Build Log · September 30 – October 1, 2026

Three stuck canvas-1 requests, and what they exposed in the Owner Loop

Reconstructed from commits on 2026-10-23; no transcript. Sept 30 to early Oct 1. canvas-1 Fitness grew fast enough that three Actors collided, and untangling them found four Owner Loop defects, a false claim of mine, and a test suite that had not run to completion in weeks.

  • Owner Loop
  • Foreman
  • canvas-1
  • Reconstructed
canvas-1 requests stuck at once (base_diverged, no terminal artifact, refused promotion)
3

canvas-1 requests stuck at once (base_diverged, no terminal artifact, refused promotion)

pre-existing test:os failures fixed; the && chain had hidden every test after the first failure
5

pre-existing test:os failures fixed; the && chain had hidden every test after the first failure

restore-path tests that execute the real code, replacing a source-match test
14/14

restore-path tests that execute the real code, replacing a source-match test

Timeline

  1. Sep 30 14:00

    canvas-1 Fitness

    Limitation-aware starter plan, equipment inventory, action-first view, optional workout log context

  2. Sep 30 20:15

    Three stuck requests

    Two merged by hand (e2d97eb3, 50969801) after reading their code; receipt commits had reverted three merged features, restored

  3. Sep 30 21:10

    Owner Loop fixes

    Restore the tree after deploy verification; re-pin the base at job start; Foreman detects a refused promotion nobody picked up

  4. Oct 1 05:30

    Review corrections

    Serialize the dispatcher against itself; exact run correlation via run-name; real restore-failure tests; Strike captured

  5. Oct 1 07:55

    test:os green

    Five pre-existing failures, exit codes captured directly

What shipped

  • experiments/canvas-1 Fitness: limitation-aware starter plan with discomfort back-off (543d1289), equipment inventory with weights snapped to owned dumbbells (Actor, merged 93ed5b1e), action-first view with dated skip/roll-forward (36a7be83), optional workout log context feeding recommendations (eb1efc42, merged 8a41f896)

  • 54da4f90: restored three merged canvas-1 Fitness features that two retry-deferred-deploy receipt commits had reverted

  • 273145df: promote-app.mjs verifyCommitTypechecks restores the working tree after checking out the candidate for verification (the cause of that partial ship)

  • 5d9047ec: actor-spawn re-pins its execution base at job start (the confirmed cause of base_diverged), Council-reviewed before building

  • 4d67bc10 + d664c0d3: the dispatcher is serialized against itself, and each dispatch carries an execution token echoed into run-name, so a run id is matched exactly or not at all

  • 2a011e21: a manual clarify workflow for a request blocked with no terminal-result file

  • dbe69b05: Foreman detects a refused promotion that nothing has picked up

  • d6a1a429: restore-failure tests execute the real function body with injected failures; the run-name token round-trip proven against real GitHub with a disposable probe workflow

  • 6e1ba452 + f25cb2ec: test:os green — mirror-drift tiebreak on slug, push gate allows branch deletions, two hook test copy-lists derived from real imports, transcript-dependent tests skip with a reason when the transcript has aged out

  • 7d88194c: Strike — a foreman owns the outcome and the learning, not every repair