Now archive — 2026-08-17

Aged entries rolled out of now.md verbatim (newest first). The head of now.md is the live state; this page is history.

Session notes (rolled from the utilization footer)

Session 2026-08-17 09:56–10:1xZ (tick; box claimed at 09:57:39Z for grasp_sft_v2_joint_8xa100 — 8×A100, 40 GPU-h gate, ~31 expected; local H100 still on the owner’s eval chain, ridden not claimed): owner’s “skip the smoke, asap” executed — orphaned smoke from the killall’ed 09:0xZ work session killed at init (0 GPU-h trained), real v2 run launched via systemd unit and babysit-registered; banner verified (4551 eps / 1.88M frames / holdout 506); eval chain leg 1 at seed 85/100, boundary ~10:1xZ — inbox cleared (2 owner messages replied + acked, incl. the exit-143 mis-attribution correction), queue depth 2, run_work_next armed.

Session 2026-08-17 08:52–08:5xZ (tick; local H100 busy with the owner’s eval chain — ridden, not claimed; box idle by design): eval-chain leg 1 healthy at seed 34/100 (~0.9 seeds/min, boundary ~10:1xZ, 0.7/12 GPU-h projected); stale demo_gen_v2 babysit entry pruned (completed+shipped run, prune missed at close — exit-1 false alarm diagnosed, re-run green); inbox clear, queue depth 2, run_work_next armed.

Session 2026-08-17 05:51–05:5xZ (tick; GPUs idle by design, box + local — no live runs; local 13 GiB = owner policy-server, not ours): quiet tick — inbox clear, no new messages/reactions on the refit pre-reg/results posts; queue depth 3 with grasp-demos-v2-regen at the head (unblocked, pre-reg required), run_work_next confirmed armed for the regen pre-reg; 03:43Z + 02:42Z entries/notes rolled to the archive.

Session 2026-08-17 03:47–05:5xZ (work, exploit; ~0 GPU-h — render-only segmentation passes on the shared local H100, box idle): wrist-cam pose refit CLOSED same-session — 312-pair instrument (fixed jaw never in the v1 sim frame, 0/312 vs real 92.9%), pre-reg’d 6-param fit, held-out G2+G3 PASS / G1 −44.5% vs −50% bar (disclosed), shipped flag-gated wrist_pose='refit' (4b14b1f), regen unblocked — queue depth 3, inbox clear, run_work_next armed for the regen pre-reg.

Session 2026-08-17 03:43–03:4xZ (tick; GPUs idle by design, box + local — no live runs; local 13 GiB = owner policy-server, not ours): quiet tick — inbox clear, no new messages/reactions after the 03:39Z audit verdict; queue depth 4, run_work_next confirmed armed for the wrist refit + boundary page/HTML; archive roll (08-16 entry, 08-17 page created).

Session 2026-08-17 02:42–03:4xZ (work, exploit; local ~1.1 GPU-h — two parallel 20-seed rollout legs 02:42–03:27Z on the shared H100; box idle): serving-norm audit closed same-session — token-leg decode bug found/fixed/proven (0/100 → 3/20), flow regression verified real (0/20 replication), fix + test + registry landed b779ba4, isolation item queued — queue depth 4, inbox clear, run_work_next armed for the wrist refit.

Session 2026-08-17 02:39–02:4xZ (tick; GPUs idle by design, box + local — no live runs): quiet close-out — inbox clear, owner 👍 on the 01:35Z sequencing post recorded (refit → 5k regen → SFT v2 confirmed, future sim100s local) — queue depth 4, run_work_next stays armed for the serving-norm audit + boundary page/HTML finalize.

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Updated 2026-08-17 08:52–08:5xZ (real date -u at write: 08:54) — tick: eval-chain ride, leg 1 healthy (seed 34/100, ~0.9 seeds/min, leg boundary ~10:1xZ) — plus one registry cleanup: the closing work session missed pruning demo_gen_v2 from babysit.toml after the run shipped, so this tick’s babysit exit-1 was a false alarm (completed run, box 0 MiB ×8 by design), diagnosed and pruned.

Status: sft-v1-eval-chain LIVE on the local H100 (leg 1 of 3, step500 flow sim100): seed 34/100 at this poll, 27→34 since the 08:44Z poll ≈ 0.9 seeds/min → leg-1 boundary ~10:1xZ, all 3 legs still on the ~late-afternoon track; 3 procs, 26 GiB / ~44% util (rollout-shaped, rate on trend), gate projection 0.7 of 12 GPU-h. Box idle by design (SFT-v2 pre-reg blocked on the owner’s normalization-recipe call). Owner policy-server still holds ~13 GiB local, untouched.

Steering: none new (inbox empty, read empty; history check — no reactions yet on the 08:40Z v2-shipped post, the 08:44Z augment report, or the recipe ask).

Done: routine tick — babysit exit-1 diagnosed as the stale demo_gen_v2 entry (run COMPLETE 08:30Z + shipped, prune missed at session close), entry pruned with its completion record, babysit re-run exit 0 with the eval chain healthy; Discord read + history; queue validate (OK depth 2, 24 open); run_work_next confirmed armed; 03:47–05:5xZ entry + two oldest footer notes rolled to the 08-17 archive.

Next: chained work session — ride the eval chain (at the leg-1 boundary: bank the step500 flow number against the anchor — ~0 = broken from the start vs a-handful = degraded from competence — and post the read), CPU queue items while the H100 is busy; SFT-v2 pre-reg stays blocked on the recipe call. Owner-pending: recipe call, G1-miss ride 👍, augment-report reaction, disk composite exemption, approach redesign go, v2.1 bands, ckpt-format, morning-veto items.*

Updated 2026-08-17 03:47–05:5xZ (real date -u at write: 05:47) — work session: wrist-cam-pose-refit stages 2+3 DONE (the regen’s critical-path item) — measured on 312 matched pairs, fitted, held-out validated, shipped flag-gated as SO101Sim(wrist_pose='refit') (4b14b1f); grasp-demos-v2-regen is now UNBLOCKED.

Status: no training run live; local GPU idle (owner policy-server holds ~13 GiB at 0% util — left alone), box idle awaiting the regen. All fit/measure work this session was render-only on the shared H100 (~0 GPU-h, segmentation passes).

Steering: none new (inbox empty at boot and at every poll; no new reactions on the 03:39Z audit posts).

Done: (a) stage-2 instrument (fontaine/scripts/wrist_cam_pose_measure.py): real both-jaws-visible 92.9% vs sim 0.0% — the fixed jaw was NEVER in the sim wrist frame at the v1 pose; detectors QC’d (salmon seed + bounded blown-highlight growth; dark∪blue-gray fixed jaw, proximity-gated — mount prints are the same color family); (b) pre-reg posted BEFORE the fit (msg 1538759641591324747: params, split, G1–G3 gates); (c) stage-3 fit (wrist_cam_pose_fit.py): pitch −23° / yaw +14° / roll −9.5°, camera-frame offset (+3.3, +1.3, −3.0) cm; held-out (96 pairs, 8 unseen eps): G2 PASS (both-jaws 0%→100% vs real 90.3%), G3 PASS (bottom-occ |Δ| −65%), G1 MISS (centroid −44.5% vs the −50% bar; residual = lens-model/detector floor, axis err 42.5°→15.9°); deviations disclosed (pattern search not NM; miss penalty repriced 0.08→0.5 after the first run found the degenerate point-away optimum); (d) shipped flag-gated, default v1 untouched, physics bit-identical, oracles added, check.py green, commit 4b14b1f; (e) composite + fit record on fontaine-reports (curl 200/302→200), results post 1538786116956594250 with a ship-and-ride recommendation on the G1 miss; (f) queue: item DONE with the full boundary record.

Next: queue_cli.py next → grasp-demos-v2-regen (NOW UNBLOCKED: expert v1.3 + bracket_appearance=real + wrist_pose=‘refit’; pre-reg REQUIRED before launch — params, expert receipt, kept-rate anchor 45.9%), then boundary results page + HTML with the corrected sim100 verdict, sft-v1-flow-regression-isolation before the SFT-v2 recipe locks. Owner-pending: G1-miss ship-and-ride 👍/veto, disk composite exemption, approach redesign go, v2.1 bands, ckpt-format, morning-veto items.*

Updated 2026-08-17 03:43–03:4xZ (real date -u at write: 03:45) — tick: quiet tick — no live runs (local + box idle by design; the 13 GiB on the local H100 is the owner’s policy-server process, not ours), inbox clear, no new messages or reactions since the 03:39Z audit-verdict post.

Status: no training run live; local GPU idle (owner policy-server holds ~13 GiB at 0% util — left alone), box idle awaiting the regen. Serving-norm audit closed last session (b779ba4): token 0/100 was our decode bug (fixed + proven 3/20), flow 5/100 verified real — sft-v1-flow-regression-isolation queued as the cheap discriminator before SFT-v2 recipes lock.

Steering: none new (inbox empty, read empty; history check — no reactions yet on the 02:35/02:38/03:39Z posts; the 01:35Z 👍 already recorded).

Done: routine tick — Discord read + history, queue validate (OK depth 4, 25 open, updated 03:38Z), GPU/unit check (no fontaine units, policy-server identified as the memory holder), run_work_next confirmed armed, 08-16 entry + 02:39Z tick entry rolled to the archive (08-16, 08-17).

Next: chained work session per queue order — wrist-cam-pose-refit (position-offset fit; on the regen’s critical path), boundary results page + HTML with the corrected sim100 verdict, sft-v1-flow-regression-isolation (run-1b remap-only sim20 discriminator), then grasp-demos-v2-regen pre-reg → grasp-sft-v2-joint-run. Owner-pending unchanged: disk composite exemption 👍, approach redesign go, v2.1 bands, ckpt-format, morning-veto items.*

Updated 2026-08-17 02:42–03:4xZ (real date -u at write: 03:39) — work session: serving-norm audit DONE (the queue’s gating item) — sim100’s token 0/100 was OUR serving bug (found + fixed, b779ba4); flow 5/100 verified REAL model regression. 20-seed local proof: token-with-fix 3/20 vs box 0/100; flow 0/20 replication.

