Rewritten from scratch on Nov 3, 2026 (night), at the same address · build started the same night
What this is. How Clara keeps track of every open item in a conversation, so no ball drops and nobody gets nagged. Where it stands. The design won a tournament on 104 real moments and held up on 7,541 more. Fede decided on Nov 3: open items get their own list; the engine starts in Supervised, so every message it proposes is a held card; the digest is Gera's, read-only. Cut on Nov 4: an 8-field item with one due time, no dial, Off and Supervised only, 3 PRs. Gera confirms on Nov 4 the hook at the end of his Topic engine.
Fede's Nov 4 pass: the core built right and simple; complexity later.
An item is something our side owes this person, or a question of ours they left unanswered that nothing on main will chase.
Every part on this page, before and after the cut.
| Part | Before, on this page | After the cut | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core | |||
| Hook (wake 1) | End of Topic's workflow, only when a label was written | End of Topic's workflow, every finished run; at Off it starts nothing | Reaches the test property with no change to Topic's skip; Off costs nothing |
| Second wake | A timer per item with 2 times (check back, expires) | Each item's one look, at its due time | 1 time per item |
| New-message read | Scores reply, acknowledge and stand-down; opens items | Opens and closes items; never speaks | The first reply already belongs to Clara's reply path |
| Due read | Acts once at check-back; closes at expiry | Clara says one thing, or the item closes | The item always ends |
| The dial | 10 numbers (3 levels x 3 thresholds, plus a 0.9 override) | 0 numbers; 1 word in the prompt | Eagerness pick, Nov 4 |
| Item record | 14 fields (17 in the draft PR) | 8 | Table below |
| Handling and bucket | 3 handlings, 4 buckets | The holder decides: Clara's item may speak once, a teammate's is only listed | 3 outcomes need no buckets |
| Nudge token | 1 per item, refilled by new evidence | None | Ending at due makes 1 nudge structural |
| Weak-spot rules | 6 new prompt rules | 0 new in v1 | 4 concern the first reply, 1 belongs to main's after-tour timers, 1 is the application pick |
| Above the core | |||
| Modes | Off, Preview, Supervised, Live | v1: Off and Supervised | Proof runs are local replays; Supervised was already Fede's call |
| Preview list to our side | A new list | Cut | Proof runs are local replays |
| Held card | Held-draft path, a registered sender, Approve re-reads, an expired card re-arms its item | Main's held Clara reply, unchanged | Main already refuses stale drafts and withdraws them when staff answer |
| Gera's digest feed | The Preview list doubles as the feed | 1 read-only query of open items | Gera builds the digest |
| Ratings (Approve as the rating, turn record, Rate row) | On this roadmap | Deferred to their own lane | v1 does not need them |
| Exit from Supervised | 90% "Right call" over 100 rated moments | Deferred; Fede and Gera gut-check the cards | It gates Live, which is deferred |
| Matters fold-in | Roadmap PR 4 | Deferred | v1 skips what a matter tracks |
| Live | Roadmap PR 5 | Deferred; expected to be the same setting set to Live | No new code expected |
| Roadmap | 9 rows | 3 PRs | Roadmap |
Every field earns its place; property, topic, subject ids and the two times are gone.
| Field | Why |
|---|---|
| id | Lets the timer find this item |
| company_id | The wall; every query starts here |
| conversation_id | Wakes the right workflow and person |
| holder | Who owes it: Clara, or a teammate found by role at this company; never an outside person |
| owed | One plain sentence the due read checks for; a teammate's promise keeps its promised time in the words |
| due_at | One time: look once, then end |
| opened_at | Anything newer than this is news |
| status | Open, handled or expired; nothing else |
One prompt, one model call per run. Nothing else comes out of it.
| Outcome | When | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Stay quiet | Every new-message read; a due read where speaking would not help | Items open or close; nothing is sent |
| Say something | A due read on Clara's item, nothing moved it, nobody on our side is on it | 1 message through main's held Clara reply; the item closes as handled |
| Close | Someone did it, it went moot, or it is due | Handled or expired |
Each ruling and failure below, checked against the cut.
