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gsxdsm
1de0141ab8 fix(dashboard): Task Detail's blocking count read the LEGACY lanes (last of the three fan-out surfaces) (#3004)
Third and last of the three surfaces calling the blocker fan-out
wrapper, completing the sweep started in #2990 (Board + Executor bar).

## What was wrong, precisely

The dependent **list** is lane-independent — core pushes `dependentIds`
without consulting lanes — so this section looked broadly right. Two
things beside it are not:

- `overlapBlockedTodoCount`, rendered as **"FN-X is blocking N todo
task(s) via blockedBy overlap"** — counted against the literal `todo`,
so on a renamed board it read **0 while cards were genuinely blocked**.
- the `stale` marker on each blocking dependent — decided against
`terminal`/`review` lanes the operator does not use.

A wrong number sitting beside a right list is the easiest kind to miss,
which is why I checked what the modal actually consumes before deciding
this was worth a PR rather than assuming the whole section was broken.

## Why a prop and not a hook

This was the surface I deferred in #2990 because it had no trait index
in scope. Two options:

- `useBoardWorkflows` inside the modal — rejected. The hook documents
that it does **not** dedupe across consumers: each call installs its own
visibilitychange/focus listeners and its own SSE subscription. That is a
new fetch and subscription per modal open, to answer a question the app
has already answered.
- **Thread the index that already exists** — `App` builds
`footerColumnFlagsByTaskId` for the footer; this forwards it through
`AppModals` as an optional prop. Chosen.

Optional throughout: a card with no entry keeps the documented legacy
fallback, so the remote-node case (where local workflow metadata must
never be applied to foreign ids) and the pre-load window stay
byte-identical.

## Reverted

The new case fails on the rendered text — the modal cannot find `"FN-B
is blocking 2 todo task(s) via blockedBy overlap"`. The pre-existing
legacy-column case above it passes either way, because `todo` satisfies
the literal default; that is exactly why it never caught this.

## Verification

TaskDetailModal.rendering + ExecutorStatusBar + useBlockerFanout **206
passed** · dashboard app suite 11986 passed / 5 skipped (581 files) ·
`pnpm test:gate` 161 + 13 + 487 + 71 · lint · census `--strict` ·
lane-wiring · fnxc-dates · changesets — green.

## One note for whoever owns the FNXC gate

`check-fnxc-future-dates.mjs` **rewrites its baseline as a side effect
and still exits 0**. Today's date roll dropped 183 stamps out of
"future", so any run dirties
`scripts/lib/fnxc-future-dates-baseline.json` in the working tree. It
cost me a stash conflict before I noticed. Not bundled here — it is
repo-wide midnight drift, not this change — but a check that mutates
tracked state on a read is worth a look.
2026-07-31 00:13:43 -07:00
gsxdsm
ac67b8d585 fix(scripts): the FN-4000 consistency reconciler failed in BOTH directions on a renamed board (#2994)
## The FN-4000 consistency reconciler failed in *both* directions

`findTaskStateInconsistencies` keyed both checks on legacy lane
literals, and they break in opposite ways:

```js
const hasDoneTransient = task.column === "done" && (status failed || error || worktree || blockedBy || …);
if (task.status === "failed" && task.column !== "in-review") { … }
```

| check | on a renamed board | effect |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `hasDoneTransient` | **never fires** | a finished card still holding
`status:"failed"`, a worktree, a blockedBy or live recovery counters is
never reported and never normalized — precisely the stale state FN-4000
exists to clear |
| `failed-status-outside-in-review` | **fires for every failed card** |
no column equals the literal, so the report lists the whole board |

The second is the more dangerous of the two: a tool that reports nothing
looks broken, but a tool that reports everything looks like it is
working.

## Wiring, and why the resolver is injected rather than built inline

Lanes are resolved **per task** (a board can span workflows) and passed
in. Resolving inside the loop would drag `importCore()` — and therefore
a built `packages/core/dist` — into every unit test of a pure
reconciliation loop.

`main` wires the real resolver whenever it opened a real backend, so
this is **not** the inert optional-parameter shape this migration keeps
finding. A caller injecting its own store (tests) has no staged dist and
falls back to the documented legacy literals, which is exactly today's
behaviour.

`importCore` is now exported from `scripts/lib/backend-db.mjs` so
operator scripts reach core helpers through the **same staged-dist seam
`openBackend` already uses**, rather than each growing its own dist path
— `@fusion/core` is not resolvable from repo-root `scripts/`, which is
what made the obvious import fail.

The normalization move now targets the card's **own** column: naming
`"done"` was only ever a way of spelling *"where it already is"*, since
the move exists to trigger the store's done-normalization.

## One of my test expectations was wrong before the code was

My first version asserted that a card in a renamed complete lane with
`status:"failed"` yields only the transient-state finding. It yields
**both** — and that is correct, because a failed card outside the review
lane genuinely is flagged. I isolated the case (dropping
`status:"failed"`, keeping the worktree) so it pins one behaviour
instead of blurring two, rather than "fixing" the expectation to match
whatever came out.

## Revert proof

Restoring the four literals:

```
✖ reports stale transient state in a RENAMED complete lane
✖ does NOT flag a failed card that is sitting in the board's own review lane
✖ runReconciliation normalizes a renamed complete lane by moving the card to its OWN column
ℹ pass 5   ℹ fail 3
```

The remaining two new cases pass both ways by design — "still flags a
failed card outside the resolved review lane" and "unresolved lanes keep
exactly the legacy behaviour" guard against over-correction, so I am not
counting them as coverage of the defect.

## Verification (measured)

- `node --test` — **8 passed / 0 failed** (3 pre-existing + 5 new)
- sibling script suites (`recover-stale-blocked-by`,
`reconcile-leaked-soft-deletes`) — **7 passed**, unaffected by the
shared-lib export
- `node --check`, `eslint` — clean
- `lifecycle-column-census --strict`, `check-sql-column-literals`,
`check-lane-wiring`, `check-fnxc-future-dates` — green

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

## Still not addressed in this territory

`reconcile-leaked-soft-deletes.mjs` carries a raw `UPDATE
project."tasks" SET "column" = 'archived'` — on a renamed board that
writes a column the workflow does not declare, creating the
undeclared-column state this migration keeps repairing elsewhere. It
holds a raw backend rather than a store, so it needs the same
`importCore` seam this PR exports; left for a follow-up rather than
bundled here.
2026-07-30 23:49:05 -07:00
gsxdsm
65f4e8533e fix(dashboard): blocker fan-out classified every board against the LEGACY lanes (finished cards shown as blockers; escalation never fired) (#2990)
The dashboard's `computeBlockerFanoutMap` wrapper called core with **no
lane answers at all**:

```ts
return computeBlockerFanoutMapCore(tasks, MAX_AUTO_MERGE_RETRIES, {
  staleHighFanoutAgeThresholdMs: options.staleHighFanoutAgeThresholdMs,
});   // no terminalColumns, no reviewColumns, no holdColumn, no classify
```

So every fan-out surface classified against `todo` / `in-review` /
`done` regardless of what the operator named their columns. Core defines
**active by exclusion — not terminal** — so on a renamed board a
**finished** card never became terminal and stayed an active blocker
forever. The Executor bar's highest-overlap blocker and the task modal's
blocking-dependents list both kept naming work that had already landed.

**Escalation was worse.** `shouldEscalate` requires the blocker to sit
in an escalation lane (wip ∪ review), which unresolved means
`in-progress`/`in-review` only — so a stale blocker holding up many
cards **never escalated**. The fan-out numbers themselves stayed
correct, which is what makes it easy to miss: the metric says there is a
problem and the mechanism that acts on it is switched off.

## Shape

**Per task, not a board-wide union** — the reason `blocker-fanout.ts`
documents on `classify`: an id means something only relative to its own
workflow, and this board renders several at once. `Board` builds the
index exactly as `App.tsx` already does for the footer
(`footerColumnFlagsByTaskId`): task → its own workflow → that workflow's
entry for the column the card rests in.

**Escalation = wip ∪ review**, mirroring `scheduler.ts`'s own
construction. The two must agree — the scheduler decides a blocker
escalates and the dashboard is where an operator sees it.

**An empty trait map means "not resolved yet", not "nothing is
terminal."** The pre-load window and the remote-node case keep the
documented legacy default rather than fabricated lifecycle state.

## Reverted

| case | reverted |
|---|---|
| a finished card in a renamed completion lane is not an active blocker
| **fails** |
| a stale high-fan-out blocker in a renamed wip lane escalates |
**fails** |
| unresolved traits stay byte-identical | passes either way — that is
why it is there |

## Two notes

- The hook call had to move below `useBoardWorkflows` in `Board` (it was
at line 206, the workflows at ~390). `blockerFanoutMap` is consumed only
in JSX, so the hook order change is unconditional and stable.
- The unresolved-card fallbacks are hoisted into three named helpers
with `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` markers on the **declarations** — the census
reads markers from leading comments, so an inline one attaches to the
wrong node and is silently ignored. Census baseline re-recorded in the
same commit (debt did not increase; markers moved 5 sites out of the
guard count).

## Not done

`ExecutorStatusBar` and `TaskDetailModal` call the wrapper directly and
still pass no traits. `ExecutorStatusBar` already receives
`columnFlagsByTaskId` so it is a one-liner; `TaskDetailModal` has no
trait index in scope and needs one threaded. Left out to keep this
reviewable — the ratchet keeps both visible.

## Verification

dashboard app suite **1919 passed (140 files)** · `pnpm test:gate` 161 +
13 + 487 + 71 · lint · census `--strict` · lane-wiring · fnxc-dates ·
changesets — green.

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 23:41:14 -07:00
gsxdsm
cfe47b3754 chore(plugins): delete the superseded fusion-plugin-even-cards (#2790) (#2988)
Closes #2790 by finishing a decision that was already made and written
down.

## The issue's premise was wrong, including as I filed it

I raised this as "a package accidentally missing from
`pnpm-workspace.yaml`." It wasn't. `CHANGELOG-archive.md:9596`:

> Consolidate Even Realities plugin support into
`fusion-plugin-even-realities-glasses` and **remove
`fusion-plugin-even-cards` from the active workspace package list to
avoid duplicate user-facing integrations.**

The removal was deliberate, for a stated reason. The directory is what
got left behind. That also rules out the option I had been weighting
first — adding it back would undo a shipped consolidation and re-create
the duplicate integration it was removed to prevent.

## Unreachable by every path

| check | result |
|---|---|
| `pnpm-workspace.yaml` globs | no — never installed or built |
| CLI bundle list (`packages/cli/tsup.config.ts`) | no — 0 mentions,
while seven other plugins are named |
| runtime `plugins/*` directory-scan discovery | none exists — plugins
are enumerated explicitly |
| `package.json` | `private: true` — never published |
| imports outside its own directory | none |
| kept as a docs/authoring example | no — zero references in `docs/` or
any root `*.md` |
| successor in the workspace | yes —
`fusion-plugin-even-realities-glasses` |

## It was also polluting two ratchets

Dead code in a scanned tree is worse than dead code: both censuses are
**source-text scanners**, so they counted debt in files no build or
typecheck covers. Nobody could retire those entries through a
normally-verified refactor, and they inflated how much of the remaining
debt looked actionable.

Both baselines regenerated, and I checked each diff rather than trusting
the totals:

| baseline | change |
|---|---|
| `lane-wiring` | 26 → 23 sites, 21 → 20 files — **one entry removed**,
`board-routes.ts: 3` |
| `lifecycle-column-census` | exactly its two `board-cards.ts` entries |

Neither regeneration tightened anything unrelated — worth confirming
explicitly, because `lifecycle-column-census.mjs --strict` **writes**
its baseline as a side effect and could have folded an unrelated drop
into this commit.

**Verified:** lane-wiring, SQL-literal and FNXC gates all exit 0 after
the deletion; lint clean. 15 files removed.

## Why I went ahead

I said twice I would not delete this unilaterally. What changed is that
the trade-off dissolved — once the consolidation decision turned out to
be documented and the "is it a teaching example?" question answered by a
docs grep, there was nothing left to decide, only to execute. The
deletion is git-reversible and the standing guidance is that reversible
calls are mine to make.

Fourth time today a thing I filed as "needs someone else's judgement"
turned out to have its answer already in the repository. Cheap habit
worth keeping: before deferring, grep for whether the judgement has
already been made.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 23:35:25 -07:00
gsxdsm
684c324084 fix(gate): the lane-wiring census counted { reviewColumns: undefined } as wired (#2984)
## What

Follow-up to the finding @gsxdsm left on #2981, taking the direction
offered there.

Both arms of this census asked whether the lane argument was
**present**, not whether it carried anything:

```ts
isThing(task, { reviewColumns: undefined });   // property present -> counted as wired
isThing(task, undefined);                      // arity satisfied  -> counted as wired
```

The callee receives exactly what it received before: nothing. The seam
is still inert, the board still reads the legacy vocabulary — the census
just stops saying so, which is the one failure mode a ratchet must not
have.

Same defect as the positional one #2981 fixes in
`check-inert-flag-seams`, one level in. The two gates are complementary
by design — this one owns the options-object and default-valued shapes
the other is structurally blind to — so the hole had to be closed in
**both**. Neither covered it, confirmed by probing each with a control
shape.

## The direction I took, since the review raised it as a contract
question

> *tightening just relocates the dishonesty into whichever spelling
survives... especially as I have already spent three attempts learning
that heuristic tightening here trades false positives for worse false
negatives.*

Agreed, which is why this is the narrowest possible reading rather than
a heuristic:

**Only a literal `undefined` / `void 0` counts as empty.** Shorthand `{
reviewColumns }` forwards a variable whose value is not knowable from
syntax, and treating it as unwired would flag every correct forwarding
wrapper in the tree — exactly the false-positive wave that trains
readers to skip a gate. Same for a call expression, a conditional, or
anything else with a value at runtime.

That keeps the rule provable from syntax alone. It doesn't relocate the
dishonesty so much as remove the one spelling that is *demonstrably*
empty; anything ambiguous still counts as wired, so the gate stays
conservative in the direction that matters.

## No tests existed for this census

`check-lane-wiring` and `lane-wiring-census.mjs` had no unit coverage on
`main`, so both rules ship with tests rather than resting on the probe
that found them.

## Measured

| check | result |
|---|---|
| clean `main` | exit 0, unchanged — all five gates green |
| now caught | property spelled `undefined` · property spelled `void 0`
|
| correctly **not** flagged | a real value · shorthand forwarding · a
call-expression value · a middle `undefined` with a real argument after
it |
| new suite | **8 tests**; reverting both rules fails **exactly** the 3
positives, negatives hold |

## Not done here, deliberately

The second finding on #2981 — `computeBlockerFanoutMap`'s dashboard
wrapper dropping all four lane options, so the fanout display reads
legacy literals on a renamed board — is **not** in this PR. Confirming
the diagnosis: `useBlockerFanout.ts`'s `UseBlockerFanoutOptions`
declares only `staleHighFanoutAgeThresholdMs` and forwards only that,
and all three dashboard call sites (`Board`, `TaskDetailModal`,
`ExecutorStatusBar`) have the same gap.

One correction to how it's framed, though: core already has the right
seam for it. `classify` and `escalationClassify` are documented there as
*"the only correct option on a multi-workflow board"*, precisely because
the set-shaped options assume a column id means the same thing
everywhere. So the fix should thread **per-task classifiers**, not
resolved column-flag sets — otherwise it reproduces the union read that
this program's own learnings doc lists as the fourth failure shape.

What's genuinely undecided is where a per-task role answer comes from in
a sync render path: `Board` holds `columnDef.flags` for the *selected*
workflow only, and the dashboard has no per-task resolver hook. That's
the design call, and it's dashboard-batch work rather than a mechanical
edit — so I've left it for whoever owns that batch rather than guessing
at it inside a gate PR.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 23:30:07 -07:00
gsxdsm
16921fc518 fix(engine,core): role resolution was half-done in two shared lifecycle predicates (surfacing family + file-scope leases) (#2975)
The three surfacing sweeps stopped reporting anything for a card resting
in a board's **second** review or hold column.

A lifecycle role is a **trait**, and any number of columns may carry it.
The shared runner resolved it with `resolveLifecycleColumns()[role]` —
**first match** — then gated on it:

```ts
const roleColumn = lifecycle?.[spec.role];        // FIRST column carrying the trait
if (task.column !== resolved.roleColumn) continue; // everything else dropped
```

A workflow that splits human sign-off from the merge lane has two review
columns; one that parks dependency-blocked cards separately has two hold
columns. Cards in the second got **no stale-paused-todo, no
stale-paused-review, no in-review-stalled** diagnostic — silently, with
no error, on all three sweeps at once.

## The second bug hiding inside the fix for the first

Resolving membership but still reading `roleColumns[0]`'s declared
`recovery` applies the **merge lane's** threshold to a card sitting in
the **sign-off** lane. Each card's policy now comes from its own column,
and one of the new cases fails if it doesn't: the first role column
declares a policy that suppresses the signal, the card's own column
declares one that fires.

## Reverted

| | |
|---|---|
| **6 of 12** new cases fail | `fires for a card in the SECOND column
carrying its role` and `reads the recovery policy of the card's OWN role
column` — × 3 sweeps |
| the other 6 pass either way | non-regression halves: still fires for
the FIRST role column, still does **not** fire for a card outside every
role column. Membership must widen the gate, not move it. |

The pre-existing 45 cases were all green throughout — the
single-role-column fixture could not express the case, which is why the
table-driven file that exists to stop these three sweeps drifting apart
never caught it.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` 161 + 13 + 487 + 71 · surfacing family 57 · core
stale-paused 20 · lint · census `--strict` · sql-literals · fnxc-dates ·
lane-wiring · changesets — all green.

## Note

`holdColumns` was missing from the lane-wiring vocabulary, so the gate
could not see that argument dropped. Added in the same commit.

While reviewing, I found and measured **two problems in #2974** (comment
posted there): six of its newly-visible sites are `satisfies`-wrapped
false positives, and baselining them means deleting a real
`reviewColumns` argument keeps the count unchanged and the gate green;
and its baseline predates #2970, re-opening the slot that PR closed.


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved stale-card detection across all applicable review and hold
columns.
* Cards are now surfaced using the policies configured for their
specific lifecycle column.
* Cards outside matching lifecycle columns are no longer incorrectly
surfaced.
* Preserved existing fallback behavior when no lifecycle columns are
configured.

* **Tests**
  * Added coverage for workflows with split review and hold columns.

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## Second commit: the same predicate, half-converted
(`shouldHoldActiveFileScopeLease`)

Folded in here rather than stacked — same file, same class, and a
stacked PR on an unmerged base is not mergeable. Reversible; say the
word and I'll split it.

`shouldHoldActiveFileScopeLease` is the **scheduler's** lease predicate,
shared with the self-healing repair paths deliberately so the two cannot
disagree about who holds a file-scope lease. Its two role answers are
optional parameters defaulting to the legacy ids. The scheduler's own
call sites were converted to pass resolved answers; self-healing's two
were not:

```ts
const isWipColumn    = options?.isWipColumn    ?? task.column === "in-progress";
const isReviewColumn = options?.isReviewColumn ?? task.column === "in-review";
```

On a renamed board neither branch matches, so the predicate returns
`false` for every card. The scheduler kept the lease; self-healing saw
none, cleared `overlapBlockedBy`, and **released a dependent to edit
files another agent still holds** — the outcome `groupOverlappingFiles`
exists to prevent.

Membership comes from the wip/review sets each sweep already resolved a
few lines above, so this adds no reads.

**Reverted:** both new cases fail with `overlapBlockedBy` = `null` — the
release itself, not a proxy. The pre-existing legacy-column case in the
same file passes either way, because `in-progress` satisfies the literal
default; that is exactly why it never caught this.

Lane-wiring baseline re-recorded `9 -> 7` in the same commit (the
ratchet refused a stale allowance, as intended).

**Verification:** gate 161 + 13 + 487 + 71 · surfacing 57 · overlap-seam
+ scheduler-lease + query-blindness 79 · core stale-paused 20 · lint ·
census `--strict` · sql-literals · fnxc-dates · changesets — green.
2026-07-30 23:13:34 -07:00
gsxdsm
968af0822c gate: the lane-wiring ratchet did not scan plugins, dashboard/app, or any .tsx (#2978)
## The new gate re-opened a blind spot the old one had already learned
about

`check-lane-wiring.mjs` (#2966) scanned four roots and only `.ts`:

```js
const ROOTS = ["packages/core/src", "packages/engine/src", "packages/dashboard/src", "packages/cli/src"];
```

`unwired-lane-parameter-guard.test.ts` scans **six**, including
`packages/dashboard/app` and `plugins`, and its FNXC note records
exactly why:

> `plugins` is scanned, and its absence was half of a real escape. […]
an unwired `completeColumnsByTaskId` sat on `main` unreported: the guard
found 0 across 1753 files, and 0 again across 2114 once plugins were
added, because the shape was invisible too. **Fixing either alone would
still have missed it.**

That is the same trap here, and it needed **two** changes. Those trees
are overwhelmingly `.tsx`, which the file filter excluded — so adding
the roots without the extension would have scanned a handful of files
and reported a reassuring near-zero.

## What the widened scan found: 10 sites, in 8 files, audited not
blind-baselined

| site | verdict |
| --- | --- |
| `dependency-graph/GraphTaskNode.tsx` (`isTaskStuck`) | **real** —
`isTaskStuck` takes an optional 4th `columnFlags`; omitted,
`isWipColumnRole` falls back to the literal, so **no card on a renamed
board is ever shown stuck** in the graph |
| `dashboard/app/Lane.tsx`, `ListView.tsx` (`sortTasksForDisplayColumn`)
| **real**, dashboard batch |
| `dashboard/app/ModelSelectorTab.tsx` ×2
(`resolveEffectiveExecutor`/`Validator`) | **real**, dashboard batch |
| `dashboard/app/TaskDetailModal.tsx`
(`isNearDuplicateCanonicalInactive`) | **real**, dashboard batch |
| `even-cards/routes/board-routes.ts` ×3 (`boardToDeck`) | **cannot be
fixed in place** — deprecated plugin depending on `@fusion/plugin-sdk`
alone, with no resolution source |
| `even-realities-glasses/routes/board-routes.ts:141` (`boardToDeck`) |
**harmless by construction** — the `{ maxCards: 1 }` summary call slices
`active` to empty, so `terminalColumns` cannot change its output;
documented in `cards.ts` |

They are baselined rather than fixed because they span three other
batches. I did **not** fix the graph one despite it being my area:
wiring it needs the plugin prop contract to carry column flags, and the
plugin's own `dashboard-interop.d.ts` declares `isTaskStuck` with only
three parameters — so it crosses the dashboard↔plugin API boundary
rather than being a local change.

