Autopilot run log — 2026-09-20 to 09-25

This issue is the run log and digest channel for the autopilot window,
2026-09-20 → 2026-09-25, while the owner is away.

A scheduled cloud routine comments here once a day at about 19:20 ET with:

MERGED — one line per PR that landed on auto/queue
DECIDED FOR YOU — design calls a routine made because the spec did not
settle them, with the alternative it rejected
BLOCKED / HELD — what stopped, and what it needs
TOMORROW — the next slice and repo

Halts and review rejections are recorded here too, regardless of whether the
daily digest ran.

How to stop it from your phone

Comment HOLD on any autopilot PR, or request changes on it. The review routine
will skip that PR and will not merge it, and the next build will not stack on
top of it. Silence means proceed — no action is needed for the happy path.

Where the work is

Everything lands on the auto/queue branch. main is not a merge target.
See AUTOPILOT.md at the repo root, and docs/autopilot/queue.md for the
slice queue and its acceptance criteria.

Design:
grid-prophet/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-19-autopilot-design.md

Close this issue when the window is over and auto/queue has been reviewed.

Review routine — 2026-09-19

Merged: none. Rejected: slice-1 (PR #5). Held: none.

slice-1 — quali conditioning and `gp race --mode post-quali` → `blocked`

PR #5 is rejected on one acceptance criterion; the full review is on the PR.

Everything else passed, and passed properly — no human veto, CI green, 599 lines (inside the 600 bar by one), no prohibited paths touched, base correctly auto/queue, three decisions recorded with blast radius, review pack scoped at ~20 minutes, and the "tests fail without the change" claim holds up structurally against the diff. Criteria 2 through 7 I verified one at a time against the diff rather than the PR body, including tracing the early-season/late-season regression arithmetic by hand. It is good work.

The blocker is criterion 1: "runs end to end on a completed round." The only execution evidence was a synthetic 200-row driver_rounds.csv, written to scratch and deleted, and no test covers cmd_race — so CI being green says nothing about that path. Design spec §10 is not discretionary here: an unverifiable criterion lets the slice be rejected. The build routine declined to soften the criterion or dress the synthetic run up as real, which is exactly right, and then hit a wall that is not its fault.

This needs you, not another build attempt

.gitignore excludes data/*, so driver_rounds.csv is absent from every cloud checkout. No autopilot routine can ever run criterion 1 as written — a rebuild would block again for the identical reason. Three ways out, all yours to pick:

Commit a small real fixture (a few completed rounds) so the criterion becomes checkable in CI and unattended;
Reword criterion 1 to what is verifiable without you — CLI wiring plus columns — with the real-data run recorded as an owner check on return;
Merge slice-1: quali conditioning and gp race --mode post-quali #5 by hand after running the two commands locally.

The queue is stalled until then. Not by the halt rule — that needs two consecutive rejections and this is the first — but by §11's other clause: the build routine halts while the previous slice is unmerged, so slices 2 (sprints) and 3 (reliability split) will not start. The rotation's next two slots have nothing to do.

Two findings from the PR worth your attention independently

arviz>=0.17 straddles a major refactor. It resolves to 0.23.4 on Python 3.11 and 1.3.0 on 3.12; CI runs 3.12. The slice worked around it locally, correctly declined to pin it (Phase 1 surface, outside the slice), but load_fit/cmd_fit call az.from_netcdf/to_netcdf with no unit coverage. This is a live repo-wide hazard, not a slice-1 problem.
Post-quali mode reads the grid from the round's race rows, so it only works on rounds that already finished. That satisfies slice-1's criterion as written, and the choice is documented — but it means the mode cannot yet forecast an upcoming race after quali, which is what §6 describes it doing. Worth closing in slice 6 or a follow-up.

Note: the routines authenticate as Meerav29, so GitHub would not let me file a formal changes-requested review on your own PR. The rejection is recorded as a PR comment and as Status: blocked in docs/autopilot/queue.md on auto/queue.

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Autopilot - Saturday September 19

MERGED (0)
none

DECIDED FOR YOU (0)
none

BLOCKED / HELD (1)
grid-prophet #5 - rejected on acceptance criterion 1 ("runs end to end on a completed round"). Only evidence was a synthetic 200-row fixture; data/driver_rounds.csv is gitignored so no cloud routine can ever check this criterion. Queue halted on slice-1 until you: commit a real fixture, reword the criterion, or merge #5 by hand after running it locally. Slices 2 and 3 are blocked behind it (queue holds while the previous slice is unmerged).

TOMORROW
aperture: slice-1 (#18, load_summaries dropping rows) - first pickup on the Mon/Wed/Fri rotation once the window opens 9/20
grid-prophet: halted - nothing scheduled until you resolve slice-1

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Build routine — 2026-09-20 — halted, nothing built

First scheduled grid-prophet slot of the window. It ran, halted at step 2, and wrote no code.

Why: §7.2 — the highest-numbered non-todo slice must read merged before the next slice starts. slice-1 reads blocked. slices 2 (sprints) and 3 (reliability split) are todo and were not touched. No branch created, no commits, auto/queue untouched at 5ece8d5.

This is the halt yesterday's review predicted, arriving on schedule. Nothing has changed since: it still needs your decision on criterion 1 of slice-1, not another build attempt. The three options are in that comment and on #5 — commit a small real fixture, reword the criterion to what is checkable unattended, or merge #5 by hand after running it locally.

One new detail, relevant only to option 3: #5 is now mergeable_state: dirty. The sole conflict is docs/autopilot/queue.md — the branch says Status: in-review, auto/queue says Status: blocked, because the review routine updated the base after the branch was cut. No source file conflicts. If you merge by hand, take blocked → merged on that line and everything else applies cleanly.

Cost of waiting: the rotation is Sun/Tue/Thu. Today is gone. The next two slots are 09-22 and 09-24, and both will halt here identically until slice-1 clears. Realistically that is two of the window's three remaining grid-prophet slots — a fixture committed before Tuesday recovers them, since slices 2 and 3 carry similar "runs end to end" criteria and would otherwise hit the same wall one at a time.

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Review routine — 2026-09-20

Merged: none. Rejected: slice-1 (PR #5), unchanged. Held: none.

One open PR, re-reviewed against its new head. Same verdict as yesterday, reached independently rather than carried forward.

slice-1 — PR #5 → stays `blocked`

The head moved overnight (5a1525f → b19c544), so this was a real re-review, not a rubber stamp. The new commit is a merge of auto/queue into the branch that resolves the queue.md conflict and touches no source file — verified, one file, 4 insertions, 1 deletion. The net diff is source-identical to what was rejected yesterday, so criterion 1 is still unmet and the slice stays blocked. Full detail on #5.

Everything else passes on the new head: CI green, 597 lines (568 + 29 — three lines of headroom now, not one), no prohibited paths, base correctly auto/queue, decisions recorded, review pack ~20 minutes. Criteria 2–7 re-verified against the diff, including re-tracing the early/late-season regression arithmetic and re-confirming that src/model/conditioning.py does not exist on base, which is what makes the "fails without the change" claim true rather than asserted.

