From 204e53b528a0350b14a353cf2a0a9d9eaa51b1f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ola Skavhaug Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:31:52 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Morning check of the 22 October away window (@orchestrator) Window 13:48-19:48 UTC. Idle 16:50:28-19:48:44 (2 h 58 min) while session.md's own QUEUE line listed eight lessons for a retrospective, a fallback needing no ruling and writing no governed path. Morning check owed 12 h 35 min, 12 h 30 of it before Ola's return. Refusals: away.py --help (true); @tester compound amend at 14:08 (true, redone in the allowed form, not a false positive); the 91 push at 15:20 (true cause: push_grant.SHA needs 40 hex, but the stated reason is NOT_BARE, which did not apply); two spawns refused because brief.py cuts the verdict line at 200 characters unmarked and the main session completed it. No guard false positive. Beyond a ruling: increment 93's design started without Ola's yes (Ola said yes this morning). Review records written by @architect against README step 4 after Ola's yes to change it. duties.py --status hung 55 min on open stdin. Lessons recorded (nine groups). Proposals: rule text net -24 words (owner writes review records, prose-edit list is @architect's before code review, tester rule says "bug fix", cut two restatements in the harness section); brief.py marks its cut; new increment needs a quoted ruling; a wake-up at window end for the morning check; check_citations against private/master on private branches. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 --- docs/retrospectives/2026-10-23-morning.md | 213 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 213 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/retrospectives/2026-10-23-morning.md diff --git a/docs/retrospectives/2026-10-23-morning.md b/docs/retrospectives/2026-10-23-morning.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f548c4dff --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/retrospectives/2026-10-23-morning.md @@ -0,0 +1,213 @@ +# 2026-10-23 morning check: the away window of 22 October, 13:48 to 19:48 UTC + +Times are UTC. Window: entered 2026-10-22 13:48:44, set to end 19:48:44, +grants `worktree-worktree-ar50-vegetation` (increment 91, the land-cover +forest and open-land split) and `worktree-lsm-energy-balance` (increment 92, +the one-layer snow energy balance) (`.git/harness/windows.jsonl`, +`unattended.json`). It ran out on its own; Ola's next prompt came at +2026-10-23 08:18:14. Sources: the main session's transcript +`c38521c2-eceb-4357-9777-0b262dbe53b1.jsonl` ("line N"), its subagent +records under `c38521c2-…/subagents/`, `.git/harness/queue.jsonl`, +`.claude/current-task/session.md`, and `git log` of the three branches named +below. Ola told the main session he would be out 5 h (line 1438); the window +he set was 6 h. + +## 0. Duties owed + +`python3 tools/duties.py`: "morning check (1 away window ended since, +latest 2026-10-22 19:48 UTC)". Owed from 19:48:44; this check was spawned at +2026-10-23 08:23:42 (line 3843): **12 h 35 min**, of which 12 h 30 min fell +before Ola's return. Nothing woke the idle session at 19:48 (proposal 4 +below). After Ola's return the spawn came 5 min later, behind the two pushes +and the enqueue he approved at 08:20:43 (line 3624). The weekly check of the +private ideas file is next due 2026-10-26. + +## 1. Idle timeline + +Agent spans from the subagent records (first and last timestamp of each); +commits from `git log` of `worktree-lsm-energy-balance`, +`worktree-worktree-ar50-vegetation` and `worktree-lsm-forest-plan`. + +| Stretch | Length | What ran | +|---|---|---| +| 13:48 to 16:49:45 | 3 h 01 min | 91: green, code review r1, red fix, green fix, master merge, prose edits, code review r2 (APPROVED `dac60f4d`), record `8efa120b`. 92: red suite, design r3, red update, green (3 stages), code review r1, tiny-pack fix through design, red and green, code review r2 (APPROVED `2434aac1`), `@perf` acceptance (station test failed, `331215d5`), diagnosis (`c565d34a`). Triangle-budget steep-terrain probe. Forest-case plan, its review and wordings (`ec144949`). The design of increment 93, the three-layer snow pack (`f9c3d977`), its review and one fix. At no point did more than 60 s pass with no agent running. | +| **16:50:28 to 19:48:44** | **2 h 58 min** | **Nothing.** No agent, no commit on any ref (`git log --all --since 16:51 --until 19:49` is empty). The Stop hook fired at 16:50:21 (line 3520); the main session set `NOW: idle` (line 3536). | +| 19:48:44 to 08:18:14 | 12 h 30 min | Outside the window; waiting for Ola. | + +**A fallback existed at 16:50.