🔄 Weekly pulse report: 2026-08-21

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+# 📊 GitHub Pulse Scout — areal-project/AReaL
+
+**Window:** 2026-08-14T02:46:49.830Z → 2026-08-21T02:46:49.830Z **Issues fetched:** 7
+
+## Activity
+
+| Metric            | Count |
+| :---------------- | ----: |
+| 🆕 New issues     |     1 |
+| ✅ Closed issues  |     3 |
+| 📂 Currently open |     4 |
+
+## Response efficiency
+
+| Metric                 | Value |
+| :--------------------- | ----: |
+| Avg close time (hours) | 607.7 |
+| Avg close time (days)  | 25.32 |
+| Closed sample size     |     3 |
+| Unique issue authors   |     7 |
+
+## Top labels
+
+| Label      | Count |
+| :--------- | ----: |
+| `stale`    |     4 |
+| `bug`      |     3 |
+| `question` |     1 |
+
+## 🔥 Hottest issues
+
+- [#1570](https://github.com/areal-project/AReaL/issues/1570) — [BUG][LocalScheduler]
+  stdbuf appends libstdbuf to TMS LD_PRELOAD and breaks offload (💬 **3**)
+- [#1565](https://github.com/areal-project/AReaL/issues/1565) — [BUG][v2] Teardown
+  leaves an orphan process after torch-memory-saver CUDA free errors (💬 **3**)
+- [#1581](https://github.com/areal-project/AReaL/issues/1581) — [BUG][V2]Memory leak
+  when DELETE /data/clear fails (💬 **2**)
+- [#1551](https://github.com/areal-project/AReaL/issues/1551) — [BUG] Concat can reuse
+  parent evidence across a token-prefix mismatch (💬 **2**)
+- [#1543](https://github.com/areal-project/AReaL/issues/1543) — [Question] online
+  RL-Hermes PPO critic model training (💬 **2**)
+
+## 🤖 AI Summary
+
+# Pulse summary — last 7 days
+
+### Overall
+
+Project momentum is **steady but slow**, with more issues stalling than closing and **4
+open** items carrying “stale” flags. Core reliability risks cluster around resource
+leaks and teardown failures that can silently corrupt sessions.
+
+### Trends & focus
+
+- Activity is light: **1 new** and **3 closed** this week, while unresolved issues
+  linger.
+- Response efficiency is weak: average close time exceeds **25 days**, suggesting triage
+  or prioritization bottlenecks.
+- Participation is broad (**7 unique authors**) but shallow, with most threads lacking
+  sustained follow-up.
+- Recurring themes: CUDA/TMS lifecycle bugs and concat/data-contract integrity (e.g.,
+  #1565, #1581, #1551).
+
+### Recommendations
+
+- Triage and close stale issues that lack repro steps or active ownership.
+- Add targeted tests and timeouts for TMS offload and teardown to prevent orphans/leaks.
+- Clarify concat prompt-ID invariants and enforce validation before mask projection.
+
+<small>Generated on 2026-08-21T02:46:49.833Z by
+[GH Pulse Scout](https://github.com/oss-infra/gh-pulse-scout), a tool that analyzes
+GitHub issue data to provide insights into project health and trends with AI 💖.</small>