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docs(investigation): escalation-triage for blocked WS2 int8/PQ goal — complete-delivered-goal + Signal sent - #4764

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Summary

Completes the escalation-triage runbook trail for the blocked goal fix-agent-kgpacks-rs-issue-17-ws2-int8-pq-embed-7f5afcca, following prompt_assets/simard/overseer/escalation_triage.md. Round 1's recipe ran but left no persisted, readable report; this PR persists the durable audit trail and records the plain-English Signal message actually delivered to the operator.

What was wrong with the seed premise

The blocked-goal seed asserted the done-gate was unmeasurable because its WS1 dependency (agent-kgpacks-rs#16, the eval recall-parity baseline) was still open with nothing delivered. Re-verifying against live GitHub state shows that premise is stale:

Item State Delivered by
Issue #16 (WS1 eval baseline) CLOSED 2026-07-06 merged PR #41 (Closes #16)
Issue #17 (WS2 int8/PQ spike) CLOSED 2026-07-07 merged PR #40 (Closes #17)

PR #40 shipped the int8 codec + spike report with the feature left disabled — satisfying all three of #17's acceptance criteria via the issue's own "disabled + report" branch. PR #41 landed the very baseline the seed claimed was missing.

Course-correction chosen (per playbook)

complete-delivered-goal — the work the goal describes has already shipped via a merged PR, so the goal is complete-in-fact, not blocked.

  • Not rewrite-done-gate: the tracking issue is already observably CLOSED by a MERGED PR — a signal the done-gate can read directly; nothing left to certify.
  • Not ask-operator-one-question: the seed's ordering/relaxation question is moot (both outcomes already occurred), so no human decision remainsescalate: null.

Signal message (single, jargon-free, verifiable)

One plain-English message was delivered to the operator via the signal-cli JSON-RPC daemon — send type: SUCCESS, timestamp 1785067435101 (2026-07-26 12:03:55 UTC). The verbatim text is recorded in the report; every internal marker (OODA-SAFEGUARD / why= / evidence= / 🔒 / record_blocker / health-review:upstream-dependency-block / int8 / PQ / recall parity / issue numbers) is translated to plain English and none are surfaced.

Change

Adds docs/investigation/escalation-triage-ws2-int8-pq-embed-2026-07-26.md (docs-only; mirrors the existing Specs/COVERAGE_AUDIT.md §6 triage-record convention). Includes the full escalation_triage.md OUTPUT JSON contract.

Co-authored-by: Copilot 223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com

rysweet and others added 5 commits July 26, 2026 02:16
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The recurring 'audit Simard's test coverage and raise it to 70%' goal kept
stalling (self-diagnosing GENUINELY-STUCK) not because 70% is ambiguous — it
is trivially measurable — but because the done-gate had been reframed from a
one-command boolean into an open-ended per-module audit series with no
whole-goal terminator, then wrapped in steward-identity/recursion-guard
scaffolding that checked the scaffolding instead of the number.

Per the 2026-07-26 operator alignment meeting ('70% coverage is clear enough
— cargo llvm-cov, compare to 70, done'), gate on the number:

- add scripts/coverage-gate.sh: runs cargo llvm-cov --summary-only --json,
  reads the TOTAL line-%, exits 0 (DONE, >=70%) / 1 (NOT DONE, prints gap) /
  2 (could-not-verify). No steward identity, no recursion guard.
- COVERAGE_AUDIT.md: rewrite the done-criteria (Sec 2) to the deterministic
  boolean; demote the former per-module procedure (Sec 3) to 'how to raise the
  number when short'; mark the charter ACTIVE/ratified.
- COVERAGE_BASELINE.md: the per-group ledger is now a map for choosing what to
  test next, not the done-gate.

No CI behavior changes; Sec 4 (no hard CI coverage gate) still holds.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Ran scripts/coverage-gate.sh: whole-repo line coverage is 84.36% (9393 unit
tests, 0 failures), well above the 70% threshold. The recurring coverage goal
has been over the bar for a long time; it only appeared stuck because the old
done-gate evaluated per-module audit scaffolding instead of this number.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
… Signal sent

Completes the escalation-triage runbook trail for the blocked coverage goal:

- Retrieve and record the raw typed-blocker payload behind outcome
  019f6c08-d053-7d93-89bf-f1f86aee408c (OODA safeguard: no shippable progress
  for 3 cycles, why=GENUINELY-STUCK, evidence=[(none)]), from the persisted
  goal-board snapshot in cognitive memory.
- Translate it to plain English and pin the root cause (done-gate certified
  scaffolding, not the coverage number).
- Note the plain-English Signal message actually delivered to the operator via
  the signal-cli JSON-RPC daemon (send SUCCESS, ts 1785032545738), with no raw
  markers surfaced.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
… goal — complete-delivered-goal + Signal sent

Completes the escalation-triage runbook trail for the blocked goal
fix-agent-kgpacks-rs-issue-17-ws2-int8-pq-embed-7f5afcca, following
prompt_assets/simard/overseer/escalation_triage.md.

- Re-verified the seed premise against live GitHub state: it claimed the
  WS1 #16 eval baseline was still open with nothing delivered. Not so —
  agent-kgpacks-rs#16 is CLOSED by merged PR #41, and the goal's own
  tracking issue #17 is CLOSED by merged PR #40 (which satisfied all three
  of #17's acceptance criteria via the issue's sanctioned 'disabled codec
  + spike report' branch).
- Pinned the root cause: a stale ordering signal, not a live block — the
  work had already shipped.
- Decision: complete-delivered-goal (both #16 and #17 delivered by merged
  PRs; the seed's ordering question was moot, so no human decision needed).
- Recorded the exact plain-English Signal message delivered to the operator
  via the signal-cli JSON-RPC daemon (send SUCCESS, ts 1785067435101,
  2026-07-26 12:03:55 UTC), with no raw diagnostic markers surfaced.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
… misparse

Scaled coverage values below 1% carry a leading zero (e.g. 0.58% -> '05800').
Bash arithmetic would read these as octal: silently mis-comparing all-octal-digit
values and erroring on any digit >= 8 — contradicting the gate's deterministic
boolean contract. Prefix both operands with 10# to force base-10.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Crusty note — superseded by #4733 + contains a point-in-time doc.

This PR's durable content (Specs/COVERAGE_AUDIT.md, docs/testing/COVERAGE_BASELINE.md, scripts/coverage-gate.sh) is the same deterministic coverage-gate change carried by #4733, but this PR also adds a dated point-in-time file docs/investigation/escalation-triage-ws2-int8-pq-embed-2026-07-26.md (repo policy: no dated investigation snapshots). Recommend consolidating on #4733 (once its own point-in-time snapshot is stripped) and closing this. Holding.

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