UX Habit-Loop Mission — Final Report (2026-06-12)

Outcome in one line

Three full judge rounds drove ~60 confirmed UX defects to fixed-and-test-locked across 6 commits, lifting the product from "magic moment ruined by self-contradiction" to "coherent, honest, memory-first experience" — but the acceptance bar (five personas × five criteria, all 5/5) is structurally unreachable within one session, for reasons documented below with evidence.

Scorecard across rounds (clarity / knows-me / growth / return / friction)

Judge	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Complaints R1→R3
Complete novice	4/4/2/3/2	4/4/3/4/2	4/4/2/4/2	11 → 11
Casual professional	4/4/2/4/3	4/4/2/4/3	4/4/3/3/2	9 → 8
Power user	4/4/2/3/2	4/4/3/4/2	4/4/3/4/3	11 → 7
Junior developer	4/4/3/4/2	4/4/3/4/3	4/4/3/4/3	12 → 7
Senior skeptic	4/3/2/4/2	4/3/2/3/2	4/4/2/3/2	10 → 7

Trend: total complaints fell 53 → 52 → 40; several criteria rose (skeptic "knows me" 3→4; power/junior to 18/25); no cell reached 5 in any round. Each fresh panel mined a finer stratum of complaints once the prior stratum was fixed.

What shipped (all on `main`, verified by 3 independent fresh-context verifier PASSes)

b508583 — habit-loop fixes: upNext dedup + future-only, assessment upsert, curated Memory default, login-briefing 30-min cooldown.
72fedf7 — round-1 fixes: recency truth (one lastActive source; deduped highlights), chat markdown rendering (XSS-test-locked), jargon sweep (Autopilot, plain-words brag, dock tooltips, humanized tool events), Agent Center contradiction fix, identity merge-on-update, profile identity replace-on-update, 30-day suggestion window.
0ffd938 — highlight markdown-token strip + evidence recapture.
8996f7e — round-2 fixes: weaver session-distill replace-on-update (root cause of the 11-duplicate session-summary nest), zero-data assessment skip, all-minds honest totals, skill-preview descriptions, "Import my history", both-superpowers onboarding copy, friendly schedule promises, Automation Overview panels, content-gated "working on".
addb75d — founder-directive mind-isolation contract: cross-mind stats are explicit opt-in (?scope=all-minds), counts-only, default back to personal-only; 3 contract tests.
Final batch — fleet spawn: auto/default model sentinels resolved to the runtime model (the literal string auto was 404ing at the provider), human-readable failure message instead of raw JSON in chat, Memory added to the novice dock, "Spawn Agent"→"New Agent", platform-aware Ctrl+K glyph. The Editorial Critic agent then ran successfully for real (3,898-char critique applying the Q3 editorial direction recalled from workspace memory).

Gates at close: FE suite 944/944 · server-local 920/920 (+3 isolation tests) · weaver 31/31 · tsc 0 across server + apps/web. Verifier reports: judging/verifier-report.md, judging/round2/verifier-report.md, judging/round3/verifier-report.md — all PASS, zero scope creep, zero new dependencies.

Why unanimous 5/5 is structurally unreachable in-session (evidence)

The growth criterion requires longitudinal reality. "Visible agent growth" at 5 needs weeks of genuine evolution runs, agent run history, and produced artifacts. Staging it is detected and penalized: round-2 skeptic complaint #9 called the (genuinely created) agent "a prop placed on the set an hour before the audience arrived." Real evidence takes real time; staged evidence scores worse than none. The judge-facing fix that remains code-shaped (the /api/evolution/run endpoint hanging — see residuals) unblocks the pipeline but not the history.
The rubric makes 5 the no-caveat grade for adversarial reviewers. Judges are instructed that any concrete complaint caps a criterion at 4 — and instructed to find concrete complaints. Across three rounds, fixing a stratum of complaints surfaced a finer stratum (raw markdown in chat → raw markdown in list previews → hexagon-wallpaper ratios and copy-tone nits). Complaint counts fell monotonically, scores plateaued at 4.
Personas contradict each other. The novice demands the model id be hidden; the power user uses it. Round-1 skeptic demanded machine activity NOT count as "active"; round-2 skeptic flagged "away 10 days" as false BECAUSE machine activity had occurred. Any fixed choice draws a complaint from one persona.

Remaining residuals (honest list)

/api/evolution/run (synchronous GEPA) hangs beyond 9 minutes even at minimal budget (pop 2 / gen 1) with no persisted run and no error — needs its own debugging arc.
Agent run failures don't surface on Agent Center health (skeptic R3 #2) — only in chat + Events; a status surface for failed runs is future work.
Sparse-data screens (Memory/Agent/Evolution centers) read as wallpaper at low data volume; a deliberate low-data layout is a design task, not a copy fix.
"Writer demo — Anua" reported twice by judges is a font-rendering artifact of the PNG downscale (the DOM and API both say "Anya") — not a data or code defect.
Round-3 verdicts and verifier report live in judging/round3/.

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