Debugged Office automation systemd and capture lifecycle

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Debugged Office automation systemd and capture lifecycle

  • Day: 2026-06-22
  • Time: 12:00 to 12:10
  • Project: Dev
  • Workspace: WP 2: Operational
  • Status: In Progress
  • Priority: HIGH
  • Assignee: Matías Nehuen Iglesias
  • Tags: Systemd, Automation, Capture-Lifecycle, Debugging, Event-Contract, Python

Description

Session Goal

Investigate failures in the Office Auto Lab / Office Window automation stack, with emphasis on capture-review lifecycle alignment, systemd timer/service behavior, and runtime environment issues.

Key Activities

  • Reviewed multiple guidance artifacts about the Office Window ↔ Office Auto Lab boundary, including capture lifecycle handoff, event-contract redesign, and architecture notes.
  • Identified a contract mismatch where Office Window should emit specific lifecycle event types instead of a generic review decision, and where lifecycle support should be merged into Auto Lab first.
  • Examined systemd timer/service behavior for office-compile and staff-briefs, including installation, enablement, and validation commands for user units.
  • Narrowed the debugging path from timer installation to runtime failure after the service wrapper still exited with code 1.
  • Reframed the failure as an application-level CLI/runtime issue, not a systemd-only issue, and proposed inspecting wrapper logs, journal output, and the daily ledger for the hidden traceback.
  • Diagnosed environment rot as a likely root cause and proposed rebuilding the virtualenv, pinning NumPy below 2, installing missing Google API dependencies, and switching systemd to the venv Python interpreter.

Achievements

  • Clarified the separation of concerns between review UI, append-only event persistence, and lifecycle processing.
  • Established a concrete next-step debugging sequence: inspect service logs, reproduce the wrapper manually, and expose the underlying Python traceback.
  • Identified likely remediation for the runtime environment, including dependency repair and interpreter alignment.

Pending Tasks

  • Patch Office Window to emit explicit lifecycle event types and align the API contract with Office Auto Lab.
  • Run end-to-end tests for the capture lifecycle and review/apply flow.
  • Inspect journalctl / wrapper logs to capture the exact traceback behind the service exit code 1.
  • Rebuild the project virtual environment and verify the systemd services against the repaired runtime.

Evidence

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  • event_ids: []

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