Daily — 2026-06-18 (5 follow-up rounds parked at awaiting_promotion; analyzer self-check tightened)

What happened

• Fully autonomous day — no live user chat. Five same-issue follow-up rounds ran end-to-end and parked at awaiting_promotion for user promotion: #641 (matched-recipe EM-resistant-context install, 8-seed re-fold), #657 (activation-alignment predicts a persona's own base rate but not steering write-side), #642 (LoRA-vs-full-FT sycophancy bystander-leakage gap, round-5 refusal replication), #651 (per-behavior context-invariant directions across 4 behaviors), #559 (base-model self-scoring predicts marker-implant landing on held-out personas).
• Each cleared the full ensemble stack: interp-critic + Codex twin → clean-result-critic + Codex twin (3 rounds) → reconciler → methodology doc + gist → park. No tasks blocked.
• #651 recovered from a 5× HF Hub gateway-timeout chain (epm:failure v5): resumed pod-651, drained 132 stranded .pt extracts + manifests, verified on HF Hub, re-posted epm:results v2. #657 cleared a RunPod 429 rate-limit crash and a K2-fallback routing bug across three crash-fix rounds.
• Watcher auto-stopped idle issue-mapped sessions (641, 642, 651) once parked — working as designed.

Applied workflow improvements

1. Target: .claude/agents/analyzer.md — what: Step 5 self-check now runs audit_clean_results_body_discipline.py alongside verify_task_body.py, so bracketed-CI / family-label / byte identical violations are caught before posting instead of at clean-result-critic round 1 — commit: aeb590f455 Why: #641, #559, and #657 each FAILed clean-result-critic round 1 on "bracketed-CI bounds in reading prose" (Lens 7) today, burning one analyzer↔critic REVISE round apiece. The analyzer's Step 4.6 checklist only eyeballs "no bracketed CIs"; the script that mechanically catches them (audit_clean_results_body_discipline.py's interval_inline regex, added #637/#649) is exactly what the critic's mechanical pre-pass runs — but the analyzer never ran it on its own draft. Running the same gate at self-check makes the bounce structurally impossible. Applied edit:

     uv run python "$REPO_ROOT"/scripts/verify_task_body.py --file .claude/cache/experiment-<N>-clean-result.md  # ALWAYS the main checkout's copy
   + uv run python "$REPO_ROOT"/scripts/audit_clean_results_body_discipline.py .claude/cache/experiment-<N>-clean-result.md  # body-discipline gate the critic's pre-pass runs
     ...
   - Every FAIL must be fixed before posting. ... Do NOT proceed to Step 6 until the verifier is FAIL-free.
   + Run BOTH gates. [...] Every FAIL from EITHER gate must be fixed before posting. ... Do NOT proceed to Step 6 until both gates are FAIL-free.
   

Other problems & notes

• Step 10d auto-merge primary path (rebase) failed on every long-lived worktree branch today — #641 (2275 behind origin/main), #642 (3833 behind), #651, #657 (GraphQL: This branch can't be rebased). The surgical-cherry-pick fallback (full_rebase_deferred: true, surgical_checkout: true) fired and landed all artifacts on main in every case, so no task was blocked — but the primary rebase-merge path essentially never succeeds for these branches, and the issue-N branches never fully merge. Held — genuine judgment call (architectural / worktree-lifecycle): the right fix (periodic rebase of live worktree branches onto main? accept deferred-merge permanently? prune merged branches?) is a contract-level decision, not a same-turn edit. Suggested action: decide whether deferred surgical-merge is the intended steady state, or whether worktree branches should be kept closer to main.
• Two failure-lessons fired today and were already consolidated in-flight — no action needed. #641 round-3 save_total_limit checkpoint-pruning trap and #657 v6 "route on the artifact, not the exit code" (K2 SystemExit-after-write) both already landed in .claude/rules/gotchas.md (lines 45, 58). The #657 infra lesson (RunPod auto-fallback lane: nohup bash <driver> doesn't source .env; use a launcher with set -a; . ./.env; set +a) is captured in .claude/agent-memory/experimenter/feedback_runpod_lane_env_not_sourced_via_nohup.md and the experimenter.md launch protocol. The in-flight hook is doing its job.
• .git housekeeping warning (low priority, infra): git commit reported too many unreachable loose objects; run 'git prune' and a stale .git/gc.log blocking auto-gc. Suggested action: rm .git/gc.log && git prune on the shared repo root during a quiet window (not auto-applied — touches the shared .git and is better done when no concurrent session is mid-commit).
• #642 transient Codex probe-error ("No job found for task-...", retries exhausted) — self-resolved, the job continued. No fix; standard Codex API flakiness handled by the existing retry path.

My thoughts

Highlighted results

• no results promoted today