Steward run — 2026-08-02

[willregelmann]

Daily steward run, 2026-08-02. 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 — this execution environment has no authenticated gh (gh auth status reports the ambient GITHUB_TOKEN invalid; a manual retry with GH_TOKEN/GH_REPO set reached the API but got HTTP 403 on actions/runs). Per the routine's own rule, UNKNOWN is reported as UNKNOWN, never as passing. T2 reported manual as designed.

This is the same environment limitation noted in yesterday's run (#196), not new information. .github/workflows/tripwires.yml runs the same script every 6h on the default GITHUB_TOKEN and is the authoritative signal for T1/T3/T4/T5/T6 — this comment does not override it.

No new evidence available this session to confirm or refute a suspected T6 condition beyond what #196 already recorded (no agent-pr-labeled merge since #162/#193, no autonomous-routine-authored activity visible in the PR list since the 2026-07-25/27 consolidation push, which reads as an interactive session). Not applying needs-human — no raw evidence (gh run list) reachable from this session to confirm directly.

2. Compute and budget

Could not classify recent routine failures by cause (transient / terminal-until-changed / genuine) — requires gh run list, unavailable here. No claim of "no failures" is made.

3. Record drift

Rotating sample checked, different sample than yesterday to avoid redundant coverage:

• Record drift: EXPERIMENT.md kill-switch runbook still names the abandoned claude.ai runner and machine-PAT revocation #194 (kill-switch runbook naming abandoned claude.ai runner + non-gating machine-PAT revocation) — confirmed still open, still unfixed. No PR has touched EXPERIMENT.md since it was 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 stale AUTONOMY_BOT identity lines) — confirmed still open, still unfixed. No PR has touched automation/routines/ since it was filed.
• docs/ARCHITECTURE.md's Service-account row (line 29) and Configuration row (line 32) cross-checked against autonomy-routine.yml's own header comment on the COPILOT_TASK_API_PAT migration — consistent, no drift found here.
• .github/workflows/autonomy-steward.yml cross-checked against automation/routines/steward.md's own stated cadence ("daily") and model default (claude-sonnet-5) — consistent.
• .github/workflows/tripwires.yml cross-checked against docs/CONSOLIDATION.md's Step 5 description (6-hourly, default GITHUB_TOKEN, independent of routine credential path) — consistent.
• tools/claim_graph.py lint --warn: 9 errors / 33 warnings, unchanged from docs/CONSOLIDATION.md's recorded baseline (3×L4, 3×L6, 2×L10, 1×L11) and from yesterday's run — no new drift in the graph.

No new drift found beyond #194/#195, both already filed and still open.

4. Dispatched audit (not performed myself)

Sample frame: python tools/claim_graph.py query --tier rigorous --status live (17 live Rigorous claims). Selected fpe-starobinsky-existence — its own lint output flags verified.by: abstract on its load-bearing starobinsky citation, and its novelty note records a standing open item ("the 1980 primary text was NOT reached... Two independent passes have now failed to reach it"), making it a genuine candidate rather than an arbitrary pick. This is also a polarity-sensitive citation by METHODOLOGY's definition: two competing "Starobinsky" models exist in the literature (1980 anomaly-induced vs. post-1985 f(R) = R+R²/6M²), and a documented 2026-06-10 incident (EXPERIMENT.md log) already cost three unrelated PRs a blocked claim-support check on a prior misattribution risk here.

Independence enforced structurally: git archive HEAD extracted to /tmp/steward-audit with no .git directory — commit history, PR narratives, and this run's own reasoning were physically unreachable to the auditor. Dispatched a fresh subagent with no other context, instructed not to infer anything about authorship or process.

Verdict, recorded verbatim: VERIFIED-SUPPORTS, confidence HIGH on model identification / claim-citation match, MEDIUM-HIGH overall.

• Bibliography entry matches the canonical 1980 reference (confirmed against two independent secondary sources: Linde's 2025 memorial article, arXiv:2509.01675; Hawking-Hertog-Reall 2001, arXiv:hep-th/0010232).
• Polarity check resolved unambiguously in favor of the 1980 anomaly-induced model (a), not the later f(R) model (b) — Linde's article explicitly describes model (a) as an unstable de Sitter fixed point driven by the conformal anomaly, matching the claim.
• Every element of the specific claim attributed to the citation (semiclassical eq. with one-loop corrections, conformal-matter/trace-anomaly driver, exact constant-H fixed point, a₂>0 requirement, nonsingularity, instability) was independently confirmed against secondary-source content.
• The 1980 primary text itself remained unreachable (network blocked in the auditor's environment too — ScienceDirect/INSPIRE/ADS all DNS-failed), same standing gap the claim file already records honestly via verified.by: abstract.
• Minor terminology note from the auditor, not a defect: verified.by: abstract might more precisely read "secondary sources" (the two sources used are not abstracts but full-text/detailed derivations), but the epistemic caution and conclusion are sound. Not filing an issue for this — it is a labeling nuance, not a misrepresentation.

No fabricated or misattributed citation found. No tripwire fired (all mechanically-evaluable ones report UNKNOWN in this session). No needs-human applied.

routine: steward · model: claude-sonnet-5