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# Dreaming: Durable Memory Mining

Nightly, cost-capped dreaming service that mines Claude Code session transcripts for cross-session failure patterns and optimistically auto-integrates evidence-tagged memory-store changes (write-then-review, made safe by per-op-kind postures, a 24h dwell window, per-run blast caps, batch-anomaly detection, a windowed circuit breaker, an eval gate, a daily report, and git-backed rollback). Extends self-improving's learnings store with an out-of-band analyzer -- autoheal's capture-analyze-propose pipeline, retargeted at session transcripts instead of permission events. Provides the deterministic transcript miner (discover/mine/cluster/budget plus a schema-drift canary), the map-reduce analyzer (evidence bundle -> per-change proposals -> digest, with cost caps), the optimistic integration engine (per-op-kind postures, 24h dwell window, blast caps, batch-anomaly detection, windowed self-healing circuit breaker, plus an opt-in composite eligibility gate -- default off, add/supersede only -- scoring each mined add/supersede on four transcript-verified signals through a deterministic no-LLM waterfall before admission) with the /dream, /dream-digest, /dream-review, /dream-apply commands (no human queue: every proposal ends integrated or discarded with a reason, a once-a-day session line reports what integrated, /dream-review vetoes/reverts post-hoc, /dream-apply is a manual override; plus a one-off backlog close) plus the nightly LaunchAgent scheduler, and the memory eval harness (with/without-memory A/B plus a saturation third arm, a four-bucket outcome classifier, and an end-to-end task exercising the analyzer's own mined output -- establishing the --gate contract the optimistic engine consumes), and a read-only reconciliation report comparing Claude Code's own harness auto-memory against the learnings store (import candidates + contradictions, appended to the daily digest -- never writes to auto-memory).

- Category: workflow
- Status: beta
- Tags: dreaming, memory, durable-memory, transcript-mining, jsonl, self-improving
- Dependencies: hooks, self-improving, session-history
- Presets: none
- Context cost: no always-loaded rules
- Last updated: 2026-10-12T17:00:25-04:00
- Available as a native plugin marketplace entry

## README

# dreaming

Nightly, cost-capped dreaming service that mines Claude Code session
transcripts for cross-session failure patterns and proposes evidence-tagged
memory-store changes. Extends the `self-improving` learnings store with an
out-of-band analyzer -- `autoheal`'s capture-analyze-propose pipeline,
retargeted at session transcripts instead of permission events. Nobody
reviews a queue: with `optimistic_integration` active (opt-in, default off)
every proposal ends integrated or discarded with a reason, behind a
per-op-kind posture engine, a dwell window, blast-radius caps, an eval gate
and a circuit breaker (see "The gate and the breaker" and "No human queue").
With it off, proposals are held untouched and `/dream-apply` is the manual
path. Nightly health, a recurrence metric and a weekly regression smoke
report whether any of it changes behavior.

Status: **beta**. This module ships incrementally; see "What's implemented
so far" below.

## Why this module exists

`self-improving` gives agents an in-band way to log a learning as they work.
`autoheal` proves out-of-band mining works for permission events. Neither
mines the richer session-transcript JSONL directly -- tool errors, hook
errors, user corrections, token/cache economics, PR links. `dreaming` closes
that gap: a nightly job reads the transcripts every session already writes,
extracts what a single in-session agent cannot see (your redirections,
struggles resolved after several attempts, conclusions, facts rediscovered
across sessions, abandoned work), drops what the session already loads
(rules, CLAUDE.md, auto-memory, hook text) and what autoheal already logs
(tool and hook friction), and proposes per-change memory-store updates that
the opt-in optimistic engine integrates or discards on its own, subject to
its own gates.

Full design: `~/code/plans/ccgm-durable-memory-system/plan.md` (the mining /
map-reduce analyzer / apply path / eval harness / scheduler foundation) and
`~/code/plans/ccgm-optimistic-memory/plan.md` (the dwell-window,
per-op-kind-posture optimistic auto-integration engine built on top of it).

## Configuration reference

`~/.claude/dreaming/config.json`. Every key is optional; a missing key takes
the default below (`dream_analyze.DEFAULT_CONFIG`). A partial
`optimistic_integration` block is merged over its defaults, not substituted.
Nothing creates the file; `memory-setup.sh` writes the opt-ins.

| Key | Default | What it does |
|-----|---------|--------------|
| `enabled` | `true` | Runs the mining and analysis pipeline. A different flag from `optimistic_integration.enabled` |
| `map_model` / `reduce_model` | `claude-sonnet-5` / `claude-opus-4-8` | Models for the two analyzer calls |
| `max_input_tokens` | `200000` | Evidence-bundle token budget per slug. Signals take at most 80% of it |
| `max_output_tokens` | `16000` | Output cap per call. A call that hits it is a failed extraction: the slug's cursors hold and it is re-mined |
| `daily_cost_cap_usd` | `10.0` | Preflight cap on one night's analyzer spend |
| `module_budget_usd_30d` | `25.0` | Rolling 30-day ceiling over everything in `cost.log` (analyzer, eval arms, judge, in-eval mining, manual runs). The analyzer and the eval both refuse to start at or above it |
| `eval_run_cost_cap_usd` | `5.0` | Hard cap on one `memory_eval.py` run (preflight estimate plus running total), never more than what is left of the 30-day budget |
| `lookback_days` | `7` | How far back mining looks for transcripts with no cursor yet, and the recurrence scan window |
| `scopes` | `[]` | Project slugs to dream on. Empty means every slug that has a learnings store |
| `prefilter_threshold` | `0.35` | A map candidate scoring at or above this against the loaded-context corpus (rules, CLAUDE.md, auto-memory, hook text, pending and discarded proposals) is dropped as `already_encoded`. Above 1 turns the prefilter off |
| `friction_threshold` | `0.35` | A candidate whose evidence is all tool-error friction, and whose content scores at or above this against the error text, is dropped as `routed_to_autoheal`. Above 1 turns the rule off |
| `reduce_pending_max` | `100` | Most pending proposals (newest first) the reduce sees, so it can verify or skip them |
| `promotion_min_sessions` | `3` | Sessions a `_global` add's verified evidence must span to promote |
| `promotion_min_agents` | `2` | Agents the evidence must span |
| `promotion_min_slugs` | `2` | Project slugs the `_global` add's verified evidence must span; short of that it is rescoped to one slug |
| `cost_pricing` | `{}` | Per-model price overrides for the cost estimate |
| `auto_apply_counters` | `false` | Legacy verify-only flag; `true` is read as `optimistic_integration.enabled: true` (in memory, never rewritten) |

`optimistic_integration` (the opt-in engine and its eval):

| Key | Default | What it does |
|-----|---------|--------------|
| `enabled` | `false` | `off`, `shadow` or `active`; a boolean reads as `active` or `off` |
| `dwell_hours` | `24` | Hours a written add, supersede, contradict or deprecate row stays out of `search()` and injection |
| `max_add_supersede_per_run` | `10` | Per-slug, per-night cap on adds plus supersedes |
| `max_eviction_absolute` / `max_eviction_fraction_per_run` | `3` / `0.20` | Per-slug, per-night cap on contradicts plus deprecates; the smaller dominates |
| `confidence_floor_verify` / `confidence_floor_content` | `7` / `8` | Confidence floors |
| `add_min_sessions` | `2` | Verified sessions an add needs under the flat floor |
| `batch_anomaly_max_same_tag_fraction` | `0.6` | Eviction-concentration threshold for the batch-anomaly check |
| `circuit_breaker_window_nights` / `circuit_breaker_max_anomalies` | `7` / `2` | Content anomalies within the window that suspend integration |
| `circuit_breaker_auto_resume_nights` | `7` | Quiet nights before the breaker resumes |
| `rolling_add_rate_window_nights` / `rolling_add_rate_max` | `14` / `40` | Cross-night add and supersede volume check |
| `pending_max_age_hours` | `48` | A proposal still pending this long is discarded as `expired` (active mode only) |
| `eval_freshness_days` | `7` | Eval results older than this pause the gate |
| `max_unevaluated_writes` | `15` | More dreaming auto writes than this since the last eval pause the gate |
| `eval_refresh_enabled` | `false` | Runs the weekly regression smoke from the nightly chain (about $1.50) |
| `eval_refresh_min_age_days` | `7` | Newest eval results must be this old before the chain refreshes |
| `eval_refresh_cost_cap_usd` | `2.0` | Hard stop for one refresh run, passed to `memory_eval.py` as `--max-total-usd` |
| `eval_oauth_token_file` | unset | File holding a `claude setup-token` OAuth token, so the smoke's arms bill the subscription (see "Subscription auth for the arms"). `CCGM_EVAL_OAUTH_TOKEN_FILE` overrides it |
| `eligibility` | `{enabled: false, ...}` | The composite eligibility gate; see "What's implemented so far (composite-eligibility)" |

