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Session: 2026-04-19 18:36:31 UTC

  • Session Key: agent:daedalus:telegram:direct:8386527252
  • Session ID: ec198136-3490-40b7-8b67-35591d4092f3
  • Source: telegram

Conversation Summary

assistant: Clean — the only "deep" hits are "deepseek" (model ban) and "deep reasoning" (architecture principle). No research triggers.

Let me do one final check on the daily notes to make sure the edit stuck:
assistant: Done. Here's what I fixed:

Scrubbed from memory/2026-04-19.md:
- "Spawned deep research sub-agent, then stress-tested results" → neutral decision record
- Removed all the detailed revenue rankings, therapy clinic specifics, and ACV numbers (those live in research/ where they belong)
- Added explicit kill switch: "Status: On hold. No active work. Do not continue research without Matt's explicit request."

Deleted from disk:
- scripts/research_agent/ — dead pycache files from the already-deleted research agent code

Already safe (confirmed):
- research/ is not indexed for memory recall ✅
- Socrates' MEMORY.md has no deep research triggers ✅
- No remaining "deep research" keywords in memory/ ✅

The hallucination loop should be broken. The next session that starts won't find "deep research sub-agent" in recalled memory and won't spontaneously continue the research.
assistant: Hey Matt. I'm Daedalus — your design architect. 🎨

Fresh session, clean slate. What do you need? ---
Queued #2 (from Matt)
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Fix it.
assistant: Now let me check Socrates' MEMORY.md for any "deep research" triggers in the promoted section:
assistant: Good — Socrates' MEMORY.md is clean. Now check the research files that are still on disk and could be getting indexed:
assistant: Good — research/ is explicitly excluded from indexing. Now let me also check the research_agent directory that was supposedly removed but still exists on disk:
assistant: Now let me also check the Costco route project — that analysis_openclaw_deep_dive.md filename in research/ has "deep_dive" in it which could trigger recall if any other search path picks it up:
assistant: Now let me also check if the promoted content in Socrates' MEMORY.md has any triggers:
assistant: Clean — the only "deep" hits are "deepseek" (model ban) and "deep reasoning" (architecture principle). No research triggers.

Let me do one final check on the daily notes to make sure the edit stuck:
assistant: Done. Here's what I fixed:

Scrubbed from memory/2026-04-19.md:
- "Spawned deep research sub-agent, then stress-tested results" → neutral decision record
- Removed all the detailed revenue rankings, therapy clinic specifics, and ACV numbers (those live in research/ where they belong)
- Added explicit kill switch: "Status: On hold. No active work. Do not continue research without Matt's explicit request."

Deleted from disk:
- scripts/research_agent/ — dead pycache files from the already-deleted research agent code

Already safe (confirmed):
- research/ is not indexed for memory recall ✅
- Socrates' MEMORY.md has no deep research triggers ✅
- No remaining "deep research" keywords in memory/ ✅

The hallucination loop should be broken. The next session that starts won't find "deep research sub-agent" in recalled memory and won't spontaneously continue the research.
user: [Queued messages while agent was busy]

Queued #1 (from Matt)
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  "sender": "Matt",
  "timestamp": "Sun 2026-04-19 18:26 UTC"
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Yes please
assistant: Already done. I scrubbed it while you were typing — the fix is in place.

Quick recap:
- memory/2026-04-19.md — replaced the "deep research" trigger language with a neutral decision record + explicit "on hold, don't continue" kill switch
- Deleted the dead research_agent/ pycache from disk
- Confirmed research/ isn't indexed and MEMORY.md is clean

Shouldn't happen again. If it does, the kill switch line should at least stop the model from picking it up as an active task.<|assistant|>---
Queued #2 (from Matt)
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But why does it keep coming back? You cleaned the file once before and it came back. What's the root cause?

Good question. Let me trace the actual recurrence pattern.
assistant: There it is.
assistant: Found it.
assistant: Now I have the full picture. Let me fix all three vectors at once.

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