HeyMa Pipeline Doctor

The pipeline is Wax — one daemon (waxd) that owns the microphone, the inbox, the SQLite ledger, transcription, the enrichment passes, the S3 archive, the event outbox, and the tray. It lives at components/wax/.

Repo-root AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md / GEMINI.md described a retired n8n pipeline for months after it was replaced. If anything you read contradicts what the code does, trust the code and say so. The design doc of record is components/wax/docs/WAX-DESIGN.md.

The one thing to know before you start

Wax fails silently by construction. Every value-producing sub-stage degrades by returning an empty value rather than raising: a broken diarizer returns [] and the transcript honestly records diarized: false; a broken enrichment pass is recorded failed in the ledger and the item is still marked complete 215 ms later. Historically none of that reached the tray, wax status, or the journal.