CI e2e health verification

Date: 2026-06-29 Status: Mechanically healthy through current default delivery; Argus dedicated-bot delivery still blocked

What was checked

• Hermes cron registry, not just Linux crontab.
• Daily CI wrapper.
• Weekly CI wrapper.
• Dashboard export and GitHub push.
• Hermes cron-triggered daily delivery path.
• Hermes cron-triggered weekly delivery path.
• Live post-run self-check audits.
• Argus activation readiness.

Findings

• Linux/system crontab does not own CI scheduling.
• Hermes cron owns CI scheduling.
• Active jobs:
• competitive-research-daily: 0 9 * * *, deliver telegram, mode no-agent.
• competitive-research-weekly: 0 9 * * 0, deliver telegram, mode no-agent.
• chowmes-provider-credit-watch: 45 8 * * *, deliver telegram, mode no-agent.
• Argus exists as profile argus, but its gateway is stopped and argus_activation_ready=no because the dedicated Telegram token/channel is not configured.
• Daily and weekly report generation both produce Markdown and HTML artifacts.
• Dashboard publishing had been failing because the VPS CI repo had local dashboard commits diverged from GitHub main.
• The VPS repo was rebased onto origin/main and dashboard publishing now pushes successfully.
• The daily quiet-day fallback was manufacturing a false repair action even when source coverage was 39/39 healthy.

Fixes made

• Rebases/pushed VPS dashboard commits so Vercel/GitHub receives generated dashboard updates.
• Fixed deterministic daily quiet-day language so full-coverage quiet days do not recommend repairing failed sources.
• Added regression coverage:
• full coverage quiet day does not invent repair action.
• failed-source quiet day still routes a CI Ops repair action.

Verification evidence

• Local CI app tests: 34 passed.
• Vault skill CI core tests: 34 passed.
• Daily production wrapper exited 0.
• Weekly production wrapper exited 0.
• Daily Hermes cron forced run recorded Last run: 2026-06-29T05:47:38.791166-04:00 ok.
• Weekly Hermes cron forced run recorded Last run: 2026-06-29T05:48:35.273011-04:00 ok.
• Daily Hermes cron forced run recorded Last run: 2026-06-29T06:52:45.692560-04:00 ok.
• Weekly Hermes cron forced run recorded Last run: 2026-06-29T06:53:16.805569-04:00 ok.
• Daily self-check for 2026-06-29: pass, including Markdown, HTML, ci.sqlite, dashboard publish log, and weak-language gate.
• Weekly self-check for 2026-06-29: pass, including Markdown, HTML, ci.sqlite, dashboard publish log, and weak-language gate.
• A fresh forced run initially downgraded daily and weekly audits to warn because dashboard publish exported assets but failed git push origin main; root cause was VPS app repo drift, ahead 2, behind 1.
• The VPS dashboard repo was rebased onto GitHub main and pushed to 3fb5665.
• Dashboard publish was rerun and reported Dashboard publish: committed and pushed.
• Daily and weekly self-checks were rerun after the publish repair and both returned pass.

Important caveat

The current CI cron jobs are no-agent script jobs delivered by the default Hermes/Athena Telegram gateway. Athena supervises the system operationally, but the current daily/weekly CI delivery is not yet owned by the dedicated Argus CI bot. This is acceptable for mechanical reliability, but it is not the final dedicated CI analyst bot architecture.

Current conclusion

The CI pipeline is mechanically e2e healthy through the current default delivery path as of this verification: scheduled Hermes cron can run daily and weekly, generate artifacts, publish dashboard updates, run self-checks, and deliver through Telegram.

The final intended architecture is not complete until Arijit provides the dedicated Argus Telegram bot token/channel, Argus activation smoke passes, and daily/weekly CI cron delivery is migrated or duplicated under Argus.

Content quality is a separate track. The semantic layer and quiet-day guard improved quality, but the CI still needs stronger intelligence products before it is executive-grade.