Operational Synthesis — 2026-09-08T22:11:12Z

Summary

• 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.

Verified findings

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.

Actions / proposals

• 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.

Missing tools / blockers

• 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.

Memory handling

• 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.

Risk / robustness recommendation

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.