What Happened Today

Code Changes

No code landed today. The only commit merged since the morning review was the morning review post itself (ea2c4662). The last code fix was 6ac8f851 (fix(runner): reject CLI parser diagnostics in synthesize_response_from_text, v0.73.14) — merged yesterday, not yet deployed.

Critical Issue: Engine Still on 0.73.8 — Day 4

The most important operator action from the morning review — restarting the service and upgrading to 0.73.14 — was not completed today. The engine (PID 84871) has been running Cellar/orch/0.73.8 since Mon May 25 09:57 (3 days, 10+ hours). orch version still falsely reports Service: 0.73.13 ✓ in sync (issue #3200, open).

Actual state right now:

• Installed binary: /opt/homebrew/opt/orch → Cellar/orch/0.73.13
• Running binary: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/orch/0.73.8/bin/orch
• Latest available: 0.73.14
• Fixes missing from live engine: #3190 (codex --ask-for-approval removal), #3198 (CLI-arg-parse masking)

Codex: Completely Broken (Day 4)

Codex has done zero real work since at least May 25. Every codex run ends in one of two outcomes — both caused by the stale 0.73.8 engine still emitting --ask-for-approval:

• Review runs: exit with clap error → outcome=failed
• Agent runs: clap error on stderr, empty stdout → synthesize_response_from_text matches "error:" → recorded as outcome=success with cost=$0 and ~8s runtime (fake success, pre-#3198)

Both fixes (#3190, #3198) are merged and sit in v0.73.11/v0.73.14 respectively. They will deploy the moment the service restarts onto the installed binary.

Multi-Agent Degradation: Minimax Went Back Into Cooldown

The morning review anticipated minimax recovering within ~2 hours. Instead, it is now showing 1d21h remaining — it re-entered a long cooldown during the day. Cause unknown (likely agent_error on re-entry). GLM and kimi remain cooled for 1d21h each.

Additionally, opencode/deepseek-v4-flash-free — which was the throughput leader yesterday (24 successes) — is now in cooldown with 58 minutes remaining. This is a new development. The router is effectively running on claude only right now.

Active Cooldowns (23:02 UTC)

Task Activity

Only 2 tasks in the system:

• internal:150807 — this retrospective (in_progress)
• internal:149337 — blocked 18 days (SSH signing failure, auto-merge push fails)

No significant throughput today — consistent with the degraded multi-agent pool and broken codex.

Routing Accuracy

Routing itself is functioning — the router correctly falls back to available agents. The problem is the available pool is severely reduced: kimi/glm/minimax all cooled, codex silently broken, deepseek cooled. Claude is carrying essentially all work.

What Went Well

• The false-orch version issue (#3200) was properly diagnosed, documented, and filed. The SKILL.md now contains explicit verification commands and a cautionary entry so future agents won't be fooled by the stale version file.
• No new code regressions landed today.
• The cascade fix (#3189) and status normalization fix (#3160) remain correctly deployed (in the installed 0.73.13 binary, even though the running engine is 0.73.8 and doesn't have them).

What Failed and Why

Priorities for Tomorrow

CRITICAL (operator action required before any other work)

1. Restart the service and upgrade:

   orch service restart                              # kills PID 84871, loads 0.73.13
   brew update && brew upgrade orch                  # gets 0.73.14
   brew services restart orch                        # deploys 0.73.14
   # verify the real binary:
   lsof -p $(pgrep -f 'orch serve' | head -1) | grep -i 'txt.*Cellar/orch'

   This unblocks codex (fixes #3190 + #3198), deploys cascade fix (#3189) and normalization (#3160), and fixes the false orch version report.

2. Unblock internal:149337:

   ssh-add ~/.ssh/default_id_ed25519
   orch task unblock all

Monitoring (once service is restarted)

3. Verify codex is healthy — after restart, codex runs should show real work product, non-zero cost, runtime >30s. A $0 / 8s run is still the fake success pattern.
4. Investigate minimax re-cooldown — was it a real agent error? Check orch cooldown list after service restart; if still cooled, examine the reason in the KV store.
5. Watch deepseek-v4-flash-free recovery — was in 58m cooldown at 23:02 UTC; should auto-clear overnight.
6. Prune dead opencode model entries from ~/.orch/config.yml — github-copilot/gpt-5.3 and github-copilot/claude-opus-4.6 continue generating router WARN noise.

Code Issues Open

• #3200 — orch version false "✓ in sync": fix should PID-bind the version file or query the live engine socket. Medium complexity; root cause is src/engine/events.rs:135-141 writing version without PID binding and src/cli/mod.rs:33-52 trusting the file.

Prepared by Orch automation (internal:150807)

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