{
  "schemaVersion": 2,
  "date": "2026.08.11",
  "publishedAt": "2026-08-11T08:16:17-07:00",
  "timeZone": "America/Los_Angeles",
  "title": "Continuous improvement idea discovery is live but deliberately narrow",
  "publicationStatus": "Read-only diagnosis completed; no Hiro behavior changed",
  "executiveSummary": [
    "Hiro's active improvement coordinator is connected to the long-lived scheduler and is checked once per minute.",
    "A completed first cycle is recorded at 07:53 Pacific time. It completed normally but produced zero improvement specifications and zero candidates.",
    "The current proposal generator derives actionable ideas mainly from public evaluation failures and a small set of predefined response-envelope patterns, including timeouts, blocked grounding, selected server errors, and slow factual requests.",
    "The coordinator also watches server-log and metacognition changes when deciding whether to wake, but the current proposal generator does not directly convert those two evidence streams into improvement specifications.",
    "Curiosity questions are generated from observed usage patterns, but they do not currently enter autonomous candidate construction unless they are first converted into a code-changing improvement specification."
  ],
  "workstreams": [
    {
      "title": "Scheduler and cadence trace",
      "status": "Connected and active",
      "details": [
        "The long-lived scheduler invokes the evidence-driven improvement due-check once per minute.",
        "A changed evidence fingerprint can start a cycle after a 30-minute minimum interval.",
        "If evidence remains unchanged, an idle-discovery cycle becomes due after four hours.",
        "Legacy automatic Daylab, Nightlab, and internet-observation schedules remain disabled."
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Idea-source trace",
      "status": "Working within a limited rule set",
      "details": [
        "Each proposal-only cycle can harvest public benchmark failures and translate a qualifying failure signal into an improvement specification.",
        "Recent response envelopes are inspected for predefined patterns: web-search timeouts, grounding-related blocks, selected HTTP errors, and high-latency factual requests.",
        "The curiosity pass asks broader questions about slow tool paths, missing resolvers, user satisfaction, capability gaps, and proactive partnership.",
        "Lightweight regression probes provide an additional source of measured evidence.",
        "No public-internet research or unrestricted model-led brainstorming is part of this automatic discovery path."
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Downstream candidate path",
      "status": "Available when a qualifying specification exists",
      "details": [
        "Only code-changing improvement specifications are handed to autonomous candidate construction.",
        "Candidates are built in external worktrees and must pass public evaluation, held-out evaluation, regression, invariant, and latency checks before isolated integration can proceed.",
        "Stage 5 handles isolated integration and reporting; Stage 6 separately controls any active-branch promotion.",
        "Stage 6C observes and validates promoted behavior downstream. It is not itself a source of improvement ideas."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "decisions": [
    "Describe the current mechanism as evidence-driven pattern detection, not as open-ended autonomous ideation.",
    "Treat server-log and metacognition records as wake-up inputs until a direct proposal-conversion path is implemented and validated.",
    "Treat curiosity items as research prompts, not actionable candidates, unless they are promoted into complete code-changing specifications.",
    "Make no Hiro code, policy, schedule, campaign, or promotion changes during this explanatory diagnosis."
  ],
  "validation": [
    {
      "check": "Scheduler connection",
      "status": "passed by source inspection",
      "result": "The recurring scheduler creates an active-improvement due-check task and sleeps for 60 seconds between iterations."
    },
    {
      "check": "Active policy",
      "status": "passed by source inspection",
      "result": "The active policy is enabled with a 60-second poll, 30-minute minimum cycle interval, and four-hour maximum idle-discovery interval."
    },
    {
      "check": "First live cycle record",
      "status": "completed with no candidates",
      "result": "The frozen state records a completed first cycle at 07:53 Pacific time with zero specifications, zero candidates, and a no-candidates sandbox result."
    },
    {
      "check": "Idea-generation inputs",
      "status": "partially connected",
      "result": "Public evaluation and response-envelope patterns can create specifications. Server-log and metacognition changes affect the wake-up fingerprint but are not directly consumed by the active specification generator."
    },
    {
      "check": "Hiro tests",
      "status": "not run",
      "result": "This session performed read-only source and runtime-state inspection. No Hiro files changed, so no Hiro test claim is made."
    },
    {
      "check": "Journal test suite",
      "status": "passed",
      "result": "The required timestamped-entry journal tests completed successfully."
    },
    {
      "check": "Journal production build",
      "status": "passed",
      "result": "The required journal generation, output validation, TypeScript compilation, and production build completed successfully for 100 entries."
    }
  ],
  "currentState": [
    "The active improvement loop is scheduled and its first cycle completed normally.",
    "No actionable improvement packet is currently present from that first cycle.",
    "New response evidence can cause another cycle after the minimum interval, and an idle cycle is due no later than four hours after the prior completion.",
    "The candidate sandbox, Stage 5, and Stage 6 remain downstream gates and do not run when discovery yields no code-changing specification."
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "The automatic proposal vocabulary is currently constrained to predefined patterns and public evaluation signals.",
    "A metacognition or server-log change can wake the loop without supplying the proposal generator with the underlying content in a directly actionable form.",
    "Curiosity output is retained as questions but is not automatically transformed into a tested implementation candidate.",
    "Automatic public-internet observation is disabled, so external research does not currently supply improvement ideas.",
    "A successful Stage 6C campaign can validate behavior but does not broaden discovery."
  ],
  "nextSteps": [
    "Decide whether Hiro should add a bounded, evidence-cited ideation stage that converts metacognition, user corrections, and benchmark trends into complete improvement specifications.",
    "Add direct ingestion for the evidence streams already included in the wake-up fingerprint, with deduplication and minimum-evidence thresholds.",
    "Add a controlled path for promoting promising curiosity questions into scoped experiments and code-changing specifications.",
    "Retain external worktree construction, held-out evaluation, reversible integration, probation, and rollback controls for every resulting candidate.",
    "Expose the difference between wake-up evidence, generated ideas, eligible candidates, and promoted changes on the benchmark page."
  ],
  "disclosureNote": "This public entry omits credentials, private prompts and responses, machine-local paths, raw held-out evaluation data, and actionable security details."
}