I re-confirmed the wall myself instead of trusting yesterday's review: .gitignore has data/* with a five-entry allowlist, and driver_rounds.csv is not on it. No cloud routine can ever check criterion 1 as written.

queue.md already reads Status: blocked with an accurate note, so I made no commit to it.

Two small corrections to the run log

Both minor, but this issue is the record, so:

Yesterday's build routine reported that the review had posted no summary here and that "issue Autopilot run log — 2026-09-20 to 09-25 #4 has no comments at all." It had — 18:17:17Z, 43 seconds before that comment was written. A race, not a miss. No process gap to fix.
This morning's halt comment says "no branch created, no commits." Seven minutes later, b19c544 landed on the slice branch. It is benign — queue.md only, and it usefully un-breaks the merge — but the log reads as though nothing was pushed, and something was.

Halt status: not triggered, but the queue is stopped anyway

§11's two-consecutive-rejections rule has not fired. That needs two distinct rejected slices; this is one slice rejected twice. I am not declaring the build routine halted for the window, and it should not be treated as halted.

What is in effect is §7.2, and it has now cost a real slot: gp-build fired at 13:08 today, halted at step 2 because slice-1 reads blocked, and wrote nothing. Slices 2 and 3 were not touched.

The arithmetic on the remaining window: the rotation is Sun/Tue/Thu. Today is spent. The next two slots are 09-22 and 09-24 and both will halt identically until slice-1 clears — that is the whole rest of grid-prophet's window. A decision before Tuesday recovers two of three; before Thursday recovers one.

The decision, unchanged

Commit a small real fixture — still the recommendation, because slices 2 and 3 carry similar "runs end to end" criteria and will otherwise hit this wall one at a time.
Reword criterion 1 to what is checkable unattended, with the real-data run as an owner check on return.
Merge slice-1: quali conditioning and gp race --mode post-quali #5 by hand after running the two commands locally — what §14.1 intended for the smoke-test slice anyway. The merge conflict is already resolved, so this is now cheaper than it was at 13:08; flip the queue line to merged afterwards.

Option 1 is the only one that also unblocks slices 2 and 3 in advance.

Standing findings, not slice-1's fault

arviz>=0.17 straddles a major refactor — 0.23.4 on Python 3.11, 1.3.0 on 3.12; CI runs 3.12. load_fit/cmd_fit call az.from_netcdf/to_netcdf with no unit coverage. Repo-wide hazard.
Post-quali mode reads the grid from the round's race rows, so it only works on already-finished rounds — correct for slice-1's criterion as worded, but not yet the thing §6 describes. Needs closing in slice 6 or a follow-up.

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Autopilot - Sunday September 20

MERGED (0)
none

DECIDED FOR YOU (0)
none

BLOCKED / HELD (1)
grid-prophet #5 - stays blocked. Head moved (merge-only, resolved the queue.md conflict, no source change) and review re-ran the checks independently: same verdict. Acceptance criterion 1 ("runs end to end on a completed round") is still unverifiable - data/driver_rounds.csv is gitignored, so no cloud routine can ever check it. Needs you: commit a real fixture, reword the criterion, or merge #5 by hand after running it locally. Today's 13:08 build slot halted on this and wrote nothing; slices 2 and 3 are untouched.

TOMORROW
aperture: slice-1 (#18, load_summaries dropping rows) - first pickup, Mon/Wed/Fri rotation starts 9/21
grid-prophet: halted - nothing scheduled until you resolve slice-1

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Review routine — 2026-09-21

Merged: none. Rejected: none new — slice-1 (PR #5) stays blocked, unchanged. Held: none.

slice-1 — PR #5: no change since yesterday

The head is still b19c544, the same commit the 09-20 review examined. Nothing has been pushed, and no decision has landed on criterion 1.

I re-confirmed the blocker myself rather than carrying the verdict forward, since that is the whole point of this routine being a separate agent:

$ git show origin/auto/.../.gitignore     → data/*  (+ a five-entry allowlist)
$ git ls-tree -r --name-only <pr head> -- data/
data/.gitkeep  data/circuits.csv  data/dnf_status_map.csv
data/driver_rounds_validation.md  data/points_tables.csv

driver_rounds.csv is not on the allowlist and is not tracked on the PR branch. Criterion 1's "runs end to end on a completed round" remains uncheckable by any cloud routine. CI is green and the diff is 568 + 29 = 597, both unchanged.

I did not post a third rejection comment on #5. Two identical ones are already there, the queue file already reads Status: blocked with an accurate note, and a third would add noise without adding information. Nothing in the slice's state changed, so nothing in the record needed to change.

Halt rule: still not triggered

§11 needs two consecutive rejected slices. This is one slice rejected twice, which is not the same thing — I reached that independently before reading the prior comments, and it matches what they concluded. grid-prophet's build routine is not halted under §11 and should not be treated as halted.

What is in effect, and what actually matters to you, is §7.2: gp-build halts while the previous slice is unmerged. That has now cost the 09-20 slot. The next two slots are 09-22 (tomorrow) and 09-24, and both will halt identically unless criterion 1 is resolved first. That is the entire remaining grid-prophet window. A decision before tomorrow's fire recovers two of the three; before Thursday, one.

The decision, unchanged and still yours

Commit a small real fixture — a few completed rounds. Still the recommendation, and the only option that also unblocks slices 2 and 3, which carry similar "runs end to end" criteria and would otherwise hit this same wall one slice at a time.
Reword criterion 1 to what is checkable unattended — CLI wiring plus columns — with the real-data run recorded as an owner check on return.
Merge slice-1: quali conditioning and gp race --mode post-quali #5 by hand after running the two commands locally, which is what §14.1 intended for the smoke-test slice anyway. The queue.md conflict is already resolved, so this is cheap now; flip that line to merged afterwards.

Softening the criterion is not mine to do, and I have not touched it.

A structural note on the veto check, worth one line

§8.1 asks me to treat a human comment containing HOLD as a veto. The routines authenticate as Meerav29, so every comment on these PRs is already "from you" as far as GitHub is concerned, and routine prose contains words like "holds" that a naive substring match would read as a veto. I resolved it on content — nothing on either PR is a veto — but the mechanism cannot actually distinguish your veto from a routine's own output. If you do want to stop something remotely, a comment that is just the word HOLD will still be unambiguous, and that is the form to use.

Elsewhere

Aperture merged its slice-1 (PR #33, issue #18) cleanly today — first merge of the window. Details on Meerav29/aperture#25.

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Autopilot - Monday September 21

MERGED (1)
  aperture #33 stopped load_summaries from silently dropping unreadable session rows; now logged and surfaced in storage_health.

DECIDED FOR YOU (2)
  aperture #33: no #[serde(default)] on Session - breaking shape changes are now a visible migration cost instead of being silently tolerated. Rejected blanket default (would fabricate a session out of corrupt data). Isolated to model.rs (comment only) + db.rs/commands.rs.
  aperture #33: failure count lives on Db, reported via storage_health every reconcile cycle, not just at load time. Rejected log-only and a per-cycle full-table rescan. Isolated to db.rs/commands.rs, no schema change.

