Hiro development journal

Resuming autonomous upgrades: unblock sandbox staging and audit scheduling

2026.09.13 at 13:26:30 America/Los_Angeles Published after journal tests and production build validation Machine-readable JSON

Executive summary

Resumed the unfinished implementation campaign after an interruption. The Windows checkout preserved the deployed maintenance revision 9fdc481; Hiro was stopped when checked.

The first observed controller boundary was repeated product-audit sandbox timeouts before queue advancement. A focused repair now limits Git checkout staging to tracked and non-ignored files and records audit infrastructure failures without suppressing independent lifecycle work.

Work completed

Sandbox staging and audit resilience

Implemented and release-qualified

Source staging retains local tracked edits and newly authored tests, while excluding ignored runtime history. Existing isolation and secret exclusions remain enforced.
Product-lab timeouts produce infrastructure evidence, and the scheduler continues independent queue maintenance after audit exceptions.
Production-directory replay completed in 37.407 seconds with all five product cases passing; the prior scheduler attempts timed out after 180 seconds. This replay uses fixed model responses and is not live inference.

Repair after a fresh canary failure

Implemented, qualified, and active

The first real Riemann candidate passed construction, all independent Stage4 gates across192 paired observations, and isolated Stage5 monitoring. Its first fresh canary failed the unchanged180-word limit, and the canonical controller scheduled a repair without promoting it.
The repair handoff shortened the failure example to1000characters and retained only the original harness replay. The new change recovers the complete captured fixture and adds it as a second harness-owned regression under the original contract and existing total fixture size bound.
The actual rejected candidate passes the original replay but fails the added captured-canary test under real WSL isolation, demonstrating that the new construction check detects the observed gap earlier.

Persisted retry recovery

Qualified and active

Persisted canary retries could reach construction without complete build instructions. The controller now reinvestigates incomplete retries.
Revision reconciliation now retains failure context and restores a missing complete failed-case fixture from the canonical supervisor ledger. A production queue copy recovered the exact 207-word captured failure without altering the live queue.

Preserve timeout handling during autonomous repairs

Qualified and active

The live retry required two failed repair attempts before a third patch passed both captured cases. This demonstrates actual local-model assertion-feedback repair.
A further baseline/candidate comparison found that the candidate handled a timed-out response as successful. The harness now requires timeout handling to remain blocked for the incident prompt and output.
The new independent test rejects that actual candidate while both original and captured-canary replay tests pass. The candidate has not been promoted.

Remove obsolete eight-hour idle probation

Qualified and active

The user reaffirmed the earlier no-inert-waiting decision. The August29 campaign record required meaningful live checks rather than elapsed-hour waiting, but the general governor still enforced480 minutes.
New activations now require three completed post-activation executions. Each retains runtime identity and health, independent tests, assistant-product checks, bounded metrics and rollback on failure. A captured originating task also receives fresh production-boundary inference.
Receipts record execution indices, not fictitious elapsed-hour checkpoints. Existing historical timed records are not relabeled. This does not claim long-duration drift coverage.

Canonical activation completed; diagnose the next construction boundary

Qualified maintenance active; first autonomous implementation preserved

The canonical controller finalized the Riemann promotion at2026-09-13 18:20:09 PDT. Candidate sandbox-20260913234406-e755d81c-01 passed independent evaluation, the0/5/15/60-minute canary, exact runtime revision verification and three executed post-activation checks. Active revision c3d1a584aa2c9c32b9b7c5a1af7c59c6a40f47ef matches the tested promoted revision. This is an older discovered incident and does not complete the fresh-discovery demonstration.
Subsequent construction stopped at its existing12-attempt no-canary budget. Inspection of the final writing-assistance packet showed repairs guarded by a task type that production never assigns; frozen replay rejected them. No failed candidate was promoted and no retry limit was reset.
Diagnostic maintenance ff5bcfb adds actual boundary_task_type to replay receipts and serializes generated assertion messages so model repairs receive readable evidence. It changes neither the acceptance contract nor production response behavior.
Qualified evaluator correction accepts the equivalent phrase not able while retaining refusal, gratitude, invitation and length requirements. Existing observations under changed code-owned contracts are retired by canonical investigation, without rewriting frozen candidate evidence. New suite version1.0.1 requires fresh independent observations.

Decisions and reasoning

Reuse prior evidence only for unchanged scope. Run the repository suite and frozen qualification for the new source revision.
Preserve the existing queue, campaign history, central model, and promotion gates.

