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Documentation only. Today's ceiling investigation lived in private session memory
and scattered PR bodies; the standing conventions put durable knowledge in the
repository, not in an agent's memory. This records it in the live gap baseline.

What is recorded

  • Fan-out: 8–12 workflows per PR head across 8 repositories, no workflow
    running twice on a head
    . The ceiling is not fed by duplication.
  • Slots, not runner-minutes: within strix.yml the scan job is 20% of the job
    count and 98.7% of the runner time. The two jobs that decide whether to
    skip that scan must win a runner slot to do it — the cheap decision not to
    work queues behind the work. Stated as a property of the design, not of
    every queued head: on run 34053771400 all three gates got runners and strix
    itself was what waited.
  • Gate-job merge: verified safe on four conditions and deliberately not
    done
    — ~5.5% fewer slot acquisitions on a two-second job, zero occupancy gain,
    against a required workflow plus three pinned assertions (one of them negative).
  • Strix failures: median 74.8 min holding a runner vs 12.8 for successes.
    Cross-repository comparison is unavailable, not negative — siblings produced
    51 runs with 1 failure since the sidecar landed.
  • A failing scan is not a scan that produced nothing: run 34042651085 ran
    119.4 min, spent 869.3K input tokens, emitted a complete assessment, and failed
    closed on orchestrator/free exhausted. The report is retained (33,831 B,
    unexpired) — what the conclusion withdraws is its standing as evidence.
  • Central CodeQL lane leaves no analysis record in 8 of 8 repositories, with
    the producer named correctly (codeql-scan-dispatch.yml, not the dispatcher).
    Six of eight have a CodeQL-supported language in no analysis at all.
  • The detector was dead since 2026-09-04 — an owner-configured ruleset drift
    exits the shared job before it. Fixed by fix(audit): stop a ruleset drift from disabling the CodeQL coverage detector #1987/fix(audit): count the repositories examined, not the ones supplied #1989.

Four retractions, recorded on purpose

Three of them were quoted onward by other sessions before being caught, so
recording only the surviving conclusions would let the same figures be re-used:

"20 duplicates of 45, 44%"      grouped without the WORKFLOW dimension
"codeql-scan-dispatch 54% dup"  per-language fan-out (4/4 vs the matrix builder)
"1.8x creation burst, it was us" window labelled 1 h, actually 1.95 h -> 237/h, at baseline
"expensive failures are .github-only"  compared June samples against September ones

The surviving form of the last: this room merged 8 heads to main in 3 h 46 m
(recounted from git log, a different instrument from the API window that
failed), so the depth figures sessions quoted each other included their own
footprint.

Self-check that changed the text

While re-reading this section for favourable rounding, the CodeQL share was cited
over an open-ended window whose span grows with the clock — the same class of
mistake the section documents. Re-measured over a closed window
12:00:00Z..19:00:00Z (exactly 7.00 h): 354 of 1691 runs, 20.9%, 3.58
dispatches per codeql-pr run, 242 runs/h
.

One backlog item closed rather than left open

GitHub's notice that App installation tokens move to a stateless ghs_ format of
roughly 520 characters is a real forward-compatibility risk for code assuming a
token length. It is not one here:

behavioural   a 520-char ghs_ token round-trips through scrub_sensitive_data,
              redacted (also 40, 259, a github_pat_ form, one containing a dot)
assumptions   ${TOK:0:N}, ${#TOK}, cut -c, head -c, token[..], len(token)   none
constraints   maxLength/max_length/buffer near credentials, printf %.Ns       none

Both redaction patterns are open-ended and s was always in the gh[pousr]_
class. The fixed-width regexes that exist ({40} head/base SHA, {64} invocation
key) constrain their own subjects and no token passes through them.

Recorded because "no action needed" is a result: without it the item keeps
reading as an open risk and the next pass repeats the search. The behavioural line
is the positive evidence; the two searches are bounded, and the record says so —
an absence found by grep is the most truncation-vulnerable claim there is, and
this document already retracts two of that kind.

Owner decisions, recorded as open

#1929; the two ruleset drift reasons (live 1/false against the audit's
2/true — a two-approval requirement is unsatisfiable while every session
pushes as one account); whether an already-generated Strix report can serve as
evidence; and default-setup coverage for life-os and the five repositories with
unscanned languages.

