# Session Log — Birth Biologic / KSTEENBB2025 SmartBadge Watch False Positive
**Date:** 2026-06-02

## User
- **User:** Mike Swanson (mike)
- **Machine:** GURU-BEAST-ROG
- **Role:** admin

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## Session Summary

A `[SMARTBADGE-WATCH] DRIFT KSTEENBB2025 FAIL | no RESULT line returned: null` alert fired in Discord's `#dev-alerts` channel. The alert appeared to indicate that Kristin Steen's machine (KSTEENBB2025 at Birth Biologic) had drifted from the fleet reference SmartBadge configuration established during the 2026-05-29 remediation.

Investigation revealed the alert was a false positive caused by a bug in the watch script (`check-ksteen-smartbadge.sh`). The root cause: `jq -r '.stdout'` emits the literal 4-character string `"null"` when the RMM API returns a JSON `null` for the stdout field (which occurs when a command fails or produces no output before the result is fetched). The original script then grepped `"null"` for a `RESULT:` line, found nothing, and fell through to the drift-alert path with `REASON="no RESULT line returned: null"`.

The script was fixed on BEAST and pushed to Gitea. A live re-run of the verify script against KSTEENBB2025 via the GuruRMM API confirmed the machine is clean: `RESULT: PASS` returned in ~8 seconds (2 polls).

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## Key Decisions

- **False positive classification:** The alert was not treated as real drift — the machine was verified live via a direct RMM dispatch before any remediation was considered. This avoids unnecessary client-side changes.
- **INFRA-ERROR vs DRIFT distinction:** Added a new exit path for commands that never reach a terminal state within the poll window. These are now classified as infrastructure errors and do not fire drift alerts. This prevents transient RMM glitches (slow agent response, command queue delays) from creating noise.
- **Session log location:** Placed in `clients/birth-biologic/` rather than root `session-logs/` because the incident is client-specific (live RMM command on KSTEENBB2025, Birth Biologic Syncro context).

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## Problems Encountered

- **`jq -r '.stdout'` returns literal `"null"` on JSON null:** Fixed by switching to `.stdout // empty` which coerces JSON null to an empty string. The grep for `RESULT:` then correctly produces no match without triggering the misleading `"no RESULT line returned: null"` message.
- **No log file existed on BEAST:** The scheduled task runs on GURU-5070, not BEAST. The log at `.claude/logs/ksteen-smartbadge.log` lives on GURU-5070's copy of the repo. BEAST had no log to inspect, so the live API re-run was the only diagnostic path available from this machine.
- **Insufficient diagnostic context in original alert:** When stdout was null, the original alert provided no status, exit code, or stderr — making the root cause invisible. Added `status=`, `exit_code=`, and stderr to the no-RESULT diagnostic message.

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## Configuration Changes

- **Modified:** `.claude/scripts/check-ksteen-smartbadge.sh`
  - Switched `jq -r '.stdout'` to `jq -r '.stdout // empty'`
  - Added `FINAL_ST` variable to track terminal state after poll loop
  - Added `ERR` and `EXIT_CODE` variables from `.stderr // empty` and `.exit_code // empty`
  - Added INFRA-ERROR exit path for non-terminal command status (does not count as drift)
  - Increased poll window from 20×4s=80s to 30×4s=120s
  - Enhanced no-RESULT diagnostic to include status + exit_code + stderr
  - Committed: `551aaf2`

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## Credentials & Secrets

- Vault path accessed: `infrastructure/gururmm-server.sops.yaml` (fields: `credentials.gururmm-api.admin-email`, `credentials.gururmm-api.admin-password`) — for RMM API authentication during live verify

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## Infrastructure & Servers

- **GuruRMM API:** `http://172.16.3.30:3001`
- **KSTEENBB2025:** Kristin Steen's workstation at Birth Biologic
  - Agent ID: `ee3c6aea-e9cc-4d2f-9e79-a38dd0eb129e`
  - Status at time of check: `online`, last seen `2026-06-02T16:06:32Z`
- **Coord API:** `http://172.16.3.30:8001`
- **Scheduled task:** "ClaudeTools - KSTEEN SmartBadge Daily" on GURU-5070 — runs `check-ksteen-smartbadge.sh` daily

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## Commands & Outputs

**Live verify dispatch (from BEAST):**
```
CID: e88e1ee7-4f08-4d7c-b176-c91b38d661d2
poll 1: running
poll 2: completed
FINAL STATUS: completed
STDOUT: RESULT: PASS
STDERR: (empty)
EXIT CODE: 0
```

**Commit pushed:**
```
551aaf2  fix(smartbadge-watch): handle null stdout from RMM and add diagnostic context
```

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## Pending / Incomplete Tasks

- GURU-5070 needs to pull the fix before tomorrow's scheduled run — will happen automatically on the next `/sync` from GURU-5070
- SMARTBADGE-WATCH monitoring continues through 2026-06-05 per coord todo `4a5b09b3`

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## Reference Information

- Script: `.claude/scripts/check-ksteen-smartbadge.sh`
- Verify script: `.claude/scripts/ksteen-smartbadge-verify.ps1`
- Fix script: `.claude/scripts/ksteen-smartbadge-fix.ps1`
- Commit: `551aaf2`
- Gitea: `https://git.azcomputerguru.com/azcomputerguru/ClaudeTools`
- Wiki: `wiki/clients/birth-biologic.md` (SmartBadge history lines 105-106)
- Original remediation session: `session-logs/2026-05-29-*` on GURU-5070
