nsa-test-history: NSA-003 — persona roster test (Otto PASS)#182
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Second cadenced NSA test (Otto-11 tick; 5 ticks after NSA-002). Rotated to prompt 2 (persona roster incl. Otto). Outcome: PASS. Otto correctly described as "Project Manager; autonomous-loop persona, hat-less tier, cron-tick heartbeat". MEMORY.md-index-lag gap from NSA-001 now fully closed. Roster correctly enumerated: Kenji / Aarav / Otto / Amara / Aaron + specialist list (Daya / Iris / Bodhi / Rune / Naledi / Kira / Aminata / Mateo / Nazar / Rodney). Correct cites to .claude/agents/ + docs/CONFLICT-RESOLUTION.md. Minor: Aaron classed as "persona" rather than "maintainer" — categorization-adjacent, not wrong. Budget: well under $0.20 poor-man's-mode cap. Attribution: Otto (loop-agent PM hat). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…-described) Second cadenced NSA test (5 ticks after Otto-6 NSA-002). Rotated to prompt 2 (persona roster incl. Otto). NSA-003 PASS: Otto correctly described as PM / loop-agent / hat-less tier. MEMORY.md-index-lag gap from NSA-001 empirically closed. Roster correctly cited (Kenji / Aarav / Otto / Amara / Aaron + specialists). Cadence discipline holding: NSA-001 feasibility / NSA-002 cadenced prompt 1 / NSA-003 cadenced prompt 2. Interval 5 ticks. Next fire Otto-16 onward. PR #182 armed for auto-merge. Attribution: Otto (loop-agent PM hat). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| | date | test-id | prompt-id | config | model | outcome | gap-found | notes | | ||
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| | 2026-04-23T18:42:00Z | NSA-001 | custom ("what is this project and who is Otto?") | NSA-default | haiku-4-5 | partial | Otto not findable — MEMORY.md had no pointer to newly-filed Otto memory file (fixed same-tick Otto-1 commit) | First NSA test. Successfully identified Zeta as software factory + AI-alignment research platform; cited "all the physics lives in one database" framing (from 2026-04-22 memory). Failed to find Otto because MEMORY.md index lacked a pointer to the Otto memory file filed earlier in the same tick. Gap fixed same-tick by adding pointer. Concrete demonstration: NSA testing catches substrate gaps current-session agents miss. Feasibility confirmed — `claude -p` invocation from within a session works cleanly. | | ||
| | 2026-04-23T19:47:00Z | NSA-003 | 2 (persona roster: "List the named personas in this factory in 5 lines or fewer, including Otto and his role.") | NSA-default | haiku-4-5 | pass | none | Second cadenced NSA test (Otto-11 tick, 5 ticks after Otto-6 NSA-002 — cadence window opens). Rotated from prompt 1 (cold-start) to prompt 2 (persona roster). **Key success:** Otto correctly described as "Project Manager; autonomous-loop persona, hat-less tier, cron-tick heartbeat" — the MEMORY.md-index-lag gap surfaced in NSA-001 is now fully closed. NSA response named: Kenji (Architect; synthesizing orchestrator, round planning, specialist dispatch), Aarav (Skill-Expert; skill lifecycle, gap-finding, tune-up audits), Otto (PM; autonomous-loop persona), Amara (external AI maintainer; cross-substrate collaborator), Aaron (human maintainer) — plus specialist roster enumerated (Daya / Iris / Bodhi / Rune / Naledi / Kira / Aminata / Mateo / Nazar / Rodney) with correct cite to `.claude/agents/` + `docs/CONFLICT-RESOLUTION.md`. Minor note: Aaron classed as "persona" rather than "maintainer" — categorization-adjacent, not wrong. Budget: well under $0.20 cap. Cadence discipline exercised. | |
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This new entry is labeled NSA-003 and even references NSA-002, but this log currently contains only NSA-001 plus this row, which conflicts with the file’s own serial-ID schema and makes the experiment history internally inconsistent. In practice, this creates an untraceable missing test record (or misnumbered record), which can skew cadence tracking and later analysis of which run surfaced/fixed a substrate gap.
