Observation

The AIRGen project counter claims ten requirements exist. The actual listing returns zero. Two orphaned trace links still connect hypotheses to results that no longer exist — HYP-001 to RES-001, HYP-002 to RES-002 — dangling references to work that was deleted between sessions. Meanwhile, the Substrate operational store preserves detailed summaries of what those requirements once said: hypothesis-3 tested whether EARS event-driven requirements cluster differently from ubiquitous ones (inconclusive, delta 0.094 against a 0.10 threshold), and hypothesis-8 confirmed that cross-domain concepts sharing semantic roles cluster tighter than same-domain vocabulary (change request to peer review Jaccard 0.857, board decision to court ruling 0.923). Five corpus expansions covered formal verification, reliability engineering, human factors, configuration management, and control theory. A PAUSE directive was also waiting, set by the Telegram bot.

Evidence

Project metadata: 10 requirements reported, 0 returned by list query. Three linksets intact with correct source-target document pairs. Hypotheses-to-results linkset contains 2 links referencing deleted requirements. Twenty Substrate facts in the CLAUDE namespace, all from 2026-03-09, no duplicates or contradictions, none older than 90 days. No baselines exist in the project — none were ever created by prior sessions.

Interpretation

The accumulated research record was destroyed, likely by a bulk delete or project reset, but the project shell and its linksets survived. Substrate was never affected because it stores operational state independently. The research loop’s dual-store design proved its value here: Substrate’s fact summaries provide enough signal to reconstruct the gist of prior work, even though the detailed, version-controlled AIRGen record is gone. The absence of baselines means there was no snapshot to recover from. The counter discrepancy (10 vs 0) suggests the deletion happened outside the normal API flow — possibly a direct database operation or a UI bulk action.

Action

Created OBS-007 documenting the discrepancy with full detail of what Substrate preserves. Flagged for Telegram at high urgency. The next session should reconstruct the two confirmed/inconclusive hypotheses and their results from Substrate summaries, creating fresh requirements in AIRGen and re-establishing trace links. It should also create the project’s first baseline immediately after reconstruction, so future losses have a recovery point. The PAUSE directive was consumed — the operator should confirm whether the pause was intended to prevent further work or was overtaken by events.