Sequential live command tests

Historical record — current status supersedes the handoff

The sections below retain the six-run pilot, its stop decision and initial integration refusal. They are not current pending-work instructions. The 2026-11-09 reconciliation confirms that all 30 original targets, including these six, now have integrated publications and comparisons have been refreshed. Later execution does not by itself establish prevention of the recurring worker mistakes diagnosed here.

Commission and limits

The operator authorized sequential live testing of the dispatch list on 2026-11-07: run one system, repair local errors and rerun, inspect its results and traces for hidden failures, then proceed to the next. Stop for a defect requiring fundamental changes or bugs still recurring after the first five live attempts. Count every actual analysis execution attempt, including reruns, and also track distinct systems. Do not silently reset that counter.

This commission adds live execution to the earlier discovery-only commission. It does not authorize integration of publications, cleanup, source edits or rewriting a prepared method. Use pi-sol and default three role workers, with one analysis at a time. Keep triage rationale outside worker inputs. Inspect only this campaign's Pi worker traces; completed advisory audits are leads, not independent correctness certificates. Preserve all failed evidence.

Use the checked-in method at launch. Local code/method repairs require targeted regressions, relevant tests and a commit before a fresh worktree can test them. Resume the original run only when its existing method can perform the intended recovery. Never mutate a pinned worktree or launch a replacement while ownership or effects remain unsettled. A fresh run after a committed repair must cite its settled predecessor and why its old method cannot test the fix.

Preflight

• First target: https://github.com/liushengyu/memexos, first URL in dispatch order.
• No matching retained path, named worktree, completion-workshop assignment or active analysis process was found by the scoped ownership checks.
• Method at first intake: 0aa1fb36a (default HEAD; exact hash retained by controller).
• commonplace-analysis and Pi are installed on PATH; selected profile is pi-sol, model gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort.
• Local filesystem: 36 GiB available, approximately 22.7 million free inodes. Existing sample worktree occupies 259 MiB. Use default ignored worktree parent, retain evidence and recheck space before each target. Stop before a new launch if available storage falls below 10 GiB; do not clean other evidence.
• Unrelated dirty theory, source ingests, script/tooling and workshop navigation are excluded from all method commits.

Attempts

1 — memexos

Intake authorized; controller destination: .commonplace/worktrees/controllers/gist-live-01-memexos. Command exited 0. Published only in its isolated worktree; not integrated.

• Run: AAS-2026-11-07-memexos-5cd34a715eb7-01.
• Worktree: .commonplace/worktrees/memexos-4460a2f51a56.
• Frozen source: bb9e9b2ac0adbca87d13a9f7600867128b5f71b9.
• Method: 0aa1fb36a5915c260dd07adb7933df1f0eea2587.
• Controller JSON/stderr: .commonplace/worktrees/gist-live-tests/01-memexos.*.
• Fourteen role attempts, including epistemic correction and renewed report verification/reconciliation. All final verifiers accepted. Overview and synthesis were read; retained-artifact validation passed without warnings.
• Audit snapshot under the run: audit/ae66e319ec961f3318a1403c03f0836dfb278f5cfd6b2f76b4ee2ad6baf389ce/. All 14 worker streams scanned as Pi JSON, zero partial/unscanned streams and zero input issues; ten scanner failure leads (including nested representations of the same missing read, not ten distinct bugs). No provider observations.
• Audit read and original trace failure/recovery sequences sampled in memory, runtime, epistemic, profile and report verification. Observed missing paths, drafting/syntax mistakes, duplicate profile citations, citation labels and quote attribution repairs. The completed artifact and accepted verdicts establish final validation, not success of every intermediate operation.
• Bounded audit checked capture/retrieval/publication exceptions against source and established no material final defect in those passages. Final synthesis explicitly retains incomplete acquisition/evaluation inventories and lack of runtime benefit evidence. No automation code bug established; no patch or redundant rerun required. Comparisons remain unchanged and stale relative to this new worktree publication.

2 — Obelyth/cortex

No existing ownership found by source-identity checks of run parameters; 36 GiB remains available. Next source: https://github.com/Obelyth/cortex. Controller: .commonplace/worktrees/controllers/gist-live-02-cortex. Command exited 0; published in worktree only. Run: AAS-2026-11-07-cortex-6101286707a0-01; worktree .commonplace/worktrees/cortex-b09108a35d0c; source revision 65d449a3275eee51efd6ce0c275572806ee9d553; same method as attempt 1. Thirteen role attempts; one profile-verifier blocker was corrected and accepted. Overview, synthesis, final profile verification and audit were read; retained validation passed without warnings. Audit 9fc1a2b506c8df45a7d9d94007bbe0f1115944d921209006489f6b773334d947 scanned all 13 streams with 14 failure leads, no input/coverage gaps and no provider observations. Leads include missing/guessed paths, undefined codemode root, failed globs and repaired quote/citation validation. The audit checked cache policy and access-history/lifecycle claims against source and successful follow-up reads; no material final defect was established. The repeated profile work and failed tool calls are execution overhead, not evidence of an automation bug. No code repair or additional run was needed. Not integrated; comparisons not rebuilt. Console-adapter and development-plane coverage remain bounded.

