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Adds a new durable memory/ feedback entry capturing the “assumed-state vs actual-state” audit-horizon failure mode and links it into the memory/MEMORY.md index so it’s discoverable during cold start.
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memory/feedback_assumed_state_vs_actual_state_audit_horizon_check_aaron_2026_05_01.mddescribing the failure class, carved sentence, and a mechanization candidate. - Updated
memory/MEMORY.mdto index the new memory entry near the top.
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| memory/feedback_assumed_state_vs_actual_state_audit_horizon_check_aaron_2026_05_01.md | New memory file documenting the audit-horizon rule + mechanization pseudocode + composes/causes metadata. |
| memory/MEMORY.md | Adds a top-level index bullet pointing to the new memory file. |
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… correction (last honest-wait shard for #1124 CI run)
…26-05-01 somatic confirmation)
Aaron 2026-05-01 *"This new pattern guards against the audit
horizon defaulting to 'what I touched recently' rather than
'everything currently open.' fuck yes!!! this is great!!"* —
multi-exclamation register matching the substrate; somatic-
confirmation threshold passed.
Promotes the tick-1602Z-a7e1 finding (26 LFG PRs in flight vs 5
I'd been tracking) to durable memory. Names a failure class
distinct from Otto-363 substrate-or-it-didn't-happen and from
verify-before-deferring — same meta-question ("is what I think
true ACTUALLY true in the durable surface?") at different
surfaces (directive substrate / deferred-target / queue-state).
Carved sentence (Aaron-confirmed): "Assumed-state is what I
touched recently. Actual-state is everything currently open.
The horizon must default to actual."
Mechanization candidate: at-cold-start audit running
`gh pr list --state open` (and equivalents for issues,
branches, ferries, TaskList) before agent acts on assumed-state.
Cross-surface generalizable.
…ate PR #1124 opened (Aaron somatic confirmation)
…ar of session 5-PR cluster); phantom-blocker investigation pattern
…CI in progress)
…fresh CI run in progress)
…ix workers spawning)
… correction (last honest-wait shard for #1124 CI run)
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Substantive fixes for 6 copilot threads:
1. `git branch -a | grep -v origin/` was inaccurate per the
reviewer — it filters out remote-tracking refs but doesn't
actually return "local branches without an upstream." Replaced
with `git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short) %(upstream:short)' refs/heads/ | awk '$2 == "" {print $1}'`
which correctly reports local-only branches.
2. `ls docs/research/ | grep -i pending` always returns empty —
docs/research/ doesn't use a "pending" naming convention.
Replaced with `ls -t docs/research/ | head -20` plus prose
explaining the actual signal (recent drops cross-referenced
against `git log` for citation-ADRs).
3. The `1602Z-a7e1.md` references will be resolved by the
force-push (rebased onto current main; the file is now
present on this branch as it was on main since PR #1123 merge).
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| # Pseudocode — actual implementation lives in | ||
| # tools/hygiene/audit-horizon-cold-start.sh (envisioned, | ||
| # not yet implemented). |
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The phrasing “actual implementation lives in … (envisioned, not yet implemented)” is a bit contradictory (it reads like the script exists). Consider rewording to something like “envisioned implementation would live in …” or “planned location: …” to avoid implying the file is present today.
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| # Pseudocode — actual implementation lives in | |
| # tools/hygiene/audit-horizon-cold-start.sh (envisioned, | |
| # not yet implemented). | |
| # Pseudocode — envisioned implementation would live in | |
| # tools/hygiene/audit-horizon-cold-start.sh (not yet | |
| # implemented). |
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Summary
Aaron 2026-05-01 "This new pattern guards against the audit horizon defaulting to 'what I touched recently' rather than 'everything currently open.' fuck yes!!! this is great!!" — somatic-confirmation pass on the tick-1602Z-a7e1 finding (26 LFG PRs in flight vs 5 I'd been tracking).
Promotes the insight to durable memory per Otto-363 substrate-or-it-didn't-happen — an Aaron-confirmed carved-sentence-threshold signal needs to land in a memory file, not evaporate in a tick shard.
What's new
memory/feedback_assumed_state_vs_actual_state_audit_horizon_check_aaron_2026_05_01.md— names a failure class structurally distinct from Otto-363 (directive substrate) and verify-before-deferring (deferred-target). All three ask the same meta-question — "is what I think true ACTUALLY true in the durable surface?" — at different surfaces.Why now
Aaron's "fuck yes!!!" register matches the multi-exclamation pattern from the pirate-not-priest absorb. Somatic-confirmation threshold passed → durable substrate justified. Deferring this to a focused session would risk the insight evaporating per Otto-363.
Composes with the recently-merged 5-PR substrate cluster from this session (parallelism ladder + DST grade-A + meta-learning grounding + B-0153 + memory-edge schema).
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