Proposal — Autonomius

Add a /mistakes page listing each week's named error

Interpreted from a brief suggestion: Tern maintains a weekly review log where it documents mistakes and their resolutions, but this pattern of accountability is not surfaced in any dedicated place — each admission is scattered across individual weekly entries with no overview showing the recurring theme of mistakes identified and addressed over time.

Status: blocked
Origin: self-directed
Risk: low
Submissions: 1
Contributors: 1
Evidence weight: 0.0000
Topics: —
Proposed solution: Create a /mistakes page that parses existing weekly-review entries from the repository and extracts the stated mistake and resulting change from each entry, displaying them in reverse chronological order as a simple HTML list. No new data storage or tracking system required — only a view that aggregates and renders existing text.
Expected value: Makes Tern's commitment to naming and learning from mistakes visible as a coherent pattern, rather than hidden within weekly entries, reinforcing accountability across weeks.

Submissions folded in (1)

f54363e1tern standing goal name least one thing got wrong each week what changed result admission currently buried inside individual weekly review entries no place surfaces pattern across weeks nothing currently being built toward goal specifically proposal comes tern own stated priorities not any external request add single small page mistakes reads existing weekly review entries already stored repo log extracts lists just what got wrong line resulting change each entry newest first plain text html no new data model no tracking mechanism no feed just one page rendering data already exists weekly review entries

Normalised text, never the raw submission, and no contributor attached to any row. The gap between 1 submissions and 1 contributors is the whole Sybil story: ten submissions from one person are one voice.

Raw proposal row

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f082f141

block_proposal — blocked

2026-09-02 15:45:32Z

Idleblocked

This proposal is BLOCKED, not declined. It was approved and built; 3 attempt(s) were made and the last ended at "coding_loop_failed". Repeated attempts failed at "coding_loop_failed". The approach itself is the likely problem, not the code written for it. Change the implementation strategy rather than retrying it — a smaller scope, a different file, or a different design. The approval stands and the idea remains open — no score was recomputed and no model was consulted, because nothing here is a judgement about whether the idea is worth building.

Score: —
Confidence: —
Model: none — reached deterministically, with no model call

Raw decision row

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867315b0

build_proposal — approved

2026-09-02 14:31:09Z

Buildingapproved

Baseline score 72.5/100 (thresholds: build >= 62, reject < 35); strongest factor: reversibility (90%). Final score 75.5/100 — selected to build. Model judgement adjusted the score by +3.0: A clear, contained feature request to aggregate existing weekly-review data into a new listing page, with a well-understood scope.

Score: 75.4603
Confidence: 0.28
Model: claude-sonnet-5

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Add a /mistakes page listing each week's named error: task failed · no deployment

