Hiro development journal

Probation infrastructure diagnosis and repair

2026.08.08 at 08:02:02 America/Los_Angeles Finite probation completed and stopped Machine-readable JSON

Executive summary

The finite internet-observation probation remains incomplete: six of seven configured attempts now have immutable session records, while attempt seven has not started.

Only attempts one and four completed normally. Attempts two, three, five, and six ended as fail-closed infrastructure failures caused by response-safety enforcement; no behavioral probe failure or automatic promotion occurred.

The benchmark page was unavailable because Hiro's local API and dashboard process was not running on its expected ports. Hiro was subsequently restarted through its checked-in normalized-environment launcher, and the health, benchmark, and evaluation overview endpoints returned HTTP 200.

The last dashboard service output was written at approximately 19:27 Pacific time on August 7, about three minutes before attempt six was due. The log ends without a graceful shutdown record, so the immediate reason the process exited has not been established.

After the restart, attempt six ran immediately and ended as a fail-closed infrastructure failure before any snapshot or probe was recorded. The final attempt was then explicitly paused while the repeated failures were investigated.

The four failures reduced to two external-response incompatibilities: one official HTML endpoint returned encoded content despite an identity request, and one package index declared a body above the one-megabyte budget. Both were replaced with smaller official sources while preserving the original encoding rejection and byte cap.

The repaired source path passed 72 focused tests, all 397 Hiro tests, and a live two-request retrieval validation totaling 191,158 bytes. Hiro was restarted on the repaired commit, the dashboard is healthy, and attempt seven remains disabled.

A separate end-to-end repair validation then exercised the two replacement sources plus an RFC control through retrieval, sanitization, immutable snapshots, deterministic case construction, and the local evaluator. All three cases passed at score 1.0 with no tools, using 199,166 bytes, while the probation ledger remained unchanged.

Following explicit user authorization, the final finite attempt was re-enabled without changing the six-hour rate limit. The scheduler started it at 14:06:09 Pacific time on August 8.

Attempt seven completed normally: all three read-only snapshots were frozen, all three deterministic probes passed at score 1.0, and no proposal, evaluator tool use, Stage 6 authority, or promotion authority was recorded. The finite stop sentinel was restored automatically after the seventh immutable attempt.

Work completed

Probation ledger verification

Completed

Read the frozen probation configuration and all verified session records under the configured runtime session root.
The initial diagnosis confirmed five records against a finite maximum of seven. The recorded Pacific start times were August 6 at 07:47, 13:48, and 19:48, followed by August 7 at 07:30 and 13:30.
Attempts one and four each froze three snapshots and passed all three offline probes. Attempt five froze two snapshots and passed both probes reached before the safety failure.
At the initial inventory, attempts six and seven had no session record. Attempt six was subsequently recorded after service recovery; attempt seven remains absent.

Dashboard availability diagnosis

Completed

Checked active processes and listening sockets. No Hiro API process was present and none of the expected dashboard ports was listening.
Confirmed the benchmark page is served by the same FastAPI application that owns the probation scheduler, so the dashboard outage also removed the scheduler responsible for starting due attempts.
The most recent service output contains successful dashboard overview requests through approximately 19:27 Pacific time on August 7 and then stops abruptly.
No graceful application shutdown or definitive fatal exception was present at the end of that output. The evidence establishes that the service stopped, but not why it stopped.

Safety and authority review

Completed

Confirmed the Stage 6 disabled sentinel remains present and the observation probation remains configured with zero promotion authority.
The four infrastructure failures were fail-closed outcomes produced by response-safety restrictions. They created no failed behavioral probe result and did not expand internet authority.
The observation disabled sentinel has not yet been restored because the finite ledger contains only six attempts.

Service recovery and attempt six

Completed with infrastructure failure

Restarted Hiro through the checked-in detached launcher, which builds a single canonical Windows Path value for child processes and preserves the inherited runtime context.
The launcher reported readiness in approximately nine seconds. The health endpoint, benchmark page, and evaluation overview endpoint each returned HTTP 200 after startup.
The scheduler recognized that the next probation attempt was due and started attempt six immediately at 08:05 Pacific time on August 8.
Attempt six froze an immutable session record but ended before any snapshot or probe was recorded because the first response exceeded a declared safety budget. No retry, proposal, case creation, or promotion occurred.

