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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.


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

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

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2026-07-30 15:38:10 -07:00
gsxdsm
68fd781eb8 test(engine): stop engine-default exiting 1 with zero failing tests (#2855)
## The problem

On `main`, the whole `engine-default` project exits **1 while reporting
736 files passed and 0 failed**:

```
Test Files  736 passed | 1 skipped (737)
     Tests  9944 passed | 14 skipped | 1 todo (9959)
    Errors  9 errors
```

Nine unhandled rejections — `TypeError: this.store.listTasks is not a
function`, all from `self-healing-db-corruption.test.ts`, raised *after*
its tests had passed.

That is worse than a plain failure: the lane is red, **nothing names a
test**, and a genuine regression landing later arrives in an already-red
lane where it reads as more of the same noise.

## Why the existing isolation didn't hold

The suite stubs every other maintenance sweep so only the corruption
path runs. But `runMaintenance` invokes the surfacing family like this:

```ts
{ name: "surface-in-review-stalled", fn: () => this.surfaceInReviewStalled(maintenanceSurfacing()) },
```

`maintenanceSurfacing()` lazily calls `openSurfacingCycle()`, which does
`await this.store.listTasks({ slim: false })`. **Spying on
`surfaceInReviewStalled` replaces the method, but the call site still
evaluates its argument** — so the shared cycle opened regardless,
against a mock store that deliberately implements only what corruption
surfacing needs.

## Two fixes that look right and are not

Both tried, both reverted — recorded because each is the obvious next
move:

| attempt | result |
|---|---|
| add `listTasks` to the mock | **3 tests fail** — the sweeps then run
far enough to record audit events the assertions don't expect |
| stub the 27 maintenance methods missing from the suite's lists | **5
tests fail, and all 9 errors remain** — `openSurfacingCycle` isn't among
`runMaintenance`'s own calls, so the drift was a real but unrelated gap
|

The second result is what located the fault: stubbing everything
`runMaintenance` calls does not silence the rejections, so they don't
originate there. The stack confirmed it —
`SelfHealingManager.openSurfacingCycle` at `self-healing.ts:8015`. I
should have read that stack before guessing twice.

## The fix

Stub the cycle itself. `null` is exactly what `openSurfacingCycle`
returns when the engine is paused, so every consumer already handles it,
and the corruption-surfacing path this suite exists to test is
untouched.

## Verification

- `self-healing-db-corruption.test.ts` — **6/6, 0 errors, exit 0**
- full `engine-default` project — **736 files passed, 9944 tests, 0
errors, exit 0** (was exit 1)
- `pnpm lint` — clean

Test-only change; no production file is touched, so no changeset.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 15:27:22 -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
5a3541315c fix(gate): pnpm test is red on main — stale exemptions, plus two false positives they were masking (#2851)
**`pnpm test` and `pnpm test:full` fail on `main` right now** (commit
`51934931e1`). Found by running the gates against `main` after my
earlier PRs landed, not by CI telling me.

> **Correction to this PR's first version.** I originally wrote that
`pnpm test:gate` was failing. It is not: `check-inert-flag-seams` runs
in the `pretest` and `pretest:full` hooks, not in `test:gate`. So the
blocking merge gate (Lint / Typecheck / Build / Gate) is unaffected and
PRs are not blocked — what is broken is every local `pnpm test` run,
which fails before a single test executes. Lower urgency than I claimed,
still worth fixing promptly, and I would rather correct the scope than
leave an overstated one standing.

Three causes, each surfaced by fixing the one before it.

## 1. Stale exemptions — the mechanism working

#2819 and #2823 merged, so the two `ALLOWED_OMISSIONS` entries covering
those call sites became stale and the staleness check failed them.
Removed. This is my cleanup: the entries were designed so they could not
outlive their fixes, and they didn t.

## 2. Renamed imports were not resolved

Removing the first entry surfaced:

```
enqueueMergeQueue() — best call passes 2 of 5
```

Its only production caller passes all five — through `import {
enqueueMergeQueue as enqueueMergeQueueAsync }`. Call sites were recorded
under the **local** name, so an aliased supplier was invisible and the
seam read as unsupplied. The local name is now mapped back to the
exported one.

## 3. Method calls were conflated with module functions

That fix then surfaced two engine sites as omitting — but
`store.enqueueMergeQueue(taskId, opts)` is a **2-arg `TaskStore`
method** that resolves the review columns internally (#2819), not the
5-arg module function sharing its name. Property-access calls are no
longer attributed to module-level seams.

**Tradeoff, stated at the site:** a genuine `namespace.fn(...)` call is
now skipped. This codebase calls module functions as bare identifiers,
and aliases are resolved by fix 2, so that shape does not currently
occur. Recorded rather than left for someone to discover.

## Both directions re-verified

A fix that quietly disarms the gate would be worse than the red, so I
re-ran the defects it exists to catch:

| mutation | result |
|---|---|
| drop `Column.tsx`'s flags argument (partial supply) | `supplied by
10/11 call sites; omitted at .../Column.tsx:1 (of 2)` |
| drop the aliased 5-arg supplier (wholly unsupplied) | `best call
passes 3 of 5` |
| restored | exit 0 |

My first attempt at the second row grepped for the wrong message shape
and printed nothing. **I re-ran it rather than reading silence as
success** — which is the failure this gate exists to prevent, and one I
have made in this same file before.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` green (it was never affected) · `node
scripts/check-inert-flag-seams.mjs` exit 0 · lint 0 · gate reports `21
lane/flag seams, all supplied at every production call site`.

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2026-07-30 15:10:45 -07:00
gsxdsm
89aaf341d0 the unwired-seam audit: 9 defects the census cannot see, incl. a reviewed card that cannot merge (#2820)
**Nine operator-visible defects in a class the census cannot see, plus
the audit method that found them.**

The census scans for lifecycle-column **comparisons**. This PR is about
guards that have no literal to find: a helper takes an optional
*resolved* lane set, its own test passes it, the census entry is gone —
and the callers pass nothing. **A resolved seam nobody wired is
indistinguishable from no seam at all.**

## What was broken

| defect | operator sees |
| --- | --- |
| `getTaskMergeBlocker` unwired in `mergeTaskImpl` | `Cannot merge FN-1:
task is in 'checking', must be in 'in-review'` — **a reviewed card
cannot merge** |
| …and in the completion move | `Cannot move FN-1 to done: …` — **and
cannot complete** |
| `isParkedTaskColumn` unwired ×2 (`agent-heartbeat`) | a durable agent
keeps claiming a parked card; **Health Check renders it RUNNING** |
| `resolveLinkSyncColumnRoles` first-per-role | link hygiene skips a
**second hold lane** entirely |
| `executor` active-task predicate first-per-role | a card in a **second
wip lane reads as INACTIVE**; its prompt file becomes reclaimable |
| `isPlanningContinuationTaskDispatchable` partially threaded | a board
declaring `done` as *non-terminal* stalls its cards — **stalled by a
lane name** |
| `default-workflow-hooks:72`, `executor:2404` | resolved gate admits
the move, unresolved blocker refuses it |

## The recurring shape, which is sharper than "a caller forgot an
argument"

Four sites resolve the lane and then re-ask with the literal, **a few
lines apart in the same function**:

- `task-artifacts-ops` resolves `completeColumn`, then asks the blocker
with the literal.
- `default-workflow-hooks:72` gates on `lifecycleColumns?.review`, then
the literal.
- `executor:2404` compares `resolveResumeLanes(…).review`, then the
literal.
- `resolvePlanningContinuationCandidate` applies the caller's terminal
set, then delegates without it.

**Grep for the helper, not the literal.** The literal is one function
away, correctly annotated as a fallback — which is exactly why the
census is blind to all of it.

## The arity trap, named and measured (six occurrences, one caught by
review here)

`resolveLifecycleColumns` answers *"which column is **the** hold
lane?"*. A `.includes()`/`.has()` test asks *"is this **any** hold
lane?"*. Nothing distinguishes them — same types, no literal.

**A default-vs-renamed differential cannot catch it**, because the
default board declares one column per role and therefore cannot express
the failing shape. It needs a *structurally* different fixture. That is
a sharper rule than "test both vocabularies", and it would have caught
all six.

Scanned: 12 candidate sites. **4 fixed · 3 blocked (2 on the inert sync
IR reader; `triage:833` also query-shaped) · 1 needs a hook-contract
change · 3 not defects (a returned tuple; an ordering-sensitive
precedence list) · 1 false positive of my own scan.**

A sweep over all twelve would have broken the ordering-sensitive pair,
delivered nothing at the sync-blocked ones, and "fixed" a site that was
already correct.

## Two traps in fixing this class — I hit both here

1. **The legacy id is a FALLBACK, not a member.** Pre-seeding
`"in-review"` admits a board that *declares* `in-review` as its WIP
column — a card mid-implementation merges prematurely. A real resolved
answer must **replace** the default. (Caught by review; it is the same
unscoped-legacy-acceptance the glasses plugin's review caught earlier,
which I had read and reintroduced.)
2. **Two guards, one assertion.** `toContain("must be in")` passed with
`mergeTaskImpl` reverted, because the *completion* guard caught the card
instead. The assertion now names the site (`Cannot merge` vs `Cannot
move … to done`) so the two fail independently.

## Corrections I made to my own work, recorded rather than quietly fixed

- My first PG test was **vacuous three ways**:
`saveWorkflowDefinition?.()`/`setTaskWorkflowSelection?.()` do not exist
(the `?.` swallowed both, so the task kept the builtin workflow),
`updateTask({column})` does not move a card, and a two-node IR made
every setup move illegal. Premise is now **asserted**, not assumed.
- My doc claimed the audit was complete. It enumerated **helpers**, not
every **caller** — `getTaskMergeBlocker` alone has 13 call sites.
Corrected in place, with the still-unwired ones listed by file and line
and a note to distrust any "audit complete" claim including mine.
- A severity correction to another worker's E2E:
`selectActionablePlanningContinuations` has **no production caller**, so
its stated consequence is latent, not live.

## Verification

- `pnpm test:gate` — 161 + 487 + 13 + 71
- `tsc` on core and engine; `pnpm lint`; `check:changesets`; census
`--strict` — all clean, each run explicitly
- Every fix revert-measured; each has a non-vacuous companion. The
two-hold-lane and repurposed-`in-review` cases exist because the default
board cannot express those shapes.

## Deliberately not done, with reasons in
`resolved-seams-nobody-wired.md`

`isTaskReadyForMerge` (dead in production — wiring it would be the
anti-pattern itself); `getTaskHardMergeBlocker` (3 of 4 callers are
query-gated sweeps); `getInReviewStallReason` (needs a **batch
prefetch**, not a per-task resolve — its callers decorate every task on
every list read; the in-review stall badge is wrong on renamed boards
until then); `default-workflow-hooks` planning/live-work sets (needs
`DefaultWorkflowMoveContext` to carry the IR — a shared contract
change).
2026-07-30 15:08:01 -07:00
gsxdsm
aca25494a5 test(dashboard): App.test.tsx is fully green — an incomplete mock was crashing NewTaskModal (#2846)
Closes #2829. `App.test.tsx` has been red since **2026-07-25**; #2833
took it 10 failures → 2, and this takes it to **0**.

## The cause, and it was not what I guessed

`vi.mock("../../hooks/useViewportMode")` did not export
`isShortViewport`, which `NewTaskModal` imports.

An incomplete module mock **does not fail at the mock**. It throws
inside whichever component imports the missing export, and the nearest
`ErrorBoundary` swallows that into *"This section encountered an error"*
— so the test failed on a **missing heading** with a DOM that looks
perfectly healthy. Structurally the same presentation as the
workflow-skeleton bug in #2833: the real failure sits two layers below
what the assertion reports.

Both remaining tests had this one cause.

## Found by probing, not theorising

I had already been wrong twice on this file (`renders nothing`, then
i18n), and my standing note said the modal was "plausibly FN-8620's
FloatingWindow rework, **unverified**". That would have been a third
wrong guess. Instead I dumped what was actually in the DOM at the
assertion point:

```
headings: ["Fusion"] | dialogs: 0
newtask-ish: [..., "error-boundary error-boundary--modal"]
```

The `error-boundary--modal` class was the entire answer; reading its
text gave the exact missing export. Same technique that cracked #2833 in
one shot — the difference between the two halves of this investigation
is that I stopped guessing.

**App.test.tsx: 141 passed (141).**

## Also patched, and one deliberately not

- **`Header.mobile-project-favorites.test.tsx`** mocks the same module
with an inline factory and lacks the export. It is **latent, not
broken** — its component does not import `isShortViewport` yet, and the
day it does, the failure would be this same swallowed crash. One line.
- **`FloatingWindow.touch-geometry.test.tsx`** greps as missing but is
**not** — it uses `{ ...(await vi.importActual(...)) }`, so its surface
is complete by construction. My grep-based classification was a false
positive.

