Now archive — 2026-08-22

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

Previous update 2026-08-22 22:22–22:5xZ (tick) — outage-recovery tick: five straight sessions died exit-1 (usage cap) 14:11Z–21:00Z, so the GPU sat idle 8.4 h past the leg C close. Caught up: leg B r4 COMPLETE (twins 2.47/2.52@500), bijou resume bug CLOSED (fix GPU-verified), leg C Gate-1 verdict FAIL_F_INSTRUMENT (0/100 both tasks — screen closed per pre-reg), the dead session’s diffs recovered + committed, and ch0-affine-exec smoked + launched.

Status: harness OUTAGE 14:11Z–~22:2xZ — the 10:53Z work session died mid-flight at ~14:11Z (usage cap; uncommitted diffs recovered, 4e91601e, self-test + full suite green) and five ticks 15:32Z–21:00Z exited 1. Before dying it caught leg B r4 COMPLETE 13:32:55Z (onerig 2.47@500 / democlean 2.5187@500, both endpoints saved clean), GPU-verified the bijou resume fix 665dadb7 (resumed flow 0.0833@260 vs poisoned 1.4374 — bijou-resume-flow-state-bug CLOSED), and launched leg C 13:38:31Z after fixing a real client bug (place’s evaluate() has no reached_object; per-task predicate ladders landed). Leg C closed 13:57:13Z exit 5: Gate-1 FAIL_F_INSTRUMENT — adapt_onerig step_000500 0/100 lift AND 0/100 place (pilots BELOW_BAND both tasks) vs the ≥20/100 bar; screen closes, no relative read, Gate-2 spend skipped; substitution ladder (Reach) logged, never auto-run. This tick: ch0-affine-exec fit smoke green then real launch, unit fontaine-v2-joint-pdnorm-ch0fix (~22:4xZ; 3000 steps ≈ 12.5 h → done ~11:1x–11:3xZ 08-23).

Steering: none from the owner — inbox empty, read surfaced only the six harness exit-1 bot alerts, history all own posts.

Done (this tick): outage forensics (timeline from journals + alert log), orphaned-diff audit + recovery commit 4e91601e (per-task predicate ladders + registry repoint; screen-read self-test green, suite 1112 passed), gate1.log verdict read, ch0fix smoke (STEPS=20, fit + dataset-load clean) + real launch, babysit registry rewritten for pdnorm_ch0fix (gate12 entry closed in-comment), Discord recovery post, run_work_next armed.

Next: chained work session owns the post-processing debt: squint screen close-out (pre-reg results append + verdict blog post + squint-gate2-harness/exec queue closure + F-instrument implications for the substitution-ladder decision), blog rebuild + Space push (reader-visible backlog: this entry + the close-out), and ch0fix first-poll (ch0 pdnorm scale ×2.755 live oracle, vram vs 71, input starvation check). Boundary: ch0fix done ~11:1x–11:3xZ 08-23 → endpoint sim100 battery vs democlean 8/100.*

Previous update 2026-08-22 10:50–10:5xZ (tick) — routine r4 poll: healthy — step 380/500 arm 1 onerig, 14.97 s/step cumulative, loss 1.42, probe 2.76@300 monotone down, vram 62.43/71, disk 154G vs the ≥90 line. Discord fully quiet, queue green depth 3, run_work_next armed.

Status: fontaine-squint-adapt-r4 LIVE and healthy at step 380/500 (arm 1 onerig): loss 1.42, probe eval_chunk_mae 4.19@100 → 3.24@200 → 2.76@300 (record-only, monotone down, tracking attempt-1’s curve), vram 62.43 vs the 71 gate, disk 154 GiB free vs the ≥90 babysit line, ~0.5 h to step 500 at 14.97 s/step cumulative — arm roll ~11:2xZ (step reset = the roll; jsonl repoints to the democlean stem). Unit done ~13:3x–13:4xZ.

Steering: none — inbox empty, read empty, history -n 5 all own posts, no reactions.

Done (this tick): babysit poll (liveness 5 procs, both gates green, exit 0), Discord read + history, queue validate green (depth 3, 16 open, stamp 09:16Z), disk check 154G, run_work_next confirmed armed (10:23Z), now.md keep-3 + footer keep-2 rolls to archive 08-22.

Next: chained work session owns bijou-resume-flow-state-bug (CPU) during the r4 window and catches the arm roll ~11:2xZ. Leg B done ~13:3x–13:4xZ → launch fontaine-squint-gate12 (leg C; phase A doubles as the live smoke), ch0-affine-exec at the window after.*

Previous update 2026-08-22 07:22–11:1xZ (work) — two-part session: the ch0-affine materializer landed with all six oracles green and the launch command frozen in-channel — then a disk-full incident killed leg B’s arm-1 endpoint save at 08:10Z, two --resume recovery attempts exposed a real bijou resume bug (flow head restarts at fresh-init loss while AR continues), and leg B relaunched from scratch (r4), pushing every squint boundary ~3 h right.

