# Orchestration Audit Report: Session 3fc7bb8c (S8)

**Transcript:** `/home/jared/.claude/projects/-home-jared-servers/3fc7bb8c-54c1-4147-ac3d-dc7db3fca924.jsonl`  
**Session Date:** 2026-07-04, 17:20–18:04 UTC  
**Duration:** ~44 minutes  
**Turns:** 90 assistant turns, 5 human prompts  
**Tools:** 44 total (Bash:27, Edit:6, Write:4, Read:3, ToolSearch:2, ExitPlanMode:1, Skill:1)  
**Agent Spawns:** 0

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## Question 1: Are subagents getting called when they should be?

**Verdict: PASS** — No subagent spawns, but none were required.

**Evidence:**
- Factsheet reports zero Agent spawns across 90 turns.
- Work was inherently sequential: diagnostic steps on ovh-prod (commands 2–6 in Bash sequence) → n8n investigation (commands 7–15) → documentation (commands 16–21) → desktop verification (commands 22–27). Each phase depends on conclusions from the previous.
- Bash command sequence analysis (turns 6–87): SSH diagnostics were tightly coupled (command 2 reads the script, command 3 checks logs for clues based on script content, command 5 applies a fix targeting symptoms found in command 3).
- No wide grep-and-synthesize or large-context work that would trigger the "spans many files" or "needs large/isolated context" delegation criteria.

**Key Dependency Chain:**
- Turn 6–11: SSH to ovh-prod, read backup.sh, check logs, apply fix, test it.
- Turn 19–38: Investigate n8n (grep for references, check docker, query database) — depends on conclusion that backup.sh may involve n8n.
- Turn 41–48: Update incidents.md with findings — depends on diagnosis being complete.
- Turn 51–87: Set up verification on desktop — depends on understanding the full scope from phases 1–3.

No parallel discovery threads; the work was single-stream investigation.

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## Question 2: Is the correct model chosen per subagent?

**Verdict: N/A** — No subagents spawned.

**Evidence:** Not applicable; the session spawned zero agents.

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## Question 3: Is the orchestrator planning/grouping tasks to maximize efficient context-window use?

**Verdict: MIXED** — Grouping was implicit rather than explicit; minor opportunity missed.

**Evidence:**
- Read calls (3 total): incidents.md files (2), memory.md (1). Low volume overall.
- Bash calls (27 total) were sequential, with no explicit batching of independent reads.
- **Missed Opportunity:** Commands 7–8 (local grep for n8n references in /servers/ directory) could have run in parallel with commands 2–6 (SSH ovh-prod diagnostics) — they are fully independent (no shared state, no cross-system dependencies). Commands 7–8 appear at lines 65–73; commands 2–6 completed earlier.
- However, the gain would be minimal (~1–2 minutes wall-clock savings); the overall session is already efficient because most work is hands-on diagnostic/fix (no large context accumulation).
- No evidence of explicit grouping strategy in the transcript (no mention of "I'll batch these", "run in parallel", etc.). The orchestrator appears to have run tasks as they naturally emerged from the diagnosis, which is appropriate for interactive troubleshooting.

**Specific Lines:**
- Lines 65–73: grep commands 7–8 (local filesystem search for n8n).
- Lines 25–35: grep commands 2–6 completed earlier (SSH ovh-prod diagnostics).
- They were executed sequentially, but could have overlapped.

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## Question 4: Is the orchestrator avoiding reading files it does NOT need?

**Verdict: PASS** — Minimal unnecessary reads.

**Evidence:**
- Only 3 Read calls across 44 tools (7% of work).
- Read 1 (line 14): `/home/jared/servers/ovh-prod/docs/incidents.md` — directly relevant; planning requires understanding the incident.
- Read 2 (line 121): `/home/jared/servers/desktop/docs/incidents.md` — directly relevant; needed to update it.
- Read 3 (line 88): `/home/jared/.claude/projects/.../memory/MEMORY.md` — project memory, part of standard SessionStart context.
- No evidence of reading tangential files or over-loading context. The orchestrator stayed focused on the diagnostic targets.
- **Bash vs Read Balance:** Most information was gathered via SSH diagnostics and local grepping (27 Bash calls) rather than reading large files. This is appropriate for this type of work.

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## Question 5: Is the orchestrator sharing too much context with subagents?

**Verdict: N/A** — No subagents spawned.

**Evidence:** Not applicable.

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## Question 6: Is the orchestrator following the ORCHESTRATION.md instructions?

**Verdict: PASS** — Yes, though implicitly rather than explicitly.

**Evidence:**
- SessionStart injection (line 4): ORCHESTRATION.md was successfully injected at startup, confirming the policy was loaded.
- Policy snippet quoted: "Do single-file, ≤2-tool-call ops directly. Don't delegate them. Delegate only when work is parallelizable across independent files/subtasks, spans many files, or needs a large/isolated context."
- **Observance Check:**
  - "Single-file, ≤2-tool-call ops done directly?" YES. Turns 44–49 (Edit incidents.md): 3 edits completed inline without delegation.
  - "Delegation only for parallelizable/multi-file/large-context?" NOT TRIGGERED. No work met those criteria.
  - "Explicit model parameter for Agent spawns?" Not applicable (zero spawns).
- **Missing Signal:** No explicit reasoning about the decision. The transcript contains no text mentioning "this is sequential, so I won't delegate" or "these are independent so I could parallelize". The orchestrator appears to have followed the policy implicitly through task structure, not by conscious articulation.

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## Question 7: Is the orchestrator requesting/receiving back only context it needs?

**Verdict: PASS** — No subagent results; not applicable.

**Evidence:** Zero subagents, so no results to evaluate. The orchestrator's own Bash/Read/Edit operations were tightly scoped (no over-reading, minimal context bloat).

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## Summary of Findings

### Key Strengths
1. **Correct No-Delegation Decision:** The work was genuinely sequential; spawning even a single subagent would have introduced latency without parallelization benefit.
2. **Minimal Context Loading:** Only 3 reads in 90 turns; work was hands-on diagnostic, not deep-context synthesis.
3. **Tight Coupling Observed:** Each diagnostic step depended on the previous result, validating sequential execution.
4. **Policy Compliance:** ORCHESTRATION.md was loaded and followed implicitly.

### Minor Opportunities
1. **Missed Parallelization:** Commands 7–8 (local n8n grep) vs. commands 2–6 (SSH ovh-prod diagnostics) could have run in parallel. Gain: ~1–2 minutes wall-clock time. Not worth subagent overhead, but explicit batching acknowledgment would improve transparency.
2. **Implicit vs. Explicit Reasoning:** The orchestrator did not articulate why delegation was not chosen. For audit trails and future refinement, explicit reasoning ("this work is inherently sequential because...") would be valuable.

### No Issues Found
- No over-delegation of trivial work.
- No under-use of subagents on parallelizable multi-file tasks.
- No wasteful context passing.
- No violation of the ≤2-tool-call rule for direct work.

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## Verdict

**AUDIT PASS** — The orchestrator correctly chose not to spawn agents for this session. The work was inherently sequential investigative debugging, with minimal parallelization opportunity and high dependency coupling. The policy was followed appropriately.

**Recommendation for Future Sessions:** When multiple independent investigative threads emerge (even slightly), consider explicit acknowledgment of why they remain sequential. This would strengthen audit clarity without slowing work.