| Ask | From | Passed by |
|---|---|---|
| One nudge per item | Oct 3 ruling | Speaking ends the item; a second word needs a new message and a new item |
| "if a human starts it we dont intervene" | Oct 15 ruling | Clara never speaks on a teammate's item; a teammate's reply closes Clara's item, and main withdraws her pending cards |
| No fixed clocks | Oct 26 ruling | The read picks each due time from what was said and the local time; no offsets in code |
| "Some decisions just expire." | Nov 2 ruling | Due time required; at due the item always ends; a past-due row reads as ended even if a timer failed |
| Check roles | Nov 2 ruling | The store accepts only Clara or a staff role at this company; every speaker's roles go into the read |
| A renter never holds; a quiet prospect is Clara's | Nov 2 ruling | The store refuses an outside person; an unanswered question of ours is a Clara item |
| An observer that goes back and checks | Nov 3 ruling | Each item's due look re-reads with nothing new saved |
| "Approve them and I'll execute them." | Nov 3 ruling | Supervised: every message is a card to approve; teammates' items are a read-only list, never a nag |
| Promises were blind to staff work | Failure | The read sees teammates' turns on every channel, with roles; a human on it closes it |
| "Told the team" was often untrue | Failure | The engine never acknowledges; the prompt forbids the claim |
| Nobody checked callbacks | Failure | A promised callback is an item, held by whoever promised it |
| A timer never read the thread | Failure | Every due look re-reads the person first |
| Nothing ever closed at Camellia | Lesson | Items close on what people did, or end at due; no click needed |
Fede's rulings from Oct 3 to Nov 3, and four failures, set every rule below.
| Date | Fede | Sets |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 3 | "It should be just once for now." | One nudge per item |
| Oct 15 | "if a human starts it we dont intervene" | Staff work stays with staff |
| Oct 26 | "we should not be using time. we need to reason about the ask and topic." | No fixed clocks |
| Nov 2 | "Some decisions just expire." | Every item can expire |
| Nov 2 | "we should always check roles." | Holders found by role |
| Nov 2 | The holder rule: a renter never holds an item | A quiet prospect is Clara's re-engage |
| Nov 3 | "you need an observer that goes back and checks." | A timer per open item |
| Nov 3 | "Approve them and I'll execute them." | Decisions, not a digest of reminders |
Fede sent this case on Nov 4 via Trinity: "this needs to be folded in. We sent it 3 times." One renewal (lease_10e24acd-e996-4e66-b7b5-e8f876cfd971, Camellia) failed once at 8:34 AM Mountain on Nov 2, then never changed. Staff still got three "Action needed" emails on one thread.
| Send | Time (Mountain) | Path that sent it | Renewal changed since last send? | Record id |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8:34 AM | Workflow escalation | No (first send) | msg_be70904c-a287-4b1e-a81f-b83cbd3a400e |
| 2 | 9:00 AM | 30-minute retry cron, permanent-error branch | No | msg_6ade9dd5-c042-43f4-a7ba-3b477ce6bda8 |
| 3 | 12:00 PM | 30-minute retry cron, signer-email branch | No stored record changed | msg_1f776d3d-f618-4587-90cb-ac7b960e4b42 |
Root cause. Four notice paths all feed one sender, and each keeps its own "already told" marker named after the path and the reason. Only the 24-hour safety net reads the others' markers, and only the two cron ones, not the workflow's (src/lib/domain/renewals/retry-failed-prepare.ts:1036; the workflow's marker is src/lib/temporal/activities/renewal.ts:3398). A different reason gives a different marker, so the 12:00 send looked new. The 24-hour safety net, on Nov 3 at 9:00 AM, saw the earlier markers and stayed quiet.
What the engine's rule gives. The open renewal is one item. One notice at 8:34. Nothing at 9:00, because nothing changed. At 12:00, at most a one-line update on the same thread if the new diagnosis counts as news. Staff see it once.
Quick fix outside the engine, proposed: one shared staff-told marker per open renewal, checked by every path; ships as a bug fix with no switch. Pending Fede.
Question. At Situs, Clara offered tour times a minute before a staff member followed up on a thread they were already running (case on the coworker page, decisions N2 and N3). Could the follow-through read replace today's wake gate, the fixed sender list in the mirror's wake-on-reply code?