Validation and evidence

Check	Status	Result
Focused native and real WSL staging checks	passed	15 passed in 53.67 seconds.
Production-directory isolated product replay	passed	Five cases passed in 37.407 seconds using the repaired trusted staging path.
Frozen pipeline qualification	passed	All five scenario groups passed on exact revision 53074fd47104e9de18dec3f3c5d66e609c15f716. Packet SHA-256 2295d526721125bd7464f5283f026c8aaac8f80d1aa6d851c4296e9df0602fca.
Complete native repository suite	passed	1023 passed, 4 skipped, 6 warnings in 945.06 seconds on revision53074fd47104e9de18dec3f3c5d66e609c15f716.
Live Qwen source inspection with frozen oracle	passed	1 passed in42.41 seconds. Candidate packet and source-inspection receipts preserved.
Fresh real arithmetic audit	completed	Two distinct actual-inference observations reproduced rejection of a correct single-digit answer. Existing consensus intake admitted the improvement.
Maintenance activation	passed	Existing launcher restarted Hiro; health independently verified matching loaded and checkout revision53074fd47104e9de18dec3f3c5d66e609c15f716.
Independent evaluation and isolated integration of the first candidate	passed	Three alternating pairs,192 paired observations, plus32 initial baseline observations. All Stage4 gates satisfied; Stage5 monitoring_passed. Candidate revision0ed2fef27f86f843ae198ca0fa4a0c1d5dfb1733 remained isolated.
First fresh live canary	failed	Fresh model output exceeded the existing180-word limit. No promotion occurred. The controller scheduled repair.
Repair-feedback focused tests	passed	148 passed,1 skipped,2 warnings in82.50 seconds.
Captured failure checked against actual rejected candidate	passed diagnostic	Original replay passed and the new harness-owned canary regression failed, as expected.
Full restricted suite for repair-feedback change	passed	1018 passed,11 skipped,8 warnings in470.16 seconds. Wrapper completed in498.953 seconds and restored its environment.
Frozen pipeline qualification for repair-feedback change	passed	All five scenario groups qualified exact revisionf3a297757441bf699cb4b8eb28fc74130678ff37.
Repair-feedback maintenance activation	passed	Existing launcher restarted Hiro and health verified matching loaded and checkout revisionf3a297757441bf699cb4b8eb28fc74130678ff37.
Retry recovery full isolated suite	passed	1020 passed, 11 skipped, 8 warnings in 479.46 seconds at cd14b386f4b8845d6f90f4a5b8dd667089e3b5ae.
Final evidence preservation delta	passed	Only continuous_engine.py and its tests changed after the full-suite anchor. Final revision 3da82fd passed 80 native focused tests and 80 real isolated focused tests; all five frozen qualification groups passed. The full suite is not claimed at the final revision.
Final maintenance runtime identity	passed	Existing launcher restarted Hiro; loaded and checkout revision both equal 3da82fd224e413414b427bb13c1be1c99c9cd22b.
Live local-model retry construction	passed construction only	First two patches failed the captured canary oracle; third passed both replay cases. No source inspection requests were made in these three attempts.
Timeout preservation oracle	passed diagnostic	Real isolated execution on the actual candidate: original replay passed, captured-canary replay passed, new timeout preservation test failed as expected.
Timeout oracle focused suite	passed	143 passed, 1 skipped, 4 warnings in 60.26 seconds.
Final timeout oracle full isolated suite	passed	1020 passed, 11 skipped, 9 warnings in 470.53s (0:07:50)
Final frozen qualification and activation	passed	All five scenario groups qualified c89b6bf272f6645bb204db00b1c7f1a188c28bd9; runtime health verified the loaded and checkout revisions match.
Execution-based verification focused tests	passed	95 controller/governor tests passed in52.27s; five fresh-probe/qualification tests passed in7.58s. The tests verify completion through actual calls without advancing time and rejection of a failed fresh originating-task probe.
Full isolated suite and targeted documentation correction	passed after targeted correction	Full run at8ec5e80: 1021 passed,11 skipped,one obsolete duration assertion failed. Only that test file changed at9c46b43. All five documentation and fresh-probe tests then passed under real WSL isolation. The full suite was not repeated at9c46b43.
Frozen qualification and runtime activation	passed	All five groups qualified9c46b4335a8b0c7ad05e2f83d97b26e9dbf86f36. Existing launcher restarted Hiro and health verified loaded and checkout revision identity.
Candidate repair diagnostics focused validation	passed after correcting test workspace path	Initial native invocation:3 failed,60 passed; Git worktree creation failed with GIT_DIR too big because the diagnostic test path was too long. Rerun with a short Windows temporary path:63 passed,3 warnings in42.74s. Full restricted suite and frozen pipeline qualification are running; no pass claimed yet.
Evaluator correction and exact blocked incident	passed	86 focused tests passed natively in11.00s and under WSL isolation in3.22s. A read-only copy of the actual blocked incident returns potential=false with versioned_audit_contract_reconciliation, preserving the old fixture.
Full restricted suite, final delta and frozen qualification	passed	Full isolated suite atff5bcfb: 1026 passed, 11 skipped, 12 warnings in 487.08s (0:08:07). The final evaluator delta atefa7f607b97dbb03d41d1a076baf4849241fd777 passed all86 relevant tests in isolation and all five frozen qualification groups. The full suite was not repeated after that narrowly tested delta.

Current state

The canonical Riemann promotion completed at18:20 PDT with three executed post-activation checks. Its autonomous code remains included in active maintenance revision efa7f607b97dbb03d41d1a076baf4849241fd777; loaded and checkout identities match.
Fresh arithmetic remains pending. Corrected failure diagnostics and qualified evaluator-contract reconciliation are active; canonical controller owns further admission, construction and promotion.
The fresh-discovery end-to-end demonstration remains incomplete. No retry budget was manually reset, no frozen candidate oracle was rewritten, and no eight-hour idle requirement was restored.

Next steps

Trace the canonical retry through both construction oracles, independent evaluation, canary, activation, and real probation; then verify the fresh discovered arithmetic case through the same lifecycle.