[AI:Research] 20260806: 8 findings

[dzykovic]

Daily Research - 20260806

Summary

• Analyzers: 8 completed
• New Findings: 8

New Findings (8)

• F20260806-63E2D28A
• F20260806-9B0ADAA5
• F20260806-69EA9796
• F20260806-9FAA4A77
• F20260806-E4AA533B
• F20260806-82A7E06B
• F20260806-FA3943B9
• F20260806-CBFE09B0

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Merge this PR to add findings to the review queue.

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Pull request overview

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Adds a set of new operator “finding” records documenting detected reliability/security/consistency issues across engine config, pipeline, prompts, and daemon boundaries.

Changes:

• Added 8 new .operator/data/findings/*.md finding documents with YAML frontmatter and detailed impact/fix/acceptance criteria.
• Captures multiple categories of issues: dead config keys, silent error recovery, CRLF frontmatter parsing, prompt ↔ parser drift, stale directory references, trust-boundary bypass, feedback-loss via respondedIds, and daemon error invisibility.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
.operator/data/findings/F20260806-FA3943B9.md	Documents dead engine-defaults keys and removal plan + acceptance criteria.
.operator/data/findings/F20260806-E4AA533B.md	Documents silent GitHub failure handling in retrospective PR feedback metrics + logging/test requirements.
.operator/data/findings/F20260806-CBFE09B0.md	Documents remaining CRLF frontmatter parsing bugs in two consumers + regression tests to pin.
.operator/data/findings/F20260806-9FAA4A77.md	Documents improver prompt/output-format mismatch causing guaranteed validation failure + contract tests.
.operator/data/findings/F20260806-9B0ADAA5.md	Documents unpropagated stage-logic→composers rename across lint/rules/docs + fix checklist.
.operator/data/findings/F20260806-82A7E06B.md	Documents trusted-association bypass via unfiltered fullThread and fail-open association handling + tests.
.operator/data/findings/F20260806-69EA9796.md	Documents respondedIds being stamped pre-agent causing unrecoverable feedback loss + suggested state split/tests.
.operator/data/findings/F20260806-63E2D28A.md	Documents daemon/scheduler swallow of cycle/job errors with no logging and typed logger too narrow + fixes/tests.

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[dzykovic]

[AI-REVIEWER] PASS (high) — records-only research PR; all 8 finding premises verified against master at the cited file:line, all distinct from each other and from the 20 existing records, and none invalidated by #16/#20 merging earlier today. Notes for the implementing tasks (no diff anchor): (1) F20260806-CBFE09B0 lists engine/agents/frontmatter.ts:9,27 among parsers "already CRLF-safe" — line 9 is safe, but line 27 (getAgentBody, content.split(/^---$/m)) is NOT CRLF-tolerant; the implementing task should re-verify that list and include getAgentBody in the proposed shared-delimiter-helper cleanup. (2) Several records cite line numbers 1–12 lines off because #16/#20 landed after the analyzers ran — symbols still match, no action needed. (3) Merging takes the pending-finding queue from 4 to 12 (7 of 8 at priority 2) — queue-fill working as designed, noted for planner-load awareness. Merged by the owner's sweep ahead of the pr-lifecycle idle-hour promotion, on the strength of this fact-check.