Answer: not as written. Over one week of live prospect texts at Situs (42 turns, 19 threads, Oct 28 to Nov 4, read-only), the read talked over a person 7 times; today's gate did it once. The read asks "has anyone on our side answered since this item opened", not "does a person own this thread". Six of its seven talk-overs were renters writing mid-conversation with staff, who answered 1 to 21 minutes later.
| Gate, 1-hour window | Right | Talked over a person | Left a renter waiting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Today (sender list) | 34 of 42 | 1 | 5 |
| Follow-through read, as a gate | 31 of 42 | 7 | 4 |
The three named cases: Nov 4, both gates wrong (the office call that proves staff had it was filed 40 minutes after Clara woke); Oct 30, both quiet, correct; Nov 2, today's gate never ran, the read stayed quiet at the staff booking notice. The simulated 15-minute pick-up (N3) fired 13 times; the read's "waiting on nobody" call was right 2 of 4 times when it said pick up and 6 of 9 when it said someone has it. Mutation control: inverting the answers drops the read to 11 of 42; shuffling gives the base rate (24.4).
Round 2 (Nov 4 evening), with the office's hand actions visible. The coworker session rebuilt 55 Situs cards with every staff action from AppFolio merged onto the timeline (showings, notes, logged calls, status changes, 181 of 228 actions found). Three arms over the same turns (36 of the 42 had a fixture), 1-hour window:
| Arm | Right | Talked over a person | Left a renter waiting |
|---|---|---|---|
| A. Today's gate (sender list) | 30 of 36 | 1 | 3 |
| B. The read, office rows visible | 28 of 36 | 7 | 1 |
| C. The read plus "does a person at the office own this thread right now?" | 32 of 36 | 0 | 4 |
| D. Same question, but only the records production holds today (no office rows) | 31 of 36 | 2 | 3 |
Seeing the office's actions alone (B) did not fix it; the ownership question (C) did: zero talk-overs across three runs, the Nov 4 case quiet all three times, the two mid-conversation turns where staff answered 4 and 17 minutes later quiet too. Cost: one more renter left waiting than today. Controls hold (inverted truth 4 of 36, shuffled 25.8). Favorable-case caveat: office rows were made visible at the moment the action happened; in production they arrive later, so the real number sits between B and C until the showings read lands. Files: ~/agents/006/gate-replay/chime-in/ROUND2-REPORT.md.
Round 3 (Nov 4 night), what production can see today. Arm D asked the same ownership question without the office rows (96 office actions and 23 staff showings stripped). Result: 31 of 36, 2 talk-overs, 3 left waiting; on all 42 round 1 turns 33 right with 2 talk-overs against today's 34 and 1. So the question alone does not beat today's gate; the office's actions on the timeline are what removed the talk-overs. Ship order follows: the office-activity records (coworker session) land first, then the ownership read ships as a fix. Files: ~/agents/006/gate-replay/chime-in/ROUND3-REPORT.md.
What this changes. The read gets a second question before anything goes Live: "does a person at the office own this thread right now" (any staff touch, a showing a human created, an office call, counts as yes), and that answer gates both the wake and the due speak. Per the one-pager on the coworker page, the question lives in the one existing speak decider (shouldSpeak), which the read calls; it ships as a fix with no switch once the office-action records exist in production. In Supervised nothing sends unseen, so this is not a blocker for the Supervised week; it is a blocker for Live. Limits: the read was run as a due check with one made-up Clara item per turn; office calls land 40 to 70 minutes late and staff-made showings exist only as notice text; the ground truth is partly model-labeled; one week, one customer. Numbers and runner: ~/agents/006/gate-replay/chime-in/.
Gera's Topic engine is the trigger; the follow-through read is a thin layer after it.
| Writes | A label per saved message: 8 topics with subtopics. No status, no roles; staff replies look like Clara |
| Runs | Haiku 4.5 on an AWS worker, 10 s after the thread goes quiet; re-labels only the outside person's last 4 messages |
| Fed by | Every writer since Oct 26. Unverified: whether mirrored staff texts get labels |
| Skips | Test properties. Debt: a phrase list names two vendors in core code |
| Field | Holds |
|---|---|
conversation_id, org_id, property_ref? | The company is the wall; property is context |
topic, subject{person_id, tour_ids, work_order_id, lease_id} | Topic's label; our own ids, no PMS literals |
holder | clara or staff:<person>, found by role; never the renter |
check_back_at, expect, if_not | When to look, what should have happened, Clara's action if not |
expires_at | When it goes moot; the timer enforces it |
handling, bucket, nudge token, state | Clara does it, held card, digest line or nothing; one nudge; open until closed or expired |
Indexed by company and holder, by check-back time: the query Gera's digest reads.
