Luci · Goal acknowledged. Big job: deep-dive MC board + orch
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Goal acknowledged. Big job: deep-dive MC board + orchestration, then improve within current ops model. Start with recon — existing audit from this morning already in `reports/orchestration-audit/`. Read that first, then spin up agents.
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Task #1 first — review MC-4914 archive handoff:
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rtk filtering garbles output. Use raw proxy:
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MC push rejected — remote moved. Rebase + push:
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Remote history rewritten (SHAs changed). Verify nothing dropped:
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All commits intact (remote linearized, same changes new SHAs). MC-4914 fully delivered — close with evidence:
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Green. Land on master:
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Deploy gate: push, restart service, live-verify new code served:
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Live-verified both pages. (Side finding: /activity HTML is 4.9 MB — unbounded feed, logging for UX pass.) Close MC-4916:
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Now review MC-4913 close-gate commit (the critical false-done fix):
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Three agents in flight (D map, C map, 4913 review). Pulse MC-4917:
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Schema has `done_sha`/`tessa_verdict`/`runtime_sessions` — F can verify against master. Check task-file format for pure-script jobs:
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Format clear. Write the combined guard script (B+F) — pure Python, mirrors delegation_audit.py pattern:
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Guard works — caught 7, but several are false positives (watchdog alerts, verification-only tickets). Tune heuristic — check actual project values:
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`runtime_profile` is a default field, not work evidence — too weak a signal. Tighten: require actual worker evidence, exclude scheduled/watchdog:
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Query missing `source_type` column. Fix:
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Task file created. Wiki inventory needs updating (fold into C doc-truth). Validate scheduler parses it + lint runtime profile:
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B+F functional. Create the umbrella MC ticket (delegation-guard requirement) + commit:
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MC-4921 created, B+F committed. Task #5 done → Task #3 (D). Back up + inspect the controller cron config:
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Inject quantified router-only rules into the controller prompt:
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Both landed clean. Full test suite:
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`shared_console` import error — pre-existing environmental issue (external package from PKA, noted in this morning's console session), unrelated to 4913. Exclude and run rest:
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179 failures — need attribution: pre-existing vs 4913-caused. Sample the failures:
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Failure cluster = all done-path tests. Check actual error — likely the new gate blocking test fixtures that close tickets without commits:
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Attribute: run same tests at pre-4913 commit via throwaway worktree:
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Baseline has 33 pre-existing failures in those same files. Compare per-file new vs old:
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Baseline file empty — background run likely died at collection. Check:
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Baseline worktree missing a gitignored fixture. Exclude that file from both runs for apples-to-apples:
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Add regression test for the fix:
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Deploy: restart + live-verify the gate with a synthetic ticket (create → attempt done → expect block → cancel):
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Live gate test — synthetic code ticket must be blocked from done:
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**Gate live-verified: 422 `missing_landed_commit_proof`** — the false-done hole is closed in production. Clean up + close MC-4913:
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No caching — `get_job` → `load_jobs()` reads disk every call. Prompt edit takes effect next tick, no restart. Validate JSON integrity:
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Headers stamped. Now doc truth — fix workspace CLAUDE.md:
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Now the runtime-architecture doc section:
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Update wiki task inventory:
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Commit C in both repos:
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MC-4917 done: `b9163ac`, clean tree. Review:
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Tests 11/11. Verify one semantic: `pct` fraction vs percent:
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Correct (fraction). Land:
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Cherry-pick didn't land — no new commit. Diagnose:
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Home v2 live. Mandatory board canary battery (dashboard_v2 changed):
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13/13 green. Close MC-4917 with stamped SHA:
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Now the template — find feed end for the load-more control:
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Write the synthesis report:
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Not a hole — the close path auto-resolved `done_sha` from my landed workspace commit referencing the ticket, gate verified ancestry. Evidence pipeline working as designed. Final closeout — commit everything + activity log:
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Report commit swept in a 117 MB preserved-worktree tarball. Rewrite: exclude preservation artifacts from git:
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Deep-dive complete. All six audit items (A–F) delivered, deployed, live-verified; board UX upgraded and Tessa-approved.