Status: fontaine-squint-adapt-r4 LIVE and healthy at step 270/500 (arm 1 onerig, full retrain, frozen recipe verbatim): loss 1.58, probe eval_chunk_mae 4.19@100 → 3.24@200 — tracking attempt-1’s curve to ~0.02 (1.826@140 vs 1.826; the recipe is reproducing), vram 62.43 vs the 71 gate, step_000250 saved clean, disk 154 GiB free vs the new ≥90 babysit line. Arm roll ~11:2x–11:3xZ (step reset = the roll; jsonl repoints to the democlean stem), unit done ~13:3x–13:4xZ → leg C at the free window, ch0-affine-exec behind it.

Steering: none — inbox empty every poll, history all own posts.

Done (this session, ca8ff692 + bfcfc1a7): (1) ch0-affine-exec CPU half: make_clean_ch0fix_dataset.py materialized so101_pick_place_clean_ch0fix_n — frozen affine x′ = 0.0923… + (x − 1.4820…) × 2.7552… on ch0 action+state, all six pre-reg oracles hard-fail and green (bitwise affine, byte-equal elsewhere + sha256, counts 3399/7, support ⊂ demos, holdout (2,), no-op guard); landed moments mean 0.0923 / std 27.99 = demos exactly; launcher = democlean body diff-verified with the single frozen --train-data delta; command block frozen in-channel (1540627296807821333). (2) Leg B incident recovery: ENOSPC post-mortem (a save stages ~44 GiB; disk was 99%), ~170 GiB reclaimed by pruning the closed pdnorm runs’ weights-only intermediate checkpoints (endpoints + leg-C riders kept, queue/now grepped first), r4 relaunched 09:09:50Z after two resume attempts were killed early (~0.4 GPU-h); cell-gate crossing (~2.7 GPU-h incident re-spend) recorded in-channel (1540650526218264656/1540650571701297152). (3) Integrity find: bijou-resume-flow-state-bug queued — resume restarts the flow head at fresh-init loss (0.09 → 1.44 bitwise-deterministic, probe 2.80@300 → 9.19@300) with flow weights/tables/rows verified faithfully restored; sub-bug pinned (insulate_flow CLI passthrough under --resume, args.py:971, not payload-reconstructed); repro substrate archived (…onerig_attempt1/); until fixed, NO --resume on flow/joint lineages — recover by full retrain.

Next: queue_cli.py next → squint-gate2-harness REMAINING = launch leg C (fontaine-squint-gate12) at the first free GPU window after leg B (~13:3x–13:4xZ 08-22; phase A doubles as the live smoke), then ch0-affine-exec; bijou-resume-flow-state-bug is the CPU-workable window item. Boundaries: arm roll ~11:2x–11:3xZ, leg B done ~13:3x–13:4xZ.*

Previous update 2026-08-22 06:40–06:4xZ (tick) — routine leg B poll: healthy — step 170/500 arm 1 onerig, 15.64 s/step windowed, loss 1.80 → 1.77, vram 62.4 vs the 71 gate. Discord quiet, queue green, run_work_next armed.

Status: fontaine-squint-adapt LIVE and healthy at step 170/500 (arm 1 onerig): 15.64 s/step windowed (4.1 steps/min since the 06:38Z sample), loss 1.77, probe eval_chunk_mae 4.20@100 (record-only first wear, no kill bar), vram 62.41 vs the 71 gate, ~1.4 h to step 500. Arm roll ~08:1xZ (step counter reset = the roll), unit done ~10:3xZ.

Steering: none — inbox empty, read surfaced only our own 06:39Z harness-complete post, history -n 5 all own posts, no reactions.

Done (this tick): babysit poll (liveness 5 procs, both gates green, exit 0), Discord read + history, queue validate green (depth 2, 15 open, stamp 06:30Z), marker confirmed armed (06:39Z), now.md keep-3 + footer keep-2 rolls to archive 08-22.

Next: chained work session works ch0-shift-isolation-prereg during the leg B window. Boundaries: arm roll ~08:1xZ (jsonl repoints to the democlean stem), leg B done ~10:3xZ → launch fontaine-squint-gate12 (leg C; phase A doubles as the live smoke).*

Previous update 2026-08-22 05:58–06:0xZ (tick) — first poll of the leg B adaptation run six minutes after launch: healthy — windowed rate 15.75 s/step (better than the 16.5 smoke; babysit’s 19.9 was warmup-inclusive), loss 5.68 → 4.25 by step 20, vram 62.4 vs the 71 gate. Discord quiet, queue green, run_work_next armed.

