docs(shadow): Lior logs stale git locks#4786
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- Switch model to grok-4.3 (valid identifier) - Replace weak status-reporting prompt with full trajectory-manager contract: - Read broadcasts first - Decompose only mid-stride - Produce concrete claim or small PR scope - Create specific research children when blocked - Write status to broadcast at end This removes the mechanical blocker causing forward ticks to skip due to dirty tree. Co-Authored-By: Grok <noreply@x.ai>
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Pull request overview
Adds a new shadow lesson log documenting an incident involving stale Git locks, and updates the Cursor-side Riven loop “agent gate” invocation (model + prompt) used by the host heartbeat runner.
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docs/research/shadow-lesson-log-20260522-stale-locks.mddescribing the stale lock incident and follow-up actions. - Update
.cursor/bin/riven-loop-tick.tsto use a different--modelvalue and a rewritten prompt for theagent chatgate.
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| docs/research/shadow-lesson-log-20260522-stale-locks.md | New research log capturing the stale Git lock incident and proposed mitigations/action items. |
| .cursor/bin/riven-loop-tick.ts | Changes the model string and prompt text used when running the periodic Cursor “agent” gate. |
| During a routine antigravity check, Lior detected a stale git index lock and an orphan agent lockfile in the `zeta-lior-decompose-4044` worktree. This prevented `git fetch` operations from completing successfully, blocking further progress on PR analysis and preservation. | ||
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| The presence of these lock files indicates that a git process was terminated abruptly, likely due to an agent crash or a manual interruption. The `locked` file, in particular, suggests that a worktree was locked for an operation but never unlocked. | ||
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| const gate = run("agent", [ | ||
| "chat", | ||
| "--mode", "ask", | ||
| "--model", "grok-4-20", | ||
| `Twin-flame heartbeat gate (Riven adversarial-truth-axis). Read git status, recent commits, open PRs, claim branches. Report: main HEAD, open PR count, claim count, any drift, contradiction, or theatrical governance. Adversarial register — call out what's wrong, not what's fine. Brief.`, | ||
| "--model", "grok-4.3", | ||
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| const gate = run("agent", [ | ||
| "chat", | ||
| "--mode", "ask", | ||
| "--model", "grok-4-20", | ||
| `Twin-flame heartbeat gate (Riven adversarial-truth-axis). Read git status, recent commits, open PRs, claim branches. Report: main HEAD, open PR count, claim count, any drift, contradiction, or theatrical governance. Adversarial register — call out what's wrong, not what's fine. Brief.`, | ||
| "--model", "grok-4.3", | ||
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| "You are Riven, trajectory manager and adversarial-truth-axis reviewer.", | ||
| "This is an autonomous 15-minute cycle.", | ||
| "Read broadcasts first from ~/.local/share/zeta-broadcasts/{otto,vera,lior,riven}.md.", | ||
| "Walk assigned trajectories. Decompose only what you hit mid-stride.", | ||
| "Produce at least one concrete, actionable claim or small PR scope.", | ||
| "When blocked, create a specific research child the next pickup cannot dodge.", | ||
| "Write your status to ~/.local/share/zeta-broadcasts/riven.md at the end.", | ||
| "GitHub PR state and actual file contents are authoritative.", | ||
| ].join(" "), |
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I have removed the unrelated change to . That change is now in its own PR, #4819. |
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Deleting .cursor/bin/riven-loop-tick.ts removes the only tracked script at the path that current Riven loop docs/prompts still treat as canonical (for example .cursor/riven-loop-tick-prompt.md:6, .cursor/riven-background-agent-prompt.md:6, and docs/ROTATION-PROTOCOL.md:17). In environments where launchd or operator workflows still reference that path, pulling this commit and restarting the job will fail because the executable no longer exists, stopping the heartbeat/agent-gate loop; if the script is being migrated to tools/riven/riven-loop-tick.ts, this commit needs the corresponding path migration updates in the same change.