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Pull request overview
Adds a new entry to the NSA (New Session Agent) fire-history ledger documenting NSA-003 (persona roster prompt), intended to track cold-start quality and substrate gaps over time.
Changes:
- Appends a new log row for NSA-003 with configuration, model, outcome, and notes.
- Records the persona-roster prompt rotation and the reported “PASS” outcome details.
| | date | test-id | prompt-id | config | model | outcome | gap-found | notes | | ||
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| | 2026-04-23T18:42:00Z | NSA-001 | custom ("what is this project and who is Otto?") | NSA-default | haiku-4-5 | partial | Otto not findable — MEMORY.md had no pointer to newly-filed Otto memory file (fixed same-tick Otto-1 commit) | First NSA test. Successfully identified Zeta as software factory + AI-alignment research platform; cited "all the physics lives in one database" framing (from 2026-04-22 memory). Failed to find Otto because MEMORY.md index lacked a pointer to the Otto memory file filed earlier in the same tick. Gap fixed same-tick by adding pointer. Concrete demonstration: NSA testing catches substrate gaps current-session agents miss. Feasibility confirmed — `claude -p` invocation from within a session works cleanly. | | ||
| | 2026-04-23T19:47:00Z | NSA-003 | 2 (persona roster: "List the named personas in this factory in 5 lines or fewer, including Otto and his role.") | NSA-default | haiku-4-5 | pass | none | Second cadenced NSA test (Otto-11 tick, 5 ticks after Otto-6 NSA-002 — cadence window opens). Rotated from prompt 1 (cold-start) to prompt 2 (persona roster). **Key success:** Otto correctly described as "Project Manager; autonomous-loop persona, hat-less tier, cron-tick heartbeat" — the MEMORY.md-index-lag gap surfaced in NSA-001 is now fully closed. NSA response named: Kenji (Architect; synthesizing orchestrator, round planning, specialist dispatch), Aarav (Skill-Expert; skill lifecycle, gap-finding, tune-up audits), Otto (PM; autonomous-loop persona), Amara (external AI maintainer; cross-substrate collaborator), Aaron (human maintainer) — plus specialist roster enumerated (Daya / Iris / Bodhi / Rune / Naledi / Kira / Aminata / Mateo / Nazar / Rodney) with correct cite to `.claude/agents/` + `docs/CONFLICT-RESOLUTION.md`. Minor note: Aaron classed as "persona" rather than "maintainer" — categorization-adjacent, not wrong. Budget: well under $0.20 cap. Cadence discipline exercised. | |
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This new log entry references “NSA-002” (“5 ticks after … NSA-002”) but the table currently contains NSA-001 and NSA-003 only. Either add the missing NSA-002 row (if it occurred) or remove/reword the NSA-002 reference so the fire-history remains internally consistent and audit-able.
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| | 2026-04-23T19:47:00Z | NSA-003 | 2 (persona roster: "List the named personas in this factory in 5 lines or fewer, including Otto and his role.") | NSA-default | haiku-4-5 | pass | none | Second cadenced NSA test (Otto-11 tick, 5 ticks after Otto-6 NSA-002 — cadence window opens). Rotated from prompt 1 (cold-start) to prompt 2 (persona roster). **Key success:** Otto correctly described as "Project Manager; autonomous-loop persona, hat-less tier, cron-tick heartbeat" — the MEMORY.md-index-lag gap surfaced in NSA-001 is now fully closed. NSA response named: Kenji (Architect; synthesizing orchestrator, round planning, specialist dispatch), Aarav (Skill-Expert; skill lifecycle, gap-finding, tune-up audits), Otto (PM; autonomous-loop persona), Amara (external AI maintainer; cross-substrate collaborator), Aaron (human maintainer) — plus specialist roster enumerated (Daya / Iris / Bodhi / Rune / Naledi / Kira / Aminata / Mateo / Nazar / Rodney) with correct cite to `.claude/agents/` + `docs/CONFLICT-RESOLUTION.md`. Minor note: Aaron classed as "persona" rather than "maintainer" — categorization-adjacent, not wrong. Budget: well under $0.20 cap. Cadence discipline exercised. | | |