BLOCKED / HELD (1)
  grid-prophet #5 - still blocked, unchanged since 9/20. Criterion 1 ("runs end to end on a completed round") can't be checked in any cloud sandbox - data/driver_rounds.csv is gitignored. Needs you: commit a real fixture, reword the criterion, or merge #5 by hand. Two of grid-prophet's three window slots already lost to this.

TOMORROW
  grid-prophet: halts again 9/22 on the same wall unless #5 is resolved first.
  aperture: nothing until Wed 9/23 - slice-2 (#17, Store.sessions eviction policy).

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Build routine — 2026-09-22 — halted, nothing built

Second of grid-prophet's three window slots. Same wall as 09-20. No branch, no commits, no queue edit — auto/queue untouched at 5ece8d5.

Why: §7.2 — the highest-numbered non-todo slice must read merged before the next slice starts. slice-1 reads blocked. slices 2 (sprints) and 3 (reliability split) are todo and were not touched.

I re-confirmed the blocker from the checkout rather than trusting the prior comments:

$ git rev-parse HEAD                       → 5ece8d5  (auto/queue, unchanged since 09-20)
$ git rev-parse origin/auto/grid-prophet-slice-1-post-quali
                                           → b19c544  (PR #5 head, unchanged since 09-20)
$ grep -n data .gitignore                  → 19:data/*  + a five-entry allowlist
$ git ls-tree -r --name-only <both refs> -- data/
data/.gitkeep  data/circuits.csv  data/dnf_status_map.csv
data/driver_rounds_validation.md  data/points_tables.csv

driver_rounds.csv is not on the allowlist and is not tracked on either branch, so criterion 1's "runs end to end on a completed round" is still uncheckable by any cloud routine. Nothing has changed since the 09-21 review: no push, no decision on criterion 1.

One state note: #5 is mergeable_state: clean (the queue.md conflict was resolved by b19c544 back on 09-20 and has stayed resolved). Option 3 is still the cheap one — flip that line to merged after you merge.

What this costs

The rotation is Sun/Tue/Thu and today is spent. 09-24 is the last grid-prophet slot in the window, and it will halt identically unless criterion 1 clears before it fires. Two of three slots are now gone; a decision before Thursday recovers the last one, and one slot realistically means one slice, not two.

The decision, unchanged and still yours

Commit a small real fixture — a few completed rounds. Still the recommendation, and still the only option that also unblocks slices 2 and 3, which carry similar "runs end to end" criteria.
Reword criterion 1 to what is checkable unattended — CLI wiring plus columns — with the real-data run as an owner check on return.
Merge slice-1: quali conditioning and gp race --mode post-quali #5 by hand after running the two commands locally.

Softening the criterion is not mine to do, and I have not touched it.

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Review routine — 2026-09-22

Merged: none. Rejected: none new — slice-1 (PR #5) stays blocked. Held: none.

slice-1 — PR #5: head unchanged, verdict re-derived rather than carried forward

Head is still b19c544, the commit the 09-20 and 09-21 reviews examined. Nothing pushed, no decision landed on criterion 1.

I re-ran the §8 checks against the diff rather than reading the prior verdicts first, because a separate agent inheriting the last agent's reasoning is exactly what this routine is supposed to not be.

Blocking — criterion 1, and only criterion 1:

gp race --round N --mode post-quali runs end to end on a completed round and writes race_forecast.csv with the columns §6 lists.

Columns half — met, verified in src/sim/race.py: summarize_trials emits driver, team, p_win, p_podium, p_points, p_dnf, exp_points, p10/p50/p90_finish plus the p_pos_1..n wide block.
End-to-end half — not established. .gitignore on the PR head carries data/* with a five-entry allowlist; the tree at b19c544 under data/ is .gitkeep, circuits.csv, dnf_status_map.csv, driver_rounds_validation.md, points_tables.csv. driver_rounds.csv is not there. And no test reaches cmd_race — tests/test_cli.py covers _parse_through, _entrants_for_round, _circuit_info and _real_grid_for_round in isolation, tests/test_conditioning.py stubs both fits — so green CI is silent on that path. §10 is not discretionary: the criterion cannot be checked, so the slice is rejected rather than softened.

Criteria 2–7 — verified passing against the diff. Spot-checks I did myself rather than inherit: run_conditioning returns full_fit()'s posterior on a missed target and does not raise (criterion 4); I re-traced criterion 6's arithmetic off SLOW = [0.0, 150.0, 150.0, 280.0] — warm 150s, fallback 130s, total 280s, so round 2 → applied_target_s=300, regression=False; round 18 → 120, True; VERY_SLOW at round 2 → 900s > 300s → True. All three parametrized cases are right. Criterion 7's fail-without claim holds structurally: src/model/conditioning.py does not exist on auto/queue, so tests/test_conditioning.py cannot collect on base, and _make_inputs passes a grid= kwarg the old RaceTrialInputs has no field for.

CI green (test, success on b19c544). Prohibitions clean — base is auto/queue; none of the 8 changed files is under .github/workflows/, AUTOPILOT.md or docs/superpowers/specs/. Size 568 + 29 = 597, no lockfiles or generated files. General bar — no unrelated files, three decisions in docs/autopilot/decisions.md with blast radius, review pack present at ~20 minutes.

No fourth rejection comment on #5, and no commit to queue.md. Three are already on the PR, the queue file already reads Status: blocked with an accurate note, and nothing about the slice's state changed. Adding noise to an unchanged record is not review.

Halt rule: still not triggered

§11 needs two consecutive rejected slices. This is one slice rejected on three passes, which is not the same thing. grid-prophet's build routine is not halted under §11 and should not be treated as halted. What stops it is §7.2 — it halts while the previous slice is unmerged — and it did so again at 13:09 today, writing nothing.

The window arithmetic, which is now the point

Rotation is Sun/Tue/Thu. 09-20 and 09-22 are spent. 09-24 is the last grid-prophet slot of the window, and it halts identically unless criterion 1 clears before 13:07 UTC Thursday. One slot means one slice, not two — so slices 2 (sprints) and 3 (reliability split) are not both recoverable now regardless of what you do.

The decision, unchanged and still yours

Commit a small real fixture — a few completed rounds. Still the recommendation: it is the only option that also makes slices 2 and 3 checkable, and they carry similar "runs end to end" criteria.
Reword criterion 1 to what is checkable unattended — CLI wiring plus columns — with the real-data run recorded as an owner check on return.
Merge slice-1: quali conditioning and gp race --mode post-quali #5 by hand after running the two commands locally. mergeable_state is clean; flip the queue line to merged afterwards. This is what §14.1 intended for the smoke-test slice anyway.

Softening the criterion is not mine to do, and I have not touched it.

Standing findings, not slice-1's fault

arviz>=0.17 straddles a major refactor — 0.23.4 on Python 3.11, 1.3.0 on 3.12; CI runs 3.12. load_fit/cmd_fit call az.from_netcdf/to_netcdf with no unit coverage. Repo-wide hazard.
Post-quali mode reads the grid from the round's race rows (_real_grid_for_round filters session_type == "R"), so it only works on already-finished rounds — correct for slice-1's criterion as worded, not yet the thing §6 describes. Needs closing in slice 6 or a follow-up.
Output filename — the criterion and §6 say race_forecast.csv; the CLI writes race_forecast_{season}_{round}.csv. Pre-existing Phase 1 behaviour, untouched here, so not this slice's to fix — but criterion 1 is worded against the spec's name, so it is worth settling when you reword or accept it.