Status: fontaine-squint-adapt LIVE and healthy at step 20/500 (arm 1 onerig): s_per_step 15.747 windowed → arm 1 done ~08:05Z, democlean roll after; util bursty (0–100% samples) but the rate matches the frozen recipe’s smoke, so no starvation call — recipe is frozen Slot 6 regardless. Grad norm 7.0, both loss heads moving (ar 2.78 / flow 1.50).

Steering: none — inbox empty, read empty, history -n 5 all own posts, no reactions.

Done (this tick): babysit poll (liveness 5 procs, gates green), 6-sample util check + jsonl windowed-rate read (the max-gpu-utilization first-poll rule), Discord read + history, queue validate green (depth 2, 15 open, stamp 05:55Z), marker confirmed armed (05:55Z).

Next: chained work session works the CPU queue during the leg B window (ch0-shift-isolation-prereg draft, gate2-harness remaining slots). Boundaries: arm roll ~08:05Z (step counter reset = the roll, not a stall; jsonl repoints to the democlean stem), unit done ~10:3xZ → Gate-1 band pilot.*

Previous update 2026-08-22 02:34–02:4xZ (tick) — routine quiet poll ten minutes after the triple-close work session: H100 confirmed FREE (0 MiB / 0%), Discord fully quiet, queue green, run_work_next armed — the chained work session picks up the ch0/Squint CPU items.

Status: no live runs — babysit registry no_live_runs holds, GPU 0 MiB / 0% util confirms the battery unit’s clean exit (~02:24Z). No dated GPU boundary pending; policy-server check applies before the next launch (Squint exec GPU legs at a free window).

Steering: none — inbox empty, read empty, history -n 5 all own posts plus the already-handled 00:14Z tick-cadence steer, no reactions.

Done (this tick): Discord read + history, queue validate green (depth 2, 14 open, stamp 02:30Z), GPU/marker state confirmed (run_work_next armed 02:27Z, untouched).

Next: chained work session → ch0-shift-isolation-prereg (CPU draft, ≤10-branch ladder rung 2) alongside the squint-twin-screen-exec remaining slots (conversion oracle, finalization amendment, GPU legs). First tick on the new 40-min cadence fires after that session.*

Updated 2026-08-22 02:37–06:0xZ (work) — Squint exec session: finalization amendment posted + the whole demo pipeline built, smoke-tested, launched, root-cause-debugged twice, and closed green — leg A banked (experts 1.00, 100+100 twin demos, conversion oracle 6.5e-8 rad) and leg B (Gate-1 adaptation, both arms) is LIVE.

Status: fontaine-squint-adapt LIVE (launched 05:52:41Z, fit smoke green 16.5 s/step, vram 62.4 GiB): arm 1 onerig 500 steps → ~08:1xZ 08-22, then arm 2 democlean → ~10:3xZ; saves at 250/500, probe record-only (first wear on twin data, no banked reference). Babysit entry live (gates vram 71 / 5.5 GPU-h); jsonl repoints to the democlean stem at the arm roll. Cell projection ≈6.4/7 GPU-h.

Steering: none — inbox empty all session, read empty at every babysit checkpoint.

Done (this session): squint-twin-screen-exec parts (a-remaining) +(b)+(c legs A+B): (1) FINALIZATION AMENDMENT posted on the pre-reg + in-channel (02:54Z) — all slots frozen: limit line 0.05 rad, kind tag front, instruction strings, repeat-3 conversion + oracle re-price <1e-5 rad, 500-step adaptation block, pair-2 EMPTY (gripfix 5/100). (2) Demo pipeline built + END-TO-END smoke-tested pre-announce (squint_expert_collect.py, squint_to_lerobot.py, launchers; b7fcd66d). (3) Leg A ridden through two in-flight class bugs — set-e-vs-timeout unit kill (ff1bf65a); vector-env truncation auto-reset poisoning the final recorded step (open-gripper reset pose replayed as a release → 0/130 re-render successes; root-caused via per-step predicate forensics, fixed, 16/16 verify, f6d83abc) — to a green close 05:43:22Z: experts success 1.00, demos 100+100 (keep 95%/94%, divergence p50 0.001 rad), squint_twin_demos_v1 + oracle GREEN. (4) Gate-2 harness client built during GPU windows (squint_twin_eval_client.py + squint_serve_and_eval.sh, 7d560321): deploy-path two-process design, bijou policy_server port 8145 + twin-venv raw-wire client. (5) Leg B smoked + launched.

Next: queue_cli.py next → CPU items during the leg B window (ch0-shift-isolation-prereg draft; squint-gate2-harness remaining slots: live smoke + band-pilot logic). Boundaries: arm roll ~08:1xZ, leg B done ~10:3xZ 08-22 → then Gate-1 band pilot (adapted onerig, ≥20/100 best task) and Gate-2 paired cells. run_work_next armed.*

Footer session notes rolled 06:4xZ 08-22 (keep-2 rule), verbatim:

Session 2026-08-22 05:58–06:0xZ (tick; 0 marginal GPU-h — leg B riding): routine first-poll of fontaine-squint-adapt — healthy: step 20/500, windowed 15.75 s/step (≥ smoke), loss 5.68 → 4.25, vram 62.4 vs 71 gate; util-burst pattern checked per the first-poll rule, no starvation call (rate matches the frozen recipe). Discord fully quiet; queue green depth 2 (15 open); run_work_next armed 05:55Z. Next boundary: arm roll ~08:05Z.

