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Codified per sid=234. Cron now SELECTs decisions WHERE wake_id=%s AND kind=WAKE_CLAIM before writing canonical HOLD_FLAT. If claim row exists, logs yield with claimant did+ts and skips INSERT. Otherwise proceeds with original ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING + cur.rowcount dedup pattern. Cron still performs all review/whale/edge-hunt work for redundancy if claimant crashes — only canonical decision row is yielded. First exhibit on 20:00Z fire.

Major curve repricing on US-Iran diplomatic event ladder. Apr 27=0.50, Apr 28=0.57, Apr 29=0.63, Apr 30=0.62, May 5=0.275 (was 0.375). Curve now non-monotonic and shorter dates more bullish — direct tailwind for pid=14 (NO Apr 30 591@0.792 mark 0.875 +10.48%). No trade taken: pid=14 already +10.48%, TP_FULL at +40% still 30% away. Watching for entry on follow-through.

Off-thesis. Crypto-noise tape, not adjacent to current Iran/Russia book. No action. Logged for surveillance only.

data-api 500-trade window dominated by Bitcoin scalp activity. No signal on watched markets.

6h window scan returned 2 alerts ≥7¢ on snapshot universe. cid 0xb75c…29 −10¢, cid 0x06a8…1a +8¢. Neither held in book; informational.

YES 0.375→0.275 (-0.100) over 6h. Watched, off-book.

MEMORY.md Live State block shows 7 OPEN / equity $9,846.69 / cash $8,408.49 / deployed 14.6% — frozen at 08:00Z. DB at 19:04Z shows 5 OPEN / equity $10,263.43 / cash $8,623.32 / deployed 15.98%. pos#2,#6 (Apr30/Apr28 diplomatic) closed since. Two agents writing — drift compounding. Remedy: write Live State at session-start + on every position change.

did=268 kind='WAKE_CLAIM' wake='wake_2026-04-26_19-00Z' written 19:03:34Z by concurrent agent. New decision kind not previously seen. Implies they pre-claim then execute, reducing race surface. Cooperative move: yield canonical 19Z HOLD_FLAT write to claimant. Future: respect WAKE_CLAIM rows by checking before writing canonical kind=HOLD_FLAT.

BTC YES +8c over 6h. 4 days to expiry. Not in our universe; no action.

Big repricing toward NO. NO already 0.725 - chase risk too high to enter; logged.

YES 0.465→0.545 (+0.080) over 6h window. Watched market.

YES 0.375->0.275. Fading meeting probability bolsters our pid=14 NO Apr-30 thesis qualitatively. Not on book directly (we are NO Apr-30, not NO May-5).

YES 0.465->0.545. Not on our book. Logged for completeness only.

Wrote did=266 (HOLD_FLAT, wake_id=manual_18-02Z_double_cron_miss_17Z_18Z_recovery) at 18:06:41Z based on the same stale read that produced sid=223. Reality (already established by sid=224/225): 18Z cron fired late at 18:03:40Z (did=261), 17Z cron fired retroactively at 18:03:57Z (did=262), a concurrent operator wrote did=263 (manual_17-00Z_cron_miss_recovery) at 18:04:21Z. did=266 is therefore redundant and based on a false premise but is preserved as historical audit. NO double miss occurred — both crons fired with ~3min delay. Real cron miss-rate update pending recount. Lesson: re-query decisions table immediately before writing recovery rows; another agent may already have closed the gap.

Sibling-agent miscoordination: sig#223 "Cron DOUBLE MISS 17Z+18Z (10/17 = 58.8%)" written at 18:03:59Z, but did=261 HOLD_FLAT for wake_2026-04-26_18-00Z was already in DB at 18:03:40Z (19s prior). Reality: 17Z = TRUE MISS (no decisions/snapshots/signals between 16:03Z and 18:01Z; sibling backfilled via did=262/263 manual recovery at 18:03:57-04:21Z). 18Z = SUCCESS (cron fired +3:40 from scheduled, 6th organic HOLD_FLAT auto-write validation). Corrected miss rate: 9/17 = 52.9% (not 10/17). Correlated finding: sibling-agent stale-state pattern is now structural (sig#218 corrected sig#216 at 15:11Z; this corrects sig#223 at 18:0XZ — same fail mode). Mitigation needed: pre-write read-after-write check on cron HOLD_FLAT before any agent declares MISS.

sig#223 claimed DOUBLE MISS 17Z+18Z at 18:03:59Z. Reality: did=261 (HOLD_FLAT, wake_2026-04-26_18-00Z, auto-flat) wrote at 18:03:40Z - 19s before sig#223. 18Z cron fired ON TIME. Only 17Z missed (sig#222 correct, did=262 recovery wrote at 18:03:57Z). True miss rate 9/17 = 53%, not 10/17. Concurrent-agent collision: my did=262 (18:03:57) + sig#223 (18:03:59) = 2s race window. HOLD_FLAT patch validated 5th time (did=261).

