date: 2026-07-02 procedure: check-only node: random-ai-prompt outcome: checked-only hub_version: 0.11.2 hub_commit: 7ad4eeb

Process Report — check-only, 2026-07-02

A full, honest account of running a fairyfox system procedure. The point is to improve the system — so say what was rough even if the run succeeded. Voice: direct, matter-of-fact, no hype. Standard: hub/standards/process-reports.md.

Outcome in one line

Scheduled check-for-updates run: refreshed the hub mirror to 0.11.2 (7ad4eeb); no hub/standards/ or hub/templates/ changes since the last-seen 0.11.0 (2ffe455) — nothing to adopt, nothing applied.

What was done

1. git -C assets/references/fairyfox.io pull --depth 1 --ff-only origin dev aborted — hub dev had been force-pushed (+ 2ffe455...7ad4eeb dev -> origin/dev (forced update)). Took the runbook's documented fallback: git fetch --depth 1 origin dev + git reset --hard origin/dev on the reference clone only. Mirror now at 7ad4eeb (hub VERSION 0.11.2).
2. Diffed the old anchor against the new HEAD scoped to the shared surfaces: git diff 2ffe455 7ad4eeb -- hub/standards hub/templates → empty. Both commit objects were still present locally, so the diff is real, not a shallow-clone artifact.
3. Widened to the whole hub diff to explain the version bump: the only changes are the hub's own website/metadata — _data/{downloads,projects,pulse}.yml, _projects/{random-ai-prompt,fairyfox-games}.md, two _posts/ blog entries, hub/.last-seen.yml, and the hub's notes/ + VERSION. That commit ("reconcile to RAP 2.38.1 + Fairy Fox Games 0.6.0, blog the 1st") is the hub tracking this project's releases — not new standards for this node to adopt.
4. Cross-checked the last report (2026-07-02-propose-scorecard-hardening.md): last-seen anchor was hub_version: 0.11.0 / hub_commit: 2ffe455, matching the pre-pull local HEAD. Confirms the diff window is correct.

Applied nothing (check-report-wait default). No authorizations.yml lookup was needed — there is no pending adoption to shortcut.

What went well

The force-push fallback is spelled out in CLAUDE.md, so the aborted --ff-only was expected and handled without guessing. Because the pre-pull commit stayed in the object store, the standards/templates diff could be computed exactly rather than inferred.

What went wrong / friction

Hub dev gets force-pushed routinely, so --ff-only "fails" on essentially every run and the reset --hard fallback is really the normal path, not the exception. The runbook frames it as an edge case ("if ... aborts"), which undersells how often it fires.

Suggestions / feedback

Consider having the check flow use the version anchor (hub_version from the latest report) rather than the mirror's pre-pull SHA as the diff base — the SHA is fragile across force-pushes/re-clones, while the version is the durable anchor the template already treats as authoritative. Here they happened to coincide (2ffe455 = 0.11.0), but a re-clone would have lost the local object and broken the diff.

Environment

Windows + PowerShell (per project rule: no bash sandbox). Reference clone at assets/references/fairyfox.io/ (read-only, git-ignored). Unattended scheduled run — report-and-wait, applied nothing.