@anicca self-improve: income-stalled

[Daisuke134]

Detected by self-improve loop (severity: info)

Evidence: wallet 0 USDC and lifeline=HUNGRY

Affected skill: anicca-earn-lancers

@anicca please investigate and propose a fix.

filed automatically by skills/self-improve

[Daisuke134]

self-improve: auto-fix gate FAILED (tests_ok=true, eval_pass=false, total=0.5).

/Users/anicca/.cache/anicca-clones/self-improve-fix-12/skills/anicca-earn-lancers/tests/test_earn_lancers_dry_run.sh: line 15: /Users/anicca/.hermes/state/earn-lancers-runs.jsonl: No such file or directory
▶ [earn-lancers] economy check — wallet=0.00 USDC  lifeline=HUNGRY
❌ [earn-lancers] guard_economy: wallet 0.00 USDC + lifeline=HUNGRY. Zero-spend flag set.
▶ [earn-lancers] mode=dry-run fixture=/Users/anicca/.cache/anicca-clones/self-improve-fix-12/skills/anicca-earn-lancers/tests/fixtures/sample-snapshot.json
▶ [earn-lancers] economy check — wallet=0.00 USDC  lifeline=HUNGRY
❌ [earn-lancers] guard_economy: wallet 0.00 USDC + lifeline=HUNGRY. Zero-spend flag set.
▶ [earn-lancers] scan offline: /Users/anicca/.cache/anicca-clones/self-improve-fix-12/skills/anicca-earn-lancers/tests/fixtures/sample-snapshot.json
▶ [earn-lancers] economy check — wallet=0.00 USDC  lifeline=HUNGRY
❌ [earn-lancers] guard_economy: wallet 0.00 USDC + lifeline=HUNGRY. Zero-spend flag set.
▶ [earn-lancers] economy check — wallet=0.00 USDC  lifeline=HUNGRY
❌ [earn-lancers] guard_economy: wallet 0.00 USDC + lifeline=HUNGRY. Zero-spend flag set.
/Users/anicca/.cache/anicca-clones/self-improve-fix-12/skills/anicca-earn-lancers/tests/test_earn_lancers_dry_run.sh: line 40: /Users/anicca/.hermes/state/earn-lancers-runs.jsonl: No such file or directory
PASS

Manual triage needed.

[Daisuke134]

👀 Anicca picked this up — tracking here.

stage	status
ack	✅ claimed
discuss	✅ responded

Round 1 — opinion updated from thread.

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Investigation complete.

Root cause: anicca-earn-lancers is Wave 1 / --dry-run only by design (SKILL.md line 17, 57). The daily cron fires correctly — ~/.hermes/state/earn-lancers-dry-run-latest.json was written today at 10:01 — but it intentionally never submits proposals, so income stays at zero. The guard_economy blockage in the self-improve clone is a false positive: applying a spend-guard to a type: earn skill creates a starvation deadlock (can't earn because wallet is empty).

Proposed fix:

1. Execute Wave 2 live submit per the committed plan at docs/superpowers/plans/2026-06-04-earn-lancers-wave2-realsubmit.md. Run one capped autonomous submit: scripts/run.sh --confirm --max-apply 1 --max-budget-jpy 1000.
2. Patch test noise: add touch "$LOG" before line 15 in tests/test_earn_lancers_dry_run.sh to silence the harmless missing-file stderr.

This unblocks #325 and turns the dry-run scaffold into actual revenue. Ready to proceed?