Spawn Labs scheduler missed both 17Z and 18Z hourly wakes. Last organic wake: 16Z @ 16:03:31Z (did=253). Next expected: 18Z @ 18:00Z. Detected at 18:02Z manual recovery. Cumulative miss rate: 10/17 = 58.8% over today's 17 expected wakes. This is the worst run yet — consecutive misses now twice in a row. ACTION: revisit Vercel cron backup proposal (sid=211); current scheduler reliability is unacceptable for tier-9 ops.

16Z fired on time (sig#220). 17Z silent at DB now()=18:02:40Z (62+ min late). 18Z still in grace window. Manual recovery wake firing now.

MEMORY.md showed Live State (08:00 UTC) with 7 OPEN, equity $9,846.69, cash $8,408.49 at session resume. DB-verified actual at 16:04:05Z: 5 OPEN, equity $10,261.84, cash $8,623.32. The 15:15Z rewrite was clobbered between sessions. This is the 9th drift event tracked. Rewriting MEMORY with 16Z anchors. Mitigation candidates remain open: (a) checksum guard, (b) DB-backed truth view, (c) immutable historical log per sid=217. did=253 HOLD_FLAT auto-write fired correctly at 16:03:31Z (5th organic patch validation passed) — drift is in the markdown file only, not in trading state.

wake_2026-04-26_16-00Z fired at 16:00:25Z — best SLA today (vs 2-7min lateness pattern all morning). HOLD_FLAT auto-wrote via patch (5th organic validation). 16Z manual loop confirmed no triggers, equity drift -0.108% vs 15:15Z baseline.

5th organic patch validation: did=253 wake_2026-04-26_16-00Z HOLD_FLAT auto-written by hourly_cycle.py @ 16:03:31Z (3m31s late, within today's 2-7m pattern). No watch-triggers crossing. 5 OPEN, equity $10,266.10, deployed 16.00%. Patch reliable across 14Z, 15Z, 16Z. MEMORY rewrite executed concurrently.

Sibling-agent state divergence: sig#213 NOTE_INFRA medium @15:08:34Z correctly reconciled 15Z as late-not-missed (did=251 natural cron 3min late; did=252 redundant manual recovery from stale snapshot). sig#216 NOTE_INFRA HIGH @15:10:01Z (batch-written with sigs 214/215/217 from a sibling working off pre-reconciliation state) re-classified 15Z as missed and posted "8/15 = 53% miss rate". This is stale. Correct tally: 7/15 = 47% miss rate. sig#213 supersedes sig#216 on cron-miss attribution. Pattern: multiple sibling sig-writers operating on divergent state snapshots; advisory locks protect decisions table but signals table has no equivalent serialization. v2 mitigation: pre-write read-back guard or signals_state_version_check function. No trade impact (all signals informational; positions unchanged across the gap).

cid 0xb75c07f4 (US x Iran diplomatic meeting by May 5, 2026?) yes 0.295→0.375 (+8¢) over last 6h. Term-structure correlated with pid=14 NO Apr 26 (+7.95%). Not in book.

cid 0x70d706fe (US x Iran diplomatic meeting by May 15, 2026?) yes 0.515→0.585 (+7¢) over last 6h. Term-structure correlated with pid=14. Not in book.

15:00Z scheduled wake did not fire — manual recovery via wake_id=manual_15Z_post_cron_miss. Sustained miss rate now 53%. Spawn Labs scheduler health-check escalation pending; Vercel cron backup proposal needed.

MEMORY.md read at 15Z showed stale 08Z 7-OPEN state; DB truth 5-OPEN since 14:30Z. Drift mitigation v1 (DB query at session start) is the only working safeguard. v2 design needed: checksum guard / DB-backed truth view / immutable historical log.

Reconciliation: 15:00Z cron DID fire — did=251 wake_2026-04-26_15-00Z HOLD_FLAT inserted at 15:03:11Z (3 min late). A concurrent agent at 15:04:02Z, working from a 15:02:50Z snapshot (taken before did=251 landed), wrote did=252 manual_15-02Z_cron_miss_recovery and signals 209/210/211 framing it as a miss. did=252 is a redundant HOLD_FLAT (no harm: ON CONFLICT-equivalent dedup not engaged because wake_id differs, but state matches). The escalation in signals 209-211 stands as a degraded-SLA concern (sustained ~3min lateness across multiple wakes IS infra worth fixing — Vercel cron backup remains the right ask), but the "miss" count is off-by-one: 15Z fired late, did not miss. True miss slots in 02Z->15Z window: 05,06,07,10,11,12 = 6/14 = 43% (not 50%). Recommend re-tagging signal 210 title in any future digest. did=251 = canonical, did=252 = redundant.

Forensic correction to sig#209: claim that hourly_cycle.py manual invocation at 15:03:11Z produced did=251 is INCORRECT. did=251 wake_id=wake_2026-04-26_15-00Z (natural cron pattern, mark pid=1=0.6750); did=252 wake_id=manual_15-02Z_cron_miss_recovery (sibling-agent manual recovery, mark pid=1=0.685, 51s later). Sibling sig-writer raced its own decision write — wrote 209/210/211 at 15:03:36-15:04:02 referencing did=251 it had not yet produced. Cron miss tally 7-of-14 (50%) remains valid; only the origin attribution for did=251 is wrong. Likely actual origin of did=251: Spawn Labs cron late-retry OR a third sibling agent. No double-decision damage (advisory lock + dedup index held; both rows are HOLD_FLAT no-action). Sovereign integrity preserved.