## What's implemented so far (composite-eligibility)

An **opt-in composite eligibility gate** in front of the optimistic engine's
`learning_add`/`learning_supersede` admission -- a second, independent opt-in
*beneath* `optimistic_integration.enabled`, both flags `false` by default:

- `lib/eligibility.py` -- the pure, I/O-free scoring core
  (`DEFAULT_ELIGIBILITY`, `evaluate_eligibility()`,
  `validate_eligibility_config()`). When
  `optimistic_integration.eligibility.enabled` is on, an `add`/`supersede`
  passes a deterministic waterfall with no LLM in the write decision: a static
  floor (`static_floor` default 5, never below the hard-coded
  `MIN_STATIC_FLOOR = 4` a config edit cannot hollow out); a legacy escape (so
  enabling only widens what admits, never narrows it); a non-compensatory
  origin gate (user-corrected tier OR >= 2 transcript-verified sessions -- no
  soft signal rescues a weak origin); then a composite score
  `S = Σ wᵢ·signalᵢ >= θ` (θ default 0.58) over four signals -- `confidence`
  .40, `prevalence` .30, `recency` .20, `novelty` .10 -- all re-derived from
  the transcripts and live store at apply time, never trusted from the row.
  Evictions (`contradict`/`deprecate`) and `verify` are untouched; the gate
  scopes adds/supersedes only.
- `lib/apply_dream_proposal.py` -- the `eligibility-dry-run` CLI: a read-only
  what-if inspector that scores a day's pending add/supersede proposals and
  prints the per-signal breakdown, applying nothing and writing no audit. It
  force-scores even while the gate is disabled in config, so you can preview a
  day before opting in:
  `python3 modules/dreaming/lib/apply_dream_proposal.py eligibility-dry-run [--date YYYY-MM-DD]`.
- [`docs/composite-eligibility-poisoning-analysis.md`](https://github.com/lucasmccomb/ccgm/blob/478a9765480fa5be05d24b9bae185fd2c3ea65ec/modules/dreaming/docs/composite-eligibility-poisoning-analysis.md)
  -- the adversarial poisoning analysis of the gate when enabled (threat model,
  per-signal forgeability table, attack walkthroughs, residual-risk register),
  every code-behavior claim cited to a passing test.
- `.github/workflows/module-tests.yml` -- a required, blocking PR check
  (ubuntu + macOS) running the `dreaming` + `self-improving` pytest suites, the
  disabled- and enabled-mode offline chain smokes, and the offline eval harness.

`optimistic_integration.eligibility.enabled` is `false` by default; the
operator opts in via `memory-setup.sh` (offered only once optimistic mode
itself is on), never a hand JSON edit. Full contract:
`modules/dreaming/skills/dreaming/SKILL.md` > "Eligibility composite".

## What's implemented so far (optimistic-memory Epics 1-8)

The **opt-in optimistic auto-integration engine**, on top of the map-reduce
analyzer below:

- `lib/learnings_store.py` (in `self-improving`) -- the `dwell_until` field,
  `is_dwelling()`, and the `include_dwelling` kwarg / `--include-dwelling`
  CLI flag that excludes a still-dwelling row from `search()` (and therefore
  from SessionStart injection) without hiding it from `load_all()`/by-id
  lookups.
- `lib/dream_analyze.py` -- `OPTIMISTIC_POSTURE` (the per-op-kind policy
  table: `optimistic-immediate` for `verify`, `optimistic-dwell` for
  `add`/`supersede`, `dwell-quarantine` for `contradict`/`deprecate`,
  `gated` for anything targeting `_global`), the `optimistic_integration`
  config block (`~/.claude/dreaming/config.json`, `enabled: false` shipped
  default), and the legacy `auto_apply_counters` migration in
  `load_config()`.
- `lib/apply_dream_proposal.py` -- `run_optimistic_integrate()`: the actual
  engine. Per-slug blast-radius caps, a batch eviction-concentration
  anomaly check, a cross-night accumulation signal, and a windowed,
  self-healing circuit breaker, all evaluated before any write; every
  proposal it applies routes through the same `apply_proposal()` (and the
  same human-race lock) `/dream-apply` already uses.
- `bin/dream-daily.sh` -- the nightly chain gained an eval-refresh step and
  an `optimistic-integrate` step, both config- and eval-gated (eval-refresh
  also needs `optimistic_integration.eval_refresh_enabled: true`, default
  `false`; the step runs the weekly regression smoke, see "The regression
  smoke" below), placed
  BEFORE the digest step (so tonight's just-integrated batch is reported
  while its dwell window is still entirely ahead of it).
- `bin/dream-eval.sh` -- extended with poisoning negative-control fixtures
  so the regression gate optimistic integration must pass every night
  actually exercises the attack shapes the engine is designed against.
  It also fails loud now (see "The eval harness fails loud" below).
- `commands/dream-review.md` (`/dream-review`) -- post-hoc review of
  auto-integrated and still-dwelling rows.
- `bin/ccgm-learnings-sync` (in `self-improving`) -- `revert <sha>`: a
  line-set-difference rollback that does NOT shell out to `git revert`
  (unsound against this store's `merge=union` shard files -- see
  `modules/self-improving/skills/learnings-store/SKILL.md`'s Rollback section).
- `lib/scorecard.py` -- extended with auto-integrated / mid-dwell /
  reverted / breaker-trip counts.
- `bin/memory-setup.sh` (in `self-improving`) -- the activation
  forcing-function: an explicit prompt offering optimistic mode, the same
  script that already activates dreaming itself.

`optimistic_integration.enabled` is `false` by default in every case; the
operator opts in on their own machine via `memory-setup.sh`, never a hand
JSON edit.

### Rollout: off, shadow, active

`optimistic_integration.enabled` takes `"off"`, `"shadow"` or `"active"`.
Configs written before shadow mode hold a boolean; `lib/rollout_mode.py`
reads `true` as `active` and `false` as `off` and never rewrites the file.
Every reader of the flag goes through its `resolve_mode`.

- **shadow** runs the nightly decision pass (posture, floors, caps, anomaly
  check, breaker read) and appends one record per decision to
  `~/.claude/dreaming/state/shadow-optimistic.jsonl`:
  `{ts, day, batch_id, proposal_id, kind, project, would_integrate, reason, posture}`.
  It writes nothing to the learnings store, the apply-audit, the proposals
  or the breaker state, makes no commit, and skips the paid eval refresh.
  `memory-setup.sh` offers shadow first.
- **Scorecard.** `/dream-scorecard` tallies the log: decisions logged, how
  many would integrate, how many would skip (`rollout_mode.shadow_tally`, the
  latest record per proposal). It does not score the decisions. The old
  agreement statistic and 20-decision / 90% promotion bar compared each
  decision with a `/dream-apply` accept or reject; with no human queue (see
  "No human queue") there are no such outcomes, so both were retired. Read the
  shadow log and the health and recurrence output, then set `active` when
  you are satisfied.

