# Progress — worker_chat_m3_1

Last visited: 2026-10-01T01:06:30Z

- [x] Context recovery & codebase investigation
- [x] Read DISPATCH.md, ORIGINAL_REQUEST.md, and reference architectures
- [x] Initialized BRIEFING.md and progress.md
- [ ] Design concurrent benchmark architecture (publisher workers, 8 channels, HMAC stress, memory leak regression)
- [ ] Implement upgraded `tools/stress/chat_load_benchmark.py` adhering to length caps and strict typing
- [ ] Implement unit test suite `tests/unit/test_chat_load_benchmark.py`
- [ ] Run benchmark and unit tests, verify SLAs (<15ms p99, <2ms HMAC, <=0.05MB residual growth)
- [ ] Run hygiene checks
- [ ] Write 5-component handoff report
- [ ] Notify parent orchestrator