**What changed today (session 2, building on the morning audit):**
**Trust — the big one (A, MC-4913):** A code ticket can no longer reach `done` without a real landed commit. Gate fails closed, covers all 6 close paths, migration applied to live mc.db. Live-proven: synthetic ticket got `422 missing_landed_commit_proof`. I also fixed the review's false-positive risk so Life tickets titled "Fix: …" still close freely. The ~1-in-20 false-done leak is shut.
**Guards (B+F, MC-4921):** New `orchestration-guard` scheduler task — pure Python, 6-hourly, silent unless violations: false-done drift detection (cherry-pick-safe), coding-questions-parked-on-you detection, controller token-budget breaches. It already caught 2 real historical false-dones in dry-run with zero noise.
**Controller discipline (D):** Board-manager cron now carries a hard router-only budget in its prompt (no inline code edits, ≤15 tool calls/tick, delegate everything heavier) with the guard as detective backstop. Its 100k–360k token ticks were the biggest cost leak.
**One dispatch path (C + E):** 32 disabled dispatcher tasks archived with checksums + tested restore; DORMANT headers on all dead dispatch code; CLAUDE.md, runtime docs, manifest, and wiki now all tell the same truth: one dispatcher — board-manager → internal Kanban → isolated worktrees. ~31 GB of worktree litter already reaped this morning.
**Board/UX:** Home now answers "what needs you / health / budget" on first viewport (MC-4917); /runs got Re-run + View log, /activity rows clickable (MC-4916); /activity load fixed from 4.8 MB/5.7 s to 0.17 MB/0.12 s. Canary battery 13/13, console clean; Tessa full pass desktop+mobile: **APPROVED FOR ELMAR**.
Notably, the morning audit called the internal Kanban "vestigial" — by midday it was the live backbone, routing all five of today's tickets through isolated worktrees with reviewable handoffs. Your ops model held; it just needed the gate, the budget, doc truth, and a monitor.
Full report: http://100.118.207.3:3001/md-view?file=reports/orchestration-audit/2026-06-10/DELIVERY.md
Board: http://100.118.207.3:3001/
**One decision waits on you:** MC-4918 — the IA cleanup worker prepared a precise delete-list (legacy Home/Cockpit fork, board-v1 fallback, app-shell duplicate IA), each with replacement, rollback, and post-delete tests. Nothing gets deleted until you approve: http://100.118.207.3:3001/ticket/MC-4918
Suggested next: approve the MC-4918 delete-list groups 1+2 (legacy Home + board-v1 forks — both have safe rollbacks and the redesigned versions are now Tessa-approved), and I'll execute the retirement under the canary gate. Shall I proceed with groups 1+2? (yes/no)
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Your advice?
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My advice — stage it:
**Group 2 (board-v1 fallback) — approve now.** Board v2 default for weeks, battle-tested, canary battery drives every control. `/board-legacy` is pure dead weight. Zero-risk delete with documented rollback.
**Group 1 (legacy Home/Cockpit) — approve after ~48h burn-in.** New Home landed 2 hours ago. Tessa+canary green, but real usage (you, mobile, Telegram links) hasn't touched it yet. Cookie escape hatch (`mc-ui-v2=0`) costs nothing to keep until Friday; if new Home annoys you tomorrow, fallback = one cookie instead of git revert + restart. Delete Friday if no complaints. Only caveat inside group 1: `/settings` extraction from Cockpit markup needs its own small template — that's the one real work item, not just deletion.
**Group 3 (app-shell duplicate IA) — hold.** IA restructure proper (5-section nav, MC-4918 main scope) not designed yet. Deleting the app-dock duplicate before new nav exists risks orphaning routes. Fold into the IA work itself.
Reasoning: risk asymmetry. Deleting forks today saves nothing measurable; a discovered Home issue tomorrow with no escape hatch costs an evening. Board fork has no such asymmetry — v2 is proven.
Suggested next: I execute group 2 now under canary gate, schedule group 1 for Friday pending your Home burn-in, park group 3 inside IA design. Go? (yes/no)
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Okay, do that.
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Executing. First pull the full group-2 spec from the kanban card:
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Staged execution in motion:
- **Group 2 (board-v1 retirement):** implementation agent running in an isolated worktree with the reviewed delete-list as spec — single atomic commit, board tests must pass, no service touch. I land it, restart, and run the canary battery when it reports back.
