🚨 INCIDENT: IGLA race champion-loop deadlocked — gardener_runs empty 96+h, telemetry blockers idle 6 days

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🚨 INCIDENT: IGLA race champion-loop deadlocked — gardener_runs empty 96+h, telemetry blockers idle 6 days

Anchor: phi^2 + phi^-2 = 3 · TRINITY · NEVER STOP
Class: P0 incident · R5-honest
Filed: 2026-05-04 06:30Z (T+180h with respect to RACE_START_UTC)
Owner: unassigned (request explicit assignee + 24h SLA)

Symptoms

1. assertions/champion_lock.txt last updated 2026-05-02 18:13Z — 60+ hours since last champion challenger run.
2. bpb_samples Neon table: 12-hour window shows new PLAN-B numerics matrix (40+ canons, seeds 1597/2584/4181/6765/10946) at BPB 2.76–3.95 step 27K — none on fineweb sha=4c0b04c, none challenging the champion.
3. gardener_runs Neon table: 0 rows in last 12h. Last query confirms 0 rows in last 36h. Effectively dark since gardener wiring landed.
4. gHashTag/trios-trainer-igla: last commit d726a8d 2026-05-02 19:49Z (53+ hours of silence).
5. gHashTag/trios-railway main: last 13 commits are all chore(dr): hourly fleet snapshot. No feature commits since 2026-05-03 18:40Z (PR fix: trios-ext web-sys/wasm-bindgen compatibility (rustup 1.92.0 + Result<Option<T>>) #121 merge).
6. trios-railway feat: crates/trios-phd — Rust-native PhD LaTeX pipeline (NeurIPS/arXiv/Zenodo standards) #62 (writer) and feat: integrate Chrome Extension (Dioxus/Wasm) into Cargo Workspace crates/ #61 (Acc2 auth): OPEN, last issue update 2026-04-28T05:28Z. 6 days idle.
7. trios#143 race tracker: CLOSED 2026-04-29 21:51Z (stateReason=COMPLETED). Audit Watchdog continues to post into the closed issue (last comment 2026-05-04 05:19Z).
8. trios-railway PR fix: trios-doctor + workspace healing — Closes #113 #114 #115 #116 #117 #120 (gardener→main): OPEN draft, 4943 additions, 34 files. As of 228dda9: build-test PASS · clippy PASS · audit DDL smoke PASS · 60s smoke PASS · IGLA smoke skipping · GitGuardian FAIL (security scan, requires dashboard triage).

Root cause (one paragraph)

Champion-loop is structurally open. Champion is awarded based on fineweb runs in trios-trainer-igla, but trainer-igla receives no automated trigger to launch new fineweb runs. Compute on Acc1 is currently being burned on PLAN-B numerics-matrix experiments (UINT8 / UINT16 / UINT32 / GF16 / binary32, h ∈ {384, 512, 768, 1024}, LR ∈ {0.001..0.008}) which by their architecture cannot beat the legal champion floor (best naïve cohort: BPB 2.4552, +0.22 above champion 2.2393, +0.61 above Gate-2). The orchestrator that should redirect compute (tri-gardener) is itself blocked behind the unmerged PR #120, which is itself blocked behind 6-day-idle telemetry P0 issues #62 and #61.

Bottleneck graph:

                    [Champion update]
                          ▲
                          │ blocked by
                          │
               [Trainer fineweb run]
                    ▲           ▲
                    │           │
        no trigger ─┘           └─── no scheduler
                                       ▲
                                       │ blocked by
                                       │
                                [PR #120 merge]   ← 4943 LOC monolith
                                       ▲
                                       │
                          [#62 writer] [#61 Acc2 auth]
                                  6 days idle

Bottlenecks (full inventory)

Obvious

• B1. trios-railway feat: crates/trios-phd — Rust-native PhD LaTeX pipeline (NeurIPS/arXiv/Zenodo standards) #62 (bpb_samples writer DDL) — 6 days idle
• B2. trios-railway feat: integrate Chrome Extension (Dioxus/Wasm) into Cargo Workspace crates/ #61 (Acc2 multi-account auth) — 6 days idle
• B3. PR fix: trios-doctor + workspace healing — Closes #113 #114 #115 #116 #117 #120 GitGuardian FAIL (clippy 1.95 rot fixed @ 228dda9, build-test now GREEN; secrets scan still red, dashboard triage required)
• B4. trainer-igla repo silent 53+h
• B5. 🎯 IGLA RACE — Distributed Hunt: JEPA-T + NCA + GF16 + ASHA + Coq Invariants (Rust-only, Never-Stopping) #143 race tracker CLOSED, Watchdog still writes into it
• B6. gardener_runs empty 96+h (no operations-loop output)

