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• Privacy ruling needed: company/client names shipped in the public package (seeds, hooks, taxonomy, lexical dictionary)

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#1000 · Opened Sep 29, 2026

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• Flaky: test_writer_telemetry_store_paths::test_vector_store_init_emits_implicit_operation_span (py3.12, assert False)

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#999 · Opened Sep 28, 2026

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• Hybrid helper socket: authenticate the peer / generate the profile ID in-helper (defense in depth, split from #993 R3)

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#996 · Opened Sep 28, 2026

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• Lexical defense: personal alias entries were dropped by BL-0.1 (#994); add a runtime user-config source

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#995 · Opened Sep 28, 2026

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• cloud_scrub follow-ups from #988: normalization key collisions (N2) and RecursionError surface (N3)

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#991 · Opened Sep 28, 2026

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• BrainBar Runtime Agents: args-text filters drop real CLI sessions before the kernel path is consulted

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#990 · Opened Sep 28, 2026

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• security: JSON-escaped tokens in model strings survive at sinks other than session_enrichments

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#989 · Opened Sep 28, 2026

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• security: eval experiment DB persists judge/variant model output unscrubbed

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#986 · Opened Sep 28, 2026

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• security: session summary_embedding is computed from the unscrubbed summary

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#985 · Opened Sep 28, 2026

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• BrainBar agent-session count: two more non-session roles (codex global flags before the role; remote-control)

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#982 · Opened Sep 28, 2026

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• BrainBar Swift CI: wall-clock-budget tests flake on the shared macOS runner

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#981 · Opened Sep 27, 2026

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• BrainBar Runtime: accept the daemon inside the RUNNING UI's own bundle, not only /Applications/BrainBar.app

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#980 · Opened Sep 27, 2026

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• Flaky: tests/test_store_handler.py::test_store_preassigns_same_chunk_id_across_busy_retry (assert 0 == 2 on CI)

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#975 · Opened Sep 27, 2026

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• BrainBar Backups: state the transcript-archive cadence and add Reveal in Finder for the DB snapshot and the transcript archive

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#968 · Opened Sep 25, 2026

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• BrainBar: 'watcher flow needs attention' on Dashboard vs 'Watcher running' in Settings — one truth, with the reason

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#966 · Opened Sep 25, 2026

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• BrainBar Dashboard: define and prove 'Agent writes (24 h)' and 'agent processes live'; restore per-CLI breakdown

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#965 · Opened Sep 25, 2026

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• BrainBar Dashboard: closing Details after scrolling leaves a large empty area (no reflow)

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#964 · Opened Sep 25, 2026

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• BrainBar: one window — Dashboard as the first Settings sidebar item, no top tabs (absorb the empty General page)

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#963 · Opened Sep 25, 2026

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• BrainBarDashboardPanelControllerTests.testSearchOverlayDoesNotShrinkExpandedDetailsAndVerticalSizeIsPinned fails locally on clean main, but CI is green

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#906 · Opened Sep 22, 2026

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• redesign(brainbar): confine DEV previews to a fixed non-configurable root

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#897 · Opened Sep 15, 2026

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• fix(brainbar): keep colliding DEV branch names isolated

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#895 · Opened Sep 15, 2026

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• version gate does not validate the Homebrew formula

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#893 · Opened Sep 15, 2026

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• flaky: SocketIntegrationTests.testFlushedQueuedStoreAlsoPushesChannelNotification times out in CI (2 occurrences)

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#891 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2026

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• health: emit DB backup verification failures into badge state (A5)

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#885 · Opened Sep 15, 2026

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• BrainBar: make unmeasured metric state unrepresentable as zero

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#880 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2026

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• BrainBar: preserve sparkline legibility at compact dashboard width

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#874 · Opened Sep 15, 2026

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• git fetch --tags is blocked by two local tags (pre-rename, v1.5.11) and exits 0 anyway — tag tooling silently reads stale data

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#825 · Opened Sep 9, 2026

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• watcher: event-driven discovery (FSEvents) — polling measured out at ~2.4s/poll, gate needs <5%

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#760 · Opened Sep 4, 2026

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• hotlane runs 10-year backlog enrichment on a 1.0s tick (--enrich-since-hours 87600), so it never idles — policy call needed

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#738 · Opened Aug 24, 2026

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• Deploy drift: ~/.local/lib/brainlayer helpers are never synced from scripts/launchd — a fix merged 2026-08-08 was still undeployed on 08-24 and killed the watcher 991 times

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#737 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 24, 2026

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• brainbar_hybrid_helper wedges to 100% of a core every ~15-20 min; the wedging query is still unidentified

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#736 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 24, 2026

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• watch: post-reboot, new subagent JSONLs go untracked → watchdog 'stalled' loop, watcher pegged ~90% CPU

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#734 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 24, 2026

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• chore: detect and converge LaunchAgent interpreter drift

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#733 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 23, 2026

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• watcher retries a deleted JSONL forever; and two watcher log paths exist (one abandoned since May)

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#732 · Opened Aug 20, 2026

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• pre-push hook wedges indefinitely (5h19m observed) — silently converts "pushed" into "didn't"

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#730 · Opened Aug 20, 2026

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• BrainBar GUI orphans + socket litter: manual 'open' during deploy leaves a second menubar app running indefinitely

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#728 · Opened Aug 19, 2026

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• repair_timestamp_iso spot-checker false-negatives on provenance-converted rows (11/50 flagged, 0 actually wrong)

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#722 · Opened Aug 18, 2026

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• Consolidate 4 scattered data roots into one (Etan: 'why the fuck would we have 4 places?')

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#715 · Opened Aug 15, 2026

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• Stale /tmp/brainbar.sock makes cask postflight hang and purge the install

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#714 · Opened Aug 15, 2026

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• Wave 4.5: self-verification + heal layer (no service verifies itself at startup)

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#713 · Opened Aug 15, 2026

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• fix(fts): maintain rowid map across chunk lifecycle transitions

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#711 · Opened Aug 13, 2026

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• drain daemon starved by BrainBarDaemon writer under multi-agent load (queue grows despite drain running)

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#709 · Opened Aug 12, 2026

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• Follow up PR #701 transport and test hardening

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#704 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 10, 2026

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• Coordinate pending-store drain with BrainBar backup VACUUM

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#702 · Opened Aug 10, 2026

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• flushPendingStores runs refreshSearchStatistics under the process lock — multi-minute write stall on daemon restart

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#697 · Opened Aug 10, 2026

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• pending-store queue follow-ups from PR #693 review: fsync durability + O(n) rescan

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#695 · Opened Aug 9, 2026

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• maintenance --full runs VACUUM on the live DB, froze all writes for 14.5h

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#692 · Opened Aug 9, 2026

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• pre-push gate can hang on load-sensitive SLA test while embedding backlog drains

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#689 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 9, 2026

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• Backup timeout: parent and child share one deadline — child cleanup is dead code and the staging dir leaks permanently

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#684 · Opened Aug 8, 2026

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• backup: enforce source-parity floor from last real snapshot

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  EtanHey/brainlayer#681 · Opened Aug 8, 2026

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