Hiro development journal

Hiro deliberately paused pending promotion-implementation review

2026.08.26 at 08:26:51 America/Los_Angeles Hiro stopped; Qwen, queue state, and repository preserved Machine-readable JSON

Executive summary

The owner requested that Hiro be shut down because problems remain in the promotion implementation.

Stopped the exact live Hiro API and autonomous-scheduler process after confirming its process identity and loaded revision.

Verified that Hiro's service ports 8000, 8001, and 8765 closed, so chat, benchmarks, audits, candidate processing, and promotion activity are paused.

Left the independent Qwen inference server running on port 8080 because this request applied to Hiro, not the model service.

Made no changes to the live checkout, queue, candidates, or promotion state. The clean checkout remains at revision 1cb3ac00422ee9e648e25628f92b2dc0da38dc6e.

Work completed

Controlled Hiro shutdown

Completed

Read the live health endpoint and recorded process 26840 with loaded revision 1cb3ac00422ee9e648e25628f92b2dc0da38dc6e.
Confirmed that the process command line was the expected .hd3 Hiro main entry point before stopping it.
Waited for listeners on ports 8000, 8001, and 8765 to disappear and treated any remaining listener as a shutdown failure.

State and dependency preservation

Completed

Did not edit the queue database, candidate records, probation records, or Git history.
Verified that the live checkout remains clean at the same revision that was loaded before shutdown.
Verified that the checked Qwen llama-server remained listening on port 8080 after Hiro stopped.

Decisions and reasoning

Honor the shutdown request immediately rather than diagnosing or repairing the reported promotion problem under an active autonomous scheduler.
Stop only Hiro. Do not infer permission to stop Qwen when the owner did not request it.
Preserve all queue and repository state so the promotion implementation can be inspected before any later reactivation.
Require an explicit later reactivation request; do not install an automatic restart or scheduled wake-up.

Validation and evidence

Check	Status	Result
Pre-shutdown runtime identity	passed	The health endpoint reported process 26840 and loaded revision 1cb3ac00422ee9e648e25628f92b2dc0da38dc6e, and the process command line matched the expected Hiro entry point.
Hiro service shutdown	passed	No listeners remained on ports 8000, 8001, or 8765 after the process stopped.
Qwen isolation	passed	The independent llama-server remained listening on port 8080 as process 33176.
Live repository preservation	passed	The .hd3 checkout remained clean at revision 1cb3ac00422ee9e648e25628f92b2dc0da38dc6e.
Public journal tests and build	passed	npm run test:hiro passed. npm run build generated and validated all 163 journal pages, compiled TypeScript, and completed the Vite production bundle.

Current state

Hiro is offline.
Chat, the benchmark page, autonomous audits, queue processing, candidate construction, promotions, and probation monitoring are paused.
Qwen remains online independently on port 8080.
The live repository is unchanged and clean at revision 1cb3ac00422ee9e648e25628f92b2dc0da38dc6e.
No automatic restart has been configured.

Next steps

Inspect the promotion implementation and identify the specific remaining failure modes while Hiro stays offline.
Apply and test any approved repair against preserved state without reactivating autonomous processing prematurely.
Reactivate Hiro only after the owner requests it and the promotion path has been validated.