Lexery - Drift Radar

Drift means: documented intent, tooling, or org rhythm no longer matches observable reality. This page lists active contradictions so they are not silently normalized into “probably fine.”

Companion pages: Lexery - Open Questions and Drift (narrative), Lexery - Unknowns Queue (investigation backlog), Lexery - Current State (snapshot).

Severity legend

  • P0 — blocks correct operation, security, or revenue truth.
  • P1 — degrades predictability of delivery or observability.
  • P2 — process or naming debt that compounds if ignored.

Active items

1. Branch divergence — P1

  • legal-agent-brain-dev is 12 commits ahead of origin/legal-agent-brain-dev, with significant unstaged local change.
  • origin/dev carries frontend / auth / plan work not present on the brain-focused line.
  • Risk: duplicated fixes, skewed code review assumptions, and “works on my machine” integration gaps.

Navigate: Lexery - Branch Divergence, Lexery - Repo Constellation, Lexery - GitHub History.

2. Stabilization milestone overdue — P1

  • LEX-139 stabilization cycle was due 2026-03-08; reported progress ~25%.
  • Many sub-issues look addressed in code but remain open in Linear — classic execution–tracking drift.

Navigate: Lexery - Linear Roadmap, Lexery - PR Chronology.

3. Sprint cadence lost — P2

  • No active cycles since Feb 2026; work continues ad hoc without time-boxing.
  • Risk: priority inflation (everything “urgent”) and weak forecasting for partner or customer comms.

Navigate: Lexery - Team and Operating Model.

4. ORCH not in production — P1

  • ORCH_ENABLED=true appears dev-only in current understanding.
  • Needs production-shadow or canary traffic before trusting branch decisions under real load.

Navigate: Lexery - ORCH and Clarification, Lexery - Decision Registry, Lexery - Deployment and Infra.

5. codex/legal-rag-foundation branch — P2

  • Referenced in wiki lineage; not found in some local clones — may be deleted remotely or never fetched.
  • Action: confirm on GitHub remote and either archive the reference or document the replacement branch.

Navigate: Lexery - Branch codex legal-rag-foundation, Lexery - Legacy Branch Families.

6. LLDBI nreg case sensitivity — P2

  • Manual inspection confusion between ВР vs вр (and similar) breaks mental models even when code paths are strict.
  • Risk: false “missing act” conclusions during ops and content QA.

Navigate: Lexery - LLDBI Surface, Lexery - Glossary.

7. Public trace incompleteness — P1

  • Not all stages emit matched stage_started / stage_completed pairs.
  • Risk: customer-facing run timelines and internal postmortems show false gaps or false confidence.

Navigate: Lexery - Public Trace, Lexery - Contracts and Run Schema.

8. Document Memory unassigned — P1

  • LEX-163LEX-170 (eight issues): high priority, no owner.
  • Risk: MM/Docs path stays fragile while product promises attach to “memory.”

Navigate: Lexery - Memory and Documents, Lexery - Linear Roadmap.

9. Priority inflation — P2

  • ~61% of Linear issues marked Urgent/High — when everything is urgent, triage signals collapse.

Navigate: Lexery - Team and Operating Model, Lexery - Linear Roadmap.

10. No release / deploy tagging — P1

  • No visible GitHub Releases, no crisp production branch story, no deploy versioning in one place.
  • Risk: incident response and customer support cannot answer “what shipped when.”

Navigate: Lexery - Deployment and Infra, Lexery - API and Control Plane.

How this page stays honest

  1. Each item should eventually resolve into either a closed Linear issue, a doc update, or a move to Lexery - Unknowns Queue if it was a false alarm.
  2. Weekly automation (see Lexery - Maintenance Runbook) should append new contradictions rather than duplicating narrative from Lexery - Open Questions and Drift.

See Also