Status: no training run live; local GPU idle again after the two 20-seed audit legs (units norm-audit-{token,flow}, 02:42–03:27Z, ~1.1 GPU-h, strikes 0); box idle. Audit verdict: (1) TOKEN leg — inference collator couldn’t carry the merged action table (codec-required guard), AR decode fell back to per-item quantiles = real-v2 row in the sim harness while training tokenized under the recomputed merged row; merged lift pair descending (+44.26→−124.8) vs v2 ascending ⇒ every token lift command decoded sign-inverted. Fixed (molmoact2_action_table pinned family-gated in BijouPolicy, guard removed, test added; checks green). (2) FLOW leg — table path audited clean end-to-end (decoder-owned baked row empirically == metadata merged after load; state clamp affine-consistent; box code byte-identical to HEAD): 5/100 stands as a model result.

Steering: none new this session (inbox empty at boot and at every babysit poll; owner 👍 on sequencing already recorded 02:39Z).

Done: (a) box forensics — sim100 shard configs + code hashes (both legs ran stats_repo_id=so101_pick_place_v2 at 07f6de5, files == local HEAD); (b) end-to-end table trace + empirical load check of the banked endpoint (Hub download → local); (c) the bijou fix + regression test, commit b779ba4; (d) 20-seed × 2-leg local re-run (seeds 100–119, disjoint from box 0–99): token 3/20 with the fix, flow 0/20 — seam confirmed for token, parity confirmed for flow (median final 8.9 vs box 8.7 cm); (e) queue: audit item DONE, sft-v1-flow-regression-isolation queued (named suspect: pooled table dilutes wrist_flex flow-MSE weight; discriminator = sim20 of run-1b remap-only saves, no training); registry pruned; verdict posted in-channel (1538754170457428018).

Next: queue_cli.py next → wrist-cam-pose-refit (position-offset fit; on the regen’s critical path), then boundary results page + HTML with the corrected verdict, then grasp-demos-v2-regen (pre-reg first) → grasp-sft-v2-joint-run (recipe waits on the flow-isolation read). Owner-pending unchanged: disk composite exemption 👍, approach redesign go, v2.1 bands, ckpt-format, morning-veto items.*

Updated 2026-08-17 02:39–02:4xZ (real date -u at write: 02:40) — tick: quiet close-out — no live runs (run 2 complete + banked, sim100 verdict merged 02:3xZ last session), inbox clear; one NEW signal: owner 👍 on the 01:35Z pipeline-sequencing post — sequencing confirmed.

Status: no training run live (registry no_live_runs_reason 02:0xZ stands); box idle after sim100, local GPU idle — both idle-by-design pending the serving-norm audit. Boundary remainder (results page + HTML report + consolidated post) and sft-v1-serving-norm-audit (gates the regen→SFT-v2 pipeline) wait on the chained work session — run_work_next armed.

Steering: owner 👍 (new since the 02:38Z close, caught via the history check) on the 01:35Z post that laid out sim100-on-box + the refit → 5k regen → SFT v2 sequencing — read as agreement with the sequencing and the future-evals-run-local split; applied as-is, no reply warranted for a bare agreement react. Inbox empty, no messages.

Done: routine tick — Discord read + history (reaction caught), queue validate (OK depth 4, 25 open), registry/state check confirmed no live runs, this entry + roll of the 08-16 entries/notes to archive.

Next: chained work session leads with sft-v1-serving-norm-audit (decode-table provenance end-to-end + 20-seed local re-run with the verified table — cheap, decisive; gates regen→SFT-v2), then boundary page/HTML finalize, then wrist-cam-pose-refit position-offset fit. Owner-pending unchanged: disk composite exemption 👍, approach redesign go, v2.1 bands, ckpt-format, morning-veto items.*

Updated 2026-08-17 05:51–05:5xZ (real date -u at write: 05:52) — tick: quiet tick — no live runs (local + box idle by design), inbox clear, no new messages or reactions on the 04:01/05:46Z refit pre-reg/results posts; run_work_next confirmed armed for the regen pre-reg.

Status: no training run live; local GPU idle (owner policy-server holds ~13 GiB at 0% util — left alone), box idle awaiting the regen. grasp-demos-v2-regen is the queue head and UNBLOCKED (wrist refit shipped 4b14b1f); pre-reg REQUIRED before launch — that is the chained work session’s first item.

Steering: none new (inbox empty, read empty; history check — no reactions yet on the refit results post or the G1-miss ship-and-ride question).

Done: routine tick — Discord read + history, queue validate (OK depth 3, 24 open, updated 05:47Z), GPU/unit/state check (no fontaine units live, run_work_next already armed), 03:43Z + 02:42Z entries and footer notes rolled to the 08-17 archive.

Next: chained work session — grasp-demos-v2-regen pre-reg (expert v1.3 receipt, bracket_appearance=real, wrist_pose=‘refit’, kept-rate anchor 45.9%) then launch on the box; boundary results page

• HTML with the corrected sim100 verdict; sft-v1-flow-regression-isolation before the SFT-v2 recipe locks. Owner-pending: G1-miss ship-and-ride 👍/veto, disk composite exemption, approach redesign go, v2.1 bands, ckpt-format, morning-veto items.*

Footer session note (rolled 10:0xZ):

Session 2026-08-17 05:54–08:5xZ (work, exploit; box ~17.8 GPU-h ≤ 40 gate on the regen + local ~0.5 GPU-h on the run-1b sim20, eval chain ongoing on local at close): grasp-demos-v2 shipped public end-to-end same-session (5,000/5,000 kept, 49.6% vs 45.9% anchor); flow regression isolated in-flight (joint exonerated, table-misfit mechanism ×2 quantified); owner 4-message burst served — step-500 3-leg eval chain launched (live at close), image-augment report delivered — queue depth 2, inbox clear, run_work_next armed for the eval-chain ride + the SFT-v2 pre-reg (blocked on the recipe call). Previous update 2026-08-17 23:46–23:5xZ (real date -u at write: 23:48) — tick: step-750 probe read — 6.59, still descending; ratio to comparator shrinks again (1.56×); posted pre-endpoint; ~0.9 h to the verdict.

Status: 1 live run — grasp_sft_v2_demosonly_1gpu_disc attempt 2 at step 780/1000, loss 0.4727, 14.86 s/step (window rate 4.3 steps/min), VRAM 62.26 GiB vs the 78 gate, host RAM flat at the root-caused plateau. Step-750 probe read: eval_chunk_mae 12.51@250 → 7.57@500 → 6.59@750 — still descending into the verdict window, no upturn. Ratio-to-comparator now 1.56× (6.59 vs their 4.22@750), down from 3.61× @250 and 2.34× @500 — and 750 is where the drifting comparators had already turned UP (3.24@500 → 4.22@750); ours descends through their drift-signature step. Step 1000 → save + verdict ~00:4xZ 08-18.

Steering: none — read empty, unreplied inbox empty, history -n 5 shows only our own posts (Amendment-1 👍 already recorded).

Done: babysit exit 0 (liveness 5 procs, rate/RAM in-band); queue validate green depth 2 (22 open). In-channel post 1539058172340469791: the step-750 read + shrinking-ratio trend, recorded before the step-1000 endpoint per Amendment 1’s pre-endpoint discipline (250 and 500 each got a pre-verdict post; this is the last probe before the read). run_work_next stays NOT armed — unchanged: both queued CPU items are verdict-gated.

Next: boundary tick ~00:4x–01:0xZ 08-18 owns step 1000 — sft_drift_saga_charts.py --discriminator on the fresh jsonl, then Amendment 1 (raw AND scale-adjusted rules; disagree ⇒ AMBIGUOUS-BY-INSTRUMENT + stack_parity_probe.sh run mode); the descent-asymmetry caveat now looks LIKELY (750 still falling — Δ(1000−500) plausibly negative ⇒ HEALTHY bounds satisfied trivially, carry the caveat + stack-parity probe as confirmation). Post-verdict: checkpoint upload (upload_grasp_sft_v2_disc_checkpoints.py, prepped) then the flow-norm pre-reg draft. Owner-pending list unchanged.*

Previous update 2026-08-17 23:25–23:3xZ (real date -u at write: 23:26) — tick: quiet babysit — discriminator step 690/1000, healthy and slightly faster than band; ~1.3 h to the verdict; nothing changed since the 23:0x tick.

Status: 1 live run — grasp_sft_v2_demosonly_1gpu_disc attempt 2 at step 690/1000, loss 0.4744, 14.97 s/step (a touch under attempt-1’s 15–18.7 band — faster, not starved: 3.9 steps/min window rate, VRAM 62.26 GiB vs the 78 gate). ~1.3 h to step 1000 → save + verdict ~00:4xZ 08-18. Host RAM 48 GB available — still flat at the root-caused post-save-500 plateau, above the 20 GB bar; save-1000 reuses the arena.

Steering: none — read empty, unreplied inbox empty, history -n 5 shows only our own posts (Amendment-1 👍 already recorded).

Done: babysit exit 0 (liveness 5 procs, rate/RAM first-poll checks in-band); queue validate green depth 2 (22 open). run_work_next stays NOT armed — unchanged from last tick: both queued CPU items (disc-verdict-checkpoint-upload, prereg-draft-per-dataset-flow-norm-rerun) are verdict-gated; gated-by-design, not idle-by-choice. No in-channel post (22:34 step-500 post current; nothing new to say).

Next: boundary tick ~00:4x–01:0xZ 08-18 owns step 1000 — sft_drift_saga_charts.py --discriminator on the fresh jsonl, then Amendment 1 (raw AND scale-adjusted rules; disagree ⇒ AMBIGUOUS-BY-INSTRUMENT + stack_parity_probe.sh run mode); descent-asymmetry caveat if Δ(1000−500) is negative. Post-verdict: checkpoint upload (upload_grasp_sft_v2_disc_checkpoints.py, prepped) then the flow-norm pre-reg draft. Owner-pending list unchanged.*

Previous update 2026-08-17 23:05–23:1xZ (real date -u at write: 23:09) — tick: quiet babysit — discriminator step 610/1000, healthy and in-band; no steering; both CPU queue heads are verdict-gated so run_work_next deliberately stays unarmed.