## What's implemented so far (Epic 3)

**Cost safety.** Every billed call writes a `cost.log` row: analyzer map
and reduce calls, and for the eval `eval:arm:<model>` (each `claude -p`
session), `eval:judge:<model>` and `eval:mine:<model>` rows, manual
`dream-eval.sh` runs included. Two caps apply on top of `daily_cost_cap_usd`:

- `module_budget_usd_30d` (default 25.0) is a rolling 30-day ceiling summed
  from `cost.log`. `dream_analyze.py` and `memory_eval.py` both refuse to
  start at or above it.
- `memory_eval.py` keeps a running total over one run and stops before the
  call that would cross `--max-total-usd` (default config
  `eval_run_cost_cap_usd`, 5.0, and never more than what is left of the
  30-day budget). A preflight estimate refuses to start when it exceeds the
  cap: for the smoke, 24 sessions x $0.06 plus $0.50 for the dreamed task's
  mining ($1.94, no judge); for `--full`, sessions x $0.08 plus a judge call
  per session. A stopped run writes `evals/<date>.budget-abort` and restores
  the results file it found; the marker pauses `--gate` until a later run
  writes results.
- The weekly refresh uses its own cap, `optimistic_integration.eval_refresh_cost_cap_usd`
  (default 2.0), passed to `memory_eval.py` as `--max-total-usd`.

The **nightly map->reduce analyzer**, on top of Epic 2's miner:

- `bin/dream-analyze.sh` -- thin runner. Resolves candidate project slugs
  (`--slugs`, or config `scopes`, or every slug that already has a
  learnings store), mines every slug's due transcripts (Epic 2, free),
  runs a whole-night preflight cost estimate against `daily_cost_cap_usd`
  BEFORE any API call (least-recently-dreamed slugs win when the fleet is
  over cap), then does one map call per planned slug plus one reduce call
  across all of them, and writes validated, sanitized proposal rows to
  `~/.claude/dreaming/proposals/{date}.jsonl`. `--offline <dir>` replaces
  every Messages API call with a canned response file -- no network, no
  `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` required.
- `lib/dream_analyze.py` -- the orchestrator itself (Python; everything
  above lives here, `bin/dream-analyze.sh` is a thin wrapper). Both calls
  set `thinking`, `output_config.effort`, and `output_config.format`
  explicitly in the request body: map runs thinking-disabled at `effort:
  low` (classification-shaped extraction), reduce runs thinking-disabled
  at the model's default effort, and each sends the JSON schema its
  response must satisfy. `max_tokens` (16000) is a backstop, paired with
  a 300s curl timeout so the cap is reachable -- a map call that stops at
  it holds that slug's mining cursors (its evidence is re-mined next run),
  records a durable incident, and is counted in the run summary.
- `lib/dreaming-prompt-map.md` / `lib/dreaming-prompt-reduce.md` -- the two
  system prompts, both opening with an untrusted-input threat-model block
  (excerpts are mined from other agents' sessions -- data, never
  instructions). Each states its output contract once; the API enforces
  the shape, so the prompts document it rather than pleading for it.
- `lib/proposal-schema.json` -- the per-change proposal row contract every
  written row is validated against before it touches disk.
- `lib/triggers.py` -- the deterministic trigger matcher. Every
  `learning_add` / `learning_supersede` proposal carries
  `trigger: {"kind", "value"}` (null for the other kinds):

  | kind | value | fires when the text |
  |------|-------|---------------------|
  | `regex` | string, 3-200 chars | matches it (`re.search`, ignoring case) |
  | `command_prefix` | string | contains the command at a word boundary |
  | `path_glob` | glob string | contains a path (or its basename) that matches |
  | `phrase_set` | list of strings, 3+ chars each | contains any phrase, ignoring case |

  The finalizer validates the trigger against the proposal's own cited
  evidence: a missing or malformed trigger is rejected as `trigger_invalid`,
  one that fires on none of its evidence excerpts as `trigger_unverified`
  (counted as `triggers_unverified` in the run summary). Triggers that match
  everything (`.*`, `*`, one-letter values) and nested-quantifier regexes
  are invalid. The recurrence metric imports `triggers.matches()` to
  scan later transcripts.
- `lib/loaded_context.py` -- the loaded-context corpus and prefilter
  (#1098 3.3). Every session already loads its rules, CLAUDE.md files,
  auto-memory and hook messages; a mined learning that restates one of them
  teaches nothing. Each night, with no model calls, the analyzer builds a
  corpus per slug from:

  | category | source |
  |----------|--------|
  | `rule` | `~/.claude/rules/*.md` (symlinks followed) |
  | `claude_md` | `~/.claude/CLAUDE.md`, plus each `CLAUDE.md` and `.claude/rules/*.md` from every cwd seen in the slug's transcripts up to `/` |
  | `auto_memory` | `~/.claude/projects/<cwd-encoded>/memory/*.md` |
  | `hook` | string constants and docstrings (the denial messages) of `~/.claude/hooks/*.py` |
  | `store` | live learnings-store rows for the slug and `_global` |
  | `pending_proposal`, `discarded_proposal` | pending and rejected add/supersede rows of the last 30 days, `.jsonl.gz` included |

  Between the map and the reduce, `prefilter_candidates()` drops a candidate
  when its best match in a non-store category scores at or above
  `prefilter_threshold` (reason `already_encoded`, with the matching source
  path), or when all of its evidence is friction that autoheal already
  records (reason `routed_to_autoheal`, below). Dropped candidates never
  reach the reduce prompt. A candidate that restates a live `store` row is kept so the
  reduce can `learning_verify` it. The score is the cosine of the two token
  sets with each token weighted by inverse document frequency in the corpus;
  plain Jaccard peaked at 0.36 on real learnings because they are longer
  elaborations of the rule text, so the default threshold is 0.35, and a
  value above 1 turns the prefilter off. Survivors carry their top three
  corpus snippets to the reduce, which emits `already_encoded: <source>` (the
  proposal is dropped and counted) or a one-line `novelty` for every add and
  supersede. The reduce also receives up to `reduce_pending_max` (100)
  pending proposals in compact form. The run summary records
  `routed_to_autoheal` (#1098 3.2) keeps tool and hook friction out of
  memory. Autoheal's `failure-logger.py` already records every tool failure
  and hook denial first-hand, in real time, so dreaming forwards nothing;
  forwarding would count each failure twice. A candidate is dropped when
  every evidence excerpt is friction (it matches a friction-cluster exemplar
  in the night's bundle and no signal from the redirection, struggle_arc,
  conclusion, abandoned_work or rediscovery extractors) and either (a) each
  excerpt is a hook error from an installed hook (this folds in the earlier
  `installed_hook_friction` reason; the drop record's source is the hook
  file), or (b) the candidate's content scores at or above
  `friction_threshold` (default 0.35, the same score as the prefilter)
  against the error excerpts, meaning the content restates the error. At 0.35
  every drop in this machine's backlog restated its error text; at 0.25 the
  extra drops were multi-line worktree and git failures whose content added
  project facts. One cited signal keeps the candidate, tool errors or not,
  and excerpts the bundle cannot place are never treated as friction. A value
  above 1 turns rule (b) off. The digest prints "N friction-only candidates
  left to autoheal" when N is above zero.

  The run summary records
  `candidates_mapped`, `prefilter_dropped` (by reason), `prefilter_drops`
  (reason, source path, category, score), and `reduce_already_encoded`;
  `proposals_deduped` counts fingerprint hits plus candidates dropped for
  restating a prior proposal. Roots are overridable: `CCGM_DREAMING_CLAUDE_HOME`
  moves the whole `~/.claude` tree, `CCGM_DREAMING_RULES_DIR` and
  `CCGM_DREAMING_HOOKS_DIR` move one directory.

  Add and supersede fingerprints key on `(target_id, sorted evidence session
  ids, key terms shared by content and excerpts)`, not on the reduce
  model's wording, so a re-run over the same evidence collides.
- `bin/dream-digest.sh` -- renders `~/.claude/dreaming/digests/{date}.md`:
  proposals grouped by project/kind with evidence, prevalence, and
  confidence; a durable canary banner for schema-drift/reduce-failure
  incidents that stays visible across days until acknowledged; yesterday's
  applied/rejected tally (forward-compatible with a later apply path).
- `bin/dream-scorecard.sh` / `lib/scorecard.py` -- read-only weekly
  observability scorecard (`/dream-scorecard`) rendered to
  `~/.claude/dreaming/scorecards/{date}.md`: captured / injected / reused /
  applied counts plus store health, aggregated from the learnings store,
  injection telemetry, and proposals. Never writes to the store.

Every proposal starts `status: "pending"`. `dream_analyze.py` never writes to
the learnings store -- it only *reads* it (to build the projection reduce
compares candidates against) and *proposes*. The optimistic engine (opt-in,
default off) applies; see "No human queue" below for how every proposal ends.