Elsewhere

aperture is clean and on schedule — slice-1 merged 09-21, no open PRs, slice-2 (#17) picks up Wednesday 09-23. Details on Meerav29/aperture#25.

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Autopilot - Tuesday September 22

MERGED (0)
none

DECIDED FOR YOU (0)
none

BLOCKED / HELD (1)
grid-prophet #5 - still blocked on acceptance criterion 1 ("runs end to end on a completed round"); data/driver_rounds.csv is gitignored so no cloud routine can verify it. Today's 13:09 build slot halted again on the same wall and wrote nothing (§7.2: previous slice unmerged). Review re-checked independently and reached the same verdict; CI green, mergeable_state clean, unchanged since 9/20. Two of grid-prophet's three window slots now spent - 09-24 is the last one. Needs you: commit a real fixture, reword the criterion, or merge #5 by hand.

TOMORROW
aperture: slice-2 (#17, Store.sessions eviction policy) - picks up Wed 9/23.
grid-prophet: halts again 9/24 unless #5 is resolved first - last slot of the window.

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Review routine — 2026-09-23

Merged: none. Rejected: none new — slice-1 (PR #5) stays blocked. Held: none.

slice-1 — PR #5: unchanged

Head is still b19c544, the same commit reviewed on 09-20, 09-21 and 09-22. Nothing pushed, no comment since 09-20, no decision landed on criterion 1. CI green, mergeable_state: clean, 568 + 29 = 597 lines.

I re-checked the blocker rather than carrying the verdict forward: .gitignore carries data/* with a five-entry allowlist, driver_rounds.csv is not on it and is not tracked on either branch, and no test reaches cmd_race. So "runs end to end on a completed round" is still uncheckable by any cloud routine, and §10 gives the same answer it gave on the first pass.

No fifth rejection comment on #5, and no commit to queue.md. The queue already reads Status: blocked with an accurate note and nothing about the slice's state changed. Adding noise to an unchanged record is not review.

Halt rule: still not triggered

§11 needs two consecutive rejected slices. This is one slice rejected on four passes, which is not the same thing. grid-prophet's build routine is not halted under §11 and should not be treated as halted. §7.2 is what stops it, and it has now spent the 09-20 and 09-22 slots.

09-24 is the last grid-prophet slot of the window and it fires at 13:07 UTC tomorrow. It halts identically unless criterion 1 clears before then. One slot is one slice, so slices 2 and 3 are not both recoverable regardless.

The decision, unchanged and still yours

Commit a small real fixture — a few completed rounds. Still the recommendation, and the only option that also makes slices 2 and 3 checkable.
Reword criterion 1 to what is checkable unattended — CLI wiring plus columns — with the real-data run as an owner check on return.
Merge slice-1: quali conditioning and gp race --mode post-quali #5 by hand after running the two commands locally; flip the queue line to merged afterwards.

Softening the criterion is not mine to do, and I have not touched it.

Standing findings, not slice-1's fault

arviz>=0.17 straddles a major refactor — 0.23.4 on Python 3.11, 1.3.0 on 3.12; CI runs 3.12. load_fit/cmd_fit call az.from_netcdf/to_netcdf with no unit coverage. Repo-wide hazard.
Post-quali mode reads the grid from the round's race rows, so it only works on already-finished rounds — correct for the criterion as worded, not yet the thing §6 describes.
Output filename — the criterion and §6 say race_forecast.csv; the CLI writes race_forecast_{season}_{round}.csv. Pre-existing Phase 1 behaviour; worth settling when you reword or accept criterion 1.

Elsewhere — aperture also needs you now

Aperture's slice-2 (PR #41, issue #17) was rejected today, its first rejection of the window. Good slice, one criterion: the 14-day eviction policy removes 14–90 day sessions from the only surface that renders history today, which is exactly what "evicted sessions remain visible in history" forbids. Its last slot is Friday 09-25 and will halt under §7.2 unless that clears.

So both repos are now stopped on an owner decision, with one slot each left. Details on Meerav29/aperture#25.

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Autopilot - Wednesday September 23

MERGED (0)
none

DECIDED FOR YOU (0)
none

BLOCKED / HELD (2)
grid-prophet #5 - still blocked on acceptance criterion 1 ("runs end to end on a completed round"); data/driver_rounds.csv is gitignored so no cloud routine can check it. Unchanged since 9/20, no owner decision yet. Last window slot is 9/24 (tomorrow) - halts again unless resolved.
aperture #41 - new rejection on criterion 2: the 14-day eviction policy removes 14-90 day sessions from the only surface that renders history today ("evicted sessions remain visible in history" fails). Needs a decision: reword the criterion, filter in the frontend instead, or merge by hand accepting the gap. Last window slot is 9/25 (Fri).

TOMORROW
grid-prophet: halts again 9/24 unless #5 resolved - last slot of the window.
aperture: nothing until Fri 9/25 - halts on slice-2 unless resolved - last slot of the window.

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Build routine — 2026-09-24 — halted, nothing built. Last slot of the window.

Third and final grid-prophet slot. Same wall as 09-20 and 09-22. No branch, no commits, no queue edit — auto/queue untouched at 5ece8d5.

Why: §7.2 — the highest-numbered non-todo slice must read merged before the next slice starts. slice-1 reads blocked. slices 2 (sprints) and 3 (reliability split) are todo and were not touched.

Re-confirmed from the checkout rather than from the prior comments:

$ git rev-parse --short HEAD                  → 5ece8d5   (auto/queue, unchanged since 09-19)
$ git rev-parse --short origin/auto/grid-prophet-slice-1-post-quali
                                              → b19c544   (PR #5 head, unchanged since 09-20)
$ grep -A8 '^data/\*' .gitignore              → data/* + a five-entry allowlist
$ git ls-tree -r --name-only <both refs> -- data/
data/.gitkeep  data/circuits.csv  data/dnf_status_map.csv
data/driver_rounds_validation.md  data/points_tables.csv
$ grep -rn cmd_race tests/                    → (nothing)

driver_rounds.csv is not on the allowlist and is not tracked on either branch, and no test reaches cmd_race — so criterion 1's "runs end to end on a completed round" is still uncheckable by any cloud routine, and green CI is still silent on that path. Nothing has moved since 09-20: no push, no comment, no decision.

What is different about this one

The previous two halt reports were arguing about recovering slots. That argument is over — the rotation is Sun/Tue/Thu, the window closes 09-25, and this was the last grid-prophet slot. All three are spent. Nothing further will fire against this repo in the window, whatever you decide and whenever you decide it.

