# Daily Notes — 2026-03-28

## Timeline

- **~18:28Z** — Heartbeat started. Two tasks in inbox: CAR-48 (high, auth pod ImagePullBackOff) and CAR-64 (medium, para-memory-skill investigation).
- **~18:42Z** — CAR-48 checkout returned 409 (concurrent execution run c81cf8be). Skipped per 409 rule.
- **~18:42Z** — Checked out CAR-64. Investigating why CEO and CMO are not saving data with para-memory-files skill.

## Investigation — CAR-64 (para-memory-skill)

### Findings

1. **CEO (Coupon Carl)**
   - `$AGENT_HOME/memory/` exists but was empty (created 2026-03-28T03:58Z)
   - No `$AGENT_HOME/life/` directory existed
   - No `$AGENT_HOME/MEMORY.md` existed

2. **CMO (Markdown Martha)**
   - Has `$AGENT_HOME/memory/life/.keep` — WRONG LOCATION
   - Skill expects `$AGENT_HOME/life/`, not `$AGENT_HOME/memory/life/`
   - No daily notes, no MEMORY.md

3. **Root cause**: Two issues:
   - (a) **Directory misplacement (CMO)**: `life/` was scaffolded inside `memory/` instead of at `$AGENT_HOME` root
   - (b) **Behavioral gap (both)**: Neither agent has been actively writing memory during heartbeats despite the skill being installed and HEARTBEAT.md including a Fact Extraction step

4. **Both agents** have `para-memory-files` in `desiredSkills` — skill is installed and accessible.

### Actions Taken

- Created `$AGENT_HOME/life/{projects,areas/people,areas/companies,resources,archives}` for CEO
- Wrote this daily note (first one)
- Creating `MEMORY.md` for tacit knowledge
- CMO fix: will note directory issue and recommend correcting scaffold

## Today's Plan

- [x] CAR-64: Investigate para-memory-skill issue (completed in prior heartbeat ~18:45Z)
- [x] CAR-48: auth pod ImagePullBackOff (completed by another run ~18:53Z — already done)

## Heartbeat 2 (~18:54Z)

- Woke on PAPERCLIP_TASK_ID=f3046696 (CAR-48) — already `done`, no action needed
- CAR-64 still in inbox; board added new comment: "AGENT_HOME has been set on all agents, lets make sure para-memory-files is also in the instruction bundle for all agents as appropriate"
- Checkout of CAR-64 returned conflict — queued run f8f5b803 already holds it; will handle the board's request
- Exited cleanly — nothing to act on in this run

## Heartbeat 4 (~19:54Z)

- Woke on PAPERCLIP_TASK_ID=1a08923d (CAR-65, issue_assigned) — "Work Delegation"
- Task: board wants stronger delegation language for manager agents (too much direct coding/gitops by managers with IC reports)
- Audit: CTO had weak delegation wording in AGENTS.md, "Do the work" ambiguity in HEARTBEAT.md, and "or self-assign" in GitHub triage
- CMO has no IC direct reports — direct work is appropriate per board's own rule
- CEO already has strong IC Anti-Patterns
- **Fixed CTO AGENTS.md**: rewrote "How You Operate" intro, added IC Anti-Patterns section (6 explicit rules)
- **Fixed CTO HEARTBEAT.md**: Step 6 now says "Delegate first" with clear carve-outs; GitHub triage removed "or self-assign" for implementation PRs
- Marked CAR-65 done

## Heartbeat 3 (~19:01Z)

- Woke on PAPERCLIP_TASK_ID=c3370c83 (CAR-64, issue_assigned)
- Checked out CAR-64 successfully
- Board comments reviewed: (1) "Complete?" (2) "AGENT_HOME set on all agents, ensure para-memory-files in instruction bundle for all agents as appropriate"
- Investigation confirmed: all 7 agents already had `para-memory-files` in `desiredSkills` — skill injection was never the gap
- Gap found: Barcode Betty, Stockboy Steve, Checkout Charlie, Rollback Rhonda had `para-memory-files` in desiredSkills but NOT in their AGENTS.md instruction files
- Added `## Memory and Planning` section to all 4 missing agents' AGENTS.md
- Bootstrapped `life/` PARA structure and `MEMORY.md` for CTO, Betty, Steve, Charlie, Rhonda
- Removed stale `memory/life/` scaffold from CMO directory
- Marked CAR-64 done
- Inbox check: CAR-64 showing as `todo` with new active run (concurrent heartbeat) — skip, exit cleanly