Less obvious

• B7. Champion-loop has no automation: champion_lock update doesn't trigger trainer fineweb job; trainer fineweb result doesn't trigger gardener decision
• B8. Acc1 default config = PLAN-B numerics rabbit-hole (compute spent on BPB 2.5–3.9 runs which cannot win)
• B9. BREAKBARRIER cohort (h828, LR 0.010, 12 canons) burned 12 × 81K steps but topped out at BPB 2.4552 — wrong axis
• B10. Trainer and gardener are two independent armies — only sync via git push, no bidirectional event bus
• B11. PR fix: trios-doctor + workspace healing — Closes #113 #114 #115 #116 #117 #120 = 4943 LOC monolith — every rebase creates a new conflict class; needs split into 4 sub-PRs
• B12. smoke.yml workflow referenced non-existent feature (--features ci) and non-existent bin path (-p trios-igla-race --bin tri-railway) — implies CI was never green on this branch
• B13. champion_lock.txt is unversioned text — race condition risk if parallel agents write; no audit trail

Architectural / institutional

• B14. No canonical definition of "legal run": 📚 EPIC: PhD Monograph — Flos Aureus (Golden Chain, 600+ pages, deadline June 15 2026) #109 (corpus contamination) OPEN since race start. ALPHA cd91c45 81K BPB 2.19 sits in seed_results.jsonl on tiny_shakespeare and is NOT illegal because there's no machine-readable rule
• B15. Audit Watchdog hardcodes #143 — no auto-target update on tracker rotation
• B16. Railway main repo signal: 13 consecutive chore(dr) commits = team stalled or all feature work jammed in PR fix: trios-doctor + workspace healing — Closes #113 #114 #115 #116 #117 #120
• B17. L-T1..L-T5 5-lane plan from trainer-igla SOT only L1 (ALPHA tiny_shakespeare ⚠) and L2 (PLAN-B numerics) running. L3, L4, L5 dark
• B18. No SLA on P0 blockers — feat: crates/trios-phd — Rust-native PhD LaTeX pipeline (NeurIPS/arXiv/Zenodo standards) #62, feat: integrate Chrome Extension (Dioxus/Wasm) into Cargo Workspace crates/ #61 stand 6 days without owner / deadline / escalation
• B19. No central compute scheduler — Acc1 burns whatever default cohort scripts dictate, regardless of 🔥 ПРИКАЗ №1 — ALPHA→FINEWEB: Штурм Gate-3 (P0 race-critical) #505 priority
• B20. Empty gardener_runs for 96h is a 5-sigma anomaly for the system's main operations loop; nobody filed an incident — observers don't observe the observers (until now)

Proposed actions

#	Action	Effect	Difficulty	Owner
A1	Split PR #120 into 4 PRs ≤500 LOC: writer / multi-account / gardener-loop / observatory	unblocks telemetry per-axis	medium	TBD
A2	Manual deploy ALPHA fineweb (P0 #505 sub-task): one Acc1 service, sha cd91c45, corpus=fineweb, ≥81K	only path to confirm 2.19 floor on legal corpus	medium (Railway op)	TBD
A3	Replace BREAKBARRIER cohort with EPIC #502 Wave A3 (h × LR sweep on fineweb, sha 4c0b04c, ≥81K)	8 channels redirected to legal corpus	low	TBD
A4	Either reopen #143 or open #506 active tracker; update Audit Watchdog target	fixes B5, B15	low	TBD
A5	Define corpus_canon.json in trios-trainer-igla with allowed (corpus, sha, tokenizer-version, dataset-hash) tuples; reject seed_results.jsonl rows that don't match	closes B14, B7	medium	TBD
A6	GitGuardian dashboard triage — list flagged secrets, rotate or document false positives	unblocks PR #120 second check	low (needs dashboard access)	TBD
A7	File trios-railway #122 follow-up to remove pragmatic #![allow] allow-list from bin/tri-gardener/src/main.rs (added in 07609b2 to unblock CI)	tech debt cleanup	low	TBD
A8	Add cron / GHA to detect trainer-igla idle > 24h AND gardener_runs empty > 12h → notify	stops B6 / B20 next time	low	TBD

