Material operational work remains despite no new user turn after 2026-09-05T10:13Z. Memory restore and model heartbeat are healthy, but several long-lived control-plane and generated-state actions remain unresolved. The current session is healthy on openai/gpt-5.6-terra; do not infer backlog from filtered/canonical log-count differences.
• `model-conversation-log.jsonl`: 6,394 filtered model-facing rows; latest user/assistant activity is Hamburg/Ghost Town and coffee-search discussion ending 2026-09-05T10:13Z.
• `memory-heartbeat.json`: 2026-09-07T04:09:47Z, restore `ok=true`, 7,528 total entries, 6,487 visible, `semantic_changed=true`.
• `model-heartbeat.json`: 2026-09-07T04:06:01Z, `rc=0`, `acpx_rc=0`, marker `NO_CHANGE`.
• `context-guard.json`: 2026-09-07T04:09:25Z, direct ACP normal at 283,998 provider tokens (27.0%); no compaction or reload recommendation.
• `continuity-summary.txt`: freshly generated but still reports obsolete `kimi-for-coding/k2p6` at line 4, contradicting the live GPT-5.6 Terra context. This is generated-state drift; repair its source/configuration, not the output directly.
• `semantic-candidates.jsonl`: review history is present through 2026-08-11; visible recent rows are promoted/ignored/stale, with one parse-error row. No evidence here of a current open candidate requiring promotion.
• `decision-state.json`: still dated 2026-05-27 and therefore stale relative to current architecture and user threads.
• `notices.jsonl`: 56 rows, including duplicate/obsolete historical notices and current open actions. It has not been compacted since the last known cleanup.
1. **Runtime healthy, activity quiet.** Restore, memory heartbeat, and direct ACP all succeeded. The log's quiet period is consistent with the authoritative filtered model log; it is not evidence of missing conversations.
2. **Generated model identity drift persists.** The live context says openai/gpt-5.6-terra, while continuity-summary.txt says unavailable kimi-for-coding/k2p6. This remains the highest operational correctness issue because future sessions may ingest the wrong identity.
3. **Persistent backlog is still material.** Open actions include scheduled-worker model/config repair, stale decision-state, provider-ceiling/control-plane verification, notice-source hardening, compact RAG/anchor retrieval, durable polling-control-plane design, and the resumable local YouTube archive. The durable polling design is the current user-directed architecture priority: isolated persistent watches, queue, dedupe, retries/backoff, deadlines, wake budgets, shadow mode, then a narrow ACP-resume adapter before the eventual prompt-builder/native backend.
4. **Candidate state is not a blocker.** Semantic candidates are review material rather than facts; recent reviewed rows are mostly promoted/ignored/stale. No curated-memory edit is justified by the current quiet travel/coffee context.
• The continuing `k2p6` line is likely emitted by a scheduled-worker or packet-generation source that still has an obsolete model default, rather than a live-session failure. Verify source/configuration and prove two clean scheduled runs.
• The repeated duplicate/obsolete notice rows likely come from directed-index repopulation without resolved-source filtering; hardening should be done at the helper, not by repeated manual cleanup.
• Repair scheduled-worker model selection and validate two consecutive successful runs; then regenerate packets and confirm the model identity line.
• Update `decision-state.json` through its owning workflow with the native-backend migration, durable polling control plane, resolved reload/truncation items, and current housing/interview/archive status.
• Add source-id/resolution filtering to directed-index notice generation; compact stale notices only through the supported helper.
• Verify `persistent_chat_log_backlog_status`, timer/subagent status, approvals, and observability through the Matrix-lite control-plane surface when available. Do not use raw line counts as a sync signal.
• Stage the polling control plane in shadow mode and keep old ACP-coupled timers unchanged until restart recovery, timing, dedupe, and lifecycle visibility are demonstrated.
• None. Hamburg/Ghost Town and coffee recommendations are transient and should be re-verified live if the user returns to them. The polling architecture is already represented in operational actions and does not need a duplicate memory entry.
• Updated `recent-topics.md` with this cycle's runtime health, current user context, architecture priority, and unresolved generated-state/verification risks.
• Bash diagnostics were denied by policy.
• Reads of `/home/matrix-lite/state/approvals.json` and `/home/matrix-lite/workspace/state/timers/timers.json` were denied by external-directory policy.
• No Matrix-lite timer/subagent status namespace was exposed in this worker turn; independent timer, subagent, turns, observability, and backlog verification remains unavailable.
• No native subagent was spawned; exploration stayed read-only and bounded.
• This report, replacing the pre-created checkpoint.
• `recent-topics.md` warm-memory section.
No generated packet, canonical log, curated-memory.md, or perpetual log was edited.