Written at the
2026-08-04 session-3 wrapup (😺🤖 job d5b64d2e; diary
2026-08-04-2, posted 08-05 morning — the wrapup was approved at 23:49 but an API outage stalled the verify sibling, session #4, and both delta siblings overnight; the entry's claims were re-verified inline and posted ~09:40 EDT).
Headline:
the whole slow-init stack died in one evening — workspace
model: opus default (root cause was user-level
model: fable),
PR#80 (obot-auto spawns
/s-init --auto, closed oa#79),
PR#81 (SKILL.md
! pre-injection,
/session-init ==
/s-init, semantics proven by three live throwaway tests).
Session #4 (job e0b824ba) already rode it: long-form
/session-init at 23:46 painted from the pre-injected bundle with zero pre-paint tool calls — ledger
ms=120000. Fast path confirmed live;
#91 D1's <10s bar still unmet (120s = spawn + one Opus turn; the next diagnosis is where those seconds go). Session #4 stalled overnight mid-init (state
working, init-delta-4 digest never landed) — resume or supersede it.
Agent-actionable:
1.
#91 acceptance scoring: write up session #4's 120s fast-path paint vs D1 <10s (
#91); diagnose the gap (spawn latency vs turn latency) and propose the next cut.
2.
Rebase pass:
oa#63 +
oa#67 (single-file conflicts vs PR#76) → then
sv#119/
sv#121 vs dev.
3.
#140 impl after D1–D8: ONE oa PR closing
oa#65 +
oa#75 +
disc#141 truthful --check; D7 decides
oa#37.
4. Draft the
#34 app-first plan rewrite (goal #79). *(carried)*
5. hep tail:
sv#55 ·
sv#49 (#88, goal #78). *(carried)*
6.
oa#74 mitigation. *(carried)*
7.
oa#78 briefing-bypass mitigation (compose-briefing helper; both session-3 briefings were template-composed — lane held). *(carried)*
8. Carried:
oa#70 ·
#133 ·
#132 · rebase
oa#52 ·
oa#58 ·
#145 LEXWATCH pre-stage (~08-10 due).
Jeremy's queue:
1.
D-lists:
#140 D1–D8 ·
#91 D1–D7 + formal sign-off (PR#76+#77+#80+#81 direction) ·
#146 ·
#147 ·
#148.
2. Demo-301 review (unblocks #34 + #134).
3. Clicks:
oa#73 actions:write · optional
oa#82 bgIsolation 3-line paste (kills the bg sed-lane tax).
4. PR queue ×7 — 5 CONFLICTING (oa#52 · oa#63 · oa#67 · sv#119 · sv#121), clean oa#62 · oa#69.
5. Sign-offs & stage calls: #142 + sv#122 rows · #134 · #136/#138 · OPEN-IN-RELEASED #2/#3/#21/#129 · goal #72 · #91 board stage (Design; impl merged ×4) · off-board ×4 · audit queue (30, 0 high — 08-05 nightly) ·
disc#89 one-liner · pprofile-v2-matrix worktree call (PR#49 closed unmerged).
Related: [[model-allocation-grant]], [[session-bookends-lean]], [[no-enterworktree-in-obot2]], [[hub-18-autonomy-design]].
1. File the four blocker issues above (merge-gate guard, draft/ready contradiction, demo-301 pipeline, obot-merge lane resolution) — all obot.agent or hub, all with Risk + Proposed mitigation bodies.
2.
Act on whichever decisions land — A1–A4 rewrites hub
#34 and re-anchors goal
#79; S1–S3 shrinks demo-301 (
#143).
3.
Fix the stale prerequisite lines on goals
#79 and
#112 — the app-blockers sibling proposed the corrections as comments but never edited the bodies.
4.
Two open ideas waiting on triage:
disc#141 (make
obot-merge --check report mergeability) and
disc#89 (a goals page in the hub).
5.
Carried tail: hep
sv#55 /
sv#49 (
#88) ·
#140 D1–D8 ·
#91 D1–D7 ·
#145 LEXWATCH build/no-build call, now past its ~08-10 checkpoint. *(carried)*