2026-09-12 22:20 · 2 deliverable(s) · auto-closeout
AIOS · M2 (SeanVargas) · /Users/SeanVargas/AI_OS
Six tools built and adversarially verified on 2026-09-13. Every number below was re-proved with a shell command against live state, not taken from the builder. Zero of the seven scripts are wired into anything yet.
All commands assume cd /Users/SeanVargas/AI_OS. Every script is read-only by default. Writes into ops/ need the command to start with AIOS_PROTECTED_OK=1 — an export on a prior line does not satisfy the path-guard regex.
Replaces agent-check.sh — the tool CLAUDE.md line 101 still routes you to over ssh, at the legacy ~/aios path.
bash ops/scripts/agent-live.sh # last 2h, dated, newest first bash ops/scripts/agent-live.sh --since 24h # or --all --json --watch 10
The only build that beats an existing habit on your own clock. agent-check.sh: 59.400s, 1,610 undated unsorted rows. This: 3.5s warm, 6.0s cold — I measured 5.994 total on a cold run just now. Verified against independently computed ground truth with zero false positives or negatives.
Quote it as 3.5s warm / ~6s first-run-of-the-day. Never "<5s" — that bar is warm-only.
Proof · time bash ops/scripts/agent-live.sh --since 24h → 2.56s user 0.38s system 49% cpu 5.994 total
A bounded query layer over comms/, so an agent stops paying ~26k tokens for one ls.
python3 ops/scripts/comms-map.py digest # 1,981 b, replaces `ls comms/outputs`
python3 ops/scripts/comms-map.py find <term> [--content]
python3 ops/scripts/comms-map.py queue|links|results [--json]
The rare headline that survives adversarial checking. ls -1 comms/outputs | wc -c = 103,603 bytes — three times the leanest measured session floor, for a bare filename list with no metadata. digest = 1,981 bytes for strictly more information. Both re-ran and reproduced exactly.
digest and find are habit-replacing. queue, links and results are one-shot audits whose value is the backlog they name: 517 dead path citations, 17 "result" files that are actually API-failure strings, 50 byte-identical 69-byte ack stubs.
find -maxdepth 5 -name gc-safe-delete.sh returns two paths (scripts/ and skills/); the tool prints one arrow as if the resolution were unambiguous..jsonl.round2 twin was deleted in round 1 and the suffix scheme is retired, so the live hazard is the code path, not a file on disk. Do not run manifest without --out.One command that answers "are my 33 LaunchAgents actually alive?" — launchctl list shows 33 green rows and none of what follows.
bash ops/scripts/agent-ledger.sh # human table, worst-first
bash ops/scripts/agent-ledger.sh --json | --quiet-green | --label <name>
Three discoveries nobody had, all reproduced independently: an agent that has burned 1,028,518 no-op wakes since July against a PAUSED sentinel while launchd reports last_exit 0; a plist that fails plutil -lint and stores a plaintext password; and a live mailer that can launchctl bootout production with zero notification — it already did, 09-06 to 09-10.
launchctl list.Proof · plutil -lint com.aios.deliverables-cesar.plist → Encountered unknown ampersand-escape sequence at line 13 · overlay: rows: 33 sentinel: 1 expect_write: 4
Lints the 328-file memory store that seeds every session. MEMORY.md is the only surface injected at launch.
AIOS_PROTECTED_OK=1 python3 ops/scripts/memory-doctor.py all --md <NEW-path>.md
# subcommands: all orphans links schema stale-facts dupes
140 of 329 files (42%) never reach a session. Two memories written 2026-09-12 were orphaned within hours — every "vault this" has a ~43% chance of producing a write-only file. Ships a paste-ready 140-row index.
15 files still cite /Users/SeanVargas_1, a home directory removed 2026-08-26. Eight of them are linked from MEMORY.md, so they prime the model with dead paths at every single launch. Confirmed by a method that does not use the tool.
