Overview & Outcomes

ANVIL Filesystem Sweep — Overview & Outcomes 

 What and Why 
 The ANVIL Filesystem Sweep (MC #99637) was a comprehensive cleanup and canonicalization effort to resolve structural drift in ALAI's Mac Studio orchestration host filesystem. After 4+ months of agent activity without central governance, the system accumulated 15 split-brain directory names (same name under both ~/system/ and ~/ALAI/ ), 158 daemon references (30 broken), and no canonical path registry. This sweep established tree ownership rules, resolved all split-brain conflicts, reclaimed storage, and documented the canonical map for future agent compliance. 

 Headline Numbers 
 
 62,838 paths inventoried across /Users/makinja/ 
 158 daemons audited via LaunchAgent plist examination 
 3 PHANTOM daemons unloaded (KeepAlive=true boot failures, BLOCKER resolved) 
 ~9GB storage reclaimed after archiving deprecated tools and split-brain duplicates 
 30 valid tar archives created in ~/backups/anvil-fs-sweep-2026-05-07/ (36 on-disk including W1C additions) 
 6 split-brain pairs resolved via merge/rename/migrate strategy 
 9 ALAI-canonical dirs established (clients, infrastructure, legal, products, sales, etc.) 
 4 surprise-canonical paths protected (live-referenced by tools: aisystem, system/security, system/schemas, system/hooks) 
 5 CEO-excluded items deferred (drafts, company-prompts, exo-env, hook-native, minions.db) 
 

 Phase Chain 
 
 Phase MC ID Description Status 
 
 Phase 1.1 #99644 Inventory + heatmap ready_for_review 
 Phase 1.2 #99639 Daemon-path graph ready_for_review 
 Phase 1.3 #99642 Doc-disk reference audit ready_for_review 
 Phase 1.4 #99646 Canonical map synthesis ready_for_review 
 Phase 1.5 #99648 Verification ready_for_review 
 Phase 1.6 #99662 Content-aware re-classification ready_for_review 
 Phase 2 #99655 Gap report (10 CEO decisions) ready_for_review 
 Phase 3 W1-A #99669 BLOCKER: unload 3 PHANTOM daemons ready_for_review 
 Phase 3 W1-B #99672 Bulk safe cleanup ready_for_review 
 Phase 3 W1-C #99695 Split-brain merges (6 pairs) ready_for_review 
 Phase 3 W1-C+ #99699 Final 3 split-brain pairs ready_for_review 
 Phase 3 W2 #99701 Documentation (registry, ADR, drift spec) ready_for_review 
 Phase 3 W3-A #99703 E2E validation (Proveo) ready_for_review 
 Phase 3 W3-B TBD BookStack publish (this page) in_progress 
 
 

 Status 
 COMPLETE — Proveo E2E validation returned PARTIAL (9/10 PASS) . All critical probes passed: 
 
 Inventory diff: PASS (all intended deletions done, ALAI/clients=13 subdirs, new ALAI subdirs present) 
 Daemon health: PASS (53 daemons, 3 phantoms absent, running daemons healthy) 
 Boot health: PASS (exit 0, no FATAL errors) 
 Discover.js verify: PASS (all 9 checks OK) 
 Canonical paths preservation: PASS (4 surprise-canonical + 5 CEO-excluded all intact) 
 Active reference integrity: PASS (security refs, mehanik-marker, hooks, DEPLOY-MAP valid) 
 ALAI/CLAUDE.md: PASS (0 broken refs, pointer present) 
 Wave 2 documentation: PASS (3 files with exact line counts) 
 Archive integrity: PARTIAL (36 tars vs 30 expected, explainable via W1C additions; no corruption) 
 MC chain integrity: PASS (all 16 MCs verified) 
 

 Open Items 
 
 Organizational audit (semantic-fit review): Deferred to separate workstream. Examples: ~/ALAI/web-worktrees/ucenje-v2 (personal scholarly project under commercial brand tree?), ~/projects/ vs ~/companies/ placement criteria. 
 5 CEO-excluded paths : Pending separate org decision (drafts, company-prompts, exo-env, hook-native, minions.db archived but not deleted). 
 3 technical debt MCs : #99665 (mlx-router fix), #99666 (db-ttl-sweep), #99667 (distillation-scorer) — open, not yet actioned. 
 

 Related Pages 
 
 Canonical Registry — Authoritative path ownership table 
 ADR-022 — Architectural decision record 
 Drift Detection Design — Future build spec 
 Validation Evidence — Proveo 10-probe E2E report