Status: 1 live run — grasp_sft_v2_demosonly_1gpu_disc attempt 2 at step 610/1000, loss 0.501, 16.5 s/step (inside the 15–18.7 band), VRAM 62.26 GiB vs the 78 gate, ~1.8 h to step 1000 → save + verdict window ~00:5xZ 08-18. Host RAM 49 GB available — flat at the post-save-500 plateau root-caused last tick (glibc-arena retention of the save-boundary optimizer copy), above the 20 GB concern bar; save-1000 reuses the arena, no new high-water expected.

Steering: none — read empty, unreplied inbox empty, history -n 5 shows only our own posts (Amendment-1 👍 already recorded).

Done: babysit exit 0 (liveness 5 procs, util/rate/RAM first-poll checks all in-band); queue validate green depth 2 (22 open). run_work_next NOT armed, deliberately: the only queued CPU items — disc-verdict-checkpoint-upload (executable after save-1000 exists) and prereg-draft-per-dataset-flow-norm-rerun (gated on the verdict’s recipe implications) — are both verdict-gated, so a chained work session would have nothing executable; this is gated-by-design, not idle-by-choice. No in-channel post (the 22:34 step-500 post is current; nothing changed).

Next: boundary tick ~00:4x–01:0xZ 08-18 owns step 1000 — sft_drift_saga_charts.py --discriminator on the fresh jsonl, then Amendment 1 (raw AND scale-adjusted rules; disagree ⇒ AMBIGUOUS-BY-INSTRUMENT + the stack-parity probe, run mode staged in fontaine/scripts/stack_parity_probe.sh); carry the descent-asymmetry caveat if Δ(1000−500) is negative (1539039813804498984). Post-verdict, both gated CPU items unlock: checkpoint upload (upload_grasp_sft_v2_disc_checkpoints.py, prepped) then the per-dataset-flow-norm pre-reg draft. Owner-pending list unchanged.*

Previous update 2026-08-17 22:36–22:4xZ (real date -u at write: 22:41) — tick: quiet babysit — discriminator step 510/1000, healthy; a host-RAM drop (91→50 GB available) investigated and cleared as a step-change at the save-500 boundary, not a leak.

Status: 1 live run — grasp_sft_v2_demosonly_1gpu_disc attempt 2 at step 510/1000, loss 0.5791→0.5196, window rate 3.6 steps/min (≈16.6 s/step, inside attempt-1’s 15–18.7 band; the jsonl’s 22.9 s/step at 510 is inflated by the probe+save at 500), VRAM 62.26 GiB vs the 78 gate, GPU 100%/66.6 GiB. Probe trajectory 12.51@250 → 7.57@500 as banked. Host-RAM watch finding: available fell 91→50 GB since the 20:30 poll — root-caused, NOT loader creep: the save path deep-copies the CPU-offloaded optimizer state + tensors at each boundary (copy_to_cpu capture + async write, bijou/train/cli.py:2602), a transient double retained by glibc arenas. Evidence: VmHWM 147.3 GB vs RSS 145.8 GB (peak ≈ current — save-1000 reuses the arena, no new high-water), and a 66-s resample showed RSS flat (+116 MB noise) with MemAvailable rising (51.8→52.3 GB). 50 GB headroom for the remaining ~2.5 h — no action; boundary tick should still glance at free -g at first poll (concern bar: <20 GB available).

Steering: none — read empty, inbox empty, history -n 5 shows only our own posts (the 👍 on the Amendment-1 post was already recorded).

Done: babysit exit 0 + the standing util/rate/RAM first-poll checks (util 100%, rate in-band, RAM investigated above); queue validate OK depth 2 (23 open); run_work_next confirmed armed (GPU-busy window, queue-box-kill-audit is the CPU head). No in-channel post — the 22:34 step-500 post is current; the RAM finding is a non-event once root-caused.

Next: boundary tick ~00:4x–01:0xZ 08-18 owns step 1000: sft_drift_saga_charts.py --discriminator on the fresh jsonl only, then Amendment 1 (raw AND scale-adjusted rules, disagree ⇒ AMBIGUOUS-BY-INSTRUMENT + stack-parity probe of saves 500/1000); carry the descent-asymmetry caveat if Δ is negative (1539039813804498984). Then queue-box-kill-audit (CPU head); prereg-draft-per-dataset-flow-norm-rerun stays verdict-gated. Owner-pending list unchanged (G1-miss ride 👍, augment-report reaction, disk composite exemption, approach redesign go, v2.1 bands, ckpt-format, morning-veto items).*

Previous update 2026-08-17 19:20–22:5xZ (real date -u at write: 22:38) — work session: utilization ledger REBASED + discriminator OOM incident caught, root-caused, fixed and RELAUNCHED — attempt 1 died at its first eval probe (probe batched at 96, training forwards micro-12); fix VERIFIED at 250, Amendment 1 frozen pre-500, step-500 baseline banked (7.567); verdict ~00:4xZ 08-18.

Status: 1 live run — grasp_sft_v2_demosonly_1gpu_disc ATTEMPT 2 (unit fontaine-demosonly-1gpu-disc-r2, launched 20:20:55Z after the OOM fix): restart-from-0, same seed 0, same recipe; attempt-1 pace 15–18.7 s/step → step 1000 ≈ 01:0x–01:3xZ 08-18, next tick(s) own the boundary. Attempt 1 trained clean to step 250 (loss 4.94→0.71, 62.26 GiB steady) then died 19:59:21Z: CUDA OOM in the FIRST eval probe — build_probe_set batches at the full per-rank batch (96) while chunked training only ever forwards micro-12; the fast-path decode’s KV caches pushed 62→79 GiB. Latent in the frozen box script too. FIX landed: probe batches at batch_size // backward_chunks (bijou/train/cli.py); probe/eval tests green; verdict rule untouched (within-run delta, same probe batching both ends). Attempt-1 jsonl preserved as train_log_attempt1_oom250.jsonl (no eval record ever flushed). ~1.25 GPU-h burned; ~5.8 total projected vs the 12 gate. Step-250 probe (21:29Z): the fix HELD — eval 12.5087 / train 12.4202, no OOM, unit active. The LEVEL is ~3.6× the comparator family (theirs 3.4623 at 250) while AR CE tracks (0.6385 vs 0.6116): first run on the merged family-norm stack → probe units shifted. Amendment 1 posted 21:3xZ, BEFORE the step-500 probe: frozen scale estimator s=3.613; verdict computes raw AND scale-adjusted bounds; disagree ⇒ AMBIGUOUS-BY-INSTRUMENT + stack-parity disambiguation. Step-500 read (22:34Z): eval 7.567 / train 7.2209 — still descending steeply (comparator was flat at 3.24 there); ratio moved 3.61×→2.34× between probes, so the constant-scale assumption is strained and the disagree-branch is live; descent-asymmetry caveat recorded in-channel (1539039813804498984). Save-500 banked; verdict window baseline = 7.567.

Steering: none — read empty, inbox empty, nothing new in history -n 5. Incident + fix + relaunch posted in-channel (1539006392671805572).

Done: queue item utilization-ledger-rebase CLOSED: trailing- 7-day GPU-h recomputed per-run over 08-10 00:00Z → 08-17 19:45Z — local ~80.0 / ~80.2 (vs the stale ~24.1/~24.4 baseline; incl. the live discriminator at ~1.0), box ~250 / ~254 FINAL at the 08-17 box kill (er_60k pro-rated ~147 in-window of ~153; the box sim100 eval ~5 is the one estimated figure). Babysit prune records were authoritative for detached runs (tick notes log “0 new” while units accrue — the narrative’s known undercount class); receipts in fontaine/notes/utilization-rebase-2026-08-17.md, instrument fontaine/scripts/util_ledger_extract.py (rerunnable next rebase). Footer baseline rewritten to the fresh stamp + standard 2-note form; the superseded 08-06 baseline + its accreted narrative rolled verbatim to the 08-17 archive page. Refill: queue-box-kill-audit (the box kill invalidated every “box” host reference in the blocked tail — each needs an explicit obsolete/re-platform/stays-blocked call).

Next: queue_cli.py next = prereg-draft-per-dataset-flow-norm- rerun (gated on the verdict); queue-box-kill-audit is the unblocked CPU head. Discriminator boundary ~00:4xZ 08-18 (attempt 2, step 500 passed 22:3xZ at 14.75 s/step): sft_drift_saga_charts.py --discriminator on the FRESH jsonl only (attempt-1 file carries no eval records), then apply Amendment 1: raw AND scale-adjusted rules, disagree ⇒ AMBIGUOUS-BY-INSTRUMENT + stack-parity probe of the saved 500/1000 checkpoints; carry the descent-asymmetry caveat if Δ is negative. Owner-pending list unchanged (G1-miss ride 👍, augment-report reaction, disk composite exemption, approach redesign go, v2.1 bands, ckpt-format, morning-veto items).*

Previous update 2026-08-17 19:17–19:2xZ (real date -u at write: 19:20) — tick: quiet babysit — discriminator healthy at step 100/1000, on pace for the ~23:0xZ verdict.

Status: 1 live run — grasp_sft_v2_demosonly_1gpu_disc at step 100/1000, loss 4.94→1.08, 15.8 s/step steady (~3.9 h to 1000), VRAM 62.24 GiB vs the 78 gate, GPU 65%/66.5 GiB mid-cycle, host RAM 91 GB available (stable vs 92 at launch — no loader-buffer creep). babysit exit 0. First eval probe at 250 ≈ 19:55Z — lands after this tick’s cap; the next tick reads it (drifting comparators sat at 3.46 there; NO probe-kill bars — verdict at 1000 only).

Steering: none — read empty, inbox empty, no new reactions in history -n 5.

Done: babysit + queue validate (OK, depth 2, 23 open) + the standing RAM/util watch checks; run_work_next confirmed armed (GPU-busy window, utilization-ledger-rebase is the CPU head). No in-channel post — the 19:13 post covers current state, step-100 status adds nothing.

Next: chained work session takes utilization-ledger-rebase; next tick reads the step-250 probe. At step 1000 (~23:0xZ): sft_drift_saga_charts.py --discriminator verdict → drift-saga finalize + in-channel + un-gates prereg-draft-per-dataset-flow-norm-rerun. Owner-pending list unchanged (G1-miss ride 👍, augment-report reaction, disk composite exemption, approach redesign go, v2.1 bands, ckpt-format, morning-veto items).*

Previous update 2026-08-17 19:02–19:2xZ (real date -u at write: 19:13) — work session: v1 mirror restored + a babysit-registry fix; the discriminator is riding FAST — step-1000 verdict lands ~23:0xZ TONIGHT, not the 7–9 h estimate.

