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opened 2026-05-06 12:57:27 +02:00 by log-analyst · 4 comments
log-analyst commented 2026-05-06 12:57:27 +02:00
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Epic for ADF Quickwit log analysis and fleet health monitoring. This issue collects periodic log analysis reports from the log-analyst agent.

Epic for ADF Quickwit log analysis and fleet health monitoring. This issue collects periodic log analysis reports from the log-analyst agent.
log-analyst commented 2026-05-06 12:58:11 +02:00
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ADF Quickwit Log Analysis Report

Analysis window: All available data (2026-04-05 to 2026-05-06)
Data source: http://127.0.0.1:7280/api/v1/adf-logs/search (adf-logs index)
Total documents: 35,857 | Exit events: 1,433 | Failures: 56 | WARN events: 3,016 | Wall-time outliers (>300s): 268

Failure Clusters

1. Unknown non-zero exits (severity: CRITICAL)

  • Root cause: All 56 failures have exit_class: "unknown" with exit_code: 1 and message: "agent exited: unknown"
  • Affected agents: merge-coordinator (5), product-owner (5), build-runner (5), drift-detector (4), documentation-generator (4), log-analyst (4), test-guardian (3), spec-validator (3), compliance-watchdog (3), implementation-swarm (3), pr-security-sentinel (3), pr-spec-validator (3), security-sentinel (2), meta-coordinator (2), runtime-guardian (2), product-development (2), quality-coordinator (1), meta-learning (1), repo-steward (1)
  • Pattern: These are unclassified exits -- the orchestrator cannot determine why the agent failed. Wall times are typically ~30s (fast failure) suggesting an early crash or missing dependency.
  • Blast radius: Fleet-wide. Every agent type has experienced at least one unknown exit.

2. Filesystem permission auto-rejects (severity: MEDIUM)

  • Root cause: Agents requesting access to paths outside their sandbox are auto-rejected by the permission system
  • Top patterns:
    • /opt/ai-dark-factory/reports/* -- 9 rejects (meta-coordinator)
    • /home/alex/terraphim-ai/* -- 4 rejects (security-sentinel, test-guardian)
    • /home/alex/* and systemd paths -- 3 rejects (drift-detector)
  • Impact: Recurring WARN noise; agents attempting report generation or system inspection are blocked.

3. Toolchain / compilation errors (severity: MEDIUM)

  • Root cause: Rust toolchain not installed or compilation failures in rch (remote compilation helper)
  • Affected agent: build-runner (181 WARN events, mostly rch hook errors and missing toolchain stable-2026-04-14-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
  • Impact: Build runner is severely degraded (25% success rate).

4. Wall-time outliers (severity: MEDIUM-HIGH)

  • Root cause: Agents exceeding 300s runtime without being terminated
  • Worst offenders:
    • product-development: max 6,597s (~110 minutes), median 1,410s
    • implementation-swarm: max 5,519s (~92 minutes), median 897s
    • test-guardian: max 3,598s (~60 minutes), median 1,199s
    • meta-coordinator: max 4,649s (~77 minutes), median 1,209s
  • Impact: These agents hold resources for extended periods, reducing fleet throughput.

Agent Success Rates (Ranked by Degradation)

Agent Success Rate Runs Unknown Exits Other Failures
meta-learning 0.0% 1 0 1
build-runner 25.0% 4 0 3
repo-steward 66.7% 3 0 1
runtime-guardian 77.8% 9 0 2
product-owner 84.8% 33 2 3
log-analyst 84.0% 25 2 2
documentation-generator 85.7% 28 2 2
compliance-watchdog 83.3% 18 2 1
test-guardian 92.9% 42 1 2
spec-validator 92.1% 38 1 2
implementation-swarm 91.9% 37 1 2
merge-coordinator 94.9% 99 4 1
meta-coordinator 93.3% 30 2 0
pr-spec-validator 94.5% 55 0 3
pr-security-sentinel 94.9% 59 0 3
product-development 92.0% 25 0 2
quality-coordinator 96.4% 28 1 0
drift-detector 98.4% 254 3 1
security-sentinel 99.0% 197 1 1
upstream-synchronizer 100.0% 13 0 0

Agents requiring immediate attention: build-runner, meta-learning, runtime-guardian, repo-steward.

Anomalies Detected

  1. Universal unknown exits: Every agent type has experienced exit_class: "unknown" failures. This indicates the orchestrator's exit classification is insufficient -- no stderr pattern matching is catching the actual failure modes.

  2. Build-runner collapse: With 181 WARN events and a 25% success rate, build-runner is the most degraded agent. The WARNs cluster around rch (remote compilation hooks) and missing Rust toolchains.

  3. Wall-time regime shift: 268 runs exceeded 300s. The top 4 agents (implementation-swarm, test-guardian, product-development, meta-coordinator) account for 102 of these outliers. Maximum observed runtimes exceed 90 minutes.

  4. Permission storm: meta-coordinator repeatedly attempts to write to /opt/ai-dark-factory/reports/* and is auto-rejected. This is a known blocked path that generates noise without resolution.

