July 22, 2026

Generated lab notebook from daily_summary, plan_journal, plan_delivery_log, and setpoint audit data. It is intentionally chronological and may include in-progress cycles before validation.

Planner Execution Ledger

Planner checkpoints can acknowledge that the active plan is still suitable without writing a new public plan ID. Those no-change decisions are part of the audit trail.

🌅 Morning Cycle (12:18 AM) — iris-20260722-0016

Reflection

Validating previous cycle: iris-20260721-0550

Previous hypothesis: SUNRISE plan for Tuesday 2026-07-21. Yesterday scored 74.1 versus 66.8 7-day average, but the day remained structurally hot/dry limited: VPD compliance was the bottleneck at 32.4% versus temp compliance 44.6%, with 15.39h VPD-high stress and 12.02h heat stress. Water was high at 405 gal total / 194 gal misting-only versus 355 gal 7-day total-water average; cost totals are unavailable/resource weight is 0, so water and relay wear are context rather than scored cost. Dew safety held with dp_margin_min_f 9.0F and 0.0 dp-risk hours. I evaluated iris-20260720-0549 at 4/10, but the deterministic anchor was 1 because 676 VPD-high guardrail events and 591 held guardrail events show the requested wet-assist surface was heavily guardrail-shaped. The gap is intentional: I credit correct safety/diagnosis, but the anchor correctly warns that corridor recovery did not materialize cleanly… Result: Evaluated before the 2026-07-22 SUNSET replacement using the WINDOW SCORECARD for only the period governed by this MIDNIGHT reset. Scoped score was 63.9 with temp compliance 50.9% and VPD compliance 48.7%. The window had 1.90h heat stress, 1.21h VPD-high stress, 0.69h VPD-low stress, and 0.00h cold stress; dew safety held with daily dp_margin_min_f 7.0F and 0.0 dp-risk hours. The plan correctly anticipated a humid/dry-transition day and preserved safety, but the governed pre-sunrise and early-ramp slice still showed mixed dual-axis stress and did not materially recover corridor compliance. Recent audit also shows guardrailed/missed wet-assist materialization on the successor day plan, so confidence in the tactical surface remains bounded. Score: 5/10

New finding: For humid pre-dawn followed by a hot-dry ramp, a neutral dawn taper alone is insufficient if the first governed hours still accumulate both heat and VPD errors; the next plan should explicitly separate overnight dew-safe restraint from morning dry-ramp reopening and continue to report guardrail/missed materialization as an action-proof risk. → Added to Lessons Learned

Hypothesis

Testing: Guardrail-compatible midnight reset: wet restraint through humid pre-dawn, full band-coupled wet/fog assist only during confirmed dry stress, and early Friday severe-day staging. Expected outcome: By sunrise, dp_risk_hours remains 0.0 and VPD-low stress remains under 1h. During Wednesday peak, VPD-high severity should improve versus Tuesday’s 12.86h baseline without increasing dew risk; guardrail-held materialization should fall because the plan uses bounded ClimateIntent instead of raw invalid taper values. Total water may rise toward the 300 gal mist-assist cap on live dry stress, but overnight/storm-window water should stay restrained.

Conditions

humid pre-dawn low-VPD risk followed by hot dry Wednesday peak near 95F with solar around 831 W/m2 and raw VPD above 4 kPa; Thursday saturated/storm-prone dawn with a midday dry pocket; Friday severe hot-dry ramp near 100F+

Expected stress windows

Parameter rationale

Setpoints

Wednesday July 22

Primary crop-band changes:

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Thursday July 23

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Friday July 24

Primary crop-band changes:

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Changed secondary parameters:

🌅 Morning Cycle (5:53 AM) — iris-20260722-0551

Reflection

Validating previous cycle: iris-20260721-2025

Previous hypothesis: SUNSET overnight plan for Tuesday 2026-07-21. Today scored 71.3 versus a 68.1 seven-day average, so the house improved versus the recent baseline but was still dual-axis limited. VPD remained the bottleneck at 37.2% compliance versus temp at 47.4%, with 11.69h VPD-high stress and 9.02h heat stress; cold and VPD-low were 0.0h. Cost fields are unavailable/resource weight is 0, so I used water/wear context: total water was about 342 gal versus a 363 gal seven-day average, meaning conservation improved while VPD compliance still stayed weak. Dew safety held: dp_margin_min_f 9.1F and no dp-risk hours; current dew margin is about 8.7F, so tonight’s main challenge is not cold but a humid overnight handoff with possible low-VPD/dew-margin pressure after a warm dry evening. I evaluated iris-20260721-0015 at 6/10 versus anchor 4 and iris-20260721-0550 at 5/10 versus anchor 2… Result: Evaluated at the 2026-07-23 MIDNIGHT reset using the plan-scoped WINDOW SCORECARD for the period governed by the SUNRISE plan. Scoped score was 56.5 with temp compliance 46.2% and VPD compliance 47.6%. The window accumulated 5.41h total stress, dominated by heat at about 3.58h and VPD-high at about 1.51h, with no meaningful cold/VPD-low stress in the scoped row. Daily score closed 59.6 versus a 67.7 seven-day average, with 10.72h heat, 7.09h VPD-high, 2.99h VPD-low, 148 gal total water and 19 gal mister water; dew safety held at dp_margin_min_f 7.0F and 0 dp-risk hours. The structured forecast was directionally right about dual-axis heat/VPD pressure but missed conditions: outdoor peak was 91.4F versus 96F predicted, humidity was much higher than the 20% dry forecast proxy, while solar spiked higher than predicted at 1108 W/m2. Rationale grading: the full water-budget/wet-assist hypothesis did not translate into strong compliance or high water delivery; band-coupled engage/all/fog likely reduced VPD-high compared with recent 12-15h days but did not recover the corridor; the dawn restraint avoided dew risk and VPD-low during the governed window, but later daily VPD-low rose under the humid handoff. Self-score is capped at 5 because safety and dew-margin goals were met, but score stayed below baseline and materialized moisture/forecast accuracy did not deliver the expected corridor recovery. Score: 5/10