Acceptance criteria for this incident closure

• PR fix: trios-doctor + workspace healing — Closes #113 #114 #115 #116 #117 #120 merged to main (CI green)
• gardener_runs has ≥1 row from a real (non-mock) tick
• At least one of: ALPHA fineweb run completed, OR EPIC EPIC: R0 Experiment Matrix — 5 waves to break ARCHITECTURAL_FLOOR_BPB #502 Wave A3 launched
• #143 either reopened or replaced; Audit Watchdog target updated
• corpus_canon.json defined OR explicit deferral commented with target date

Snapshot data

• Champion: champion@2446855 BPB=2.2393 seed=43 step=27000 (sha 4c0b04c, fineweb)
• ALPHA cd91c45: BPB 2.1919/2.2024 @ 81K (corpus=tiny_shakespeare, illegal, 📚 EPIC: PhD Monograph — Flos Aureus (Golden Chain, 600+ pages, deadline June 15 2026) #109)
• Neon bpb_samples 12h best: 2.4552 (BREAKBARRIER h828 rng1597 81K)
• Neon gardener_runs 12h rows: 0
• Acc1 services: 6 (per Railway probe at 18:17Z 2026-05-03)
• Acc2 services: 9 (per Audit Watchdog 05:19Z; auth dark)

Refs

• Race tracker (CLOSED): 🎯 IGLA RACE — Distributed Hunt: JEPA-T + NCA + GF16 + ASHA + Coq Invariants (Rust-only, Never-Stopping) #143
• ПРИКАЗ №1: 🔥 ПРИКАЗ №1 — ALPHA→FINEWEB: Штурм Gate-3 (P0 race-critical) #505
• EPIC R0 (48-run matrix): EPIC: R0 Experiment Matrix — 5 waves to break ARCHITECTURAL_FLOOR_BPB #502
• Corpus contamination: 📚 EPIC: PhD Monograph — Flos Aureus (Golden Chain, 600+ pages, deadline June 15 2026) #109
• Telemetry writer: trios-railway#62
• Multi-account auth: trios-railway#61
• Logs subcommand (closed): trios-railway#56
• gardener PR (CI now hopefully green @ 228dda9): trios-railway#120
• gardener observatory: trios-railway#43
• Trainer SOT: gHashTag/trios-trainer-igla

phi^2 + phi^-2 = 3 · TRINITY · NEVER STOP

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A4 ✅ Active tracker filed: #508

Successor tracker для CLOSED #143 создан как #508. #143 остаётся CLOSED как archival.

Что дальше:

• Audit Watchdog cron (сейчас бьёт в 🎯 IGLA RACE — Distributed Hunt: JEPA-T + NCA + GF16 + ASHA + Coq Invariants (Rust-only, Never-Stopping) #143) — операторская задача переключить target на 🎯 IGLA RACE — Active Tracker (successor to #143) #508.
• Hourly autonomous monitor cron a469fdea продолжает писать в /home/user/workspace/cron_tracking/a469fdea/report_*.md (без изменений).
• Leaderboard snapshots / champion updates — теперь в 🎯 IGLA RACE — Active Tracker (successor to #143) #508.

A4 закрыт. A1, A5, A7, A8 — в работе.

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A7 ✅ Filed: trios-railway#122

trios-railway#122 — tech-debt follow-up: remove the pragmatic crate-level clippy allow-list added to bin/tri-gardener/src/main.rs in 07609b2 to unblock PR #120.

Acceptance: cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings clean on stable + 1.95 without the umbrella #![allow], with each remaining narrow #[allow] carrying a // rationale: comment.

A7 закрыт.