Status: 1 live run — grasp_sft_v2_demosonly_1gpu_disc at step 40/1000, loss 4.94→2.17, 15.1 s/step steady (vs 25–32 box estimate → ~4 h wall), VRAM 62.24 GiB vs the 78 gate, util cycling 100% (0% dips = offloaded-optimizer CPU phase, expected). First eval probe at 250 ≈ 19:55Z (drifting comparators: 3.46 there); saves 500/1000; verdict read AT 1000 only.

Steering: none — read empty, inbox empty.

Done: (1) babysit exit-1 at boot diagnosed in minutes: the registry’s jsonl path was the BOX layout (outputs/train/<run>/); the local bijou.train stack writes ~/checkpoints/finetune/<run>/ — path fixed, babysit green (303830d), run never blipped. (2) Queue item local-dataset-mirrors-restore DONE: audit first — NONE of the three held gpu-local arms needs the v1 corpus (bootstrap + token-SFT → grasp_sft_demos_v0, on disk; grpo-r2 → checkpoint), mapping recorded in their boundaries; then fontaine-grasp-demos-v1 pulled → ~/datasets/fontaine/grasp_demos_v1/merged in 1m42s, verified EXACT vs the HF manifest (232 files, 28,099,973,012 bytes = 26.17 GiB, data/meta/videos present; disk 458 GB free). Pull = durability redundancy — HF was the ONLY v1 copy post-box-kill. Refill: utilization-ledger-rebase (footer baseline 11 days stale). In-channel 1538989075539693651.

Next: queue_cli.py next = utilization-ledger-rebase (CPU, unblocked); run_work_next armed. Discriminator boundary ~23:0xZ: sft_drift_saga_charts.py --discriminator verdict → drift-saga finalize + in-channel + un-gates prereg-draft-per-dataset-flow-norm-rerun. Owner-pending: G1-miss ride 👍, augment-report reaction, disk composite exemption, approach redesign go, v2.1 bands, ckpt-format, morning-veto items.*

Previous update 2026-08-17 18:41–19:0xZ (real date -u at write: 18:51) — tick: the discriminator is LIVE. Owner GO landed 18:40:56Z (“You can do whatever you want”, 24 s after the GO-gap post; ask open since 15:14Z) and the tick executed the full ON-GO checklist inside the session: pre-reg dated + published (posts/2026-08-17-prereg-sft-drift-discriminator.md, SUMMARY + Space pushed + 200-verified, in-channel 1538981787479449671), systemd-run --user unit fontaine-demosonly-1gpu-disc launched 18:44:15Z on the local H100 (preflight guard passed — GPU was clean), babysit entry active, launch commit b02cfed pushed.

Status: 1 live run — grasp_sft_v2_demosonly_1gpu_disc (demosonly recipe on ONE GPU, single delta = distributed machinery removed; eff-96 = micro-12 × 8 chunks, seed 0). Verdict read AT STEP 1000, not mid-run: Δeval(1000 vs 500) ≤ +0.30 → HEALTHY (distributed CONVICTED); ≥ +1.0158 → same-drift (EXONERATED); else AMBIGUOUS. No probe-kill bars by design — drift is the expected-interesting outcome. Gates: vram 78 GiB, GPU-h 12. Startup verified: 4500/500 episode split as pre-registered, weights on GPU 18:49Z, wandb run oc2zc46t.

Steering: the GO itself — recorded, replied 18:42:31Z, acked (inbox empty). Read as a delegation on the pending ask; per the standing rules (idle GPU is the failure, GO-gap staged to minutes) the call was launch-now.

Done: ON-GO checklist end-to-end as above; queue item sft-drift-discriminator-run → live (prereg field repointed to the dated post); check.py 992 green on the launch commit; first-poll held in-session to 18:59Z: GPU util 95% at 66.5 GiB — the first eff-96 step computing (jsonl lands at its completion; no starvation); host RAM 92 GB available with the batch-96 loader buffers filled (the flagged watch item is real but headroom is fine — next poll re-checks free -g).

Next: babysit cadence owns the run (~7–9 h to step 1000, probes every 250, saves 500/1000). On completion: sft_drift_saga_charts.py --discriminator verdict → drift-saga finalize slot + in-channel. CPU queue: local-dataset-mirrors-restore is the executable item (prereg-draft-per-dataset-flow-norm-rerun stays gated on this run’s verdict); run_work_next armed. Owner-pending: G1-miss ride 👍, augment-report reaction, disk composite exemption, approach redesign go, v2.1 bands, ckpt-format, morning-veto items.*

Previous update 2026-08-17 18:23–18:3xZ (real date -u at write: 18:33) — work session: discriminator GO-gap collapsed to minutes. The queue head (sft-drift-discriminator-prereg-post-draft) is DONE and over-delivered: the formal pre-reg DRAFT is cut (posts/2026-08-xx-prereg-sft-drift-discriminator.md, deliberately NOT in SUMMARY.md — drafting is not posting), the launcher is re-platformed to the local H100 (fontaine/scripts/launch_local_grasp_sft_v2_demosonly_1gpu_disc_h100.sh, command block byte-identical to the frozen box script by diff, full-parse green vs the merged CLI: molmoact2_joint, per_dataset_flow_norm=False, seed 0, plus a GPU-busy abort guard for the owner policy-server), and the v2 corpus is BACK ON LOCAL DISK (35 GiB snapshot of mcobzarenco/fontaine-grasp-demos-v2 → ~/datasets/fontaine/grasp_demos_v2/merged — it was HF-only after the box kill). Frozen bounds quoted verbatim in the draft: healthy ≤ +0.30 / drift ≥ +1.0158 (= 0.5 × demosonly +2.0317), fixture rigonly +0.6929 → AMBIGUOUS agrees.

Status: NO live runs (babysit: 0 registered, exit 0). Local H100 free (0 MiB, no compute apps) and idle-by-design: the 1-GPU discriminator stays OWNER-GATED (ask 15:14Z, open ~3.5h). Queue validated, depth 2 (both CPU).

Steering: none this session — read empty, inbox empty at boot and at close.

Done: queue head sft-drift-discriminator-prereg-post-draft DONE (this commit): draft + local launcher + dataset pull as above; check.py 992 green; sft-drift-discriminator-run re-classed gpu-local with the ON-GO checklist in its boundary (date post → SUMMARY → blog push → in-channel → systemd-run → babysit entry → first-poll util + free -g, loader workers 8 × prefetch 4 at batch-96 flagged as the host-RAM watch item, GPU-h gate 12). Queue refill: local-dataset-mirrors-restore (CPU — v1 corpus is HF-only since the box kill; audit which held gpu-local arms need it, then pull). Queue page regenerated; posted in-channel.

Next: queue_cli.py next = prereg-draft-per-dataset-flow-norm-rerun — but it is GATED behind the discriminator verdict (its baseline arm depends on it), so the executable item is local-dataset-mirrors-restore; run_work_next armed. On discriminator GO: the run item’s boundary carries the full minutes- scale checklist. Owner-pending: discriminator go (head item), G1-miss ride 👍, augment-report reaction, disk composite exemption, approach redesign go, v2.1 bands, ckpt-format, morning-veto items.*

Previous update 2026-08-17 18:21–18:2xZ (real date -u at write: 18:22) — tick: quiet channel, two post-close items recorded. The owner 👍’d the d3dd4d0 merge report (lightweight agreement with the family-norm merge + per-dataset port), and their 18:09:37Z “Ok, I deleted the 8x A100 fyi” — which landed after the last now.md write — was already replied (18:11:28Z) and acked by the closing work session; both are now on the record. Box deletion is final: local-H100-only from here.

Status: NO live runs (babysit: 0 registered, exit 0). Local H100 fully free (0 MiB / 0%, no compute apps — owner policy server down) and idle-by-design: the only GPU item (1-GPU discriminator, local) remains OWNER-GATED (ask 15:14Z, open ~3h; owner active in-channel since without a GO, so it’s deliberately parked). Queue validated, depth 2 (both CPU).

Steering: 👍 on the merge report post (owner endorses the ebaa8e0 family-norm merge line). The 18:09Z box-deletion fyi requires no action — nothing has targeted the box since the 17:20Z ✅, queue/babysit carry no box items.

Done: boot clean (ff-only no-op, tree committed); read empty, inbox empty; history swept for reactions (the 👍 above was catchable only there); babysit + queue validate green; H100 free-state verified by memory + compute-apps; footer trimmed (4 notes rolled to the archive); run_work_next armed 18:22Z.

Next: chained work session → queue_cli.py next = sft-drift-discriminator-prereg-post-draft (CPU, small — cut the pre-reg post from the frozen launcher header + kit verdict bounds, stating the local-H100 platform delta). On discriminator GO: adapt launcher to local H100, post pre-reg, systemd-run --user, babysit entry, first-poll util check. Owner-pending: discriminator go (head item), G1-miss ride 👍, augment-report reaction, disk composite exemption, approach redesign go, v2.1 bands, ckpt-format, morning-veto items.*

Previous update 2026-08-17 17:42–18:1xZ (real date -u at write: 18:08) — work session: main ebaa8e0 (family-owned normalization) is MERGED (commit d3dd4d0, pushed) — the owner’s six-delta rebase note executed with all oracle gates green, and the --per-dataset-flow-norm enabler PORTED to the family level. The interim b779ba4 serving-norm threading is superseded structurally: policies.py/interface.py/molmo_flow.py are byte-identical to main again, the merged-table override and my item_action_stats carrier are deleted (upstream’s honest per-item batch.action_stats is what the carrier existed to preserve), and the sim100 token-leg failure class is unrepresentable by construction. The per-dataset scheme now lives where the new design says it must: flow_normalize_targets/flow_denormalize_chunk + item_flow_quantiles + per_dataset_flow_scheme in models.molmoact2_flow, both molmoact2 families branching on a ctor flag read from the recorded section tag at from_checkpoint; fast.molmoact2 gains *_q01q99_rows row forms with the stats forms delegating (one source of truth for the clamp maps).

Status: NO live runs (babysit registry empty). Local H100 still free and idle-by-design — the only GPU item (1-GPU discriminator, local) remains OWNER-GATED (ask 15:14Z, open ~3h). Box dead per owner order, do not target.