Why not a matter (decision 1). A matter needs a property, a person and an owner's email, has no company field, runs fixed 4, 24 and 72 hour clocks, and lets the renter hold the ball. Matters fold in second.
One company setting: the engine's own path, Off when absent (under Leasing it would inherit Live at Western Slope). Preview's list goes to our side, not main's Preview digest, which reaches client staff. Outputs by mode: see Rollout. Its PRs carry:
Dark: gate.path.follow_through | feature: Clara tracks every open item and records what she would do | proof: pending | turn-on: Fede
Never: an item held by a renter, prospect, vendor or caller; a PMS write in v1; a regex deciding anything; a fixed clock; a second nudge without new evidence.
The tournament winner, the wager book, revised three times on real moments.
One read per wake, with the thread and the sender's roles. It scores reply, acknowledge and "a human will move it", and updates the items; the dial makes the call (this page: balanced).
| Dial | Reply at | Acknowledge at | Stand down, a human on it, at |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quiet | 0.70 | 0.80 | 0.55 |
| Balanced | 0.55 | 0.65 | 0.70 |
| Eager | 0.40 | 0.50 | 0.85 |
Acknowledge only when the team was told. A reply score of 0.9 or more skips the stand-down. One nudge per item; only new evidence refills it.
| Version | Change | Why |
|---|---|---|
| d1, Nov 2 | One read per signal; items as wagers with a holder, a moot moment, one nudge | Won among 8 entries on the 104 |
| d1b, Nov 3 | Fede's Nov 2 rule: the other side never holds; a quiet prospect is Clara's next-morning re-engage; an application sent is nothing owed | d1 failed the golden cases on holder |
| d1c, Nov 3 | Staff work stays with the staff role; Clara's check only when a window was told to the renter; callbacks tracked | d1b pulled staff work onto Clara |
| Expiry, Nov 3, intended | expires_at on every item, enforced by the timer | The POC |
The expiry fix. On Topic's triggers, 40% and 54% of old enough items were still open after 7 days (gate 25%); none of 951 carried an expiry. Fede: "has anyone replied since the last time I checked? That's a critical one, because otherwise everything stays open."
| Spot | Found (Tier 1 unless marked) | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| Live meetings | Silent on 10 of 100 meeting turns where staff asked Clara directly | A direct question to Clara is hers |
| Late word | 39 of 54 wrong silences held the right item but said nothing until later; 14 on weekends | The first word goes now; only the follow-up waits |
| Company knowledge | Sent to staff on 46 moments; staff bothered at 4 times the 104's rate | If the knowledge answers it, Clara does |
| Situs chime-ins | 9 of 14, mostly after the office system confirmed | That confirmation counts as the answer |
| Tours closed empty | 9 of 29 dropped balls | No outcome or a quiet prospect leaves a re-engage |
| Rule conflict (Tier 2) | An application sent closes the tour; the judge wants a re-engage. 10 of the worst 30 | Open decision O2 |
Also: 12 repeat team pings (the spent token refuses them) and one untracked callback to a named teammate (now a staff-held item).
Five runs on Nov 2 and 3, read-only, on the subscription, each with controls.
| Run | Moments | Design, judge | Points per moment (lower is better) | No fault | Controls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tournament | 104 (61 Western Slope, 43 Situs) | d1c, v2 | 0.77 ± 0.06; August framework 4.95 | not computed | Always silent 11.12, always speak 10.48 |
| Humans check | 46 held drafts, 59 shadow cards | d1, founders' labels | Agrees 57% and 68% (shuffled 48%, 57%) | n/a | Shuffled labels |
| Tier 1, production | 3,968 (897 judged) | d1b, v2.1 | 1.09 ± 0.10; paired 1.22 vs 4.42 | 82.5% | Silent 34.65% dropped, reply 100% needless: both red; oracle green |
| Tier 2, AppFolio history | 3,573 of 14,286 (600 judged) | d1c, v2.1 | 0.77 ± 0.10 | 85.3% | Always speak 9.62, always silent 10.34 |
| POC on Topic, Oct 20 to Nov 2 | 625 messages, 144 staff sends, 269 wakes | d1c, v2.1 | 0.69 ± 0.23 on 90 of 192 queued | 88.9% | Always open: 100% open, red |
POC gates. Items per read 0.498 at Western Slope (gate 0.50, green), 0.57 at Situs (red); still open after 7 days, red at both. Same call as the per-moment trigger on 91% of messages; golden cases 0 in 9 of 9.
