{ "schemaVersion": 2, "date": "2026.08.27", "publishedAt": "2026-08-27T08:37:22-07:00", "timeZone": "America/Los_Angeles", "title": "Promotion controller clears 10 promotions, 10 rollbacks, and production validation", "publicationStatus": "Phase 2 empirically demonstrated; autonomous discovery and meta-improvement remain gated", "executiveSummary": [ "Built an accelerated qualification mode around the existing controller qualification runner to distinguish state-machine reliability from production-duration configuration without bypassing promotion logic.", "Ten consecutive accelerated golden promotions passed from clean reproducible state. Every cycle used canonical queue persistence, the real governor decision, a durable promotion transaction, Git fast-forward, detached restart broker, live revision verification, runtime probation, and finalization.", "Ten consecutive intentional rollback cycles passed. Each first proved that the candidate revision and qualification artifact were running, then deliberately failed the post-activation probation probe, created an additive Git revert, restarted Hiro on the rollback revision, and verified that the restored Git tree matched the baseline.", "A fresh production-configured golden validation then ran the complete repository regression suite. All 793 tests passed in 489.16 seconds before real activation, production checkpoint traversal, and transaction finalization.", "The primary Hiro service was restored after qualification and reports matching loaded and checkout revision with a healthy model connection.", "Phase 2 is now empirically demonstrated. Phase 3 autonomous discovery was not enabled, and no meta-improvement was attempted or claimed." ], "workstreams": [ { "title": "Runtime cost analysis", "status": "Completed", "details": [ "Corrected the earlier wall-time estimate using the persisted Phase 1 trace. Model-driven construction and evaluation consumed about fifteen minutes and thirty-six seconds; the full governor suite consumed seven minutes and fifty-two seconds; restart reconciliation consumed about ten seconds.", "The configured runtime probation is eight hours, not eight minutes. Phase 1 already used the controller's injected clock to traverse logical checkpoints at zero, sixty, two hundred forty, and four hundred eighty minutes in about ten wall-clock seconds.", "The prior Phase 1 wall run was therefore about twenty-four minutes. Production probation duration was configuration and logical-state coverage, while candidate construction and the independently rerun full suite accounted for nearly all wall time." ] }, { "title": "Accelerated qualification controls", "status": "Completed", "details": [ "Kept production canary labels at zero, five, and fifteen minutes and production probation labels at zero, sixty, two hundred forty, and four hundred eighty minutes. The runner advances the existing injected now value instead of sleeping.", "No qualification-only success branch was added to the governor, queue, transaction store, activation broker, probation implementation, finalizer, or rollback executor.", "Injected a deterministic regression executor through the governor's existing full-test-runner seam. It runs a real importable candidate contract plus promotion-transaction and governor pass/fail contract tests and returns a detailed receipt that the unchanged governor may accept or reject.", "The accelerated receipt is neither cached nor forced to pass. A focused negative test confirms that the executor returns failure when the frozen candidate marker is absent.", "A harmless direct-child candidate commit adds one importable qualification marker. A frozen Stage 5-style receipt hands that deterministic candidate to the ordinary candidate-to-canary controller transition." ] }, { "title": "Ten consecutive golden promotions", "status": "Passed", "details": [ "Ran ten attempts and obtained ten consecutive successes with no failed attempts or counter resets.", "Every transaction followed prepared, git advanced, restart requested, runtime verified, probation, finalized.", "All ten canonical queue records finished implemented and all ten promotion transactions finished finalized.", "The candidate revision was verified as both loaded and checked out after every activation and remained verified at finalization.", "Each attempt used its own queue database, append-only queue trace, append-only transaction trace, and result packet." ] }, { "title": "Ten consecutive intentional rollbacks", "status": "Passed", "details": [ "Ran ten attempts and obtained ten consecutive successes with no failed attempts or counter resets.", "Every transaction followed prepared, git advanced, restart requested, runtime verified, probation, compensating, rollback restart requested, rolled back.", "The intentional probe failure occurred only after live health, loaded revision, checkout revision, and the active qualification artifact had all been verified.", "All ten rollback revisions were loaded by the restarted service. All ten restored Git trees matched the frozen baseline tree.", "Queue state ended rejected with an explicit rollback outcome; transaction state ended rolled back. No attempt silently stalled or entered a requeue loop." ] }, { "title": "Fresh production-configured validation", "status": "Passed", "details": [ "The production validation did not reuse the accelerated regression receipt. The governor independently ran the complete repository pytest suite against the candidate worktree.", "All 793 tests passed in 489.16 seconds. Five existing unknown-marker warnings did not affect the zero exit status.", "After the full suite, the real governor fast-forwarded, the detached broker restarted Hiro, and live health verified the candidate revision.", "The same production canary and probation checkpoint configuration was preserved, and the canonical queue and transaction finished implemented and finalized.", "The disposable checkout was then restored to baseline, and the normal primary Hiro service was restarted on its current primary revision with matching loaded and checkout identity." ] }, { "title": "First-divergence repairs", "status": "Completed", "details": [ "The disposable server first failed before candidate creation because the clean worktree did not contain Hiro's ignored local TLS fixture. The environment was supplied; no controller