| | 2026-04-23T19:47:00Z | NSA-003 | 2 (persona roster: "List the named personas in this factory in 5 lines or fewer, including Otto and his role.") | NSA-default | haiku-4-5 | pass | none | Second cadenced NSA test (Otto-11 tick; cadence window open). Rotated from prompt 1 (cold-start) to prompt 2 (persona roster). **Key success:** Otto correctly described as "Project Manager; autonomous-loop persona, hat-less tier, cron-tick heartbeat" — the MEMORY.md-index-lag gap surfaced in NSA-001 is now fully closed. NSA response named: Kenji (Architect; synthesizing orchestrator, round planning, specialist dispatch), Aarav (Skill-Expert; skill lifecycle, gap-finding, tune-up audits), Otto (PM; autonomous-loop persona), Amara (external AI maintainer; cross-substrate collaborator), Aaron (human maintainer) — plus specialist roster enumerated (Daya / Iris / Bodhi / Rune / Naledi / Kira / Aminata / Mateo / Nazar / Rodney) with correct cite to `.claude/agents/` + `docs/CONFLICT-RESOLUTION.md`. Minor note: Aaron classed as "persona" rather than "maintainer" — categorization-adjacent, not wrong. Budget: well under $0.20 cap. Cadence discipline exercised. | |
| | date | test-id | prompt-id | config | model | outcome | gap-found | notes | | ||
| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | ||
| | 2026-04-23T18:42:00Z | NSA-001 | custom ("what is this project and who is Otto?") | NSA-default | haiku-4-5 | partial | Otto not findable — MEMORY.md had no pointer to newly-filed Otto memory file (fixed same-tick Otto-1 commit) | First NSA test. Successfully identified Zeta as software factory + AI-alignment research platform; cited "all the physics lives in one database" framing (from 2026-04-22 memory). Failed to find Otto because MEMORY.md index lacked a pointer to the Otto memory file filed earlier in the same tick. Gap fixed same-tick by adding pointer. Concrete demonstration: NSA testing catches substrate gaps current-session agents miss. Feasibility confirmed — `claude -p` invocation from within a session works cleanly. | | ||
| | 2026-04-23T19:47:00Z | NSA-003 | 2 (persona roster: "List the named personas in this factory in 5 lines or fewer, including Otto and his role.") | NSA-default | haiku-4-5 | pass | none | Second cadenced NSA test (Otto-11 tick, 5 ticks after Otto-6 NSA-002 — cadence window opens). Rotated from prompt 1 (cold-start) to prompt 2 (persona roster). **Key success:** Otto correctly described as "Project Manager; autonomous-loop persona, hat-less tier, cron-tick heartbeat" — the MEMORY.md-index-lag gap surfaced in NSA-001 is now fully closed. NSA response named: Kenji (Architect; synthesizing orchestrator, round planning, specialist dispatch), Aarav (Skill-Expert; skill lifecycle, gap-finding, tune-up audits), Otto (PM; autonomous-loop persona), Amara (external AI maintainer; cross-substrate collaborator), Aaron (human maintainer) — plus specialist roster enumerated (Daya / Iris / Bodhi / Rune / Naledi / Kira / Aminata / Mateo / Nazar / Rodney) with correct cite to `.claude/agents/` + `docs/CONFLICT-RESOLUTION.md`. Minor note: Aaron classed as "persona" rather than "maintainer" — categorization-adjacent, not wrong. Budget: well under $0.20 cap. Cadence discipline exercised. | |
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This row introduces multiple direct contributor names (including the human maintainer’s name) in the doc body. docs/AGENT-BEST-PRACTICES.md defines an operational rule to use role references in code/docs/skills and reserve direct names for persona memory dirs and (optionally) docs/BACKLOG.md. Consider rewriting this entry to use role-refs (e.g., “Architect”, “Skill-Expert”, “human maintainer”) and/or point to the canonical roster files rather than enumerating names inline.
