From gen-11 weave E04 (7 evidence spots; lived experience across tonight's judge fleet)
First brain_search call from Cursor CLI clients times out ~20% of the time under enrichment/drain load; retry succeeds. The fleet-wide workaround is a 'retry-once' rule baked into every dispatch prompt — a standing tax on every worker and a silent-degradation source (tonight: 529/673 judge verdicts ran evidence_degraded because search was DB-locked through the batch).
Ask
Chase the root: likely first-call cold path (connection/setup racing the writer lock) in the BrainBar socket path or the busy_timeout handling for read queries. Goal: first call as reliable as the retry, so the retry-once prompt rule can be deleted from fleet dispatch templates.
Evidence: orchestrator docs.local/weave-2026-06-06/ (S4-edits E04) + 2026-06-05-kg-judge-verdicts-report.md (79% degraded batch).
🤖 Filed by brainlayerClaude per weave dispatch
From gen-11 weave E04 (7 evidence spots; lived experience across tonight's judge fleet)
First brain_search call from Cursor CLI clients times out ~20% of the time under enrichment/drain load; retry succeeds. The fleet-wide workaround is a 'retry-once' rule baked into every dispatch prompt — a standing tax on every worker and a silent-degradation source (tonight: 529/673 judge verdicts ran evidence_degraded because search was DB-locked through the batch).
Ask
Chase the root: likely first-call cold path (connection/setup racing the writer lock) in the BrainBar socket path or the busy_timeout handling for read queries. Goal: first call as reliable as the retry, so the retry-once prompt rule can be deleted from fleet dispatch templates.
Evidence: orchestrator docs.local/weave-2026-06-06/ (S4-edits E04) + 2026-06-05-kg-judge-verdicts-report.md (79% degraded batch).
🤖 Filed by brainlayerClaude per weave dispatch