That spread is the pattern that prevents this class outright, and it is
the better fix **where it is available**. It is not available here:
App.test.tsx's mock exists precisely so tests need no
`window.matchMedia` in jsdom, and spreading the real module would
reintroduce that dependency for every unstubbed export. So the scoped
one-line stub is the right fix for this file, and the spread is the
recommendation for new mocks.

A guard asserting "a module mock exports everything the real module
does" would close this class repo-wide. I did not build it — 34 files
mock this module and only one was genuinely wrong, so the population
does not yet justify another instrument, by the same measure-first rule
that killed two other candidate gates this week.

## Verification

App.test.tsx 141/141 · the two touched siblings 9/9 · `tsc` 0 · lint 0.

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gsxdsm
7927c7b58a docs(testing): probe the DOM before theorising about a missing element (#2850)
Earned the hard way this week: three separate causes in `App.test.tsx`
and `board-mobile-view-switch.test.tsx` all presented **identically** as
a missing element, each with a DOM that looked healthy.

| what the test said | what was actually wrong |
|---|---|
| `Unable to find "+ New Task"` | `ListView` rendered its workflow
**skeleton**, which carries the same `list-view` class as the real body
— so the preceding `waitFor(".list-view")` passed |
| `Unable to find role="heading" "New Task"` | `NewTaskModal` **threw**
— an incomplete `vi.mock` was missing `isShortViewport` — and an
`ErrorBoundary` swallowed it |
| `Unable to find [data-testid="switch-to-board"]` | an uncaught render
error **unmounted the entire React root**; the DOM was already empty
three lines earlier |

The part worth recording is the hit rate. **Three theories were offered
before any probe — "the board renders nothing", "i18n is returning
keys", "the FloatingWindow rework" — and all three were wrong.** Three
probes each landed the cause on the first try. Those wrong theories cost
days; the probe is four lines.

The doc records the snippet, what each signal means (`error-boundary` in
the DOM = a swallowed throw, and its text names a missing mock export
exactly; empty DOM with no boundary = unmounted root, so trust the
*first* failing assertion not the reported one; container present but
contents absent = a skeleton standing in), and the corollary for writing
assertions:

> Wait on a marker only the real thing has.

A class shared with a loading or empty state turns *"the list rendered"*
into *"something rendered"*, and the test then fails one line later
against a DOM that looks fine. That is why `list-view-body` exists
(#2834).

Placed under the dashboard testing sections in `docs/testing.md`. Docs
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gsxdsm
21e688e1f9 fix(glasses): ?columns= silently returned the WHOLE board on a renamed board (#2849)
A lane-literal defect the census cannot see — the literals are
**Set/Array members**, not comparisons — in a live plugin, with **no
test coverage on the filter at all**. That absence is how the inversion
survived.

## The bug

```ts
const ALLOWED_COLUMNS = ["triage", "todo", "in-progress", "in-review", "done", "archived"];

function parseColumns(raw) {
  const parsed = raw.split(",").filter(v => ALLOWED_COLUMNS.includes(v));
  return parsed.length ? new Set(parsed) : null;   // ← `null` ALSO means "no filter requested"
}
```

On a board whose lanes are named anything else, every requested id is
discarded, `parsed.length` is `0`, and the function returns `null` —
**the same value it returns when no filter was requested**. The caller
then does `columns ? all.filter(...) : all`, so the route answers `200`
with the **entire board**.

Asking for one column returns all of them. Nothing in the response says
the filter was dropped. The list also still named `triage`, a column U11
deleted, so it described a board that no longer exists in either
direction.

## The fix

No allow-list can be correct here and none is needed. Valid ids are
whatever the project's workflows declare, and `Task["column"]` is
already `ColumnId = Column | (string & {})` — open by construction.
Filtering directly on the requested ids needs **no resolution source at
all**, which is why this literal, unlike the display ordering in
`cards.ts` (documented DELIBERATE-LITERAL: this package depends on
`@fusion/plugin-sdk` only, so there is no IR or store to resolve from),
is a defect rather than a deferral.

**Deliberate behaviour change:** `?columns=nonsense` now returns an
**empty deck** instead of the whole board. "Show me column X" answered
with every column is not a lenient default — it is the bug wearing a
200.

## Revert proof (measured)

Restore the allow-list and **both** new cases fail:

```
FAIL > filters on a RENAMED lane instead of silently returning the whole board
  expected [ { id: 'summary', …(5) }, …(2) ] to have a length of 2 but got 3
FAIL > answers an unknown column with an EMPTY deck, not with everything
  expected [ { id: 'summary', …(5) }, …(2) ] to have a length of 1 but got 3
```

Both directions are asserted on purpose: a filter that matched *nothing*
would satisfy the renamed-lane case alone while being equally broken.

## Not changed, and why

`plugins/fusion-plugin-even-cards` carries the **identical** bug — I
wrote the fix there first. It was removed from the pnpm workspace
(`858bab2`, "remove `fusion-plugin-even-cards` from the active workspace
package list to avoid duplicate user-facing integrations") and its
README names this plugin as its replacement, so it is not built, tested,
or shipped by anything. Fixing it would only imply it still runs.
Reverted and left alone.

## Verification

- `pnpm test:gate` — 161 / 487 / 13 / 71 passed
- `pnpm lint` — clean
- `tsc --noEmit` (`@fusion-plugin-examples/even-realities-glasses`) —
clean
- full plugin suite — 188 passed across 19 files
- census `--strict` — exit 0 (unchanged: these literals are Set members,
invisible to it)

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gsxdsm
d252c4e0cf fix(glasses): finished cards were crowding live work off the deck on a renamed board (#2854)
Not a labelling bug. `boardToDeck` filters finished cards out of a deck
that is **capped at `maxCards`**, so on a board whose complete lane is
named anything but `done`/`archived`, every finished card **consumes a
slot and displaces live work**. The wearer sees fewer live tasks the
more the team finishes — which reads as "nothing is happening", not as a
defect.

```ts
const active = tasks.filter((task) => task.column !== "archived" && task.column !== "done")
  .sort(...)
  .slice(0, Math.max(0, maxCards - 1));   // ← the cap is what makes this bite
```

## Correcting an earlier DELIBERATE-LITERAL call

This site was marked **DELIBERATE-LITERAL — no resolution source in this
package**. That reasoning was inherited from the **deprecated**
`fusion-plugin-even-cards`, which depends on `@fusion/plugin-sdk` alone.
**This** package lists `@fusion/core` as a runtime dependency and
already calls `resolveWorkflowIrById` / `resolveLifecycleColumns` in
`quick-capture.ts` and `agent-actions.ts`.

The half that *was* right: `cards.ts` genuinely cannot resolve anything
— it takes plain `Task` rows. So the lane answer becomes a parameter and
the **route** supplies it: one `listWorkflowDefinitions()` read per
request regardless of board size, matching how `?columns=` already
treats the board as a single pool. Best-effort, so a failed resolve
leaves the deck on its documented default rather than failing the
request — a slightly-wrong deck beats no deck on a pair of glasses.

`terminalColumns` is in the `unwired-lane-parameter` vocabulary, so an
unwired version of this parameter fails the build instead of sitting
here looking converted. (That guard only learned to see this class in
#2852.)

## Revert proof (measured)

```
FAIL > does not let a card in a RENAMED complete lane displace live work
  expected [ 'summary', 'FN-SHIPPED' ] to deeply equal [ 'summary', 'FN-LIVE' ]
```

`maxCards: 2` in the fixture is load-bearing — one summary card plus
exactly one task slot, so an unfiltered finished card **displaces** the
live one rather than merely joining it. A larger cap would let both
through and the case would pass either way.

The second case pins the degraded default (legacy `done`/`archived`
still filtered when the caller resolved nothing), since most boards
never rename anything.

## Not changed

`cards.ts:187` — `task.column === "in-review" ? "In review" : "Moved
in"` in the notification title. Genuinely cosmetic: a review card on a
renamed board reads "Moved in" instead of "In review". No slot is lost
and no decision is made from it, and `notificationCard` has no options
object to thread a lane answer through, so converting it means widening
a signature for a label. Left with the finding stated rather than
silently swept in.

## Verification

- `pnpm test:gate` — 161 / 487 / 13 / 71 passed
- `pnpm lint` — clean
- `tsc --noEmit` (`@fusion-plugin-examples/even-realities-glasses`) —
clean
- full plugin suite — 188 passed across 19 files
- unwired-lane guard — 6/6, no new entries
- census `--strict` — exit 0

Touches `board-routes.ts`, which #2849 also edits (different hunk —
`parseColumns` vs the handlers), so the two merge cleanly in either
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gsxdsm
c0e647f320 test(dashboard): name the skeleton in board-mobile-view-switch instead of the shared class (#2848)
Closes the last item I left open on #2834 — the two cases that were
passing against a skeleton.

## The weakness

They asserted `.list-view` to mean *"we are in list view"*. The workflow
**skeleton** carries that same class, so they matched it and passed
**without the list ever drawing**. I found this while adding the
`list-view-body` marker in #2834, tried to fix it, hit a dead end, and
reverted rather than leave two green tests red.

## Fixed by making the assertion honest, not by forcing the real body

This harness renders `<ListView>` with a deliberately small `../../api`
mock and no workflows, so the skeleton **is** what appears — and that is
fine, because the subject of these cases is the **board's** structure
after switching, not the list's contents. Naming the skeleton says what
the test actually observes.

## Why not the real body — measured, and it explains the earlier dead
end

Supplying the shared `DEFAULT_BOARD_WORKFLOWS` fixture makes ListView
render its full body, which **throws** under this file's api mock. The
harness has no `ErrorBoundary`, so React unmounts the entire root: the
DOM goes completely empty and every later query fails with a misleading
`Unable to find switch-to-board`.

That is precisely the failure I could not explain on #2834. A probe
placed after the await settled it:

```
PROBE after-await testids: [] | boundary: none
```

Empty DOM, no boundary — an uncaught render error taking the root down,
presenting as a missing button three lines later. Upgrading this to the
real body means expanding an api mock inside a file about board CSS
structure, which is a bigger change than the assertion is worth. The
reasoning is recorded at the site so the next person does not rediscover
it the way I did.

## The assertion is load-bearing, not just renamed

Mutating the skeleton's own `data-testid` in `ListView.tsx`:

```
TestingLibraryElementError: Unable to find an element by: [data-testid="list-workflows-skeleton"]   (x2)
```

Restoring it: `Tests 3 passed`.

## Verification

3/3 · `tsc` 0 · lint 0.

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gsxdsm
bebbdf9083 fix(tests): main red — archive restore returns to the ARCHIVED lane now (#2832) (#2847)
## Red on main

```
store-archive-reads > TaskStore archived read parity (PostgreSQL)
  > rebuilds a missing live row before consuming its archive snapshot
AssertionError: expected 'done' to be 'todo'
```

## The product change is a real fix

**#2832** found that `preArchiveColumn` has no database column — it
exists on the `Task` type and in the archive snapshot and nowhere else —
so the old code fell through to a literal and decided the destination
the same way for **every unarchive that has ever run**. On a custom
board that meant a card archived mid-implementation came back marked
*finished*.

That PR flipped its own characterization cases. This one, in a different
file, was missed. The fixture creates the card in `done`, so `done` is
the answer now.

## I measured a second sample before encoding a rule

The behaviour is **narrower than "restores to the lane it came from"**.
With the fixture changed to `in-progress`, restore returns **`todo`** —
not `in-progress`:

| archived from | restored to |
|---|---|
| `done` | `done` |
| `in-progress` | **`todo`** |

A terminal lane is preserved; a WIP lane is re-queued. That is plausible
product behaviour — a card cannot resume mid-execution after a restore —
but it is **not what #2832's summary describes**, so I have flagged it
there rather than encoding it here. If re-queueing WIP is deliberate it
deserves its own case; if it is not, this snapshot-rebuild path still
carries the defect #2832 fixed elsewhere.

## An honest limitation, recorded in the test

This assertion is **weaker than it looks and cannot be strengthened
here**: `done` is also the complete lane, which is exactly what the
pre-#2832 *"no usable history"* branch returned. A card archived from
`done` therefore reads identically under both the fixed and the broken
implementation.

My first attempt "strengthened" it by moving the fixture to
`in-progress` — that is what surfaced the second behaviour above, and
shipping it would have encoded a rule inferred from two samples.
Reverted; the limitation is documented instead.

## Scope

Only the line-205 case is touched. Line 218 asserts `todo` for a card
genuinely archived from `todo` and still passes — the two are not the
same claim.

Core **4813 passed / 0 failed** · gate **732 green** · lint clean.
Test-only.