Infrastructure root-cause repair

Completed and validated

Paused the probation configuration before attempt seven so the scheduler could not consume the final finite attempt during investigation or deployment.
Mapped attempts two and five to an official Python HTML endpoint that returned gzip encoding despite an explicit identity request. Replaced it with the official Python release API, which returned unencoded JSON of 170,780 bytes during validation.
Mapped attempts three and six to the Pydantic Simple Index, whose declared 1,081,093-byte body exceeded the one-megabyte session budget. Replaced it with PyPI's official Pydantic release feed, which returned unencoded XML of 20,378 bytes.
Added deterministic parsing for published non-prerelease Python 3 records and stable PyPI release-feed titles, while retaining the existing HTML and package-index parsing paths for backward compatibility.
Kept the one-megabyte cumulative download cap, three-request cap, zero-redirect policy, encoded-response rejection, exact URL allowlist, sanitization, frozen hashes, and zero-promotion authority unchanged.
Committed the repair at 646896095693dce6a4dc6272576f7cc4655a345d, repinned the disabled runtime configuration to that clean baseline, and restarted Hiro so the live process loaded the repaired code.

End-to-end repair validation

Passed

Created a separate repair-validation evidence root rather than reusing the finite probation session directory or evaluation ledger.
Captured the official Python release API, official Pydantic release feed, and RFC 2606 control through the live pinned-address observer under the unchanged three-request and one-megabyte budgets.
Sanitized and froze each response with its own snapshot hash, derived a deterministic evaluation case, and ran each case through the local tool-free evaluator.
All three cases passed with score 1.0: Python 3.14.7, Pydantic 2.13.4, and the four RFC 2606 reserved top-level names. The evaluator used no tools and had no internet access.
The validation used exactly three requests and 199,166 downloaded bytes. Its summary and SHA-256 companion are read-only and verified, and the probation session count remained six before and after the run.

Final probation attempt and closeout

Completed

The unchanged scheduler started attempt seven at 14:06:09 Pacific time, after the configured six-hour minimum interval elapsed.
The final rotation made exactly three approved read-only requests to the pytest Simple Index, PEP 703, and the Python documentation stable-series page, downloading 312,160 bytes in total.
All three snapshots froze successfully and all three local tool-free probes passed at score 1.0: pytest 9.1.1, PEP 703 Final and Standards Track, and Python series 3.14.
The immutable session and SHA-256 companion verify, the session file is read-only, no case proposal was created, and both promotion_authorized and stage6_authorized remain false.
After the seventh record was created, Hiro restored the observation DISABLED sentinel with the finite-probation-completed reason. The separate Stage 6 DISABLED sentinel also remains present.

Decisions and reasoning

Report the probation as incomplete rather than treating scheduled times as evidence that attempts ran.
Separate completed attempts from infrastructure failures in the status summary even though both consume entries in the finite seven-attempt ledger.
Do not infer that an earlier logging error caused the later service exit; the available timestamps and terminal log content do not establish that causal link.
Do not restart Hiro or manually run missing attempts during a diagnosis-only request without first reporting the state and confirming the intended recovery action.
After explicit recovery authorization, use the checked-in launcher and let the existing scheduler create the next immutable attempt rather than bypassing probation controls.
Preserve all existing session and snapshot evidence unchanged and count attempt six according to the frozen finite-ledger policy.
Fix source incompatibilities by narrowing to smaller official endpoints, not by increasing the byte budget or accepting compressed bodies.
Pause attempt seven throughout repair and validation; successful diagnostic observations must use a separate temporary snapshot root and must not create probation sessions.
Keep the disabled Phase-1 policy template narrow; apply the expanded XML content type and replacement URLs only to the explicit probation runtime policy.
Do not bypass the six-hour minimum interval when resuming the final attempt; arm the existing scheduler and verify the result after its computed eligibility time.

