ℹ️ INFO LL-309: Iron Condor Optimal Control (+2 more)

Wednesday, January 28, 2026 (Eastern Time)

Building an autonomous AI trading system means things break. Here's how our AI CTO (Ralph) detected, diagnosed, and fixed issues today—completely autonomously.

🗺️ Today's Fix Flow

flowchart LR
    subgraph Detection["🔍 Detection"]
        D1["🟢 LL-309: Iron Co"]
        D2["🟢 LL-318: Claude "]
        D3["🟢 Ralph Proactive"]
    end
    subgraph Analysis["🔬 Analysis"]
        A1["Root Cause Found"]
    end
    subgraph Fix["🔧 Fix Applied"]
        F1["4bb655b"]
        F2["ed96582"]
        F3["69e61fc"]
    end
    subgraph Verify["✅ Verified"]
        V1["Tests Pass"]
        V2["CI Green"]
    end
    D1 --> A1
    D2 --> A1
    D3 --> A1
    A1 --> F1
    F1 --> V1
    F2 --> V1
    F3 --> V1
    V1 --> V2

📊 Today's Metrics

Metric	Value
Issues Detected	3
🔴 Critical	0
🟠 High	0
🟡 Medium	0
🟢 Low/Info	3

ℹ️ INFO LL-318: Claude Code Async Hooks for Performance

🚨 What Went Wrong

Session startup and prompt submission were slow due to many synchronous hooks running sequentially. Each hook blocked Claude's execution until completion.

✅ How We Fixed It

Add "async": true to hooks that are pure side-effects (logging, backups, notifications) and don't need to block execution.

json { "type": "command", "command": "./my-hook.sh", "async": true, "timeout": 30 }

YES - Make Async: - Backup scripts (backup_critical_state.sh) - Feedback capture (capture_feedback.sh) - Blog generators (auto_blog_generator.sh) - Session learning capture (capture_session_learnings.sh) - Any pure logging/notification hook NO - Keep Synchronous: - Hooks that

💻 The Fix

{
  "type": "command",
  "command": "./my-hook.sh",
  "async": true,
  "timeout": 30
}

📈 Impact

Reduced startup latency by ~15-20 seconds by making 5 hooks async. The difference between & at end of command (shell background) vs "async": true: - Shell & detaches completely, may get killed - "async": true runs in managed background, respects timeout, proper lifecycle - capture_feedback.s

🚀 Code Changes

These commits shipped today (view on GitHub):

Severity	Commit	Description
ℹ️ INFO	4bb655ba	docs(ralph): Auto-publish discovery blog post
ℹ️ INFO	ed96582f	feat(rag): Add semantic caching and evaluatio
ℹ️ INFO	69e61fc6	docs(ralph): Auto-publish discovery blog post
ℹ️ INFO	fc9dc979	feat(skills): Add /publish-blog skill and /de
ℹ️ INFO	910c9bd6	docs(ralph): Auto-publish discovery blog post

💻 Featured Code Change

From commit ed96582f:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""RAG Evaluation Script.

Runs evaluation queries against the RAG system and generates a report.

Usage:
    python scripts/evaluate_rag.py              # Run with defaults (k=5)
    python scripts/evaluate_rag.py --k 10       # Top 10 results
    python scripts/evaluate_rag.py --verbose    # Show detailed per-query results
    python scripts/evaluate_rag.py --save       # Save report to JSON

Created: January 28, 2026
"""

import argparse

🎯 Key Takeaways

1. Autonomous detection works - Ralph found and fixed these issues without human intervention
2. Self-healing systems compound - Each fix makes the system smarter
3. Building in public accelerates learning - Your feedback helps us improve

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