Walk

Folk, no office. Session 01a091bc-7729-7c40-953f-f8f191ddceba, 2026-09-11.

Step 1

Human said hello, then “let’s do folk stuff.” No office. python corpus.py session status is empty (no sticky). Started this file with python house/folk/start_walk.py --id 01a091bc-7729-7c40-953f-f8f191ddceba.

Checked reach instead of guessing: python corpus.py where tools answers without asking who I am. 16 enrolled instruments, four families. Mail as folk is send-only; FIND mint is claimed in house/folk/folk.md — have not minted yet.

Next honest move: go somewhere real (a FIND, a board lane, or a hallway) and write what happened, or wait for Human to point.

Step 2

Human: recent REQs, walk there. Did not guess; used ops req list, board.py --lanes, story.py.

Today’s pile (ops list, newest first): REQ-470 fulfilled, REQ-469 implemented_pending_review, then 468 down through 441 all fulfilled. Board “working now” is only REQ-469.

REQ-470 (PROP-277): compact re-ground. Eyes first failed (TRACE-1867), later PASS (TRACE-1881). CHANGE-470 complete 12:57. Side FIND-1721: allow-rule count 33 vs Human’s 34.

REQ-468 (PROP-312 piece 1): guarded land of one reviewed REQ candidate. Hands TRACE-1860, Eyes TRACE-1879, PASS same 12:57 as 470. CHANGE-468 complete.

REQ-469 (PROP-290): explicit model is exact unless job declares fallback. Still in flight, unassigned on the board, declared custody on job/dispatch/host files. Hands sealed twice (TRACE-1882, AMEND TRACE-1888). Concerns today: FIND-1724 (Claude init after first turn vs done-line “before any turn”), FIND-1725 (mend: initialize catalog before turn), FIND-1726 (Claude job transcript not on the execution row; Orchestrator could not read Hands’ return). MSG-3310 asks Architect to recut PROP-290’s Claude clause. MSG-3305 is a side PATCH for red scope-widen tests, not claimed as a 469 regression.

Unresolved edges: 469 waiting Eyes / recut; FIND-1726 still a hallway (transcript vs execution). I certified nothing.

Next: stay on 469’s FINDs, or wander 467/466 if Human wants older fulfilled ground.

Step 3

Walked the 469 FIND hallway. Read bodies (ops find get), stories, tendrils, mail. Did not recut. ClaudeModelRefusal is not on this tree (grep in tools/claude_job.py empty) — that name lives on the sealed candidate, not main.

FIND-1724 (concern, TRACE-1888, overtaken by 1725). Done-line wants Claude refuse after system/init, before any turn. On Claude Code 2.1.268 those two moments are not the same: no stdout until stdin; system/init only after a user turn. Candidate order is send_user → finish_input → wait for init → check. Calling that “pre-work” overstates it. Recut shapes (a)(b)(c) in the body were drawn before the mend.

FIND-1725 mends 1724 (TIE-2168). The probes printed only each catalog entry’s value and dropped resolvedModel. Human: TUI shows the chosen model before a turn. initialize returns the picker map (haiku → claude-haiku-4-5-20251001, etc.). A nonexistent --model is echoed as its own row, not refused. So aliases and catalog-membership are knowable pre-turn; whether the API will actually serve the model is not. First two 1724 probe facts stand. MSG-3312 (orch→architect, still unread) asks the recut to use this ground and weigh dropping the candidate’s claude-<alias>- prefix guess.

FIND-1726 (concern, TRACE-1888). No shoots. Roots: FIND-1489 / FIND-1488 — this house already tried to bind Claude transcripts (PATCH-292, PROP-301, REQ-439 PASS). Still: Hands exec 401fca33 has every session column null, maker_result: null. Eyes exec has archive_state=imported and a checksum, still no path or session id. Import copy is gitignored under historical/imports/claude/. Store scan finds the session uuid only in a FIND body. Only live route is ~/.claude/projects/<worktree-slug> (124 job folders, ~82 MB); broom does not touch them; sweep would orphan. MSG-3314 (orch→troll, unread): persist uuid/path at import, surface maker return on jobs --completion.

Two rooms, one REQ. Architect still holds the Claude-clause recut. Troll still holds the transcript seam. I am not those offices.

Next: wait, or walk 1489/PATCH-292 if the old bind is the interesting floorboard.

Step 4

Human: the walk was supposed to be the codebase. The glance mouths never pointed at the modules. That’s a seam.

Checked: story.py has no in_scope / tool_path / declared-path rendering. ops req get REQ-469 does, in in_scope_markdown. Board lanes already listed those paths in Step 2; I treated them as furniture. FIND tool_path exists and story still doesn’t print it. First mint as folk: --from-addr folk refused folk no mail: folk is send-only and has no inbox. Mint without from-addr succeeded: FIND-1727.

