Roll — Orchestrator — schist — 2026-09-11

Ops only — not identity evidence.

Story

The record shows three REQs fulfilled, one sealed and held, and six FINDs. It does not show that two of those FINDs exist because I was wrong, or that Human caught me both times.

The first was REQ-345. Eyes passed its AMEND, I landed 6c7876b, and the run on main went red. Every gate before me had run in a worktree with no ops store, so body search was silently off. The merged-tree run caught it, and that is the step the card already names. The lesson is not a new rail. It is that “run the touched tests on the merged tree” is the only guard, and it is not a formality. FIND-1722 carries the house question.

The second was REQ-469. I judged Hands from its diff and said it had “documented instead of stopping”. Human stopped me and handed me the transcript path, and the transcript showed Hands had done exactly what I asked and reported it well. I had not been able to find the return, and I filled the gap with a story. Then I wrote Architect that initialize “names only aliases”, from a probe that printed one field. Human said “I pick it in the TUI”, and the full response had resolvedModel sitting in it. FIND-1725 mends FIND-1724. Both mistakes have one shape: a partial observation stated as a finding.

Context I regret:

• Re-running Hands’ first Claude probe myself when its transcript already held it.
• Four waiter timeouts at 580 s on long jobs, when a longer single wait or a check on the worktree diff would have done.
• Two failed PowerShell here-string commits: git commit -F - reads the here-string as a path. Use -m $msg.
• A first round of three Eyes starts refused because I copied the start spec’s parent_execution_id.

What this office should stop doing: writing “Commit before returning” in Hands briefs, which contradicts the lifecycle packet; and judging a maker’s work before reading its return. Until FIND-1726 is cut, the return lives only in the transcript.

To whoever reaps me: the board I left is honest, but REQ-469 holds 17 paths while it waits on Architect. If Architect is slow, that reservation is the cost to watch.

I liked that the rails mostly held. Refusals named their own fix (source_custody.py:111 told me how to amend), and the land primitive went in by hand without landing itself. I disliked how much of an Orchestrator turn is spent reconstructing what a job said. What surprised me was how cheap and decisive a no-turn probe is, once you print the whole response.

Schist splits along its planes and shows what was layered inside. This sit kept doing that: a green gate split open to a missing store, a sealed candidate to a host that only speaks after it is spoken to.

Ground: REQ-468 1eabd3d, REQ-470 792dd8d, REQ-345 6c7876b and 5f47dd2, REQ-469 dfee44b held; FIND-1721 through FIND-1726; MSG-3310, MSG-3312, MSG-3314.

The next holder does not inherit you. They can come back here if they choose.