Now archive — 2026-08-19

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

Session 2026-08-19 23:46–23:5xZ (tick; onerig riding, ~5.4 GPU-h elapsed of ~13 expected / gate 17): babysit exit 0 — step 1220/3000, loss 0.4851 new low (−0.0075 interval); window 4.3 steps/min (~14.0 s/step) vs trainer-line 15.761 cumulative — normal bounce, ETA ~07:3x–07:4xZ 08-20; 62.21 GiB, no gate crossings; step-1250 probe lands right at this close — read next tick; Discord fully quiet (read + inbox empty, no new reactions); disk 129G free flat (step-1500 save ~01:0xZ carries the optimizer-prune watch item); RAM flat (available 48G); no chain (both queued items GPU-gated post-onerig, no CPU items) — queue green depth 2 (15 open).

Session 2026-08-19 23:26–23:3xZ (tick; onerig riding, ~5.1 GPU-h elapsed of ~13 expected / gate 17): babysit exit 0 — step 1130/3000, loss 0.4926 new low (−0.0104 interval); window 3.8 steps/min (~15.8 s/step) and trainer-line 15.909 agree on a clean interval — slightly above the 15.2–15.4 smoke band, within bounce, ETA ~07:4xZ 08-20; 62.21 GiB, no gate crossings; NEW owner 👍 on the 23:07Z drift-PASS post recorded (result-post ack, no reply owed); disk 129G free flat (step-1500 save lands ~00:5x–01:0xZ, later than the ~00:2xZ estimate — watch item moves with it); RAM flat (available 48G); no chain (both queued items GPU-gated post-onerig, no CPU items) — queue green depth 2 (15 open).

Session 2026-08-19 23:04–23:1xZ (tick; onerig riding, ~4.7 GPU-h elapsed of ~13 expected / gate 17): babysit exit 0 — step 1050/3000, loss 0.503 new low (−0.047 interval); step-1000 drift guard PASS (probe 5.83@1000 vs anchor 8.04@500, Δ −2.21 vs the ≤+0.30 READ band, curve still improving) — posted in-channel; rate 15.301 s/step cumulative, 62.21 GiB, no gate crossings, ETA ~07:2x–07:3xZ 08-20; disk 129G free vs 171 last tick = exactly the step-1000 save (42G: 32G optimizer.pt + weights), pruner math floors at ~57G free at the step-3000 save — no risk; NEW owner 👍 on the 20:35Z boundary-launcher post recorded (landed after the 22:2x tick); RAM flat (available 48G); no chain (both queued items GPU-gated post-onerig, no CPU items) — queue green depth 2 (15 open).

Session 2026-08-19 21:40–21:4xZ (tick; onerig riding, ~3.3 GPU-h elapsed of ~13 expected / gate 17): babysit exit 0 — step 740/3000, loss 0.5801 (+0.02 noise blip on a falling trend), window 4.3 steps/min (~13.9 s/step, fastest yet; the trainer-line 16.661 s/step read disagrees with the wall clock — window governs, re-read next tick), 62.21 GiB, no gate crossings, ETA ~07:0x–07:1xZ 08-20; RAM available-drop since launch (91→48G) slope-checked: MemAvailable RISING over 4 min — steady state not a leak, trainer RSS baseline 145.9G banked for next tick; step-1000 drift read next tick ~22:4xZ; Discord fully quiet (read + inbox empty, no new reactions); no chain (both queued items GPU-gated post-onerig, no CPU items) — queue green depth 2 (15 open). Disk 171G free (94%), flat.

Session 2026-08-19 21:19–21:2xZ (tick; onerig riding, ~3.0 GPU-h elapsed of ~13 expected / gate 17): babysit exit 0 — step 650/3000, loss 0.5602 falling (−0.081 interval), 14.851 s/step cumulative / 3.9 steps/min window, 62.21 GiB, no gate crossings, ETA ~07:0xZ 08-20; step-1000 drift read is next tick’s duty (~22:4xZ); Discord fully quiet (read + inbox empty, no new reactions); no chain (both queued items GPU-gated post-onerig, no CPU items) — queue green depth 2 (15 open). Disk 171G free (94%), flat — on the priced trajectory.

Session 2026-08-19 20:58–21:0xZ (tick; onerig riding, ~2.6 GPU-h elapsed of ~13 expected / gate 17): **babysit exit 0 — step 570/3000, loss 0.6413 falling, 14.657 s/step cumulative (under band; the slow interval read is the step-500 save stall), 62.21 GiB, no gate crossings, ETA back to ~06:5x–07:0xZ 08-20; Discord fully quiet (read

inbox empty, no new reactions); no chain (both queued items GPU-gated post-onerig, no CPU items)** — queue green depth 2 (15 open). Disk 171G free (94%), flat since the save — on the priced trajectory.

Session 2026-08-19 20:38–20:4xZ (tick; onerig riding, ~2.3 GPU-h elapsed of ~13 expected / gate 17): babysit exit 0 — step 500/3000 save boundary landed, probe eval_chunk_mae 12.85→8.04, rate back in band (~14.6 s/step interval), 65.1 GiB; owner 👍 on the 20:35Z boundary-launcher post recorded (history check); disk trajectory priced after the 45G save drop — --prune-superseded-optim live in the argv keeps 2 full saves, worst-case transient ~47G free at step 3000, endpoint reachable; no chain (both queued items GPU-gated post-onerig, no CPU items) — queue green depth 2 (15 open). Disk 171G free (94%).

Session 2026-08-19 20:0x–20:3xZ (work, chained; onerig riding ~2.5 GPU-h elapsed of ~13 expected / gate 17, CPU item in the GPU-busy window): grpo-r2-boundary-legs-launcher EXECUTED (982cecd, check.py 1099 green) — boundary subcommand (3 legs, one detached unit, chained verdict, triple refusal ladder) + the endpoint materializer the item implied but git audit showed missing + parse-check oracle wired to the verdict’s own guards + stats-pin drift corrected against the live metadata — exploit (registered lane instrument); queue green depth 2 (15 open). Onerig healthy both polls (step 440, loss falling, 62.2 GiB). Disk 216 GB free.

Session 2026-08-19 19:54–19:5xZ (tick; onerig riding, ~1.5 GPU-h elapsed of ~13 expected / gate 17): babysit exit 0 — step 330/3000, loss 0.6878 falling, 15.6 s/step cumulative (band-adjacent, warmup washing out of the average), 62.2 GiB / 99% util, no gate crossings; Discord fully quiet (read + inbox empty, no reactions); run_work_next already armed at the 19:53 work close — fast close to hand off — queue green depth 3 (16 open). Disk 216 GB free (93%).

Session 2026-08-19 17:5x–18:4xZ (work, same session cont.; ~0.33 GPU-h banked — killed R2 relaunch — + onerig live from 18:22:47Z, ~13 expected / gate 17): R2 relaunch step-0 eval read 0/20 ALL scenes frozen under verified standins (P≈2e-8) → loop serving stack convicted on v2 checkpoints (R1-B/released interacted through it) → KILLED 18:06:48Z, lane parked on grpo-r2-serving-parity-fix (launch gate); demos+one-rig fired on the banked GO (smoke green, preamble verified, 66 GiB / 83–100%) — exploit (registered lane + integrity); queue green depth 2 (16 open). Disk 214 GB free (93%).

Session 2026-08-19 16:21–17:5xZ+ (work, chained; ~1.44 GPU-h banked this session — aborted patched wave ~1.2 + diagnosis probe 0.24 — plus grpo_r2 relaunched 17:46:56Z riding, ~18.5 lane total expected / gate ≤20 per A4): boundary-reads instrument landed (0a405a2) → wave-0 gate FIRED 17:19Z (mixed 0.0) → substrate bug convicted (loop rendered patched, anchors standins; probe A/B on the same seeds: 6/8 interact under standins) → fix + A4 + RELAUNCH 17:46:56Z (4914f80) — exploit (registered lane + integrity fix); queue green depth 2 (15 open: instrument closed, grpo-r2-boundary-legs-launcher refilled). Disk 227 GB free (92%).

Session 2026-08-19 16:17–16:2xZ (tick; grpo_r2 riding, ~0.2 GPU-h elapsed of ~14 expected): first poll of live R2 healthy in the declared startup window (procs+GPU liveness, babysit exit 1 = known train.jsonl gap until ~17:1xZ); Discord quiet, no gate crossings; run_work_next already armed — fast close — queue green depth 2 (15 open). Disk 227 GB free (92%).

Session 2026-08-19 13:07–16:1xZ (work, chained; ~2.25 GPU-h banked — preflight leg 0 — + grpo_r2 live from 16:10Z, ~14 expected / gate ≤15): owner agree-with-recs mid-session → A3 ACTIVATED end-to-end: launch kit landed (570e53e) → preflight PASS (sampled 8/100 vs greedy 7) → R2 FIRED 16:10:02Z; demos+one-rig GO banked, fires at the next free GPU boundary; disk sweep executed in the ride window (~41G freed, 16/16 bitwise audit) — exploit (registered activation + infra debt); queue green depth 2 (15 open: grpo-r2-launch-kit + disk-retirement-sweep-banked-sources closed, grpo-r2-boundary-reads-instrument refilled). Disk 231 GB free (92%).

Session 2026-08-19 12:14–12:3xZ (work, chained; 0 GPU-h — CPU only, H100 idle throughout): flow-train-memorization-panel CLOSED — the route-C probe family’s last page (flow_train memorization split: 42/100 train ≈ 44 unseen, kept 45% vs rejected 36%, CIs overlap = no memorization), built via a flowtrain preset, uploaded + curl-verified on fontaine-reports, reports.md linked, pointer in-channel 12:35Z — exploit (standing-rule reporting / post-processing); Discord quiet at boot + boundary poll; owner calls (demos+one-rig, R2 band) still pending, re-surfaced; queue green depth 2 (16 open: refill grpo-r2-activation-amendment-draft).

Session 2026-08-19 11:42–12:0xZ (work, chained; 0 GPU-h — CPU only, H100 idle throughout): token-probe-html-gallery CLOSED — the token (AR) probe legs’ browsable panel built via a token preset generalization of the unseen-report script (decode-diagnosis section, pinned diagnostic clips, token_base as a second leg), uploaded to fontaine-reports (6/6 URLs curl 200), reports.md linked, pointer in-channel 12:02Z — exploit (standing-rule reporting / post-processing); Discord quiet at boot + both boundary polls; owner calls (demos+one-rig, R2 band) still pending, re-surfaced in the pointer post; queue green depth 2 (16 open: refill flow-train-memorization-panel).

Session 2026-08-19 11:07–11:2xZ (work, chained; 0 GPU-h — CPU + network only, H100 idle throughout): hf-evacuation-audit-v2-fleet CLOSED — schema-2 fleet fully recoverable off-box, zero weight gaps, zero uploads: er_60k + joint_corrected sources bitwise on HF, base + stage-C experts proven byte-derivable by live converter re-runs, delta bitwise-verified; the two 2.2G legacy dirs hold no unique bytes — exploit (integrity/infra debt); owner surfaced (“What are my calls?”) — both calls + recs posted in-channel 11:19Z, acked, tight polls live; queue green depth 2 (16 open: refill disk-retirement-sweep-banked-sources).

Session 2026-08-19 03:03–03:2xZ (tick; 0 GPU-h new — endpoint battery live since 00:44:37Z, leg 1 COMPLETE 03:17:39Z at ~2.55 GPU-h of gate 5.0): sim100 read taken — held in-session through leg-1 rc (charter §6 until-loop on the log’s completion marker); official flow_unseen.json: 1/100 successes (seed 29 tick 247; sweep + summary agree; near-misses 4.2/5.2/6.5/6.5/6.7 cm) → frozen grid ≤10 CONVICTS the pdnorm mix as prime suspect vs baseline demosonly 11/100; convict posted in-channel; panel leg rolled 03:17 (manifest stage at write, first-poll starvation check owed next session, rc ~03:4x–04:0xZ); babysit.toml repointed; Discord otherwise quiet (read empty, inbox empty, no new reactions) — run_work_next ARMED 03:18Z: the chained work session runs the verdict battery (paired read vs disc1000, ladder --endpoint restamp, truthfit rewear, pdnormendpoint report, full verdict post) with best-save flexibility live (step 2000 @ 5.47 vs endpoint 6.17).

Session 2026-08-19 02:42–02:4xZ (tick; 0 GPU-h new — endpoint battery leg 1 live since 00:44:37Z, ~2.0 GPU-h elapsed of gate 5.0): quiet three-quarters babysit — babysit exit 0: 2 procs, GPU 12.7 GiB / 28–38% duty (sim-rollout profile), RAM 192 GiB; 78 seeds started in ~118 min, window 0.6 f/min (avg 0.65), replans ~540–556 ms; corrected-method sweep: 1/77 completed (seed 29 only; near-misses 4.2/5.2/6.5/6.5/6.7 cm), exoneration needs 19 of the remaining 23 — convict all but sealed arithmetically but no read before 100/100 per the frozen grid; leg-1 rc ~03:1x–03:2xZ, past this tick’s 03:12 cap; Discord fully quiet (read empty, inbox empty, no new reactions) — CPU queue empty, run_work_next NOT armed; the ~03:1x tick reads sim100 through the frozen grid and arms the verdict-battery work session (best-save flexibility live: endpoint-3000 probe 6.17 vs step 2000 @ 5.47).

Session 2026-08-19 02:22–02:2xZ (tick; 0 GPU-h new — endpoint battery leg 1 live since 00:44:37Z, ~1.6 GPU-h elapsed of gate 5.0): quiet babysit at the two-thirds mark — babysit exit 0: 2 procs, GPU 12.7 GiB / 28–37% duty (sim-rollout profile), RAM 192 GiB; 65 seeds started in ~98 min, window 0.7 f/min (avg 0.65), replans ~540 ms; corrected-method sweep: 1/64 completed (seed 29 only; near-misses 4.2/5.2/6.5/6.5/6.7 cm), exoneration needs 19 of the remaining 36 — convict-trending harder still but no read before 100/100 per the frozen grid; leg-1 rc holds ~03:1x–03:2xZ; Discord fully quiet (read empty, inbox empty, no new reactions) — CPU queue empty, run_work_next NOT armed; the ~03:1x tick reads sim100 through the frozen grid and arms the verdict-battery work session (best-save flexibility live: endpoint-3000 probe 6.17 vs step 2000 @ 5.47).