3 — exia-seed

Next URL: https://github.com/francisdu53/exia-seed; source-identity ownership checks found no existing run. Controller: .commonplace/worktrees/controllers/gist-live-03-exia-seed. Command exited 0; published only in the isolated worktree. Run: AAS-2026-11-07-exia-seed-804e805b7a8d-01; worktree .commonplace/worktrees/exia-seed-c2176cbd6b2b; source revision c7497ac96da20bd1818096e35a59b6c0237f9730; unchanged method. Eleven role attempts, no role-level correction rounds. All three verifier stages accepted. Overview, synthesis and audit read; retained validation passed. Audit e7c7ff0db006f75e5e3473e71cf582a6043f86b8afc97fe6d7616e03809c0567 scanned all 11 streams: four leads are two failed guessed-path reads plus nested batch representations, no input/coverage gaps or provider observations. Original successful replacement reads and their collateral reads were checked at epistemic trace lines 1880–1890 and runtime lines 1133–1139. Audit checked benchmark judge semantics, forced nightly closure and withdrawal handling against source; no final defect established. Limits include benchmark inventory and grouped profile units, disclosed in synthesis. No automation bug or code repair; not integrated, no comparison rebuild.

4 — suwonleee/llmwiki

Next URL: https://github.com/suwonleee/llmwiki; no existing source-identity ownership found. Storage before launch: 35 GiB available. Controller: .commonplace/worktrees/controllers/gist-live-04-llmwiki. Command exited 0; published in worktree only. Run: AAS-2026-11-08-llmwiki-7f7e35008c0f-01; worktree .commonplace/worktrees/llmwiki-43812a7c978d; source e6be788bdfd969c3695f839a5d6b5752bb233cfc; unchanged method. Fifteen role attempts. First report verification required epistemic, memory and reconciliation corrections; final verifiers accepted. Synthesis and audit were read; retained validation passed without warnings. All 15 streams scanned, seven leads, zero input/coverage gaps. A normal git diff --no-index difference is not a bug; other leads were a synthetic nonexistent-path probe and repaired ledger syntax, quote anchors, status enum and citation labels. Original quotation repair and successful validation at memory trace line 13820, and ledger-generation recovery at epistemic lines 10391–10394, were checked. Audit checked failed topic-merge rollback, authority ledger and turn-context caps against source; no material analysis defect established. The target's reachable failed-merge rollback defect is a finding about llmwiki, not a bug to fix in this Commonplace commission. No method/code patch or redundant rerun needed. Not integrated; comparisons unchanged. Alternate read-back inventories remain explicitly incomplete.

5 — llm-wiki-newsroom

Next URL: https://github.com/alfadur7/llm-wiki-newsroom; source-identity ownership check found no existing run. Storage: 35 GiB available. Controller: .commonplace/worktrees/controllers/gist-live-05-newsroom. Command exited 0; publication in worktree only. Run: AAS-2026-11-08-llm-wiki-newsroom-ea04687a5ff6-01; worktree .commonplace/worktrees/llm-wiki-newsroom-ded445f4e371; frozen source 8e209cab483da544852d7213f0e25291d06d8a88; same method. Sixteen role attempts included epistemic and profile corrections; final verifiers accepted. Synthesis and audit read, retained-artifact validation passed. Audit 898bb69afba070cbf991174c77193410dce9585641c42cc9f4f5fcfd734d3fca scanned all 16 streams; three leads: two beyond-EOF requests and a repaired export quotation. No coverage/input gaps. Original source reread/quote-edit/ validator pass at runtime events 10004–10493 and already-complete Reporter read at workflow events 1021–1022 were sampled. No material output defect or command bug established. Audit's revision comes from frozen checkout and report boundary; receipt source-revision is null because no explicit source revision was requested. No mutation of the external source. Not integrated; comparisons unchanged.

Five-attempt checkpoint

Five distinct systems and five full analysis executions completed. Zero controller/preparation failures, unsettled launches, unscanned role traces or established automation defects. Transient worker read/draft/validation failures and verifier corrections occurred, but final acceptance was not bypassed and bounded audits found no consequential surviving defect. These are retained as process overhead, not silently relabelled clean runs. Continue sequentially; apply the recurrence boundary after the next attempt. Distinguish an orchestration defect, recurring worker execution mistakes and expected verifier rejections or search no-matches; do not collapse them into one bug count.

