Defined operating cadence and health-response model

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Defined operating cadence and health-response model

  • Day: 2026-05-02
  • Time: 10:50 to 11:00
  • Project: Dev
  • Workspace: WP 2: Operational
  • Status: Completed
  • Priority: MEDIUM
  • Assignee: Matías Nehuen Iglesias
  • Tags: Runtime-Health, Cadence, Runbook, Health-Triage, Workflow-Design, Reingestion

Description

Session Goal

Refine the operating model for the Office Auto Lab / MAL organism by consolidating health-response rules, cadence mapping, and documentation boundaries into a usable manual-style summary.

Key Activities

  • Reframed the automation stack as a living system with sensing, routing, and repair layers, emphasizing runtime homeostasis over broad redesign.
  • Defined a selective repair strategy: only touch active or support-needed pathways, normalize interfaces where necessary, and avoid global cleanup or expansion.
  • Formalized a 4-hour operating cycle built around WATCH → GET → MAINT / FOCUS → POST, with staff preparing, monitoring, and reingesting work around bounded human blocks.
  • Mapped a weekly cadence that assigns days to compile, build, repair, externalize, reingest, and recover, while keeping the model compact enough for the manual.
  • Established a timeboxed recovery rule for overlong AI-assisted design sessions, treating drift as a calibration event and requiring breaks, re-entry blocks, and healthier boundaries.
  • Proposed a POST/reingestion memo format to capture what changed, what is usable, what remains unsettled, and the next valid operating state.
  • Suggested a curated Mermaid diagram set to document organism anatomy, runtime flow, weekly rhythm, and health triage without overbuilding abstractions.

Achievements

  • Clarified the system’s operational philosophy: repair active fronts, reduce false alarms, normalize contracts, and stop expanding the thread once the valid next step is known.
  • Consolidated multiple reflections into a coherent manual-ready framework covering cadence, health triage, and closure behavior.
  • Identified the next valid routing style for future sessions: use the capture/manual pattern rather than inventing new documentation formats.

Pending Tasks

  • Add the cadence framework as a compact manual section.
  • Use the live manual to map week/day/clock cadence onto MAINT/FOCUS and staff lanes.
  • Apply the selective repair model to any active repo health issues, especially duplicate identity keys, failing smoke paths, missing smoke targets, stale outputs, and dirty worktrees.
  • Produce the closure / POST memo for the sprint and preserve the next operating block pointer.

Evidence

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