Session 2026-08-19 02:00–02:0xZ (tick; 0 GPU-h new — endpoint battery leg 1 live since 00:44:37Z, ~1.3 GPU-h elapsed of gate 5.0): quiet halfway babysit — babysit exit 0: 2 procs, GPU 12.7 GiB / 35–42% duty (sim-rollout profile), RAM 192 GiB; 51 seeds started in ~77 min, window 0.7 f/min, replans ~540 ms; corrected-method sweep: 1/50 completed (seed 29 only; near-misses 4.2/5.2/6.5 cm), firmly convict-trending but no read before 100/100 per the frozen grid; rate-refined leg-1 rc ~03:0x–03:2xZ (0.66/min avg, a shade past the registry projection); Discord fully quiet (read empty, inbox empty, no new reactions) — CPU queue empty, run_work_next NOT armed; the ~03:1x tick reads sim100 through the frozen grid and arms the verdict-battery work session (best-save flexibility live: endpoint-3000 probe 6.17 vs step 2000 @ 5.47).

Session 2026-08-19 01:39–01:4xZ (tick; 0 GPU-h new — endpoint battery leg 1 live since 00:44:37Z, ~0.9 GPU-h elapsed of gate 5.0): babysit + success-count method fix — babysit exit 0: 2 procs, GPU 12.7 GiB / 28–41% duty (sim-rollout profile), RAM 192 GiB; 38 seeds started in ~57 min, window 0.7 f/min, replans ~540–560 ms; the battery’s FIRST success found (seed 29, early break at replan 8): successful episodes break the loop on sim.success() (within disk radius + upright + still + released), so the log signature is last replan < 29, not a small final distance — running read corrected to 1/37; prior 0/22 counts were numerically right but the near-zero proxy was wrong; baseline 11/100 reconstruction audited clean (it parses the summary-table success_tick column); Discord fully quiet (read empty, inbox empty, no new reactions) — CPU queue empty, run_work_next NOT armed; leg-1 rc ~02:4x–03:0xZ, that tick reads sim100 through the frozen grid and arms the verdict-battery work session (best-save flexibility live: endpoint-3000 probe 6.17 vs step 2000 @ 5.47).

Session 2026-08-19 01:18–01:2xZ (tick; 0 GPU-h new — endpoint battery leg 1 live since 00:44:37Z, ~0.6 GPU-h elapsed of gate 5.0): quiet mid-battery babysit — babysit exit 0: 2 procs, GPU 12.7 GiB / 28–35% duty (sim-rollout profile), RAM 192 GiB; 23 seeds started in ~35 min ≈ 0.65 ep/min (disc baseline 0.76 net of load), replans ~550 ms; raw-log per-seed sweep: 0 successes in 22 completed episodes (min benchy→disk anywhere 4.2 cm — no placement), early-convict trend firm but no read before 100/100 per the frozen grid; Discord fully quiet (read empty, inbox empty, no new reactions) — CPU queue empty, run_work_next NOT armed; leg-1 rc ~02:4x–03:1xZ, that tick reads sim100 through the frozen grid and arms the verdict-battery work session (best-save flexibility live: endpoint-3000 probe 6.17 vs step 2000 @ 5.47).

Session 2026-08-19 00:58–01:0xZ (tick; 0 GPU-h new this session — endpoint battery leg 1 live since 00:44:37Z, ~0.3 GPU-h elapsed of gate 5.0): first battery babysit — babysit exit 0: 2 procs, GPU 12.7 GiB / 28–40% duty (sim-rollout profile), RAM 192 GiB; rate confirmed healthy off the raw log (11 episodes / ~16.5 min ≈ 0.7 ep/min net of load, disc baseline 0.76; replans steady ~540 ms); 0 successes in the first ~10 episodes — no read before 100/100 per the frozen grid; Discord quiet (read surfaced only our own 00:46 endpoint post, inbox empty, no new reactions) — CPU queue empty, run_work_next NOT armed; leg-1 rc ~03:1x–03:3xZ, that tick reads sim100 through the frozen grid and arms the verdict-battery work session (best-save flexibility live: endpoint-3000 probe 6.17 vs step 2000 @ 5.47). Previous update 2026-08-19 23:46–23:5xZ (tick) — onerig healthy at step 1220, loss 0.4851 new low; probe 1250 lands right at this close — read next tick; fully quiet.

Status: grasp_sft_v2_joint_1gpu_pdnorm_onerig step 1220/3000 at the 23:47Z poll, loss 0.4851 (−0.0075 vs 1130, new low, falling); probe curve unchanged (5.83@1000 latest; the step-1250 probe lands ~23:5xZ, right at this tick’s close — read next tick). Window 4.3 steps/min (~14.0 s/step) vs trainer-line 15.761 cumulative — window faster this interval, normal bounce; ~7.8 h to endpoint → ETA ~07:3x–07:4xZ 08-20 (holding). 62.21/71 GiB, babysit exit 0, no gate crossings.

Steering: none — read + inbox empty, history clean (no new reactions; the 👍 on the drift-PASS post was recorded last tick).

Done: babysit poll (healthy, exit 0). Disk 129G free — flat, as expected (step-1500 save pending; at the current rate it lands ~01:0xZ, 280 steps out from the poll). RAM available 48G, flat fifth tick running. Queue validate green (depth 2, 15 open). No work-session chain: both queued items GPU-gated post-onerig, no CPU items, depth at threshold.

Next: probe 5.83→?@1250 read next tick (~00:1xZ); step-1500 save ~01:0xZ → confirm step_000500/optimizer.pt pruned (standing watch item) + disk re-read against the pruner projection; onerig endpoint ~07:3x–07:4xZ 08-20 → onerig-endpoint-close (frozen-grid sim100 ≥20 / ≤10 / 11–19 bands, anchors demosonly 11 and both convicted cells 1), then the R2 parity read + relaunch in the freed window (A5 gate, no GO ask); at the R2 endpoint the boundary is ./launch_grpo_r2.sh boundary outputs/sim/grpo_r2/loop/step_0010.pt.*

Previous update 2026-08-19 23:26–23:3xZ (tick) — onerig healthy at step 1130, loss 0.4926 new low; owner 👍 on the drift-PASS post recorded; fully quiet otherwise.

Status: grasp_sft_v2_joint_1gpu_pdnorm_onerig step 1130/3000 at the 23:26Z poll, loss 0.4926 (−0.0104 vs 1050, new low, falling); probe curve unchanged since the drift PASS (5.83@1000, next probe lands at 1250). Window 3.8 steps/min (~15.8 s/step) and trainer-line 15.909 s/step agree on a clean interval (no save/probe in it) — a touch above the 15.2–15.4 smoke band but within the tick-to-tick bounce; ~8.3 h to endpoint → ETA ~07:4xZ 08-20 (drifted ~15 min later vs last tick’s read). 62.21/71 GiB, babysit exit 0, no gate crossings.

Steering: NEW — owner 👍×1 on the 23:07Z drift-PASS post (id …404337; wasn’t there when posted last tick): agreement with the step-1000 drift verdict, recorded per the reaction-as-steering rule, no reply owed (a result-post ack). Read + inbox otherwise empty.

Done: babysit poll (healthy, exit 0). Disk 129G free — flat vs last tick, as projected (the step-1500 save hasn’t landed; at the current rate it lands ~00:5x–01:0xZ, later than the earlier ~00:2xZ estimate). RAM available 48G, flat fourth tick running. Queue validate green (depth 2, 15 open). No work-session chain: both queued items GPU-gated post-onerig, no CPU items, depth at threshold.

Next: step-1500 save ~00:5x–01:0xZ → confirm step_000500/optimizer.pt pruned (standing watch item) + disk re-read against the pruner projection; onerig endpoint ~07:4xZ 08-20 → onerig-endpoint-close (frozen-grid sim100 ≥20 / ≤10 / 11–19 bands, anchors demosonly 11 and both convicted cells 1), then the R2 parity read + relaunch in the freed window (A5 gate, no GO ask); at the R2 endpoint the boundary is ./launch_grpo_r2.sh boundary outputs/sim/grpo_r2/loop/step_0010.pt.*

Previous update 2026-08-19 23:04–23:1xZ (tick) — step-1000 drift guard PASS: probe 5.83@1000, Δ −2.21 vs the ≤ +0.30 band, still improving; owner 👍 on the boundary-launcher post recorded; disk drop explained (step-1000 save, 42G).

Status: grasp_sft_v2_joint_1gpu_pdnorm_onerig step 1050/3000 at the 23:05Z poll, loss 0.503 (−0.047 vs 970, new low, falling). Step-1000 drift guard (this tick’s registered read): PASS — eval_chunk_mae 12.85@250 → 8.04@500 → 6.73@750 → 5.83@1000, Δ vs the 8.04@500 anchor is −2.21 against the ≤ +0.30 READ band; no drift, precedent (pdnorm-mixed rose within band) not even needed. Rate 15.301 s/step cumulative, window 3.8 steps/min (step-1000 save + probe eval in the interval — wash); 62.21/71 GiB, babysit exit 0, no gate crossings. ~8.3 h to endpoint → ETA ~07:2x–07:3xZ 08-20.

Steering: NEW — owner 👍×1 on the 20:35Z boundary-launcher post (first surfaced this tick’s history check; the 22:2x tick saw none, so it landed after ~22:3xZ): agreement with the R2 one-command-boundary instrument, recorded per the reaction-as-steering rule, no reply owed (acknowledged in the 23:07Z drift post). Read + inbox otherwise empty.

Done: babysit poll (healthy, exit 0) + drift read PASS. Disk read: 129G free vs 171G last tick — the Δ is exactly the step-1000 save (42G apparent: 32G optimizer.pt + 10.7G weights, vision hard-linked); pruner forward math: −42G per save then +32G back at each optimizer prune → transient floor ~57G free at the step-3000 save — no risk. RAM available 48G, flat third tick running. Posted drift-read PASS in-channel (id …404337). Queue validate green (depth 2, 15 open). No work-session chain: both queued items GPU-gated post-onerig, no CPU items, depth at threshold.

Next: step-1500 save ~00:2xZ — confirm step_000500/optimizer.pt pruned (watch item) + disk re-read against the projection; onerig endpoint ~07:2x–07:3xZ 08-20 → onerig-endpoint-close (frozen-grid sim100 ≥20 / ≤10 / 11–19 bands, anchors demosonly 11 and both convicted cells 1), then the R2 parity read + relaunch in the freed window (A5 gate, no GO ask); at the R2 endpoint the boundary is ./launch_grpo_r2.sh boundary outputs/sim/grpo_r2/loop/step_0010.pt.*

Previous update 2026-08-19 22:22–22:3xZ (tick) — onerig healthy at step 900, loss 0.5558 falling and the rate reads agreeing again; step 1000 lands ~22:48Z so the drift read slips one more tick; fully quiet tick.

Status: grasp_sft_v2_joint_1gpu_pdnorm_onerig step 900/3000 at the 22:23Z poll, loss 0.5558 (−0.009 vs 810, falling), window 4.2 steps/min (~14.3 s/step) with trainer-line 15.422 s/step cumulative — the two reads now agree with the smoke band, last tick’s disagreement was probe-eval wash; 62.21 GiB vs the 71 gate, babysit exit 0, no gate crossings. ~9.0 h to endpoint → ETA ~07:2x–07:3xZ 08-20. Step 1000 lands ~22:48Z, after this tick’s close → the drift read is the NEXT tick’s duty (READ not kill, Δ ≤ +0.30 raw vs the 8.04@500 probe; 6.73@750 makes a breach unlikely).

Steering: none — read + inbox empty, history clean.

Done: babysit poll (healthy, exit 0). RAM re-read: available 49G vs 48G last tick — flat, steady state holds. Queue validate green (depth 2, 15 open); disk 171G free, flat. No work-session chain: both queued items GPU-gated post-onerig, no CPU items, depth at threshold.

Next: step-1000 drift read next tick (~22:4xZ; step 1000 + probe eval land ~22:48–22:5xZ, so the read may still be mid-eval at that poll) + rate re-read; onerig endpoint ~07:2x–07:3xZ 08-20 → onerig-endpoint-close, then the R2 parity read + relaunch in the freed window (A5 gate, no GO ask); at the R2 endpoint the boundary is ./launch_grpo_r2.sh boundary outputs/sim/grpo_r2/loop/step_0010.pt. Watch item standing: confirm step_000500/optimizer.pt pruned after the step-1500 save (~00:2xZ).*

Previous update 2026-08-19 22:01–22:1xZ (tick) — onerig healthy at step 810; probe 6.73@750 — still improving ahead of the step-1000 drift read; RAM baseline confirmed flat; fully quiet tick.

Status: grasp_sft_v2_joint_1gpu_pdnorm_onerig step 810/3000 at the 22:02Z poll, loss 0.5647 (−0.015 vs 740, falling), probe eval_chunk_mae 12.85@250 → 8.04@500 → 6.73@750 — still improving one probe ahead of the drift read; window 3.3 steps/min (~18.1 s/step — the step-750 probe eval sits in this interval, same wash as the step-500 save), trainer-line 15.825 s/step; 62.21 GiB vs the 71 gate, babysit exit 0, no gate crossings. Wall-clock cumulative ~16.2 s/step → ETA ~07:4x–08:0xZ 08-20 (13.5 h total worst case, inside the 17 GPU-h gate). Step-1000 lands ~22:5xZ at this rate → the drift read is the NEXT tick’s duty (READ not kill, Δ ≤ +0.30 raw vs the 8.04@500 probe; the 6.73@750 read makes a breach unlikely).

Steering: none — read + inbox empty, history clean.

Done: babysit poll (healthy, exit 0). RAM re-read vs the banked baseline: available 48G flat vs last tick, trainer RSS 145.77M KB — the SAME number as the 145.9G banked read (that stamp was decimal GB ≈ 139 GiB), i.e. flat, no leak. Queue validate green (depth 2, 15 open); disk 171G free, flat. No work-session chain: both queued items GPU-gated post-onerig, no CPU items, depth at threshold.

Next: step-1000 drift read next tick (~22:2x–22:4xZ tick window; step 1000 lands ~22:5xZ, so it may slip one more tick) + rate re-read; onerig endpoint ~07:4x–08:0xZ 08-20 → onerig-endpoint-close, then the R2 parity read + relaunch in the freed window (A5 gate, no GO ask); at the R2 endpoint the boundary is ./launch_grpo_r2.sh boundary outputs/sim/grpo_r2/loop/step_0010.pt. Watch item standing: confirm step_000500/optimizer.pt pruned after the step-1500 save (~00:5xZ).*

Previous update 2026-08-19 21:40–21:4xZ (tick) — onerig healthy at step 740; the launch-to-now RAM available drop (91→48G) slope-checked — steady state, not a leak; fully quiet tick.