## Pre-flight results for the current queue

Merged-with-main, engine + core on each:

| PR | result |
|---|---|
| #2822, #2819, #2823, #2818 | only the 2 inherited
`workflow-ir-resolver` failures (fixed in #2836, now merged) |
| #2805 | clean |
| #2828 | inherited only, once this and #2836 land |
| #2830 | inherited only |
| #2820, #2803, #2808 | **conflict** with main — census baseline; told
the owners to regenerate rather than hand-merge |

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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`
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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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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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gsxdsm
f53c9dbd39 fix(core): merge re-enqueue threw on every board with a renamed review column (#2819)
The single most consequential finding from the u12 seam-gate work,
picked up because batch-core (#2783) merged without it and it is now
unowned.

## The defect

`enqueueMergeQueueInTransaction` gates on the task's column being a
review column, and takes the board's review columns as an optional
trailing argument.

- `moves.ts:487` and `moves.ts:1153` — the automatic handoff-to-review
path — resolve and pass them.
- The public `enqueueMergeQueue` wrapper
(`async-merge-coordination.ts:246`), reached through
`store.enqueueMergeQueue`, **did not**, so it fell back to `new
Set(["in-review"])`.

This is not the quiet legacy-id degradation most of these seams produce.
The reject branch records `mergeQueue:enqueue-rejected` and **throws**
`MergeQueueInvalidColumnError`. Its production callers are
`merger.ts:7251` and `self-healing.ts:10329` — so on any board whose
review lane is renamed, the merge and recovery re-enqueue paths failed
outright while the handoff path kept working.

## Measured, not asserted

With the fix reverted, the renamed case fails with the exact predicted
error and the controls stay green:

```
× renamed vocabulary: a task in the RENAMED review lane enqueues for merge
  MergeQueueInvalidColumnError: Task KB-001 is in column 'checking', not 'in-review'; cannot enqueue
✓ default vocabulary: a task in the review lane enqueues for merge
✓ renamed vocabulary: a task in the WIP lane is still REJECTED
✓ default vocabulary: a task in the WIP lane is still REJECTED
  Tests  1 failed | 3 passed (4)
```

With it: `Tests 4 passed (4)`.

## About the suite

**Differential.** The fixture is the builtin coding workflow with only
its column ids renamed, so the sole difference between the two runs is
vocabulary — a hand-built graph would test the fixture's own transition
table as much as the code. It asserts the rename actually landed
(`checking` present, `in-review` absent), so a surviving literal cannot
pass by luck, and it walks the graph rather than jumping, because moves
are transition-validated.

**Both negatives included.** A WIP-lane task must still be REJECTED
under each vocabulary. Supplying the real columns must not degrade into
"every column is a review column", which would let work merge straight
out of the WIP lane — the failure mode a careless version of this fix
would introduce.

## Why nothing caught it

Partial supply. Two of three call sites passed the argument, so a check
asking "does SOME caller supply this?" reported the seam as satisfied,
and the lifecycle-column census counted the conversion as done. Closing
that one-supplier floor in `scripts/check-inert-flag-seams.mjs` (on
#2772) is what surfaced it.

## Verification

- `pnpm test:gate` green
- new suite 4/4; neighbouring merge-queue suites (`taskstore-lifecycle`,
`store-in-review-stall`, `runtime-lifecycle-async`) 29/29
- `tsc -p packages/core` 0, lint 0
- changeset included (`@runfusion/fusion` patch)

Note: #2772 still carries a TEMPORARY per-call-site exemption for this
seam. Once this lands, that exemption's staleness check will fail and I
will remove it there — it cannot outlive the fix.

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gsxdsm
be12ca905b docs(workflow-learnings): the fifth shape — converted consumer, literal-passing producer (#2835)
Found by the operator reviewing **my own** shipped fix (#2823). It
belongs in this document because it is the only shape so far that every
instrument in the program reported as done.

## The defect

`clearNearDuplicateReferencesTo` was converted to resolve the
canonical's column flags, and my test proved that by supplying `column:
"shipped"`. Both production call sites in `moves.ts` gated on the
**resolved** complete lane and then passed the literal `column: "done"`.
The consumer was correct; the producer was never converted; and the
hand-supplied fixture value is exactly what hid it.

Why nothing caught it:

- the **census** counts comparisons — a value passed as an argument is
not a comparison;
- the **seam check** asks whether callers *supply* the argument — these
did, with a literal;
- the **test** supplied the interesting value itself, so it exercised
the consumer and never the producer.

And the part I would have got wrong: driving the flow end to end still
does **not** distinguish them. The consumer looks the passed column up
in the canonical's IR, finds nothing for `done` on a renamed board, and
falls through to the legacy predicate where `done` *is* terminal — right
answer, wrong reason. It only bites on a board that declares a `done`
column **without** the complete trait.

## The rule

> A differential test must vary the value the **production** code
computes, not one the test hands in.

If the fixture passes the lane name, it has tested the consumer. Who
computes that argument in production, and do they compute it or spell
it, is a separate question — and the one that was wrong here.

## Measured, so nobody builds the wrong instrument

An AST probe for call arguments shaped `{ column: "<legacy id>" }` finds
**79 sites** across `packages/`. It correctly flags the two real
`moves.ts` offenders — but most of the rest are legitimate: `set({
column: "archived" })` writing the archive state, `listTasks({ column:
"todo" })` filtering a query.

So a blocking gate on this shape needs a curated list of consumers that
interpret a column as a **role**, as opposed to storing or filtering it
— a per-consumer judgment call, not a mechanical check. **Recorded
rather than built**, and deliberately not attempted on top of five
unmerged PRs in packages I do not own.

I also verified one nearby call site that a naive version of this probe
flags and which is **not** a defect: `archive-lifecycle-2.ts:353` passes
`column: "archived"`, but that path sets `task.column = "archived"`
unconditionally, so it is passing the column the card actually reached.
Exactly what the operator's fix is about.

Docs only — no changeset.

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gsxdsm
4c5080c1cf fix(tests): main red — the IR fallback is a BRANDED COPY, so identity can't hold (#2836)
## Red on main

```
workflow-ir-resolver > resolveWorkflowIrForTask > falls back to the built-in default when the definition is missing
workflow-ir-resolver > resolveWorkflowIrById  > falls back to the canonical IR for an unknown built-in id

AssertionError: expected { version: 'v2', …(6), …(1) } to be { version: 'v2', …(6) }
  Received: serializes to the same string
  Compared values have no visual difference.
```

That message is the signature of an **identity-only** break, and that is
exactly what it is.

## Why identity can never hold again

Both asserted `toBe` against the exported builtin constant. **#2815**
added `markFellBack`:

```ts
function markFellBack(ir: WorkflowIr): WorkflowIr {
  const copy = { ...ir } as WorkflowIr;
  Object.defineProperty(copy, FELL_BACK_TO_DEFAULT, { value: true, enumerable: false, configurable: true });
  return copy;
}
```

It brands the fallback so a caller can tell a **resolved** workflow from
a **guessed** one — the provenance contract #2618 introduced. Copying
*is* the mechanism, so these two paths cannot return the shared object.

Worth noting: the sibling `toBe` assertions in the same file **still
pass**. The no-selection and throwing-selection paths return the
constant unbranded, so only the two `markFellBack` paths changed — which
is why this presents as two failures rather than five, and why it is a
genuine contract change rather than a blanket refactor.

## Not just loosening to `toEqual`

Swapping `toBe` → `toEqual` alone would delete a real assertion. The
**brand is asserted too**, via the public provenance API rather than by
reaching for the private symbol:

```ts
expect(ir).toEqual(BUILTIN_STEPWISE_FINAL_REVIEW_CODING_WORKFLOW_IR);
const provenance = await resolveWorkflowIrForTaskWithProvenance(store, "t1");
expect(provenance.source).toBe("default");
```

This is **stronger** than the identity check it replaces:

| mutation | result |
|---|---|
| fallback no longer branded | **fails** — `expected 'selection' to be
'default'` |
| fallback returns a different IR entirely | **fails** structurally |

The first is the case the old `toBe` could not articulate: an unbranded
fallback still equals the constant structurally, so a caller asking
*"was this actually resolved?"* would get **yes for a guess** —
precisely the lie #2815 exists to prevent.

Core **4792 passed / 0 failed** (was 2 failed) · gate **732 green** ·
lint clean. Test-only; the resolver is restored clean after the
mutations.

## How it was found

Pre-flighting **#2822, #2819, #2823 and #2818** merged-with-main. All
four reported the *same two* failures — the signature of an inherited
red rather than four independent regressions. Confirmed directly on
`origin/main`. Each of those four is otherwise green (engine 11003
passed on all of them); I have noted that on the PRs.

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2026-07-30 14:20:18 -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
fe8f3af751 fix(gate): barrel imports were silently dropped from the inert-seam check, hiding 5 engine omissions (#2822)
**Self-reported regression from #2772, which has already merged.** The
seam gate on main currently prints a clean bill of health while five
real omissions sit in front of it.

## What broke

Closing the imported-shadow hole in #2772 taught the check to record
which module each callee was imported from, and to exclude a call site
whose module basename does not match the seam's declaring module. That
works for relative imports. It does not work for barrel imports.

Engine and CLI reach core through `import { ... } from "@fusion/core"`.
That specifier's basename is `core`, which never matches a module name
like `near-duplicate-canonical` — so **every barrel-imported call site
was classified as "a different function of the same name" and dropped.**
The check stopped seeing engine's and cli's calls into core entirely,
which is most of the cross-package surface it exists to watch.

## Measured

On `main` today:

```
[check-inert-flag-seams] 21 lane/flag seams, all supplied at every production call site.
```

With this fix:

```
packages/core/src/near-duplicate-canonical.ts: isNearDuplicateCanonicalInactive()
  — supplied by 6/11 call sites; omitted at
    packages/engine/src/self-healing.ts (x2), packages/engine/src/triage.ts (x3)
```

Those five were always there. Earlier I reported this seam as "supplied
by 5/6" — that number was wrong for this reason, and the engine sites
were invisible to me when I said it.

## The rule now

Only a **relative** specifier identifies a module well enough to exclude
a call site on. Anything else is unresolved, and unresolved must mean
**counted**: an over-counted seam produces a false report somebody
investigates, an under-counted one produces silence. I had this
backwards, and it is the second time in this lane a change made the gate
read cleaner while catching less.

## Both directions verified

- **Barrel imports counted** — the five engine sites appear.
- **Relative shadows still excluded** — lifting the
`sortTasksForDisplayColumn` entry still reports it unsupplied, so
`Lane`/`Board`/`ListView` calling the dashboard twin through
`"./taskSorting"` does not clear core's seam. That was the entire point
of the original fix and it still holds.

## The five engine omissions

Not fixed here — engine-owned, reported on #2785. Same shape as the
merge-queue bug in #2819: a canonical resting in a **renamed active
column** reads as *inactive*, so duplicate markers get cleared against
live work.

They carry TEMPORARY per-file exemptions so this PR is green and
self-announcing. Noted at the entry: the key is `<file>::<function>`, so
a file with two omitting calls is exempted for both — coarser than I
want, recorded rather than left to be discovered.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` green, lint 0.

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gsxdsm
7bf3df9477 chore(core): delete the dead merge-blocker guard, and catch exemptions for deleted seams (#2830)
Closes the last of the five findings I reported to batch-core (#2783),
which merged without them. This one I held back twice on purpose; the
reason is now resolved.

## The dead code

`evaluateMergeBlockerGuard` had **exactly one reference in the repo: its
own declaration.** Never called, never re-exported from
`index.ts`/`index.gate.ts`, never registered as a trait hook. Its
`lifecycleColumns` conversion was applied to dead code, and the census
counted it as progress.

## Why I would not delete it earlier, and what changed

I twice declined this, because no production `"guard"` trait hook is
registered anywhere in the codebase — the only
`registerTraitHookImpl(..., "guard", ...)` is in a test. If a
registration had been dropped, that would be a real product bug and this
function would be its evidence, so deleting it would have destroyed the
breadcrumb.

**It is not missing.** Merge blocking is enforced inline in
`task-store/moves.ts` (~645 and ~821) via `getTaskMergeBlocker`, gated
on the **resolved trait flags** (`toFacts.flags.complete` +
`fromFacts.flags.mergeBlocker`) rather than on column ids — a better
implementation than the one being deleted. The logic moved; this
function, and a file-header line crediting a never-existent
`evaluateDefaultWorkflowGuards` reader, were left behind.

The header now records where the guard actually lives, so the next
person does not repeat the investigation I just did.

Also removed: `GuardVerdict` (its return type, used nowhere else) and
the orphaned `getTaskMergeBlocker` import — the latter caught by lint,
not by me.

## The gap this exposed

The allow-list staleness check only fired for a seam the scan still
**finds** — it asks *"is this site supplied now?"*. Delete the
declaration and the name is never iterated, so its entry sits in the
list forever, exempting nothing and misreporting what is tolerated.

I found this by deleting the function and watching the gate stay
**silent** about its leftover entry.

