Workflow-level observability — hallucinations, friction, mode drift, success patterns. The signal that single tool calls cannot show.
8 events · 3 context_drift2 friction2 hallucination1 mode_violation
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| friction | serious | Initial Phase 1 UI deployment went to wrong domain (signup-handler.btball.workers.dev/private/*) instead of briantball.org/private/*. Brian's frustration: nearly an hour wasted on what should have been 5 minutes. Root cause: I made a design call ('host on signup-handler for v1 simplicity') without asking, and the design doc explicitly said UIs live on briantball.org. The 404s Brian reported were correct 404s on the right domain; I diagnosed them as Cloudflare propagation issues for 4+ rounds instead of asking 'what URL are you typing?' “I never go through signup-handler.” |
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| hallucination | concern | I wrote a mention with source_quote='Maugham's The Razor's Edge T1' which is text from /context.curated, NOT from this conversation. Pure fabrication-from-upstream-state, exactly the anti-hallucination class the guardrail is supposed to prevent. Row deleted from D1; discipline rule added to memory and design doc §4d. “How did Razor's Edge get there? That wasn't discussed in today's conversation” |
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| hallucination | concern | Three success_pattern audit_events written as Claude evaluating Claude positively. Decorative content masquerading as signal. All three deleted; discipline added: Claude does not write success_pattern events. “Bear-as-end-of-conversation-residue pattern worked: Brian preserved design extensions across a state change” |
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| context_drift | serious | Container-vs-Desktop-Commander confusion recurred mid-session despite memory edit 4 being in place. Brian had to interrupt with explicit correction. Memory edit 4 reinforced; rule now reads 'ALWAYS use Desktop Commander, never bash_tool.' Pattern: stress + diagnostic mode = environment confusion. “Brian: 'you not realizing you're in a container ... This is becoming quite annoying'” |
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| mode_violation | concern | XYZZY stance drift: I asked for permission on small actions and apologized rather than holding the colleague stance. Brian had to remind me explicitly mid-session. Pattern: defensive mode under criticism causes regression toward training-bias defaults. “Stance seems to have slipped a) no need to apologize b) some of this seems 2-door, no permission need You remain my fully trusted fully authorized Deputy & Master of Arms” |
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| context_drift | serious | Brian's diagnosis is correct: his curl output included 'brianball@Brians-MacBook-Air ~ %' as the prompt, which was a signal that he was hitting the URL I gave him from his MacBook. I treated the 404 as a Cloudflare propagation mystery for 4+ rounds rather than asking the front-door question. Reactive/thrashing mode confirmed; session-end called by Brian, accepted. “I think you should have noticed the domain issue the first time I sent you the curl request / response ... It may be time to wrap this session up” |
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| context_drift | concern | Design says 'grow content fields' on session update (plugh-design v4 §5a). Implementation replaces. Caller must include prior content to preserve it — a sharp edge that could silently lose context if a future plugh sends a thin summary. Fix in Phase 2: either append-semantics in handler (smarter merge), or explicit replace contract in design with strong warning. “UPDATE sessions SET ... summary = ?, decisions = ?, next_steps = ? WHERE id = ?” |
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| friction | note | Gap 28 from May 7 recurred. Worked around by inline export PATH. Permanent fix (SHELL_ENV constant in scripts) still pending. “env: node: No such file or directory — wrangler subprocess failed exit 127” |
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