Operational Synthesis Report

created: 2026-09-02T22:11:04.971395Z
status: complete
focus: scheduled full synthesis
material_digest: 76eb87127f07bae3021bf7b12c7cac3ac8ec5931b11356929876fc42593a6f37

Summary

Runtime is healthy and the user has introduced a material architecture direction: move from fragile timer/session wakeups toward a durable polling control plane, while preserving a transitional ACP-resume adapter before the planned sessionless prompt-builder backend.

Evidence Reviewed

model-conversation-log.jsonl lines 6343–6370: current user activity, NCN page work, polling-loop design, arbitrary timing, transitional ACP resume, isolated shadow-mode implementation, status-panel request, and failed review-job explanation.
memory-heartbeat.json: 2026-09-02T22:06:47Z, restore healthy, 7,504 entries, semantic state changed.
model-heartbeat.json: 2026-09-02T22:00:31Z, rc=0, acpx_rc=0, NO_CHANGE.
context-guard.json: 2026-09-02T22:06:25Z, direct ACP normal, 177,328 provider tokens (16.9%), configured openai/gpt-5.6-terra, no compaction.
restore-packet.json and pinned-state.md: generated packets exist; current open actions still include scheduled-worker model drift and control-plane verification.
curator-journal.md: last visible curator entry reports prior candidate review and session-specific Read/Edit denial; no current durable curation proposal was identified.

Findings

Current activity is real: The preferred model log contains new direct-ACP turns on 2026-09-02, including the user’s return after interview stress, NCN festival page publication/verification, and a new polling-loop/control-plane design thread. This supersedes older “log ends 2026-08-17” summaries.
Runtime healthy: Memory restoration and model heartbeat succeeded. Direct ACP has ample headroom; do not reload or replace the live backend.
Architecture direction: The poller belongs before the native backend and should be isolated from matrix-lite-timer-dispatch.py: watchers → durable queue → debounce/coalesce → current ACP-resume adapter → session. Later, replace only the adapter with prompt-builder → fresh one-shot backend turn. Per-watch arbitrary timing, persistence, retries/backoff, deadlines, dedupe, and wake budgets are requirements; shadow mode should precede dispatch.
Observability requirement: User wants subagent lifecycle surfaced in the status panel (running/queued/completed/failed/cancelled, elapsed time, phase, parent, summary/log pointer, stalled detection). Existing subagent state is reportedly available but not surfaced.
Failed review job: Job 9cec5ce3080c timed out after 900s because the subagent issued empty-input reads, entered permission/recovery state, and never progressed. Treat as a runner/tool-call failure, not as an architecture result.
Persistent drift remains: actions.jsonl, notices.jsonl, recent-topics.md, and pinned state still carry the open requirement to repair scheduled-worker selection away from obsolete kimi-for-coding/k2p6 and prove two clean runs. This cycle cannot edit application source or verify the live control plane.

Actions

Main agent/infrastructure: inspect the actual timer/direct-ACP seams and implement the poller as a new isolated component, initially shadow-only. Do not mutate the existing timer dispatcher or live backend during the first experiment.
Main agent/infrastructure: add the status-panel subagent section and stalled-job telemetry using existing workspace/state/subagents/*.json data.
Repair scheduled-worker model/config selection and verify two consecutive clean scheduled runs; remove or resolve the stale notice only after proof.
When control-plane status APIs are available, check missing_runtime_entries/needs_sync, timers, subagents, and observability independently; raw log-count deltas are not backlog evidence.

Blockers

Native Matrix-lite timer/subagent status APIs were not available in this worker. Direct reads of /home/matrix-lite/state/turns.jsonl were permitted in this cycle only through the model-conversation source pointers; no independent backlog-status result was obtained.
No approval was requested. No live backend replacement, timer mutation, application-source edit, or subagent spawn was performed by this worker.
The prior architecture-review subagent failure is recorded as a tool-call/permission recovery issue; its partial output is not a verified design review.

Backlog Plan

Near-term: preserve the healthy current session; have the main agent review the failed job log and re-run architecture exploration only if needed.
Medium-term: build the isolated poller in shadow mode, test restart recovery/timing/dedupe, then add a narrow ACP-resume adapter.
Separate robustness work remains: stale generated model identity, notice re-inflation/source filtering, decision-state refresh, provider-ceiling proof, semantic-memory cleanup, and safe patch/write hardening.

