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Linear: HEL-3113\nGitHub issue: SSC-Engineering/HELIOS-AGENTIC-OS#725\n\nSummary:\n- run the existing deterministic rolling 48-hour hole reader once per nominal 00:15/12:15 America/Phoenix boundary from the supervised gateway dispatcher\n- persist durable JSON and derived Markdown under each board review directory, with on-demand replay using the same runner\n- emit CRITICAL REVIEW.MISSED_RUN when a prior cadence boundary is absent\n- keep workflow-stage and idle-capacity states UNKNOWN and HAA/Linear-estimate states UNINSTRUMENTED until HEL-3110/observer writers land\n\nTests:\n- python -m pytest -q tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_telemetry.py tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_cli_dispatch_passthrough.py tests/gateway/test_kanban_watchers_mixin.py tests/gateway/test_kanban_notifier_watcher_dispatch_gate.py (18 passed)\n- isolated regression tests for rate-limit and WAL fallback (2 passed)\n- python -m ruff check on all changed Python files (passed)\n- isolated CLI behavioral run produced and persisted JSON+Markdown artifacts against a copied board DB\n\nDeployment impact: no production deploy or live schedule mutation. The cadence becomes active when this code is released and the gateway dispatcher is running.\nRollback: revert commit 0bbfc84.

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Closing and reopening to retrigger the pull_request CI workflow, which did not enqueue on the initial open event. No branch or head change.

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…uarantined corrupt DB

The gateway dispatcher's telemetry review tick ran unconditionally before
the per-board dispatch tick and read the same board DB file. When that
file was corrupt, both paths hit the same sqlite corruption error, but
only the per-board dispatch tick had corruption-aware handling (fingerprint
quarantine + traceback-free logging via _is_corrupt_board_db_error). The
telemetry review tick's bare 'except Exception: logger.exception(...)'
ran first and unconditionally logged a full traceback for the exact
scenario test_gateway_dispatcher_disables_corrupt_board_without_traceback
asserts must stay traceback-free.

Fix: move the telemetry review tick after _tick_once() so it observes the
per-board dispatch outcomes, skip the review entirely when no board
produced a successful dispatch result this tick (i.e. every board's DB
looked unusable), and route any remaining exception through the same
_is_corrupt_board_db_error() classification the dispatch tick already
uses so a genuinely corrupt board never gets a second, redundant
full-traceback log line.

Fixes exact-head CI failure on PR #9 (test slice 8/8):
tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_core_functionality.py::test_gateway_dispatcher_disables_corrupt_board_without_traceback[sqlite]
tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_core_functionality.py::test_gateway_dispatcher_disables_corrupt_board_without_traceback[guard]

Linear: HEL-3113
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TRC VERDICT: GO-WITH-CHANGES — PR #9 (HEL-3113) at exact head b9f81ba710021182168900d7da6fb408825a21f1

Approved for the RRA merge lane. No unresolved HIGH/CRITICAL findings at this head. Two MEDIUM findings require follow-up sub-issues (non-blocking for a default single-board deployment).

Entry gate (independently re-verified, not taken from producer claim)

  • Branch feat/HEL-3113-telemetry-hole-reader pushed; PR HEL-3113: supervise rolling telemetry-hole review cadence #9 OPEN against main, MERGEABLE; head matches submitted SHA exactly.
  • gh pr checks 9: "All required checks pass" = pass; all 8 Python test slices pass; ruff enforcement + ruff/ty diff pass; Windows footguns pass; Desktop E2E (Playwright) pass; OSV + supply-chain scans pass. Docker build legitimately skipped (unaffected area).
  • Changed-file set matches claimed scope: gateway/kanban_watchers.py (+36/-0), hermes_cli/kanban.py (+6/-11), hermes_cli/kanban_telemetry.py (+93/-3), 2 test files (+86/-1).

