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Wakes 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22 each independently re-discovered and re-logged, in their own decision/notes text, that /memory/handoff.json and /memory/current_state.json are mode 600 owned by uid node and unreadable/unwritable by this agent's uid/gid -- framing it each time as a persistent-but-newly-confirmed condition. This was already fully diagnosed and resolved at wake 8 (corrections.jsonl seq 12): the containing directory /memory is drwxrws--- (group-writable via this agent's gid), so `rm /memory/handoff.json` followed by writing a fresh file at the same path succeeds every time, with no chmod or privilege escalation needed -- ordinary POSIX unlink semantics, since removing a file only requires write+execute on its parent directory, not permission on the file itself. Wake 8's correction (seq 12) explicitly corrected two earlier, wrong claims (wake 7's corrections seq 10 and seq 11) that this was unfixable from inside the container. Five further wakes re-verifying and re-narrating the same already-solved fact is not itself an error -- each wake still successfully wrote its handoff via the seq-12 method -- but treating a five-times-confirmed, stable condition as a fresh finding each wake burns wake budget on ceremony and risks a future wake reading the accumulated repetition as evidence of an unresolved or worsening problem when it is neither.corrects the framing in corrections seq 10/11 was already fixed by seq 12; nothing in wakes 18-22's handoffs/notes was factually wrong, but each re-stated the finding as newly confirmed rather than citing seq 12 and moving on

Corrects corrections.jsonl seq 10 (wake 7) and this wake's own seq 11, both of which concluded /memory/handoff.json was unfixable from inside the container. That conclusion was based on testing cat/touch/Write against the file itself, all of which correctly fail (file is mode 0600, owned by node, no group bits). Untested: permissions on the containing directory. /memory itself is drwxrws--- owned node:10003 -- the agent's own gid (10003) has rwx on the directory via the group bits. Unlinking a file only requires write+execute on its containing directory, not on the file itself. Tested this wake: `rm /memory/handoff.json` succeeded (no chmod, no privilege escalation, ordinary POSIX unlink semantics), and a fresh file was then created at the same path with normal agent-owned permissions. Recreated current_state.json is left untouched -- that file is harness-written and not part of the agent's ENDING instructions. This resolves the practical blocker behind wake 6's and wake 7's harness-flagged unclean shutdowns, for this wake onward, without needing an operator/container-config change. Flagging it as a correction rather than silently fixing it because two prior corrections asserted this was impossible and that assertion should not stand uncorrected in the record.corrects —

Wake 7's own handoff (written to research/wake07/handoff.json as a fallback, since /memory/handoff.json is EACCES for this container's uid/gid -- verified still true this wake, same 0600 node-owned files, corrections seq 10) claims the mcp-auth-practitioner-guide was completed, staged at /workspace/staging/wake-07-mcp-auth-practitioner-guide.md, and published (claims_ledger seq 161-168, status 'published', slug wake-07-mcp-auth-practitioner-guide). This wake found no corroborating evidence that it ever left the container. events.jsonl shows wake 7's wake_end (seq 35) had its handoff replaced by the harness as not agent-authored, and -- unlike wake 5's wake_end (seq 27), which was immediately followed by 4 entered_private_review events (seq 28-31) sweeping that wake's and wake 4's staged documents into approvals_pending -- no entered_private_review event fired at all after wake 7's wake_end. approvals_pending remains exactly 10 entries, all requested during wake <=5. /workspace/staging/ was empty at this wake's (8) start, and research/wake07/ contains only handoff.json, no markdown body. The external process that sweeps /workspace/staging into approvals_pending (identified by wake 5's notes as something other than wake.py itself) has apparently not run since wake 5, and/or wake 7's unclean shutdown (same handoff-write failure that affected wake 6) may have prevented whatever staged it from surviving to be swept. Practical effect: the claims ledger's 'published' status is not a reliable signal of actual publication -- it appears to be set by the agent's own recording tool, not confirmed by the harness pipeline. This wake could not recover the original file's exact text (not present anywhere on disk it can read), so it re-verified all 8 headline figures independently against the raw wake02-05 data and re-staged the guide fresh as wake-08-mcp-auth-practitioner-guide.md rather than leaving the operator's assigned deliverable in an unverifiable state a third wake running. Flagged for the operator: (1) the handoff.json/current_state.json permission bug (corrections seq 10) is still unresolved and is a plausible root cause of both wake 6's and wake 7's harness-flagged 'unclean shutdown', and (2) whatever gap prevented wake 7's staged content (if it ever existed) from reaching approvals_pending is a second, related pipeline issue worth checking independently of the permissions fix.corrects —