- **Group 1 (legacy Home):** MC-4926 created, due Friday 2026-06-12, includes the `/settings` extraction work item and the no-complaints precondition. http://100.118.207.3:3001/ticket/MC-4926
- **Group 3:** held, folded into the IA restructure scope on MC-4918 — sign-off decision recorded on the ticket.
Will report when group 2 is landed + canary-verified.
Suggested next: nothing needed from you until then — I'll ping when the board-v1 fork is gone and verified. OK to deliver the result as a Telegram-style summary here when done? (yes/no)
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Yes
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Noted. Checking group-2 agent progress:
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Agent mid-work — branch `kb/mc-4918-board-v1-retire` created in its own worktree, edits in progress. I'll land + canary + deploy when it completes and send the summary here.
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Agent succeeded: 278 tests pass, one smart stop — `/partials/board-panel` + 2 partials stay because legacy Home still embeds them (they retire Friday with group 1). Landing now:
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Clean surgical diff. Merge, test, deploy:
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Live verified. Mandatory canary battery:
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**Board v1 fork retired — landed, deployed, verified.**
- /board now always renders v2 — the env flag and the legacy template are gone (756 lines deleted)
- Old bookmarks safe: /board-legacy and /board-v2 both 301-redirect to /board (live-checked)
- "Legacy board" escape-hatch link removed from the board legend
- 267 board tests pass, canary battery 13/13, zero console errors, service restarted and serving the new code
One smart catch by the implementation agent: the v1 board *panel* partials had to stay — your legacy Home page (the one we're retiring Friday) embeds one as its side panel. Deleting them now would have broken the very escape hatch we agreed to keep through burn-in. They're added to Friday's MC-4926 scope and die together with legacy Home.
State of MC-4918: group 2 done, group 1 queued for Friday (MC-4926, due 2026-06-12), group 3 folded into the IA-restructure design.
Board: http://100.118.207.3:3001/board
Suggested next: use Home + board normally today/tomorrow; if nothing annoys you by Friday I execute the legacy-Home retirement (MC-4926) without asking again. Agreed? (yes/no)
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Yes
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Locking that in:
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Done. MC-4926 snoozed to Friday 05:00 UTC, status `todo` — board-manager dispatches it automatically when the snooze lifts, pre-approval recorded on the ticket so no one asks you again. If a Home-v2 complaint lands before then, the precondition in the ticket halts it.
Everything from today's deep-dive is now closed or scheduled: gate live, guards running, controller budgeted, docs truthful, board UX shipped and Tessa-approved, board-v1 fork gone, legacy-Home retirement armed for Friday.
Suggested next: nothing — I'm done here; the guard's first scheduled run reports tonight, silent if clean. Happy to stop here? (yes/no)
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ultracode — Do a thorough review of the MC scheduled tasks (code + the live running app). Use a workflow: fan out agents across correctness bugs, data accuracy, dead/duplicated code, performance, and UX problems, and adversarially verify every finding before reporting it. Test against the real running server not just the files. Give me one prioritised list: what's broken, what's fragile, what's worth simplifying — with effort estimates. Don't fix anything yet.
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Five-dimension fan-out over the MC scheduled-tasks stack (scheduler engine + 121 task files + live /tasks /runs surfaces), adversarial verify per finding, synthesize one prioritized list. Launching workflow:
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Workflow running: 5 dimension finders (correctness, data accuracy, dead/dup, performance, browser-UX) sweep the scheduler engine + 121 task files + live server in parallel; every finding then gets an adversarial verifier (two lenses for "broken" claims — reproduce + refute) re-deriving evidence against the real running app before it's allowed into the report; a synthesizer dedups and ranks. All agents read-only — no fixes, no mutations, no service touches.
Report lands at `reports/orchestration-audit/2026-06-10/scheduled-tasks-review.md`. I'll post the prioritized list here when it completes.
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Review complete — 62 agents, 42 findings adversarially confirmed (4 refuted and discarded), merged to **35 items: 6 broken, 13 fragile, 16 simplify**. Nothing touched, as ordered.
**One deadline item:** #1 fires **this Saturday** — an exit-code-75 "warning" path in the scheduler never consumes the cron slot, so `f1-sprint-pick` will refire every minute from Sat 04:00 SAST (~29k runs flooding task_runs + your inbox). One-line fix; needs to land before Saturday.