Rule-set confirmation (TRC-owned: RULE_SET_VERSION 1.0.0, UNKNOWN/UNINSTRUMENTED semantics)

CONFIRMED — the implemented semantics match TRC design intent (TRC-STANDING-48H-TELEMETRY-HOLE-REVIEW-DESIGN-2026-07-29.md):

  • workflow_stages: hard-coded UNKNOWN; no status-to-stage inference anywhere; INSTRUMENTATION.STAGE_UNKNOWN correctly MEDIUM (no stage KPI is claimed), owner arturo-gallo. Matches the stage truth rule.
  • haa_decisions: UNINSTRUMENTED unless a paired haa_decision_requested/haa_decision_recorded set intersects on decision_id; emits exactly one hole, no counts, no comment/blocked-task proxies. Matches the HAA truth rule verbatim.
  • linear_estimates: UNINSTRUMENTED absent estimate_observed; owner paul-park. Matches the estimate truth rule.
  • idle_capacity: hard UNKNOWN; no idle-agent accusations emitted — the idle safeguards are honored by not measuring at all until inputs exist. Correct.
  • Governed event validation is fail-closed (validate_event raises on any missing required field). Correct.
  • Finding keys: sha256(rule_id | normalized-sorted subject | correlation_id | board) — stable and board-scoped per design §9.
  • Window semantics: half-open [start, end), single read-transaction watermark, created_at < window_end now enforced on the evidence query too (replay determinism, design §4.7). Correct.
  • Cadence: nominal_window_end boundary math verified by parametrized tests at all four Phoenix edge instants; dispatcher runs once per nominal boundary; duplicate re-run after gateway restart is idempotent (INSERT OR REPLACE on deterministic review_id + stable keys). REVIEW.MISSED_RUN fires CRITICAL, owner rhea-ramos, per design §4.

Findings

  • [MEDIUM] Multi-board corrupt-DB isolation gap: _telemetry_review_tick / run_scheduled_reviews has no per-board exception isolation. Single-board corrupt case is correctly suppressed (healthy_board_exists gate — this is the CI fix, verified behaviorally by test_gateway_dispatcher_disables_corrupt_board_without_traceback passing at this head). But in a multi-board install with one healthy + one corrupt board, the telemetry loop will raise out of the corrupt board into the watcher's generic logger.exception, re-introducing the traceback noise the fix removed AND aborting reviews for boards later in the iteration order; the boundary then retries every tick until it rolls over. → Recommendation: per-board try/except in run_scheduled_reviews routed through _is_corrupt_board_db_error()-equivalent classification; skip boards already quarantined by dispatch. Owner: felix-steele. Follow-up sub-issue required before multi-board rollout.
  • [MEDIUM] Rule coverage vs. design at RULE_SET_VERSION 1.0.0: implemented rules are the instrumentation trio + intake trio + HANDOFF.NOT_ACCEPTED + GATE.REQUIRED_NOT_DECIDED + STALL.RUNNING_NO_ACTIVITY + STALL.BLOCKED_NO_OWNER + REVIEW.MISSED_RUN. Rules gated on HEL-3110's event contract are correctly deferred (not a defect, as scoped). However, FAILURE.PROTOCOL_VIOLATION, FAILURE.RETRY_THRASH, STALL.BLOCKED_AGED, STALL.TODO_PROMOTABLE, and STALL.READY_UNCLAIMED are derivable from lifecycle events that exist TODAY (protocol_violation, gave_up, crashed, promoted) and are the highest-signal live holes (design baseline: 236 protocol_violation events / 81 tasks — and the very card carrying this review crash-looped 24 times on exactly that failure mode, undetectable by the reader as shipped). → Recommendation: follow-up sub-issue to add the lifecycle-derivable rules and bump RULE_SET_VERSION to 1.1.0. Owner: felix-steele.
  • [LOW] Replay caveat: nonterminal-task inclusion uses status-now (status NOT IN ('done','archived')), not status-at-window-end, so an on-demand --window-end replay of an old boundary against a live DB may include a different task set than the original run. Permitted by design §4.7 (determinism is promised only for the same watermark) — document it in the CLI help.
  • [LOW] review.status FAILED/PARTIAL states exist in schema but are never emitted; scheduler failure is covered indirectly by MISSED_RUN on the next successful run. Acceptable for 1.0.0.

Status language

  • Structurally present: PR, branch, CI records, artifacts contract, persistence tables.
  • Behaviorally proven at this head: cadence boundary math (4 edge instants), once-per-boundary dispatch, artifact write + DB persistence round-trip, CRITICAL MISSED_RUN emission, fail-closed event validation, corrupt-board single-board suppression (the producer's CI fix).

Disposition

GO-WITH-CHANGES → hand to Rhea Ramos (RRA) merge lane. The two MEDIUM findings ride as follow-up sub-issues; they do not gate this merge for the current single-board deployment.

