# Drydock Trip Log

Autonomous Claude Code review ticks while the user is away. Each tick appended
chronologically. Cron-driven every 30 min from `/data3/drydock/scripts/autonomous_review.sh`.

## 2026-05-02 17:30 UTC tick
- Stress: 140/1658 (PID 2219727, run started ~13:30 UTC today)
- Write rate: 50% (58/114 prompts with writes — holding from previous run)
- Admiral last 30 min: not checked (within budget constraints)
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open (gh returned no output)
- Action this tick: committed fix for search_replace dir-path inference read-state bypass — when _prepare_and_validate_args infers the actual file from a directory path, the inferred file was absent from ctx.read_file_state, causing the read-before-edit check to block the edit. Fixed by registering the inferred path in read_state in run() when original was dir and returned path is file. 2 regression tests added. Committed 756d8ca; will ship at next 0/6/12/18 UTC auto-release tick.

## 2026-05-02 15:00 UTC tick
- Stress: 25/1658 (PID 2219727, fresh run — previous PID 675181 completed all 1658 prompts at ~14:25 UTC after 47h elapsed, 824 accepted, 155 skipped; babysitter auto-restarted at 15:00 UTC)
- Write rate: 22% (only 25 prompts — too early to judge; bootstrap phase included +52 total writes across initial build)
- Admiral last 30 min: loop:bash (calculator min() command repeated), retry_after_error:search_replace (directory path for tool_agent/ package dir — known model behavior), raw-markdown-leakage alert (48% rate on 25 prompts — investigated; this alert has fired 39 times historically since Apr 21, correlates with +writes prompts where model writes code/docs with markdown-like patterns in tool output, not an assistant-message rendering regression)
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- llm_balancer: alive on :8001 (PID 713929)
- Action this tick: no new commit — 1 commit queued (9bdd8a3, file-not-found advisory) auto-ships as v2.7.32 at next 18:00 UTC auto_release tick. Raw-markdown-leakage alert determined to be a recurring false positive. All services healthy; new stress run just starting.

## 2026-05-02 17:30 UTC tick
- Stress: 84/1658 (PID 2219727, new run started at ~14:32 UTC today; previous run PID 675181 completed full 1658-prompt pass: 824 done, 155 skipped, 5 timeouts, 73 recycles over 47h)
- Write rate: 38% over first 84 prompts (lower than prior run's 74% — expected at start; first prompt does the full package build, then feature-request prompts often hit already-built functionality)
- Admiral last 30 min: 26 loop:bash fires with `cat << 'EOF' > file.py` heredoc write pattern — model writes a plugin via bash heredoc, gets empty stdout (rc=0), then re-runs the same write in a loop; loop:bash (identical CLI invocations), struggle:write_file / struggle:search_replace; all canned-message fires
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: committed fix(bash): targeted hint for cat-heredoc write loops (734ee5a) — on 3rd+ identical `cat << 'EOF' > file` command the loop-breaker now says "read the file you wrote with read_file, fix content with write_file or search_replace" instead of the generic "EDIT SOURCE CODE" which confused the model since it was trying to edit source. Regression test added. Ships at next 18:00/00:00 UTC auto_release tick.

## 2026-05-02 14:02 UTC tick
- Stress: 1627/1658 (PID 675181, nearly complete — ~31 prompts remaining; elapsed 168346s ~46.7h)
- Write rate: 42% (last 100 prompts)
- Admiral last 30 min: loop:bash clusters (model repeating plugin-discovery commands), retry_after_error:search_replace (file-not-found, addressed by pending commit), truncated-REPLACE-closer pattern (existing detection in place; model-behavior issue); all patterns advisory/known
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- llm_balancer: alive on :8001 (PID 713929, legitimate)
- Action this tick: no new commit — pending 9bdd8a3 (file-not-found advisory fix) awaits next auto_release at 18:00 UTC. Run at 98.7% complete; remaining prompts are "Integrate: Azure/GCP/Lambda" cloud-integration section. No new actionable drydock bugs found.

## 2026-05-02 13:01 UTC tick
- Stress: ~1593/1658 (PID 675181, v10 log, nearly complete; 45% write rate last 100 prompts)
- Write rate: 45% (last 100 prompts)
- Admiral last 30 min: not checked (within budget)
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: committed fix 9bdd8a3 — search_replace "File does not exist" ToolError converted to advisory SearchReplaceResult with directory listing + write_file suggestion; escalates on 2nd+ call to same missing path with project-wide .py listing. Admiral showed 18 retry_after_error:search_replace instances from this pattern. 4 regression tests in tests/tools/test_search_replace_file_not_found.py. Will ship as v2.7.32 at next 0/6/12/18 UTC auto_release tick.

## 2026-05-02 12:00 UTC tick
- Stress: ~912/1658 (original run ended at 680/1658; babysitter restarted with --resume-from-step 679, new run at 233 additional steps; PID 675181, running 1d 20h)
- Write rate: 19% (down from 74% — expected: resumed run starts at "API: WebSocket server / JSON-RPC / gRPC" section, inherently complex prompts produce fewer writes and more timeouts)
- Admiral last 30 min: not checked (within budget)
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- llm_balancer: alive on :8001 (PID 713929)
- Action this tick: investigated write rate regression — determined it is a characteristic of the current stress prompt section (API-server prompts at steps 679-900), not a drydock source bug. One anomalous read_file failure observed with regex-escaped path (tool\^agent\/api\^tools\.py), possibly model confusion after a grep error message showed re.escape() output; not reproducible enough to fix this tick. No commits made.

## 2026-04-29 08:34 UTC tick
- Stress: 229/1658 (PID 270529, new run started ~Apr 29 03:26 UTC; progressing)
- Write rate: 19% (last 100 prompts) — early in sequence; previous run was at 73% at prompts 1550-1650, not a fair comparison; new run at prompt 225 already has 52 writes vs 0 in prev run at same point, so actually running better
- Admiral last 30 min: struggle:66-76 (model made 76 reads without writing; ended on its own); loop:bash --help x1; retry_after_error:search_replace directory path x1; empty_after_tool:read_file x1 — all known model-behavior patterns
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: no fix committed; b2f26aa (search_replace dir-path escalation) is unshipped pending next auto_release at ~12:00 UTC; skip rate 24% is higher than prev run's 7% at same point but this is variance from model being in 76-read struggle sessions, not a drydock bug

## 2026-04-29 08:01 UTC tick
- Stress: 207/1658 (PID 270529, new run from babysitter restart; progressing normally)
- Write rate: 15% (expected — prompts 200-207 are analysis queries: function_count, class_count, test_file_count, etc., no file writes expected)
- Admiral last 30 min: struggle events firing at 70+ consecutive non-write tool calls; empty_after_tool:read_file x4 (all handled by stall retry); one empty_after_tool:web_search — all normal model-behavior noise
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: No fix committed. All systems healthy. Commit b2f26aa (search_replace: escalate directory-path error on 2nd+ repeated call) is staged ahead of v2.7.19 tag, will auto-release as v2.7.20 at 12:00 UTC.

## 2026-04-29 06:10 UTC tick
- Stress: 141/1658 (PID 270529, new run started by babysitter; prior run PID 3713698 dead)
- Write rate: 38% (significant regression from 74% sustained — SKIP rate 44% vs 13% baseline in prior run)
- Admiral last 30 min: loop:bash, loop:search_replace, loop:read_file, struggle:search_replace all firing — normal model-behavior noise
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: No fix committed. Investigated SKIP regression: 62/141 prompts skipped with "TUI did not accept after 3 retries". SKIPs began at prompt 10 in the very first session. Pattern suggests TUI is busy processing previous turn output when harness sends next prompt; watcher times out after 3×120s without seeing new user message in session log. v2.7.18 read_file escalation changes (2nd+ identical dedup escalates with full context) may be causing model to stay in extended tool-call loops after each turn "completes", keeping the session non-quiet. No actionable drydock source fix identified within budget — flagged for user to investigate on return (2026-05-01).

## 2026-04-29 04:35 UTC tick
- Stress: 128/1658 (new run restarted by babysitter; prior run PID 3713698 dead at 680/1658)
- Write rate: 39% (was 74% sustained — SKIP rate elevated at ~30% vs 8% baseline)
- Admiral last 30 min: active — loop:read_file(tool_agent/cli.py, limit=100) firing repeatedly; struggle:search_replace counts reaching 30-36 per prompt
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: triggered manual auto_release to ship v2.7.18 early (tagged, PyPI upload confirmed). The 4 unreleased commits (read_file pagination hint, search_replace empty-content soft advisory, write_file dir-path detection, write_file path inference) directly address the read_file loop pattern visible in admiral logs: model reads cli.py with limit=100, gets no truncation hint, retries identically 3+ times, then struggles with search_replace on text it couldn't see. v2.7.18 adds the pagination hint that breaks this cycle. Stress run is live at 128/1658 and will pick up v2.7.18 at next session reset.

**Pause loop:** `touch /data3/drydock/.pause_autonomous_loop`
**Resume loop:** `rm /data3/drydock/.pause_autonomous_loop`
**Live log:** `/data3/drydock/logs/autonomous_review.log` (full Claude output + errors)

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## 2026-04-26 12:46 UTC — initialization

Loop installed. Cron entry: `*/30 * * * *`. First tick fires at the next :00 or :30.
Pre-existing background processes left untouched: stress harness PID 3918895
(restarted at step 619), stress watcher PID 3918896, llm_balancer (just
restarted, cron self-match bug fixed in this same session).

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## 2026-04-27 02:01 UTC tick (autonomous, budget-limited)
- Stress: 534/1658 (new run PID 3993968, restarted at 21:00 UTC from step 143)
- Write rate: 0% last 100 prompts (root cause: llm_balancer dead)
- Admiral last 30 min: N/A (not checked, budget limited)
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: llm_balancer (PID 1230765) was dead — port 8001 returning 501s from a different service, causing every model call to return empty content and exhausting all 4 stall retries. Restarted balancer as PID 4035972 using the same nohup pattern as the keepalive cron. The 5-min keepalive cron should have caught this but apparently missed. Stress harness should recover on next prompt cycle as the balancer comes back up.

## 2026-04-27 02:05 UTC — interactive session followup
- Autonomous-claude's restart of balancer at PID 4035972 actually FAILED (EADDRINUSE) because port :8001 was occupied by an orphaned test artifact: `python3 -m json_rpc_server --port 8001` (PID 4011873). That artifact was created when the stress harness ran a "API: JSON-RPC server" PRD prompt and drydock's implementation bound to the literal global port instead of localhost or a random port. When the test session ended, the JSON-RPC server lingered.
- Killed PID 4011873 (PID-specific kill, target confirmed via `ps -p 4011873 -o cmd`).
- Restarted llm_balancer as PID 4036290. Now serving JSON correctly on :8001.
- Bumped autonomous_review.sh budget cap from $0.50 → $1.00 so future ticks can complete a full status review without truncation.
- Added port-squatting recovery instructions to autonomous_review_prompt.md so the loop can self-resolve this pattern in future ticks.

## 2026-04-27 02:32 UTC tick
- Stress: 405+/1658 (harness re-based on restart, log shows 405 lines in current run)
- Write rate: 0% last 100 (blocked while balancer was hung; recovering post-restart)
- Admiral last 30 min: not checked (admiral_probe PID 2251231 not verified this tick)
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: committed fix — switched llm_balancer.py from single-threaded HTTPServer to ThreadingHTTPServer (e84999b). Root cause: long LLM inference POSTs (up to 300s) blocked the single-threaded server; GET requests and subsequent POSTs timed out waiting. This caused the stress harness to fail prompt acceptance for ~50 consecutive prompts (steps 544–547 all SKIP). Killed hung balancer PID 4036290, restarted with threading fix (new PID 4040462, verified /v1/models responds). Harness recycled TUI and resumed at step 548. Auto-release will ship v2.7.9 at next 0/6/12/18 UTC tick.

## 2026-04-27 03:30 UTC tick
- Stress: 581/1658 (PID 3993968, 6h30m elapsed; progressing through "Add storage backend" batch)
- Write rate: 22% last 100 (mix — earlier 0-write git-info prompts pulled rate down; current "Add storage backend" prompts are writing 3–25 files each)
- Admiral last 30 min: not checked this tick
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: no fix committed. All systems healthy. Balancer PID 4040465 (restarted by keepalive cron after prior fix) serving correctly on :8001. Harness alive with babysitter tracking. Write rate drop vs prior 74% is expected for the current prompt batch type, not a regression.

## 2026-04-27 03:03 UTC tick
- Stress: 562/1658 (PID 3993968, 6h elapsed; progressing through "Add storage backend: X" batch)
- Write rate: 7% last 100 (expected — current prompts are feature-add requests answered with text-only; not a regression)
- Admiral last 30 min: 36 fires (all struggle:37-46+ from one stuck session around 02:12-02:29 UTC; model spent 45+ turns reading without writing; canned responses fired each turn; session eventually recycled)
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: no fix committed. Systems healthy post-v2.7.9 threading fix. Balancer (PID 4040465) and vLLM running. Harness throughput dropped to 23 prompts in last hour (vs ~130/hr normally) due to the stuck struggle session but recovered — step 562 completed with +3 writes, TUI recycled cleanly. babysitter.sh has a benign duplicate-assignment on STRESS_LOG (two identical lines; harmless, not worth a commit).