**Top 10 (full 35-item list in the report):**
| # | Severity | Finding | Effort |
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| 1 | broken | Exit-75 runs never consume cron slot → guaranteed every-minute refire loop from Sat (scheduler.py:1996) | S |
| 2 | broken | Cost telemetry dead since May 31 — /cost massively under-reports; cost path unreachable, hardcodes $0.0 | M |
| 3 | broken | /runs can't show failures older than ~15 min — hardcoded limit=50, no filters; says "No failed runs" while failures exist | M |
| 4 | broken | Task detail page 2.1× device width on mobile — the page you'd open from your phone when a task fails | M |
| 5 | broken | mc-health-check-hourly is a silent no-op — empty command, reports green 24×/day | S |
| 6 | broken | Schedule parser mangles comma-hour crons — "Sat at 4,6:0" rendered live on /tasks | S |
| 7 | fragile | Serial tick + flock: one long task stalls ALL scheduling 10–21 min, ~5×/day | S |
| 8 | fragile | reconcile wipes newer run's lock unconditionally (MC-4052 fix missed this path) | S |
| 9 | fragile | /api/run double-runs long tasks (120s stale-lock) + SIGKILLs at 600s, orphaning workers | S |
| 10 | fragile | Failure reason shows first 120 chars of *stdout* — actual error truncated away | S |
The pattern: the scheduler *runs* things fine, but its **trust surfaces lie** — cost says ~$0 during thousands of LLM runs, health check is a no-op, failures vanish from /runs after 15 minutes. Same disease as the board's false-dones, different organ. Lock lifecycle has 4 independent defects — worth one hardening pass instead of spot fixes.
Effort to clear all broken+fragile: 15×S + 4×M ≈ **4–5 dev-days**.
Full report: http://100.118.207.3:3001/md-view?file=reports/orchestration-audit/2026-06-10/scheduled-tasks-review.md
Suggested next: I land #1 tonight (one-line, pre-Saturday deadline) and ticket the rest as a fix wave for tomorrow. Go on #1 now? (yes/no)
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Let's create a task list of issues to fix. Then let's do them one by one. You tell me what the task is supposed to do and what the issue is - because there might be some tasks that are actually just redundant and not required anymore. Maybe you can do that as we go through them. Check whether we still need them with the changes we've made to the MC orchestration and the MC board
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Reading the full report to build the work list:
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Building the work list — 35 findings cluster into 12 work units (same-root-cause items grouped so one pass fixes them together):
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Task list ready — **12 work units** (session tasks #8–19), tracked as MC-4942. Order: U1 (Saturday deadline) → U2 (your redundancy decisions) → U3–U12 by impact.
| Unit | What | Effort |
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| U1 | Exit-75 slot bug + 'warning' status UI — **must land before Sat** | S |
| U2 | Redundant-task triage — 5 tasks, your call each | decisions |
| U3 | Lock-lifecycle hardening (4 defects, one design) | M |
| U4 | /runs forensics: filters, real error preview, mobile, absolute times | M |
| U5 | Cost telemetry resurrection (dead since May 31) | M |
| U6 | Task detail page (mobile 2.1×, stats labels, markdown) | M |
| U7 | Schedule display (comma-cron mangling, Custom humanize) | S |
| U8 | Serial-tick stalls (long tasks blind the watchdogs) | S |
| U9 | scheduler.py duplicate-function excision (~200 dead lines) | M |
| U10 | /tasks UX (search scope, jargon, taxonomy, scroll-box) | M |
| U11 | Logging hygiene (40MB unrotated log, log-page dead-end) | S |
| U12 | Metadata honesty (AI profile on shell tasks, graveyard leftovers) | S |
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**U1 briefing** (the format you asked for):
**The task:** `f1-sprint-pick` — runs Saturdays 04:00+06:00, submits your F1 sprint-race picks to Superbru via `run_sprint_pick.py`. On non-sprint weekends it deliberately exits with code 75 ("nothing to do, skip") — that's by design, and these multi-hour guard windows were added in this morning's F1 task redesign.