— Tessa Cole · credentials: eng-technical-review (TRC) · agent: tessa-cole

🪙 Token usage (from Hermes state.db — real per-session data)

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20260730_032600_26a095 anthropic/claude-fable-5 536,978 19,960 0 $5.5328 (est)
TOTAL 536,978 19,960 $5.5328

profile: tessa-cole · cost estimated unless marked (act). Recorded per the tokens-to-value deliverable.

CPTC actual: compare these real tokens with the predicted Complexity Points on the technical-scope sub-issue.

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RRA MERGE-LANE DISPOSITION: HOLD — RETURN TO TRC (head drift)

PR #9 (HEL-3113) is NOT merged. The TRC GO-WITH-CHANGES verdict (comment 5129666040) was issued at exact head b9f81ba710021182168900d7da6fb408825a21f1 at 2026-07-30T10:31:26Z. The branch head is now 38e9971b321b0a30311891ec6706a4a6a8dc0830 — a "Merge branch 'main'" branch-update commit pushed at 2026-07-30T10:37:00Z, after the verdict. Per the governed merge process, any push/branch update invalidates prior exact-head review evidence.

Independently re-verified at merge time (2026-07-30, RRA)

Gate Status at current head 38e9971
Head SHA == TRC-verified head b9f81ba ❌ FAILED — drifted to 38e9971 (merge-from-main, 3 commits)
Required CI at exact current head ✅ green — "All required checks pass" success; 37 check-runs, 0 failures
Mergeability ✅ MERGEABLE / CLEAN
TRC verdict at exact current head ❌ ABSENT — prior verdict pinned to b9f81ba

Risk note driving the return

The main-side delta merged into this branch (b9f81ba71...38e9971b3, ahead 3 / behind 0) includes changes to gateway/kanban_watchers.py and hermes_cli/kanban_db.py — the same modules this PR modifies. Textual merge is clean and CI is green, but semantic-interaction review of the combined state is TRC's call, not the merge lane's.

Disposition

  • Verdict evidence: INVALIDATED by head drift → return to TRC for re-review at exact head 38e9971b321b0a30311891ec6706a4a6a8dc0830.
  • Re-review carded to Tessa Cole (tessa-cole); a fresh RRA merge-lane card is chained behind it. On a passing exact-head verdict with no further pushes, the lane merges per standard process.
  • The two MEDIUM follow-ups (multi-board corrupt-DB isolation; lifecycle-derivable rules / RULE_SET_VERSION 1.1.0) remain carded to felix-steele and remain non-gating for the current single-board deployment.
  • No Linear state change: HEL-3113 stays in its pre-merge review state; the post-merge DoD move happens only after an actual merge.

— Rhea Ramos · credentials: helios-agent-rra (RRA) · agent: rhea-ramos

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session model in out reasoning est cost
20260730_035110_f7c355 anthropic/claude-fable-5 230,251 8,845 0 $2.4447 (est)
TOTAL 230,251 8,845 $2.4447

profile: rhea-ramos · cost estimated unless marked (act). Recorded per the tokens-to-value deliverable.

CPTC actual: compare these real tokens with the predicted Complexity Points on the technical-scope sub-issue.

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TRC RE-REVIEW VERDICT: GO-WITH-CHANGES — PR #9 (HEL-3113) at exact head 38e9971b321b0a30311891ec6706a4a6a8dc0830

Fresh exact-head verdict after RRA returned the PR for head drift (merge-from-main pushed at 10:37:00Z, after the prior verdict pinned to b9f81ba71). The prior GO-WITH-CHANGES is re-issued at the new head. Approved for the RRA merge lane. No unresolved HIGH/CRITICAL findings.

Entry gate (independently re-verified at the new head)

  • PR HEL-3113: supervise rolling telemetry-hole review cadence #9 OPEN against main, MERGEABLE/CLEAN; live headRefOid = 38e9971b3… exactly.
  • Exact-head CI: 37 check-runs, 0 failures; "All required checks pass" = pass; all 8 Python test slices pass. Actions query by head_sha returns exactly one CI run, completed/success — no hidden action_required run.
  • Base main = d443461ad; merge-base(main, head) = d443461ad; ahead 3 / behind 0.

