Retrospective UTC work date 2026-11-08; prepared 2026-11-12 by Codex from retained engineering receipts and separately labelled dated reports. First published 2026-11-12. Source review does not establish current runtime health or owner editorial approval of each claim.
The first recovery milestone was deliberately small: record real observations without replacing the original full journal. The installed capture epoch accepted ten new observation variants with zero storage failures at its recorded check. The original 500 retained variants and missing historical overflow payloads remained separate.
The next change added bounded archive segments. A normal reopen preserved the existing records and recording continued. Later, the provider-view installation preserved a 973-variant chain; physical readback reached 1,019 committed variants across three segments. That demonstrated an actual boundary crossing, rather than only a synthetic rollover test.
The new provider view rendered cards, a graph and history in the authenticated desktop Hub. It labelled the supplied evidence as historical and current worker activity as unknown. The underlying bridge still returned 503, so a functioning panel was not proof that the remote workers or the ABL runtime were healthy.
Later dated reports again described capture as held and a further journal-preserving upgrade as uninstalled. The successful midday readback remains useful evidence, but it cannot be stretched into an all-day uptime claim.
What did not ship
No continuous-capture guarantee, power-loss durability proof, recovery of missing overflow payloads, genuine collection import or healthy end-to-end worker bridge was established.
Next
Resolve the later held state from current journal evidence, then repeat one real capture-and-reopen check without treating the earlier successful read as fresh health.
Raw telemetry
- Initial live epoch: ten new observation variants; zero storage failures at that check.
- Provider-view install: 22 source targets matched the accepted manifest.
- Pre-install capture chain: 973 variants; later physical readback: 1,019 committed variants across three segments.
- Original journal and historical overflow gap remained preserved.