# Operational Synthesis Report - created: 2026-09-02T22:11:04.971395Z - status: complete - focus: scheduled full synthesis - material_digest: 76eb87127f07bae3021bf7b12c7cac3ac8ec5931b11356929876fc42593a6f37 ## Summary Runtime is healthy and the user has introduced a material architecture direction: move from fragile timer/session wakeups toward a durable polling control plane, while preserving a transitional ACP-resume adapter before the planned sessionless prompt-builder backend. ## Evidence Reviewed - `model-conversation-log.jsonl` lines 6343–6370: current user activity, NCN page work, polling-loop design, arbitrary timing, transitional ACP resume, isolated shadow-mode implementation, status-panel request, and failed review-job explanation. - `memory-heartbeat.json`: 2026-09-02T22:06:47Z, restore healthy, 7,504 entries, semantic state changed. - `model-heartbeat.json`: 2026-09-02T22:00:31Z, `rc=0`, `acpx_rc=0`, `NO_CHANGE`. - `context-guard.json`: 2026-09-02T22:06:25Z, direct ACP normal, 177,328 provider tokens (16.9%), configured `openai/gpt-5.6-terra`, no compaction. - `restore-packet.json` and `pinned-state.md`: generated packets exist; current open actions still include scheduled-worker model drift and control-plane verification. - `curator-journal.md`: last visible curator entry reports prior candidate review and session-specific Read/Edit denial; no current durable curation proposal was identified. ## Findings - **Current activity is real:** The preferred model log contains new direct-ACP turns on 2026-09-02, including the user’s return after interview stress, NCN festival page publication/verification, and a new polling-loop/control-plane design thread. This supersedes older “log ends 2026-08-17” summaries. - **Runtime healthy:** Memory restoration and model heartbeat succeeded. Direct ACP has ample headroom; do not reload or replace the live backend. - **Architecture direction:** The poller belongs before the native backend and should be isolated from `matrix-lite-timer-dispatch.py`: watchers → durable queue → debounce/coalesce → current ACP-resume adapter → session. Later, replace only the adapter with prompt-builder → fresh one-shot backend turn. Per-watch arbitrary timing, persistence, retries/backoff, deadlines, dedupe, and wake budgets are requirements; shadow mode should precede dispatch. - **Observability requirement:** User wants subagent lifecycle surfaced in the status panel (running/queued/completed/failed/cancelled, elapsed time, phase, parent, summary/log pointer, stalled detection). Existing subagent state is reportedly available but not surfaced. - **Failed review job:** Job `9cec5ce3080c` timed out after 900s because the subagent issued empty-input reads, entered permission/recovery state, and never progressed. Treat as a runner/tool-call failure, not as an architecture result. - **Persistent drift remains:** `actions.jsonl`, `notices.jsonl`, `recent-topics.md`, and pinned state still carry the open requirement to repair scheduled-worker selection away from obsolete `kimi-for-coding/k2p6` and prove two clean runs. This cycle cannot edit application source or verify the live control plane. ## Actions - Main agent/infrastructure: inspect the actual timer/direct-ACP seams and implement the poller as a new isolated component, initially shadow-only. Do not mutate the existing timer dispatcher or live backend during the first experiment. - Main agent/infrastructure: add the status-panel subagent section and stalled-job telemetry using existing `workspace/state/subagents/*.json` data. - Repair scheduled-worker model/config selection and verify two consecutive clean scheduled runs; remove or resolve the stale notice only after proof. - When control-plane status APIs are available, check `missing_runtime_entries`/`needs_sync`, timers, subagents, and observability independently; raw log-count deltas are not backlog evidence. ## Blockers - Native Matrix-lite timer/subagent status APIs were not available in this worker. Direct reads of `/home/matrix-lite/state/turns.jsonl` were permitted in this cycle only through the model-conversation source pointers; no independent backlog-status result was obtained. - No approval was requested. No live backend replacement, timer mutation, application-source edit, or subagent spawn was performed by this worker. - The prior architecture-review subagent failure is recorded as a tool-call/permission recovery issue; its partial output is not a verified design review. ## Backlog Plan - Near-term: preserve the healthy current session; have the main agent review the failed job log and re-run architecture exploration only if needed. - Medium-term: build the isolated poller in shadow mode, test restart recovery/timing/dedupe, then add a narrow ACP-resume adapter. - Separate robustness work remains: stale generated model identity, notice re-inflation/source filtering, decision-state refresh, provider-ceiling proof, semantic-memory cleanup, and safe patch/write hardening.