or gate semantics changed.", "The first rollback smoke trace combined activation reconciliation and the intentional probation failure in one tick. The qualification observer was narrowed to capture reconciliation without consuming the next action, preserving an explicit probation snapshot before the named failure tick.", "The first production full-suite attempt correctly failed two launcher and preflight tests because the candidate worktree lacked Hiro's ignored pinned runtime. The existing normal worktree-runtime provisioning helper was reused, and only production validation was rerun.", "The accelerated 10 plus 10 campaign itself completed with zero failed attempts after smoke qualification." ] }, { "title": "Timing and race coverage", "status": "Passed", "details": [ "Added boundary assertions immediately before the five-minute canary checkpoint and immediately before the sixty-minute probation checkpoint; both remain waiting until the exact boundary.", "Repeated invocation at an already completed probation checkpoint remains waiting and does not duplicate checkpoint completion.", "The repeated process campaign exercises actual asynchronous restart, port release, durable broker receipts, loaded-revision polling, queue leases, transaction serialization, and rollback restart reconciliation.", "Production defaults and the protected governor policy remain unchanged." ] } ], "decisions": [ "Use the controller's existing injectable clock to compress wall time while retaining production checkpoint identities and state transitions.", "Inject a deterministic test executor through the governor's supported dependency seam rather than adding a qualification-specific pass branch.", "Require actual Git mutation, process restart, live runtime identity, canonical persistence, probation, finalization, and additive rollback in every repeated cycle.", "Run the 10 plus 10 campaign in a disposable worktree so qualification commits and reverts do not pollute the active Hiro branch.", "Treat the first production regression failure as authoritative, repair only the missing worktree runtime fixture, and rerun only the failed production boundary.", "Stop after Phase 2. Do not enable autonomous discovery or claim recursive self-improvement from controller repeatability alone." ], "validation": [ { "check": "Focused qualification and timing tests", "status": "passed", "result": "Qualification receipt, intentional post-verification failure, production checkpoint identity, exact timing boundaries, governor behavior, transaction behavior, and worktree runtime provisioning tests passed." }, { "check": "Accelerated golden reliability", "status": "passed", "result": "10 consecutive successes from 10 attempts; 10 implemented queue outcomes, 10 finalized transactions, and 10 verified active candidate revisions." }, { "check": "Accelerated rollback reliability", "status": "passed", "result": "10 consecutive successes from 10 attempts; 10 rolled-back transactions, 10 verified restored runtime revisions, and 10 baseline-equivalent restored Git trees." }, { "check": "Production full-suite governor", "status": "passed", "result": "793 tests passed in 489.16 seconds with a zero exit status; five existing marker warnings were retained in the receipt." }, { "check": "Production activation and probation", "status": "passed", "result": "Real fast-forward, detached restart, loaded-revision verification, production checkpoint traversal, implemented queue state, and finalized transaction state all succeeded." }, { "check": "Primary Hiro runtime restoration", "status": "passed", "result": "The normal service is healthy with the model connected and loaded revision equal to checkout revision after the disposable campaign." }, { "check": "Public journal tests and build", "status": "passed", "result": "npm run test:hiro passed. After installing the lockfile-pinned dependencies in the clean checkout, npm run build generated and validated all 168 journal pages, compiled TypeScript, and completed the Vite production bundle." } ], "currentState": [ "Phase 2 promotion-controller repeatability is empirically demonstrated.", "Ten accelerated golden promotions and ten accelerated intentional rollbacks passed consecutively without campaign failures.", "One fresh production-configured golden path passed the complete repository suite and finalized after real activation.", "Production governor policy, canary schedule, probation schedule, activation broker, transaction state machine, and rollback implementation remain unchanged.", "Hiro is running from the primary checkout with matching loaded and checkout revision." ], "limitations": [ "The accelerated candidate is deliberately deterministic and qualification-oriented; this campaign proves controller and actuator reliability, not autonomous idea quality or model-driven construction repeatability.", "Production-duration checkpoint labels were retained, but wall-clock probation waiting was compressed through the existing injected clock. Timing-dependent restart and persistence behavior was exercised with real processes, while long-horizon behavioral drift was not observed for eight wall-clock hours.", "The production regression suite ran once, not ten times. The ten accelerated cycles used a smaller deterministic suite through the same governor gate.", "Autonomous discovery remains disabled for this qualification. No candidate modified Hiro's improvement machinery.", "This result does not establish recursive self-improvement." ], "nextSteps": [ "Begin Phase 3 only as a separately observed experiment: allow Hiro to discover low-risk non-meta improvements while retaining the now-qualified controller and actuator unchanged.", "Track the Phase 3 funnel numerically from discovery through construction, evaluation, gates, activation, probation, finalization, and terminal rejection reason.", "Apply first-divergence discipline to autonomous candidates and do not modify the promotion subsystem unless the known-good qualification harness also fails.", "Keep meta-improvement disabled until autonomously discovered non-meta improvements promote repeatedly with bounded terminal outcomes." ], "disclosureNote": "This public entry contains no credentials, certificate contents, private message content, private network addresses, local filesystem locations, or actionable unresolved security details." }