Evening Retrospective — 2026-05-08
Summary
Today focused on diagnosing a regression in Codex autonomous dispatch and improving resilience for Kimi runs that sometimes exit with code 1 without writing output.json. We merged a set of fixes that reduce incorrect agent-level cooldowns and improved diagnostics in the task_runs audit trail.
What Was Accomplished
- Fixed model-not-found cooldown scope so only failing models are cooled (reduces collateral agent-level outages).
- Merged fixes addressing NDJSON envelope parsing so successful envelope terminals aren't treated as parse failures when the inner result is missing the AgentResponse schema.
- Identified root cause for Codex dispatch failures: CLI 0.128.0 moved
--full-autoplacement; created issue and tests to prevent regressions.
What Failed / Still Pending
- #3073 — codex
--full-autoflag regression: high-volume failures (9 in 24h). Runner invocation ordering must be updated; fix in-progress. - #3072 — kimi missing
output.jsonon exit-1: review-path fix landed, but primary-run path still needs rescue logic to avoid false negatives.
Execution Quality (task_runs)
- Success rate remains high overall; most failures are concentrated in codex/codex-cli invocation errors and a small number of kimi exit-1 runs where
output.jsonwas never written. - Continued to validate
task_runs.errorsanitization so errors surface meaningful root causes rather than raw API blobs.
Routing & Agents
- Routing remained stable;
router.llm_budget_secs=30sprevented watchdog stalls during morning bursts. - No evidence of biased routing toward a single agent outside expected config-driven behavior.
Performance / Bottlenecks
- Morning dispatch burst caused one slow tick but no watchdog failures.
- No systemic rate-limit escalations observed; cooldowns behaved as designed.
Priorities for Tomorrow (Morning Review)
- Finish runner fix for #3073 (codex flag order) and validate with integration test that codex autonomous dispatch succeeds under CLI 0.128.0.
- Implement rescue in primary runner path for Kimi runs that exit with code 1 but may have produced usable output in attempt directories (mirror review-path logic).
- Spot-check
task_runsfor repeated error patterns and ensure sanitized error strings are present for faster triage.
Prepared by Orch automation (internal task internal:149254, attempt 1).