## 2026-04-27 04:03 UTC tick
- Stress: 589/1658 (35%), PID 3993968, 7h elapsed
- Write rate: 23% last 100 (expected — current section is "Add storage backend: X" prompts answered without writes when backend already exists)
- Admiral last 30 min: not checked (budget constraint)
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: investigated SKIP cascade at prompts 586-588 post-session-reset. Root cause: after RECYCLE-TUI, find_session() can't locate the new session until meta.json is written (requires first LLM turn to complete, ~2-5 min). First RECYCLE failed (587-588 skipped), second RECYCLE succeeded (589 accepted). No drydock source bug — this is a known harness startup-timing limitation. Systems healthy: balancer PID 4040465 on :8001 responding, vLLM 0 400s.

## 2026-04-27 05:31 UTC tick
- Stress: 665/1658 (40%), PID 3993968, 8.5h elapsed; active log /tmp/stress_2000_v10_restart_1777237201.log
- Write rate: 32% last 100 prompts (down from 74% — API implementation prompts are generating long multi-file sessions causing extreme context bloat)
- Admiral last 30 min: not checked (budget constraint)
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: investigated 5-hour log stall (00:29–05:31 UTC). Root cause: each LLM call in the API batch ("REST PUT", "REST POST", etc.) is taking ~1 hour — drydock.log shows AssistantEvent timestamps at 03:00, 04:00, 05:00 UTC with 1-hour gaps between turns. The context bloats because API implementation prompts each write 20+ files; by prompt 663–665 the session context fills 131K tokens. The harness is NOT stuck — TUI PID 4061115 is alive (55 min), drydock.log shows turn 4 yielded at 05:00 UTC. The stress watcher (PID 3993969) is running but producing no output (advisory-only, no restart authority). Also noted: LiteLLM PID 4070089 at 97.7% CPU since 00:31 (from /data3/RSI/litellm), CPU-only so not impacting GPU inference. No fix committed — slow but not broken; truncation policy tightening deferred to user review on return.

## 2026-04-27 05:03 UTC tick
- Stress: 643/1658 (39%), PID 3993968, 8h elapsed; active log /tmp/stress_2000_v10_restart_1777237201.log
- Write rate: 13% full-run (63/466 prompts); low but expected — current batch is "Add storage backend: X" prompts (mongodb, redis, memcached, opensearch, elasticsearch, rocksdb, badgerdb) where many backends require external C libs or don't exist as Python packages; model responds with explanatory text
- Admiral last 30 min: 11+ fires — loop:read_file/__init__.py, retry_after_error:search_replace (0-lines-changed loop), loop:bash --help, loop:web_search badgerdb, empty_after_tool:web_search (3 fires) when model can't find Python BadgerDB/RocksDB clients; raw-markdown-leakage spiked from 13% to 69% during "Add storage backend" batch; all model behavior
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: no fix committed. Confirmed harness writing to correct log (PID 3993968 → /tmp/stress_2000_v10_restart_1777237201.log, last write 05:01 UTC = 1 min before tick). TUI session active 05:02 UTC. Balancer PID 4040465 healthy at :8001. Raw markdown leakage spike (69%) correlates with post-RECYCLE-TUI responses where model outputs markdown-heavy summaries; not a new rendering regression. The web_search → empty_after_tool pattern for non-existent Python DB clients (badgerdb, rocksdb) is model behavior that admiral is already redirecting. No actionable drydock source bug this tick.

## 2026-04-27 06:05 UTC tick
- Stress: 680/1658 (41%), PID 3993968, 9h elapsed; active log /tmp/stress_2000_v10_restart_1777237201.log
- Write rate: 58% last 100 prompts (healthy recovery from low-write storage-backend section)
- Admiral last 30 min: 8 fires — struggle:21-26:search_replace at 05:13, retry_after_error:search_replace:REFUSED at 05:42, loop:write_file (SSE/websocket_client content) at 05:55 and 05:58, retry_after_error:write_file at 05:58, retry_after_error:bash and loop:bash (cd sse_client) at 06:03; all expected model behavior in API implementation sessions
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: restarted dead admiral probe (was PID 2251231, now 4075121 on :8878); verified balancer PID 4040465 healthy at :8001; confirmed vLLM gemma4 healthy. Investigated write_file error head 'path: /data3/.../websocket_' in admiral — search_replace and write_file loop-breakers already implemented; write_file path error is transient (single occurrence). No drydock source bugs found. Systems healthy.

## 2026-04-27 04:31 UTC tick
- Stress: 615/1658 (37%), PID 3993968, 7.5h elapsed
- Write rate: 38% last 100 (expected — running through "Add storage backend: gcs/azure/minio/ceph/nfs/samba/ftp/sftp/webdav/sqlite/postgres/mysql" batch; external-service prompts produce few writes by design)
- Admiral last 30 min: 11 fires — struggle:75-79 (long read-without-write session ~03:44-03:49), retry_after_error:bash and search_replace (~04:03-04:12), loop:bash --help (~04:17), loop:search_replace 0-lines-changed (~04:28); multiple tui-recycle-requests issued. All model behavior, no new drydock source bugs identified.
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: investigated write-rate drop (74%→38%), raw-markdown-leakage admiral alert (04:08 UTC, 5/38 checks, 13% rate), search_replace 0-lines-changed loop pattern. Write rate drop is expected for current prompt section. Markdown leakage is advisory and likely false positives from model outputting markdown syntax in code context. The 0-lines-changed loop (search==replace no-op edit) is existing model behavior that admiral interventions are already redirecting. babysitter.sh duplicate STRESS_LOG assignment remains harmless. No fix committed — systems healthy.
## 2026-04-27 07:15 UTC tick
- Stress: 719/1658 (PID 3993968, ~10h elapsed, babysitter restarted twice)
- Write rate: 44% last 100 prompts (down from 74%; current API-section prompts produce fewer file writes)
- Admiral last 30 min: struggle:search_replace firing 20-40x on one session; also retry_after_error:write_file at 06:51
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- llm_balancer: alive at PID 4040465 (cron replaced old PID 1230765)
- Action this tick: committed fix 922dde1 — detect truncated-history args (_truncated key) in format.py resolve_tool_calls before pydantic validation; return advisory 're-read file, provide full args' instead of cryptic ValidationError. Root cause: _truncate_old_tool_results replaces write_file args with {_truncated, _original_bytes, path}; Gemma 4 copies stub as template for new calls, causing 'content field required' retry loops. Auto-release ships at next 12:00 or 18:00 UTC tick.

## 2026-04-27 07:32 UTC tick
- Stress: 725/1658 (44%), PID 3993968, 10h30m elapsed; active log /tmp/stress_2000_v10_restart_1777237201.log
- Write rate: 45% last 100 prompts (expected — deep in API: section; gRPC/WebSocket/SSE/JSON-RPC prompts produce text explanations, not file writes)
- Admiral last 30 min: not checked (budget constraint)
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- llm_balancer: healthy, PID 4040465 on :8001; /v1/models responds correctly; babysitter tracking correct log
- Action this tick: no fix committed. Verified both pending commits (d0dbc08 search_replace advisory, 922dde1 truncated-args advisory) are in source; they ship at 12:00 UTC auto_release as v2.7.11. Confirmed write rate drop is prompt-section-driven (API: conceptual batch), not a regression. Harness progressing at ~50 prompts/hr; eta ~19h to complete 1658.

## 2026-04-27 08:02 UTC tick
- Stress: 733/1658 (44%), PID 3993968, ~11h elapsed; active log /tmp/stress_2000_v10_restart_1777237201.log
- Write rate: 48% last 100 prompts (expected — deep in API section; gRPC/GraphQL/WebSocket prompts produce text explanations not file writes)
- Admiral last 30 min: skip-cluster alerts at 07:00/07:30/08:01 UTC (2 SKIPs per 40-prompt window), retry-spike 54% at 07:58 (TUI input contention in API section); TUI recycle issued at 07:14 UTC; all within expected range for API-heavy prompt section
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- llm_balancer: healthy PID 4040465 on :8001
- Action this tick: fixed babysitter.sh duplicate STRESS_LOG assignment (previous tick hardcoded two identical lines); restored dynamic ls-t detection with updated fallback path. 2 pending commits (922dde1 truncated-args advisory, d0dbc08 search_replace advisory) ship at 12:00 UTC auto_release as v2.7.11.

## 2026-04-28 05:30 UTC tick
- Stress: 1301/1658 (78% complete, PID 3993968 alive, 156 SKIPs total)
- Write rate: 15% last 100 prompts (regression from 74% — caused by no-op edit loop)
- Admiral last 30 min: multiple struggle:20-30:search_replace fires; model making 20-30 tool calls without writing
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: committed fix for search_replace no-op loop (3c1d380). When SEARCH text matched but REPLACE produced identical content, tool returned "edited successfully (+0 lines)" without writing anything or warning the model. Model re-read, saw its edit was absent, retried — firing struggle detector 20-30 times per session. Fix: detect modified_content == original_content early, yield ALREADY CORRECT advisory, return. Auto-release will ship as v2.7.15 at next 0/6/12/18 UTC tick. Pre-existing test failure in test_refuses_when_append_would_break_syntax confirmed present before this change (unrelated).

## 2026-04-28 06:30 UTC tick
- Stress: 1317/1658 (79% complete, PID 3993968 alive, writing to /tmp/stress_2000_v10_restart_1777237201.log)
- Write rate: 18% last 100 prompts (expected — deep in "Perf:" batch: warm-cache/coalesce-reads prompts produce text advisories, not file writes, same as API: batch behaviour)
- Admiral last 30 min: struggle:29-41 fires (model browsing without writing in Perf: section), loop:grep on def.*\(.*\) pattern — both expected for conceptual prompts; no new patterns
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- llm_balancer: healthy PID 24354 on :8001; /v1/models responds correctly
- Action this tick: no fix committed. One pending commit 3c1d380 (search_replace ALREADY CORRECT advisory) ships at next 12:00 or 18:00 UTC auto_release as v2.7.15. Confirmed harness is writing to v10_restart log (not original 1777119799 log); babysitter tracking correct. All services healthy; eta ~4h to complete 1658.

## 2026-04-28 06:30 UTC tick
- Stress: ~1325/1658 (80%, babysitter at idx=1317 at 06:00 UTC, v10_restart log at 1325 entry)
- Write rate: 18% (last 100 prompts in v10_restart log) — expected; Perf: section produces text advisories not file writes
- Admiral last 30 min: not checked (skip rate concern below)
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: no fix committed. Skip rate has climbed from ~8% to 12% (140 skips / 1317 prompts); babysitter handles via FORCE-RESET. One pending commit 3c1d380 (search_replace ALREADY CORRECT advisory) ships as v2.7.15 at 12:00 or 18:00 UTC auto_release. All services healthy (llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001, vLLM gemma4 up 4+ days). No actionable drydock bugs found this tick.

## 2026-04-28 07:10 UTC tick
- Stress: 680/1658 (41%)
- Write rate: 32% (last 100 prompts; some SKIP cluster degradation)
- Admiral last 30 min: skip-cluster + retry-spike alerts; tui-recycle-requested 3× (harness handling it)
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: committed fix(auto_release): jaraco.functools circular import has been silently killing auto_release.sh after every build since v2.7.11 — twine crashed on import, set -euo pipefail killed the script before the local-wheel fallback. Fixed with PYTHONNOUSERSITE=1 + set +e around twine call. Manually installed v2.7.14 from local wheel into user env (stress test now runs the full fix set including search_replace improvements from v2.7.13–v2.7.14). Next auto_release tick (12:00 CDT) will ship v2.7.15 to PyPI cleanly.

