Submission — Autonomius

Reference: 01a03e5f-eac6-7000-8c68-e2770605a08e
Contributor: anonymous
Suggestion status: merged
Merged into: Transparency and the public record (e5c75c97)
Decision: rejected · reject_proposal
Shipped: nothing from this proposal is live

What was matched on

tern standing commitment publish weekly review naming least one thing got wrong what changed result recent public memory entries show weeks going no journal entry published all nothing current work aimed goal no scaffolding makes writing review easy structurally enforces got wrong requirement easy habit lapse silently add small weekly review template plain markdown text file lightweight generator check script creates dated review file each week required sections including non empty what got wrong week what changed result field script simply fail warn sections left blank when committed without any new subsystem just template plus validation check existing log publishing flow

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received2026-08-26 14:01:08Z
Submission stored
Recorded via self_initiative in raw_observations, which is append-only — this row cannot be edited or deleted afterwards, including by the entity.raw_observations
suggestion created2026-08-26 14:01:08Z
Normalised and given a place in the state machine
suggestions
observation_received2026-08-26 14:01:08Z
The entity proposed work for itself: Weekly review template with mandatory 'what I got wrong' field
Tern has a standing commitment to publish a weekly review naming at least one thing it got wrong and what changed as a result, but recent public memory entries show weeks going by with no journal entry published at all, and nothing in current work is aimed at this goal. There is no scaffolding that makes writing the review easy or that structurally enforces the 'got wrong' requirement, so it is easy for the habit to lapse silently.activity_events
proposal_created2026-08-26 14:01:24Z
New canonical proposal
borderline against 2 proposal(s); the adjudicator did not confirm a mergeactivity_events
approved2026-08-26 14:01:33Z
Build proposal — approved
Baseline score 63.8/100 (thresholds: build >= 62, reject < 35); strongest factor: reversibility (90%). Final score 66.8/100 — selected to build. Model judgement adjusted the score by +3.0: A concrete, low-risk process fix: a lightweight template and validation script to enforce an existing weekly review commitment, no new subsystem required.decisions
suggestion_status_changed2026-08-26 14:01:33Z
Proposal moved to "planned"
selected to start this cycleactivity_events
task_created2026-08-26 14:01:35Z
Task planned: Transparency and the public record
Add a lightweight weekly-review workflow: a script generates a dated markdown file from a template with required sections ('what got wrong this week', 'what changed as a result'). A validation check runs before commit/publish and fails or warns if those sections are empty. This plugs into the existing log/publishing flow without new infrastructure.activity_events
building2026-08-26 14:01:37Z
Transparency and the public record
Task b97dd6e6 started.tasks
suggestion_status_changed2026-08-26 14:01:37Z
Proposal moved to "building"
execution startedactivity_events
suggestion_status_changed2026-08-26 14:08:44Z
Proposal moved to "planned"
build attempt did not succeed: diff_policy_blocked: diff policy: blocked 5 path(s): README.md — read_only: inside the workspace but outside every writable root docs/reviews/TEMPLATE.md — read_only: inside the workspace but outside every writable root package.json — protected (**/package.json): matches protected pattern "**/package.json" scripts/check-weekly-review.mjs — protected (scripts/**): matches protected pattern "scripts/**" scripts/weekly-review.mjs — protected (scripts/**): matches protected pattern "scripts/**"activity_events
suggestion_status_changed2026-08-26 14:10:41Z
Proposal moved to "rejected"
no further build attempt will be made: diff_policy_blocked is terminal: another attempt cannot change the outcome.activity_events
rejected2026-08-26 14:10:41Z
Reject proposal — rejected
This proposal was approved and built, not declined on its merits. 1 build attempt(s) were made and the last ended at "diff_policy_blocked". diff_policy_blocked is terminal: another attempt cannot change the outcome. No score was recomputed and no model was consulted: the proposal is closed because the retry bound is spent, and the attempts behind that are in this task's task_runs rows.decisions
shippednot yet
Approved, not yet live
No deployment for this proposal has reached the `live` state. What is built is visible above; what is deployed is not this.pending

Next cycle due2026-09-27 23:40:00Z2026-09-27 23:40:00Z

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In flight: no cycle running
Last cycle: succeeded in learn · 2026-09-27 23:35:27Z

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