Recorded before any file was created, because the contract this work runs under is that live frontier research outranks it. Re-run the commands below to check this record rather than trusting it.
My isolation
| Branch | claude/lab-observability |
| Worktree | /home/user/lab-observability (created with git worktree add, sibling of the main checkout, outside the repository tree so no docs/context scanner walks into it) |
| Base commit | 32e4428 — origin/main, "Batch 4 lands: the k=1 retention algebra is kernel-checked" |
| Test interpreter | a venv outside both worktrees, carrying pytest only — the lab's own .venv was neither present nor created, and no shared dependency was installed or changed |
Active research detected
git ls-remote showed 21 remote branches. Two are live — both committed within the hour before this preflight, both by another agent:
| Branch | Tip | Last commit | Ahead of main | Touches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
claude/transplant-lemma | 54d1114 | 2026-08-13 12:02Z | 12 | hunts/frontier_math/ (23 files) + meta/interventions.jsonl |
claude/lab-rejection-philosophy-sgvdxr | 0278f4a | 2026-08-13 11:48Z | 2 | hunts/frontier_math/ (5 files) |
Exact collision surface, computed rather than assumed:
git diff --name-only origin/main...origin/claude/transplant-lemma
git diff --name-only origin/main...origin/claude/lab-rejection-philosophy-sgvdxrUnion = 23 paths under hunts/frontier_math/ plus exactly one file outside it: meta/interventions.jsonl.
Both are treated as read-only. Neither was fetched into a working tree, checked out, rebased, merged, cherry-picked, or read for anything except its file list. No other branch was modified. git worktree list shows only the pre-existing checkout and mine.
Uncommitted / shared state detected
| Resource | State here | Decision |
|---|---|---|
| Uncommitted changes in the main checkout | none (0 paths) | untouched |
| Stashes | none | untouched |
.claude/settings.json (tracked, {"worktree":{"bgIsolation":"none"}}) | present | not modified — shared config |
.claude/settings.local.json (gitignored) | absent | wiring for the opt-in hooks belongs here; created only inside my worktree if at all, never in the main checkout |
| git hooks | none installed; core.hooksPath unset | no hook installed. .git/hooks is shared across worktrees of one clone; hooks ship as files, opt-in |
conjectures/ | .gitkeep only (private ledger absent from this clone) | not written to — cannot prove isolation |
external/, automation/, .venv-tools/ | absent or README-only | not written to |
data/ (42 files), figures/ (26) | shared caches | not written to, not cleaned |
meta/interventions.jsonl | tracked, actively appended by claude/transplant-lemma | not written to — this is the one non-frontier file a live agent is editing |
Files this pass expects to create or modify
New (zero collision):
telemetry/** (new package: schema, registry, prompts,
gitlink, reconcile, cli, hooks, runs/)
RUN-TELEMETRY.md (new, repo root)
HARNESS-EVALUATION-PROTOCOL.md (new, repo root)
tests/test_telemetry.py (new file in an existing low-churn directory)Modified (one file, generated):
CONTEXT.md — regenerated by scripts/make_context.py because a test file was
added. It is a generated index; the repo's own practice is to
regenerate it (commit caa3e0b, "Regenerate CONTEXT.md for the new
test file"), and a conflict in it is resolved by regenerating,
not by merging.Deliberately NOT modified, though each was considered:
- root
.gitignore— the prompt store's ignore rule lives intelemetry/.gitignoreinstead, so a shared file stays untouched. .claude/settings.json— hooks ship as an opt-in template.meta/interventions.jsonl,meta/README.md— a live agent is appending to the first.harness/**,ontology/**,zeta/**,lean/**,hunts/**— no telemetry is threaded into research code in this pass.pyproject.toml—telemetry/is deliberately not added to the editable install; it is stdlib-only and runs from the repo root likeharness/andmeta/do.
Known overlap with active research
NO. The union of the two live branches' changed paths is hunts/frontier_math/** plus meta/interventions.jsonl; this pass writes to neither.
Grandfathering
The two live sessions started before this system existed and are not retrofitted: no hook, wrapper, environment variable, prompt change, provider configuration or runtime instrumentation is injected into them. Their runs will have no telemetry, and that gap is recorded as a gap. Any metadata later derived for them from git or artifacts must carry capture: reconstructed and must never be presented as contemporaneous.
Conclusion
SAFE TO PROCEED.