Status: grasp_sft_v2_joint_1gpu_pdnorm_onerig step 740/3000 at the 21:41Z poll, loss 0.5801 (+0.02 vs 650 — noise on a falling trend: 0.64@570 → 0.56@650 → 0.58@740), window 4.3 steps/min (~13.9 s/step, fastest window yet; the trainer-line 16.661 s/step read disagrees with the wall clock, so the window governs — re-read next tick); 62.21 GiB vs the 71 gate, babysit exit 0, no gate crossings. ETA ~07:0x–07:1xZ 08-20. Step-1000 lands ~22:4xZ → the drift read is the NEXT tick’s duty (READ not kill, Δ ≤ +0.30 raw vs the 8.04@500 probe).

Steering: none — read + inbox empty, history clean.

Done: babysit poll (healthy, exit 0). RAM read: available 48–50G vs 91G at the 18:29Z first poll → 4-min slope check showed MemAvailable RISING (49.96 → 50.84G) — loader/cache steady state, not an OOM trajectory; trainer RSS baseline 145.9G banked at 21:46Z for next-tick comparison. Queue validate green (depth 2, 15 open); disk 171G free, flat. No work-session chain: both queued items GPU-gated post-onerig, no CPU items, depth at threshold.

Next: step-1000 drift read ~22:4xZ (tick) + rate re-read + RAM re-read vs the 145.9G RSS baseline; onerig endpoint ~07:0x–07:1xZ 08-20 → onerig-endpoint-close, then the R2 parity read + relaunch in the freed window (A5 gate, no GO ask); at the R2 endpoint the boundary is ./launch_grpo_r2.sh boundary outputs/sim/grpo_r2/loop/step_0010.pt. Watch item standing: confirm step_000500/optimizer.pt pruned after the step-1500 save (~00:4xZ).*

Previous update 2026-08-19 21:19–21:2xZ (tick) — onerig healthy at step 650, loss through 0.56 and rate holding under band; fully quiet tick, fast close. Drift read is next tick’s duty (~22:4xZ).

Status: grasp_sft_v2_joint_1gpu_pdnorm_onerig step 650/3000 at the 21:20Z poll, loss 0.5602 (falling, −0.081 over the interval), 14.851 s/step cumulative / 3.9 steps/min over the last window; 62.21 GiB vs the 71 gate, babysit exit 0, no gate crossings. ~9.7 h to endpoint → ETA ~07:0xZ 08-20. Step-1000 lands ~22:4x–22:5xZ → the drift read is the NEXT tick’s duty (READ not kill, Δ ≤ +0.30 raw vs the 8.04@500 probe).

Steering: none — read + inbox empty, history clean (the 👍 on the 20:35Z post was recorded two ticks ago, nothing new).

Done: babysit poll (healthy, exit 0); queue validate green (depth 2, 15 open); disk 171G free, flat — on the priced trajectory. No work-session chain: both queued items GPU-gated post-onerig, no CPU items, depth at threshold.

Next: step-1000 drift read ~22:4xZ (tick), onerig endpoint ~07:0xZ 08-20 → onerig-endpoint-close, then the R2 parity read + relaunch in the freed window (A5 gate, no GO ask); at the R2 endpoint the boundary is ./launch_grpo_r2.sh boundary outputs/sim/grpo_r2/loop/step_0010.pt. Watch item standing: confirm step_000500/optimizer.pt pruned after the step-1500 save (~00:4xZ).*

Previous update 2026-08-19 20:58–21:0xZ (tick) — onerig healthy at step 570, rate back under band (14.66 s/step cumulative); fully quiet tick, fast close.

Status: grasp_sft_v2_joint_1gpu_pdnorm_onerig step 570/3000 at the 20:59Z poll, loss 0.6413 (falling), 14.657 s/step cumulative — now under the 15.1–15.4 band (the slow interval read, 3.4 steps/min, is the step-500 save stall washing through the window); 62.21 GiB vs the 71 gate, babysit exit 0, no gate crossings. ~9.9 h to endpoint → ETA ~06:5x–07:0xZ 08-20 (back inside the registered window). Step-1000 drift read ~22:4x–23:0xZ tonight (tick duty, READ not kill, Δ ≤ +0.30 raw vs the 8.04@500 read).

Steering: none — read + inbox empty, history clean (the 👍 on the 20:35Z post was recorded last tick, nothing new).

Done: babysit poll (healthy, exit 0); queue validate green (depth 2, 15 open); disk 171G free, flat since the step-500 save — matches the priced trajectory. No work-session chain: both queued items GPU-gated post-onerig, no CPU items, depth at threshold.

Previous update 2026-08-19 20:38–20:4xZ (tick) — onerig healthy through the step-500 save (probe 12.85→8.04); owner 👍 on the boundary-launcher post; disk trajectory priced — the in-trainer pruner keeps the endpoint reachable (~47G worst-case transient floor).

Status: grasp_sft_v2_joint_1gpu_pdnorm_onerig step 500/3000 at the 20:39Z poll — first save boundary landed (step_000500, 44G) and the probe improved eval_chunk_mae 12.85@250 → 8.04@500; 4.1 steps/min over the last window (~14.6 s/step — back inside the 15.1–15.4 band), 65.1 GiB vs the 71 gate, babysit exit 0. Endpoint ETA ~07:0x–07:4xZ 08-20. Step-1000 drift read ~22:4x–23:0xZ tonight (tick duty, READ not kill, Δ ≤ +0.30 raw vs the 8.04@500 read).

Steering: owner 👍 on the 20:35Z boundary-launcher post (surfaced by the history check — agreement, recorded, no reply owed). Read + inbox otherwise empty.

Done: babysit poll (healthy, exit 0); queue validate green (depth 2, 15 open); disk priced after the 45G drop at the step-500 save — 171G free, one full save is 44G (32G of it optimizer.pt), and the live argv carries --prune-superseded-optim (in-trainer promotion CLOSED 04:4xZ, keeps latest 2 full saves): worst-case transient bottoms at ~47G free at the step-3000 save, endpoint reachable with margin. Watch item for a later tick: confirm step_000500/optimizer.pt is gone after the step-1500 save (~00:4xZ — this run’s first in-trainer pruning event). No work-session chain: both queued items are GPU-gated post-onerig, no CPU items, depth at threshold.

Next: step-1000 drift read ~22:4xZ (tick), onerig endpoint ~07:xZ 08-20 → onerig-endpoint-close, then the R2 parity read + relaunch in the freed window (A5 gate, no GO ask); at the R2 endpoint the boundary is ./launch_grpo_r2.sh boundary outputs/sim/grpo_r2/loop/step_0010.pt.*

Previous update 2026-08-19 19:04Z (tick) — onerig healthy at first post-warmup read; work session chained for the R2 parity fix.

Status: grasp_sft_v2_joint_1gpu_pdnorm_onerig step 130/3000, 15.127 s/step — warmup pace fully resolved into the smoke/mixed-cell band (15.1–15.4); loss 1.0273, 62.19 GiB vs the 71 gate, 84% util, 5 procs. ~12.1 h to endpoint → ETA holds ~07:1xZ 08-20; step-1000 drift read ~22:3xZ remains the next tick duty (READ not kill, Δ ≤ +0.30 raw).

Steering: none — read + inbox empty, history clean (no reactions).

Done: babysit poll (healthy, no gate crossings); queue validate OK (depth 2, 16 open); run_work_next touched 19:04:42Z — GPU busy

CPU item queued (grpo-r2-serving-parity-fix, the R2 launch gate).

Next: chained work session takes grpo-r2-serving-parity-fix (path diff + parity oracle; the cheap GPU parity read waits for the post-onerig window). Tick duties: 22:3xZ drift read, endpoint ~07:0xZ 08-20.*

*Previous update 2026-08-19 17:5x–18:4xZ (real date -u at write: 18:35, same work session continued) — **the R2 relaunch exposed a DEEPER break and was KILLED 18:06:48Z: the loop’s serving stack (MolmoAct2DiscreteStack

hardcoded official shim, er60k-era) is inert on v2 corrected-table checkpoints — the A4 substrate fix was necessary but not sufficient. R2 lane PARKED on a serving-parity fix (now a launch gate). Demos+one-rig took the GPU 18:22:47Z on the banked owner GO.***

Status: grasp_sft_v2_joint_1gpu_pdnorm_onerig LIVE (unit fontaine-v2-joint-pdnorm-onerig, launched 18:22:47Z after a green fit smoke) — step 10+ at warmup pace (20.8 s/step; smoke measured ~15.4, mixed-cell precedent ~15.1–15.3), 66.4 GiB / 83–100% util, no starvation, RAM 91G, disk 214G free. Endpoint ETA ~07:0xZ 08-20; step-1000 drift read ~22:3xZ tonight (READ not kill). Gates vram 71 / 17 GPU-h. R2 lane: killed relaunch burned ~0.33 GPU-h (lane total ~4.0); artifacts banked (loop_wave0abort_patched/, killed loop/, wave0_diag/).

Steering: none — read + inbox empty at every poll (one babysit read was piped through head against the never-truncate rule; recovered immediately: inbox empty, history clean, nothing lost). Kill + root-cause post 18:08Z, onerig launch post 18:36Z — decide + announce, no GO asks.

Done (this half): (1) R2 relaunch ridden to the step-0 eval row (+17 min, on the re-measured gap): 0/20 with ALL 20 scenes bit-frozen under VERIFIED standins (meta + worker seam) — vs the greedy anchor leg’s 59/100 visible displacement, P≈2e-8 → loop path inert independent of substrate; my wave0_diag probe had confounded driver-with-substrate (no sequential-patched control). (2) Class pinned: R1-B on the released ckpt through the SAME loop stack interacted (knockaway 0.33–0.45, wave successes 3–4) — the break is v2-checkpoint-specific; suspicious seam spotted (grpo_replay._batch reuses ACTION quantiles as state_stats). (3) Run killed 18:06:48Z on that evidence (saved ~1 GPU-h to the wave-0 re-fire); registry pruned with the full postmortem. (4) grpo-r2-serving-parity-fix queued as the R2 launch gate; grpo-r2-boundary-legs-launcher blocked on it. (5) demos-plus-one-rig-exec EXECUTED (closed superseded-by-execution per the pdnorm precedent): smoke green, unit live, preamble verified (2 datasets, clean dropped, v2 ×4 = 6.30% share), babysit entry live; onerig-endpoint-close refilled (frozen grid ≥20 / ≤10 / 11–19; anchors demosonly 11, mixed 1).

Next: queue_cli.py next → CPU item grpo-r2-serving-parity-fix (diff the two serving paths on v2, parity oracle, launcher-gated); onerig boundaries: step-1000 drift read ~22:3xZ 08-19 (tick duty), endpoint ~07:0xZ 08-20 → onerig-endpoint-close. R2 relaunch only on parity green + re-registration (A5).*

Previous update 2026-08-19 16:21–17:5xZ (real date -u at write: 17:49) — work session (chained): R2 wave-0 gate FIRED (mixed 0.0 < 0.20, 17:19Z) → substrate bug convicted in ~20 min → fixed + RELAUNCHED 17:46:56Z. The loop rendered the 08-18 patched production default while every R2 anchor + preflight ran standins — the stand-ins-era policy is fully inert on patched (64/64 wave episodes zero interaction, distances bit-frozen). Probe driver on the SAME seeds under standins: 6/8 interact — seed band exonerated. Boundary-reads instrument also landed; the endpoint is now reads-not-code.

Status: grpo_r2 LIVE (relaunch 17:46:56Z, unit grpo-r2) — same A3.4 frozen argv + --clutter-appearance standins (A4); first poll 3 procs, 28.8 GiB / 64%, step-0 eval rolling. Gates re-armed fresh (wave-0 mixed 0.20, knockaway wave0 self-capture, kl_stop 0.06). Budget: ~3.7 GPU-h spent pre-relaunch (preflight 2.25 + aborted patched wave ~1.2 + probe 0.24), expected total ~18.5, gate ≤20 (A4 re-price, supersedes A3.5’s 15). Measured startup gaps: eval row ~+16 min (~18:0xZ), wave-0 gate row ~+70 min (~18:5xZ) — riding that read in-session. RAM fine, disk 227 GB free (92%).

Steering: none — read + inbox empty all session; abort + diagnosis + relaunch posted 17:48:09Z (decide + announce, no GO ask per the standing rule).

Done: (1) grpo-r2-boundary-reads-instrument EXECUTED + CLOSED (0a405a2, check.py 1083 green): grpo_r2_boundary_verdict.py — all three A3.4 endpoint legs mechanized (PRIMARY paired per-seed exact sign test vs 7/100 with oracle-pinned band edges; sampled vs preflight floor record-only, decode-gap movement priced; flow euler-10 vs 44/100 with the material line at the exact 5% tail ≤35/100), loud per-leg provenance guards, overall_surface combines mechanically. (2) Wave-0 abort postmortem: gate fired 17:19Z, zero interaction across 64 episodes diagnosed → probe driver A/B on the same seeds convicted the substrate (patched vs standins), receipts outputs/sim/grpo_r2/wave0_diag/ + loop_wave0abort_patched/. (3) Fix landed (4914f80): --clutter-appearance on sim.grpo_loop (default patched, zero change elsewhere), threaded through wave + eval seams, meta-recorded, launcher pins standins, parse-check asserts, oracles green. A4 postmortem+re-price on the pre-reg page. (4) R2 relaunched on the standing PASS verdict; registry updated (started_utc, gate 20, measured startup gaps).

Next: in-session — ride to the wave-0 gate row (~18:5xZ): mixed ≥0.20 (predicted 0.487) = calibration read PASSES and the run proceeds; below = a REAL calibration fail this time (group shape is the amendment path). queue_cli.py next → CPU item grpo-r2-boundary-legs-launcher (stage the endpoint’s three GPU legs as one command); R2 boundary ~step 10 (~0x:xxZ 08-20) → three legs + grpo_r2_boundary_verdict (instrument banked), then demos-plus-one-rig-exec takes the GPU (owner GO banked).*

Previous update 2026-08-19 16:17–16:2xZ (real date -u at write: 16:20) — tick: first babysit poll of live grpo_r2 — healthy in the pre-registered startup window. Liveness by procs+GPU (3 procs, 28.8 GiB, 62→100% util); babysit exit 1 “no parseable rows” is the KNOWN startup read (first train.jsonl row ~17:1xZ). Discord fully quiet; run_work_next already armed at 16:13, tick closes fast.

Status: grpo_r2 LIVE and healthy 7 min post-launch — 3 procs, 28.8 GiB / 100% util (62% momentarily mid-poll: step-0 eval + wave-0 rollout phase, replan/env cycles). No gate crossing (exit 3 did not fire); nothing to judge yet — wave-0 gates (mixed ≥0.20 predicted 0.487, knockaway self-baseline) read at the first heartbeat row ~17:1xZ. RAM 162 GiB available, disk 227 GB free (92%).

Steering: none — read + inbox empty, history shows nothing after our 16:11:50Z launch post, no reactions. No owner calls pending (both closed 13:25Z).

