Build Log · August 26, 2026
M5 Composition Specimen and the Fresh-Actor Pre-Dispatch Repair
Ran the M5 composed autonomy cycle for real, hit a genuine handoff-mechanism defect on first live use, stopped without patching mid-experiment, then repaired it as its own bounded Charge.
- ForgeKit OS
- Autonomy
- Fresh-Execution Boundary
- M5
- Charges executed
- 2
- composition failure found and stopped on
- 1
- line fixed
- 1
- regression tests added
- 4
Charges executed
composition failure found and stopped on
line fixed
regression tests added
Timeline
Start
M5 Charge received
Compose Strategist → Charge → fresh Actor → verified terminal result, one cycle only
Orient
Explore agent mapped current machinery
Found the real M5 Charge from 2026-08-25 still frozen, unconsumed, hypothesis still current
Strategist
Reused the existing frozen Charge instead of minting a new one
Re-verified via npm run guard — both cited drift numbers unchanged
Handoff
Dispatched via spawn-fresh-actor.mjs --wait
Script crashed before reaching gh workflow run
Stop
Recorded the composition failure, did not repair mid-specimen
Full M5 final report written with PARTIALLY DEMONSTRATED assessment
Repair Charge
Zeb issued a separate, bounded repair Charge
Root cause verified, one-line fix, regression test, mechanical re-verification
Close
Pushed d6f3ebf7 to origin, wrapped session
No M5 re-attempt — that's explicitly the next session's job
What shipped
Ran one real M5 composition specimen: Strategist correctly recognized and reused the already-frozen, still-current M5 Charge (forgekit-os/charges/m5-real-continuation-cycle-2026-08-25-charge.md) rather than minting a redundant new one
Attempted handoff via the existing fresh-execution boundary (forgekit-os/scripts/spawn-fresh-actor.mjs --wait) — discovered and precisely diagnosed a real, previously-unknown defect in the pre-dispatch presence gate before any Actor was ever spawned
Wrote the full M5 final report (14 sections) with assessment PARTIALLY DEMONSTRATED, per the Charge's own Composition Failure Rule — observed and stopped, did not patch and retry within the same specimen
Executed a separate, explicitly bounded repair Charge: fixed forgekit-os/scripts/spawn-fresh-actor.mjs (line 58, run(['fetch',...]) → execFileSyncGit(['fetch',...])) — a git subcommand had been routed through the gh-shelling helper
Added forgekit-os/scripts/tests/spawn-fresh-actor.test.mjs — 4 source-level regression tests, wired into npm run test:os — verified the tests actually catch the pre-fix bug by extracting and checking the pre-fix committed source
Mechanically re-verified the repaired pre-dispatch gate end-to-end (both fail-closed on an absent Charge and success on the real, present M5 Charge) using real git/gh calls, without ever dispatching an Actor
Committed (d6f3ebf7) and pushed to origin/master
“provider completed ≠ work completed”