6 — crow-hq/llm-wiki-v2

Next URL: https://github.com/crow-hq/llm-wiki-v2; no source-identity ownership match found. Storage: 35 GiB. Controller: .commonplace/worktrees/controllers/gist-live-06-llm-wiki-v2. Command exited 0; publication in worktree only. Run: AAS-2026-11-08-llm-wiki-v2-5abff9a6c5c3-01; worktree .commonplace/worktrees/llm-wiki-v2-0504f862305f; frozen source e0a205afe60bd1913d083a3ed4cdab81e38e4c26; unchanged method. Eleven role attempts; final verifiers accepted without role-level correction. Synthesis and audit read, retained-artifact validation passed. All 11 streams scanned; four leads represent a boundary quotation failure, nonexistent benchmark filename, and missing prompt-module read with its enclosing failed batch. Original replacement quotation/content check, prompt/store reads and benchmark reads were checked at the audit's cited trace events. Audit 16449a38c3c99332f9131a617a9ecb48235b7a11882c145213ca1b2606f7e6c1 verified selected MCP, persistence, evaluator and reported-comparison claims against source; no material final defect established. No controller failure, uncertain effect or unresolved worker launch. Not integrated.

Stop decision and handoff

Stopped before system 7, applying the operator's recurrence limit conservatively to worker execution mistakes, not only controller software bugs. The sixth run repeats the guessed-path and nonmatching-quotation failures seen in earlier runs. Relevant recovery was checked, but successful repair does not establish prevention. Normal verifier objections and deliberate search/diff statuses are not themselves bugs. No fundamental architecture defect or broken controller receipt was established, and no speculative code/prompt patch was made. There was therefore no new method to justify an additional paid rerun. The workflow itself already performed the required content corrections and renewed verification before publication where needed.

Representative recurrence evidence, relative to each named run's calls/launches/<launch-id>/stdout.log:

Mechanism	Earlier occurrence	Occurrence beyond the fifth full run	Recovery evidence
Guessed source path aborts sequential reads and skips later intended reads	memexos runtime f5b9b5261e474f308cfaa1fc6533a5ba:2016–2018, nonexistent intake/plugins.py; EXIA runtime c33bd5281d9a4aacb427cc26752e82e2:1038–1040	v2 runtime 93197822fbf84e5883e4ce5914a7f88b:1390–1392, nonexistent agents/prompts/__init__.py	v2 corrected prompt module plus both skipped store reads succeed at 1494,1498,1502
Source quotation fails exact-source check, then must be replaced	newsroom runtime 05faad5806284c2aafa8850560121b82:9933; llmwiki memory 2ca82bf241ea42af80898892992f6701:13240	v2 boundary dd680a9b4db7458a95b965f5fc2fb832:5748	v2 replacement and reread followed by content-check pass at 6273

These observations support a repair question, not a proven root cause. A candidate interface pressure is that convenient sequential read batches abort on one guessed path; listing exact paths and isolating independent reads might reduce collateral skipped work. Another is composing a plausible quotation instead of copying a retained source span. Changing interfaces could introduce extra calls, noise or incorrect source selection. The smallest next observation is a bounded comparison using these retained incidents, preserving the same source and acceptance checks; do not assume another instruction reminder will prevent recurrence. Further live execution needs the operator's decision about whether this worker-error recurrence should block an otherwise passing campaign.

Final checks and coverage

• Six full analyses, six exit-0 publications and six completed advisory audits. All remain isolated and unintegrated. No live work remains owned by this pilot.
• Eighty role streams scanned; 42 failure leads, not 42 independent bugs. Nested tool/batch representations and expected git diff statuses are included. Zero partial/unscanned inputs or input issues, and no scanner provider/interruption/compaction observations. This is parser coverage, not proof that every shell operation was healthy.
• The six auditor Pi streams were separately scanned using python3 scripts/scan_tools/scan_pi_tool_failures.py --format pi-json: zero failure leads, observations or input issues. Audit reports and sampled original role events were inspected; not every successful call was audited.
• Fresh pinned-command inspection confirms published state with no unsettled role/audit launches or uncertainty. All 13 receipt-member hashes per system match retained bytes. Frozen source HEAD agrees with each saved audit revision.
• Complete unchanged controller JSON/stderr files, consolidated bindings and auditor scan are in ignored .commonplace/worktrees/gist-live-tests/; each controller and run retains original evidence. summary.json maps sources to every path.
• All six retained artifacts validated without warnings. KB documentation validation is separate from those run acceptance checks.
• No external source edits, integration, comparison rebuild, synthesis refresh or evidence removal. Existing comparisons remain unchanged; any earlier landscape synthesis is historical. No automation code patch or pytest rerun was necessary in this live phase.