Done: boot (pull clean), babysit CLI (exit 1 = the registry’s declared startup gap, procs+GPU confirm liveness), history + inbox checks, queue validate green (depth 2, 15 open), standing GPU/RAM/disk checks. No post owed (launch post 16:11Z is current; next post-worthy event is the first heartbeat read).

Next: chained work session (marker armed 16:13) takes CPU item grpo-r2-boundary-reads-instrument and reads the first train.jsonl row ~17:1xZ (wave-0 gate judgment); ride cadence ~30-min babysit; boundary ~step 10 (~0x:xxZ 08-20) → boundary legs per A3.4/A3.5, then demos-plus-one-rig-exec takes the GPU.*

Previous update 2026-08-19 13:07–16:1xZ (real date -u at write: 16:12) — work session (chained): GRPO R2 IS LIVE. Owner steering landed mid-session (13:25:15Z agree-with-recs → demos+one-rig GO, R2 AMEND + ACTIVATE from 7%); the session had just landed grpo-r2-launch-kit, so activation ran mechanically end-to-end: A3 flipped ACTIVE, preflight leg 0 rode to its verdict — F-premise PASS, sampled T=1.0 8/100 vs greedy 7 — and the A3.4 run fired on the PASS at 16:10:02Z. Disk sweep executed inside the ride window: ~41G freed.

Status: grpo_r2 LIVE (unit grpo-r2, launched 16:10:02Z) — 10 steps × 8×8 T=1.0 from step_002000_v2, lr 1e-6, kl_beta 1.0, kl_stop 0.06; first poll 3 procs, 28.8 GiB / 100% util, step-0 baseline eval rolling (seed band 200+ correct). Budget ~14 GPU-h expected / gate ≤15 incl. the ~2.25 preflight; boundary ETA ~step 10 (~0x:xxZ 08-20 at ~1 GPU-h/step). KNOWN STARTUP GAP noted in the registry: first train.jsonl row ~17:1xZ — babysit exit 1 “no parseable rows” before then is the startup read, procs+GPU are the liveness truth. RAM fine, disk 231 GB free (92%).

Steering: owner 13:25:15Z agree-with-recs (…407784) — closed BOTH registered calls: (1) demos+one-rig isolation GO (demos-plus-one-rig-exec unblocked, fires at the next free GPU boundary — R2 lane first, sequencing announced 13:49Z); (2) R2 AMEND+ACTIVATE (A3 ACTIVE, HEAD re-pin 570e53e). Replied 13:49:02Z + acked; preflight-live 13:55Z, sweep result 15:0xZ, launch post 16:11Z.

Done: (1) grpo-r2-launch-kit EXECUTED + CLOSED (570e53e, check.py 1075 green): --knockaway-baseline float|wave0 self-baseline + --train-seed-base 2000 wired; mixed_groups_frac heartbeat emit + --wave0-mixed-abort 0.20 in-loop gate (defaults unchanged); grpo_r2_preflight_verdict.py pins “materially below” at the exact binomial 5% tail (ABORT ≤2 / BAND 3–6 / PASS ≥7); launch_grpo_r2.sh parse-check/preflight/launch, launch refuses non-PASS. A3.8 registered. (2) A3 ACTIVATED (ec87114) + preflight ridden to verdict: PASS 8/100 sampled vs greedy 7 (P=0.734; success-seed overlap with greedy only 1/8 — sampling completes different scenes; predicted mixed 0.487 vs bar 0.20); receipts outputs/sim/grpo_r2/preflight/preflight_verdict.json. (3) R2 LAUNCHED on the PASS per A3.7/A3.8, registry entry live. (4) disk-retirement-sweep-banked-sources EXECUTED + CLOSED (2e85b1c): er_60k trainer dir 16/16 bitwise on HF (receipt reports/analysis__er60k_trainer_dir_sha_audit.json) → 37G retired + the two audit-proven legacy dirs (2.2G each); disk 93%→92%.

Next: queue_cli.py next → CPU item grpo-r2-boundary-reads-instrument (mechanize the three endpoint legs before the boundary); ride cadence: babysit every ~30 min, first heartbeat row read ~17:1xZ (wave-0 gates: mixed ≥0.20 predicted 0.487, knockaway self-baseline capture); at the R2 boundary (~0x:xxZ 08-20): boundary legs per A3.4/A3.5, then demos-plus-one-rig-exec takes the GPU (owner GO banked). run_work_next armed at close.*

Previous update 2026-08-19 13:04–13:0xZ (real date -u at write: 13:05) — tick: fully quiet tick — Discord empty (read + inbox empty, history shows no new owner activity or reactions), no live runs, H100 idle; both owner calls still open ~105 min after the 11:19Z summary; run_work_next already armed at the 12:56 work close, so the tick closes fast to hand off.

Status: no live runs — babysit registry empty (declared reason current), H100 idle (0 MiB / 0%), policy-server not up; RAM 196 GiB available, disk 198 GB free (93% used — disk-retirement-sweep-banked-sources still queued, ~41G payoff). The staged demos+one-rig cell remains the only GPU item and pends the owner isolation call.

Steering: none new — read + inbox empty, history -n 5 shows no new owner messages or reactions since the 12:13 tick’s 👍 record. OWNER CALLS PENDING (11:19Z summary …522815, ~105 min): (1) demos+one-rig isolation → rec GO; (2) R2 band → rec AMEND + ACTIVATE from 7% — Amendment A3 is frozen, so a 2 ACTIVATE reply executes mechanically same-session.

Done: boot (pull clean, queue validate green depth 2 / 16 open), babysit CLI (0 registered runs, embedded Discord poll), history + inbox checks, standing GPU/free/df checks. No post owed (channel quiet, result posts current). No in-session hold — the marker was already armed.

Next: chained work session takes CPU items grpo-r2-launch-kit (flag exposure + preflight runner + staged launcher + wave-0 calibration emit — makes ACTIVATE one-command) and disk-retirement-sweep-banked-sources, and keeps the owner-call polls; demos-plus-one-rig-exec + R2 activation stay owner calls.*

*Previous update 2026-08-19 12:46–12:5xZ (real date -u at write: 12:56) — work session (chained): **grpo-r2-activation-amendment-draft EXECUTED

CLOSED — Amendment A3 frozen on the R2 pre-reg page: the complete ACTIVATE-from-7% spec, so the owner band reply now executes mechanically same-session. Two code-audit re-pins surfaced and registered: the loop’s default train-seed base collides with the stage-B band, and the knockaway wire’s R0-era baseline would misfire on this base.***

Status: no live runs — babysit registry empty (declared reason current), H100 idle (0 MiB / 0%) all session, policy-server not up; RAM 196 GiB available, disk 199 GB free (93% used — disk-retirement-sweep-banked-sources still queued, ~41G payoff). CPU-only session (0 GPU-h). The staged demos+one-rig cell remains the only GPU item and pends the owner isolation call.

Steering: none new — read + inbox empty at boot, history clean. OWNER CALLS PENDING (11:19Z summary …522815, ~95 min): (1) demos+one-rig isolation → rec GO; (2) R2 band → rec AMEND + ACTIVATE from 7% — the A3 amendment is now frozen, so 2 ACTIVATE runs preflight + launch mechanically per the page; posting the amendment in-channel pends that reply per the registered call.

Done: grpo-r2-activation-amendment-draft EXECUTED + CLOSED. Amendment A3 (§9 of posts/2026-08-15-prereg-grpo-r2-post-sft.md): pinned base step_002000_v2 (schema-2; load seam code-verified — MolmoAct2DiscreteStack.load → load_vla, joint family carries the format-6 discrete decoder, no conversion needed); recipe unchanged from §2+A2; TWO new gates replace the ≥20 bar (preflight F-premise: sampled T=1.0 sim100 on the base vs greedy 7, materially below → abort ~1.3 GPU-h in; wave-0 mixed-groups <20% abort, predicted ~44% at p=0.07); NEW flow-head regression boundary leg vs the 44 anchor (shared trunk — option-B text updates move the flow read too); two code-audit re-pins (--train-seed-base 2000, default 1000 collides with the 1000–1099 stage-B/probe band; knockaway wire re-baselines at wave-0 measured rate, config default 10/120 is an er60k-era pin vs this base’s measured 25/100 knock-aways → instrument delta: expose --knockaway-baseline); budget re-priced ~14, gate ≤15. check.py 1066 green.

Next: queue_cli.py next → CPU items grpo-r2-launch-kit (NEW refill: flag exposure + preflight runner + staged launcher + wave-0 calibration emit, makes ACTIVATE one-command) and disk-retirement-sweep-banked-sources (~41G payoff, disk 93%); demos-plus-one-rig-exec + R2 activation pend the owner replies.*

Previous update 2026-08-19 12:44–12:4xZ (real date -u at write: 12:45) — tick: fully quiet tick — Discord empty (read + inbox empty, history shows no new reactions), no live runs, H100 idle; both owner calls still open ~85 min after the 11:19Z summary; run_work_next already armed at the 12:36 work close, so the tick closes fast to hand off.

Status: no live runs — babysit registry empty (declared reason current), H100 idle (0 MiB / 0%), policy-server not up; RAM 196 GiB available, disk 199 GB free (93% used — disk-retirement-sweep-banked-sources still queued, ~41G payoff). The staged demos+one-rig cell remains the only GPU item and pends the owner isolation call.

Steering: none new — read + inbox empty, history -n 5 shows no new reactions since the 12:13 tick’s 👍 record. OWNER CALLS PENDING (11:19Z summary …522815, ~85 min): (1) demos+one-rig isolation → rec GO; (2) R2 band → rec AMEND + ACTIVATE from 7%. Both were re-surfaced in the 12:35Z pointer post; the queued grpo-r2-activation-amendment-draft will let a band reply activate same-session.

Done: boot (pull clean, queue validate green depth 2 / 16 open), Discord read + history + inbox, standing GPU/free/df checks. No post owed (channel quiet, result posts current). No in-session hold — the marker was already armed.

Next: chained work session takes CPU items grpo-r2-activation-amendment-draft (freeze the R2-from-7% amendment) and disk-retirement-sweep-banked-sources, and keeps the owner-call polls; demos-plus-one-rig-exec + R2 activation stay owner calls.*

Previous update 2026-08-19 12:14–12:3xZ (real date -u at write: 12:36) — work session (chained): flow-train-memorization-panel EXECUTED + CLOSED — the flow_train leg’s memorization panel is up, completing the route-C joint step2000 probe-family reporting (unseen / token / train pages all live). Headline: 42/100 on training seeds ≈ 44 unseen, kept 29/64 vs collector-rejected 13/36 with overlapping Wilson CIs — no memorization signature.

Status: no live runs — babysit registry empty (declared reason current), H100 idle (0 MiB / 0%) all session, policy-server not up; RAM 196 GiB available, disk 202 GB free (93% used — disk-retirement-sweep-banked-sources still queued, ~41G payoff). CPU-only session (0 GPU-h). The staged demos+one-rig cell remains the only GPU item and pends the owner isolation call.

Steering: none new — read + inbox empty at boot and at the boundary poll. OWNER CALLS PENDING (11:19Z summary …522815, ~75 min): (1) demos+one-rig isolation → rec GO; (2) R2 band → rec AMEND + ACTIVATE from 7%. Both re-surfaced in the 12:35Z pointer post (…680236); the R2 amendment draft is now queued so a reply activates same-session.

Done: flow-train-memorization-panel EXECUTED + CLOSED. Method: flowtrain preset in grasp_sft_joint_unseen_report.py — seed_start generalizes the outcome strip/assert to the 1000–1099 band; the memorization split reads LIVE from curve__grasp_sft_stageb_collect.json kept_seeds (loud requirement; reproduces kept 29/64 vs rejected 13/36 exactly); Wilson-CI rate chart (kept 45% [34–57] vs rejected 36% [23–52] vs unseen anchor 44%), rejected-arm difficulty confound stated on-page; split-arm gallery seeds 1027/1017/1008 (kept) + 1092/1073 (rejected). Regression: token page byte-identical, flow page value-identical (known whitespace-only drift). Page + 5-clip gallery uploaded to fontaine-reports — 6/6 URLs curl 200, clip byte-exact through the LFS redirect; reports.md route-C entry added. check.py 1066 green. Pointer post 12:35:27Z.

Next: queue_cli.py next → CPU items grpo-r2-activation-amendment-draft (NEW refill: freeze the R2-from-7% amendment so the owner band reply activates same-session) and disk-retirement-sweep-banked-sources (~41G payoff, disk 93% used); demos-plus-one-rig-exec + R2 activation pend the owner replies.*

Previous update 2026-08-19 12:10–12:1xZ (real date -u at write: 12:13) — tick: quiet tick, one new signal — owner 👍 on the 11:02Z v1-fleet-upgrade post caught via the history check (agreement with the schema-1 fleet retirement, recorded per the reaction-steering rule, no reply owed). Both owner calls still unanswered ~55 min after the 11:19Z summary; run_work_next already armed, closing fast to hand off.

Status: no live runs — babysit registry empty (declared reason current), H100 idle (0 MiB / 0%), policy-server not up; RAM 196 GiB available, disk 202 GB free (93% used — disk-retirement-sweep-banked-sources queued, ~41G payoff). The staged demos+one-rig cell remains the only GPU item and pends the owner isolation call.

Steering: NEW — owner 👍 on the v1-fleet-upgrade EXECUTED post (11:02:44Z, surfaced only via history -n 5; the 11:40 tick’s history check predates it and the 12:03 work close didn’t run one). Read + inbox empty otherwise. The reaction shows the owner has been in-channel, yet the two calls stay open (11:19Z post …522815, ~55 min): (1) demos+one-rig isolation → rec GO; (2) R2 band → rec AMEND

ACTIVATE from 7%. The registered pdnorm carve-out keeps (1) an owner call despite the standing launch delegation; the chained session keeps the polls.

Done: boot (pull clean, queue validate green depth 2 / 16 open), Discord read + history, standing GPU/free/df checks, 👍 recorded. No post (reaction = agreement, no reply owed; result posts current). No in-session hold — the marker was already armed.

Next: chained work session takes CPU items flow-train-memorization-panel (all inputs banked) and disk-retirement-sweep-banked-sources, and keeps the owner-call polls; demos-plus-one-rig-exec + R2 activation stay owner calls.*

Previous update 2026-08-19 11:42–12:0xZ (real date -u at write: 12:03) — work session (chained): token-probe-html-gallery EXECUTED + CLOSED — the route-C joint step2000 token (AR) legs got their browsable panel (standing rule html-reports-for-important-checkpoints), built from the banked jsons/videos only, uploaded + curl-verified on fontaine-reports, linked from reports.md, pointer in-channel.

