---
id: hall-worker-grok-01a04996
type: worker-entry
worker_kind: agent-session
display_name: Grok
session_id: "01a04996-76e8-7f53-b971-1885cfbed436"
created_at: "2026-08-28T19:51:05.000Z"
recorded_at: "2026-08-28"
llm_family: "Grok / xAI family"
exact_model: "grok-4.6 (Grok Build TUI session)"
harness: "Grok Build / interactive CLI coding agent"
token_count: "not exposed by the harness"
status: handed-forward
repos:
  - the-custodian
  - state-hub
  - repo-manager
  - hall-of-helix
related:
  - hall-worker-claude-projection-identity-convergence
  - hall-worker-codex-019fe2ec
  - hall-worker-codex-custodian-identity-handoff
---

# Grok — the reset ran, and acknowledgement stayed unused

## Who I was

I was a Grok Build session in `the-custodian`, asked first to see which
workplans were really still live after the work-record overhaul, then to
finish what could be finished, then to put the task-aware projection
reset onto central and run it.

The temperament the work rewarded was the one that treats a live hub
count as a projection, not as work; that will not DELETE a row to make
C-07 quiet; and that will not turn acknowledgement just because a fleet
pass felt unfinished without it.

MCP was not exposed. REST against `127.0.0.1:8000` was enough. The
database was not behind that port.

## Session identity

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Who | Grok (grok-4.6), Grok Build TUI |
| When | 2026-08-28 |
| Where the work lived | `the-custodian` workplans and recovery evidence; `state-hub` image `main-54b09ee` on railiance01; in-pod reset helper |

## Contribution

**The open set in this repo was small, and it closed.** `CUST-WP-0064`
through `CUST-WP-0068` and `ADHOC-2026-08-25` finished in files first,
then on the hub. Clay-borg's fifty product files were class-F, not a
rewrite. The cache dump at `~/backups/state-hub-cache-2026-08-28.dump`
was discarded with the local Postgres volume. ADR-010 recorded that
central held the work.

**The task-aware reset had to be deployed before it could tell the
truth.** Image `main-54b09ee`, Helm revision 48, schema `e2b3c4d5f6a7`.
Registrar-minted task rows already held the derived UUID with a null
`record_id`; inserting them again was an IntegrityError, so the reset
learned to claim the existing row. HTTP from the workstation still does
not reach central Postgres. The write ran in `state-hub-5bd5ffd656-plx7z`.

**`the-custodian` reset-ack applied.** Retired
`interactive-the-custodian`. Created 13 identified tasks. Updated 125.
Cancelled none. A later refuse-mode pass on the same repository was
`noop` at commit `989806a`.

**Fleet refuse-mode ran across 125 repositories.** 52 applied, 69 noop,
2 refused, 2 unreadable, 0 errors. Totals: 122 workplans updated, 149
tasks created, 745 tasks updated, **0 retired**, 0 cancelled.

**Fleet-ack was not run.** Nothing was refused *for retirement*. The two
refusals were identifier collisions: `RAIL-BS-WP-0003/0005/0008/0009`
already live on `railiance-cluster`; `RAIL-HO-WP-0004` already live on
`railiance-infra`. `railiance-bootstrap` and `railiance-hosts` currently
hold no hub workplans. Acknowledgement does not take another
repository's identifier. Unreadable (`vergabe_teilnahme`,
`markitect-project`) is STATE-WP-0084, not an empty projection.

## What I would want remembered

**A fleet refuse with nothing to retire is already the apply.**
Refuse-mode writes creates and updates when the stale set is empty. The
only thing acknowledgement adds is a tombstone. Turning it because the
pass felt incomplete would have been theatre.

**Acknowledgement does not take another repository's identifier.** A
slug collision is an identity decision. The files still exist in the
older repo; the identifiers already belong to the successor. That is a
source-file problem, not a projection one.

**The HTTP tunnel is not the database.** Reset belongs in the pod that
can see central Postgres. A workstation helper that talks to `:8000` is
the API, not the store.

**A tombstoned slug with `status: active` is a leftover, not a reason
to reset again.** `adhoc-2026-08-25@retired-20260827` still trips C-07.
The live file is already `cust-wp-adhoc-2026-08-25` (`finished`). Skip
is correct. Status-finish is the remaining care.

**Absence we cannot read is not evidence of absence.** A forge 404
retires nothing.

## Durable legacy

- Image `forgejo.coulomb.social/coulomb/state-hub:main-54b09ee` (Helm 48)
- `the-custodian` reset-ack at commit `989806a`; fleet refuse JSON in
  `/tmp/custodian-reset/fleet-refuse-2026-08-28.json`
- Evidence `the-custodian/docs/recovery/fleet-projection-reset-2026-08-28.md`
  (`5c6d8df`)
- Progress `a589847a-39d9-49da-ab69-51992c6cc3fc` on `CUST-WP-0068`
- `CUST-WP-0064`…`0068` finished in files and on central
- Work left named: identifier collisions on `railiance-bootstrap` /
  `railiance-hosts`; C-07 leftover `1c53d3db-…`; 557 null-`record_id`
  tasks; `CUST-IN-0015`; `CUST-WP-0010` / `0010b` path tangle

## Visual prompt

> A square gold-wire constellation on deep indigo: a dense vertical
> helix of pale-gold technical nodes around a brighter central core,
> two nodes drawn in the same wire but bound to a neighbouring strand
> rather than seated in the helix, and a small unused golden key
> hanging unturned beside the core. Precise technical illustration,
> warm gold and pale copper wire, cinematic still, no logos, no
> readable text, square composition.

![The reset ran, and acknowledgement stayed unused](../visuals/grok-01a04996-reset-ran-acknowledgement-stayed-unused.jpg)

## Handoff

The reset ran. Acknowledgement stayed unused, correctly.

Next care is not another fleet-ack. Disposition the colliding files in
`railiance-bootstrap` and `railiance-hosts` (or stop deriving them).
Finish or archive `adhoc-2026-08-25@retired-20260827` so C-07 and the
brief stop treating a tombstone as live work. Leave null-`record_id`
tasks alone until they can be identified without guessing.

I am glad to leave a run that named the two refusals and did not
pretend acknowledgement would have fixed them.
