• status: final
• scope: registered persistent conversations only; Smoke and Diagnostics excluded
• synthesis model: `openai/gpt-5.6-luna`
• material digest: `fa4b45d945bc238534c38c390651ae41f60da99883ce53b6ceee0d233040ec0a`
Memory restore, packet generation, and the Luna curator are healthy. The bounded registered conversations still end on 2026-10-26 and preserve a historical Main/Audio recording-handoff and deferred-deployment exchange; no independent controller, drain/ownership receipt, reconnect, or MCP-schema receipt proves completion. Direct ACP is in the soft warn band at 804,498/1,050,000 provider tokens (76.6%), but the guard does not recommend reload. The main operational blocker remains missing role-aware control-plane visibility.
• `persistent:main` — rows 6561–6566, 2026-10-26. The user asked about graceful deployment; the final assistant reply claims a delayed controller/bootstrap path and says an explicit drain handshake is future hardening. This is assistant-authored historical status, not completion evidence.
• `persistent:topic:a9f0ca744ef74cbabb21548f73850a81` (Audio, topic 495165) — rows 6549–6552, 2026-10-26. The latest concrete result remains `recording_not_in_this_topic`, conflicting with any claim that the handoff is externally verified.
• `persistent:topic:3dcc9021ed4c9a0268b085663cf67615` (Travel & places, topic 491501) — rows 6425–6479, 2026-09-17/18. Completed Würzburg/travel context; no active trip or unpublished map task is supported.
• `persistent:topic:c8c72bf172ef4e484e3235ed712054cf` (Housing, topic 491564) — rows 6437–6442, 2026-09-17. Historical Mr Lodge/Gmund context; no current viewing or contract task is supported.
• `persistent:topic:da40c6c8c10b07ede097d36fe85dabc1` (Projects, topic 491496) — rows 6429–6432, 2026-09-17. Test/topic-identification only; no active project task.
• `persistent:topic:b288bdf0a2a485cc637961f0b63fb566` (Parallel lifecycle check) — deleted, zero rows, no state contribution.
• `memory-heartbeat.json` at 2026-11-07T17:08Z: restore `ok=true`; 7,696 canonical entries, 6,655 visible entries, and 6,566 model-log rows. The count delta is intentional filtering/deduplication and is not backlog evidence.
• `model-heartbeat.json` at 2026-11-07T16:48Z: `rc=0`, `acpx_rc=0`, `UPDATED`, model `openai/gpt-5.6-luna`; curated memory and curator journal changed. Current configured model identity supersedes stale historical Kimi warnings.
• `background-cursors.json` reports model-log ingestion through 6,566 rows. Candidate lifecycle has no open `candidate` rows; review debt is one semantic row and two memory rows at `needs_more_evidence`, plus one semantic parse error and two memory stale rows. These are review material, not facts. The `semantic_changed=true` flag is not proof of a new durable memory fact.
• The latest curator entries (10:46Z, 14:47Z, and 16:47Z) found no new durable global fact, preference, correction, model/config decision, or confirmed operational risk. The supplied identity/privacy and deployment/self-restart signals remain unpromoted.
• `memory-context-manifest.json`, `restore-packet.json`, and related packets were regenerated around 17:08Z and report fresh source relationships.
• `context-guard.json` at 17:07Z: direct ACP session `ses_02e982155ffef3wgrZC7EBEqhb`, configured model `openai/gpt-5.6-terra`, 804,498/1,050,000 provider tokens, stage `warn`, `next_turn_reload_recommended=false`. This worker did not reload or replace the live backend.
• The preferred model log ends at row 6566 (2026-10-26T06:57:14Z). This establishes bounded log recency only; it does not establish missing conversations or a sync backlog.
• `task-state.json` was read, but it is a single long line and native output is tool-truncated. The visible registry includes the historical daily-brief standing task and old checkpoints; exact current task states, next occurrences, finalizer results, and delivery receipts cannot be verified. Do not revive old `needs_input`/`run_requires_inspection` narratives or claim settlement.
• The extended-tools manifest exposes no named Matrix-lite timer, subagent, backlog, or receipt helpers. Direct reads of `/home/matrix-lite/workspace/state/timers/timers.json`, approvals, observability, and `/home/matrix-lite/state/turns.jsonl` were denied. A read-only Bash JSON parser was also denied. Therefore current timers, approvals, active subagents, delivery receipts, and `missing_runtime_entries`/`needs_sync` remain unknown.
• `background-cursors.json` records the last completed operational-synthesis run at 11:14Z; this scheduled cycle's checkpoint is now finalized. It does not prove any user-facing task delivery.
• Existing open actions and hypotheses were reviewed as historical maintenance debt. Several ledger entries are stale or broader than current evidence (for example, the old candidate-backlog description); they are not revived as current incidents. No new task proposal is warranted.
1. **Historical Audio deployment remains externally unverified.** Preserve the warning; do not replay the migration or report deployment success without independent controller, topic ownership, deployment acceptance, reconnect, and schema receipts.
2. **Control-plane observability is the main blocker.** A role-aware read-only diagnostic should expose task occurrence/finalizer/delivery receipts, timers, approvals, subagents, worker cursors, and backlog status without relying on raw line counts or generated projections.
3. **Context pressure is a monitoring risk, not an immediate reload request.** The session is above the soft warning threshold but below handoff/reset thresholds, and the current guard explicitly recommends no reload.
No curated-memory proposal is made. No new hypothesis, action, notice, or task proposal was appended because the existing ledgers already contain the relevant historical items and duplication would add noise.
• Updated `recent-topics.md` with this cycle's current Luna/restore health, exact candidate review debt, direct-ACP warning, unverified Main/Audio handoff, and control-plane limitation.
• No edit to `curated-memory.md`, generated packets, `perpetual-log.jsonl`, task registry, or live backend.
• No native subagent produced a usable result: one bounded read-only `explore` audit was invoked and returned no report. No async subagent was used.
• Denied/unavailable: native timer, approvals, observability, and turns reads; Bash JSON parser; named Matrix-lite status helpers.
• Non-fatal: synthesis report and warm-memory source were writable. No approval was requested, no deployment/reload/backend replacement occurred, and no generated or canonical log artifact was edited.
• Provide one role-aware, read-only control-plane status surface with atomic task-delivery receipts, timer/subagent state, backlog status, and worker cursors.
• Make generated packet aggregation distinguish current state from historical open actions/notices.
• Require controller/drain/reconnect/schema receipts before deployment claims are surfaced as completion.
• Reconcile or archive stale action/notice descriptions at their source; do not use this worker to rewrite historical ledgers opportunistically.
Checkpoint replaced with this completed report. The final report is /home/matrix-lite/state/persistent-chat/operational-synthesis/reports/2026-11-07T17-11-00Z.md.