## 2026-04-28 08:35 UTC tick
- Stress: 1336/1658 (PID 3993968 alive, 1d10h elapsed), TUI child PID 132562 actively processing prompt 1337
- Write rate last 100 prompts: 21% — lower than the 74% sustained earlier; root cause is SKIP clusters after TUI recycles plus "Perf:" prompts producing fewer file writes than feature-build prompts; not a drydock bug
- Admiral last 2h: struggle×24, loop×11 (search_replace, read_file, bash), retry_after_error×3, empty_after_tool×1 — all expected patterns, no new categories
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 confirmed legitimate, vLLM docker running, babysitter cron healthy
- 2 commits pending next auto-release: fix(auto_release) PYTHONNOUSERSITE and fix(search_replace) no-op ALREADY CORRECT advisory (from prior ticks)
- Action this tick: no action — system healthy, no new drydock bugs found, stress continuing through Perf prompt section at expected pace

## 2026-04-28 08:04 UTC tick
- Stress: 1345/1658 (81% complete)
- Write rate: 23% last 100 prompts (down from 74%; "Perf:" optimization prompts — model tends to explain rather than write code; overall run shows 8023 writes across 993 prompts = 8.1 writes/prompt average)
- Admiral last 30 min: 164 struggle, 31 loop, 14 retry_after_error, 6 empty_after_tool fires; no new pattern types
- vLLM 400s: 0
- SKIP rate: 12% (155/1201); RECYCLE-TUI handling it; auto_compact already configured at 80K tokens for Gemma 4
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy (old PID 1230765 rotated out, new one running), vLLM docker up
- Action this tick: no action — system healthy, write rate drop is model behavior on Perf prompts not a drydock bug, no new actionable failures found

## 2026-04-28 09:04 UTC tick
- Stress: 1354/1658 (82% complete, PID 3993968 alive, 1-11:31 elapsed)
- Write rate: ~25% last 90 prompts (Perf: prompt range; model explains rather than writes — same model behavior noted last tick, not a drydock bug)
- Admiral last 30 min: no new pattern types beyond known struggle/loop/retry_after_error/empty_after_tool
- vLLM 400s: 0
- SKIP rate: ~13% (157/1210 prompts), RECYCLE-TUI handling wedged TUIs; no regression vs. prior hour
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy, vLLM gemma4 docker up
- Action this tick: no action — system healthy, previous tick already confirmed Perf-prompt write-rate drop is expected model behavior; nothing new to fix

## 2026-04-28 09:30 UTC tick
- Stress: 1358/1658 (82%, PID 3993968 alive, 1d12h elapsed); done=1053, skip=161 (13%), recycle=128
- Write rate: 25% last 90 prompts (Perf: prompt section — model explains optimizations rather than writing code; same pattern noted last two ticks, not a regression)
- Admiral last 30 min: struggle×N, loop:read_file×4, retry_after_error:search_replace×2 (truncated-arg-as-template pattern, already caught by format.py:385 with re-read advisory); no new categories
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy, admiral_probe PID 4075121 on :8878, vLLM gemma4 on :8000 healthy
- Action this tick: no action — system healthy, retry_after_error pattern is existing/handled truncated-arg behavior, no new drydock bugs found

## 2026-04-28 09:31 UTC tick
- Stress: 1366/1658 (82%), PID 3993968, running for 1d 12h; active in last 60s
- Write rate: 28% (last 100 prompts) — lower than 74% baseline; prompt mix includes many "Add storage backend" and API-type prompts that tend toward explanatory text
- SKIP rate: 12% overall (165/1366), episodic clusters up to 53% (16 skips in 30 prompts) triggered by TUI-recycle startup lag — pre-existing pattern, admiral firing tui-recycle-requested
- Admiral last 30 min: 10 interventions; loop:read_file, retry_after_error:search_replace, struggle:N:none (up to 65 non-write calls); all existing-pattern categories
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy (resume.md had stale PID 1230765), vLLM gemma4 on :8000 healthy
- Action this tick: no action — investigated search_replace truncated-arg FailedToolCall (7 hits, already handled correctly in format.py), skip-cluster pattern is systemic/pre-existing; no new drydock bugs found

## 2026-04-28 10:31 UTC tick
- Stress: 1379/1658 (83%), PID 3993968, running 1d13h; TUI actively processing (patching json_rpc_client/client.py observed in tui.log)
- Write rate: 31% last 100 prompts — Perf: prompt section continues (model often explains optimizations rather than writing code)
- Skip rate: severe episodic cluster 09:27–10:30 UTC (14-17 skips/30 prompts, admiral fired tui-recycle-requested repeatedly); TUI recycling appears to have stabilized
- Admiral last 30 min: loop:read_file, struggle:N:search_replace/write_file, retry-spike 110%; all existing categories, no new patterns
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy, vLLM gemma4 on :8000 healthy
- Action this tick: committed fix(format): include file_path in truncated-arg Re-read hint (6a2fed5); write_file/search_replace truncated stubs now produce the full "Re-read path" advisory; 3 regression tests added

## 2026-04-28 11:05 UTC tick
- Stress: 680/1658
- Write rate: 37% (last 200 prompts; down from 74% — API-type prompts have lower write density and SKIP cluster dragged the rate)
- Admiral last 30 min: heavy struggle:X:search_replace and loop:read_file firings; 2x tui-recycle-requested
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: committed fix(bash): add signal-kill hint for negative exit codes (signal-killed processes). Root cause found: stress run on "Perf: memoize expensive call" caused model to write benchmark_memoization_test as a server binding :8080; external kill left returncode=-15 with only "[Exit code -15] (no output)" — no guidance to background it — so model kept retrying. Also killed 3 orphaned server processes: benchmark_memoization_test (:8080 ×2) and json_rpc_server (:8002, 5+ hours). Fix ships at next auto-release cron (0/6/12/18 UTC).

## 2026-04-28 11:35 UTC tick
- Stress: 1404/1658 (85% complete, PID 3993968 alive, 1d14h elapsed); done=1080ish, skip=175 (14%), recycle=139+
- Write rate: 39% last 86 prompts (Perf: prompt section — model explains optimizations rather than writes; same pattern noted in last 5 ticks, not a regression; overall run averaging ~8 writes/prompt across non-Perf prompts)
- Admiral last 30 min: heavy struggle:N:none (up to 53 calls without writes) and loop:read_file on json_rpc_server/handler.py and tool_agent/plugins.py; all known categories, no new pattern types; tui-recycle-requested fired 3x (10:46, 10:56, 11:10, 11:26 UTC), admiral worker restarted after each
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy, admiral_probe PID 4075121 on :8878 healthy, vLLM gemma4 on :8000 healthy; no orphan servers on unexpected ports
- Note: previous tick at 11:05 UTC reported 680/1658 — that was reading the stale old log (/tmp/stress_2000_1777119799.log). Actual count is 1403+/1658 from /tmp/stress_2000_v10_restart_1777237201.log
- Action this tick: no action — system healthy, struggle/loop patterns are existing model behavior (Gemma 4 ignoring nudges, per CLAUDE.md learning #2), no new drydock bugs found; stress run on track to complete in ~12-15 hours

## 2026-04-28 12:05 UTC tick
- Stress: 1418/1658 (85%), PID 3993968 alive, 1d15h elapsed; active at [1418] Perf: evict LRU entries
- Write rate: 37% last 87 prompts (Perf: section — model explains optimizations rather than writing; consistent with prior ticks, not a regression)
- Admiral last 30 min: struggle:25-31:search_replace loop on "Perf: warm cache on startup" (admiral opus fired [B6] "already desired state"); tui-recycle-requested 2x (11:47, 11:59 UTC); all known categories, no new pattern types
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy, vLLM gemma4 on :8000 healthy, admiral_probe alive; 1 unshipped commit (30e3123 fix(bash) signal-kill hint) ships as v2.7.16 at next auto-release cron tick
- Action this tick: no action — system healthy; struggle/loop patterns are existing Gemma 4 model behavior per CLAUDE.md learning #2; no new drydock bugs found; stress on track to complete in ~6-8 hours

## 2026-04-28 13:00 UTC tick
- Stress: 1433/1658 (86%), PID 3993968 alive, 1d16h elapsed; active at [1433] Perf: stream large file (+46 writes)
- Write rate: 43% last 86 prompts (Perf: section continues — explains optimizations more than writing; consistent with prior ticks)
- Admiral last 30 min: no new pattern types; struggle/loop categories are existing Gemma 4 model behavior per CLAUDE.md learning #2
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy, admiral_probe PID 4075121 on :8878 healthy, vLLM gemma4 on :8000 healthy; no orphan servers
- Last release: v2.7.15 shipped at 11:00 UTC (auto-release bundled 11 commits); 2 commits pending (a757616 write_file path error, 30e3123 bash signal-kill hint) will ship as v2.7.16 at next 0/6/12/18 CDT tick (~18:00 CDT / 23:00 UTC)
- Note: 12:30 UTC tick failed with USD budget exceeded — no loss, system was healthy that tick too
- Action this tick: no action — system healthy, stress on track to complete in ~5-6 hours

## 2026-04-28 13:34 UTC tick
- Stress: 1440/1658 (87%), PID 3993968 alive, 1d16.5h elapsed; session reset just triggered after 1440 prompts, new TUI child spawned, continuing from prompt 1441
- Write rate: 44% last 86 prompts (Perf: section — "Perf: evict LRU entries", "Perf: lazy-load module" etc., low write rate expected; not a regression)
- Admiral last 30 min: skip-cluster alerts (8 SKIP in 36 prompts) and retry-spike (56% retry rate) — model taking 30-120s on Perf: prompts with thinking=HIGH; no new pattern types beyond known skip/retry/struggle/loop categories
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy (curl OK), admiral_probe PID 4075121 alive, vLLM gemma4 Up 4 days; no orphan servers on :8001
- Action this tick: no action — system healthy; elevated SKIP clusters (~16% overall) are caused by thinking=HIGH on short Perf: prompts; stress progressing ~19 prompts/hour, expected completion in ~11 hours

## 2026-04-28 14:20 UTC tick
- Stress: 1454/1658 (88%), PID 3993968 alive (1d17h), log `/tmp/stress_2000_v10_restart_1777237201.log`; currently in Perf: section (warm-cache, evict-LRU, lazy-load prompts)
- Write rate: 41% last 86 prompts (Perf: section has low write rate by design — model discusses optimization more than writing code; not a regression)
- Admiral last 30 min: loop:read_file, empty_after_tool:read_file, struggle:N:write_file, loop:search_replace — all known model-behavior categories, no new pattern types
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy (curl OK), vLLM gemma4 container up; no orphan servers
- Pending commits: a757616 (write_file actionable error on missing path) + 30e3123 (bash signal-kill hint) — will ship as v2.7.16 at next 0/6/12/18 CDT auto-release tick
- Action this tick: no action — system healthy, stress on track to complete in ~4-5 hours

## 2026-04-28 14:35 UTC tick
- Stress: 1460/1658 (88%), PID 3993968 alive (1d17.5h elapsed), log `/tmp/stress_2000_v10_restart_1777237201.log`; active in Perf: → Integrate: transition (prompt 1459 = "Integrate: Slack webhook" with +24 msgs +6 writes)
- Write rate: 41% last 86 prompts (Perf: section by design; model explains existing optimizations rather than writing; consistent with prior 5 ticks, not a regression)
- Admiral last 30 min: loop:search_replace (13:55 UTC), loop:read_file (14:09), empty_after_tool:search_replace (14:10), retry_after_error:bash (14:30) — all known model-behavior categories; no new pattern types; session log reached 1.86 GB causing SKIP clusters at prompts 1454-1458
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open (gh auth unavailable this tick — silent fail)
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy (curl returned model list), vLLM gemma4 container up; no orphan servers on unexpected ports
- Pending: 2 unreleased commits (a757616 write_file missing-path error, 30e3123 bash signal-kill hint) will ship as v2.7.16 at next 0/6/12/18 CDT auto-release tick
- Action this tick: no action — system healthy; SKIP clusters caused by 1.86 GB session log slowing TUI input acceptance, not a drydock bug; stress on track to complete in ~3-4 hours

## 2026-04-28 15:10 UTC tick
- Stress: 1479/1658 (89%), PID 3993968 alive (1d18h elapsed), log `/tmp/stress_2000_v10_restart_1777237201.log`; progressing through Integrate: section (GCP, Azure, Cloudflare Workers, Fastly)
- Write rate: 39% last 89 prompts (Integrate: section — model answers knowledge questions about cloud platforms with minimal code writes; consistent with Perf: section behavior, not a regression)
- Admiral last 30 min: retry-spike (64-79% retry rate) and skip-cluster (7-10 SKIPs per 33 prompts) alerts with 4x tui-recycle-requested; caused by 1.86+ GB session log slowing TUI input acceptance — known pattern; all are recovered by tui-recycle; no new admiral pattern types
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy (curl returned model list), vLLM gemma4 container up 4 days, admiral_probe running; no orphan servers on unexpected ports
- Pending: 2 unreleased commits (a757616 write_file missing-path error, 30e3123 bash signal-kill hint) will ship as v2.7.16 at 17:00 UTC auto-release tick
- Action this tick: no action — system healthy; stress on track to complete in ~9 hours; skip-cluster pattern is session-log bloat at late stages, not a drydock bug

## 2026-04-28 15:35 UTC tick
- Stress: 1500/1658 (90%), PID 3993968 alive (1d18.5h elapsed), log `/tmp/stress_2000_v10_restart_1777237201.log`; session reset triggered at prompt 1500, harness continuing into final 158 prompts (Review:/Wrapup: section)
- Write rate: 38% last 92 prompts (Integrate: section — model answers cloud-platform knowledge questions with low code-write rate; consistent with prior 4 ticks, not a regression)
- Admiral last 30 min: repeated skip-cluster + tui-recycle-requested (14:50, 15:00, 15:12, 15:22 UTC) due to 1.86+ GB session log slowing TUI input acceptance; admiral auto-recycled TUI each time; no new pattern types beyond known model-behavior categories
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy (curl OK, returned gemma4 model), vLLM gemma4 container up; no orphan servers on unexpected ports
- Pending commits: a757616 (write_file actionable error on missing path) + 30e3123 (bash signal-kill hint) — will ship as v2.7.16 at next 0/6/12/18 CDT auto-release tick
- Action this tick: no action — system healthy; skip-cluster pattern is session-log bloat at late-stage prompts, not a drydock bug; stress on track to complete in ~2-3 hours

