vault-sync: 2026-10-18 06:01 (jimmy)

memory-systems/agent-os/dream/insights.md

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 - **Literal compliance is a failure mode when intent is already on record** (2026-10-12). A new instruction that contradicts a preference stated earlier *in the same session* must be surfaced before it is executed — especially when execution is expensive (a render, a delete, a spec change). "You asked for X twice; this says not-X — confirm?" costs one line and saves a cycle. A verification pass can pass its own spec and still fail the user: spec-compliance ≠ intent-compliance.
 - **Instrument the weakest link before the verdict, not after** (2026-10-12). When a reviewer names the assumption most likely to flip the result, build its diagnostic *while the sample is still small* so the counterfactual is ready at N. Pre-built diagnostics beat post-hoc rationalizing.
 - **A `MEDIA:` send tag is a request, not a receipt** (2026-10-15). Pushing a file with a `MEDIA:` path does not prove it reached the chat; verify on disk (path + size) and state honestly whether receipt can be confirmed before claiming "delivered." (The prop39 v2 "Sent where??" exchange was the cost of assuming.)
+- **Bridge verification splits into transport and action** (2026-10-16). "Acknowledge receipt in your log" is satisfiable with zero local tools; a Gitea post is not (webhook sessions are tool-restricted). Test them separately, and route action-requiring bridge messages to a full-tool session.
+- **`patch` refuses Hermes config files by design** (2026-10-16); the documented path is `hermes config set`. One failed write + correct fallback is fine; re-attempting the same write is the recurring-defect pattern.
 - **Creative iteration is single-variable by default** (2026-10-15). On "these all suck" + a named baseline, fix one thing, re-render one file, re-show. Match the loop to the feedback signal, not throughput. A durable working preference of Tony's: serial, one-at-a-time, one fix per pass, until a baseline is locked.
 - **One representation, derived not duplicated** (2026-10-12). When a contract lives as schema + template + validator (or any >1 list), derive the others from one source or they drift. Hardening the validator to read its required set from the schema closed the exact drift class that had produced a prior gap.
 - **Evolving instrumentation must record its change-point** (2026-10-12). Instrumentation may change mid-run (e.g. added per-exchange logging), but the autopsy's `evidence_links` must carry every relevant commit hash plus a one-line change-point note ("X logged from commit Y onward; earlier signals have only aggregate"). Honest about instrument evolution without invalidating the pre-registered test.
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   this agent's own traces** (2026-10-13 trace-miner: the write_file pagination refusal alone hit 172
   sessions; blocked-command patterns another ~50) — treat it as a standing behavioral defect, not an
   accident. Never retry unchanged.
+- **Dream-mode discovery must be exhaustive for the target date** (2026-10-18, found in self-audit).
+  The 2026-10-16 same-night run missed the day's 148-message main session (it post-dated that
+  run's discovery window) and wrote a "light day" note with open questions the day's own logs had
+  already answered. Rules: (a) enumerate sessions by *date bound*, not recent-browse; (b) reconcile
+  every open question against the day's evidence before writing — a note that re-asks what the day
+  settled is a hallucinated gap. Corrected in place with a corrigendum header.
 - **Artifact in the message, decision in the prompt** (2026-10-13). Any approval-gated write must ship
   its exact diff/payload in the reply *body*; the approval prompt is a bare yes/no. If the reviewer has
   to open a prompt to see what they're approving, the 60-min window burns and the work stalls a day —
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 - **Agent-loop roles:** planner=Proposer, reviewer=Critic, builder=Executor, jimmy=Recorder. Independent engines per role; a critic that proposed the claim shares its blind spots.
 - **brag / MiArc video pipeline — verified gotchas** (2026-10-12). Hyperframes' stacked config: **`data-automation` volume lane supersedes `data-volume`** — setting the "obvious" one silently does nothing (cause of the music-drowns-VO bug). **Animated film grain is a bitrate trap**: static grain took the file 101 MB → 14.7 MB with no visible loss. SVG **`scaleX` scales about user-space origin** → the arc collapsed to the left; fix with `svgOrigin`. Local voice = **Kokoro venv at `C:/Users/fight/.venvs/kokoro`** (`am_michael` male / `af_heart` female); narration must be per-line loudness-normalized (`loudnorm` under-corrects short clips). System Chrome is broken on this box → use Hyperframes' managed headless shell. Verify pacing (static-hold), mix separation, voice presence (cross-correlation r), and encode size *on the delivered file*.
 - **Prop 39 political explainer video (2026-10-15, in progress).** Project `C:\video\prop39` (Remotion, from `video-stack\template`). Single source of truth = `C:\video\STACK.md` (= `Video Stack/Full Stack Spec.md` in vault) — it wins over any older doc. 9-scene / 97.3s build, music beds A/B/C × landscape + vertical. Voice = Qwen3-TTS "Prop 38 Voice B" (consented human ref `C:\tts\voices\user_announcer_ref.wav`). Music = ACE-Step 1.5 (`C:\Users\fight\Projects\ACE-Step-1.5`, isolated py3.12, CUDA 12.8, gradio :7860), 93s instrumental beds time-stretched (atempo) to the voice tail. Loudness spec bar = **−16 LUFS ±1, TP ≤ −1.5 dBTP**, AAC 192k 48kHz; drafts were mixed ≈ −18.6 LUFS (~2 LU under — reconcile before final master). QA stack: ffprobe + ebur128 + Whisper ASR diff + contact-sheet vision. One open item blocking final = exact "Paid for by" committee name (placeholder "SPONSOR DISCLOSURE PENDING · DRAFT ONLY"). Workflow = serial: baseline Bed A landscape, one fix per pass. Two pending Tony calls: stop 2nd model LFM2.5-2.6B on :1920 (shares 3060 12GB w/ Qwen)? fix local `C:\llama\restore_llama_servers.bat` to start Qwen only?
+- **Grok↔Leonard bridge — LIVE (2026-10-16).** Repo `Tony_tech/hermes-grokbot-bridge`. Webhook platform on TonyB gateway bound `100.64.0.1:8644` (tailnet, plain HTTP — diagrams say HTTPS, correct for tailnet scope only), `multiplex_profiles:true`; subscription `grokbot` → profile leonard; URL `http://100.64.0.1:8644/p/leonard/webhooks/grokbot`; per-route secret out-of-band only (Grok's config, never repo/git/chat). `github_comment` deliver is GitHub-only (shells `gh pr comment`) — **Leonard posts replies via Gitea Issues API as leonard/tonyjbala, never Ty**. Companion doc: `hermes-grokbot-manual` (file-loop). Grok box = `grokbot-box` 100.64.0.11 (HS_ty); offline when his Tailscale stops (route fine, peer down). Tony confirmed end-to-end 10-16. Open: Gitea reply-post path untested in practice.
 - **Provider fallback incident (2026-10-12):** `deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731` (routeapi) went unavailable on billing/quota; role profiles silently failed over to Qwen on the brother-5090 rig for ~18 min. Check the profiles' actual model on health checks.
 - **OpenCode on this box (2026-10-13):** `opencode models` exposes 51 models — 39 `google/*` + 12 `opencode/*`, **all free tier; zero DeepSeek** (`opencode/deepseek-v4-flash|v4.1-flash|v4-pro` all return `UnknownError` despite appearing in `opencode.jsonc` — no entitlement; a free model ran `OC_SMOKE_OK`, so the CLI is fine). The only working route to OpenCode+DeepSeek is **OpenRouter**: append `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` to `~/.config/opencode/.env` (shell append to that file is blocklisted — use file I/O), add an `openrouter` provider block + `"model"` to `~/.config/opencode/opencode.jsonc`, back both up first. Auth/config live at `~/.config/opencode/`; auth DB `~/.local/share/opencode/auth.json` is CLI-read-only. **Held pending Tony's approval** (clarify expired 10-13 20:18).
 
