15 Lost Sessions Recovered • 250MB of Context Mined • 2026-04-09
What started as a git identity conflict between forge/jason users revealed a graveyard of abandoned sessions consuming the VPS.
-A attach attemptstmux list-sessions returns nothing. No buffers to lose.Each session mined for: what was built, key decisions, where it stopped, and open loops.
Date: 2026-03-28 → 03-30 (30 hours, 30+ context overflows)
Built: 25-page dashboard audit, 111 tests, KFS Phases A-D, Expert Knowledge Graph (14 endpoints), Agent Swarm kanban (37/37 cards), Kanban V2 SQL migration
Stopped: Testing kfs-graphiti expert ingestion endpoint
Open: Kanban V2 UI unclear, "keep building overnight" directive active
Date: 2026-03-11 → 03-27 (16 days)
Built: Align360 backup, Larry Brief v2 (two-pass, Chart.js, QA gate), Atlas local inference alignment (22/25), Vault Viewer design
Stopped: Starting Vault Viewer build
Open: Vault Viewer incomplete, token tracking not built
Date: 2026-04-05 → 04-09 (still active in other window)
Built: Verification checklist (Supabase + endpoints + Ralph hook), /score skill, scoring bias fix, forensics page, PROB-015/016, Rule 15b/15c
Stopped: Mid-edit writing Rule 15b to CLAUDE.md
Key: Smoke test caught 3 bugs in 4 deliverables — validated Principle #8
Date: Late March
Built: Zero-Idle Priority Engine (scored CASCADE.md), NowPage MCP on Vercel, QR wizard
Stopped: Reconstructing Next.js from minified HTML
Date: 2026-03-30 → 04-03
Built: KFS /align through /plan phases, Ralph anti-recursion (rolled back to source-aware guards)
Open: Session Manager + Stenographer + Reaper plan written but NEVER approved/implemented
Date: Late March
Built: Terminal sidebar context panel, branching conventions
Open: Governance redesign plan never delivered
Date: 2026-03-28 (4 hours)
Built: Forge↔Align360 sync (72 docs), confirmed claude -p --model sonnet works
Open: Sub-agent orchestration plan undelivered
Date: 2026-03-24 → 03-25
Built: KFS with Graphiti (7 iterations), 370 entities, Ralph KFS wiring
Open: FalkorDB dash-in-group-id bug actively being debugged when session died
| Session | Size | Focus | Key Open Loop |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 6.2MB | Vault Viewer + KFS hardening | Vault Viewer incomplete (pivoted to firefighting) |
| 10 | 5.4MB | Token rationing + dashboard audit | Page-by-page audit interrupted |
| 11 | 4.7MB | Perceive daemon + testing guides | Paint-by-numbers concept only |
| 12 | 4.5MB | VPS infrastructure debugging | Copy-paste broken, fix.sh may not have run |
| 13 | 4.2MB | AgentChattr + agent heartbeat pills | Merged to main — 8 agent pills live |
| 14 | 4.2MB | Factory resilience planning | 5-fix plan finalized, feeds into Session 11 |
| 15 | 3.9MB | Telegram alert threads | Plan interrupted before writing |
6 of 15 sessions hit context limits. Session 1 overflowed 30+ times. Each overflow loses fidelity at the seam. This is the #1 cause of repeated work.
Sessions 5, 7, 10, 14, 15 ended in planning mode. Plans written but never approved or executed: Session Manager, sub-agent orchestration, factory resilience, alert threads, token rationing.
Vault Viewer: Sessions 2, 6, 9 — three separate attempts, none knew the others existed.
KFS: Sessions 1, 5, 8, 9 — four waves of building, each starting partially fresh.
Session 14 ended at 21:42 → Session 11 started at 21:42 same day. Continuation chain that lost context at the seam. The planning from 14 may or may not have informed 11.
Sessions 8, 9, 12, 14 all deal with service crashes, stale queues, or circuit breaker failures. The spine session's 5 fixes addressed patterns that had been recurring for weeks.
Features "built" across sessions that need proof they actually work.
| Feature | Built In | Status | Verification Needed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kanban V2 | Session 1 | UNKNOWN | SQL migration ran? UI integrated? |
| KFS-Graphiti ingestion | Sessions 1, 8 | UNKNOWN | Endpoint functional? Entities growing? |
| Vault Viewer Panel | Sessions 2, 6, 9 | UNKNOWN | Deployed? Functional? Which version? |
| Human Verification Loop | Session 3 | UNKNOWN | Supabase table + endpoints + dashboard? |
| Work Selector / CASCADE | Session 4 | UNKNOWN | Wired to dashboard API? |
| Agent heartbeat pills | Session 13 | MERGED | Still reporting? Accurate? |
| Circuit breaker resilience | Session 14 | UNKNOWN | Fixes implemented from plan? |
| FalkorDB dash bug | Session 8 | INTERRUPTED | Was it ever resolved? |
| Session Manager/Reaper | Session 5 | PLAN ONLY | Never approved or built |
Strategy = Isolated. Each agent gets own memory, principles, personality, decisions.
Skills = Shared. Scripts, tooling, patterns are common infrastructure.
Infra = Shared. Supabase, git, Claude credentials, VPS.
Layer 1: Git worktrees (mandatory per session) — isolate working tree state
Layer 2: Session lifecycle (registry + heartbeat + reaper) — prevent zombie accumulation
Layer 3: Credential isolation (per agent identity) — prevent API session competition
Gate: Ralph must run 7 clean days before Layer 3.
Create: Every artifact must have at least one consumer (Loom, dashboard, session-inject, MEMORY.md, or Ralph card).
Destroy: Verify one abstraction layer up. Backup always. Surface to human before deletion.
Done: Confirm wiring works end-to-end, not just that the file exists.
| Artifact | Location | Size | Consumers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archaeology report | /home/jason/forge-session-archaeology/SESSION-ARCHAEOLOGY-20260409.md | 12KB | MEMORY.md, Loom, this page |
| Process forensic | /home/jason/forge-process-forensic-20260409-111049.txt | 180KB | This page |
| Session backup (durable) | /home/jason/forge-sessions-backup/ | 714MB | Loom compiler, future resume |
| Supabase brain event | kfs_brain_events table | — | KFS query, dashboard |
| Session flush | data/ihub/raw/sessions/archaeology_SessionEnd.json | — | Loom compiler |
| Cross-session comms | /opt/forge/state/comms/cross-session.md | — | All sessions |
| # | Action | Status | Blocker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kill zombie processes, reclaim 9.4GB RAM | READY | Jason runs sudo commands |
| 2 | Feed archaeology to Loom compiler | DONE | — |
| 3 | Write to Supabase kfs_brain_events | DONE | — |
| 4 | Cross-session comms file | DONE | — |
| 5 | Codify architecture decisions to memory | DONE | — |
| 6 | Process archaeology into Loom wiki articles | NEXT | Run compile.sh |
| 7 | Triage 5 unexecuted plans | QUEUED | After zombie cleanup |
| 8 | Verify 9 "built" features | QUEUED | After triage |