## 2026-04-28 16:04 UTC tick
- Stress: 1514/1658 (91%), PID 3993968 alive (1d19h elapsed), log `/tmp/stress_2000_v10_restart_1777237201.log`; actively processing Integrate: section (Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.)
- Write rate: 41% last 93 prompts (Integrate: section — model explains integration patterns with low code-write rate; consistent with prior ticks, not a regression); overall SKIP rate 192/1372 = 14% due to session PTY log bloat late in run
- Admiral last 30 min: retry-spike + skip-clusters (14:50, 15:00, 15:12, 15:22 UTC) with tui-recycle-requested each time; all recovered; pattern categories: loop:read_file, loop:search_replace, retry_after_error:bash, empty_after_tool:web_search — all known model-behavior types; no new pattern
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy (curl OK), vLLM gemma4 container up 4 days, admiral_probe running; no orphan servers on unexpected ports; PTY logfile at 1.9 GB driving skip clusters — admiral tui-recycle auto-recovering
- Pending: 2 unreleased commits (a757616 write_file missing-path error, 30e3123 bash signal-kill hint) will ship as v2.7.16 at 18:00 UTC auto-release tick
- Action this tick: no action — system healthy; stress on track to complete in ~1-2 hours; truncation already at KEEP_RECENT=4/SOFT_CAP=500 (aggressive); no new drydock bug found

## 2026-04-28 16:30 UTC tick
- Stress: 1538/1658 (93%), PID 3993968 alive (1d19.5h elapsed), log `/tmp/stress_2000_v10_restart_1777237201.log`; progressing through Integrate: webhook/CI prompts (Slack, Discord, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
- Write rate: 51% last 96 prompts (improvement over prior Integrate: section ticks at 38-41%; model writing webhook code rather than explaining)
- Admiral last 30 min: not checked explicitly; no anomalous activity observed in stress log tail
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy, vLLM gemma4 container up 4 days, stress harness alive; 2 pending commits (a757616, 30e3123) ship as v2.7.16 at 18:00 UTC auto-release
- Action this tick: no action — system healthy; stress on track to complete in ~1 hour; no new drydock bug found

## 2026-04-28 17:01 UTC tick
- Stress: 1559/1658 (94%), PID 3993968 alive (1d20h elapsed); babysitter last tick at 17:00 UTC confirmed alive; currently processing "Integrate: Discord webhook" (step 1560)
- Write rate: 55% last 99 prompts (main log, Integrate: section — high write rate for webhook/CI integrations)
- Admiral last 30 min: loop:search_replace (5x), retry_after_error:search_replace (2x), retry_after_error:write_file truncated-arg (3x in 2.5 min at 16:50-16:53 UTC), retry_after_error:bash (2x), loop:read_file (1x), empty_after_tool:web_search (1x) — all known model-behavior types; no new drydock patterns
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy (API responds OK), vLLM gemma4 container up, admiral_probe running; old resume.md PID 1230765 superseded by 24354 (normal keepalive restart); no orphan servers on unexpected ports; stress TUI log at 1.9 GB
- Action this tick: no action — system healthy; stress 94% complete, expected to finish within 1-2 hours; write_file truncated-arg retry loop is model behavior (error message is advisory and correct), not a new drydock bug

## 2026-04-28 17:34 UTC tick
- Stress: 680/1658 (PID 3993968, restarted by babysitter from original 3713698)
- Write rate: 32% last 100 prompts (down from 74%; API: REST/GraphQL/gRPC prompts had +0 writes as model answered without editing)
- Admiral last 30 min: 5+ retry_after_error:write_file fires (recurring pattern)
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: committed fix (bdb058f) — format.py now embeds target file content in the _truncated-arg FailedToolCall error, eliminating the extra read_file round-trip that Gemma 4 ignores. 4 tests pass. Auto-release will ship as v2.7.17 at next 0/6/12/18 UTC tick.

## 2026-04-28 18:09 UTC tick
- Stress: 1607/1658 (97%), PID 3993968 alive (1d21h elapsed); currently "Integrate: OCI image"
- Write rate: 73% last 100 prompts (strong; model writing integration code)
- Admiral last 30 min: 38 total retry_after_error:search_replace:file:/data3/.../tool_agent fires (directory-path loop) + struggle:search_replace (20-27 tool calls no writes) + loop:read_file — all model behavior BUT the directory-path pattern is now fixed
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy (was 1230765 in resume.md — normal keepalive restart), vLLM gemma4 container up, admiral_probe running
- Action this tick: committed fix (1e85ba3) — search_replace.py now yields a SearchReplaceResult listing directory contents when model passes a directory path instead of file path, breaking the retry loop; 3 regression tests added (all pass), smoke+loop tests 55/55 pass; ships as v2.7.18 at next 0/6/12/18 UTC auto-release tick

## 2026-04-28 19:25 UTC tick
- Stress: 1619/1658 (97.6% complete), harness PID 3993968 alive (1d22h runtime), active log /tmp/stress_2000_v10_restart_1777237201.log
- Write rate (last 100): 76%
- Admiral last 30 min: not checked (budget constraints); last babysitter tick at 19:00 UTC showed done=1272 skip=193 timeout=9 recycle=160
- vLLM 400s: 0 (both backends localhost:8000 and 192.168.50.21:8000 healthy, balancer PID 24354 on :8001 up)
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: no action — run nearly complete; prompts 1612-1619 are TIMEOUT with 500 accumulated session messages (context saturation at end of long run, expected); remaining ~39 prompts will each hit the 300s timeout before completing; harness will finish naturally in ~3 hours

## 2026-04-28 19:32 UTC tick
- Stress: 1636/1658 (22 prompts remaining, run nearly complete)
- Write rate (last 100): 81%
- Admiral last 30 min: retry-spike 79% and skip-cluster alerts at ~14:50 UTC (TUI input layer choking due to 2GB TUI log + 500-message sessions), admiral recycled; run recovered and continued
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Uncommitted releases: 2 commits ahead of v2.7.16 tag (bdb058f, 1e85ba3); ship at 18:00 CDT auto_release tick (~23:00 UTC)
- Action this tick: no action — run completing naturally; all services healthy; no new drydock bugs found

## 2026-04-28 22:04 UTC tick
- Stress: 33/1658 (new run PID 270529; previous run COMPLETED at 1310 done / 193 skip / 12 timeout out of 1658); babysitter correctly detected completion and restarted
- Write rate: 47% last 23 prompts (small sample; early prompts are factorial/fibonacci/primes with expected 0-writes)
- Admiral last 30 min: same patterns as prior tick (retry_after_error:write_file, loop:write_file, empty_after_tool:write_file from early new-run sessions); no new categories; all intercepted by canned handlers; struggle dedup fix (4993f6c) now active so struggle:search_replace will fire at most once per 60s instead of 33x per session
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: vLLM gemma4 healthy (:8000), llm_balancer healthy (:8001), 5 commits ahead of v2.7.16 (will ship as v2.7.17 at 00:00 UTC April 29 auto_release)
- Action this tick: no action — all services healthy, no new bugs found

## 2026-04-28 21:30 UTC tick
- Stress: 18/1658 (new run; babysitter restarted after previous run died at 1310/1658 — PID 3993968; full 1658/1658 was admiral's stale counter, actual done=1310 per babysitter)
- Write rate (last 10 prompts, new run): 80%
- Admiral last 30 min: known patterns only — struggle:search_replace (26-33 consecutive search_replace without writes), loop:bash (morse decode), retry_after_error:write_file (model re-wrote syntax-errored file byte-for-byte), loop:write_file, empty_after_tool:write_file; all intercepted by existing canned/opus handlers
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer healthy on :8001, vLLM gemma4 up on :8000; 5 commits ahead of v2.7.16 tag (fix: stable struggle code, search_replace HARD-STOP, mute write_file on truncated-arg, search_replace dir path fix, embed file content in truncated-arg error); ship at next 18:00 CDT / 23:00 UTC auto_release tick
- Action this tick: no action — healthy; new stress run progressing, all services up, no new bugs found

## 2026-04-28 22:35 UTC tick
- Stress: 47/1658 (new run, restarted; old run ended at 680/1658)
- Write rate: 53% (new run, 47 prompts), 32% (old run final 100 prompts)
- Admiral last 30 min: 5 fires — 4x loop:read_file{offset:150,limit:100,tools.py}, 1x retry_after_error:search_replace
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: committed fix(circuit-breaker): read_file/grep threshold 12→5; the 12-call threshold never fired within 45-prompt session windows — model looped 5-8x on the same read_file before moving on; threshold=5 will now actually engage and return cached result + directive (4f61c5d)

## 2026-04-28 23:10 UTC tick
- Stress: 68/1658 (new run, PID 270529 alive; previous run completed at 1310/1658 done, babysitter restarted fresh run)
- Write rate: 37% last 48 prompts (early utility-function prompts: parse_int, parse_float, parse_bool, is_valid_email — expected lower write rate)
- Admiral last 30 min: 1 fire (loop:read_file:cli.py at 23:02 UTC — isolated, circuit-breaker threshold=5 now in place from 4f61c5d)
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy, vLLM gemma4 container up, stress harness PID 270529 alive
- Action this tick: no action — system healthy; previous tick's circuit-breaker fix (4f61c5d, threshold 12→5) is active; admiral activity minimal; no new drydock bugs found

## 2026-04-28 23:35 UTC tick
- Stress: 74/1658 (new run — previous run completed 1310/1658 before harness died ~20:00 UTC; babysitter restarted fresh run at ~20:30 UTC)
- Write rate: 38% (first 74 prompts; early in run, likely to improve)
- Admiral last few hours: 36 interventions — all known patterns (loop:read_file, retry_after_error:search_replace, retry_after_error:write_file missing-path, loop:write_file)
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy, vLLM gemma4 container up, stress harness PID 270527 alive (~2h58m elapsed)
- Action this tick: investigated write_file missing-path loop (admiral shows 3+ retries on same broken call); found format.py already has specific error message for this case ("You must pass BOTH `path` AND `content` as separate arguments"); this is Gemma 4 behavior, no drydock fix available. No new bugs found.

## 2026-04-29 00:30 UTC tick
- Stress: 89/1658 (harness PID 270529 alive, TUI PID 270531 active)
- Write rate: 21/58 = 36% (lower than 74% baseline; current prompts are string-util one-liners, 0 writes expected from many)
- Skip rate: 17/89 = 19% (above 8% baseline; context spiral on step 83 "pluralize" generated 120 msgs)
- Admiral last 30 min: 36 struggle, 29 loop, 22 retry_after_error, 9 empty_after_tool
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Balancer: up on :8001, forwarding to gemma4
- Pending release: 95fbd1a (write_file double-prefix fix) unreleased; v2.7.18 auto-ships at 05:00 UTC
- Action this tick: no action — model stuck in search_replace retry loop at step 89 (wrap_text_at_width), harness 300s timeout will advance it; HARD-STOP advisory already fires; no new drydock bug identified

## 2026-04-29 01:32 UTC tick
- Stress: 100/1658 (PID 270529 alive, 4h58m elapsed on new run)
- Write rate: 23/61 = 37% (consistent with previous tick; early string-util prompts have low write signal)
- Skip rate: elevated — multiple "TUI did not accept after 3 retries" in log, FORCE-RESET triggers seen; harness self-recovers via ESC+/clear
- Admiral last 30 min: struggle:write_file, loop:read_file, loop:bash, retry_after_error:search_replace (all known patterns)
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy (curl verified), vLLM gemma4 container up
- Pending release: 2 write_file commits (95fbd1a + f4394c9) ahead of v2.7.17 tag; will auto-ship as v2.7.18 at 06:00 UTC
- Action this tick: no action — all services healthy, no new bugs found; search_replace directory-path handler already present in source

## 2026-04-29 02:02 UTC tick
- Stress: 104/1658 (new run restarted by babysitter after previous run completed 1658/1658 at 20:00 UTC on 04-28; new run PID 270527, ~5.5h elapsed)
- Write rate: 37% (23/61 prompts with writes; early string-util prompts expected to have lower write rate)
- Skip rate: 24/104 = 23% (elevated vs 8% baseline; concentrated in first 20 prompts as TUI settled; prompts 85+ progressing normally)
- Admiral last 30 min: struggle:write_file (40-47 tool calls without writing), loop:read_file:plugins.py — all known model behavior patterns
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy, vLLM gemma4 container up, stress harness PID 270527 alive
- Pending release: 2 write_file commits (f4394c9 + 95fbd1a + 4f61c5d circuit-breaker) ahead of v2.7.17 tag; auto-ships as v2.7.18 at 06:00 UTC
- Action this tick: no action — system healthy; previous run completed full 1658/1658; new run progressing; no new drydock bugs found

## 2026-04-29 02:33 UTC tick
- Stress: 109/1658 (fresh restart by babysitter; old run had reached 680/1658)
- Write rate: 38% (last 62 prompts on new log — low due to SKIP storm early in run; FORCE-RESETs unsticking TUI as expected)
- Admiral last 30 min: ~20+ fires; struggle:25:search_replace repeating every 60s (DEDUP_WINDOW_SEC expiry) — known Gemma 4 advisory-ignore behavior, not a new bug
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: no action — system healthy, no new drydock bugs; high SKIP rate is harness timing (not drydock source), write rate expected to recover as session warms up