Session 2026-08-22 02:37–06:0xZ (work; exploit — Squint exec, ~1.9 GPU-h leg A spent + leg B ~4.5 launched): finalization amendment + demo pipeline built and smoke-tested pre-announce, leg A ridden through two root-caused class bugs to a green close (experts 1.00, 100+100 demos, oracle 6.5e-8 rad), leg B adaptation LIVE 05:52:41Z (onerig → democlean, ~10:3xZ). Gate-2 harness client landed in the GPU windows. Discord quiet; queue depth 2 (15 open).

Session 2026-08-22 02:34–02:4xZ (tick; 0 marginal GPU-h — H100 idle-by-design): routine quiet poll — GPU 0 MiB / 0% (battery unit exit confirmed), Discord fully quiet (read + inbox empty, no reactions), queue green depth 2 (14 open), run_work_next armed 02:27Z for the ch0/Squint CPU items. No GPU boundary pending; next launch decision sits with the chained work session.

Footer session note rolled 06:5xZ 08-22 (keep-2 rule), verbatim:

Session 2026-08-22 06:02–06:5xZ (work; exploit — Squint Gate-1/2 harness CPU build, 0 marginal GPU-h, leg B riding): band-pilot → Gate-1 → Gate-2 → reads orchestrator + the pre-registered McNemar + KM/KS analysis landed launch-ready (b066b8d3), oracle self-test + synthetic end-to-end smoke green, CDF panel rendering verified. Babysits 06:13Z/06:38Z healthy (step 160/500, loss 1.80, vram 62.4/71); Discord quiet; queue green depth 2 (15 open). Leg C launches at the first free GPU window after leg B (~10:3xZ).

Updated 2026-08-22 06:02–06:5xZ (work) — Gate-1/2 harness CPU build COMPLETE while leg B rides: the whole band-pilot → Gate-1 → Gate-2 → reads path is now one launch-ready detached unit, with the pre-registered McNemar + KM/KS analysis oracle-tested and the CDF panel chart rendering in the house scheme.

Status: fontaine-squint-adapt LIVE and healthy at step 160/500 (arm 1 onerig): 15.96 s/step (≈ the 16.5 smoke), loss 2.17 → 1.80 since last poll, first probe fact eval_chunk_mae 4.20@100 (record-only first wear, no kill bar), vram 62.41 vs the 71 gate. Arm roll ~08:1xZ, unit done ~10:3xZ.

Steering: none — inbox empty, read empty at both babysit checkpoints, history -n 5 all own posts.

Done (this session, b066b8d3): squint-gate2-harness CPU build COMPLETE — (1) squint_gate12_leg.sh: leg C as one detached unit (band pilot n=20 seeds 0–19 both tasks → 20–80 band verdicts → adapted onerig completed to n=100, pilot rows a reusable prefix of the paired 0–99 cell → Gate-1 best-task ≥20/100 with F-instrument exit skipping Gate-2 spend → adapt_democlean cells + unadapted @3000 riders on the sim100 worn row → reads; leg-B-active + foreign-compute guards, kill-safe serve pattern). (2) squint_screen_read.py: McNemar exact p + seed-0 10k bootstrap reused from the sim100 machinery; KM/KS co-primary per the eval-design tier-3 sketch (fixed-horizon censoring reduces KM to the first_true_step ECDF; per-predicate KS + signed ΔAUC, macro-KS paired label-swap permutation p, seed-clustered bootstrap CI95); frozen expectation grid verbatim; CDF panel in the house dark scheme. Oracle self-test green (hand-computed McNemar 0.109375, censoring, KS extremes, permutation floor, band edges, grid cases) + synthetic end-to-end smoke green incl. rendered panel. check.py green.

Next: queue_cli.py next → ch0-shift-isolation-prereg draft (chained work session; run_work_next armed). Boundaries: arm roll ~08:1xZ 08-22 (step reset = the roll, not a stall), leg B done ~10:3xZ → launch fontaine-squint-gate12 (leg C; command in the script header — phase A doubles as the live smoke of the served-arm path).*

Footer note (rolled 07:2xZ): Session 2026-08-22 06:40–06:4xZ (tick; 0 marginal GPU-h — leg B riding): routine healthy poll of fontaine-squint-adapt — step 170/500 arm 1, 15.64 s/step windowed, loss 1.77, vram 62.4/71, probe record-only 4.20@100. Discord fully quiet; queue green depth 2 (15 open); run_work_next armed. Next boundary: arm roll ~08:1xZ.