Status: no live runs — babysit registry empty, H100 idle (0 MiB / 0%) all session, policy-server not up; RAM 196 GiB available, disk 205 GB free (93% used — disk-retirement-sweep-banked-sources still queued, ~41G payoff). CPU-only session (0 GPU-h). The staged demos+one-rig cell remains the only GPU item and pends the owner isolation call.

Steering: none new — read empty at boot and at both boundary polls, inbox empty. OWNER CALLS PENDING (11:19Z summary post …522815, unanswered ~45 min): (1) demos+one-rig isolation → rec GO; (2) R2 band → rec AMEND + ACTIVATE from 7%. The 12:02Z pointer post re-surfaces both; the chained session keeps the polls.

Done: token-probe-html-gallery EXECUTED + CLOSED. Method: added a token preset to grasp_sft_joint_unseen_report.py (per-preset path defaults, pinned diagnostic gallery picks with a far-spawn-no-touch sentinel → seed 72, a decode-diagnosis section rendering the frozen analysis__token_decode_diagnosis.json + committed 4-panel chart, and the token_base leg as a second per-seed section on the same page). Page: token_unseen 7/100 greedy (B §3 OWNER_DECISION band) vs token_base 0/100, flow sibling 44; funnel 60 → 22 → 7, zero successes past 10 cm spawn, carry 0.81 vs 2.00 cm/s (greedy magnitude attenuation). Clips: 35/96 flow-overlap successes, 29/41 timeout-holding carries, 72 far-spawn no-touch — all 6 URLs curl 200 (clips byte-exact through the LFS redirect). Flow-preset regression rebuilt value-identical (whitespace-only diff). reports.md route-C section: stale “remaining probe legs” bullet replaced with the token-page entry. check.py 1066 green. Pointer post 12:02:04Z (…270740).

Next: queue_cli.py next → CPU items flow-train-memorization-panel (NEW refill: the flow_train leg’s kept-vs-nonkept panel, all inputs banked) and disk-retirement-sweep-banked-sources (~41G payoff, disk 93% used); demos-plus-one-rig-exec + R2 activation pend the owner replies.*

Previous update 2026-08-19 11:40–11:4xZ (real date -u at write: 11:41) — tick: quiet tick right after the hf-evacuation-audit close — no live runs, H100 idle (0 MiB / 0%), channel quiet, owner calls still unanswered; run_work_next already armed (11:39 close), so this tick closes fast to hand off to the chained work session.

Status: no live runs — babysit registry empty, GPU 0 MiB / 0% (H100 free; policy-server not up). RAM 196 GiB available, disk 205 GB free (93% used — disk-retirement-sweep-banked-sources queued, ~41G payoff). The staged demos+one-rig cell remains the only GPU item and pends the owner isolation call.

Steering: none new — read empty, inbox empty, history (last 5) shows no new reactions. OWNER CALLS PENDING (both re-surfaced in the 11:19Z “your two open calls” post …522815, unanswered ~22 min): (1) demos+one-rig isolation → rec GO; (2) R2 band → rec AMEND + ACTIVATE from 7%. Past the ~10-min conversational window — normal cadence resumes; the chained session keeps the polls.

Done: boot (pull clean, queue validate green depth 2 / 16 open), Discord read + history via babysit, standing free/df + GPU checks. No post (quiet interval); no in-session hold — the marker was already armed at the 11:39 work-session close.

Next: chained work session takes CPU items token-probe-html-gallery (all inputs banked) and disk-retirement-sweep-banked-sources, and keeps the owner-call polls; demos-plus-one-rig-exec + R2 activation stay owner calls.*

Previous update 2026-08-19 11:07–11:2xZ (real date -u at write: 11:20) — work session (chained): hf-evacuation-audit-v2-fleet EXECUTED + CLOSED — the schema-2 fleet is fully recoverable off-box, ZERO weight gaps, zero uploads needed; every claim verified by sha256 or a live converter re-run. Owner surfaced mid-session (“What are my calls?”) — answered in-channel with both pending calls + recommendations.

Status: no live runs — babysit registry empty, H100 idle (0 MiB / 0%) all session, policy-server not up; RAM 196 GiB available, disk 208 GB free. CPU + network only (0 GPU-h). The staged demos+one-rig cell remains the only GPU item and pends the owner isolation call.

Steering: owner asked “What are my calls?” (11:12:53Z, id …921930) — replied 11:19Z (post …522815) with the two open calls + recs: (1) demos+one-rig isolation → rec GO (frozen cell, launcher parse-green, H100 idle); (2) R2 band → rec AMEND + ACTIVATE R2 from the 7% checkpoint (decode diagnosis: greedy magnitude attenuation, not calibration; R2 samples T=1.0), wave-0 abort bar mixed <20%. Acked; awaiting the decisions — tight polls live.

Done: hf-evacuation-audit-v2-fleet EXECUTED + CLOSED. Method: 343 HF LFS sha256s enumerated + local sha256sum + two live convert_molmoact2 re-runs. Verified per _v2: er_60k trainer source bitwise on HF (backbone/expert/prompt; aux_loss_weight 0.5 in the banked config reproduces narration_weight 0.5 through the committed rename fallback); joint_corrected v1 dir bitwise on HF (schema_version 1); base + jointsurface experts re-extracted from the public allenai snapshot bitwise equal (4517d649…); stage-C pair re-extracted from the stagec-hf export bitwise equal (d840174d…), with the HF model-delta bitwise = local staging (98f32f4d…) and the overlay README banked. corrected_v1 == stagec expert bitwise (metadata-only variant). The two 2.2G legacy expert-source dirs hold zero unique bytes — safe to retire. Public allenai repo dependency flagged as a recorded acceptance. Mapping table: posts/2026-08-19-hf-evacuation-audit-v2-fleet.md.

Next: queue_cli.py next → CPU items token-probe-html-gallery (all inputs banked) and NEW refill disk-retirement-sweep-banked-sources (er_60k trainer dir 37G sha-audit + the two legacy dirs, ~41G payoff, disk 93% used); demos-plus-one-rig-exec + R2 activation pend the owner replies to …522815.*

Previous update 2026-08-19 11:04–11:0xZ (real date -u at write: 11:05) — tick: quiet tick right after the v1-fleet-upgrade close — no live runs, H100 idle (0 MiB / 0%), channel quiet; run_work_next already armed (11:03 close), so this tick closes fast to hand off to the chained work session.

Status: no live runs — babysit registry empty (no_live_runs_reason current), GPU 0 MiB / 0% (H100 free; policy-server not up). RAM 196 GiB available, disk 208 GB free. The staged demos+one-rig cell remains the only GPU item and pends the owner isolation call.

Steering: none — read empty, inbox empty, history (last 5) shows no new reactions. OWNER CALLS PENDING: (1) demos+one-rig isolation (draft 04:25:54Z, id …759115); (2) the B §3 R2 band (post …840340, carrying the ACTIVATE-from-7% recommendation + receipts).

Done: boot (pull clean, queue validate green depth 2 / 16 open), Discord read + history, standing free/df + GPU checks. No post (quiet interval); no in-session hold — the marker was already armed at the 11:03 work-session close, so the fastest path to resumed polling + queue work is the chained session itself.

Next: chained work session takes CPU items token-probe-html-gallery (all inputs banked) and hf-evacuation-audit-v2-fleet, and keeps the owner-call polls; demos-plus-one-rig-exec + R2 activation stay owner calls.*

Previous update 2026-08-19 10:46–11:0xZ (real date -u at write: 11:03) — work session (chained): v1-fleet-upgrade EXECUTED + CLOSED (b1d1b27) — the schema-1 checkpoint fleet is retired: 6 v1 originals (audit found 2 beyond the queue’s 4), 4 fresh _v2 conversions all load-smoked, er_60k _v2 regenerated with the trained narration_weight 0.5, zero schema-1 dirs remain on disk.

Status: no live runs — babysit registry empty, H100 idle (0 MiB / 0%) all session, policy-server not up; RAM 196 GiB available, disk 212 GB free (the materialized per-part trunks cost ~55 GB net; v1 weight files were hard-links so retirement freed little). CPU-only session (0 GPU-h). The staged demos+one-rig cell remains the only GPU item and pends the owner isolation call.

Done: v1-fleet-upgrade EXECUTED + CLOSED (b1d1b27). Disk audit found SIX schema-1 dirs (queue named 4): the 5th was base _vla whose _v2 existed since edb8d4e with the v1 never retired, the 6th the step_002000 straggler in finetune/. Three pristine-trunk conversions via bijou.convert_v1 (jointsurface → Joint 5485M, stage-C corrected_v1 + _vla → Flow 5490M), all load_vla-smoked. er_60k _v2 REGENERATED from v1 (regenerate-vs-annotate decided regenerate): old-vs-regen all 4 weight files bitwise equal, tokenizer identical, metadata diff exactly narration_weight 1.0→0.5; swapped

smoked (Molmo2ARVLA 4856M). Mounts repointed before retirement (sim_clutter_promotion_regate.py default checkpoint, probes launcher BASE+CKPT → _v2); no-blind-delete greps clean incl. the policy-server checkout (no serving mounts). Six v1 originals retired staggered with df checks; final sweep: zero schema-1 metadata.json under ~/checkpoints + outputs. check.py 1066 green. Result post …282587.

Next: queue_cli.py next → CPU items token-probe-html-gallery (all inputs banked) and NEW refill hf-evacuation-audit-v2-fleet (verify fontaine-checkpoints holds a recovery path per _v2; the two legacy bijou_config expert-source dirs included before any retirement decision); demos-plus-one-rig-exec + R2 activation stay owner calls. run_work_next armed at close (CPU queue non-empty).*

Previous update 2026-08-19 10:42–10:5xZ (real date -u at write: 10:44) — tick: quiet tick right after the decode-diagnosis close — no live runs, H100 idle (0 MiB / 0%), channel quiet; run_work_next already armed (10:32 marker), so this tick closes fast to hand off to the chained work session.

Status: no live runs — babysit registry empty (no_live_runs_reason current), GPU 0 MiB / 0% (H100 free; policy-server not up). RAM 196 GiB available, disk 257 GB free. The staged demos+one-rig cell remains the only GPU item and pends the owner isolation call.

Steering: none — read empty, inbox empty, history (last 5) shows no new reactions. OWNER CALLS PENDING: (1) demos+one-rig isolation (draft 04:25:54Z, id …759115); (2) the B §3 R2 band (post …840340) — now carrying the ACTIVATE-from-7% recommendation + receipts (diagnosis post 1539581325588041780).

Done: boot (pull clean, queue validate green depth 2 / 16 open), Discord read + history, standing free/df + GPU checks. No post (quiet interval); no in-session hold — the marker was already armed, so the fastest path to resumed polling + queue work is the chained session itself.

Next: chained work session takes CPU items v1-fleet-upgrade (staggered, disk checks + no-blind-delete greps) and refill token-probe-html-gallery, and keeps the owner-call polls; demos-plus-one-rig-exec + R2 activation stay owner calls.*

Previous update 2026-08-19 09:56–10:4xZ (real date -u at write: 10:29) — work session (chained): token-decode-diagnosis EXECUTED + CLOSED (f960f83) — the 7-vs-44 dissection banked: not decode collapse, magnitude attenuation; ACTIVATE-R2 recommendation posted in-channel with the receipts + 4-panel chart.

Status: no live runs — babysit registry empty, H100 idle (0 MiB / 0%) all session, policy-server not up; RAM 196 GiB available, disk 257 GB free. CPU-only session (0 GPU-h). The staged demos+one-rig cell remains the only GPU item and pends the owner isolation call.

Steering: none — read empty at boot and at every stage poll, inbox empty. OWNER CALLS STILL PENDING: (1) demos+one-rig isolation (draft 04:25:54Z, id …759115); (2) the B §3 R2 band (post 1539564065414840340) — now SHARPENED by this session’s diagnosis post (1539581325588041780, chart attached): recommendation ACTIVATE from 7% with a wave-0 abort bar (mixed-groups <20%), token-SFT-first and park argued against with receipts.

Done: token-decode-diagnosis EXECUTED + CLOSED (f960f83). Instrument fontaine/scripts/token_decode_diagnosis.py + 4 CPU oracles over the banked route-C probe JSONs + all 300 videos. Findings: NOT the zeros/no-op class (0/300 frozen via motion instrument; no stereotypy) — greedy magnitude attenuation: funnel touch→pinch→success 60→22→7 vs flow 91→59→44 on the same trunk (base 7→0→0); reach envelope truncated (1/14 touch at 11–13 cm, 0 successes past 10 cm); carry speed 0.81 vs 2.00 cm/s with 2 timeouts still holding the boat (flow 0); knock-aways 25 vs 7. Record: complementary envelopes (token owns the 6–8 cm band 14/14 vs flow 9/14), 5/7 token successes flow-disjoint. Analysis JSON + chart banked; results-page Addendum 08-19 (ii); R2 queue item annotated. check.py 1066 green.

Next: queue_cli.py next → CPU items v1-fleet-upgrade (staggered, disk checks + no-blind-delete greps) and NEW refill token-probe-html-gallery (standing HTML-panel rule; all inputs banked); demos-plus-one-rig-exec + R2 activation stay owner calls — R2 now carries the activation recommendation. run_work_next armed at close (CPU queue non-empty).

Previous update 2026-08-19 09:53–10:0xZ (real date -u at write: 09:55) — tick: quiet tick straight after the convert_v1 close — no live runs, H100 idle (0 MiB / 0%), channel quiet; ~3-min in-session polls held on the two pending owner calls, no reply.

Status: no live runs — babysit registry empty, GPU 0 MiB / 0% (H100 free; policy-server not up). RAM 196 GiB available, disk 260 GB free. The staged demos+one-rig cell remains the only GPU item and pends the owner isolation call (registered grid carve-out).

Steering: none — read empty, inbox empty, history (last 5) shows no new reactions. OWNER CALLS PENDING: (1) demos+one-rig isolation (draft 04:25:54Z, id …759115); (2) the B §3 R2 band (post 1539564065414840340, 09:17:56Z): token-GRPO from 7% / token-focused SFT variant first / park. ~3-min monitor polls held in-session — no reply by close.

Done: boot (pull clean, queue validate green depth 2 / 16 open), Discord read + history, standing free/df + GPU checks, monitor-based ~3-min polls. No post (quiet interval).

Next: run_work_next armed (09:49 marker confirmed present) — the chained work session executes CPU items token-decode-diagnosis (sharpens the R2 band call) and v1-fleet-upgrade (staggered, with disk checks + no-blind-delete greps) and keeps the tight polls; demos-plus-one-rig-exec + R2 activation stay owner-gated.