--source does not redirect the proposed-index output (line 58 hardcodes it to AIOS_ROOT), and the index write at line 814 runs before the --md refusal check at line 873. A toy-store test clobbers the real 140-row index, then prints REFUSED. Reproduced, restored, re-verified. Do not pass --source until this is fixed.Proof · grep -rl '/Users/SeanVargas_1' <memory dir> | wc -l → 15
First measurement of which skills can load, which can run, and which have ever run.
python3 ops/scripts/skill-doctor.py mine python3 ops/scripts/skill-doctor.py report [--json] [--md NEW-OUT] python3 ops/scripts/skill-doctor.py packs | shelf-plan [--json]
What holds: ls -1d ~/.claude/skills/*/ | wc -l → 144, of which 95 declare a gws binary and which gws → gws not found. Roughly 85 entries advertise capabilities that cannot execute, while their descriptions are injected into every system prompt.
~/.claude/skills reach the system prompt. The 82 READ-ONLY rows are the $AIOS_ROOT/skills tree the tool's own docstring calls skills the Skill tool "CANNOT load at all" — if they can't load, they cost zero. The tool proves a number is not injected, then sums it into the injected total. Real injected cost: 8,344 tokens, not 13,023. Recomputed on the corrected denominator, the zero-usage share is 65% — ~5,420 tokens across 124 LOADABLE skills with no usage evidence, not 46%. The 4,679 READ-ONLY tokens stay on their own line: not injected, a findability cost, not a token cost.It shelves nothing. The entire payoff depends on a GO-gated apply build that does not exist. packs exits 2 on scope violation by design — any cron wrapper treating nonzero as failure will flag it broken forever.
Makes the ICM wall library fire automatically instead of when the model remembers. CLAUDE.md's highest-cost rule is currently prose, and the receipts show the honour system failing: B06→B50, B02→B18, B57→B69 — the same wall paid for twice.
python3 ops/scripts/block-cue-hook.py --self-test
python3 ops/scripts/block-cue-hook.py --explain "<command text>"
# hook line to paste into ~/.claude/settings.json PreToolUse "matcher":"Bash"
{ "type": "command", "command": "python3 $HOME/AI_OS/ops/scripts/block-cue-hook.py" }
The matcher genuinely works — self-test fires B73 on rsync -av --delete /a/ /b/ and stays silent on ls -la. 26ms, fail-open in four ways, measured against 400 real commands instead of asserted.
grep -c 'block-cue' ~/.claude/settings.json → 0. It is not wired in, so it fires on nothing..round2 on any existing path, including its own prior output. Live right now: index = 120 entries, icm/blocks.json = 124. Under the standing "record blocks as they come" rule it diverges forever until a human deletes the index by hand. The round-2 verifier graded this bug as the safety feature.Recall also leans on the description field carrying a second cue word, so even once wired it misses terse calls. Worth the one-line paste; worth nothing until that paste happens.
Found by the adversarial pass, missed by the per-build verifiers.
Four tools, three different broken collision rules. agent-ledger.sh:416 and memory-doctor.py:83 divert only when the generated-by marker is ABSENT — so they always silently overwrite their own prior output. block-cue-index.py:269 diverts on any existing path — so it can never update. skill-doctor.py:613 and comms-map.py:150 guard exactly one level and destroy the .round2 on a second collision. One correct rule: loop a numeric suffix to the first free path, or refuse and name the blocking file.
1.49 MB of collision-guard debris — cleared in round 1. comms-manifest.jsonl.round2 (1,341,251 b), block-cue-index.json.round2 (112,166 b — undeclared in any build's file list, and the fresher of the two indexes), skill-doctor-report.md.round2 (40,131 b). None of the three exists at its cited path any more — find . -name "*.round2*" returns only .bak-fixround backups and one quarantined index under trash/. The .round2 suffix scheme is retired; the skill-doctor report lives at skill-doctor-report.md and nowhere else.
agent-run-ledger.py self-degrades. A plain --gc-report overwrites a richer --dedupe-preview artifact with no warning — the MB figures and the 490.3 MB dedupe estimate become None.
git status --porcelain is useless as a change detector here — 666 entries deep with pre-existing M and D lines. Future rounds need a manifest of intended writes, not git.