Validation and evidence

Check	Status	Result
Frozen probation configuration and session inventory	passed	The configuration parsed successfully and reported a seven-attempt cap, a 05:30 Pacific start boundary, and five existing session records.
Per-attempt evidence review	passed	All five session JSON records parsed successfully. Two report completed_read_only_cycle and three report infrastructure_failure; no sixth or seventh record exists.
Local process and socket inspection	passed	No Hiro API/dashboard process or listener was found on ports 8000, 8001, or 8765. A separate local model listener was present on port 8080.
Recent service-log inspection	passed	The newest dashboard service output ends after successful overview requests at approximately 19:27 Pacific time on August 7. It contains no later scheduler attempt and no graceful shutdown marker.
Hiro automated tests	passed	All 397 Hiro tests passed in 124.98 seconds after the source and parser repair.
Public journal generation and frontend build	passed	Timestamped-entry tests passed, all 77 journal pages and aliases validated, and the production frontend build completed successfully after installing the locked dependencies in the clean checkout.
Checked-in Hiro launcher	passed	The detached normalized-environment launcher started Hiro and reported readiness in approximately nine seconds.
Recovered dashboard endpoints	passed	The local health endpoint, benchmark page, and evaluation overview endpoint each returned HTTP 200 after restart; the benchmark response contained the expected generated dashboard content.
Attempt-six frozen record	passed	A sixth immutable session and SHA-256 companion were created. The record reports infrastructure_failure, rotation index five, zero snapshots, zero probes, zero proposals, and no promotion authority.
Focused observation regression suite	passed	All 72 probation, controlled-observation, and scheduler tests passed in 2.47 seconds.
Bounded live replacement-source validation	passed	Two read-only GETs to the exact replacement URLs returned HTTP 200, used 191,158 bytes combined, produced sanitized temporary snapshots, and derived Python 3.14.7 and Pydantic 2.13.4 without creating a probation session.
Repaired live service	passed	After restart on the repaired commit, ports 8000, 8001, and 8765 were listening; the health and benchmark endpoints returned HTTP 200; and the observation API reported disabled status with six of seven attempts.
End-to-end isolated repair campaign	passed	Three of three frozen cases passed at score 1.0 with no evaluator tools or evaluator internet access. The campaign used three requests and 199,166 bytes; its summary SHA-256 verified and the probation ledger remained unchanged at six sessions.
Attempt-seven immutable closeout	passed	The seventh session and SHA-256 companion verify and are read-only. Three snapshots and three probes completed; all probes scored 1.0, used no tools, and produced no proposal.
Finite stop controls	passed	The dashboard reports completed at seven of seven with no next run. The observation DISABLED sentinel was restored automatically and the Stage 6 DISABLED sentinel remains present.

Current state

The probation ledger is complete at seven of seven immutable attempts.
Three attempts completed normally and four attempts ended as infrastructure failures.
Attempt seven completed with three snapshots, three passing probes, and no proposals.
The benchmark page and evaluation API are available from the restarted process running the repaired commit.
The finite campaign has no next-run time and internet observation is stopped by its restored DISABLED sentinel.
The repaired Python and Pydantic paths have now passed the complete observation and local-evaluation pipeline outside the finite ledger.
Stage 6 remains disabled and automatic promotion remains unauthorized.

Next steps

Treat the seven-attempt ledger as closed evidence: three completed cycles and four historical fail-closed infrastructure attempts.
Use the separate passing repair-validation packet to show that the two repeated retrieval incompatibilities were corrected; do not rewrite or relabel the four historical failures.
Monitor the final attempt through its immutable session and stop-sentinel creation; do not reinterpret the four historical infrastructure failures as passes.
Investigate the abrupt process exit separately, using launcher lifecycle evidence and Windows process state, without rewriting frozen probation artifacts.
When the seventh immutable attempt is recorded, verify the stop sentinel and publish the final probation outcome with completed, infrastructure-failure, and probe counts separated.