What Shipped (Last 24h)

2 commits landed in the last 24 hours.

Closed Issues (Last 24h)

The only code change in the window was targeted and operational: the stale alert log now emits on the edge instead of every sync tick. The main caveat is that the running service had not picked up that fix by the end of this review window.

Operational Health

Throughput (Last 24h)

Throughput stayed healthy. The engine continued to move work at a high rate, and nothing in the last 24 hours looks like a broad dispatch or review outage.

Agent / Model Outcomes (Last 24h)

Claude carried most of the successful load again. The main unhealthy pool remains minimax/opus, which produced another cluster of rate limits and left the cooldown counters elevated.

What Went Well

1. The fix for stale sync alert spam landed quickly. The problem found in the previous review window was diagnosed, implemented, and merged the same day.
2. Overall throughput remained strong. Nearly one hundred dispatches and more than fifty review starts completed without a system-wide stall.
3. Fallback behavior still worked. Claude, Codex, Kimi, and OpenCode all recorded successful completions; failures stayed localized to specific model pools instead of cascading into a broad outage.
4. There is no open GitHub issue backlog in gabrielkoerich/orch. The repo itself remains clean from an issue-tracker perspective.

What Failed

1. The running service is still one release behind

The latest release is v0.80.32 (published 2026-06-27T21:26:26Z), while the local CLI/service version still reports orch 0.80.31. The service log also emitted:

orch upgrade available current_version=0.80.31 latest_version=0.80.32

That matters because the new sync-log fix landed in #3357, but the current process is still running the pre-fix build. The log noise in this review window is therefore deployment lag, not evidence that the new fix failed.

2. minimax:opus still looks like a degraded pool

The last 200 service-log lines were dominated by repeated warnings of the form:

agent model pool appears stale: persistent model failures in heavily cooled pool
affected_agents=["minimax:1/2:opus"]

SQLite state matches the warning:

• cooldown:minimax:opus remains active
• failure_count:minimax = 4
• failure_count:minimax:haiku = 4
• failure_count:minimax:opus = 4

The important distinction from yesterday is that a fix for repeated warning spam now exists; the service just has not upgraded to it yet.

3. Blocked backlog remains external, not orch-local

orch task list --global still shows blocked work, but the blockers are outside this repo:

• gabrielkoerich/bean: three tasks blocked by GitHub Actions billing failure
• gabrielkoerich/oblivion: long-standing blocked tasks dominated by CI failure limit reached during auto-merge

Those are real operational problems, but they are not fresh regressions in orch itself.

Stuck / Pending Work

No new stuck task pattern appeared inside gabrielkoerich/orch itself. The notable open work is deployment lag plus external blocked queues.

Routing Accuracy

Routing looked mostly healthy in this window:

1. Successful work was distributed across Claude, Codex, Kimi, and OpenCode rather than collapsing onto a single executor.
2. The main unhealthy signal remained pool-specific (minimax/opus) rather than a router-wide misclassification pattern.
3. There is no sign of silent model failure dominating the day. Failures surfaced as explicit rate limits or localized model errors.

The main routing takeaway is that the system is currently spending time around known degraded pools, but that pain is already addressed in code for the sync-log spam case and does not look like a brand-new routing bug.

Issues

Open issues in gabrielkoerich/orch: 0 before this review.

One issue was filed from this review:

1. #3358: service lag after v0.80.32 release. The stale-alert fix merged, but the running service stayed on 0.80.31, so the old warning pattern remained visible through the review window.

Priorities for Tomorrow

1. Upgrade the running service to v0.80.32. Until that happens, the stale model-pool alert behavior visible in logs is not representative of the current code.
2. Confirm the warning volume drops after upgrade. If repeated stale-pool warnings continue on v0.80.32, that would justify a new sync/regression issue. If they disappear, today's noise was only rollout lag.
3. Keep watching minimax/opus. Even with the log fix, the underlying degraded pool is real and should be monitored for continued rate-limit pressure.
4. Track external blocked queues separately from orch health. Bean billing failures and Oblivion CI-failure blocks should not be misreported as new orch regressions.

Prepared by Orch automation (internal:154408) at 2026-06-27T23:00Z.

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