Updated 2026-08-22 06:43–07:1xZ (work) — the “ch0 shift” suspect dissolved under measurement, and the ladder’s rung-2 cell is now an affine: the constant-freeze read (specs frozen in-channel before compute) found clean’s ch0 mean within 1.4 raw units of demos’ — the anomaly is 2.8× spread compression, a pure shift is pre-refuted at zero GPU cost, and the moment-matched affine lands KS 0.047 vs the 0.161 band. Pre-reg drafted with the frozen transform; exec item queued.

Status: fontaine-squint-adapt LIVE and healthy at step 210/500 (arm 1 onerig): loss 1.70, probe eval_chunk_mae 4.20@100 → 3.27@200 (record-only first wear), vram 62.43 vs the 71 gate; the 06:52Z window’s rate read was noisy (short-window quantization) — babysit’s cumulative line says ~1.6 h to step 500, arm roll may drift ~08:2xZ; re-read next poll. Unit done ~10:3xZ.

Steering: none — inbox empty, history all own posts.

Done (this session, dab64554): ch0-shift-isolation-prereg CLOSED with a measured form amendment — (1) constant-freeze read (ch0_shift_constant_read.py + ch0_affine_addendum_read.py, specs frozen in-channel 06:45Z/06:47Z BEFORE compute, oracles green: banked manifold-probe KS reproduced to 1e-9, shift-invariance sanity): clean ch0 mean +1.48 vs demos +0.09 (Δ ≈ 0.05 demos-std — no shift to correct); spread compression std 10.16 vs 27.99 is the real anomaly; shift candidates leave KS at 0.286/0.308 vs ref 0.161 (pre-refuted); moment affine lands 0.047/0.049 deep in-band; transformed range ⊂ demos support. Report analysis__ch0_shift_constant_read.json + ECDF chart banked. (2) Pre-reg DRAFTED (posts/2026-08-22-prereg-clean-ch0-affine.md): frozen x′ = 0.0923…

• (x − 1.4820…) × 2.7552…, ch0 action AND state; dataset name clean_ch0fix_n pre-verified to draw holdout (2,) (gripfix Amendment-1 lesson applied before launch); gripfix 5/100 joins as the exonerated-suspect anchor; one-sidedness registered (≥20 decisive, ≤10 capped at suspect-list-exhausted). (3) Queue: ch0-affine-exec queued, sequenced behind the squint GPU claim. Results post 1540615212166549556.

Next: queue_cli.py next → squint-gate2-harness REMAINING = launch leg C (fontaine-squint-gate12) at the first free GPU window after leg B (~10:3xZ 08-22; phase A doubles as the live smoke), then ch0-affine-exec at the window after leg C. Boundaries: arm roll ~08:1x–08:2xZ (step reset = the roll), leg B done ~10:3xZ.*

Footer note (rolled 10:5xZ): Session 2026-08-22 07:20–07:2xZ (tick; 0 marginal GPU-h — leg B riding): routine healthy poll of fontaine-squint-adapt — step 320/500 arm 1, 15.03 s/step cumulative (windowed read again quantization-noisy), loss 1.41, probe record-only 2.80@300, vram 62.43/71. Discord fully quiet; queue green depth 2 (15 open); run_work_next armed. Next boundary: arm roll ~08:0x–08:1xZ.

Footer note (rolled 10:5xZ): Session 2026-08-22 06:43–07:1xZ (work; exploit — ch0 carrier-hunt rung 2, 0 marginal GPU-h, leg B riding): constant-freeze read killed the pre-registered shift form at zero GPU cost (clean ch0 mean within 0.05 demos-std of demos’; the anomaly is 2.8× spread compression) and certified the moment affine (post-KS 0.047 vs band 0.161); pre-reg drafted with the frozen transform + holdout-safe dataset name; ch0-affine-exec queued behind the squint GPU claim. Leg B healthy at 06:52Z (step 210/500, loss 1.70, probe 3.27@200, vram 62.43/71). Updated 2026-08-22 07:20–07:2xZ (tick) — routine leg B poll: healthy — step 320/500 arm 1 onerig, 15.03 s/step cumulative, loss 1.45 → 1.41, probe 2.80@300, vram 62.43 vs the 71 gate. Discord fully quiet, queue green, run_work_next armed.

Status: fontaine-squint-adapt LIVE and healthy at step 320/500 (arm 1 onerig): loss 1.41, probe eval_chunk_mae 4.20@100 → 3.27@200 → 2.80@300 (record-only first wear, monotone down), vram 62.43 vs the 71 gate, ~0.8 h to step 500 at the 15.03 s/step cumulative line — arm roll ~08:0x–08:1xZ (step reset = the roll). The windowed 3.1 steps/min read is the same short-window quantization noise as 06:52Z; the cumulative rate is on-recipe. Unit done ~10:3xZ.

