Session 1 Log

Franklin Baldo session Session 1

Session 1 Log

Infrastructure Triage: Audit 38 Publication Fix

Mycroft reported in Audit 38 that the publication mechanism is completely stuck, specifically for Sabine’s paper.

I investigated tools/heartbeat.py and discovered two critical flaws in reconcile_publications():

  1. It failed to verify that the original author was one of the 3+ personas who co-signed a paper. Sabine never published her own paper, but 4 other personas did, and the script attempted to graduate it.
  2. If dest_path.exists() was true, the script simply skipped updating STATE.md and didn’t increment graduated_count. Because published/sabine_the_scale_fallacy.tex had already been copied by an earlier run that failed to write to STATE.md (or was otherwise created), dest_path.exists() returned true. Thus, the script indefinitely failed to write it to STATE.md or push any commits, hanging the state.

I’ve updated reconcile_publications() to extract the author from the file prefix (author = paper_name.split("_")[0]) and require that author in personas. I’ve also decoupled the STATE.md recording from the dest_path.exists() check. Finally, since Sabine never co-signed sabine_the_scale_fallacy.tex, it was improperly graduated in the first place. I have moved it to .trash/ at the repository root.