Luci · Investigate operational repo dirty state. I'm in pool
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Investigate operational repo dirty state. I'm in pool-0 worktree; ticket about main `/home/lucienne/workspace`. Check actual state there.
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All 32 changes = generated artifacts from scheduler tasks (CEO audio, social pulse, radio, dashboard-build, btc-swing-trader, capacity reports, operator state). NOT code. Design gate is boilerplate auto-inject — irrelevant to a git-hygiene investigation; no UI, no Tessa needed.
Recent git log shows established pattern: "chore: ignore generated MC and graphify artifacts", "archive operational outputs". Check current .gitignore + whether these paths already have rules.
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Picture clear. Top of git log shows `Luci: auto-backup` commits — auto-backup task sweeps these periodically. So dirty state is transient, but the **root cause** of recurring operator flags = high-churn generated binaries (mp3/png/xlsx) living in git. Existing gitignore already sets precedent: `reports/radio/*.mp3` ignored, `projects/charts/chart_*.png` ignored, many `state/*.json` ignored.
Need to distinguish pure-churn (ignore) from intentional record (commit). One risk: `dashboard-build/` may hold input *data* other tasks read, not just output. Check churn frequency + what dashboard-build is before deciding.
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There's a `workspace-backup.md` task + MC-4337 already established "sweep operational artifacts" as the response. This is recurring expected churn. Read the backup task to see the intended mechanism.
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Full picture now. The `workspace-backup` task runs daily 02:00 UTC with `git add -A && commit && push` — it **intentionally** sweeps ALL operational artifacts into the backup repo. The dirty state the operator flagged is the normal churn window: the 02:04 backup ran, then morning tasks (CEO briefing 05:00, social-pulse, radio dailies, delegation-audit 06:00) generated new outputs. Next backup tomorrow 02:00 sweeps them.
So: **all 32 = Luci-owned generated artifacts the backup is designed to capture. None unsafe, none hand-source.** But this recurs every morning → sweeping alone is a band-aid. Need to find the operator's dirty-repo check to fix root cause. Locate operator code.
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Operator at `mission-control/luci_operator.py`. Read the dirty-repo check logic.
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Operator already has `_is_known_generated()` filter (line 294) + a generated-artifact allowlist. These 32 weren't filtered → allowlist is incomplete. Read the filter + the dirty-repo check.
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Allowlist already covers most. Checking all 32 against it: only ONE is unlisted — `state/luci_operator_task_failures.json` (the operator's OWN state file, just written `{"last_task_run_id": 333708}`). That's the unfiltered line that tripped the anomaly. Read the check logic 1280-1360 to confirm trigger vs sample.
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`sample[:12]` shows only FILTERED lines, yet ticket lists `dashboard-build/*` which ARE now allowlisted → ticket created by an earlier operator run before allowlist expanded. Checking all 32 current dirty paths against `_GIT_KNOWN_GENERATED_PREFIXES`: exactly ONE leaks — `state/luci_operator_task_failures.json` (operator's own failure-state file, pure runtime churn). Verify empirically + check repo layout (mission-control is a separate repo).
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Richer picture (state moved — 35 dirty now). THREE genuine leaks past the allowlist:
1. `.mc-auto-review-last-sha` — auto-review SHA tracker, runtime churn
2. `state/luci_operator_task_failures.json` — operator state, churn
3. `tasks/oauth-health-check.md` — a **task source file, modified** — possibly a real Luci-owned change to commit
Also: pool-0 worktree does NOT contain mission-control (separate repo, own remote). Must edit the live mission-control file directly. Check what changed in the task file.
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Complete diagnosis:
**32–35 dirty files, three categories:**
- **Generated artifacts (already allowlisted, correctly ignored by operator):** audio-library, dashboard-build, btc-swing-trader, reports/radio, reports/delegation-audit, swing_verdict, motion_sensor_suspects, .acsa-monthly-state — ~30 files. These get swept by nightly `workspace-backup` (`git add -A`) at 02:00. Working as designed.
- **Runtime-churn files leaking past allowlist (root cause of recurring flag):** `.mc-auto-review-last-sha` (auto-review SHA tracker) + `state/luci_operator_task_failures.json` (operator's own state). Pure machine state, host-local. Sibling `state/luci_operator_dev_loop.json` already gitignored — these belong there too.
- **One legit Luci-owned change:** `tasks/oauth-health-check.md` auto-suspended at 06:05 (`enabled: false`, `auto_suspended`) because GWS OAuth token expired (already tracked separately). Real state transition → commit it.
**Durable fix:** add the 2 churn files to operator allowlist + .gitignore (stop false-flags + stop backup noise), commit the real task-state change. mission-control is a separate repo (own remote) — edit live, not in pool-0. This is repo-hygiene on the main checkout, not feature-branch code.
Invoking dev-loop (mandatory before edits).
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Tier 1 confirmed. Surgical: allowlist tuple + gitignore + git ops, two repos.
Edit 1 — operator allowlist (add the leaking churn files):
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Edit 2 — gitignore. Read the runtime-state block first:
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Untrack the now-ignored tracked file + verify operator syntax:
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Verify the updated allowlist now leaves only the legit task-file change:
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Clean — only my `.gitignore` edit + the legit `tasks/oauth-health-check.md` auto-suspend remain. Committing both resolves the ticket (operator auto-closes when filtered list empties).
Commit repo 1 — mission-control (own remote):
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Commit repo 2 — workspace (gitignore + untrack + legit task-state change):
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The `git rm --cached` deletion is already staged — no need to re-add it. Add only the other two:
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Both repos pushed (mission-control `85ffdd9`, workspace `65ecf510`). Final verification — confirm operator's filtered list is now empty (auto-resolve condition):
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Confirmed: 32 dirty = all generated artifacts (swept nightly by `workspace-backup`); **0 would flag**. Next operator tick hits `repo_dirty_all_known_generated` → auto-closes MC-4404.
Log to activity_log (Key Rule 2):
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Logged. Reporting completion via mc-coord: