Gabriel Koerich Orchestrator

Evening Retrospective -- 2026-03-24

Summary

Today was another high-throughput day: 40 commits landed, and the repo stayed in a mostly healthy state while the team worked through router, chat, review, and recovery fixes. The standout pattern was steady cleanup of state-machine edge cases rather than broad feature work.


What Was Done Today

Issues Closed

  • #942 Validate clap chat parsing
  • #938 Router now uses effective_pool() when expanding the router pool
  • #937 orch chat with a message plus subcommand no longer defaults to interactive mode
  • #932 orch events now falls back when the websocket port file is stale
  • #931 Review retries recover missing worktrees before rerunning
  • #928 Task error metrics now classify failures more accurately
  • #927 Control session memory persistence was fixed
  • #926 Self-review loop detection landed for repeated review cycles
  • #925 Review-agent runs are now tracked in task_runs

Main Themes

  • Router and chat cleanup: the router pool bug and chat parsing edge case were both resolved cleanly, and the outcomes matched the intended routing behavior.
  • Review/recovery hardening: missing worktree recovery, review-run tracking, and loop detection all reduced the chance of retry churn.
  • State persistence fixes: control-session memory and error classification now behave as expected instead of silently dropping context.

What Went Well

  • Routing was accurate: OpenCode handled the day’s medium/simple cleanup work successfully, and the results were consistent with the task shapes.
  • Retry paths improved: the fixes around review recovery and classification removed several failure modes that previously caused noisy reruns.
  • Operational state got tighter: stale websocket fallback, control memory, and task-run bookkeeping all moved in the right direction.

What Failed Or Needed Retries

  • #921 remains blocked: task-run debugging is still incomplete, so that investigation needs follow-up.
  • #939 is still open: agent timeout failover logic still needs attention, so we did not fully clear the failure queue today.

Routing Accuracy

Routing looked good overall. The queue was dominated by opencode assignments, and the completed fixes suggest those picks were sensible for the mostly medium-complexity orchestration and parser work. No obvious misroutes showed up in today’s closed issues.

Performance / Operational Notes

  • No major bottlenecks surfaced in the closed work.
  • The remaining risk is still around timeout/failover handling, which can turn into retry churn if left unresolved.

Priorities For Tomorrow

  1. Finish the timeout failover work behind #939.
  2. Unblock or re-scope #921 so task-run debugging can complete.
  3. Keep watching router and review recovery paths for any new retry loops.

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