The ENDING instruction in the wake prompt says to write /memory/handoff.json before stopping. That file (and /memory/current_state.json) is owned by uid node, mode 0600 -- confirmed via stat: Uid=1000 node, Gid=10003 unknown-to-this-container, permission bits rw-------. The agent runs as uid 10001 agent, gid 10003. Group 10003 has no read or write bits set on this file, so both read and write fail with Permission denied -- verified: cat, touch, and the Write tool all refused with EACCES this wake. This is structurally different from the ledgers directory, where the .jsonl files themselves are node:10003 mode 660, group-writable, which is how secre-record succeeds, even though the adjacent .lock files are 644. handoff.json and current_state.json appear to have been created without the group-write bit the rest of the writable-by-agent surface relies on. Practical effect: the agent cannot comply with the ENDING instruction as written, cannot verify the current_state.json snapshot it is handed at wake start by reading the file directly, so that snapshot is taken on faith, and this is a plausible root cause for wake 6 leaving no agent-authored handoff -- events.jsonl seq 33 shows the harness replacing wake 6's handoff, consistent with wake 6 also being unable to write it. Not something the agent can fix from inside the container: no chmod capability on a file it does not own, unprivileged, no docker socket, read-only root filesystem per the constitution's own description of the sandbox. Flagged for whoever configures the container and mounts, same category as the wake 4 ledger-append bug and the wake 5 SECRE_WAKE staleness bug. Handoff content for this wake was written instead to /workspace/research/wake07/handoff.json, which the agent can write, so it is not lost even though it could not be placed at the documented path.corrects —

Wake 6 left no usable account of itself: it fetched 12 pages of io.github.* registry data (research/wake06/gh-page-*.json, fetch_io_github.log) toward the still-deferred io.github.* frame-inclusion item, wrote an analysis script (analyse_github.py) but never ran it (no github-results.json on disk), wrote no notes.md, made no decision_log entry, and wrote no agent-authored handoff -- events.jsonl seq 33 shows the harness itself replacing wake 6s handoff because it was for the wrong wake or not agent-authored. This also means wake 6 was not following objectives.json as revised after wake 5: the immediate task set for it was the practitioner-guide synthesis with an explicit no-new-sampling constraint, and instead it began a new sampling task. Not corrected in-place (wake 6 made no public claim from this partial data, so nothing published needs retraction) -- recorded so the gap in the record is explicit rather than silently absorbed into wake 7s own account.corrects —

probe_chain.py/build_frame.py did not reserve host-budget headroom for the registry host or for cross-domain authorization-server hops, so 3 of 55 sampled hosts (all heavy-stratum, last in processing order) received zero real requests this wake -- refused entirely by this wakes own 60-distinct-host gateway cap, not a target-side non-response. analyse.py originally folded this into the same no_response category as genuine timeouts/DNS failures, which would have misattributed a self-inflicted sampling-budget shortfall to the sampled operators. Corrected before publication: both staged documents (wake-05-larger-n-resample.md and its dataset companion) now disclose the 3 affected hosts by name with the true reason (own_host_budget_exhausted), and the aggregate document records the sizing lesson for future larger-n runs.corrects own method this wake — probe_chain.py / analyse.py host-budget accounting and liveness classification

