medic__qwen3.6-35b-a3b__20260710-190552 — first medic recovery pass (P0)

RULE-RELAXED recoverability axis — NOT a baseline/leaderboard number. The medic is deliberately told the verifier failed and shown the exact failing-check output; this run exists to measure how recoverable a failure is in one debugging round, never to be folded into the standard score.

Phase 1 (baseline): runs/smoke__qwen3.6-35b-a3b__20260710-190154 (MinimalPi, MEDIC_CAPTURE=on). cancel-async-tasks FAIL (agent 17s — a fast "confident false success": the asyncio.gather + semaphore draft passes 5/6 but mishandles cancellation above max_concurrent).

Phase 2 (this run, MedicPi, MEDIC_SIGNAL=full MEDIC_LOG_ACCESS=dump MEDIC_WORKSPACE=restore): the base agent's broken /app/run.py was restored in place and the failing pytest output injected into the system prompt. The medic ran 6m19s (2.71M input / 40k output tokens; 147 run_shell_command, 15 read_file, 12 write_file, 12 edit — it edited /app/run.py repeatedly).

Recoverability verdict: still-fails (0/1 recovered)

• baseline 0/1 · +1 nudge 0/1 · recoverability 0% of eligible failures.
• BUT the medic made real, targeted progress: the originally-failing test test_tasks_cancel_above_max_concurrent now PASSES; the medic over-corrected and regressed a different test (test_tasks_obey_max_concurrent), so the trial is still 5/6 → FAIL. So this is "fixed the reported bug, broke an invariant," not "made no progress."
• It also hit ~21 loop-guard/empty-final recovery events over its many turns — the MoE churned on shell commands mid-repair.

What this validates (the point of the run)

Every P0 mechanism worked on a real failing 35b task, verified from the logs: 1. phase-1 workspace capture (workspace.tar.gz = ./run.py); 2. failed-set selection (medic_lib.py select → cancel-async-tasks); 3. input staging (workspace + failing-check output + run log, keyed by task); 4. workspace restore — the base draft's distinctive except (KeyboardInterrupt, asyncio.CancelledError) block appears 24× in the medic's context → it opened onto the real broken attempt, not a pristine file; 5. failure-signal injection — minimal-pi: MEDIC recovery prompt active (signal=full) fired; the medic targeted the exact named failing test; 6. real second verdict + medic_recovery.json diff.

Caveats / honesty

• K=1, temp 0.6 → single-trial signal (the repo's standard caveat). "Fixed the target test but regressed another" is the kind of near-miss the axis is built to surface; a K>1 run would show whether one-round recovery is reachable.
• The over-correction suggests the minimal-change instruction in the REPAIR ROUND prompt did not fully land — a candidate prompt tweak (P1).
• The 6m19s / 2.7M-input churn (log dump + repeated re-reads + loops) is a cost datapoint: dumping the log to a readable file is cheap to stage but the medic still burned turns; the P1 query_log A/B is the intended lever.