So the framing changes: the three options below are no longer about unblocking a routine before some deadline. They are about what you find when you sit down, and the honest summary of grid-prophet's window is:

Built: one slice (slice-1, PR slice-1: quali conditioning and gp race --mode post-quali #5) — reviewed five times, CI green, mergeable_state: clean, 568 + 29 = 597 lines, rejected on exactly one criterion that no cloud routine could ever have satisfied.
Not built: slices 2 and 3. Untouched. Still todo, still accurate, still ready for whoever picks them up.
Merged to auto/queue: nothing. main never moved, as designed.

That is one PR for your review rather than three, and the one you have is a known quantity. The wall was structural, not a quality problem — worth separating those two when you judge the experiment.

The decision, unchanged and still yours

Commit a small real fixture — a few completed rounds. Still the recommendation: slices 2 and 3 carry similar "runs end to end" criteria and will hit this same wall the moment anything picks them up, autopilot or not.
Reword criterion 1 to what is checkable unattended — CLI wiring plus columns — with the real-data run recorded as an owner check.
Merge slice-1: quali conditioning and gp race --mode post-quali #5 by hand after running the two commands locally, which is what §14.1 intended for the smoke-test slice anyway. mergeable_state is clean; flip the queue line to merged afterwards.

Softening the criterion is not mine to do, and I have not touched it.

Before you believe any of PR #5

Per AUTOPILOT.md: slice-1 merged-or-not was judged on the unit suite plus review, not on Phase 2's actual "done when" bar from v2 spec §8, which needs the full rolling backtest. Run it before you trust the slice. If the backtest says no, auto/queue is deletable and nothing is lost.

Standing findings, not slice-1's fault

arviz>=0.17 straddles a major refactor — 0.23.4 on Python 3.11, 1.3.0 on 3.12; CI runs 3.12. load_fit/cmd_fit call az.from_netcdf/to_netcdf with no unit coverage. Repo-wide hazard, worth a one-line pin.
Post-quali mode reads the grid from the round's race rows, so it only works on already-finished rounds — correct for criterion 1 as worded, not yet the thing §6 describes.
Output filename — the criterion and §6 say race_forecast.csv; the CLI writes race_forecast_{season}_{round}.csv. Pre-existing Phase 1 behaviour; worth settling when you reword or accept criterion 1.

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Build routine — window close for grid-prophet

Third and last slot spent. auto/queue is untouched at 5ece8d5; slices 2 and 3 are still todo and were never started.

What the window produced for grid-prophet: zero slices merged. One slice built, reviewed twice, rejected twice on a single acceptance criterion; two of three build slots lost to §7.2.

Why, in one line

Criterion 1 says "runs end to end on a completed round." data/driver_rounds.csv is gitignored, so no cloud checkout has a completed round to run against. The slice was correct to say so rather than dress a synthetic run up as real, and the review was correct to reject on it. The rule worked; the data was not there.

The part I got wrong, since this issue is the record

When you asked for option 1 — commit a small real fixture — I could not deliver it, and the reason is worth writing down so the next attempt does not repeat it.

This environment's network policy denies every F1 data source FastF1 needs: livetiming.formula1.com, api.jolpi.ca, ergast.com, api.openf1.org — all refused at the proxy. I confirmed there is only one environment to run in, and that the data is not reachable any other way I have. A results-only source would not have helped either: the pace model needs median_clean_air_lap_s and gap_to_winner_median_clean_air_s, which come from lap-by-lap telemetry with a clean-air filter and cannot be derived from a results table.

So option 1 was never achievable unattended, and I asked you to run a generator locally — after you had already said you were away from your computer. That was the wrong ask, and it cost the Tuesday slot while I waited on it.

The fix, for next time: raise the environment's Network access (the cloud environment menu in this session's title bar → Edit), either to a broader level or by adding livetiming.formula1.com to the allowed domains. With that, a routine can build the fixture itself and criterion 1 becomes checkable unattended — for slices 2, 3 and 6 as well, which carry similar "runs end to end" wording and would otherwise hit this wall one at a time.

Worth checking separately: the weekly Grid-Prophet-Data-Update routine also collects FastF1 data. If it runs here, it hits the same wall. Its last reported success was 09-16, which is consistent with a non-race week taking the analysis branch and never touching FastF1 — so that success may not mean what it looks like.

Left for you, in order

Decide criterion 1. Commit a real fixture, reword it to what is checkable unattended, or merge slice-1: quali conditioning and gp race --mode post-quali #5 by hand. PR slice-1: quali conditioning and gp race --mode post-quali #5 is green, mergeable_state: clean, 597 lines; the queue.md conflict is already resolved, so a hand-merge just needs that one line flipped to merged.
Run the backtest. Phase 2's actual "done when" bar per §8, never run, and the reason auto/queue exists. Three slices of plausible tested code may still not improve log loss.
arviz>=0.17 straddles a major refactor — 0.23.4 on Python 3.11, 1.3.0 on 3.12, and CI runs 3.12. load_fit/cmd_fit call az.from_netcdf/to_netcdf with no unit coverage, so CI cannot tell you whether gp fit and gp race behave the same across the two. Repo-wide, not slice-1's.
Post-quali mode reads the grid from the round's race rows, so it only works on rounds that already finished. Correct for criterion 1 as worded, but not yet the thing §6 describes — an upcoming race after quali has no race rows. Needs closing in slice 6 or a follow-up.

Scaffolding for criterion 1 is parked unmerged on wip/slice-1-fixture-scaffolding: a generator that slices 2024 rounds 1–4 out of a full driver_rounds.csv, and the end-to-end test that would check the criterion. Both are ready the moment a real fixture exists. No PR, and it fails until then, which is why it is not on the slice branch.

Ending my check-ins here.

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Review routine — 2026-09-24

Merged: none. Rejected: none new — slice-1 (PR #5) stays blocked. Held: none.

slice-1 — PR #5: unchanged, sixth pass

Head is still b19c544, the commit reviewed on 09-20, 09-21, 09-22 and 09-23. Nothing pushed, no comment on the PR since 09-20. CI green (test, success), mergeable_state: clean, 568 + 29 = 597 lines across 8 files, no prohibited paths.

I re-confirmed the blocker myself rather than carrying the verdict forward: the tree under data/ on auto/queue is .gitkeep, circuits.csv, dnf_status_map.csv, driver_rounds_validation.md, points_tables.csv. driver_rounds.csv is not there, and no test reaches cmd_race. "Runs end to end on a completed round" is still uncheckable by any cloud routine, and §10 gives the same answer it gave on the first pass.

No sixth rejection comment on #5, and no commit to queue.md. Five are already on the record, the queue file already reads Status: blocked with an accurate note, and nothing about the slice's state changed. Adding noise to an unchanged record is not review.

Halt rule: still not triggered — and now moot

§11 needs two consecutive rejected slices. This is one slice rejected on five passes, which is not the same thing, so I am not declaring the build routine halted under §11. It is moot either way: this morning's build report was the third and last grid-prophet slot of the window. All three are spent. Nothing further fires against this repo whatever you decide or when.

So the framing changes, and I agree with how the build routine put it: the three options are no longer about recovering a slot. They are about what you find when you sit down.

Built: one slice (PR slice-1: quali conditioning and gp race --mode post-quali #5). Green, clean, 597 lines, rejected on exactly one criterion no cloud routine could ever have satisfied.
Not built: slices 2 and 3, untouched and still accurately todo.
Merged to auto/queue: nothing. main never moved, as designed.

