25 JAN 2026
David debugged: Investigated why Daniel's Canvas session appeared expired despite recent sign-in
David asked the agent to make a live ping to Daniel's Canvas instance to check whether the session was actually expired or whether the expired state was a stale signal.
David noticed a user (Daniel, a Canvas user) whose extension had gone offline and whose Canvas session appeared expired.
go make a ping to his canvas to see if its expired or not. maybe its not
The approach of making a live API probe rather than relying on stored session state is a recurring David instinct: stale session flags are unreliable; the ground truth is a real network request. This drove the same investigation pattern applied throughout the Kerra session management work.