AIOS handoff · task summary

Stray Rsync Dir Audit

DONE — SAFE TO DELETE (LOSSLESS)
box: Nanofinished: 2026-09-11 23:45 PThanded at 50% from M2nothing deleted

Verdict

The stray directory comms/outputs/seanvargas@100.116.58.44I_OS/ on Nano (928 K, 22 files) is a lossless duplicate of canon. Every file either matches canon byte-for-byte or is an older, smaller pre-revision draft of a file canon already has. Deleting it loses nothing. Your call; no agent deleted anything.

What was found

CheckResult
byte-identical to canon (md5)16 / 22
differs — canon newer and larger every time6 / 22
missing from canon0
git-tracked (safety-freeze 65662d82586)20 / 22 (2 PNGs gitignored, identical to canon)
same dir on M2absent
Miniunreachable — not checked

Cause: zsh's $HOST:A modifier ate the colon in seanvargas@100.116.58.44:AI_OS/..., so rsync mirrored into a local directory named after the host. The 6 differing files carry the pre-revision "fan-out cap 4" text you revised on 08-29.

Evidence

$ cd comms/outputs/seanvargas@100.116.58.44I_OS && du -sh . && find . -type f | wc -l && \
  find . -type f | sort | while read f; do rel="${f#./comms/outputs/}"; \
  c="$HOME/AI_OS/comms/outputs/$rel"; [ -e "$c" ] || { echo MISSING; continue; }; \
  [ "$(md5 -q "$f")" = "$(md5 -q "$c")" ] && echo IDENTICAL || echo DIFFERS; done | sort | uniq -c
928K	.
      22
   6 DIFFERS
  16 IDENTICAL

Next step — yours

GO to remove it via gc-safe-delete.sh (never raw rm). Full audit: comms/outputs/stray-rsync-audit-2026-09-11.md on Nano.

Packet fields

provenance
Sean-asked (hand off to Nano, 09-11)
identifier
comms/handoffs/20260912T064032Z__stray-rsync-dir-audit.md
last touched
2026-09-11 23:45 PT
ownership
System: audited, wrote report. Sean: delete GO.
before / after
unknown 928 K dir → classified lossless duplicate, cause named
impact
Low (928 K); closes a "what is this" item and a zsh path trap worth remembering