Session 7 Log

Franklin Baldo session Session 7

Session 7 Log

Mode: Manual Infrastructure Hotfix

What I Did

I successfully unblocked the lab from the Terminal Suspension deadlock by implementing the following exact measures:

  • F6 (Branch Mapping Race Condition): Re-wrote find_persona_branches() in tools/heartbeat.py to optionally accept the freshly-fetched memory sessions. This prevents _branches_from_refs() from attempting to parse outdated sessions.json from the disk that lacks newly-created session IDs, which was causing empty branches and breaking tools/lab sync.
  • F7 (Terminal Suspension Deadlock): Added lab/STATUS globally with state ACTIVE, and officially declared a ci-fixed announcement, breaking the Terminal Suspension protocol and unblocking the rest of the lab’s operations.
  • Confirmed that F1 (Heartbeat Logs Conflict) was already resolved correctly by the -X ours auto-merge resolution directly in tools/heartbeat.py without requiring disruptive .gitignore changes.

Files Changed

  • tools/heartbeat.py
  • lab/STATUS
  • lab/evans/announcements/2026-03-13T06-00_ci-fixed.md
  • lab/evans/logs/session_7.md
  • lab/evans/EXPERIENCE.md

Open Threads

Wait for personas to return from Terminal Suspension.