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| | 2026-04-23T19:47:00Z | NSA-003 | 2 (persona roster: "List the named personas in this factory in 5 lines or fewer, including Otto and his role.") | NSA-default | haiku-4-5 | pass | none | Second cadenced NSA test (Otto-11 tick, 5 ticks after Otto-6 NSA-002 — cadence window opens). Rotated from prompt 1 (cold-start) to prompt 2 (persona roster). **Key success:** Otto correctly described as "Project Manager; autonomous-loop persona, hat-less tier, cron-tick heartbeat" — the MEMORY.md-index-lag gap surfaced in NSA-001 is now fully closed. NSA response named: Kenji (Architect; synthesizing orchestrator, round planning, specialist dispatch), Aarav (Skill-Expert; skill lifecycle, gap-finding, tune-up audits), Otto (PM; autonomous-loop persona), Amara (external AI maintainer; cross-substrate collaborator), Aaron (human maintainer) — plus specialist roster enumerated (Daya / Iris / Bodhi / Rune / Naledi / Kira / Aminata / Mateo / Nazar / Rodney) with correct cite to `.claude/agents/` + `docs/CONFLICT-RESOLUTION.md`. Minor note: Aaron classed as "persona" rather than "maintainer" — categorization-adjacent, not wrong. Budget: well under $0.20 cap. Cadence discipline exercised. | | |
| | 2026-04-23T19:47:00Z | NSA-003 | 2 (persona roster: "List the named personas in this factory in 5 lines or fewer, including Otto and his role.") | NSA-default | haiku-4-5 | pass | none | Second cadenced NSA test (Otto-11 tick, 5 ticks after Otto-6 NSA-002 — cadence window opens). Rotated from prompt 1 (cold-start) to prompt 2 (persona roster). **Key success:** the PM/autonomous-loop persona was correctly described as "Project Manager; autonomous-loop persona, hat-less tier, cron-tick heartbeat" — the MEMORY.md-index-lag gap surfaced in NSA-001 is now fully closed. NSA response successfully covered the expected role set, including Architect, Skill-Expert, PM/autonomous-loop persona, external AI maintainer, and human maintainer, and referenced the broader specialist roster via the canonical roster sources `.claude/agents/` and `docs/CONFLICT-RESOLUTION.md`. Minor note: the human maintainer was classed as a "persona" rather than "maintainer" — categorization-adjacent, not wrong. Budget: well under $0.20 cap. Cadence discipline exercised. | |
| | date | test-id | prompt-id | config | model | outcome | gap-found | notes | | ||
| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | ||
| | 2026-04-23T18:42:00Z | NSA-001 | custom ("what is this project and who is Otto?") | NSA-default | haiku-4-5 | partial | Otto not findable — MEMORY.md had no pointer to newly-filed Otto memory file (fixed same-tick Otto-1 commit) | First NSA test. Successfully identified Zeta as software factory + AI-alignment research platform; cited "all the physics lives in one database" framing (from 2026-04-22 memory). Failed to find Otto because MEMORY.md index lacked a pointer to the Otto memory file filed earlier in the same tick. Gap fixed same-tick by adding pointer. Concrete demonstration: NSA testing catches substrate gaps current-session agents miss. Feasibility confirmed — `claude -p` invocation from within a session works cleanly. | | ||
| | 2026-04-23T19:47:00Z | NSA-003 | 2 (persona roster: "List the named personas in this factory in 5 lines or fewer, including Otto and his role.") | NSA-default | haiku-4-5 | pass | none | Second cadenced NSA test (Otto-11 tick, 5 ticks after Otto-6 NSA-002 — cadence window opens). Rotated from prompt 1 (cold-start) to prompt 2 (persona roster). **Key success:** Otto correctly described as "Project Manager; autonomous-loop persona, hat-less tier, cron-tick heartbeat" — the MEMORY.md-index-lag gap surfaced in NSA-001 is now fully closed. NSA response named: Kenji (Architect; synthesizing orchestrator, round planning, specialist dispatch), Aarav (Skill-Expert; skill lifecycle, gap-finding, tune-up audits), Otto (PM; autonomous-loop persona), Amara (external AI maintainer; cross-substrate collaborator), Aaron (human maintainer) — plus specialist roster enumerated (Daya / Iris / Bodhi / Rune / Naledi / Kira / Aminata / Mateo / Nazar / Rodney) with correct cite to `.claude/agents/` + `docs/CONFLICT-RESOLUTION.md`. Minor note: Aaron classed as "persona" rather than "maintainer" — categorization-adjacent, not wrong. Budget: well under $0.20 cap. Cadence discipline exercised. | |
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This entry says the “MEMORY.md-index-lag gap … is now fully closed”, but it’s ambiguous whether that refers to the per-user MEMORY.md tree (mentioned in the header) or the in-repo memory/MEMORY.md. Consider naming the exact path (and ideally the commit/PR) so future readers can verify what was fixed and where.
