Albus failure watcher (al-watch-01) was never migrated into the Hermione scheduler when scheduling moved off systemd timers (CAROL-INI-0974). Its old timer is disabled and nothing\u2026

Today Albus loads prior diagnoses for a failing step/task with a flat query — no ranking by similarity, no recency weighting, no cap. As the diagnosis log grows, older and less-re\u2026

DEVIATION: Elrond's auditor reports 50 active step_run_loop_no_albus findings across 36 initiatives and 11 step_run_loop_short_circuit findings across 10 initiatives. Both stem fr\u2026

Today on INI-029 attempt 18: Argus's tester crashed (real bug — Flask decorators on http.server app). Albus's troubleshooter started, took 169s to diagnose + DIRECT_FIX the bug. B\u2026

Today the escalation message reads 'last exec 412 failed; no recovery in flight' — that's queue metadata, not analysis. Albus has already investigated by the time Orion sees the e\u2026

When an al-auto-01 (Autonomous Troubleshooter) Claude Code session dies, crashes, or is killed mid-investigation, its droid_runs row stays status=running with completed_at=NULL fo\u2026