## Merge-order hazard, stated precisely

A **decrease** also exits 1 (`process.exit(1)` on the `decreased`
branch), and #2976 wires `packages/cli/src/commands/task-lifecycle.ts`,
which is present in this baseline. **If #2976 lands after this PR,
main's gate goes red** until the baseline is re-recorded.

It fails loudly rather than silently, so it is a chore not a risk.
Merging #2976 first and letting me re-record here is the cleanest order
— say the word and I will push the re-record.

## Verification (measured)

- `check-lane-wiring` — green, **19 known / none added** (was 9 across 4
roots)
- `unwired-lane-parameter-guard.test.ts` — **9 passed**, the older guard
is unaffected
- `lifecycle-column-census --strict`, `check-sql-column-literals`,
`check-fnxc-future-dates` — green

Gate/tooling only; no product file is touched.


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Tests**
  * Expanded lane-wiring checks to cover dashboard and plugin code.
* Added support for scanning `.tsx` files while excluding declarations,
tests, specs, and ignored directories.
  * Updated baseline coverage counts for the additional files.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 23:05:23 -07:00
gsxdsm
41af5e5dbd fix(gate): the lane-wiring census could not see its own motivating case (#2956) (#2974)
#2966 shipped a gate that **cannot detect the defect named first in its
own header.**

`findLaneAcceptingFunctions` matched a lane parameter only when
`param.type` was a `TypeLiteralNode` — an inline `{ reviewColumns?: …
}`. But the real code declares these as interfaces:

```ts
export function getInReviewStallReason(
  task: Pick<Task, …>,
  context: InReviewStallContext = {},   // TypeReference — invisible
): InReviewStallSignal | undefined
```

so the function never entered `accepting` and none of its call sites
were examined.

### Measured, both directions

| | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| lane-accepting functions detected | 20 | **30** |
| `getInReviewStallReason` detected | no | **yes** |
| re-introduce #2956 (drop `reviewColumns` from one call site) | `none
added` — **passes** | **fails**: `reads.ts: 7 unwired now, baseline
allows 6` |

The gate now catches the thing it was built for.

### The baseline moves 10 → 24, and that number needs context

`10 unwired call site(s) across 8 files` → `24 across 15`. **No entry
was removed** — every previously-recorded file kept its count and 14
sites became visible for the first time:

```
core/task-store/reads.ts                        0 -> 6
engine/self-healing.ts                          2 -> 4
core/task-store/branch-and-pr-entities.ts       0 -> 1
core/task-store/task-update.ts                  0 -> 1
engine/scheduler.ts                             0 -> 1
dashboard/routes/register-task-workflow-routes  0 -> 1
cli/commands/dashboard-tui/bucket-mapping.ts    0 -> 1
cli/extension.ts                                0 -> 1
```

**These are newly VISIBLE, not newly broken** — they have been unwired
all along. I have **not** audited them, and recording them in the
baseline is not a claim that they are fine; it is the ratchet doing what
its header describes, since the census's own note says roughly half of
the original hits were legitimately unwired (identity proven by a
stronger means, sentinel columns, dead exports). Someone should walk the
14. Two stand out as worth a look first: **`reads.ts` at 6** is the file
#2956 was about, and **`scheduler.ts`** is a dispatch path.

Flagging rather than fixing, because wiring a call site that should not
be wired is its own defect and each needs the judgement call the census
header describes.

### Regression test

`packages/engine/src/__tests__/lane-wiring-census-named-types.test.ts`
pins the detector's shape — named interface, type alias, inline literal,
positional — against fixtures rather than live counts, so it does not
churn when someone legitimately wires a call site. Plus one anti-vacuity
case asserting the named-type arm is still load-bearing on real source
(`getInReviewStallReason` resolves in the live tree), so the fixtures
cannot pass while the tool has quietly stopped applying here.

**Mutation:** removing the `TypeReference` arm fails **4 of 5**.

### Also worth knowing

`findLaneAcceptingFunctions` still only visits
`ts.isFunctionDeclaration` at top level, so `export const fn = (ctx) =>
…` remains invisible. I checked — no exported arrow function currently
takes a lane argument, so nothing is missed today, and I left it rather
than widen the surface in the same change.

Resolved by **name across the corpus** instead of a type-checker
`Program`: these are plain source scans and a checker would cost a full
type-resolution pass for one lookup. Two same-named types merge, which
only ever widens what counts as wired — safe for a ratchet.

**Verified:** 5/5 new tests, `check-lane-wiring` clean at the new
baseline, lint clean, FNXC gate exit 0. Core suite on main is green
(4923 passed / 0 failed) — unrelated, but I had it running.


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Improved lane-wiring analysis to recognize named interfaces and type
aliases.
* Added support for wrapped configuration expressions and positional
parameters when detecting lane information.

* **Tests**
* Added comprehensive coverage for lane-wiring detection, including
named contexts and live-tree validation.

* **Chores**
* Updated baseline counts to reflect newly recognized application areas
and improved self-healing detection.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 22:54:31 -07:00
gsxdsm
be79fe0db6 fix(cli): PR merges silently never ran on a renamed board — the blocker was asked about in-review (#2976)
## PR merges silently never ran on a renamed board

`processPullRequestMergeTask` called its injected blocker with the task
alone:

```ts
if (getTaskMergeBlocker(task)) return "skipped";
```

So `options.reviewColumns` was undefined and the blocker's identity
check fell back to `task.column === "in-review"`. On a board whose merge
lane is named anything else it returns:

```
task is in 'checking', must be in 'in-review'
```

…which is truthy, so this function returns `"skipped"`. **Silently and
permanently** — nothing logs, nothing fails, the PR simply never merges.
`daemon.ts`, `serve.ts` and `dashboard.ts` all drain PR merges through
here, making this a third instance of the #2963/#2964 class ("merge
entry points unwired — merging was impossible on a renamed board").

Found via the baseline #2966 shipped:
`packages/cli/src/commands/task-lifecycle.ts` was a known-unwired call
site in it.

## Narrow resolution, deliberately

`resolveReviewColumns` is the **broad** set, and its own FNXC note warns
that a caller which admits on it *and then moves the card* will act on
cards the engine does not consider in review. This function merges and
moves to the complete lane — a state-changing admission — so it uses
`resolveMergeOrchestrationColumn`, the single lane the engine acts on.
That matches how `moves.ts` wires the same call.

Degradation is unchanged in both directions: `resolveWorkflowIrForTask`
substitutes the default IR rather than throwing, so a default board
resolves `in-review` and behaves identically; a v1-upgraded IR resolves
every role empty and keeps the documented legacy literal (covered by a
test).

## One shape choice worth flagging

The option is always **passed** and conditionally **valued**:

```ts
getTaskMergeBlocker(task, { reviewColumns: mergeLane ? new Set([mergeLane]) : undefined })
```

rather than making the whole argument conditional. These are identical
at runtime — the blocker treats an undefined `reviewColumns` exactly as
it treats absent options — but **only this shape is visible to
`lane-wiring-census.mjs`**, which matches an object-literal argument and
cannot see a ternary. I wrote the ternary first, and the gate still
reported the site as unwired; wiring a gate cannot check is how this
defect survived in the first place.

The gate then confirmed the fix and asked for the baseline in the same
commit:

```
[check-lane-wiring] unwired call sites decreased:
  packages/cli/src/commands/task-lifecycle.ts: 1 -> 0
```

Baseline re-recorded 9 → 8 in this commit, so the allowance cannot be
regrown into.

## Revert proof

**There was no test for this function at all** — that is why it went
unnoticed. Restoring only `task-lifecycle.ts`:

```
AssertionError: expected "vi.fn()" to be called with arguments: [ ObjectContaining{…}, …(1) ]
AssertionError: expected 'skipped' not to be 'skipped'
AssertionError: expected "vi.fn()" to be called with arguments: [ ObjectContaining{…}, undefined ]
      Tests  3 failed | 1 passed (4)
```

The one case that passes both ways is "still skips a card that is not in
any merge lane" — it guards against over-admission rather than proving
the fix, and I am not claiming it as coverage of the defect.

## Verification (measured)

- new suite **4/4**; with `pr-automerge-cleanup` **9 passed / 2 files**
- `tsc --noEmit`, `eslint` — clean
- `check-lane-wiring` (8, none added), `lifecycle-column-census
--strict`, `check-sql-column-literals`, `check-fnxc-future-dates` —
green

**Changeset added** (`patch`). `packages/cli` is the published
`@runfusion/fusion` and this changes user-facing merge behaviour, so
AGENTS.md requires one. My first pass hedged and left it to a maintainer
— that was wrong, the rule is not discretionary, and it is now in the
branch.
2026-07-30 22:46:19 -07:00
gsxdsm
2fd798cb36 core: every review card reported a false stall on a renamed board (#2970)
**The failure mode worth distinguishing: the rest of this family went
quiet on a renamed board. This one shouted.**

`getInReviewStallReason` satisfied its **own** lane check from
`context.reviewColumns` — then called `getTaskMergeBlocker` **without**
them. That helper re-ran its column-identity check against the literal
`in-review` and returned, for a perfectly healthy card:

```
task is in 'signoff', must be in 'in-review'
```

…which was surfaced as `{ code: "merge-blocker" }`. **Every in-review
card on a renamed board was flagged as stalled**, each citing a lane the
board does not have. That is how a signal stops being read at all.

## A second symptom, found by the revert rather than by reading

On a **genuinely failed** card, the identity message wins over the real
one. The operator saw the bogus column complaint instead of `task is
marked 'failed': merge verification failed`.

So it did not only invent stalls — it **masked the true reason for real
ones**. I would not have noticed that from the diff; it showed up
because the revert run asserted on the reason text.

## Same shape, last one in the family

The outer question was resolved and the inner one was not — the
half-conversion the helper's own comment records for `moves.ts`, and
#2963/#2964 fixed for the merge entry points. This is the last site the
audit turned up where the lane answer was already in scope and simply
not forwarded.

## Revert results

| | reverted → |
| --- | --- |
| the unforwarded call (what ships today) | **2 of 3 fail** — healthy
card reports a merge-blocker stall; failed card reports the wrong reason
|

**Fixture note worth keeping:** `paused` is deliberately *not* the
genuine-stall case. An earlier guard returns `undefined` for a paused
card before the merge blocker is ever consulted, so that case would pass
whether or not the lanes are forwarded — the vacuous shape this series
has produced eight times.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` 161 + 487 + 13 + 71; `@fusion/core` full suite **4878
passed** (457 files); `tsc` core clean; lint, lifecycle census
`--strict`, FNXC gate, changesets all clean.
2026-07-30 22:25:24 -07:00
gsxdsm
19deb42170 gate: ratchet call sites that never receive the lane answer (#2966)
**This is the gap that let three defects reach `main` in one day.**

`unwired-lane-parameter.mjs` catches a parameter that reaches **no**
caller. It is deliberately satisfied by a mention *anywhere*, so
**partial** wiring is invisible to it:

| | |
| --- | --- |
| #2956 | `getInReviewStallReason` wired at **0 of 4** call sites while
both siblings were wired |
| #2963 | both merge entry points unwired — merging was **impossible**
on a renamed board |
| #2964 | merge-confirmed finalization unwired — **already-landed work
parked `failed`** |

Every one was a fix that added an optional parameter without the
call-site sweep that has to follow it. The existing guard was green
throughout, correctly by its own contract.

## A census, not a guard — and that distinction is the whole design

Auditing the sites this finds showed **four of seven were legitimately
unwired**: `skipColumnIdentityCheck` callers have already proven lane
identity by a stronger means, a sentinel-column caller wants the
identity check satisfied by construction, and a dead export has no
caller to wire at all.

A check that failed on those is ~57% false positives. The sibling
guard's own header says why that is worse than a miss — *"it teaches
people to disable the check"* — and I agree, so this does not do it.

Instead it ratchets like the lifecycle census: **36 known unwired sites
across 20 files**, allowed to shrink and not to grow. A new unwired
caller raises the count and fails; wiring one lowers it and re-records.
The recurrence — adding a caller that forgets the lane answer — is
precisely what gets caught, and the legitimate sites cost one baseline
line each instead of a permanently red gate.

## Detection is AST-based, deliberately

It finds exported functions accepting a lane-named argument — directly
*or* as an options-bag member — then finds call sites passing none of
them.

Not regex: the ad-hoc scan I used during the audit produced false
negatives on multi-line calls, which is exactly how a caller gets missed
in the first place. Using a heuristic to police a defect caused by a
heuristic seemed like a poor trade.

## Verified to fail on the recurrence

A ratchet that cannot fail is worse than none, so this was measured
rather than assumed. Injecting one new unwired caller into
`self-healing.ts`:

```
[check-lane-wiring] call sites not passing a resolved lane argument INCREASED:

  packages/engine/src/self-healing.ts: 9 unwired now, baseline allows 8
```

exit 1, naming the file and the delta.

## Placement

Runs as a named `check:lane-wiring` step in `pr-checks.yml` beside the
lifecycle, SQL, inert-seam and FNXC ratchets — same convention, same
failure ergonomics, ~1s.

Note the baseline records today's state, which still includes the
#2963/#2964 sites because those fixes have not merged yet. When they
land the count drops and the baseline is re-recorded downward — the
ratchet working as intended rather than a conflict.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` 161 + 487 + 13 + 71; `tsc` engine clean; lint,
lifecycle census `--strict`, FNXC gate, and the new check all clean.
2026-07-30 22:14:27 -07:00
gsxdsm
126cee7e6d engine: finalization parked ALREADY-MERGED work as failed on a renamed board (#2964)
**The worst symptom in this family: the branch landed, and the board
says the task failed.**

`project-engine`'s merge-confirmed finalization spread the task's
**real** column into `getTaskHardMergeBlocker` with no `reviewColumns`,
so the identity check ran against the literal `in-review`. On a renamed
board it returned `task is in 'signoff', must be in 'in-review'`, and
the caller parked the card:

```
status: "failed"
error:  "Merge confirmed but finalization blocked: task is in 'signoff', must be in 'in-review'"
```

For work that had already merged.

## Its sibling had already solved this

`auto-merge-finalization.ts` passes the **review-eligible sentinel**
instead of the card's own column, with the reasoning recorded at that
site: `getTaskHardMergeBlocker` asks *"is this card blocked by anything
other than where it sits?"*, and its callers are recovery paths for
landed work that a graph crash can leave resting in any column.
`project-engine` simply never got the same treatment.

## One name instead of two spellings

Rather than write the sentinel a second time, it is exported once as
`REVIEW_ELIGIBLE_SENTINEL_COLUMN` next to the helper whose contract
gives it meaning, and both recovery paths use it. **Two sites
independently spelling a magic value is how one of them came to be
missing it** — that is the actual root cause here, not the literal
itself.

This also answers the census, which flagged the new literal — correctly.
Its guidance (which I wrote, in #2909) is to hoist a deliberate literal
into a *declaration*, where a `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` marker actually
attaches, instead of leaving it mid-expression where the marker is
silently ignored. The shared constant is exactly that, and it lowers
`auto-merge-finalization`'s literal count too.

## Revert result

| | reverted → |
| --- | --- |
| sentinel replaced by the card's own renamed column | reproduces the
shipped string |

The middle test asserts that string deliberately — it is what landed in
`task.error`, so a regression reports what the operator would actually
have seen. A third case checks the sentinel does **not** suppress
genuine blockers: incomplete steps still block finalization in any lane.

These drive the helper directly; reaching `project-engine`'s
finalization end to end needs a live engine, a merge run and a real
repo, while the defect is entirely in *what the blocker is asked*.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` 161 + 487 + 13 + 71; `project-engine` +
`auto-merge-finalization` + the new suite, 207; `tsc` clean on core and
engine; lint, census `--strict`, FNXC gate, changesets all clean.


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Fixed merge-confirmed tasks being finalized correctly when boards use
renamed workflow columns.
* Prevented already-merged tasks from being incorrectly marked as failed
due to custom review-column names.
  * Preserved enforcement of genuine incomplete-step blockers.

* **Tests**
* Added coverage for finalization on renamed lanes and legitimate merge
blockers.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 22:06:24 -07:00
gsxdsm
189f237a07 fix(security): make the approval and permission gates actually enforce (#2457)
## Why

An AI agent autonomously deleted a live task (FN-8609) via
`fn_task_delete`. Investigating that led to two audits, which found the
gate machinery is well-built and its *enforcement* well-tested — but the
*decision boundary* was unguarded and the tools that matter never
reached the gate at all.

The headline defect: all ~76 tools in `packages/cli/src/extension.ts`
are delivered through `hostExtensionPaths` → `DefaultResourceLoader`,
which never passes through `wrapToolsWithActionGate`. `fn_task_delete`
*was* classified as gated in `gating-classifications.ts` — that
classification was dead code. Roughly 15 destructive tools were ungated
even for an operator who had locked their policy all the way down.

Second: `POST /api/approvals/:id/decision` took the approver identity
from the request body, validated for shape only, with no check that the
decider was human or differed from the requester. Combined with a bash
tool whose command string was never inspected (only `params.cwd`), an
agent could read the daemon token from `~/.fusion/settings.json`, find
its own pending request, and approve it.

## Scope

This does **not** tighten defaults. The `unrestricted` preset is
byte-for-byte unchanged — `git diff` on `agent-permission-policy.ts` is
empty — and regression tests assert that an out-of-the-box install
behaves exactly as before. The bug was never "the default is too
permissive"; it was "strict policy doesn't enforce." This makes turning
security up actually work.

The one deliberate exception: the containment that stops an agent
escalating its *own* privileges (reading the daemon token / credentials,
calling the approvals API to self-approve) applies at every preset
including `unrestricted`. That is a privilege-escalation boundary rather
than a permission preference — if it only engaged under strict policy it
would not have prevented the incident that prompted this.

## What changed

8 bisectable commits:

- **Approval lifecycle** — self-approval blocked via server-derived
deciders; same-verdict replay 409s; decide re-reads and re-validates
inside the transaction; expiry TTLs; `markCompleted` ownership check;
session identity registry in core.
- **Engine gates enforce for real** — unclassified tools resolve to a
policy-governed category instead of hardcoded `allow`; missing-policy
fail-open closed; bash containment floor + exact-command approval
binding.
- **Dashboard decision routes** — stop trusting client-supplied actors
(decision, bypass-review, worktrunk → 403 on forged actors).
- **`fn serve` authenticated by default** — auto-mints a token following
the existing `fn dashboard` precedent; `--no-auth` opts out.
- **Sibling entry points closed** — user-sourced hard-cancel moves, ACP
execute-once approvals, plugin task-store gating.
- **pi-extension principal resolution** — the extension resolves the
acting principal and can withhold or policy-gate the previously ungated
destructive tools.
- **Root-cause bonus fix** — `findLatestByDedupeKey` was broken in
PostgreSQL backend mode (already-parsed jsonb fed through a string-only
parser), so approved-grant redemption **never matched in production**,
minting duplicate requests. This explains the live DB state of 17
approved / 0 completed. *(Also cherry-picked to `main` as `a9b30013bb`,
since it is an active production defect on its own.)*
- **Review follow-ups** (`627f1b1fa8`) — operator-configured
provisioning privilege and a configurable grant TTL; see below.

## Review follow-ups

**Provisioning privilege is operator-configured, not role-derived.**
`isCallerPrivileged` had gone from `caller.reportsTo == null` (every
top-level agent privileged — permanent escalation by creating a
manager-less agent) to `caller.role === "ceo"`, which swapped an
implicit rule for a magic string: any agent config can claim that role,
while an operator who genuinely wants a privileged agent had no
supported way to say so. Privilege now derives solely from
`agentProvisioning.trustedAgentIds` / `trustedRoles` and fails closed
when settings are unresolvable.

It is also no longer forwarded to `resolveAgentProvisioningPolicy` as
`isPrivileged`, because that flag short-circuits ahead of
`alwaysApproveDelete` — a trusted caller was bypassing delete approval
entirely. The policy applies the same trusted rules itself, in the right
order. The function now governs only the org-chart escape hatch (acting
outside your own direct reports).

**Grant TTL defaults to 1 hour and is configurable.** Approval →
redemption is not instantaneous: an operator approving from their phone,
an engine restart, a queued lane, or a task waiting on a worktree all
routinely exceeded 15 minutes, after which the grant expired and the
agent silently re-requested. One hour remains far short of the
"redeemable forever" hazard the TTL exists to bound. Override via
`FUSION_APPROVAL_GRANT_TTL_MS` or `configureApprovalRequestTtls()`;
invalid overrides are ignored rather than widening the window to
infinity or collapsing it to zero.

## Behavior changes requiring operator review before rollout

1. `fn serve` requires a bearer token by default (`--no-auth` opts out);
unauthenticated clients get 401.
2. Agents can no longer run withheld destructive tools
(`fn_task_delete`, `fn_task_bypass_review`,
mission/milestone/slice/feature/workflow deletes, `experiment_finalize`,
`skills_install`). Operators keep them via CLI/dashboard. **This is the
incident fix.**
3. Agents get provisioning privilege only when the operator lists them
in `agentProvisioning.trustedAgentIds` / `trustedRoles`; the
provisioning gate is now live in production. Previously-implicit
privilege (top-level position, or a `ceo` role) no longer grants
anything on its own.
4. Decision replay 409s (was 200); pending approvals expire after 24h,
approved grants after 1h (configurable); bash approvals bind per exact
command.
5. Forged/body actors on decision, bypass-review, worktrunk routes →
403; `archive-all-done` requires `{confirm:true}` (external scripts
affected).
6. `fn_secret_get` approvals grant exactly one reveal (previously
granted nothing and looped forever); ACP approvals are execute-once
(previously infinite reuse).
7. Bash containment denies token/credential/approvals-API commands in
all agent sessions at every preset.