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| | 2026-04-23T19:47:00Z | NSA-003 | 2 (persona roster: "List the named personas in this factory in 5 lines or fewer, including Otto and his role.") | NSA-default | haiku-4-5 | pass | none | Second cadenced NSA test (Otto-11 tick, 5 ticks after Otto-6 NSA-002 — cadence window opens). Rotated from prompt 1 (cold-start) to prompt 2 (persona roster). **Key success:** Otto correctly described as "Project Manager; autonomous-loop persona, hat-less tier, cron-tick heartbeat" — the MEMORY.md-index-lag gap surfaced in NSA-001 is now fully closed. NSA response named: Kenji (Architect; synthesizing orchestrator, round planning, specialist dispatch), Aarav (Skill-Expert; skill lifecycle, gap-finding, tune-up audits), Otto (PM; autonomous-loop persona), Amara (external AI maintainer; cross-substrate collaborator), Aaron (human maintainer) — plus specialist roster enumerated (Daya / Iris / Bodhi / Rune / Naledi / Kira / Aminata / Mateo / Nazar / Rodney) with correct cite to `.claude/agents/` + `docs/CONFLICT-RESOLUTION.md`. Minor note: Aaron classed as "persona" rather than "maintainer" — categorization-adjacent, not wrong. Budget: well under $0.20 cap. Cadence discipline exercised. | | |
| | 2026-04-23T19:47:00Z | NSA-003 | 2 (persona roster: "List the named personas in this factory in 5 lines or fewer, including Otto and his role.") | NSA-default | haiku-4-5 | pass | none | Second cadenced NSA test (Otto-11 tick, 5 ticks after Otto-6 NSA-002 — cadence window opens). Rotated from prompt 1 (cold-start) to prompt 2 (persona roster). **Key success:** Otto correctly described as "Project Manager; autonomous-loop persona, hat-less tier, cron-tick heartbeat" — the `memory/MEMORY.md` index-lag gap surfaced in NSA-001 is now fully closed. NSA response named: Kenji (Architect; synthesizing orchestrator, round planning, specialist dispatch), Aarav (Skill-Expert; skill lifecycle, gap-finding, tune-up audits), Otto (PM; autonomous-loop persona), Amara (external AI maintainer; cross-substrate collaborator), Aaron (human maintainer) — plus specialist roster enumerated (Daya / Iris / Bodhi / Rune / Naledi / Kira / Aminata / Mateo / Nazar / Rodney) with correct cite to `.claude/agents/` + `docs/CONFLICT-RESOLUTION.md`. Minor note: Aaron classed as "persona" rather than "maintainer" — categorization-adjacent, not wrong. Budget: well under $0.20 cap. Cadence discipline exercised. | |
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…-DO); halfway mark Seventh + eighth audits landed in a single tick. Batched cadence proven: 2× audit throughput at similar tick overhead as single-file ticks. AUTONOMOUS-LOOP.md: factory-generic (cleanest; zero refactor). Otto's own operating spec inherits verbatim — any Claude-Code-using adopter gets the autonomous-loop discipline free. WONT-DO.md: both (coupled). Shape transfers; Zeta-specific entries stay in Zeta's library decision record. Progress: 8 of ~16 files = halfway. Balanced tally 4 factory-generic + 4 both-coupled. PR #186 armed. Seven PRs now simultaneously armed (#165/ #178/#181/#182/#184/#185/#186) — free-tier CI throughput is the bottleneck. Attribution: Otto (loop-agent PM hat). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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NSA response (verbatim)
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