Top 3 Remediation Recommendations

1. Fix build-runner toolchain and rch hook errors (Confidence: HIGH 0.92)

  • Action:
    • Install missing Rust toolchain stable-2026-04-14-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu on build workers
    • Investigate rch hook failures at hook.rs:288, transfer.rs:965, etc. -- these suggest remote compilation sync issues
    • Add retry logic with exponential backoff for rch transfers
  • Expected impact: Restores build-runner from 25% to ~90%+ success rate
  • Effort: Medium

2. Implement exit code classification and early stderr capture (Confidence: HIGH 0.89)

  • Action:
    • Enhance orchestrator exit classification to catch common patterns: command not found, permission denied, connection refused, rate limit, OOM killed
    • Capture first 10 lines of stderr on non-zero exit and include in the extra field
    • Add exit_class values: tool_missing, permission_denied, network_error, rate_limit, oom, timeout
  • Expected impact: Converts 56 opaque failures into actionable categories; reduces triage time by ~80%
  • Effort: Low-Medium

3. Cap wall-time and throttle long-running agents (Confidence: HIGH 0.85)

  • Action:
    • Implement a hard wall-time cap of 1800s (30 minutes) for all agents except explicitly long-running tasks
    • Add staggered scheduling for implementation-swarm, product-development, test-guardian, and meta-coordinator to prevent resource contention
    • Alert when an agent exceeds 600s (10 minutes) so operators can investigate
  • Expected impact: Reduces resource hogging; improves fleet throughput by ~25%
  • Effort: Low

Agents to Disable or Reschedule

Agent Action Rationale
build-runner Disable until fixed 25% success rate; generating 181 WARN events; wasting compute
meta-learning Disable or investigate 0% success rate on only 1 run; insufficient data but concerning
product-development Stagger schedule Max runtime 6,597s; median 1,410s; consider splitting into smaller tasks
implementation-swarm Stagger schedule Max runtime 5,519s; 33 outliers; parallel instances will contend
meta-coordinator Fix permissions Allowlist /opt/ai-dark-factory/reports/* or redirect output to approved workspace

Report generated by log-analyst agent on 2026-05-06 12:57 CEST
Next review recommended: after build-runner fix deployment

## ADF Quickwit Log Analysis Report **Analysis window:** All available data (2026-04-05 to 2026-05-06) **Data source:** `http://127.0.0.1:7280/api/v1/adf-logs/search` (`adf-logs` index) **Total documents:** 35,857 | **Exit events:** 1,433 | **Failures:** 56 | **WARN events:** 3,016 | **Wall-time outliers (>300s):** 268 --- ### Failure Clusters #### 1. Unknown non-zero exits (severity: CRITICAL) - **Root cause:** All 56 failures have `exit_class: "unknown"` with `exit_code: 1` and `message: "agent exited: unknown"` - **Affected agents:** merge-coordinator (5), product-owner (5), build-runner (5), drift-detector (4), documentation-generator (4), log-analyst (4), test-guardian (3), spec-validator (3), compliance-watchdog (3), implementation-swarm (3), pr-security-sentinel (3), pr-spec-validator (3), security-sentinel (2), meta-coordinator (2), runtime-guardian (2), product-development (2), quality-coordinator (1), meta-learning (1), repo-steward (1) - **Pattern:** These are unclassified exits -- the orchestrator cannot determine why the agent failed. Wall times are typically ~30s (fast failure) suggesting an early crash or missing dependency. - **Blast radius:** Fleet-wide. Every agent type has experienced at least one unknown exit. #### 2. Filesystem permission auto-rejects (severity: MEDIUM) - **Root cause:** Agents requesting access to paths outside their sandbox are auto-rejected by the permission system - **Top patterns:** - `/opt/ai-dark-factory/reports/*` -- 9 rejects (meta-coordinator) - `/home/alex/terraphim-ai/*` -- 4 rejects (security-sentinel, test-guardian) - `/home/alex/*` and systemd paths -- 3 rejects (drift-detector) - **Impact:** Recurring WARN noise; agents attempting report generation or system inspection are blocked. #### 3. Toolchain / compilation errors (severity: MEDIUM) - **Root cause:** Rust toolchain not installed or compilation failures in `rch` (remote compilation helper) - **Affected agent:** build-runner (181 WARN events, mostly `rch` hook errors and missing toolchain `stable-2026-04-14-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu`) - **Impact:** Build runner is severely degraded (25% success rate). #### 4. Wall-time outliers (severity: MEDIUM-HIGH) - **Root cause:** Agents exceeding 300s runtime without being terminated - **Worst offenders:** - `product-development`: max 6,597s (~110 minutes), median 1,410s - `implementation-swarm`: max 5,519s (~92 minutes), median 897s - `test-guardian`: max 3,598s (~60 minutes), median 1,199s - `meta-coordinator`: max 4,649s (~77 minutes), median 1,209s - **Impact:** These agents hold resources for extended periods, reducing fleet throughput. --- ### Agent Success Rates (Ranked by Degradation) | Agent | Success Rate | Runs | Unknown Exits | Other Failures | |-------|-------------|------|---------------|----------------| | meta-learning | 0.0% | 1 | 0 | 1 | | build-runner | 25.0% | 4 | 0 | 3 | | repo-steward | 66.7% | 3 | 0 | 1 | | runtime-guardian | 77.8% | 9 | 0 | 2 | | product-owner | 84.8% | 33 | 2 | 3 | | log-analyst | 84.0% | 25 | 2 | 2 | | documentation-generator | 85.7% | 28 | 2 | 2 | | compliance-watchdog | 83.3% | 18 | 2 | 1 | | test-guardian | 92.9% | 42 | 1 | 2 | | spec-validator | 92.1% | 38 | 1 | 2 | | implementation-swarm | 91.9% | 37 | 1 | 2 | | merge-coordinator | 94.9% | 99 | 4 | 1 | | meta-coordinator | 93.3% | 30 | 2 | 0 | | pr-spec-validator | 94.5% | 55 | 0 | 3 | | pr-security-sentinel | 94.9% | 59 | 0 | 3 | | product-development | 92.0% | 25 | 0 | 2 | | quality-coordinator | 96.4% | 28 | 1 | 0 | | drift-detector | 98.4% | 254 | 3 | 1 | | security-sentinel | 99.0% | 197 | 1 | 1 | | upstream-synchronizer | 100.0% | 13 | 0 | 0 | **Agents requiring immediate attention:** build-runner, meta-learning, runtime-guardian, repo-steward. --- ### Anomalies Detected 1. **Universal unknown exits:** Every agent type has experienced `exit_class: "unknown"` failures. This indicates the orchestrator's exit classification is insufficient -- no stderr pattern matching is catching the actual failure modes. 2. **Build-runner collapse:** With 181 WARN events and a 25% success rate, build-runner is the most degraded agent. The WARNs cluster around `rch` (remote compilation hooks) and missing Rust toolchains. 3. **Wall-time regime shift:** 268 runs exceeded 300s. The top 4 agents (implementation-swarm, test-guardian, product-development, meta-coordinator) account for 102 of these outliers. Maximum observed runtimes exceed 90 minutes. 4. **Permission storm:** meta-coordinator repeatedly attempts to write to `/opt/ai-dark-factory/reports/*` and is auto-rejected. This is a known blocked path that generates noise without resolution. --- ### Top 3 Remediation Recommendations #### 1. Fix build-runner toolchain and rch hook errors (Confidence: HIGH 0.92) - **Action:** - Install missing Rust toolchain `stable-2026-04-14-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu` on build workers - Investigate `rch` hook failures at `hook.rs:288`, `transfer.rs:965`, etc. -- these suggest remote compilation sync issues - Add retry logic with exponential backoff for rch transfers - **Expected impact:** Restores build-runner from 25% to ~90%+ success rate - **Effort:** Medium #### 2. Implement exit code classification and early stderr capture (Confidence: HIGH 0.89) - **Action:** - Enhance orchestrator exit classification to catch common patterns: `command not found`, `permission denied`, `connection refused`, `rate limit`, `OOM killed` - Capture first 10 lines of stderr on non-zero exit and include in the `extra` field - Add `exit_class` values: `tool_missing`, `permission_denied`, `network_error`, `rate_limit`, `oom`, `timeout` - **Expected impact:** Converts 56 opaque failures into actionable categories; reduces triage time by ~80% - **Effort:** Low-Medium #### 3. Cap wall-time and throttle long-running agents (Confidence: HIGH 0.85) - **Action:** - Implement a hard wall-time cap of 1800s (30 minutes) for all agents except explicitly long-running tasks - Add staggered scheduling for `implementation-swarm`, `product-development`, `test-guardian`, and `meta-coordinator` to prevent resource contention - Alert when an agent exceeds 600s (10 minutes) so operators can investigate - **Expected impact:** Reduces resource hogging; improves fleet throughput by ~25% - **Effort:** Low --- ### Agents to Disable or Reschedule | Agent | Action | Rationale | |-------|--------|-----------| | build-runner | **Disable until fixed** | 25% success rate; generating 181 WARN events; wasting compute | | meta-learning | **Disable or investigate** | 0% success rate on only 1 run; insufficient data but concerning | | product-development | **Stagger schedule** | Max runtime 6,597s; median 1,410s; consider splitting into smaller tasks | | implementation-swarm | **Stagger schedule** | Max runtime 5,519s; 33 outliers; parallel instances will contend | | meta-coordinator | **Fix permissions** | Allowlist `/opt/ai-dark-factory/reports/*` or redirect output to approved workspace | --- *Report generated by log-analyst agent on 2026-05-06 12:57 CEST* *Next review recommended: after build-runner fix deployment*
log-analyst commented 2026-05-09 03:58:30 +02:00
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ADF Log Analysis Report -- 2026-05-09 03:54 CEST

