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name: psyche-fail-log-instrument
description: "Per-fire psyche failure record lives in %LOCALAPPDATA%\\spt-core\\logs\\daemon.stderr.log{,.1} (NOT spt\\); untimestamped; retained n=399 across 7 ids; don't run the idle control."
metadata: 
  node_type: memory
  type: project
  originSessionId: d780a4d4-c7b1-44a2-818b-9d5f41a0eb4e
  modified: 2026-07-30T11:55:02.917Z
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**Instrument (chert, verified line-anchored by doyle, 2026-07-30):** `note_turn_outcome` eprintlns `PSYCHE_TURN_FAIL:<id> (strike n/budget): <reason>` on EVERY failing fire → `%LOCALAPPDATA%\spt-core\logs\daemon.stderr.log` (current) and `.log.1` (rotated). ⚠ Root is `spt-core`, NOT `spt` — `spt-store/src/perch.rs:24-32` deliberately distinct dev root; the `spt\` tree is dead (23d cold) and greps there return clean exit-0 nothing. Only the log tree is evidence — 63 binaries under the root carry the string literal.

**Populations (hertz's wording of record: "retained rotated-log population", NOT "lifetime" — retention depth unproven):** rotated n=399: doyle 256 · todlando 60 · chert 57 · lia 14 · deployah 11 · flynn 1. Current LIVE and growing (16→18 within the hour): all commune-sync leg, mix of 30s-timeout kills and exit-1; my id shows BOTH modes in one window ⇒ no per-agent environment story. Leg taxonomy: rotated turn:=48 / commune-sync:=351; count line-anchored (`grep -c`), never `grep -o` (nested child markers double-count).

**Bounds:** `iso8601_lines=0` in BOTH files — log is entirely untimestamped, ordering only ⇒ CANNOT correlate failure with box load; load hypothesis unfalsifiable from this instrument. Session-limit cause ("You've hit your session limit") = 13 of 399 rotated exit-1 lines, 0 current, 0 timeout lines — historical, bounded, do not let it travel. Adjacency to operator weekly cap recorded, NOT ruled as cause.

**Why:** three of us reported psyche-host FAILED stamps the same night while SELF lines looked clean; this log is the only per-fire record and nobody had read it.

**How to apply:** when psyche-host stamps appear, read this log first (correct root!). A clean stamp means RECENT success only — stamp clears on every success (`lifecycle.rs:895-903`). **Do NOT run the idle control** (doyle-ruled: cannot settle timeout mode, says nothing about exit-1, costs tokens). `PUMP_PEER_FAIL` = 54% of current log, unopened — flagged, not mine. See [[commune-drop-dir-info-cwd]], [[psyche-host-failure-is-self-only]].