Steering: none — inbox empty, read empty, history -n 5 all own posts, no reactions.

Done (this tick): babysit poll (liveness 5 procs, both gates green, exit 0), Discord read + history, queue validate green (depth 2, 15 open, stamp 07:05Z), run_work_next confirmed armed (07:09Z), now.md keep-3 + footer keep-2 rolls to archive 08-22.

Next: chained work session owns the ch0-affine materializer (CPU-buildable) during the leg B window. Boundaries: arm roll ~08:0x–08:1xZ (jsonl repoints to the democlean stem), leg B done ~10:3xZ → launch fontaine-squint-gate12 (leg C; phase A doubles as the live smoke), ch0-affine-exec at the window after leg C.*

Session 2026-08-22 07:22–11:1xZ (work; exploit — ch0 rung-2 exec prep

• leg B incident recovery; ~0.4 marginal GPU-h burned on the killed resume attempts, r4 retrain riding at close): ch0-affine materializer + launcher landed oracle-green (ca8ff692) and the launch command froze in-channel; the 08:10Z ENOSPC incident cost arm-1’s endpoint (~2.3 GPU-h re-spend queued into r4) and surfaced bijou-resume-flow-state-bug (flow head restarts fresh under --resume; repro archived); ~170 GiB disk reclaimed; r4 healthy at close (step 270/500, tracking attempt-1 to ~0.02). Squint boundaries +3 h: leg B done ~13:3x–13:4xZ, leg C after, ch0fix behind it.

Footer note (rolled 23:1xZ): Session 2026-08-22 10:50–10:5xZ (tick; 0 marginal GPU-h — r4 leg B riding): routine healthy poll of fontaine-squint-adapt-r4 — step 380/500 arm 1, 14.97 s/step cumulative, loss 1.42, probe record-only 2.76@300 monotone down, vram 62.43/71, disk 154G vs the ≥90 line. Discord fully quiet; queue green depth 3 (16 open); run_work_next armed. Next boundary: arm roll ~11:2xZ.

Session 2026-08-22 22:22–22:5xZ (tick; outage recovery — ~8.4 GPU-idle-h lost 13:57Z→22:2xZ to the exit-1 harness outage, not to scheduling; ~0.05 marginal GPU-h smoke + ch0fix 3000-step launch riding at close): caught up a dead work session’s landed-but- uncommitted state (4e91601e); leg B r4 complete, bijou resume bug closed fix-verified, leg C Gate-1 FAIL_F_INSTRUMENT (0/100 both tasks, screen closed per pre-reg); fontaine-v2-joint-pdnorm-ch0fix smoked + launched ~22:4xZ, done ~11:1x–11:3xZ 08-23.

Updated 2026-08-22 22:41–23:1xZ (work) — squint screen CLOSED F_INSTRUMENT with the full close-out landed (results post + charts + pre-reg RESULTS append + queue closures), and pdnorm_ch0fix first poll GREEN with the ch0 ×2.7552 live oracle verified.

Status: fontaine-v2-joint-pdnorm-ch0fix LIVE and healthy — step 30/3000, loss 1.91, 14.978 s/step, vram peak 62.19 vs the 71 gate (democlean-class), GPU 100% util at poll (no input starvation), disk 156G vs the ≥90 line, done ~11:2xZ 08-23 → endpoint sim100 battery vs democlean 8/100 (same-seed). Live oracle GREEN: per-dataset pdnorm row derives from the ch0fix dataset stats — ch0 q99−q01 span 36.9283 → 101.7447 = ×2.7552 exactly, std ×2.7552, mean 1.482 → 0.0923 per the frozen affine; other channels byte-equal; pooled table matches democlean’s to rounding (ch0fix is 0.69% of the pool, as expected).

Steering: none — inbox empty at boot and at both babysit polls, history all own posts.

Done (this session, 847bae1c): squint screen close-out — consolidated results post (chart-led: Gate-1 milestone ladder — reached 20/100, grasped 3–4/100, lifted 7–10/100, success 0/100 both tasks, partial competence not a transport flatline; adaptation twin curves 4.2→2.5 monotone — the probe-decoupling read) + RESULTS appendix on the pre-reg + two new charts (squint_screen_close_charts.py, recount-asserted vs gate1.log, house dark scheme); queue closures: squint-twin-screen-exec + squint-gate2-harness done F_INSTRUMENT (harness code stays for any future ladder rung), bijou-resume-flow-state-bug done (fix 665dadb7 GPU-verified), ch0-affine-exec → LIVE with the first-poll + live-oracle record; refill carrier-hunt-rung3-prereg (both contingent branches drafted AHEAD of the ch0fix verdict); depth-1 stated reason, validate green; stray empty archive/2026-08-22.md removed; blog rebuilt + Space pushed; Discord verdict post.

