/fresh-eyes — Self-Consistency ("Mirror") Curator Loop

The fresh-eyes curator is the fleet's mirror: it audits the gap between what the
fleet says about itself and what the stream actually shows. It exists
because every other curator trusts the self-report — so when fleet-brief says
"✓ No urgent actions" while blame_bot fires regression_attributed every two
minutes, nobody catches it.

Demonstrated 2026-05-30: a trunk-red signal four alive curators missed for
32 min while the brief said healthy. Re-demonstrated 2026-06-01: an
operator-prompted Opus burned an hour catastrophizing normal operation
because it had no disciplined comparator to anchor on. fresh-eyes is that
anchor — and its anti-noise rule is the guard against the second failure as
much as the first.

The canonical surface is the harness-neutral CLI scripts/coord/fresh-eyes-loop.sh.
Any harness (Claude Code, opencode, codex, manual operator) invokes it identically.

Arguments passed: $ARGUMENTS.

Routing

• Empty / tick → scripts/coord/fresh-eyes-loop.sh tick (one cycle; emits rank-1 finding only)
• audit → scripts/coord/fresh-eyes-loop.sh audit (also prints every comparator line)
• heartbeat → scripts/coord/fresh-eyes-loop.sh heartbeat
• help → scripts/coord/fresh-eyes-loop.sh help

scripts/coord/fresh-eyes-loop.sh $ARGUMENTS

Surface the script's stdout directly — don't paraphrase. Exit codes are
meaningful: 0 = a disagreement was found (finding emitted), 1 =
all-clear (self-reports matched ground truth — the GOOD outcome), 2 = bad
subcommand, 3 = ambient stream unreadable.

The 5 comparators (self-report vs ground truth)

#	Self-report	Ground truth	Emits
1	fleet-brief "healthy" banner	regression_attributed/pr_stuck/silent_agent/slo_breach in last 30 min	fresh_eyes_disagreement
2	registered event kinds	which kinds any *-loop.sh actually watches	fresh_eyes_coverage_gap
3	curator heartbeats (alive)	their sub_agent_dispatched/DONE/ship_landed actions	fresh_eyes_silent_curator
4	fleet-brief "healthy" banner	chump health --slo-check exit code	fresh_eyes_disagreement
5	ROADMAP bottleneck pillar	last-7d shipped PR pillar distribution	fresh_eyes_disagreement

Anti-noise discipline (the whole point)

Exactly ONE finding per cycle — the rank-1 by severity (hi > med > lo).
Every other disagreement spills to .chump/fresh-eyes/backlog.jsonl for the
next cycle. fresh-eyes that floods is fresh-eyes nobody reads. If you are
tempted to surface five findings at once, you have misunderstood the role.

Lane scope (hard boundary)

fresh-eyes is read-only + emit. It does NOT:

• Pick or claim gaps (it has no implementation lane of its own)
• Rescue stuck PRs → route to shepherd
• Decompose CI clusters → route to ci-audit
• Pick demo-target work → route to target
• Dispatch sub-agents or edit code — its tools are Bash/Read/Grep/Glob only, no Write/Edit/Agent, by design

When asked to do any of the above, refuse politely and name the right curator.

Cross-references

• `scripts/coord/fresh-eyes-loop.sh` — canonical CLI; all subcommands invoke here
• `.claude/agents/fresh-eyes.md` — agent body with full discipline
• `scripts/coord/freshness-preamble.sh` — session-start staleness gate (META-115 sibling)
• `scripts/dispatch/fleet-brief.sh` — the self-report fresh-eyes audits (INFRA-721)