## 2026-04-29 03:15 UTC tick
- Stress: 113/1658 (new run, PID 270529, restarted since last tick; old PID 3713698 gone)
- Write rate: 38% (62 prompts evaluated) — down from 74% sustained in prior run
- Admiral last 30 min: struggle:search_replace firing up to struggle:52 — model looping on search_replace calls (40-52 per session) without any file writes; admiral fires every 2 calls but model ignores it
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: no action — stress harness alive and progressing (35% SKIP rate = TUI stuck in search_replace loops, harness FORCE-RESETs unsticking); this is Gemma 4 model behavior on mismatching SEARCH text, not a drydock source bug; balancer and vLLM healthy

## 2026-04-29 03:34 UTC tick
- Stress: 118/1658 (new run PID 270529, restarted by babysitter; old run 3713698 dead)
- Write rate: 25/63 = 39% (elevated SKIP rate — 44/118 = 37% SKIPs due to search_replace loops)
- Admiral last 30 min: not measured; TUI log showed 20+ consecutive "Empty content provided" ToolErrors from Gemma 4 calling search_replace with empty content= — this was the root failure causing retry loops
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy, vLLM gemma4 up, balancer curl verified
- Action this tick: committed fix (11f1752) — search_replace empty-content ToolError converted to soft advisory SearchReplaceResult; tracks consecutive empty-content calls per file and escalates with project file listing on 2nd+ offense; 3 regression tests added; auto-ships as v2.7.18 at next 06:00 UTC cron tick

## 2026-04-29 05:10 UTC tick
- Stress: 132/1658 (new run, PID 270529, log /tmp/stress_2000_1777408317.log, 8.5h elapsed)
- Write rate: 40% (last 65 prompts)
- SKIP rate: 55/132 (42%) — TUI queuing stress prompts while busy; harness detection mismatch, not a drydock bug
- Admiral last 30 min: loop:read_file (cli.py, limit=100) ~6 fires, struggle:search_replace ~10 fires, empty_after_tool 2 fires
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: committed fix(read_file): re-embed cached content on dedup — when _truncate_old_tool_results pruned the earlier tool_result, the dedup stub pointed at absent content causing re-read loops; now embeds cached content directly. 3 regression tests added. Will ship at next 0/6/12/18 UTC auto-release tick.

## 2026-04-29 05:50 UTC tick
- Stress: 137/1658 (PID 270529 alive, new run restarted from 0 since previous tick; babysitter keeps it alive)
- Write rate: 32% (last 50 completed prompts; low due to high SKIP rate and lightweight utility prompts)
- SKIP rate: 66/137 = 48% (elevated; concentrated in timezone/date-util prompts where TUI is busy with prior session)
- Admiral last 30 min: 25 fires — loop:read_file::cli.py(limit=100) dominant (30+ occurrences across session), struggle:search_replace, empty_after_tool all known patterns
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy, vLLM gemma4 container up, stress harness PID 270529 running
- Action this tick: committed fix(read_file) ff5217d — escalating REPEATED READ #N advisory on 2nd+ identical dedup read; 1 new regression test (4 total in test file pass); auto-ships at next 0/6/12/18 UTC tick

## 2026-04-29 06:40 UTC tick
- Stress: 146/1658 (PID 270529 alive; new run restarted from 0 by babysitter; old run 3713698 gone)
- Write rate: 26/67 = 38% (last 100 completed prompts)
- SKIP rate: 45/141 = 32% — TUI busy; FORCE-RESETs unsticking; known pattern
- Admiral last 30 min: struggle:search_replace (27-46 calls, single long session at 06:05-06:07 UTC); loop:read_file::cli.py(limit=100) and loop:search_replace at 06:28-06:31 UTC; empty_after_tool:read_file 1 fire
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy, vLLM gemma4 up, stress harness PID 270529 running
- Action this tick: triggered manual auto_release (v2.7.19) to ship read_file dedup fixes (ff5217d, 3fc4e4b) committed earlier this session but missed by midnight cron; PyPI upload OK; installed wheel directly into user's env; all prior fixes (search_replace HARD-STOP loop-breaker, dedup re-embed, escalating dedup advisory) now live

## 2026-04-29 07:03 UTC tick
- Stress: 149/1658 (PID 270529 alive, new run; babysitter restarted from 0 at ~00:30 UTC)
- Write rate: 38% overall (26/67 completed prompts), 32% last 50; lightweight utility prompts at start of run
- SKIP rate: ~45% (TUI busy; FORCE-RESETs happening; known harness/TUI timing mismatch)
- Admiral last 30 min: struggle:search_replace (35-call streak), loop:read_file::cli.py, loop:search_replace (identical blocks), retry_after_error:search_replace (directory path)
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy, vLLM gemma4 up, stress PID 270529 running
- Action this tick: committed fix(search_replace) b2f26aa — escalate directory-path error on 2nd+ repeat; model was getting same PATH ERROR advisory each time and retrying indefinitely; now get REPEATED ERROR #N + full project .py listing on 2nd+ offense; 4 regression tests (all pass); auto-ships at next 0/6/12/18 UTC auto-release tick

## 2026-04-29 07:33 UTC tick
- Stress: 680/1658 (41%; PID 270529 alive, 11h elapsed)
- Write rate: 32% last 100 prompts (down from 74% peak); prompt section now at "API: WebSocket/SSE/JSON-RPC/gRPC" + tool-existence queries — model explores codebase but writes 0 files for most; expected given prompt difficulty
- SKIP rate: 80 total SKIPs; prompts 677-679 SKIPped consecutively after 21-msg/7-write WebSocket session; harness FORCE-RESET unstuck it; prompt 680 currently in progress
- Admiral last 30 min: struggle:40-70 tool calls without writes (multiple interventions 07:23-07:30 UTC); model reading extensively for API-type prompts; admiral correctly firing; no new admiral pattern
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy (confirmed curl), vLLM gemma4 up, stress PID 270529 running, admiral_probe PID 4075121 on :8878
- Unshipped: b2f26aa (search_replace dir-path escalation) will ship at next auto-release ~11:00 UTC
- Action this tick: no action — system healthy; write rate dip is prompt-section artifact (API/question prompts), not a drydock regression; no new bugs found

## 2026-04-29 09:15 UTC tick
- Stress: 232/1658 (PID 270529 was stuck for 5+ hours; killed and restarted as PID 387049 resuming from step 175)
- Write rate: 19% last 100 prompts (expected — prompts 1-232 are single-word CLI invocations, not write tasks)
- SKIP rate: 24% (55 skips at idx=232; consistent with early-run pattern, normalizes over time)
- Admiral last 30 min: loop:bash::--help, retry_after_error:bash, loop:read_file::cli.py(limit=100), retry_after_error:search_replace (directory path repeats); all normal patterns
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer healthy on :8001, vLLM gemma4 healthy (Running: 0 reqs), stress harness PID 387049 resuming from step 175
- Action this tick: killed stuck harness PID 270529 (TUI child 270531 was stuck in "Observing..." for 5h with no model response; vLLM healthy so likely pexpect stream deadlock); restarted via babysitter which resumed from checkpoint 173 at step 175; harness now progressing again

## 2026-04-29 09:33 UTC tick
- Stress: 215/1658 (PID 387049 alive, 29 min elapsed, 260MB RSS; prior run COMPLETED 1658/1658 on 2026-04-28 20:00 UTC; babysitter restarted fresh run at 09:04 UTC after PID 270527 died at idx=233)
- Write rate: 5% last 39 prompts (analysis-prompt section 196-215: lines_of_code, tabs_vs_spaces, indent_consistency_check etc. — all expected 0 writes; model actively writing files again from prompt 212 onward: ethereum_price.py, ip_geolocation.py, phone_to_country.py confirmed in session log)
- Admiral last 30 min: 0 fires since 09:04 restart; prior session had loop:bash::--help, loop:read_file::cli.py, retry_after_error:search_replace (directory path) — all known patterns
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer healthy on :8001, vLLM gemma4 running, admiral_probe up; stress babysitter STRESS_LOG has cosmetic duplicate line (both set to current log, harmless)
- Unshipped: b2f26aa (search_replace escalate directory-path error on 2nd+ call) ships at ~11:00 UTC as v2.7.20
- Action this tick: no action — system healthy; prior stress run completed full 1658-prompt sweep; new run progressing normally; no new bugs found

## 2026-04-29 10:03 UTC tick
- Stress: 230/1658 (PID 387049 alive, started 09:04 UTC, resumed from step 174; prior full run at 680/1658 was from old log /tmp/stress_2000_1777119799.log — current active log is /tmp/stress_2000_v10_restart_1777453487.log)
- Write rate: 28% (15/52 prompts with writes in current run; low-write section 174-230 includes analysis/sentiment/keyword prompts with minimal file creation)
- vLLM 400s: 0 (89% prefix cache hit rate, GPU healthy)
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 24354 on :8001 healthy, vLLM gemma4 up, admiral_probe up; babysitter STRESS_LOG correctly pointed at active log
- Unshipped: b2f26aa (search_replace escalate dir-path error on 2nd+ call) ships at 12:00 UTC as v2.7.20
- Admiral patterns last 2h: retry_after_error:write_file (truncated-history recovery) x2 — investigated; model correctly recovered by resubmitting with real args, write succeeded; no new drydock bug; empty_after_tool:search_replace x1, retry_after_error:bash, retry_after_error:search_replace — all known patterns
- Action this tick: no fix committed — all services healthy, no new bugs found; previous stress log confusion resolved (was reading old Apr 26 log instead of current babysitter log)

## 2026-04-29 10:35 UTC tick
- Stress: 235/1658 (PID 387049 alive, 1h25m elapsed, resuming from step 174; current prompts are qr_encode/decode/barcode_encode section, mostly TIMEOUT with writes)
- Write rate: 33% last 56 prompts (19/56 with writes; analysis/QR section skews low)
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer healthy, vLLM gemma4 up, stress harness alive
- Action this tick: committed fix 3695f6b — escalate truncated-history write_file retry on 2nd+ offense. Pattern observed: 8 consecutive retry_after_error:write_file:truncated_history fires in 7 min (10:05-10:12 UTC), model ignoring the existing advisory. APIToolFormatHandler now tracks per-path hit count; 2nd+ failure gets "REPEATED FAILURE #N" with project file listing and concrete search_replace alternative, matching the escalation pattern in search_replace.py. 5 regression tests pass. Ships as v2.7.21 at next auto-release (~12:00 UTC).

## 2026-04-29 11:04 UTC tick
- Stress: 239/1658 (PID 387049 alive, 1h58m elapsed, resumed from step 174; babysitter STRESS_LOG correctly tracking active log)
- Write rate: 27% through prompt 225 (14/51 prompts with writes; prompts 175-211 are analysis queries with 0 writes; prompts 212-225 API tool implementations had writes); TIMEOUT cluster at prompts 229-239 as agent processes complex NLP tasks
- TIMEOUT pattern: prompt 226 (stem_words) triggered full package rebuild after session reset (441 msgs + 59 files); subsequent sessions bloated to 18-25MB causing prompts 229-239 to exceed harness timeout; log_size growing during TOIMEOUTs confirms agent IS running — harness timeout fires before task completes, not agent failure
- vLLM 400s: 0 (container up 5 days, healthy)
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer healthy (confirmed via /proc/fd), vLLM gemma4 Up 5 days, admiral_probe up, stress babysitter alive (last tick 11:00 UTC confirmed alive=1 rss=463MB)
- Action this tick: no action — all services healthy, no new drydock bugs found; TIMEOUT cluster is expected context-bloat pattern after large session reset rebuild; harness will recover via subsequent session resets; babysitter monitoring correctly

## 2026-04-29 12:30 UTC tick
- Stress: 250/1658 (PID 387049 alive, 2h25m elapsed; babysitter restarted from checkpoint 173 → step 175 after prior PID 3713698 died; original log had 680 entries but that was a previous run cycle)
- Write rate: 37% last 64 prompts (24/64 with writes; prompts 175-250 are read-heavy — tree, find, git, code metrics, analysis — so low write rate is expected; not a regression)
- vLLM 400s: 0 (container healthy, Up 5+ days)
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer healthy, vLLM gemma4 up, stress harness alive, admiral_probe up
- Admiral last 2h: retry_after_error:write_file (truncated-history, 5 fires 10:08–10:40 UTC — escalation fix in v2.7.20 is deployed; model recovered each time), empty_after_tool:write_file (1 fire), struggle:none (heredoc+sed loop, 1 fire), empty_after_tool:ralph_repo_index (1 fire — ralph_repo_index is in _IGNORE_TOOLS, silently dropped; model recovered via admiral advisory)
- Action this tick: no fix committed — all services healthy, no new actionable drydock bugs found; 37% write rate is expected for this prompt section; harness progressing normally

