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+# PROGRESS · personal report sectioning · 2026-08-30
+
+## Task 0 gate — observed after staging deployment
+
+- Telemetry commit: `1f1fdb1d155e472118ad7d1d4c49b1b5cb95bcb2`.
+- Deployed staging SHA verified at `https://staging.jyotisha.chat/api/health`: `37c0c139656c5eab7150221e8c09d9aa6fcf95b8`.
+- Observation window: 2026-08-30 20:46–20:51 Asia/Taipei, one real authenticated “生成完整报告” run.
+- User-visible result: report did not complete; the report center shows `report_schema_invalid`.
+- Server event: one `[personal-report]` `generation_failed` with `innerReason=final_parse_rejected`.
+
+### Telemetry sample (privacy-safe fields only)
+
+| observed agent attempts | outcome | finishReason | inputTokens | outputTokens | totalTokens | repairAttempted |
+| ---: | --- | --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
+| 1 | resolved | `stop` | 4,772 | 3,069 | 7,841 | false |
+
+### Gate metrics from this sample
+
+- Report failures: **1**.
+- Agent telemetry attempts observed: **1**.
+- `finishReason="length"`: **0 / 1 = 0%** of observed agent attempts; **0 / 0 = not applicable** when restricted to agent attempts that themselves failed.
+- `outputTokens` p50: **3,069**.
+- `outputTokens` p95: **3,069**.
+- Important attribution: this run's agent call resolved with `finishReason="stop"`; the later report-level final parse failed. Therefore this sample does not support attributing the report failure to truncation.
+
+## Gate decision
+
+Task 0 observation is complete. No output cap, schema relaxation, or schema tightening was made from the estimate in the task brief. The observed failure is recorded as a report-level parse failure, not a length failure. It is now permissible to begin Tasks 1–4, subject to the Docker/database stop rule and the remaining quality gates.
+
+## Task 1–4
+
+- Not started at the time of this entry.