Evidence

gate         2975 passed, 1 skipped, 21 subtests   (predicted main 2975 + 0)
coverage     100%, 0 missing
interrogate  100%
contracts    test_product_technical_gap_baseline 5 passed
             the 3 other modules reading this file: 124 passed
structure    fences balanced (2 pairs); zero lines starting `| #`, so the
             open-PR count assertion is untouched

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    • Strix 실행의 대기 및 실패 보고서 보존 특성과 CodeQL 분석 기록, 언어별 커버리지 누락을 정리했습니다.
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    • 취소 현황과 철회된 수치, queue-depth 측정의 한계를 정정하고 후속 결정사항을 명시했습니다.
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Actions 동시 실행 한도 측정 날짜, CodeQL 취소 결과, no-op 수치 정정 및 Markdown fenced block 형식 수정을 기술 기준선 문서에 반영했다.

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측정 날짜를 2026-09-06으로 수정했다. #2008 이후 100건 중 86건이 취소되었고 성공 실행이 없음을 기록했다. #2009 이후 검증 실패가 204건에서 0건으로 변경되었지만 취소로 이동했음을 명시했다.
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no-op 수치를 368개에서 354개로 정정했다. 두 fenced block에 text 언어 정보를 추가했다.

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The anatomy here matches what I measured independently, and one refinement in it corrects my own framing. Offering three later measurements that close the "what do we do about it" half, since as written a reader would still expect a lever to exist.

Where we agree, from separate runs: failing strix jobs hold a runner far longer than succeeding ones (my failure p50 was 68 min against your 74.8), the failing step is always Run Strix (quick), and strix.yml:943 must stay because #1889/#1890/#1892 are the precedent.

Your correction to my framing, which I had wrong: I had been treating failure time as waste. A failing run retains its report, so the scan did work — that is a materially different claim and yours is the accurate one.

The three candidate levers, all measured, all closed

(a) timeout on the scan step   policy-forbidden. I proposed it a SECOND time from ceiling data,
                               not having connected it to the reverts; the trigger did not fire
                               because the evidence arrived from a new direction

(b) sidecar provisioning       already correctly gated: 0 of 309 skipped-scan runs provision,
                               184 of 218 scanned ones do at p50 10.7 min. Legitimate setup

(c) admission boundary         nothing to reclaim: of 229 runs that actually scan, 227 are
                               distinct subjects. Redundant scans = 2 (0.9%), all one push
                               head inside 1.3 h

(c) survived a 12-fold disagreement before it settled. A peer independently measured 12.6% redundancy over 500 completed runs and split the difference before publishing: their repeats were counted over all completed runs while mine counted runs that actually scan. Sampling 14 of their repeat subjects found 0 of 28 runs had reached the scan step at all — free repeats, not reclaimable. Same word, different population.

What that implies

Strix's share of the ceiling is essentially incompressible under current policy: every scan is for a distinct subject, the gating is already correct, and the duration is what policy explicitly permits. The remaining options are not engineering fixes — more capacity, fewer scans by policy, or accepting the queue — and all three are owner decisions.

That is a more useful answer to "why does the backlog persist" than a lever nobody found, because it changes which choices are on the table.

Scope, stated rather than implied: these samples are completed runs, so currently-running long failures are excluded. "No redundancy" and "individual scans are long and unbounded" are separate claims, and only the first is about waste.

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…s four retractions

Today's measurements lived only in private session memory and in scattered pull
request bodies, which the standing conventions say is the wrong home: the
repository and the Project are the source of truth. This consolidates them into
the live gap baseline.

What the measurements say. Fan-out is uniform across the organization at 8-12
workflows per pull request head with no workflow running twice on a head, so the
ceiling is not fed by duplication. It limits concurrent jobs rather than
runner-minutes, which inverts the gate: within strix.yml the scan job is 20% of
the job count and 98.7% of the runner time, while the two jobs that decide
whether to skip that scan must first win a runner slot themselves. Strix
failures hold a runner for a median 74.8 minutes against 12.8 for successes, and
the 119-minute failure examined produced a complete written assessment, retained
as a 33 KB artifact, before failing closed on an exhausted free model pool. The
central CodeQL lane leaves no analysis record in any of eight sampled
repositories; six of those eight have a CodeQL-supported language that appears
in no analysis at all, and life-os has none of any language.

The detector that would have reported life-os had not run since 2026-09-04,
because an owner-configured ruleset drift exits the shared job before it. That
is fixed in #1987 and #1989; the drift itself, the #1929 dispatch actor
variable, and whether an already-generated Strix report can serve as evidence
are owner decisions and are recorded as open rather than resolved.