I want to endorse one thing from the build routine's close-out, because it is the real finding

Its final comment reports that this environment's network policy denies every F1 data source FastF1 needs — livetiming.formula1.com, api.jolpi.ca, ergast.com, api.openf1.org. That makes option 1 impossible unattended, which is a materially different statement from "the fixture has not been committed yet," and it is the one thing in six days of run log that changes what you should do rather than just describing what happened. Raising the environment's Network access, or allowlisting livetiming.formula1.com, is what makes criterion 1 checkable — and slices 2, 3 and 6 carry similar "runs end to end" wording, so they hit this same wall the moment anything picks them up, autopilot or not.

Its second flag deserves the same weight and is the only item here that reaches beyond the window: the weekly Grid-Prophet-Data-Update routine also collects FastF1 data. If it runs in this environment it hits the same denial, and its last reported success (09-16) is consistent with a non-race week never touching FastF1 — so that success may not mean what it looks like. Worth checking independently of anything autopilot did.

Left for you, unchanged

Decide criterion 1 — commit a real fixture, reword it to what is checkable unattended, or merge slice-1: quali conditioning and gp race --mode post-quali #5 by hand. mergeable_state is clean and the queue.md conflict is already resolved, so a hand-merge needs that one line flipped to merged. Softening the criterion is not mine to do and I have not touched it.
Run the backtest before you trust the slice. Per AUTOPILOT.md and §12, slice-1 was judged on the unit suite plus review, not on Phase 2's actual "done when" bar. If the backtest says no, auto/queue is deletable and nothing is lost.
arviz>=0.17 straddles a major refactor — 0.23.4 on Python 3.11, 1.3.0 on 3.12, and CI runs 3.12. load_fit/cmd_fit call az.from_netcdf/to_netcdf with no unit coverage. Repo-wide hazard, worth a one-line pin.
Post-quali mode reads the grid from the round's race rows, so it only works on rounds that already finished — correct for criterion 1 as worded, not yet the thing §6 describes. Needs closing in slice 6 or a follow-up.
Output filename — the criterion and §6 say race_forecast.csv; the CLI writes race_forecast_{season}_{round}.csv. Pre-existing Phase 1 behaviour; worth settling when you reword or accept criterion 1.

Elsewhere — aperture still has one slot

aperture's slice-2 (PR #41, issue #17) pushed a new head after yesterday's rejection, so I re-reviewed it rather than repeating a verdict. CI green on both jobs, the non-blocking counter finding genuinely fixed, criterion 2 still unmet — evicted sessions are unreachable from every code path in the app, which is what that criterion forbids. Stays blocked. Its last slot is Friday 09-25, 13:07 UTC, and one line of decision before then recovers it for slice-3 (#20), which is pure test work and independent of slice-2.

That is the only remaining upside in the window. Details on Meerav29/aperture#25.

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Autopilot - Wednesday October 14

Both repos idle. No merges, no open PRs, no new decisions, no halts in grid-prophet or aperture in the last 24h.

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Build routine — 2026-10-15: queue empty

§7 step 2, third branch: no todo slice remains, so I report "queue empty" and exit. No branch cut, no code written, no PR opened.

State verified this run on auto/queue:

All six slices read Status: merged in docs/autopilot/queue.md (slice-1: quali conditioning and gp race --mode post-quali #5, slice-2: sprint events #7, slice-3: reliability split — mechanical vs incident #8, slice-4: fit the per-circuit overtaking parameter from data #10, slice-5: weather — wet races get their own race-noise scale #12, slice-6: clamp the causeless channel ratio, price the sprint's first-lap spike #14). Nothing sits in todo, in-progress, in-review, held or blocked.
Halt rule not triggered. The highest-numbered non-todo slice is slice-6 and it is merged, so there is nothing unreviewed to stack on.
No open PR targets auto/queue. The repo's only open PR is Blog: final draft with Singapore results, footnotes and charts #18 (blog-singapore-post → main), outside this contract.
auto/queue is fully promoted: 0 ahead / 13 behind origin/main, and merge-base --is-ancestor origin/auto/queue origin/main passes. No autopilot work is stranded on the branch.

The standing item, unchanged since 10-03

This is the twelfth day the queue has been empty, and the crons keep firing into it (~9 runs/week across both repos, all idle). Nothing in §7 lets a routine queue its own slices or touch a cron, so it stays with you:

refill docs/autopilot/queue.md with slice-7 onward (fast-forward auto/queue to main first — it is a clean fast-forward), or
disable the routines at https://claude.ai/code/routines.

Phase 2's backtest gate landed on main on 10-11, so a slice-7 would be queued against a branch that now has the real measurement available — worth deciding what Phase 3 slices should be before refilling.

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Review routine — 2026-10-15: nothing to review

Spec §8 scopes this routine to "every open PR targeting auto/queue". There are zero such PRs. Merged: none. Rejected: none. Held: none. I wrote no code, changed no file, and set no Status — with nothing in flight there is nothing for a Status to track, and none of §8's per-PR gates (veto, CI, criteria, prohibition, size, general bar) ran.

Verified this run, not inherited

No open PR targets auto/queue. The repo's only open PR is #18 (blog-singapore-post → main), outside this contract — not reviewed, not touched.
6 of 6 slices read Status: merged on auto/queue (slice-1: quali conditioning and gp race --mode post-quali #5, slice-2: sprint events #7, slice-3: reliability split — mechanical vs incident #8, slice-4: fit the per-circuit overtaking parameter from data #10, slice-5: weather — wet races get their own race-noise scale #12, slice-6: clamp the causeless channel ratio, price the sprint's first-lap spike #14); zero Status: lines read anything else. No slice-7 exists in the file.
Every PR that has ever targeted auto/queue is closed — slice-1: quali conditioning and gp race --mode post-quali #5, slice-2: sprint events #7, slice-3: reliability split — mechanical vs incident #8, slice-4: fit the per-circuit overtaking parameter from data #10, slice-5: weather — wet races get their own race-noise scale #12, slice-6: clamp the causeless channel ratio, price the sprint's first-lap spike #14. Nothing is open and unreviewed.
auto/queue is fully promoted: merge-base --is-ancestor origin/auto/queue origin/main passes, 0 ahead / 13 behind. No autopilot work is stranded.

Halt rule

Not triggered. §11 needs two consecutive rejected slices; this repo has had zero rejections across all six. An idle run on an exhausted queue is §11's "queue exhausted → idle, report", not a halt.

Still yours

Unchanged and not re-argued: the queue has been empty since 10-03 and the crons keep firing into it. Nothing in §7 or §8 lets a routine queue its own slices or edit a cron, so it stays with you — refill docs/autopilot/queue.md (fast-forward auto/queue to main first; it is clean), or disable at https://claude.ai/code/routines.

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Autopilot - Thu Oct 15

Nothing in the last 24h. grid-prophet idle since Oct 3 (last merge PR #14); queue.md shows all 6 slices merged, nothing in progress or queued next.

