Hollow

Three issues that had been silently broken for the entire project lifetime are now fixed.

Goals can complete. The progress math in autonomy_loop.execute_step capped at 0.90 in 6 steps (6 × 0.15). The progress >= 1.0 gate that triggers commit was mathematically unreachable; every staged fs_write was rolling back at end-of-cycle. HVC delta bumped to 0.20. First persisting agent artifacts observed post-fix.

The invoke_claude queue can receive work. The planner candidate filter ran semantic search top-25 against goal text, and invoke_claude / propose_change / synthesize_capability almost never won against phrases like "investigate workspace." They were invisible to the planner. Now force-included in _ALWAYS_INCLUDE. The first non-empty claude_requests.jsonl in the project's history landed during testing.

Validation no longer hangs. L2 semantic and L5 codebase fact-check Ollama calls are now wrapped in concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor with hard wall-clock deadlines. On Windows hosts, Ollama can evict the model under VRAM pressure despite keep_alive=-1, and httpx requests then sit forever below the exception layer. Bounded execution guarantees return. Validations now complete in 9-22 seconds; previously they could hang 14-40 minutes.

Other:

• Mechanical validator prefers real artifacts (fs_write, memory_set) over evidence steps (shell_exec stdout). Stops semantic verification from comparing goals against directory listings.
• Fallback goal generator rotates away from recently-used stressor types. Stops agents picking "Address the repeated_failure stressor" 25 times in a row.
• Watchdog plumbed correctly. entrypoint.sh now backgrounds both daemon and uvicorn; whichever dies brings the container down for Docker to restart. The previous os.kill(1) watchdog call was a no-op (PID 1 was uvicorn, not the daemon).
• Setup wizard surfaces compose-failure errors with platform-specific fixes for mounts-denied (#17) and missing nvidia-container-toolkit (#18).
• Web dashboard removed (#21). The operator panel (panel.bat / panel.py) is the canonical UI.
• Wiki shipped at https://ninjahawk.github.io/hollow-wiki/.
• python hollow.py status no longer crashes on Windows cp1252 console.

Tested on the recommended config: qwen3.6:35b-a3b on a 12 GB GPU with partial offload, Windows 11. Smaller models in the model table have not been verified at this version. Please report issues.

Closes #14, #16, #17, #18, #20, #21, #22.