August 12, 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 (12:19 AM) — iris-20260812-0025

Reflection

Validating previous cycle: iris-20260811-0609

Previous hypothesis: SUNRISE plan for Tuesday 2026-08-11. Yesterday was a safe but materially ineffective hot/dry outcome: score 69.9, temperature compliance 44.5%, VPD compliance 30.5%, VPD-high stress 15.97 h, heat stress 11.68 h, no cold or VPD-low stress, and no dew-risk. I scored the governing plan 4/10 versus deterministic anchor 1. My higher self-score credited the correct hot/dry diagnosis and dew/cold safety, but the anchor is the stronger operational warning: 1,277 guardrail events, including 1,197 VPD-high events, plus repeated VENTILATE moisture-gap alerts mean the intended moisture posture did not materialize cleanly. This plan treats that as failure, not success. Live conditions at 06:09 are safe and near the upper VPD edge: 72.6F, VPD 1.00 kPa, dew margin 13F, IDLE, all climate equipment off… Result: Overnight recovery objective was achieved by the sunrise review: house VPD fell from about 1.21 kPa near plan start to 0.75-0.78 kPa from 04:00-06:00 MDT, inside the active morning corridor and more than satisfying the stated within-0.15-kPa-of-high-edge target. Dew safety also held: today’s partial scorecard shows minimum dew margin 9.5F and 0.0 dew-risk hours, with only 0.09 h VPD-low stress and no cold stress. The plan therefore improved the primary overnight VPD error without condensation. However, its second objective—prove clean hot-dry VENTILATE wet-assist materialization from 06:30-10:00—cannot yet be credited at 06:10, and transition audit still shows held/missed moisture values plus a cooling-stage mismatch. I score it 6/10: successful bounded recovery and safety, but incomplete evidence for the daytime mechanism and imperfect materialization. Score: 6/10

Hypothesis

Testing: Test a live-error-gated midnight recovery that keeps band-coupled moisture available now, then scales thermal lead and wet/fog authority only as the observed morning dry ramp appears. Expected outcome: By 04:30 MDT, reduce live VPD from 1.21 kPa to within 0.15 kPa of the active high edge without any dew-margin reading below 8F or VPD-low stress. From 06:30-10:00, materialize wet assist when VPD exceeds the edge, with no repeated 15-minute VENTILATE moisture-gap alert; preserve dp-risk at 0 h. The sunrise review should verify actual wet-served proof before retaining the 35-40% daytime duty posture.

Setpoints

Wednesday August 12

Primary crop-band changes:

Tactical tunable changes:

Changed secondary parameters:

🌅 Morning Cycle (6:16 AM) — iris-20260812-0610

Reflection

Validating previous cycle: iris-20260811-2030

Previous hypothesis: SUNSET plan for Tuesday 2026-08-11. Today improved versus the seven-day baseline but remained a VPD-control failure: score 71.2 versus 66.3 seven-day average, VPD compliance 33.8% versus temperature compliance 48.1%, VPD-high stress 11.91 h versus heat stress 8.55 h, and zero cold/VPD-low/dew-risk hours. Live VPD is 1.19 kPa versus a 0.94 kPa high edge with a healthy 13.9F dew margin. Tonight’s challenge is VPD recovery without overnight over-wetting, followed by Wednesday’s 96F/17% RH ramp. I evaluated iris-20260811-0609 at 5/10 versus anchor 2. I credited the 4.06 h VPD-high reduction and safety; the anchor better reflects the operational failure because 18 guardrail events, 16 held values, and repeated moisture-gap alerts show poor materialization. Retrieval failed because OPENAI_API_KEY is unavailable. Cost fields, plan-coverage validation, and static site context were unavailable. Result: Final sunrise-plan outcome for 2026-08-12: planner score/compliance closed at 58.8 versus the 69.2 seven-day average, with resource scoring unavailable. Legacy temperature and VPD axis compliance were tied at 49.9%; heat stress slightly dominated at 10.00 h, followed closely by 9.35 h VPD-high, with 0 cold, 0.31 h VPD-low, minimum dew margin 8.3F, and 0 dew-risk hours. The forecast overcalled heat/dryness (96F predicted versus 90.5F actual peak; 14% predicted RH floor versus 51% indoor proxy) but undercalled solar (803 versus 1063 W/m2). Band-coupled wet assist reduced VPD-high stress from 14.69 h on 2026-08-11 to 9.35 h and total water fell from 325 gal to 168 gal, below the 276 gal seven-day average; however the expected corridor recovery and no-recurrence moisture-gap proof were not achieved. Alerts showed persistent moisture-capacity and house-dry stress, and materialization was dirty with many guardrail holds/misses. Structured stress grading: high VPD-high and heat windows were directionally correct but severity/duration mitigation underperformed; future VPD-low and rebound windows were not yet observable during this plan. Rationale grading: engagement/all-zone/delay/gap/fog/budget changes preserved safe moisture authority and water efficiency but did not prevent extended dry stress; tighter cooling response did not prevent 10 h heat stress under stronger-than-forecast solar. Overall 5/10: partial VPD improvement and excellent dew/cold safety, but low corridor score, persistent dual-axis stress, and unclean materialization. Score: 5/10

Hypothesis

Testing: Test whether an observation-gated dawn ramp followed by guardrail-clean +0.05/+0.22 kPa moisture thresholds, 40% duty and 0.15 kPa fog escalation prevents VENTILATE moisture-gap recurrence while preserving zero dew-risk hours. Expected outcome: By 09:30 MDT, wet assist should be served when live VPD crosses the high edge, without a repeated 15-minute VENTILATE moisture-gap alert. Target under 10 h VPD-high stress, under 0.5 h VPD-low stress, zero dew-risk hours, no dew margin below 8F, and no more than the 300 gal practical mist budget while accepting physics-limited heat.

