Hiro development journal

Morning review plan for improvement construction quality

2026.09.15 at 21:36:46 America/Los_Angeles Evidence reviewed; recommendations prepared Machine-readable JSON

Executive summary

Prepared a morning handoff focused on construction generalization, evaluation consistency, earlier regression detection and actionable discovery.

The latest autonomous candidate passed canary but failed a previously implicated regression in the final suite. It was retired correctly; no new implementation is claimed.

Work completed

Evidence-based protocol review

Summary prepared

Read the latest failed promotion receipt, the relevant existing regression and the proposed source diff. The proposal exhibited fixture-specific behavior in a shared response path.
Contrasting correction-recovery fixtures have different classification expectations; whether this is intentional contextual behavior or an oracle defect remains unresolved.
Prioritized an isolated baseline-versus-candidate reproduction before changing protocol or test expectations.
Distinguished the existing preactivation synthetic soak from executed postactivation checks; recommend assessing evidence value rather than restoring a long time-based probation.

Decisions and reasoning

Keep failed promotions terminal and preserve independent validation authority.
Use the latest failed candidate only as a diagnostic case study; do not reactivate it.
Prefer stronger experiments and earlier related regression coverage over larger retry budgets or raw reservoir counts.

Validation and evidence

Check	Status	Result
Promotion evidence review	reviewed	Latest final-suite receipt:1 failed,1067 passed,11 skipped in449.63s. This is existing execution evidence, not a newly run test.
Queue snapshot	reviewed	At21:34 PDT:no active candidates,waiting queue or retries;2 observing ideas;0 eligible entries from145 historical leads; circuit clear.
New Hiro tests	not_run	Planning and summary only; no code or runtime changes.

Current state

Deployed maintenance revisione2b25b0; latest autonomous candidate failed and was retired.
Discovery and audits remain enabled, with no eligible reservoir work at the latest check.

Next steps

Reproduce the latest failed regression and originating case on pinned baseline and candidate.
Resolve the intended behavior contract, strengthen early related regressions, then evaluate one fresh candidate through the canonical pipeline.