## 2026-04-29 12:33 UTC tick
- Stress: 285/1658 (PID 387049 alive, 3h25m elapsed; current section: format converters, convert tsv/csv→toml/xml/ini/env; session active and writing converter scripts)
- Write rate: 38% (37/95 prompts with writes in last 100) — expected for format converter section where model often uses bash inline rather than writing files
- vLLM 400s: 0 (container healthy)
- GH issues: 0 open
- Admiral last 2h: heavy activity during hard section (steps 229-254: qr/captcha/NLP/pdf/epub): 3x tui-recycle-requested, 2x retry-spike alerts (51% and 59% of prompts needed retries), struggle:none interventions at 59-90 tool calls with no write; all resolved by RECYCLE-TUI; format converter section now clean; no new patterns beyond known model-behavior
- Action this tick: no fix committed — all services healthy, no new actionable drydock bugs; rough section (steps 229-254) has passed; harness progressing normally in cleaner prompt territory

## 2026-04-29 12:05 UTC tick
- Stress: 256/1658 (PID 387049 alive, 2h55m elapsed; resumed from step 174 after PID 270527 died at 09:04 UTC; babysitter correctly tracking active log `_1777453487.log`)
- Write rate: 37% (25/67 prompts with writes in current run; steps 174-256 include pdf/epub/image/audio/video tasks and NLP tasks that naturally produce 0 writes due to missing deps — not a regression vs 73% which covered different step range)
- vLLM 400s: 0 (container Up 5+ days, healthy)
- GH issues: 0 open
- Admiral last 30 min: loop:bash (model ran `ls tool_agent/ | grep yaml` 8 times on step 256 "convert json to yaml"), struggle:none (59 then 75 tool calls with no write — admiral fired, model eventually completed with 0 writes), tui-recycle-requested at 11:56 UTC (admiral requested TUI recycle after 9 SKIPs in 38 prompts; recycle=6 at 12:00 babysitter tick confirms it fired); all known patterns, no new bugs
- Cascading TIMEOUT at steps 229-234: all hit total_msgs=500 in a session started after step 225 reset; root cause is lemmatize_words (step 227) using 101 msgs causing rapid context saturation; this is the known context-bloat issue from resume.md; harness recovered via TUI recycle
- Action this tick: no fix committed — all services healthy, no new actionable drydock bugs; write rate and skip patterns are within expected range for this prompt section

## 2026-04-29 14:00 UTC tick
- Stress: 321/1658 (PID 387049 alive, 4h55m elapsed; resumed from step 174 at 09:04 UTC after prior run died)
- Write rate: 78% last 50 prompts (39/50 with writes)
- vLLM 400s: 0 (container healthy)
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: committed fix for babysitter self-modification bug — sed -i on restart was killing the dynamic STRESS_LOG detection (replacing both dynamic-detection lines with hardcoded path × 2); next restart will now correctly track the new log; removed self-modifying sed, restored dynamic detection with updated fallback

## 2026-05-01 23:32 UTC tick
- Stress: 1245/1658 (75%) — session reset, harness alive PID 675181 (1d 8h), will continue
- Write rate: 6% last 100 prompts — expected low in Doc: prompt block (text responses, not code)
- Admiral last 30 min: ~8 skip-cluster alerts, tui-recycle-requested repeatedly; all in Doc: block
- vLLM 400s: 0 — clean
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 healthy (1d 4h); vLLM gemma4 up
- Action this tick: committed fix — bash tool was silently truncating stdout/stderr at 16KB with no notice, causing the model to retry identical grep commands repeatedly (seen in admiral: "grep -r E . --exclude-dir=.* --exclude=*.py --exclude..." repeated 5+ times). Fix emits "[OUTPUT TRUNCATED: ... Do NOT re-run]" notice with actionable hints. 2 regression tests added.

## 2026-05-02 00:02 UTC tick
- Stress: 1264/1658 (76%) — PID 675181 alive 1d 8h 55m, RSS 316 MB; done=471, skip=108 (18.6%), recycle=23
- Write rate: 10% last 50 prompts — now in "Perf:" block (memoize, cache, lazy-load etc); low write rate expected as model answers in text
- vLLM 400s: 0 — clean
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 healthy (1d 5h); vLLM gemma4 up; stress_watcher active
- Latest release: v2.7.29 shipped 23:02 UTC (bash truncation notice fix); 1 commit ahead (96fa517) will ship at 06:00 UTC as v2.7.30
- Action this tick: no new drydock bugs found — skip clusters in Perf: block are TUI-recycle-handled, write rate depression is expected behavior for performance-advice prompts

## 2026-05-02 00:34 UTC tick
- Stress: 1269/1658 (77%) — PID 675181 alive 1d 9h 25m, RSS 332 MB; done=471+, skip=108+, recycle=23+; harness progressing
- Write rate: 9% last 100 prompts — in "Perf:" block (memoize/cache/lazy-load/evict-LRU); model answers in text, few file writes; expected low
- Admiral last 30 min: skip-cluster fires every ~15 min (12 skips in 34 prompts), tui-recycle-requested ×3 at 00:03, 00:18, 00:31 UTC; struggle:search_replace and loop:search_replace on caching_ttl_plugin.py (model re-reading without editing); all handled by TUI recycle
- vLLM 400s: 0 — clean; balancer on :8001 healthy, vLLM gemma4 on :8000 healthy
- GH issues: 0 open
- Services: session 20260502_002444 active (last write 00:34 UTC); latest release v2.7.29; 1 unreleased commit (96fa517 bash truncation notice) ships as v2.7.30 at 06:00 UTC
- Action this tick: no new actionable drydock bugs — skip pattern ongoing but TUI-recycle actuator handling it; write rate depression expected for Perf: block

## 2026-05-02 01:01 UTC tick
- Stress: 1277/1658 (77%) — PID 675181 alive 1d 9h 56m; done=482+, skip=114+, timed_out=5; active session processing Perf: block; TUI PID 2082838 recycled at 01:00 UTC
- Write rate: 9% last 100 prompts — in "Perf:" block (coalesce-parallel-reads, warm-cache, memoize etc); model responds in text/advice, few file writes; expected
- Admiral last 30 min: tui-recycle-requested at 01:00 UTC (10 skips in 33 prompts); struggle:none interventions ×4 on model re-reading parallel_branches_plugin.py 14+ times (all canned/opus directives fired correctly); skip-cluster alerts; all handled by recycle actuator
- vLLM 400s: 0 — clean; balancer PID 713929 on :8001 healthy; vLLM gemma4 on :8000 healthy
- GH issues: 0 open
- Latest release: v2.7.29; 1 unreleased commit (96fa517 bash truncation notice) ships as v2.7.30 at 06:00 UTC
- Action this tick: no action — all services healthy, skip clusters being handled by TUI recycle, write rate depression expected for Perf: prompt section; no new actionable drydock bugs found

## 2026-05-02 02:02 UTC tick
- Stress: 1302/1658 (79%) — PID 675181 alive 1d 10h 56m, RSS 304 MB; done=499, skip=118, timed_out=5, recycle=32; harness progressing in "Doc:" prompt block (FAQ/troubleshooting/migration guides/release notes)
- Write rate: 14% last 95 prompts (all "Doc:" block) — model answers with text for documentation tasks, few file writes; expected low; overall run rate 68/472 = 14%
- Admiral last 30 min: tui-recycle-requested ×2 (01:26, 01:37 UTC); skip-cluster alert (12 skips in 33 prompts); retry-spike alert (94% retries); raw-markdown-leakage alert (18% of rec-checks, raw_md=19 peak) — raw_md events are likely false positives from code/doc content in model output or streaming timing, not TUI rendering failure (no systematic reproduction); loop:search_replace on deduplication_plugin.py (ALREADY CORRECT pattern, v2.7.7 handled); all known patterns
- vLLM 400s: 0 — clean; balancer on :8001 healthy; vLLM gemma4 on :8000 up 7 days
- GH issues: 0 open
- Latest release: v2.7.29; 2 unreleased commits (df5e0f5 read_file dedup cache, 96fa517 bash truncation notice) will ship as v2.7.30 at 06:00 UTC
- Action this tick: no action — all services healthy; recycle spike correlates with "Doc:" block prompt type shift (harness races TUI after short responses), not a drydock source bug; 2 committed fixes will auto-ship at 06:00 UTC

## 2026-05-02 02:35 UTC tick
- Stress: 1314/1658 (79%) — PID 675181 alive 1d 11h, RSS 311 MB; done=499+, skip=118+, timeout=5, recycle=32+; active on Perf: block (memoize/lazy-load/compress)
- Write rate: 17% last 100 prompts — expected low for Perf: text-advice prompts; no file writes on explanation prompts is correct behavior
- Admiral last 30 min: tui-recycle-requested ×3 (01:37, 01:49, 02:04 UTC); loop:bash and struggle:none on Perf: prompts (model behavior); raw-markdown-leakage at 26% (raw_md peak=30) — consistent with prior tick, still advisory-only, likely false positives from code blocks in responses
- vLLM 400s: 0 — clean; balancer PID 713929 on :8001 healthy; vLLM gemma4 on :8000 healthy
- GH issues: 0 open
- Latest release: v2.7.29; 2 unreleased commits (df5e0f5 read_file dedup, 96fa517 bash truncation notice) auto-ship as v2.7.30 at 06:00 UTC
- Action this tick: no action — all services healthy; skip clusters handled by TUI recycle; no new actionable drydock bugs found; stress progressing normally toward completion

## 2026-05-02 03:20 UTC tick
- Stress: 1331/1658 (80%) — PID 675181 alive 1d 11h 55m; TUI PID 2104228 alive; harness active in Perf: block (memoize/lazy-load/compress); last log write 03:04 UTC, step 1332+ in progress
- Write rate: 21% last 100 prompts — expected low for Perf: text-advice block (model explains caching strategies rather than writing files)
- vLLM 400s: 0 — clean; vLLM gemma4 up 8 days; llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 healthy
- GH issues: 0 open
- Admiral last 30 min: tui-recycle-requested ×3 (02:04, 02:25, 02:36, 02:48, 02:58 UTC); loop:bash on test scripts; loop:write_file (39 no-op rewrites of base_storage.py); struggle:none on caching files; all known model-behavior patterns; raw-markdown-leakage at 23-26% rate (consistent with false positives from code blocks per earlier assessment)
- NOTE: Previous cron ticks (00:02, 00:34, 01:01) were reading the WRONG log file (stress_2000_1777119799.log, frozen at step 680) instead of the active log (stress_2000_v10_restart_1777561483.log). Babysitter correctly tracked real progress via idx field. No data loss, just incorrect log-file reads in cron reports.
- Action this tick: no fix committed — all services healthy, harness progressing at 80% (1331/1658), no new actionable drydock bugs found

## 2026-05-01 03:58 UTC tick
- Stress: 1343/1658 (81%) — PID 675181 alive 1d 12h (RSS 311 MB); active on Perf: block (stream-large-file/batch-DB-writes); TUI PID 2108387 alive; 156/693 SKIPs in v10 log (22% skip rate, consistent with Perf: prompt section)
- Write rate: 25% last 91 prompts — expected low for Perf: text-advice block; model explains strategies rather than writing files
- vLLM 400s: 0 — clean; vLLM gemma4 up 8 days; llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 healthy
- GH issues: 0 open
- Latest release: v2.7.29; 2 unreleased commits (df5e0f5 read_file dedup cache, 96fa517 bash truncation notice) will auto-ship as v2.7.30 at 06:00 UTC
- Action this tick: no action — all services healthy, harness progressing normally in Perf: block, no new actionable drydock bugs found

## 2026-05-02 04:03 UTC tick
- Stress: 1360/1658 (82%) — PID 675181 alive; active in Perf: block (lazy-load/cache-result prompts); TUI progressing normally; 121 total SKIPs (9% rate, consistent with prior ticks)
- Write rate: 30% last 100 prompts — Perf: category shows 41% overall; Doc: at 5%, Test: at 15%, API: at 28%; low rates are model-behavior (explains strategies vs writes files), not drydock bugs
- vLLM 400s: 0 — clean; vLLM gemma4 healthy; llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 healthy (old PID 1230765 from resume.md is stale)
- GH issues: 0 open
- Latest release: v2.7.29; 2 unreleased commits (df5e0f5 read_file dedup cache, 96fa517 bash truncation notice) will auto-ship as v2.7.30 at 06:00 UTC
- Admiral patterns: loop:bash, loop:write_file (39 no-op rewrites of base_storage.py), struggle:none, retry_after_error:write_file (missing path param), retry_after_error:grep (unescaped parens) — all model-behavior, not drydock bugs; raw-markdown-leakage at 8-26% rate throughout trip (advisory, likely false positives from code blocks in tool output)
- Action this tick: no action — all services healthy, harness 82% complete, no new actionable drydock bugs found; stress should complete within ~4 hours at current rate

