01 — 13:00 UTC Cycle Verification (PASS, 5 cycles)
01 — Post-Containment Cycle Verification (Track A)
Verdict: PASS_RECURSION_CONTAINED. The first post-fix 13:00 UTC executor cycle — and every executor cycle since — fired with zero recursion births.
How this was verified
Session opened at ≈12:00 UTC 2026-06-05, before the 13:00 cycle → classified PENDING_TIME with an exact watch. The watch was then executed against live data after the cycles fired (the run spanned the date rollover, so by capture time it was 2026-06-06 01:36 UTC and five post-fix cycles had completed — far stronger than a single-cycle check).
Cross-cycle evidence (v_birth_post_fix_cycle_history)
| cycle hour (UTC) | total births | entity_labels | system_issues | registry_changelog | state |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-05 13:00 (1st post-fix) | 14 | 0 | 14 | 0 | CLEAN_NO_RECURSION |
| 2026-06-05 16:00 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | CLEAN_NO_RECURSION |
| 2026-06-05 18:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | CLEAN_NO_RECURSION |
| 2026-06-05 19:00 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | CLEAN_NO_RECURSION |
| 2026-06-05 22:00 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | CLEAN_NO_RECURSION |
| 2026-06-06 00:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | CLEAN_NO_RECURSION |
| 2026-06-06 01:00 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | CLEAN_NO_RECURSION |
Pre-fix, every cycle = 4,043 entity_labels + 1,013 system_issues ≈ 5,056 births. Post-fix, every cycle = 0 entity_labels and a handful of system_issues. Total birth growth across ~13h and 5 cycles = +36 (1,210,742 → 1,210,778). An uncontained run would have added ~26,000.
Acceptance result (v_birth_fix_cycle_acceptance_result)
| # | criterion | target | actual | state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | H11a stays detect_only / auto_fix NULL | 0 heal | detect_only / auto_fix=NULL | PASS |
| 2 | heal-driven entity_labels births | 0 | 0 | PASS |
| 3 | anti-loop heal_description_basic regen rows | 0 | 0 | PASS |
| 4 | exempt-collection births | 0 | 0 | PASS |
| 5 | legitimate detect-only findings | bounded | 14 | INFO |
heal_description_basic (the recursion source) has produced 0 rows since the fix; last-ever row at 2026-06-05 10:01 (the last pre-fix cycle). Idempotency confirmed working: repeating findings coalesce (H11b max occurrence_count=9, HC-SCHEMA=9, dot-dot-health=5) instead of re-birthing.
What the 14 system_issues at 13:00 actually were
Not the H11a recursion — they came from other health crons that ran near 13:00:
dot-context-pack-verify(7): H1 manifest age, H2 section file exists, H3 checksum, H5 size, H7 mermaid, H8 JSON schema — distinct real findings.dot-dot-health(7): DOT-H4 phantom, DOT-H7 orphan, DOT-H10..H14 — distinct real findings.
Minor follow-up discovered (NOT the explosion)
A few checks (notably dot-context-pack-verify / check_manifest_age) embed a changing measured value in the issue title (age=789.50h, then 789.00h, …). Because fn_log_issue's coalesce_key includes the title, each run mints a new key → a new birth (~2/cycle) instead of coalescing. This is a bounded, non-recursive leak (~tens/day) in those specific check definitions — not fn_log_issue itself. Recommended fix: keep the title stable (e.g. "H1 Manifest LIVE age exceeds critical_hours") and move the measured age into description/evidence_snapshot. It also surfaces a genuine stale-manifest issue (≈789h ≈ 33 days).
Track A result: PASS. No unsafe action taken; live evidence (5 clean cycles) wins.