## Verification

Independently re-run against the branch, not just self-reported:

- 5 typechecks (core, engine, cli, dashboard `tsconfig.json` +
`tsconfig.app.json`) — clean
- `pnpm lint` — clean
- `pnpm test:gate` — 379 passed
- `pnpm build --force` — green (a plain `pnpm build` skips packages as
unchanged and does **not** compile the branch)
- `pnpm check:changesets` — clean
- ~650 file-scoped tests including new negative-path suites for the
decision boundary, which previously had **zero** test coverage

`packages/engine/src/__tests__/plugin-runner.test.ts` fails 56/80 —
**verified pre-existing**, reproducing identically at base commit
`93a403af67` on `main`. Not in the merge gate.

### A mutation check that failed to fail

Worth recording, because it nearly shipped an untested security fix. The
first mutation check on the provisioning change reintroduced the `ceo`
hardcode and **all 17 tests still passed** — the tests asserted through
the policy path, which can no longer observe `isCallerPrivileged` at
all, precisely because `isPrivileged` is no longer forwarded there.
Org-chart cases that do exercise the function were added; the hardcode
now fails exactly 1 of 19, and restoring is green. A green mutation run
is only meaningful if the test can actually see the code under test.

## Known limitations (stated, not papered over)

- The bash containment floor is string-matching: a cost-raiser, not a
sandbox. Quoting, encoding, `$HOME`, symlinks, or an interpreter
one-liner can evade it. The durable protection is the decision route
refusing agent-originated deciders — the filter is the belt, not the
braces.
- Approval expiry is lazy (evaluated at decide/complete/redeem), not
swept, so an expired pending row stays visible in lists until touched.
- The extension's require-approval path returns a pending message but
cannot suspend a pi session mid-turn; engine-side pause hooks cover
engine lanes only.

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Security**
* Hardened approval and permission gating with server-side decider
attribution, self-approval blocking, ownership checks, replay/race
protection, and status/TTL enforcement.
* Added fail-closed behavior for sensitive/unclassified tools and
sandbox provisioning approvals.
* Blocked credential/approval access via bash containment; plugin
destructive task operations now require explicit permission.
* **New Features**
* `fn serve` now defaults to bearer-token auth, with `--no-auth` as the
explicit opt-out.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved task move-source attribution (`moveSource: "user"`) and
tightened dashboard archive/bypass confirmation and operator attribution
behavior.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 21:50:37 -07:00
gsxdsm
1f0d371228 fix(tests): three more portal query-root failures (pr-tab, worktree-terminal, milestone-slice) (#2959)
Three dashboard test files asserted against `render()`'s `container`,
but the components under test mount through `createPortal` — so
`container` is **empty** and every query returns nothing. Same root
cause as the earlier portal batch; these are the three that were still
held back.

| File | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| `TaskDetailModal.pr-tab` | failing | pass |
| `TaskDetailModal.worktree-terminal` | failing | pass |
| `MilestoneSliceInterviewModal` | failing | pass |

**Measured: 39/39 passing**, rebased on current main (`3461ae7a92`).
Lint clean, FNXC date gate exit 0.

### Why this stayed hidden

The queries were a **mix** of `container.querySelector(...)` and
`screen.*`. `screen` queries `document`, so they kept working — a
portal-mounted modal makes only the `container` half go blind. The
result is a file that looks half-alive rather than obviously broken, and
the failures present as five different-looking symptoms (`null`,
`undefined`, `+0`, `[]`, `-1`) that don't read as one bug.

Grouping candidate files by **`container.querySelector` call count**
rather than by symptom is what identified these correctly, and — the
part that mattered — correctly *excluded* the neighbouring files that
were failing for unrelated reasons.

### One thing to know if you repeat this

A blanket `container` → `document` replace is wrong: it also rewrites
`renderResult.container.querySelector` into
`renderResult.document.querySelector`, which is not a thing. That broke
two already-passing tests on my first attempt. This uses two separate
passes with a lookbehind so only the bare receiver is rewritten.

### Scope

Test-side only — **no product code changes**, so no changeset. This does
not fix the *cause* (tests are still free to query the wrong root); a
lint rule for that is worth considering separately, but it would need to
distinguish portal-mounting components from ordinary ones, and I did not
want to guess at that boundary inside a test-fix PR.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Tests**
* Improved modal and task detail accessibility test reliability by
querying rendered elements from the document.
* Updated coverage for keyboard navigation, Pull Request status
indicators, tab ordering, and onboarding provider cards.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 21:42:33 -07:00
gsxdsm
255741e9ab fix(gate): scan every file type that carries an FNXC stamp (#2954)
The walk's extension filter was `/\.(tsx?|m?js|cjs|md)$/` — the file
types stamps were **expected** in, rather than the ones they **occur**
in. Wherever the convention spread on its own, the gate could not see
it.

## How I found it

Chasing four stamps dated `2026-10-19` — three months out, so unlike the
rest of the population they would not age out on their own. All four
were in `packages/core/dist/`, which the gate correctly skips as
generated. The *source* they were compiled from is a `.sql` migration,
which the gate skips for a different and much worse reason: it was never
scanned at all.

## Why `.sql` is the expensive omission

A migration's stamp records **when a schema change landed**. That is the
case where a wrong date misleads most — it is the file you read to
reconstruct the order schema changes happened in. 69 migration files
carry stamps; 10 were future-dated and none were visible.

`.css` had drifted furthest by volume: **1023 stamps across 123 files**,
almost all from the dashboard CSS split. `.html`, `.ya?ml`, `.json`,
`.sh` are included too; they add coverage but contribute no baseline
entries.

## The 9 new baseline entries are newly VISIBLE, not new

5 `.css` + 4 `.sql`. Every one predates this change and would have been
caught had the gate ever looked. Recording them is a
**reclassification**, the same distinction the census draws for its
DELIBERATE-LITERAL marker — a baseline that grows here is the gate's
coverage improving, not the codebase regressing. Reading the rise as a
regression would be exactly backwards.

## Verified by mutation, not by reading

- A future-dated stamp appended to `ChatView.css` → gate **exit 1**.
- A future-dated stamp appended to `0036_chat_session_tags.sql` → gate
**exit 1**.
- Both reverted → **exit 0**.

Without this, both probes pass silently.

## Two notes on the diff

- **Zero removals.** My first attempt rewrote the baseline with sorted
keys, which turned unmoved lines into add/remove pairs and made it look
like entries were being dropped. Rebuilt in walk order so the diff is
additions only.
- `reads.ts` is deliberately left at `2` here even though it now
measures `0`. That drop belongs to #2953; duplicating it across two open
PRs is how this queue got tangled before. The gate auto-tightens it at
runtime and still exits 0.

## What this does not fix

The **478** future-dated stamps still in the tree. They are
agent-written (mine included) and most are one or two days out, so the
count falls on its own as the clock advances — it should not be read as
cleanup progress. This PR only makes the gate able to *see* the SQL and
CSS ones, so no new stamp can land there unnoticed.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 20:53:25 -07:00
gsxdsm
8e5e1147d2 core,engine: the last literal lifecycle query — and the three stall signals that disagreed (#2951)
**This is the last one.** `surfaceInReviewStalls` was the final literal
`listTasks({ column })` in production — I verified it by direct scan,
not by census arithmetic: **1 remaining before this, 0 after.**

It tells an operator that a card is stalled in review. On a renamed
board the stall was real and the board simply never said so.

## It came last on purpose

Converting the read alone would have been **worse than leaving it**.
`getInReviewStallReason` gated on the literal `in-review` itself, so a
widened read hands every renamed-board card to a classifier that drops
it — the missed-pair class, wearing the shape of a clean one-line
conversion.

## What was actually there

Three sibling signals decorate the same row, and they **disagreed about
which lane it is in**:

| signal | before |
| --- | --- |
| `getInReviewStalledSignal` | singular `reviewColumn` — resolved, but
**first-per-role** |
| `getStalePausedReviewSignal` | singular `reviewColumn` — same |
| `getInReviewStallReason` | **no seam at all** — literal |

So one row could be judged in-review by one signal and not by another.
And the singular ones are the **arity trap**:
`resolveLifecycleColumns().review` is the *first* column carrying a
review role, so a board with a separate merge lane beside its
human-review lane had a second review column matching none of them.

All three now take `reviewColumns` (membership), resolved **once per
row** through `resolveReviewColumns` — the union of the three review
roles — so they cannot disagree by construction. The singular/literal
paths remain as the no-metadata fallback, so a caller passing nothing is
byte-identical to today. Ten call sites in `reads.ts` wired from that
one answer; the singular resolver is deleted.

## Revert results

Each applied alone and re-run:

| conversion | reverted → |
| --- | --- |
| the resolved read | fails — the card is never listed |
| `reviewColumns` at the call | fails — the classifier drops the renamed
card the widened read just found |

That second row is the whole point: it proves the pair had to move
together, which is the thing I got wrong twice earlier in this series.

## Second commit: a red on `main`, not from this branch

`check-fnxc-future-dates` landed and **`main` fails it** — verified by
running the script on a clean `origin/main` checkout rather than
inferring. Nine files carry stamps dated after today, so every worker's
gate fails on a check none of their changes caused. Several are mine: I
had been stamping tomorrow's date across this whole series, which is
precisely the out-of-order record the check exists to prevent.

Scope held deliberately: a repo-wide sweep touched **266 files** across
docs, scripts and every package. I ran it, backed it out, and limited
this to the nine files the check actually flags — a mechanical rewrite
that size during a queue freeze would conflict with every in-flight
branch, which is worse than the red it fixes.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` 161 + 487 + 13 + 71 (green **only** with the stamp
commit); `@fusion/core` full suite **4810 passed**; engine self-healing
+ blindness + both ratchets **758 passed**; `tsc` clean on core and
engine; `pnpm lint`, `check:changesets`, `lifecycle-column-census
--strict`, `check-sql-column-literals` and `check-fnxc-future-dates` all
clean.


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Bug Fixes**
- Review-stall detection now recognizes renamed and multiple review
columns while retaining support for the legacy review column.
  - Paused tasks continue to be excluded from stall detection.
- Self-healing review-stall sweeps now search all configured review
lanes and avoid duplicate task results.

- **Tests**
- Added regression coverage for renamed and legacy review-lane queries.

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2026-07-30 20:30:18 -07:00
gsxdsm
f49e487d91 feat(core): untraited-project lane opt-in — and main was red on the FNXC gate (#2949)
Two things, and the second is why the first does not ship alone.

## The opt-in

`resolveProjectColumnsForRoles` gains `untraitedProject:
"declared-columns"`. When **no** workflow in the project expresses
**any** lifecycle trait, every declared column id joins the answer.

This is the three-state rule at **project** scope — the last item on the
deferred list, recorded at three self-healing call sites (#2869, #2876).
A board that renames its lanes and declares no traits contributes
nothing today, so its cards are **absent from every role-keyed query**,
and the correct per-card fallback downstream never runs for them. A
fallback cannot rescue a card the query never returned.

**Not "no workflow declares this role."** A project that expresses
traits and has no review lane has *answered*; widening there would
invent lanes it deliberately lacks. Mutation-verified both directions —
widening unconditionally fails 1 of 12, making the option a no-op fails
1 of 12.

**Opt-in, not default**, because the safe direction differs per caller —
the finding in `project-union-versus-per-task-lanes.md`:

| caller | over-inclusion costs |
|---|---|
| sweep | nothing — the per-card check discards the extra rows |
| aggregator | an inflated number an operator reads (#2864, #2866) |
| action site | a card routed or notified under a vocabulary that is not
its own (#2852, #2891) |

Making it the default moves all three at once, in the one direction two
of them must not. Verified byte-identical without the option, so this
lands with **no caller changes** and each site adopts it on its own
reasoning.

## Main was red, and my own gate caught me first

I dated the new comments `2026-07-31` while today is `2026-07-30` —
**the exact defect `check-fnxc-future-dates` exists to prevent,
committed while writing the feature.** The gate I added yesterday failed
my own commit.

Correcting mine surfaced that the merged sentinel batch, #2947, and
three engine test files carried future-dated stamps too, so **the gate
was failing on `main` for everyone**, not just here.

All corrected to real dates rather than raising the ceiling. The stamps
were simply wrong, and a baseline bump would have recorded the error as
permitted — which is the failure mode that ratchet exists to prevent.

Core and engine `tsc` clean, `pnpm lint` clean, census `--strict` 0,
FNXC gate 0 (469 known, none added), gate green (161/487/13/71).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 20:17:18 -07:00
gsxdsm
b1bd571682 batch-sql-ratchet: the census / gate-ratchet family — collection branch, fold here (#2941)
## Family branch for consolidation directive item 4

`batch-sql-ratchet` did not exist and ~10 open PRs are waiting for a
collection point, so this establishes it. **Fold your census/ratchet
commit here and close your own PR as superseded.**

```bash
git fetch origin batch-sql-ratchet
git checkout -B batch-sql-ratchet origin/batch-sql-ratchet
git cherry-pick <your-sha>
# verify scoped, not full suite:
pnpm --filter @fusion/core exec vitest run src/__tests__/archived-column-gate-parity.test.ts --silent=passed-only --reporter=dot
git push origin HEAD:batch-sql-ratchet
```

**Candidates I can see open right now** (owners: please fold + close):

| PR | branch |
|---|---|
| #2938 | `fix/comments-ops-sentinel` |
| #2935 | `fix/task-artifacts-sentinels` |
| #2933 | `chore/commit-tightened-census-baseline` |
| #2931 | `fix/async-comments-sentinels` |
| #2928 | `fix/audit-ops-sentinel-marker` |
| #2925 | `live-task-column-lanes` |
| #2923 | `fix/task-id-integrity-sentinel` |
| #2921 | `fix/plugin-store-migration-marker` |
| #2894 | `gate/sql-literals-match-census-placement` |

That is **10 → 1** once folded. I have not cherry-picked anyone else's
commits — folding someone's work without them verifying it is how a
batch lands broken.

---

## What is in it so far (mine, from #2924)

**Clears a live main red:** `archived-column-gate-parity` fails on
`origin/main` today.

```
AssertionError: TypeScript encoding changed.
  async-comments-attachments.ts: 8 → 5
```

#2886 fixed a real bug — archived-document guards failing in *opposite*
directions on a renamed lane — by replacing three `column ===
"archived"` comparisons with `isArchivedLane(column, archivedColumns)`.
The AST scan counts raw comparisons, so the tally dropped.

**What I did not do is record it as three sites converted**, because
measured, it is not:

```
grep -rn "archivedColumns:" packages/core/src packages/engine/src --include="*.ts" | grep -v __tests__
→ (no matches)
```

No caller passes it. The parameter defaults to `LEGACY_ARCHIVED_LANES =
new Set(["archived"])`, so every call resolves to the literal it
replaced — byte-identical behaviour, resolved branch dead.

That matters for this guard's whole argument: its header warns that
converting the TypeScript half while the Drizzle and raw-`sql` halves
still compare the string is a split brain *"no test would catch, because
every builtin workflow spells the column `archived` so the two halves
agree by accident on every board we ship."* **There is no split brain
today precisely because the resolved half is unwired** — it becomes one
the moment a caller threads real lanes in without the SQL sides moving.
Recorded inline so `5` cannot be read as "3 sites done"; flagged on
#2886.

Verified not a split brain: the Drizzle and raw-sql inventories are
unchanged and both pass — worth stating because those assertions run
*after* the TypeScript one, so a plain red says nothing about them.

Scoped edit to `AUDITED_TS_SITES` by line range: these paths appear in
more than one inventory here, and an unscoped replace would quietly edit
the raw-sql side too, making the parity guard agree with itself (the
trap I hit in #2817).

Guard still bites: appending a real `task.column === "archived"` to an
audited file fails it. Core **4852 passed / 0 failed**, lint clean,
test-only.

Closing #2924 as superseded by this.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved task delegation messages when workflow pickup cannot be
confirmed.
* Delegation results now clearly indicate when a task has not been
verified for pickup.

* **Quality Improvements**
* Added validation checks to catch future-dated markers and inconsistent
SQL-column usage.
* Refined workflow checks to distinguish stale configuration from
incomplete configuration.

* **Documentation**
* Updated lifecycle conversion guidance with more accurate audit
findings and limitations.
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2026-07-30 19:59:14 -07:00
gsxdsm
c3df0f641b executor: orphaned tasks were never resumed after a restart on a renamed board (#2947)
`resumeOrphaned` is the only path that recovers tasks after a crash or
restart. On a board with renamed columns it recovered **nothing**.

## A missed pair, not an unconverted read

```ts
const tasks = await this.listWipLaneTasks();          // resolved by role — already converted
const inProgress = tasks.filter(
  (t) => t.column === "in-progress" && …,             // literal — discards everything the read found
);
```

The read was already resolved. The filter directly beneath it
re-asserted the literal on the rows that read returned, so the sweep
found the orphans and threw them all away.

**This is the worse half of the class, and it hid well:**

- the read *looks* converted, so scanning for `listTasks({ column: "…"
})` finds nothing;
- the census scores only the comparison, so the backlog number moves the
**wrong way** as you convert;
- a **structural test already existed** pinning "the read asks for
resolved lanes" — `executor-resume-query-lanes.test.ts` — and it was
green the entire time the sweep was dead. A test asserting the read
exists says nothing about the filter beneath it.

The failure only surfaces after a crash, when an operator is already
investigating the crash and has every reason to blame that instead.

## The ratchet, generalised

#2944 ratcheted this class inside `self-healing.ts` after review found
one instance and a follow-up audit found five more. This generalises it
to every engine source: a function that resolves lanes **and** compares
a column id in the same body is a pair.

Excluded, deliberately:
- the **fallback arm** of a resolved ternary (`lanes ? lanes.has(c) : c
=== "done"`) — the correct shape;
- four files whose literals are deliberate, each with the reason
recorded: `ephemeral-worker-manager` (unresolvable-workflow default),
`triage` (the U11 orphan case), `scheduler` and `replan-target` (sync
listeners on the inert sync IR reader, already pinned by
`sync-workflow-ir-is-always-default.pg.test.ts`);
- `self-healing.ts`, because it has a **dedicated** ratchet that is
strictly more precise. Two ratchets allowlisting the same site is one
fact with two owners, free to drift — the exact failure mode this
program keeps hitting. One file, one ratchet.

It carries a positive control: a wrong source path would make every case
pass by scanning nothing.

**I swept the rest of the engine with it and executor.ts was the only
genuine hit** — everything else is documented-deliberate or blocked on
the inert sync reader.

## Revert results

Each measured by restoring the literal filter and re-running:

| | reverted → |
| --- | --- |
| behavioural case | fails — the renamed card is dropped and the sweep
returns before touching it |
| the ratchet | fails, naming the site: `resumeOrphaned:
executor.ts:5974` |

A non-vacuous companion (card in the review lane → not resumed) rules
out a filter that matches everything: a card in review has no session to
resume, and re-dispatching it would restart finished work.

**Measured:** `executor.ts` column guards 8 → 7; baseline re-recorded
downward.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` 161 + 487 + 13 + 71; executor prompt/soft-delete/resume
suites plus the new ratchet, 357 passed; `tsc` engine clean; `pnpm
lint`, `check:changesets`, census `--strict` and
`check-sql-column-literals` clean, each run explicitly.
2026-07-30 19:59:03 -07:00
gsxdsm
8503a2b12f batch-census-sentinels: six sentinel-marker PRs in one (supersedes #2921 #2928 #2931 #2935 #2938 +1) (#2943)
Fifth family, not in the four you listed — it was about to sit while the
others consolidated. **Six folded; two need arbitration.**

## Folded (cherry-picked clean)

migration marker · async archived check · audited-sentinel missing its
marker · five of six `archived` checks in one file · the two
artifact/comment read-only guards · the last unmarked
`getLiveTaskColumn` sentinel.

One root cause, which is why they belong together: **a literal compared
against a SENTINEL value is not a lifecycle-lane guard** — the census
counts it, and the fix is a marker, not a conversion.

## The baseline conflicted on every cherry-pick

All six re-recorded `lifecycle-column-census-baseline.json`
independently. I resolved by **regenerating once from the folded tree**
rather than merging six hand-edits: the baseline is a derived artifact,
so the measured value is the only correct resolution, and hand-merging
derived JSON is how a wrong ceiling gets locked in.

That is the strongest case for the family model I can give you: six PRs
touching one derived file conflict pairwise regardless of merge order —
15 possible pairs — and auto-rebase would have churned them serially.

## NOT folded — one line for arbitration

**#2925 (`live-task-column-lanes`) conflicts with #2923
(`fix/task-id-integrity-sentinel`) on
`packages/core/src/task-store/task-id-integrity.ts`.** #2923 marks a
sentinel there; #2925 converts lanes. Different intents, same file. I
did not guess which wins — land one, rebase the other, fold both after.

## Verification

`--strict` exit 0 · backlog **158**, reviewed **122** · core typecheck
clean · scoped, not full suite.

## Queue

**52 → 39** after my two folds (this + #2940 portal). The ~24
"self-healing … on a renamed board" family is still the dominant block.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Documentation**
* Clarified lifecycle-state terminology and migration markers throughout
task and project management documentation.
* Documented the distinction between archived-task sentinels and
workflow column identifiers.
* Updated lifecycle documentation tracking to reflect the latest
coverage.

* **Bug Fixes**
  * No runtime behavior changes.

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2026-07-30 19:41:09 -07:00
gsxdsm
8b75a42d22 batch: self-healing sweeps were blind on renamed boards (26 sweeps, folds 23 PRs) (#2944)
**Consolidation of 23 open PRs into one.** Every one shared a single
root cause and mostly touched a single file; 23 CI runs for that was
indefensible.