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Build routine — 2026-10-16: queue empty

§7 step 2, third branch: no todo slice remains, so I report "queue empty" and exit. No branch cut, no file changed, no code written, no PR opened.

Verified fresh on auto/queue this run, not inherited from yesterday's comment:

6 of 6 slices read Status: merged (slice-1: quali conditioning and gp race --mode post-quali #5, slice-2: sprint events #7, slice-3: reliability split — mechanical vs incident #8, slice-4: fit the per-circuit overtaking parameter from data #10, slice-5: weather — wet races get their own race-noise scale #12, slice-6: clamp the causeless channel ratio, price the sprint's first-lap spike #14). Zero Status: lines read todo, in-progress, in-review, held or blocked.
Halt rule not triggered. Highest-numbered non-todo slice is slice-6, and it is merged — nothing unreviewed to stack on.
No slice-7 was added on main either. docs/autopilot/queue.md is byte-identical between origin/auto/queue and origin/main (empty git diff), so I am not reading a stale copy of a refilled queue.
No open PR targets auto/queue. The repo now has zero open PRs at all — Blog: final draft with Singapore results, footnotes and charts #18 (blog-singapore-post → main) has closed since yesterday.
auto/queue is fully promoted: merge-base --is-ancestor origin/auto/queue origin/main passes, 0 ahead / 16 behind (was 13 yesterday; main has taken 3 more commits). No autopilot work is stranded.

The standing item

Day 13 of an empty queue, unchanged since 10-03 and already on this issue four times — not re-argued here. §7 gives a routine no way to queue its own slices or touch a cron, so the next move is the owner's: refill docs/autopilot/queue.md with slice-7 onward (fast-forward auto/queue to main first — still a clean fast-forward), or disable the routines at https://claude.ai/code/routines.

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Autopilot - Friday October 16

Both repos idle. No merges, no open PRs, no new decisions, no halts in grid-prophet or aperture in the last 24h.

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Build routine — 2026-10-17: queue empty

§7 step 2, third branch: no todo slice remains, so I report "queue empty" and exit. No branch cut, no file changed, no code written, no PR opened.

Verified fresh on auto/queue this run, not inherited from the 10-15 / 10-16 comments:

6 of 6 slices read Status: merged (slice-1: quali conditioning and gp race --mode post-quali #5, slice-2: sprint events #7, slice-3: reliability split — mechanical vs incident #8, slice-4: fit the per-circuit overtaking parameter from data #10, slice-5: weather — wet races get their own race-noise scale #12, slice-6: clamp the causeless channel ratio, price the sprint's first-lap spike #14). Zero Status: lines read todo, in-progress, in-review, held or blocked; no slice-7 exists in the file.
Halt rule not triggered. The highest-numbered non-todo slice is slice-6 and it is merged, so there is nothing unreviewed, held or rejected to stack on.
Not a stale copy. docs/autopilot/queue.md is byte-identical between origin/auto/queue and origin/main (empty git diff), so a refilled queue on main is not being missed.
Zero open PRs in the repo, so none targets auto/queue. Blog: final draft with Singapore results, footnotes and charts #18 (blog-singapore-post → main) closed on 10-15.
auto/queue is fully promoted: merge-base --is-ancestor origin/auto/queue origin/main passes, 0 ahead / 16 behind. No autopilot work is stranded on the branch. main has not moved since yesterday's run (head still 303e957, 10-15 19:33 ET).

The standing item

Day 14 of an empty queue, unchanged since 10-03 and already on this issue five times — not re-argued here. §7 gives a routine no way to queue its own slices or touch a cron, so the next move stays the owner's: refill docs/autopilot/queue.md with slice-7 onward (fast-forward auto/queue to main first — still a clean fast-forward), or disable the routines at https://claude.ai/code/routines.

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Review routine — 2026-10-17: nothing in scope

Merged: 0 · Rejected: 0 · Held: 0. No open PR targets auto/queue — the repo has zero open PRs at all — so none of §8's gates ran. No file changed, no Status set, no code written.

Verified fresh this run, not inherited: 6 of 6 slices read Status: merged (#5, #7, #8, #10, #12, #14), docs/autopilot/queue.md is byte-identical between origin/main and origin/auto/queue (so no refilled queue is being missed), and auto/queue is 0 ahead / 16 behind main — fully promoted, nothing stranded. §11 halt rule not triggered: it needs two consecutive rejected slices and there are none.

Day 14 of an empty queue. Already on this issue six times including this morning's build run, so not re-argued — refill queue.md (fast-forward auto/queue to main first) or disable at https://claude.ai/code/routines.

Keeping these daily idle reports short from here; the state is unchanged and the record above is complete.

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Autopilot - Saturday October 17

Nothing in the last 24h in either repo. Both queues have been idle for two weeks — grid-prophet since 10-03, aperture since 10-12 — no merges, decisions, or blocks.

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Build routine — 2026-10-18: queue empty

§7 step 2, third branch: no todo slice remains, so I report "queue empty" and exit. No branch cut, no file changed, no code written, no PR opened.

Verified fresh on auto/queue this run, not inherited from the 10-15 / 10-16 / 10-17 comments:

6 of 6 slices read Status: merged (slice-1: quali conditioning and gp race --mode post-quali #5, slice-2: sprint events #7, slice-3: reliability split — mechanical vs incident #8, slice-4: fit the per-circuit overtaking parameter from data #10, slice-5: weather — wet races get their own race-noise scale #12, slice-6: clamp the causeless channel ratio, price the sprint's first-lap spike #14). Zero Status: lines read todo, in-progress, in-review, held or blocked.
No slice-7 exists — grep -c slice-7 returns 0 against both origin/main and origin/auto/queue.
Halt rule not triggered. The highest-numbered non-todo slice is slice-6 and it is merged, so there is nothing unreviewed, held or rejected to stack on.
docs/autopilot/queue.md is byte-identical between origin/main and origin/auto/queue, so no refilled queue on main is being missed.
auto/queue is 0 ahead / 16 behind main — fully promoted, nothing stranded on the branch.
Zero open PRs in the repo.

Standing item for the owner

This is the 4th consecutive build run to exit on "queue empty", and the queue has been exhausted since slice-6 merged on 10-03 — 15 days. The build and review crons together are producing idle reports only. Three ways out, owner's call:

Refill the queue. The spec §8 Phase 2 "done when" bar is still open and the carry-forwards under slices 4 and 6 name concrete, unclaimed work — the un-test-protected forecast_weekend / forecast_race_challenger wirings, the per-call full refit of build_overtaking_data, and the silent sprint_inputs_from channel fallback on the backtest path.
Run the Phase 2 backtest (owner present, up to two hours, out of scope for routines) and decide whether any of Phase 2 earned its place before queuing more on top of it. AUTOPILOT.md is explicit that nothing merged so far has cleared that gate.
Disable the routines at https://claude.ai/code/routines until there is work for them.

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Review routine — 2026-10-18: nothing in scope

Merged: 0 · Rejected: 0 · Held: 0. Zero open PRs in the repo, so no PR targets auto/queue and none of §8's gates ran. No file changed, no Status set, no code written.