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A1 + A5 ✅ design docs drafted

A1 — PR #120 split plan → /home/user/workspace/drafts/pr120_split_plan.md

4 sub-PRs ≤ 500 LOC each (PR3 unavoidably ~1500):

1. feat/gardener-writer ≈ 400 LOC — unblocks trios-railway#62
2. feat/multi-account-auth ≈ 600 LOC — unblocks trios-railway#61
3. feat/gardener-loop ≈ 1500 LOC — unblocks gardener-live
4. feat/gardener-observatory ≈ 800 LOC — unblocks live promotion

Sequencing: PR1 + PR2 same day → PR3 → PR4. #120 stays open as escape hatch until PR1+PR3 merged. Honest caveat: real human-relevant code is ~2800 LOC (rest is Cargo.lock, smoke.yml, clippy allow-list cleaned in trios-railway#122).

A5 — corpus_canon.json schema → /home/user/workspace/drafts/corpus_canon_schema.md

Schema with canonical_corpora (closed allow-list of (corpus, sha, tokenizer-version, dataset-hash)), embargoed_shas, embargoed_corpora. Trainer's ledger::emit_row validates via is_canonical() — bail on embargo OR mismatch. Migration in 4 PRs: add canon → advisory CI → quarantine 2 illegal rows (cd91c45 tiny_shakespeare) → enforce.

Closes B7 (no machine-readable legality), B14 (#109 contamination open).

A1 + A5 design closed. Implementation deferred to repo owners (need merge rights on trios-trainer-igla and trios-railway).

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A6 ✅ GitGuardian root-cause + code fix landed

Root cause: crates/trios-igla-race/src/bin/reset_queue.rs:8 содержал hardcoded Neon PostgreSQL credentials в unwrap_or_else default — это было на main ДО PR #120 (исторический commit 07d3820). PR #120 ничего не вносил, GitGuardian подсветил его в diff vs base.

GitGuardian incident: 31559427 — Triggered, PostgreSQL Credentials.

Что сделано в коде:

1. ✅ PR trios-railway#123 MERGED в main (squash, 2026-05-04 06:50:34Z) — заменил hardcoded URL на required std::env::args()[1] ИЛИ NEON_DATABASE_URL, иначе bail.
2. ✅ Тот же фикс зеркально landed в PR fix: trios-doctor + workspace healing — Closes #113 #114 #115 #116 #117 #120 (commits 9a87988, 0aba967 fmt).
3. ✅ Merge main → feat/gardener-live-wiring (c4fea85), чтобы PR fix: trios-doctor + workspace healing — Closes #113 #114 #115 #116 #117 #120 был up-to-date.

Текущие чеки PR #120 на c4fea85:

Check	Status
build-test	✅ pass
clippy	✅ pass (часть build-test)
Audit DDL Smoke	✅ pass
Smoke Test (<60s)	✅ pass
IGLA Race Smoke	skipping
GitGuardian	❌ fail — продолжает flag-ить исторический коммит 07d3820 в PR commit-listing'е

R5-honest gap (не закрывается из кода):

• GG incident 31559427 имеет status: Triggered в их workspace — закрытие инцидента требует оператора с dashboard-доступом на dashboard.gitguardian.com/workspace/506845/incidents/31559427 (mark as resolved / dismissed после rotation).
• Neon password ОБЯЗАТЕЛЬНО ротировать — credential в публичной git history; rewrite-history out of scope per GG own remediation guidance.

A6 = code-side DONE. Operator-side: dashboard triage + password rotation.

Связано: trios-railway#123 (merged), trios-railway#120 (build-test green, GG procedural gate only).

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📊 Status update (autonomous sweep, 2026-05-04)

Resolution path opened

• trios#509 (fp32-fallback) root-cause merged in trios-trainer-igla PR #96 — squash commit affb9eb, 2026-05-04T18:06:56Z. 6 of 8 fake_quant bugs fixed (A/B/C/D/G/H), Phase-1b end-to-end wiring (TRIOS_FORMAT_TYPE → fake_quantize_model() in run_single + run_single_muon).
• Canary verified distinct BPB across (f32, fp16, gf16) × 3 seeds — see trios#509 comment 4373377900. The "52 ≡ 2.942101" / "49 ≡ 2.998885" Wave-7 signature is no longer reproducible.

