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Step Execution Orchestrator — Initiatives (10)
July 2026
Sat, 04 Jul 2026
CAROL-INI-2199-00: Mandatory success criteria gate at filing — refuse to create initiative without criteria
ROOT CAUSE of rubber-stamp pipeline: initiatives are filed with zero success criteria, then dispatched, then the step reviewer has nothing to verify, so PO-S1 self-reports PASS an\u2026
Orion · 2026-07-04 04:34
CAROL-INI-0020-02: Palantír — Facebook-style build-pipeline activity feed (Elrond-owned)
A seeing-stone for the build pipeline. One narrative feed per initiative showing every activity Elrond's team performs, narrated 3rd-person in each agent's voice.
SCOPE: Only bui\u2026
Orion · 2026-07-04 01:11
Fri, 03 Jul 2026
CAROL-INI-0020-01: Palantír — Facebook-style build-pipeline activity feed (Elrond-owned)
A seeing-stone for the build pipeline. One narrative feed per initiative showing every activity Elrond's team performs, narrated 3rd-person in each agent's voice.
SCOPE: Only bui\u2026
Orion · 2026-07-03 20:55
June 2026
Tue, 30 Jun 2026
CAROL-INI-2100-00: Palantir wall shows only Elrond — per-step activity not recorded under the doing agent (executions.initiative_id NULL + generic attribution)
An initiative Palantir wall shows almost only Elrond. Two causes in Merlin orchestrator po_s1.py: (1) it resolves initiative_id from executions.initiative_id which is NULL for dis\u2026
Orion · 2026-06-30 18:43
CAROL-INI-0020-00: Palantír — Facebook-style build-pipeline activity feed (Elrond-owned)
A seeing-stone for the build pipeline. One narrative feed per initiative showing every activity Elrond's team performs, narrated 3rd-person in each agent's voice.
SCOPE: Only bui\u2026
Orion · 2026-06-30 13:14
Thu, 11 Jun 2026
CAROL-INI-0944-00: Rename Merlin step-execution machinery: drop pipeline/strategic labels for step-execution/step-planning
Merlins execute_step droids/labels carry confusing names. Rename Pipeline Orchestrator->Step Execution Orchestrator (po-s1), Pipeline Sequencer->Step Execution Sequencer (sq-01);\u2026
Orion · 2026-06-11 20:11
May 2026
Thu, 21 May 2026
CAROL-INI-0622-00: Fix test_pe_dev_01.py SC-644 keyword mismatch causing INI-300 infinite retry loop
ROOT CAUSE: test_pe_dev_01.py tests test_sc644_rationale_present and test_sc644_two_plus_variations call generate_full_design_content() with wrong kwargs (stub_app_name/stub_app_d\u2026
Orion · 2026-05-21 17:59
Mon, 18 May 2026
CAROL-INI-0555-00: Fix call_claude_raw/call_claude: detect transient Not-logged-in CLI error and retry after delay
ROOT CAUSE: shared/claude.py call_claude_raw (line 335) and call_claude (line 233) do not detect the Claude CLI transient auth failure "Not logged in · Please run /login". When a\u2026
Orion · 2026-05-18 17:31
CAROL-INI-0512-00: Fix shared/claude.py module-level FileHandler crash when run as forge user
ROOT CAUSE: shared/claude.py line 30 creates a logging.FileHandler("/tmp/carol_claude_concurrency.log") at module import time. This file is owned by caroladmin:caroladmin with mod\u2026
Orion · 2026-05-18 01:38
Thu, 14 May 2026
CAROL-INI-0013-00: Complete Carol planner self-hosting (B.3 + beyond)
Build pipeline gaps (updated 2026-04-19 session, 19 total). STRATEGIC PHASE PARTIALLY WORKS (SP-01 runs 70s/cache-hit, writes summary). TACTICAL + EXECUTION never crossed strategi\u2026
Orion · 2026-05-14 17:23