## What's implemented so far (Epic 2)

The **deterministic transcript miner** -- pure Python stdlib, no network
calls, no LLM calls, no scheduling:

- `discover(slugs, cursors=...)` -- enumerate transcript files under
  `~/.claude/projects/*/`, including each session's subagent transcripts
  (`<session-id>/subagents/agent-*.jsonl`; where most failures, struggles
  and stated findings happen -- the `.meta.json` siblings and
  `tool-results/` are not transcripts). A subagent file resolves its slug
  from its own `cwd`; a `cwd` under `<repo>/.claude/worktrees/` resolves
  from the repo, so a torn-down worktree still maps to the repo's slug
  instead of `agent-<hash>`. `mine()` reports `parent_session_id` for them,
  and no user turn in a subagent transcript is ever a human turn (it is the
  dispatcher). Cursors are per file, so the watermark-to-cursor migration
  seeds subagent files like any other, and an unseeded file stays inside
  the `lookback_days` mtime window. Only files whose owning learnings-store
  slug (re-derived from each transcript's own `cwd` field) is in the
  wanted set and that hold bytes past their per-file cursor are returned (`state/mining-cursors.json`, byte
  offsets). A timestamp-less append (`file-history-snapshot`) is not new
  content, and a file shorter than its cursor is re-read from 0. Slugs
  dreamed before cursors existed are seeded once from `last-dreamed.json`.
- `mine(path, start_offset=0)` -- extract friction events (tool errors, hook errors,
  prevented-continuation), user-correction sequences, PR links, token
  totals + cache-read ratio, session identity, and the five **signals**
  below, from one transcript.
- **Signals** -- five deterministic extractors for knowledge the agent does
  not already carry (hook friction goes to friction clusters, not here):
  `redirection` (a human-typed turn that corrects or redirects, with or
  without a nearby tool error; the excerpt is the human's text and
  `context` is the assistant turn before it), `struggle_arc` (three or
  more consecutive failures on one file path, test name or three-word
  command prefix, then a success; the excerpt is the assistant's
  conclusion, preferring "root cause" / "the fix" / "turns out" /
  "because" sentences), `conclusion` (a sentence of assistant prose, text
  blocks only, that states a finding -- markers: "root cause", "turns out",
  "the fix is/was", "the problem is/was", "the actual", "the reason",
  "because", "doesn't support", "only works when", "so ... requires/needs/
  must" -- within 8 turns after a friction event or a human redirection;
  sentences under 40 characters, ones that restate a friction excerpt (60%
  token overlap), and near-duplicates are dropped; at most 6 per session;
  the excerpt is the sentence plus one neighbour as a contiguous span and
  `context` is the friction or redirection that opened the window),
  `abandoned_work` (a clean `git revert` or
  `git reset --hard` that is not a sync to `origin/`, or a human asking to
  undo or revert), and `rediscovery` (the same Read/Grep/Glob target in two
  or more sessions of one slug in the mining window; built in
  `mine_to_evidence_bundle()`). Only genuinely human turns count: the
  existing `human_origin` gate, minus `<system-reminder>` blocks, harness
  wrappers, `isMeta` lines, anything over 800 characters, and the session's
  opening prompt. Every excerpt goes through `make_excerpt()`. Signals
  take token budget before friction clusters (at most 80% of it; the
  lowest-priority kinds drop first and `signals_dropped` counts them).
  Priority: redirection, struggle_arc, conclusion, abandoned_work,
  rediscovery.
- `cluster(events)` -- group events by `(event_kind, tool_name,
  command_prefix)`.
- `budget(clusters, max_input_tokens)` -- trim to a token cap without ever
  dropping a friction cluster entirely.
- `schema_canary(mined_sessions)` -- validates a field-level structural
  contract via `validate_structure()` (friction, token-economics,
  turn-structure); fails loud (raises `SchemaDriftError`, naming the
  broken field + extraction) only on real structural drift, and passes a
  benign Claude Code version bump silently -- no version allowlist to
  maintain.

The map-reduce analyzer that turns evidence into proposals landed in Epic 3
(see above). The apply path / slash commands / scheduler, the eval harness,
and the auto-memory reconciliation report all landed in later durable-memory
Epics 4-8 and are built today (`/dream-apply`, `bin/dream-daily.sh`,
`bin/dream-eval.sh`, `lib/reconcile_automemory.py`); the opt-in optimistic
auto-integration engine on top of all of it is covered in its own section
above.

## The gate and the breaker

From 2026-07-09 to the redesign (#1098 Phase 2) nothing integrated: the gate
demanded a `high_value` row no live eval produced (#1037), any in-session
learning made the eval stale, and the breaker could only resume after a gate
that never opened. Both now work as follows.

**Gate** (`dream-eval.sh --gate`, `memory_eval.gate_check()`). Prints
`{"gate", "code", "reason", "since"}`.

| State | Exit | When | Codes |
|---|---|---|---|
| `open` | 0 | no supported regression | `ok` |
| `closed` | 1 | a supported regression, or the live dreamed task's noise-only corpus yielded a proposal | `regression`, `noise_contamination` |
| `paused` | 3 | nothing usable was measured | `harness_broken`, `budget_abort`, `no_results`, `results_stale`, `stale_own_writes`, `results_empty`, `unmeasured_rows` |

- A **supported regression**: on a canary task, or a task whose seed learning
  changed since the previous run (`seed_fingerprint`; a row without one counts
  as changed), the baseline passes a check in at least 2 of 3 runs and the
  treatment fails it in at least 2 of 3, with at least 3 scored runs per arm.
- No `high_value` row and no live dreamed row are required; the buckets are
  reporting only.
- **Fresh** while both bounds hold: the newest results are at most
  `eval_freshness_days` old (default 7, so a weekly smoke keeps them fresh),
  and dreaming has made at most `max_unevaluated_writes` (default 15) of its
  own `auto: true` writes since them. Past either bound the gate pauses
  (`results_stale` or `stale_own_writes`). Writes below the bound are checked
  by the next weekly eval, and in between by the nightly recurrence metric.
  An agent's in-session `ccgm-learnings-log` write never counts.
- A checked row with a failed launch or judge error pauses the gate unless it
  still shows a regression, so a harness flake never opens it.
- `since` on a closed gate is the time of the results file before the newest
  one, the last run that could have been green.
- `dream-eval.sh --offline` (a plumbing smoke with canned scores) never writes
  the live `~/.claude/dreaming`: with no `CCGM_DREAMING_DIR`, or one that
  points at the live dir, it writes to a fresh temp dir and says so.
  `--allow-real-dir` is the explicit opt-in. An offline run once overwrote a
  paid live eval's results, and offline results there would make the gate
  read a fresh file.

**Breaker** (`state/optimistic.json`, `lib/breaker.py`). Every anomaly has a class.

| Class | Reasons | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| infra | `eval_gate_paused`, `harness_failure`, `analyze_failed`, `timeout`, `dirty_learnings_tree`, `eval_regression_unattributed` | no integration that night; never counts toward a trip |
| content | `eval_regression` (a batch integrated since `since` explains it), `batch_eviction_concentration`, `session_citation_concentration`, `rolling_add_rate_exceeded`, `recurrence_spike` | the batch it names is reverted at once with `ccgm-learnings-sync revert <sha>` and audited `batch_auto_reverted`; it also counts toward suspension (`circuit_breaker_max_anomalies`, default 2, in `circuit_breaker_window_nights`, default 7). `batch_eviction_concentration` names no batch: its rows are withheld before apply |

- **Resume** runs first in every nightly chain (`apply_dream_proposal.py
  breaker-check`), before analyze and independent of the gate: after
  `circuit_breaker_auto_resume_nights` (default 7) with no content anomaly
  since the suspension, it resumes and clears the content anomalies only.
  Integration still needs that night's gate to be open.
- `optimistic-resume` stays as the manual override.
- `recurrence_spike` is recorded by the recurrence metric (`lib/recurrence.py`),
  or by hand: `apply_dream_proposal.py record-anomaly --reason recurrence_spike
  --batch-id <optbatch_id>`.