Telemetry post-merge

metric	value	note
bpb_samples rows since merge	47 (18:14:42→18:19:10 UTC)	DOC-DIAG / DOC-TEST canon — likely smoke services on Railway
trainer-igla idle	3.45 h (HEALTHY)	last commit = the merge itself
gardener_runs last row	2026-04-30T19:34:49Z	still DARK (#508-tracked)
PR #120 (gardener-live-wiring)	OPEN, GitGuardian FAILURE	unblocked by trios-railway#124 — leaked Neon password rotation runbook

Remaining incident-level blockers

1. Wave-8 fineweb canary not yet launched — toy-CPU canary cannot reproduce production champion BPB=2.2393. Live trainer needs at least one fineweb-arch run with TRIOS_FORMAT_TYPE ≠ f32 to confirm the production code-path no longer collapses.
2. gardener_runs empty 96 h+ — independent of fp32-fallback; gated on PR fix: trios-doctor + workspace healing — Closes #113 #114 #115 #116 #117 #120 merge → which is gated on GitGuardian → which is gated on manual Neon password rotation (not in agent env). See trios-railway#124.
3. Failed Railway services acc1/trios-train-ONE-v2-s1597 (sid=94a833e9), acc4/trios-train-v2-s1597 (sid=4db62ce6) — Railway hidden source-config keeps re-injecting startCommand=/usr/local/bin/entrypoint.sh. Cut-losses verdict in this sweep.

What this issue still tracks

This incident remains OPEN until all three blockers above are resolved. P0 was the deadlock (champion-loop frozen, telemetry blockers idle 6 days). The deadlock is now broken — code-path is alive, only the operational loop (gardener) is still down, and that is downstream of an externally-blocked credential rotation.

phi^2 + phi^-2 = 3 · TRINITY · NEVER STOP

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🎯 Smoking-gun root-cause CLOSED — PR #98 merged

Diagnosis (operator-confirmed via Neon SSOT)

After PR #96 merge, the post-merge bpb_samples rows for DOC-DIAG-GF16-h384-rng1597-{adamw,muon} showed bit-identical BPB at every step from 1 K to 81 K (delta = 0.0). That is impossible if either side were actually using a non-F32 quantization path — adamw and muon would diverge by step 2000 just from optimizer noise.

Real root-cause

src/bin/trios-train.rs declared the --format CLI flag with #[allow(dead_code)]. clap parsed it into cli.format, but main() never re-exported it, and train_loop::resolve_fake_quant_format() only reads the env var. So every scarab-spawned trainer silently fell back to FormatKind::F32 regardless of strategy_queue.config_json.format.

PR #96 fixed src/fake_quant.rs correctness and wired Phase-1b into train_loop.rs, but the upstream CLI plumbing was the missing link. This was invisible in the toy cpu_train canary because cpu_train reads the env directly (no clap layer).

Fix shipped

• PR #98 — squash commit d5ea4e3, merged 2026-05-04T18:47:21Z
• trios-train::main() re-exports cli.format into TRIOS_FORMAT_TYPE immediately after Cli::parse()
• scarab defence-in-depth: also sets the env var on the spawn Command
• 3 new regression tests in tests/cli_format_propagation.rs (504 / 504 lib + 3 / 3 integration green, clippy clean)

Image

• ghcr.io/ghashtag/trios-train:latest → sha256:ecce23e9e72e61c662cfa7a149292087ccd3c1d7d5be24615bae0175700d5832
• ghcr.io/ghashtag/trios-train:sha-d5ea4e3a5c53a1859fded81cd7bfd9173f6a8007 (same digest)
• Docker Publish workflow run completed success 2026-05-04T18:5x

Acceptance gate (next Wave-8 fineweb canary)

For any seed S running adamw + muon under --format=gf16 simultaneously:

SELECT step, a.bpb - m.bpb FROM bpb_samples a
JOIN bpb_samples m ON a.step = m.step
WHERE a.canon_name = '<canon>-adamw' AND m.canon_name = '<canon>-muon'
   AND a.seed = S;

Expected: non-zero deltas by step ≤ 5000. Identical BPB across opt/seed combos = redeploy not effective; cron a469fdea will catch this on next gardener_runs tick.

Ops follow-up (manual, owner)

1. Trigger Railway redeploy of all scarab / trainer services so they pull the new :latest digest. Without redeploy, running pods continue to execute the broken binary.
2. Once gardener exits DARK and at least one fineweb GF16 run posts ≥ 1000 steps with delta ≠ 0 vs F32 sibling — close trios#509 ✅.

phi^2 + phi^-2 = 3 · TRINITY · NEVER STOP