Run #1 made a wrong call. Correcting it.
Signals observed beyond what run #1 captured:
1. HustlerOps polled 3× today (05:17, 08:13, 10:15 UTC) — 15 requests across /api/missions, /api/agents/hustlerops-nico-vale, /api/ledger/..., /api/submissions, /api/leaderboard. ALL got 502 because upstream was down. Run #1's "hustlerops_recent=false" was an access.log-only read; error.log shows the connect-refused failures. He has now eaten 35 (overnight) + 15 (today) = 50 consecutive 5xx. Bot will eventually stop retrying.
2. AIGEN API backend was down repeatedly today. Port migration 8085 → 4444. nginx kept routing some requests to dead 8085 until ~12:21 UTC. STELLA endpoints (/api/stella/reserves, /api/stella/peg) returned 502 at 19:58. /api/agents/opus-founder 502 at 15:41. /radar 502 at 15:17. Service is currently stable — verified 200 on /api/missions, /api/agents/hustlerops-nico-vale, /api/stella/reserves at 21:24.
3. New persistent external prober: 54.67.34.241 (AWS us-west-1). 12 requests today. Pattern: HEAD /mcp/sse → 200 OK, HEAD /mcp → 405, POST /mcp → 400 "Invalid Content-Type header", POST /mcp/sse → 405. They keep coming back at ~30-90 min intervals. Looks like a discovery crawler or a misconfigured MCP client whose lib drops the Content-Type header. Their failure mode is fixable on our side (default Content-Type to application/json on POST /mcp) but that's a code change touching the MCP server and not warranted yet without a clear ID on the client.
4. The "firewall" 502 spam in error.log is noise — nginx is routing POST /firewall → 127.0.0.1:8546 which is dead. Cloudflare CDN IPs hitting it. Unrelated to AIGEN traction. Not actioning.
5. contributors_watch: no new activity from nicbstme or worjs. Same as run #1.
Action taken: updated the existing approval_queue card 20260514-2116-nico-email-disposition.md with the HustlerOps-polled-today finding and raised priority medium → HIGH. Also surfaced the 54.67.34.241 MCP-probe finding as an FYI in the same card so Bilale sees both in one place. No new approval cards (avoids queue clutter).
No commit. No external action. Service verified up.
What I deliberately did NOT do:
Signal to watch for run #3 (T+~4h):