| Before: production, Nov 2 | After: POC replay on Topic |
|---|---|
| The prospect asked to move; nobody answered the agent's times. At 5:15 PM the timer sent the application anyway; nobody followed up | The offer opened a Clara-held item. At 10:00 local the next morning, one text offering the agent's times, no booking promised (fallback writer on d1c's plan). Judged 0 |
Gera's ladder. Supervised is day one; Live is later and Fede's call.
Fede's go on Nov 3 night: PRs 1 to 3 are built and merged dark with the setting off. Gera's Nov 4 confirm covers only the shape of the hook hunk in his Topic workflow and how Topic reaches the test property. PR 5 and any turn-on stay Fede's word.
| PR | What merges | Proof | Waits on |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0a | Not the engine: the application timer reads the thread first, no second application (#24962) | Merged Nov 4, 02:44 UTC | Done |
| 0b | Not the engine: the timer asks the model whether the tour happened (#24980) | Replay of fallback sends since Oct 19; Fairhaven on merge | CI; auto-merge armed |
| 1 | The item store (8 fields), the engine's setting (Off when absent), the hook on every finished Topic run, a workflow that stops at Off | Workflow history replay under the patch gate, with a mutation control; Topic's own result unchanged. Merged Nov 4, 06:51 UTC (#25079), dark at every company | Done |
| 2 | The read, each item's due look, item writes; "say" is logged, nothing sent | Read-only replay of 30 days at Western Slope and Situs: items per read, items per teammate per day, cards a day, open items past due (must be 0); the tournament set and golden cases re-run; a Fairhaven run with record ids | Merged Nov 4, 19:19 UTC (#25107), dark at every company. Replay result: 0 open items past due at both customers, at most 3 nudges to any one person in 30 days, 1.4 and 0.8 Clara messages a day per portfolio, 0 model failures; one over-messaging loop found by the replay and capped |
| 3 | "Say" goes out through main's held Clara reply, on the engine's setting | Fairhaven end to end: a test prospect asks to move a tour, the agent offers times, the prospect goes quiet, the next-morning card appears, Approve sends it, the prospect rebooks, the item closes; plus a teammate's promise that is listed and expires | Building Nov 4, stacked on PR 2 |
| Then | Supervised at a customer | Fede and Gera gut-check the cards | Fede's word |
| Later | Live; matters and main's follow-ups fold in; meeting signals; one-tap decision cards; ratings | Each its own decision | Fede |
Also: comparison loops stopped Nov 4; the Rate row and ratings deferred to their own lane; the matters fold-in deferred.
Fede, Nov 4 night: "is it using paths", "put it on preview", "how is it gonna be on slack? are we gonna rate?", "why havent we improved the engine with known defects?", "i need this all done overnight". Preview had been cut on Nov 4 as not needed; that cut is reversed.