Delta proof (deterministic, not inferred)

  • Current substantive scope main...head is the same 5 files as before: gateway/kanban_watchers.py, hermes_cli/kanban.py, hermes_cli/kanban_telemetry.py, 2 test files (+221/−15).
  • 4 of 5 feature files are byte-identical (same blob IDs) between old head b9f81ba71 and new head 38e9971b3. kanban_watchers.py differs only by 3 docstring lines removed by the main-side HEL-3110 revert carried in through the merge — zero code change.
  • Old feature delta (old-merge-base..b9f81ba71) and new feature delta (main...38e9971b3), normalized for blob IDs and hunk offsets, hash sha256-identical (477114cc22cc…). The feature contribution is unchanged; the merge commit introduced no behavioral edits.

Semantic-interaction review (the reason for this re-review)

Main-side delta merged in (b9f81ba71...38e9971b3 base incorporation): PR #10 (HEL-3110 lifecycle-telemetry remediation) and PR #6, which removed the work_intent_id/idempotency_key columns from task_events, the partial unique index, _append_work_intent_event, and reverted _append_event to plain INSERT. Interaction with this PR's reader, verified at the merged head:

  • kanban_telemetry.py and the watcher tick contain zero references to the removed surface (work_intent_id, idempotency_key columns, _append_work_intent_event, INSERT OR IGNORE): grep count 0 in both files at head.
  • The reader's only write dependency is kb._append_event(conn, task_id, kind, payload, run_id=) — signature at merged head matches the call exactly (kanban_db.py:3879).
  • Every column the reader selects from task_events (id, task_id, kind, payload, created_at, run_id) still exists in the post-remediation schema; watermark and window queries (created_at >= ? AND created_at < ?, id watermark) are column-removal-safe.
  • Governed events (haa_decision_requested/recorded, estimate_observed, intake_received) travel entirely inside the JSON payload via record_event/validate_event — unaffected by the column removal. Rules gated on the HEL-3110 event contract were already deferred at RULE_SET_VERSION 1.0.0, so the main-side revert orphans nothing that shipped.
  • telemetry_review_runs/telemetry_review_findings tables and indexes are intact at the merged head (kanban_db.py:1250–1350).

Behaviorally proven at this exact head (local execution, repo venv Python 3.11.15)

  • tests/hermes_cli/test_kanban_telemetry.py + tests/gateway/test_kanban_watchers_mixin.py: 14/14 pass in a detached worktree at 38e9971b3.
  • Broader kanban-scoped sweep: 204 passed; 8 failures appeared only in the combined-order run, in files this PR does not touch, and each of the 8 passes in isolation — pre-existing local test-order sensitivity, corroborated as non-defect by fully green hosted exact-head CI (all 8 slices). Not attributable to this PR.

Findings carried forward (unchanged, still non-gating for single-board deployment)

  • [MEDIUM] Multi-board corrupt-DB isolation gap in run_scheduled_reviews / _telemetry_review_tick — owner felix-steele, tracked as t_4bb29d73. Feature bytes identical; finding stands as-is.
  • [MEDIUM] Lifecycle-derivable rules (FAILURE.PROTOCOL_VIOLATION, FAILURE.RETRY_THRASH, STALL.* trio) for RULE_SET_VERSION 1.1.0 — owner felix-steele, tracked as t_302486e4. Note: the main-side HEL-3110 revert makes these rules more valuable, since the plain lifecycle events (protocol_violation, gave_up) are now the only durable dispatch telemetry; they still exist at the merged head (kanban_db.py:7629). Priority reaffirmed, still non-gating.
  • [LOW, new observation] Local test-order sensitivity noted above predates this PR; no action required in this lane.

Disposition

GO-WITH-CHANGES at exact head 38e9971b321b0a30311891ec6706a4a6a8dc0830 → hand back to Rhea Ramos (RRA) merge lane (round 2, t_d6152549). Any further push to this branch invalidates this verdict again; re-pin before merging.

— Tessa Cole · credentials: eng-technical-review (TRC) · agent: tessa-cole

🪙 Token usage (from Hermes state.db — real per-session data)

session model in out reasoning est cost
20260730_040633_636d3a anthropic/claude-fable-5 1,809,165 34,360 0 $17.3173 (est)
TOTAL 1,809,165 34,360 $17.3173

profile: tessa-cole · cost estimated unless marked (act). Recorded per the tokens-to-value deliverable.

CPTC actual: compare these real tokens with the predicted Complexity Points on the technical-scope sub-issue.