Conditions

Rapid hot-dry ramp with calibrated peak near 93F and 3.5 kPa, then abrupt overcast while heat and dryness persist; Thursday storms and Friday dry rebound follow.

Expected stress windows

Parameter rationale

Setpoints

Wednesday August 12

Primary crop-band changes:

Tactical tunable changes:

Thursday August 13

Primary crop-band changes:

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Friday August 14

Primary crop-band changes:

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Changed secondary parameters:

🌆 Evening Cycle (8:05 PM) — iris-20260812-2002

Reflection

Validating previous cycle: iris-20260812-0610

Previous hypothesis: SUNRISE plan for Wednesday 2026-08-12. Yesterday closed at score 71.4 versus a 66.3 seven-day average, with no resource score. VPD was the bottleneck: 32.9% legacy axis compliance versus 46.6% temperature compliance; VPD-high stress dominated at 14.69 h versus 10.89 h heat, with 0 h cold and VPD-low stress. Water was 325 gal versus a 239 gal seven-day average, including 282 gal of misting. This was a cooling/misting day, but electric, gas, and total-cost fields are missing, so exact utility attribution is unavailable. The midnight plan recovered VPD from about 1.21 kPa to 0.75-0.78 kPa by sunrise with zero dew-risk hours. I scored it 6/10 versus deterministic anchor 3: my premium credits measured recovery and a 9.5F minimum dew margin, while the anchor correctly penalizes 116 guardrail events, 106 held, and incomplete proof of clean daytime materialization… Result: Evaluated at the prior-local-day boundary after about 4.2 h of governance. The safety portion matched: from roughly 20:00 to midnight house VPD declined from 1.07 to 0.89 kPa, there was no observed VPD-low or cold stress, current dew margin is 12.0F, and the prior day closed with 0 dew-risk hours. The predicted medium VPD-low window did not materialize in the elapsed portion; instead live VPD remains about 0.12 kPa above the dispatcher-owned high edge and alert 10299 is open for VENTILATE VPD-high with no moisture assist in 100% of the prior 15 minutes. The humidity-first rationale did not materialize cleanly: 5 values were held by the VPD-high guardrail, 6 were missed, and 2 were guardrailed. In particular the requested 60 s pulse gap and 0.50 kPa fog escalation were held at wetter values, direct-wet latest hour remained 21, and the high mister engagement request was clamped near the active band. The 100 gal budget landed and no overnight wet/fog runtime was observed, but pre-dawn in-corridor recovery and the late-morning dry-pulse handoff are not yet proven. Overall, dew safety succeeded, but the plan forecast the wrong near-term VPD direction, remained outside the corridor, and relied on changes the dispatcher correctly rejected while live VPD-high stress persisted. Score: 3/10

New finding: When a humid-night forecast begins while observed VPD is still above the active high edge, do not taper moisture from forecast alone. Keep ClimateIntent band-coupled until measured VPD has recovered inside the corridor and the VENTILATE moisture-gap alert clears; only then raise resource sensitivity and suppress wet assist for forecast VPD-low risk. → Added to Lessons Learned

Hypothesis

Testing: Test whether a humidity-first overnight taper with high dew margin and low wet duty prevents VPD-low/dew risk, while a bounded late-morning handoff preserves readiness for the forecast dry pulse without pre-wetting an overcast house. Expected outcome: Through sunrise: 0 dew-risk hours, no cold stress, no more than 0.5 h VPD-low stress, pre-dawn VPD inside the dispatcher-owned corridor, and no unnecessary overnight wet/fog runtime. Through the late-morning fallback: keep any renewed VPD-high error within 0.20 kPa of the high edge unless a live storm/dry-ramp deviation proves the forecast wrong.

Conditions

Humid overcast/storm-recovery night with 63-69F temperatures and 80-84% RH, followed by a short uncertain dry/thermal pulse near midday before renewed storm humidity. Forecast VPD has a large positive historical bias, so the morning handoff is bounded rather than preemptively aggressive.

Expected stress windows

Parameter rationale

Setpoints

Wednesday August 12

Primary crop-band changes:

Tactical tunable changes:

Thursday August 13

Primary crop-band changes:

Tactical tunable changes:

Changed secondary parameters:

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): 6.0h
• VPD stress (>2.0 kPa): 13.8h
• Cold stress (<55°F): 6.5h

Economics

Equipment Runtimes

Water

• Total: 168 gal
• Mister: 43 gal

Crop Health (Gemini Vision)

Hourly Pattern

7-Day Stress Context