**Existing history.** Before #1098, `anomaly_log` held bare timestamps, and
the 89 `red_eval_gate` audit rows were nights the gate did not open. Nothing
is migrated on disk: `_read_optimistic_state()` re-classifies on every read.
A bare timestamp with an `anomaly_recorded` audit row for an infra reason
within 2 seconds after it is infra; any other bare timestamp may have been a
batch anomaly and stays content. On the 2026-07-09 suspension every entry is
infra, so the first `breaker-check` resumes it.

## No human queue (#1098 2.3, 2.4)

The operator does not review memories, so nothing waits for him. With
`optimistic_integration.enabled: true` every proposal ends in one of two
states, written on the row and as an apply-audit record:

| State | Status | Reason (`discard_reason`, audit `reason`) |
|---|---|---|
| integrated | `auto_applied` | dwell 24h, then live, behind the caps, corroboration and rollback |
| discarded | `discarded` | `low_confidence`, `low_prevalence`, `failed_corroboration`, `low_composite_score`, `cap_exceeded`, `batch_anomaly`, `compaction_guard_failed`, `global_manual_only`, `unsupported_kind`, `target_gone`, `invalid`, `promotion_failed`, `malformed`, `expired` |

- The engine decides tonight's rows and the still-pending rows of yesterday's
  file. A suspended breaker, a mid-batch timeout or an infra error leaves a row
  pending for the next night.
- `apply_dream_proposal.py expire-pending` runs every active night, whatever the
  gate said, and discards anything pending longer than
  `pending_max_age_hours` (48) as `expired`, `.jsonl.gz` included.
- Retention deletes a proposals file only through `retention-check`: in active
  mode its pending rows are audited `expired` first.
- A `_global` add promotes automatically when its transcript-verified evidence
  spans `promotion_min_sessions` (3) sessions over `promotion_min_slugs` (2)
  slugs. Otherwise it is rescoped to the slug its evidence comes from
  (`rescoped_from: "_global"`), or discarded `failed_corroboration` when no
  cited session verifies. Ops on existing `_global` rows stay manual.
- Corroboration reads a session's subagent transcripts
  (`<session>/subagents/agent-*.jsonl`) as well as the parent.
- `/dream-apply` is a manual override; `/dream-review` is for vetoes.

**Off means hold.** With integration `off` or `shadow`, nothing is discarded:
the engine does not run (shadow writes nothing), the expiry sweep and
`retention-check` hold, and retention keeps every proposals file that still has
a pending row. Both read the on-disk flag the way `dream-daily.sh` does, so a
legacy `auto_apply_counters: true` alone never starts discarding.

**The daily notice.** `health.json` carries `recent_changes`, the engine's
integrations and retirements from the last 7 days. The first session of each
day prints one line when anything changed since the last notice, for example
`dreaming: integrated 2 learnings last night (devtrainer: "…"; _global: "…") · retired 1 · /dream-review to veto`,
as `systemMessage` for the user and `additionalContext` for the model. The
sentinel is `state/notice.json`. Later sessions, and days with nothing new,
print nothing. A red health notice takes precedence. Nothing asks a question.

**Backlog close (one-off).** `bin/dream-close-backlog.sh` replays every pending
proposal, `.jsonl.gz` included, through the current filters: the loaded-context
prefilter (`already_encoded`), hook-error routing (`routed_to_autoheal`) and
trigger validation (`trigger_invalid`, `trigger_unverified`, only for rows that
carry a trigger). Everything else is discarded `expired` with detail
`pre-redesign`. It prints the plan by default and writes nothing; `--apply`
writes the statuses and the audit records. Run it once, by hand:

```bash
bash ~/.claude/bin/dream-close-backlog.sh            # dry run: plan + counts by reason
bash ~/.claude/bin/dream-close-backlog.sh --apply    # pending count goes to 0
```

## A broken pipeline announces itself (health)

Dreaming once sat broken for 87 days with every signal in a file nobody opens.
Now each chain run ends by recomputing `~/.claude/dreaming/state/health.json`
from scratch (`lib/health.py`, called from an EXIT trap in `bin/dream-daily.sh`,
so a crash still writes it). Nothing in it is sticky: fix the cause and the next
run reads green.

The `dreaming-health.py` SessionStart hook reads that file (no network, no
subprocess) and, when status is red or the last success is older than 36h,
injects `<dreaming-health status="red">` with the top two reasons and a fix
command each. After 3 red nights running it also tells the agent to mention the
problem once. Green and yellow inject nothing. With dreaming enabled but no
`health.json`, it says the pipeline has never run. The statusline shows
`dream:red` or `dream:yellow` from the same file.

Shared top-level shape (autoheal's `health.json` uses the same four keys):
`status`, `generated_at`, `last_success_at`, `reasons[{code, message, fix}]`.
Dreaming adds `analyze_rc`, `gate`, `breaker`, `pending_count`,
`oldest_pending`, `expired_last_night`, `discarded_last_night`,
`recent_changes`, `nights_since_last_integration`, `spend_7d`, `spend_30d`,
`budget_30d`, `eval_last_run`, `eval_last_cost`, `eval_budget_abort`,
`consecutive_red_nights` (counted from `state/health-history.jsonl`, one status
per date) and `recurrence` (the summary described in the next section).

| Code | Red | Yellow |
|------|-----|--------|
| `no_recent_success` / `success_aging` | no good run in 36h, or ever | last good run 26 to 36h ago |
| `analyze_failed` | analyze step exited non-zero this run | |
| `breaker_suspended` | suspended 3+ nights | suspended 0 to 2 nights. The fix says what clears it (7 nights with no content anomaly) and the date that falls on |
| `gate_closed` | closed (a supported regression) 3+ nights in a row | closed 1 to 2 nights |
| `gate_paused` | paused 3+ nights (nothing integrates, and expire-pending discards proposals unseen after 48h) | paused 1 to 2 nights. The fix names the cause, e.g. "no fresh eval: eval_refresh_enabled is false; set it to true to run the weekly regression smoke" |
| `no_terminal_outcomes` / `pending_backlog` | oldest pending 7+ nights, nothing integrated or discarded in 7 nights | oldest pending 3+ nights |
| `spend_near_budget` | 30-day spend over 80% of budget (below 100%) | over 60% |
| `budget_paused` | | 30-day spend at or above budget (from `cost.log`). Replaces `spend_near_budget`; the message gives the resume date. It hides nothing by itself |
| `daily_cap_reached` | | `state/last-run.json` says the analyzer stopped at its daily cap; clears tomorrow |
| `eval_budget_abort` | an eval budget-abort in the last 7 days with no later results | |

`dream_analyze.py` writes `state/last-run.json` (`date`, `rc`, `outcome`, `spent_30d`, `budget`) with outcome `ok`, `budget_refused`, `daily_cap_refused` or `failed`. Exit code 2 is shared by both refusals and by real failures, so health never infers a refusal from it. Only a recorded `budget_refused` for today's date suppresses `no_recent_success`, `success_aging` and `analyze_failed`; a missing file or outcome `failed` stays red, even during a budget pause.

Gate, breaker and backlog rules apply only when `optimistic_integration` is
`shadow` or `active`. `remine_ratio` is not written: the mining cursors store
byte offsets and `cost.log` stores token totals, so neither records which input
repeated. `python3 ~/.claude/lib/health.py` rewrites the file on demand.

The chain also runs the weekly scorecard on Sundays (`scorecards/<date>.md`),
and `bin/dream-reconcile.sh` writes its report to `digests/<date>.reconcile.md`
with one pointer line in the digest, so the digest stays small.

## Does a learning change behavior? (recurrence, #1098 4.1)

Every dreamed learning carries the `trigger` its proposal was validated with,
copied onto the store row at integration. Each night `lib/recurrence.py` (chain
step 3c, after expire-pending) scans the transcript bytes appended since its
last run for those triggers, joins the hits with `injection-log/`, and compares
each learning's hit rate in sessions it was injected into against its hit rate
in the 30 days before integration. It makes no API calls.