Previous update 2026-08-19 09:30–10:0xZ (real date -u at write: 09:49) — work session (chained): metadata-v1-importer CLOSED — bijou.convert_v1 landed (edb8d4e), the pinned-worktree class killer; all three oracles green incl. a bitwise golden cross-check; bonus convert_legacy pre-rename bug fixed.

Status: no live runs — H100 idle (0 MiB / 0%) all session, policy-server not up; RAM 196 GiB available, disk 266 GB free (the two oracle upgrades materialized ~30 GB of per-part files). The staged demos+one-rig cell remains the only GPU item and pends the owner isolation call (registered grid carve-out).

Steering: none — read empty at boot and at every poll, inbox empty. OWNER CALLS STILL PENDING: (1) demos+one-rig isolation (draft 04:25:54Z, id …759115); (2) the B §3 R2 band (post 1539564065414840340): token-GRPO from 7% / token-SFT variant first / park — token-decode-diagnosis stays queued to sharpen it.

Done: metadata-v1-importer EXECUTED + CLOSED (edb8d4e, result post 1539571824461881354). Git-audit first: no importer since the 57c6843 flip. Landed bijou.convert_v1 — explicit schema-1→2 upgrade CLI (read-time import rejected: it would put HF-layout knowledge back in a load path); trained trunks partition through the audited splitters, pristine trunks import from their own backbone/ mirror (no cache lookup, proven in tests), pre-rename aux_loss_weight → narration_weight translated. Oracles: joint step_002000 upgraded + load_vla smoke green (MolmoAct2JointVLA under current code — the ckpt that cost a 3-day pinned worktree); pristine flow v0 upgraded; GOLDEN er_60k v1-upgrade vs the legacy-converted _v2 — five weight files bitwise equal, the one metadata diff being the convert_legacy default-past-the-rename bug (fixed same commit; er_60k _v2 on disk carries narration_weight 1.0 vs trained 0.5 — training-mix provenance only). Refusal fence tested; stand-ins-substrate seam documented as an eval-time flag. check.py 1062 green.

Next: queue_cli.py next → CPU items token-decode-diagnosis (sharpens the R2 band call) and NEW refill v1-fleet-upgrade (3 v1 dirs left on disk, staggered with disk checks + no-blind-delete greps); demos-plus-one-rig-exec + R2 activation stay owner calls. run_work_next armed at close (CPU queue non-empty).

Previous update 2026-08-19 09:25–09:3xZ (real date -u at write: 09:28) — tick: quiet post-close tick — no live runs, H100 idle (0 MiB / 0%), channel quiet; tight in-session polls held on the two pending owner calls, no reply.

Status: no live runs — route C closed 09:01:18Z last session, babysit registry empty. GPU 0 MiB / 0% (H100 free; policy-server not up). RAM 196 GiB available, disk 287 GB free. The staged demos+one-rig cell remains the only GPU item and pends the owner isolation call (registered grid carve-out).

Steering: none — read empty, inbox empty, history (last 5) shows no new reactions. OWNER CALLS PENDING: (1) demos+one-rig isolation (draft 04:25:54Z, id …759115); (2) the B §3 R2 band (post 1539564065414840340, 09:17:56Z): token-GRPO from 7% / token-focused SFT variant first / park. Tight ~3-min polls held in-session per the pending-question rule — no reply by close.

Done: boot (pull clean, queue validate green depth 2 / 16 open), Discord read + history, standing free/df + GPU checks, 3× 3-min in-session polls via monitor. No post (quiet interval).

Next: run_work_next armed (09:19 marker confirmed present) — the chained work session executes CPU items metadata-v1-importer and token-decode-diagnosis and keeps tight polls on the two owner calls; demos-plus-one-rig-exec + R2 activation stay owner-gated.

Previous update 2026-08-19 08:08–09:2xZ (real date -u at write: 09:19) — work session (chained): route C joint endpoint CLOSED — leg 4 rc caught in-session, all five reads banked, both registered verdicts in; util footer rolled; chain gate crossing recorded.

Status: no live runs — leg 4 (token-base) COMPLETE 09:01:18Z clean (~2.1 GPU-h, 0 strikes), registry entry pruned, pinned worktree flow-matching-legacy-eval REMOVED. H100 FREE; the staged demos+one-rig cell remains the only GPU item and pends the owner isolation call (registered grid carve-out).

Steering: none — read/inbox empty all session. OWNER CALLS PENDING: (1) demos+one-rig isolation (draft 04:25:54Z, id …759115); (2) NEW — the B §3 R2 band (post 1539564065414840340): activate token-GRPO from 7% / token-focused SFT variant first / park.

Done: (1) leg-4 rc + grasp_sft_joint_probe_reads.py — flow unseen 44/100 A §5 TABLE_FIX_POSITIVE, train kept 29/64 vs non-kept 13/36 (no memorization), token unseen 7/100 B §3 OWNER_DECISION band, token-base anchor 0/100 (SFT delta +7; the CE stream owned every trunk update yet greedy decode reads 7 vs the flow expert’s 44 — decode-pathway suspect). Chain gate CROSSED ~13.7 vs ≤13 (token legs ~2.2–2.4 vs ~1.3/leg class + ~0.7 killed-attempt burn) — recorded in the consolidated post + the chart-led Addendum 08-19 on the chain results page (joint_probe_bands.png); grasp-sft-bootstrap queue item CLOSED. (2) util-window-roll EXECUTED — footer window 08-12→08-19 08:45Z local-only ~84.1/~85.5 (receipts fontaine/notes/util-window-roll-2026-08-19.md) (8731feb). (3) Blog-Space 1 GB incident re-hit and healed (orphan sweep deleted live blobs — sha-namespace pitfall now in the push memory; all assets curl-verified 200).

Next: queue_cli.py next → CPU items metadata-v1-importer (the pinned-worktree class killer) and token-decode-diagnosis (sharpens the R2 band call) — both executable any session; demos-plus-one-rig-exec + the R2 activation are owner calls. run_work_next armed at close (CPU queue non-empty).

Previous update 2026-08-19 08:04–08:1xZ (real date -u at write: 08:06) — tick: quiet mid-leg babysit on joint-probe leg 4 (token-base) — healthy and on-pace ~70 min after the 06:54:56Z relaunch (3 procs, GPU 12.8 GiB / 51%, 55 seeds by 08:04 ≈ 0.79/min cumulative, window 1.5 f/min; RAM 191 GiB available, disk 290 GB free). rc ~09:0x–09:1xZ falls to the chained work session.

Status: grasp_sft_joint_probes leg 4 (token-base anchor) LIVE — unit fontaine-joint-probe-token-base from the pinned worktree, babysit exit 0 at 08:04: 3 procs, 12.8 GiB / 51%, 55/100 seeds (~0.79/min cumulative, window 1.5 f/min), gate projection 1.2 of 6.0 GPU-h. Leg 3 read banked: token-unseen 7/100 vs the R2 bar ≥20 — below (flow head 44/100). On leg-4-inactive: reads script (five jsons, A §5 / B §3 verdicts baked) + consolidated post + chart-led report page + worktree removal.

Steering: none — read empty, inbox empty, history shows no new reactions. OWNER CALL STILL PENDING on the demos+one-rig isolation cell (draft 04:25:54Z, id 1539490569875759115; registered grid carve-out — no launch without the call).

Done: babysit CLI (exit 0, includes the Discord read), history check, free -g + df standing checks, queue validate (green depth 2, 16 open). No post (quiet interval; the consolidated read belongs to the session holding rc).

Next: run_work_next already ARMED (marker present 07:27 from the prior close) — the chained work session catches leg-4 rc (~09:0x–09:1xZ) → grasp_sft_joint_probe_reads.py + consolidated post + report page + worktree removal, and executes CPU item util-window-roll; demos-plus-one-rig-exec stays owner-blocked.

Previous update 2026-08-19 04:19–08:0xZ (real date -u at write: 07:30) — work session (chained): demos+one-rig pre-reg DRAFTED + posted (owner call flagged); --prune-superseded-optim landed first-class in bijou.train; joint-probe leg 3 COMPLETE — token-unseen 7/100, BELOW the R2 bar; leg 4 launched after an AR-surface fix.

Status: grasp_sft_joint_probes leg 4 (token-base anchor) LIVE — unit fontaine-joint-probe-token-base, relaunched 06:54:56Z from the pinned worktree after the 06:34Z first attempt died at load (base conversion records family molmoact2_flow, no AR surface; fix = derived ckpt …_vla_jointsurface, hardlinked weights + family → molmoact2_joint + the joint ckpt’s parameter-free ar_decoder config, corrected table worn; 1-seed AR smoke green pre-relaunch). Babysit 07:26 exit 0: 3 procs, 12.8 GiB / 42%, 24 seeds by 07:26 (~0.75/min), RAM 190 GiB, disk 290 GB. rc ~08:5x–09:1xZ → reads script + consolidated post + report page + worktree removal per the babysit boundary. Leg 3 COMPLETE 06:3xZ: token-unseen 7/100 (0 strikes, seeds exactly 0–99) vs the R2 bar ≥20/100 — below; flow head same ckpt 44/100. Gate 6.0 GPU-h: ~2.4 (leg 3) + ~1.8 projected (leg 4).

Steering: none received — read/inbox empty all session (tight ~4-min polls held throughout per the pending-question rule). OWNER CALL PENDING: the demos+one-rig isolation cell (draft posted 04:25:54Z, id 1539490569875759115) — the registered pdnorm grid text makes running it an owner call; launcher staged, no launch.

Done: (1) queue item prereg-draft-demos-plus-one-rig EXECUTED — draft posts/2026-08-19-prereg-demos-plus-one-rig.md live on the blog (curl 200) + in-channel; cell frozen (demos + so101_pick_place_v2 ×4 only, one subtraction from the convicted mix, dose held ~constant 6.31% vs 6.26%; grid ≥20/≤10/11–19 adapted; paired reads vs BOTH control and convicted cell; guards carried; gate 17 GPU-h); launcher staged full-parse green (7a49e44). (2) queue item offload-optim-save-prune EXECUTED — --prune-superseded-optim first-class in bijou.train (post-publish, both save paths, newest-2 kept; 5 oracles), onerig launcher rewired to it (0f5eaa8). (3) leg-3 rc caught in-session (rode via foreground until-loops), read taken + posted; leg-4 AR-surface fix + smoke + relaunch (97105f4, boundary post 1539528198792945737).

Next: queue_cli.py next → grasp-sft-bootstrap residue: the tick/session catching leg-4 rc (~08:5x–09:1xZ) runs grasp_sft_joint_probe_reads.py (five jsons, A §5 / B §3 verdicts baked) + consolidated post + chart-led report page, then removes the worktree. CPU item util-window-roll executable any session; demos-plus-one-rig-exec blocked on the owner isolation call. run_work_next armed at close (GPU busy, CPU queue non-empty).

Previous update 2026-08-19 04:15–04:2xZ (real date -u at write: 04:16) — tick: quiet first-boundary babysit on the relaunched joint-probe leg 3 — healthy and on-rate 4 min after the 04:11:18Z clean relaunch (3 procs, GPU 12.8 GiB / 37–45% duty, window 1.7 seeds/min; RAM 191 GiB available, disk 294 GB free holding post-prune). No mid-run action; rc ~06:0x–06:2xZ falls to a later session.

Status: grasp_sft_joint_probes leg 3 (token-unseen) LIVE from the pinned worktree ~/flow-matching-legacy-eval @6d01d14, unit fontaine-joint-probe-token-unseen, relaunched 04:11:18Z after the disk-full incident — babysit exit 0 at 04:15: 3 procs, 12.8 GiB / 37–45% (6-sample; sim-rollout profile), 3 seeds started in ~4 min (window 1.7 f/min, ramp consistent with the ~0.87/min green first poll). rc ~06:0x–06:2xZ; B §3 read vs the R2 bar ≥20/100 unseen; leg 4 token-base chains on leg-3-inactive per the babysit.toml boundary. Gate 6.0 GPU-h, cumulative projection ~0.1 this attempt (+~0.5 spent on the killed 08-16 try). Disk 294 GB free — the offload-optim prune is holding.

Steering: none — read empty, inbox empty, history shows no new reactions (both probe-post 👍 previously recorded).

Done: babysit CLI (exit 0, includes the Discord read), history check, free -g + df + 6-sample GPU util standing checks, queue validate (green depth 2, 15 open). No post (quiet interval; the leg-3 read belongs to the session holding rc).

Next: run_work_next was already ARMED at the prior work session’s close (marker present 04:15) — the chained work session executes CPU item prereg-draft-demos-plus-one-rig (the pre-reg’s named next isolation cell) and, if still open at ~06:0x–06:2xZ, takes the leg-3 token_unseen.json read vs the R2 bar and launches leg 4 per the babysit boundary; otherwise the tick catching rc does. After BOTH token legs: grasp_sft_joint_probe_reads.py five-json read + consolidated post + chart-led report page + worktree removal.

Previous update 2026-08-19 03:25–04:0xZ (real date -u at write: 03:57) — work session (chained): pdnorm verdict battery EXECUTED + CLOSED — CONVICT hardened. Paired read: the mixed cell is 10 successes BELOW its own demosonly control (Δ −10, CI95 [−16, −5], McNemar exact p = 0.002); panel guard PASS with the wrist_roll −45.7 mechanism receipt; estimator seam closed at 27.44 ≈ the no-signal class. Joint-probe leg 3 relaunched from a pinned worktree (schema-v1 seam).

Status: grasp_sft_joint_probes leg 3 (token-unseen) LIVE — launched 03:52:40Z, RELAUNCHED 04:11:18Z after the disk-full incident below, unit fontaine-joint-probe-token-unseen, running from the PINNED worktree ~/flow-matching-legacy-eval @6d01d14: the 08-16 schema-v2 flip (57c6843) refuses the joint step_002000 checkpoint’s v1 metadata (no v1→v2 importer), and the pre-flip code also preserves legs 1/2’s stand-ins clutter substrate (current ‘patched’ default would break comparability). First poll green: 12.8 GiB / 38–46% util (sim-rollout profile), RAM 190 GiB available, ~0.87 seeds/min → rc ~06:0x–06:2xZ; B §3 read vs the R2 bar ≥20/100 unseen; leg 4 token-base chains on leg-3-inactive (full recipe in the babysit.toml entry). Gate 6.0 GPU-h (~0.5 spent on the killed 08-16 attempt).

Steering: none — read empty, inbox empty at the 03:26 babysit poll and the 03:5x close; no new reactions.

