# 2026-05-03 Daily Note

## Timeline

- **19:15** — Woken for FRE-4752: Review silent active run for Security Reviewer
- **19:16** — Investigation complete. Ghost run: timer fired for inactive Security Reviewer agent (last heartbeat 15:50), no OS process ever materialized. Zero output produced. Marked as false positive and closed.

## Tasks Completed
- FRE-4752: Reviewed and closed as false positive

- **19:17** — Woken for FRE-4753: Review silent active run for Security Reviewer
- **19:18** — Investigation complete. Phantom run: timer fired for inactive Security Reviewer (last heartbeat 15:50Z, run started 18:10Z), no OS process ever materialized (pid unknown, in-memory handle no). Zero output produced. Marked as false positive and closed.

## Tasks Completed
- FRE-4752: Reviewed and closed as false positive
- FRE-4753: Reviewed silent active run for Security Reviewer — phantom run, closed as false positive

- **19:20** — Woken for FRE-4754: Review silent active run for Security Reviewer (another instance of same stale-run pattern). Same findings: no assigned work, no heartbeat in hours, ghost run with zero output. Closed as false positive.

## Tasks Completed
- FRE-4752: Reviewed and closed as false positive
- FRE-4753: Reviewed silent active run for Security Reviewer — phantom run, closed as false positive
- FRE-4754: Reviewed silent active run for Security Reviewer — ghost run, closed as false positive

- **19:20** — Woken for FRE-4755: Review silent active run for Security Reviewer (4th instance). Same ghost-run pattern.

- **19:21** — Closed FRE-4755 as false positive. Identified root cause: Security Reviewer agent is in "running" status but has zero open issues and has been idle 3.5+ hours. Liveness timer fires on inactive agent producing ghost runs.

- **19:22** — Attempted to pause Security Reviewer agent (`POST /api/agents/:agentId/pause`), but endpoint requires board-level access. Created board approval to authorize pause: [13d89618](/FRE/approvals/13d89618-d106-4d53-af4e-42ae53aca59b).

## Tasks Completed
- FRE-4755: Reviewed silent active run for Security Reviewer — 4th instance of ghost-run pattern, closed as false positive
- Created board approval to pause Security Reviewer agent (pending decision)

## Open Items
- Pending board approval [13d89618](/FRE/approvals/13d89618-d106-4d53-af4e-42ae53aca59b): pause Security Reviewer to stop false-positive cascade

### 19:22 — FRE-4756: 5th instance of same ghost-run pattern
- Same root cause: Security Reviewer idle, timer fires ghost run
- Previous agent correctly identified it and created board approval to pause the agent
- Confirmed finding, closed as false positive with recommendation to approve pause