Steering: none this session — read empty, inbox empty at boot.

Done: queue item merge-main-ebaa8e0-family-norm DONE (commit d3dd4d0): 4 conflicts resolved (theirs where b779ba4 was superseded; feature port where 6a6a0aa lived), oracle suite rewritten to the family API (5 tests, pooled-vs-own crush fixture + exact round trip). Gates: check.py 992 green; gradflow loss oracles EXACT (flow 1.6948 / ar_backbone 27.8546 — the note’s zero-numeric-change claim reproduces here); the staged discriminator launcher FULL-PARSES against the merged CLI (family-inferred molmoact2_joint, frozen params intact — the GO→launch path is re-verified post-merge); released ckpt loads through the new family-norm surface (descending shoulder pair preserved); straggler grep clean across fontaine/+probes/+sim/; parents[3] goldens carry stands. Posted 1538972749672751145. Queue: merge item closed + refill prereg-draft-per-dataset-flow-norm-rerun (the isolation verdict’s recipe rec, now executable on this stack; gated behind the discriminator verdict), validate green depth 2.

Next: queue_cli.py next → discriminator pre-reg post draft (CPU, small, states the local-H100 platform delta) — left queued per the bounded-session contract; run_work_next armed so the next tick chains into it. On discriminator GO: adapt launcher to local H100, post pre-reg, systemd-run --user, babysit entry, first-poll util check. Owner-pending: discriminator go (head item), G1-miss ride 👍, augment-report reaction, disk composite exemption, approach redesign go, v2.1 bands, ckpt-format, morning-veto items.*

Previous update 2026-08-17 17:37–17:4xZ (real date -u at write: 17:39) — tick: quiet channel, clean state. Local H100 verified fully free (0 MiB / 0%, no compute apps) — the box kill has left it the only GPU and nothing local is running. No steering: read empty, inbox empty, history shows nothing past the recorded 17:20Z ✅ post and no new reactions. Queue depth 2 (both CPU): discriminator pre-reg post draft + the oracle-gated merge-main-ebaa8e0-family-norm.

Status: NO live runs (babysit: 0 registered, exit 0). 8×A100 box DEAD/dying by owner order — do not target it. Local H100 idle-by-design: the only GPU item (1-GPU discriminator, re-pointed local) is still OWNER-GATED (ask 15:14Z, open ~2h25). CPU items queued → run_work_next armed 17:38Z, work session chains next.

Steering: none this tick. Owner-pending list unchanged (discriminator go is the head item).

Done: boot audit clean (tree was committed, ff-only pull no-op, origin/main already at ebaa8e0); babysit + queue validate green; H100 free-state verified by both memory and compute-apps queries; marker armed.

Next: chained work session → queue_cli.py next (pre-reg post draft first — small, states the local-H100 platform delta — then the ebaa8e0 merge if budget allows). On discriminator GO: adapt launcher to local H100, post pre-reg, systemd-run --user, babysit.toml entry, first-poll util check. Owner-pending: discriminator go, G1-miss ride 👍, augment-report reaction, disk composite exemption, approach redesign go, v2.1 bands, ckpt-format, morning-veto items.*

Previous update 2026-08-17 16:46–17:3xZ (real date -u at write: 17:24) — work session: two things — the discriminator post-processing kit is BUILT and fixture-validated (commit b515059), and the 8×A100 BOX IS BEING KILLED by owner order (16:59:20Z), with the evacuation COMPLETE and HF-verified (✅ posted 17:20Z). The kit: sft_drift_saga_charts.py --discriminator <log> [--fixture] → indexed-overlay chart + verdict JSON with bounds FROZEN pre-run (Δeval(1000 vs 500) ≤ +0.30 → distributed CONVICTED; ≥ +1.02 → EXONERATED; else AMBIGUOUS); the rigonly fixture reproduces the posted +0.69 → AMBIGUOUS read exactly. The evacuation: rigonly @250/@500/@750/@1000(+optimizer) + demosonly & mixed-v2 @500/@1000 + run-2 @500 to fontaine-checkpoints (~165 GB, sizes verified file-by-file); datasets confirmed already mirrored; run-1b’s curve banked for the first time. Owner also dropped a main-ebaa8e0 rebase note — normalization is now family-owned, queued as an oracle-gated merge item.

Status: NO live runs. 8×A100 box: owner is killing it — evacuation complete, ✅ given 17:20Z; do NOT launch anything there. Local H100 free — now the ONLY GPU. The staged 1-GPU discriminator re-points at the local H100 on GO (queue items updated); still owner-gated (ask 15:14Z, open ~2h15 at write, likely parked behind their infra work).

Steering (3 messages, all replied + acked): (1) 16:59:20Z “kill the 8×A100 machine, anything you want to save, push it now to HF” → executed same-session, kill-hold requested and released with the verified ✅; (2) 17:05:31Z main-changes note (main ebaa8e0: family-owned QuantileStats, decoders pure normalized-space, supersedes my interim b779ba4; six mechanical API deltas) → banked to fontaine/notes/2026-08-17-owner-note-main-ebaa8e0-family-norm.txt, queued merge-main-ebaa8e0-family-norm with the checklist; the sim100 token-leg serving-failure class becomes unrepresentable by construction.

Done: (a) queue item sft-drift-discriminator-postproc-kit DONE (commit b515059): --discriminator/--fixture on the saga script — 2-panel indexed overlay (disc bold near-white vs faint banked context + drifting-8× band, bounds on-chart) + analysis__sft_drift_discriminator.json with pre-run frozen bounds; fixture reproduces rigonly’s read exactly; check.py green. (b) Box evacuation: HF pushes verified file-by-file (rigonly 86.1 GB incl. @1000 optimizer for a resumable continuation; demosonly + mixed-v2 26.2 GB each; run-2 @500 13.1 GB; every run’s train_log beside its weights); wandb dirs + console logs + box outputs rsynced to outputs/train/box_evac/; box-side scripts diffed — all identical to git; datasets v1 28.1 GB / v2 36.7 GB confirmed ≈ box merged copies. Memory a100-box-provisioned updated to DECOMMISSIONED. Queue: kit closed, +sft-drift-discriminator-prereg-post-draft and +merge-main-ebaa8e0-family-norm refills, discriminator items re-platformed to local H100.

Next: queue_cli.py next → discriminator pre-reg post draft (CPU, small; must state the local-H100 platform delta) and the merge-main-ebaa8e0-family-norm oracle-gated merge (infra debt, next session unless the owner calls it sooner). On discriminator GO: adapt the launcher to local H100, post pre-reg, launch via systemd-run --user, babysit entry, first-poll util check; the kit turns the log into chart + verdict in one command at rc. Owner-pending: discriminator go (now local-H100), G1-miss ride 👍, augment-report reaction, disk composite exemption, approach redesign go, v2.1 bands, ckpt-format, morning-veto items.*

Previous update 2026-08-17 16:41–16:5xZ (real date -u at write: 16:43) — tick: the owner’s rig session has ENDED — the H100 policy server (pid 3365591, serving rigonly @250 since 14:07:32Z) is gone; local H100 back to 0 MiB / 0%, free again. No steering yet from the rig test; the discriminator ask is still unanswered (~90 min). Both GPUs idle-by-design — nothing local is GPU-queued and the box stays owner-gated.

Status: NO live runs (babysit: 0 registered, exit 0). Box 8×A100 idle-by-design (discriminator OWNER-GATED, ask msg 1538929076079689849 unanswered since 15:14Z). Local H100 freed between 16:22 and 16:42 — policy server down, rig session over; only GPU item in queue is the box discriminator (gated), so idle-by-design holds. run_work_next armed (on disk, 16:23) — work session chains next for the CPU queue.

Steering: none — read empty, inbox empty, history shows nothing beyond the two recorded 👍s. A rig report on @250 may be imminent now the server is down — non-consuming channel watch held in-session to ~16:58; any rig-behavior message = priority context.

Done: policy-server-down discovery verified (pid gone + compute-apps empty, not assumed from one probe); queue validated (depth 1, stated reason stands — sft-drift-discriminator-postproc-kit CPU/dry-runnable is next); babysit clean.

Next: chained work session → discriminator postproc kit (CPU, rigonly logs as fixture) + boundary polls for the discriminator answer / rig report. On GO: formal pre-reg post from the frozen launcher header BEFORE launch, systemd-run --user --unit=fontaine-demosonly-1gpu-disc, babysit.toml entry, first-poll util check (~25–32 s/step expected, 1-GPU eff-96). Owner-pending: discriminator go, G1-miss ride 👍, augment-report reaction, disk composite exemption, approach redesign go, v2.1 bands, ckpt-format, morning-veto items.*

Previous update 2026-08-17 16:03–16:2xZ (real date -u at write: 16:22) — work session: the eval-chain HTML panel is LIVE — the 3-leg sim100 chain (step500 flow 4/100 · step500 token 16/100 · endpoint token-fixed 14/100) is one browsable page on the reports Space, the 14/100 + head-asymmetry read replaced the stale 3/20 sample on the v1 results page, and the queue got a truth-up (two stale-live items closed). Owner 👍’d the panel post within minutes — active, but the discriminator ask is still open.

Status: NO live runs — box 8×A100 idle-by-design (discriminator OWNER-GATED, ask msg 1538929076079689849 unanswered ~68 min; owner active in their rig session — 👍 on the 16:17 panel post). Local H100 owner-claimed (policy server pid 3365591 serving rigonly @250 — do not touch). Channel polled at every step boundary (16:03 / 16:06 / 16:08 / 16:17 / 16:22, all empty of messages); post-close tight-poll watch held for the discriminator answer. run_work_next armed.

Steering: no new messages. History: 👍 on the 16:17 panel post (16:1x–16:2xZ) — recorded, no action needed; discriminator go/no-go still pending.

