Hiro development journal

Original Phase 3F campaign ends without a viable candidate

2026.08.28 at 21:41:26 America/Los_Angeles The preserved six findings completed generic evidence intake and transfer assessment; three mechanisms were already present and three lacked a bounded production interface, so no candidate or promotion was warranted Machine-readable JSON

Executive summary

The original Phase 3F campaign resumed from its six immutable Phase 3F-R evidence packages. It did not start a new campaign, rerun discovery, seek replacement sources, or rerun the reproduction experiments.

All six evidence packages passed integrity and hash verification and entered the existing evidence-to-candidate qualification path on the current post-Phase-3E production base.

The first resumed attempt proved that the historical intake could not parse the generic evidence report. Two subsequent first-divergence runs proved fixed historical evidence identities and a fixed transfer-protocol corpus. Each infrastructure defect received only the minimum genericity repair before the preserved boundary was restarted.

Transfer assessment was selected by preregistered experiment primitive and current repository capability probes, not claim ID or source title. All six findings received explicit terminal outcomes.

Three findings terminated SUPPORTED_NO_ACTION because Hiro already has full-context routing, adaptive reasoning cost selection, and bounded two-pass reasoning depth. Structured search terminated TRANSFER_NOT_JUSTIFIED because no bounded production action-sequence interface exists. Both graph-retrieval findings terminated TRANSFER_NOT_JUSTIFIED because the current recall contract exposes no relational edge metadata.

No candidate specification was warranted. Therefore there were no candidate builds, fidelity or merit evaluations, governor decisions, promotion transactions, activations, production qualification periods, or rollbacks.

The frozen downstream report verified with zero reason codes and explicitly recorded zero promotion transactions and zero activations. The complete repository suite passed 857 tests with one expected skip.

Hiro was restarted after the infrastructure work and reported healthy with its checkout and loaded runtime both matching revision 4de9c6acd6ec505599c2628f980680efe7a38aa7.

The final Phase 3F disposition is INSUFFICIENT VIABLE CANDIDATES. Phase 3F was not demonstrated, and no meta-improvement began.

Work completed

Preserved campaign resumption

Completed

Retained campaign identity phase3f-20260829T031818Z and the exact six fresh claim and evidence identities.
Reused the independently verified Phase 3F-R packages by hash without regenerating plans or experimental results.
Recorded that human intervention covered infrastructure diagnosis, repair authorization, and campaign resumption only; it did not include finding selection, candidate merit, criteria changes, or gate waivers.

First-divergence infrastructure repairs

Completed

The generic report initially reached the historical verifier and failed on a Phase 3A-R-only report field. Schema-kind dispatch now sends generic reports to their independently qualified verifier while preserving the legacy path.
The next run rejected the six fresh evidence identities in favor of seven historical Phase 3D identities. Generic intake now derives expected claim, evidence, and preregistration identities from the verified immutable report.
The next run stopped at TRANSFER_PROTOCOL_REGISTRY_DOES_NOT_MATCH_EVIDENCE. A semantic transfer compiler now uses preregistered primitive type plus current-repository probes instead of historical claim identity.
One attempted command lacked the production executor environment setting. The provisioned WSL2/Bubblewrap runtime was healthy; rerunning with the canonical launcher setting required no code or policy repair.

Six-finding transfer assessment

Completed

Context projection terminated SUPPORTED_NO_ACTION: the current router already classifies from the complete user message and carries it into bounded analysis and verification.
Planning cost/accuracy terminated SUPPORTED_NO_ACTION: the current router already reserves two-pass deliberation for detected reasoning tasks and uses direct local execution otherwise.
Reasoning depth terminated SUPPORTED_NO_ACTION: detected multi-step tasks already receive analysis followed by independent verification.
Structured search terminated TRANSFER_NOT_JUSTIFIED: Hiro currently lacks a typed bounded action-sequence interface whose scoring and branching semantics can be safely changed by a low-blast-radius candidate.
Both graph-retrieval findings terminated TRANSFER_NOT_JUSTIFIED: the current owner-scoped recall record exposes flat slug, title, snippet, and source identity without the relational edge contract required for faithful evidence-forest expansion.

Decisions and reasoning

Consume all six supported findings in original report order; do not manually select a promising result.
Treat reproduction support as mechanism evidence only, not candidate merit.
Require repository evidence of a bounded current-base gap before freezing a candidate specification.
Return explicit no-action or transfer-not-justified outcomes instead of forcing a code modification.
Stop the original campaign after candidate exhaustion and do not begin new discovery or meta-improvement.

Validation and evidence

Check	Status	Result
Preserved evidence intake	passed	6 reproduction-supported packages verified, 6 corroboration passes retained, and 6 semantic transfer specifications frozen.
Transfer funnel	passed	3 SUPPORTED_NO_ACTION, 3 TRANSFER_NOT_JUSTIFIED, 0 candidate specifications, 0 candidate builds, 0 promotion requests, and 0 activations.
Frozen downstream report	passed	The report verified with zero reason codes and SHA-256 9ff5f6d4f095f681a59c919dafaebcedf17d214c9070201740650a3cf75159d1.
Focused generic transfer and qualification tests	passed	25 tests passed.
Complete Hiro repository suite	passed	857 tests passed, one expected test was skipped, and seven non-failing warnings were reported in 458.47 seconds.
Live runtime identity	passed	Hiro reported healthy with the local model connected and checkout and loaded runtime both at 4de9c6acd6ec505599c2628f980680efe7a38aa7.
Public journal tests and production build	passed	npm run test:hiro passed. npm run build generated and validated 178 journal pages, compiled TypeScript, and completed the Vite production bundle. The clean checkout first required npm ci; installation reported one existing high-severity dependency advisory, which was not modified because dependency maintenance was outside this session.

Current state

The original Phase 3F campaign is terminal with disposition INSUFFICIENT VIABLE CANDIDATES.
All six supported reproduction findings have explicit downstream transfer outcomes and preserved hashes.
No candidate revision, promotion transaction, activation, production probation, or rollback exists for this campaign.
Hiro is healthy and revision-aligned on the committed generic intake and transfer infrastructure.
No new Phase 3F campaign and no meta-improvement has started.

Next steps

Do not continue this campaign or search repeatedly until something promotes.
Use this funnel as evidence that the remaining result is candidate exhaustion, not a promotion-actuator failure.
Any future campaign should begin only under separate authorization and should favor findings tied to an observed current-production capability gap.
Do not begin recursive or meta self-improvement from this result.