Engineering Risk

Critical / High Issues (Current)

• PILLAR lane: director role still unstaffed while backend/tester/chat repos carry unresolved security and reliability debt.
• Config hygiene drift: .env is tracked in pillarchat and vesper-night-trust snapshots; treat as policy breach even if keys are publishable.
• openclaw-workspace snapshot drift: audit snapshot is 14 commits behind origin/main, reducing confidence in repo-level risk reporting.
• Org execution risk: EA and ORIGIN remain owner-pending, blocking operational handoff and escalation coverage.
• Workspace git noise: high untracked/dirty surface in ops repo increases accidental-commit and rollback risk.

Cross-Project Consistency Checks

• Dashboard consistency: project status labels in projects.html and per-project pages match project_status.json.
• Repo connectivity: all audited snapshot repos fetched successfully; only openclaw-workspace shows major behind drift.

Next-Day Top 5 Actions

1. Appoint named directors for PILLAR and EA (and ORIGIN fallback owner) before noon PT.
2. Remove tracked .env files from pillarchat + vesper repos and enforce .env* git guardrail policy.
3. Resync openclaw-workspace snapshot/audit source to current origin and rerun risk scan from fresh HEAD.
4. Ship a 48-hour PILLAR stabilization pack: secret rotation verification, dependency patching, CI gate hardening.
5. Clean and segment workspace outputs (Drive artifacts/logs) into dedicated folders to restore predictable git hygiene.

Risk Legend

Critical: immediate exploit/outage potential · High: high blast-radius defect risk · Medium: operational fragility · Low: hygiene debt.