Ordered by cost of not doing it.
crontab -l → "no crontab for SeanVargas". Zero of seven scripts are referenced from CLAUDE.md, any LaunchAgent, or CHECKS.md. Minimum: replace CLAUDE.md lines 101–105 with agent-live.sh.~/.claude/settings.json PreToolUse. Not done by the build — settings.json was round-1 territory.SHELL_BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD, and the mailer that boots out production silently at strike 12.block-cue-index.py:269 to refresh on its own marker. The stale 112 KB .round2 index is already gone — deleted in round 1, one copy quarantined under trash/ — but the divert-on-any-existing-path bug is still in the source, so the next run recreates the problem. Measured at the time of this closeout: hook index 120 entries against a 124-block library.skill-doctor-report.md now prints it this way.--source to redirect the proposed index, and move every refusal check ahead of the first write..round2 artifacts — done in round 1; all three are gone from their cited paths.Listed in full, nothing silently truncated.
results/links. outputs/INDEX.md.new + MANIFEST.jsonl.new → manifest lives at ops/reference/ instead. memory-index-sync · memory-lint · memory-stale-facts · memory-dupes → memory-doctor's five subcommands. plist-lint.sh → a hard RED condition inside agent-ledger.--stamp appends to existing CONTEXT.md files; first candidate for round 3.Date: 2026-09-13 · Host: M2 (SeanVargas) · Root: /Users/SeanVargas/AI_OS
Built 6 · PASS 5 · PARTIAL 1 · FAILED 0 · Wired into anything: 0
Adversarial verdict: SHIP_WITH_CAVEATS. No hard gate violated against pre-existing state.
All commands assume cd /Users/SeanVargas/AI_OS first. Every script is read-only by default.
bash ops/scripts/agent-live.sh # last 2h, dated, newest first bash ops/scripts/agent-live.sh --since 24h # or --all --json --watch 10
Run this one today. agent-check.sh (the tool CLAUDE.md line 101 still points you at, over ssh, at the legacy ~/aios path) timed at 59.400 total printing 1,610 undated unsorted rows. This returns the correct agents in 3.5s warm, 6.0s cold — I measured 5.994 total on a cold run just now. Quote 3.5s warm / ~6s first-run, never "<5s".
ls · PARTIALpython3 ops/scripts/comms-map.py digest # 1,981 b, replaces `ls comms/outputs` python3 ops/scripts/comms-map.py find <term> [--content] python3 ops/scripts/comms-map.py queue|links|results [--json]
ls -1 comms/outputs | wc -c = 103,603 bytes (~26k tokens, 3x the leanest session floor). digest = 1,981 bytes for strictly more information — I re-ran both just now and both numbers reproduce exactly. digest and find are habit-replacing; queue/links/results are one-shot audits whose value is the backlog they name (517 dead path citations, 17 result files that are actually API-failure strings, 50 byte-identical ack stubs).
Do not run manifest without --out — see PARTIAL below.
bash ops/scripts/agent-ledger.sh # human table, worst-first bash ops/scripts/agent-ledger.sh --json | --quiet-green | --label <name>
Front-loaded value, and the front load is large: it found an agent burning 1,028,518 no-op wakes since July against a PAUSED sentinel while launchd reports last_exit 0, a plist that fails plutil -lint and stores a plaintext password, and a live mailer that can launchctl bootout production silently. launchctl list shows none of that — it shows 33 green rows.
Writes into ops/ need the command to start with AIOS_PROTECTED_OK=1 (an export on a prior line does not satisfy the path-guard regex). Read-only runs need no flag.
AIOS_PROTECTED_OK=1 python3 ops/scripts/memory-doctor.py all --md <NEW-path>.md
140 of 329 memory files (42%) are unreachable at session start — MEMORY.md is the only surface injected, so 43% of everything ever vaulted is write-only. 15 files still cite /Users/SeanVargas_1, a home directory removed 2026-08-26; I confirmed this independently (grep -rl '/Users/SeanVargas_1' <memory dir> | wc -l -> 15), and 8 of them are linked from MEMORY.md, so they prime every launch with dead paths. Ships a paste-ready 140-row index.
