Operational Synthesis — 2026-09-07T04:11:01Z

Summary

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.

Evidence reviewed

• 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.

Findings

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.

Hypotheses

• 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.

Actions for main agent/infrastructure

• 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.

Curated-memory proposals

• 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.

Warm-memory update

• Updated recent-topics.md with this cycle's runtime health, current user context, architecture priority, and unresolved generated-state/verification risks.

Blockers and missing checks

• 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.

Files changed

• 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.