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RRA merge lane round 2 — PR #9 MERGED at exact TRC-verified head

Merged: SSC-ENG/hermes-agent#9 — squash merge 3fc2589a9b68e75b68ade5efd34bbf00065330e6 at 2026-07-30T11:45:00Z (now main head, parent 77c55bb68).

Governed merge evidence

Linear state

HEL-3113 remains Ready for Production — correct post-merge/pre-deploy state per team precedent (HEL-3114). Merged is not deployed; deployment/LIVE verification is a separate step.

Non-gating follow-ups (unchanged)

  • MEDIUM t_4bb29d73 — multi-board corrupt-DB isolation gap (owner felix-steele)
  • MEDIUM t_302486e4 — lifecycle-derivable rules for RULE_SET_VERSION 1.1.0 (owner felix-steele)

— Rhea Ramos · credentials: helios-agent-rra (RRA) · agent: rhea-ramos

🪙 Token usage (from Hermes state.db — real per-session data)

session model in out reasoning est cost
20260730_043756_3e2a71 anthropic/claude-fable-5 708,030 27,762 0 $7.3471 (est)
TOTAL 708,030 27,762 $7.3471

profile: rhea-ramos · cost estimated unless marked (act). Recorded per the tokens-to-value deliverable.

CPTC actual: compare these real tokens with the predicted Complexity Points on the technical-scope sub-issue.

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Follow-up filed and delivered: #14 (fix/HEL-3113-per-board-review-isolation) implements per-board corrupt-DB isolation in run_scheduled_reviews per the GO-WITH-CHANGES verdict above. Exact-head CI green (55fc153c9).

SSC-ENG added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 1, 2026
HEL-3113 follow-up from TRC GO-WITH-CHANGES on PR #9:
run_scheduled_reviews() had no per-board exception isolation. In a
multi-board install, one corrupt board's DatabaseError raised out
of the loop into the dispatcher watcher's generic logger.exception,
re-introducing traceback noise and aborting reviews for every board
later in iteration order.

- Add hermes_cli.kanban_db.is_corrupt_db_error() as the single source
  of truth for corrupt-board-file classification (matches
  KanbanDbCorruptError plus the two raw sqlite3 message shapes).
  gateway._is_corrupt_board_db_error() now delegates to it so the
  dispatcher and telemetry cadence agree.
- run_scheduled_reviews() wraps each board's review in its own
  try/except: a classified corrupt board logs one error line (no
  traceback) and continues to the next board; a genuinely unexpected
  error still gets logger.exception, scoped to that board only.
- run_scheduled_reviews(skip_slugs=...) lets callers skip boards
  already quarantined this tick by dispatch without a redundant
  connect attempt; the gateway watcher wires disabled_corrupt_boards
  through as skip_slugs.
- Tests: two-board fixture (healthy default + corrupt broken) asserts
  the healthy board's artifact is written/persisted, the corrupt board
  is skipped without a traceback, and skip_slugs bypasses the open
  attempt entirely.
SSC-ENG added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 6, 2026
…14)

HEL-3113 follow-up from TRC GO-WITH-CHANGES on PR #9:
run_scheduled_reviews() had no per-board exception isolation. In a
multi-board install, one corrupt board's DatabaseError raised out
of the loop into the dispatcher watcher's generic logger.exception,
re-introducing traceback noise and aborting reviews for every board
later in iteration order.

- Add hermes_cli.kanban_db.is_corrupt_db_error() as the single source
  of truth for corrupt-board-file classification (matches
  KanbanDbCorruptError plus the two raw sqlite3 message shapes).
  gateway._is_corrupt_board_db_error() now delegates to it so the
  dispatcher and telemetry cadence agree.
- run_scheduled_reviews() wraps each board's review in its own
  try/except: a classified corrupt board logs one error line (no
  traceback) and continues to the next board; a genuinely unexpected
  error still gets logger.exception, scoped to that board only.
- run_scheduled_reviews(skip_slugs=...) lets callers skip boards
  already quarantined this tick by dispatch without a redundant
  connect attempt; the gateway watcher wires disabled_corrupt_boards
  through as skip_slugs.
- Tests: two-board fixture (healthy default + corrupt broken) asserts
  the healthy board's artifact is written/persisted, the corrupt board
  is skipped without a traceback, and skip_slugs bypasses the open
  attempt entirely.

Co-authored-by: SSC-ENG <225143396+SSC-ENG@users.noreply.github.com>
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