Folds and supersedes: #2867 #2869 #2876 #2879 #2883 #2891 #2899 #2901
#2902 #2905 #2906 #2914 #2916 #2918 #2919 #2920 #2922 #2927 #2929 #2932
#2934 #2937 #2939.
(#2865, #2882, #2897, #2909, #2912 already merged and are not
re-folded.)

## The root cause

A self-healing sweep selects its work with `listTasks({ column:
"in-review" })`. On a board whose lanes are renamed that returns
**nothing**, so the sweep never runs — no error, no log line, no failed
task. Several sweeps had already had their *predicates* converted to
resolved lanes, which dropped a census count and changed nothing,
because the query above the loop had already returned an empty list.

**26 sweeps converted.** Each one: read the project's columns for the
role, then decide each card against **its own** workflow, with the
legacy ids unioned so a board mid-rename is never skipped.

## What each sweep stops silently failing to do

| | |
| --- | --- |
| stale merger status | one finished card held the **merge queue** for
everything behind it |
| stale `blockedBy` / completed-task release | dependents stayed blocked
on work that had already finished — the board stops moving |
| workspace partial lands | a task left with **some repos merged and
some not** |
| mid-merge retry stamp | the card stalled *and* the operator's manual
Retry was gated by the same stamp |
| in-progress limbo / no-progress failures | dead cards held a work slot
forever |
| partial-progress retry | real work parked failed with its **retry
budget unspent** |
| orphaned-execution signal | visibility only — the one signal pointing
at an orphan went silent |
| zero-commit audit | went **half-blind**: the error arm kept working,
the lane arm did not |

Plus: ghost review cards, transient merge failures, misclassified
failures, branch misbinding, missing-worktree failures,
merged-but-unfinished finalization, done-metadata repair, self-owned
branch conflicts, orphan-only scope violations, post-done wedges, idle
assigned agents, PR-conflict worktree ownership, and orphaned workspace
worktrees.

## Two defects the conversion itself introduced, both caught and fixed

1. **Missed pairs.** Widening a read without converting the guards
beneath it is *worse than not converting*: the sweep starts admitting
renamed-board cards and then mis-decides every one. Review caught a
second guard on a re-read row; the audit that triggered found **five
more**, one of which gates the `reviewProof` triple-proof — a renamed
review card would have been moved backward with the safety check
silently skipped. Column guards 86 → 81.
2. **Duplicate processing.** The literal reads were disjoint by
construction; resolved reads are not, so a column carrying two role
flags put one card in two buckets — duplicate moves, duplicate audit
rows, inflated counts.

Both now have ratchets.
`self-healing-converted-sweeps-have-no-literal-lane-guards.test.ts`
**derives** its sweep list (a sweep counts as converted when its body
calls `resolveProjectColumnsForRoles`), so it cannot go stale, and it
carries two positive controls because a broken regex finds no offenders
and a broken derivation iterates nothing — an empty loop registers no
tests and reads green.

## Deliberately unchanged

- 22 `moveTask` destinations carrying `recoveryRehome: true` —
`moves.ts` exempts these so a card stranded in an undeclared column
stays rescuable.
- One literal in `clearStaleBlockedBy`'s log-dedup closure (allowed by
name in the ratchet, with the reason).
- `surfaceInReviewStalls` — hot list-read path, needs a batched
prefetch; that is a performance design decision, not a conversion.
- `scheduler.ts` and `replan-target.ts` — built on
`resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync`, which returns the default IR for every task
in production. Converting there produces inert code.

## The fold itself is worth one note

All 23 branches appended to the **same test file at the same anchor**,
so every automatic strategy — git 3-way, `merge-file --union`, and three
hand-written resolvers — interleaved them mid-block. Two attempts
committed conflict markers before I caught it. The file is therefore
**reconstructed**: head authored once, body assembled as the union of
each branch's own intact top-level segments keyed by test title, with
the nested `already-merged hard blocker` describe appended whole
(flattening it orphaned its helper). Verified by *parsing after every
step* rather than trusting the merge — which is how each interleaving
was caught.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` 161 + 487 + 13 + 71. Scoped suites 592 passed
(self-healing, the blindness suite at 68 cases, the ratchet, and the
notification suite). `tsc` engine clean; `pnpm lint`,
`check:changesets`, `lifecycle-column-census --strict` and
`check-sql-column-literals` all clean, each run explicitly.

Each folded conversion was individually revert-proven on its original
branch — the read reverted alone, and the per-card verdict reverted
alone — and those measurements are recorded in the commit messages
carried into this branch.

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2026-07-30 19:40:57 -07:00
gsxdsm
b4ed12e9c8 batch-u7-lane-fixes: three core/engine renamed-board fixes folded (was #2925, #2930, #2936) (#2925)
**Consolidated per the queue freeze.** Three single-fix PRs of mine
folded into this one branch; #2930 and #2936 are closed as superseded.
Net effect on the queue: **3 → 1**.

All three are the same root cause — a lifecycle lane compared against a
legacy id — and all three carry a measured revert proof. Verified scoped
(not full suite) on the folded branch: `tsc --noEmit` clean, `pnpm lint`
clean, SQL-literal gate green, census `--strict` green, and 61 tests
across five suites plus the guard at 9/9.

---

### 1. `getLiveTaskColumn` produced the archived sentinel from a literal
(was #2925)

`getLiveTaskColumn` **manufactures** the string `"archived"` that a
dozen comparisons across five files trust — and it tested `row.column
=== "archived"`. A live row in a renamed archived lane read as **live**,
so the gates hiding an archived card's artifacts and document listings
never closed.

Fixing those twelve comparisons individually would have been wrong twice
over: **they are sentinels, and the defect was in the producer.** One
line, once, and all twelve become correct. `resolveArchivedLanes` moved
to `project-lane-vocabulary.ts` — three private copies of one fact is
how the "write guard says yes, publication guard says no" disagreement
happens at scale.

*Revert proof (real PostgreSQL):* restore the literal → `expected [ {
…(14) } ] to deeply equal []`.

**Caught myself shipping the unwired shape here:** I added the parameter
to seven functions and wired none of their impl callers — the exact
inert-conversion defect this program exists to remove. The failing test
is the only reason I noticed.

### 2. Mission delivery repair refused a completed card (was #2930)

`getTerminalTaskEvidence` tested only `column === "done"`, so a
completed card on a renamed board classified as `nonterminal` and
`reconcileFeatureDoneWithTerminalTask` threw `TASK_NOT_TERMINAL: … not
shipped`. Valid operator work refused — with the message naming the real
column while the check couldn't see it.

The **type** blocked the fix from the far end: `TerminalTaskEvidence`
pinned `column: "done"` / `"archived"`, so the resolver couldn't report
the real column without a compile error. `kind` already carries the
role, so `column` is free to carry the truth.

*Revert proof (real PostgreSQL):* restore the literal →
`TerminalTaskReconciliationError: … not shipped`.

I had deferred this twice on the premise that `AsyncMissionStore` "holds
a layer, not a store". It holds an **optional `taskStore`**, and the
single production construction site supplies it.

### 3. The unwired-lane guard reported two FALSE entries (was #2936)

`unwired-lane-parameter-guard.test.ts` has been **red on main** since
#2875, flagging two `InReviewDurationLanes` properties as unwired when
the impl demonstrably supplies both. Cause: my own owner-scoping rule
requires a mention from a file naming the declaring symbol — correct for
a function, structurally impossible for an interface passed as an
inferred object literal.

Fixed at the caller (name the type) after trying the tool three ways:
relaxing type-owned properties hid **12** genuine entries; resolving
owners to consuming functions hid **6**. Each refinement traded the
false positive for false negatives — the sign a co-occurrence heuristic
has hit its limit. Recording two *wired* parameters in `KNOWN_UNWIRED`
was rejected: that puts non-debt in the debt list, which is how a
ratchet starts lying.

Guard back to **9/9**, baseline unchanged at 17. **This un-reds main.**

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2026-07-30 19:07:09 -07:00
gsxdsm
c6767cb258 self-healing: foreign-only contamination never cleared on a renamed board (fourteenth sweep) (#2891)
`recoverForeignOnlyContaminatedInReviewTasks` classifies a branch
carrying **only foreign commits** and clears the contamination park that
nothing else clears. Two literal reads meant that on a renamed board it
classified nothing, and the task stayed parked indefinitely.

## The two redundant guards were the interesting part

Both filters carried a `task.column === …` check that was **redundant**
while the query pinned the column. Under a resolved read they stop being
redundant and become the per-card verdict — so they convert here rather
than being deleted. Deleting them would have silently widened the sweep,
which is the failure this whole class is about.

## Dedupe matters more here than elsewhere

The concatenated candidate list is deduped (the P1 reviewed on #2879).
It bites harder in this sweep because the two filters have **different
predicates**: a column carrying both a review role and the wip role
could satisfy both and classify one branch twice.

Explicit `has` guard rather than `new Map(entries)` — that constructor
keeps first insertion *order* but the **last** value for a repeated key,
so it reads as first-bucket precedence while doing the opposite.
(Corrected in #2879 and #2883 for the same reason.)

## Revert results

Each applied alone and the file re-run:

| conversion | reverted → |
| --- | --- |
| the resolved reads | fails — the card is never listed, so the
classifier is never called |
| the review verdict | fails — the renamed review lane does not match
and the card is filtered out |

Observable is **candidacy**: `classifyForeignOnlyContamination` runs
once per accepted card and not at all for a rejected one, which is
exactly the read-plus-verdict under test. It is a static named import,
so it is intercepted with a scoped `vi.mock` (spyOn cannot rebind an
already-resolved ESM binding); only that one export is overridden, so
the sweeps in this file that use `inspectBranchConflict` are unaffected.

A non-vacuous companion (same card in the board's hold lane → never
classified) rules out a read that returns everything.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` 161 + 487 + 13 + 71, plus `self-healing.test.ts` 412;
`tsc` engine clean; `pnpm lint`, `check:changesets`, census `--strict`
clean, each run explicitly.

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gsxdsm
60bfebdc98 fix(reliability): the duration query hid its lane ids inside a SQL template (#2875)
The Reliability panel's **third and last** blind input — and my own
loose end. #2861 fixed the two counts beside it, so the panel went from
uniformly wrong to **partially** wrong: entries and bounces populated,
duration reporting `no-in-review-entries` forever. Partial blindness is
harder to notice than total, which is why finishing it matters more than
one site suggests.

```sql
metadata->>'to' = 'in-review'
  OR (metadata->>'from' = 'in-review' AND metadata->>'to' = 'done')
```

## The class, not just the site

**This shape is invisible to every check we have.** The lifecycle census
scans `===`/`!==` comparisons; the unwired-lane-parameter guard scans
declarations. Neither sees a lane id inside a `sql` template, so this
class is **not in the backlog total at all** — the number is a floor for
this reason as well as the usual one.

`scripts/check-sql-column-literals.mjs` (#2841, in flight) is the
detector for exactly this: it freezes the surface at 30 sites rather
than converting any, so this one was unowned. That PR and this one are
complementary — it stops the surface growing, this shrinks it by one.

## The fix

Lanes resolve **once per call** via `resolveProjectColumnsForRoles` and
arrive as parameterised equality fragments, one branch per id — no
interpolated list, no string building.

Resolution lives in `getInReviewDurationEventsImpl` because that is
where the store is; `async-audit.ts` takes a bare `db` handle and cannot
resolve anything. Best-effort, defaulting to the legacy pair, so a
caller that cannot resolve keeps exactly today's query.

**The union is correct rather than a widening hack**, for the same
reason as #2861: these are *move records*, and a past move recorded the
column name as it was at the time. A board renamed last month has rows
under both ids, so the honest query covers both — which is precisely
what `resolveProjectColumnsForRoles` returns.

## Tested against real PostgreSQL, deliberately

This is a **SQL predicate** change. A mocked store would assert the
arguments and prove nothing about the query that actually runs — which
is the entire risk when the literal lives inside `sql`. The new case
inserts real `activity_log` rows on a renamed board and reads them back
through the real store method.

The legacy-lane case in the same file stays green, which is the
compatibility half.

**Revert proof, measured:** restore the hardcoded fragments and the new
case fails with

```
expected [] to deeply equal [ 'renamed-entered', 'renamed-done' ]
```

## Verification

- `pnpm test:gate` — 161 / 487 / 13 / 71 passed
- `pnpm lint` — clean
- `tsc --noEmit` (`@fusion/core`) — clean
- `activity-log-parity.pg.test.ts` — 5 passed against real PostgreSQL

With this, all three Reliability inputs read the board's own lanes.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Reliability duration metrics now work correctly with renamed workflow
lanes.
* Completion tracking recognizes configured completion lanes instead of
relying on fixed defaults.
* Improved handling of transitions between multiple review lanes and
review-to-work-in-progress movements.
* Legacy lane behavior remains supported when configured lane
information is unavailable.

* **Tests**
* Added coverage for renamed lanes, historical lane IDs, and transition
edge cases.

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2026-07-30 17:59:34 -07:00
gsxdsm
10f9df1600 fix(overseer): the whole oversight loop was inert on a renamed board (#2898)
`resolveWatchedStage` keyed on the literals `in-progress`/`in-review`,
so on a board that renames either it returned `null` for **every** card.

That is three literals with an outsized blast radius. `observeTask`
returns early on a null stage, so:

- no `OverseerStageObservation` is recorded,
- no `overseer:intervention` entry is emitted,
- and `PlannerRecoveryController`, which consumes those observations,
has nothing to steer, retry or targeted-fix.

**The entire oversight loop was inert and silent about it** — the same
shape as the self-healing sweeps whose queries returned empty arrays.

## I deferred this myself, on a cost argument that was wrong

The audit note I wrote for this site said resolving inside `observeTask`
"buys a workflow read per card per poll". Then I read the caller: the
poll **already awaits `resolveEffectiveSettings` per task**. It is a
per-task async loop regardless, so with an IR cache keyed by workflow
the addition is *(distinct workflows)* resolutions, not *(cards)*.

Pricing the fix before checking the caller cost a deferral. Worth
recording, because "this needs a cost judgement" is the most comfortable
place in this program to leave something.

## The review test is the three-trait union, deliberately

`isReviewColumnRole` checks only `mergeBlocker || humanReview`. A board
whose review lane carries `merge` (**mergeOrchestration**) — the
built-in default's own shape — would classify as *not in review* and be
skipped.

Reaching for the obvious helper would have reintroduced the bug this
change removes, through the helper meant to fix it. There is a case
asserting exactly that.

## Wiring

Both call sites, because either alone leaves a hole:

| site | why it matters |
|---|---|
| the poll (`project-engine.ts`) | per-poll IR cache — a workflow edit
is picked up next tick rather than served stale |
| the manual nudge | otherwise a renamed board answers `no-active-stage`
to an operator pressing the button |

`columnFlags` is in the `unwired-lane-parameter` vocabulary, so the
wiring cannot silently rot — the guard reports it if a future change
drops the argument.

Fail-soft throughout: an unresolvable workflow yields `undefined` and
the callee falls back to the legacy ids, which is exactly today's
behaviour. A v1 IR declares no columns, so it takes the same path.

## Revert proof (measured)

Drop the `columnFlags` branch and **exactly the three renamed-lane cases
fail**:

```
expected null to be "executor"
expected null to be "merger"   (mergeOrchestration lane)
expected null to be "merger"   (humanReview lane)
```

The legacy-id and neither-role cases stay green — the gate must still
gate, and watching every column would be its own defect.

## Verification

- `pnpm test:gate` — 161 / 487 / 13 / 71 passed
- `pnpm lint` — clean
- `tsc --noEmit` (`@fusion/engine`) — clean
- `planner-overseer.test.ts` +
`planner-recovery-controller-human-control.test.ts` — 64 passed
- unwired-lane guard — 9/9, no new entries

Carries the one-line SQL-baseline re-record (`team-analytics.ts: 6 → 3`)
that #2864 left behind, same as my other open branches — main is red on
it, and identical changes to that line merge without conflict.

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2026-07-30 17:43:43 -07:00
gsxdsm
defe48d30f fix(core): per-workflow metrics read zero on a renamed board (#2866)
Second of the 14 lane-bound SQL sites from #2839, after #2864.
Independent of it — different file, different caller argument.

## The defect

`aggregateWorkflowAnalytics` filtered in SQL on `t."column" = 'done'`
and `IN ('in-progress','in-review')`. On a renamed board those match
nothing, so `tasksCompleted`, `tasksInProgress` and `tasksInReview` come
back **zero for every workflow** while the board is busy. Nothing
errors.

Same shape and same fix as #2864: resolve per **project** via
`resolveProjectColumnsForRoles`, bind an `IN` list, and thread the store
from the single Command Center caller so the parameter has a supplier
immediately rather than becoming an inert seam.

## What the test caught that I had not

**The renamed case still failed with the query fixed.**

The bucketing at lines 296–297 already uses `isWipColumnRole` /
`isReviewColumnRole` — correctly converted — but those read
`query.columnFlagsByName`, which production supplies and my fixture did
not. So:

- the **SQL** decides *which rows come back*;
- the **trait map** decides *which bucket each row lands in*.

Both halves have to be right. Fixing only the query would have shipped a
"conversion" that still reported zero on a renamed board, and the file
would have scored as converted twice over. That is exactly the
partial-conversion shape this program keeps re-finding — caught here
only because the test asserts `tasksInReview` alongside
`tasksCompleted`, since those two paths take **different** resolved sets
(complete vs wip+human-review). Asserting the completed count alone
would have left the second conversion unproven.

## Measured

Reverted, only the renamed case flips:

```
✓ default vocabulary: completed and in-review work are counted
× renamed vocabulary: completed and in-review work are counted
✓ renamed vocabulary: a card in the HOLD lane counts as neither
✓ without a lane store, the legacy ids still answer
  Tests  1 failed | 3 passed (4)
```

The hold-lane negative is there so resolving real lanes cannot degrade
into "every column counts" — trading an undercount for an overcount is
harder to notice than the original bug.

## Scope

The sync SQLite arm in the same file keeps its literals: it throws in
backend mode and has no production caller, the same dead-arm conclusion
reached for `cleanupStaleMergeQueueRowsImpl` on #2839.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` green · both Command Center analytics suites 8/8 ·
`tsc` core 0, dashboard 0 · lint 0 · changeset included.

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gsxdsm
c143327d4b fix(core): the archived-document guards failed in OPPOSITE directions on a renamed lane (#2886)
Two of the four convertible sites my own learnings doc **miscounted as
sentinels** — the #2877 review corrected "8 of 9 must not be converted"
to "5 of 9", and these are two of the three that correction freed.

They read `task.column` straight off a row `select`, so they are board
lanes by exactly the test that document gives, and a renamed archived
column is simply not seen. What makes the pair worth fixing together is
that they fail in **opposite directions**:

| guard | on a renamed archived lane | consequence |
|---|---|---|
| `upsertTaskDocument` | fails to **reject** | an archived card's
documents stay **writable** — the read-only contract silently does not
hold |
| `publishArchivedTaskDocumentAddition` | fails to **accept** | a
legitimate archived-document publication is refused as
`parent-not-archived` |

The second is the sharper one: valid operator work refused, and refused
with a message that reads as a data-integrity error rather than a
lifecycle mismatch.

## Shape

Both take an `AsyncDataLayer` and can resolve nothing themselves; their
store-level impls hold the store, so the lane set arrives as a parameter
resolved once per call — the shape #2875 used for the SQL predicate.

**One shared `resolveArchivedLanes` for both paths**, deliberately: if
the write guard and the publication guard could disagree about whether a
card is archived, a card ends up both read-only *and* un-publishable.

## The revert proof caught my own fixture first

My first version set `deletedAt` alongside the renamed column, and **the
revert proof passed with the fix removed**. Both guards are
`column-is-archived || deletedAt != null`, so a soft-deleted fixture
short-circuits the exact comparison under test — the assertion was
holding for an unrelated reason.

Dropping `deletedAt` isolates it, and is also the *real* shape: a live
row in a workflow-declared archived lane is what a renamed board
produces, and what `getLiveTaskColumn` was written to catch.

Revert proof, measured honestly the second time: restore `task.column
=== "archived"` and the renamed-lane case fails — the upsert resolves
instead of rejecting.

## Real PostgreSQL, deliberately

These are row predicates inside a transaction. A mocked store would
assert the arguments and prove nothing about the comparison that runs —
the same reasoning as #2875.

Three cases: the renamed lane rejects, the **legacy** `archived` id
still rejects (most boards never rename anything), and a live card is
still allowed through (a guard that rejects everything is its own bug).

## Verification

- `pnpm test:gate` — 161 / 487 / 13 / 71 passed
- `pnpm lint` — clean
- `tsc --noEmit` (`@fusion/core`) — clean
- new `archived-document-lanes.pg.test.ts` + existing
`artifacts-documents-evals.pg.test.ts` — 12 passed against real
PostgreSQL

Note: the SQL-literal baseline is untouched here — #2881 owns
re-recording it after #2864's conversion left main's gate red.

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2026-07-30 17:40:30 -07:00
gsxdsm
a453912ddf self-healing: merged-but-unfinished tasks never finalized on a renamed board (fifteenth sweep) (#2897)
`recoverMergedReviewTasks` finalizes a task whose merge is **confirmed**
but which never reached the complete lane. Two literal reads meant that
on a renamed board it was never found, so a card whose commit is already
on the base branch sat in review or hold indefinitely — merged work the
board still shows as unfinished.

## The two redundant guards convert, they don't get deleted

Both `t.column === …` checks were redundant while the query pinned the
column. Under a resolved read they become the per-card verdict. Deleting
them would have silently widened the sweep — the same trap called out in
#2891.

## Carries the two shapes review established earlier in this series

- **Narrow when the card can answer, broad when it cannot** (#2891).
`resolveWorkflowIrForTask` *substitutes* the built-in IR rather than
failing, so a card with an unreadable selection would otherwise be
rejected by the very verdict that the project-scoped query had just
admitted it under. It falls back to the project sets instead.
- **Deduped across the buckets** (#2879), so a column carrying both a
review role and the hold role cannot finalize one card twice.

Both were review findings on earlier PRs in this series, applied here up
front rather than waiting to be caught again.

## Revert results

Each applied alone and the file re-run:

| conversion | reverted → |
| --- | --- |
| the resolved reads | fails — the card is never listed |
| the per-card review verdict | fails — the renamed review lane does not
match |

Observable is `resolveSelfHealingMergeTarget`, a private method called
once per candidate, so the assertion sits downstream of both halves
without a git fixture. A non-vacuous companion (merge-confirmed card in
the wip lane → untouched) rules out a read that returns everything.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` 161 + 487 + 13 + 71, plus `self-healing.test.ts` 412;
`tsc` engine clean; `pnpm lint`, `check:changesets`, census `--strict`
clean, each run explicitly.
2026-07-30 17:22:41 -07:00
gsxdsm
890e1f87e7 fix(core): issue panels reported nothing fixed on a renamed board (#2871)
Fourth and last of the lane-bound analytics sites from #2839, after
#2864, #2866 and #2870.

## The defect

`aggregateGithubIssueAnalytics` and its GitLab twin filtered their
resolved-issue query on `"column" = 'done'`. On a renamed board that
matches nothing, so `fixed` is **zero**, the resolved-issue list is
empty, and `net` reports every filed issue as still outstanding — while
the team closes issues all week. Nothing errors.

Same fix as the previous three: resolve per **project** via
`resolveProjectColumnsForRoles`, bind an `IN` list, thread the store
from each Command Center caller so the parameters have suppliers
immediately.

## Both providers in one change, deliberately

These two files are **copies** — same query, only the provider literal
differs — and a copy is exactly what gets half-fixed. Converting one and
not the other type-checks, passes that provider's test, and leaves the
second silently broken with no signal anywhere. The suite runs every
case against both, so the pair cannot drift.

## Measured

Reverted, exactly the two renamed cases fail — **one per provider** —
while both default-vocabulary controls, both WIP-lane negatives, and
both omitted-store legacy cases stay green:

```
✓ github: default vocabulary counts a resolved issue
× github: renamed vocabulary counts a resolved issue
✓ github: renamed vocabulary does NOT count an issue still in the WIP lane
✓ github: without a lane store, the legacy id still answers
✓ gitlab: default vocabulary counts a resolved issue
× gitlab: renamed vocabulary counts a resolved issue
✓ gitlab: renamed vocabulary does NOT count an issue still in the WIP lane
✓ gitlab: without a lane store, the legacy id still answers
  Tests  2 failed | 6 passed (8)
```

That the failures are symmetric is itself the check on the copy-paste
risk.

## Scope

The sync SQLite arms keep their literals: they throw in backend mode and
have no production caller, the same dead-arm conclusion as
`cleanupStaleMergeQueueRowsImpl` on #2839.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` green · Command Center + GitLab issue analytics suites
10/10 · `tsc` core 0, dashboard 0 · lint 0 · changeset included.

---

**This closes the lane-bound half of #2839.** All 14 sites the
hand-review identified as genuinely vocabulary-bound are now converted
across four PRs. What remains there is the 11 `!= 'archived'`
exclusions, which are probably correct as literals — archiving writes
`task.column = 'archived'` unconditionally as a state rather than a lane
— plus one dead SQLite arm. Those need per-site judgment, not
conversion.

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2026-07-30 16:53:12 -07:00
gsxdsm
216632bd3a fix(core): task-duration stats were computed from an empty set on a renamed board (#2870)
Third of the 14 lane-bound SQL sites from #2839, after #2864 and #2866.
Independent of both.

## The defect

`aggregateProductivityAnalytics` filtered its duration query on
`"column" = 'done'`. On a renamed board that matches nothing, so the
entire task-duration distribution — median, p90, average, total — is
computed from an **empty row set** and reports zeros while the project
ships work. Nothing errors.

Same shape and fix as the previous two: resolve per **project** via
`resolveProjectColumnsForRoles`, bind an `IN` list, thread the store
from the single Command Center caller so the parameter has a supplier
immediately rather than becoming an inert seam.

## Measured

Reverted, only the renamed case flips:

```
✓ default vocabulary: a finished task contributes to the duration stats
× renamed vocabulary: a task in the RENAMED complete lane contributes
✓ renamed vocabulary: a task still in the WIP lane does NOT contribute
✓ without a lane store, the legacy id still answers
  Tests  1 failed | 3 passed (4)
```

## The negative asserts the median, not just the count

This fix's failure mode is **worse than the bug it fixes**. Resolving
too many lanes would pull unfinished work into the distribution and
produce a plausible-but-wrong median — a number nobody questions — where
the bug produces an obvious zero. So the WIP-lane case asserts
`medianMs` is null as well as `completedTasks` being 0.

## A fixture error worth naming

My first version asserted `taskDuration.count`. `TaskDurationSummary`
exposes `completedTasks`. Every case failed with `expected undefined to
be 1` — **including the controls** — which reads exactly like a broken
product until you notice the control is failing too. A control that
fails is a fixture bug, not a finding; that asymmetry is the fastest way
to tell them apart.

## Scope

The sync SQLite arm keeps its literal: it throws in backend mode and has
no production caller, the same dead-arm conclusion as
`cleanupStaleMergeQueueRowsImpl` on #2839.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` green · both Command Center analytics suites 8/8 ·
`tsc` core 0, dashboard 0 · lint 0 · changeset included.

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2026-07-30 16:50:00 -07:00
gsxdsm
995b52d21d fix(gate): re-record the SQL baseline — main is red after #2864 (#2878)
**`pnpm test:gate` and both `pretest` hooks fail on `main` right now.**
Merge this first.

## What happened

#2841 (the SQL gate) merged, then #2864 merged. #2864 removed three
legacy comparisons from `team-analytics.ts`, but its baseline entry
still allows six — and this gate **fails on a lowered count by design**,
so a migrated slot cannot be silently regrown into later.

Baseline 30 → 28.

## This is my sequencing error

The four analytics conversions were branched and reviewed **before** the
gate existed, so none of them carries a baseline update. The gate then
landed first, which means **each of them breaks `main` as it merges**. I
opened all five without thinking about the order they would land in.

The three still open — #2866, #2870, #2871 — will each do this again. I
am adding baseline updates to them next so they land clean.

## Note on the downward check

The "count went down" failure looks like pedantry until it fires. It
exists so a migrated site cannot leave an unused allowance behind for
the surface to regrow into — the same rot as an allow-list entry for a
deleted function. The real cost is that a conversion and its gate have
to land in a known order, which is a coupling I created and did not plan
for.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` green with the re-recorded baseline · lint 0 · `node
scripts/check-sql-column-literals.mjs` exit 0.

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2026-07-30 16:46:44 -07:00
gsxdsm
ee8ae1eb23 fix(census): the header claimed 0 trait-fallback branches while sites of that shape existed (#2874)
The census header has been printing `of the column guards, 0 are
trait-fallback branches (already converted)` while sites of exactly that
shape exist. I flagged this on #2842 as a suspected classifier gap; this
confirms and fixes it.

## The miss

Only `cond ? trait : literal` was recognised. The other spelling — a
**negative** test with the literal on the **true** branch — is what a
caller writes once it hoists its resolved lanes:

```ts
complete: completeLanes === undefined ? columnId === "done" : completeLanes.includes(columnId)
```

That is `github-tracking-state.ts:245-246` — a fully converted resolver
whose two degraded arms were reported as unconverted debt. **The backlog
read higher than the remaining work**, and a reader chasing it was sent
to lines that are already correct.

Second half of the miss: `completeLanes` matches no hint. Adding `Lanes`
to the hint list does **not** work, and the reason is itself a prior fix
— hints are word-bounded because the unbounded form once let `hold`
match `threshold` and `household`. `\bLanes\b` cannot match inside
`completeLanes`, where the boundary does not exist. So resolved-lane
identifiers get an explicit suffix rule.

## Both guards on the new rule exist because I broke them while writing
it

Worth stating, because each failure ran in the **dangerous direction** —
marking a *live* line "already converted", which removes a real guard
from a backlog people trust:

| mistake | what it excused |
|---|---|
| widened the shared `testsTraitData` | fed the ancestor-walking rules
too, which marked `step.status === "done" \|\| step.status ===
"in-progress"` at `register-task-workflow-routes.ts:941` — a
step-**status** comparison, not a column guard — as converted |
| let the new rule walk ancestors | excused any literal inside a block
governed by a negative lane test |

Measured: the count went to **6 with two of them wrong** before I caught
it. The rule is now immediate-parent-only with its widened identifier
match local to it, and reports exactly the **2 real sites**.

## Verification

- Census: **176 guards, 2 trait-fallback** (was 176 / 0). The total is
unchanged — this sub-count is diagnostic and does not move the ratchet,
so `--strict` exits 0 with no baseline re-record.
- 5 cases in
`scripts/__tests__/lifecycle-census-inverted-fallback.test.mjs`,
including both negatives that pin the mistakes above plus one for the
suffix rule not over-reaching (`airplanes` is not a lane test).
- `pnpm lint` clean; gate green (161/487/13/71).

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved lifecycle analysis accuracy for trait fallback logic,
including inverted conditions, legacy fallback syntax, and null or
undefined checks.
* Added safeguards to avoid misclassifying complex conditions, unrelated
identifiers, and nested expressions.
  * Improved handling of lifecycle lane and column naming patterns.

* **Tests**
* Expanded coverage for valid and invalid fallback scenarios, identifier
boundaries, parent-expression restrictions, and property-path checks.

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2026-07-30 16:43:31 -07:00
gsxdsm
b85e5f90e1 fix(create): two task-CREATE destinations named a lane the board does not have (#2843)
Both files sat at **census-zero** and both wrote real cards into columns
no workflow declares. The census scores `===` comparisons, so a lane
literal passed as a **call argument** is invisible to it — one of the
four census-blind classes. These are the only two explicit-`column`
creates in production:

```
packages/dashboard/src/routes/register-gitlab.ts:108   column: "triage"
packages/cli/src/extension.ts:5243                     column: "todo"
```

## The two defects

**`register-gitlab.ts` — `column: "triage"`, a column U11 DELETED.**
This one is broken on *every* board, not only renamed ones: the default
lineage is now `todo | in-progress | in-review | done | archived`.
`createTask` already resolves the intake column of the workflow it
selects (`resolvedEntryColumn`), and an explicit `column` **overrides**
that resolution — which is why the stale literal survived U11. Nothing
rejects the write and nothing logs it: the route answers `201` with a
task id and the imported card is simply not on the board. Same shape as
the `task-update.ts` triage defect fixed earlier in this program.

Fix: omit `column` and let `createTask` resolve intake.

**`extension.ts` `fn_delegate_task` — `column: "todo"`.** On a workflow
whose ready lane is named anything else, the delegated card goes to an
undeclared column: written, reported to the caller as delegated, never
visible to the agent it was delegated to.

Fix: resolve the selected workflow's `hold` lane. **Deliberately not**
"omit the column like the GitLab route" — the tool's own contract is
*"the task goes to the ready-to-work lane and the target agent picks it
up on its next heartbeat"*, so inheriting intake resolution would park a
delegated card in a manual-intake lane waiting for a human. That would
be a behaviour change; `hold` is the role that names the lane the
literal meant.

## New helper: `resolveWorkflowColumnForRole(store, role, workflowId?)`

The **write**-shaped counterpart to `resolveProjectColumnsForRoles`. The
read helper unions in the legacy ids because an extra id in a query set
is inert; here the same trick is a silent wrong write (post-U12 an
undeclared column is a `TransitionRejectionError` on move, a phantom
lane on create), so it returns one column from one workflow, or
`undefined`.

**A contract I got wrong twice, now pinned by a test.** `undefined`
means *"this workflow declares no such column"* and nothing else.
`resolveWorkflowIrById` never throws and never returns nothing — an
unregistered builtin id, a missing definition row and a failing read all
resolve to the default coding IR (branded via `markFellBack`). So an
unreadable workflow yields the **built-in** hold lane, not `undefined`,
and both call sites' `?? "todo"` fallbacks are narrower than they look.
Two of my first test cases asserted the opposite and failed; the
behaviour is the resolver's, and the write it produces is identical to
the caller's own legacy fallback either way.

## Revert proofs (measured, not asserted)

| revert | failure |
|---|---|
| `column: holdColumn` -> `column: "todo"` | `extension.test.ts`:
`expected 'todo' to be 'queued'` |
| omitted column -> `column: "triage"` | `routes-gitlab.test.ts`:
`expected 'triage' to be undefined` |

The two neighbouring `fn_delegate_task` cases stay green under the first
revert, because the built-in board and the test's `linearWorkflowIr`
both call the lane `todo` — which is exactly why this literal survived
every previous pass.

The GitLab case asserts **absence** of the key rather than a resolved
id: the store there is a fake whose `createTask` echoes its input, so
asserting a resolved value would be testing the fake. Absence is the
property that hands the decision to the real `createTask`.

## Census

| file | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| `packages/dashboard/src/routes/register-gitlab.ts` | 1 | 0 |
| `packages/cli/src/extension.ts` | 1 | 0 |

Baseline tightened. It also picks up
`packages/core/src/task-store/moves.ts` 2 -> 0, which was **already true
on main** — not from this diff.

## Noted, deliberately not changed

- `validateAssignableAgentId`'s synthetic probe a few lines above still
uses `{ id: "<new>", column: "todo" }`. It feeds `isImplementationTask`,
whose `IMPLEMENTATION_TASK_COLUMNS` set an earlier worker documented as
deliberately-not-converted (converting it makes the routing policy async
— an agent-admission behaviour change). On a renamed board the probe is
now *stricter* than the real destination, which is the safe direction
and matches the pre-existing behaviour.
- The third site from this bucket, `workflow-node-handlers.ts:455`
(`transitionTask({ column: "in-review" })` on the `review-handoff`
seam), is a **hard** failure rather than a silent one — `transitionTask`
routes through `moveTask`, which post-U12 throws
`TransitionRejectionError` for an undeclared destination, so the
workflow walk dies at the handoff on any renamed review lane. It is
engine (`batch-engine`) and fixing it properly touches `executor.ts`,
which #2820 is also editing. Left for that batch rather than opened as a
conflicting edit.

## Verification

- `pnpm test:gate` — 161 / 487 / 13 / 71 passed
- `pnpm lint` — clean
- `tsc --noEmit -p tsconfig.json` for `@fusion/core`,
`@runfusion/fusion`, `@fusion/dashboard` — clean
- `node scripts/lifecycle-column-census.mjs --strict` — exit 0
- targeted: `project-lane-vocabulary.test.ts` 14/14,
`routes-gitlab.test.ts` 8/8, `extension.test.ts -t fn_delegate_task` 9/9

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* GitLab-imported cards now appear in the workflow’s configured intake
lane.
* Delegated tasks now move to the workflow’s configured hold lane,
including workflows with custom lane names or separate intake and hold
lanes.
* Delegation reports the task’s final lane and provides an error when it
cannot be moved successfully.

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2026-07-30 16:20:38 -07:00
gsxdsm
ef50244234 feat(gate): freeze the SQL column-literal surface — 30 sites, none may be added (#2841)
Instruments a surface no existing check can see. Follows #2839, and
**corrects the count I reported there** (12 → 14).

## Why it was invisible

The lifecycle census parses TypeScript **comparisons**; a legacy id
inside a SQL string is string data. The inert-seam gate reasons about
parameters and call sites. Neither has ever looked here.

**What it cost:** `cleanupStaleMergeQueueRowsImpl` filtered on `t.column
!= 'in-review'`, so on a renamed board every queued card looked stale,
its `merge_queue` row was deleted, and the card became **unleaseable**.
The operator found it reviewing #2819 — in SQL I had already read past
during that same work.

The quieter half is analytics: five sites count `"column" = 'done'`, so
throughput, cycle time, and team dashboards report **zero completed
work** on a renamed board. Nothing errors, which is why nobody files it.

## What this does, and does not do

It does **not** fix the sites. `resolveProjectColumnsForRoles` is the
mechanism and its migration has an owner (#2839). This freezes the
population so the surface cannot grow underneath that migration: a new
file or a higher count fails, **and a lower count fails too** — so the
baseline ratchets down as sites migrate rather than leaving slots to
silently regrow into. That is the same rot as an allow-list entry for a
deleted function, which this repo already hit once.

AST-based, deliberately: a line grep for the same pattern reports **37**
hits, **25 of them prose** quoting `column === "done"` in explanatory
notes. A guard that is 68% false positives trains its readers to skip it
— a lesson this program has already paid for.

## Two corrections found by mutation-testing my own gate

**1. Clause fragments were missed.** Requiring a SQL keyword *in the
same literal* skipped `team-analytics.ts`, which builds
`["assignedAgentId IS NOT NULL", `"column" = 'done'`, ...]` and joins
them into a `WHERE` later. That fragment is as vocabulary-bound as any
full query but contains no keyword. Fixing it took the population **12 →
14**, so the number I put on #2839 was low.

**2. My first mutation test proved a direction it had not.** I replaced
the first textual occurrence in a file — which was inside a **comment**
— and read the unchanged count as the scanner being broken. The scanner
was right; my test was wrong. All three directions are now driven
against real SQL:

| mutation | result |
|---|---|
| add a full query with a legacy comparison | `3 SQL column literal(s),
baseline allows 2` |
| add a bare clause **fragment** (no keyword) | caught — same failure |
| migrate one away (count drops) | `1 site(s) now, baseline still allows
2 — re-record it` |
| restore | exit 0 |

I am flagging that second one because it is the exact failure mode this
program keeps finding: a green result read as evidence when the
experiment was invalid.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` green with the new check in it · lint 0 · single AST
pass. Wired into `test:gate` and both `pretest` hooks.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Added automated checks to detect increases in legacy SQL column
literals.
* Added baseline tracking to ensure known SQL literal counts do not
regress.

* **Tests**
* Expanded pre-test and gated verification steps with SQL literal and
mock completeness checks.
  * Updated test validation workflows to enforce the new safeguards.

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2026-07-30 16:06:24 -07:00
gsxdsm
7784cb1fe8 self-healing: six recovery sweeps that never ran on a renamed board — and the guards widening their queries activates (#2838)
**Six self-healing sweeps did not run at all on a renamed board. Each is
a recovery path — the thing that unsticks a card when something has
already gone wrong.**

#2800 measured this class and could not fix it: a read happens *before*
any task is in hand, so there is nothing to resolve a per-task lane
from. `resolveProjectColumnsForRoles` (landed separately) is the seam
that was missing.

## What was silently dead

| sweep | what stayed broken on a renamed board |
| --- | --- |
| `reconcileDoneTaskIntegrity` | a landed card kept **no commit sha**,
forever |
| `recoverAlreadyMergedReviewTasks` | a card whose merge **succeeded**
stayed parked with `status: "failed"` |
| `recoverStuckMergeDeadlocks` | **doubly blind** — no candidates *and*
no dependents |
| `recoverInterruptedMergingTasks` | a task interrupted mid-merge sat in
`merging` indefinitely |
| `recoverMergeableReviewTasks` | a card ready to merge was never
re-enqueued |
| `recoverReviewTasksWithFailedPreMergeSteps` | a card parked on a
failed review step was never revived |

The census scored the `task.column === "..."` re-assertion *inside* each
loop, never the query above it. Converting those comparisons would have
dropped six counts and changed nothing — the loop bodies were already
unreachable.

## The conversion shape — five parts, three of which review taught me

Documented in `self-healing-sweeps-are-blind-on-a-renamed-board.md`,
because the second sweep **drifted from the first**: I wrote it from the
pre-review version and reproduced a flaw already fixed one commit
earlier.

1. **Read** — project union, query each column, dedupe by id. Legacy ids
unioned so a board mid-rename is not skipped.
2. **Verdict** — per card against **its own** workflow. Widening the
read and widening the verdict are different decisions: *a missed row is
invisible, a wrong row is a write.* Using the project union as a
per-card test claims a card because some **other** board calls its
column that role.
3. **Provenance** — the resolver **substitutes** the built-in IR rather
than failing, so `length > 0` reads as "this card answered" when nobody
did. It does not change the verdict (measured: identical) — it makes the
unrepaired card **reportable**.
4. **The log strings** — widening a query invalidates every message
naming the old literal. One logged `"stale merging task(s) in
in-review"` after its read covered several lanes.
5. **The guards the query ACTIVATES.**

## Part 5 is the one that bites

A guard downstream of a literal query is **unreachable** on a renamed
board — and unreachable is indistinguishable from correct. That is why
these sit unwired indefinitely.

`recoverReviewTasksWithFailedPreMergeSteps` filters on `blocker !==
"task has failed pre-merge workflow steps"` — an **exact string match**.
Unwired, the blocker returns `"task is in 'checking', must be in
'in-review'"`, so widening the query alone would have made the sweep
**find every card and reject every card**.

Measured: **6 sweeps hold both a literal query and an unwired lane
guard**; 30 hold a literal query with no such guard. All six are named
in the doc.

**One of the six was my own already-converted sweep.** I widened
`recoverAlreadyMergedReviewTasks` two commits before noticing its
`getTaskHardMergeBlocker` was unwired — so for two commits it found
renamed-board cards and declined them. The scan must run **before**
widening; I did it after, and only caught it because the next sweep
forced the question. `getTaskHardMergeBlocker` was the blind spot for
four of the six: a wrapper, no lane parameter at all, every caller
behind a literal query.

## Corrections to my own work, kept visible

- The project union used as a **per-card verdict** — the flat-set
mistake `project-lane-vocabulary.ts` warns about in its own header,
which I quoted while writing it.
- A **provenance fix that was a no-op**: measured identical verdicts in
every state, revert passed its own new test, so it was thrown away
rather than shipped with a comment claiming otherwise.
- The second sweep **reproducing the first's pre-fix shape**.
- Three assertions that were **vacuous until the revert exposed them** —
including one where the write needed a real git repo, so `commitSha`
could not distinguish accepted from rejected.

## Verification

- `pnpm test:gate` — 161 + 487 + 13 + 71
- `self-healing.test.ts` 412, query-blindness suite 12
- `tsc` on core and engine; `pnpm lint`; `check:changesets`; census
`--strict` — all clean, each run explicitly
- Every conversion revert-measured, **each direction independently**
where a sweep has two (read and guard)

## Scope

**42 queries remain**, 5 of the 6 activation-risk sweeps among them.
Each is per-sweep work — its own filter semantics, its own downstream
guards, its own log strings — so they land one at a time with the
pattern proven, never swept.


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Bug Fixes**
- Self-healing workflows now work correctly on boards with renamed
lifecycle columns.
- Improved recovery for completed, in-review, interrupted, stalled, and
failed-merge tasks.
- Prevented tasks from being incorrectly classified using another
workflow’s columns.
  - Added warnings when a task’s workflow lanes cannot be resolved.

- **Documentation**
- Expanded guidance on renamed-board recovery behavior and related
diagnostic limitations.

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2026-07-30 15:38:10 -07:00
gsxdsm
92d82b7a17 fix(guard): the unwired-lane check reported 0 because its question was too weak (#2852)
A guard nobody has proven can fail is a number, not a check. This one
was returning a clean `[]` while **18** real unwired lane declarations
sat on `main` — including one it was specifically built to catch.

## The escape that found it

`diffSnapshots` in the glasses plugin:

```ts
opts: { notifyOnColumns: ReadonlySet<ColumnId>; completeColumnsByTaskId?: ReadonlyMap<...> }
...
const completeColumns = opts.completeColumnsByTaskId?.get(task.id);
const isComplete = completeColumns ? completeColumns.has(task.column) : task.column === "done";
```

**No file anywhere builds that map.** The conversion was decorative —
the literal decided every real poll, so on a renamed board the wearer is
notified of every column transition *except the card finishing*, the one
they care about. The name was already in the guard's vocabulary list,
the declaration was exported and optional; it satisfied every condition
the guard checks, and the guard said nothing.

## Three independent blind spots

| # | blind spot | why it mattered |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | `SCANNED_PACKAGES` omitted `plugins/` | plugins hold lane logic
like anything else — this one resolves workflow IRs and decides what
"finished" means |
| 2 | inline options-object types were not walked | only bare parameters
and *named* interfaces were. Whether a lane answer arrives as a
parameter, an interface property, or an inline field is a style choice —
**a check evadable by a style choice is decorative** |
| 3 | the mention rule was `source.includes(parameter)` **anywhere** |
satisfied by coincidence for any ordinarily-named parameter |

Fixing 1 or 2 alone would still have missed it: **measured on `main`,
the guard found 0 unwired across 1753 files, and 0 again across 2114
once `plugins` was added**, because the shape was invisible too.

### On (3), I proved it on myself

Renaming the unwired parameter from `completeColumnsByTaskId` to
`completeColumns` — a better name, chosen for good reasons — **silenced
the guard instantly**, because 15 unrelated production files declare a
local called `completeColumns`. The check had not been satisfied; it had
been switched off by a rename. That is exactly the failure the code
comment two lines up condemns, committed one edit later.

The fix is the cause, not a name blocklist: a file that never references
`diffSnapshots` cannot be the thing that wires `diffSnapshots`'s
options. Still deliberately loose — a co-occurrence test, not call-graph
analysis — which keeps the low false-positive rate that makes the guard
bearable while removing a false **negative** that scaled with how
ordinary a parameter's name was.

## The 17 this uncovered

Tightening (3) surfaced 17 further unwired declarations across core,
engine and dashboard. **Spot-checked, not assumed**:
`buildUnblockWeightMap` in `task-priority.ts` declares `terminalColumns`
and `reviewColumns`, and the only files that pass either are its own
tests — the production caller silently uses the built-in `{done,
archived}` default. That is the inert-conversion shape this module
exists to name.

They span three other batches, so they are recorded as a **ratcheted
baseline** in the shape `scripts/lifecycle-column-census.mjs` already
uses here — keyed on `file + parameter` so an unrelated edit above them
cannot manufacture a failure. A new one fails immediately; these can
only leave the list. Listing them beats pretending for another week that
they do not exist.

## The glasses fix

`completeColumnsByTaskId` -> a flat `completeColumns` set, matching its
sibling `notifyOnColumns` in the same options object, resolved **once
per poll** by `notifier.ts` via `resolveProjectColumnsForRoles`.
Project-scoped and not per task because this runs on a polling timer
over the whole board — a per-card workflow read would scale with the
board on every tick. Best-effort: a failed resolve leaves the diff on
its documented legacy default rather than dropping a poll.

Still gated by `alsoNotifyOnDone`, which the production caller passes as
`false`, so it remains unobservable at runtime. Wired anyway: the day
someone enables the flag the resolution must already be right — and now
the guard will say so if the wiring is removed.

## Revert proofs (measured, one per fix)

| revert | failure |
|---|---|
| unwire `notifier.ts` | baseline gains `plugins/…/diff.ts
completeColumns` |
| drop the inline-options walk | "covers an INLINE options-object type"
fails `expected [] to deeply equal [ 'completeColumns' ]`, and the repo
scan loses the glasses entry |
| drop the owner scoping | the repo scan loses **all 17** pre-existing
entries |
| restore `task.column === "done"` | both new `diff.test.ts` cases fail
|

The new diff cases assert **both** directions — a card in the resolved
lane fires, and a card in the legacy `done` does *not* once the caller
resolved other lanes. The second is what proves the resolved set
replaces the default rather than being unioned with it.

## Verification

- `pnpm test:gate` — 161 / 487 / 13 / 71 passed
- `pnpm lint` — clean
- `tsc --noEmit` — clean
- guard suite — 9/9; full glasses plugin — 188 passed across 19 files

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2026-07-30 15:24:33 -07:00
gsxdsm
eed8ca55fc batch-dashboard-src: the planner metrics tool froze active runtime on a renamed execution lane (186 → 185) (#2842)
`packages/cli` and the plugin packages are at **zero** lifecycle guards,
so this picks up the nearest unowned work: the `packages/dashboard/src/`
remainder.

## The defect

`activeRuntimeMs` adds the wall-clock since `executionStartedAt` only
while the card is accruing work — the **WIP role** — but it was keyed on
the literal `in-progress`. On a board whose execution lane is renamed,
that live tail was dropped, so `fn_task_planner_get_task_metrics`
reported active time frozen at whatever the last completed segment left
in `cumulativeActiveMs`. The number stayed plausible, which is why
nothing surfaced it.

## The part worth reading: the wiring had no watcher, from either
direction

I wired the producer (`chat.ts` resolves the task's own lanes via
`wipColumnsForTask`) in the same commit, then checked whether that
wiring was actually covered. It was not:

- **Deleting the `wipColumns:` argument left the entire 3830-test
dashboard suite green.** The formatter's own tests inject the set by
hand, so they prove the *guard* and are structurally blind to whether
production fills it.
- **`check-inert-flag-seams.mjs` does not see it either.** It tracks
trailing optional **parameters**; this is a property inside an options
bag. That is a real gap in the checker — every seam expressed as an
options-bag property is currently unguarded. Reported here rather than
fixed, because #2822 and #2830 both already modify that script and a
third change would guarantee a three-way conflict.

So `createTaskPlannerMetricsTool` is exported and a second test drives
it, letting it do its **own** resolution against a renamed board.
Deleting the argument now fails 1 of 2.

## Census

| | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| COLUMN guards | 186 | **185** |
| `packages/dashboard/src/task-planner-chat-metrics.ts` | 1 | **0** |

Baseline re-recorded; `--strict` exits 0.

## Two findings I did NOT act on, deliberately

**1. `github-tracking-state.ts` keeps 2 counted guards and should.**
They are the documented degraded-mode arms of a fully-resolved
classifier (`completeLanes === undefined ? columnId === "done" : ...`).
Marking them `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` would drop the count by
**reclassification rather than conversion** — the exact move the
census's own strict-check warns about. Related: the census reports `0
are trait-fallback branches (already converted)`, yet these are
precisely that shape, so the trait-fallback classifier appears not to
recognise a ternary whose fallback arm is the literal. Worth a look by
whoever owns the census.

**2. Three pre-existing failures in `packages/dashboard/src/__tests__`,
unrelated to this change** — measured identically on `origin/main`
before and after:
- `planning-browser-e2e.test.ts:353`
- `register-model-routes-kimi-k3-supplemental.test.ts:60`
- `routes-tasks-near-duplicate.test.ts:274`

Flagging rather than touching them; per the standing rule they are
quarantine candidates, not appeasement candidates.

## Verification

Dashboard `tsc` clean, `pnpm lint` clean, census `--strict` 0,
`check-inert-flag-seams` 21/21 supplied, changeset lint clean. Targeted
suites: `task-planner-chat-metrics.test.ts` 8/8,
`task-planner-metrics-tool-wip-lanes.test.ts` 2/2.

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2026-07-30 15:16:24 -07:00
gsxdsm
51934931e1 fix(board): the awaitingPlanning badge only ever worked on a lane named "todo" (#2845)
Converts the one site in `register-task-workflow-routes.ts` that a
previous pass **deliberately deferred**, and does it in the shape that
note asked for.

## What the deferral said

```
FNXC:WorkflowResolvedColumns 2026-07-29-00:00 (U12 — R8, DELIBERATELY NOT CONVERTED):
… I converted it and then REVERTED: resolving each task's hold column needs a
per-task workflow read, and this is the board-load path whose own comment above
exists because unbounded reads here "turn a board load into thousands of reads".

Converting it properly needs the hold column resolved per WORKFLOW from data the
board payload already carries, not per task from the store.
```

That was the right call and the right diagnosis.
`resolveProjectColumnsForRoles(store, ["hold"])` is exactly the
project-scoped shape it names: **one** `listWorkflowDefinitions()` read
per board load, flat in task count. The expensive part — a PROMPT.md
read per row — is untouched and still bounded by
`AWAITING_PLANNING_ENRICH_LIMIT`.

The test asserts the flatness directly (`listWorkflowDefinitions` called
exactly once), so a future per-task regression fails here rather than
being discovered as board latency.

## What was broken

The filter named `todo`, so on a board whose waiting lane is called
anything else **no row was enriched at all** — no error, no log line,
just a silent fall back to the client's `steps.length === 0` heuristic.
That heuristic is precisely what this enrichment was added to correct,
so the card most likely to be mislabelled — real spec, zero parsed
steps, already a scheduler dispatch candidate — sat on "Queued to plan"
indefinitely.

Over-inclusion is the safe direction and is chosen deliberately: a card
in some other workflow's hold lane gets annotated as waiting, which is
what a waiting card in a waiting lane should show.

## Revert proof (measured)

Restore `task.column === "todo"`:

```
FAIL  register-task-workflow-routes.awaiting-planning.test.ts
  > enriches a card in a RENAMED hold lane, not only one literally named todo
  expected undefined to be false
```

The other 8 cases in the file stay green — their harness store declares
no `listWorkflowDefinitions`, so they run the degraded legacy-`todo`
path. That compatibility is half the contract, which is why the new case
brings its own store rather than widening the shared harness.

## Census

| file | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| `packages/dashboard/src/routes/register-task-workflow-routes.ts` | 3 |
2 |

The 2 remaining in that file are documented trait-fallback branches, not
unconverted debt. The baseline also picks up
`packages/core/src/task-store/moves.ts` 2 -> 0, already true on main and
not from this diff.

## Verification

- `pnpm test:gate` — 161 / 487 / 13 / 71 passed
- `pnpm lint` — clean
- `tsc --noEmit -p tsconfig.json` (`@fusion/dashboard`) — clean
- `node scripts/lifecycle-column-census.mjs --strict` — exit 0
- targeted: `register-task-workflow-routes.awaiting-planning.test.ts`
9/9

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2026-07-30 14:48:00 -07:00
gsxdsm
3a5058edd8 chore(census): re-record the baseline after moves.ts reached zero guards (#2844)
## Main is red; this fixes it


`packages/engine/src/__tests__/census-baseline-corruption-guard.test.ts`
fails on `main`:

```
× the census fails readably on a corrupt baseline > still succeeds against the repo's real baseline
   → expected 'lifecycle-column-census: scanned 1960…' to contain 'every file matches its baseline exact…'
```

A conversion took `packages/core/src/task-store/moves.ts` from **2
column guards to 0** without re-recording the baseline. `--strict` then
reports `TIGHTENED` instead of the exact-match line the guard asserts.

## The whole diff

```diff
-    "packages/core/src/task-store/moves.ts": 2,
```

One removed allowance. Nothing else moved.

## Why committing it is the prescribed workflow, not a workaround

The census says so itself when it tightens:

> The baseline file has been rewritten downward. **COMMIT IT** so the
allowance cannot be regrown into;
> in CI this write is discarded with the runner, which is why the gate
is green and not silent.

That discard is the reason this recurs: the tightening only ever
persists if a human commits the side-effect file, so a conversion PR
that does not re-record leaves `main` red for the next person. Leaving
the stale `2` in place would also keep an allowance open for guards to
regrow into, which is the ratchet's entire purpose.

**This cannot hide a regression.** `--strict` fails hard on a *rise*; it
only rewrites when counts **drop**. An exit-0 tighten means every change
was downward.

## Verification

- `census-baseline-corruption-guard.test.ts` — **3/3**
- `pnpm check:lifecycle-columns` — **exit 0**, "every file matches its
baseline exactly"

Not my change to `moves.ts` — found while running the full
`engine-default` project (736 files) looking for fallout from my own
merged fixes. That sweep also turned up a second red, fixed separately
in #2840.

No changeset: the baseline is internal tooling state, not published
behaviour.

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2026-07-30 14:42:28 -07:00
gsxdsm
cea9637dfc feat(census): split the query class into read-shaped and write — most of the remainder must not be converted (#2837)
Splits the census's query class into **read-shaped** (convertible) and
**write** (must not be converted), reported beside the existing total.

On current `main`:

```
  QUERY filters (column: "<legacy>"): 63
    of those: 48 read-shaped (convertible), 5 writes (do NOT convert), 10 other
```

## Why the single number misleads

`column:` sits in an options-shaped object for both a source query and a
write, so the existing definition-vs-query rule cannot separate them.
The result reads as "dead reads to convert" — and after #2818 landed,
**48 of the 63 are `self-healing.ts` and the rest are largely not
convertible at all.**

Converting a write in this class is **harmful, not merely pointless**.
`async-persistence.ts` soft-deletes with `.set({ column: "archived",
deletedAt, … })`, and `getLiveTaskColumn` returns `"archived"` as a
**sentinel** for any soft-deleted row — the write and the sentinel have
to agree. A sweep that "finished the query class" by converting all 63
would break live-column resolution for every deleted task.

That is the same shape #2808 flagged for `recoveryRehome` moves. **Two
of the census-invisible classes now have members that must not be
fixed**, and in both cases the count alone cannot tell you which.

## Reported, not ratcheted

`properties.query` and `queryByFile` are byte-identical, so the pinned
baseline does not move and no open PR's Lint changes. The split is one
extra line of output.

**Changing what a ratchet enforces is the owner's call; improving what
it says is not.** Same line I drew when making marker-only failures
legible without loosening them.

## Honest limit

Read-shaped is a better filter than the raw count and **still not a
verdict**. `auto-merge-finalization.ts:242` is classified read-shaped
and must NOT be converted — its own comment records that it is
`getTaskHardMergeBlocker`'s review-eligible sentinel, deliberately not
re-keyed. Nothing mechanical would catch that; only the comment beside
it does. The split narrows a haystack to a readable list; it does not
decide the list.

## Verification

4 new cases — a `listTasks` filter counts read, a `.set()` tombstone
counts write, IR node definitions stay excluded from the class entirely
(the pre-existing rule must keep working), and the pinned total is
unchanged by the split. Revert proof: dropping the write branch fails
the tombstone case.

Census's own suites **87 passed**, gate **161 / 13 / 487 / 71**, lint
clean, `--strict` exits 0.

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2026-07-30 14:29:01 -07:00
gsxdsm
2c24966d0c fleet: the app-side remainder 18 → 0 — Archive/Revert and diff stats were silently absent on a renamed board (#2731)
Three **genuinely free** clusters in one layer and one idiom —
`Column.tsx` (7), `ListView.tsx` (6), `useTaskDiffStats.ts` (5). I built
the claimed-file set from every open PR's diff before starting, having
duplicated a claimed cluster last round.

## Census

| file | before | after |
|---|---:|---:|
| `Column.tsx` | 7 | **0** |
| `ListView.tsx` | 6 | **0** |
| `useTaskDiffStats.ts` | 5 | **0** |

**16 converted; 2 reclassified with a reason** — the two are accounted
for separately below so the numbers stay honest.

## Three silent failures, not three style nits

- **`ListView` Archive and Revert** were gated on `task.column ===
"done"` / `=== "archived"`, so on a board with renamed terminal lanes
**they did not render at all**. No error, no log — the operator simply
cannot archive or revert from the list.
- **`useTaskDiffStats`** compared a bare `column: string` to
`done`/`in-progress`/`in-review`, so on a renamed board it **fetched
nothing** and the row showed no changes.
- **`ListView` progress display** had the same shape for the WIP lane.

## The `?? {}` is the whole subtlety

Every `Column.tsx` site was `workflowMode ? <trait> : column ===
"<id>"`. One adapter now feeds the shared helpers:

```ts
const columnRoleFlags = workflowMode ? (columnFlags ?? {}) : undefined;
```

`workflowMode` means **traits are the only authority**, so a
workflow-mode column with no resolved flags must answer `false` — which
`Boolean(columnFlags?.archived)` did. Passing `undefined` to a role
helper instead selects its **legacy id fallback**, so a flagless
workflow-mode column would start matching on its id. An empty object
keeps the helper on its trait branch. Legacy mode passes `undefined`
deliberately: there the id fallback *is* the answer, and routing it
through the helpers is the point.

## Two things I deliberately did not do

**`isTodoLikeColumn` keeps its own trait arm.** Adopting
`isPreImplementationColumnRole` would widen its fallback from `todo`
alone to `{todo, triage}`, handing a legacy `triage` column a bulk
replan affordance it does not have today — a behaviour change hiding
inside a de-duplication. Only its *fallback* is routed through a helper.

**The `mode === "done"` pair is reclassified, not converted.** It is the
hook's own `"done" | "active"` discriminant, assigned three lines from
`shouldFetchDoneTask` — not a column id, with no trait to resolve. The
census counts it because the receiver is compared to the string `done`,
which is a classifier limit. Marked deliberate and **recorded in
`deliberateByFile`**, so that file's `byFile` drop is 5 while its
conversion count is 3.

One genuine simplification fell out: `workflowMode ? isReviewColumn :
column === "in-review"`, where `isReviewColumn` is *itself* that same
ternary. Both arms already agreed with it — collapsing is
behaviour-identical.

## Revert proof

Restoring the id comparisons on the ListView row menu fails the new
renamed-lane case with `Unable to find an accessible element with the
role "menuitem" and name "Archive"`.

Driven through the **real `fetchBoardWorkflows` seam** with a renamed
vocabulary — payload → `listColumns` → `columnFlagsById` → row menu —
rather than by injecting flags, so the assertion covers the path the
component actually uses. The DEFAULT-vocabulary path passes either way,
which is exactly why the renamed case has to exist.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` **GREEN** (158 + 10 + 487 + 71) · **375 passed** across
Column / ListView / useTaskDiffStats / role-invariance / columnRoles ·
dashboard `tsc -p tsconfig.app.json` clean · `pnpm lint` clean · census
`--strict` exits 0.

`TaskCard.tsx` is touched only to pass the new optional `columnFlags`
through; its own census count is unchanged at 3. The 2 `TaskCard` reds
in that suite are the known pre-existing CSS-var geometry assertions.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved workflow lane handling when columns are renamed or assigned
roles through workflow settings.
* Archive and Revert actions now remain available for completed and
archived tasks in renamed lanes.
* Corrected task progress and diff-stat behavior across active, review,
completed, and archived lanes.
* Updated bulk actions, sorting controls, and auto-merge controls to
respond consistently to workflow roles.

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2026-07-30 14:12:14 -07:00
gsxdsm
109204c590 fix: the query class — three sweeps that never ran on a renamed board (#2818)
Three sweeps that **never ran at all** on a renamed board, plus the
shared answer the rest of the class needs. Consolidated from three
handoff branches so the helper appears once. #2811 merged, so this is my
only open PR.

`#2800` measured this class and shipped evidence deliberately without
conversions: `listTasks({ column: "<literal>" })` filters in the store,
so on a renamed board the read returns an **empty array** and the sweep
it feeds does nothing. The census scores the comparison *inside* the
loop, never the query above it.

## What was broken

| file | census count | what actually happened on a renamed board |
|---|---|---|
| `backlog-pressure-reporter.ts` | **0** | both reads empty, ratio
computed as 0/0 — **the alert never fired**, on a board that may be
under exactly the pressure it reports |
| `stale-task-reporter.ts` | **0** | both reads empty — **no stale-task
signal ever raised**, where work is most likely sitting unnoticed |
| `restart-recovery-coordinator.ts` | flagged | sweep never ran — **an
engine restart left interrupted tasks stuck with no requeue** |

Two of the three have a census count of **zero**. They contain no
lifecycle comparison at all, so they have never appeared in the backlog,
in a per-file list, or in any "N → 0" claim — and were completely inert.
**A file at zero is not evidence of anything.**

## The shared answer, and what it is not

Every existing resolver answers a **per-task** question. A query has no
task in hand, so it needs the project-level one: every column any
workflow declares for a role, unioned with the legacy ids so a board
mid-rename still finds rows under the old ones. The set is never empty,
so a caller cannot accidentally query nothing.

The header states what it is **not**: answering a per-card question from
the union would mark a card as review because some *other* workflow
calls its column review — the flat-set mistake this program has made
four times.

## The finding that generalises: the query is rarely the whole defect

`stale-task-reporter` **still reported zero after the query was fixed**
— `getTaskAgeStalenessSignal` defaults to the legacy pair, so a card the
query now returned was refused inside the signal. Converting only the
query would have looked like a fix and changed nothing.

That is a caveat on #2800's approach, offered as refinement rather than
correction: **asserting the query ARGUMENT is right when pinning a known
defect** (the outcome is 0 either way) **and insufficient when proving a
fix**, because the outcome is the only thing that distinguishes a real
conversion from a deeper one. All three conversions here assert
outcomes.

`restart-recovery` had three layers — query, a redundant re-assertion
(deleted; a test pins the `paused` guard it did contribute), and a move
destination that was **already** resolved but whose warning comment was
stale. A stale warning is its own hazard: it told the next reader a
defect existed where none did.

## Verification

- helper **8 passed** · three reporter/coordinator suites **29 passed**
- `pnpm test:gate` **161 / 13 / 487 / 71** · lint clean · `--strict`
exits 0 · four `tsc` targets clean
- each conversion revert-proven independently; the failing case is named
in each test header

## Two mistakes worth recording

**The helper's own test caught a bug in it.** My first draft wrapped the
definition loop in one `try`, and `parseWorkflowIr` **validates** rather
than parses — one malformed row would have returned legacy-only lanes
for *every* workflow, indistinguishable from the bug it exists to fix.
Now isolated per definition.

**I clobbered the core barrel** by taking `index.ts` wholesale from a
handoff branch, dropping two exports `main` had added since; three
packages stopped compiling. Taking a file from another branch takes its
whole contents, including what is now stale — for a barrel that is
nearly always wrong. Re-applied as a single edit on top of `main`.

## Not included

`self-healing.ts`'s 49 — actively owned and mid-conversion; an outside
refactor there produces conflicting halves of one sweep.
`project-engine.ts` (7) and `executor.ts` (2) need their own read of
what each sweep does with the rows, which these three are the argument
for.

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2026-07-30 13:55:10 -07:00
gsxdsm
ed83fd6ec3 batch-core: node-override guards let a running task be re-routed on a renamed board (45 → 43) (#2821)
## The defect

Two guards in `node-override-guard.ts` answered a **role** question with
a **column name**:

- **`task.column === "in-progress"`** refuses changing a task's node
override mid-flight. On a renamed board it never matched, so an operator
could re-route a **running** task — precisely what the guard exists to
prevent, and the failure is silent because the guard simply returns
`allowed: true`.
- **`task.column !== "done"`** gates overriding *to* the terminal node.
On a renamed board it never matched either, so the override was refused
for exactly the tasks that had legitimately reached the end node.

Both fail in the direction that looks like normal behaviour rather than
an error.

## Why the lanes are injected rather than resolved in place

`validateNodeOverrideChange` is **synchronous by design**, and its
existing `isTerminalNodeId` option already establishes the pattern:
callers with cheap IR access inject, callers without keep a documented
literal fallback.

**Both production callers now supply the lanes** —
`branch-and-pr-entities.ts:594` (which already injected
`isTerminalNodeId`) and `task-update.ts:53`. That was the deciding
factor: an optional parameter that only tests fill is the
inert-injection shape this program keeps finding, where a guard reads as
converted, its test passes because the test injects the value, and
production keeps the literal. I checked both call sites had a store in
scope *before* adding the option.

`resolveNodeOverrideLanes` lives beside the guard rather than in the
callers, so the two cannot drift about what "executing" and "completed"
mean.

## Fallbacks

A workflow expressing **no trait on any column** is a v1 upgrade —
`synthesizeDefaultColumns` emits `traits: []` everywhere — not a board
without these roles, so it keeps the legacy ids. Same for an
unresolvable workflow. Both preserve exactly the behaviour the literals
already had.

## Verification

- **Mutation-verified per guard:** restoring `task.column ===
"in-progress"` fails a case; restoring `task.column !== "done"` fails a
different one.
- The suite also pins the paired negative — resolving lanes must not
turn the guard into a blanket refusal for a task outside every WIP lane.
- `node-override-guard.test.ts` → 27 passed
- `pnpm test:gate` → 161 + 487 + 13 + 71
- `--strict` → exit 0; `tsc --noEmit` and `pnpm lint` → 0 errors

Census: batch-core scope **45 → 43**; repo total **255**.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Bug Fixes**
- Node overrides now correctly recognize workflow-defined in-progress
and completed lanes, including renamed columns.
- Override validation falls back safely for legacy or unresolved
workflows.
- Prevented validation from using stale task-column information during
updates.

- **Tests**
- Added coverage for workflow lane resolution, legacy fallbacks, renamed
lanes, and override eligibility.

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2026-07-30 13:08:25 -07:00
gsxdsm
ba40942a10 batch-dashboard-app: 75 → 2 across packages/dashboard/app — the last two are deliberate, not missed (#2772)
**Batch branch is live: `batch-dashboard-app`.** Push conversions here
as commits rather than opening per-file PRs — that is the CI-run
bottleneck this model removes.

**One-line ownership note for you to arbitrate:** you have addressed me
as U11, U12 and U7 at different points, so the `u12 worker ->
batch-dashboard-app` mapping is ambiguous from my side. I claimed it
because `dashboard/app` is where I have done the most work this session
(TaskContextMenu, Column, TaskCard, TaskDetailModal, columnRoles,
taskActivity) and I know which of its guards are load-bearing fallbacks.
**If another worker is the intended owner, say so and I will hand the
branch over rather than both of us pushing to it** — two workers on one
shared branch is exactly what silently discarded a reviewed fix in #2645
today.

## The work order (measured at branch point, tests excluded)

**75 guards across 32 files.** Largest: `TaskContextMenu.tsx` 9 ·
`Column.tsx` 7 · `ListView.tsx` 6 · `TaskDetailModal.tsx` 4 · then a
long tail of 3s, 2s and 1s. Full per-file list is in the committed work
order so feeders can claim without re-measuring.

## Two rules this surface keeps tripping on

**1. A literal after `??`, or in the `else` of a `flags ?` ternary, is a
DEGRADED-MODE answer — not an unconverted guard.** Two real states reach
it: the **pre-load window** (board renders before the workflows fetch
resolves) and a card stranded on an id its workflow no longer declares.
In both, `columnFlagsById` has no entry at all. Deleting the fallback
does not remove a decision — it substitutes "no role" silently, and
affordances vanish during first paint.

Those sites reach 0 by **marking**, not deleting. Expect
`TaskContextMenu.tsx` and the `utils` files to be **mostly marks**. A "9
→ 0" that deleted 9 fallbacks is a regression wearing a green census.

**2. A marker excuses ONLY the construct it is attached to** — the
statement or function holding the literal, not a sibling declaration.
This has cost three passes, two of them mine; my first attempt on
`reliability-metrics.ts` scored **1 of 6**. **Verify by the count
moving, not by the comment existing.** With the ratchet gate-blocking, a
mis-marked batch either wedges the gate or locks the miss into a
re-recorded baseline.

## Status

Opening commit is the work order only — **0 of 75 converted so far.** I
am near the end of my context, so I am establishing the branch and the
shared list rather than starting conversions I cannot finish cleanly.
Feeders can begin immediately; I will keep the branch rebased.

My other PR **#2762** (`live-agent-count.ts` 6 → 0) is green and
unconflicted — per your rule it should land rather than fold into a
batch, and it is `packages/core` so it belongs to batch-core anyway.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Task UI now resolves workflow “column roles” per task to drive
diffs/merge details, routing/steering, progress/runtime visibility, and
review badges.
* Right-dock/overflow views and dev-server now use per-task column
traits for “executing” behavior and dependency-based “Up Next”
eligibility.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Fixed bulk action selection/delete/archive eligibility and prevented
cross-workflow role leakage.
* Made in-review/stale-paused-review, stuck, and effective
executor/validator model logic role-aware.
* **Tests**
* Added regression coverage for degraded-flag behavior and ensured
resolved-flag props aren’t ignored.
  * Added a static check to fail builds on inert optional flag seams.
* **Documentation**
  * Updated batch work-order and mega-batch branch guidance.
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## Late addition: the seam gate was masking a real offender

`scripts/check-inert-flag-seams.mjs` matched call sites by NAME, so two
same-named functions in
different modules were conflated. I had documented that as a known
false-positive source and moved
on — reports mentioning `sortTasksForDisplayColumn` are noise, read past
them.

That annotation was the damage. Core's `sortTasksForDisplayColumn`
genuinely never receives its
`columnFlags` argument outside its own tests. The dashboard's separate
function of the same name
(`app/components/taskSorting.ts`), called with up to five arguments from
`Lane`/`Board`/`ListView`,
was raising the arg-count max and clearing core's seam. The offender was
behind a row everyone had
been told to skip.

The gate now records the module each callee is imported from and matches
it against the seam's
declaring module.

**Measured, by reverting the change:** the scan prints `17 seams, all
supplied` and emits **no row**
for the function. With the change, it is reported. Both directions
watched.

Reported on #2783 rather than fixed from outside — core owns it, and
"wire the flags" vs "drop the
parameter and let the literal stay counted" is their judgment call.
TEMPORARY allow-list entry
carries it meanwhile; the existing staleness check fails the moment the
site becomes supplied, so
the entry cannot outlive the fix.

Two known limits remain, both inherent to name matching and both
documented in the script: the
one-supplier floor, and the `__tests__` exclusion (hence the two
permanent `ALLOWED` entries).


## And the one-supplier floor, closed the same way

I wrote in the section above that the floor "hasn't cost anything yet."
That is verbatim the
reasoning that kept the imported-shadow bug alive, so I closed it
instead of leaving the note.

`best < arity` asked only whether SOME caller supplied the argument. One
correct call site cleared
the seam while every sibling took the legacy fallback — the
`isTaskStuck` defect class, where two of
three sites omitted the flags and the gate stayed green because the
third was right. Review caught
that one. A partially-supplied seam is the harder of the two:
wholly-unsupplied is uniformly wrong,
this works on the board you tested and degrades on the column you did
not.

**Measured:** dropping the flags argument at `Column.tsx`'s supplied
call site produces
`supplied by 5/6 call sites; omitted at
packages/dashboard/app/components/Column.tsx:1 (of 2)`;
restoring returns `all supplied at every call site`. Red and green both
watched.

Two real omissions found, both on `isNearDuplicateCanonicalInactive`:

- **`TaskDetailModal.tsx`** — deliberate, and it **corrects a note I
left at that site**. The old
note said hoisting the flags state was "the actual fix." It is not, for
this call: the flags in
scope describe the *modal's* task, and the canonical is a **different
task** on a column this
component never resolves. Passing them would type-check, read as a
conversion, and answer about
the wrong task — exactly what `column-role-degraded-flags.test.ts`
exists to catch. Supplying it
  correctly needs a fetch, which is a data change and out of scope.
- **`core/task-store/branch-group-ops.ts`** — genuinely wireable (the
impl is async and already
holds `store` and `canonicalId`). Reported on #2783, not edited from
outside.

Exemptions for this class are keyed by **call site**
(`<file>::<function>`), not by function name.
A name-level entry would waive every site of a partially-supplied seam,
which is backwards — its
other sites are correct and are the reason the omission is worth
reporting. Both entries carry the
same staleness check as the name-level list and cannot outlive their
fix.

Remaining known limit, now the only one: the `__tests__` exclusion,
which makes a test-only export
read as having no callers. That is what the two permanent `ALLOWED`
entries are.


## The `__tests__` exclusion, and two allow-list entries built on false
reasons

Named as the "last remaining limit" above, so it got closed too. The
scan now reads test files for
call sites — but counts them **separately**, and a test never clears a
seam. That direction is the
dangerous one: counting test callers as suppliers would have re-hidden
core's
`sortTasksForDisplayColumn`, whose only suppliers are its own tests.
Measured by lifting its
exemption: still reported.

Both permanent allow-list entries claimed the scanner couldn't see their
callers. **Both reasons
were false**, and reading tests is what proved it:

- **`evaluateMergeBlockerGuard`** — zero callers in tests either. Its
only reference in the repo is
its own declaration; never registered as a trait hook; the
`evaluateDefaultWorkflowGuards` reader
its file header credits does not exist. The `lifecycleColumns`
conversion went onto dead code, and
its note describes a crossing the guard cannot make. Reported on #2783,
including the two things I
am explicitly *not* concluding (no `"guard"` hook is registered in
production; whether that is
  residue or a dropped registration needs core's intent).
- **`isRecoverableMissingWorktreeReviewFailure`** — 5 test call sites.
It wraps
`...WithProgress`/`...NoProgress`, the live pair called from
`self-healing.ts`, both supplying
  `reviewColumns`. Entry kept, true reason recorded.

### A wrong turn, recorded because it is the failure mode this PR is
about

I first classified no-production-caller seams as *informational* when
they weren't re-exported from
a package index, reasoning that a public export might be called
externally. That silently downgraded
`sortTasksForDisplayColumn` — a confirmed real offender — from failing
to a footnote. Publication
status has nothing to do with whether there is production behaviour to
be wrong. Reverted to the
simple rule: no production caller means inert, and it fails.

It is worth stating plainly because it is the exact shape of everything
else in this PR: a change
that made the gate read *cleaner* while making it catch *less*, and it
type-checked, passed every
test, and would have reviewed fine.

### Where that leaves the check

Every blind spot named in this PR has now been closed, and **each one
produced a real defect within
minutes of closing it** — imported shadows, the one-supplier floor, the
`__tests__` exclusion. Four
verified findings went to core, one to engine. I would not read the
remaining ~240 guards' green
gates as evidence that they are clean; I would read them as untested.


## Two guards for one question, one of them worse

Having hardened the script, I checked its older twin rather than
assuming it was fine.
`resolved-flags-seams-have-suppliers.test.ts` carried its own copy of
the trailing-flags-parameter
check — written before the script existed — with **all three** holes the
script has since closed.

**Measured on one reintroduced defect** (dropping the flags argument at
`Column.tsx`'s supplied
`isNearDuplicateCanonicalInactive` call):

| | result |
|---|---|
| `scripts/check-inert-flag-seams.mjs` | `supplied by 5/6 call sites;
omitted at .../Column.tsx:1 (of 2)` |
| this test's arity half | **3 passed** |

Deleted the arity half. Redundancy between a strong and a weak check
isn't redundancy — it's a green
result available to whoever runs the weak one, and there was no signal
at the call site telling you
which you were looking at.

The **props-shape half stays**: it has no twin in the script, and I
confirmed it still fires by
reintroducing the original `PrPanel` defect (outer component stops
destructuring `taskColumnFlags`)
— it reports `PrPanel declares taskColumnFlags but never takes it`.

Dashboard app suite: **113 files / 3921 tests** (was 3922 — the deleted
case is the difference).


## The gate started catching defects as they landed

Syncing with main brought in three fresh conversions from other workers.
The hardened check flagged
all three immediately — the first time these guards have fired on
someone else's landed code rather
than on my own.

- **`TaskCard`** — `getRunningOptionalGateBadge(task)` omitted flags
while *both* `ListView` sites
supplied. Fixed, and `taskColumnFlags` added to the `useMemo` deps: no
`exhaustive-deps` rule here,
so a memo that reads flags without listing them keeps the first-paint
`undefined` answer and
  reproduces the bug through staleness instead of omission.
- **`TaskTokenStatsPanel`** — `getTotalAgentActiveMs` omitted while
`TaskCard` supplied, so the same
runtime number came from the real column on a card and from legacy ids
in the detail modal. Now
takes `columnFlags`, supplied from `detailColumnFlags` — correct here
because the panel renders the
  modal's **own** task, unlike the near-duplicate canonical above.
- **`ListView` ×2** — passed `columnFlagsById.get(task.column)`, the
cross-workflow **union**. A task
whose own workflow doesn't declare that column gets a *neighbour
workflow's* traits. The landed
comment justified it as "this list already owns `columnFlagsById`" —
exactly the reasoning
`column-role-degraded-flags.test.ts` exists to reject. It failed on
merge and is how I found this.

Also: the `getTotalAgentActiveMs` exemption I was carrying
**self-retired**. Main wired the seam, the
staleness check failed the entry, and I removed it. That mechanism has
now paid for itself once.

### Pre-existing, NOT from this PR: `App.test.tsx` is red on main

`app/components/__tests__/App.test.tsx` fails **10 of 141** identically
with my changes, with my
changes stashed, and with main's own `App.tsx` restored. Not mine, and
not in the merge gate.

**Bisected on clean `main` checkouts, so this is measured rather than
inferred:**

| commit | date | result |
|---|---|---|
| `main~400` (`41d60f0355`) | 2026-07-25 | **140 passed** (140 tests) |
| `main~275` (`74d6513fae`) | 2026-07-27 | 3 failed / 141 |
| `main~210` (`d2ce1ba8b5`) | 2026-07-29 | 10 failed / 141 |
| `main` (`6fc98fd6c7`) | 2026-07-30 | 10 failed / 141 |

So it is **not one regression** — it degraded in two stages across
2026-07-25 → 07-29, and the test
file itself changed in that window (140 → 141 tests). Three commits
touched it there:
`73b2a32e2b`, `f26cbedf4f`, `f157bf7460`. That window overlaps the
workflow-owned lifecycle
migration, which is suggestive but not something I confirmed.

The failures are render-level, not assertion-level — `Unable to find an
element with the text: + New
Task`, `Unable to find role="dialog"`, `Unable to find ... Back nav
task`. The board appears to
render nothing. That reads like a real regression or a harness mismatch
after the lifecycle
migration, not a flake, so I have deliberately **not** quarantined it —
quarantine is for flakes, and
using it here would hide the signal. Flagging for whoever owns
`App.tsx`.

My suites: `app/__tests__` **113 files / 3921 tests** green, `tsc` 0,
lint 0, census `--strict` 0,
seam gate 0.

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2026-07-30 12:46:12 -07:00
gsxdsm
6fc98fd6c7 the third census-invisible class: 51 hardcoded moveTask destinations, measured — and duplicates never archived on a renamed board (#2808)
A third census-invisible class, measured — plus the two worst instances
fixed.

## The shape

```ts
if (task.column !== "in-review") { … return; }     // the census counts THIS
await this.store.moveTask(taskId, "in-progress");  // and cannot see THIS
```

The census is an AST scan for **comparisons**. A `moveTask` destination
is a **call argument**, so no backlog entry ever points at one.
Converting the guard alone is *worse than converting neither*: the
handler starts admitting work on a renamed board and then tries to move
the card into a lane that board may not declare.

This bit twice in one week — #2797 (`branch-worktree` requeued into a
lane that may not exist) and #2807 (a GitHub "changes requested" review
dropped, then a move to a hardcoded `in-progress`). Both times it was
found only because the guard *next to it* happened to be under
conversion. So I went looking.

## Measured

Across `core`/`engine`/`dashboard`/`cli`/`plugins`, excluding
`__tests__`/`*.test.*` and comment lines:

| | count |
| --- | ---: |
| hardcoded `moveTask` destinations in production | **51** |
| …passing `recoveryRehome: true` — **deliberate**, not defects | 22 |
| …plain, rejected on a board that does not declare the target | **29**
|

**The 22 must not be "fixed".** `moves.ts` exempts them on purpose
(#1411): a card stranded in an undeclared column has to stay rescuable
to a legacy safe-landing column, or it can never be recovered at all. A
sweep that converts them deletes the rescue path. That distinction is
the reason this is 29 and not 51, and it is why I measured before
writing.

## Why this got sharper recently

The `workflowHasColumn(workflowIr, toColumn)` rejection used to sit
inside a block gated on `isWorkflowColumnsCompatibilityFlagEnabled` — a
settings key **nothing in production writes** — so it never executed and
the legacy `VALID_TRANSITIONS` table decided instead. U12 hoisted it out
of that dead branch and it is now live, proven on a real store by
`live-move-path-undeclared-target.test.ts`:

```
moveTask(card in "todo" -> "triage")  now REJECTS: /Unknown column for this workflow/
```

That changed the failure mode of all 29 from *"silently lands the card
in an undeclared column"* to *"throws"*.

**29 is not a crash count.** Whether a throw surfaces or disappears
depends on whether the caller catches, which is per-site and I did
**not** measure it — the doc says so explicitly rather than letting the
number imply severity it hasn't earned.

## Fixed here: 9 of the 29

`duplicate-intake` and `duplicate-guard` both archive a duplicate. On a
renamed archive lane the move is rejected, so **the duplicate is never
archived and keeps sitting on the operator's board as live work** — and
in `duplicate-guard` the row has already been stamped
`deterministicDuplicateOf`, so it is *marked* a duplicate while
occupying an active lane. Half-applied, which is the same trap as
#2797's branch clear.

Both now resolve the `archived`-trait column from the task's own
workflow through one shared helper, unioned with the legacy id.

**`cli/commands/task-lifecycle`** — `finalizePullRequestMerge` and
`finalizeNoOpMergeTask` both move the card to a hardcoded `"done"`, and
both run `updateTask({ status: null, mergeRetries: 0 })` *first*. On a
rejection the merge has already landed and the bookkeeping is already
cleared while the card never reaches its complete lane: the operator
sees a merged branch, a card still sitting in review, and a reset retry
counter. Same half-applied shape as #2797's branch clear. Both now route
through one resolver so they cannot drift.

**`contamination` / `foreign-only-contamination` (×2) /
`restart-recovery-coordinator`** — four recovery requeues to a hardcoded
`"todo"`, none of them a `recoveryRehome` escape. On a board without
that column the move is rejected and **the recovery never completes** —
the card stays contaminated or stranded, which is precisely the state
these paths exist to clear.

**Consolidation.** `resolveReboundTargetForTask` and
`resolveArchiveTargetForTask` now live beside
`resolveTaskLifecycleColumns` in `workflow-lifecycle-traits`, already
the store-dependent resolution seam. My first pass put the archive
helper inside `duplicate-intake` and had `duplicate-guard` import it
from there — wrong home, and it would have grown a copy per caller as
more sites converted. Seven call sites now share two definitions.

**Plain (non-`recoveryRehome`) destinations: 29 → 21.**

**Coverage on the CLI pair is scoped, and I'd rather say so than imply
more:** the test covers the *resolver*, not the two call sites. Both
enclosing functions are private and reachable only through
`processPullRequest`, which needs a live GitHub surface — exporting them
purely to test wiring is a worse trade than stating what is covered.
Three cases: renamed lane resolves, no-workflow falls back to the legacy
id (which also pins that a default board is byte-identical), and a
throwing lookup falls back.

## Revert result (measured)

| conversion | reverted → |
| --- | --- |
| duplicate archive destination | new case fails — `moveTask` called
with `"archived"` on a board whose archive lane is `boxed` |
| CLI complete-lane resolver | replacing the body with a bare `return
"done"` fails the renamed case |
| both move-target resolvers | replacing either body with a bare return
of its legacy id fails 5 cases across the resolver suite and
`duplicate-guard` |

Each resolver has a **non-vacuous companion** asserting it does *not*
return the legacy id on a renamed board — without it, a resolver
returning any string would pass. The fallback cases are load-bearing
rather than padding: `resolveWorkflowIrForTask` degrades to the built-in
IR rather than throwing, and the built-in rebound/archive lanes *are*
`todo`/`archived`, so those cases also pin that a default board is
byte-identical.

The pre-existing case asserting the legacy `"archived"` passes both
ways, which is exactly why it could not detect this and why the new one
supplies a workflow.

## Ownership note

`packages/core` was `batch-core`'s territory and `packages/cli` was
`batch-cli-plugins`'. Both batches have landed, and this is
newly-discovered work in the class documented here rather than leftover
conversion backlog. Four sites, two shared helpers — happy for either
half to move if those owners would rather carry it.

## Verification

- `pnpm test:gate` — 161 + 487 + 13 + 71, green
- `duplicate-guard` + `duplicate-intake` — 40 passed
- `tsc` on core and engine — clean
- `pnpm lint`, `check:changesets`, census `--strict` — all clean (run
explicitly; a clean `pnpm lint` alone is not evidence the CI Lint check
passes)


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

## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Bug Fixes**
- Duplicate tasks are now archived to each workflow’s configured archive
lane.
- Completed tasks are moved to the workflow-specific completion lane,
with a safe fallback for older workflows.
- Recovery and requeue actions now use each workflow’s configured
rebound lane instead of assuming a fixed destination.

- **Documentation**
- Added guidance on avoiding failures caused by hardcoded workflow
destinations and incomplete lifecycle conversions.

- **Tests**
- Added coverage for renamed workflow lanes, fallback behavior,
duplicate archiving, and recovery destinations.

<!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->

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2026-07-30 12:25:00 -07:00
gsxdsm
b7288572a1 engine: a GitHub "changes requested" review was silently dropped on a renamed board (1 → 0) (#2807)
A human reviewer's feedback was being thrown away.

`PrCommentHandler.handleChangesRequested` gated on `task.column !==
"in-review"` and returned early. On any board whose review lane is
renamed, a GitHub **"changes requested"** review produced **no steering
comment** and the card **never went back to work** — the feedback
vanished behind a log line nobody reads. No error, no audit row.

## Census

| file | main | here |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| `packages/engine/src/pr-comment-handler.ts` | 1 | **0** |

## Two literals, only one countable — again

```ts
if (task.column !== "in-review") { … return; }   // counted
…
await this.store.moveTask(taskId, "in-progress"); // INVISIBLE to the census
```

The census scores comparisons. The requeue **destination** is a call
argument, so nothing in the backlog pointed at it — the same pairing as
the branch-worktree auto-requeue in #2797, and the same trap: converting
the gate alone would make the handler *admit* the review and then
attempt a move into a lane the board may not declare, which `moveTask`
rejects. A half-conversion here turns a silent drop into a thrown
rejection. They convert together or not at all.

That is now the second confirmed instance of this shape. The pattern to
look for is a **counted guard whose body performs a hardcoded
`moveTask`** — the guard is the visible half and the move is the
dangerous one.

## Revert results (measured, each run independently)

| conversion | reverted → |
| --- | --- |
| review-lane gate | RENAMED case fails — `updateTask`/`moveTask` never
called; the review is dropped |
| requeue destination | RENAMED case fails — `moveTask` called with
`"in-progress"` instead of the board's wip lane |

The legacy case passes both ways, which is why both vocabularies run. A
non-vacuous companion (renamed board, card sitting in the hold lane)
keeps a gate that admits everything from passing.

## Verification

- `pnpm test:gate` — 161 + 487 + 13 + 71, green
- `pr-comment-handler.test.ts` — 34 passed
- `npx tsc -p packages/engine/tsconfig.json --noEmit` — clean
- `pnpm lint` — clean
- `node scripts/lifecycle-column-census.mjs --strict` — exit 0

(Running the census explicitly, not just `pnpm lint`: CI's Lint job runs
both, and a clean local `pnpm lint` is **not** evidence the Lint check
passes — that cost a round-trip on #2797.)
2026-07-30 12:06:14 -07:00
gsxdsm
e84e9d7f60 fix: the caller audit — five unwired parameters, five defects in their callers (#2803)
Seven fixes that were sitting on separate handoff branches with no owner
while `main` moved. Consolidated, rebased onto current `main`, and
verified **together** rather than only per-branch. The individual
branches remain if a subset is preferred.

This is the same consolidation that got `batch-core` and #2787 adopted.
**Close it if it breaks queue policy** — the branch keeps the work safe
either way.

## Where these came from

#2787's review found an optional parameter whose production caller never
passed it. That is a class, so I ran it against everything I had landed
and found five more. **All five turned out to have their real defect in
the CALLER, not the parameter** — in four of them the parameter was
unreachable:

| unwired parameter | what was actually wrong |
|---|---|
| `blocker-fanout.escalationColumns` | the hold default made the count
zero — **no bottleneck warning was emitted at all** |
| analytics `columnFlagsByName` | routes never built a map — **0
in-progress / 0 in-review beside correct cost totals** |
| `isLegacyAutoMergeStampCandidate` | the read **queried a column a
renamed board does not have**, so the backfill iterated nothing |
| `rankAssignedTasksForWakeDelta` | `getTasksByAssignedAgent`'s
`excludeArchived` used the literal — **archived cards returned as open
work** |
| `duplicate-intake.columnFlagsByColumnId` | intake could **archive or
soft-delete a newly created task** as a duplicate of finished work |

The heuristic worth keeping: **an optional parameter no production
caller fills is a marker pointing at an unexamined caller.** The census
cannot see any of these five — every gate is a `Set`/array literal or a
query filter, i.e. a definition rather than a comparison.

## Also included

- **`executor.ts`** — the stale-spec guard did the exact thing its own
comment forbids: on a renamed board it ran on a LIVE task and pulled it
out of execution into replan. `activeMergeStatuses` protected merging
cards *by accident*, which is why the symptom looked arbitrary.
- **`register-project-routes.ts`** — project health reported **0 active
tasks**; its list also still contained `triage`, dead since U11.
- **`dashboard/app/utils/taskTiming.ts`** — a **second copy** of
`getTotalAgentActiveMs`. Core's was converted; the card chip imports
this one, so the census counted the site as done while the rendered
number stayed keyed on `"in-progress"`.

## Verification

Verified as a set: `pnpm test:gate` **161 / 13 / 487 / 71** · core
suites **15 passed** · engine **7** · dashboard **12** · four `tsc`
targets clean · lint clean · census `--strict` exits 0.

Each fix is revert-proven individually; the specific case that fails is
named in each test header.

## Two honesty notes

**Three guards here are structural, not behavioural, and say so in their
headers.** `sanitizeAgentTaskLinks` is a closure inside
`createApiRoutes`; the analytics aggregators need a live
`AsyncDataLayer`; the stale-spec guard sits deep inside `execute()`.
Each ratchet fails on revert — verified — but none is an end-to-end
proof, and the headers state which half they cover.

**One of my behavioural test sets would have lied.** The intake-dedup
cases drive `findSameAgentDuplicates` directly; I removed the wiring to
measure the revert and **they stayed green**, because they pin the
predicate and not the caller. That is the exact illusion this audit was
chasing, reproduced in my own file. The forward now has its own
structural check.

## Deliberately not included

`worktree-pool.ts:1205` — it **fails safe** (a missed match protects a
branch from cleanup rather than deleting it) and sits in the merger's
branch-reaping path where the opposite error destroys work. That
deserves its owner's judgement, not a drive-by conversion.

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

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2026-07-30 12:02:53 -07:00
gsxdsm
a8cfce8fbd executor: stale merge evidence re-entering execution, and a live checkout that read as unowned (12 → 8) (#2805)
Two executor conversions with real operator consequences, one census
false positive, and three sites deliberately left with their reasons
recorded.

## Census

| file | main | here |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| `packages/engine/src/executor.ts` | 12 | **8** |

Of the 4: three genuine conversions, one reclassification.

## What was broken

**`resetMergeStateIfNeeded` — cards re-entered execution carrying stale
merge evidence.** Merge state is cleared when a card *leaves* a lane
where a merge could have been recorded. Keyed on `in-review`/`done`, a
renamed board matched neither, so a card bouncing back into execution
kept `mergeDetails` — including a **commit sha from its previous pass**
— into its next run. `review` is not a trait, so this resolves through
the same five flags (`complete`, `mergeOrchestration`, `mergeBlocker`,
`humanReview`) the dependency gates in this file already use; two gates
answering "is this a merge-bearing lane?" differently would be a split
brain.

**The worktree-owner scan — a live checkout read as unowned.**
`findActiveWorktreeOwner` asks "is anyone else working in this
checkout?". Its in-memory `activeWorktrees` leg is
vocabulary-independent, but the **durable** leg — the one that answers
after an engine restart, when the in-memory map is empty — filtered with
`t.column !== "in-progress"`. On a renamed board that matched nobody, so
the worktree read as free and a second task could be handed a checkout
another task is live in. Post-restart is exactly when this function
matters.

Not the query-filter class: that `listTasks` call passes no `column`, so
the predicate is the only lane gate on the path.

## A third census false positive in this package

Line 16094's `to` is a **review-addressing record status** — the method
signature is `to: "queued" | "in-progress" | "addressed" | "failed"`,
and the next two lines test it against `"addressed"` and `"failed"`,
which are not columns at all. Marked `DELIBERATE-LITERAL`.

That is the third in `packages/engine` after the two `cli-agent`
`CliMachineState` ones (#2797). The backlog total includes non-columns;
a sweep that "converts" them turns a status machine into a workflow
role.

## Revert results (measured, each run independently)

| conversion | reverted → |
| --- | --- |
| worktree-owner wip predicate | RENAMED case fails — checkout reads as
**free** while another task is live in it |
| `resetMergeStateIfNeeded` lanes | RENAMED case fails — card keeps
`commitSha: "abc123"` from its previous pass |

Both DEFAULT cases pass before and after, which is why both vocabularies
run. Each has a non-vacuous companion (holder sitting in the complete
lane; a return from the hold lane) so a predicate matching every column
would not pass.

**Both reach their seam directly through a cast.** The public routes are
`handleBranchConflict` (needs a real `BranchConflictError` plus a git
repo) and the `task:moved` listener (drags in the whole `execute()`
path); going through either would make these tests about a git fixture
rather than about the lane predicate. The alternative was the status quo
— all 91 `executor-worktree*.test.ts` cases seed `column:
"in-progress"`, so they assert the legacy fallback and pass either way.
I shipped the conversions in one commit *stating* they were unproven,
then closed that gap in the next; the history shows both.

### Two fake defects found while writing those tests

Worth naming, because both are the documented green-for-the-wrong-reason
shape:

1. The first fake had no `updateTask`, so the cleanup **threw** rather
than asserting anything.
2. The second returned a new object without persisting — and
`cleanupMergeStateForReverification` **re-reads through `getTask`**. The
re-read handed back the stale row, so *both* vocabularies reported
"nothing changed" and it would have read as a passing negative test.

## Deliberately NOT converted, with reasons

- **The `task:moved` listener cluster** (`3521`/`3545`/`3596`/`3606`),
including the AGENTS Move-Task hard-cancel contract `userCanceled:
source === "user" && to === "todo"`. Its prologue is synchronous
(`userCanceledTaskIds.delete`, watchdog clear) and deferring it to a
microtask changes hard-cancel ordering. The sync IR reader is not an
option — it returns the DEFAULT workflow for every task in production. A
safe conversion needs lanes resolved on an earlier async boundary: new
machinery plus an ordering change, which is out of fleet scope and not a
guess worth making on a hard-cancel path.
- **`17081`** pairs `latestColumn === "in-progress"` with a
**hardcoded** `moveTask(taskId, "in-progress")` two lines above —
census-invisible, the same shape as the branch-worktree requeue bug in
#2797. They have to convert together, and the move needs the same
rejection guard.
- **`5903`** is the query-filter class: `listTasks({ column:
"in-progress" })` followed by a re-assertion of the same literal.
Converting it drops a count and changes nothing — see
`docs/solutions/architecture-patterns/self-healing-sweeps-are-blind-on-a-renamed-board.md`
(#2800).

## Verification

- `pnpm test:gate` — 161 + 487 + 13 + 71, green
- `npx tsc -p packages/engine/tsconfig.json --noEmit` — clean
- `pnpm lint` — clean
- `--strict` exits 0

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2026-07-30 12:02:41 -07:00
gsxdsm
f9f06a4fb7 engine tail: nine files to zero — incl. a census-INVISIBLE requeue into a lane that does not exist (−13) (#2797)
Follow-up to #2785. Nine engine files to **zero**, all one question —
*"is this task finished?"* — asked in nine places, wrong in every one on
a renamed board.

## Census, per file (measured, `--strict` verified)

| file | main | here |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| `agent-reflection.ts` | 2 | **0** |
| `merger-scope-auto-widen.ts` | 2 | **0** |
| `worktree-pool.ts` | 2 | **0** |
| `cli-agent/state-machine.ts` | 2 | **0** (reclassified — see below) |
| `auto-recovery-handlers/branch-worktree.ts` | 1 | **0** |
| `cli-agent/task-session.ts` | 1 | **0** (reclassified) |
| `merger-integration-worktree.ts` | 1 | **0** |
| `merger-orphan-rehome.ts` | 1 | **0** |
| `plugin-runner.ts` | 1 | **0** |
| **net** | | **−13** |

## The one worth reading: `branch-worktree` had TWO defects, and the
census could only see one

```ts
if (task.column === "in-progress") { …clear branch… }        // counted
await this.deps.taskStore.moveTask(task.id, "todo", { … });  // INVISIBLE
```

The census scores **comparisons**. The requeue *destination* is a call
argument, so nothing in the backlog ever pointed at it — and it is the
worse of the two: a board with no `todo` column was requeued into a lane
**that does not exist**. The counted literal is the smaller half (a
renamed wip lane meant the stale branch was never cleared, so the card
carried a dead branch back into execution).

Converting the comparison alone would have dropped a census count and
left the board requeuing into nowhere. Destination now resolves through
`resolveReboundTarget` (KTD-10 ordering: hold → intake → first column).

Reverted **independently**: destination restored → 2 fail (`moveTask`
called with `"todo"`, not `"backlog"`); wip test restored → 1 fail
(`updateTask` never called).

## The rest

- **`plugin-runner`** — `onTaskCompleted` never fired on a renamed
board. Every plugin that closes an issue, posts a notification, or
records a metric on completion **silently stopped**, with nothing
logged. Resolved *asynchronously* inside the existing fire-and-forget
seam, not via `resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync` — per
`sync-workflow-ir-callsite-allowlist` that reader returns the DEFAULT
workflow for every task in production, so a sync guard here would read
as converted and still be wrong. The listener is already
`void`-dispatched, so awaiting inside it changes no observable ordering
(the shape `NotificationService` already uses).
- **`merger-orphan-rehome`** — a renamed complete lane made every source
task read as unfinished, so orphaned commits were never rehomed and
stayed stranded off the integration branch. Resolves by the **trailer
id**, not `sourceTask.id`, which the fake store does not populate.
- **`agent-reflection`** — `classifyOutcome` returned `null` for every
finished task, so both callers treated completed work as nothing to
reflect on: one recorded `reflection:skipped` with reason
`"not-completed"`, the other silently `continue`d. Reflection captured
**nothing at all** on a custom board.
- **`worktree-pool`** — shipped tasks' worktrees stayed in the ACTIVE
set, so the reclaim pass never returned them and the board walks into
worktree exhaustion — a stall whose cause is invisible from the symptom.
- **`merger-scope-auto-widen`** — finished cards counted as active
claimants, so a merge was blocked by a task that no longer exists in any
meaningful sense.
- **`merger-integration-worktree`** — a shipped task still counted as a
live worktree user, so the integration worktree could never be reused
and the merge path took the slower rebuild every time.

## The census OVERSTATED the engine backlog by 3

`cli-agent/state-machine.ts` and `cli-agent/task-session.ts` compare
against `done` — but that is a **`CliMachineState`**
(`ready`/`busy`/`waitingOnInput`/`done`/`resuming`/`idle`) tracking one
CLI agent process. It never reads a board column. The census matches the
bare string.

Marked `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` rather than left for a later sweep to
"convert" a process state into a workflow role. Worth flagging
fleet-wide: the backlog total includes at least these three non-columns.

## Revert results (measured, each run)

| conversion | reverted → |
| --- | --- |
| `plugin-runner` complete gate | RENAMED case fails — `onTaskCompleted`
never invoked |
| `merger-orphan-rehome` source gate | RENAMED case fails —
`orphan:false, reason:"source-task-not-done"` |
| `branch-worktree` destination | 2 fail — `moveTask` called with
`"todo"` |
| `branch-worktree` wip test | 1 fail — `updateTask` never called |

Each has a **non-vacuous companion** (renamed board, non-complete lane /
mid-flight source / non-wip column) so a guard that fired
unconditionally would not pass.

**Four are NOT revert-proven, and I am not claiming otherwise:**
`agent-reflection`, `merger-scope-auto-widen`,
`merger-integration-worktree`, `worktree-pool`. Their suites omit a
workflow and therefore assert the legacy fallback — they pass before and
after. `merger-scope-auto-widen` has no test file at all;
`scanIdleWorktrees` is mocked in every suite that touches it and driving
it for real needs git worktrees on disk. All four strictly **widen** the
finished set (resolved roles ∪ the legacy ids), so default boards are
byte-identical. That is the argument for shipping them, not a substitute
for coverage.

## Examined and deliberately NOT converted

- **`backlog-pressure-reporter:173`** — fed by `listTasks({ column:
"todo" })`, a hardcoded **query** filter. On a renamed board `todoFull`
is empty and the predicate never runs. Converting it drops a census
count and changes nothing observable; the fix belongs at the query
layer.
- **`auto-merge-finalization:28`** — the catch-arm legacy fallback,
which must stay for the same reason `columnRoles.ts` keeps its id
fallback.
- **`auto-merge-finalization:84`** — only selects between two diagnostic
reason strings that are **both** `ok: false`, on a pure validator with
no store in scope. Converting it would thread a store through a pure
function to change a label.

## Merge resolution note

Merging main brought conflicts in `agent-assignment.ts` and
`ephemeral-worker-manager.ts`. **Main's versions won both** and mine are
dropped: main threads an optional `activeColumns` from
`scheduler.ts:2340` (a cleaner seam than widening the store type to
resolve internally), and its `isAgentIdle` carries a greptile P1 fix
mine lacked — `columnsWithFlag` membership rather than first-per-role,
so a workflow declaring two wip lanes has both recognised. That is the
fourth time in this program main's version of a contested file was the
better one.

## Verification

- `pnpm test:gate` — 161 + 487 + 13 + 71, green
- `npx tsc -p packages/engine/tsconfig.json --noEmit` — clean
- `pnpm lint` — clean
- `--strict` exits 0


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Workflow-dependent task completion now recognizes custom lifecycle
columns, including renamed boards.
* Recovery requeues tasks to the configured destination and clears
branch details only from the appropriate work-in-progress column.
* Improved handling of completed tasks, orphaned work, shared worktrees,
and scope evaluation across custom workflows.
* Plugin completion hooks now trigger for any column configured as
complete.
* **Tests**
* Added coverage for renamed workflow columns and custom completion,
recovery, and rehoming behavior.
* **Documentation**
  * Clarified CLI state terminology in internal developer comments.

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2026-07-30 11:28:54 -07:00
gsxdsm
5795d70b27 fix(engine): assignment load must be resolved per task — #2787 P1 follow-up (#2796)
Fix-forward for the P1 that arrived on **#2787 after it merged** — so it
lands as its own PR rather than a thread reply on merged code.

## The finding

`selectPermanentAgentForTask`'s `activeColumns` was resolved from the
**candidate** task's workflow and then applied to every row `listTasks`
returned. On a project running several workflows — the normal case —
assignments living in another workflow's load-bearing lanes vanished
from the tally, and the already-loaded-agent-wins bug returned through a
different door.

**A column id means something only relative to its OWN workflow.**
`blocker-fanout.ts` documents exactly this and offers a per-task
`classify`; the option is now that same shape rather than a third
invention:

```ts
countsAsAssignmentLoad?: (task: Task) => boolean
```

The scheduler resolves each assigned row against its own IR, sharing one
cache for the selection, so a board spanning three workflows reads three
IRs — not one per assigned card.

## Why this is the third round on the same parameter, stated plainly

1. I added the parameter and **never wired the caller** — inert in
production.
2. I wired it as a **union of wip+review**, which dropped hold/intake
and made it a *regression* for backlog work.
3. I resolved it from **one workflow** and applied it to all — this fix.

Each round was a smaller version of the same error: treating a lane
answer as global when it is per-task, and per-role when it is
per-membership. Worth recording because the first two rounds both looked
correct and both passed their tests — the tests asserted the renamed
case I was thinking about, not the shape of the data.

## Verification

- new cross-workflow case; reverting the predicate to a single
workflow's lanes **fails it**
- `agent-assignment` suite **14 passed**
- `pnpm test:gate` — **161 / 13 / 487 / 71** · lint clean · census
`--strict` exits 0

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2026-07-30 11:06:20 -07:00