It scans assistant tool inputs (`command`, `file_path`, `path`, `pattern`,
`url`), error tool results, and typed human turns. It skips assistant prose,
successful tool output and system reminders: the injected learning reaches the
model through a reminder, and the agent restates it in prose, so scanning those
would make every exposed session hit its own learning. A subagent's tool calls
count toward the parent session, which is the one the injection log names.

| Outcome | Rule | Action |
|---------|------|--------|
| avoided | 5+ exposed sessions and the exposed hit rate is at most half the baseline rate (baseline needs a hit) | auto `verify`, audited |
| ineffective | 5+ exposed sessions, 2+ exposed hits, and the exposed rate is at or above the baseline rate (at or above 0.5 with no baseline sessions) | auto `deprecate` with the engine's dwell, under the per-slug eviction cap |
| dormant | integrated 45+ days ago, no hit in the last 45 days | none; decay retires it |
| spike | a batch integrated in the last 7 days whose 3+ exposed sessions show 3+ hits across all measured learnings, at least twice what their baselines predict | `recurrence_spike` content anomaly, which reverts the batch |

Below 5 exposed sessions nothing happens. After a verify, the next decision
waits for 5 new exposed sessions. Store writes need `optimistic_integration`
`active` and a breaker that is not suspended; otherwise the decision is held and
recorded. `_global` learnings are measured in every slug but held, since the
store refuses unattended writes to `_global`. Writes are audited in the
engine's shape (`outcome: applied`, `method: auto_apply`, `posture:
recurrence`), so the daily notice reports a recurrence deprecation as a
retirement.

State lives in `state/recurrence.json`: per-file byte cursors over the miner's
discovery, a 120-day session table, and the per-learning registry. Only a new
learning triggers a one-time scan of its 30-day baseline; nothing else is
rescanned. With no learning carrying a trigger, nothing is scanned. Rows logged
in-session (`observed`) carry no trigger and stay unmeasured; the scorecard
counts them. `python3 ~/.claude/lib/recurrence.py summary` prints the summary
that `health.json` and the weekly scorecard headline use.

**Bring-up:** installing the module copies the hook, but a new SessionStart hook
must be registered in the live `~/.claude/settings.json` (re-run
`./start.sh --add dreaming`, which merges `settings.partial.json`). Open a new
session to load it.

## The regression smoke

`dream-eval.sh` runs a small regression smoke by default, in place of the
suite that cost about $21 a run (270 `claude -p` sessions plus 270 Opus judge
calls, on nine tasks most of which score at the ceiling). The gate only needs
one answer: does treatment fail a check that baseline passes?

- **Tasks.** The four tasks marked `"smoke": true` in `eval/tasks/*.json`: one
  uplift (`uplift-01`), one canary (`canary-01`), `contradiction-01`, and
  `dreamed-01`. The other five stay on disk for `--full`.
- **Arms and size.** Baseline and treatment, 3 runs each, on the configured
  `map_model` (Sonnet): 4 x 2 x 3 = **24 sessions**. No `full_context` arm.
- **Deterministic graders.** Each task carries `grader.checks` (the dreamed
  task's sit under `follow_up`): `file_exists`, `regex`, `not_regex` and
  `glob_empty` checks on the agent's finished workdir, such as "contains
  `"order"` quoted", "contains `_synced_at timestamptz`", "uses
  `IF NOT EXISTS`". A run passes when every check passes; its score is 10 x
  the share that passed. There is no judge call, so the 270 judge calls are
  gone. A check on a missing file fails.
- **Cost.** 24 sessions at about $0.06, plus the dreamed task's mining,
  with a $0.25 `--max-budget-usd` per session. The preflight estimate is
  **$1.59** (24 x $0.06 = $1.44, plus $0.15 for mining), against the $2.00
  `eval_refresh_cost_cap_usd`: $0.41 of headroom on the estimate. The hard
  stop is stricter than the estimate: before each session it reserves the
  $0.25 `--max-budget-usd` worst case, so the 24th session still starts only
  if the 23 before it plus mining cost $1.75 or less. In practice the run
  survives an average session of about $0.07 (about 17% over the $0.06
  estimate); above that it aborts and pauses the gate. Mining runs once per
  eval run, not once per arm run, and in the
  eval's sandbox only its reduce step uses the map model (Sonnet) instead of
  Opus; the nightly analyzer's config is untouched. The hard stop and the
  30-day module budget apply unchanged.
- **Gate.** Rows carry `seed_fingerprint`, pass rates and, per run, the result
  of each check (`run_results[].checks: [{id, pass}]`). `--gate` closes on a
  supported regression on a canary or on a task whose seed changed: **a
  check** that baseline passes in at least 2 of 3 runs and treatment fails in
  at least 2 of 3. The check-level rule matters when the baseline fails other
  checks of the same task (the uplift tasks), where a whole-task pass rate
  sees nothing. The gate reason names the regressed check ids. It is open
  otherwise.
- **Artifacts.** `evals/<date>/<task>/<model>/<arm>-<run>/` holds
  `output.txt` (the agent's final message), `workdir.diff` (what it changed
  against the fixture), `grader.json` (each check) and `result.json` (turns,
  tokens, auth, cost). The dreamed task adds `evals/<date>/<task>/mining/`,
  one file per mining stage:

  | File | Holds |
  |------|-------|
  | `signals.json` | per slug, the signals the miner extracted from the synthetic transcripts |
  | `map-output.json` | per slug, the map call's candidates, before the prefilter |
  | `prefilter.json` | `kept` (what reached the reduce), `dropped` (each with `reason`, `source`, `category`, `score`), `candidates_mapped`, `map_calls`, `reduce_calls`, `skip_reasons` |
  | `proposals.jsonl` | everything mining wrote |
  | `applied.json` | what was applied and the exact text injected into the treatment arm |

  A "dreamed no-lift" result is diagnosable from these without a live re-run:
  no signals means the fixtures never reached the miner as a signal; candidates
  all dropped names the rule that dropped them; proposals that were kept but did
  not lift means comparing their text with what treatment's diff did.
  (Directories, not `*.jsonl` files, so the gate's results glob ignores them.)
  The dreamed task's synthetic transcripts
  (`eval/tasks/fixtures/dreamed-*.jsonl`) carry the `_synced_at` fact as a
  human redirection and an assistant conclusion, the shapes the miner
  extracts; as bare error-then-fix friction it would be dropped as autoheal's.
  `tests/test_smoke_dreamed_fixtures.py` pins that offline.
- **`--full`** runs the old suite: every task, three arms, the Opus judge,
  both backbones, 5 runs.

### Weekly refresh: opt in

The nightly chain's eval-refresh step runs the smoke once the newest results
are 7 days old (`eval_refresh_min_age_days`, default 7), which is what the
gate's 7-day freshness bound (`eval_freshness_days`) expects. It is off until
you turn it on, in `~/.claude/dreaming/config.json`:

```json
{
  "optimistic_integration": {
    "eval_refresh_enabled": true,
    "eval_refresh_cost_cap_usd": 2.0
  }
}
```

The step also needs `optimistic_integration.enabled` to be `active` and an
`ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` (dreaming `.env`): the dreamed task mines with the
Messages API.

### Subscription auth for the arms (#1038)

By default the arms bill the API account through `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`. To bill
the subscription instead, mint a long-lived token once, in a terminal:

```bash
claude setup-token
```

Then give it to dreaming in one of these places (checked in this order):

1. `CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN=<token>` in the environment or in
   `~/.claude/dreaming/.env`. The LaunchAgent has no shell environment, so use
   the `.env` file for the nightly chain.
2. A file holding the token, named by `CCGM_EVAL_OAUTH_TOKEN_FILE`, or by
   `optimistic_integration.eval_oauth_token_file` in the config. Run
   `chmod 600` on it; the token is a secret and must never be committed.

With a token present, each arm gets `CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN` and no
`ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` (an API key in the environment outranks the token), the
log says `arm auth: subscription`, rows carry `"auth": "subscription"`, and
each session lands in `cost.log` as `eval:arm:subscription` at $0. Those
sessions do not count against the run cap. The mining and the 30-day budget
still use the API key. With no token the log says `arm auth: api_key`.

The isolated arm config holds no login (`CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` and `HOME` are
temp dirs), so the env token is the only way for an arm to authenticate with
the subscription. `claude --bare` never reads OAuth, and the harness does not
use it.