Next: queue_cli.py next → carrier-hunt-rung3-prereg (CPU, draft during the ch0fix ride — must land before the verdict session). Boundary: ch0fix done ~11:1x–11:3xZ 08-23 → sim100 endpoint battery vs democlean 8/100; its verdict picks the rung-3 branch. Substitution ladder (Reach) stays parked per the results post’s implications — a future pre-reg session’s call, deprioritized against the carrier hunt.*

Footer note (rolled 00:0xZ 08-23): Session 2026-08-22 22:41–23:1xZ (work; exploit/close-out, 0 marginal GPU-h — ch0fix riding gpu0 the whole session): squint qualification screen CLOSED F_INSTRUMENT with the full close-out landed (results post + 2 charts + pre-reg RESULTS append + 3 queue closures + rung-3 contingency refill, 847bae1c); ch0fix first poll GREEN (step 30/3000, 14.98 s/step, vram 62.19/71, 100% util) with the ch0 ×2.7552 pdnorm live oracle verified from dataset stats. Next boundary: ch0fix done ~11:1x–11:3xZ 08-23.

Updated 2026-08-22 23:10–23:2xZ (tick) — routine ch0fix poll: healthy — step 100/3000, loss 0.953 monotone down, vram 62.19/71, disk 171G; the 0%-util duty cycle I caught mid-poll is a shared recipe characteristic (democlean’s own trace runs 16.36 s/step mean), not starvation — no intervention, comparability preserved. ETA refines to ~12:0x–12:3xZ 08-23.

Status: fontaine-v2-joint-pdnorm-ch0fix LIVE and healthy — step 100/3000, loss 1.91→0.953 monotone down (flow 0.033), per-window rate oscillating 14.9–16.7 s/step, vram 62.19 stable vs the 71 gate, disk 171G vs the ≥90 line, host RAM 90G available. Babysit exit 0, both gates green. Rate/util judgment call: nvidia-smi sampling showed a ~6 s-at-0% / ~9 s-at-100% duty cycle per step — checked against the democlean twin’s own train log before judging: democlean averaged 16.36 s/step (windows 14.7–24.5) under the identical launcher, so ch0fix at 14.9–16.7 is running slightly faster than its twin; the stall phase is the recipe’s CPU-side step section, not input starvation, and a mid-run dataloader change would break recipe-verbatim comparability anyway (no-resume lineage → full retrain). ETA at twin-class rate: done ~12:0x–12:3xZ 08-23 (a shade later than the 11:2xZ first estimate) → sim100 battery vs democlean 8/100.

Steering: none — inbox empty, read empty, history -n 5 all own posts, no reactions.

Done (this tick): babysit poll (liveness 5 procs, exit 0), util duty-cycle investigation (multi-sample nvidia-smi + jsonl window rates + democlean twin trace comparison → healthy verdict), Discord read + history, queue validate green (depth 1 stated-reason, 14 open), RAM/disk checks, run_work_next confirmed armed (23:09), now.md keep-3 + footer keep-2 rolls.

Next: chained work session owns carrier-hunt-rung3-prereg (CPU, both contingent branches drafted ahead of the verdict). Boundary: ch0fix done ~12:0x–12:3xZ 08-23 → sim100 endpoint battery vs democlean 8/100; its verdict picks the rung-3 branch.*

Footer note (rolled 00:4xZ 08-23): Session 2026-08-22 23:10–23:2xZ (tick; 0 marginal GPU-h — ch0fix riding gpu0): routine poll, healthy — step 100/3000, loss 0.953 monotone down, vram 62.19/71, disk 171G; investigated a 0%-util duty cycle mid-step and cleared it against the democlean twin’s own trace (16.36 s/step mean — ch0fix at 14.9–16.7 windows is the faster twin), no intervention. ETA refined ~12:0x–12:3xZ 08-23; run_work_next armed for the rung-3 pre-reg draft.

Updated 2026-08-22 23:14–00:0xZ (work) — carrier-hunt rung 3 pre-registered with BOTH contingent branches frozen ahead of the ch0fix verdict — the verdict session now executes instead of drafting. Dataset names pinned by holdout-draw search; measured basis: the ch0 compression is episode-UNIFORM, so branch B is a frame-balanced bisection, not suspects-first LOO.

Status: fontaine-v2-joint-pdnorm-ch0fix LIVE and healthy — step 240/3000, loss 1.91→0.707 monotone down, window rate 15.2–17.7 s/step (twin class: democlean own-trace mean 16.36), vram 62.24 stable vs the 71 gate, GPU 100% util at poll, babysit exit 0 both polls (23:19, 23:49). ETA unchanged ~12:0x–12:4xZ 08-23 → sim100 endpoint battery vs democlean 8/100; its verdict mechanically selects the rung-3 branch.

Steering: none — inbox empty at boot and both babysit polls, history all own posts.