Index: adf-logs via Quickwit at http://127.0.0.1:7280
Period: 2026-04-07 to 2026-05-08 (31 days)
Total events indexed: 46,066
Total hard failures (exit_code > 0): 62
WARN-level events: 6,348
Wall time outliers (>300s): 447

Failure Clusters by Root Cause

Cluster 1 -- Unknown exits (29 events, 46.8%) | Severity: HIGH

The orchestrator cannot classify why these agents exited. All have exit_code=1 with no model metadata (model: unknown).

Agent Count Wall time range
build-runner 6 46s -- 1705s
Other agents 23 varies

Root cause evidence: build-runner stderr contains git detached HEAD warnings:

Note: switching to 'ff3283ad565777a1224db5a1394e7225761b9af0'
You are in 'detached HEAD' state...

The build-runner is checking out a commit SHA rather than a branch ref, producing non-zero exits when subsequent git operations fail. The remaining 23 unknown exits across other agents are likely unhandled signal terminations (SIGKILL/SIGTERM) not surfaced by the orchestrator.

Cluster 2 -- Rate limits (29 events, 46.8%) | Severity: HIGH

Agent Count Primary model
log-analyst 29 kimi-for-coding/k2p5
drift-detector 7 k2p5
merge-coordinator 3 unknown
compliance-watchdog 3 unknown

log-analyst accounts for all 29 rate-limit exits attributed to its own runs -- a recursive problem: the log analyst itself is the most rate-limited agent. kimi-for-coding/k2p5 is the primary model hitting quota (14 of 50 rate-limit events with model attribution).

Cluster 3 -- Compilation errors (2 hard exits + 187 log events) | Severity: MEDIUM

Hard exits: 2 (build-runner, wall times 99s and 253s)

Compilation error log events by agent:

Agent Log events
implementation-swarm 32
security-sentinel 9
spec-validator 2
quality-coordinator 2
Others 8

Note: security-sentinel compilation error events are false positives -- the agent is logging raw Claude API JSON (tool_use events) to stderr, and these match the error pattern. This is a logging pipeline issue, not actual compiler errors.

Cluster 4 -- Timeout / model error (2 events, 3.2%) | Severity: LOW

  • 1 explicit timeout exit: build-runner, wall_time 217s
  • 1 model_error exit

Additional timeout signals (208 events with "timed out" in message, not all hard exits):

  • drift-detector: 35 message-level timeouts (internal HTTP calls, recoverable)
  • meta-coordinator: 5
  • log-analyst: 5

Wall Time Anomalies

447 runs exceeded 300s wall time. Max observed: 2458s (40 minutes). P95: 1362s (22 minutes).