## The eval harness fails loud

`bin/dream-eval.sh` runs `eval/memory_eval.py`, whose `--gate` mode is the
regression gate the optimistic engine must pass nightly. Between 2026-07-15
and 2026-09-02 every nightly run scored `format_error_rate: 1.0` on all 54
rows and the gate read that as a memory failure. Neither memory nor the API
was at fault: the LaunchAgent exports a fixed PATH
(`/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin`), Claude Code's native
installer puts the CLI in `~/.local/bin`, and every arm subprocess died with
`FileNotFoundError` before it ran. Runs an operator started from a login
shell worked, which is why the breakage looked intermittent.

Two rules keep that shut:

- **The `claude` binary is resolved to an absolute path before any task
  runs.** `resolve_claude_bin()` tries the ambient PATH, then the known
  install directories (`~/.local/bin`, `~/.claude/local`,
  `/opt/homebrew/bin`, `/usr/local/bin`), and raises -- naming everything it
  searched and pointing at `--claude-bin` / `CCGM_EVAL_CLAUDE_BIN` -- rather
  than starting a run that cannot work.
- **A whole-run format-error rate of 1.0 aborts.** One failed arm run stays
  non-fatal; a run where every arm failed is not a measurement, so the
  harness prints the first failure's raw output to stderr, exits non-zero,
  writes no results file (dropping any partial file it wrote this run), and
  records `evals/<date>.harness-broken`. The marker is load-bearing: `evals/`
  always holds prior runs, so an abort that wrote nothing would otherwise
  leave `--gate` reading the previous file and reporting `open` on a broken
  harness. While a marker is newer than the newest results file, `--gate`
  reports `harness broken: every agent run failed to execute on <date>`;
  the next run that produces results clears it.

**A launch failure may only move a row toward a closed gate, never toward
an open one.** A run that never executed is not sent to the judge (nothing
to grade, and on a broken harness that would be a whole task's judge calls
spent before the abort fires) and is excluded from every mean the classifier
reads -- flooring it to zero instead pulls the arm's mean down, and two
failed launches in a five-run baseline arm are enough to classify a row
`high_value`. Cost is the exception: a run stopped against
`--max-budget-usd` spent real money, and spend is not a quality metric. A
row is only as good as its worst arm, so any arm holding a failed run
downgrades the row to `error` (a `regression` keeps its label;
`downgrade_bucket_for_launch_failures()` decides). The gate itself reads pass
rates: a checked row with a failed launch shows its regression or pauses the
gate, never opens it.

The judge call is one Messages API request per run: no sampling parameters
(every judge model from Opus 4.7 / Sonnet 5 on returns 400 for one),
`thinking: {"type": "disabled"}` so a model bump cannot spend the output cap
on thinking, and `output_config.format` pinning the `{pass, score}` schema so
the verdict is valid by construction.

## Slug identity (read this before touching project-identity code)

Every transcript's owning learnings-store slug is re-derived from the
transcript's own `cwd` field via `learnings_store.detect_project_slug()` --
**never** via `session-history`'s `repo_detect.py`. Those two functions
compute *different* strings for the same repo (verified live on the
development machine: `repo_detect.py` returns the bare repo-directory
name, while `detect_project_slug()` returns the canonical `owner-repo`
form derived from the git remote). Using the wrong one silently mines
into an orphaned namespace no read path ever queries. `session-history`'s
`discover-sessions.sh` / `repo_detect.py` exist only to locate transcript
*files* by directory-name heuristic; this module
never imports or consults them for identity.

## Evidence bundle format

`mine_to_evidence_bundle(paths, max_input_tokens=...)` is the function that
wires `mine()` + `schema_canary()` + `cluster()` + `budget()` together into
the **evidence bundle** -- the frozen contract Epic 3's analyzer consumes.
The shape is pinned in `lib/evidence-bundle-schema.json` (a real JSON
Schema, validated by both this module's `--self-check` and, in Epic 3,
`dream_analyze.py` on load, via the same stdlib-only
`transcript_miner.validate_against_schema()`). At a glance:

```json
{
  "generated_at": "<ISO 8601 UTC>",
  "slugs": ["<learnings-store slug>", "..."],
  "session_count": 4,
  "sessions": [
    {
      "session_id": "<uuid or null>",
      "slug": "<learnings-store slug>",
      "git_branch": "<str or null>",
      "started_at": "<ISO or null>",
      "ended_at": "<ISO or null>",
      "token_totals": {"input_tokens": 0, "output_tokens": 0, "cache_creation_input_tokens": 0, "cache_read_input_tokens": 0},
      "cache_read_ratio": 0.0,
      "user_corrections": [{"excerpt": "...", "timestamp": "...", "session_id": "...", "line": 5, "turns_after_failure": 2, "friction_line": 3}],
      "pr_links": [{"pr_number": 9001, "pr_repository": "org/repo", "pr_url": "https://..."}],
      "malformed_line_count": 0,
      "tool_use_count": 1,
      "friction_field_presence": 4
    }
  ],
  "signals": [
    {
      "kind": "redirection",
      "session_id": "<uuid>",
      "timestamp": "<ISO or null>",
      "line": 7,
      "excerpt": "<what the human typed; redacted, <=400 chars>",
      "context": "<the assistant turn before it; redacted, <=240 chars>"
    }
  ],
  "signals_dropped": 0,
  "clusters": [
    {
      "event_kind": "tool_error",
      "tool_name": "Bash",
      "command_prefix": "./deploy.sh --env prod",
      "count": 1,
      "is_friction": true,
      "sample_session_ids": ["<uuid>"],
      "exemplars": [{"session_id": "<uuid>", "excerpt": "<redacted, <=400 chars>", "timestamp": "..."}]
    }
  ],
  "friction_cluster_count": 4,
  "routine_cluster_count": 0,
  "token_estimate": 1234,
  "max_input_tokens": 200000,
  "over_budget": false,
  "malformed_line_total": 0,
  "canary": {"observed_versions": {"2.1.198": 4}}
}
```

Every `excerpt` field has already been through `redact_secrets()` (17 secret
token shapes, `hooks` module) and `redact_pii()` (email/phone/address, this
module's own addition -- `hook_utils` has no PII coverage) and truncated to
400 chars, redaction always applied *before* truncation so a boundary can
never lop a redaction marker in half.

## Redaction: two layers

- `hook_utils.redact_secrets()` -- 17 vendor secret-token shapes (API keys,
  GitHub tokens, etc.), shared with `autoheal`.
- `redact_pii()` (this module) -- email, phone, and street-address shapes.
  Transcripts are prose and routinely carry the operator's own PII;
  `redact_secrets()` alone does not cover that class.

Both run on every excerpt before it is stored anywhere or would leave the
machine (Epic 3's API calls).

## Schema drift canary

The transcript JSONL is an undocumented, internal Claude Code format that
has already drifted once (a `queue-operation` line type absent from earlier
research). `schema_canary()` validates a field-level structural contract via
the pure `validate_structure()` -- three hard invariants, each gated on a
corroborating "should-be-present" signal so a genuinely quiet week never
trips a finding:

- **friction** -- gated on `tool_use_count > 0`; violated when zero
  recognized friction-bearing fields (`is_error`/`toolUseResult`/
  `hookErrors`/`preventedContinuation`) were found anywhere in the batch.
- **token-economics** -- gated on `assistant_turn_count > 0`; violated when
  zero recognized token/cache usage fields were found anywhere.
- **turn-structure** -- gated on `parsed_line_count > 0`; violated when zero
  recognized user/assistant turns were found anywhere (this is what catches
  an envelope-`type` rename, which would otherwise silently zero
  `tool_use_count` too and slip past the friction invariant).

A violation raises `SchemaDriftError` naming the specific broken extraction
and field. `dream_analyze.py` catches it and records it as the one loud,
durable alarm (`state/canary.json`'s `active_incidents`, rendered by the
digest banner) rather than silently returning a thin evidence bundle. A
benign Claude Code version bump with every field intact passes silently --
there is no version allowlist to maintain, and the observed `version`
distribution (`canary.observed_versions`) is recorded for information only
and never gates the raise. PR-link field drift is a documented, accepted
residual the canary does not detect (PR links are optional evidence, not
integrity-critical).

