Hiro development journal

Daylab is evaluating rapidly but no longer advancing Stage 6

2026.08.10 at 16:02:49 America/Los_Angeles Live behavior diagnosed; runtime unchanged Machine-readable JSON

Executive summary

Daylab remains active as a standalone process with a 30-minute interval and a 20-minute per-cycle ceiling.

Each cycle selects an adaptive public evaluation suite, runs isolated evaluation cases, reviews recent response envelopes, generates proposal-only diagnostic artifacts, runs lightweight regression probes, writes a personality journal, and attempts a Telegram completion briefing.

Sixteen cycles completed between 08:32 and 16:02. Together they consumed 252 isolated-model calls, evaluated 252 cases with 13 failures, ran 352 lightweight probes, and emitted 12 ImprovementSpecs covering only five distinct opportunity keys.

The latest cycle ran 16 evaluation cases with a 100 percent pass rate, reread 100 recent envelopes, ran 22 probes, generated no ImprovementSpec, and repeated three generic curiosity questions.

Daylab is proposal-only: code patches and automatic promotion are disabled. Stage 6 is also disabled at the scheduler and runtime-marker levels, and Daylab's one-shot Stage 6 candidate preparation has already been consumed, so current cycles cannot advance or promote a candidate.

The loop is producing valid evaluation telemetry, but its 30-minute cadence is now yielding substantial repeated analysis and notification traffic relative to novel actionable findings. No runtime setting or process was changed during this diagnosis.

Work completed

Live process and cadence inspection

Complete

Confirmed the same Daylab process has remained active since the morning restart.
Confirmed its command line specifies a 30-minute interval and a 20-minute maximum cycle duration.
Observed 16 completed run directories from 08:32 through 16:02, consistent with the configured cadence.

Cycle behavior analysis

Complete

Verified Daylab rotates through adaptive evaluation suites and labels every result as a fresh Daylab evaluation.
Verified each full cycle also rereads up to 100 recent response envelopes, derives bounded proposals and curiosity items, writes a personality journal, and runs up to the configured lightweight regression probes.
Verified finalization writes a run summary and report and schedules a Telegram briefing.
Verified the loop does not apply code changes or promote proposals.

Yield and novelty assessment

Complete

Aggregated today's 16 runs: 252 evaluation cases, 13 failures, 352 probes, and 12 generated specs.
The 12 specs map to five distinct opportunity keys, showing repeated rediscovery of a small set of issues.
The latest cycle produced no spec and repeated three generic curiosity items despite a clean evaluation run.
No run recorded a workflow warning, so the concern is efficiency and novelty rather than execution reliability.

Stage 6 relationship

Complete

Verified Daylab has a guarded one-shot evidence-preparation hook, not direct promotion authority.
The one-shot marker records an already frozen candidate from the prior session, preventing new Daylab cycles from preparing another candidate.
The Stage 6 scheduler remains disabled and the runtime contains an explicit disabled marker, so Daylab's current evidence cannot flow into promotion.

Decisions and reasoning

Describe Daylab as an evaluation and proposal generator, not a self-modifying loop, because code patching and auto-promotion are disabled.
Treat the latest clean run and repeated curiosity output as evidence that the present 30-minute cadence has diminishing marginal value.
Keep the Daylab and Stage 6 states unchanged because the user requested an explanation rather than a configuration change.
Separate Daylab activity from the probation narrative: Daylab is gathering evidence, but the disabled Stage 6 path means it is not currently continuing a promotion probation.

Validation and evidence

Check	Status	Result
Live Daylab process	confirmed	The standalone process is active with a 30-minute interval and 20-minute cycle ceiling.
Latest cycle	confirmed	The 16:02 cycle completed 16 cases at 100 percent pass rate, reviewed 100 envelopes, ran 22 probes, generated zero specs and three curiosity items, and recorded no warnings.
Aggregate daily output	confirmed	Sixteen summaries total 252 model calls, 252 evaluation cases, 13 failures, 352 probes, and 12 specs across five distinct opportunity keys.
Promotion authority	excluded	Daylab is proposal-only; patching and auto-promotion are disabled, its one-shot evidence hook has already been consumed, and the Stage 6 task and runtime lane are disabled.
Journal tests and production build	passed	npm run test:hiro passed, generated-output validation passed for 90 entries, and npm run build completed successfully.

Current state

Daylab remains running and is expected to start another cycle approximately every 30 minutes.
It is generating evaluation telemetry, proposals, curiosity artifacts, personality-journal text, regression results, and Telegram completion attempts.
It is not editing Hiro, activating candidates, or promoting changes.
Stage 6 is not currently consuming Daylab output because its scheduled promotion lane and runtime state are disabled.
No Hiro process, notification preference, or promotion control was changed by this diagnostic session.

Next steps

Decide whether to stop Daylab, slow it to a materially longer interval, or switch it to evaluation-only operation without repeated envelope, curiosity, journal, and Telegram phases.
If continued, add novelty gating so repeated opportunity keys and generic curiosity questions do not produce redundant artifacts or notifications.
Resolve the separate Stage 6 disabled state before describing future Daylab evidence collection as an active promotion probation.