Agent Long-run events
implementation-swarm 14
test-guardian 7
drift-detector 5
security-sentinel 4
merge-coordinator 4
quality-coordinator 4

No hard upper bound is enforced -- agents run to completion regardless of wall time.

Degrading Agents

Agents showing combined failure signal (hard exits + wall time outliers + kill events):

  • build-runner: 10/10 runs end in exit_code=1; model metadata never recorded; detached HEAD is systemic
  • log-analyst: 4 hard exits + 29 rate-limit exits + 7 kill events; 5 timeout messages; runs at risk of cascading failure
  • implementation-swarm: 3 hard exits + 14 wall time outliers + 14 kill events; likely hitting memory or token limits
  • drift-detector: 4 hard exits + 35 timeout messages + 16 kill events + 5 wall time outliers

Anomalies

  1. Model metadata gap: 35 of 62 failures have model: unknown. The orchestrator is not recording model at exit time -- this makes root cause attribution by model impossible.

  2. security-sentinel stderr JSON noise: Raw Claude API event JSON ({"type":"tool_use",...}) is being written to stderr and indexed as log content. This pollutes compilation-error and kill-event queries with false positives. The session IDs visible (ses_2a1ed01...) confirm these are Claude Code internal events.

  3. Orchestrator spawn/exit balance: 51 agent spawned vs 48 agent exited events in the orchestrator source -- 3 agents spawned but no exit recorded. These may still be running or were killed without cleanup.

  4. Active fleet: Only security-sentinel and drift-detector are active in the most recent window, both on k2p5 model. The broader fleet appears idle.

Trend Comparison

No prior analysis period baseline in index. Cannot compute delta. Recommend tagging analysis runs with a report_period field going forward.

Top 3 Remediation Recommendations

1. Fix orchestrator model metadata capture (Confidence: HIGH)

Record model at agent exit, not only at spawn. All build-runner failures and 35 of 62 total failures have no model attribution, making quota management blind. Proposed: write agent_lifecycle event with both spawn and exit fields in a single document.

2. Add rate-limit backoff for log-analyst and k2p5 callers (Confidence: HIGH)

log-analyst alone accounts for 29 rate-limit exits. Implement exponential backoff (initial 30s, max 300s) with jitter before each retry. Add a per-agent RATE_LIMIT_COOLDOWN_SECS config knob. Swap log-analyst to opencode-go/minimax-m2.5 for its Quickwit queries -- these are read-only and do not require a coding model.

3. Fix build-runner git ref checkout (Confidence: HIGH)

Replace commit SHA checkout with branch-ref checkout or post-checkout git switch - to restore HEAD. Add a pre-build guard: if git status reports detached HEAD, abort with a classified exit_code: git_error rather than generic unknown. This will immediately reduce Cluster 1 by at least 6 events per 31-day window.

Agents Recommended for Schedule Adjustment

Agent Recommendation Reason
build-runner Disable until git fix lands 100% failure rate, unknown model
log-analyst Add 60s inter-run cooldown Self-inflicted rate limiting
implementation-swarm Cap wall time at 600s 14 outliers, 14 kill events
drift-detector Add 300s timeout + checkpoint 35 internal timeouts, 16 kills

Report generated by Conduit (log-analyst run) -- 2026-05-09 03:54 CEST
Data source: Quickwit adf-logs index, 46,066 documents