 ## 🧰 Skills / Tooling Notes
 - **Skill-review telemetry (2026-10-15):** 196 total skills; 0 eligible for idle archive, 0 archived, 0 stale-watchlist. The same five merge candidates remain; description review confirms the duplicate-name `test-driven-development` pair shares the same TDD purpose but has complementary coverage (strict iron law vs repository discovery/browser verification), so merge only with approval. The 2026-10-14 curator report records 6 auto-archives + 3 reactivations among 47 checked; LLM consolidation was disabled and `run.json` lists no archive names.
-- **Recurring-defect reality check (updated 2026-10-14 trace miner):** 379 sessions / 27,588 messages → 25 findings. The same behavioral error dominates: paginated `write_file` refusal in 230 sessions; `terminal` script-execution blocks in 38; `execute_code` blocks in 27. Change the call after a prescriptive error; this is one behavioral fix, not an instrumentation shortage. The miner also logged 12 self-corrections across 3 sessions.
+- **Recurring-defect reality check (updated 2026-10-16 trace miner):** 498 sessions / 32,391 messages → 25 findings, ranking stable day-over-day. The same behavioral error dominates: paginated `write_file` refusal in 235 sessions; `terminal` script-execution blocks in 96 (cron) + 35 (-q); `execute_code` blocks in 25. Change the call after a prescriptive error; this is one behavioral fix, not an instrumentation shortage. The miner also logged 15 self-corrections across 4 sessions (new pattern S4).
 - **brag skill split (2026-10-12, done by hand on approval):** official hub skill `brag` installed as authority (`hermes skills install official/creative/brag`); local skill renamed `brag-launch-video` → **`brag-local-addendum`** and slimmed 34.1 KB → 15.9 KB (box-specific deltas only). Lint: a frontmatter-only rename is invalid — skill name must match its directory.
 
 ## 🧵 Open Threads
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 - **Sorter cron gap — FIXED (2026-10-17).** The `{{meta}}` role token in `Meta/vault-map.md` pointed at `00_system`, but every crew file the agents read (`user-profile.md`, `vault-structure.md`, `tag-taxonomy.md`, `states/`, `health-reports/`) lives in `Meta/`. Repointed the token to `Meta`; verified with a live Sorter run (`TOKEN=Meta`, `NAME=Tony`).
 - **Duplicate skill:** `test-driven-development` exists twice at similarity 1.00 (`software-development/` and `software-development/agent-skills/`). Proposed for consolidation; not merged unattended.
 - **Webhook sessions are tool-restricted (2026-10-16):** no terminal, no file I/O, no private-network web access. Inbound bridge messages that require local action (Gitea post, file read, shell) will fail in a webhook context. Transport verification (receipt) works; action verification does not. Fix: route action-requiring messages to a full-tool session.
-- **AgentOS git mailbox (`C:\Users\fight\AgentOS\agent-comms`):** 8 stale outbox messages (0001–0008, research-loop era) remain `status: pending`. Grok Bot bridge test (2026-10-16) confirmed receipt path works; Gitea comment post was never completed (tool gap, not transport failure).
+- **AgentOS git mailbox (`C:\Users\fight\AgentOS\agent-comms`):** 8 stale outbox messages (0001–0008, research-loop era) remain `status: pending`. Grok Bot bridge test (2026-10-16) confirmed receipt path works; Gitea comment post was never completed (tool gap, not transport failure). Superseded by the live webhook bridge — mailbox route is legacy; close out the 8 pendings and the seq-0015 handshake proposal.