Steward run — 2026-08-01

[willregelmann]

Daily steward run, 2026-08-01. Reconstruction preamble complete: read AGENTS.md, AUTONOMY.md, EXPERIMENT.md (§Tripwires, §Kill switch), docs/CONSOLIDATION.md.

1. Tripwires

Ran python tools/tripwires.py. Result in this session: T1, T3, T4, T5, T6 all UNKNOWN — the tool could not query GitHub (no authenticated gh in this execution environment; direct GitHub API/web access is also blocked here). Per the routine's own rule, UNKNOWN is reported as UNKNOWN, never as passing. T2 reported manual as designed (not mechanically decidable).

This is a genuine limitation of this run's execution environment, not evidence the mechanical evaluator is broken — .github/workflows/tripwires.yml runs the same script every 6h on the default GITHUB_TOKEN, a credential path this session does not have and does not need to fake. Treat that workflow's own output as authoritative for T1/T3/T4/T5/T6, not this comment.

To avoid reporting nothing, I cross-checked what I could reach via the read-only GitHub tools available to this session (PR/issue listings) and the last committed metrics snapshot:

• metrics/2026-W31.json (2026-07-27): needs_human: 0, stuck: 0, merged_agent_week: 0, agent_ready: 2 (issues Re-promote Starobinsky coefficient H_0²=180π/(G|a₂|) via internal derivation — drop external-citation requirement (supersedes #133) #168, Close or refute Gap G1: does Λ_sup stay finite for the coincidence-limit-sourced hyperboloidal energy estimate? (M3 repair, informs #167) #169 — both open since 2026-07-17, still unclaimed).
• No PR labeled agent-pr has merged since CE-13: Anchor-language audit against post-demotion FPE rigor #162 (created 2026-07-13, merged 2026-07-19).
• No thread-proposal filed since Rigorously bound GGD's two truncated self-consistency terms (vacuum fluctuation, backreaction) -- does this confront FPE's M3? #175 (2026-07-19, filed by the experimenter directly, not the explorer).
• All PRs Claim graph: typed research state, lint suite, and CI #180–193 (2026-07-25/27, the consolidation push: claim graph, generator/adversary, steward, tripwires) are authored by willregelmann in what read as an interactive session, not distinguishably an autonomous routine firing.

This pattern — no autonomous-routine-authored merge activity for ~2 weeks against docs/CONSOLIDATION.md's own note ("Actually running: 0 — fleet dark on Copilot quota since 2026-07-14," last updated 2026-07-25) — is consistent with the fleet still being dark, which would be exactly the T6 condition. I am not applying needs-human on this, per the routine's own instruction to confirm a tripwire against raw evidence before acting: I have indirect, not raw, evidence (no access to gh run list or Actions run history from this session). Flagging as suspected-but-unconfirmed for the next run (or the standing tripwires.yml workflow, which has the access this session lacks) to confirm directly.

2. Compute and budget

Could not classify recent routine failures by cause (transient / terminal-until-changed / genuine) — this also requires gh run list, unavailable in this session. No claim of "no failures" is made; this is an honest gap, not a passing result.

3. Record drift

Rotating sample checked: routine-definition identity lines vs. actual authoring identity, and the kill-switch runbook vs. the mechanism that actually stops the fleet.

• Filed Record drift: EXPERIMENT.md kill-switch runbook still names the abandoned claude.ai runner and machine-PAT revocation #194 — EXPERIMENT.md's kill-switch runbook (§96–107) still names the abandoned claude.ai/code/routines runner and machine-PAT revocation as the stop mechanism; neither works since the 2026-06-09 and 2026-07-12 migrations respectively. Already named as unfixed in the 2026-07-24 EXPERIMENT.md log entry; confirmed still unfixed today.
• Filed Record drift: worker.md / reviewer.md / responder.md / governor.md still say "Identity: machine account (AUTONOMY_BOT)" #195 — worker.md, reviewer.md, responder.md, governor.md still say **Identity:** machine account (AUTONOMY_BOT), stale since the 2026-07-12 compute migration. red-team.md/scout.md/librarian.md/explorer.md were already corrected on 2026-07-18, and that same log entry named these four as the explicit outstanding follow-up. Confirmed still unfixed today.
• Checked, found already accurate (no drift, no issue filed): quorum-gate.yml's research-content guard keys on vars.AUTONOMY_BOT (will-physagent) but post-migration routine PRs are authored as willregelmann, so the guard doesn't cover them. This is a real gap, but docs/ARCHITECTURE.md (lines 180–185) already documents it honestly and accurately — nothing to file.
• docs/ARCHITECTURE.md's kill-switch row and Service-account/Compute rows checked against automation/routines/README.md and match current reality.
• tools/claim_graph.py lint --warn: 9 errors / 33 warnings, matching docs/CONSOLIDATION.md's recorded baseline (3×L4, 3×L6, 2×L10, 1×L11) — no new drift in the graph itself.

4. Dispatched audit (not performed myself)

Sample frame: python tools/claim_graph.py query --tier rigorous --status live --since 2026-07-24 returned 0 claims — nothing has been promoted to Rigorous since the 2026-07-24 interim audit, so there is no fresh Rigorous population for a rolling audit to check. Instead used the claim graph's own lint output: lint's L6 findings are the 3 load-bearing citations recorded with verified.by: none (never independently verified) — donaldson (ce-exotic-structures), geroch (ce-signature-time, whose bibitem was corrected 2026-07-24 but never re-verified), and xue_imaginarity (ce-interference-metric, exploratory-tier, not yet in any .tex bibliography).

Independence enforced structurally, not by instruction: git archive HEAD extracted to a plain directory with no .git, so commit history, PR narratives, and this routine's own reasoning were physically unreachable to the auditor. Dispatched a fresh subagent with no other context, instructed not to invoke git/gh. Verdict recorded verbatim, not graded:

• donaldson — VERIFIED-SUPPORTS. Donaldson, "An application of gauge theory to four-dimensional topology," J. Diff. Geom. 18, 279–315 (1983) exists as cited and genuinely proves the diagonalizability theorem attributed to it.
• geroch — VERIFIED-SUPPORTS. Independently confirmed the current \bibitem{geroch} in the extract is Geroch, "Domain of Dependence," J. Math. Phys. 11, 437–449 (1970) — the 2026-07-24 correction is genuinely present in the tree, not just claimed — and this paper does establish the M ≅ ℝ×Σ splitting attributed to it.
• xue_imaginarity — INCONCLUSIVE. No arXiv preprint found, journal (Springer) unreachable from the auditor's environment, no independent citation trail confirming Xue/Guo/Ye/Li (2021) as the source of the specific closed-form formula. The repository's own verified.by: none and exploratory-tier (kept out of the .tex bibliography) already reflect this correctly — the audit found no basis to either verify or refute it further, and no action is needed beyond what the claim file already records: keep it exploratory-tier until source-level text is obtained.

No fabricated or misattributed citation found among the three audited. No tripwire fired (all mechanically-evaluable ones report UNKNOWN in this session, not PASS). No needs-human applied.

routine: steward · model: claude-sonnet-5