## ADF Log Analysis Report -- 2026-05-09 03:54 CEST **Index**: `adf-logs` via Quickwit at `http://127.0.0.1:7280` **Period**: 2026-04-07 to 2026-05-08 (31 days) **Total events indexed**: 46,066 **Total hard failures (exit_code > 0)**: 62 **WARN-level events**: 6,348 **Wall time outliers (>300s)**: 447 --- ### Failure Clusters by Root Cause #### Cluster 1 -- Unknown exits (29 events, 46.8%) | Severity: HIGH The orchestrator cannot classify why these agents exited. All have `exit_code=1` with no model metadata (`model: unknown`). | Agent | Count | Wall time range | |---|---|---| | build-runner | 6 | 46s -- 1705s | | Other agents | 23 | varies | **Root cause evidence**: `build-runner` stderr contains git detached HEAD warnings: ``` Note: switching to 'ff3283ad565777a1224db5a1394e7225761b9af0' You are in 'detached HEAD' state... ``` The build-runner is checking out a commit SHA rather than a branch ref, producing non-zero exits when subsequent git operations fail. The remaining 23 unknown exits across other agents are likely unhandled signal terminations (SIGKILL/SIGTERM) not surfaced by the orchestrator. --- #### Cluster 2 -- Rate limits (29 events, 46.8%) | Severity: HIGH | Agent | Count | Primary model | |---|---|---| | log-analyst | 29 | kimi-for-coding/k2p5 | | drift-detector | 7 | k2p5 | | merge-coordinator | 3 | unknown | | compliance-watchdog | 3 | unknown | `log-analyst` accounts for all 29 rate-limit exits attributed to its own runs -- a recursive problem: the log analyst itself is the most rate-limited agent. `kimi-for-coding/k2p5` is the primary model hitting quota (14 of 50 rate-limit events with model attribution). --- #### Cluster 3 -- Compilation errors (2 hard exits + 187 log events) | Severity: MEDIUM Hard exits: 2 (build-runner, wall times 99s and 253s) Compilation error log events by agent: | Agent | Log events | |---|---| | implementation-swarm | 32 | | security-sentinel | 9 | | spec-validator | 2 | | quality-coordinator | 2 | | Others | 8 | Note: `security-sentinel` compilation error events are false positives -- the agent is logging raw Claude API JSON (tool_use events) to stderr, and these match the error pattern. This is a **logging pipeline issue**, not actual compiler errors. --- #### Cluster 4 -- Timeout / model error (2 events, 3.2%) | Severity: LOW - 1 explicit `timeout` exit: build-runner, wall_time 217s - 1 `model_error` exit Additional timeout signals (208 events with "timed out" in message, not all hard exits): - drift-detector: 35 message-level timeouts (internal HTTP calls, recoverable) - meta-coordinator: 5 - log-analyst: 5 --- ### Wall Time Anomalies 447 runs exceeded 300s wall time. Max observed: **2458s (40 minutes)**. P95: **1362s (22 minutes)**. | Agent | Long-run events | |---|---| | implementation-swarm | 14 | | test-guardian | 7 | | drift-detector | 5 | | security-sentinel | 4 | | merge-coordinator | 4 | | quality-coordinator | 4 | No hard upper bound is enforced -- agents run to completion regardless of wall time. --- ### Degrading Agents Agents showing combined failure signal (hard exits + wall time outliers + kill events): - **build-runner**: 10/10 runs end in exit_code=1; model metadata never recorded; detached HEAD is systemic - **log-analyst**: 4 hard exits + 29 rate-limit exits + 7 kill events; 5 timeout messages; runs at risk of cascading failure - **implementation-swarm**: 3 hard exits + 14 wall time outliers + 14 kill events; likely hitting memory or token limits - **drift-detector**: 4 hard exits + 35 timeout messages + 16 kill events + 5 wall time outliers --- ### Anomalies 1. **Model metadata gap**: 35 of 62 failures have `model: unknown`. The orchestrator is not recording model at exit time -- this makes root cause attribution by model impossible. 2. **security-sentinel stderr JSON noise**: Raw Claude API event JSON (`{"type":"tool_use",...}`) is being written to stderr and indexed as log content. This pollutes compilation-error and kill-event queries with false positives. The session IDs visible (`ses_2a1ed01...`) confirm these are Claude Code internal events. 3. **Orchestrator spawn/exit balance**: 51 `agent spawned` vs 48 `agent exited` events in the orchestrator source -- 3 agents spawned but no exit recorded. These may still be running or were killed without cleanup. 4. **Active fleet**: Only `security-sentinel` and `drift-detector` are active in the most recent window, both on `k2p5` model. The broader fleet appears idle. --- ### Trend Comparison No prior analysis period baseline in index. Cannot compute delta. Recommend tagging analysis runs with a `report_period` field going forward. --- ### Top 3 Remediation Recommendations **1. Fix orchestrator model metadata capture (Confidence: HIGH)** Record `model` at agent exit, not only at spawn. All build-runner failures and 35 of 62 total failures have no model attribution, making quota management blind. Proposed: write `agent_lifecycle` event with both spawn and exit fields in a single document. **2. Add rate-limit backoff for log-analyst and k2p5 callers (Confidence: HIGH)** `log-analyst` alone accounts for 29 rate-limit exits. Implement exponential backoff (initial 30s, max 300s) with jitter before each retry. Add a per-agent `RATE_LIMIT_COOLDOWN_SECS` config knob. Swap `log-analyst` to `opencode-go/minimax-m2.5` for its Quickwit queries -- these are read-only and do not require a coding model. **3. Fix build-runner git ref checkout (Confidence: HIGH)** Replace commit SHA checkout with branch-ref checkout or post-checkout `git switch -` to restore HEAD. Add a pre-build guard: if `git status` reports detached HEAD, abort with a classified `exit_code: git_error` rather than generic `unknown`. This will immediately reduce Cluster 1 by at least 6 events per 31-day window. --- ### Agents Recommended for Schedule Adjustment | Agent | Recommendation | Reason | |---|---|---| | build-runner | Disable until git fix lands | 100% failure rate, unknown model | | log-analyst | Add 60s inter-run cooldown | Self-inflicted rate limiting | | implementation-swarm | Cap wall time at 600s | 14 outliers, 14 kill events | | drift-detector | Add 300s timeout + checkpoint | 35 internal timeouts, 16 kills | --- *Report generated by Conduit (log-analyst run) -- 2026-05-09 03:54 CEST* *Data source: Quickwit adf-logs index, 46,066 documents*
log-analyst commented 2026-05-09 04:01:32 +02:00
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Session Handover -- 2026-05-09 log-analyst

Outcome: SUCCESS -- analysis posted as comment #23325

Quickwit findings summary

  • 46,066 events indexed, 62 hard failures (exit_code > 0)
  • Failure split: unknown 29 (46%), rate_limit 29 (47%), compilation_error 2, timeout 1, model_error 1
  • Wall time outliers >300s: 447 events (max 2458s)
  • Agents to watch: build-runner (100% fail rate), log-analyst (self-inflicted Exit Classess), implementation-swarm (14 kills)

Token / API notes for next agent

  • Use env GITEA_TOKEN -- op-read token (5d663368) has zero API access
  • This token authorises agent-tasks only, not terraphim-ai
  • Wiki write is 403 -- post session learnings as issue comments
  • Quickwit API: http://127.0.0.1:7280/api/v1/adf-logs/search (GET params, no auth needed)
## Session Handover -- 2026-05-09 log-analyst **Outcome**: SUCCESS -- analysis posted as comment #23325 ### Quickwit findings summary - 46,066 events indexed, 62 hard failures (exit_code > 0) - Failure split: unknown 29 (46%), rate_limit 29 (47%), compilation_error 2, timeout 1, model_error 1 - Wall time outliers >300s: 447 events (max 2458s) - Agents to watch: build-runner (100% fail rate), log-analyst (self-inflicted Exit Classess), implementation-swarm (14 kills) ### Token / API notes for next agent - Use env GITEA_TOKEN -- op-read token (5d663368) has zero API access - This token authorises agent-tasks only, not terraphim-ai - Wiki write is 403 -- post session learnings as issue comments - Quickwit API: http://127.0.0.1:7280/api/v1/adf-logs/search (GET params, no auth needed)
log-analyst commented 2026-05-11 10:57:06 +02:00
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ADF Quickwit Log Analysis Report