| Step | What | State |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Preview wired for the follow-through path: engine runs, Clara's check-back posts to the customer's Slack channel as "Preview, not sent", nothing is sent | #25402 merged and live (Nov 5 08:40Z). Fairhaven live run: the workflow runs at Preview on the deployed worker (timer fired twice, read ran, nothing sent or held); the "Preview, not sent" copy was shown only by a direct call because the read chose to close both times; new-message start and the Paths page screenshot not proven (test texts failing, smoke login cannot load the modes page). First real lead at Situs or Western Slope is the proof |
| 2 | Rate Clara buttons on every Preview copy (all paths) | #25397 merged and proven in production: one press on a Preview card stored rating gv_0525694173f3dd205de9 and the card read "Rated: Fine". Copies with no conversation (renewal outreach) still have no buttons: issue #25398 |
| 3 | Engine fix: never speak when a person at the office owns the thread (Nov 4 replay: 7 of 42 turns) | #25391 merged. Replay, 42 Situs turns, three runs: talk-overs 6 / 5 / 6 → 0 / 0 / 0; right decisions 33 / 32 / 31 → 37 / 37 / 36. Cost: one thread where a teammate had replied is now left waiting (today's standing rule). Eval dataset committed |
| 4 | Situs and Western Slope set to Preview once 1 to 3 are live (Fede's "put it on preview") | Done: Situs Group set to Preview Nov 5 12:25:12Z, Western Slope 12:25:33Z (the same save the Paths page makes). Copies go to #situs-group and #western-slope with Rate Clara buttons. The first real lead that goes quiet is the production proof; a watcher is counting items and copies |
| 5 | Supervised at a customer | Fede's word, after Preview looks decent |
While proving Preview at the test company, every test text failed. Cause: every account in our shared Claude subscription pool is capped until about Nov 10, 15:00Z. Test buildings are built to never bill the paid key, so the live test rung at Fairhaven and the Willows is blocked until then. Worse: topic labelling, the language read and grading at real customers ride the same pool, and the "fall back to the paid key" branch only fired when the pool was missing, not when it was capped. From 23:09Z on Nov 4, 98 labelling runs on 51 conversations failed for good (Situs 37, Western Slope 9, JP&Co 3), and no follow-through could start on them. Customer replies were never affected.
| Before | After | |
|---|---|---|
| Labelling at real buildings while the pool is capped | fails for good, one warning per call (1,455 warnings) | retries once on the paid key, one warning per lane per hour (#25480, fix, no setting, live on web and worker 12:05Z) |
| Conversations missing labels | 51 (967 messages) | 0, re-labelled 12:13 to 12:15Z on the paid key; follow-through was Off everywhere, so the re-run started nothing |
| Test buildings | fail closed on the pool | unchanged (evals never bill the paid key) |
Follow-ups filed: hand-off skipped when no worker slot frees in 30 s (issue #25486, 3 Situs threads); a thread with no building gets no Preview copy (issue #25475). Other background jobs (promise extraction, summaries, Ask Clara) still fail while the pool is capped.
Decision (Fede, Nov 4 night). Which language a person wants is learned from the model read that already classifies every inbound message, not from word lists. Fede: the categorization platform is "already reading the messages and classifying. So I feel like we could just add the metadata on the language there." On a three-field shape: "too over engineered." One field. Under the Nov 2 rule, every inbound message is read by the model; a regex in that path is a 🔴.
| Today | After | |
|---|---|---|
| Signal | Word lists and patterns on the message text (src/lib/i18n/detect.ts, resolve-language.ts): detected language, explicit request, rejection, combined by rules | One field the Topic read returns per inbound message, language, stored on the message row beside topic and subtopic |
| Where it runs | Inline at reply time, text and email | Topic: every saved message, every channel, every company (test properties skipped), ~10 s after the thread goes quiet |
| Memory | languageToLearn → the person's language preference | Same memory, same meaning: the newest inbound row's language, when not unknown, becomes the preference. The regex is deleted in the swap PR. |
The one field. language is the language this person wants to be spoken to in, decided by the model from the message read with the thread: a base code such as es, or unknown. An explicit ask ("en español por favor", "do you speak Spanish?") or a refusal ("I don't speak Spanish") is evidence for that one value, not a field of its own. A short or neutral message (ok, yes, a phone number) is unknown, never a guess from a name.
Why Topic and not this engine's read. Language is a fact about one message; Topic reads every message everywhere. The follow-through read is one call per person per run and starts only where the company is Supervised or Live, so a memory fed from it would stop learning wherever follow-through is Off. The follow-through read sees the field for free through the person picture.
Timing. Topic lands after the reply decision, so the memory serves the next turn, which is what the preference has always meant. The current turn's reply language is the writer's own reading of the message.
