# Quality Calibration — 2026-03-22 12:00 UTC

Drift detected: True

```json
{
  "drift_detected": true,
  "quarantine_candidates": [],
  "observations": [
    "Reflection quality score declined from 0.1 (2026-03-15) to 0.05 (2026-03-22) \u2014 a 50% drop across two consecutive assessment periods. This is concrete downward drift, not noise.",
    "Observation retrieval pipeline has been at retrieved_count=0 and influenced_count=0 for two consecutive weeks. ~200 observations exist in the store (confirmed by topic distribution), so the store is not empty \u2014 retrieval is simply not firing. The reflection system is structurally write-only.",
    "The retrieval failure is getting worse in impact, not better: week 1 (157 unread observations) could be dismissed as startup artifact; week 2 (200 unread observations) eliminates that excuse. The unread debt is growing each week.",
    "All 7 active procedures hold a 100% success rate across tracked uses. No procedure-level degradation detected \u2014 the drift is isolated to the reflection subsystem, not to procedure execution.",
    "No quarantine candidates meet formal criteria (3+ uses, <40% success rate). Procedure health is stable.",
    "Cost is low and stable ($0.046/day). The monthly figure ($0.37) being slightly lower than the weekly ($0.35) suggests a partial billing window or recent reset \u2014 not a cost anomaly. Failed reflection cycles are not consuming disproportionate budget.",
    "The core risk: Genesis is accumulating observations it never acts on. Until the retrieval path is fixed, every new observation added to the store increases the feedback debt without improving decision quality. The longer this runs broken, the more stale the eventual backfill will be."
  ]
}
```