Do not pass --source on a toy store until the defect below is fixed.
python3 ops/scripts/skill-doctor.py mine | report [--json] [--md NEW-OUT] | packs | shelf-plan
Real facts that hold: ls -1d ~/.claude/skills/*/ | wc -l -> 144; 95 of them declare a gws binary and which gws -> "gws not found". The headline does not hold — see FAILED/CAVEAT below. packs exits 2 on scope violation by design, so any cron wrapper treating nonzero as failure will flag it broken forever.
python3 ops/scripts/block-cue-hook.py --self-test python3 ops/scripts/block-cue-hook.py --explain "<command text>"
Matcher works — self-test fires B73 on rsync -av --delete /a/ /b/ and stays silent on ls -la. 26ms, fail-open four ways, measured against 400 real commands. It fires on nothing today: grep -c 'block-cue' ~/.claude/settings.json -> 0. And its index cannot refresh — see below.
find -maxdepth 5 -name gc-safe-delete.sh returns two paths (scripts/ and skills/), the tool prints one arrow as if unambiguous. And its never-overwrites guarantee is one level deep — at a second collision the default manifest run silently overwrites the diverted twin rather than refusing. (The .jsonl.round2 twin itself was deleted in round 1 and the suffix scheme is retired; the defect is in the code path, not on disk.) COMMS-MAP.md's "nothing is moved, renamed, truncated or deleted, ever" is false at the second collision.~/.claude/skills reach the system prompt. The 82 READ-ONLY rows are the $AIOS_ROOT/skills tree the tool's own docstring calls skills the Skill tool "CANNOT load at all" — if they can't load, they cost zero per session. Real injected cost: 8,344 tokens. Recomputed on the corrected denominator: 65% zero-usage, ~5,420 tokens across 124 LOADABLE skills — not 46%. The 4,679 READ-ONLY tokens belong on a separate, explicitly non-injected line and are a findability cost, not a token cost.ops/reference/block-cue-index.json = 120 entries, icm/blocks.json = 124. Line 269 diverts to .round2 on ANY existing path, including its own prior output. Under the standing "record blocks as they come" rule the hook diverges forever until a human deletes the index by hand. The round-2 verifier graded this bug as a safety feature.--source does not redirect the proposed-index output (line 58 hardcodes it to AIOS_ROOT), and the index write at line 814 runs before the --md refusal check at line 873. A toy-store test clobbers the real 140-row index, then refuses. It was reproduced, then restored and independently re-verified (140 ^- [ rows, 165 lines, real source path)..round2 on a second collision.--gc-report overwrites a richer --dedupe-preview artifact with no warning — the MB figures and the 490.3 MB dedupe estimate become None.ops/reference/block-cue-index.json.round2 (112,166 b), in no build's file list, and the fresher of the two indexes — the stale one was what the hook read. Deleted in round 1; one copy retained under trash/quarantine/. It no longer exists at the cited path.git status --porcelain is useless as a change detector here — 666 entries deep with pre-existing M and D lines. Future rounds need a manifest of intended writes, not git.Folded into a shipped build (no separate program):
skill-shelf.py, skills-canon-verify2.py, skill-loadability.mjs/.json, skill-integrity.py, skill-desc-lint.py -> skill-doctor subcommands/columns. Trigger-collision n-grams dropped as lowest-yield.result-gate.py, comms-linkcheck.py -> comms-map results / links. outputs/INDEX.md.new + MANIFEST.jsonl.new -> manifest lives at ops/reference/ instead, keeping writes out of the deliverables archive.memory-index-sync / memory-lint / memory-stale-facts / memory-dupes -> memory-doctor's five subcommands.plist-lint.sh -> a hard RED condition inside agent-ledger.path-citations-check.py (comms half) -> comms-map links.Blocked by the never-modify-an-existing-file gate:
guard-escalate.sh (needs patches to mailer-guard.sh, a0-inbox-watcher.sh, capture.sh), loop-verdict.sh / watch-decay.sh (same patch-existing-loops problem), comms-janitor.py --apply (mutates comms/active-tasks and a0/inbox), context-card-drift.py (--stamp appends to existing CONTEXT.md files — first candidate for round 3; 100% of 69 parseable icm-index cards are stale).Blocked by the no-launchctl / no-deploy gate:
reminder-reap.sh + mkreminder.sh (real — 5 past-date reminders will re-fire in 2027 — but the payoff is a bootout), Google Calendar connector + appointments.json + reminders-render.py (generates plists), relocate-logs.sh + corrected plists (ships as an AMBER class in the ledger instead), AI_OS/.mcp.json reconstruction (deploy-shaped; one of six servers points at a nonexistent .mjs).Blocked by round-1 settings.json ownership:
precompact-aios.py, UserPromptSubmit prompt-preflight hook (its high-value half ships as build 5), statusline-aios.sh, safety-conformance.mjs + guards-only.json, session-resume-packet.py (natural home is a Stop hook; 120 of 123 September sessions left no digest — real friction, ranked just below subagent-truth).Blocked because round-1 owns the live scratchpad:
adjudicate.mjs, rulings-gold.jsonl, score-against-gold.mjs, durable bench.mjs, scratchpad-harvest.mjs, launch-probe.mjs + selftest profiles.Dropped on merit:
mcp-doctor.mjs (real rot, no evidence Sean is currently using MCP), icm card-contract.mjs / recall-bench.mjs (need icm core writes — off limits this round), memory-to-index.py (mirrors personal facts into the repo; memory-doctor must land first), active-tasks-sweep.js Workflow (no shell command can prove it runs), board-truth.py (noise, not a blocked workflow — lowest operator cost of the set).Ordered by cost of not doing it.
