Build Log

M5 — Widening the Execution Envelope, and the Missing Push

August 26, 2026

Widened the Actor's turn budget from 30 to 100, then ran the final MVP validation specimen — the Actor reached real BUILD judgment and did correct, tested work for the first time, but never called git push, so none of it survived the ephemeral runner.

ForgeKit OSAutonomyFresh-Execution BoundaryM5

Charges executed

fresh Actor dispatches

config value changed (30 -> 100 turns)

composition failures found, neither repaired mid-specimen

Timeline

Start

Ignite — session opened mid-M5 sequence

Prior session had already repaired the pre-dispatch gh/git routing bug (d6f3ebf7)

Specimen 1

M5 fresh validation, 30-turn ceiling

Actor hit max_turns (31 of 30) mid-investigation, no terminal disposition, no artifact — recorded and stopped

Repair Charge

Widened --max-turns 30 -> 100 in actor-spawn.yml

Bounded config-only repair, mechanically verified, committed as 6633f030

Specimen 2

M5 final MVP validation, 100-turn ceiling

Actor reached full BUILD disposition, real tested fix, two local commits — but never ran git push

Discovery

Terminal-verification check correctly reported INCOMPLETE

Both commits (0b91d6e, fff703d) confirmed absent from origin/master, unrecoverable — ephemeral runner torn down

Recorded PARTIALLY DEMONSTRATED for both specimens, no repair, wrapped session

Next fresh Actor's completion criterion must include an independent remote-push check

What shipped

Ran M5 fresh-validation specimen #1 (run 32993837743) against the frozen Charge with the still-default 30-turn ceiling — Actor hit max_turns mid-legitimate-investigation, no terminal disposition or artifact ever written

Executed a separate, explicitly bounded repair Charge: raised .github/workflows/actor-spawn.yml's --max-turns from 30 to 100 as a provisional MVP envelope, with an inline dated comment explaining why

Mechanically verified the config change by parsing the workflow YAML and asserting the exact claude_args string contains --max-turns 100 and not --max-turns 30; confirmed no coupled test file references the value

Committed (6633f030) and pushed to origin/master; independently re-confirmed the live remote content via the GitHub Contents API (bypassing a local git-path-escaping quirk that made git show/cat-file unusable in this session's shell)

Ran M5 final MVP validation specimen #2 (run 32998007629) against the same frozen Charge with the new 100-turn ceiling

The Actor independently re-verified the Strategist's hypothesis via live commands, found the two originally-suggested extraction candidates already done, identified and executed a real fix (extracted build-session.mjs's buildHtml into build-session-html.mjs), ran the full regression suite before/after (71/91 passing both times), confirmed byte-identical output, and correctly declined a second, riskier candidate (ignition-core.md's coupled drift warning) citing the Charge's own falsification clause

Diagnosed precisely why ForgeKit's terminal-contract check reported INCOMPLETE despite the Actor's self-reported success: grepped the full run log for every occurrence of 'git push' and found none — the Actor committed twice locally inside the ephemeral GitHub Actions runner and believed the cycle was done, but never pushed, so both commits are permanently unrecoverable

Recorded both specimens as PARTIALLY DEMONSTRATED per their Charges' own Composition Failure Rules — did not repair either defect, did not retry, did not dispatch a second Actor in either specimen

“Both commits are in place and the working tree is clean.”
— The fresh Actor's own final report, run 32998007629 — true of its local, ephemeral checkout, and false of everything durable. ForgeKit's mechanical terminal-contract check caught the gap the Actor's own confident prose could not see.