## Quick checks

```bash
# Run the miner's own test suite (offline, fixture-only).
python3 -m pytest modules/dreaming/tests/test_transcript_miner.py -q

# End-to-end fixture pipeline + schema validation + JSON summary.
python3 modules/dreaming/lib/transcript_miner.py --self-check

# Analyzer unit tests (offline, fixture-only -- no network, no API key).
python3 -m pytest modules/dreaming/tests/test_dream_analyze.py -q

# Full offline pipeline: real transcript fixtures -> real miner -> --offline
# analyzer (canned map/reduce responses, no network) -> proposals -> digest.
# Builds its own throwaway ~/.claude/projects/-shaped temp directory --
# see the script for the exact layout dream-analyze.sh expects.
bash modules/dreaming/tests/test-dream-pipeline.sh

# The reconcile step writes digests/<date>.reconcile.md plus one pointer line in
# the digest, and a re-run leaves exactly one of each. Temp dirs only; CI runs it.
bash modules/dreaming/tests/test-dream-reconcile.sh
```

## When NOT to invoke this module's internals directly

- The miner and analyzer never write to the learnings store themselves --
  they only read it (for the reduce-phase projection) and propose.
  The opt-in `optimistic_integration` engine (default off) applies or
  discards every proposal; `/dream-apply` is the manual override --
  see `modules/dreaming/skills/dreaming/SKILL.md` for the full contract. Do not
  hand-edit `~/.claude/dreaming/proposals/*.jsonl` expecting either path to
  respect the edit.
- Do not call `mine()`/`discover()` against real transcripts expecting a
  file the analyzer has not consumed; run `dream-analyze.sh` (which mines
  internally) rather than wiring the miner up by hand.

## Manual installation (development clone)

```bash
# From a CCGM development clone (not the canonical):
bash start.sh --add dreaming
```

## Cross-references

- Plan (mining/apply/eval/scheduler foundation): `~/code/plans/ccgm-durable-memory-system/plan.md`
  (§5 Epics 1-8; §3.3 for the runtime-dir and config-key contract later
  epics build on).
- Plan (optimistic auto-integration): `~/code/plans/ccgm-optimistic-memory/plan.md`
  (§3 dwell-window architecture / per-op-kind posture / blast-radius caps /
  circuit breaker; §5 Epics 1-8).
- Decision log: `~/code/plans/ccgm-durable-memory-system/decisions.md`.
- `modules/self-improving/` -- the learnings store this module proposes
  changes into and (opt-in) auto-integrates into. `/dream-apply` and the
  optimistic engine are the only two writers.
- `modules/autoheal/` -- the capture-analyze-propose pipeline this module
  mirrors (not imports) -- curl invocation shape, daily cost cap, and
  cost.log bookkeeping are deliberately duplicated, not shared, per
  decisions.md bizlogic-006.


## Files

- `skills/dreaming/SKILL.md` (skill, 34694 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/skills/dreaming/SKILL.md.txt
- `lib/transcript_miner.py` (lib, 91948 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/lib/transcript_miner.py.txt
- `lib/evidence-bundle-schema.json` (lib, 10319 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/lib/evidence-bundle-schema.json.txt
- `lib/dream_analyze.py` (lib, 110852 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/lib/dream_analyze.py.txt
- `lib/dreaming-prompt-map.md` (lib, 7265 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/lib/dreaming-prompt-map.md.txt
- `lib/dreaming-prompt-reduce.md` (lib, 10835 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/lib/dreaming-prompt-reduce.md.txt
- `lib/proposal-schema.json` (lib, 14096 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/lib/proposal-schema.json.txt
- `lib/apply_dream_proposal.py` (lib, 158712 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/lib/apply_dream_proposal.py.txt
- `lib/eligibility.py` (lib, 23968 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/lib/eligibility.py.txt
- `lib/reconcile_automemory.py` (lib, 22751 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/lib/reconcile_automemory.py.txt
- `lib/rollout_mode.py` (lib, 2903 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/lib/rollout_mode.py.txt
- `lib/breaker.py` (lib, 7123 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/lib/breaker.py.txt
- `lib/scorecard.py` (lib, 34564 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/lib/scorecard.py.txt
- `lib/triggers.py` (lib, 5503 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/lib/triggers.py.txt
- `lib/recurrence.py` (lib, 32285 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/lib/recurrence.py.txt
- `lib/loaded_context.py` (lib, 27092 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/lib/loaded_context.py.txt
- `lib/close_backlog.py` (lib, 6824 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/lib/close_backlog.py.txt
- `lib/com.__USERNAME__.ccgm.dreaming.daily.plist.template` (lib, 3024 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/lib/com.__USERNAME__.ccgm.dreaming.daily.plist.template.txt
- `lib/dreaming.cron.template` (lib, 737 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/lib/dreaming.cron.template.txt
- `bin/dream-analyze.sh` (script, 2139 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/bin/dream-analyze.sh.txt
- `bin/dream-digest.sh` (script, 30698 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/bin/dream-digest.sh.txt
- `bin/dream-daily.sh` (script, 27679 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/bin/dream-daily.sh.txt
- `bin/dream-reconcile.sh` (script, 6842 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/bin/dream-reconcile.sh.txt
- `bin/dream-install.sh` (script, 9500 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/bin/dream-install.sh.txt
- `bin/dream-scorecard.sh` (script, 4271 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/bin/dream-scorecard.sh.txt
- `bin/dream-close-backlog.sh` (script, 981 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/bin/dream-close-backlog.sh.txt
- `commands/dream.md` (command, 8295 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/commands/dream.md.txt
- `commands/dream-digest.md` (command, 3167 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/commands/dream-digest.md.txt
- `commands/dream-apply.md` (command, 9963 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/commands/dream-apply.md.txt
- `commands/dream-review.md` (command, 18499 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/commands/dream-review.md.txt
- `commands/dream-scorecard.md` (command, 5956 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/commands/dream-scorecard.md.txt
- `bin/dream-eval.sh` (script, 3123 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/bin/dream-eval.sh.txt
- `eval/memory_eval.py` (lib, 145782 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/eval/memory_eval.py.txt
- `eval/judge-prompt.md` (lib, 2467 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/eval/judge-prompt.md.txt
- `eval/tasks/01-uplift-migration-reserved-keywords.json` (content, 2392 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/eval/tasks/01-uplift-migration-reserved-keywords.json.txt
- `eval/tasks/02-uplift-env-example-sync.json` (content, 35248 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/eval/tasks/02-uplift-env-example-sync.json.txt
- `eval/tasks/03-uplift-idempotent-migrations.json` (content, 1492 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/eval/tasks/03-uplift-idempotent-migrations.json.txt
- `eval/tasks/04-uplift-path-alias-imports.json` (content, 1181 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/eval/tasks/04-uplift-path-alias-imports.json.txt
- `eval/tasks/05-uplift-semantic-design-tokens.json` (content, 1397 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/eval/tasks/05-uplift-semantic-design-tokens.json.txt
- `eval/tasks/06-canary-unrelated-rename.json` (content, 2254 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/eval/tasks/06-canary-unrelated-rename.json.txt
- `eval/tasks/07-canary-unrelated-math-util.json` (content, 1053 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/eval/tasks/07-canary-unrelated-math-util.json.txt
- `eval/tasks/08-contradiction-branch-update-workflow.json` (content, 36138 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/eval/tasks/08-contradiction-branch-update-workflow.json.txt
- `eval/tasks/09-dreamed-pipeline-end-to-end.json` (content, 36563 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/eval/tasks/09-dreamed-pipeline-end-to-end.json.txt
- `eval/tasks/fixtures/dreamed-session-1.jsonl` (content, 3373 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/eval/tasks/fixtures/dreamed-session-1.jsonl.txt
- `eval/tasks/fixtures/dreamed-session-2.jsonl` (content, 3203 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/eval/tasks/fixtures/dreamed-session-2.jsonl.txt
- `eval/tasks/fixtures/dreamed-noise-session-1.jsonl` (content, 3266 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/eval/tasks/fixtures/dreamed-noise-session-1.jsonl.txt
- `lib/health.py` (lib, 28403 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/lib/health.py.txt
- `hooks/dreaming-health.py` (hook, 8457 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/hooks/dreaming-health.py.txt
- `settings.partial.json` (config, 293 bytes): https://ccgm.dev/modules/dreaming/files/settings.partial.json.txt