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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

• CAR-64: Investigate para-memory-skill issue (completed in prior heartbeat ~18:45Z)
• 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