Integration request and recurrence diagnosis

The operator subsequently authorized integrating the six reports and checking what can reduce the most common recurring failures. The first pinned integration command, for MemexOS, refused with integration requires a clean origin checkout. It stopped at the origin guard before publication staging or branch creation. The origin has unrelated tracked theory/navigation/script edits and untracked source ingests, discovery artifacts and tooling. Nothing was stashed, committed or discarded to bypass the guard. Integration remains pending a clean origin or explicit authority to temporarily set aside and restore the dirty work after confirming writer coordination. No report has been integrated.

Counting method

The 42 scanner findings collapse into 34 outer-call groups by trace and call ID, removing eight nested child/batch representations. This is operation correlation, not a claim of 34 independent root causes. Original full results were inspected for truncated diagnostic tails: one apparent search/no-match candidate was actually wc on nonexistent configuration.ts. It belongs with path discovery failures. The saved classification is local evidence at .commonplace/worktrees/gist-live-tests/incident-groups.json.

Mechanism	Outer calls	Systems	Evidence and practical implication
Source path discovery: guessed files or unmatched shell globs	13	4	Includes missing prompt, plugin, benchmark and config names. The preceding runtime search in MemexOS had already listed candidates, but its same script immediately used a prewritten guessed path. Listing alone is not prevention.
Quotation occurrence or block syntax	6	5	Two ambiguous short quotations, three absent/mutated quotations and one block whose literal > --- text collides with attribution parsing.
Record-citation label differs from its target ID	6	3	The Cortex profile verifier repeated the same label error on its next attempt despite being supplied and reading the records grammar.
Script construction/state	4	3	Two syntax failures, one undefined stored root and one failed exact replacement expectation.
Schema enum/duplicate-value error	2	2	Wrong status-field content and duplicate profile records.
Beyond-EOF continuation	2	1	Both already had equivalent complete reads; no unread source tail established.
Deliberate nonexistent-file probe	1	1	llmwiki's explicitly synthetic cli-nonexistent.ts probe; not accidental source discovery.
Expected diff status	1	1	git diff --no-index exit 1 means differences, not malfunction.

One runtime validation call reports both citation-label and quote-block errors, so category counts overlap once. There are 34 distinct call groups, not 35. The two intentional/expected cases are not defects. No accepted-content defect or measured degradation follows merely from the remaining failures.

Recommendations, not implemented changes

The goal is to reduce failed authoring operations and their collateral skipped reads while retaining exact-source grounding, canonical record references and fresh semantic verification. No method or validator change is authorized by this diagnosis alone, and no accepted report should be rewritten.

1. Separate discovery from dependent reads; isolate independent reads. Use an exact file inventory/search result to construct paths in a later tool step, instead of a precomputed read list in the same script that performs discovery. Use per-read settled results for genuinely independent reads, exposing every failure explicitly. This limits skipped collateral work; it does not turn a missing source into success. Existing tools suffice for a bounded trial; a new filesystem abstraction is not yet justified. The risk is extra round trips and losing the convenience of batching.
2. Render quotations from selected source spans. A read-only author-side helper could return the exact bytes, a checked range and a correctly parsed attribution, then round-trip through the existing parser/matcher before insertion. The author must still select the occurrence whose context supports the claim. Existing quote_ambiguity_advice already returns checked candidate ranges, so adding the same advice again after failure is not a useful fix. Literal source delimiters need a parser-compatible encoding or a documented quote grammar decision; they must not silently lose bytes. This would address mechanical quoting, not source truth or claim support.
3. Generate canonical record links during drafting. The full ID is already recoverable from a uniquely resolved member/anchor. An author-side formatter could emit the required [ID](member#anchor) form and show its diff before content validation. Fail on ambiguous/missing targets. This avoids asking the model to reproduce a redundant constrained label. Do not normalize frozen publications or silently relax the current record contract.
4. Do not add bespoke machinery for the long tail yet. EOF, enum, duplicate and short script mistakes recovered under existing checks. Prefer smaller scripts and explicit state; the sample does not justify another coordinator or a stronger-model migration.

The first practical test should use retained failure examples and unchanged validators, measuring failed outer calls, collateral skipped reads, total calls and any source-selection/claim-support regressions. Deterministic fixtures can check span and link formatting, but cannot establish that workers will use them or that live failure rates improve. Any bounded live comparison and production implementation remains a separate decision. These six systems do not establish a general failure rate, a causal effect of the interface, or the effectiveness of any proposed repair.