New finding: When a hot-dry forecast verifies cooler and much more humid but with higher solar than forecast, a full dry-ramp wet-assist hypothesis should be judged by materialized water/assist and plan-scoped compliance, not by requested budget alone; keep dawn restraint and use live VPD confirmation before reopening, because forecast VPD/RH can be the dominant miss while dew safety remains adequate. → Added to Lessons Learned

Hypothesis

Testing: Test guardrail-compatible dry-stress ClimateIntent: full daytime water budget, low resource sensitivity, and fog escalation near 0.15-0.18 during confirmed hot-dry VENTILATE, with hard humid-night taper, aiming to reduce VPD-high severity without VPD-low/dew-risk rebound. Expected outcome: For 2026-07-22: keep dp_risk_hours at 0 and dp_margin_min >=5F; improve VPD compliance versus Tuesday’s 40.1% if physical capacity allows; keep VPD-low stress under 1.0h despite humid handoff; water may rise above Tuesday but should remain purposeful and dry-stress-scoped.

Conditions

humid too-wet dawn, then hot dry high-solar ramp with VPD peak near 4.55 kPa and a humid/storm handoff after 22:00; semantic retrieval degraded by missing OPENAI_API_KEY

Expected stress windows

Parameter rationale

Setpoints

Wednesday July 22

Primary crop-band changes:

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Thursday July 23

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Friday July 24

Primary crop-band changes:

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Changed secondary parameters:

🌆 Evening Cycle (8:27 PM) — iris-20260722-2024

Reflection

Validating previous cycle: iris-20260722-0551

Previous hypothesis: SUNRISE plan for Wednesday 2026-07-22. Yesterday scored 66.9 versus the 68.1 seven-day average. VPD was the bottleneck at 40.1% compliance versus temp 45.6%; stress was dual-axis but VPD-high led at 12.86h, with 11.52h heat stress, 0.20h VPD-low, no cold stress, dp_margin_min 7.7F and zero dp-risk hours. Water was 342 gal total / 136 gal mister, below the 363 gal seven-day average, so resource use improved but corridor recovery did not. I evaluated iris-20260721-0550 at 5/10 versus deterministic anchor 2; the gap is because I credit correct safety diagnosis, lower water, and avoided dew/VPD-low overshoot, while the anchor correctly penalizes 776 VPD-high guardrail events and 660 held events showing the wet-assist surface still did not materialize cleanly… Result: Evaluated during the 2026-07-23 SUNRISE cycle. The plan governed only the 2026-07-22 late-evening window before the MIDNIGHT reset. Window scorecard was 68.8, with temp compliance 41.4% and VPD compliance 42.7%; scoped stress was modest at about 0.51h, split mostly between heat (~0.21h) and VPD-high (~0.26h), with no cold stress and dew safety preserved. The daily outcome around it still closed weak at score 59.6, temp 48.1%, VPD 48.0%, heat 10.72h, VPD-high 7.09h, VPD-low 2.99h, water 148 gal total / 19 gal mister, dp_margin_min_f 7.0F and 0 dp-risk hours. The overnight humid-risk diagnosis was directionally right and the plan conserved water/dew margin, but the subsequent dawn still produced a house-band-drift too-wet alert for Vanda orchid drying risk, so mist suppression alone did not fully recover VPD-low/orchid drying pressure. Score: 6/10

New finding: On humid/storm handoff nights, dew-safe wet suppression can preserve safety but still leave the Vanda zone too wet by dawn; when dp margin remains above 5F, pair overnight wet restraint with active dehumidification/ventilation posture and validate with dawn VPD, not water savings alone. → Added to Lessons Learned

Hypothesis

Testing: Overnight humid-handoff taper: test whether high dew-margin caution, low mist duty, and high fog threshold reduce VPD-low hours without creating pre-dawn dew-risk, then reopen only moderate dry-pocket assist Thursday morning. Expected outcome: By sunrise: 0 dp-risk hours, dp_margin_min_f >= 6F, lower VPD-low accumulation than today’s 2.97h run-rate, and no material heat/cold stress; by late morning the plan should allow moderate wet assist only if VPD rises above band.

Conditions

humid cloudy overnight after a dual-axis hot/dry day; current house is safe but moist at 80.5F, VPD 0.82 kPa, RH 77%, dew margin 7.9F; Thursday has a brief midday dry pocket then storm/humidity risk, while Friday becomes severe hot-dry.

Expected stress windows

Parameter rationale

Setpoints

Wednesday July 22

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Thursday July 23

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End-of-Day Summary

Climate

Interior Light Evidence

• Crop DLI: unavailable
• Reason: source_reading_missing
• Provenance: legacy_invalid_exterior_proxy_plus_fixture_estimate
• Validity: dli-validity-v1; 2024-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 → open
• Qualified-light minutes and photoperiod remain independent of unavailable DLI.

Stress Hours

• Heat stress (>85°F): 3.1h
• VPD stress (>2.0 kPa): 4.9h
• Cold stress (<55°F): 7.5h

Economics

Equipment Runtimes

Water

• Total: 148 gal
• Mister: 19 gal

Hourly Pattern

7-Day Stress Context