diff --git a/packages/orchestration-service/src/chat/index.js b/packages/orchestration-service/src/chat/index.js
index 5fe4985..c655bc7 100644
--- a/packages/orchestration-service/src/chat/index.js
+++ b/packages/orchestration-service/src/chat/index.js
@@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ async function getFusedEpisodes(userMessage, session, recentIds, projectSessionI
 }
 
 async function assembleContext(externalId, userMessage) {
+    logger.info(`[orchestration] assembleContext ENTERED — msg: "${userMessage}", trivial: ${isTrivialTurn(userMessage)}`);
     const settings = appSettings.load();
     const { recentEpisodeLimit, semanticLimit, scoreThreshold,
             temperature, repeatPenalty, topP, topK, systemPrompt,