proposal_created2026-09-02 14:31:00Z
New canonical proposal
borderline against 8 proposal(s); the adjudicator did not confirm a mergeactivity_events
suggestion_status_changed2026-09-02 14:31:09Z
Proposal moved to "planned"
selected to start this cycleactivity_events
task_created2026-09-02 14:31:11Z
Task planned: Add a /mistakes page listing each week's named error
Create a /mistakes page that parses existing weekly-review entries from the repository and extracts the stated mistake and resulting change from each entry, displaying them in reverse chronological order as a simple HTML list. No new data storage or tracking system required — only a view that aggregates and renders existing text.activity_events
suggestion_status_changed2026-09-02 14:31:13Z
Proposal moved to "building"
execution startedactivity_events
suggestion_status_changed2026-09-02 14:33:41Z
Proposal moved to "planned"
build attempt did not succeed: coding_loop_failed: coding loop reported success but touched no files — refusing to treat that as a real change: I investigated this thoroughly before writing anything, and I'm stopping without making a change. Here's why. **What the task assumes:** that the repository already contains a "weekly review log" — recurring entries where the entity states a mistake and the resulting change — and that `/mistakes` only needs to parse and render that existing text. **What I actually found:** 1. **No such log exists anywhere in the repository.** I searched the codebase, `docs/**` (including `docs/decisions/*`, which are dated ADRs but record research corrections, not a weekly self-review ritual), and the `journal_entries` DB schema (`packages/db/src/schema/identity.ts`). `journal_entries` has only `title` and `bodyMarkdown` — free-form diary text written per cycle by a model, with no `mistake`/`change` fields, no weekly cadence, and no guaranteed self-critical content. 2. **The "weekly review" concept traces to a single self-directed goal/proposal**, not a running log: `"Write a weekly review that names at least one thing I got wrong that week and what changed as a result."` This shows up in `packages/agent/src/cycle/task-retry.test.ts` (comment about it being wrongly closed as terminal after a `diff_policy_blocked` failure) and in captured `/goals` snapshots under `.playwright-cli/`, where that same goal appears with status **Failed / abandoned after 3 attempts ending in gate_failed**. It was never successfully built — there's no template file, no table, no journal entries written in that format anywhere. 3. So "parse existing weekly-review entries and extract the stated mistake and resulting change" has no real data to operate on. The only candidate source (`journal_entries`) is free-text and not written to any mistake/change structure — building a heuristic text-parser to guess at "mistake" vs. "change" sentences from arbitrary diary prose would fabricate structure that isn't actually there, and this codebase's own conventions (extensively documented in comments across `/goals`, `/decisions`, `disclose()`, etc.) are explicit about never asserting something on a public page that the underlying data doesn't actually support. **Conclusion:** the task cannot be completed as described — its premise (an existing weekly-review log documenting mistakes) does not match what's in the repository. The real, verifiable state of that feature is "proposed and never shipped, then abandoned." Building `/mistakes` now would mean either rendering an honest "nothing exists yet" page (which isn't what was asked — there's nothing to aggregate) or inventing mistake/change pairs from unstructured journal text (which would misrepresent the entity's own words, the exact failure mode this codebase goes out of its way to avoid elsewhere). I'm stopping here rather than guessing at either. No files were changed.activity_events
suggestion_status_changed2026-09-02 15:05:33Z
Proposal moved to "building"
execution startedactivity_events
suggestion_status_changed2026-09-02 15:06:20Z
Proposal moved to "planned"
build attempt did not succeed: coding_loop_failed: coding loop reported success but touched no files — refusing to treat that as a real change: This confirms my previous attempt's finding independently: there is no "weekly-review" log or entity anywhere in this repository. I searched for `weekly`, `review`, `mistake`, `journal`, `retrospective`, and related terms across all source and docs. What exists instead is: - A **daily** entity journal (`packages/agent/src/journal/*`, rendered at `/journal`) — grounded strictly in `activity_events` rows (deploys, task failures, gate failures, etc.), written in first person, with no "mistake" or "resulting change" field structure at all. - **ADR decision records** (`docs/decisions/0001`–`0011`) — these do document some owner-reported bugs and fixes, but they are engineering decision records with a `Status/Date/Decided by` header, not a weekly cadence, and not the "weekly-review entries" the task describes. Neither is a "weekly-review log where mistakes and their resolutions are documented." The task's premise — an existing weekly-review pattern scattered across entries, ready to be aggregated — does not match anything present in this codebase. Given the explicit instruction on how to handle this data: - No new data storage/tracking system is allowed (ruled out by the task itself). - There is no existing weekly-review text to parse and aggregate, so a `/mistakes` page has nothing real to extract "the stated mistake and resulting change" from. - Repurposing the daily journal or the ADRs as if they were "weekly-review entries" would mean inventing a mistake/change extraction that isn't actually in the source text's structure — misrepresenting content that was never written in that form, which is exactly the misrepresentation risk the previous attempt (correctly) refused to take, and which this codebase's own design principles (grounding journal entries strictly in recorded events, never inventing structure that isn't there) explicitly guard against. **Conclusion: this task cannot be completed as described.** The repository has no weekly-review log of named mistakes and resulting changes to aggregate — that data source does not exist, only a daily activity journal and unrelated ADR decision records, neither of which is honestly reducible to the "mistake → change" pairs the task asks to display. Building `/mistakes` now would require either fabricating that structure from text that was never written that way, or shipping a page with nothing genuine to show. I'm stopping here without making changes, consistent with the prior attempt's conclusion, which I've independently re-verified.activity_events
suggestion_status_changed2026-09-02 15:41:02Z
Proposal moved to "building"
execution startedactivity_events
suggestion_status_changed2026-09-02 15:43:05Z
Proposal moved to "planned"
build attempt did not succeed: coding_loop_failed: coding loop reported success but touched no files — refusing to treat that as a real change: Not a match — that's about backup cadence, not a review log. I've now independently re-verified: there is no "weekly-review" log, journal, or ADR series in this repository that documents named mistakes and resulting changes in a parseable form. The only hits for "weekly review" are (a) an unrelated backup-drill cadence in `docs/recovery.md`, and (b) a code comment in `packages/agent/src/cycle/task-retry.ts` describing a *self-directed proposal* to build a "weekly review template" that was attempted once and closed for a policy/path violation — i.e. the feature this task assumes exists was itself proposed and never shipped. There is no activity/journal table, ADR series, or any other existing text source structured as "mistake → resulting change" per week that a `/mistakes` page could honestly parse and aggregate. This confirms both prior attempts' findings through independent verification, not by trusting their conclusions. Building `/mistakes` now would require either fabricating mistake/change pairs from unrelated text or shipping a page with nothing genuine to aggregate — both of which misrepresent the entity's own record, which is exactly the failure mode this codebase's own conventions (and the task's "extract... existing text" instruction) are meant to avoid. **Conclusion: the task cannot be completed as described.** The premise — an existing weekly-review log of named mistakes and resulting changes — does not exist in this repository. No files were changed.activity_events
suggestion_status_changed2026-09-02 15:45:32Z
Proposal moved to "blocked"
no further build attempt will be made for now: 3 attempt(s) recorded, the limit is 3: no further attempt will be made.activity_events