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rdmsm4x-changelog-20260911-1820-tyrell-build19-canary

Tyrell Build 19 — designated canary handoff

Recorded September 11, 2026, 18:25 EDT on rdmsm4x. Owner: codex@rdmsm4x/01a08a70. Monitoring coordinator: codex@rdmpw3275m/01a078a7.

Outcome and scope

Build 19 is signed, notarized and installed only on rdmbair15m5. Its app functional probe passed. The daemon is undergoing guarded runtime acceptance; no fleet expansion, release tag or memory-issue closure is authorized by this checkpoint. The coordinator acknowledged monitoring takeover in message 20260911-181951-D303D56F, independently verifying the installed identities, rollback, endpoints and functional probe.

Build 18 failed its original 40-minute RSS gate and automatically restored the exact signed Build 15 daemon and Build 17 app. That rejection remains recorded. A separate, bounded diagnostic replay of the same signed Build 18 binary also restored that rollback afterward.

Diagnosis and fix

The replay distinguished RSS from physical footprint: later samples were approximately 867 MiB RSS and 108 MiB physical footprint. At 240 seconds, footprint reported 521,306,112 bytes of reclaimable Malloc Small and 112,361,472 bytes of reclaimable SQLite Page Cache, alongside 93,650,944 bytes of dirty Malloc Large. This is evidence about memory categories, not proof of long-term stability.

Controlled 384 MiB allocations demonstrated the distinction: the clean file mapping measured 414,304 KiB RSS and 3,769,232 bytes physical footprint; the dirty allocation measured 413,280 KiB RSS and 405,373,840 bytes physical footprint. A framework-only control did not reproduce high RSS. Raw sources, JSON, ps, vmmap and footprint captures remain here and in replay18/.

A separate source defect was reproduced: SyncEngine.sync materialized the full corpus before checking whether an unchanged cycle had any outstanding transfers. Commit e14041a moves the unchanged/no-outstanding check ahead of that allocation and uses an aggregate count for reporting. Changed fingerprints and outstanding transfers retain their normal paths. This fixes demonstrated allocation churn; it does not claim every memory cost is resolved.

Exact source, policy and artifacts

Validation and independent review

Nine sync tests passed after the new assertions failed against the old implementation. Full TyrellCore validation returned zero: 358 XCTest cases, one skipped and zero failures; 474 Swift Testing cases in 34 suites passed. Ten selected release script suites passed. All sixteen library dependency heads remained unchanged and clean.

The new gate passed eleven policy tests, three guard simulations and three packaging tests, plus real dependency preflight. The coordinator independently reran these checks. Reviewer Ptolemy accepted the source and policy after packaging, process-start identity and delayed rollback-helper checks were verified. The final review is INDEPENDENT-REVIEW.md, SHA-256 f619aac377c2114973716d25c69c32df3c6cff6295761d88f28ff267466c24c4.

The original RSS gate is unchanged. The prospective physical-footprint policy uses explicit budgets of 300 MiB for short/six-hour checks and 400 MiB at 24 hours, with regression slope and interval growth at most 0.20 MiB/min. These are policy budgets, not an equivalent conversion from RSS. Raw RSS, physical footprint, startup and peak values remain recorded. Ten minutes of warmup are excluded only from steady-state calculations. Missing data, gaps, PID or process-start changes, executable mismatch and other guarded failures trigger rollback.

Live monitoring

Remote stage: rdmbair15m5:/Users/richh/.tyrell/build19-canary-20260911-ec03697.

Guard PID 69716; daemon PID 69804; process start Fri Sep 11 18:18:18 2026. Actual executable: /Users/richh/Library/Application Support/Tyrell/releases/daemon-03e365cec1b8/tyrelld.

Start epoch 1789165099.8843231. Earliest six-hour checkpoint after warmup: September 12 at 00:28:19 EDT. The 24-hour checkpoint is September 12 at 18:18:19 EDT. Late samples may move acceptance later.

At elapsed 360.62 seconds, the same process reported RSS 880,128 KiB, physical footprint 113,706,640 bytes, CPU 0.7%, 42 lsof rows and two TCP descriptors. Both status endpoints and sixteen permission requests returned HTTP 200. One inventory pass had completed; an unchanged repeat was not yet proven. This is early observation, not runtime acceptance.

The app functional probe passed under nonce build19-20260911-ec03697-functional; probe SHA-256 3c4e5b3408b352513640d355e45a5700332e7cb0a0ac52ee0d8f6e1ed0d51ed7. A fresh acceptance probe/receipt remains required after runtime validation.

Read state.json, latest.json, samples.jsonl, inventory.log, guard.log and boundary captures in the remote stage. CPU/workload review, complete and unchanged inventory, six-hour and 24-hour stability, fresh app acceptance and reboot/stable-path proof remain open. Even a successful 24-hour monitor does not authorize fleet expansion.

Rollback and persistence

The stage/prior directory and original hash-addressed release retain the exact signed Build 15 daemon, SHA-256 dbc440bd54b85a54dd6c4150b23b3e508bff7d8d8080687d81b9ba7ac2cbbcf0, and prior Build 17 app, SHA-256 8693ebce3d474fed049597d11e3579bf1cd32f7a78acfd9544c78d77592da05e.

On guarded failure, rollback is automatic. For a deliberate rollback, coordinate with the owner, verify and stop only the active guard first, then run on the canary:

python3 /Users/richh/.tyrell/build19-canary-20260911-ec03697/canary_guard.py rollback

Never run that command concurrently with the guard. Delayed app restoration rechecks helper hashes; an altered helper is refused while the known daemon is restored and attention is recorded.

Build/sign and deployment wrappers ran from authorized Aqua Terminal and returned zero. Reproduce commands and raw logs are in this handoff directory. Original Build 18 failure and replay evidence are preserved. PROJECTS.md changed only the Tyrell row, with its prior copy in PROJECTS-before.md; root archive integration is delegated to the coordinator. TASK-20260911-01 and memory issues remain open. No secrets or user corpus content were recorded.

Ticket ownership correction — September 11, 18:40 EDT

TASK-20260911-01 was handed off from codex@rdmsm4x/01a08a70 to codex@rdmpw3275m/01a078a7 using ticket handoff. The 26-hour lease expires September 12 at 20:40:06 EDT. ticket claims independently confirmed the new holder. Status remains in-progress and existing canary evidence is preserved. No source or deployment changes were made. The receiving coordinator can hand the lease back if required.