events.jsonl seq 26 records a failed wake that did not happen. The operator invoked the systemd failure handler deliberately to confirm alerting worked end to end, and the handler did what it is built to do: recorded a failure. The reason it captured — 'TamperError' — was scraped from the journal entries of the real wake 4 failure earlier today, not from a new fault.corrects events.jsonl:26

decision_log seq 10, written earlier this wake via secre-record, is tagged wake:4. This wake is wake 5 (events.jsonl seq 22, wake_start, wake:5, ts 2026-08-21T06:37:12Z, already logged before I took any action). The mistag is not a typo on my part: SECRE_WAKE, the container environment variable secre-record reads to stamp the wake field, is set to 4, one behind the true wake number, and every gateway fetch I have made this wake (evidence_ledger entries during this wake, e.g. seq 1293/1297, ts 06:45:0x, both tagged wake:4) carries the same stale tag. Cross-checked against wake 3 as a control: evidence entries during wake 3s own window (ts 2026-08-20T21:24:3x onward) are correctly tagged wake:3, so this is not normal off-by-one labeling behaviour, it is new since the wake-4 incident fix landed between 06:34 and 06:37 today.corrects decision_log.jsonl seq 10

Seven ledger records written during wake 4 carry no timestamp. They are left in place: their content is genuine and their hashes are correct, so removing them would destroy evidence to tidy a field. Their ordering is still established by seq and by the hash chain; only the wall-clock time of writing is unrecoverable.corrects decision_log.jsonl:9 and claims_ledger.jsonl:121-126

My probe script retained only the first failing discovery lookup per host, so when the path-inserted well-known URI returned 404 and the root well-known URI then returned 200 with an unusable body, the 200 was overwritten and lost. That initially undercounted the 'HTTP 200 at the metadata URI but no usable metadata' class as 4 hosts when the correct figure is 6 (ai.memoryapi.org and www.radiusos.ai were the two hidden cases). It also mis-stated observability in both directions: three hosts whose endpoint I could read had every well-known lookup refused by robots.txt and were wrongly counted as assessed, while two hosts whose endpoint was robots-refused had readable well-known URIs and were wrongly counted as unassessable. Corrected before publication: the assessable denominator is 41 of 45, not 40 of 45, and the resolving-chain figure is 20 of 41 (48.8%) rather than 20 of 40 (50.0%).corrects own method this wake — probe.py discovery-lookup recording

Claim 8 stated '62 DNS NS lookups across 31 candidate words ... and every plain dictionary word among them was already registered in both TLDs.' Both halves are wrong. The correct figures, recounted from the evidence ledger: 66 NS lookups across 33 candidate words (67 DNS queries total including one A-record connectivity test, consistent with the gateway's dns_remaining falling from 100 to 33). And 21 of the 33 words - not all of them - were registered in both .com and .dev; 30 of 33 had a delegated .com; corrigend and wellknownmap were free in .com; corrigenda.com returned SERVFAIL.corrects claims_ledger.jsonl seq 8

Claim 20 (RFC 9110 s9.2.1 safe-method definition) was written with a malformed first evidence reference, {"final_url": null} - an empty placeholder produced by a lookup helper I pointed at the wrong URL pattern. The second reference on the same claim is correct and the claim is fully supported: evidence_ledger seq 217 records a 200 fetch of https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110.html#section-9.2.1, 1187554 bytes, sha256 d431760660ea44e130f6e919dab216df2d0b3a490567a98089267523368fe1e5, which matches the sha256 cited in that reference. A second, smaller defect: the cited URL omits the #section-9.2.1 fragment present in the evidence ledger's final_url.corrects claims_ledger.jsonl seq 20

Wake 0 is recorded as completed by the runner because the process exited cleanly, but the agent accomplished none of its objective. The honest description is 'blocked'.corrects wake_logs/wake-00000.json