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Scheduled operational synthesis Markdown report

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Operational Synthesis

Summary

Runtime and memory restoration are healthy, but the scheduled-worker repair remains unverified and generated continuity state still contains an obsolete model identity. The preferred model log has no user activity after 2026-08-17; this is not evidence of missing conversations.

Evidence Reviewed

Findings

  1. Healthy core path. Restore succeeded and the latest model heartbeat completed successfully without changing curated memory. The live context is comfortably below guard thresholds; do not reload or replace the backend.
  2. Persistent configuration drift. The scheduled-worker repair has not been proven, and the generated summary continues to expose the obsolete kimi-for-coding/k2p6 identity. Repair the source/configuration and then require two consecutive clean scheduled runs; do not edit the generated summary directly.
  3. Quiet conversation, not inferred backlog. The model-friendly log ends on Aug 17, while heartbeat metadata is current. Canonical/model log counts intentionally differ. A current missing_runtime_entries/needs_sync result was not independently available in this cycle.

Actions

Curated-memory proposals

Warm-memory changes

Blockers and missing tools

Operational risks / robustness suggestions

Raw Markdown
# Operational Synthesis

- created: 2026-08-30T22:11:06.652619Z
- completed: 2026-08-31Z
- status: complete
- focus: scheduled full synthesis
- material_digest: 68662e8592c0135671bd5f87e66afe2056dd9a8ed8ccde7e55fa22d925b8ae85

## Summary

Runtime and memory restoration are healthy, but the scheduled-worker repair remains unverified and generated continuity state still contains an obsolete model identity. The preferred model log has no user activity after 2026-08-17; this is not evidence of missing conversations.

## Evidence Reviewed

- `memory-heartbeat.json`: 2026-08-30T22:10:56Z, restore `ok=true`, 7,476 entries; model-conversation-log has 6,342 rows / 3,664 runtime rows.
- `model-heartbeat.json`: 2026-08-30T21:54:56Z, `rc=0`, `acpx_rc=0`, `NO_CHANGE`.
- `context-guard.json`: normal, 184,658 provider tokens (17.6%), live model `openai/gpt-5.6-terra`, no compaction or reload recommendation.
- `model-conversation-log.jsonl`: latest user activity 2026-08-17T16:13:27Z (Google interview talk preparation); latest assistant response was successful.
- `continuity-summary.txt`: regenerated 2026-08-30 but still says `kimi-for-coding/k2p6` on line 4, contradicting live context.
- `actions.jsonl`: the scheduled-worker repair remains open; other durable backlog includes provider-ceiling proof, decision-state refresh, semantic-memory cleanup, notice-source hardening, RAG, provider handoff, and the local YouTube archive follow-up.
- `semantic-candidates.jsonl`: entries are review material and must not be treated as facts; no promotion is proposed in this cycle.

## Findings

1. **Healthy core path.** Restore succeeded and the latest model heartbeat completed successfully without changing curated memory. The live context is comfortably below guard thresholds; do not reload or replace the backend.
2. **Persistent configuration drift.** The scheduled-worker repair has not been proven, and the generated summary continues to expose the obsolete `kimi-for-coding/k2p6` identity. Repair the source/configuration and then require two consecutive clean scheduled runs; do not edit the generated summary directly.
3. **Quiet conversation, not inferred backlog.** The model-friendly log ends on Aug 17, while heartbeat metadata is current. Canonical/model log counts intentionally differ. A current `missing_runtime_entries`/`needs_sync` result was not independently available in this cycle.

## Actions

- Keep the existing high-priority scheduled-worker repair open. Next useful check: inspect the actual worker source/config and run a control-plane smoke test, then verify two clean cycles.
- Keep the generated-identity issue coupled to its source/generator fix.
- Main agent/curator may separately refresh stale `decision-state.json` and review candidate/semantic-memory pools; no direct curated-memory edit is proposed here.
- When control-plane access returns, verify backlog (`missing_runtime_entries`, `needs_sync`), timers, subagents, and observability independently of raw log counts.

## Curated-memory proposals

- None. The current cycle found no new user signal requiring promotion; semantic candidates remain untrusted review material.

## Warm-memory changes

- Prepended a current operational snapshot to `recent-topics.md`, retaining the existing Aug 30 backlog and user-context notes.

## Blockers and missing tools

- Native reads of `/home/matrix-lite/state/turns.jsonl` and `/home/matrix-lite/state/observability.jsonl` were denied/unavailable.
- Matrix-lite timer/subagent/control-plane status tools were not exposed in this worker, so timer state, active jobs, and backlog status could not be independently verified.
- No native or async subagent was used; exploration remained read-only.

## Operational risks / robustness suggestions

- The stale worker model selector can repeatedly turn otherwise healthy scheduled synthesis into provider-not-found failures; configuration/source inspection is the highest-value fix.
- Repeated notice re-inflation and stale generated identity remain hygiene risks. Harden the directed/index notice importer to ignore resolved/obsolete reports and make generated model identity derive from one authoritative runtime source.
- Preserve the current policy of not interpreting canonical-vs-model line-count differences as synchronization loss.