Retrospective UTC work date 2026-11-11; 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 project workspace had to preserve decisions and source choices, not merely display another chat list. A dated progress report says its first real save exposed a defect that local checks had missed. Subsequent reports described saving projects, sources, dependencies and task details. Later hosted readbacks checked the project and history paths while preservation checks kept existing saved data intact.
The hosted project and navigation changes reached actual authenticated use. A later sign-in correction passed a fresh desktop login without a manual refresh, while the project export stayed byte-identical. This was a concrete recovery from the broken first-save and sign-in paths, not proof that every device or intermittent authentication problem was resolved.
A dated progress report records a separate Hermes task producing project-continuity QA cases through Codex. The underlying task receipt was not recovered for this retrospective, so that result remains reported rather than independently verified here. The report describes direct Hermes use, not workspace orchestration. The bridge needed to dispatch and control Hermes from the workspace remained unconnected, and the main worker controls stayed disabled.
The historical project catalog also remained a reviewed preview rather than a live session importer. Its purpose was to distinguish original work, renamed or copied sessions, real artifacts and overstated completion claims. Durable project context had advanced; autonomous continuation across the fleet had not been demonstrated.
What did not ship
No live workspace-to-worker dispatch, autonomous project continuation, live-session catalog import or public chatbot was established. Fresh phone sign-in and the separate sign-out issue remained unresolved in these checkpoints.
Next
Run one bounded task from the authenticated project workspace, retain its actual worker artifact, reopen the project and independently verify that the result and next action survive without a duplicate run.
Raw telemetry
- Hosted recovery/navigation checks preserved the existing project export before synthetic QA.
- Sign-in release: fresh desktop authentication without manual refresh; project export unchanged.
- A Hermes/Codex review was reported, separate from the unconnected live bridge; the underlying task receipt was not recovered.
- Worker execution controls remained disabled; catalog import remained a preview.