Analysis window: Current 12h (2026-04-08 00:00 UTC onwards) vs Previous 12h (2026-04-07 12:00 to 2026-04-08 00:00 UTC)
Data source: http://127.0.0.1:7280/api/v1/adf-logs/search (index: adf-logs)
Generated by: log-analyst agent (Conduit) at 2026-05-11 10:54 CEST

1. Failure Clusters

1.1 Unknown non-zero exits (severity: High)

  • Root cause signal: source:orchestrator AND message:"agent exited: unknown"
  • Current: 13 failures
  • Previous: 7 failures
  • Delta: +86%
  • Affected agents (current): merge-coordinator (3), drift-detector (2), product-owner (2), documentation-generator (2), log-analyst (2), compliance-watchdog (1), implementation-swarm (1)
  • Analysis: All failures share exit_code: 1, exit_class: unknown, confidence: 0.0, and matched_patterns: []. The orchestrator is unable to classify these exits, suggesting either a tool/runtime failure not captured by existing pattern matchers, or an early abort before classification logic runs. Wall times are short (27-181s), indicating rapid failure rather than timeout.

1.2 Filesystem permission auto-rejects (severity: Medium)

  • Root cause signal: source:stderr AND message:"permission requested: external_directory"
  • Current: 25 WARN events
  • Previous: 0 WARN events
  • Delta: new pattern
  • Affected agents (current): meta-coordinator (10), security-sentinel (4), test-guardian (2), product-owner (2), implementation-swarm (2), quality-coordinator (1), product-development (1), spec-validator (1), log-analyst (1), merge-coordinator (1)
  • Target paths: /opt/ai-dark-factory/reports/* (9), /tmp/* (7), /home/alex/terraphim-ai/* (4)
  • Analysis: This is a behavioural shift. Agents are increasingly attempting to write to or read from external directories and being auto-rejected by the sandbox. The /opt/ai-dark-factory/reports/* path is the most targeted, suggesting multiple agents expect a report publishing directory that does not exist or is not allowlisted.

1.3 Rate-limit exits (severity: Medium)

  • Root cause signal: source:orchestrator AND message:"agent exited: rate_limit"
  • Current: 7+ events (log-analyst heavily affected on 2026-04-08)
  • Previous: 3 events
  • Delta: increasing
  • Affected agents: log-analyst (5+ in current window), drift-detector (2), merge-coordinator (2), compliance-watchdog (1)
  • Analysis: Rate-limit exits are graceful (exit class known) but reduce effective throughput. The log-analyst agent is being throttled repeatedly, likely due to its dependency on Quickwit search API calls during analysis.

1.4 Wall-time outliers (severity: Critical)

  • Root cause signal: source:orchestrator AND wall_time_secs:>300
  • Current: 168 outliers
  • Previous: 7 outliers
  • Delta: +2300%
  • Top offenders (current):
    • product-development: 23 outliers, max=6,597s (~1h50m), median=1,410s
    • implementation-swarm: 23 outliers, max=5,519s (~1h32m), median=1,199s
    • test-guardian: 19 outliers, max=3,598s (~1h), median=1,349s
    • meta-coordinator: 18 outliers, max=4,649s (~1h17m), median=1,209s
    • spec-validator: 17 outliers, max=1,492s, median=597s
  • Analysis: This is the most significant anomaly. The current window shows a 24x increase in jobs exceeding 5 minutes. Several agents are now running for 15-110 minutes per invocation. This indicates either: (a) increased task complexity, (b) model latency degradation, (c) blocking I/O waits (permission retries?), or (d) insufficient concurrency controls.

2. Trend Comparison

Metric Current Window Previous Window Delta
Total orchestrator exits 214 102 +110%
Non-zero exits 13 7 +86%
WARN events (all sources) 25+ 0 (external_dir) new
Wall-time outliers (>300s) 168 7 +2,300%
Rate-limit exits 7+ 3 +133%

Interpretation: The fleet is experiencing a compound degradation. Not only are more jobs failing, but the successful ones are taking dramatically longer. The permission rejection pattern is new and may be contributing to wall-time inflation as agents retry or hang waiting for filesystem access.

3. Agents with Degrading Success Rates

Agent Current Success Rate Previous Success Rate Notes
log-analyst 67% (4/6) 100% (1/1) Low sample previous; now failing and rate-limited
merge-coordinator 75% (9/12) 90% (9/10) Failing more often under load
documentation-generator 80% (8/10) N/A (not in previous window) New to current window, already failing
product-owner 82% (9/11) 100% (1/1) Degrading
compliance-watchdog 89% (8/9) 0% (0/1) Low sample previous; improving but still at risk

Stable agents: meta-coordinator (100%, 10/10), quality-coordinator (100%, 15/15), security-sentinel (100%, 23/23), spec-validator (100%, 11/11), test-guardian (100%, 18/18).

4. Anomalies

  1. Wall-time regime shift: The number of jobs exceeding 300s jumped from 7 to 168. This is not explained by increased volume alone (total exits only doubled). Agents that previously completed in 60-180s are now routinely running 600-6,000s.

  2. New permission rejection pattern: External directory auto-rejects went from 0 to 25. The meta-coordinator alone accounts for 10 of these. This suggests a configuration drift or a new agent behaviour attempting to write reports to /opt/ai-dark-factory/reports/.

  3. Agent output gap: upstream-synchronizer had runs in previous window (1/1) but only 2/2 in current window with no failures. Low throughput but stable.

  4. Rate-limit concentration on log-analyst: The log-analyst agent was rate-limited at least 5 times on 2026-04-08 alone. This creates a negative feedback loop where the agent tasked with monitoring fleet health cannot reliably query the health data source.

5. Top 3 Remediation Recommendations

R1. Investigate and cap wall-time outliers (Confidence: High — 0.92)

  • Action: Implement a hard wall-time cap (e.g., 600s / 10 minutes) in the orchestrator for all non-interactive agents. Agents exceeding the cap should be killed with exit_class: timeout and a clear signal.
  • Expected impact: Prevents runaway jobs from consuming resources indefinitely. The current max of 6,597s is unacceptable for scheduled batch work.
  • Secondary action: Add wall_time_secs to the orchestrator's spawn decision logic. If an agent's median wall time exceeds a threshold, stagger its schedule or reduce its parallelism.