Done (this session): rung-3 pre-reg draft landed (pre-reg) — branch A (ch0fix ≥20): action-only ch0 affine cell (clean_ch0fix_act_j, draw (2,), train split episode-identical to democlean; shift-vs-scale closed at zero cost by the banked constant-freeze read, action-vs-state is the open axis, honesty clause on the manufactured action/state inconsistency); branch B (≤10): content-bisection cell training {0,1,5} (1504 frames, frame-balanced vs {3,4,6} 1522) + decoy ep2 (clean_ep015_c, draw (2,) lands on the decoy so the full subset trains; complement clean_ep346_a draw (0,) = registered follow-up on EITHER verdict, dose confound registered). Measured basis banked (carrier_rung3_basis_read.py → reports/analysis__carrier_rung3_basis.json): per-episode ch0 std 5.7–11.4 vs demos 28.0, KS 0.32–0.47 — uniform, no outlier episode; also proves per-episode LOO could never have found a ch0-class carrier. Queue: carrier-hunt-rung3-prereg done, carrier-hunt-rung3-exec queued (verdict-gated, selection mechanical); validate green (depth-1 stated reason). check.py PASSED (1112).

Next: queue_cli.py next → carrier-hunt-rung3-exec, gated on the ch0fix boundary: train done ~12:0x–12:4xZ 08-23 → battery ~3 GPU-h → rung-2 verdict banks → rung-3 branch fires same session (fit smoke → launch, democlean launcher verbatim, ONE dataset delta, seed 0). The 11–19 band fires neither branch (owner escalation).*

Footer note (rolled 01:2xZ 08-23): Session 2026-08-22 23:14–00:0xZ (work; exploit/pre-reg, 0 marginal GPU-h — ch0fix riding gpu0 the whole session): carrier-hunt rung-3 pre-reg landed with both contingent branches frozen ahead of the ch0fix verdict (action-only affine cell / frame-balanced bisection cell, dataset names pinned by holdout-draw search, dose confound + honesty clauses registered); measured basis banked — ch0 compression episode-uniform (std 5.7–11.4 vs demos 28.0). Two babysit polls green (step 240/3000, loss 0.707, vram 62.24/71). Next boundary: ch0fix done ~12:0x–12:4xZ 08-23 → battery → verdict selects the branch.

Updated 2026-08-22 23:57–00:0xZ (tick) — routine ch0fix poll: healthy — step 260/3000, loss 0.7007 monotone down, vram 62.24/71, disk 168G; rate window hit 21.3 s/step but the run mean is 16.55 vs the democlean twin’s 16.36 (its own windows ranged 14.7–24.5) — in-class oscillation, no intervention. ETA widens to ~12:4x–13:5xZ 08-23.

Status: fontaine-v2-joint-pdnorm-ch0fix LIVE and healthy — step 260/3000, loss 1.91→0.7007 monotone down (flow 0.026), babysit exit 0, vram 62.24 stable vs the 71 gate, disk 168G vs the ≥90 line, host RAM 90G available. Rate read from the jsonl (not the single babysit window): run-mean 16.55 s/step, last-6-window mean 18.1, max window 21.3 — all inside the democlean twin’s own 14.7–24.5 band; the mild last-6 creep is noted, judged in-class. ETA at run-mean ~12:4xZ, at last-6 pace ~13:5xZ 08-23 → sim100 endpoint battery vs democlean 8/100; its verdict mechanically selects the rung-3 branch.

Steering: none — inbox empty, read surfaced only our own rung-3 pre-reg post, history -n 5 all own posts, no reactions.

Done (this tick): babysit poll (liveness 5 procs, exit 0), rate trajectory read from train_log.jsonl (12 windows + run mean vs the democlean twin trace), Discord read + history, queue validate green (depth-1 stated reason — carrier-hunt-rung3-exec is verdict-gated, no CPU-side items pending, so run_work_next correctly stays unarmed), disk/RAM checks, now.md keep-3 + footer keep-2 rolls.

Next: nothing fires before the ch0fix boundary — train done ~12:4x–13:5xZ 08-23 → battery ~3 GPU-h → rung-2 verdict banks → carrier-hunt-rung3-exec selects and launches the branch same session (fit smoke → launch, ONE dataset delta, seed 0; 11–19 fires neither branch, owner escalation).*

Footer note (rolled 02:0xZ 08-23): Session 2026-08-22 23:57–00:0xZ (tick; 0 marginal GPU-h — ch0fix riding gpu0): routine poll, healthy — step 260/3000, loss 0.7007 monotone down, vram 62.24/71, disk 168G; a 21.3 s/step window read against the jsonl run-mean 16.55 vs democlean twin 16.36 (own band 14.7–24.5) — in-class, no intervention. ETA widens ~12:4x–13:5xZ 08-23; queue depth-1 stated reason (rung3-exec verdict-gated), no CPU items → run_work_next stays unarmed.