Done: queue item sft-v1-eval-chain-html-panel DONE (commit c06837c): new sft_v1_chain_report.py → panel (eval__grasp_sft_v1__sim100_chain.html: anchors bar, head-asymmetry slopegraph, 3 per-seed strips, combined table, 9-clip gallery) + frozen analysis__sft_v1_chain.json, mirrored to the reports Space (curl 200 ×3); headline numbers reproduce exactly from the banked leg JSONs (4/16/14; leg-3 median best-point progress 0.69 cm, 54/100 moved, 0 strikes); v1 results page: 3/20 sample → full 14/100 + head-asymmetry paragraph + panel links, stale what’s-next chain sentence → drift-saga pointer; reports.md gains a Grasp-SFT v1 section; queue truth-up (chain + rigonly stale-live items closed with completion records, +sft-drift-discriminator-postproc-kit refill, depth-1 reason restated); result post 1538944870859673771 (👍’d); blog built + Space pushed (curl 200); check.py green.

Next: queue_cli.py next → sft-drift-discriminator-postproc-kit (CPU, dry-runnable now against the rigonly logs as fixture). On discriminator GO: formal pre-reg post from the frozen launcher header BEFORE launch, systemd-run --user --unit=fontaine-demosonly-1gpu-disc, babysit.toml entry, first-poll util check (~25–32 s/step expected, 1-GPU eff-96). Owner-pending: discriminator go, G1-miss ride 👍, augment-report reaction, disk composite exemption, approach redesign go, v2.1 bands, ckpt-format, morning-veto items.*

Previous update 2026-08-17 15:57–16:1xZ (real date -u at write: 16:00) — tick: discovery — the owner is rig-testing the rigonly checkpoint RIGHT NOW: a policy server they launched at 14:07:32Z from tmux is live on the local H100 serving grasp_sft_rigonly_8xa100/step_000250 (port 8144, ~13 GB resident). The H100 is OWNER-CLAIMED, not free. Discriminator ask still unanswered (43+ min) — explained by the rig session; held in-channel watch to 16:15, no GO by close.

Status: box 8×A100 idle-by-design (discriminator OWNER-GATED, ask msg 1538929076079689849; frozen launcher header verified on box this tick — pre-reg post cuttable verbatim on GO). Local H100 owner-claimed (policy server = the north-star loop running live; do NOT treat local as free, do NOT touch pid 3365591). run_work_next armed (confirmed on disk) → work session chains for the CPU queue.

Steering: no new messages (inbox empty). History: 👍 on the 14:53 @1000 ambiguous-verdict post — recorded; consistent with the explicit 15:07 agreement, no new action. Tight-poll rule honored in-session via a 2.5-min monitor loop 15:57–16:15 (owner active in tmux, a GO would idle 8×A100 until next tick otherwise).

Done: policy-server discovery banked as a memory (owner-policy-server-h100: check compute-apps before local launches; served-ckpt path = what the owner is rig-testing — they picked @250, not the lowest-eval @500); queue validated (depth 1, stated reason stands); 10:19 body entry + 2 footer notes rolled to the 08-17 archive; launcher header re-verified on box.

Next: chained work session — sft-v1-eval-chain-html-panel (CPU)

• boundary polls for the discriminator answer. On GO: formal pre-reg post from the frozen header BEFORE launch, systemd-run --user --unit=fontaine-demosonly-1gpu-disc, babysit.toml entry, first-poll util check (~25–32 s/step expected, 1-GPU eff-96). The owner’s rig session may produce fresh steering (real-rig behavior of @250) — treat any rig report as priority context. Owner-pending: discriminator go, G1-miss ride 👍, augment-report reaction, disk composite exemption, approach redesign go, v2.1 bands, ckpt-format, morning-veto items.*

Previous update 2026-08-17 14:53–15:2xZ (real date -u at write: 15:20) — work session: rigonly CLOSED CLEAN 14:52Z (~10.5/12 GPU-h) and the drift-saga consolidated page is LIVE — the queue-next chart-led record of the whole investigation, with the rigonly ambiguous-leaning-drift verdict folded in. Owner agreed with the ambiguous reading 15:07Z; the discriminator go/no-go ask is in-channel.

Status: NO live runs — box 8×A100 idle (rigonly unit inactive, 1000/1000, all 4 saves on disk) + local H100 idle (eval chain done 14:17:56Z). All three box runs’ train logs rsynced local BEFORE any cleanup (outputs/train/rigonly_artifacts/); saves kept on box (rigonly 250–1000, mixedv2 + demosonly 500/1000; diagnostic checkpoints, curves fully banked — not uploaded, consistent with the demosonly/mixedv2 precedent). Next GPU leg = the staged 1-GPU discriminator, OWNER-GATED (ask posted 15:14Z, msg 1538929076079689849).

Steering: 15:07Z “Agreed with your ambiguous reading” → replied 15:14Z (the verdict post opens as the reply) + acked same-minute. Discriminator question pending — tight-polling per the standing rule.

Done: drift-saga report page live + curl-verified (page, commit 7d80edd): 4 dark-mode charts via sft_drift_saga_charts.py (2×2 curve grid, the indexed-drift overlay demosonly +2.93 / mixedv2 +2.33 / rigonly +0.69 / run-2 −0.92, two-rulers loss-vs-MAE, head-asymmetry bars), curves banked reports/curve__sft_drift_saga.json + mirrored to the reports Space (curl 200); rigonly babysit entry PRUNED with completion record

• no_live_runs_reason declared; queue: sft-drift-saga-report-page DONE, sft-drift-discriminator-run added (blocked, owner_hold, prereg → the frozen launcher header), depth-1 reason stated (experimental frontier deliberately owner-gated); blog built + Space pushed.

Next: owner’s discriminator call (on GO: cut the formal pre-reg post from the script header BEFORE launch, babysit entry, first-poll util check; alternative offered: rigonly continuation past 1000). queue_cli.py next → sft-v1-eval-chain-html-panel (CPU). Owner-pending: discriminator go, G1-miss ride 👍, augment-report reaction, disk composite exemption, approach redesign go, v2.1 bands, ckpt-format, morning-veto items.*

Previous update 2026-08-17 14:27–14:4xZ (real date -u at write: 14:33) — tick: both promised boundaries banked — eval-chain ALL DONE 14:17:56Z, leg 3 endpoint token-with-fix 14/100 (vs step500 token 16/100: the token head is ~flat across training while flow stayed collapsed 4→5 — head asymmetry holds at both ends); rig-only @500 eval MAE 8.82 / train 4.62, DOWN from @250’s 9.24/5.53 on both slices — opposite of the drift signature so far.

Status: grasp_sft_rigonly_8xa100 step ~690/1000 at this poll, ~3.8 s/step, 8×99% util, losses falling (0.67); @750 ridden in-session: eval MAE 9.15 / train 4.03 — eval wobbled up from @500’s 8.82 (still below @250’s 9.24; holdout is 6 episodes) while train fell monotone 5.53→4.62→4.03. @1000 landed 14:52Z at the session wire: eval 9.51 / train 4.23 — eval rose monotone from 500 (dip-then-rise, the drifting-run SHAPE, ending above @250) and train ticked up for the first time. AMBIGUOUS-LEANING-DRIFT posted honestly (magnitude +0.69 vs demosonly’s +2.9 over the same span; 6-ep holdout); if real ⇒ recipe/stack, discriminator is the next cut. Full verdict + charts owed by the chained work session (healthy = corpus implicated, drifting = recipe/stack convicted; the staged 1-GPU discriminator is the complementary cut, owner decides; rsync eval artifacts local BEFORE any box cleanup). Local H100 FREE as of 14:17:56Z (chain done, ~6.2/12 GPU-h).

Steering: none new (inbox empty, read empty of owner messages; history — no new reactions).

Done: leg-3 result computed from token_s0.json (14 successes, seeds listed; median progress 0.69 cm, 54/100 moved >0.5 cm — consistent with the 3/20 seeds-100-119 sample at 15%); combined verdict + @500 read posted (1538917693032243293); sft_v1_eval_chain babysit entry PRUNED with its completion record; queue +1 (sft-v1-eval-chain-html-panel, CPU) → depth 2 validated; run_work_next armed (box busy + CPU items queued); 08:52 entry + 2 footer notes rolled to the 08-17 archive.

Next: chained work session — drift-saga report page (queued, draftable now; finalize slot for the rigonly verdict) + eval-chain HTML panel; rig-only @1000 boundary ~15:0xZ (post-process per charter §4: MAE curve verdict in-channel, rsync eval artifacts local BEFORE any box cleanup, then the discriminator question to the owner). Owner-pending: G1-miss ride 👍, augment-report reaction, disk composite exemption, approach redesign go, v2.1 bands, ckpt-format, morning-veto items.*

Previous update 2026-08-17 09:56–10:1xZ (real date -u at write: 10:05) — tick: grasp-SFT v2 joint LAUNCHED on the box 09:57:39Z — owner’s “skip the smoke, asap” (09:47Z) executed after the 09:0xZ work session was killall’ed mid-smoke by the owner (exit 143 = their kill, NOT a budget/auth failure); orphaned smoke killed, real run straight up.

Status: TWO runs live. (1) grasp_sft_v2_joint_8xa100 on the box since 09:57:39Z (systemd unit fontaine-grasp-sft-v2-joint, 8×A100, 3000 steps, run-2 recipe verbatim + v2 corpus, NO per-dataset norm per the owner’s 09:23Z call): banner correct — 3 datasets / 4551 eps / 1,879,795 frames, holdout 506, repeat ×4 shares 6.26%+0.64% (real slice dilutes ~8.7%→~6.9% from the bigger corpus — breakdown-curve watch item); at 10:02Z still in recompute-stats/loader init (GPUs 0%, run-2 startup shape), rate-vs-3.9s/step check at next poll, babysit-registered (40 GPU-h gate). (2) sft-v1-eval-chain local H100: leg 1 DONE 10:17:43Z — run-2 step500 flow 2/100 (the ~0 grid arm, same band as the endpoint 5/100 ⇒ collapse dates to ≤ step 500, broken-from-the-start; read posted 10:2xZ), leg 2 (step500 token) running. Held in-session through both windows: v2 first steps GREEN at 10:18Z — step 10 loss 3.98 (AR 3.65 + flow 0.328), VRAM 59.5 GiB peak, 96–98% util, recompute receipt over 1,879,795 frames.

Steering (2 messages, both replied + acked): 09:47:32Z “Skip the smoke, let’s go for the real thing asap” → done (smoke killed at init, nothing trained, real launch 09:57:39Z). 09:57:18Z “I killall’ed claude … you were focused on the smoke” → acknowledged + corrected my harness-alert misread in-channel (I’d called exit 143 a budget timeout; it was the owner’s kill).

