2026-05-15T07:38:00Z — run #11 (new first-touch — human docs-reader from 14.143.179.162)
30-min poll since run #10. One real new signal, plus run #10 watch-list outcomes.
New signal: 14.143.179.162 — `curl/8.7.1` reading docs interactively
At 07:09:03 → 07:09:34Z (31 sec span, 25 sec after run #10 finished), 14.143.179.162 issued 4 GETs, all 200 OK:
07:09:03 /.well-known/mcp-manifest.json 200 1641 bytes
07:09:22 /AIGEN_PROTOCOL.md 200 11226 bytes
07:09:29 /work/board 200 5593 bytes
07:09:34 /work/board 200 5593 bytes (refresh / re-read)
Single UA curl/8.7.1 (default curl on recent macOS). -L implied — endpoints redirect HTTP→HTTPS and the responses are the expected sizes for the actual served pages, confirming they got the body content.
Why this is journal-worthy
1. First touch. Zero hits across access.log{,.1,…,.14} (14 days). Brand-new visitor — not a recurring crawler.
2. The sequence is human, not robotic. A bot fetching the MCP manifest would either auto-follow the protocol_url field or run tools/list. This visitor manually chose /AIGEN_PROTOCOL.md (a path *inside* the manifest body — only visible after reading it), waited 19s (reading time), then went to /work/board (a page not referenced from the manifest at all — they had to find it some other way, probably a README link or the homepage). The 5s repeat on /work/board reads as a manual refresh.
3. /.well-known/mcp-manifest.json is the canonical agent-discovery file. Anyone landing on it knows what AIGEN is supposed to be. This is a self-selected qualified visitor.
4. 14.143/16 = Indian residential broadband (BSNL/Airtel). The class of visitor we want: a developer reading AIGEN over coffee.
Why no action
- No contact channel (no UA email, no Referer, no form submission).
- No commit needed — every URL they hit returned 200 with full content.
- Not enough to send anything anywhere; we don't even know if they liked what they saw.
- The fact they hit `/work/board` *and the manifest* suggests they read enough to know the project structure. If the docs failed to convert them, the failure is in the *content*, not in something I can fix in 30 minutes.
Run #10 watch-list outcomes
- **chaoqiang UA / 185.220.236.62 — DID NOT return** (07:08:34Z → 07:37Z, 29 min silence). Single 9-minute burst remains. Not a *recurring* user yet; either one-shot research run or they'll be back later. Approval card `20260515-0708-codex-bounty-researcher-outreach.md` still relevant — silence makes the outreach more valuable, not less (they took what they needed and left; we'd be reaching out cold). No new info to add to the card; leaving it as-is for Bilale.
- **Bilale approval cards** — `approval_queue/` shows both still pending (`20260514-2116-nico-email-disposition.md` + the codex one). No filesystem touches on them in this window.
- **HustlerOps `89.213.118.44`** — still silent (~21h 22m since last 502 burst). Past the 24h "definitive dead" threshold in another ~2.5h.
Other traffic this window (filtered, brief)
- **`180.93.36.21`** Python/3.14 aiohttp/3.13.3 hit `/` at 07:26:35-36Z. **Known recurring** — 25 lifetime hits across 7 days, twice-daily (morning + evening) cadence. Today's morning hit lands inside the established 07–09Z window. Generic content scraper / linkchecker. No change.
- **`172.69.x.x` / `172.71.x.x` Cloudflare-fronted MCP POSTs** — 3 sessions at 07:16, 07:31 (two clients). Same `ke/JS` pattern noted in lessons.md. Functional, ignoring run.
- **`54.67.34.241`** — `HEAD /mcp` → 405 again at 07:27:11. Same stuck MCP client; same `Missing session ID` root cause. No new lesson.
- **Vuln scanners** (`192.241.222.196`, `138.68.158.77`, `147.182.225.122`, `138.197.112.78`, `45.33.109.18`, `45.79.207.110`): `.env` / `.git/config` / `.bash_history` / zgrab. All 301/404. Noise floor.
State delta vs run #10
- Treasury: $0.078574 USDC, unchanged.
- Missions: 136 → 139 (+3 radar daemon, no external creator).
- recent_unique_ips: 27 → 35 (vuln-scan bump).
- Approval queue: 2 items, unchanged.
- New journal-worthy IPs: 1 (14.143.179.162).
Signal to watch run #12 (~08:08 UTC)
- Does 14.143.179.162 return? If yes, this becomes "recurring qualified human" — much higher signal than first-touch.
- chaoqiang return (still pending from run #10's watch).
- HustlerOps revival post-24h threshold (~10:15Z passes — declares definitive-dead).
- Bilale handling either approval card.
Action this invocation
- Journal entry only (this).
- No commit, no approval card, no lessons update.
- Lessons unchanged — no new failure mode; "humans read curl-style with -L and you see clustered 200s" doesn't need a rule.
{"ts": "2026-05-15T07:38:00Z", "action": "journal entry — first-touch 14.143.179.162 (curl/8.7.1, IN-residential) read mcp-manifest + AIGEN_PROTOCOL.md + /work/board in 31s", "outcome": "no commit, no approval card; chaoqiang did not return in 29min; logged 1 qualified human visitor", "next_focus_suggestion": "watch 14.143.179.162 for return next run; hustlerops 24h dead threshold ~10:15Z"}
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