{
  "schemaVersion": 2,
  "date": "2026.09.15",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-15T14:03:25-07:00",
  "timeZone": "America/Los_Angeles",
  "title": "Stop recycling terminally failed promotions",
  "publicationStatus": "Implemented, qualified and running",
  "executiveSummary": [
    "Identified a feedback loop that requeued an idea after a terminal promotion failure, then reconciled the old failed transaction again and reopened the circuit cooldown.",
    "Implemented terminal-failure retirement and explicit builder-version provenance in an isolated checkout.",
    "Deployed e2b25b0e7a628a81216e68630c774552b40a6290 after85 focused tests,1066 full-suite passes and all five pipeline qualification groups. Hiro restarted at14:15 PDT with matching loaded identity and Qwen connected."
  ],
  "workstreams": [
    {
      "title": "Queue lifecycle correction",
      "status": "Deployed and verified",
      "details": [
        "Before reconciliation, atomically retire automatic queue retries whose newest promotion transaction failed. Preserve candidate data, attempt counts, transaction history and append-only events; complete their supervisor episode.",
        "Do not retire ideas with a newer promotion transaction. Require a recorded prior builder version before interpreting a blocked artifact as eligible after a builder change. Promotion outcomes are not builder retries.",
        "A backup-copy preview retired exactly the repeatedly recycled idea and was idempotent. At14:07 PDT, acquired the controller lease, backed up the live database, retired that same queued idea, completed its supervisor episode and released the lease. Existing source remains running until deployment qualifies."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "decisions": [
    "Treat failed promotion ideas as terminal for automatic retries; fresh work retains ordinary construction and validation behavior.",
    "Keep central Qwen running and use the existing qualified maintenance deployment and Hiro launcher. No validation gates or retry budgets are bypassed."
  ],
  "validation": [
    {
      "check": "Baseline reproduction",
      "status": "failed_as_expected",
      "result": "Both targeted provenance/promotion regression cases failed against production3513da2:2 failed,7 deselected in1.20s."
    },
    {
      "check": "Focused regression",
      "status": "passed",
      "result": "81 passed in12.69s, covering continuous engine, promotion transactions and nine new retirement/provenance cases."
    },
    {
      "check": "Final focused regression",
      "status": "passed",
      "result": "85 passed in11.41s, including all preactivation retry states, rejected outcomes, newer transaction protection, idempotence and canonical tick ordering."
    },
    {
      "check": "Initial qualification setup",
      "status": "failed_then_corrected",
      "result": "First three scenario groups passed; runtime isolation group had1 failed and5 passed because the isolated checkout lacked the pinned Python runtime path. Linked the existing Python environment and started a fresh final-revision qualification."
    },
    {
      "check": "Live cleanup",
      "status": "passed",
      "result": "Exactly one terminally failed promotion idea retired under the controller lease after a SQLite backup. Repeated cleanup changed nothing; attempt counts and historical events preserved."
    },
    {
      "check": "Final restricted repository suite",
      "status": "passed",
      "result": "1066 passed,11 skipped,18 warnings in478.41s using WSL/Bubblewrap on final revisione2b25b0. Earlier development run also passed1062 tests with11 skipped; final run is release evidence."
    },
    {
      "check": "Exact revision pipeline qualification",
      "status": "passed",
      "result": "All5 required groups passed for e2b25b0: candidate evaluation, promotion and rollback, autonomous recovery, runtime isolation/state and assistant product path."
    },
    {
      "check": "Deployment identity",
      "status": "passed",
      "result": "Backed up queue state, fast-forwarded the clean production checkout through the guarded maintenance integration, copied the verified qualification packet and launched Hiro through the existing helper. PID11232 loaded e2b25b0, matching checkout; health ok and Qwen connected."
    },
    {
      "check": "Public journal",
      "status": "passed",
      "result": "npm run test:hiro and npm run build passed, including225 generated entry checks; rerun after final evidence update."
    }
  ],
  "currentState": [
    "Hiro is running e2b25b0e7a628a81216e68630c774552b40a6290.",
    "The recycled failed idea is superseded with no retry scheduled; its attempt count and historical promotion evidence remain preserved.",
    "The new retirement and provenance checks are active for future controller ticks."
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "This session repairs the retry lifecycle; it does not claim a newly completed autonomous improvement. Candidate quality and independent validation still determine whether fresh work can be implemented."
  ],
  "nextSteps": [
    "Let the existing controller select eligible fresh work and perform its normal construction, validation and promotion gates."
  ],
  "disclosureNote": "Private candidate content, credentials and unresolved security details omitted."
}