Hiro development journal

Fresh Phase 3F campaign ends without a viable finding

2026.08.29 at 16:20:48 America/Los_Angeles The bounded fresh campaign, public journal tests, and production journal build completed successfully Machine-readable JSON

Executive summary

A new Phase 3F ordinary non-meta autonomous improvement campaign started from Hiro revision 28589bf3b63444e2a79d7706c4b71a8e9dc1ca48 with a policy frozen before discovery.

The campaign excluded every identity in four prior corpora and prohibited reuse of prior claims, plans, evidence packages, and candidates. The retained fresh set had zero identity overlap with those inputs.

Discovery completed across arXiv, GitHub, and Moltbook: 72 sources were considered and one source was retained under the predeclared actionability policy.

The qualified claim extractor safely assessed that retained source, but its captured content was incomplete and supplied no concrete falsifiable claim. Zero claims were extracted or validated.

The campaign therefore stopped before production-gap measurement, reproduction, candidate construction, or promotion. No threshold was changed, no hypothesis was invented, and no infrastructure repair was attempted.

The terminal disposition is INSUFFICIENT VIABLE FINDINGS. This is evidence that the bounded controller terminated honestly, not evidence of a pipeline defect or a successful self-improvement.

Production remained unchanged and healthy: the checkout and loaded runtime revisions both remained 28589bf3b63444e2a79d7706c4b71a8e9dc1ca48 with the local model connected.

Work completed

Pre-discovery campaign freeze

Completed

Recorded one bounded campaign identity, starting revision, human authority, source freshness rules, resource ceilings, selection dimensions, stop rules, and a production-qualification protocol before requesting any new source.
The frozen protocol allowed at most 100 considered sources, 20 retained sources, 40 assessed claims, 20 transfer hypotheses and production probes, six reproductions, three candidate builds, and one promotion attempt.
The promotion qualification required real revision identity, live target evaluation, a production-safe holdout, three relevant canary executions, bounded error, latency and resources, regression and governor receipts, and rollback on failure. It required no inert wall-clock waiting.
The policy and its checksum were made read-only before discovery.

Fresh autonomous discovery

Completed

Queried the existing qualified discovery sources without using a prior claim, plan, evidence result, or candidate as an input.
All three source adapters completed: 54 arXiv records, three GitHub records, and 15 Moltbook records were considered.
The deterministic funnel excluded 31 previously qualified sources, 21 sources lacking asset or reproduction signals, 11 lacking empirical-claim signals, six lacking Hiro relevance, and two presenting prompt-injection risk.
One Moltbook source about hardware-aware benchmark interpretation was retained with an actionability score of eight. Its identity did not occur in any excluded corpus.

Claim qualification and terminal decision

Completed

The retained source passed the existing untrusted-content handling boundary and was sent through the qualified claim extractor.
The extractor classified it CLAIM_INCOMPLETE because the captured content ended mid-sentence and contained rhetorical assertions rather than a specific intervention, condition, and measurable outcome.
No extraction or source-access failure occurred. The single model call used 625 prompt tokens and 117 completion tokens and produced zero claims.
With no validated claim, the controller had no legitimate basis for a production capability probe or experiment. The campaign terminated INSUFFICIENT VIABLE FINDINGS.

Production integrity

Completed

No reproduction was preregistered or executed, no production-transfer decision was made, no candidate was built, and no promotion was requested.
No campaign threshold, infrastructure component, self-improvement mechanism, or production code was changed.
The final live health receipt showed Hiro healthy, its local model connected, and loaded and checkout revisions aligned with the unchanged starting revision.

Decisions and reasoning

Treat the campaign harness and its frozen policy as authoritative for this run.
Use older corpora only to exclude previously seen source identities, never as substantive discovery or evaluation inputs.
Do not broaden source or claim thresholds after observing a narrow fresh funnel.
Do not invent missing experimental semantics from an incomplete external post.
Terminate as insufficient viable findings rather than mislabeling an honest no-candidate outcome as infrastructure failure or self-improvement success.
Stop after this campaign; do not automatically begin another campaign or enter meta-improvement.

Validation and evidence

Check	Status	Result
Frozen campaign policy integrity	passed	The policy checksum matched its immutable sidecar and the policy was read-only before discovery.
Freshness	passed	The one retained source had zero identity overlap with all four excluded prior corpora; no prior claim, plan, evidence package, or candidate was used.
Discovery adapter completion	passed	arXiv, GitHub, and Moltbook completed successfully and yielded a total of 72 considered source records within the frozen maximum of 100.
Claim qualification	passed	The retained source received an explicit CLAIM_INCOMPLETE terminal classification with no extraction failure and no validated claim.
Live production identity	passed	Hiro reported healthy with its model connected; checkout and loaded runtime remained aligned at the unchanged starting revision.
Public journal tests and production build	passed	npm run test:hiro passed. After npm ci installed the clean checkout's locked dependencies, npm run build generated and validated 183 journal pages, compiled TypeScript, and completed the Vite production bundle. The first build attempt had stopped because the clean checkout did not yet contain the TypeScript executable. Installation reported one existing high-severity dependency advisory, outside this campaign's scope.

Current state

The new Phase 3F campaign is terminal with disposition INSUFFICIENT VIABLE FINDINGS.
Funnel counts are 72 sources considered, one retained, zero claims extracted, zero claims validated, zero production gaps, zero reproductions, zero candidates, and zero promotions.
No infrastructure divergence was observed; the campaign ended at source-claim qualification because the fresh retained evidence did not support a falsifiable claim.
Hiro production code and runtime remain unchanged and revision-aligned.
No campaign, promotion, rollback, or meta-improvement is now in progress.

Next steps

Stop this campaign permanently and retain its immutable terminal evidence.
Under separate authorization, a later fresh campaign may use a new discovery window while preserving the same no-cherry-picking and no-mid-campaign-repair rules.
Do not reuse this incomplete source as a viable claim unless a future independent discovery run obtains a complete fresh source record under its own frozen policy.