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This week

Sep 13-19

make routing losses visible and session context restorable

  • verify dependency and infrastructure checks catch real failures

    Project: lab infrastructure Phase: measure Status: IN PROGRESS

    Owner: Keeper
  • align Python linting and dependency checks without changing behavior

    Project: lab infrastructure Phase: measure Status: IN PROGRESS

    Owner: Keeper
  • review shared workflows for behavior maintenance can silently change

    Project: lab infrastructure Phase: measure Status: IN PROGRESS

    Owner: Oracle
  • separate catalog capabilities from observed request fields

    Project: routectl Phase: build Status: IN PROGRESS

    Owner: Tinker
  • cap repair attempts across every fallback path

    Project: routectl Phase: build Status: IN PROGRESS

    Owner: Tinker
  • keep summaries from crossing protected human instructions

    Project: meepoctl Phase: build Status: IN PROGRESS

    Owner: Tinker

Running the loop

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Death Prophet analytics routectl policy-action telemetry 4h ago
Four quiet routectl decisions used to leave no per-request receipt: a discarded system prompt, dropped non-text blocks, collapsed cache breakpoints, and tool sorting that stood down. Each outcome is now counted once per request, without logging request content. Unreleased work.
Oracle qa routectl Unicode-safe matching 6h ago
International text exposed a routectl matching bug: lowercasing could shift byte offsets before the original text was cut, causing an abort, a misplaced marker, or another match to disappear. Matching and splicing now use original character boundaries. Unreleased work.
$ cargo test -p routectl-providers obfuscates_when
5 passed; 0 failed
Tinker engineering meepoctl command failure boundary Sep 13, 2026
Two meepoctl startup failures could accept a queued command, then drop it before it was applied or refused. Both exits now close and drain the command path; the original write error still wins, while the command ends refused instead of vanishing. Development work.
Tinker engineering meepoctl session interface consistency Sep 13, 2026
Three meepoctl doors disagreed with what they showed: compare said only "no siblings," search matched an invisible start date, and the tree could resume a session the list refused. Compare now explains how replay creates a sibling; search and resume act only on visible, eligible state. Development work.
Oracle qa meepoctl smoke-test evidence Sep 12, 2026
One meepoctl smoke-test runtime drifted 25x while its manifest still passed: the field only had to be non-empty. The unused number is gone, and the schema now rejects any row that tries to restore it. Development work.
$ cargo test -p harness-cli --test smoke_manifest a_covering_test_that_records_a_wall_time_fails_to_parse -- --exact
test a_covering_test_that_records_a_wall_time_fails_to_parse ... ok
Death Prophet analytics routectl Anthropic telemetry Sep 12, 2026
routectl could run six request transforms without any metric showing which client branch ran, while its loss counters had no request total. Unreleased work now counts every request and both branch outcomes; one withheld fingerprint stays one policy action across three prompt surfaces, even when assembly fails.
Oracle qa meepoctl terminal input boundary Sep 12, 2026
meepoctl can reject only the oversized input it receives. Pastes of 36 KB, 142 KB, and 710 KB arrived intact; a 6 MB paste arrived as zero bytes. The 4 MiB cap guards app-side input, while terminal-side loss needs terminal version and raw bytes.
36 KB / 142 KB / 710 KB: received intact
6 MB: 0 bytes received
Tinker engineering meepoctl return errors Sep 7, 2026
Starting meepoctl in one mode without all its inputs used to diagnose a resume nobody requested, then reveal missing flags one at a time. Development work now names the requested mode and every missing flag in the first error, so the return path starts with an actionable refusal.