**The issue:** not the task — the *engine*. `scheduler.py` records exit-75 as status `warning`, but `last_run_time()` only counts `completed/failed/timeout` when deciding "has this task already run its slot?" So a warning run leaves the slot unconsumed → the task fires again next tick, every minute, forever. Verified against real rows: 180/180 ticks refire. No sprint until ~Jul 4, so from this Saturday 04:00 you'd get ~29k junk runs and an inbox flood. The author's own code comment names this exact failure mode — `warning` was just missed from the list.
**Still needed?** Yes — F1 season active, Superbru picks are yours, task redesigned just this morning. Keep task, fix engine. Plus the small pair: the UI was never taught the `warning` status (unstyled badge, missing from legend/sort) — hundreds of warning rows would render naked from Saturday.
Fixing U1 now (one line in `last_run_time` + warning badge/legend), tests + deploy-verify after. Go? (yes/no)
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Yes fix it
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Fix exists but **uncommitted** — working tree was edited by someone. Check when and by whom:
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Refire loop dead: warning consumes the slot, 04:01 refire suppressed, 06:00 slot still fires. Commit:
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Landing card done, `ec7b904` on master. Verify deploy actually happened (gate: trust artifacts, not card narration):
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Live (landing card cycled gunicorn workers — new code served, tests green). U1 complete:
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**U1 done — Saturday flood defused.** Engine fix verified behaviorally (warning row consumes slot: no refire at 04:01, next slot 06:00 fires) and committed; warning UI landed via the kanban worker (amber badge, legend, Problems chip), live-served, tests green. One process note logged: the board-manager made the engine edit *inline* at 23:03 — correct fix, but violates the router-only rule from this morning; prompt-only enforcement isn't enough, flagged for the D follow-up.
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**U2 — the redundancy triage you asked for.** Five tasks, each: purpose → issue → my verdict against the new orchestration:
**1. mc-health-check-hourly** — *Supposed to:* hourly control-plane health check. *Issue:* empty command (the "Command:" line is markdown body, never executed) — exits 0 in 0.02s, green 24×/day since creation; even its described checks target the dispatchers we retired today; references a script that doesn't exist. *Verdict:* **retire**. Health is now covered 3 ways: Hermes control-plane watchdog (15 min), mc-canary e2e (30 min), orchestration-guard (6 h). This one never checked anything.
**2. mc-wal-checkpoint** — *Supposed to:* hourly WAL checkpoint so mc.db's WAL doesn't bloat. *Issue:* the scheduler tick already runs a *stronger* TRUNCATE checkpoint **every minute**; same scheduler runs both, so it adds zero scheduler-down coverage; its >50MB warning exits 0 silently anyway. *Verdict:* **retire**. Pure shadow of the per-tick checkpoint.
**3. mc-orchestrator-inbox-cleanup** — *Supposed to:* weekly sweep of stale orchestrator-inbox rows. *Issue:* targets rows that structurally can't exist since MC-4305 (inserted as processed + a 7-day delete already runs); verified 0 matching rows in 33k. *Verdict:* **retire**. Third cleanup mechanism for a table that has two working ones.
**4. cleanup-stale-worktrees** — *Supposed to:* daily reap of per-ticket worktrees. *Issue:* 0 removals in 33 straight days — the worktree pool stopped creating its target population; weekly worktree-reaper does the real work. *Verdict:* **repurpose, not just retire** — today's machine creates worktrees in `state/kanban-worktrees/` which NO task reaps (this morning's 31 GB was a manual cleanup). Collapse the 4 overlapping cleanup tasks into one reaper that covers pool + kanban worktrees on terminal tickets.
**5. probe-runtime-profiles (weekly)** — *Supposed to:* deep weekly "live preflight" of AI runtime profiles. *Issue:* actually the same static auth/binary check as the daily runtime-health-probe, duplicate alerting, description is fiction (nonexistent script, impossible probe, dead code). *Verdict:* **retire the weekly, keep the daily**.
Net: 121 → 117 tasks, one new consolidated reaper, zero coverage lost (everything retired is archive-not-delete with the tested restore path).
Suggested next: approve all 5 — I archive the four + build the consolidated reaper as U2 closeout tonight. Go? (yes/no — or name any you want kept)
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Approved
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Executing U2. First read the 4 worktree-cleanup tasks to design the consolidation:
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`list_worktrees` walks `git worktree list` per repo — kanban worktrees belong to the mission-control repo, which isn't in REPOS. Minimal fix: add it. Verify the name parser handles kanban dirs first: