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gsxdsm
141f54e51d chore(core): mark the agent-store status formatter DELIBERATE-LITERAL (census 101→99) (#3063)
Fleet phase. `packages/core/src/agent-store.ts` was the **last** census
file with no branch, worktree, or open PR against it. Claim published by
pushing the branch before starting.

## Census before / after

| | total | this file |
|---|---|---|
| before | **101** | 2 |
| after | **99** | 0 |

`--strict` exits 0, baseline re-recorded. **Reclassification, not
conversion** — the line is unchanged.

## Already decided, in prose the census cannot read

The site was flagged earlier today by another pass, as `FLAGGED AND LEFT
COUNTED`: a pure formatter over `Pick<Task, "column">` with no store and
no task id, whose output is a human-readable status line. On a renamed
board it falls through to `(<column>)` — still accurate, just less
specific. Converting it would mean threading a lane resolution into a
string builder.

That reasoning is right and I did not revisit it. The only gap was
mechanical: a prose note is invisible to the tool, so the site kept
reading as backlog.

## This completes the sweep of unclaimed files

Third and last of these. Together with #3056 (fallback arms) and #3060
(dead sync path), **every census file that was unclaimed this phase has
now been examined, and not one of them needed a conversion.** Each was
either a three-state fallback arm — where the legacy id is the answer
when resolution fails, and removing it would break the caller — or a
site a previous pass had already reviewed and deliberately kept.

That is the finding worth carrying forward. The remaining **99** is not
a work queue: a meaningful share is correct code the tool cannot
distinguish from owed work, and every fleet pass pays to re-derive it.
Since all workers rank by the same `byFile` output, we also converge on
the same top file — which is how `self-healing.ts` drew three parallel
conversions, two of which are now unmergeable.

Two cheap changes would fix both symptoms:
1. **Mark reviewed-and-kept sites** so the count means *conversions
owed*. Two lines each.
2. **Push the branch at claim time** so `git ls-remote` is authoritative
before work starts. Costs nothing; I did it for all three of these.

## Verification

- `census --strict` exit 0; `tsc --noEmit` **0 errors**
- `check:fnxc-future-dates`, `check:lane-wiring` — exit 0
- Comment-only diff; no behaviour change

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 03:16:16 -07:00
gsxdsm
581e6fba43 chore(core): mark the async-mission fallback arms DELIBERATE-LITERAL (census 108→106) (#3056)
Fleet phase. Claimed `packages/core/src/async-mission-store-queries.ts`
— **the only census file with no branch, no worktree, and no open PR
against it.** Claim published by pushing the branch before doing any
work.

## Census before / after

| | total | this file | deliberate |
|---|---|---|---|
| before | **108** | 2 | 128 |
| after | **106** | 0 | **130** |

`--strict` exits 0, baseline re-recorded in the same commit.

**This is a reclassification, not a conversion.** The same two lines are
still there. A reader comparing 108 → 106 against my #3047's 126 → 121
should know only the latter changed behaviour.

## Why marking is the right answer here

Both sites are the **fallback arm** of the three-state rule:

```ts
terminalColumns?.complete ? terminalColumns.complete.has(column) : column === "done";
```

`terminalColumns` undefined means the caller could not resolve lanes.
The legacy id is then the only answer that keeps the query working at
all — converting it would delete the fallback and make an unresolvable
caller return nothing. The census counts the literal, but **the literal
is the design**.

The file's own comment shows a previous worker already reached this
conclusion. Nothing recorded it in a form the tool reads, so it stayed
in `byFile` as apparent backlog for the next pass to re-derive.

## The finding this makes concrete

I checked five unclaimed files this phase (`agent-store`,
`github-tracking-state`, `planner-overseer`, `auto-merge-finalization`,
this one). **Every site in them was either a fallback arm or an
already-documented deliberate leave** — `agent-store.ts:236` carries a
comment from today's fleet phase explaining why it stays.

So the remaining count is not a work queue. A meaningful share is
correct code the tool cannot distinguish from owed work, and each fleet
pass pays to re-derive that. Marking them is cheap, mechanical, and
makes the number mean "conversions owed" — which is what every worker
reads it as when picking a cluster.

I marked only the file I claimed. The others belong to whoever holds
them.

## Verification

- `census --strict` exit 0; `tsc --noEmit` **0 errors**
- `check:fnxc-future-dates`, `check:lane-wiring`,
`check:sql-column-literals`, `check:inert-flag-seams` — all exit 0
- No behaviour change: the two expressions are byte-identical, only
comments added

## Note on the marker's granularity

The first marker covered only `isComplete` — the census attaches markers
by *preceding comment*, so the sibling `isArchived` needed its own.
Caught by re-running the census (2 → 1, not 2 → 0) rather than by
reading. Worth knowing before marking a group of related literals.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 03:13:09 -07:00
gsxdsm
21ef60047e fix(engine): a second complete lane is terminal too — restore the scheduler's dependency reconciliation (main is red) (#3065)
## main is red, and this is the fix

```
FAIL src/__tests__/scheduler-renamed-hold-events.test.ts
 > dependency unblocking (failure mode is a card that waits forever)
 > finds dependents resting in the renamed hold column when a blocker completes
 AssertionError: expected [] to include 'drafting'
```

Not in the thin merge gate's `engine-core` allow-list, so CI stayed
green and only the non-blocking full suite sees it. The test file is
unchanged since #2518; #3051 converted the guard underneath it.

## What broke

#3051 turned the guard into `to === parked.complete || to ===
parked.archived`. `resolveLifecycleColumns` answers **first match per
role** — the right shape for a move *target*, the wrong shape for *"did
this card just reach a finished lane"*, which is a membership question.

Two consequences, both silent:

1. **A board with more than one complete-trait column reconciles
nothing** when a blocker finishes in the second one. The test file's own
header flags this path specifically: *"This one is NOT latency: a
dependent never gets unblocked, so it waits on a blocker that is already
done."*
2. The legacy `done`/`archived` ids stopped matching at all — the
failing assertion.

## Fix

`resolveTaskParkedColumnsSync` gains `terminal`, a membership set:
legacy `done`/`archived` seeded, then **every** complete- and
archived-trait column from the task's own IR.

Seeding legacy ids is safe in the direction that matters here. This is
an **inclusion**: a superset makes the reconciliation run on a move it
would otherwise ignore — one extra query, and it cannot wrongly withhold
work. Seeding a **refusal** is the bug (`node-override-guard.ts`
documents that one); this is not that.

Same sync IR path and same fail-soft legacy default as the single-column
answers, so event ordering and unresolvable-workflow behaviour are
unchanged — the constraint the sync resolver's own header sets.

The two sibling guards in the same listener (dispatch-oscillation reset
at what is now line 1097, and the scheduling wake at 1114) had the
identical arity defect and convert with it.

## Measured

| | result |
|---|---|
| before | `scheduler-renamed-hold-events`: **1 failed / 9 passed** |
| after | **11 passed** (one new case) |
| `src/__tests__/scheduler*` | **14 files / 143 tests pass** |
| `tsc --noEmit -p packages/engine` | clean |
| census `--strict` / `check-lane-wiring` / `check-fnxc-future-dates` |
clean, no baseline movement |

**Proved it is main's red, not my branch's:** I checked out
`origin/main:packages/engine/src/self-healing.ts` over my unrelated
fleet branch and re-ran — identical failure. Then branched this fix
straight off `origin/main`.

**Mutation-tested.** Restoring `to === parked.complete || to ===
parked.archived` fails **both** the pre-existing case and the new
second-complete-lane case. The new test is not vacuous: the second
complete lane is invisible to first-match resolution, so it cannot pass
against the old guard.

## Not done here

I did not convert the remaining `to === parked.review` / `from ===
parked.wip` single-column comparisons in this listener. Review is
genuinely two roles (`mergeBlocker` + `humanReview`) and wip has its own
limit-setting semantics — both want the same membership-vs-target
judgement applied deliberately rather than swept in behind a red-fix.
Flagged, not guessed.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 03:12:53 -07:00
gsxdsm
998d75da3b refactor(core): resolve the hand-off archive guard by role (fleet) (#3054)
## Census

| | column guards |
|---|---|
| before (this branch) | **122** |
| after | **118** |

Baseline re-recorded in the same commit, as the ratchet requires. (Four
of the delta land with #3052; this PR carries `moves.ts`.)

## What changed

`handoffToReviewImpl` refuses a hand-off from an archived card. Against
the literal `archived`, a board whose archive lane is renamed **never
matched** — so an archived card could be handed to review, and the
invariant `HandoffInvariantViolationError` exists to protect was
silently unenforced.

The IR is resolved at the guard rather than 28 lines below where
`handoffTarget` already reads it; the later read now **reuses** it
instead of resolving twice. The hoist is safe because this function has
already awaited `readTaskRowAsync` above — no new tick boundary. That's
the specific hazard blocking the scheduler cluster, so I checked it here
rather than assuming.

Absent or trait-free IR keeps the legacy id: unconverted boards are
byte-identical.

## Fleet intelligence: the backlog is now essentially fully triaged

I worked down the census top-files list and verified each before
writing. **Every remaining cluster is claimed, fallback-by-design, or
documented-blocked:**

| cluster | guards | status |
|---|---|---|
| `self-healing.ts` | 51 | **claimed** — checked out in another worktree
(`convert/self-healing-lane-cluster-u7`) |
| `scheduler.ts` | 12 | **blocked**, documented at line 907 —
`task:moved` prologue is synchronous; hoisting reorders this listener
against every other subscriber |
| `notification-service.ts` | 5 | **blocked**, documented — needs the
wedge-episode contract serialised first; the second site needs
gate-placement judgement in `handleTaskUpdated` |
| `executor.ts` | 4 | **claimed** (`fleet/executor-lifecycle-roles`) |
| `restart-recovery-coordinator.ts` | 4 | **trait-fallback arms** — the
census counts these as already converted |
| `taskRevert.ts` | 2 | **blocked**, documented — would classify a
*neighbour* task with the modal's own flags (the wrong-row shape, worse
than the literal) |
| `project-store-ops.ts` | 2 | **blocked**, documented — the dead SQLite
twin; its first statement throws under PostgreSQL |
| `github-tracking-state.ts`, `planner-overseer.ts`,
`async-mission-store-queries.ts`, `register-task-workflow-routes.ts` | 2
each | **trait-fallback arms** |
| `auto-merge-finalization.ts` | 2 | one is the `catch`-block degraded
fallback; the other is a reason string |

So the mechanical conversions are done. What's left needs either a
design change (scheduler's event payload, notification's episode
contract) or per-row lane data that doesn't exist at the call site yet
(`taskRevert`).

**That's the useful signal for the fleet**: further census reduction
isn't a matter of more conversion passes. Forcing these would produce
exactly the "conversions that break the code and improve the number" the
learnings doc is named for.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 03:07:19 -07:00
gsxdsm
b16318d3e3 gate: the inert-sync-lane check missed the Set-membership spelling (#3068)
## The check I shipped in #3062 has a hole, and there is an open PR
standing in it

#3062 counts `to === parked.complete`. **#3065 rewrites exactly that
into `parked.terminal.has(to)`.**

#3065's change is **correct and should merge** — a board may declare
more than one complete-trait column, so a single `parked.complete` was
genuinely wrong, and the PR fixes a red main. But the answer still comes
from `resolveTaskParkedColumnsSync`, which resolves through
`store.resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync` and therefore always describes the
default board. The guard is exactly as inert; it simply stopped being a
comparison node, and my check only counted comparisons.

## Measured, both ways

Applying #3065's rewrite shape to `scheduler.ts`:

| | result |
|---|---|
| check as shipped in #3062 | **20 → 15**, exit 0, prints *"total fell —
re-record with `--update-baseline`"* |
| this PR | **20 → 18**, the three `.has()` guards stay counted |

The shipped behaviour is the bad half: it does not merely miss them, it
invites re-recording a smaller baseline, permanently retiring sites that
are still inert.

And on the case the ratchet actually exists for — a **fresh literal**
converted via the Set spelling:

| | result |
|---|---|
| check as shipped | **exit 0** — missed |
| this PR | **exit 1** — caught, `20 → 21` |

## What changed

- `terminal` (plus `lanes`, `columns`) added to the role-field
vocabulary — Set-valued roles, not single ids.
- Membership calls counted alongside comparisons: `X.<role>.has(...)` /
`.includes(...)` where `X` is sync-resolved, inline or via a local.

Neither exit code changes on current main: still 20, still exit 0.

## The pattern, stated plainly

This is the **second** evasion of this check, found the same way as the
first. #3062's own body records the first: the initial draft matched
only the local-variable spelling and a mutation run proved the inline
`resolveX(...).review` walked straight past it.

Both times the guard was correct about the shape in front of it and
blind to a trivially different spelling of the same defect. Worth
generalising rather than patching a third time — the durable fix is to
key on **the source** (any value derived from
`resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync`) rather than enumerate the syntax that
consumes it. That is a dataflow question and a larger change than this;
recording it here as the known limit rather than claiming this version
is complete.

Related and unresolved: the same "a rewrite makes the counter drop
without the guard changing" shape is live in the census itself — see my
comment on #3057 about `LEGACY_*` named sets, and #3058, where ten
guards left the census for zero behaviour change.

## Census before / after

```
before:  COLUMN guards (the backlog):   88
after:   COLUMN guards (the backlog):   88
```

Unchanged — this converts nothing. It stops a counter from falling for
the wrong reason.

## Verification

`pnpm check:inert-sync-lanes` exit 0 · `test:gate` exit 0 ·
lifecycle-column census exit 0 · `pnpm lint` clean. Gate-script only; no
production file touched (`scheduler.ts` restored clean after every
mutation run).
2026-07-31 03:03:41 -07:00
gsxdsm
bdedb6cf1a gate: fail the build on a NEW inert sync-lane conversion (#3062)
## Claim, and why it turned into a gate

I claimed the largest unclaimed unflagged cluster, `executor.ts` (4
guards at 3557/3581/3632/3642). All four are conditions of a
**synchronous** `store.on("task:moved", …)` listener — the same class as
`scheduler.ts`. Converting them needs either an `await` in a sync
prologue or the sync resolver, and the sync resolver is inert.

`executor.ts` already says so, at line 10459, dated 2026-07-30:

> **THE SYNCHRONOUS RESOLVER IS A NO-OP IN PRODUCTION.** … every
sync-resolved conversion resolves the DEFAULT workflow and answers with
the legacy ids no matter what board the task is on. That makes a sync
conversion cosmetic: the census counts it as converted, `--strict` goes
down by one, and the guard behaves exactly as the literal did. **Worse
than leaving the literal, because the number says the site is done.**

The next day, #3051 did exactly that to ten `scheduler.ts` arms. Census
fell by ten; nothing changed on any board (refuted live in #3058).

So the finding was already written down, in the file a converter would
be reading, in capitals — and the fleet phase produced the defect
anyway. **A comment cannot fail a build.** Converting `executor.ts`'s
four the only available way would have made me the third instance. I
flagged them and built the guard instead.

## What the check does

Per file: finds functions reaching `resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync`, the
locals assigned from them, and the `===`/`!==` guards consuming those
roles. Baselined per file; **fails on a rise.**

Not zero, deliberately. The existing sync guards are real and documented
— the scheduler's listeners genuinely cannot `await` today and their
authors said so. Demanding zero forces a revert or a day-one exemption
marker. What must not happen is *more* literals quietly becoming
inert-resolved.

Complements `check-inert-flag-seams.mjs`, which catches the opposite
shape (a lane parameter **no** caller supplies). This catches a
parameter that **is** supplied, from a source that always answers the
same thing — which passes that check cleanly.

## Why the shape is invisible

The obvious reading is wrong, and it is what makes this survive review.
The helper does **not** receive `undefined` and fall through to `??
"in-review"`. It receives a **real IR that resolves real traits** — the
default board's — so it answers with full confidence and the `??` arms
beside it are dead code.

```
tsc passes         the value is a string, correctly typed
tests pass         on the default board the constant answer IS the right answer
the census DROPS   it counts comparisons against literals, and the literal really is gone
```

## Mutation evidence — including one against this check itself

| Mutant | Result |
|---|---|
| baseline | exit 0, 20 guards in `scheduler.ts` |
| convert one more literal to a sync-resolved lane (the #3051 move) |
**exit 1, 20 → 21** |
| convert the same literal to an **async**-resolved lane | exit 0 —
correctly silent |

The first draft **failed its own mutation test**: it matched only the
local-variable spelling (`const parked = resolveX(...)` then
`parked.review`), which is what #3051 used, and the inline spelling
`resolveX(store, id).review` walked straight past it while being exactly
as inert. A ratchet one rewrite evades is worse than none, because the
green result reads as proof. Both spellings now count.

## Limits, stated so nobody over-trusts it

Sources are matched **within a file by function name**, so a helper
imported from another module is not followed — this finds the dominant
local-helper shape and will miss a cross-module one
(`resolvePlannerLanes`, consumed in `executor.ts`/`triage.ts`, is
currently outside its reach). It proves a guard consumes a sync-resolved
answer, not that the answer is wrong for every caller. Tests are
excluded. Treat a report as a pointer to investigate.

## Census before / after

```
before:  COLUMN guards (the backlog):   104
after:   COLUMN guards (the backlog):   104
```

Unchanged by design — this converts nothing. It stops the count from
moving for the wrong reason.

Worth recording alongside it, measured across the current backlog: **21
of 104 already carry an explicit flag note**, **51 are
`self-healing.ts`** (concurrently claimed by **#3055, #3050 and #3049**
— three PRs, one file, still worth de-conflicting), and **28 are
genuinely unclaimed and unflagged**, the largest being these
`executor.ts` four. The cluster-sized work is close to exhausted; what
is left is scattered and mostly blocked, which is the pressure that
produced #3051.

## Verification

`test:gate` exit 0 · `pnpm lint` clean · lifecycle-column census exit 0
· `pnpm check:inert-sync-lanes` exit 0. No production file touched.
2026-07-31 02:57:32 -07:00
gsxdsm
af470f7c05 convert(engine): self-healing lane cluster 56 -> 38 guards (repo 126 -> 108) (#3049)
## Census before / after

```
                                    before    after
self-healing.ts column guards          56        38
repo-wide COLUMN guards (backlog)     126       108
```

`self-healing.ts` was the largest single cluster by a wide margin — 56
guards against 12 in the next file. Baseline re-recorded in the same
commit; `--strict` green.

## Converted: 15 guards across 11 sweeps

Existing helpers only — `resolveProjectColumnsForRoles` with
`TERMINAL_ROLES` / `REVIEW_ROLES` / `countsTowardWip` / `hold` /
`archived`, the same shape this file already uses. No new helper, no new
resolution pattern.

What each was silently doing on a renamed board:

| sweep | behaviour before |
| --- | --- |
| `archiveStaleDoneTasks` | **both** guards inert, so every card counted
as an active dependent and the sweep archived **nothing at all** |
| `reconcileDependencyBlockingLeases` | no holder matched, so a stale
file-scope lease blocking an unmet dependency was never cleared |
| `reconcileCompletedBlockedTasks` | work whose blocker had cleared
stayed parked instead of advancing |
| `reconcileInReviewUnmetDependencies` | a card sat in review with unmet
dependencies and no rebound |
| `reclaimStaleActiveBranches` | archived cards were eligible for branch
reclaim |
| `reconcileInReviewBranchRebind` | the rebind list was empty |
| `autoReboundPausedScopeDecayDetailed` | no card was ever seen as
executing |
| `detectStalledCards` | finished cards counted as stall candidates |
| `recoverApprovedStrandedAiMergeCommit`,
`recoverDriftedAgentTaskLinks`, `cleanupStaleTempMergeWorktrees` | same
shape |

**Reused rather than duplicated:** `recoverWedgedActiveMerge` already
resolves `wedgedReviewColumns` via `resolveReviewColumnsFor` three lines
above the site I was converting, so the site now uses it instead of a
second resolution of the same question.

## One site I converted and then reverted

`clearStaleBlockedBy`'s memo closure carries an FNXC note stating the
literal is **deliberate**: the closure only decides whether to re-log an
already-logged blocker, so a renamed board costs a duplicate log line —
not a wrong lifecycle decision — and restructuring a sweep's control
flow to convert a logging decision is the wrong trade.

I read that note *after* editing the line. Restored.

Worth flagging separately: **it has the reasoning but no
`DELIBERATE-LITERAL` marker**, so the census keeps counting it and it
re-appears in the backlog as if unexamined. That is a marker gap, not a
conversion gap — the next person will make the same mistake I did.

## Not converted — flagged, not guessed

Ten of the twenty-four remaining sites are in **sync predicates with no
resolution seam**:

- `classifyPausedAbortWorkflowRecovery` (3)
- the `start()` task-moved listener (5) — compares event `from`/`to`
columns inside a sync callback
- `isWorkspaceOwnerLive` (1)
- `isPhantomExecutorBinding` (1)

Converting these means threading a flags parameter down from every
caller — precisely the unwired-optional-parameter shape this program
keeps finding inert (five were live on `main` at once per
`unwired-lane-parameter-guard`). They need a decision about *where the
resolution lives*, not a guess from me.

The other **14** are in async sweeps with a seam available and are
ordinary follow-on work in this same file.

## Verification (measured)

- self-healing suites — **816 passed / 41 files**
- `tsc --noEmit`, `eslint` — clean
- `pnpm test:gate` — green
- `lifecycle-column-census --strict`, `check-lane-wiring`,
`check-sql-column-literals`, `check-inert-flag-seams`,
`check-fnxc-future-dates` — green

No changeset: `@fusion/engine` is private.


<!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai
-->

## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Self-healing workflows now continue functioning when workflow columns
are renamed.
* Improved recovery for stalled, blocked, paused, or disconnected
workflow states while preserving existing filters and actions.
* Temporary merge worktrees and drifted agent links are cleaned up more
reliably.

<!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
2026-07-31 02:54:39 -07:00
gsxdsm
0fd3e38628 test(engine): PR #3051's scheduler conversion is inert — live-PG refutation (#3058)
## Escalation — a conversion on main changed nothing

**#3051 ("scheduler.ts 12 → 2 lifecycle-column guards") is inert.** It
widened `resolveTaskParkedColumnsSync` from `{hold,intake}` to the full
role set and replaced ten handler literals with `parked.review` /
`parked.wip` / `parked.complete` / `parked.archived`. The census fell by
ten. The behaviour did not change, on any board.

Everything rests on one line in that helper:

```ts
const l = resolveLifecycleColumns(store.resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync(taskId));
```

`resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync` resolves through the sync workflow
**selection** reader, which answers `undefined` for every task under
PostgreSQL — the shipped backend. The resolver takes its `!workflowId`
branch and returns the **default builtin IR**.

Note the shape precisely, because the obvious reading is wrong and this
PR corrected itself on it mid-run: the helper does **not** get
`undefined` and fall through to `?? legacy.review`. It gets a **real IR
that resolves real traits** — the default board's. So `parked.review` is
`"in-review"` for every card on every board, the `?? legacy` arms are
dead code, and the helper answers with full confidence. It looks
resolved at every level except the one that decides the answer.

## Evidence (live PostgreSQL, 3/3 passing)

For a card bound to a **stored** renamed workflow and sitting in that
board's review column (`checking`, carrying `human-review` +
`merge-blocker` + `merge`):

| | sync path (what every converted arm uses) | async resolver | board
actually declares |
|---|---|---|---|
| review | `in-review` | `checking` | `checking` |
| wip | `in-progress` | — | `building` |
| complete | `done` | — | `shipped` |

The async arm is in the test on purpose: it attributes the failure to
the **sync path** and nothing else.

The **control** is the point of the whole thing — on the default board
the sync answer is *correct*, by coincidence rather than resolution.
That is why every default-board scheduler test passes either way, and
how ten inert conversions read as a fix.

## Why this is worse than leaving the literals

A conversion that changes nothing is worse than an unconverted literal,
because **the literal was counted and this is not.** Ten guards left the
backlog, the file now reads as converted, and the next reader has no
reason to look again.

Two further signals that this was not a deliberate trade-off:

1. The FNXC block still standing directly above the handler (unmodified
by #3051) **contradicts the code beneath it** — it says these ten arms
cannot be converted this way and names `resolveTaskParkedColumnsSync` as
the hazard-avoidance device, not the fix.
2. #3051's own added note asserts the fix as fact: *"so on a renamed
board PR monitoring never started or stopped, failure bookkeeping never
recorded, and terminal cleanup never ran."* Those failures are real.
This conversion does not fix them.

## Scope — driven vs argued, stated in the file

- **Driven:** the roles the sync path yields for a real card on a real
stored renamed board, against a real PostgreSQL store, versus the async
resolver on the same card.
- **Not driven, and the file says so rather than substituting a spy:**
the `parked.review` arm's own side effect. Its only outputs are four
dispatch-oscillation fields that do not round-trip through `updateTask`
on this store (measured: writing `dispatchStormCount: 3` reads back
`undefined`), so there is no persisted observable. The behavioural half
is carried by the sibling
`workflow-scheduler-parked-columns-live-e2e.pg.test.ts`, which drives
the **same helper** on the hold role through to persisted state.

## The real unblock

Unchanged from the note already in the file: carry the resolved lanes
**on the `task:moved` payload**, so no listener resolves at all. That
removes the class rather than one instance, and it is the only option
that survives the synchronous-prologue constraint — these listeners run
in the same tick as a synchronous emitter, which is why an `await`
cannot simply be added.

## Verification

`test:gate` exit 0 · live-PG E2E surface **174/174** · census exit 0 ·
`pnpm lint` clean. Test-only; no production file touched.

## Recommendation

Do not revert #3051 — the widened helper is harmless and the note it
added is useful once the resolution is real. **Restore the ten guards to
the census**, or land the payload change. Either way the count must not
read as paid.

Related: **#3055, #3050 and #3049 are all converting `self-healing.ts`
concurrently** — three PRs, one file, 51 guards. Worth de-conflicting
before any of them merges.
2026-07-31 02:51:25 -07:00
gsxdsm
740fea38c2 fleet: restart-recovery-coordinator.ts 4 → 1 (dead fallbacks deleted, not converted) (#3059)
Claiming `packages/engine/src/restart-recovery-coordinator.ts`.

## Census before/after

| File | Before | After |
|---|---:|---:|
| `packages/engine/src/restart-recovery-coordinator.ts` | 4 | **1** |

## These were deletions, not conversions

All three sites were fail-soft fallbacks behind an **optional**
`reviewColumns` parameter:

```ts
return (reviewColumns ? reviewColumns.has(task.column) : task.column === "in-review")
```

Production never took that branch — `self-healing.ts:13646-13649`
supplies the resolved set at every call site. So the correct change is
to make the parameter required and delete the literal, not to swap it
for a role lookup.

## The trap this hit, which would have shipped a crash

**Making the parameter required produced ZERO tsc errors.** That looked
like proof the fallback was unreachable. It is not: the engine
`tsconfig` covers `src` and not `__tests__`, so the type-checker cannot
see the callers that actually relied on the default. Running the tests
surfaced them immediately as `TypeError: Cannot read properties of
undefined (reading 'has')`.

This is the same class as finding 2 in
`docs/solutions/best-practices/proving-a-code-path-actually-runs.md` — a
negative result from a checker that cannot see the thing it is being
asked about. Anyone converting a `src`-only-typechecked package should
assume tsc is blind to test call sites.

The blast radius was also one site larger than grep suggested: the
`isRecoverableMissingWorktreeReviewFailure` **combiner** threads the set
to all three inner predicates. Its own comment already names why — *"a
caller cannot convert the outer question and leave one of the three
inner ones on the legacy id — the half-conversion shape this program
keeps finding."*

Tests now pass the set production always passes, preserving exactly what
each case asserted.

## Remaining 1, flagged not guessed

`L149` uses a different shape (`isReviewColumn ?? task.column ===
"in-review"`) whose callers I did not establish. Absence from grep is
not proof of no caller, so it stays counted.

## Verification

- census: 4 → 1
- `restart-recovery-coordinator` + `self-healing` — **424 tests green**
- `tsc --noEmit` clean; `pnpm lint` clean

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2026-07-31 02:51:14 -07:00
gsxdsm
06717ac3fa refactor(engine): resolve replan-target's advancement test by role (fleet, 4 sites) (#3052)
## Census

| | column guards |
|---|---|
| before | **126** |
| after | **122** |

`replan-target.ts`: **4 → 0**, and it drops out of the top-files list.
Baseline re-recorded in the same PR, as the ratchet requires.

## What changed

`hasAdvancedPastPlanning` asked "has this card moved past planning" as
four literal comparisons — `in-progress`, `in-review`, `done`,
`archived`. It now asks the same question in roles, from lanes the
**caller** resolves.

## Caller-resolved is the whole point

The module's sync twin `resolvePlannerLanes` reads
`store.resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync`, which returns the **default workflow
IR for every task under PostgreSQL**. Converting through it would have
improved the census while answering about a board the card isn't on —
the second failure shape in the learnings doc, already proven at this
exact seam by
`workflow-planner-lanes-sync-vs-async-live-e2e.pg.test.ts`.

The only production caller is `async`, so it uses
`resolvePlannerLanesForTaskAsync`.

**The caller's own inert resolution is fixed too**, not just the four
arms: `releasedToTodo` compared against `resolvePlannerLanes(...).hold`
— the sync twin — so it read `todo` on every board regardless of
vocabulary. One async resolution now supplies the planner column, the
merged-planning column and the forward lanes.

## Flagged, not guessed

The archive lane is a **separate argument** rather than a fifth
`PlannerLanes` role. Adding the field surfaced a genuine divergence
between the sync and async twins — `_workflow-vocabulary-fixture` models
no archive lane, so they disagree there — and that fixture backs **37
test files**. That divergence deserves its own change with its own
evidence; forcing it through a conversion PR would have meant editing a
37-file fixture to make my own change pass.

## Two larger clusters I did NOT claim, with reasons

I went by census size first and verified before writing:

- **`self-healing.ts` (56 guards, 44% of the backlog)** — already
claimed. Three branches hold it, one checked out in another worktree
(`convert/self-healing-lane-cluster-u7`). I'd drafted four sibling role
helpers before checking; reverted rather than collide.
- **`scheduler.ts` (12 guards)** — blocked by design and already
documented at line 907 by a prior fleet worker. The `task:moved` handler
is `async` but its **prologue is not**: no `await` between entry and the
terminal-blocker branch ~55 lines down, so hoisting a resolution turns
the prologue into a microtask and reorders this listener against every
other synchronous subscriber ("verified, not assumed"). Lazy resolution
doesn't help — the *condition* needs the lanes. Unblocking needs the
emitter to carry resolved lanes on the payload, which is a design change
rather than a conversion.

`restart-recovery-coordinator.ts`'s 4 sites are the trait-fallback arms
the census already counts as converted — converting those would delete
the legacy fallback, not add resolution.

## Measured

| check | result |
|---|---|
| replan + planner-lane suites | 11 files, **102 tests green** |
| triage suites | **374 tests green** |
| five gates + strict census | green; `tsc` clean |
| unconverted callers | byte-identical — absent lanes fall back to
`LEGACY_PLANNER_LANES`, absent `archivedColumn` keeps the legacy id |

---------

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2026-07-31 02:39:45 -07:00
gsxdsm
107a1e790a fix(core): the review lane was resolved for two stall signals and literal for the other two (#3053)
## Claim

Largest **unclaimed** census cluster. `self-healing.ts` (56) is the
capacity worker's file and `scheduler.ts` (12) is blocked (below), so I
took **@fusion/core** — 16 bare guards across 12 files, untouched by any
open PR.

## Census before / after

```
before:  COLUMN guards (the backlog):   126
after:   COLUMN guards (the backlog):   126
```

**Unchanged, and that is the honest result — not a failed conversion.**
The repo's sanctioned device is an optional *resolved* parameter whose
default stays the legacy literal (the exemplar is
`restart-recovery-coordinator.ts`, watched by the unwired-lane-parameter
guard). The literal survives as the default arm, so the counter cannot
see the conversion.

**This matters for the fleet phase.** The census is not a progress meter
for this pattern. A worker driving the number down has only two ways to
move it, and both are wrong:

1. **Delete the fallback** (make the parameter required) — prior review
explicitly argued against this; `cli-active-count-lanes.test.ts`
deliberately covers the no-argument path.
2. **"Convert" with `resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync`** — that reader returns
`undefined` unconditionally under PostgreSQL, the shipped backend. It
drops the count while behaving *exactly* like the literal. That is the
inert-conversion class, and `merge-queue-ops-2.ts:53` already carries a
flag note saying so.

I measured the split across all 126: **18 are fallback arms of
already-converted seams; 108 are bare guards.** The headline number
conflates them.

## What changed

`reads.ts` states the invariant in its own words —

> RESOLVED BEFORE THE FIRST SIGNAL, because two adjacent signals must
not disagree.

— and then called two of the four stall signals with the literal:

| signal | before |
|---|---|
| `getInReviewStallReason` | resolved (`reviewColumns`) |
| `getInReviewStalledSignal` | resolved (`reviewColumns`) |
| `detectStalledReview` | **literal `"in-review"`** |
| `hasFreshAgentLogActivitySinceTaskUpdate` | **literal `"in-review"`**
|

On a renamed board `stalledReview` returned `undefined` for every card,
and the fresh-activity gate answered `false` — so `executingTaskIds`
stayed empty and the board showed Stalled / Merge stalled *while a
merger was visibly streaming*, the precise regression that function's
own FNXC note says it was restored to prevent.

Both now take an optional resolved `reviewColumns`. All four hydration
passes pass the set **they already had in scope one line away**; two
needed only a hoist, one reused the per-row map, one was resolving the
same set inline twice.

## Mutation evidence

| Mutant | Result |
|---|---|
| baseline | 11 passed |
| revert the detector guard to the literal | **2 failed** |
| make the parameter a widening (`reviewColumns ? true`) | **2 failed**
|

The second matters: it proves the new parameter is a real gate and not a
change that merely makes every card eligible. Both arms are asserted,
since the literal default is load-bearing for every caller outside
`reads.ts`.

## Flagged — do not guess

- **`scheduler.ts` (12 guards).** All 12 sit inside *synchronous*
listeners (`task:moved`'s sync prologue; `task:updated` is sync
outright). The only sync resolver available,
`resolveTaskParkedColumnsSync`, is already used at lines 929/1130/1157
and is **inert under PostgreSQL** — my own live-PG E2E proves it always
returns the default board. "Converting" these with it would drop the
census by 12 and change nothing. The existing note at 908–926 names the
real unblock: carry resolved lanes on the event payload so no listener
resolves at all. Left alone.
- **`restart-recovery-coordinator.ts` (4)** — already the
optional-parameter device with all three production callers passing
resolved answers. Not backlog.
- **`reads.ts:358`, `audit-ops.ts:208`, `task-id-integrity.ts:444`** —
`"archived"` here is the *cold-storage tier*, not the board column.
Trait resolution would be wrong.

## Verification

`test:gate` exit 0 · full `@fusion/core` unit suite **4880 passed** ·
typecheck exit 0 · `pnpm lint` clean · lifecycle-column census exit 0 ·
FNXC date ratchet exit 0 · lane-wiring census exit 0.

**One unrelated failure to report, not appeased:**
`src/__tests__/postgres/pg-test-harness-template-concurrency.pg.test.ts`
fails under the full suite and **passes in isolation on both my tree and
the untouched baseline** — a pre-existing full-suite concurrency flake
in the PG harness. Not mine, not in the merge gate. I did not quarantine
it: it is another worker's harness, and AGENTS.md warns that
quarantining a concurrency test can mask a real product race. Flagging
for its owner.
2026-07-31 02:39:33 -07:00
gsxdsm
24f5ffaffa fleet: scheduler.ts 12 → 2 lifecycle-column guards (#3051)
Claiming `packages/engine/src/scheduler.ts` from the census work order.

## Census before/after

| File | Before | After |
|---|---:|---:|
| `packages/engine/src/scheduler.ts` | 12 | **2** |

Measured with `scripts/lifecycle-column-census.mjs` (kind `column`
only).

## The file already had the right shape — it just under-answered

`resolveTaskParkedColumnsSync` already resolves a task's lanes from its
own workflow, **synchronously on purpose**: these run inside
`task:moved` / `task:updated` listeners, and its own comment records why
an `await` is forbidden there — it would defer everything after it to a
microtask and reorder handlers relative to a synchronous emitter. It
also already fails soft to the legacy ids.

But it only returned `{hold, intake}`, so every *other* lane question in
the same listeners was still asked with a literal. Widening it to the
full role set converted ten sites with no new abstraction, no new
resolution per site, and no change to the event-ordering contract.

## What was silently broken on a renamed board

- **PR monitoring never started** (`to === "in-review"`) and **never
stopped** (`from === "in-review"`) — a card's PR either untracked, or
tracked forever with its buffered comments never drained.
- **Terminal cleanup never ran** (`to === "done" || "archived"`).
- **The wip → hold failure bookkeeping never recorded** (`from ===
"in-progress"`).

None of these throw. They just stop happening — which is why the census,
not a red test, is what found them.

## Remaining 2, deliberately not converted

`L1097` (`task.column === "in-progress"`) and `L1171` (`task.column !==
"in-review"`) sit outside the listener where `parked` is in scope. They
need their own resolution, and resolving per call there is a different
cost profile than one-per-event; I flagged rather than guessed, per the
fleet rule.

## Verification

- census: `scheduler.ts` 12 → 2
- `scheduler-workflow-cutover` + `scheduler` — 42 tests green
- `tsc --noEmit` on `@fusion/engine` clean; `pnpm lint` clean

Behaviour on an unresolvable workflow is unchanged: the widened helper
keeps the same fail-soft legacy defaults the narrow one had.

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2026-07-31 02:33:28 -07:00
gsxdsm
c9516dbd09 fix(engine): resolve archiveStaleDoneTasks lane guards by role (fleet: self-healing 56→51) (#3047)
Fleet phase. Claimed **`packages/engine/src/self-healing.ts`** — the
largest cluster at **56 of 126** total sites. Verified unclaimed first:
no open PR touches the file and no active worktree held a branch on it.

## Census before / after

| | total | self-healing.ts |
|---|---|---|
| before | **126** | **56** |
| after | **121** | **51** |

`census --strict` exits 0; baseline re-recorded in this commit so the
retired allowances cannot be regrown into.

## What converted, and why each role

`archiveStaleDoneTasks` asked "has this card finished?" by comparing
column ids, so on a renamed board it treated every finished card as live
and archived nothing — the sweep was inert on exactly the boards this
program exists to support.

- **active-dependents scan** and **temp-worktree age gate** →
`TERMINAL_ROLES` (complete ∪ archived): both ask "is this card done
with, in any sense?"
- **staleness filter** → `complete` **alone**: this sweep *archives*
finished cards, so an already-archived card is not a candidate. Using
the terminal pair here would have made the sweep consider its own
output.

**Union, not per-task, deliberately.** Over-inclusion is free at these
sites because the per-card check still discards, and the union needs no
per-task workflow selection — the failure mode
`resolveWorkflowIrForTask` has, where a card with no recorded selection
silently resolves to the built-in board. Recorded in
`docs/solutions/workflow-learnings/project-union-versus-per-task-lanes.md`.

## The half-converted state is the interesting part

Converting only the first two guards made `archiveStaleDoneTasks`
**register as a converted sweep** — the existing ratchet suite grew from
**36 to 38 tests** — and it then failed for still carrying `t.column !==
"done"`.

That is the failure mode worth naming: a partial conversion is worse
than none, because the function now *looks* converted (it calls the
resolver, it reads as role-aware) while one guard still pins it to the
legacy vocabulary. Finishing the function turned it green. I would not
have caught it from the diff.

## Verification

- `self-healing` suites — **807 pass** (41 files)
- `tsc --noEmit` — **0 errors**
- `census --strict`, `check:lane-wiring`, `check:fnxc-future-dates`,
`check:inert-flag-seams`, `check:sql-column-literals` — all exit 0

## Flagged, not guessed — the remaining 51

Deliberately left, each for a stated reason rather than an omission:

1. **Move-transition matrices** (~1489–1504): `from`/`to` pairs encoding
a legal-transition graph (`in-progress → todo|in-review|done|archived`).
These are the *shape* of the lifecycle, not a lane lookup; converting
them needs a transition-role model that does not exist yet. Guessing
here would encode a wrong graph.
2. **`getLiveTaskColumn` comparisons** (~1398, 5313–5342): compared
against a normalizing accessor that manufactures `"archived"` for
soft-deleted rows. Those are protocol values, not column ids —
converting them changes what the sentinel means.
3. **Sites without store access** in scope (several module-level
predicates): need the resolved set threaded in as a parameter, which is
a seam change per call site, not a substitution.
4. **`todo` requeue targets** (1927, 6181, 6303, 12060–12064): these
pick a destination, so they want the single `intake`/`hold` answer from
`resolveLifecycleColumns`, not a set — different arity, and several are
inside sweeps whose rebound semantics I would be changing rather than
preserving.

Each is a real conversion; none is a one-line substitution, and doing
them blind is how a guard count drops while behaviour gets worse.

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2026-07-31 02:28:01 -07:00
gsxdsm
eb0ee4ae98 fleet: executor.ts 7 → 4 lifecycle-column guards (3 converted, 4 flagged out of scope) (#3048)
Claiming `packages/engine/src/executor.ts` from the census work order.

## Census before/after

| File | Before | After |
|---|---:|---:|
| `packages/engine/src/executor.ts` | 7 | **4** |

Measured with `scripts/lifecycle-column-census.mjs` (kind `column`
only), not grep.

## Converted (3)

**L17258 — the completed-task watchdog never armed on a renamed board.**
It required the card to sit in a literal `in-progress`. This does not
error; the watchdog simply never fires, which is the silent-guard class
this program exists to remove. The branch immediately above already
resolves the same lane through `resolveWipTargetForTask`, and there is
even an FNXC note there saying `latestColumn` must come from that
resolved value — so the comparison now asks the same resolver rather
than an id.

**L14940 (×2) — the duplicate-handoff finalize never ran on a renamed
review lane.** `fromColumn`/`toColumn` are parsed out of the store's
rejection message (`Invalid transition: 'X' → 'Y'`), so they carry
whatever ids that workflow declares. Comparing them to the literal
`in-review` meant a renamed lane never matched and
`finalizeAlreadyReviewedTask` was skipped, leaving the card
mid-transition with nothing to complete it. Now resolves the task's own
review role, falling back to the legacy literal when the workflow cannot
be read — so behaviour is unchanged wherever the vocabulary is
unreadable.

## Flagged, not converted (4) — per the fleet rule that behavior changes
are out of scope

**L3557 / L3581 / L3632 / L3642** are branch conditions inside the
**synchronous** `store.on("task:moved")` listener. Resolving a task's
workflow requires an `await`, which is not available in a sync
listener's condition. Moving the test into the deferred body would widen
the branch to every non-forward move and then re-narrow it — a
**behaviour change to the planning-evacuation path**, not a vocabulary
conversion. Converting them properly means making the listener async,
which wants its own commit and its own test.

I flagged rather than guessed, which is why this is 7 → 4 and not 7 → 0.

## On test coverage, stated plainly

Both converted sites are pure resolver swaps in `async` contexts,
verified by tsc, the census delta, and the existing executor suites (48
tests green). I did **not** add new fixtures: this is the file where I
twice wrote tests that passed against the *unconverted* code —
`recoverCompletedTask`'s seven early-return guards make negative
assertions succeed trivially — and reverted both times rather than claim
coverage I did not have. A fixture that genuinely drives L17258 needs a
satisfied `workflowStepResults` so the run does not divert into graph
re-entry; that is worth doing, and it is worth doing honestly rather
than as a green-looking placeholder.

## Verification

- census: `executor.ts` 7 → 4
- `tsc --noEmit` on `@fusion/engine` clean; `pnpm lint` clean
- `executor-graph-boundary`, `executor-task-done-summary`,
`executor-triage-column-audit`, `executor-step-session` — 48 tests green

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2026-07-31 02:27:49 -07:00
gsxdsm
4878bda197 fix(core): the mission bootstrap duplicate was archived into a lane the board does not declare (#3046)
## Invisible to both censuses

`archiveDefinedFeatureBootstrapDuplicate` writes `tasks.column`
**directly** rather than through `moveTask`:

```ts
.set({ column: "archived", updatedAt: … })
```

- the **lifecycle census** reads comparisons — an assignment isn't one
- the **move-target census** reads `moveTask` call arguments — this
never calls it

So on a board whose archive lane is renamed, the duplicate landed in a
column that workflow doesn't declare: a card in a lane the board can't
render, from a path that runs during ordinary feature bootstrap.

## Reuses the helper this class already has

`archivedLanesFor(taskId)` was added for the guards further up the same
file. It returns the legacy id when the task has no resolvable workflow,
so an **unconverted board is byte-identical**. No new resolution
machinery — the two `<> 'archived'` guards become `notInArray(column,
[...lanes])` and the write targets the resolved lane.

A board declaring several archive lanes is arbitrated by taking the
first, the same choice `resolveLifecycleColumns` makes. Multiple archive
lanes aren't a shape the builtin lineages produce.

## Measured

| check | result |
|---|---|
| mission-store PG suite | **36 → 38**, all green |
| new pair | differential — `filed` collides with no legacy id, and the
default-lineage control still lands in `archived` |
| mutation (hardcode the target back) | fails the renamed case |
| SQL literal gate · `tsc` | green |

## How this was found

Measuring the literal-column-**write** population for #2839: 51 raw
sites, of which 20 are the four builtin workflow IRs declaring their own
columns (correct by definition) and several more are archive-*entry
record* fields rather than board columns. This is the one I verified is
a real board write on a live path.

Worth noting the measurement itself was wrong twice first — my glob was
`packages/*/src/**/*.ts`, which requires a subdirectory and silently
skipped every top-level file in `src/` (including this one), and my
script printed only the first 14 findings so the grouping was over a
truncated list. Same scope-blindness class as #3000 and #3002, this time
in a throwaway scanner.

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2026-07-31 02:22:27 -07:00
gsxdsm
53aef245f9 test(release): the dry-run safety probe matched a prompt that no longer exists (#3045)
## A release-safety alarm that was firing on wording

```
AssertionError: dry-run must exit before proceed confirmation
```

The probe searched for ``await confirm(`Proceed with release``. The
prompt has since become:

```js
await confirm(`Proceed with ${CHANNEL} release v${chosenVersion} (build, publish to npm tag '${NPM_DIST_TAG}', tag)?`)
```

so `indexOf` returned **-1**, `dryRunExitIndex < -1` was false, and this
has been red on `main` ever since.

## The property itself holds — verified directly, not inferred from a
green suite

| | offset |
| --- | --- |
| first `if (DRY_RUN) {` guard, calling `process.exit(0)` | **28808** |
| the sole `await confirm(` call site | **44503** |

Two dry-run exit guards, one confirmation, exit first. **`pnpm release
--dry-run` cannot reach the proceed prompt.** This was never a real
safety failure.

The probe is narrowed to the stable prefix `await confirm(\`Proceed with
`, which still names the one confirmation in the file while surviving
the interpolated channel and version. The sentence was never the safety
property.

## Why this one mattered more than an ordinary stale probe

A stale probe on a *safety* test spends the alarm on cosmetics. Everyone
learns the assertion is red for no reason — so a genuine reordering
later arrives at an alarm nobody reads. That is a worse outcome than the
test not existing.

## Proven to still catch the real regression

I injected a `confirm(` call **above** the first dry-run exit in
`release.mjs`:

```
confirm injected before the dry-run exit  →  ℹ pass 5   ℹ fail 1   (dry-run must exit before proceed confirmation)
reverted                                  →  ℹ pass 6   ℹ fail 0
```

**No release command was run.** The mutation was local to a scratch copy
of `release.mjs`, reverted immediately, and the working tree verified
clean — `release.mjs` is untouched by this commit, and the diff is the
test file only.

## Fifth and last of the mechanically-fixable suites

That closes the mechanical half of the seven red `scripts/__tests__`
suites I found: `plugin-authoring-docs` (#3036), `verify-fast` (#3038),
`ci-test-shard-timings` (#3040), `engine-vitest-gate-policy` (#3044),
and this.

**`workflow-reliability-release-check` is the one that is not
mechanical** and I am still not touching it: its acceptance map cites 13
test files with **8 missing** and **2 of 5 rows carrying zero surviving
evidence**. That needs its owner to decide, per row, whether the
coverage moved or was deleted — a repoint would launder the gap
(diagnosed on #3036).

Five of six looked identical from the failure line. Only that one is
unsafe to fix without owning the subject.

## Verification (measured)

- this suite — **6 passed / 0 failed** (was 1 failed)
- `eslint` — clean

Test-only. No changeset.
2026-07-31 02:17:09 -07:00
gsxdsm
8b82e77fbf chore(core): delete liveParentFilter — no caller, and it carried a legacy lane literal (#3042)
Found while enumerating archive-exclusion sites for #3041.

## Unambiguously dead

`liveParentFilter` has exactly **one** reference in the repo: its own
definition.

- not exported from `index.ts` or `index.gate.ts`
- no test imports it
- no production code calls it

It nonetheless contained `column != 'archived'`, so it was one of the 22
sites the SQL column-literal gate tracks.

## Why delete rather than convert

Converting it would mean adding lane resolution to code nothing runs —
risk with no behaviour. That's the same argument #3041 makes for *not*
converting the other two dead sites; deleting is the version of it that
also removes the literal.

## The gate it documents is not being deleted

Its docblock describes the document/artifact visibility gate
(VAL-CROSS-015). That gate is real and still enforced — by the inline
conditions inside `listLiveTaskDocuments` and `listLiveArtifacts`, which
is presumably why this helper was never wired up in the first place.
Only the unused composition goes.

## Measured

| check | result |
|---|---|
| SQL literal population | **22 → 21**; the gate ratcheted its own
baseline down and asked for the commit, included here |
| `taskstore-remaining.test.ts` (archive-lineage suite) | **27 tests
green** |
| six gates + `tsc` | green |

## Not deleted, deliberately

`listLiveTaskDocuments` and `listLiveArtifacts` are referenced **only**
by that test file. That's a weaker signal than zero references — someone
may have written them ahead of a consumer. Their literals stay counted,
which is the honest state for code whose intent I can't read from the
repo.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 02:11:54 -07:00
gsxdsm
de8a18b7d0 fix(ci): prune six phantom paths from the shard-timing snapshot (phantom weight skews shard balance and watchdog budgets) (#3043)
Third of the seven `scripts/__tests__` failures I diagnosed on #3035.
This one is the mirror image of the release-check manifest: there the
assertion was stale; **here the assertion was right the whole time and
the data rotted.**

## Six phantom paths

The committed shard-timing snapshot weighted six test files that no
longer exist. Every one traces to a deliberate deletion:

| deleted in | files |
|---|---|
| #2461 — meta-task auto-archive removal | `meta-chain-auto-close`,
`meta-archive-guard-composition`, `self-healing-meta-archive-guards` |
| #2467 — workflow-owned lifecycle foundation | `workflow-parity` |
| #2477 — dependency-blocked-todo removal |
`dependency-blocked-todo-report`, `dependency-blocked-todo-reporter` |

The features went; their durations stayed.

## Why this is more than a red test

The shard planner distributes work **by these durations**. Phantom
weight is handed to a shard that has no such file to run: that shard
finishes early while its siblings carry the real load. The watchdog
budget is derived from the same numbers — which is the shape behind Full
Suite runs being SIGKILLed at budgets that looked like hangs and were
actually undercounted.

## What I changed, and what I did not

Data hygiene only: an entry is removed **if and only if its path does
not exist**. No duration was edited, and `capturedAt` is untouched and
still inside the staleness budget — so this is not a re-measurement
smuggled in as a cleanup, and the freshness assertion keeps whatever
teeth it had.

I did **not** regenerate the snapshot. That needs a real full-suite
measurement run, it would rewrite every number, and the drift here is
six dead paths, not wrong timings.

## Positive control

Adding a single phantom path back fails the guard (11 pass / 1 fail),
naming the file. So it still catches the next deletion that forgets its
timings — which, on this evidence, is the normal way this file rots.

## Verification

`node --test scripts/__tests__/ci-test-shard-timings.test.mjs` **12
passed** · `pnpm test:gate` 161 + 13 + 487 + 71 · lint — green. Diff is
6 deleted lines.

Remaining from the seven: the release-check manifest (measured on #3035
— 10 of 16 seams dead, needs sizing as a real unit), `verify-fast` and
`engine-vitest-gate-policy` (list drift), `plugin-authoring-docs` (a TOC
anchor for a heading containing `&`), `release-prompt-gate` (dry-run
exit ordering).
2026-07-31 02:11:43 -07:00
gsxdsm
b01a2026a0 test(ci): record the third PG gate canary — the policy ledger has been red since #2759 (#3044)
## The PG gate ledger has been red since #2759

```
AssertionError: the PG gate must stay a narrow, explicit canary list
+   'src/__tests__/postgres/sync-workflow-ir-is-always-default.pg.test.ts'
```

#2759 (`ae4ff9c111`) added that test **and** its entry in
`packages/core`'s `test:pg-gate` script in one commit, without updating
the ledger this assertion compares against.

## Recorded, not approved — and that distinction is why I touched it
carefully

My first instinct was to leave it: ratifying someone else's gate
admission is exactly the "make it green" move I have refused elsewhere
in this sweep.

What changed my mind is that **a red policy test protects nothing**.
While it fails, the *next* gate admission is invisible too — which is
the opposite of what a narrow-canary ledger exists for. The admission is
already live; the gate runs three tests today whatever this file says.
Restoring the ledger re-arms the guard for everything after it.

And the admission does carry the evidence of value AGENTS.md requires,
so recording it is not a rubber stamp. The test pins that
`resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync` returns the **default** IR for every task in
production, which means a guard written as:

```ts
resolveLifecycleColumns(store.resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync(id))?.hold
```

reads as converted, counts as census progress, and is **silently wrong
for every custom workflow** — the non-optional return type hides the
substitution from every caller. Ten call sites depend on that fact
today. Catching that class at the gate is cheaper than catching it in
review; I would have argued for admission had I been asked.

**If the gate's owner disagrees with a third canary, the fix is to
remove it from `test:pg-gate` and shorten this ledger again — not to
leave the assertion red.** I have said so in the code comment too, so
the next reader gets the choice rather than the fait accompli.

## The guard is bidirectional — verified against the gate, not the
ledger

A ledger synced to whatever the gate currently says would be worthless,
so I mutated the **gate script**:

```
removed a canary from packages/core test:pg-gate  →  ℹ pass 3   ℹ fail 1
restored                                          →  ℹ pass 4   ℹ fail 0
```

So it still catches silent gate **shrinkage** as well as growth — a
canary quietly dropping out of the merge gate would fail here.
`package.json` is restored; the diff is the test file only.

## One thing worth passing on

That test names a *class*, not a single bug: ten call sites resolve
lanes through the sync resolver and read as converted while always
getting the default IR. I checked where they live — **all in
`packages/core` and `packages/engine`, none in `packages/cli` or
`plugins`** — so my own territory is clear of it, but whoever owns those
two packages may want the list.

## Verification (measured)

- this suite — **4 passed / 0 failed** (was 1 failed)
- `eslint` — clean

Fourth of the red `scripts/__tests__` suites. Test-only. No changeset.
2026-07-31 02:11:31 -07:00
gsxdsm
511f5b7e2b fix(core): archived tasks leaked into the live feed on a renamed board (#3041)
From my own #2839, re-measured today. Of that issue's SQL-literal sites,
this is the one that decides what a **live view** shows.

## The defect

`listTasksModifiedSinceImpl` backs the SSE watcher and modified-since
polling — the incremental feed the dashboard applies to its task list.
Its `includeArchived: false` branch excluded the literal `archived`:

```ts
conditions.push(sql`${schema.project.tasks.column} != 'archived'`);
```

On a board whose archive lane is named anything else, that predicate
matches **every** row and excludes nothing. Archived cards arrive in the
live feed and reappear on the board.

Nothing errors, and a full refetch filters archived rows by another path
— so the symptom is archived work that comes back until the next reload.
That gets reported as *"the board is flaky"*, not as a bug.

## The fix

`resolveProjectColumnsForRoles` seeds the legacy ids before adding
resolved ones, so the set is never empty and an **unconverted board
excludes exactly `archived` as before**. The literal stays as the
resolution-failure fallback, where excluding nothing would be worse than
excluding the legacy id.

## Surface enumeration — three of four sites are dead

Four sites share this invariant. Verified rather than assumed:

| site | status |
|---|---|
| `reads.ts:558` (SSE / modified-since) | **live** — converted here |
| `liveParentFilter` | **no references anywhere** in `packages/` or
`plugins/` |
| `listLiveTaskDocuments`, `listLiveArtifacts` | referenced **only** by
`taskstore-remaining.test.ts` |

That's why this PR converts one site rather than four — the other three
are production-dead, and converting dead code would add risk for no
behaviour.

## Measured

| check | result |
|---|---|
| new PG suite | **4 cases** — legacy control, the renamed defect, a
live-lane negative, and the forensic `includeArchived: true` read |
| mutation (force the legacy fallback) | fails **exactly** the renamed
case; the other three hold |
| six gates + `tsc` | green |

The negative case is the one that matters most: resolving the archive
role must not start excluding **live** work, or the board silently stops
updating for real tasks — a worse failure than the leak this fixes.

## One process note

I corrupted this file mid-session by mutation-testing it while
uncommitted: a failed restore left a half-applied block, and a later
`git checkout --` discarded the fix entirely. Both were caught by
re-grepping for the symbol rather than trusting the restore. The
reliable pattern is **commit first, then mutate, then `git checkout` to
restore** — which is how the proof above was actually run.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 02:08:49 -07:00
gsxdsm
0b10f6ccd3 test(docs): validate nested TOC anchors, and fix the slugify that hid one (#3039)
**Stacked on #3036** (its commit is the parent). That PR fixes a guard
that had been red on `main`; this closes the gap it leaves and, in doing
so, turned up a second defect in the helper.

## 1. Nested anchors were accepted but never resolved

#3036 makes the parser recognise sub-entries — correct, and it fixes the
red. But it validates only their link *shape*. Measured on that branch:

| corruption | result |
|---|---|
| **nested** entry → `#kb-nonexistent-anchor` | **passes** |
| **top-level** entry → `#kb-nonexistent-anchor` | fails |

A TOC guard exists so links resolve. Checking that for one class of
entry and not the other leaves a dead sub-link to be found by a reader
clicking it.

## 2. Resolving them exposed the slugify bug

Adding the check failed immediately — on the **real document**, against
a heading that exists:

```
Nested TOC anchor #theming--overlay-layering-for-dashboard-views matches no heading
```

The document is right; the helper was wrong. `slugifyHeading` collapsed
whitespace **runs**:

```js
.replace(/\s+/g, "-")     // theming-overlay-layering-...
.replace(/\s/g,  "-")     // theming--overlay-layering-...  ← GitHub, and the doc's own link
```

GitHub emits one hyphen **per space**. `### Theming & Overlay Layering
for Dashboard Views` loses the `&` and keeps both spaces, so the true
anchor carries a double hyphen.

**This was latent, not dormant-and-harmless:** the two spellings differ
only when punctuation is stripped from *between* words, and all eighteen
numbered section titles are punctuation-free — so every existing use of
the helper agreed. The first heading with an `&` in it would have
produced a false failure against a correct document, which is the shape
most likely to get a guard edited rather than believed.

## Mutations (all four)

| mutation | result |
|---|---|
| clean | 4/4 pass |
| nested anchor broken | **fails** ← was green before this PR |
| top-level anchor broken | fails |
| malformed top-level line | fails |
| `slugify` reverted to collapsing | **fails** — the helper fix is
load-bearing |

Lint clean, FNXC gate exit 0. Test-only.

## Note

This is the fifth guard in this batch to ship with a hole found by
mutating it rather than reading it, and the second where fixing one
class of input revealed the checker had been quietly wrong about
another. The pattern is consistent enough to be worth expecting: **when
a guard starts examining something it previously skipped, the first
thing it finds is usually its own bug.**

If #3036 lands first this rebases to a single commit; if taken together
the stack applies as-is.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved heading links to match GitHub-style anchors when punctuation
separates words.
* Enhanced nested table-of-contents validation to confirm links point to
headings in the document.

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2026-07-31 02:06:03 -07:00
gsxdsm
49fb39e644 fix(ci): prune six phantom paths from the shard-timing snapshot, red on main since their features died (#3040)
## Six phantom paths in the shard-timing snapshot

```
AssertionError: timing snapshot references missing test files:
packages/core/src/__tests__/dependency-blocked-todo-report.test.ts
packages/core/src/__tests__/workflow-parity.test.ts
packages/engine/src/__tests__/dependency-blocked-todo-reporter.test.ts
packages/engine/src/__tests__/reliability-interactions/meta-archive-guard-composition.test.ts
packages/engine/src/__tests__/reliability-interactions/meta-chain-auto-close.test.ts
packages/engine/src/__tests__/self-healing-meta-archive-guards.test.ts
```

The guard's own note says why this matters past the red assertion:
*"stale or phantom-path entries silently degrade CI shard balancing and
can hide merge-gate regressions."*

**The balancing cost is not academic.**
`self-healing-meta-archive-guards` carried **20700 ms**. A shard has
been budgeting 20.7 seconds for a file that cannot run, plus five more.

## Deleted, not moved — checked one at a time

A moved test should be **repointed** to keep its measurement; only a
deleted one should be dropped. So I resolved each rather than assuming:

| file | deleted by |
| --- | --- |
| `dependency-blocked-todo-report` / `-reporter` | `710d56b2db` — U4
trim, the feature deletion |
| `workflow-parity` | `4158cf1ab7` — Phase A workflow-owned lifecycle |
| `meta-archive-guard-composition`, `meta-chain-auto-close`,
`self-healing-meta-archive-guards` | `0e3d2a2265` — meta-task
auto-archive/auto-close deletion |

All six died with their features. None has a surviving equivalent
anywhere in `packages/`.

## Pruned, not regenerated

Regenerating means a full measured suite run and rewrites all 2499
entries — burying six deletions inside a wholesale diff nobody can
review. `capturedAt` is **6.8 days old against a 30-day budget**, so the
snapshot is otherwise current and the other **2493 measurements are
untouched**.

The diff is exactly six deleted lines, `capturedAt` unchanged.

## Revert proof

Pruning a list is worthless if the assertion cannot fail afterwards, so
I re-introduced a phantom entry:

```
with a fake path   →  ℹ pass 11   ℹ fail 1   (references missing test files)
removed            →  ℹ pass 12   ℹ fail 0
```

## Third of the red suites, and still not a sweep

Mechanical, like `verify-fast` (#3038). Unlike
`workflow-reliability-release-check`, whose acceptance map cites 13 test
files with **8 missing** and **2 of 5 rows carrying zero surviving
evidence** — that one needs its owner, and a repoint would launder the
gap (diagnosed on #3036).

Same failure phrasing, opposite safety. That is why these are going one
at a time.

## Verification (measured)

- this suite — **12 passed / 0 failed** (was 1 failed)
- snapshot integrity — 2493 files retained, `capturedAt` unchanged, no
reformatting

No changeset: CI tooling data.
2026-07-31 02:05:51 -07:00
gsxdsm
19b97e9f09 test(verify-fast): the pretest-validator mirror is stale by two, and has been red on main (#3038)
## The pretest-validator mirror is stale by two

```
assert.deepEqual(PRETEST_STATIC_CHECK_SCRIPTS, PRETEST_CHECKS);
+   'scripts/check-no-cwd-relative-dashboard-test-reads.mjs',
+   'scripts/check-capacity-pool-id.mjs',
```

Production found ten validators; the test's mirror listed eight. **The
world was right and the assertion was stale** — the good direction.

`PRETEST_STATIC_CHECK_SCRIPTS` is *derived* from `package.json`'s
pretest chain, so `verify:fast` picked both new validators up
automatically when they were added. They are real scripts, they run in
pretest, and verify:fast was already running them. Only the mirror
needed telling.

Added in production order, since the assertion is a `deepEqual` and
order is part of it. Plain strings for these two — the surrounding
entries are split and re-joined to keep banned phrases (the port-kill
and nohup literals) off a single source line for the policy scanner, and
neither new name contains one.

## The guard is load-bearing — verified against the source of truth, not
the mirror

Syncing a mirror is worthless if the assertion can no longer fail, so I
mutated `package.json`'s pretest chain rather than the test:

```
dropped check-capacity-pool-id from pretest  →  ℹ pass 16   ℹ fail 1
restored                                     →  ℹ pass 17   ℹ fail 0
```

So it still catches a validator silently leaving `verify:fast`, which is
the regression that actually matters. `package.json` is restored; the
diff here is the test file only.

## Second of seven, and the contrast is the point

This is the second of the seven red `scripts/__tests__` suites I found
on clean `main` (after #3036). It was genuinely mechanical.

`workflow-reliability-release-check` was not, and I did **not** fix it —
diagnosed on #3036 instead:
`docs/custom-workflow-reliability-acceptance-map.md` cites 13 test files
of which **8 are missing**, and **2 of 5 rows have zero surviving
evidence**, including *"a custom workflow can be authored/imported,
rejected on invalid IR, saved, discovered, selected, and reloaded"*. The
obvious repoint would have turned it green while the behaviour stayed
unverified.

That contrast is why I am taking these one at a time rather than
sweeping them green: two of seven look identical from the failure line,
and only one of them is safe to fix without owning the subject.

## Verification (measured)

- this suite — **17 passed / 0 failed** (was 1 failed)
- `eslint` — clean

Test-only. No changeset.
2026-07-31 01:57:59 -07:00
gsxdsm
35729699b8 fix(dashboard): Lane and ListView sorted every column with the LEGACY role defaults (wrong card order on renamed boards) (#3016)
`sortTasksForDisplayColumn` takes four role answers and defaults each to
the legacy id. Its own header names the callers that never supplied
them:

> *"defaults to the legacy id so the callers that do not resolve flags
(Lane, ListView) keep today's behaviour exactly."*

On a renamed board, today's behaviour is the **wrong order**, silently:

| lane | what is lost |
|---|---|
| hold | priority-then-FIFO queue order — an urgent card is no longer
visibly next |
| complete | completion-date ordering |
| review | the merging card no longer floats to the top |

Nothing throws, nothing logs. The cards are simply in the wrong order —
which is exactly why this survived every existing test in these files:
their fixtures use the built-in ids, where the defaults happen to be
right.

`Board.tsx` already resolves these from `column.flags`. Mirrored here
rather than answered a second way, including its `complete && !archived`
done-like rule.

## Reverted

All **3** new `Lane` cases fail. Each picks inputs where the role order
and the generic fallback **disagree**:

- hold — equal priority, so role order is created-at and the fallback is
task-id
- complete — `columnMovedAt` DESC vs task-id ascending
- review — a `merging` card, which the fallback ignores entirely

**My first draft asserted urgent-first and passed with the fix
reverted.** The generic sort also puts urgent first, so the assertion
discriminated nothing. Recording that because it is the second time this
shape has caught me: an assertion that is *true* is not the same as an
assertion that is *load-bearing*.

## Coverage I do not have

`ListView`'s identical wiring has **no component test**. Its harness
stubs `fetchBoardWorkflows` with a never-resolving promise, and
`listColumns` derives from the resolved workflow — so a renamed board is
not drivable there without reworking that stub, which several other
tests in the file depend on. The call site is covered structurally by
the lane-wiring ratchet (baseline 19 → 17) and by the helper's own unit
tests, but that is a structural guarantee, not a behavioural one. I
would rather say so than imply the two callers are equally proven.

## Verification

Lane + ListView + taskSorting + Board **357 passed** · `pnpm test:gate`
161 + 13 + 487 + 71 · lint · lifecycle census `--strict` · lane-wiring ·
fnxc-dates (TZ=UTC) · changesets — green.


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Fixed task sorting in lanes and list views after workflow columns are
renamed.
* Preserved correct ordering for completed, on-hold, archived,
merge-blocked, and review tasks.
* Ensured task ordering reflects each column’s configured role rather
than its previous identifier.
  * Maintained consistent ordering across board and list views.

* **Tests**
* Added coverage for renamed workflow columns and their expected task
ordering.
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2026-07-31 01:55:08 -07:00
gsxdsm
6a5bd7a86f chore(gate): drop the stale inert-seam exemption — the seam it covered is wired (#3037)
The gate reports this itself:

```
[check-inert-flag-seams] STALE allow-list entries — supplied now, or no longer declared:

  plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/GraphTaskNode.tsx::isTaskStuck
    — no unsupplied call site remains; remove its ALLOWED_OMISSIONS entry
```

#3029 wired that call site. The entry now claims to tolerate something
that doesn't exist.

The gate **warns rather than fails** here by design — failing would
punish whoever fixed the seam — which is precisely why a stale entry has
to be deleted deliberately instead of waiting for a red build to force
it.

## The text is worth losing on its own account

That exemption justified the omission as needing *"a published-API
change."* I later revised it to *"build plumbing."* **Both were wrong**:
the blocker was a hand-maintained interop declaration frozen at the
pre-conversion three-argument signature (#3003 → #3029).

An exemption whose stated reason has been disproven twice is worse than
no exemption — it's a confident note that stops anyone re-deriving the
answer. Same failure mode as the stale "do not re-probe" doc entry
corrected in #3018, and the untested deferral rationales recorded in
#3026.

## Measured

| check | result |
|---|---|
| inert-seam gate | **23 seams, all supplied**, exit 0 **with no
waiver** |
| gate's own suite | 18/18 |
| lane-wiring · plugin-interop-drift · FNXC | green; lint clean |

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved validation of task status handling by removing an exception
that could allow an incomplete call site to go undetected.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 01:54:57 -07:00
gsxdsm
f411d55591 test(docs): the PLUGIN_AUTHORING TOC guard rejected legal nested entries, and has been red on main (#3036)
## A legal Markdown sub-entry turned this guard red

```
AssertionError: Invalid TOC line: - [Theming & Overlay Layering for Dashboard Views](#theming--overlay-layering-for-dashboard-views)
```

That line is an ordinary nested TOC entry, indented under item 8 of
`docs/PLUGIN_AUTHORING.md`. The parser did `.map(line => line.trim())`
**first** and then required every line to match the top-level `N.
[title](#anchor)` shape — so indentation, the one thing distinguishing a
sub-entry from a malformed top-level one, was destroyed before it could
be used.

**The doc was never wrong.** Only the parser was, and it has been red on
`main` since the entry was added.

Indentation is now read before trimming. Sub-entries are still required
to be well-formed links; they just do not participate in the numbering
or the count.

## Both guard directions verified by breaking them

A looser parser that skipped anything unrecognised would have made the
failure go away while quietly ending the guard's usefulness — so I
checked it still fails in both directions:

| mutation | result |
| --- | --- |
| top-level `9.` rewritten as a bullet | still fails (`Invalid TOC
line`) |
| nested entry replaced with un-linked prose | still fails (`Invalid
nested TOC line`) |

## The wider finding, which matters more than this fix

I found it by sweeping `scripts/__tests__` against clean `main`: **688
passing, 7 failing test files.**

| suite | failing assertion |
| --- | --- |
| `ci-test-shard-timings` | committed timing snapshot references live
test files |
| `dependency-security-floor` | pnpm overrides pin transitive protobufjs
to a safe floor |
| `engine-vitest-gate-policy` | pg gate canaries remain a subset of the
enabled suite |
| `plugin-authoring-docs` | **this PR** |
| `release-prompt-gate` | release dry-run exits before proceed
confirmation |
| `verify-fast` | defaults to every canonical pretest validator |
| `workflow-reliability-release-check` | manifest references existing
seam files |

All sit **outside the merge gate**. That is now the third instance of
this pattern I have hit — #2969's 15 red agent-action tests and #3033's
stale ratchet list were the others — and it is clearly systemic rather
than incidental.

I fixed only the one in plugin territory. The rest span CI sharding,
**dependency security** (that protobufjs floor is a security assertion
currently not holding), release gating and workflow manifests. Each
needs its owner's judgement about whether the assertion or the world is
wrong, and a drive-by "make it green" is exactly how a real signal gets
erased — `dependency-security-floor` especially.

## Verification (measured)

- this suite — **4 passed / 0 failed** (was 1 failed)
- `eslint` — clean

Test-only; the doc is untouched. No changeset.
2026-07-31 01:52:13 -07:00
gsxdsm
83294a6958 fix(test): the protobufjs security floor was asserted against an empty object (reads like a deleted pin; it moved) (#3035)
`scripts/__tests__` has **seven** files failing on main. None are in the
merge gate, so nobody is blocked — which is exactly how this survived.
This fixes the one that names a real risk.

## It reads like a deleted security pin. It isn't.

```
AssertionError: package.json pnpm.overrides: protobufjs range undefined
                must include an explicit semver version
```

#2220 moved pnpm overrides from `package.json` to `pnpm-workspace.yaml`
for pnpm 11 readiness. The assertion kept reading `package.json`, where
`pnpm.overrides` is now `{}`.

**Nothing was ever exposed**: `pnpm-workspace.yaml` still pins
`protobufjs: ^7.5.8` and the lockfile resolves `7.6.5`, comfortably
above the 7.5.5 floor. The sibling assertion that checks lockfile
resolutions has been passing the whole time — which is the only reason
this was survivable.

But no reader could distinguish this message from a genuinely removed
pin without doing the archaeology, and a guard that is permanently red
while naming a real risk teaches its readers that red means nothing
here. That is worse than no guard: it launders a real removal into
background noise.

## Measured both ways

| change to `pnpm-workspace.yaml` | result |
|---|---|
| pin removed | **fails** — `protobufjs range undefined must include an
explicit semver version` |
| pin lowered to `^7.4.0` | **fails** — `range ^7.4.0 is below required
floor 7.5.5` |
| unchanged | passes |

## Second assertion

`package.json` must declare **no** `pnpm.overrides`. If overrides move
again — or come back — that fails and points at the next reader, instead
of letting the floor go silently unchecked. That is precisely the
failure mode #2220 produced, and nothing would otherwise catch a second
occurrence.

## The other six

Left alone deliberately; each needs its own diagnosis and they are
unrelated to one another (I checked — the "seven files, one failure
each" pattern looked like a common cause and is not):

- `workflow-reliability-release-check` — manifest references
`workflow-definition-store.test.ts`, which no longer exists. **Likely a
real signal**: a release check pointing at a deleted seam file covers
nothing. Best next one to pick up.
- `ci-test-shard-timings` — snapshot references missing test files;
affects shard balancing.
- `verify-fast`, `engine-vitest-gate-policy` — validator/canary list
drift.
- `plugin-authoring-docs` — a TOC anchor for a heading containing `&`.
- `release-prompt-gate` — dry-run no longer exits before the proceed
confirmation.

## Verification

`node --test scripts/__tests__/dependency-security-floor.test.mjs` **4
passed** · `pnpm test:gate` 161 + 13 + 487 + 71 · lint · changesets —
green.


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Updated security validation to correctly read protobufjs version
overrides from the workspace configuration.
* Added safeguards to detect outdated override locations and help
prevent future security-check regressions.

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2026-07-31 01:46:56 -07:00
gsxdsm
d4add985fe test(engine): the unwired-parameter guard has been red on main — its list is stale by one (#3033)
## The unwired-parameter guard has been red on `main`

```
A parameter LEAVING this list is the goal; one arriving is a regression — update the list only to shorten it.
  expected [ …(16) ] to deeply equal [ …(17) ]
```

Reproduced on clean `origin/main`, so it is not a branch artifact.

`packages/engine/src/scheduler.ts isWipColumn` is **supplied at both
production call sites now** — `self-healing.ts:4754` and `:5825` pass
`isWipColumn: completedWipColumns.has(blocker.column)` and the
blocked-lane equivalent, wired by #2975/#2987. The list was not
shortened in the same change.

So this is the good direction: a parameter got wired. The assertion just
was not told.

## Shortened, not re-recorded

I diffed the computed set against the recorded one rather than
regenerating:

```
DEPARTED (wired since):  packages/engine/src/scheduler.ts isWipColumn
ARRIVED (new):           (none)
```

Exactly one departure, nothing arrived — so removing that single line is
the whole fix, and it follows the file's own instruction (*"update the
list only to shorten it"*). Re-recording wholesale would have silently
absorbed any arrival too, which is the one thing this ratchet must not
do.

## How it was found

While measuring an unrelated change to the sibling census. **This suite
is outside the merge gate**, which is why a red assertion sat unnoticed
— the same reason #2969's 15 red agent-action tests survived, and worth
noting as a pattern rather than a one-off.

## What I abandoned to get here, and why it belongs in this PR's story

I was trying to remove two false positives from the sibling
`check-lane-wiring` census — `bucketForTask(task: TaskItem)` and
`otherBucketSecondaryLabel(task: TaskItem)`, both flagged only because
`TaskItem` declares `columnFlags?`, both reading it off the entity
internally.

The rule I tried was the sibling guard's own documented one: a
**required** parameter is enforced by the compiler, so it is not this
census's question. It measured perfectly — 15 sites → 13, removing
exactly those two and retaining every genuine entry.

Then it failed `lane-wiring-census-named-types.test.ts`:

```ts
export type MergeContext = { completeColumns?: ReadonlySet<string> };
export function canMerge(task: string, context: MergeContext): string { … }
```

A **required** parameter with a named options type is a shape that
census deliberately covers — `canMerge(task, {})` really can omit the
lane member. My "exact" rule was exact only against the current tree,
and it broke a tested contract. I dropped it rather than edit their test
to match my change.

The two false positives therefore stay baselined, and the cost stands as
previously recorded: a genuinely new unwired call in those two TUI files
would be masked. I do not have a rule I can prove safe, and three
attempts at this class have now traded false positives for worse false
negatives.

## Verification (measured)

- both guard suites — **18 passed / 0 failed** (was 1 failed)
- `check-lane-wiring`, `lifecycle-column-census --strict`,
`check-fnxc-future-dates` — green
- `eslint` — clean (one pre-existing warning, no errors)

Test-only; no product file touched. No changeset.
2026-07-31 01:44:11 -07:00
gsxdsm
ccf562f178 gate: compare mirrored INTERFACES too, and delete the dead prop that found (#3034)
> **Re-landing the second half of #3031.** That PR merged into #3029's
branch and only its first commit reached `main` — the arity rule
shipped, the interface rule and its finding did not. Verified on `main`:
the gate reports *"7 mirrored function(s)"* with no interface count, and
the dead prop below is still there.

## What

The arity rule covers exported functions. The same files also mirror
**interfaces**, which is the larger surface — six copies of
`PluginDashboardViewContext` alone.

**One direction only.** A mirror may declare *fewer* properties, and all
six do (6, 8, 7, 7, 3, 6 against the real nine) because a plugin mirrors
the fields it uses. Demanding equality would fail every plugin for not
using everything — which is how a check gets ignored and then deleted. A
property the real type **doesn't have** is the drift that matters: a
rename nobody propagated, where the plugin keeps compiling and reads a
field the host never sends.

## Its first interface run found a live one

```
dashboard-interop.d.ts:67  TaskCardProps.workflowStepNameLookup is not a property of the real TaskCardProps
```

Git history says it **was** one when FN-2466 and FN-7039 added this
threading. The dashboard removed it later; nothing propagated that to
the plugin's hand-written declaration. So the plugin built a lookup map
from `context.workflowSteps` on every render, threaded it through two
components, and handed it to a `TaskCard` with no such prop.

Deleted rather than exempted — a new gate shouldn't ship with a waiver
for its own first finding. Behaviour-preserving: the value never reached
anything.

## Measured on `main`

| check | result |
|---|---|
| population | **7 functions + 10 interfaces across 6 plugins**, all
matching after the deletion |
| control probe | phantom property **caught**; clean tree exits 0 |
| anti-vacuity | now also requires a non-zero *interface* comparison |
| gate's own suite | **5 → 8** |
| dependency-graph suite | 179 green; `tsc` clean |
| other five gates · census | green |

## Running total for this check

Three real drifts, none of which any other instrument reported:

1. `isTaskStuck` stuck at three parameters through the whole lane
conversion (#3003)
2. `taskStuckTimeoutMs?: number` vs the required `number | undefined` —
in **two independent authors'** declarations
3. `workflowStepNameLookup` outliving its removal from `TaskCard`

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 01:43:58 -07:00
gsxdsm
e9b24b69e8 fix(dashboard): the duplicate banner judged the canonical by legacy lane ids (#3032)
Found by applying the check I proposed on #3028: **re-test each
`ALLOWED_OMISSIONS` entry — does the omission still fail once the excuse
is removed?** It found a stale excuse on its first run.

## The entry's blocker was never tested

```
"…TaskDetailModal.tsx::isNearDuplicateCanonicalInactive"
  reason: "…Correct supply needs a fetch — a data change. See the note at the site."
```

The reasoning gets the hard part right: passing `detailColumnFlags`
would answer about the **modal's** task, not the canonical, and would
type-check while reading as a conversion. Rejecting that is correct.

Then it concludes the seam needs a fetch — without checking what is in
scope.

- `columnFlagsByTaskId` is **already a prop of this component**
(declared `:367`, destructured `:727`, used for the fan-out map at
`:3718`), keyed by task id.
- The canonical is `tasks.find((c) => c.id === nearDuplicateOf)` — drawn
from the same loaded set the map covers. If the banner can render at
all, the canonical is in `tasks`.

So `columnFlagsByTaskId?.get(canonical.id)` is the canonical's own
flags, no fetch. **`Column.tsx:307` already does exactly this**, with a
comment making the same point about not reusing the row's flags — a
sibling call site of the same function, solved.

## What was broken

The banner's "this duplicates X" warning stayed up when the canonical
had landed in a **renamed** complete lane, because
`isNearDuplicateCanonicalInactive` fell back to the legacy ids and never
saw it as finished. Same user-visible symptom #2997 fixed for the card
chip; this is the modal.

## Verification

| state | result |
|---|---|
| clean | seams gate exit 0; 123/123 across `TaskDetailModal.rendering`
+ `Column.neardup-flags-arrival` |
| revert the supply | **gate exit 1** —
`isNearDuplicateCanonicalInactive() — supplied by 10/11 call sites;
omitted at TaskDetailModal.tsx:1 (of 2)` |

That mutation is the point: with the allow-list entry present, this
exact omission passed silently. It is now defended by the gate rather
than excused by it.

`tsc -p tsconfig.app.json` 0 errors in the file, lint clean, FNXC gate
exit 0.

## The general point

This is the second allow-list entry in two PRs whose stated blocker was
wrong — #3028 removed the other one (*"needs a published-API change"*;
the SDK is `private: true` and every consumer was in-repo).

An `ALLOWED_OMISSIONS` entry is a deferral **carrying a gate's
authority**. It reads as settled, it lives inside the checker, and it
turns "nobody tested this" into "someone tested it and concluded no". A
stale baseline *number* invites a recount; a stale *paragraph* invites
agreement. Both entries this gate carried were stale, and the note at
this call site had even been revised once — the revision corrected which
flags were wrong to pass, and left the untested "needs a fetch"
conclusion standing.

Worth a periodic sweep of the remaining entries as they accumulate; with
these two gone the list is empty, so the cheapest time to
institutionalise it is now.

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 01:41:13 -07:00
gsxdsm
a460a9bbc0 fix(plugins,dashboard): the dependency graph drew every card with the LEGACY lane vocabulary (#3029)
## The third producer of unflagged cards — the one a host-side fix could
not reach

#3025 fixed the two producers that go through `renderTaskCard`.
`GraphTaskNode` is a third: it imports `TaskCard` **directly** through
the plugin's interop shim, so that fix bypassed it and every role helper
inside a graph card kept reading the legacy ids.

The same component also called the stuck predicate without its flags:

```ts
const isStuck = isTaskStuck(task, taskStuckTimeoutMs, lastFetchTimeMs);   // no columnFlags
```

so `isWipColumnRole` fell back to the literal and **no card in the graph
could ever be stuck on a renamed board**. Because `isStuck` gates
`isActive`, a wedged card rendered with the **active** styling — the
graph reported *"running"* about a task that had not moved in hours,
while the main board showed the same card as stuck.

That asymmetry between two views of one task is the defect, and it is
what the new test pins.

## One cause, so one fix

Both symptoms came from the same gap: `PluginDashboardViewContext`
exposed `tasks` and nothing about the board's vocabulary. It now carries
`columnFlagsByTaskId` — the same per-task map `renderTaskCard` already
uses, **two lines away in the same object literal**.

## I filed this twice as blocked on a public-API change. It was not.

```
packages/dashboard                        @fusion/dashboard                        private: true
packages/plugin-sdk                       @fusion/plugin-sdk                       private: true
plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph    @fusion-plugin-examples/dependency-graph private: true
```

No published surface anywhere in the path — three in-repo private
packages and a hand-written `.d.ts`. **#3026 landed the general form of
that mistake while I was still making it**: a deferral's stated blocker
is a claim, and mine decayed unchecked until I finally measured it.

## Two type decisions worth reviewing

- **`Partial<TraitFlags>`** in the plugin-facing type, not the
dashboard's `ExecutorColumnFlags` — that module's own header restricts
it to `@fusion/core` and `react` imports so external plugin builds can
consume it. Same runtime object either way.
- **`MainContentProps.columnFlagsByTaskId` widened** from `{complete,
archived, intake, hold}` to the flags the map really carries. It is
built from `workflow.columns.find(...).flags`, so the four-flag
declaration was a narrower view than the value — and `countsTowardWip`,
which every wip predicate needs, was invisible through it. That narrow
type is why threading this looked impossible at first.

Absent still means legacy, matching how the host treats remote rows and
off-board columns: the degraded answer is the documented literal, never
*"this board has no wip lane"*.

## Revert proof

Dropping the 4th argument:

```
AssertionError: expected 'graph-task-node graph-task-node--acti…' not to contain 'graph-task-node--active'
      Tests  1 failed | 26 passed (27)
```

The paired case (a fresh legacy `in-progress` card still reads active)
passes both ways by design — it guards against over-detection, so I am
not counting it as coverage.

The gate agrees independently:
`plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/GraphTaskNode.tsx: 1 -> 0`,
baseline re-recorded 16 → 15 in the same commit.

## Verification (measured)

- plugin suite — **185 passed / 20 files**
- dashboard `dashboard/` + `plugins/` suites — **48 passed / 6 files**
- `tsc --noEmit` clean in both packages; `pnpm lint` clean
- `lifecycle-column-census --strict`, `check-lane-wiring` (15, none
added), `check-sql-column-literals`, `check-inert-flag-seams`,
`check-fnxc-future-dates` — green

No changeset: all three packages are `private: true`.

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 01:30:47 -07:00
gsxdsm
25b3c06d2d fix(plugins): compound-engineering pipelines stalled forever on a renamed board (#3022)
Closes #3020 — which I filed **instead of** fixing, on a rationale that
turned out to be wrong.

I said the plugin had no scaffolding for faking `CePipelineStore` +
`taskStore` together. It does: `_harness.ts` already builds a real
`PluginContext` over a live PostgreSQL layer. The gap was **two missing
readers on its task-store stub**, not missing infrastructure. I checked
the harness only after filing.

## The defect

`TERMINAL_COLUMNS` is `{in-review, done}`, and the reconciler advances a
pipeline only when **every** current-stage board task is in that set. On
a board whose review and completion lanes are renamed that's false for
every task, permanently:

- the pipeline never advances a stage
- it never creates its outbound task
- it sits `running` indefinitely

Nothing errors, so it reads as work that hasn't finished. Unlike the
display defects in this family (#3014, #3017), the CE flow actually
**stops**.

## Shape

The decision is extracted to an exported `isStageTerminalColumn` because
it *is* the whole decision. Left private it could only be reached
through a pipeline-state + links + board-tasks fixture, and the half
that needed proving is that a renamed board resolves to its own lanes
through this store.

It uses `resolveReviewColumns` rather than re-deriving the union — that
helper is the documented review **set** (`mergeOrchestration ∪
mergeBlocker ∪ humanReview`), so a board splitting those across a merge
lane and a human lane is covered without this site drifting from it.

## Two things my first attempt got wrong

**The fixture spelled traits in camelCase** — `{ trait: "humanReview"
}`. Trait **ids** are kebab-case (`human-review`, `merge-blocker`,
`wip`); the camelCase names are the resolved **flags**. Those columns
therefore resolved to *no roles at all*, silently, because an unknown
trait isn't an error. `complete` is spelled identically in both
vocabularies, which is exactly what made the first run look like
*"complete works, review is broken"* rather than *"the fixture is
wrong"* — I nearly went debugging the production union.

**The harness extension is additive** and inert until a test seeds it,
so all 24 existing plugin suites see the previous shape.

## Measured

| check | result |
|---|---|
| new suite | **4/4** |
| reverting to the literal-only gate | fails **exactly 2** — the
renamed-terminal case, and a board declaring a NON-terminal column named
`done` — while the legacy control and the WIP/intake negative still pass
|
| plugin suite | **24 files, 184 tests green** |
| `tsc` + all five gates | clean |

That second row is the one that matters: the `done`-without-`complete`
board is the only shape where a real resolution and a legacy fallback
disagree, so it's what separates the fix from a lucky agreement.

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 01:20:04 -07:00
gsxdsm
20e3731eb1 docs(workflow-learnings): a deferral's stated blocker is a claim, and it decays like a measurement (#3026)
Two pieces of work were filed rather than fixed in one session, each
with a specific technical reason. **Both reasons were wrong**, and in
both cases the real obstacle was smaller than the stated one.

| filed rationale | reality |
|---|---|
| "the plugin has no scaffolding for faking its stores" (#3020) |
`_harness.ts` builds a real `PluginContext` over a live PostgreSQL
layer; the gap was **two missing readers on a stub** — fixed in #3022 |
| "supplying this needs a published-API change" (#3003) | the type is
dashboard-internal, `@fusion/plugin-sdk` is `private: true`; the actual
obstacle is stale type declarations between two in-repo packages |

The first one matters most: the filed issue was a **pipeline that stalls
forever** on a renamed board. The cost of that excuse would have been a
real stall sitting open behind a plausible-sounding note.

## The shape

Both times the blocker was asserted **from the shape of the problem**
rather than tested. *"This needs infrastructure that doesn't exist"* and
*"this crosses a published boundary"* are each checkable in about five
minutes, and neither was checked before I wrote a paragraph explaining
why the work couldn't proceed.

## Why it's worth writing down

Filing is often right — someone else owns the contract, the fix needs a
decision, the data genuinely isn't there. What makes it wrong is filing
on an **untested** blocker, because a filed issue with a confident
rationale is the one thing nobody re-derives. It reads as settled.

That's the same mechanism as a stale "do not re-probe" note (which this
document already records, and which I had to correct in #3018), one
level up: there a *measurement* went stale, here a *decision* did.

## The rule

**Before writing the blocker down, spend five minutes trying to hit
it.** If it's real you'll hit it immediately and can describe it
precisely — which makes the issue more useful. If it isn't, you have the
fix instead of the issue.

Docs only. No code, no baselines.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 01:17:19 -07:00
gsxdsm
b2d4813410 test(dashboard): cover the dock's renderTaskCard, the second producer #3025 fixed (#3027)
**Stacked on #3025** (its commit is the parent here) — that PR fixes two
producers of a dock/plugin-rendered `TaskCard`, and this adds the
coverage for the second one.

## The gap

#3025 correctly fixes **both** producers, which is the Surface
Enumeration discipline working. Its test covers only `MainContent`.
Measured by deleting the identical line from `useRightDockController`:

```
MainContent.graph-popout    6 passed
RightDock                  33 passed
TaskCard.host-inventory     1 passed
```

All green with the dock's wiring gone. I checked every suite that
touches that hook; none observes the prop.

Its own test comment says:

> REVERT CHECK: drop `taskColumnFlags` from **either** `renderTaskCard`
and this reads "none".

For this producer that is not true, and it is the producer that draws
cards into the **right dock**, where an operator actually sees them. So
the pair could quietly become a single again with every test still
green.

## The test

| state | result |
|---|---|
| #3025 as merged | 2/2 pass |
| delete the dock's `taskColumnFlags={…}` line | **1 failed / 1 passed**
|

Driven through the real `renderTaskCard`, captured off the `renderProps`
the controller hands `RightDock` — it is not on the returned controller
object. `RightDock` itself is stubbed so the assertion cannot fail for
unrelated dock plumbing.

The paired negative asserts an unresolved task receives `undefined`
rather than a fabricated object. That direction matters: inventing flags
would make a card claim traits its board never declared, which is worse
than the legacy fallback it replaces — the same *report, don't guess*
reasoning as #2999's `!target` refusal.

## One harness note

My first mock replaced `../RightDock` wholesale and the hook died on `No
"readStoredRightDockOpen" export is defined on the mock` — the
controller imports its persistence helpers from that module. Spreading
`importOriginal()` and overriding only the two components fixes it.
Recorded in the file because the next person stubbing this module will
hit the same thing.

**Verified:** 2/2, `tsc -p tsconfig.app.json` 0 errors in the new file,
lint clean, FNXC gate exit 0.

If #3025 lands first this rebases to a single test commit; if the two
are taken together the stack applies as-is.

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 01:17:07 -07:00
gsxdsm
43463f1a53 fix(dashboard): plugin- and dock-rendered cards resolved no column traits at all (#3025)
`renderTaskCard` is how a plugin view or the right dock draws a real
task card. **Both** producers built a `TaskCard` without
`taskColumnFlags`, so every role helper inside that card fell back to
the legacy id — archive/revert affordances, progress, the elapsed-time
indicator, the planning badge — for every plugin view on every board.

Both already had the per-task map in scope. `MainContent` uses it **two
lines away** for the near-duplicate canonical lookup;
`useRightDockController` reads `input.columnFlagsByTaskId` for the same
purpose. The card was simply never given it.

## One affordance, two producers

Fixed together rather than one-plus-a-follow-up — that's what the
Surface Enumeration rule is for. Finding the second producer is the only
thing that makes this an invariant fix rather than a repro-shaped one.

## Measured

| check | result |
|---|---|
| new case in the existing MainContent plugin-host harness | the
rendered card must carry its resolved traits; dropping the argument from
either producer reads `"none"` |
| mutation on MainContent's producer | fails exactly that case |
| `dashboard/__tests__` + `useRightDockController` | **35 tests green**
|
| census · inert-seam · lane-wiring · FNXC | green; lint and `tsc` clean
|

## Not done — and my earlier reason for it was wrong

`fusion-plugin-dependency-graph` still calls `isTaskStuck` without
flags, exempted in the inert-seam gate by #3002.

I filed #3003 claiming supply needed a **published-API change**. That's
wrong: `PluginDashboardViewContext` is dashboard-internal and
`@fusion/plugin-sdk` is `private: true`. I checked this time instead of
asserting it — which is how I found the actual obstacle.

The real blocker is that the plugin compiles against **different
dashboard type declarations** than the dashboard source does: it sees a
`PluginDashboardViewContext` without the field I added and an
`isTaskStuck` accepting only three arguments. I built the full chain
(context field → host supply → plugin consumption), hit those three
errors, and reverted the plugin half rather than guess at the type
plumbing inside a behaviour fix.

So the exemption stands with a corrected reason, and #3003 is updated.
That's the second filing rationale of mine to turn out wrong on
inspection this session — after #3020, which I ended up fixing in #3022.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 01:14:13 -07:00
gsxdsm
f8155cafd7 fix(cli): the node-override guard saw only the FIRST wip lane (#3023)
Follow-up to #3019, which merged with an incomplete fix. I found this
while sitting down to write the test that PR was missing.

## The guard still never fired, one lane over

#3019 wired `fn_task_update`'s guard like this:

```ts
const nodeOverrideLifecycle = await resolveTaskLifecycleColumns(store, task.id);
wipColumns: nodeOverrideLifecycle?.wip ? new Set([nodeOverrideLifecycle.wip]) : undefined,
```

`resolveTaskLifecycleColumns` → `resolveLifecycleColumns`, whose
per-role accessor is **first match**
(`workflow-lifecycle-traits.ts:353`):

```ts
const first = (flag) => resolved.find((c) => c.flags[flag] === true)?.id;
```

The guard's contract is **every** column carrying the trait — its own
resolver uses `columnsWithFlag(ir, "countsTowardWip")`. So on a board
with a build lane beside a verify lane, a task sitting in the **second**
wip lane still slipped the mid-flight check, and an operator could still
repoint the node of a running task. That is the defect #3019 set out to
close.

Interchangeable on any single-wip-lane board, which is exactly why it
read as correct — the same arity trap #2975 removed from the surfacing
family.

## The fix

Use `resolveNodeOverrideLanes`, the guard's own resolver, which
`task-update.ts` and `branch-and-pr-entities.ts` already call. All three
callers now resolve identically and the V1/unresolvable fallback lives
in one place. Needed a one-line re-export from `@fusion/core`.

**Mutation:** forcing the resolver to first-match (`.slice(0, 1)`) fails
the new case, 1 of 32.

The new test names **two** wip lanes, because that is the only shape
that separates the two resolutions — a single-wip-lane test passes
against both, which is why #3019's gap was invisible and why I would
have written a useless test if I had not read the implementation first.

## A gate constraint worth recording

My first version passed the resolved object straight through:

```ts
validateNodeOverrideChange(task, normalizedNodeId ?? null, overrideLanes)
```

Identical at runtime, and it turned the lane-wiring gate **red**:
`check-lane-wiring` matches an object-literal argument and cannot see
through a variable, so the correct call reads as UNWIRED. #3019's header
records hitting the same constraint — and it is what pushed that PR
toward resolving the lanes inline, which is where the first-match bug
entered.

So the gate's shape requirement steered a correct instinct into a subtly
wrong implementation. The fix here spells both keys explicitly,
satisfying the gate without the bespoke resolution. Worth someone
deciding whether the census should follow a variable to its initializer
— but that is a change to a shared ratchet, and I have noted it at the
call site rather than making it.

**Verified:** 32/32 core guard suite, `tsc` 0 errors for both packages,
lane-wiring gate exit 0, FNXC gate exit 0, lint clean.

---------

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2026-07-31 01:08:54 -07:00
gsxdsm
5659ccace9 test(cli): pin the node-override error contract on a renamed board, which is what #3019 actually changed (#3024)
## What #3019 actually changed, pinned — and a correction to my own
claim

I described #3019 as closing a hole where an operator could re-route a
running task on a renamed board. **That was wrong.**
`TaskStore.updateTask` runs the same guard with its own resolved lanes
(`resolveNodeOverrideLanes`) and throws, so the change was refused
either way.

This test is how I found out: I wrote it to cover #3019's wiring and it
passed against a tree with that wiring removed. A test that passes with
the change reverted is not a test, so I went looking for what was really
refusing — and it was the store.

## But the two paths *are* distinguishable, which my correction then got
wrong in the other direction

In correcting myself on #3019 I said the paths were externally
indistinguishable and no test could separate them. Also wrong. Measured
both ways:

| | `details.error` |
| --- | --- |
| pre-check fires (wired) | `"task-in-progress"` — machine-readable
reason code |
| pre-check misses (unwired) | `"Cannot change node override for KB-001
while it is in progress…"` — the store's thrown prose |

So on a **legacy** board a caller could branch on `task-in-progress`; on
a **renamed** board it silently got a sentence instead. That is a real
API inconsistency, visible only to whoever was parsing it — the kind of
thing nobody notices until it breaks.

That is what these cases pin, and it is the honest description of
#3019's value: an error-contract fix, not a security fix.

## Revert proof

With #3019's wiring removed:

```
Expected: "task-in-progress"
Received: "Cannot change node override for KB-001 while it is in progress. …"
      Tests  1 failed | 1 passed (2)
```

Verified by actually reverting, not by reading the source — which is the
discipline that caught both of my wrong claims above.

The paired case ("still allows the override once the card leaves that
wip lane") passes both ways by design; it guards against over-refusal,
so I am not counting it as coverage of the contract.

## Also closes the gap I named in #3019

That PR shipped with `check-lane-wiring` as its only regression proof,
and I said a behavioural test was owed. The two are complementary and
fail for different reasons: **the ratchet** fails if the argument stops
being passed; **this** fails if it is passed and the contract still
degrades.

## Verification (measured)

- **2 passed / 0 failed**
- `tsc --noEmit` clean; `eslint` clean (one pre-existing warning, no
errors)
- `check-fnxc-future-dates`, `lifecycle-column-census --strict`,
`check-lane-wiring` — green

Tests only; no product file touched. No changeset.

## Note on the harness, for whoever writes the next one of these

Seeding a card into a renamed lane has two traps, both inherited from
`merge-blocker-renamed-review-lane.test.ts` and both recorded in this
file's header: the real API is `createWorkflowDefinition` +
`selectTaskWorkflow` (the plausible `saveWorkflowDefinition?.()` does
not exist and the optional call swallows it silently), and moving a card
takes `moveTask`, not `updateTask({ column })`. Both are guarded here by
asserting the card really is in `building` before the subject runs.
2026-07-31 01:06:09 -07:00
gsxdsm
5897d87e95 fix(gate): the lane census judged a call against a signature it never had (the false positive #3013's merge introduced) (#3021)
#3013's merge of same-named declarations fixed a false **negative** and
introduced a false **positive**.

`ModelSelectorTab` declares its own two-parameter
`resolveEffectiveExecutor(task, settings)` — a pass-through with nothing
lane-related — while an unrelated exported function of the same name in
`effective-model-resolution.ts` takes `columnFlags`. Both local calls
were reported unwired against a signature they have never had.

Only **exported** declarations enter the accepting map, so the rule is
exact: if the calling file declares the name itself and the map entry
came from a different file, the call resolves to the local declaration
and is not a lane call here.

## The version I did not ship

My first attempt re-ran the detector over the single calling file and
used that result. It scored *better* on this tree — **19 → 16** instead
of 19 → 17, also clearing `bucket-mapping.ts` — and I threw it away.

A single-file pass cannot resolve an **imported** options interface. A
locally-declared function with an imported context type would quietly
stop being lane-accepting, and every call to it would stop being
checked. That is a false negative, which is the one failure a ratchet
must not have; the better-looking number came from the gate seeing less.
The global pass still does all type resolution here — only the *choice*
of declaration is local.

## Measured

| | |
|---|---|
| new tests | 3 |
| against the old census | **1 of 3 fails** — the positive |
| baseline | **19 → 17**, exactly the two `ModelSelectorTab` sites |

Both negatives pass either way and they are the ones that matter: a file
declaring its **own** exported lane function is not shadowed by itself,
and a file declaring nothing is judged normally. Shadowing must not
become a way to disappear a genuine unwired call.

## Still flagged, honestly

`bucket-mapping.ts:75` stays in the baseline. `bucketForTask(task:
TaskItem)` is only lane-accepting because `TaskItem` *declares*
`columnFlags` — the lane data rides on the domain object, so passing
`task` forwards it inherently. That is a different limitation
(options-bag vs domain-entity parameters) and I have not tried to fix it
here; it accounts for 2 of the remaining 17 along with
`otherBucketSecondaryLabel`.

## Verification

`node --test scripts/__tests__/check-lane-wiring.test.mjs` **19 passed**
· `pnpm test:gate` 13 + 161 + 487 + 71 · lint · lifecycle census
`--strict` · lane-wiring · fnxc-dates (TZ=UTC) · changesets — green.
2026-07-31 01:03:24 -07:00
gsxdsm
6f936f2de7 fix(cli): the node-override guard never fired on a renamed board, so mid-flight changes were allowed (#3019)
## The node-override guard never fired on a renamed board

`fn_task_update` called the guard with no options:

```ts
const validation = validateNodeOverrideChange(task, normalizedNodeId ?? null);
```

so `wipColumns` fell back to its documented default of
`{"in-progress"}`. On a board whose WIP lane is named anything else,
`wipColumns.has(task.column)` is false, the mid-flight check passes, and
**an operator can change the node override on a running task** —
precisely what that guard exists to refuse, in its own words:

> "Is this task executing right now?" — keyed on the literal, a renamed
board let an operator change the node override MID-FLIGHT on a running
task, which is exactly what this guard exists to refuse.

That note is attached to the `wipColumns` option added for this purpose.
The CLI simply never passed it.

## Two assumptions in the guard's own docs that did not hold

```
Both callers supply them. An omitted set keeps the legacy id, which is what a caller
without cheap IR access (a CLI tool, a route with only a task row) still gets.
```

1. **"Both callers"** — this is a *third* one, and it was in
`check-lane-wiring`'s known-unwired baseline the whole time.
2. **"a CLI tool … without cheap IR access"** — this handler is async
and has already awaited `store.getTask`, so one more resolve costs
exactly what `resolveTaskLifecycleColumns` already costs elsewhere **in
this same file** (the linked-lineage label at ~1239). The assumption was
reasonable in general and wrong here.

Passed present-but-conditionally-valued rather than as a conditional
argument: an omitted set still keeps the documented legacy default, and
only that shape is visible to `lane-wiring-census`, which matches an
object-literal argument and cannot see a ternary.

## Coverage — stated rather than implied

**There is no new unit test.** The regression guard is the ratchet
itself, and it is a real revert-proof: with the wiring removed,

```
[check-lane-wiring] call sites not passing a resolved lane argument INCREASED:
  packages/cli/src/extension.ts: 1 unwired now, baseline allows 0
```

Verified by actually reverting it, not by assuming. Baseline re-recorded
19 → 18 in the same commit, so the allowance cannot be regrown into.

A behavioural test would need a custom workflow definition persisted
*and* selected inside the integration harness to get a card resting in a
renamed WIP lane. That is worth doing and I would take it as follow-up
harness work — but it is not part of this fix, and I would rather name
the gap than let "85 passed" imply coverage I did not write.

## Verification (measured)

- **85 passed** across `extension.test.ts`,
`extension-experiment-finalize.test.ts`,
`task-list-board-columns.test.ts`
- `tsc --noEmit`, `eslint` — clean
- `check-lane-wiring` (18, none added), `lifecycle-column-census
--strict`, `check-inert-flag-seams`, `check-fnxc-future-dates`,
`check:changesets` — green

Changeset included (`patch`): `packages/cli` is the published
`@runfusion/fusion` and this changes guard behaviour operators rely on.
2026-07-31 00:52:50 -07:00
gsxdsm
5bdb8a1102 fix(dashboard): planner activity was never stamped on a renamed intake lane (#3017)
## How this was found — by re-testing a claim of mine

The learnings doc records "named legacy-id collections" as **measured
and clean**: 48 declarations, all fallback vocabularies, builtin column
lists, or already-converted seams. #3014 disproved that conclusion —
`TIME_INDICATOR_COLUMNS` was in that population and was a live defect.

So I re-measured over the shape that actually matters: **collections
used as a membership gate against a column.** Nine exist.

| site | verdict |
|---|---|
| `columnRoles.ts` ×2, `useSessionFiles.ts` | the no-flags fallback
*inside* the role helpers — correct by design |
| `branch-group-ops.ts` | seeds the legacy pair then unions resolved
lanes — already converted |
| `DocumentsView.tsx` | marked `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` fallback chain |
| `TaskCard.tsx` ×2 | fixed in #3014 |
| `plugins/…/reconciler.ts` | plugin with no trait source — same class
as #3003 |
| **`useTasks.ts`** | **no flags path anywhere in the file** |

## The defect

`useTasks` stamps `recentAgentActivityAt` only for cards in `{triage,
todo}`. The note at that set argues over-stamping is harmless because
every consumer re-checks for an intake lane before showing anything.

That's true, and it **only protects against false positives**. On a
board whose intake and hold lanes are renamed, the pair matches nothing
— so no stamp is ever written, and a correct downstream role check has
nothing to filter. The planning border and pulsing badge never appear
while the planner is actively working the card.

## The supplier ships with the seam

An optional resolver with no caller is the first failure shape in the
learnings doc, and my own gate would flag it — so `App` supplies it in
the same commit. `useBoardWorkflows` moved above `useTasks` to make that
expressible; it depends on `projectId` alone, nothing about tasks, so
reading it first is safe.

Remote rows deliberately get **no** flags — they belong to another
store, and local board-workflow metadata must never be applied to their
ids. That's the rule the footer index already follows.

## Measured

| check | result |
|---|---|
| `useTasks` suite | 124 → **126**, all green |
| reverting the gate to the legacy pair | fails exactly the renamed
case; the negative (renamed WIP is not planning) still passes |
| `App.test` + `useTasks` together | **269 green** |
| gates | all five green; lint and `tsc` clean |

## One observation I could not reproduce

The `App`+`useTasks` pair failed once, on a single unnamed test, and
passed on **four** subsequent runs including three consecutive. The
captured output showed jsdom URL-parse noise from `MissionManager`
fetches rather than an assertion failure, and the same pair is green on
unmodified `main`.

I'm not quarantining another file's test on one unreproducible
observation, but recording it rather than letting a green rerun bury it
— if it resurfaces in CI, this is the prior sighting.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 00:50:07 -07:00
gsxdsm
eecc87c31e docs(workflow-learnings): the "named legacy-id collections are clean" entry was wrong (#3018)
It hid two real defects — and it explicitly told the next reader not to
re-probe them.

## What the entry did

Counted **declarations** (48, then 49) and concluded the population was
benign because each one is a fallback vocabulary, a builtin column list,
or an already-converted seam.

All true of the declarations. **The declaration isn't where the defect
lives.**

## Measure the use, not the declaration

A collection used as a **membership gate against a column**. Nine exist,
and two were live user-visible defects sitting inside a population this
doc had marked clean:

| site | defect |
|---|---|
| `TIME_INDICATOR_COLUMNS.has(task.column)` — `TaskCard` | elapsed-time
indicator never rendered on a renamed board (#3014) |
| `PLANNER_ACTIVITY_COLUMN_IDS.has(task.column)` — `useTasks` | planning
border and pulsing badge never appeared (#3017) |

The other seven are genuinely fine, and the reasons are kept because
they're the shapes worth recognising: the no-flags fallback *inside* a
role helper, a seam that seeds the legacy pair then unions resolved
lanes, a marked `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` fallback chain, and a plugin with
no trait source at all.

## The tell

One question separates the two groups: **does a flags path exist in this
file at all?**

Both defects had none — the gate was the only decision, with nothing to
degrade from. Every benign case had a resolved path sitting right next
to the literal.

## Why this is worth its own PR

A "do not re-probe" note that is wrong is **worse than no note**: it
converts one person's incomplete measurement into everybody's blind
spot. That's the same failure this document already records for
`sortTasksForDisplayColumn`, one level up — there an annotation told
readers to skip a *row*, here it told them to skip a *population*.

I wrote the original entry, and I'd read past it twice myself before
#3014 forced the re-measurement.

Docs only. No code, no baselines.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 00:49:56 -07:00
gsxdsm
f0875a79c6 fix(dashboard): finished cards on a renamed board never showed a completion date (#3007)
The **fifth** instance of the async-memo shape #2998 documents, and the
one that survived #3001's sweep.

`lifecycleDates` gates its `completed` value on `isCompleteColumn ||
isArchivedColumn` — both derived from the async `taskColumnFlags` prop —
while listing neither:

```js
}, [task.createdAt, task.executionCompletedAt, task.archivedAt, task.column, locale, lifecycleNowMs]);
```

First paint runs with the flags undefined, the role helpers fall back to
the legacy ids, and on a board whose complete lane is named anything but
`done` that answers false. The flags arrive, `task.column` has not
changed, nothing recomputes, and the card renders **no "Completed
<date>" line at all**.

## Why #3001's sweep called this covered

That PR recorded `mergeSignature` as *"the last live site … nine
persistent candidates, seven covered transitively or by a dependency
that already carries the flags."* This memo was presumably in the
covered pile, and the reasoning is nearly right: it **does** list a
dependency that changes — `lifecycleNowMs`.

But that value is driven by a timer scheduled with
`millisecondsUntilNextLocalMidnight` (FN-8561, so compact date labels
turn over at the viewer's midnight). **A dependency that changes once a
day is not coverage for a value that must be correct on first paint.**
The card shows no completion date for the rest of the session.

That distinction is worth adding to the doc's property 2: *does a listed
dependency change* is the wrong question — *does it change when the
resolved value arrives* is the right one.

## Verification

| state | result |
|---|---|
| clean | 2/2 pass |
| revert the dep fix | **1 failed / 1 passed** |

The control case (a `done` board) passes either way by design, so a
failure in the renamed case means "renamed board", not "nothing
renders".

**One trap worth recording**, since it nearly cost me the finding: my
first `completedLine()` used `time[datetime]:last-of-type`. When only
the *Created* line renders, that selector returns **that** element — so
the pre-resolution absence assertion silently passed against the wrong
node. The test now matches on the element's own `Completed` label. A
positional selector cannot express "this specific line is missing".

`tsc -p tsconfig.app.json` 0 errors, lint clean, 8/8 across all three
renamed-lane TaskCard suites.

## Note

`main` is currently red on the FNXC gate for an unrelated reason
(#2994's impossible-hour stamps landing after #2995); fixed in #3006.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 00:47:14 -07:00
gsxdsm
083f8f5c5b fix(glasses): every card on a renamed board badged "todo", including cards in review (#3015)
## Every card on a renamed board badged `todo` — including cards in
review

```ts
export function statusBadge(column: Task["column"]): string {
  return COLUMN_BADGES[column] ?? "todo";
}
```

`COLUMN_BADGES` maps the six legacy ids to themselves. On a board whose
lanes are named anything else **every lookup misses**, so every card
badges `todo` — a card sitting in review tells the wearer it is
un-started, and the whole board carries one identical badge.

On a display with room for a single word, that is worse than an
unrecognised lane: it is a *confident wrong answer* rather than a
missing one.

Reached from `taskToCard` (the main card) and `notificationCard` (the
notification badge).

## Fix, and the dead weight it exposed

The badge **is** the column id, so the function now says so:

```ts
export function statusBadge(column: Task["column"]): string {
  return column;
}
```

That also retires `COLUMN_BADGES`. Once the fallback is the id, a table
mapping each legacy id to *itself* decides nothing — six lane literals
sat in this file doing no work. It was module-private with `statusBadge`
as its only consumer and it was a pure identity, so behaviour on legacy
boards is byte-identical: this is not a behaviour change riding along
with a cleanup, it is the dead weight the fix exposed, removed rather
than left as a decoy.

Mirrors `columnLabel` in the CLI (`COLUMN_LABELS[column] ?? column`) for
the same reason: a board that calls its lane `checking` should read
`checking`. No resolution needed; the id is in hand at the call site.

Note the census count for this file does **not** move — those six were
object keys, not comparisons, which is exactly the scope the census
documents for itself.

## This is a miss in my own #2968

That PR fixed the summary card's counts **in this same file** and never
looked one function further at the per-card badge those counts sit
above. Worth saying plainly, because it is the practical reminder behind
the census finding I have been repeating all run: *a file having had a
defect fixed is not evidence about its neighbours* — and here the
neighbour was nine lines away, in a function I had read.

## Revert proof

```
AssertionError: expected 'todo' to be 'checking'
      Tests  1 failed | 9 passed (10)
```

The paired case ("still badges the legacy ids exactly as before") passes
both ways by design — it guards against the fallback change altering
known boards, so I am not counting it as coverage of the defect.

## Verification (measured)

- plugin suite — **198 passed / 19 files**
- `tsc --noEmit`, `eslint` — clean
- `lifecycle-column-census --strict`, `check-lane-wiring`,
`check-sql-column-literals`, `check-inert-flag-seams`,
`check-fnxc-future-dates` — green

No changeset: the plugin is `private: true` and is not bundled into the
published CLI.


<!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai
-->

## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Status badges now accurately display a card’s actual lane, including
previously unrecognized lanes.
  * Preserved existing badge behavior for known lanes.
* **Tests**
* Added coverage to verify accurate lane reporting and legacy behavior.

<!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
2026-07-31 00:47:02 -07:00
gsxdsm
9ad3a2a93a fix(gate): name the offending FNXC stamp and which rule it broke (#3009)
**`main` is currently red**, so every open PR shows a failing Lint job
that is not its own fault. #3004 is how I found it — its gates all pass
in isolation and fail against main.

## Cause: an hour that does not exist

```
FNXC:OperatorScriptLaneAssumptions 2026-07-30-26:10
                                              ^^ hour 26
```

Four of them, across three files, from #2994.

## The part worth fixing is the message, not the stamps

This gate counts **two** defects — a date after today, and an impossible
clock time — but the failure text only ever explained the first:

```
scripts/reconcile-task-state-consistency.mjs: 2 future-dated FNXC stamp(s), baseline allows 0

A stamp dated after today (2026-07-31) records the change as happening in the future...
```

Every stamp in that file is dated `2026-07-30` or earlier — all valid
past dates. So the message sends you to inspect stamps that are fine,
and the natural conclusion is *the gate is broken*, not *the stamp is*.
I spent several minutes reproducing the regex by hand and getting
`future count = 0` before instrumenting the real script and finding
`hits += impossibleClockTimes(source)`.

A gate that detects the right defect and describes a different one is
worse than a slightly less sensitive gate, because it spends the
reader's trust. Now:

```
  scripts/reconcile-task-state-consistency.mjs
    FNXC:OperatorScriptLaneAssumptions 2026-07-30-26:10  (impossible clock time)
```

**Mutation-verified**: restoring one `26:10` stamp reproduces the
failure, and the message names it.

## The stamps: `2026-07-31-02:10`, not `23:59`

Hour 26 on the 30th is the informal spelling of 02:10 the next day.
Clamping to `23:59` would keep the file's stamps in a plausible order
but silently move the event; this preserves what the author meant.
Reversible either way — say the word if you would rather they were
clamped.

## The 176-file baseline drop is unrelated

`475 -> 183 known`. The clock crossed midnight, so yesterday's stamps
are no longer future-dated, and the ratchet auto-lowers on drops by
design. It rides along because the gate must leave a baseline matching
reality — an allowance nothing occupies is somewhere a real regression
can hide. It is not part of the fix.

## Verification

- `check:fnxc-future-dates` — exit 0 (was **exit 1 on main**)
- `check:lifecycle-columns`, `check:sql-column-literals`,
`check:inert-flag-seams`, `check:lane-wiring` — all exit 0
- eslint clean

## Worth someone's attention beyond this PR

`#2994` landed four impossible timestamps. The gate caught them, but
only after the clock crossed midnight changed which files it reported —
meaning the impossible-time check was live but effectively invisible
until it collided with an unrelated drop. It is worth asking whether
that check has ever produced a message anyone acted on before today.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 00:39:05 -07:00
gsxdsm
3a016b1f17 fix(scripts): four FNXC stamps carried hour 26, and main has been red on them (#3010)
## `main` is currently red on `check-fnxc-future-dates`

Four stamps read `2026-07-30-26:10` — an hour that cannot exist.

They're exactly what #2995 taught this gate to catch. That PR landed the
hour validation (`00-23`) *after* #2999 had already merged these four,
so the gate started reporting a defect that was already sitting there
rather than one introduced afterwards. **The guard is working**; nothing
was checking before it.

```
scripts/lib/backend-db.mjs:41
scripts/reconcile-task-state-consistency.mjs:8, :51
scripts/__tests__/reconcile-task-state-consistency.test.mjs:109
```

Corrected by **literal normalisation** — 26:10 on the 30th *is* 02:10 on
the 31st — rather than flattening them to an arbitrary in-range hour.
AGENTS.md specifies `yyyy-MM-dd-hh:mm`, and the stamp exists to give a
readable why-does-this-exist trail, so the ordering is the part worth
preserving.

## The baseline tightening rides along, and it's a date rollover

Stamps written yesterday as `2026-07-31` were future *then* and were
baselined as such. Today they're past, so **176 files ratchet to zero**.
Nobody did anything.

The gate rewrites the baseline as a side effect and exits 0, so leaving
it uncommitted dirties the tree on every subsequent run **for everyone**
— which is why it belongs in this commit rather than a later one.
Re-recording on a decrease is the rule this gate and its siblings
already state.

Worth knowing about the design, since I wrote it: this churn recurs
whenever a day boundary passes with future-dated stamps in the baseline,
and it shrinks only as people stop writing them — which is the behaviour
the gate exists to produce. **93 files still carry a non-zero
allowance**, so the drain isn't finished. If it stays noisy once those
clear, the gate's fail-on-tighten contract is the thing to revisit, not
the stamps.

## Measured

| check | result |
|---|---|
| gate | red before, **exit 0 after**, stable across two consecutive
runs |
| baseline | −176/+25 entries, all date-rollover |
| inert-seam · sql-literal · lane-wiring · census | all green |
| reconciler's own suite | green |

## One correction to a claim I made earlier this session

While investigating I reported the gate as hanging for 600s. It wasn't —
the harness killed the process (exit 144) and the empty output made it
look like a stall. The gate completes in seconds. Noting it because I
nearly filed a performance bug against a healthy script.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 00:36:21 -07:00
gsxdsm
3b55e2c96c fix(dashboard): the time indicator was gated on a hardcoded legacy lane set (#3014)
## This is a correction to #2996, and that's why it exists

#2996 fixed the **subscription**: `wantsLiveTimeIndicator` kept a
pre-load answer, so the card never joined the shared ticker. I described
it as making renamed-lane cards *"show their live elapsed-time
indicator."*

It made them **eligible to**. They still rendered nothing, because a
second gate rejects them first — and I didn't look past the seam I'd
just fixed.

```ts
const TIME_INDICATOR_COLUMNS = new Set<ColumnId>(["in-progress", "in-review", "done"]);
```

Both the `timeIndicator` memo and the `chipFarRight` layout test
`task.column` against that set directly, so a card in a renamed WIP,
review or completion lane returns `null` whatever its resolved traits
say.

## Why no check saw it

The census counts **comparisons** against legacy ids. This is a `Set`
literal — a **definition**. Nothing in the backlog ever pointed here,
which is the same blind spot that hid `BLOCKER_ESCALATION_COLUMNS` until
someone read the code rather than the report.

## The fix

The gate becomes a role question, with the legacy set kept as the
**no-flags fallback** and marked `DELIBERATE-LITERAL`. A card whose
traits haven't resolved — first paint, or a lane its workflow no longer
declares — behaves exactly as before.

## Measured

| check | result |
|---|---|
| test written first | red for the right reason — control and negative
passed, only the renamed case failed (`expected false to be true`) |
| after the fix | 3 passed |
| reverting the memo gate to the raw set | that case fails again |
| five `TaskCard` suites | **418 tests green** |
| gates | all five green; lint and `tsc` clean |

## The negative case

Resolving traits must not put a live timer on every lane. A card in the
renamed **intake** lane hasn't started, so it stays out — otherwise the
fix trades a missing indicator for a running clock on work that hasn't
begun.

## Worth noting for the pattern

Two of my last four findings came from re-examining my own merged work
rather than from new code: this one, and the `bounded` heuristic
correction in #3012. Fixing one seam and declaring the symptom gone is
its own failure mode — the user-visible behaviour needed *both* halves,
and I only checked the half I'd touched.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 00:36:09 -07:00
gsxdsm
e9f587c363 docs(workflow-learnings): correct the "bounded" heuristic — a clock-shaped dep is not a fast one (#3012)
The severity heuristic I wrote in #2998 sorted dependencies **by name**,
and #3007 is the counterexample.

## What I got wrong

I classified `lifecycleDates` as *bounded* because its dep list contains
`lifecycleNowMs`, and deferred it in #3001 with the line *"any wrong
answer there survives only until the next update."*

That value is driven by a **local-midnight boundary timer** — one tick
per card per day. So a finished card shows no completion date for up to
**twenty-four hours**. @gsxdsm found it after I'd written it off.

`nowMs`, `Ticker` and `lastFetchTimeMs` span a live 30-second ticker, a
per-fetch stamp, and a daily boundary. Sorting them by name puts a
day-long defect in the same bucket as a 30-second one.

## The sharper half

A card in a **completion lane doesn't subscribe to the shared live
ticker at all** — that's exactly what the ticker's eligibility check is
for, and what #2996 fixed. So the "fast" dependency that would have
rescued this population is the one thing that population never receives.

The corrected question is: **which dependencies refresh *for this
population*** — not which ones appear in the list. Two of my three
severity calls in that sweep leaned on a dep that the affected cards
structurally never get.

## Why this is worth a PR rather than a quiet edit

The doc is what the next person triages against. #3001 explicitly told
them the four "bounded" sites were deprioritised **by design** — on
reasoning that was wrong for at least one of them. Leaving that in place
means someone defers a day-long defect on my say-so.

Docs only. No code, no baselines.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 00:33:25 -07:00
gsxdsm
ffe9898710 fix(gate): the lane-wiring census could not see three of the shapes it asks for (incl. a false positive it started reporting) (#3013)
**The gate could not see three of the shapes it exists to check** —
including the wiring I landed this week in #2990 and #3004. Found by
using it: the baseline still listed `useBlockerFanout.ts`,
`ExecutorStatusBar.tsx`, and `TaskDetailModal.tsx` as unwired *after*
those PRs merged.

### 1. Conditional shapes

Passing lanes only when they resolved is the **correct** way to write
these — an empty trait index means "not loaded yet", not "nothing is
terminal", so the caller must fall through to the documented legacy
default rather than fabricate one. Both idioms that produces were
invisible:

```ts
computeBlockerFanoutMap(tasks, flags ? { columnFlagsByTaskId: flags } : {})   // ConditionalExpression
computeBlockerFanoutMapCore(tasks, N, { ...(flags ? { classify } : {}) })     // SpreadAssignment, name === undefined
```

Either branch supplying the lane now counts. **Neither branch supplying
it is still unwired** — that negative is tested.

### 2. Vocabulary

`columnFlagsByTaskId`, the per-task trait index the dashboard threads,
was never added. It answers every lane question at once, so a call site
dropping it reverts to the legacy vocabulary wholesale — and the gate
would have stayed silent.

### 3. Name collisions — the false positive

Declarations were `set` by name, so the **last one parsed won**. Core's
`computeBlockerFanoutMap(tasks, n, opts)` and the dashboard wrapper
`computeBlockerFanoutMap(tasks, opts)` put their lane options at
**different argument indices**, so core's callers were checked against
the wrapper's signature: `task-priority.ts:141` passes `terminalColumns`
at index 2 and was reported unwired.

I caught this because adding the vocabulary entry in (2) made it appear.
A ratchet that reports a correctly-wired site is worse than one that
misses it — the first person to open one learns the number is noise.
Both shapes are now merged; a call satisfying either counts.

### Measured

| | |
|---|---|
| new tests | **6** — every positive paired with its negative |
| against the old census | **3 of 6 fail** — exactly the three
positives; the negatives pass either way, which is why they exist |
| baseline | **23 → 19** — four sites recognized as *already* wired; no
site newly excused |
| new flags | none |

### Verification

`node --test scripts/__tests__/check-lane-wiring.test.mjs` **16 passed**
· `pnpm test:gate` 161 + 13 + 487 + 71 · lint · lifecycle census
`--strict` · fnxc-dates (TZ=UTC) · changesets — green.

Seven other `scripts/__tests__` files fail on main independently of this
change (`verify-fast`, `dependency-security-floor`,
`engine-vitest-gate-policy`, `plugin-authoring-docs`,
`release-prompt-gate`, `ci-test-shard-timings`,
`workflow-reliability-release-check`). None are in the merge gate and
none are touched here — noting them because I looked, not because this
PR affects them.
2026-07-31 00:33:13 -07:00
gsxdsm
86c5a89169 fix(dashboard): dropping into a renamed intake lane reset progress without asking (#3011)
The **sixth** instance of the async-memo shape #2998 documents — and the
only one that **loses work** rather than mis-rendering.

`handleDrop` gates the "Preserve Progress?" confirmation on the lane's
role:

```js
const shouldPrompt = hasStepProgress && isPreImplementationColumnRole(columnFlags, column);
if (shouldPrompt) { const keepProgress = await confirm({ … }); … }
```

…but its `useCallback` deps were `[addToast, allTasks, column, confirm,
onMoveTask, tasks, t]` — no `columnFlags`. The board resolves workflow
traits after first paint, so the DOM keeps the closure built during the
pre-load render, where `columnFlags` is `undefined` and the helper falls
back to `LEGACY_PRE_IMPLEMENTATION_COLUMN_IDS`. A renamed intake lane is
not a member.

**Result: a card with completed steps dropped into that lane moves with
`shouldPrompt === false`.** The user is never offered "Keep Progress",
and the steps are reset silently.

## How this was found

It is the last unverified candidate from the derivation-aware scan I
posted on #2998, where I explicitly declined to file it as a bug without
checking. Checking it is what turned it from a scanner hit into this.

## Severity, stated honestly

`allTasks` and `tasks` are in the dep list and change identity on any
task-list refresh, so the stale closure is rebuilt within seconds on a
busy board. The exposure is the quiet gap right after the traits land —
**bounded**, like the near-duplicate chip (#2997), not permanent like
the ticker (#2996) whose only refreshing dependency fired at local
midnight.

Bounded still matters here because the cost is not a wrong pixel: it is
completed steps discarded without a prompt, and the window is exactly
when someone has just opened a board and starts dragging.

## Verification

| state | result |
|---|---|
| clean | 2/2 pass |
| revert `columnFlags` from the deps | **1 failed / 1 passed** |

The paired negative asserts a non-pre-implementation lane still moves
**without** prompting — a fix that prompts everywhere turns the dialog
into noise that gets clicked through, costing the same progress it
protects.

The observable is `confirm`, not `onMoveTask`: whether the user was
*asked* is the contract, and asserting on the move alone passes either
way.

`tsc -p tsconfig.app.json` 0 errors in the new file, lint clean, FNXC
gate exit 0, 4/4 across both `Column` flags-arrival suites.

## Running tally of this shape

ticker (#2996) · near-duplicate chip (#2997) · fan-out trait index
(#2993) · merge signature (#3001) · lifecycle dates (#3007) · this. Six,
in two components plus the fan-out path. #3001 called the merge
signature "the last live site"; it was the last of *that* sweep's nine
candidates, and two more have surfaced since from a different scan.
Worth knowing before anyone declares the class closed again.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 00:30:26 -07:00
gsxdsm
f10261f424 fix(scripts): the contamination audit scanned four legacy lanes and claimed it had (#3005)
## An audit that scanned four legacy lanes — and claimed it had

Two halves of the same wrong answer.

**The query allowlisted the lanes:**

```sql
WHERE deleted_at IS NULL AND "column" IN ('triage','todo','in-progress','in-review')
```

On a board whose lanes are named anything else that matches **nothing**,
so the audit scans zero rows and reports zero contamination — a clean
bill of health from a scan that never happened. `triage` is in that list
too, a lane U11 (#2515) deleted.

**And the report asserted the coverage it did not have:**

```js
scannedColumns: ["triage", "todo", "in-progress", "in-review"],
```

printed regardless of what the query returned. When I first surveyed
this script I called that field "the one thing keeping it from being
fully silent" — it turns out it was a **claim, not an observation**, so
it was not keeping it honest at all. It is now derived from the rows
that came back.

## Fix: exclude finished lanes instead of allowlisting active ones

Inverted so the default is the safe one — an unrecognised lane is active
work by assumption and **is** audited; only lanes that genuinely mean
finished drop out. An allowlist fails **closed** (skip everything
unknown), a denylist fails **open** (look at it), and for an audit one
extra finished branch is a far smaller error than auditing nothing.

Filtered in JS rather than by building a dynamic SQL exclusion: it keeps
**one** place deciding what "finished" means, and removes the last
raw-SQL lane literal from this file.

## Revert proof

```
✖ scannedColumns reports the board's real lanes, not a fixed legacy claim
✖ reports each scanned lane once, and nothing at all for an empty board
ℹ pass 1   ℹ fail 2
```

## A demonstration of #3000, for free

This PR removes a 4-literal raw-SQL clause, and
`check-sql-column-literals` here reports **22, unchanged and green** —
because this branch predates #3000 and the gate still walks `packages/`
only. That is precisely the blind spot #3000 closes, reproduced a second
time.

## Merge order

This removes the 4 literals #3000 baselines. Landing this **after**
#3000 drops that count and its gate fails on DECREASE — that gate
auto-rewrites the baseline and asks for the commit, unlike
`check-lane-wiring` which needs an explicit `--update-baseline`. Either
order works; one of them needs a re-record, and I am happy to push it.

## Verification (measured)

- `node --test` — **3 passed / 0 failed** (1 pre-existing + 2 new)
- `node --check`, `eslint` — clean
- `lifecycle-column-census --strict`, `check-lane-wiring`,
`check-fnxc-future-dates` — green

No changeset: root `scripts/` is repo tooling, not part of the published
package.

## Territory status

This was the last item I know of in `scripts/`. The four operator
scripts holding lane assumptions — `recover-stale-blocked-by` (#2992),
`reconcile-task-state-consistency` (#2994),
`reconcile-leaked-soft-deletes` (#2999) and this one — are now either
resolved or, where a script genuinely cannot resolve lanes, made loud
rather than silent.
2026-07-31 00:27:41 -07:00