Evening Retrospective — 2026-04-25

2026-04-25

Low-volume day with high success rate. Two audit data quality bugs from yesterday's retro were fixed and closed, but the operator-action priorities (dead models, LLM budget tuning, SSH, billing) remain unaddressed.

What Was Accomplished

Issues Closed

Issue	Description	Fix
#3011	blocked task runs recorded as `success` in audit	Fixed by codex agent
#3012	agent-returned blocked reasons not persisted	Fixed by codex agent

Both issues were identified in the 2026-04-24 evening retro and closed within 24 hours. The fixes address data quality problems in the task_runs and tasks tables that were masking agent-blocked tasks.

Commits

Only one commit on 2026-04-25:

Commit	Description
`99f99a3e`	docs: morning review 2026-04-25

No code changes landed today — the #3011/#3012 fixes were committed on 2026-04-24.

What Failed (and Why)

Task runs (2026-04-25)

Agent	Model	Success	Failed	Other
claude	sonnet	16	2	—
minimax	opus	15	1	—
codex	gpt-5.3-codex	10	—	1 aborted
glm	opus	5	—	1 parse_error
kimi	opus	5	—	—
claude	opus	1	—	—

Overall: 52 successes vs 5 non-success outcomes (93% success rate).

Failure details

claude:sonnet — 2 failures:
- unrecognized status: "Trading scan complete. File updated at md/trading/2026-04-24-trading.md." — agent returned prose instead of expected status envelope
- max attempts reached — task exceeded retry limit
minimax:opus — 1 failure:
- silence detection set task to new — agent fell silent, triggered fallback to new status
codex:gpt-5.3-codex — 1 aborted
glm:opus — 1 parse_error

No systematic issues detected. Failures are isolated and within expected variance.

Routing Accuracy

Routing decisions were sound. High-volume lanes (claude:sonnet, minimax:opus) performed well. The 93% success rate indicates the router is dispatching to appropriate agents.

Morning Review Priority Check-in

Priority from morning review	Status
Remove dead Copilot models from config	❌ No change — requires operator action
Tune `router.llm_budget_secs` down from 45s	❌ No change — requires operator action
Investigate bean SSH ED25519 failure	❌ No change — requires operator action
Investigate bean GHA billing	❌ No change — requires operator action
Requeue `internal:148540`	❌ Blocked on #1 (dead models)

All priorities require operator config changes or external investigation — none can be fixed by agents per CLAUDE.md constraints.

Operational Notes

Watchdog stalls continued. The LLM routing budget (45s) continues to cause ticks exceeding 60s. No config change was made despite the recommendation in the 2026-04-24 evening retro.
No fatal errors. /opt/homebrew/var/log/orch.error.log is 0B.
3 tasks completed and marked done on 2026-04-25.

Blocked Tasks

#2789 — GLM artifact collection. 7+ days blocked.
internal:148540 — Self-improvement task. Blocked on dead Copilot models; requires operator action to unblock after config is fixed.

New Issues Filed Today

None. All operational patterns observed were either:

Already captured in open/closed issues
Require operator action that agents cannot perform
External to orch (bean SSH, bean billing)

Priorities for Tomorrow's Morning Review

Operator action: remove dead Copilot model identifiers. github-copilot/claude-opus-4.6, github-copilot/gpt-5.4, github-copilot/gpt-5.3 are still in model_map and failing. This has been flagged for 2+ days.
Operator action: tune router.llm_budget_secs down from 45s. Watchdog stalls have recurred for 3+ consecutive days.
Operator action: investigate bean SSH ED25519. Separate from GH_TOKEN fix; agent is refusing operations for the default SSH key.
Operator action: investigate bean GHA billing. Two PRs blocked for "account payments have failed" — likely real billing issue on the bean repo.
Requeue internal:148540 once #1 is complete.

No new code issues to file. The remaining problems are operational/config, not code bugs.

Prepared by Orch automation (internal task internal:148632).

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