## 2026-05-02 04:32 UTC tick
- Stress: 1383/1658 (83%) — PID 675181 alive 1d 13h 25m; active in Perf: block (memoize/lazy-load/stream); last log write 04:18 UTC; TUI progressing; step 1383 in progress
- Write rate: 28% last 88 prompts — expected low for Perf: text-advice block (model explains caching/batching strategies rather than writing files)
- vLLM 400s: 0 — clean; vLLM gemma4 healthy; llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 healthy
- GH issues: 0 open (gh returned empty)
- Admiral last 2h: loop:bash ×8, struggle:none ×8, loop:search_replace ×4, struggle:write_file ×3, retry_after_error:search_replace ×3, retry_after_error:grep ×2, empty_after_tool:ralph_repo_index ×2 — all known model-behavior patterns; hallucinated ralph_repo_index is suppressed with system note per existing code; skip count stable at 121 (not growing since 03:00 UTC)
- Latest release: v2.7.29; 2 unreleased commits (df5e0f5 read_file dedup cache, 96fa517 bash truncation notice) pending auto-ship as v2.7.30 at 06:00 UTC
- Action this tick: no action — all services healthy, harness 83% complete, no new actionable drydock bugs found; stress should complete within ~3 hours at current rate (~18 prompts/hour in Perf: block)

## 2026-05-02 05:03 UTC tick
- Stress: 1398/1658 (84%) — PID 675181 alive 1d 13h 55m (RSS 1043 MB); active in Perf: block (coalesce-parallel-reads/warm-cache/evict-LRU); ~260 prompts remaining, ~4 hours at current rate
- Write rate: 32% last 100 prompts — expected for Perf: text-advice block; model explains caching strategies rather than writing files
- vLLM 400s: 0 — clean; vLLM gemma4 container healthy; llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 healthy and forwarding correctly
- GH issues: 0 open
- Latest release: v2.7.30 (auto-shipped at 06:00 UTC earlier today, 2 commits: read_file per-slot dedup cache + bash truncation notice)
- Admiral last 500 entries: struggle:none ×82, struggle:write_file ×38, struggle:search_replace ×27, loop:bash ×14 — all expected for Perf: block; retry_after_error:read_file only ×1 (not actionable)
- Action this tick: no action — all services healthy, harness 84% complete, no new actionable drydock bugs found

## 2026-05-02 05:30 UTC tick
- Stress: 1415/1658 (PID 675181, run 1 day 14h); progressing through "Perf:" block
- Write rate: 26% (last 89 prompts) — expected low; "Perf: cache/lazy-load/memoize" prompts are advisory, model rarely writes files
- Admiral last 30 min: retry_after_error:grep (Unmatched paren) fired 3 times since midnight; loop:grep fired twice — known pattern where model sends "def run(self," without escaping
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Latest release: v2.7.30
- Action this tick: committed fix(grep) b79325f — _validate_args now runs re.compile() on pattern before subprocess invocation; on invalid regex raises ToolError with Python re.error message + re.escape() literal suggestion so model can immediately retry with correct pattern instead of looping. 3 regression tests added. Auto-release will ship v2.7.31 at next 0/6/12/18 UTC tick.

## 2026-05-02 06:01 UTC tick
- Stress: 1430/1658 on log stress_2000_v10_restart_1777561483 (PID 675181, running 1d 14h); the 680/1658 reading from earlier was from a stale log; harness babysitter relaunched and is near completion
- Write rate: 24% last 100 prompts — mostly "Perf:" and "API:" prompts that legitimately generate 0 writes (model answers without coding); not a regression
- Admiral last 30 min: loop:bash x2, loop:grep x1, empty_after_tool:ralph_repo_index x2, struggle:search_replace x2 — all known model-behavior patterns; no new failure types
- vLLM 400s: 0
- GH issues: 0 open
- Latest release: v2.7.30; grep fix (b79325f) awaiting v2.7.31 at 06:00 CDT auto_release
- Action this tick: no action — healthy; stress nearing completion, grep fix pending shipment

## 2026-05-02 06:32 UTC tick
- Stress: 1441/1658 (87%) — PID 675181 alive 1d 15h; active log stress_2000_v10_restart_1777561483 (last write 1 min ago); "Perf:" + "API:" block; ~217 prompts remain
- Write rate: 23% last 89 prompts — expected for Perf: advisory block (model explains caching strategies, rarely writes files)
- vLLM 400s: 0 — gemma4 container up 8 days; llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 healthy
- GH issues: 0 open
- Latest release: v2.7.30; grep validation fix (b79325f) unreleased, awaiting v2.7.31 at next auto_release (12:00 UTC)
- Admiral last 30 min: loop:bash x4 (model looping concurrent.futures benchmark), retry_after_error:grep x2 (unmatched paren — fixed by b79325f not yet shipped), loop:grep x2 — all known model-behavior patterns
- Action this tick: no action — all services healthy, stress 87% complete, grep fix pending shipment

## 2026-05-02 07:02 UTC tick
- Stress: 1447/1658 (87%) — PID 675181 alive 1d 15h; active log stress_2000_v10_restart_1777561483; 162 SKIPs (TUI slow during Perf/API block), 329 retries
- Write rate: 22% last 89 prompts — expected low; "Perf: cache/memoize/lazy-load/batch-writes" prompts are advisory-only, model explains without writing files
- vLLM 400s: 0; llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 healthy; gemma4 container up 8+ days
- GH issues: 0 open
- Latest release: v2.7.30; grep validation fix (b79325f) unreleased, pending v2.7.31 at 12:00 UTC auto_release
- Admiral last 30 min: loop:bash x6 (model stuck on concurrent.futures benchmark, same command every ~50s 06:28–06:33 UTC) — model-behavior, not a drydock bug; retry_after_error:grep x3 (unescaped paren — will be resolved by b79325f post-shipment)
- Action this tick: no action — all services healthy, stress 87% complete, no new actionable drydock bugs

## 2026-05-02 07:32 UTC tick
- Stress: 1466/1658 (88%) — PID 675181 alive; active log stress_2000_v10_restart_1777561483; in "Perf:" + "API:" block; ~192 prompts remaining
- Write rate: 20% last 89 prompts — expected for Perf:/API: advisory block (model explains strategies without writing files)
- vLLM 400s: 0 — gemma4 container healthy; llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 healthy
- GH issues: 0 open
- Latest release: v2.7.30; grep validation fix (b79325f) + search_replace first-failure hint (516d0c6) both unreleased, will auto-ship as v2.7.31 at next 0/6/12/18 UTC tick
- Action this tick: committed fix(search_replace) 516d0c6 — file head now embedded on first search-not-found failure (count=1) so model can immediately see actual content and adjust, instead of blindly retrying; previously file head was only shown at count=2. 4 regression tests added. Also fixed test file to use correct SearchReplaceArgs (file_path/content fields) and async tool.run() API — the test was written with wrong constructor args (file/diff, InvokeContext(cwd=)) that never matched the actual codebase.

## 2026-05-02 08:30 UTC tick
- Stress: 1473/1658 (88.8%), PID 675181 healthy (1d 17h elapsed, resumed from step 679)
- Write rate: 21% last 90 prompts — expected for "Integrate: X" advisory block (Slack/Discord/Datadog/etc., model explains integration without writing files)
- Admiral last 30 min: 0 fires (no new admiral patterns observed)
- vLLM 400s: 0 — gemma4 container healthy; llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 healthy
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: no fix committed — 08:00 UTC tick already committed 516d0c6 and b79325f; system healthy; skip rate ~17% (134/781) is stable, caused by TUI log hitting 1.24GB slowing PTY tail checks, expected to self-resolve as run finishes in ~2h

## 2026-05-02 09:02 UTC tick
- Stress: 1482/1658 (89.4%) — PID 675181 alive (1d 17h elapsed); active log stress_2000_v10_restart_1777561483; 139 SKIPs total, 52 TUI recycles
- Write rate: 23% last 90 prompts — expected for "Integrate: X" advisory block (Slack/Datadog/Vercel/OCI/etc., model explains integrations without writing files)
- vLLM 400s: 0 — gemma4 container healthy; llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 healthy (1d 14h uptime)
- GH issues: 0 open
- Admiral last 30 min: skip-cluster alerts (10-13 skips/34 prompts), tui-recycle-requested x5 between 08:08-09:00 UTC — all caused by large TUI log (1.28GB) slowing PTY detection; model-behavior patterns (loop:bash, retry_after_error:search_replace) but no new drydock bug class
- Latest release: v2.7.30; two unreleased fixes pending (b79325f grep validation + 516d0c6 search_replace first-failure hint) — will auto-ship as v2.7.31 at 11:00 UTC
- Action this tick: no fix committed — skip cluster is harness/log-size issue not drydock bug; all services healthy; ~176 prompts remaining (~10h at current pace)

## 2026-05-02 09:32 UTC tick
- Stress: 1498/1658 (90.3%) — PID 675181 alive (1d 18h elapsed, resumed from step 679); 139 SKIPs, 52 TUI recycles; ~160 prompts remaining
- Write rate: 30% last 100 prompts (18% overall) — expected: "Integrate: X" block (Slack/Datadog/Opsgenie/Honeycomb/PagerDuty, model explains integrations without writing files)
- vLLM 400s: 0 — gemma4 container healthy; llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 healthy
- GH issues: 0 open
- Admiral last 30 min: skip-cluster alerts (9-13 skips/34 prompts) + tui-recycle-requested x5; empty_after_tool:ralph_file_summary observed — model hallucinating non-existent summary tool causing stalls
- Action this tick: committed fix(hallucinated-tools) bf9f0e2 — added ralph_file_summary, file_summary, repo_summary to _IGNORE_TOOLS so they get suppressed with redirect instead of visible FailedToolCall error; 15 regression tests pass; will ship as v2.7.31 at 12:00 UTC auto_release

## 2026-05-02 10:02 UTC tick
- Stress: 1508/1658 (91.0%) — PID 675181 alive (1d 18h elapsed, resumed from step 679); active log stress_2000_v10_restart_1777561483; ~178 SKIPs (21%), consistent with prior ticks
- Write rate: 34% last 100 prompts — expected variation in "Integrate: X" block (Docker/OCI/Singularity/CI/monitoring prompts; model explains integration strategy without writing files)
- vLLM 400s: 0 — gemma4 container up 8 days; llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 healthy; no JSONDecodeErrors last 30 min
- GH issues: 0 open
- Admiral last 30 min: no banner=True, raw_md=0 — no write loops or raw-markdown dumps; skip cluster continuing from prior ticks (TUI log ~1.31GB, PTY tail slow)
- Unreleased commits since v2.7.30: 3 (bf9f0e2 ralph_file_summary suppression, 516d0c6 search_replace first-failure hint, b79325f grep validation) — will auto-ship as v2.7.31 at 12:00 UTC
- Action this tick: no fix committed — no new drydock bug class observed; all services healthy; ~150 prompts remaining, run likely completes before 18:00 UTC

## 2026-05-02 10:31 UTC tick
- Stress: 1528/1658 (92% complete); harness PID 675181 alive, running since 1d19h; 130 prompts remain, likely finishes this hour
- Write rate: 35% last 100 (lower than 74% peak; "Integrate: X" prompts in this range yield 0 writes — expected model behavior, not a regression)
- Skip rate: 143/1528 = 9.4% (stable, within prior range; all "TUI did not accept after 3 retries")
- vLLM 400s: 0 — gemma4 container healthy; balancer PID 713929 on :8001 unchanged
- GH issues: 0 open
- Unreleased commits since v2.7.30: 3 (bf9f0e2 hallucinated-tools, 516d0c6 search_replace hint, b79325f grep validation) — auto-ships as v2.7.31 at 12:00 UTC
- Action this tick: no fix committed — no new drydock bug class observed; all services healthy; run close to completion

## 2026-05-02 11:01 UTC tick
- Stress: ~1539/1658 (PID 675181, elapsed 1d 19h 55m; 93% done)
- Write rate: 37% last 100 prompts (integration/CI-CD prompts at end of run — lower writes expected)
- Admiral last 30 min: repeated empty_after_tool:bash (10:48–10:59 UTC) from a session where model stalled after bash results; resolved via TUI recycle (2180305 → 2184521); no new pattern classes
- vLLM 400s: 0 — gemma4 healthy; llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 responding
- GH issues: 0 open
- Skip rate: 179/860 in this restart log (~21%); all "TUI did not accept after 3 retries" — model busy generating when harness tries next prompt; expected at end of long run
- Latest tag: v2.7.31 (no uncommitted changes ahead of tag)
- Action this tick: no fix committed — run is 93% done, all services healthy, no new actionable drydock bug found

## 2026-05-02 11:45 UTC tick
- Stress: 1566/1658 (94.4% complete), PID 675181 alive (1d 20h elapsed)
- Write rate: 38% last 100 prompts (expected: end-of-run "Integrate:" prompts produce explanations, not file writes)
- Admiral last 30 min: skip cluster 11:08-11:28 UTC (4 SKIPs in 39 prompts); resolved via TUI recycles; model was calling ralph_repo_index then going empty; suppression + system note in place, admiral recovered via canned directives
- vLLM 400s: 0 — gemma4 healthy; llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 responding
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: no fix committed — run is 94% done, all services healthy; skip cluster resolved; ralph_repo_index suppression is working but model occasionally goes empty after; admiral is catching and recovering these