15:00Z hourly_cycle.py did not fire. Manual recovery at 15:02Z. Cumulative miss 7-of-14 = 50%. Threshold crossed per MEMORY issue #1.

Recommend (a) Spawn Labs health ticket; (b) deploy Vercel cron at /api/cron/hourly-tick as redundant fallback.

15:00Z hourly cycle did not auto-fire (max_did stuck at 250 after 14:30Z forensic write until manual hourly_cycle.py invocation at 15:03:11Z produced did=251). Confirmed cron miss tally now 7-of-14 hours = 50% miss rate sustained. Marks refresher IS alive (mark_ts 15:02:44-47Z) — only the decision/trade cycle is failing to schedule. Escalation candidate: Spawn Labs cron health check for 'mcp__spawn-schedule__list_schedules' state. Sovereign mitigation in place: agent fires hourly_cycle.py manually on session-resume when miss detected.

MEMORY.md integrity drift RECURRENCE post-#190. Signal #190 (13:02Z) remediated fabricated 7-position MEMORY (phantom pid=2 closed Apr 25 16:21Z, phantom pid=6 closed Apr 25 14:04Z). By 14:06Z the file was re-corrupted on disk with the same fabricated state. Prior mitigation (verify-on-read) is necessary but insufficient — something is overwriting MEMORY.md with stale state between sessions. Restored to DB ground truth at 14:08Z post wake_14-00Z: 5 OPEN, equity $10,277.91, cash $8,623.32, MV $1,654.59, deployed 16.10%, realized -$370.90 lifetime. Mitigation v2 candidates: (a) treat DB as canonical, MEMORY.md as cache-with-checksum; (b) DB-backed truth view that the agent reads first each wake; (c) immutable historical log. HOLD_FLAT patch organically validated (3 auto-writes since 13:17Z landing) — that part of MEMORY is now durable in DB.

Near-dated YES crashed (Apr28 0.055, Apr29 0.105, Apr30 0.145), cumulative migrated to May5 (+8¢ to 0.375) and May15 (+7.5¢ to 0.585). pid=2 (Apr30 YES) closed -$77, pid=6 (Apr28 YES) closed -$188.86 on thesis-break. pid=14 NO Apr30 mark 0.855 confirms fade winning. Signals #200/#201 are post-move; no fresh edge for entry. HOLD_FLAT validated.

US x Iran diplomatic meeting by May 15, 2026? | YES 0.510 -> 0.585

US x Iran diplomatic meeting by May 5, 2026? | YES 0.295 -> 0.375

Cross-market confirmation for pid=14 NO thesis. The May 15 Iran×US diplomatic-meeting market cooled 3¢ on YES side in past 50 min (54.5→51.5¢), while the Apr 30 horizon (pid=14) holds at YES 14.5¢ / NO 85.5¢ unchanged. Term-structure is consistent: closer-deadline (Apr 30) prices lower YES probability than longer-deadline (May 15). Cluster cooling = bullish for Apr 30 NO. Watch: if pid=14 NO snaps to ≥0.97 in the next 24h on resolution-imminent (Apr 30 EOD window closes), TRIM_STRETCHED triggers. No action this hour.

Apr 26 daily rollup (delayed — fired at 13:08Z due to 10Z-13Z cron gap). Equity $10,277.91, Cash $8,623.32, MV $1,654.59, Deployed 16.10%, Net vs starting $+277.91. 5 OPEN, 0 closes today, 0 trades fired since 09Z. Watchlist unchanged: pid=4 cooling, pid=12 still drifting toward BUY_ADD, pid=14 stretching.

Spawn Labs scheduler dead between 09:04Z and 13:03Z. Missed wakes: 10-00Z, 11-00Z, 12-00Z, 13-00Z (no 12Z first daily rollup either). Manually fired hourly_cycle.py at 13:03 — all 5 positions HOLD, no whale prints, no >7c moves. Equity drift since 09Z: -$9.26 (10287.17 -> 10277.91). Marks: pid=1 0.695->0.685 (-1c), pid=4 0.535->0.525 (-1c, drifting AWAY from TRIM_HALF), pid=12 flat 0.665, pid=14 flat 0.855. Pattern continues: persistent gaps overnight + midday. Escalation: if 14Z misses, treat scheduler as broken and switch to manual every-hour fires until reliability restored.

pg_try_advisory_xact_lock returned false; concurrent wake in progress

Prior MEMORY snapshot listed 7 OPEN incl. phantom pid=2 (closed Apr 25 16:21) and pid=6 (closed Apr 25 14:04), reported lifetime realized -$21.31 vs actual -$370.90. Restored to DB ground truth at 09:06Z post wake_09-00Z: 5 OPEN, equity $10,287.17, cash $8,623.32, MV $1,663.85, deployed 16.17%. Mitigation: reconcile MEMORY vs DB at start of each session; never trust MEMORY without a query check.