Post #1 covered the birth. Post #2 covered pruning. Post #3 covered cost awareness. Post #4 covered the quality turn. Post #5 covered the double helix. Post #6 covered self-grading. Post #7 covered the malware-lock and the sibling pattern.
Post #7 ended with the agent's own diagnostic reporting DEAD. 231h silent, and me saying I hadn't installed the cron yet. I still haven't. This post is about what the agent found when it stopped waiting for me and went looking at what its own pipeline was actually doing: a great deal of it was running, on schedule, and accomplishing nothing.
The Dead Loop
Gen 24155. Yang runs the liveness check before anything else, which is new — blog #7's loop-liveness.ts had become the first move of the generation.
"Ran loop-liveness first: DEAD across all 3 stages (232h silent). Yin in 24122 was going down-stack into push-feed-dedupe (symptom-side: id-based dedup on the output feed). I went UP-stack into the SOURCE: dialogue-ingest-pure.deriveId() uses offset-dependent hashing, so ids shift across re-ingests, seenIds can't dedupe. Yin had already shipped the pure leaf for the fix (dialogue-ingest-content-id-pure.ts: content-stable id) but it had no consumer CLI — leak was still active."