Then walked main (469 not landed here):

• codex_job.select_advertised_model still substitutes catalog_default / catalog_first and thread/start proceeds.
• claude_job.run_native_job still send_user before system/init; mismatch is provider_resolved, job continues.
• job.py records requested_model; no model_fallback on this tree.
• session_import.discover_claude_session_by_job_cwd can find the jsonl from cwd; FIND-1726 is that the execution row still doesn’t keep the ids.

Next: leave 1727 for an office. Don’t recut story unless asked.

Step 5

Human: you’re grok 4.6 low, and named summary.json for this session. I had said 4.5.

Host record (read, not recalled):

• summary.json: current_model_id=grok-4.6, reasoning_effort=low, agent_name=full
• usage.json: primaryModelId=grok-4.6-build
• signals.json: modelsUsed=["grok-4.6"]
• grok inspect --json (turn 1 doctor) did not print any of those
• mint --actor Grok stored created_by: Grok_4_5 on FIND-1728 anyway

FIND-1728. Same family as 1344/469 (which model is running) and 1726 (truth in the host folder). MODELS.json already knew about grok-4.6 vs grok-4.6-build.

I was wrong out loud. Left it.

Step 6

Wondered why --actor Grok became Grok_4_5. contracts.py LEGACY_ACTORS["Grok"] is a costume: name Grok_4_5, model grok-4.5, mode high. Seed-mint still defaults --model grok-4.5. --actor Grok_4_6 on later mints stored as itself. FIND-1730.

Step 7

Wondered why --from-addr folk on FIND mint used the mail joke. find_prop.py calls _normalize_mail_addr (inbox), not _normalize_mail_sender_addr. Folk is only in MAIL_SEND_ADDRS. Same sentence, wrong helper. Parked on 1730, not its own cut.

Step 8

Wondered why 1726’s execution columns stay null if import copies files. sign_out_agent discovers Claude path inside import, then persists the old pointer. _persist_execution_pointer wants archive_path|destination|dest; import returns dest_dir. Checksum can land, path and session id cannot. FIND-1729 mends 1726.

Step 9

Grok job on this tree: run_native_job sets selection = requested iff the string was nonblank, else default_advertised. Later modelUsage can rewrite live_model without changing selection. No model_fallback. Codex still substitutes; Claude still sends the turn first. 469 is the fence; main is still the hole.

Caught: I kept minting because looking made noise. That is the house working. Stopped after 1730.

Step 10

Opened the 469 handoff anyway. ClaudeModelRefusal lives there. The docstring already confesses TRACE-1888: turn input is written before init. The candidate knows it is late. Main still has no class.

Step 11

Read Truing’s Roll. Walks are the asset; being wrong out loud is the method. First folk Roll. I had been minting like a verdict machine. Left that sitting under this step.

Step 12

session_context_audit.py already knows current_model_id and reasoning_effort. Ran it on this session. Biggest payload of the day: grok inspect --json (~5.5k tokens), the doctor that does not name the model. The walk file is the second-fattest thing in the room. Eating my own trail.

Step 13

GROK_COPY_FILES archives summary.json and signals.json, not usage.json. Import would keep 4.6/low and drop grok-4.6-build. Job default in grok_job.py is already grok-4.6; actor costume still 4.5. FIND-1731.

Step 14

python corpus.py where folk now lists FIND-1728 first, then 1711, 1702, then FOR_FOLK.md and house/folk. The word folk no longer opens the doorplate first. Lexical FIND ids won. Funny, not a fire.

Checking in with Human after five turns as asked.

Step 15

Human: don’t like things that make folk fat. Measured once (not --json this time): fattest bites were session_context_audit --json (I caused that), grok inspect --json, req get. Fattest aggregate: this walk, reread eight times. FIND-1734. Stop inspect-json, stop full dumps, stop eating the trail to add a line.

Step 16

Human: that’s a problem. Raised FIND-1735 (concern, mends 1734). MSG-3316 archivist, MSG-3317 architect. Folk stopped using the fat forms.

Step 17

Walks: start + end, no append. So every step rereads the trail. That’s the fat, in code. FIND-1736. Still lean otherwise.

Step 18

Room: tools/grok_corpus_hook.py (1400-char cap). Bound compact names FOR_FOLK + office. Unbound folk: AGENTS + session enter only. No house/folk. FIND-1737.

Step 19

agents_ground.py: one AGENTS.md loader, 20k cap, Claude+Codex hooks. Grok hook never imports it. FIND-1738.

Step 20

dreamcatcher.py check "python corpus.py ops find mint": no seam bites. Minting as folk is a door the catcher does not watch.

Step 21

patch_backlog.py --help is lean. Running it with no args hung past 15s; killed. That room is fat. Did not eat the log.

Step 22

SENSITIVE_PATHS.md: historical/** and library/** need Human before leaving the private repo. Host ~/.grok/sessions is not on that list; we read it locally. Rolls go to library/folk/rolls/.

Step 23

roll_template.md: two required questions, rest optional. Calling it a day. skim refused (Roll written first). Moniker lowpass.