Done: reconstructed the killed work session’s state from its log (pre-reg + launch script committed 4b6a5fd, box synced, smoke launched 09:51Z → orphaned); killed the orphaned smoke tree + cleaned /tmp save dir and smoke log; launched the real run via systemd-run; babysit.toml entry added (train-jsonl schema, host IP — host="box" first-write caught by babysit’s unreachable probe and fixed); queue validate OK (depth 2, 24 open); run_work_next re-armed (consumed by the killed session).

Next: chained work session — first step-rate poll on v2 (vs run-2’s ~3.9 s/step; ETA ~3.3 h stepping → saves at 500-step boundaries), ride the eval-chain leg-1 boundary (~10:1xZ, bank the step500 flow read vs the ~0-vs-handful grid), CPU queue items. Owner-pending: G1-miss ride 👍, augment-report reaction, disk composite exemption, approach redesign go, v2.1 bands, ckpt-format, morning-veto items (recipe call RESOLVED 09:23Z).*

Previous update 2026-08-17 05:54–08:5xZ (real date -u at write: 08:47) — work session: grasp-demos-v2 REGEN executed END-TO-END same-session — pre-reg’d, launched, ridden, merged, SHIPPED PUBLIC (49.6% kept vs 45.9% anchor); flow-regression ISOLATED in-flight; owner morning burst (4 messages) all served: step-500 eval chain launched + image-augment report delivered.

Status: sft-v1-eval-chain LIVE on the local H100 since 08:09:57Z (babysit-registered; 3 sequential legs: step500 flow sim100 → step500 token-fixed → endpoint token-fixed; first poll 08:44Z leg 1 at seed 27/100, ~2–3 h/leg → ALL DONE ~late afternoon). Box idle again after the regen (DONE 08:30Z, 17.8/40 GPU-h). Owner policy-server still holds ~13 GiB local, untouched.

Steering (4 messages 07:43–08:03Z, all replied + acked same-hour): (1) sim100-after-token-fix ask → answered (sim20 was the proof; full endpoint sim100 = leg 3 of the eval chain); (2) “figure it out before the next run” → isolation verdict + recipe ask posted (per-dataset norm vs demos-native table — the SFT-v2 pre-reg blocks on this call); (3) image-augment HTML report order → DELIVERED 08:44Z (grid), v0.1 amendment path offered; (4) step-500 sim100 order → running as eval-chain leg 1.

Done: (a) grasp-demos-v2 (7078cf0 plumbing, pre-reg msg 1538793633703268372 + posts page BEFORE launch, verdict post 1538829754055266364): 5,000/5,000 kept, 0 failed shards, 49.6% kept-rate vs 45.9% anchor, 2h13m/17.8 GPU-h ≤ 40 gate; merged 1,942,375 frames, PUBLIC at fontaine-grasp-demos-v2; config-reaches-pixels check posted at first poll (local re-render, both jaws in the refit wrist frame); integrity correction disclosed — stale box .git stamped expert_head 07f6de5, merged provenance corrected to true launch HEAD 7078cf0, box .git bundle-synced, merge tool now carries the knob fields (8591b99). (b) sft-v1-flow-regression-isolation DONE in-flight (66ae72a, verdict 1538811601153425469 + blog page): run-1b remap-only sim20 0/20 == run-2’s collapse ⇒ pooling not the sole lever; probe pinned as joint_corrected ⇒ joint objective exonerated; per-channel occupancy analysis (wrist_flex 0.24× weight under pooled / wrist_roll 288% overflow under rig table) banked to the reports Space — every broken run mis-fit a wrist channel’s window. (c) image-augment report script (reusable) + report from v2’s real encoded frames. (d) near-miss memory banked: rsync –delete + box-artifact layout rule.

Next: queue_cli.py next → grasp-sft-v2-joint-run — pre-reg BLOCKS on the owner’s normalization-recipe call (asked 07:28Z; per-dataset norm recommended; bijou-train-per-dataset-flow-norm queued as the enabler). Eval-chain boundary (~3 legs, ticks ride it via babysit): HTML panel + verdict vs 5/100 / 44/100 / 3/20 anchors. Owner-pending: recipe call, G1-miss ride 👍 (riding per rec), augment-report reaction, disk composite exemption, approach redesign go, v2.1 bands, ckpt-format, morning-veto items.*

Updated 2026-08-17 10:19–13:4xZ (real date -u at write: 13:08, amended 13:41) — work session: the day the story flipped twice. v1 endpoint tail closed by reconstructing sim100 from logs (the box wipe had destroyed the merged artifacts — disclosed); owner burst (10 messages) killed the mixed v2 run and launched demos-only; that run REPRODUCED the MAE drift under a demos-native table — mix/table exonerated — and was killed too; the owner’s rig-only data-axis cut is now live. Plus: run-2’s step500 TOKEN head reads 16/100 — the flow collapse was head-specific.

Status: (1) grasp_sft_rigonly_8xa100 on the box since 13:34:08Z (unit fontaine-grasp-sft-rigonly, owner-designed data-axis cut: rig datasets only, 2 ds / 51 eps / 32,431 frames ~3 epochs, 1000 steps, save+eval 250, recipe otherwise verbatim incl. the full distributed stack, rig-native recompute table): boundary ~15:0xZ — drift on known-good rig data convicts the recipe/stack, health implicates the sim-demo corpus. Predecessor demosonly KILLED 13:30Z at ~1350 (drift fully reproduced: eval 3.46→3.24→4.22→5.27→6.17, train 3.69→3.32→3.86→4.60→5.62, monotone from 500, losses falling throughout; saves 500/1000 kept). The 1-GPU single-delta discriminator stays STAGED on the box (launch_box_grasp_sft_v2_demosonly_1gpu_discriminator.sh) as the complementary cut. (2) sft-v1-eval-chain local H100, leg 3 of 3 (endpoint token-fixed sim100) since 12:12:02Z, ETA ~14:1xZ, 4.6/12 GPU-h projected — the owner’s full-100 endpoint token number; leg 2 banked in-session.

Steering (8 messages, all replied + acked same-hour): sim100 board reminder (10:20) + probe-protocol question (10:24) → both answered from banked artifacts; sim20-on-step500 order (10:54, they rsynced the ckpt themselves 10:57) → run + result posted 0/20 with paths; kill-mixed + demos-only order (11:27/11:28) → executed 11:38:30Z with delta posted pre-launch; exact-sim-command ask (11:30) → verbatim command posted; losses-down-MAE-up question (11:40) → two-rulers answer (normalized/tokenized loss space vs raw-degree MAE; 1/(q99−q01)² channel weighting + clamped targets).

Done: (a) v1 endpoint boundary tail CLOSED via log reconstruction (d464ac6, afe7d44): the 05:5xZ box outputs/ wipe had deleted the merged sim100 jsons + videos before their rsync-local step — per-seed data reconstructed exactly from the surviving shard logs (5/100, 0/100, moved 51, median 8.65 all reproduce; videos = only true loss), incident disclosed in-channel + results page, results page finalized + registered in SUMMARY (was 404), v1endpoint HTML report live on the reports Space, memory rule upgraded near-miss→realized. (b) Correction on the record: run-2 step500 flow is 4/100 not the tick-posted 2/100 (results page + queue fixed, posted). (c) sim20 on mixed-v2 step500: 0/20 vs run-2’s 1/20 same seeds (honest no-anchor-at-500 framing). (d) Mixed v2 killed (owner order, step ~1150, ~2.6 GPU-h; MAE curve banked) → demos-only launched 11:38:30Z (a58251f), banner verified 1 ds / 4500 eps / 1.75M frames. (e) Eval-chain leg 2: run-2 step500 token 16/100 — flow 4 vs token 16 at the same step; CE weights channels uniformly, flow MSE ∝ 1/(q99−q01)² — the table poisoned the flow head’s loss weighting specifically. (f) v2 + demosonly endpoint kits staged (698298e, 5cfe517: box eval scripts, upload scripts, report --run v2, v2endpoint HTML preset). (g) Queue truth-up: 3 stale statuses corrected, +3 items, kit item closed same-session.

Next: rigonly boundary ~15:0xZ (tick chain: MAE-curve verdict vs the drifting-run signature, then the next cut — staged 1-GPU discriminator or owner’s pick). Leg-3 boundary ~14:1xZ (tick rides it: full-100 endpoint token vs step500’s 16 — degradation read). queue_cli.py next → sft-drift-saga-report-page (CPU, draftable). Steering additions 13:27/13:30 (both served): DDP-prior push-back → agreed + honest delta-list refinement; kill + rig-only order → executed 13:34:08Z. Owner-pending: G1-miss ride 👍, augment-report reaction, disk composite exemption, approach redesign go, v2.1 bands, ckpt-format, morning-veto items.*

Rolled footer session note:

Session 2026-08-17 14:27–14:4xZ (tick; box busy with rig-only ~690/1000 ridden not claimed; local H100 freed 14:17:56Z by the chain’s ALL DONE): eval-chain closed at ~6.2/12 GPU-h — leg 3 endpoint token-fixed 14/100 banked + posted (token head ~flat 16→14 across training vs flow collapsed 4→5); rig-only @500 read posted (8.82/4.62 falling, anti-drift so far); babysit entry pruned, queue +1 (HTML panel), depth 2 — inbox clear, run_work_next armed.

Session 2026-08-17 10:19–13:5xZ (work, exploit; box: mixed v2 ridden to the owner kill at ~1150 ≈ +2.6 GPU-h, demosonly launched 11:38:30Z → killed 13:30Z at ~1350 ≈ +4 GPU-h with the drift REPRODUCED, rig-only cut launched 13:34:08Z live ~1.3 proj / 12 gate; local: sim20 on mixed step500 +~0.5 GPU-h owner-ordered, eval chain legs 2–3 ridden not claimed): v1 endpoint tail closed via log reconstruction (wipe incident disclosed), 10 owner messages served, two runs killed on their signatures and the data-axis cut launched (mix/table exonerated, config-delta table honest-refined, 1-GPU discriminator staged), run-2 step500 token 16/100 banked (flow-specific collapse), 2/100→4/100 correction posted — queue depth 1 with stated reason, run_work_next armed at close.

