Status: complete. This cycle was materially useful because unresolved maintenance items remain despite quiet user traffic.
• Latest direct user activity is 2026-08-17T16:13Z: temporary OpenAI auth recovery followed by Google interview-talk preparation. No newer user turn appears in the preferred model conversation log (6,342 rows).
• Memory restore is healthy at 2026-08-22T16:07Z (`restore_result.ok=true`); 7,476 source entries, 6,435 visible, and `semantic_changed=true`. No curated-memory promotion is indicated by the latest model-heartbeat (`rc=0`, `acpx_rc=0`, `NO_CHANGE`).
• Context guard is normal: direct ACP on `openai/gpt-5.6-terra`, 184,658 provider tokens / 17.6%, no compaction, no reload recommended. The advertised 1.05M ceiling remains unvalidated (`observed_provider_ceiling=null`).
• Canonical/model log differences are expected filtering, not evidence of backlog. This cycle could read `turns.jsonl` through model-log source references, but the independent `observability.jsonl` artifact was absent.
1. **Scheduled worker risk is unresolved in source state.** The open action and notices still cite obsolete kimi-for-coding/k2p6, while the current direct session is GPT-5.6 Terra. This synthesis invocation itself produced a report, so the worker path is functioning now, but that does not prove its configured model source is repaired or that two consecutive scheduled runs used the intended model.
2. **Generated identity drift persists.** continuity-summary.txt still says kimi-for-coding/k2p6; current context-guard.json says openai/gpt-5.6-terra. Fix the generator/source, not this generated file.
3. **Operational backlog remains open:** stale decision-state.json (2026-05-27), semantic-memory garbage audit, directed/index notice re-inflation hardening, provider-ceiling/handoff proof, and the July 17 curated-memory truncation-risk investigation. The notices file also retains the deferred ImmoScout inbox retry and local YouTube archive continuation; both require a future main-agent/user turn.
4. **Semantic candidates are review material only.** The visible sample is explicitly marked stale and reviewed; no candidate was promoted this cycle. Do not treat candidate text as fact memory.
• Main agent/infrastructure: inspect the scheduled-worker timer/source and replace any `kimi-for-coding/k2p6` selection with the intended available model; verify two consecutive scheduled successes and record evidence.
• Fix generated model identity at its source, then regenerate continuity packets.
• Prioritize independent control-plane checks (timer, subagent, backlog status, observability) and provider-ceiling validation; do not infer these from raw line counts.
• Keep user-facing follow-ups gated: ImmoScout inbox work is authenticate-first, draft-only, and confirmation-gated; YouTube archive continuation is local-cookie/user-driven.
• `observability.jsonl` was not present/readable in the expected state path.
• Matrix-lite timer/subagent status APIs were not invoked/exposed in this worker context, so scheduled-worker configuration and active-job state remain independently unverified.
• No native subagents were spawned; no approvals or mutations outside the permitted synthesis state were requested.
• Warm memory updated only through `recent-topics.md` (current runtime, user-context, and open-risk summary appended).
• No direct edit to `curated-memory.md`; no curated-memory proposal is needed beyond the existing open backlog.
• Stale model identifiers can silently break background workers while the main session remains healthy; add a preflight model-availability check and surface the selected model in each worker report.
• Generated identity and notice-source drift recur; generators should reject obsolete source reports/models and atomically write durable memory with a validated backup.