**Measured:** an `ALLOWED` entry naming a non-existent seam now fails
with `no such seam declared any more; remove its ALLOWED entry`;
removing the probe returns exit 0. The failure header is reworded, since
"the sites are supplied now" no longer covers both reasons.

This is the fourth blind spot closed in this check, and like the others
it was found by exercising the gate rather than reading it.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` green · `tsc -p packages/core` 0 · lint 0 · gate now
reports **20** seams (was 21 — the drop is this deletion).

No changeset: deleting unreachable internal code with no exported
surface is behaviour-preserving.

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2026-07-30 14:09:10 -07:00
gsxdsm
c601a22c0c chore(gate): the sortTasksForDisplayColumn exemption is permanent, not pending — with evidence (#2831)
The last of my five batch-core findings, resolved by **not** changing
code. Recording why, because "leave it" is the kind of decision that
rots into "nobody looked".

## What was wrong with the entry

It read `TEMPORARY: core-owned; reported on #2783`. That PR merged
without picking it up, so the entry implied an owner who was going to
act, and none exists. A stale exemption misreports what the project
tolerates — exactly the rot the staleness checks exist to prevent, and
one they cannot catch: the site is genuinely still unsupplied, so
nothing fires.

## Evidence, gathered rather than assumed

- **Zero callers anywhere.** The three dashboard call sites (`Lane`,
`Board`, `ListView`) bind to a **different function of the same name**
in `app/components/taskSorting.ts`. Only its own tests pass the flags.
- **Not reachable externally.** `@fusion/core` is private;
`@runfusion/fusion` declares no `exports` map and re-exports nothing
from core wholesale; it is absent from `plugin-sdk`.

So there is no production behaviour to be wrong, and no supplier to wire
it from.

## Why I did not "fix" it

This check's usual remedy is *wire a supplier, or delete the parameter
and leave the literal counted*. Neither is right here:

- **Deleting the parameter** trades a dormant-but-correct implementation
for a dormant legacy-only one. The parameter is optional and harmless;
the only thing it costs is that the census once counted it as a
conversion when it changed nothing — and that is now recorded rather
than hidden.
- **Deleting the function** discards a well-documented ordering (the
note enumerates three real renamed-board defects) that someone may
plausibly wire later.

Both are churn with no product effect, in a package I do not own.

The actual resolution is **consolidating the duplicate with the
dashboard twin** — that name collision has already cost real time twice
in this lane, including one "fix" `tsc` rejected and one bad cross-batch
report. But that is a refactor with a design question attached, and it
needs an owner rather than a seam-gate cleanup smuggling it in.

## Verification

Gate exit 0 · lint 0. No code change, so no changeset.

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2026-07-30 14:06:20 -07:00
gsxdsm
3603da731f fix(core): duplicate markers were never cleared on a board with renamed terminal columns (#2823)
Third unowned finding picked up after batch-core (#2783) merged without
addressing its reports. Same class as #2819, opposite failure direction.

## The defect

`clearNearDuplicateReferencesTo` runs on every complete/archive/delete
of a canonical task and clears the `nearDuplicateOf` markers pointing at
it. It first asks `isNearDuplicateCanonicalInactive` whether the
canonical really is finished — a safety check, so a live canonical's
markers are not cleared out from under an operator.

That call omitted the canonical's resolved column flags, so it fell back
to the legacy `done`/`archived` ids. On a renamed board a just-completed
canonical (`shipped`, `filed`) read as **still active**, the guard
early-returned, and the markers were **never cleared**. The flagged
duplicates stayed parked behind a user decision that could never arrive
— the exact stranding the predicate's own FNXC note says it was written
to prevent.

## I had the direction backwards, and it matters

My first report of this seam described it as *markers cleared against a
live canonical*. That is wrong. The legacy fallback errs toward "still
active", so the failure is the opposite: markers that never clear at
all. Same seam, same missing argument, entirely different symptom to
look for — which is why the direction is worth pinning in a test rather
than reasoning about.

## Measured

With the fix reverted, exactly one case flips:

```
✓ default vocabulary: completing the canonical clears the duplicate's marker
× renamed vocabulary: completing the canonical clears the duplicate's marker
✓ renamed vocabulary: a canonical still in the WIP lane does NOT clear the marker
✓ default vocabulary: a canonical still in the WIP lane does NOT clear the marker
✓ a soft-deleted canonical clears the marker under a renamed board
  Tests  1 failed | 4 passed (5)
```

With it: `Tests 5 passed (5)`.

## Both negatives included

A canonical still in the WIP lane must **not** clear its duplicates'
markers, under each vocabulary. Resolving the real flags must not
degrade into "every column is terminal", which would clear markers out
from under an operator who has not made the duplicate decision yet. The
soft-deleted path is covered too, since that branch never consults
column flags at all.

## A fixture trap worth keeping

`sourceMetadata` is `jsonb` and must be seeded as an **object**. Seeding
a stringified value reads back fine through `getTask` — it parses either
shape — while the production query's
`source_metadata->>'nearDuplicateOf'` matches nothing. The fixture looks
correctly seeded and the code under test can never find the row. My
first version had this, and the self-check in the seed helper is what
caught it.

## Scope

Five of this predicate's six production call sites already resolved
flags. This was the sixth, and the one that runs on every
archive/complete transition.

Not touched here: the same function's SQL predicate excludes duplicates
by literal `ne(column, "archived")` / `ne(column, "done")`. That is a
per-row question across many rows in one statement, not a one-line
supply, so it is flagged rather than guessed at.

The five **engine** call sites of this predicate are separately reported
on #2785 and surfaced only via #2822.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` green, new suite 5/5, `tsc -p packages/core` 0, lint 0,
changeset included.

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2026-07-30 14:03:29 -07:00
gsxdsm
a6af3188df fix(core): startup recovery deadlocked on its own per-task lock (#2809)
## The bug

`recoverStaleTransitionPendingImpl` runs its whole per-task body inside
`store.withTaskLock(id, …)`. On the PostgreSQL arm it then read the task
with `store.getTask(id)` — and `getTaskImpl` opens with
`store.withTaskLock(id, …)` too.

**The per-task lock is non-reentrant.** This codebase states that
invariant in prose in two other files:

> "nesting inside `withTaskLock` would deadlock since the lock is
non-reentrant" — `branch-and-pr-entities.ts:561`
> "because the per-task lock is non-reentrant" — `workflow-ops.ts:464`

So the sweep waited forever on a lock its own frame was holding.

**PostgreSQL-only — which is every production install.** The SQLite arm
on the very next line reads through `readTaskFromDb`, a lock-free row
read. The backend-mode port swapped only the PostgreSQL arm to
`getTask`. The fix restores a lock-free read (`readTaskRow`) on that
arm; nothing else changes.

## Why it survived until now

The branch is entered **only** when a stale marker names a plugin hook
the trait registry still knows (`hasSurvivingPluginHook`). Three nearby
cases all miss it:

| marker | path |
|---|---|
| none | the row is never scanned |
| only `default-workflow:postCommit` | `hasSurvivingPluginHook` false —
marker just cleared |
| names an **uninstalled** plugin hook | reconciled away as degraded;
nothing survives to re-run |
| names a **registered** plugin hook | **reaches the in-lock read →
deadlock** |

Those first three are what the existing tests cover. The fourth is
precisely the state a crash mid-hook leaves behind. All four are
asserted in the new suite so the path cannot be re-narrowed and called
covered.

## Impact

This sweep runs at **startup**. A task left with such a marker deadlocks
startup recovery — and because it deadlocks *while holding the task's
lock*, that task is also left permanently unlockable.

## How it was found, including a correction

By **bisection**, not by reading. An earlier attempt of mine to drive
this recovery reported that "the sweep never returns". That was wrong in
a way worth recording: the sweep returns fine in three of the four
cases, and generalising the one hang to the whole function is what hid
the actual trigger across several sessions. Narrowing case by case —
empty store, plain task, default-only marker, unknown-hook marker,
registered-hook marker — put the fault on one line.

## Verification

- **Mutation-verified against the real defect.** With the fix reverted,
the regression case fails by name — `recoverStaleTransitionPendingImpl
did not settle within 8000ms — deadlock` — while the other three stay
green. That is the actual pre-fix behaviour, not a simulation of it.
- Every case is **timeboxed** on purpose: a deadlock otherwise surfaces
as a suite-level timeout naming no case, which is useless for locating
the fault. The deadline is not a flake knob — the fixed code settles in
~150 ms and the broken code never settles, so there is no value in
between to tune.
- A **vacuity guard** (no markers → scans nothing) so a change that
stopped listing marked rows can't leave the other cases green.
- `pnpm test:gate` — **exit 0**
- full live-PG E2E surface — **152/152**
- `pnpm lint` — clean

Changeset included (`patch`, category `fix`).

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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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gsxdsm
1824c04584 fix(core): restore an archived card to the lane it came from (#2832)
## What

Fixes the defect #2824 measured. That PR's characterization cases —
merged and asserting the wrong-but-real behaviour — are flipped here to
the correct lanes, which is what they were written to do.

## The bug

```ts
// archive-lifecycle-2.ts
const preArchiveColumn = task.preArchiveColumn ?? "todo";
```

**`preArchiveColumn` has no database column.** It exists on the `Task`
type and in the archive snapshot, and nowhere else — so the in-place
restore cannot carry it, `store.getTask(id)` reads a live row that never
had it, and the literal decided the destination for **every unarchive
that has ever run**.

| board | what happened |
|---|---|
| **default** | `todo` is declared, so the resolver returned it.
Restores landed in the queue and **looked right**. |
| **custom** | `todo` is declared nowhere, so the resolver took its "no
usable history" branch and returned the **complete** lane. A card
archived mid-implementation came back marked **finished**. |

That coincidence is why this survived **three** separate fixes to
`resolveUnarchiveTargetColumnImpl` — a `?? "done"` that invented a
column, an `isColumn` legacy-enum gate, and the same gate one function
over. Every one was correcting how the resolver interprets a value that
never arrived.

## The fix is two halves, and either alone does nothing

1. **Capture** — `taskToArchiveEntryImpl` records `task.column` into the
snapshot. That is the last place the original is still in hand, since
the entry's own `column` is set to `"archived"` on the line above.
2. **Read** — `unarchiveTaskImpl` reads the **snapshot it already
loaded**, not the restored row.

I shipped half of this first and watched the destination stay wrong,
which is how I found that the field has no row to live on. Mutation
matrix:

| state | result |
|---|---|
| both halves | **5/5 pass** |
| capture only (read reverted) | **3 fail** |
| read only (capture reverted) | **3 fail** |

I also tried carrying it through `restoreTaskFromArchive`'s row update —
that fails to typecheck, which is the proof that no such column exists
and the snapshot is the only source.

## Behaviour changes, deliberately

- **Custom boards** — a card returns to the lane it was archived from
instead of appearing finished.
- **Default board** — a card archived from `done` restored to `todo`
under the literal and now restores to `done`. Returning finished work to
the queue was the fallback showing through, not a rule anyone chose; the
resolver's own branches say a card archived from a declared column goes
back to it.

## One expectation of mine was wrong, and the resolver was right

I expected a card archived from the review lane to return to **hold**.
It returns to the review lane, and that is correct: `.review` is derived
from the `mergeOrchestration` flag, **not** from `human-review`. The
fixture's review column declares `human-review` + `merge-blocker` only,
so it is not a `.review` lane to the resolver — just a declared column
with usable history. The case now asserts that with the reasoning
attached, so the next reader does not "fix" it back to hold.

## Verification

- unarchive suite — **5/5**, mutation matrix above
- `pnpm test:gate` — **exit 0**
- full live-PG E2E surface — **164/164**
- `pnpm lint` — clean

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2026-07-30 13:54:53 -07:00
gsxdsm
9f61180dfc test(dashboard): restore 8 of 10 red App tests — the fixture went stale at the U12 flag cutover (#2833)
Fixes most of #2829. `App.test.tsx` has been red on `main` since
2026-07-25 — deterministically, on every commit since, identically with
and without any batch branch applied.

## Root cause

`ListView` early-returns a workflow skeleton when the board has no
workflows:

```ts
if (boardWorkflows === null || boardWorkflows.workflows.length === 0) {
  return renderListWorkflowSkeleton(boardWorkflows !== null);
}
```

That skeleton carries the **same `list-view` class** as the real body.
So every test that waits on `.list-view` and then reaches for a control
inside it passed its `waitFor` and failed on the control — presenting a
DOM that looks like a perfectly healthy list. That is why this read as
"the board renders nothing" and then as an i18n problem; both were
wrong.

The probe that settled it:

```
cluster: false | listview: true | buttons: []
```

The fixture returned `workflows: []` with `flagEnabled: false`. That
**used to be correct** — the flag-off path rendered legacy columns and
needed no workflow. **U12 deleted that path**, so an empty `workflows`
array now means "this board has no lanes". The fixture went stale, not
the product.

The mock now mirrors the builtin coding lanes with the trait flags the
board actually reads.

