Gabriel Koerich Orch

Daily Review — 2026-07-25

What Shipped (Last 24h)

3 commits landed in the last 24 hours:

CommitPRFixesSummary
db0c4f50#3439#3438Review prompt now explicitly forbids backgrounding the CI-wait command, preventing the agent from ending its turn without a required JSON decision
ed3fc1c9#3440#3437Global CI-failure unblock sweep now works cross-repo via mark_task_done_by_store_id, which bypasses the repo-scoped resolve_task_id lookup
752e8765#3436Yesterday's daily review post

Closed issues in the same window:

  • #3438 bug(review-prompt): review agent can background the CI-wait command and end its turn without the required JSON decision
  • #3437 bug(sync): CI-failure unblock sweep can't mark cross-repo tasks Done — repo-scoped lookup in a function meant to be global

Both bugs were discovered in yesterday's review cycle and are now fixed. #3438 was routed to Kimi with sonnet (task agent) and fixed with a one-line prompt change. #3437 was routed to Claude with sonnet (task agent) and required a new mark_task_done_by_store_id bypass function plus a regression test.


Operational Health

Throughput and Activity

task_activity in the last 24h:

EventCount
status_change260
dispatch90
push85
branch_delete76
review_start45
review_decision40
pr_create40
routed39
error7
rerouted2
timeout2

Volume is healthy and slightly higher than yesterday. Dispatch (90 vs 87), pushes (85 vs 74), and PR creation (40 vs 36) all ticked up. Error count dropped from 12 to 7.

Task Run Outcomes

task_runs in the last 24h:

OutcomeCount
success~80
failed4
rate_limit1
parse_error2
timeout2
(empty outcome)2

Non-success breakdown:

AgentModelOutcomeCountPattern
claudesonnetfailed1Likely silence-detection reroute
claudesonnetparse_error1Agent output not parseable
claudesonnettimeout1Exceeded timeout
codexgpt-5.4failed1Silence-detection reroute
codexgpt-5.5failed1Silence-detection reroute
minimaxsonnetrate_limit1Token-plan exhaustion, correctly classified and cooled
opencodelaguna-s-2.1-freetimeout1Isolated timeout
opencodenemotron-3-ultra-freefailed1Streaming response failed, matching expected network-failure bucket
opencodenorth-mini-code-freeparse_error1Output parse failure

Two empty outcome records for kimi/opus and opencode/deepseek-v4-flash-free likely represent tasks still running.

All non-success outcomes are within normal self-recovery patterns — no new engine regressions.

Routing, Cooldowns, and Service Health

Current task totals (this repo only):

StatusCount
done5171
blocked52
needs_review2

Active cooldowns:

KeyRemainingReason
claude:haiku2h16mpersisted
kimi:haiku1d12hpersisted
minimax:haiku1d12hpersisted
minimax:opus4d11hpersisted
minimax:sonnet6d22hpersisted
opencode:north-mini-code-free2h19mpersisted

Notable: the router LLM pool is fully cooled (claude:haiku, kimi:haiku, minimax:haiku all down). Routing is falling back to weighted round-robin for all tasks. This is the same state as yesterday — these are multi-day cooldowns (especially kimi:haiku at 1d12h and minimax:haiku at 1d12h) that will persist for the next 1-2 days. Once claude:haiku recovers (~2h from now), LLM routing should resume normally.

No GitHub connectivity incidents reported in the last 24h.

The brew error log is empty (0 bytes, last modified at service restart).


Completed and Stuck Work

Notable Completed Tasks

Recent completions in the last 24h include:

  • #3437/#3440 — cross-repo CI-failure unblock fix, merged by Claude
  • #3438/#3439 — review-prompt CI-wait background fix, merged by Kimi
  • Multiple bean jobs: close daily import, macro monitor, morning briefing, market intelligence, positions monitoring, paper trading, meeting prep

Stuck / Blocked Tasks

The blocked backlog remains dominated by downstream constraints:

  • internal:155315 (bean) — blocked because host lacks Things app/URL handler
  • internal:155254 (bean) — real downstream application bug about report overwrites and JSONL consistency
  • oblivion — 48 CI-failure-limit blocked tasks (unchanged from yesterday's count) plus 2 stale needs_review tasks (#490, #493)

The oblivion CI-failure tail has not moved. No new blocked tasks were added to the orch repo itself.


Issues

0 issues filed this run.

I did not find a new orch root cause worth opening:

  • The two bugs from yesterday's review are already fixed and merged
  • No new error patterns in the logs
  • No GitHub-unreachable incidents today
  • The blocked backlog is entirely downstream (oblivion CI, bean host dependencies)
  • Cooldowns are all expected based on known rate-limit / failure patterns

Priorities for Tomorrow

  1. Check whether the router LLM pool recovers after claude:haiku comes off cooldown (~2h from now). If kimi:haiku and minimax:haiku remain cooled for their full duration, weighted round-robin will continue as the active routing strategy.
  2. The oblivion CI-failure tail (48 tasks) remains the largest blocked cluster. No change expected without operator intervention on CI.
  3. Monitor minimax after its opus (4d) and sonnet (6d) cooldowns expire.
  4. Watch for any regressions from the cross-repo CI-failure fix (#3440) or the review-prompt fix (#3439).

Prepared by Orch automation (internal:155384) on 2026-07-25 UTC.

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