Measured, Nov 5 (PR 1 as opened, #25373, separate call, 60 real cases from session 002). Asks for a language 14/14, plain Spanish 15/15. Short or neutral messages 11/15 alone and 13/15 after a Clara turn ("Yes", "No", "Old town" read as English; "Okey" as Spanish). English with Spanish words 4/6 after a Clara turn. Refusals and Spanglish as in the PR body. On 362 real rows: 295 English, 49 unknown, 18 Spanish; 251 agree with today's regex; no failed calls. Cost about 30 output tokens per message (about 260 when it rode the topic call); 95th-percentile call time 0.7 s alone, 1.2 s after a Clara turn, 3.0 s on real threads, inside the unchanged budget. Topic benchmark unchanged at 42. Call (001, under the grant; Fede can overrule): ship PR 1 as data; one-word replies can read as the thread's language, and PR 2 stores a change of preference only on an explicit ask or two consecutive reads that agree, which is the safety net. Threads that begin as a listing-site notification get no Topic read, so no language until the person writes.
Shape change, Nov 5 03:50Z. Folding the language question into the topic prompt moved topic verdicts (the 59-case topic benchmark fell from 42 to 37, repeatable) and overflowed the answer on long threads (a 185-row thread came back all blank). So the categorization run carries the language through its own small call, made alongside the topic call in the same run, writing the same row: the topic prompt stays exactly as it is, the language call is batched over the run's new inbound rows (newest 15), has its own short timeout, and a failure leaves the row unknown without touching topics. Decided by 001 under the grant; Fede can overrule.
Build. PR 1 (001): the Topic prompt, parse and row field; no behavior change, no switch; proof is a read-only replay on real inbound messages, the model's language against what today's regex path would learn, disagreements quoted. PR 2 (002): the memory writer reads the row and the regex is deleted; opens after PR 1 merges so the replay runs on real rows. Topic is Gera's engine: Smith has a heads-up on the bridge, no decision asked. PR numbers land here when open.
Thirteen taken, three open. D1 to D17 from the first passes were paused on Nov 3 and are superseded.
| Date | Taken | Fede's words |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 2 | Items can expire; the other side never holds one | "Some decisions just expire." |
| Nov 3 | Hook into Topic; start small | "I'll hook into that and then maybe simplify it a bit." "And start small." |
| Nov 3 | Widen the testing before deciding | "expand our testing before I decide anything" |
| Nov 3 | Fix the blind application timer, no switch | "yes fix the timer" |
| Nov 3, night | 1. Open items get their own list; matters fold in second | In session |
| Nov 3, night | 2. Supervised from day one | In session |
| Nov 3, night | 3. The digest is Gera's, fed the list read-only | In session |
| Nov 4 | Three outcomes only: say something, stay quiet, close the item; the engine never books, moves, writes or hands off | In session |
| Nov 4 | Core cut per the simplification pass (above) | "we can always add complexity later"; "we want the core layer built right and simple to start" |
| Nov 4 | Supervised stays for this engine; his "no supervised" elsewhere was about staff chatting with Clara internally | "that's a different thing" |
| Nov 4 | A teammate's promised time passes: Clara stays quiet; the item stays on Gera's list | 006 pick under Fede's rules, he can overrule |
| Nov 4 | Application sent, not started: nothing owed; main already chases it | 006 pick under Fede's rules, he can overrule |
| Nov 4 | Eagerness is one word in the prompt ("medium"), no setting | 006 pick under Fede's rules, he can overrule |
Files under ~/agents/006/gate-replay/tournament/. Every run was read-only, on the subscription through llm.py.
/Users/federicochapa/agents/006/gate-replay/tournament/rollout/SIMPLIFY-PASS.md.entries/d1c-wager-book/DESIGN.md. Judge: judge-v2/ (REPORT-d1c.md, rubric-v2.1.txt, CHANGELOG.md).wide/README.md, wide/tier1/REPORT.md, wide/tier2/REPORT.md. POC: poc-on-topic/REPORT.md, item-mapping.md.rollout/PLAN.md, TOPIC-ENGINE.md, WRONG-RATINGS.md, passes/. Ratings: slack-rating/inspection.md. Golden cases: regression/scenarios.json.s3://propflow-training-data/follow-through-corpus/2026-11-03/; inventory in corpus-inventory.md.signals/meeting-2026-11-03/).wide/tier2/: python3 run_t2b.py C75 --workers 10, then python3 run_t2b.py retry --workers 6, then python3 analyze_t2.py score --sources CABE.