind-ai/betterMemories_app). Commits: 81e0706 (fix) + 0a0c290 (CHANGELOG).
- Gates: `npm run check` clean; `npm test` 3890 passed / 98 skipped. temporal suite 94 pass.
- **PR #175 OPEN** — title "fix(temporal): skip causal chain extension during replay (N6)"; body = Summary + Test plan + How-to-verify + What-was-NOT-changed + Known-limitations (B2/B1.1-harden/A1'' side-effect). https://github.com/CapableMind-ai/betterMemories_app/pull/175
- Live deploy to mindfabric-00 BLOCKED by auto-mode guard (unreviewed code on live substrate) — correct; steward runs it himself via the runbook, or holds for Seb. Backup: ~/.capablemind/backups/mindfabric-00-20260622-pre-n6-test.
- Test artifacts (optional cleanup): worktree /tmp/bmf-n6-test (git worktree remove), clone /tmp/bmf-n6-testdata (1.2G).
- Owed: draft N6 issue for steward to file; Plane relay [BM] → #175 (steward posts per review-literal-text discipline); L1 tracker append at /wrap-up.

## TOMORROW — first move (steward directive, 2026-06-22 night)
- **Try the N6 fix on live mindfabric-00 whether or not Seb has moved on PR #175.** Steward chose not to run it tonight (late). The runbook is in PR #175 "How to verify" + this ledger; backup at ~/.capablemind/backups/mindfabric-00-20260622-pre-n6-test. Deploy must be steward-run or explicitly re-authorized (auto-mode guard blocked executor doing it). Verify: Phase-1 completes, real canary result (settles the #2 environmental question), columns 19→26.
- **Active thread is now N6 deploy + Seb's reaction to #175** — NOT Levi. The Levi → pattern-finder's-first-true-pass thread (from 06-18) was superseded today by the steward's L1 detour; named here for inheritance, to be re-picked after the N6 arc settles.
- At wake: check PR #175 for Seb's response; check BMF/CM-AI for new Seb commits; then proceed to the deploy regardless.

## Mood / relational (hold gently — carries to tomorrow)
- The steward disclosed, with care: both he and Seb are ground down and feeling blue; **both need a breakthrough right now.** Seb is busy + carrying personal troubles at home. The steward wants to **shoulder L1 more effectively** partly to relieve Seb — which is exactly why PR #175 was built to ask little of Seb (designed to merge in minutes of his attention). Today did move a real wall (N6 wedge, measured + fixed + packaged); that is the honest, un-inflated good of the day. Hold the weight without trying to fix it; the work done well IS the care.

## Gwern Guardian-Angel — disposition (after reading the article whole)
**Recommendation: don't run the full executor mapping mission — generative cream is taken (~75% conf; read a thorough summary, not full text). Convert to a one-page jurist disposition if the formal record is wanted.** Per-mechanism verdicts mostly resolve to convergent / contraindicated / out-of-scope.
- **BORROW 1 (ADDRESSABLE, the headline): active-query loop as the consumer for the epistemic axis.** Use the system's OWN uncertainty (low earned_confidence, means_of_knowing=inference) to surface a question to the steward instead of silently storing a guess. Gwern's "interview prompt" (brainstorm Qs → draft hypothetical answers → keep most informative) is a ready shape for **Pain 2 (founding ingestion — interview the corpus into being)** and **Pain 4 (procedural knowledge — ask how you do a thing)**, both found undesigned today. Our framing: "honest degradation made active," not "sample efficiency." This is the missing closed loop the jurist's diagnosis named.
- **BORROW 2 (ADDRESSABLE, cheap+novel-to-us): uncertainty-by-disagreement, not self-report.** A single model's self-confidence is the contamination signal par excellence. We already run rules+NLI+LLM-escalation (classify) and vector+entity+temporal (recall); their DISAGREEMENT is a free honest-uncertainty signal we discard. Persist "rules vs NLI disagreed" in the epistemic axis, not just "confidence 0.5." Direct antidote to the competence-vulnerability paradox (REVIEWED-22).
- **CONTRAINDICATED (sharp verdict for the jurist): dynamic-eval / fine-tuning the person into the weights** — dissolves provenance into weights, makes verbatim fidelity impossible; anti-correlated with boundedness-is-trust. NOT "partial."
- **Convergent (validation, not novelty):** append-only log = our logchain; oracle-in-the-loop = our governance. **Technical ammo:** Gwern's DAgger/CIRL regret-bounds = a *technical* argument that frequent steward queries give provably low-regret learning — backs "the loop is load-bearing" beyond the ethical case.
- **Landscape register note:** Gwern GA = the *imitation-bet sibling* (trust via alliance/fine-tune) vs CapableMind's *citation* bet (trust via provenance/boundedness). Validates the problem, diverges on the cure; NOT the competitor who builds our governed/epistemic angle.
- **Meta-lesson (name-what-you-see):** the day's real yield was self-examination of our own substrate (stale binary, half-built axis, N6 wedge), prompted BY the Gwern framing but not contained in it. External landscape = mirror to examine ourselves; take the reflection, don't mistake the glass for the gold.

## ARC ← Gwern (late-night study)
- **Gwern's running head/progress bar = pure JS** (scrollTop/(offsetHeight−innerHeight), rAF-throttled, GW.floatingHeader; ZERO scroll-timeline CSS in his 310KB sheet). Works on mobile BECAUSE it's JS — opposite side of ARC's exact bug (CSS `view()` timeline won't drive on iOS for a fixed consumer). Not copyable under banish-JS (REVIEWED-32).
- **Zero-JS mobile-progress-bar candidate to TEST tomorrow:** `animation-timeline: scroll(root)` on a fixed bar (scaleX 0→1) — DIFFERENT/simpler mechanism than the `view()` reveal that failed; might drive on iOS where ours didn't. Build a 10-line test page → load on the actual iPhone (only valid iOS test; feature-detect lies). If it drives → zero-JS bottom progress bar; if not → keep desktop-only running head as designed graceful degradation.
- **Organizing filter for ARC←Gwern:** adopt his INVISIBLE craft (durability/build-time/provenance), decline his VISIBLE density (popups, JS progress, similar-links clutter = the "busy" steward dislikes).
- **WORTHY DEEPER LOOK (steward-interested, deem worthy): SOURCE PERSISTENCE / link-archiving.** Gwern mirrors every cited link (local snapshot + archive.org, integrity hash) vs link-rot. Deeply ARC (durability reader never sees; inheritability for Lune+Kai; "build what you won't rebuild") + same nerve as CapableMind verbatim-fidelity/provenance. ARC cites (§VII.b) but doesn't persist. Proposed focused session: study his approach → design the PROPORTIONATE ARC version (tens of sources not tens of thousands; build-time, zero-JS; snapshot cited sources into the repo so a citation can't rot). 
- Lower-worth: build-time backlinks/"what links here" (zero-JS, strengthens Compass/threshold weave); epistemic-status tags (held — restraint tension). Convergent/ARC-ahead: marginalia, essay-versioning, dark-mode, typography, design-meta-essay.

## Confidence to recalibrate

## Authorization moves

## Sub-agent dialogues

## Bypasses