1. Wire something, or this round is six orphans. crontab -l -> "no crontab for SeanVargas"; zero of seven scripts are referenced from CLAUDE.md, any LaunchAgent, or CHECKS.md. Minimum: replace CLAUDE.md lines 101-105 — which still route you over ssh to the 59.4s agent-check.sh at the legacy ~/aios path — with agent-live.sh.
2. Paste the hook line into ~/.claude/settings.json PreToolUse "matcher":"Bash": { "type": "command", "command": "python3 $HOME/AI_OS/ops/scripts/block-cue-hook.py" }. Not done by the build (settings.json was round-1 territory).
3. Act on the three agent-ledger REDs while the front-loaded value is still on the table. (a) com.aios.screen-audit-capture has burned 1,028,518 wakes against ops/screen-audit/PAUSED while reporting exit 0. (b) com.aios.deliverables-cesar.plist fails plutil -lint ("unknown ampersand-escape sequence at line 13" — raw & in "Cesar & Associates", so it vanishes on next reboot) and carries SHELL_BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD in EnvironmentVariables — move that to a secret store. (c) skills/booking-mailer/mailer-guard.sh:35 runs launchctl bootout at MAX_STRIKES=12 with no notify/tg/curl anywhere in the file, so production self-disables silently — it already did, 09-06 to 09-10.
4. Fix block-cue-index.py:269 to refresh on its own marker. The stale 112KB .round2 index was deleted in round 1 (one copy quarantined under trash/), but the divert-on-any-existing-path bug is still in the source. Measured at the time of this closeout: hook index pinned at 120 blocks against a 124-block library, with every wall recorded after that invisible to it.
5. Fix the skill-doctor headline to 8,344 tokens / 144 LOADABLE, 65% of it zero-usage (~5,420 tokens across 124 skills) before it gets quoted, and show the 4,679-token READ-ONLY tree on a separate explicitly-non-injected line. Corrected here; skill-doctor-report.md now prints it this way.
6. Unify collision semantics across all four tools — loop a numeric suffix to the first free path, or refuse and name the blocking file. Three rules in one round is how the .round2 twins happened.
7. Fix memory-doctor's --source to redirect the proposed index, and move every refusal check ahead of the first write.
8. Reclaim 1.49 MB of collision-guard debris — done in round 1. ops/reference/comms-manifest.jsonl.round2 (1,341,251 b), ops/reference/block-cue-index.json.round2 (112,166 b) and comms/outputs/2026-09-13-round2-capabilities/skill-doctor-report.md.round2 (40,131 b) no longer exist at those paths — only .bak-fixround backups and one quarantined copy under trash/ remain, and the .round2 suffix scheme is retired.
9. Decide on the GO-gated skill-shelf apply build. Without it skill-doctor is a well-verified report about waste that keeps being wasted — it shelves nothing.
10. Wire memory-doctor into closeout (its per-subcommand exit-1 gate semantics were clearly built for a hook and nothing calls them) or it becomes the 36th PAPER skill.