Material maintenance remains: the runtime/restore paths are healthy, but the scheduled-worker model-selection repair is still unverified and generated continuity state is stale. The preferred model conversation log has no user activity after 2026-08-17; this is verified from the model log, not inferred from canonical/model line-count differences.
• `memory-heartbeat.json` at 04:11Z: restore `ok=true`, 7,476 entries, 6,342 model-log rows, `semantic_changed=true`; no archive/restore action was needed.
• `model-heartbeat.json` at 03:55Z: `rc=0`, `acpx_rc=0`, successful `NO_CHANGE`; current log metadata is 7,476 lines.
• `context-guard.json` at 04:10Z: direct ACP normal, 184,658 provider tokens (17.6%), no compaction, no reload recommended. Effective ceiling remains unobserved (`observed_provider_ceiling=null`), so advertised 1.05M context is not independently proven.
• `model-conversation-log.jsonl` ends 2026-08-17 16:13Z (Google interview-talk preparation); latest entry is a normal assistant follow-up. No newer durable user signal or curation proposal is present.
• `continuity-summary.txt` regenerated 04:11Z but still says `kimi-for-coding/k2p6`, contradicting the live GPT-5.6 Terra context guard. This is generated-state drift; repair the source/configuration, not the generated file.
• `semantic-memory.json` changed during the heartbeat and still contains low-quality historical prompt-fragment keys; semantic candidates remain review material and must not be promoted blindly.
• `operational-synthesis/notices.jsonl` contains 55 historical rows, including duplicate/obsolete entries and the still-open k2p6 repair notice. The duplication/hardening issue remains unresolved.
1. **High priority:** repair scheduled-worker model/config selection away from obsolete kimi-for-coding/k2p6, then prove two consecutive clean scheduled runs.
2. Verify provider ceiling and independent control-plane backlog/timer/subagent status; do not infer backlog from raw log counts.
3. Refresh stale decision-state.json; audit semantic-memory garbage; continue compact-RAG/anchor and provider-switch-handoff work.
4. Harden directed-index notice repopulation so resolved/obsolete reports cannot re-inflate notices.jsonl.
5. Keep local YouTube archive continuation (40/55 remaining per prior record) as a user/main-agent action; cookies remain private.
No new hypotheses are warranted this cycle. The persistent model-identity mismatch is confirmed as generated/configuration drift, but its exact source is still unverified.
• Matrix-lite timer/subagent status APIs were not available in this worker.
• Direct reads of `/home/matrix-lite/state/turns.jsonl`, `/home/matrix-lite/state/observability.jsonl`, and timer state were denied/unavailable. Therefore current backlog, recent failures, approvals, and control-plane health are not independently verified here.
• No native or async subagent was used; exploration was limited to read-only state inspection.
The main operational risk is silent maintenance degradation: the model heartbeat can succeed while the scheduled worker remains configured for a nonexistent provider/model, and generated summaries can continue advertising the wrong identity. Add a source-of-truth model identifier plus a health check that fails loudly on provider/model mismatch, and expose read-only backlog/timer/subagent status to maintenance workers.
• No curated-memory edit or proposal: no new durable user signal since the already-curated 2026-08-17 interview-talk note.
• Warm-memory update: none needed; existing `recent-topics.md` already records the same open backlog and user context.
• No JSONL records appended; findings are non-duplicatively captured in this report.