Utilization footer notes rolled 18:2xZ (tick)

Session 2026-08-17 16:41–16:5xZ (tick; zero GPU-h — box idle-by-design pending the discriminator gate, local H100 freed mid-window as the owner’s policy server came down): rig-session end discovered (policy server gone, H100 0 MiB — verified by pid + compute-apps), babysit clean, queue validated, in-session channel watch held for a rig report / discriminator GO — run_work_next armed, work session chains next.

Session 2026-08-17 16:03–16:2xZ (work, exploit; zero GPU-h — box idle-by-design pending the discriminator gate, local H100 owner-claimed by their live policy server): eval-chain HTML panel + frozen summary shipped to the reports Space (curl-verified), 14/100 + head-asymmetry folded into the v1 results page, reports.md v1 section, queue truth-up (2 stale-live closed, discriminator-postproc kit refilled), owner 👍 on the panel post — run_work_next armed for the CPU queue.

Session 2026-08-17 15:57–16:1xZ (tick; zero GPU-h — box idle-by-design pending the discriminator gate, local H100 owner-claimed by their live policy server): owner rig-test of rigonly @250 discovered (policy server up since 14:07:32Z, memory banked), 👍 on the @1000 ambiguous post recorded, tight-poll watch held 15:57–16:15 with no GO, queue validated, oldest entry + 2 footer notes archived — run_work_next armed, work session chains next.

Session 2026-08-17 14:53–15:2xZ (work, exploit; box: rigonly ridden to its 14:52Z close ≈ 10.5/12 GPU-h claimed at completion; local idle, zero new GPU-h): drift-saga consolidated page shipped same-session as the rigonly verdict (4 charts, curves banked + mirrored), babysit pruned + no-live-runs declared, queue truth-up (+discriminator item, owner-gated), owner 15:07Z agreement replied + acked, discriminator ask posted — GPUs idle by design pending the owner’s word, run_work_next armed for the CPU queue.

Utilization footer notes rolled 18:3xZ (work session)

Session 2026-08-17 17:42–18:1xZ (work, exploit; zero GPU-h — local H100 free and idle-by-design behind the owner-gated discriminator): main ebaa8e0 family-norm merge landed (d3dd4d0) with all oracle gates green (check.py 992, gradflow anchors exact, discriminator launcher full-parse) and --per-dataset-flow-norm ported to the family level; b779ba4 interim threading superseded, carrier deleted; queue refilled with the per-dataset rerun pre-reg draft — run_work_next armed, next chain works the discriminator pre-reg draft.

Session 2026-08-17 17:37–17:4xZ (tick; zero GPU-h — box killed by owner, local H100 verified free and idle-by-design pending the discriminator gate): quiet-channel tick — no steering, no reactions, babysit clean, queue validated at depth 2 (both CPU), H100 free-state double-verified — run_work_next armed, work session chains next for the pre-reg draft + ebaa8e0 merge.

Session 2026-08-17 16:46–17:3xZ (work, exploit; zero GPU-h — box idle then owner-killed, local H100 free): discriminator postproc kit built + fixture-validated (verdict bounds frozen pre-run, rigonly fixture reproduces +0.69 → AMBIGUOUS exactly; commit b515059), then owner steering 16:59Z rode the session into the 8×A100 box evacuation — ~165 GB of grasp-SFT checkpoints pushed to HF and verified file-by-file (incl. rigonly@1000 optimizer state), datasets confirmed mirrored, logs/wandb banked local, ✅ 17:20Z; main ebaa8e0 rebase note banked + queued — run_work_next armed, GPU work is local-H100-only from here.

Session 2026-08-17 18:21–18:2xZ (tick; zero GPU-h — local H100 free and idle-by-design behind the owner-gated discriminator, box deleted by owner 18:09Z): owner 👍 on the d3dd4d0 merge report recorded, box-deletion fyi confirmed on the record (replied 18:11Z by the closing work session), babysit clean, queue validated depth 2 (both CPU), H100 free-state double-verified — run_work_next armed 18:22Z, work session chains next for the discriminator pre-reg draft.

Utilization footer notes rolled 19:2xZ (tick)

Session 2026-08-17 18:41–19:0xZ (tick; GPU-h accruing — discriminator launched): owner GO 18:40:56Z → full ON-GO checklist in-session: pre-reg published + grasp_sft_v2_demosonly_1gpu_disc LIVE on the local H100 from 18:44:15Z (unit fontaine-demosonly-1gpu-disc, ~7–9 h to step 1000, GPU-h gate 12), babysit entry active, launch commit b02cfed — run_work_next armed for the CPU queue (v1-mirror-restore) while the run rides.

Session 2026-08-17 18:23–18:3xZ (work, exploit; zero GPU-h — local H100 free and idle-by-design behind the owner-gated discriminator): discriminator GO-gap collapsed to minutes — formal pre-reg draft cut (frozen kit bounds quoted verbatim), launcher re-platformed to local H100 (command block byte-identical to the frozen box script, full-parse green, policy-server abort guard), v2 corpus re-pulled local (35 GiB HF snapshot); check.py 992 green; queue refilled with the v1-mirror-restore infra item — run_work_next armed, next executable CPU item is the v1 mirror restore.

Superseded utilization baseline (rolled verbatim at the 19:4xZ rebase)

Trailing-7-day GPU-hours on experiments / total: local ~24.1 / ~24.4, box ~42.9 / ~42.9 (as of 2026-08-06 23:3xZ; since then: box molmo2 AR 40k on all 4 GPUs from 22:57Z, live to its ~08-08 boundary; local draws10_t1 23:37Z → 08-07 ~12:1xZ COMPLETE (+~12.7 GPU-h); decode microbench 12:26–15:00Z incl. incident relaunch, the pre-merge redo cell and post-merge reruns (+~2 GPU-h total); ar100k_tsens_q4 first launch 15:01Z killed ~15:07Z by the driver teardown (+~0.1 GPU-h lost), 2nd launch 15:13:44Z killed ~15:56Z by the tick-service cgroup teardown (+~0.7 GPU-h lost, 992 frames), 3rd launch 15:58:26Z systemd-run → 23:09Z 08-07 COMPLETE, 3/3 rungs (+~7.2 GPU-h, ≤12 gate); selfsubgoal probe end-to-end 23:24Z–02:37Z 08-08 COMPLETE +~3.2 GPU-h (≤ 8 gate); 08-08 daytime: local rung-(b) preflight+stage1 08:49–10:15Z +~1.6 GPU-h (≤ 6 gate, rung closed at table cost); box 60k continuation launched 10:08Z (crashed at first step, ~0.1 GPU-h lost) + relaunched 10:28:43Z (live, ~49 GPU-h projected ≤ 60 gate); goldenticket screen 02:41Z–08:15Z 08-08 CLOSED at ~5.55 GPU-h ≤ 6 gate (s1 ~1.7 + s2 ~0.85 + s3 2.99); box molmo2 chain: 40k train to ~04:0xZ, greedy ~1.7 GPU-h, draws10_t1 04:54–07:22Z ~10 GPU-h ≤ 24 gate, microbench 07:27–07:50Z ~0.4 GPU-h; box 60k continuation COMPLETE 08-08 ~23:4xZ (~49 GPU-h ≤ 60 gate, chained evals incl.); local subgoal-swap arms 08-09 ~02:1x–03:42Z +~1.5 GPU-h ≤ 3 gate; box K-smoke ladder 08-09 04:02–04:39Z +~0.5 GPU-h ≤ 6 gate (rung 1 GREEN first try); box attach_F 08-09 04:58–07:42Z train COMPLETE +~10.2 GPU-h + panel_v2 eval COMPLETE ~08:01Z (+~1.24 GPU-h); box attach_K 08:01–12:38Z KILLED by owner steering at step ~4160/10k (+~13.6 GPU-h, cost call — no endpoint, no chained evals); local tiny10k 08-09 20:1xZ → 08-10 05:06Z train COMPLETE ~8.7/15 GPU-h incl. OOM replay + chained panel_v2 eval COMPLETE 08-10 05:45Z (+~0.6 GPU-h, ~9.3/15 total, rung closed); local molmoact2 rig-ft run-1 08-10 17:4x–20:27Z COMPLETE ~2.7/12 GPU-h; local er35k owner-request evals 08-10 20:5x–00:41Z 08-11 ~2.2/8 GPU-h; local molmoact2 port parity reads 08-10/11 ~0.7 GPU-h; local molmoact2_ae_ours (port item 4) 08-11 05:19–06:56Z COMPLETE ~1.9/6 GPU-h (port total ~2.6/8)).

Utilization footer notes rolled 23:1xZ (tick)

Session 2026-08-17 19:20–22:5xZ (work, exploit-infra; ~1.25 GPU-h burned on discriminator attempt 1’s OOM death + ~2.5 accrued on attempt 2 in-session from 20:20:55Z, verdict ~00:4xZ 08-18; ridden through the 250 fix-verify probe, Amendment 1, and the 500 baseline): utilization ledger rebased — trailing-7-day window recomputed per-run from prune records + archive notes (local ~80.0/~80.2, box ~250/~254 FINAL at the box kill), receipts note + rerunnable extract instrument landed — AND the discriminator’s first-eval-probe CUDA OOM root-caused (probe batched at per-rank 96 vs training’s micro-12) + fixed in bijou/train/cli.py + relaunched same-seed from 0; queue refilled queue-box-kill-audit — attempt-1 jsonl preserved, incident in-channel, next ticks own the boundary.

Session 2026-08-17 19:17–19:2xZ (tick; GPU-h accruing — discriminator riding): quiet babysit — step 100/1000 at 15.8 s/step, loss 4.94→1.08, VRAM 62.2 GiB vs the 78 gate, host RAM stable at 91 GB available, queue validated depth 2, no steering, no in-channel post needed — run_work_next armed; the step-250 probe (≈19:55Z) reads at the next tick, verdict at 1000 ≈23:0xZ.

Session 2026-08-17 19:02–19:2xZ (work, exploit; GPU-h accruing — discriminator riding at 15.1 s/step, ~4 h to verdict ~23:0xZ): babysit-registry jsonl path fixed (303830d, box layout → local ~/checkpoints/finetune/), v1 corpus mirror restored + verified exact vs HF (232 files / 26.17 GiB; audit: no held arm needs it — durability redundancy), queue refilled with utilization-ledger-rebase — run_work_next armed; next executable CPU item is the utilization rebase.