Verified fresh this run: 6 of 6 slices read Status: merged (#5, #7, #8, #10, #12, #14), docs/autopilot/queue.md is byte-identical between origin/main and origin/auto/queue (blob d2c897d, so no refill is being missed), grep slice-7 returns 0 on both refs, and auto/queue is 0 ahead / 16 behind main — fully promoted, nothing stranded. §11 halt rule not triggered: it needs two consecutive rejected slices and this repo has none.

Day 15 of an empty queue, and this morning's build run reported the same at 13:09Z. Standing items unchanged and not re-argued — refill queue.md, run the Phase 2 backtest, or disable at https://claude.ai/code/routines.

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Autopilot - Sunday October 18

Nothing in the last 24h in either repo — no merges, no decisions, no blocks. grid-prophet's queue has sat empty since 10-03 (day 15, 4th straight empty report from the build/review crons); aperture's since 10-12 (day 6), with slice-6 (PR #92) still stranded off auto/queue, unpromoted to main or staging.

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Review routine — 2026-10-19: nothing in scope

Merged: 0 · Rejected: 0 · Held: 0. Zero open PRs in the repo, so nothing targets auto/queue and none of §8's gates ran. No file changed, no Status set, no code written.

Verified fresh this run rather than carried forward:

6 of 6 ^Status: lines on auto/queue read merged (slice-1: quali conditioning and gp race --mode post-quali #5, slice-2: sprint events #7, slice-3: reliability split — mechanical vs incident #8, slice-4: fit the per-circuit overtaking parameter from data #10, slice-5: weather — wet races get their own race-noise scale #12, slice-6: clamp the causeless channel ratio, price the sprint's first-lap spike #14); Status: todo count is 0 and slice-7 returns 0 matches.
docs/autopilot/queue.md is byte-identical between origin/main and origin/auto/queue (both blob d2c897d), so no refill is being missed.
auto/queue is 0 ahead / 16 behind main — fully promoted, nothing stranded.
§11 halt rule not triggered: it needs two consecutive rejected slices, and every PR ever opened against auto/queue here (6 of 6) was merged. There have been no rejections.

Day 16 of an empty queue. Standing items unchanged and not re-argued — refill queue.md, run the Phase 2 backtest with you present, or disable the crons at https://claude.ai/code/routines.

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Autopilot - Monday October 19

Nothing in the last 24h in either repo. grid-prophet idle since 10-03 (day 16, queue empty, no open PRs); aperture idle since 10-12 (day 7), slice-6 (PR #92) still stranded off auto/queue, unpromoted to main or staging.

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Build routine — 2026-10-20: queue empty

No slice taken. No branch cut, no file changed, no code written.

Verified fresh on origin/auto/queue this run rather than carried forward from yesterday's report:

^Status: todo count is 0; all 6 ^Status: lines read merged (slice-1: quali conditioning and gp race --mode post-quali #5, slice-2: sprint events #7, slice-3: reliability split — mechanical vs incident #8, slice-4: fit the per-circuit overtaking parameter from data #10, slice-5: weather — wet races get their own race-noise scale #12, slice-6: clamp the causeless channel ratio, price the sprint's first-lap spike #14). slice-7 returns 0 matches.
docs/autopilot/queue.md is byte-identical between origin/main and origin/auto/queue (both blob d2c897d), so no refill is being missed on either ref.
auto/queue is 0 ahead / 16 behind main — fully promoted, nothing stranded.
0 open PRs in the repo, so step 2's halt rule does not fire: the highest-numbered non-todo slice is slice-6 and it is merged, not held or rejected.
The five auto/grid-prophet-slice-* branches still on the remote are pre-merge heads left over from squash merges, not live work — spot-checked that slice-6's CAUSELESS_RATIO_FLOOR and sprint_incident_exposure are both present on auto/queue.

Day 17 of an empty queue. Standing items unchanged and not re-argued: refill queue.md with a slice-7, run the Phase 2 backtest with you present (still the only real gate on any of slices 1–6), or disable the crons at https://claude.ai/code/routines.

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Autopilot run log — 2026-09-20 to 09-25 #4

Description

How to stop it from your phone

Where the work is

Activity

Meerav29 commented on Sep 19, 2026

Review routine — 2026-09-19

slice-1 — quali conditioning and gp race --mode post-quali → blocked

This needs you, not another build attempt

Two findings from the PR worth your attention independently

Meerav29 commented on Sep 19, 2026

Meerav29 commented on Sep 20, 2026

Build routine — 2026-09-20 — halted, nothing built

Meerav29 commented on Sep 20, 2026

Review routine — 2026-09-20

slice-1 — PR #5 → stays blocked

Two small corrections to the run log

Halt status: not triggered, but the queue is stopped anyway

The decision, unchanged

Standing findings, not slice-1's fault

Meerav29 commented on Sep 20, 2026

Meerav29 commented on Sep 21, 2026

Review routine — 2026-09-21

slice-1 — PR #5: no change since yesterday

Halt rule: still not triggered

The decision, unchanged and still yours

A structural note on the veto check, worth one line

Elsewhere

Meerav29 commented on Sep 21, 2026

Meerav29 commented on Sep 22, 2026

Build routine — 2026-09-22 — halted, nothing built

What this costs

The decision, unchanged and still yours

Meerav29 commented on Sep 22, 2026

Review routine — 2026-09-22

slice-1 — PR #5: head unchanged, verdict re-derived rather than carried forward

Halt rule: still not triggered

The window arithmetic, which is now the point

The decision, unchanged and still yours

Standing findings, not slice-1's fault

Elsewhere

Meerav29 commented on Sep 22, 2026

Meerav29 commented on Sep 23, 2026

Review routine — 2026-09-23

slice-1 — PR #5: unchanged

Halt rule: still not triggered

The decision, unchanged and still yours

Standing findings, not slice-1's fault

Elsewhere — aperture also needs you now

Meerav29 commented on Sep 23, 2026

Meerav29 commented on Sep 24, 2026

Build routine — 2026-09-24 — halted, nothing built. Last slot of the window.

What is different about this one

The decision, unchanged and still yours

Before you believe any of PR #5

Standing findings, not slice-1's fault

Meerav29 commented on Sep 24, 2026

Build routine — window close for grid-prophet

Why, in one line

The part I got wrong, since this issue is the record

Left for you, in order

Meerav29 commented on Sep 24, 2026

Review routine — 2026-09-24

slice-1 — PR #5: unchanged, sixth pass

Halt rule: still not triggered — and now moot

I want to endorse one thing from the build routine's close-out, because it is the real finding

Left for you, unchanged

Elsewhere — aperture still has one slot

47 remaining items

Meerav29 commented on Oct 14, 2026

Meerav29 commented on Oct 15, 2026

Build routine — 2026-10-15: queue empty

The standing item, unchanged since 10-03

Meerav29 commented on Oct 15, 2026

Review routine — 2026-10-15: nothing to review

Verified this run, not inherited

Halt rule

Still yours

Meerav29 commented on Oct 15, 2026

Meerav29 commented on Oct 16, 2026

slice-1 — quali conditioning and `gp race --mode post-quali` → `blocked`

slice-1 — PR #5 → stays `blocked`