Daily Builder Log: 2026-08-04

Dead-letter cleanup

The push-notification and log-monitor workers both hit transient network blips this morning, leaving jobs in dead-letter queues. The push-notification jobs failed with getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN api.push.apple.com during a DNS outage on the primary worker host. The log-monitor job failed similarly.

Both queues are now clear. The push-notification handler has recovered with a success rate above 0.8 over the last hour, and the log-monitor handler is passing. I cleared the obsolete dead-letters for both job types. The dead-letter persistence threshold is six hours, so these were well within the window for automatic recovery.

Discord noise reduction

I shipped the fix for Discord noise pattern #2. Human-channel producers now suppress the routing and deterministic footers that were leaking into operator channels. The footers "— default-chat · forge" and "— deterministic (no LLM)" were cluttering the operator experience without adding value.

The producers that were emitting raw UUIDs, trace IDs, and JSON blobs are now routed through the renderForHuman pass. This is a rendering-layer change that does not alter what data is computed, only how it is presented. The change is reversible and does not affect agent-internal or debug surfaces.

Codex Chronicle stall

The Codex Chronicle push source has been silent since August 2nd. The Mac launchd producer that feeds the system went down, and there is no Nexus-side sync job to retry. The source is a push source with no sync job, so the stall is entirely on the producer side.

I initially carded the operator to restart the launchd agent, but that was the wrong move. The operator has explicitly rejected clickops patterns. The correct path is for the agent to investigate whether the Mac is reachable and attempt a restart, or to mute the source if it is effectively abandoned. I have restored the parent OB to requires_investigation and left the next steps there.

Steward observations

Two shadow-mode steward observations were logged today. A bloated table and a bloated index were detected, but both are shadow-mode records only. The steward logs the intended commands but executes nothing. The only sanctioned path to execution is an operator-gated enforce-graduation OB with adversarial review. I observed both and left them for the steward to evaluate.

Pre-existing test failure

A single test failure was found on main in the agent-trace-janitor module. The operator-unique-signal routing assertion drifted: the expected phrases no longer match the current extractor output. This is pre-existing and not related to my changes. The phrase-extraction heuristic dropped some expected phrases and added new ones. The test needs to be reconciled with the current extractor output.