2026-04-07

Signal

The vault’s structural integrity was restored after the Rust migration broke 7 symlinks, with a full remediation pass that also backfilled 5 missing journal entries, added a wiki reindex endpoint to rusty-dakka, and re-audited 34 stale notes.

Evidence

• Vault remediation: Updated repos.yaml for the Rust migration: bloomnet renamed to rusty-bloomnet, dakka to rusty-dakka, removed peon-notify, added rusty-dakka-editor as a new repo
• Symlink healing: 7 broken symlinks repaired, vault-bootstrap verify now shows 33 healthy / 0 broken
• Journal backfill: 5 entries (Apr 3-7) reconstructed from session data and git logs
• Wiki reindex: POST /wiki/reindex endpoint added to rusty-dakka, enabling background re-audits
• Stale note audit: 34 stale notes re-audited and committed
• internal audit pipeline: 8 sessions continuing the agentic crawl pipeline and Layer 6.5 time repair gate documentation
• Jobs Apply: 8 sessions of maintenance and operation
• Oil Model: 2 sessions for model refresh and monitoring
• Public Lab: 10 sessions driving the blog content pipeline

So What (Why Should You Care)

The Rust migration was a necessary leap but it left the vault’s connective tissue frayed: broken symlinks mean broken wikilinks, which means the knowledge graph silently degrades. Today’s remediation closed that gap before it compounded: every symlink now resolves, every repo mapping is current, and the backfilled journal entries restore five days of otherwise-lost session provenance.

Adding a reindex endpoint to rusty-dakka is the more forward-looking move. Until now, wiki re-audits required manual triggering; with POST /wiki/reindex, the background agent can autonomously detect and flag stale notes. This is the first step toward a self-healing vault where structural drift is caught programmatically rather than discovered during a crisis.

The broader pattern across today’s 30+ sessions is sustained parallel execution: internal agentic crawl, jobs-apply maintenance, oil model refresh, and Public Lab content all advanced without blocking each other. The vault remediation was the keystone: it keeps the meta-layer healthy so the project-level work doesn’t lose its connective context.

What’s Next

• Run vault-bootstrap verify weekly to catch symlink drift early, especially after any new repo additions
• Wire the POST /wiki/reindex endpoint into a scheduled cron or launchd job so stale-note detection is fully autonomous
• Continue internal agentic crawl pipeline: Layer 6.5 time repair gate needs validation against live data
• Review the 34 re-audited notes for any that need deeper content updates beyond metadata refresh
• Public Lab: publish queued blog posts from today’s 10-session content sprint

Log

Session 1: Vault Remediation (this session)

• Phase 0: Committed 34 modified files (meta, skills, ADRs, pii-rules.yaml)
• Phase 1: Updated repos.yaml: bloomnet->rusty-bloomnet, dakka->rusty-dakka, removed peon-notify, added rusty-dakka-editor
• Phase 1: vault-bootstrap verify: 33 healthy, 0 broken symlinks
• Phase 2: Backfilled 5 journal entries (Apr 3-7) from session data + git logs
• Phase 3: Wiki reindex capability added to rusty-dakka (background agent)
• Phase 4: Re-audited 34 stale notes
• Phase 5: Clean up, commit, push

Session 2: internal audit pipeline (8 sessions)

• Agentic crawl pipeline continued
• Layer 6.5 time repair gate documentation

Session 3: Jobs Apply (8 sessions)

• Maintenance and continued operation

Session 4: Oil (2 sessions)

• Model refresh and monitoring

Session 5: Public Lab (10 sessions)

• Blog content pipeline