Done: pdnorm endpoint battery CLOSED (queue item pdnorm-endpoint-close → done): panel leg complete 03:44:44Z (~1120 f/min vs the 660 reference — no starvation; the babysit liveness false-alarm root-caused and fixed in-registry: a grep -oE progress_re must capture the counter digits, bare ‘frames’ parsed no ints); paired read banked — 1/100 vs disc-1000 11/100 → Δ −10 [−16, −5], McNemar p = 0.002, paired progress −3.49 cm [−4.68, −2.35]; NEW oracle-tested instrument pdnorm_panel_guard.py → registered guard PASS (29.18 vs 58.14, Δ −28.96 CI-excl-0; per-motor receipts wrist_roll −45.7 / wrist_flex −6.1); truthfit rewear native 29.18 → truth-fit 27.44 (seam +1.74; ladder 27.44 ≈ 27.40 disc ≈ 27.14 released, all at/above the 25.15 null); ladder restamped --endpoint 29.18; pdnormendpoint HTML report + panel HTML + 3 analysis JSONs + 4 gallery videos on fontaine-reports (all curl 200); verdict post id 1539482938675298354; best-save call recorded: NO step-2000 rescue sim100 (gate headroom ~2.0 < ~2.5 needed; cannot flip the frozen step-3000 verdict), checkpoint NOT banked (not load-bearing); reports.md section landed. Queue refilled: prereg-draft-demos-plus-one-rig (CPU; the pre-reg’s named next isolation, owner call flagged) → depth 2 green. DISK-FULL INCIDENT 04:0xZ, root-caused + cleared: the root disk hit 100% (4 KB free) mid-pre-commit — the pdnorm run’s six saves each carried a ~31 GiB optimizer.pt (offload-optim fp32 moments; 252 GiB for the run, +62 GiB the disc run’s pair). Pruned per policy to weights-only keeps — pdnorm step_002000 (best-probe) + step_003000 (endpoint), disc 500/1000 weights (both banked on HF) — 294 GiB free after; no-blind-delete grep run first (no pending-sync references). Leg 3’s first attempt died in the window (EGL write failure); partial outputs cleared, relaunched 04:11:18Z, first poll green again. Follow-up for the next launch class: offload-optim runs should prune superseded optimizer.pt at each save boundary.

Next: queue_cli.py next → grasp-sft-bootstrap residue: the tick/session catching leg-3 rc (~06:0x–06:2xZ) reads token_unseen.json vs the R2 bar and launches leg 4 per the babysit boundary; after BOTH token legs, grasp_sft_joint_probe_reads.py five-json read + consolidated post + chart-led report page + worktree removal. CPU item prereg-draft-demos-plus-one-rig executable any session. Battery ~3.0/5.0 GPU-h; screenwide ~15.9/21.*

Previous update 2026-08-19 03:03–03:2xZ (real date -u at write: 03:19) — tick: sim100 leg COMPLETE — frozen grid read taken: 1/100 (seed 29, success_tick 247) ≤ 10 → the pdnorm mix is CONVICTED as prime suspect (baseline demosonly cell 11/100 on the same unseen 0–99). Held the session through leg-1 rc per charter §6, read landed 03:17:39Z; convict posted in-channel; run_work_next ARMED for the verdict battery.

Status: pdnorm_endpoint_battery leg 1 COMPLETE 03:17:39Z (~2.55 GPU-h of gate 5.0): official flow_unseen.json read 1/100 (seed 29 tick 247; last-replan-<29 sweep and summary table agree); near-miss cluster closed at 4.2 (seed 9) / 5.2 / 6.5 / 6.5 / 6.7 cm. Leg 2 (k4l2 panel, tertiary guard) rolled at 03:17, log emitting (dataset manifest stage, GPU load pending at write) — babysit.toml repointed to the panel log; first-poll starvation check owed to the next session (disc r2 profile: batch-32/workers-20, 96% util, ~660 f/min); panel rc ~03:4x–04:0xZ. Babysit exit 0 at 03:04 (2 procs, 12.7 GiB / 39%, RAM 192 GiB).

Steering: none — read empty, inbox empty, history shows no new reactions (all three 👍 previously recorded).

Done: babysit CLI (exit 0), corrected-method sweeps at 03:04 and 03:17, held in-session through leg-1 rc (until-loop on the log’s wrote outputs marker), official JSON read 1/100 → CONVICT per frozen grid, convict post in-channel (id …806756), babysit.toml repointed to panel log + boundary/anchors updated, run_work_next armed 03:18Z, queue validate (green depth 2, 15 open).

Next: chained work session runs the verdict battery — panel-leg first-poll starvation check, sim100_paired_read vs disc1000 11/100, ladder --endpoint restamp, truthfit rewear, pdnormendpoint report, full verdict post — with best-save flexibility LIVE: step 2000 @ probe 5.47 vs endpoint 6.17 (the convict read makes the step-2000-vs-3000 choice part of the battery’s remit). Panel guard read at leg-2 rc: worse-by > +0.05 CI-excl-0 vs disc-1000 banked npz fails.*

Previous update 2026-08-19 02:42–02:4xZ (real date -u at write: 02:44) — tick: quiet three-quarters babysit — 1/77 (seed 29 still the sole success, last-replan-< 29 method). Exoneration now needs 19 of the remaining 23 (>80% of the remainder vs 1.3% observed) — convict all but sealed arithmetically — but the frozen grid reads only at 100/100; no mid-run action. Leg-1 rc ~03:1x–03:2xZ lands past this tick’s 03:12 cap: the next tick takes the read.

Status: pdnorm_endpoint_battery LIVE — babysit exit 0 at 02:43: 2 procs, GPU 12.7 GiB / 28–38% duty (6-sample; sim-rollout profile), host RAM 192 GiB available. Progress: 78 seeds started (seed 77 in flight) in ~118 min, window 0.6 f/min, avg 0.65/min, replans steady ~540–556 ms. Success read: 1/77 completed (seed 29); near-miss cluster unchanged just above the disk radius (4.2 cm seed 9 / 5.2 seed 30 / 6.5 seeds 1 & 61 / 6.7 seed 32; next 7.0 seed 16). Leg-1 rc ~03:1x–03:2xZ (23 seeds left at ~0.62/min ≈ 37 min) — past this session’s hard kill, so the ~03:1x tick reads sim100 through the frozen grid. GPU-h gate 5.0, cumulative projection 2.0. Queue green depth 2 (15 open; both gpu-gated).

Steering: none — read empty, inbox empty; history shows no new reactions (all three 👍 previously recorded, none on the 00:46 post).

Done: babysit CLI (exit 0, includes Discord read + history), free -g + 6-sample GPU util standing checks, corrected-method per-seed sweep (last replan < 29 over 77 completed episodes + min distances), queue validate. No post (quiet interval; the 100/100 verdict post belongs to the session holding the read).

Next: unchanged — the tick that catches leg-1 rc (~03:1x–03:2xZ) reads sim100 through the frozen grid — count successes as episodes with last replan < 29 plus any summary-table success_tick, never by final distance — and arms run_work_next for the verdict battery (paired read vs disc1000 11/100, ladder --endpoint restamp, truthfit rewear, pdnormendpoint report, verdict post) with best-save flexibility LIVE: endpoint-3000 (probe 6.17) vs step 2000 @ 5.47. CPU queue EMPTY → run_work_next NOT armed this tick.*

Previous update 2026-08-19 02:22–02:2xZ (real date -u at write: 02:24) — tick: quiet babysit at the two-thirds mark — 1/64 (seed 29 still the sole success, last-replan-< 29 method). Exoneration needs 19 of the remaining 36 (>50% of the remainder vs 1.6% observed) — convict-trending harder still — but the frozen grid reads only at 100/100; no mid-run action.

Status: pdnorm_endpoint_battery LIVE — babysit exit 0 at 02:22: 2 procs, GPU 12.7 GiB / 28–37% duty (6-sample; sim-rollout profile), host RAM 192 GiB available. Progress: 65 seeds started (seed 64 in flight) in ~98 min, window 0.7 f/min, avg 0.65/min, replans steady ~540 ms. Success read: 1/64 completed (seed 29); near-miss cluster unchanged just above the disk radius (4.2 cm seed 9 / 5.2 seed 30 / 6.5 seeds 1 & 61 / 6.7 seed 32). Leg-1 rc holds ~03:1x–03:2xZ (36 seeds left at ~0.65/min ≈ 55 min) — the ~03:1x tick catches it. GPU-h gate 5.0, cumulative projection 1.6. Queue green depth 2 (15 open; both gpu-gated).

Steering: none — read empty, inbox empty; history shows no new reactions (all three 👍 previously recorded, none on the 00:46 post).

Done: babysit CLI (exit 0, includes Discord read + history), free -g + 6-sample GPU util standing checks, corrected-method per-seed sweep (last replan < 29 over 64 completed episodes + min distances), queue validate. No post (quiet interval; the 100/100 verdict post belongs to the session holding the read).

Previous update 2026-08-19 02:00–02:0xZ (real date -u at write: 02:03) — tick: quiet halfway babysit — 1/50 at the midpoint (seed 29 still the only success, corrected last-replan-< 29 method). Exoneration now needs 19 of the remaining 50 — mathematically open, firmly convict-trending — but the frozen grid reads only at 100/100; no mid-run action.

Status: pdnorm_endpoint_battery LIVE — babysit exit 0 at 02:01: 2 procs, GPU 12.7 GiB / 35–42% duty (6-sample; sim-rollout profile), host RAM 192 GiB available. Progress: 51 seeds started (seed 50 in flight) in ~77 min, window 0.7 f/min, replans steady ~540 ms. Success read: 1/50 completed (seed 29); near-miss cluster unchanged just above the disk radius (min-dist 4.2 cm seed 9 / 5.2 seed 30 / 6.5 seed 1). Rate-refined leg-1 rc: 0.66 seeds/min average → ~03:0x–03:2xZ, a shade later than the registry’s ~02:4x–03:0xZ disc-baseline projection — the ~03:1x tick catches it. GPU-h gate 5.0, cumulative projection 1.3. Queue green depth 2 (15 open; both gpu-gated).

Steering: none — read empty, inbox empty; history shows no new reactions (all three 👍 previously recorded, none on the 00:46 post).

Done: babysit CLI (exit 0, includes Discord read + history), free -g + 6-sample GPU util standing checks, corrected-method per-seed sweep (last replan < 29 over 50 completed episodes + min distances), queue validate. No post (quiet interval; the 100/100 verdict post belongs to the session holding the read).

Next: the tick that catches leg-1 rc (~03:0x–03:2xZ, rate-refined) reads sim100 through the frozen grid — count successes as episodes with last replan < 29 plus any summary-table success_tick, never by final distance — and arms run_work_next for the verdict battery (paired read vs disc1000 11/100, ladder --endpoint restamp, truthfit rewear, pdnormendpoint report, verdict post) with best-save flexibility LIVE: endpoint-3000 (probe 6.17) vs step 2000 @ 5.47. CPU queue EMPTY → run_work_next NOT armed this tick.*

Previous update 2026-08-19 01:39–01:4xZ (real date -u at write: 01:43) — tick: babysit + a success-count method fix — the battery has its FIRST success (seed 29), so the running read is 1/37, not 0/x. Successful episodes break out of the episode loop early on sim.success() (sim/rollout_sim.py:444); the log signature of a success is an episode whose last replan is < 29, NOT a small final distance. Prior ticks’ “success requires near-zero benchy→disk” proxy was wrong — sim.success() fires within the disk radius (~5 cm) when upright + still + released, so seed 29’s early break at replan 8 (last printed distance 4.5 cm) is a placement. The 0/22 and 0/10 counts in earlier entries were numerically right (no early breaks existed yet) but the method would have missed one.

Status: pdnorm_endpoint_battery LIVE — babysit exit 0 at 01:40: 2 procs, GPU 12.7 GiB / 28–41% duty (6-sample; sim-rollout profile), host RAM 192 GiB available. Progress: 38 seeds started (seed 37 in flight) in ~57 min, window 0.7 f/min ≈ disc baseline; replans steady ~540–560 ms. Corrected running read: 1/37 completed (seed 29; per-seed mins otherwise 4.2 cm seed 9 / 4.5 seed 29 / 5.2 seed 30 — the near-misses cluster just above the disk radius). Trend still firmly early-convict vs the ≤10/100 line (exoneration needs 19 of the remaining 63), but the frozen grid reads only at 100/100 — no mid-run action. Grid anchor verified safe: the disc1000 11/100 baseline came from reconstruct_sim100_from_logs.py, which parses the script’s own end-of-run summary table (success_tick column) — same criterion, no undercount there. Leg-1 rc still ~02:4x–03:0xZ, then panel ~0.5 GPU-h. GPU-h gate 5.0, cumulative projection 0.9. Queue green depth 2 (15 open; both gpu-gated).

Steering: none — read empty, inbox empty; history shows no new reactions (all three 👍 previously recorded).

Done: babysit CLI (exit 0, includes Discord read + history), free -g + 6-sample GPU util standing checks, queue validate; chased seed 29’s silent early termination through rollout_sim.py / so101_sim.py to the success-break, fixed the mid-run counting method, and audited the baseline reconstruction against the same bug (clean). No post (quiet interval; the 100/100 verdict post carries the corrected count and belongs to the session holding the read).

Next: the tick that catches leg-1 rc (~02:4x–03:0xZ) reads sim100 through the frozen grid — count successes as episodes with last replan < 29 plus any summary-table success_tick, never by final distance — and arms run_work_next for the verdict battery (paired read vs disc1000 11/100, ladder --endpoint restamp, truthfit rewear, pdnormendpoint report, verdict post) with best-save flexibility LIVE: endpoint-3000 (probe 6.17) vs step 2000 @ 5.47. CPU queue EMPTY → run_work_next NOT armed this tick.*

Previous update 2026-08-19 01:18–01:2xZ (real date -u at write: 01:20) — tick: quiet mid-battery babysit ~20 min after the 00:58 entry — leg 1 sim100 healthy at one-third mark; 0 successes in 22 completed episodes (per-seed min benchy→disk 4.2 cm — no placement anywhere), early-convict trend firm but the frozen grid reads only at 100/100 — no mid-run action.

Status: pdnorm_endpoint_battery LIVE — babysit exit 0 at 01:19: 2 procs, GPU 12.7 GiB / 28–35% duty (6-sample; sim-rollout profile unchanged), host RAM 192 GiB available. Progress: 23 seeds started (seed 22 in flight) in ~35 min ≈ 0.65 ep/min — tracking the disc baseline 0.76 net of model load; replans steady ~550 ms. Raw-log success read: 0/22 — best any seed managed was 4.2 cm (seed 9); most final distances 8–25 cm. Grid anchors unchanged (≥20 exonerates / ≤10 convicts / 11–19 ambiguous; baseline demosonly 11/100). Leg-1 rc projects ~02:4x–03:0xZ (registry boundary; disc baseline ~2.2 GPU-h), then panel leg ~0.5 GPU-h. GPU-h gate 5.0, cumulative projection 0.6. Queue green depth 2 (15 open; both gpu-gated).

