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Overview / Motivation

Auto-filed by the /daily 2026-07-23 parked-candidate routing pass (Step C). Raised as TWO recursion-guard-parked prose follow-ups on task #1634 (Alternatives critic, 17:19Z) — both children of #1634's clause-1d pid-file work ("pid file from launch chain child, never pgrep"), grouped here because they share one subject (pid acquisition integrity).

Goal

(1) Add a poller-side pid-identity check to scripts/poll_pipeline.py so a fresh-but-wrong pid file is runtime-detectable; (2) reconcile the experimenter agent-memory feedback_pgrep_self_match_pidfile.md with the new clause 1d so it no longer prescribes the partially-superseded pgrep-based relaunch pid resolution.

Workflow gap

Bug observed: (a) scripts/poll_pipeline.py has no pattern-probe fallback / pid-identity check — a fresh-but-wrong pid file (the stale-pid false-"run exited" class; two false monitor alarms fired today before pid capture was hardened in #1634) is not runtime-detectable; #1634's plan §9 explicitly deferred this poller-side mechanical extension (diagnosis-shortening, not correctness-critical). (b) .claude/agent-memory/experimenter/feedback_pgrep_self_match_pidfile.md prescribes pgrep-based relaunch pid resolution (self-match hygiene only) — partially superseded by #1634's clause 1d (pgrep acquisition ban + launch-chain-child pid capture).
Why it is a workflow gap: a stale memory steering the experimenter toward the banned acquisition path undoes the landed #1634 fix; the poller-side identity check closes the runtime-detection half the same plan deferred.
Confidence (emitter): medium
verified-at-filing: grep -n "pid.identity\|pattern.probe" scripts/poll_pipeline.py → 0 hits (absence claim, in-target 0-hit is the evidence); .claude/agent-memory/experimenter/feedback_pgrep_self_match_pidfile.md exists (1,636 B, unmodified since Jun 12 — predates clause 1d) and grep -n "1d\|acquisition ban" in it → 0 hits (2026-07-24 UTC).

Proposed change (candidate diff sketch — refine in planning)

Poller: on breadcrumb read, verify the pid's identity (cmdline matches the expected launch signature) before trusting liveness; fall back to a bracketed pattern probe on mismatch. Memory: rewrite the pgrep memory to point at clause 1d's launch-chain-child capture as the acquisition path, keeping pgrep for self-match hygiene only.

Scope / surfaces

Primary target: scripts/poll_pipeline.py, .claude/agent-memory/experimenter/feedback_pgrep_self_match_pidfile.md

Constraints / invariants

Workflow-surface only. scripts/workflow_lint.py --check-asks passes; ruff on touched files passes.
This session runs under a workflow_fix_target: Provenance line — it MUST NOT auto-route its own subagents' workflow-fix candidates (recursion guard).

Provenance

fingerprint: e36d4b5ddca4
workflow_fix_target: scripts/poll_pipeline.py

Origin: parked candidates on #1634 (2026-07-23T17:19:04Z, items 1 + 2).