Material work was warranted: the preferred model log contains substantial post-quiet-period activity, while the runtime heartbeats remain healthy. The durable engineering thread is now the isolated polling/control plane; generated-state and observability defects remain unresolved.
• `model-conversation-log.jsonl`: 6,394 rows, current through `2026-09-05T10:13:16Z`; recent activity covers NCN, Hamburg/Ghost Town, and a counter-service coffee/food search near Hamburg Hbf.
• `memory-heartbeat.json`: `restore_result.ok=true`, 7,528 entries, `semantic_changed=true`; model log source is explicitly `perpetual-log-visible+matrix-lite-turns`.
• `model-heartbeat.json`: latest run `rc=0`, `acpx_rc=0`, `NO_CHANGE`.
• `context-guard.json`: direct ACP healthy at 283,998 provider tokens (27.0%), no compaction, live model `openai/gpt-5.6-terra`; observed ceiling remains unknown.
• `restore-packet.json`: generated 2026-09-06 and present.
• `semantic-candidates.jsonl` and `memory-candidates.jsonl`: broad historical review material exists; no evidence here of a newly actionable candidate. Candidate lifecycle remains curator-owned.
• `decision-state.json`: still last updated 2026-05-27, so it does not represent current architecture or travel context.
1. **Runtime healthy, but only partially independently verified.** Restore and model heartbeat succeeded; context is comfortably below the advertised ceiling. The preferred log is not stale. Do not infer backlog from the canonical/model line-count difference.
2. **User-facing current context changed materially.** The latest durable recent-topic signal is Hamburg travel and a highly rated, 5–15 minute walk from Hauptbahnhof for counter/self-service coffee and food. Business hours, ratings, terminal availability, and walk times are transient and must be rechecked live before reuse.
3. **Polling architecture is clarified.** The user wants the new control plane before the native/sessionless backend: persistent arbitrary-timing watches → durable queue → dedupe/debounce → dispatch adapter. ACP resume is only the transitional adapter; later replace it with prompt-builder → fresh backend turn. Shadow mode and visible subagent lifecycle are explicit safety requirements.
4. **Generated model identity is still wrong.** continuity-summary.txt says kimi-for-coding/k2p6, contradicting context-guard.json, heartbeat metadata, and the live model (openai/gpt-5.6-terra). Fix the source/configuration that generates it; do not edit the generated file directly.
• Keep open the existing high-priority action to repair scheduled-worker model/config selection and prove two clean runs.
• Keep open the existing polling-control-plane design/staging action; the prior architecture-review job timed out after malformed empty-input tool calls and is non-evidence. A future review should use a narrow, read-only tool path.
• Keep open decision-state refresh, provider-ceiling proof, independent timer/subagent/observability/backlog verification, semantic-memory cleanup, notice-source hardening, and the resumable YouTube archive follow-up. These are not resolved by healthy heartbeats.
• No new curated-memory proposal is warranted from the latest travel/event and food turns; they are transient. The user’s existing housing and continuity preferences remain the durable memory anchors.
• Native Matrix-lite timer/subagent status tools were not exposed in this worker, so pending timers, jobs, and approvals could not be independently checked.
• `observability.jsonl` was not available in the reviewed state; `turns.jsonl` was not independently readable in this cycle. Therefore `missing_runtime_entries`/`needs_sync` could not be independently rechecked here, despite the memory heartbeat reporting a healthy source merge.
• A diagnostic bash call using an inline `python3 -c` was denied by policy. This was non-fatal; read-only file inspection continued.
The main risk is silent divergence: heartbeats succeed while generated continuity still advertises an unavailable model, and notices/index maintenance has historically re-injected obsolete duplicates. Prioritize source-level model selection repair plus deterministic notice deduplication. Keep the new poller isolated and shadow-only until restart recovery, timing, dedupe, and lifecycle visibility are proven.
• No native or async subagents were spawned; the earlier failed architecture-review job remains historical evidence only.
• Updated this report and warm-memory `recent-topics.md` only. No generated packet, perpetual log, curated memory, or live backend was edited.