• Runtime is healthy: memory restore `ok=true` with 7,528 entries; model heartbeat `rc=0/acpx_rc=0`, `NO_CHANGE`.
• Main direct ACP is normal on `openai/gpt-5.6-terra`: 283,998 provider tokens / 27.0%, no reload or compaction recommendation.
• Current user activity is quiet after 2026-09-05T10:13:16Z; latest durable thread is Hamburg/Ghost Town and a Hauptbahnhof coffee/food search. Re-verify transient travel/business details before reuse.
• This is material maintenance despite quiet chat: open architecture/configuration backlog remains, and generated-state model drift is still not fixed.
1. **Heartbeat/restore healthy.** memory-heartbeat.json at 2026-09-08T22:07:53Z reports restore success, 7,528 entries, and semantic_changed=true; this is not evidence that any candidate became trusted memory.
2. **Provider/context stable.** context-guard.json at 2026-09-08T22:07:21Z is normal, direct ACP, 283,998 tokens, 27.0%, openai/gpt-5.6-terra, with no observed provider ceiling and no compaction.
3. **Candidate lifecycle remains curator-owned.** semantic-candidates.jsonl ends with one needs_more_evidence cultural-event candidate (reviewed 2026-09-08); it should not be promoted. The latest curator note available is older (2026-07-12), so the prior “13 open memory candidates” count is not independently re-counted here.
4. **Persistent drift remains open.** The current heartbeat/action history still carries the unresolved scheduled-worker repair for obsolete kimi-for-coding/k2p6; do not edit generated output directly. The live context source identifies GPT-5.6 Terra.
5. **Control-plane work remains the main engineering risk.** The durable isolated polling loop is still open: arbitrary per-watch timing, durable queue, dedupe/debounce, retries/backoff, deadlines, wake budgets, shadow mode, and visible subagent lifecycle. ACP resume is transitional; prompt-builder/fresh backend is the target.
6. **Decision state is stale.** decision-state.json has not advanced beyond 2026-05-27 and does not represent the polling-loop direction or later operational resolutions.
• Repair scheduled-worker model/configuration and prove two consecutive clean runs; preserve generated-file/source separation.
• Expose read-only timer, subagent, approvals, turns/backlog, observability, and provider-ceiling diagnostics so future cycles can verify rather than infer health.
• Review curator-owned candidates with the semantic-candidate helper; recommend ignoring the 2026-09-04 cultural-event candidate unless repeated evidence appears.
• Update `decision-state.json` through the main agent/curator when convenient.
• Continue treating `notices.jsonl` as stale/open operational input; no duplicate notice was appended this cycle.
• Matrix-lite status tools for timers/subagents were not exposed in this worker interface.
• No independent `persistent_chat_log_backlog_status`, approvals, observability, or provider-ceiling check was available.
• No native or async subagent was used; exploration was limited to read-only state artifacts.
• Do not infer missing conversations from canonical/model log line-count differences; the model log is intentionally filtered/deduplicated.
• No curated-memory edit or promotion proposed.
• No warm-memory change was necessary: `recent-topics.md` was updated only with this cycle’s operational summary.
Make the scheduled worker select its model from one authoritative live configuration and emit machine-checkable model/config identity in every heartbeat. Pair that with read-only control-plane diagnostics and atomic, backup-before-replace writes for curated memory to avoid silent drift or truncation.