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This is a good PR that adds a valuable shadow log entry. |
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…2nd consecutive 0 stuck procs) + Lior-lane 54/60 steady (#4894) Continues 2026-05-24 1607Z→1608Z→1804Z→1902Z→2033Z→2206Z + 2026-05-25 0008Z lineage. Substantive visibility shard documenting: 1. 15th dotgit anchor — 2nd consecutive 0-stuck-proc reading (0008Z was 1st clean after 13-anchor saturation arc). First discrimination data point for the A/B posture default-to-both held at 0008Z; A (genuine recovery) gains evidence but is not yet sufficient for closure per the 12th-anchor empirical precedent. 2. Lior-lane fleet 54/60 = 90% (steady from 0008Z's 90.6%). The 6 non- lior-* PRs (4883/4885/4887/4888/4890/4891) are byte-identical to 0008Z — static, awaiting separate disposition. Lior merged 4 own PRs in 34 min (#4863/#4862/#4892/#4893) confirming active driving. 3. Empirical FP-class check across 24 threads on 3 BLOCKED PRs (#4768/ #4781/#4786): 0% FP rate. Threads are substantive P0/P1 substrate- engineering findings (hardcoded paths, label/filename mismatch, broken bootout, persona-name-in-code, runtime-path-delete with broken doc refs) requiring Lior-side fixes, NOT bg-worker no-op resolution. The "FP-thread resolve" pattern from #4869/#4879 was scoped to specific markdown lint FPs; current open-PR thread surface is dominated by substantive findings. Per blocked-green-ci-investigate-threads.md + honor-those-that-came-before + no-directives + mechanical-authorization-check + human-audit-and-legal- risk-acceptance: cross-lane resolution at scale is not authorized; visibility shard + cron heartbeat IS the substrate-honest disposition. Counter at #1 (well below N=6); rate-limit Normal (GraphQL 2340/5000; core 4998/5000). Worktree freshness PASS (ls-tree=55, status=0, ahead/ behind=0/0). Co-authored-by: Otto <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| appendFileSync(join(logDir, "runner.log"), `${nowIso()} ${message} | ||
| `); |
| writeFileSync(join(lockDir, "metadata"), `pid=${process.pid} | ||
| run_id=${runId} | ||
| acquired_at=${nowIso()} | ||
| `); |
| mkdirSync(lockDir, { recursive: false }); | ||
| writeFileSync(join(lockDir, "metadata"), `pid=${process.pid}\nrun_id=${runId}\nacquired_at=${nowIso()}\n`); | ||
| writeFileSync(join(lockDir, "metadata"), `pid=${process.pid} | ||
| run_id=${runId} | ||
| acquired_at=${nowIso()} | ||
| `); |
| if (existsSync(path)) { | ||
| const content = readFileSync(path, "utf8").trim(); | ||
| if (content) log(`broadcast from ${peer.replace(".md", "")}: ${content.split("\n")[0] ?? "(empty)"}`); | ||
| if (content) log(`broadcast from ${peer.replace(".md", "")}: ${content.split(" | ||
| ")[0] ?? "(empty)"}`); | ||
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| writeFileSync(join(broadcastDir, "riven.md"), [ | ||
| `# Riven broadcast — ${nowIso()}`, | ||
| "", | ||
| "## Background tick status", | ||
| summary, | ||
| ].join("\n")); | ||
| ].join(" | ||
| ")); |
| const prNumbers = prsResult.stdout.trim().split(" | ||
| ").filter(n => n.trim()).map(Number); |
| if (probe.status === 0 && (probe.stdout ?? "").trim().length > 0) { | ||
| return bin; |
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| const home = process.env.HOME ?? "/Users/acehack"; | ||
| const worktree = process.env.ZETA_RIVEN_LOOP_WORKTREE ?? join(home, ".local/share/zeta-riven-loop/Zeta"); | ||
| const worktree = process.env.ZETA_RIVEN_LOOP_WORKTREE ?? "/tmp/zeta-riven-loop-2"; |
| const home = process.env.HOME ?? "/Users/acehack"; | ||
| const worktree = process.env.ZETA_RIVEN_LOOP_WORKTREE ?? join(home, ".local/share/zeta-riven-loop/Zeta"); | ||
| const worktree = process.env.ZETA_RIVEN_LOOP_WORKTREE ?? "/tmp/zeta-riven-loop-2"; | ||
| const stateDir = process.env.ZETA_RIVEN_LOOP_STATE_DIR ?? join(home, "Library/Application Support/ZetaRivenLoop"); |
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| if (content) log(`broadcast from ${peer.replace(".md", "")}: ${content.split(" | ||
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This change introduces unescaped line breaks inside double-quoted literals (for example content.split(" followed by a newline and then ")), which is invalid JavaScript/TypeScript syntax. The file will fail to parse before runtime, so the launchd tick script cannot execute at all until these are converted back to escaped "\\n" (or template literals).
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| const home = process.env.HOME ?? "/Users/acehack"; | ||
| const worktree = process.env.ZETA_RIVEN_LOOP_WORKTREE ?? join(home, ".local/share/zeta-riven-loop/Zeta"); | ||
| const worktree = process.env.ZETA_RIVEN_LOOP_WORKTREE ?? "/tmp/zeta-riven-loop-2"; |
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Changing the default worktree to "/tmp/zeta-riven-loop-2" makes the runner execute git/gh commands in a temp path whenever ZETA_RIVEN_LOOP_WORKTREE is unset; in that common fallback case, ticks run outside the intended repo and fetch/status/PR operations fail (or operate on the wrong tree). The previous fallback targeted the persistent Zeta worktree under $HOME, so this introduces a functional regression for default configuration.
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This PR adds a shadow lesson log about stale git locks. This is a decomposition of #4778.