## Measured

| | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| App.test.tsx | 10 failed / 131 passed | **2 failed / 139 passed**
(141) |

`tsc` 0 · lint 0 · rest of the `dashboard-app-quality-app` project
unaffected.

## Two remain — different root cause, deliberately not chased here

- **`opens the NewTaskModal from the list view new-task button`** now
gets *past* the button (that was the skeleton bug) and fails on
`role="heading"` name `"New Task"`. The heading exists as
`<h3>{t("newTaskModal.title", "New Task")}</h3>`, so the modal is not
rendering at all — plausibly FN-8620's FloatingWindow rework,
**unverified**.
- **`keeps the 'subtask' background-session route unchanged`** —
uncharacterised.

Two of my earlier root-cause guesses on this file were wrong, so I am
not offering a third. #2829 stays open for these two with the evidence
attached.

## Not quarantined

`test-quarantine.json` is for flakes. This failed deterministically, and
quarantining would have started a 14-day deletion clock on 141 tests
covering deep-link handling, view switching, board branch filters, and
the FN-5817 mobile auto-merge shell — while hiding a fixture that had
silently stopped exercising the list view at all.

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gsxdsm
654d28c104 test(engine): live-PG coverage for the timing role — and it is correct (#2828)
## What

One new live-PostgreSQL E2E suite, 2 tests. **No production file is
touched** — evidence, per the E2E worker's remit.


`packages/engine/src/__tests__/workflow-timing-trait-live-e2e.pg.test.ts`

## This one is a clean bill of health

Coverage for the last lifecycle role that had none — and the seam turns
out to be **correct**. Recorded deliberately: a working conversion with
no test is one refactor away from a silent regression, and this program
should be able to say which seams are right, not only which are broken.

`cumulativeActiveMs` accrues while a card sits in the WIP lane, and both
halves of the segment boundary resolve that lane by role:

```ts
const isWip = (column) =>
  inRole(column, ctx.lifecycleColumnSets?.wip, ctx.lifecycleColumns?.wip, "in-progress");
```

Note the literal at the end. That is the **same optional-parameter
shape** this series found broken at four other seams —
`shouldHoldActiveFileScopeLease` (#2795), `evaluateParkedAgentTaskLink`
(#2798), `resolvePlanningContinuationCandidate` (#2799),
`hasAutoHealableVerificationBufferFailure` (#2802) — where a caller
failed to supply the resolved answer and the literal silently took over.
Here the move path **does** supply it. Measured on a live store:

```
default: after exit cumulativeActiveMs=84
renamed: after exit cumulativeActiveMs=75      <- accrues on `building`, not just `in-progress`
```

## What it guards

If the move path ever stops populating the resolved columns, the literal
takes over and a renamed board's cards accrue **exactly zero** active
time — silently, because zero is a legitimate value for a card that has
not run. The operator sees no error, just wrong numbers on every custom
board.

**Mutation-verified against precisely that regression:** blinding the
resolved answer (`inRole(column, undefined, undefined, "in-progress")`)
fails the renamed case and leaves the control green. This is a guard
with demonstrated power, not a test that happens to pass.

## Both boundaries are asserted

`cumulativeActiveMs` is `0` while the card is still in WIP and only
accrues when it leaves; `firstExecutionAt` is stamped on entry. A test
that checked only the final number would pass against an implementation
that accrued at the wrong boundary, so both are pinned.

## Verification

- new suite — **2/2 passed**, mutation-verified
- full live-PG E2E surface — **161/161**
- `pnpm lint` — clean

Lane: `.pg.test.ts`, skipped via `pgDescribe` when no PostgreSQL is
reachable, so the merge gate is unaffected. Throwaway per-file database;
never port 4040.

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gsxdsm
d56c635c77 test(dashboard): cover the three lane resolvers nobody was testing (#2826)
## Why this exists

#2821's review found a bug that lived entirely in a lane **builder**
while every test drove the **guard** that consumed it. That is a
structural blind spot, not a one-off: injecting a resolved value into a
synchronous guard makes the guard testable and the resolver invisible.

So I audited every lane helper I added this session. Three had **no
direct coverage at all** — `archivedColumnsForTask`,
`wipColumnsForTask`, `preWipColumnsForTask`. Their callers were tested;
the functions were not.

## They shared the defect that review named

Each read `resolved.length > 0 ? resolved : legacyId`, which conflates
two different boards:

- a **v1 upgrade** — `synthesizeDefaultColumns` emits `traits: []` on
every column, so the legacy id is the only vocabulary that exists, and
falling back is correct;
- a **v2 board that expresses traits** and declares no lane of that role
— where the legacy id names a column the board may still *have* and
deliberately did not give the role. Falling back there widens the guard
onto a role the board explicitly withheld.

`declaresAnyLifecycleTrait` separates them, matching the shape #2821's
review established for `resolveNodeOverrideLanes`.

## The fixture trap, which is the part worth reading

**My first fixture could not see the bug.** It traited the role under
test — and where the role *is* traited, the two shapes agree: both
return the traited lane. Mutating a helper back to the old shape left
all 15 cases green.

The shapes diverge only when the resolved set is **empty while traits
are expressed**. Each helper now has that case explicitly, with a
fixture that traits something *other* than the role under test.

**Mutation-verified per helper:** all three reverted independently now
fail. Before the extra case, none did.

This is the second time this session a fixture built with the production
path normalised away the very thing under test. Worth stating as a rule:
a renamed-lane fixture proves the resolver reads traits; only a
*traits-expressed-but-role-absent* fixture proves what it does when the
answer is legitimately nothing.

## Verification

- `task-lifecycle-lanes.test.ts` → 18 passed (was 15, none covering
these three)
- consumer suites (`github-issue-comment`, `planning-board-tools`,
`register-git-github.review-lanes`) → 64 passed together
- `pnpm test:gate` → 161 + 487 + 13 + 71
- `--strict` → 0; `tsc --noEmit` and `pnpm lint` → 0 errors

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gsxdsm
e5c9ea3870 fix(core): resolve the task's own terminal node in the node-override guard (#2812)
## What

Fixes the defect **#2793 measured** but deliberately did not fix. That
PR's two characterization tests are flipped here to assert the correct
behaviour — which is what they were written to do.

## The bug

`updateTask({ nodeId })` passes through `validateNodeOverrideChange`
**twice**, and both calls were wrong in different ways:

| call | how it answered "is this terminal?" |
|---|---|
| `branch-and-pr-entities.ts:568` | `resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync` — the
**default** workflow for every task under PostgreSQL |
| `task-update.ts:53` | no options at all → `defaultIsTerminalNodeId`,
the bare literal `nodeId === "end"` |

On a board whose terminal node is not named `end`, the FN-7641 guard
inverted in both directions:

- an override to a **non-terminal** node that happens to be named `end`
was **rejected** with a merge-proof error about finalizing a card the
operator was not finalizing;
- an override to the board's **real** terminal node was **written
verbatim**, no error, card unadvanced — the silent no-op FN-7641 exists
to prevent.

## The fix

A new `isTaskTerminalNodeIdAsync` resolves the task's own workflow, with
the **identical** literal fail-soft for an unresolvable one. Both call
sites use it — pre-resolved, because `validateNodeOverrideChange`'s
callback is synchronous and it asks the question at most once.

**Nothing forced the sync call at either site**: both frames are already
`async` and already awaiting. That is the same finding as #2809's
review, one file over.

The sync helper is **deleted, not kept as a fallback**. Keeping both
would re-create the half-conversion this program keeps finding — one
caller resolved, one not, and no way to tell from a call site which it
got. `branch-and-pr-entities.ts` also leaves the sync-resolver call-site
allow-list (ratchet green, 3/3), the **second** of the six allow-listed
sites to close.

## Why both halves were needed — and how that is proven

#2793's mutation matrix showed the rejected-`end` case is
**over-determined**: both guards independently called it terminal, so
correcting either one alone changed nothing an operator could see. That
is why fixing only the allow-listed sync site would have looked like
progress and delivered none.

Re-measured here, on the fixed tree:

| state | result |
|---|---|
| both guards fixed | **3/3 pass** |
| inner guard reverted to no-options | **1 fails** |
| outer guard reverted to the literal | **1 fails** |

## Tests

#2793's two cases now assert the fixed behaviour and keep their
reasoning:

- the non-terminal `end` override is **written**, and the card stays in
review — a routing change, not a finalize;
- the real terminal `finish` override is **refused** without merge
proof, **and** the field is not written on the way to refusing.

The fixture-integrity case (`finish` is the end node, `end` is not) is
unchanged — it is what stops both assertions passing for the wrong
reason.

## Verification

- terminal-node suite — **3/3**, both-halves matrix above
- sync-resolver call-site allow-list ratchet — **3/3**
- `pnpm test:gate` — **exit 0**
- full live-PG E2E surface — **151/151**
- `pnpm lint` — clean

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gsxdsm
7c30b54255 test(engine): live-PG evidence that restore lands every custom-board card in DONE (#2824)
## What

One new live-PostgreSQL E2E suite, 5 tests. **No production file is
touched** — evidence, per the E2E worker's remit.


`packages/engine/src/__tests__/workflow-unarchive-target-live-e2e.pg.test.ts`

## The finding

I went looking for coverage of the one lifecycle role that had none —
`archived` — in the function with the worst track record in this
program. `resolveUnarchiveTargetColumnImpl`'s own comments record
**three** separate defects fixed on those few lines: a `?? "done"` that
invented an undeclared column, an `isColumn` legacy-enum gate that
rejected every renamed id, and the same gate one function over that
dropped a renamed board's stored history on read. All three were
reasoned from source. **None had a live-store test.**

With one, the path is still broken — and the cause is upstream of
everything those fixes touched:

```ts
// archive-lifecycle-2.ts:441
const preArchiveColumn = task.preArchiveColumn ?? "todo";
```

**`preArchiveColumn` is never written.** Across `packages/core`, every
occurrence *reads* it or copies it through — into the archive entry,
back out of it, through serialization. Nothing ever sets it from
`task.column` when a card is archived. Measured on both boards:

```
default: after archive column=archived preArchiveColumn=undefined  -> resolver target=todo
renamed: after archive column=archived preArchiveColumn=undefined  -> resolver target=shipped
```

So the fallback fires for **every restore that has ever happened**, and
the two boards diverge on what `"todo"` means to each:

| board | what happens |
|---|---|
| **default** | `todo` is declared, so the resolver returns it. Every
restore lands in the queue — right for a card archived
mid-implementation, wrong for one archived from `done`, and it **looks**
right. |
| **renamed** | `todo` is declared nowhere, so the resolver takes its
"no usable history" branch and returns the **complete** lane. Archive a
card mid-implementation, restore it, and it comes back marked
**finished**. |

That coincidence on the default board is why this survived three rounds
of fixes to the resolver: they were correcting how it interprets a value
that never arrives.

## Evidence discipline

- **Observed state** — the persisted `column` after a real `archiveTask`
+ `unarchiveTask` against a real store and real stored workflows.
- **Characterization**: the cases assert today's wrong-but-real
behaviour so the defect is executable rather than argued, and they are
written to flip when the write is added.
- **The default-board control** is what shows the coincidence, not just
the failure.
- **Mutation-verified**: changing the hardcoded fallback from `"todo"`
to the renamed hold id fails **all five** cases — every assertion binds
to that literal, which is the claim.

## The fix, proposed rather than included

One line: persist the card's column when archiving, so
`preArchiveColumn` carries real history and the resolver — already
correct — can use it.

I did not include it because **it also changes default-board
behaviour**: a card archived from `done` currently restores to `todo`
(the fallback), and with real history it would restore to `done`. That
is the better outcome, but it is a visible placement change for every
existing install, and that decision belongs to whoever owns archive
semantics rather than to an evidence PR. The five cases above are the
acceptance criteria for it — the three renamed expectations become the
lane the card was actually in.

## Verification

- new suite — **5/5 passed**, mutation-verified
- full live-PG E2E surface — **159/159**
- `pnpm lint` — clean

Lane: `.pg.test.ts`, skipped via `pgDescribe` when no PostgreSQL is
reachable, so the merge gate is unaffected. Throwaway per-file database;
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gsxdsm
9a5155c71a fix(tests): main red — a census source guard that a COMMENT could invert (#2825)
## Red on main

```
lifecycle-column-census > the baseline can always be re-recorded
  > writes the baseline BEFORE the rise check can exit
AssertionError: expected 19345 to be greater than 26374
```

Read literally, that says the CLI now runs its rise check *before* the
`--update-baseline` write — which would break the one command whose
entire job is re-recording, and would be a genuine bug worth stopping
for.