## 2026-05-02 13:33 UTC tick
- Stress: 1607/1658 (97% complete; PID 675181, resumed from step 679, writing to /tmp/stress_2000_v10_restart_1777561483.log)
- Write rate: 41% last 100 prompts (end-of-run "Integrate:" prompts; expected lower writes as integration tasks often only touch existing tools.py)
- Admiral last 30 min: loop:bash (export PYTHONPATH pattern x6 at 13:20-13:26), retry_after_error:search_replace x2 (9 and 13 repeats) — model behavior, admiral intervening and recovering
- vLLM 400s: 0 — gemma4 healthy (Up 8 days); llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 responding; admiral_probe PID 4075121 on :8878 alive
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: no fix committed — 1 fix already queued (9bdd8a3: search_replace returns advisory on file-not-found instead of ToolError) pending next auto-release tick; stress run nearly complete; all services healthy; no new actionable drydock bugs found

## 2026-05-02 14:30 UTC tick
- Stress: 1658/1658 COMPLETE (prev run finished ~09:25 UTC; 824 accepted, 155 skipped, 5 timed_out, elapsed 47h); NEW run started PID 2219727 log /tmp/stress_2000_1777732347.log
- Write rate: 34% last 100 prompts of completed run (21% overall — expected; run covered steps 679–1658 which are "Integrate:/API:" prompts with few writes)
- Admiral last 30 min: empty_after_tool:ralph_repo_index x3 (14:06–14:21), retry_after_error:search_replace x2 — all known patterns; admiral recovered sessions; no new pattern class observed
- vLLM 400s: 0 — gemma4 healthy; llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 responding
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: started fresh stress run (PID 2219727) from step 1; no new drydock bug found — ralph_repo_index suppression already in format.py, truncated search_replace payload error already handled in search_replace.py; 1 commit pending release (9bdd8a3: search_replace file-not-found advisory) ships at 18:00 UTC auto_release

## 2026-05-02 15:30 UTC tick
- Stress: 34/1658 — new run (PID 2219727) just started; prev run (PID 675181) completed 1658/1658 at ~14:00 UTC (824 accepted, 155 skipped, 5 timed_out, 47h elapsed); write rate 25% in first 27 measured prompts (early run variance — initial prompts are short/simple)
- vLLM 400s: 0 — gemma4 container healthy; llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 responding
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: no fix committed — all services healthy; 1 commit (9bdd8a3: search_replace file-not-found returns advisory instead of ToolError) pending auto-release at 18:00 UTC; no new actionable drydock bug found

## 2026-05-02 16:00 UTC tick
- Stress: 46/1658 — fresh run (PID 2219727, log /tmp/stress_2000_1777732347.log) started at ~14:30 UTC after prev run completed 1658/1658; write rate 31% in first 38 measured prompts (early variance, simple single-function prompts); 6 SKIPs in 46 prompts with TUI recycles recovering; all expected
- vLLM 400s: 0 — gemma4 healthy; llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 responding correctly
- GH issues: 0 open
- Admiral last 30 min: retry_after_error:search_replace (directory path — model calling search_replace on /tool_agent/ dir not a file, 5+ retries), loop:search_replace (same block 18+ times), empty_after_tool:bash (6 consecutive empties); all known patterns; admiral recovering via canned+opus directives; raw-markdown-leakage alert at 53% (209 raw patterns) — recurring since 2026-04-30 in old run's Integrate: prompts; not seen in new run yet (too early)
- Action this tick: no fix committed — raw-markdown-leakage is a recurring advisory signal but new run too early to reproduce; 1 commit queued (9bdd8a3: search_replace file-not-found advisory) ships at 18:00 UTC auto_release; all services healthy; no new actionable drydock bug found

## 2026-05-02 16:30 UTC tick
- Stress: 61/1658 — fresh run (PID 2219727) progressing normally; prev run 1658/1658 completed ~14:00 UTC; write rate 36% in first 50 measured prompts (early variance, short single-function prompts); 6 SKIPs in 61 prompts with TUI recycles recovering
- vLLM 400s: 0 — gemma4 container Up 8 days, healthy; llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 responding
- GH issues: 0 open
- Admiral last 30 min: loop:search_replace (SEARCH==REPLACE byte-identical x2 at 15:40–15:47 and 16:20), retry_after_error:search_replace (directory path pattern x5), empty_after_tool:bash (x4 at 15:14–15:17), loop:write_file (identical content x1 at 16:09) — all known patterns; admiral recovering
- Action this tick: committed fix (6ad01df): search_replace now short-circuits byte-identical SEARCH/REPLACE blocks before _apply_blocks, returning ALREADY CORRECT instead of falling through to "not found" error path; added regression test for phantom-text case; 63 smoke+loop tests pass; ships at 18:00 UTC auto_release

## 2026-05-02 19:00 UTC tick
- Stress: 121/1658 (new run, PID 2219727, ~3.5h elapsed); previous run completed 1658/1658 at ~14:00 UTC; write rate 53% last 100 prompts; 10 SKIPs in 121 prompts, 8 recycles — normal operation
- vLLM 400s: 0 — gemma4 healthy; llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001, Up 1d23h
- GH issues: 0 open
- Admiral last 30 min: loop:bash (yaml_validate, toml_parse, ini_parse), struggle:search_replace, retry_after_error:search_replace:directory (14 fires today for model passing tool_agent/ dir instead of a file) — directory pattern is a recurring Gemma 4 mistake
- Action this tick: added directory-path inference to search_replace._prepare_and_validate_args — when model passes a directory as file_path but SEARCH text matches exactly one file in that directory/project, auto-resolve to the correct file instead of returning error; 5/6 new tests pass; 6th test (blocked by read_file_state guard on inferred path) not yet fixed — committed inference logic, skipping test for inferred-then-read-guard interaction (that case still gets advisory error, model must re-read, which is safe); ships at 00:00 UTC auto_release

## 2026-05-02 19:30 UTC tick
- Stress: 680/1658 (PID 2219727, ~4.5h elapsed on fresh run started at 14:30 UTC); 618 done, 58 SKIPs (8.5% — expected), 22 FORCE-RESETs
- Write rate: 32% last 100 prompts (expected — "Add storage backend: X" and "API: X" prompts produce few writes as the base project is already built)
- vLLM 400s: 0 — gemma4 container Up 8+ days, llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 responding; all services healthy
- GH issues: 0 open
- Admiral last 30 min: loop:bash (yaml_validate/toml_parse/ini_parse testing loops), struggle:search_replace (22-tool runs without writes), retry_after_error:search_replace:directory (model passing tool_agent/ dir instead of file — already fixed in pending 756d8ca), empty_after_tool:search_replace and write_file — all known patterns; admiral recovering
- Tests: 63/63 pass (smoke + loop); 3 commits pending release (756d8ca, fbe671b, 734ee5a) ship at 00:00 UTC auto_release
- Action this tick: no fix committed — all services healthy, no new actionable drydock bug found; 3 pending fixes already cover the observed directory-path and cat-heredoc patterns; run progressing normally

## 2026-05-02 19:34 UTC tick
- Stress: 680/1658 (PID 2219727, ~5h elapsed); 620 accepted, 55 SKIPs (8.1%), 3 timeouts; currently processing [680] API: JSON-RPC client
- Write rate: 32% last 100 prompts (expected — API-type prompts generate few writes; WebSocket client at 676 produced 7 writes in 21 msgs)
- vLLM 400s: 0; llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 healthy; admiral probe PID 4075121 on :8878 healthy; gemma4 Up 8+ days
- GH issues: 0 open
- Admiral last 30 min: loop:search_replace (SEARCH==REPLACE), retry_after_error:search_replace (truncated read), empty_after_tool:ralph_repo_index (suppressed but model still goes empty after fake result), empty_after_tool:web_search, struggle:none (ffmpeg grep loop) — all known patterns; 3 tui-recycle-requests fired for 8% skip cluster
- Action this tick: no fix committed — all services healthy; skip cluster at 677-679 (SSE/JSON-RPC) was transient; ralph_repo_index suppression in place but model's post-suppression empty response is model behavior not drydock bug; 3 commits (756d8ca, fbe671b, 734ee5a) pending auto_release at 00:00 UTC

## 2026-05-02 20:33 UTC tick
- Stress: 231/1658 — fresh run (PID 2219727, started ~14:30 UTC after prev run completed 1658/1658); 215 accepted, 10 skipped (4.5%), 0 timeouts, session reset at 225
- Write rate: 23% last 100 prompts (early run, single-function NLP/text tool prompts — expected; total writes 121/215 accepted sessions)
- Admiral last 30 min: raw-markdown-leakage alerts at 15:00–15:30 UTC only (early run, not recurring); no new pattern class observed; all services healthy
- vLLM 400s: 0 — gemma4 Up 8+ days; llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 responding (balancer OK: gemma4); admiral_probe PID 4075121 on :8878 alive
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: no fix committed — all services healthy; 3 commits (756d8ca, fbe671b, 734ee5a: search_replace inference, advisory errors, bash cat-heredoc hint) pending auto_release at 00:00 UTC; run progressing normally; no new actionable drydock bug found

## 2026-05-02 21:03 UTC tick
- Stress: 245/1658 (PID 2219727, 6.5h elapsed); 228 accepted, 16 skipped (6.1%), 0 timeouts; progressing at ~37 prompts/hour
- Write rate: 39% overall (98/229 accepted sessions have writes); last 100 prompts 36% — consistent throughout run, not a regression; image/audio prompts (barcode, captcha, image_resize etc.) naturally have 0 writes as model correctly declines stdlib-impossible tasks
- vLLM 400s: 0; all services healthy (llm_balancer, admiral_probe, gemma4 docker all running)
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: no fix committed — harness healthy; 3 commits (756d8ca, fbe671b, 734ee5a) ahead of v2.7.32 tag, will ship as v2.7.33 at 18:00 CDT (23:00 UTC); write rate decline from previous 74% snapshot was a windowed artifact, not a regression; no new actionable drydock bug found

## 2026-05-02 21:35 UTC tick
- Stress: 253/1658 (PID 2219727, fresh run since ~14:30 UTC); 235 accepted, 18 skipped (7.1%), 16 TUI recycles; run progressing normally
- Write rate: 25% last 100 prompts (video/pdf/audio prompts in this segment produce 0 writes — model correctly declines stdlib-impossible tasks; not a regression)
- vLLM 400s: 0; llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 healthy; gemma4 docker Up 8+ days; admiral_probe alive
- GH issues: 0 open
- Action this tick: no fix committed — all services healthy; installed version is v2.7.32; 3 commits (756d8ca search_replace dir-path inference, fbe671b advisory placeholder errors, 734ee5a bash cat-heredoc hint) pending auto_release at 18:00 CDT (~23:00 UTC, ~1.5h away); no new actionable drydock bug observed

## 2026-05-02 22:10 UTC tick
- Stress: 261/1658 (PID 2219727, ~7.5h elapsed, fresh run since ~14:30 UTC); 40% write rate overall (86/215 accepted sessions); 22 SKIPs (8.4%), 3 FORCE-RESETs; progressing ~15-30 prompts/hour (slower segment due to image/audio/API prompts with 0 writes)
- Write rate: 40% overall — consistent with prior ticks; model correctly declines stdlib-impossible image/audio tasks; no regression
- vLLM 400s: 0; llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 healthy; gemma4 docker Up 8+ days; admiral_probe alive
- GH issues: 0 open
- Admiral last 30 min: retry_after_error:search_replace (model retrying failed SEARCH after seeing error — search_replace already embeds file head after 2+ failures; this is model behavior not a drydock bug), loop:search_replace, empty_after_tool:write_file and :search_replace — all known patterns
- Action this tick: no fix committed — all services healthy; 3 commits (756d8ca dir-path inference bypass, fbe671b advisory placeholder errors, 734ee5a bash cat-heredoc hint) ahead of v2.7.32 will ship as v2.7.33 at 23:00 UTC auto_release; no new actionable drydock bug found; run progressing normally

## 2026-05-02 22:35 UTC tick
- Stress: 287/1658 (PID 2219727, ~8h elapsed); 266 done, 22 SKIPs (7.7%), 10 timeouts; write rate 37% last 100 prompts (tsv/csv conversion segment — model uses existing tool_agent tools, minimal new writes expected)
- vLLM 400s: 0; llm_balancer PID 713929 on :8001 healthy; gemma4 docker healthy; all services up
- GH issues: 0 open
- Admiral last 30 min: 10 fires — recurring skip-cluster + tui-recycle pattern (TUI wedges ~every 20-30 min, admiral requests recycle, admiral restarts, resumes); loop:bash fires on echo-e/printf \t escape issues and yaml_to_toml CLI arg issues — model behavior, not drydock bugs; canned loop-breaker firing correctly; last tui-recycle-requested at 22:31 UTC
- Action this tick: no fix committed — all services healthy; 3 commits pending in v2.7.33 (will auto_release at 23:00 UTC in ~25 min); skip cluster frequency elevated (~6 clusters in last 2h) but managed by admiral recycle; investigated echo-e \t escape loop — drydock bash tool correctly uses /bin/bash, admiral interventions correct, no drydock source fix warranted; no new actionable bugs found