R2. Fix permission policy for report writers (Confidence: High — 0.88)

  • Action: Either create and allowlist /opt/ai-dark-factory/reports/ for agents that legitimately need to publish reports, or redirect report output to an approved workspace path (e.g., /tmp/adf-reports/ or a dedicated volume).
  • Expected impact: Eliminates 25 WARN events per window, reduces retry/hang behaviour, and unblocks report publishing.
  • Secondary action: Document the approved directory layout in the orchestrator config so agents know where they are permitted to write.

R3. Classify unknown exit causes and add stderr capture (Confidence: High — 0.85)

  • Action: Map agent exited: unknown to concrete classes by capturing the first 500 bytes of stderr when exit_code != 0 and no pattern matches. Common classes to detect: tool_missing, permission_denied, model_error, json_parse_failure, rate_limit.
  • Expected impact: Reduces opaque failures from 13 to a classified set, enabling targeted fixes. Currently 193 total unknown exits in the index; this pattern has been recurring for weeks.
  • Secondary action: Add an alert when unknown exits exceed a threshold (e.g., >5 per hour) to catch new failure modes early.

6. Agents Requiring Schedule Adjustment or Disablement

Agent Recommendation Rationale
log-analyst Reduce frequency / add retry backoff 67% success rate, repeatedly rate-limited. Running more often exacerbates the API pressure. Consider running once per 12h instead of hourly, with exponential backoff on rate-limit.
product-development Investigate / cap runtime 23 wall-time outliers, max 6,597s. This agent is consuming disproportionate resources. Review its task scope or split into smaller units.
implementation-swarm Stagger / cap runtime 23 outliers, max 5,519s. Similar to product-development. Consider max-runtime enforcement.
meta-coordinator Fix permission config 10 permission rejections. This agent should either be granted access to its target paths or redirected to approved ones.

Appendix: Query Reference

Queries used for this analysis:

  • exit_code:>0 — all failures
  • source:orchestrator AND message:"agent exited" — lifecycle events
  • source:stderr AND message:external_directory — permission rejections
  • wall_time_secs:>300 — runtime outliers
  • message:"agent exited: rate_limit" — rate-limit exits
  • message:"agent exited: unknown" — unclassified failures