**It does not.** The order in code is correct and unchanged:

| | line |
|---|---|
| `if (updateBaseline) { … writeBaseline() … process.exit(0)` |
`scripts/lifecycle-column-census.mjs:487` |
| `"column-guard count ROSE"` + `process.exit(1)` | `:510` |

## What actually moved was a comment

Line **359** explains this exact failure mode and quotes the marker
verbatim:

> …`"column-guard count ROSE"`, which is the opposite of what happened
and sends the reader looking for…

So `cli.indexOf("column-guard count ROSE")` found the **prose**, 7000
characters before the branch it was meant to locate.

A guard that a comment can invert is not measuring control flow. And the
honest-looking fix — reword the comment — silently re-arms the same trap
for whoever explains this next.

`cliSource()` now strips comments before indexing. The same defence is
already used by `archived-column-gate-parity.test.ts`, for the same
reason: notes documenting *why* a literal is dangerous have to mention
the literal.

## Kept, not deleted

The end-to-end block below these does cover the contract — it drives the
real CLI and asserts exit code, baseline content and printed output, and
its own comment names the ordering bug. It would have been defensible to
delete the two source-text cases as redundant.

I kept them because two guards at different levels is the point: **e2e
proves the behaviour, these locate the branch that provides it.** They
only needed to stop being defeated by prose.

## Evidence

The real ordering bug — make a rise exit before the update branch writes
— fires **all three**:

| guard | failure |
|---|---|
| source order | `expected 9454 to be greater than 9505` |
| slice / uniqueness | `expected 10433 to be -1` |
| end-to-end | `expected 1 to be +0` (exit code) |

**My first mutation attempt was invalid** and I nearly reported it as
evidence: it moved the block by line range, mangled the file, and both
markers disappeared — the resulting `-1`s look like a firing guard but
prove nothing. A mutation that corrupts its target is not evidence that
a guard works.

Engine **10991 passed / 0 failed** · gate **732 green** · lint clean.
Test-only; the CLI is restored clean.

## Note on duplicated effort

#2811 and my #2814 both re-recorded the census baseline for #2783's
rise, concurrently. No harm done — but this file is now a fleet-wide
contention point, and the per-file baseline shape exists precisely to
avoid that. Worth one owner for census/ratchet fixes rather than whoever
notices first.

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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
8c79da364c fix(engine): FN-8356's duplicate-marker cleanup was inert on a renamed board (5 call sites) (#2827)
Fourth unowned finding picked up after both batch PRs (#2783 core, #2785
engine) merged without addressing their reports. Completes the
`isNearDuplicateCanonicalInactive` seam alongside #2823, which fixed the
sixth (core) site.

## The defect

All five engine call sites — `self-healing.ts` ×2, `triage.ts` ×3 —
called the predicate without the canonical's resolved column flags, so
it fell back to the legacy `done`/`archived` ids. A canonical resting in
a renamed complete column (`shipped`) read as **still active**, so every
*"the canonical is inactive, so clear the marker"* branch failed to
fire.

The user-visible result is precisely the stranding FN-8356 was written
to remove: a card keeps its **"Needs your decision"** duplicate badge
pointing at work that shipped days ago, and no decision can resolve it —
the detail banner deliberately offers none for an inactive canonical.

## Measured

With the fix reverted, exactly one case flips:

```
✓ clears the FN-8353-shaped hidden decision for every inactive canonical state
× renamed vocabulary: clears the decision for a canonical resting in a RENAMED complete column
✓ renamed vocabulary: leaves the decision alone while the canonical is still in the WIP lane
✓ leaves active canonical decisions, user pauses, unrelated reasons, non-marker sources untouched
  Tests  1 failed | 3 passed (4)
```

With it: `Tests 4 passed (4)`.

## Wiring is proven separately from behaviour

A behaviour test on one call site says nothing about the other four —
that is the failure this whole lane keeps re-finding, so I did not rely
on it.

With #2822's barrel-import fix applied locally, the seam gate's
staleness check **fails both engine allow-list entries as "now
supplied"** — it can no longer find an omitting call site in either
file. That is the proof for all five.

Consequence worth flagging: **when the second of #2822 / this PR lands,
the two engine entries in #2822 must be deleted.** CI fails until they
are, by design — the exemption cannot outlive its fix.

## Both negatives included

A canonical still in the WIP lane must **not** have its decision
cleared, under each vocabulary. Resolving real flags must not degrade
into "every column is terminal", which would dismiss a duplicate
decision the operator has not made yet.

## Design note

The helper is module-private in each file rather than shared.
`findColumn` is already duplicated exactly this way in
`hold-release.ts`, `merge-trait.ts`, and `workflow-capacity.ts` —
following the established shape beat adding a cross-module abstraction
for a bug fix.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` green · 27 triage suites / 387 tests green · engine
`tsc` 0 · lint 0 · changeset included.

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2026-07-30 13:04:58 -07:00
gsxdsm
bcc8bf17c1 fix(core): brand the unregistered built-in workflow fallback (#2815)
> **Corrected after opening.** The first version of this PR claimed the
id cross-check reported `"default"` for *every* authored workflow and
stranded cards in triage recovery forever. That was wrong, and the
correction is below in full. The reachable defect is the branding hole;
removing the id check is correctness, not a live bug fix.

## The bug (reachable)

`resolveWorkflowIrById` has four ways to substitute the default coding
IR. Three brand the result via `markFellBack`. The fourth did not:

```ts
if (isBuiltinWorkflowId(workflowId)) {
  const builtin = getBuiltinWorkflow(workflowId);
  const ir = builtin?.ir ?? defaultCodingWorkflowIr();   // <- unmarked substitution
```

An id that *looks* built-in but is not registered — a workflow removed
between releases, a typo'd selection — lands there and silently gets the
default coding IR. `resolveWorkflowIrForTaskWithProvenance` then reports
**`source: "selection"`** for it, handing a caller the default board's
graph under the selected workflow's name. That is precisely the lying
signal the API exists to prevent.

Found by review on this PR (thanks — see the thread), not by me.

## The correction to my own claim

I also deleted an id cross-check that ran after the marker check and
reported `"default"` when the resolved IR's `id` differed from the
requested workflow id. I justified that by saying it misfired for every
authored workflow, because `createWorkflowDefinition` stores an IR
verbatim while minting `WF-NNN` separately:

```
store workflow id = WF-001   stored ir.id = custom:prov
PROVENANCE source = default  resolved ir.id = custom:prov      <- the CORRECT IR, called a guess
```

**That measurement is real but it came from this suite's own fixture.**
Neither `WorkflowIrV1` nor `WorkflowIrV2` declares an `id` field. An
editor-authored workflow carries none, so `resolvedId` is `undefined`
and the check passed it as `"selection"` — the misfire never reached
`triage.ts`'s post-U11 intake recovery, the one production consumer. My
"declined forever, not deferred" claim does not hold.

Removing the check is still right: it is **unreliable** (it interrogates
a property the IR types do not declare, and when one is present it is
the author's id, unrelated to the store-minted row id) and **redundant**
(all four substitutions are now branded, and the marker is checked
first). But it is a cleanup, not a fix — and saying otherwise is how a
narrow change gets backported as a critical one.

## Tests

| case | asserts |
|---|---|
| unregistered **built-in** id | **`source: "default"`** — the reachable
defect |
| missing definition | still `"default"` |
| no selection | still `"default"` |
| IR carrying its own id | `"selection"`, with the id mismatch asserted
explicitly so it can't pass for the wrong reason |
| the resolved IR is the task's own board | contains the renamed hold
column, not a default-board id |

**Mutation-verified:** removing only the branding fails the
unregistered-builtin case and nothing else — which shows it covers that
specific hole rather than overlapping the others. Restoring the id check
fails only the carries-its-own-id case, leaving both fallback cases
green, which shows the deletion did not widen trust.

## Blast radius

`triage.ts:1211` is the only production consumer of the provenance
result across core, engine, dashboard and CLI. Every other `.source ===`
hit is an unrelated field on an unrelated type; the two index hits are
re-exports.

## Verification

- new suite — **5/5**, mutation-verified in both directions
- `pnpm test:gate` — **exit 0**
- `pnpm lint` — clean

Changeset included (`patch`, category `fix`), rewritten to describe the
branding fix rather than the overstated one.

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2026-07-30 13:01:54 -07:00
gsxdsm
ed6d54485b glasses plugin: the review actions could never resolve a review lane (4 guards + 3 invisible destinations) (#2816)
Four agent actions still keyed on literals, with three census-invisible
`moveTask` destinations between them. `agent-actions.ts` already had
`laneContext`/`destination` from an earlier partial conversion — these
were simply never migrated.

## Census

| file | main | here |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| `plugins/fusion-plugin-even-realities-glasses/src/agent-actions.ts` |
4 | **0** |

Plus 3 hardcoded `moveTask` destinations the census cannot see
(`requestReview` → `in-review`, `returnToAgent` → `todo`, `retryTask` →
`todo`).

## The real finding: this plugin could never resolve a review lane

`resolveLifecycleColumns` keys its `review` role on the
**`mergeOrchestration` trait alone**. A board whose review column
carries only `merge-blocker` and/or `human-review` — the common custom
shape, since `merge` is opt-in — resolves **no review lane at all**.

So every review-gated action here (`requestReview`, `acceptReview`,
`returnToAgent`, `retryTask`) compared against `undefined` and **refused
every card**, and `requestReview` had nowhere to move one. This is not a
regression from converting them; it is why they *could not* be converted
with `lanes.review` as-is.

Converting the four guards without noticing would have shipped four
actions that fail closed on exactly the boards this program exists to
support — a conversion that looks complete, passes its suite, and makes
the plugin useless on a custom board.

**Widened in `laneContext`, not in the shared resolver.**
`resolveLifecycleColumns` is consumed well beyond this plugin, and its
`review` role deliberately means "the merge-orchestration column" for
the merge queue. The gap is already recorded in
`notification-renamed-lifecycle-columns.test.ts` and in #2807 —
reconciling the two definitions is a core-level decision, not one to
take from a plugin. `mergeBlocker` is preferred over `humanReview`
because a card cannot leave a merge-blocking column until the gate
clears, which is the closer analogue of the legacy `in-review`.

## The suite caught an over-reach of mine

My first version put a blanket `if (degraded) conflict(...)` at the top
of `retryTask`, which broke a pinned invariant the test names outright:
**"a degraded workflow does not block retries that move nothing."** The
status-only retry just clears fields; refusing it because the workflow
could not be read breaks a recovery that needs no lane at all.

Degraded now blocks only the branches that actually **move**. Same
reasoning applied to `acceptReview`, which also moves nothing. The
existing `startWork` convention — conflict on degraded — is right
precisely *because* it moves.

## Ordering

`returnToAgent` and `retryTask` now resolve their destination **before**
the field clear. Both cleared first, so a rejected move left the
assignee and status — or the worktree, branch and base refs — nulled
with the card exactly where it was. That is the fifth instance of this
half-applied shape in the audit, and it is rule 3 in the class doc.

## Revert results (measured, each independently)

| conversion | reverted → |
| --- | --- |
| `requestReview` destination | 1 failed — moves to the literal
`in-review`, which this workflow does not declare |
| `returnToAgent` destination | 1 failed — moves to the literal `todo`,
same |

Plus a non-vacuous companion: a renamed card *not* in the wip lane must
still be refused by `requestReview`, so a gate admitting everything
would not pass.

## Verification

- Plugin suite — **186/186**
- `pnpm test:gate` — 161 + 487 + 13 + 71, green
- `tsc` on the plugin — clean
- `pnpm lint`, `check:changesets`, census `--strict` — all clean (run
explicitly)
2026-07-30 12:55:38 -07:00
gsxdsm
d2f47acedd fix(tests): the core half of #2783's bookkeeping — archived-gate inventory (#2817)
## The 6th red from #2783

#2814 cleared the 5 **engine** reds #2783 left on `main`. This is the
sixth, in **core** — I found it after #2814 was already open, and it
merged before I could fold this in.

```
archived-column-gate-parity > all three encodings of the archived gate stay in lockstep
                              with the audited inventory
AssertionError: TypeScript encoding changed.
```

## Same cause, same shape as #2786

#2783 converted three more sites off raw `column === "archived"`
comparisons and did not update the inventory in the same commit — which
the guard's own failure text explicitly asks for.

| file | before → after |
|---|---|
| `async-mission-store.ts` | 2 → 0 |
| `task-store/symbol-locks.ts` | 1 → 0 |
| `task-store/archive-lifecycle-2.ts` | 2 → 1 |

**Verified each is a real conversion, not a dropped gate.** All three
now seed a legacy lane set and extend it from the workflow:

```ts
const lanes = new Set<string>(["done", "archived"]);
…
for (const id of columnsWithFlag(ir, "archived")) lanes.add(id);
```

The literal still in `archive-lifecycle-2.ts:46` is `column: "archived"`
as a **move destination**, not a gate comparison — the same distinction
the planner-lane move targets get.

