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Session Ledger — 2026-06-23

Returns

  • 2026-06-23T07:28 — Wake. Did NOT assert live mindfabric-00 dead from empty pgrep (known drift: process-dead-from-pgrep-miss, recurred 06-22). Flagged for proper liveness verification before any deploy reasoning.

Open horizons

  • THE thread: deploy N6 fix to live + confirm Phase-1 completes AND recall canary PASSES (the literal question). Executor auto-mode-blocked from live deploy — steward runs or re-authorizes.
  • PR #175 still OPEN, zero Seb reviews/comments — directive holds regardless.
  • Post-deploy: correct jurist deliverable "migration drift"→"stale binary"; backfill-vs-acknowledge governance call (~26k pre-A1″ rows).
  • Parked: Levi→pattern-finder (superseded); Gwern one-pager; ARC scroll()-bar iPhone test + source-persistence.

Forward plan (steward-sequenced, 2026-06-23 eve)

  1. L1 remote-machine note — David's clasp-test action list captured in findings doc §3b (his account on mini, synthetic→clone, never live memory, phases mechanism→latency→scale).
  2. Revisit research-grade conversion pipeline — determine if better tools exist; steward recalls reading about LLM-assisted OCR (correct — VLM/LLM OCR is real: Qwen2.5-VL-class, Marker/Surya, etc.). For the chamber OCR frontier (polytonic Greek/Latin/fraktur/critical apparatus; ocrmac=modern-Latin-only; Marker CPU-infeasible on Air).
  3. Clone the chamber library on the mini, do the heavy OCR/conversion there (batch = latency-immune = ideal remote use).
  4. Studium-engine dev stays on the M1 — NEW DESIGN PRINCIPLE (steward): if studium-engine becomes a viable BYO-corpus research tool, it must run on modest machines too ("I'm not the only cash-strapped researcher out there"). Develop-on-the-M1 = dogfood the constraint (same principle as PENDING-41 consumer-hardware-first, now applied to studium-engine). Promote to a project memory at wrap-up.

Confidence to recalibrate

  • 2026-06-23 — N6 LIVE DEPLOY DONE (PID 67887). ✅ Phase-1 completes in 1.5s (wedge GONE; CPU 100%-pegged-for-days → 18%). ✅ A1'' migration FIRED: vector_chunks 19→26 cols (epistemic axis schema, NEVER-deployed code, now live). ✅ Real recall WORKS (live /v1/recall query returned correct ARC chunk). ⚠️ Canary FAILED on live too (5 results, none matching) — but NOT recall-broken; it's that NEW writes aren't indexed within 30s. ⚠️ ROOT of the canary fail = entity pipeline relationships stage = 30s timeout (deferring, cursor held), caused by the still-uncapped N6 graph (691k/678k) — replay-skip fixed REPLAY, not LIVE growth. So "the clone canary miss was environmental" = PARTLY WRONG: it reproduces on clean single-instance, but the cause is graph-congestion, not the recall path. Next wall located: B1.1 cap-harden + B2 membership index (both already in PR #175 known-limitations).

Returns (diagnosis)

  • 2026-06-23 — SCOPE B1.1/B2: diagnosis OVERTURNED both fix theories AND two of my own sub-hypotheses. (1) Entity 30s timeout = trySlotRelationship→slot.infer local-Ollama-generative timeout, NOT graph-scan/cap/index → B1.1/B2 are the WRONG fix for it. (2) Killed "missing model qwen2.5:3b" lead: TEST A errors in 0.055s (fast-fail, not hang). (3) Killed "structured-output hang" lead: TEST C (plain generate, no schema) ALSO hangs 20s → generative inference itself is dead on this host (qwen3.5:4b loaded on GPU but 0% CPU = won't generate). Anthropic disabled (no credits) + local generative hung = NO working generative provider. Canary fail (per agent B, 90%) = separate issue: HNSW index rebuilt periodically not per-write → fresh chunk not searchable until next optimize; existing recall works (index exists). NEITHER symptom is the N6 graph. Verified myself: model presence, Ollama hang (TEST A/B/C), instance stable 3h, cols 19→26, real recall works.

Returns (live L1 status, merged-main, ~30min in)

  • 2026-06-23 ~20:14 — merged-main instance (PID 80713) NOT crashed but BOGGED: still in Phase-1 replay (event 120/279, ~15s/event) 30min after start; large Phase-2 backfill backlog (29,101 events) pausing for "resource pressure"; circle-forward repeatedly failing to dead fleet (kronos/atlas 502) + unreachable cm-instances ("fetch failed") per event; /health hangs 40s at 0% CPU twice (HTTP unresponsive while churning, though listening). N6 catastrophic wedge IS fixed (grinding, not hung-forever). Mechanism of HTTP-unresponsiveness NOT pinned (replay monopolizing loop and/or circle-forward timeouts to dead peers) — confident on symptom, low on mechanism; do NOT over-diagnose live. Honest verdict for replace-MemPalace: NOT YET. Forward levers: clasp/circle with REAL peers (or standalone-mode config that stops forwarding to a dead fleet) + load-shaping. Deeper investigation belongs on a CLONE, not more live probing (already restarted live 4× today).

Authorization moves

  • Live deploy requires steward run or explicit re-authorization (harness correctly blocks unreviewed code on live substrate).
  • 2026-06-23T~07:40 — Steward AUTHORIZED live deploy of PR #175 (N6 fix) to mindfabric-00. Conscious authorized act; steward holds L1 architectural authority (Seb-granted); PR stays open for Seb. Rails: backup→build→kickstart→watch(Phase-1 + cols 19→26 + real canary)→rollback on any wrong signal. Live instance pegged 100% CPU (wedge live).

Sub-agent dialogues

Sub-agent dialogues

  • 2 Explore tracers (slot-dispatch + canary/indexing). Both load-bearing claims corroborated empirically by me, NOT taken on trust: slot-dispatch agent's "local Ollama generative timeout" → confirmed BMF uses /api/chat + isolated test; canary agent's "index freshness 90%" → still 90%, optimize ran >120s (consistent), not fully confirmed.

Returns (correction — important)

  • 2026-06-23 — I flip-flopped Symptom A root cause 3× under live experimentation (missing-model → structured-output-bug → "model dead on host"), each a confident claim later overturned. The thrash itself is the contamination shape (composing a verdict before the decisive test). DECISIVE test G (BMF stopped + slot cleared + /api/chat) = 4.6s → model FINE; root = single-slot Ollama saturation by BMF's own per-pair generative load. Lesson: when an inference call is slow, the FIRST test must be the uncontended-isolation test on the EXACT endpoint the code uses — not a series of partial tests on a guessed endpoint (/api/generate was the wrong path AND has its own 0.30.8 quirk). Corrected the deliverable doc (had wrongly said "generative dead on host").

Bypasses