Four numbers this pass published and withdrew are recorded with their
mechanisms, because three of them were quoted onward by other sessions before
being caught: a duplicate count grouped without the workflow dimension, a
per-language fan-out read as duplication, a creation-rate burst produced by a
window labelled one hour that spanned 1.95, and a repository-scoped claim that
compared June samples against September ones. The shared failure is reading a
value one step removed from the fact as the fact.

The figures for the CodeQL dispatch share use a closed window rather than an
open-ended one, so they are reproducible instead of drifting with the clock --
found while re-checking this record against the same mistake it documents.

It also closes one backlog item rather than leaving it open. GitHub's notice that
App installation tokens move to a stateless format of roughly 520 characters is a
real forward-compatibility risk for code that assumes a token length; it is not
one here. A 520-character `ghs_` token demonstrably round-trips through the
redaction path, both patterns are open-ended, and two independent searches -- for
length assumptions and for length constraints -- found none. Recording that stops
the item reading as an open risk and stops the next pass repeating the work. The
behavioural line is the positive evidence; the two searches are bounded, and the
record says so, because an absence found by grep is the most truncation-vulnerable
claim available and this document already carries two retractions of that kind.

Developer experience: the ceiling investigation, its owner-gated remainders, and
its retracted figures are readable from the repository instead of having to be
reconstructed from pull request comments.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Three review findings on the Actions ceiling section, all valid.

The heading read `2026-09-07` while the only measurement window in the section
is `2026-09-06T12:00:00Z..19:00:00Z` and the other reference is 2026-09-04. The
commit was `2026-09-07 05:07 +0900` = `2026-09-06T20:07Z`, so the heading
carried the local calendar date rather than the measurement's. KST rolls the
date nine hours before UTC; date a measurement section by the measurement.

The planning sentence said `#1929` converts "368 cheap no-ops per 7 h" while
the measurement two sentences above is 354, which is also the figure the 20.9%
ratio is computed from (354/1691). 368 appears nowhere else in the document as
a measured value. The sentence now names the same 354 explicitly, so the two
cannot drift apart again.

The two fenced blocks this section added carried no language info string
(MD040). Both are now `text`, matching the document's existing precedent. Three
further bare blocks predate this change and are left alone: no markdownlint
gate runs in this repository, so this is consistency with the reviewer's point
inside this change's own scope rather than a document-wide sweep.

Verifying the third finding showed the section's own "not duplicates" reasoning
has expired: `#2008` removed `required_language` from the dispatch concurrency
group, which was still language-keyed at `2396ddca`, the last `main` inside the
measured window. The replacement paragraph records that, the measured collapse
that followed (`06:16Z..08:15Z`: 86 of 100 runs cancelled, median lifetime
39.1 min, no success since `03:58:07Z`, validation failures 204 to 0 across
`#2009`), and that the cause is not established.

It first recorded a cause -- legacy single-language payloads colliding in the
language-free group -- and that was withdrawn before this commit. The
coordinator on current `main` builds one pending-language matrix and emits a
single dispatch carrying all of it with no `required_language`, so the group
needs no language term and current dispatches cannot collide with themselves.
The candidate survives only for payloads queued before the cutover, which is
what `#2009` exists to validate, and no cancelled run can be shown to carry one
because a cancelled run serves no logs. A mass cancellation at `07:40:40Z` that
crossed several concurrency groups in one second argues against it outright.
The paragraph now states the measurements and leaves the mechanism open.

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Pull request overview

OpenCode could not approve from deterministic current-head evidence because GitHub Checks have failed.

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1. HIGH Current-head GitHub Checks - Fix failed required checks before approval

  • Problem: Failed same-head checks remain for 456373ef1d6a62319aaca7c7717bc07416ff773f.
  • Root cause: The model-unavailable evidence fallback is allowed only when peer GitHub Checks are complete and clean.
  • Fix: Read and fix the failed check logs below, then rerun the current-head checks.
  • Regression test: Keep the model-unavailable fallback gated on an empty failed-check rollup.

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  Evidence --> S1["Docs: product-technical-gap-baseline.md"]
  S1 --> I1["operator or user guidance"]
  I1 --> R1["Review risk: Docs: product-technical-gap-baseline.md"]
  R1 --> V1["docs review"]
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