## Verified NOT a split-brain

That is the thing this file exists to catch — TypeScript moving to the
resolved role while the SQL sides keep comparing the raw string. The
**Drizzle and raw-sql inventories are unchanged and both pass**. Worth
stating explicitly because those assertions run *after* the TypeScript
one: a plain red tells you nothing about them, so they had to be re-run
green to know.

## One thing I nearly got wrong

My first edit was a whole-file string replace and it threw on an
assertion count. That turned out to be load-bearing: **these paths
appear in more than one inventory in this file** (`AUDITED_TS_SITES` and
the raw-sql inventory both list `async-mission-store.ts`). An unscoped
replace would have silently edited the raw-sql inventory too — making
the parity guard agree with itself and defeating the exact
cross-encoding check it exists for. The edit is now scoped to
`AUDITED_TS_SITES` by line range.

## Evidence

- Guard still bites: appending a real `task.column === "archived"` to an
audited file → **fails**.
- Core **4773 passed / 0 failed** · engine **10988 passed / 0 failed** ·
gate **732 green** · lint clean.

Test-only; `agent-store.ts` restored clean after the mutation.

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2026-07-30 12:49:27 -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
2ccd78abbc fix: main is red on the lifecycle ratchet — re-record the census baseline (#2811)
**`main` is RED on the lifecycle ratchet right now.** `node
scripts/lifecycle-column-census.mjs --strict` exits **1** on pristine
`origin/main`, which is the `Lint` job's *Lifecycle-column ratchet* step
— so **every open PR fails Lint** until this lands, regardless of its
own contents.

Verified on a detached checkout of `origin/main`, not on a branch of
mine.

## Cause

Eight `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` markers were added across seven files without
re-recording the baseline:

```
packages/core/src/task-move-disposer.ts            (in-progress, todo)
packages/core/src/task-store/archive-lifecycle-2.ts (archived)
packages/dashboard/src/github-tracking-comments.ts  (done)
packages/dashboard/src/gitlab-tracking-comments.ts  (in-progress)
packages/dashboard/src/server.ts                    (archived)
packages/dashboard/src/task-planner-chat-context.ts (done)
packages/dashboard/src/test/mockCoreEngine.ts       (in-review)
```

Adding a marker RECLASSIFIES a site (column-guard → deliberate), so the
tracked deliberate totals move and `--strict` fails until the baseline
records the new shape. It is the same mechanism that turned #2775 red
earlier today — a marker landing without its baseline — which is worth
noting because it has now happened twice from different PRs.

## The fix

Baseline re-recorded, nothing else. Zero source changes; the diff is one
derived file.

- `--strict` exits **0**
- `pnpm test:gate` — **161 / 13 / 487 / 71**
- `pnpm lint` clean

## Worth a follow-up by whoever owns the ratchet

The failure is structural rather than careless: a PR that adds a marker
is *doing the right thing*, and the baseline requirement is only
discovered when CI goes red — after merge, for everyone else. Two
options, neither of which I am taking unilaterally on a red-main fix:

1. have `--strict` treat a marker-only reclassification as an accepted
rise (it is not new debt — the count of unconverted guards goes
**down**);
2. or fail the PR that adds the marker, by comparing against the base
ref rather than the recorded baseline — the machinery for that already
exists in this script.

I would take (1): a marker is the documented way to close a site, and
requiring a second mechanical step to record it is a trap that catches
good behaviour.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved lifecycle census error messages to distinguish genuine
increases in column-guard debt from reclassified deliberate literals.
* Added clearer remediation guidance for reclassified results, including
when to update the baseline.
* Updated lifecycle census baseline mappings to reflect current
classifications.

* **Tests**
* Added coverage for unchanged baselines, genuine guard-count increases,
and marker-only reclassification scenarios.

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2026-07-30 12:40:05 -07:00
gsxdsm
9fab32e1d9 fix(tests): 5 engine reds from #2783 — a stale census baseline and a turn-counting test (#2814)
## Red on main

#2783 (batch-core) landed and put **5 failures** on `main`. Both causes
are the bookkeeping half of correct changes, not defects in them.

## 1. The census baseline — 4 failures

`census-baseline-corruption-guard` plus 3 `lifecycle-column-census`
ratchet cases, all downstream of one thing:

```
lifecycle-column-census --strict: column-guard count ROSE

  packages/core/src/task-move-disposer.ts (DELIBERATE-LITERAL: in-progress): 0 -> 1
  packages/core/src/task-move-disposer.ts (DELIBERATE-LITERAL: todo): 0 -> 1
  packages/core/src/task-store/archive-lifecycle-2.ts (DELIBERATE-LITERAL: archived): 0 -> 1
  packages/dashboard/src/github-tracking-comments.ts (DELIBERATE-LITERAL: done): 0 -> 1
  packages/dashboard/src/gitlab-tracking-comments.ts (DELIBERATE-LITERAL: in-progress): 0 -> 1
  packages/dashboard/src/server.ts (DELIBERATE-LITERAL: archived): 0 -> 1
```

**The rise is legitimate.** #2783 *annotated* documented fast-path
literals — e.g. `task-move-disposer.ts`'s *"a fast path, not the guard …
the actual lane decision is the RESOLVED membership test inside this
block"* — and the census tracks marked literals per file. Re-recorded
with `--strict --update-baseline`; the same run also **tightened 20
entries whose counts dropped**, so this moves the ratchet down as well
as up.

## 2. The disposal-order test — 1 failure

```
executor-user-cancel > re-dispatch (task:moved → in-progress) awaits prior disposal before execute()
AssertionError: expected -1 to be greater than 2
```

`-1` reads like the re-dispatch was **dropped**. It was not — that would
be a real cancel-race bug, so I checked before touching the test:

```
PROBE_MICROTASK    callOrder=["abort-started","abort-resolved","dispose","execute"]
PROBE_AFTER_TIMER  callOrder=["abort-started","abort-resolved","dispose","execute"]
```

Correct order, reached once drained, unchanged after a real 50ms timer.
The test drained exactly **two** microtask turns and #2783's disposer
refactor added await hops, so `execute` had not been recorded yet.

A fixed turn count encodes today's await depth into the test: any added
`await` on the product path fails it for a reason that has nothing to do
with the invariant. It now waits on the **outcome** via `vi.waitFor`.
The ordering assertion is untouched and is still the point.

## Evidence

| mutation | result |
|---|---|
| `execute` never recorded (stands in for a dropped re-dispatch) |
**fails** — `waitFor` times out |
| `execute` observed *before* `dispose` | **fails** — `expected
'execute' to be 'dispose'` |
| baseline: fresh `--strict` run | *"every file matches its baseline
exactly"* |

Engine **10985 passed / 0 failed** (was 5 failed) · gate **732 green** ·
lint clean.

## Method note, against myself

I pre-flighted #2783 and **reported it clean** — but I ran only
`@fusion/core` and the dashboard `api` group, because that is what the
diff touches. The census and disposal tests live in `packages/engine`,
which batch-core does not modify at all.

**The suite that breaks is not always the suite the diff points at.** A
cross-package ratchet like the census is exactly the case where scoping
pre-flight to the changed packages produces a confident "clean" that is
wrong. Pre-flight needs the engine suite regardless of which package a
batch touches; I have adjusted accordingly for the remaining queue.

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2026-07-30 12:33:55 -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)


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## 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.

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2026-07-30 12:25:00 -07:00
gsxdsm
240a6be0aa fix(core): dependency update deadlocked on a self-blocked task (#2810)
## The bug

`updateTaskDependenciesImpl` wraps its whole body in
`store.withTaskLock(id, …)`, then reads the current blocker with
`readDepTask(task.blockedBy)` → `store.getTask()`. `getTaskImpl` opens
with `withTaskLock(id, …)` too, and the per-task lock is
**non-reentrant**.

So when `blockedBy` is the task's **own id**, the call waits forever on
a lock its own frame holds — and holds that lock while doing so, leaving
the row permanently unlockable.

## Found by generalising #2809, not by luck

#2809 removed one `getTask`-inside-`withTaskLock`. An AST scan for the
same shape across `packages/core` and `packages/engine` returned
**exactly three sites**:

| site | verdict |
|---|---|
| `lifecycle-ops.ts:1049` | the deadlock fixed in #2809 |
| `update-task-deps.ts:233` (`assertTaskExists`) | **safe** — a
self-dependency is rejected 15 lines earlier |
| `update-task-deps.ts:344` (`readDepTask`) | **this bug** |

Both surviving sites carry the same `FNXC:SqliteDualPathCleanup` note —
*"In backend mode, readTaskFromDb uses store.db (SQLite) which is
unavailable. Replace with async store.getTask() calls."* That port is
the common cause across the whole class: it swapped a **lock-free** read
for a **lock-acquiring** one.

## Why `blockedBy === id` is reachable

The dependencies list rejects self-reference explicitly (*"Task X cannot
depend on itself"*) — and that guard is precisely why the sibling
`assertTaskExists` read on this same lock is safe, so it is left
unchanged. **`blockedBy` has no such guard:** `updateTask({ blockedBy
})` accepts the task's own id.

The first test asserts that rather than assuming it. The whole
regression rests on that state being reachable, so it is proven, not
stipulated — and it also pins the asymmetry, so a future guard on
`blockedBy` will show up here as a deliberate change.

## The fix

Return the in-lock copy already in scope instead of re-reading. One
line, no new read path, and **strictly more correct than a re-read**: it
is the state this mutation is reasoning about, rather than whatever a
concurrent writer left behind.

## Verification

- **Mutation-verified against the real defect.** With the fix reverted
the regression case fails by name — `updateTaskDependencies did not
settle within 8000ms — deadlock` — while the precondition and the
ordinary-path cases stay green. That is the actual pre-fix behaviour.
- **A differential** covering the ordinary case (blocked by *another*
task). Without it, a fix that short-circuited *every* blocker read would
pass everything else.
- Timeboxed for the same reason as #2809: a deadlock otherwise surfaces
as a suite-level timeout naming no case. Not a flake knob — the fixed
path settles in ~0.5 s and the broken one never settles.
- `pnpm test:gate` — **exit 0**
- `pnpm lint` — clean

Changeset included (`patch`, category `fix`). Independent of #2809 —
different file, no overlap — but the same class, and the scan above is
the argument that the class is now closed.

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2026-07-30 12:12:33 -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
74cba4b46d batch-core: one shared landed-lane helper for the source-issue surfaces (75 → 72) (#2783)
## batch-core continued — the source-issue cluster

Follow-on to #2780 (merged). Scope is still `packages/core` +
`packages/dashboard/src`.

### The defect

Five places asked the same question — *has this task landed?* — and all
five compared against the literal `done`:

| surface | consequence on a renamed board |
|---|---|
| GitHub source-issue commenter | never comments on or closes the source
issue |
| GitLab source-issue commenter | same |
| GitLab `closedAt` backfill reconciler | finds nothing, reports a clean
scan |
| session-diff boundary | finished tasks diff against an already-merged
branch |
| tracking-comment transition | (already converted; left alone) |

The commenters are the sharpest case: they returned **before reading a
single setting**, so on a renamed board the feature looked *disabled*
rather than broken — an operator checking `githubCommentOnDone` would
see it enabled and still get nothing.

The backfill is the quietest: `scanned: N, filled: 0` reads as "nothing
to do", so the failure was indistinguishable from success.

### The fix

One home: `packages/dashboard/src/task-lifecycle-lanes.ts`. Callers now
only ask.

Five copies of one question is exactly how the halves drift apart — the
motivating incident is FN-6115 → FN-6118 → FN-6123, where the same
affordance was fixed three times because it lived in two components.
This also folds in the duplicate landed-lane helper I had left in
`register-session-diff-routes.ts` in the previous PR, which was the
sixth copy waiting to happen.

Two helpers, and the difference is deliberate:

- **`landedColumnsForTask`** — `complete ∪ archived`. Membership, since
a board may declare more than one column carrying either role, and
`columnsWithFlag(...)[0]` would silently ignore the second.
- **`completeColumnsForTask`** — complete only. The GitLab backfill's
own FNXC note records that archived tasks live in `archiveDb` and are
*intentionally* excluded, so it must not widen to the archived role just
because the shared helper offers it. Today it lists with
`includeArchived: false` and would see no archived rows either way — but
that is an incidental property of the query, not the contract. The test
pins the difference so the two are not later "simplified" into one,
which would change that caller's behaviour without touching it.

Both treat an **empty** resolved set as *unexpressed*, not absent — the
v1 hazard: `synthesizeDefaultColumns` upgrades a v1 graph with `traits:
[]` on every column, so reading empty as "no complete lane" would stop
these surfaces firing on every pre-v2 project.

The reconciler is two-stage on purpose: the cheap provider and
`closedAt` tests run first and reject almost everything, so a workflow
read only happens for real candidates, and it shares one IR cache across
the scan — one read per distinct workflow rather than per task.

### Census

`batch-core` scope **75 → 72**; repo total **338**.

