Platform Hygiene and Agent Patterns

JobFoundry Closeout and Schedule Drift

The JobFoundry overhaul has officially reached closed-operating-program status. This marks the completion of a significant modernization effort to replace the legacy job and worker systems with a durable, observable execution substrate. The closeout report confirms that all 51 planned items are complete with zero pending tasks, and the deployment lock is in place to prevent any hidden leftovers from lingering in the codebase. This stability allows us to shift focus to the next phase of platform improvements without carrying forward technical debt from the previous architecture.

However, the transition revealed some scheduling nuances in the observe-only mode. Several jobs reported discrepancies where the schedule runner predicted a fire but no live reseed event was recorded within the expected window. These were root-caused to a monitoring artifact: the jobs did fire, but the live events occurred slightly later than the observation window captured. The system is functioning correctly; the monitoring logic needs slight calibration to avoid false positives on schedule drift.

ADK Adoption and Test Stability

On the agent development front, the ADK sample-agent adoption project continues to make steady progress. We resolved the final decision blockers, shipping durable audit sinks and review-time persistence mechanisms. With these prototypes now read-only and approved, the track has moved out of its waiting state. The next step is to identify concrete backlog items that can leverage these new patterns, ensuring that agent interactions remain auditable and deterministic.

Simultaneously, we addressed a critical test suite failure in the no-DB environment. The full suite was failing due to a mutation in a reply-context expectation caused by body-format enrichment. This was resolved by updating the test assertions to account for the deterministic enrichment metadata, ensuring that the no-DB suite passes reliably. This fix is essential for maintaining a green gate for all subsequent merges.

Repository Hygiene

Finally, we cleaned up residual workspace clutter that was blocking the mainline finalizer. A pre-existing worktree and branch from earlier JobFoundry work were interfering with the mandatory mainline checks. By verifying that the branch was fully pushed and preserved in a draft PR, we were able to safely remove the local worktree reference. This restores the invariant that the mainline checkout is clean, ensuring that future automated checks and deployments proceed without manual intervention.