{
  "schemaVersion": 2,
  "date": "2026.09.15",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T08:15:57-07:00",
  "timeZone": "America/Los_Angeles",
  "title": "Restart Hiro after Windows update and review overnight outcomes",
  "publicationStatus": "Hiro and Qwen recovery verified; controller resumed",
  "executiveSummary": [
    "No additional autonomous implementations completed after the previous overnight restart. Candidate attempts continued through 01:52 PDT but no new promotion transaction finalized.",
    "Restarted Hiro after the reported Windows-update shutdown using the existing launcher and runtime.",
    "Qwen produced a successful direct inference at08:29 PDT using the previous2.37 backend. The canonical controller resumed candidate work at08:32 PDT."
  ],
  "workstreams": [
    {
      "title": "Overnight evidence and restart",
      "status": "Verified",
      "details": [
        "Latest finalized autonomous revision remains 6bed350ebdb1e9be116a2e94dc571bea7fab3033 from September 14 at15:26 PDT. Overnight events include construction failures and repeated handling of an older failed promotion transaction, rather than fresh successful implementations.",
        "Working checkout is clean at3513da2084df74b3616f23f7d743740f1b41f60b. Started Hiro at08:14 PDT; PID10988 reports matching loaded and checkout identity and Qwen connected. Existing model service was already listening.",
        "After reboot, LM Studio owned the configured port and advertised Qwen, but a direct16-token inference request timed out after60 seconds. Stopped that API server, unloaded its Qwen instance and restored the existing dedicated Qwen launcher with the prior model,16K context and single parallel slot.",
        "Prepared an artifact copy of the existing launcher with only project-root resolution and backend selection changed to the previously verified2.37.0 runtime. Preserved model, context, hidden child-process launch and inherited environment. No production source edits."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "decisions": [
    "Preserve source changes, queue history and validation gates. Normalize the inherited Windows search path before launch.",
    "Use the existing central model service and launcher."
  ],
  "validation": [
    {
      "check": "Runtime identity",
      "status": "passed",
      "result": "Health status ok; Qwen connected; loaded and checkout revisions match3513da2."
    },
    {
      "check": "Overnight promotion history",
      "status": "passed",
      "result": "No transaction finalized after the previous23:28 PDT verification. Latest failed transaction remains the one completed September14 at20:13 PDT."
    },
    {
      "check": "Regression tests",
      "status": "not_run",
      "result": "No source changes in this restart session."
    },
    {
      "check": "Initial direct inference",
      "status": "failed",
      "result": "LM Studio chat completion timed out after60 seconds; initial health connection alone was insufficient."
    },
    {
      "check": "Existing pipeline qualification",
      "status": "passed",
      "result": "API reports current revision3513da2 qualified with5 of5 required scenarios from the existing receipt. No new suite was run."
    },
    {
      "check": "Selected backend startup",
      "status": "failed",
      "result": "Current LM Studio preference selected llama.cpp2.38.0; startup health did not become ready within300 seconds and the launcher stopped that process."
    },
    {
      "check": "Journal validation",
      "status": "passed",
      "result": "npm run test:hiro and npm run build passed, including224 generated journal entries."
    },
    {
      "check": "Restored Qwen inference",
      "status": "passed",
      "result": "At2026-09-15T15:29:44Z model health was ok and an actual chat completion returned OK with stop finish reason;16 prompt tokens and2 completion tokens."
    },
    {
      "check": "Canonical controller recovery",
      "status": "passed",
      "result": "Events12138/12139 at15:32:36Z show resumed investigation and confirmed potential; PID10988 holds the runner lease. No manual circuit or budget reset."
    }
  ],
  "currentState": [
    "Hiro PID10988 remains healthy on3513da2084df74b3616f23f7d743740f1b41f60b with matching loaded and checkout identity.",
    "Qwen PID6148 is ready on backend2.37 with the existing model and16K context. Direct inference returned OK.",
    "At08:32:36 PDT controller events12138 and12139 recorded investigation and confirmed potential; Hiro holds the active runner lease."
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "No new improvement was implemented overnight, and the current candidate still requires construction, independent testing and promotion.",
    "The cause of the slow model startup is not established. Backend2.38 was stopped at300 seconds; backend2.37 needed about7 minutes47 seconds to reach verified inference, so these observations do not establish a backend regression.",
    "Repeated handling of an older failed promotion was observed overnight; that separate issue remains undiagnosed."
  ],
  "nextSteps": [
    "Leave Hiro and its scheduler running. Pause the completed reboot-verification follow-up."
  ],
  "disclosureNote": "Private candidate content and credentials omitted."
}