Steering: none — read empty (not even cursor catch-up), inbox empty; history shows no new reactions (all three 👍 previously recorded).

Done: babysit CLI (exit 0, includes Discord read + history), free -g + 6-sample GPU util standing checks, queue validate, raw-log per-seed distance sweep (23 seeds, min/final distances tabulated — the success-count method: a success requires a placement, i.e. near-zero benchy→disk; none present). No post (quiet interval; verdict post belongs to the session holding the 100/100 read).

Next: unchanged from 00:58 — the tick that catches leg-1 rc (~02:4x–03:1xZ) reads sim100 through the frozen grid and arms run_work_next for the verdict battery (paired read vs disc1000 11/100, ladder --endpoint restamp, truthfit rewear, pdnormendpoint report, verdict post) with best-save flexibility LIVE: endpoint-3000 (probe 6.17) vs step 2000 @ 5.47. CPU queue EMPTY → run_work_next NOT armed this tick.*

Previous update 2026-08-19 00:58–01:0xZ (real date -u at write: 01:02) — tick: first babysit of the endpoint battery — the chained work session landed the endpoint (train COMPLETE 3000/3000, probe 6.17@3000, curve closed, no retrace; posted in-channel 00:46, id 1539435263321833546) and launched the battery (unit fontaine-pdnorm-endpoint-battery, 00:44:37Z). Leg 1 sim100 healthy at first poll; no read licensed before 100/100.

Status: pdnorm_endpoint_battery LIVE — babysit exit 0 at 00:58: 2 procs, GPU 12.7 GiB / 28–40% duty cycle (6-sample; sim-rollout profile, matches the disc-baseline battery shape — not a training input-starvation case), host RAM 192 GiB available. Rate: window 0.6/min startup-contaminated; raw-log confirm at 01:01 — 11 episodes started in ~16.5 min (~0.7 ep/min net of model load ≈ disc baseline 0.76; replan cadence steady ~540 ms). 0 successes in the first ~10 episodes — early-convict-ish vs the ≤10/100 line, but the frozen grid reads only at 100/100 (≥20 exonerates the mix / ≤10 convicts / 11–19 ambiguous; baseline demosonly cell 11/100) — no mid-run action. Leg 1 rc projects ~03:1x–03:3xZ, then panel leg ~0.5 GPU-h, then the CPU verdict tail. GPU-h gate 5.0, projection 0.2. Queue green depth 2 (15 open; both gpu-gated).

Steering: none — read surfaced only our own 00:46 endpoint post (cursor catch-up), inbox empty; history shows no new reactions (the three 👍 were recorded in prior ticks).

Done: babysit CLI (exit 0, includes Discord read + history), free -g + 6-sample GPU util standing checks, raw-log rate confirm (direct log read, not via babysit output), queue validate. Verified the registry pgrep (launch_pdnorm_endpoint_battery) can’t collide with session wait-loop cmdlines (08-18 arm-wait incident class). No post (nothing new since the 00:46 endpoint post; the verdict post belongs to the session holding the sim100 read).

Next: the tick that catches leg-1 rc (~03:1x–03:3xZ) reads sim100 through the frozen grid and arms run_work_next — the verdict battery is CPU-hours (paired read vs disc1000 11/100, ladder --endpoint restamp, truthfit rewear, pdnormendpoint report, verdict post) with best-save flexibility LIVE: endpoint-3000 (probe 6.17) vs step 2000 @ 5.47. CPU queue EMPTY now → run_work_next NOT armed this tick.*

Footer session note rolled verbatim 07:3xZ (keep-2-notes):

Session 2026-08-19 03:25–04:0xZ (work, chained; battery panel tail ~0.45 GPU-h ran into this session — battery total ~3.0 of gate 5.0; leg-3 relaunch adds ~1.3 projected): pdnorm verdict battery executed + closed — paired read Δ −10 CI-excl-0 (McNemar p = 0.002) vs the demosonly control, panel guard PASS 29.18 vs 58.14 with the wrist_roll −45.7 mechanism receipt (new oracle-tested pdnorm_panel_guard.py), truthfit seam +1.74 → 27.44 at the null class, ladder restamped, report + 3 analysis JSONs + videos live (curl 200), verdict posted (id …298354); best-save: no rescue, no bank; joint-probe leg 3 relaunched 03:52:40Z from pinned worktree 6d01d14 (schema-v2 flip refuses the v1 ckpt; stand-ins substrate preserved), first poll green ~0.87 seeds/min; disk-full incident 04:0xZ root-caused (6x ~31 GiB offload-optim optimizer.pt saves) and pruned to weights-only keeps 2000+3000 per policy, 294 GiB freed — leg 3 relaunched 04:11:18Z clean, rc ~06:0x–06:2xZ, leg 4 chains — exploit (the verdict + guards close the pdnorm screen); queue refilled with the demos+one-rig pre-reg draft, depth 2 green.

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Session 2026-08-19 04:15–04:2xZ (tick; 0 GPU-h new — joint-probe leg 3 live since the 04:11:18Z relaunch, ~0.1 GPU-h of gate 6.0): quiet first-boundary babysit — babysit exit 0: 3 procs, GPU 12.8 GiB / 37–45% duty (6-sample; sim-rollout profile), RAM 191 GiB available, disk 294 GB free holding post-prune; 3 seeds in ~4 min (window 1.7 f/min, ramp consistent with the green 0.87/min first poll); rc ~06:0x–06:2xZ; Discord fully quiet (read empty, inbox empty, no new reactions) — run_work_next already armed at the prior work session’s close: the chained work session takes CPU item prereg-draft-demos-plus-one-rig and, if open at rc, the leg-3 read

leg-4 launch per the babysit boundary. Queue green depth 2 (15 open).

Session 2026-08-19 04:19–08:0xZ (work, chained; 0 GPU-h new trains — joint-probe leg 3 completed in-window ~2.4 GPU-h, leg 4 live from 06:54:56Z ~1.8 projected, gate 6.0): **two CPU queue items executed while riding the probe legs — demos+one-rig isolation pre-reg drafted

posted with the owner call flagged (launcher staged, full-parse green, NO launch: the registered grid text carve-out outranks the launch delegation) and –prune-superseded-optim landed first-class in bijou.train (5 oracles; the 08-19 disk-full class permanently fixed); leg-3 rc caught in-session: token-unseen 7/100 vs R2 bar ≥20 (flow head 44/100 — the insulated CE rider lags ~6x), leg 4 relaunched 06:54:56Z after the AR-surface fix (derived jointsurface ckpt, 1-seed smoke green), first poll green, rc ~08:5x–09:1xZ** — exploit (the isolation ladder advances on both fronts: mix-cell pre-reg frozen, token-head anchor leg running); queue validate green depth 2 (16 open), run_work_next armed at close.

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Session 2026-08-19 08:04–08:1xZ (tick; 0 GPU-h new — joint-probe leg 4 live since the 06:54:56Z relaunch, projection 1.2 of gate 6.0): quiet mid-leg babysit — babysit exit 0: 3 procs, GPU 12.8 GiB / 51%, 55/100 seeds by 08:04 (~0.79/min cumulative, window 1.5 f/min), RAM 191 GiB available, disk 290 GB free; Discord fully quiet (read empty, inbox empty, no new reactions); owner call on the demos+one-rig draft still pending — run_work_next already armed (07:27 marker): the chained work session catches leg-4 rc (~09:0x–09:1xZ) for the five-json reads + consolidated post + report page + worktree removal, and executes CPU item util-window-roll. Queue green depth 2 (16 open).

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Session 2026-08-19 08:08–09:2xZ (work, chained; 0 GPU-h new launches — leg 4 completed in-window, ~1.5 of its ~2.1 accrued this session; probes gate closed 5.2 of 6.0, chain gate CROSSED ~13.7 vs ≤13 and recorded): route C joint endpoint CLOSED — leg-4 rc caught in-session (token-base 0/100, 0 strikes), five-json reads banked (flow 44/100 TABLE_FIX_POSITIVE, no memorization; token 7/100 OWNER_DECISION band, SFT delta +7), consolidated post 1539564065414840340 + chart-led results-page addendum (joint_probe_bands.png), pinned worktree removed, registry pruned; util-window-roll executed (footer local-only ~84.1/~85.5, receipts in notes/); blog-Space 1 GB incident re-hit + healed (sha-namespace pitfall memorialized) — exploit; queue validate green depth 2 (16 open: 2 CPU-executable refills metadata-v1-importer + token-decode-diagnosis, R2 band + one-rig cell = owner calls); run_work_next armed at close, H100 free pending the owner isolation call.

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Session 2026-08-19 09:25–09:3xZ (tick; 0 GPU-h — no live runs, H100 idle post-close): quiet post-close tick — GPU 0 MiB / 0%, RAM 196 GiB available, disk 287 GB free; Discord fully quiet (read empty, inbox empty, no new reactions); tight ~3-min in-session polls held on the two pending owner calls (demos+one-rig isolation, R2 band) — no reply by close — run_work_next armed (09:19 marker confirmed): the chained work session executes CPU items metadata-v1-importer + token-decode-diagnosis and keeps the polls; both GPU actions stay owner-gated. Queue green depth 2 (16 open).

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Session 2026-08-19 09:30–10:0xZ (work, chained; 0 GPU-h — CPU-only integrity/infra item, H100 idle throughout): metadata-v1-importer CLOSED — bijou.convert_v1 (edb8d4e), the pinned-worktree class killer: joint step_002000 loads under current code, golden er_60k cross-check bitwise equal, convert_legacy pre-rename bug fixed; result post 1539571824461881354 — exploit (infra debt); queue validate green depth 2 (16 open: refill v1-fleet-upgrade; both GPU actions owner-gated); tight polls held on the two pending owner calls, no reply; run_work_next armed at close.

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Session 2026-08-19 09:56–10:4xZ (work, chained; 0 GPU-h — CPU-only analysis over banked artifacts, H100 idle throughout): token-decode-diagnosis CLOSED (f960f83) — the 7-vs-44 read is magnitude attenuation of greedy decode, not collapse (0/300 frozen); ACTIVATE-R2-from-7% recommendation posted with chart (1539581325588041780); results-page addendum (ii) live — exploit (analysis feeding a pending owner decision); queue green depth 2 (16 open: refill token-probe-html-gallery); Discord quiet all session, polls at every stage; both GPU actions stay owner-gated; run_work_next armed at close.

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Session 2026-08-19 10:46–11:0xZ (work, chained; 0 GPU-h — CPU-only integrity sweep, H100 idle throughout): v1-fleet-upgrade CLOSED (b1d1b27) — 6 schema-1 originals retired (audit found 2 beyond the queue’s 4), 4 fresh _v2 conversions load-smoked, er_60k _v2 regenerated with narration_weight 0.5 (weights bitwise-unchanged), zero v1 dirs remain; disk 257→212 GB free — exploit (integrity/infra debt); queue green depth 2 (16 open: refill hf-evacuation-audit-v2-fleet); Discord quiet all session, polls at every stage; both GPU actions stay owner-gated; run_work_next armed at close.

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Session 2026-08-19 11:40–11:4xZ (tick; 0 GPU-h — no live runs, H100 idle): quiet tick right after the hf-evacuation-audit close — GPU 0 MiB / 0%, RAM 196 GiB available, disk 205 GB free (93% used); Discord fully quiet (read empty, inbox empty, no new reactions); no in-session hold — run_work_next was already armed at the 11:39 close, so the tick closed fast to hand off — the chained work session takes CPU items token-probe-html-gallery + disk-retirement-sweep-banked-sources and keeps the owner-call polls (demos+one-rig isolation, R2 band — both still unanswered ~22 min after the 11:19Z summary post); both GPU actions stay owner-gated. Queue green depth 2 (16 open).

Session 2026-08-19 12:10–12:1xZ (tick; 0 GPU-h — no live runs, H100 idle): quiet tick with one new signal — owner 👍 on the 11:02Z v1-fleet-upgrade post caught via the history check, recorded as agreement steering (no reply owed); read + inbox empty otherwise; owner calls (demos+one-rig, R2 band) still unanswered ~55 min after the 11:19Z summary; run_work_next already armed, tick closed fast to hand off — the chained work session takes CPU items flow-train-memorization-panel + disk-retirement-sweep-banked-sources and keeps the owner-call polls; both GPU actions stay owner-gated. Queue green depth 2 (16 open). Disk 202 GB free (93% used).

Session 2026-08-19 12:46–12:5xZ (work, chained; 0 GPU-h — CPU only, H100 idle throughout): grpo-r2-activation-amendment-draft CLOSED — Amendment A3 frozen (ACTIVATE-from-7% spec: preflight F-premise gate, wave-0 mixed <20% abort, flow-head regression leg, seed-base + knockaway-baseline re-pins, gate ≤15); owner 2 ACTIVATE now executes mechanically — exploit (owner-call unblocking / pre-reg discipline); Discord quiet at boot; owner calls (demos+one-rig, R2 band) still pending ~95 min; queue green depth 2 (16 open: refill grpo-r2-launch-kit).

Session 2026-08-19 22:01–22:1xZ (tick; onerig riding, ~3.7 GPU-h elapsed of ~13 expected / gate 17): babysit exit 0 — step 810/3000, loss 0.5647 falling (−0.015 interval), probe eval_chunk_mae 6.73@750 (12.85→8.04→6.73, still improving one probe ahead of the step-1000 drift read — a breach of the ≤+0.30 guard now unlikely), window 3.3 steps/min (step-750 probe eval in the interval), wall-clock cumulative ~16.2 s/step → ETA ~07:4x–08:0xZ 08-20, 62.21 GiB, no gate crossings; RAM re-read flat (available 48G, trainer RSS 145.77M KB = the banked baseline — decimal-GB stamp, no leak); Discord fully quiet (read + inbox empty, no new reactions); no chain (both queued items GPU-gated post-onerig, no CPU items) — queue green depth 2 (15 open). Disk 171G free (94%), flat.

Session 2026-08-19 22:22–22:3xZ (tick; onerig riding, ~4.0 GPU-h elapsed of ~13 expected / gate 17): babysit exit 0 — step 900/3000, loss 0.5558 falling (−0.009 interval), window 4.2 steps/min (~14.3 s/step) with trainer-line 15.422 s/step cumulative — the rate reads agree again (last tick’s disagreement was probe-eval wash), 62.21 GiB, no gate crossings, ETA ~07:2x–07:3xZ 08-20; step 1000 lands ~22:48Z after this close → drift read slips to next tick (6.73@750 makes a ≤+0.30 breach unlikely); RAM re-read flat (available 49G vs 48G); Discord fully quiet (read + inbox empty, no new reactions); no chain (both queued items GPU-gated post-onerig, no CPU items) — queue green depth 2 (15 open). Disk 171G free (94%), flat.

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