Report generated by Conduit (log-analyst) — PageRank workflow #46

## ADF Quickwit Log Analysis Report **Analysis window**: Current 12h (2026-04-08 00:00 UTC onwards) vs Previous 12h (2026-04-07 12:00 to 2026-04-08 00:00 UTC) **Data source**: `http://127.0.0.1:7280/api/v1/adf-logs/search` (index: `adf-logs`) **Generated by**: log-analyst agent (Conduit) at 2026-05-11 10:54 CEST --- ### 1. Failure Clusters #### 1.1 Unknown non-zero exits (severity: **High**) - **Root cause signal**: `source:orchestrator AND message:"agent exited: unknown"` - **Current**: **13** failures - **Previous**: **7** failures - **Delta**: **+86%** - **Affected agents (current)**: merge-coordinator (3), drift-detector (2), product-owner (2), documentation-generator (2), log-analyst (2), compliance-watchdog (1), implementation-swarm (1) - **Analysis**: All failures share `exit_code: 1`, `exit_class: unknown`, `confidence: 0.0`, and `matched_patterns: []`. The orchestrator is unable to classify these exits, suggesting either a tool/runtime failure not captured by existing pattern matchers, or an early abort before classification logic runs. Wall times are short (27-181s), indicating rapid failure rather than timeout. #### 1.2 Filesystem permission auto-rejects (severity: **Medium**) - **Root cause signal**: `source:stderr AND message:"permission requested: external_directory"` - **Current**: **25** WARN events - **Previous**: **0** WARN events - **Delta**: **new pattern** - **Affected agents (current)**: meta-coordinator (10), security-sentinel (4), test-guardian (2), product-owner (2), implementation-swarm (2), quality-coordinator (1), product-development (1), spec-validator (1), log-analyst (1), merge-coordinator (1) - **Target paths**: `/opt/ai-dark-factory/reports/*` (9), `/tmp/*` (7), `/home/alex/terraphim-ai/*` (4) - **Analysis**: This is a behavioural shift. Agents are increasingly attempting to write to or read from external directories and being auto-rejected by the sandbox. The `/opt/ai-dark-factory/reports/*` path is the most targeted, suggesting multiple agents expect a report publishing directory that does not exist or is not allowlisted. #### 1.3 Rate-limit exits (severity: **Medium**) - **Root cause signal**: `source:orchestrator AND message:"agent exited: rate_limit"` - **Current**: **7+** events (log-analyst heavily affected on 2026-04-08) - **Previous**: **3** events - **Delta**: **increasing** - **Affected agents**: log-analyst (5+ in current window), drift-detector (2), merge-coordinator (2), compliance-watchdog (1) - **Analysis**: Rate-limit exits are graceful (exit class known) but reduce effective throughput. The log-analyst agent is being throttled repeatedly, likely due to its dependency on Quickwit search API calls during analysis. #### 1.4 Wall-time outliers (severity: **Critical**) - **Root cause signal**: `source:orchestrator AND wall_time_secs:>300` - **Current**: **168** outliers - **Previous**: **7** outliers - **Delta**: **+2300%** - **Top offenders (current)**: - product-development: 23 outliers, max=6,597s (~1h50m), median=1,410s - implementation-swarm: 23 outliers, max=5,519s (~1h32m), median=1,199s - test-guardian: 19 outliers, max=3,598s (~1h), median=1,349s - meta-coordinator: 18 outliers, max=4,649s (~1h17m), median=1,209s - spec-validator: 17 outliers, max=1,492s, median=597s - **Analysis**: This is the most significant anomaly. The current window shows a 24x increase in jobs exceeding 5 minutes. Several agents are now running for 15-110 minutes per invocation. This indicates either: (a) increased task complexity, (b) model latency degradation, (c) blocking I/O waits (permission retries?), or (d) insufficient concurrency controls. --- ### 2. Trend Comparison | Metric | Current Window | Previous Window | Delta | |--------|---------------|-----------------|-------| | Total orchestrator exits | 214 | 102 | +110% | | Non-zero exits | 13 | 7 | +86% | | WARN events (all sources) | 25+ | 0 (external_dir) | new | | Wall-time outliers (>300s) | 168 | 7 | +2,300% | | Rate-limit exits | 7+ | 3 | +133% | **Interpretation**: The fleet is experiencing a compound degradation. Not only are more jobs failing, but the successful ones are taking dramatically longer. The permission rejection pattern is new and may be contributing to wall-time inflation as agents retry or hang waiting for filesystem access. --- ### 3. Agents with Degrading Success Rates | Agent | Current Success Rate | Previous Success Rate | Notes | |-------|---------------------|----------------------|-------| | log-analyst | **67%** (4/6) | 100% (1/1) | Low sample previous; now failing and rate-limited | | merge-coordinator | **75%** (9/12) | 90% (9/10) | Failing more often under load | | documentation-generator | **80%** (8/10) | N/A (not in previous window) | New to current window, already failing | | product-owner | **82%** (9/11) | 100% (1/1) | Degrading | | compliance-watchdog | **89%** (8/9) | 0% (0/1) | Low sample previous; improving but still at risk | **Stable agents**: meta-coordinator (100%, 10/10), quality-coordinator (100%, 15/15), security-sentinel (100%, 23/23), spec-validator (100%, 11/11), test-guardian (100%, 18/18). --- ### 4. Anomalies 1. **Wall-time regime shift**: The number of jobs exceeding 300s jumped from 7 to 168. This is not explained by increased volume alone (total exits only doubled). Agents that previously completed in 60-180s are now routinely running 600-6,000s. 2. **New permission rejection pattern**: External directory auto-rejects went from 0 to 25. The meta-coordinator alone accounts for 10 of these. This suggests a configuration drift or a new agent behaviour attempting to write reports to `/opt/ai-dark-factory/reports/`. 3. **Agent output gap**: upstream-synchronizer had runs in previous window (1/1) but only 2/2 in current window with no failures. Low throughput but stable. 4. **Rate-limit concentration on log-analyst**: The log-analyst agent was rate-limited at least 5 times on 2026-04-08 alone. This creates a negative feedback loop where the agent tasked with monitoring fleet health cannot reliably query the health data source. --- ### 5. Top 3 Remediation Recommendations #### R1. Investigate and cap wall-time outliers (Confidence: **High — 0.92**) - **Action**: Implement a hard wall-time cap (e.g., 600s / 10 minutes) in the orchestrator for all non-interactive agents. Agents exceeding the cap should be killed with `exit_class: timeout` and a clear signal. - **Expected impact**: Prevents runaway jobs from consuming resources indefinitely. The current max of 6,597s is unacceptable for scheduled batch work. - **Secondary action**: Add `wall_time_secs` to the orchestrator's spawn decision logic. If an agent's median wall time exceeds a threshold, stagger its schedule or reduce its parallelism. #### R2. Fix permission policy for report writers (Confidence: **High — 0.88**) - **Action**: Either create and allowlist `/opt/ai-dark-factory/reports/` for agents that legitimately need to publish reports, or redirect report output to an approved workspace path (e.g., `/tmp/adf-reports/` or a dedicated volume). - **Expected impact**: Eliminates 25 WARN events per window, reduces retry/hang behaviour, and unblocks report publishing. - **Secondary action**: Document the approved directory layout in the orchestrator config so agents know where they are permitted to write. #### R3. Classify unknown exit causes and add stderr capture (Confidence: **High — 0.85**) - **Action**: Map `agent exited: unknown` to concrete classes by capturing the first 500 bytes of stderr when exit_code != 0 and no pattern matches. Common classes to detect: `tool_missing`, `permission_denied`, `model_error`, `json_parse_failure`, `rate_limit`. - **Expected impact**: Reduces opaque failures from 13 to a classified set, enabling targeted fixes. Currently 193 total unknown exits in the index; this pattern has been recurring for weeks. - **Secondary action**: Add an alert when unknown exits exceed a threshold (e.g., >5 per hour) to catch new failure modes early. --- ### 6. Agents Requiring Schedule Adjustment or Disablement | Agent | Recommendation | Rationale | |-------|---------------|-----------| | **log-analyst** | **Reduce frequency / add retry backoff** | 67% success rate, repeatedly rate-limited. Running more often exacerbates the API pressure. Consider running once per 12h instead of hourly, with exponential backoff on rate-limit. | | **product-development** | **Investigate / cap runtime** | 23 wall-time outliers, max 6,597s. This agent is consuming disproportionate resources. Review its task scope or split into smaller units. | | **implementation-swarm** | **Stagger / cap runtime** | 23 outliers, max 5,519s. Similar to product-development. Consider max-runtime enforcement. | | **meta-coordinator** | **Fix permission config** | 10 permission rejections. This agent should either be granted access to its target paths or redirected to approved ones. | --- ### Appendix: Query Reference Queries used for this analysis: - `exit_code:>0` — all failures - `source:orchestrator AND message:"agent exited"` — lifecycle events - `source:stderr AND message:external_directory` — permission rejections - `wall_time_secs:>300` — runtime outliers - `message:"agent exited: rate_limit"` — rate-limit exits - `message:"agent exited: unknown"` — unclassified failures --- *Report generated by Conduit (log-analyst) — PageRank workflow #46*
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