** `.claude/REQUIRED-READING.md`, *Unattended +mode*: "idle is accepted only when no such item exists" (an item that needs +no ruling and writes no governed path). `session.md`'s own `QUEUE` line, the +one that says "Fallback for the last hour: none left", lists eight lessons +under "Next retro". Recording them is `@orchestrator`'s work in +`docs/retrospectives/`, which `guard_governance.py`'s `GOVERNED` lists do not +cover, and it needs no ruling; with every other item waiting only on Ola, +none counted toward the cap of three. This check records them now, 15 h +later. Second night running: `2026-10-22-night.md` §1 found the same, a +queue said to be empty that was not. + +## 2. Refusals and false positives + +Four hook refusals in the main session (two with one cause), one in a +subagent; no guard false positive. + +1. **13:48:04, `python3 tools/away.py --help`** (line 1447), by the main + session, refused: "Only Ola enters or leaves unattended mode". The rule + says no agent runs `away.py`, whatever the flag; the main session then read + the source with `grep` and `sed`. A true refusal, and an act outside the + main session's role, harmless. +2. **14:08:42, `@tester` (agent `aaf46bd4`), a compound command**: a shell + heredoc edit of `tests/python/energy_reference.py`, three gates, then + `git commit -q --amend --no-edit -a`, chained with `;` and `&&` + (`queue.jsonl` entry 1; subagent line 1106). The guard's reason: an amend + of an unpublished commit passes only last after `cd` and `git add`, or as + `git -C commit --amend …` alone; "it may be redone in that + form". **Not a false positive**: an amend rewrites history, and the + command was not in the allowed form. The tester redid the edit with Edit + (an ordinary test file) and the amend as + `git -C /Users/…/lsm-energy-balance commit --amend --no-edit -a` (line + 1202), as the rule allows; its handback says so (main line 1660). +3. **15:20:01, `git push origin 8efa120b:refs/heads/worktree-worktree-ar50-vegetation`**, + by the main session (line 2745). **The cause is the short sha**: + `tools/push_grant.py`'s `granted_act` passes a push only when + `SHA.fullmatch(sha)`, with `SHA = re.compile(r"[0-9a-f]{40}")`; an + 8-hex sha makes it return `None`. **The guard's stated reason is wrong + for this case**: it prints `NOT_BARE`, "the grant takes only one bare + command, every word written out (no variable, no &&, ;, pipe, redirect or + heredoc)", none of which the command had. The main session diagnosed it + from the mismatch and did not retry (line 2750); Ola's 08:20 yes, then + the full-sha push at 08:21:00 (line 3648). Cost: 91 waited from 15:20 to + 08:21 for a grant it already had. Retro #38's Q-A (the refusal names the + failing word), still in `session.md` as an `ASK OLA` line, would have + named it. +4. **15:23:03 and 15:52:11, spawn refused: "brief: edited; paste the output + of tools/brief.py unchanged"** (lines 2937, 3125). Both times the main + session had completed the brief's `Review rounds recorded: …; last:` line, + which `tools/brief.py:205` cuts at `MAX_VERDICT = 200` characters with no + mark, here mid-path ("`docs/increments/92-`"). The diff of each refused + prompt against the `brief.py` output is that one line. A true refusal, + but the cut looks like damage and invited the edit twice. + +## 3. Work out of role or beyond a ruling + +1. **The main session started increment 93 without Ola's yes.** At 16:27:00 + (line 3340) it briefed `@architect` to write the three-layer design, + reading 92's §4.1 (the layers named as the fallback if the station test + failed) as covering it. Ola's ruling named the "one-layer snowpack energy + balance"; `.claude/REQUIRED-READING.md`: "A question whether to build at + all waits for Ola." `@reviewer` blocked it (line 3414, CHANGES REQUESTED + `f9c3d977`, finding 1); the main session agreed (line 3417) and wrote no + tests or code. Cost: three spawns, about 23 min. Ola said yes at 08:20 + (line 3624, answer 3), so the design is not wasted. Same day as the sun + position moved under "radiation" without asking (Ola's memory note on + rulings covering what they name). +2. **Review records written by `@architect`**: `1ac21210` (92 design r3) and + `dac60f4d` (91 code r1), at the main session's request, while + `docs/increments/README.md` step 4 says "the main session itself, not an + agent it spawns". Ola said yes to letting the owner write them at 13:32:37 + (line 1023, answer 2, after the question at line 1019). The main session + then wrote `8efa120b`, `f35d6012` and `2fd8861b` itself, citing the rule + (line 2693). Rule text and practice disagree until proposal 1 lands. +3. **`@developer` (agent `aba4af0d`) ran three `until ! pgrep -f …` wait + loops** that matched their own shell and never ended (its lesson, main + line 2381). Every brief forbids a polling loop. +4. **`tools/duties.py --status` hung for 55 min** (13:48:58 to 14:43:44, + lines 1490 to 2197). `--status` is the status-line mode and reads the + session JSON from stdin (`tools/duties.py:216`); the Bash tool leaves + stdin open, so `stdin.read()` blocks. Checked: `sleep 30 | python3 + tools/duties.py --status` is still blocked at 5 s; with `