### Verification

- `pnpm --filter @fusion/dashboard exec tsc --noEmit -p tsconfig.json` →
0 errors
- `pnpm lint` → 0 errors
- commenter + reconciler suites → **63 passed**; helper suite → **5
passed**
- **Mutation-verified:** making the helper ignore its resolved set fails
1 of 5.

---

## Round 2 — server.ts, chat.ts, and a correction

**Census: 75 → 67** across this PR.

### The correction (see the review thread above)

My first pass gated the source-issue commenters on
`landedColumnsForTask` (`complete ∪ archived`), which **widened** the
trigger — `to === "done"` never fired on archival, and the landed set
does. Both commenters now use `completeColumnsForTask`, and the unused
`hasTaskLanded` wrapper is gone.

The ratchet for it is pinned on the **default** board, deliberately: a
widening is visible exactly where the legacy names still apply, so no
renamed-board fixture would catch it.

### `chat.ts` — three sites, and a pair that had to move together

- **Chat verification** required `column === "in-progress"`, so on a
renamed board every chat-driven verification was refused with a message
naming a column the board does not have.
- **The planner refinement pair.** Two separate guards decide this
feature: `createSession` *registers* the tool only for a finished task,
and the tool's own `execute()` *refuses* a non-finished source. Both
compared `done`. Converting only one half would have offered the tool
and then had it refuse itself — the half-converted-pair shape. The new
test asserts **both** halves in one case (tool present *and* refinement
created), and each half reverted independently fails it.

Existing `chat-manager` coverage caught neither revert, which is why the
case exists rather than relying on the suite that was already there.

Complete-only again, not the landed set: an archived task is off the
board and is not a refinement source.

### `server.ts`

- **Planner-chat retention** — the archival cutoff was a literal, so on
a renamed board task-planner chat sessions were retained forever; the
rule this listener exists to enforce never fired. Resolved, and awaited
inside the existing fire-and-forget chain rather than by making the
listener `async` — `task:moved` has synchronous subscribers whose
ordering is load-bearing elsewhere, and a chat-row delete is not the
right place to introduce a microtask boundary into that emit.

- **`isBadgeEligibleTask` — deliberately NOT converted, and marked as
backlog.** On a renamed board it is genuinely wrong: an archived card
stays badge-eligible, its snapshot is never evicted, and the cache grows
for the daemon's lifetime — the exact memory leak the predicate was
added to fix, back under a different column name.

What blocks it is measured, not assumed: both callers are synchronous
`task:updated` / `task:created` listeners whose next statement is
documented as *"Update local cache immediately"*, so awaiting lets a
second event for the same task interleave between the eligibility check
and the cache write.

I did **not** add an optional `archivedColumns` parameter, because
nothing could fill it — the callers are the sync listeners. That is the
inert-injection shape this PR's own review caught twice on #2780: the
predicate would read as converted, its test would pass by injecting the
value, and production would keep the literal. The unblocking change (a
resolved-archived-lane cache on the badge-snapshot scope, keeping the
predicate synchronous) is recorded at the site.

### Verification

- `tsc --noEmit` → 0 errors; `pnpm lint` → 0 errors
- `chat-manager` → 101 passed; commenter/reconciler/helper/badge suites
→ 55 passed
- Mutation-verified per fix, including each half of the refinement pair
separately

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved task lifecycle handling for renamed workflow lanes, including
completed, archived, landed, and in-progress states.
* Task lists now exclude completed tasks regardless of the completion
lane’s name.
* Chat verification and refinement actions now recognize configured
workflow lanes.
* GitHub and GitLab completion comments trigger only for genuinely
completed tasks, not archived tasks.
* Knowledge index refreshes and GitLab metadata updates now support
custom completion lanes.
* **Tests**
* Added regression coverage for renamed completion lanes and
archived-task behavior.

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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.

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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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gsxdsm
7dc7a41e0e fix(tests): the load-lane guard matched a VARIABLE NAME — make it AST-based (#2804)
## A red that no CI run can see

Found by pre-flighting #2796 against current `main`. Merged, the engine
suite fails:

```
scheduler-load-lane-union.test.ts > the scheduler builds this same union
expected 'import {…' to contain '...columnsWithFlag(loadLaneIr, "intake")'
```

**Neither side is red on its own.** `main` is green (10913 passed, 0
failed) and #2796's own CI is green — this test landed on `main` via
**#2787**, *after* #2796 was cut, and #2796 does not touch the file. It
fails only in the merged state, which is exactly the shape no branch's
CI checks.

## #2796 is not at fault

The union is still built (`scheduler.ts`, the `columnsWithFlag(ir, ...)`
spread). Resolving assignment load per task renamed the local from
`loadLaneIr` to `ir`, and the guard hardcoded that name:

```ts
expect(source).toContain(`...columnsWithFlag(loadLaneIr, "${flag}")`);
```

It would fail identically on a reformat, a line wrap, or any rename —
reporting drift that did not happen. And the reflex fix is to edit the
string to match, which protects nothing and teaches nobody anything.

## The fix

Parse `scheduler.ts` and collect the string literal passed as the
**second** argument to every `columnsWithFlag(...)` call, whatever the
first argument is called. Same invariant — every legacy role is unioned
somewhere in the scheduler — now actually checked.

It also asserts the parse found **something** before checking the six
flags. A visitor that matched nothing would make every assertion below
it vacuous, which is the specific failure mode this guard family keeps
producing.

Still structural rather than behavioural, for the reason the file header
already gives: the call site sits inside a dispatch path a unit test has
no business standing up. The three sibling cases cover the resolver's
behaviour; this one covers the wiring.

## Evidence — the discrimination is the right way round

| mutation | expected | result |
|---|---|---|
| rename `ir` → `loadLaneIr` (behaviour identical) | pass | **4/4
passed** |
| drop `...columnsWithFlag(ir, "hold")` from the union | fail |
**fails**: `scheduler.ts no longer passes "hold" to columnsWithFlag` |

Engine **10936 passed / 0 failed** · gate **732 green** · lint clean ·
engine `tsc --noEmit` **0 errors**. Test-only; `scheduler.ts` restored
clean after the mutations.

**Unblocks #2796 with no change needed on its side** — commented there.

## Pre-flight results for the rest of the queue

Same method (merge with current `main`, run the suites), since
batch-engine's earlier landing put 32 failures on main that were only
caught post-merge:

| PR | result |
|---|---|
| #2785 batch-engine-tail | clean — 10903 passed |
| #2783 batch-core-2 | clean — core 4751 passed; its one api failure is
pre-existing on main |
| #2797 engine tail | clean — 10941 passed |
| #2772 batch-dashboard-app | clean — backfill total 112 → **111**, no
lane regresses |
| #2796 assignment load | **this failure only** |

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2026-07-30 11:59:25 -07:00
gsxdsm
b74d4cdd98 test(engine): a third inert-conversion mechanism — a resolver called with a sentinel task id (#2806)
## What

One new live-PostgreSQL E2E suite, 3 tests. **No production file is
touched** — evidence, per the E2E worker's remit.


`packages/engine/src/__tests__/workflow-sweep-sentinel-task-id-live-e2e.pg.test.ts`

## A third mechanism

Two are already measured in this series:

| mechanism | PRs |
|---|---|
| the site resolves the workflow **synchronously**, so PostgreSQL hands
it the default board | #2789–#2794 |
| the role answer is an **optional parameter** and the caller does not
pass it | #2795–#2802 |

This is a third, and it is inert **by construction** rather than by
environment. `triage.ts`'s startup sweep resolves its lane vocabulary
with a **sentinel task id**:

```ts
const sweepLanes = resolvePlannerLanes(this.store, "");
const sweepColumns = [...new Set(["triage", "todo", sweepLanes.intake, sweepLanes.hold])];
```

There is no task `""`, so no selection can be read for it and no board
can be resolved from it. The lanes come back as the default board's and
the union collapses to the legacy pair `{triage, todo}`.

**Note what this means for the other mechanisms' fixes: making
`resolvePlannerLanes` async would not repair this site.** The defect is
the argument, not the resolver.

## What breaks

The sweep clears stale `planning` status so a card cannot hold a
planning admission slot forever. Its own comment says the union is
*"load-bearing, not defensive"*, because the merged post-U11 default
collapses `intake` and `hold` onto `todo` and *"nothing ever swept
`triage`"*.

That reasoning fixes the **merged** case and leaves the **renamed** one.
A card parked in a renamed hold column with a stale `planning` status is
in none of the four queried columns, is never swept, and occupies a
planning admission slot permanently — the exact failure the comment
describes, on every custom board.

**This one is sweep-wide**, which is what makes the sentinel distinct
from the other two mechanisms: they resolve per task and get one card's
answer wrong; this resolves **once for the whole board** and cannot be
right for any workflow but the default, however many boards the project
runs.

## Evidence discipline

- **Observed state.** Whether the card's persisted `status` is still
`planning` after the real sweep runs against a real store.
- The sweep is a private method, invoked through a cast. That is
production code executing, not a stand-in, and nothing about the
assertion depends on the cast. `processor.stop()` runs in a `finally` so
one case's admission provider cannot outlive it and observe another's
store.
- The first case isolates the **mechanism**: two custom workflows exist
by the time it runs and neither can influence the answer, because the
argument names no task.

## Mutation-verified

Adding the renamed hold column to the swept set:

| case | result |
|---|---|
| sentinel resolves the default lanes | passes — correct, it asserts the
resolver, not the query |
| CONTROL (default board) | passes — correct, unaffected |
| CHARACTERIZATION (renamed board) | **fails** |

Exactly one case moves, and it is the one that should.

## Not done, and why

**No fix.** The sweep needs a lane vocabulary for *every* board in the
project, not one board's — so the fix is a union over the distinct
workflows present, or a per-task filter after a broader query, not a
swap of the sentinel for a task id. That is a design decision in
`triage.ts`, another worker's file. The differential says what the fix
must make true.

## Verification

- new suite — **3/3 passed**, mutation matrix above
- full live-PG E2E surface — **151/151 passed** (148 on main + 3)
- `pnpm lint` — clean

Lane: `.pg.test.ts`, skipped via `pgDescribe` when no PostgreSQL is
reachable, so the merge gate is unaffected. Throwaway per-file database;
never port 4040.

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2026-07-30 11:50:05 -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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gsxdsm
29186a96da fix(tests): new CLI red from #2775 — the test pinned a decision its own PR superseded (#2801)
## New red on main

#2775 landed and put one failure on `main`, in a test that PR itself
added:

```
pr-create-review-lane-resolved.test.ts
  > refuses WITHOUT naming a phantom lane when the workflow declares no review lane
AssertionError: expected undefined to be defined
```

## Two review rounds pushed `pr.ts` in opposite directions; the test is
from the losing one

| round | decision |
|---|---|
| **1** (greptile P2) | a resolved workflow with no review-trait column
is an **answer** — do not invent `'in-review'`, say *"no review lane"*.
**This test was written against that.** |
| **2** (greptile) | refusing on an empty set rejects **every v1
workflow**, because `synthesizeDefaultColumns` upgrades a v1 graph by
emitting every column with `traits: []` — so a v1 board whose
`in-review` column plainly exists resolves to an empty review set. |

**Round 2 shipped** (`pr.ts:206-207`) and is right: an empty set is
indistinguishable from a v1 upgrade, so it means *unexpressed* rather
than *absent* and takes the same legacy fallback as an unreadable
workflow. Both rounds are extensively documented in `pr.ts` — the code
is deliberate and I have not touched it.

The consequence is simply that **there is no "no review lane" message in
the shipped code at all**, so `errors.find((e) => e.includes("no review
lane"))` returned `undefined`. The test could never have passed against
what merged.

## The fix

Re-pointed at the contract that actually shipped: the filtered board
takes the legacy `'in-review'` fallback, and the refusal must **not**
name the renamed lanes (`signoff`, `waiting-on-a-human`) that this board
no longer declares — which preserves the anti-phantom-lane intent the
test was named for.

## Flagged, not guessed

The round-1 behaviour is **not recoverable** without a way to
distinguish *"v2 board that declares no review lane"* from *"v1 board
whose traits were synthesised empty"*. The IR does not currently carry
that signal, so emitting a distinct message would re-break every pre-v2
project — the exact regression round 2 caught. Recorded in the test
rather than invented.

## Evidence

Mutations, both caught:

| mutation | result |
|---|---|
| fallback names lanes the board lacks | **1 failed** |
| the review-lane gate removed entirely | **2 failed** |

Full CLI package **1684 passed / 106 skipped (126 files)** — was 1
failed. Gate **732 green** · lint clean. Test-only; `pr.ts` restored
clean after the mutations.

## How this was found

Pre-flighting the open batch PRs against current `main` rather than
their branch heads, after batch-engine's previous landing put 32
failures on main that were only caught post-merge. #2785 and #2783 both
came back clean (commented on each); re-running `main` itself after the
newest landings surfaced this one.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 11:25:46 -07:00