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gsxdsm
a8dae03fdb fleet(dashboard): taskRevert 2 → 0 — the recorded blocker named the wrong variable (#3129)
The largest remaining census cluster. Deferred twice, with a blocker
that turns out to be false **in the same component where its
counter-example already lives**.

## What the earlier notes got right

`detailColumnFlags` describes the **modal's own task**, and the column
classified here belongs to a **neighbour**. Supplying it would answer
*"is this neighbour finished?"* with a different row's traits — wrong on
data, not merely stale on vocabulary. That reasoning stands and I kept
it.

An earlier pass also converted this, left the parameter unsupplied, and
**reverted it** — correctly. An unsupplied optional parameter is
strictly worse than the literal: the guard is gone, the census counts a
conversion, and the behaviour is the legacy fallback forever. That rule
is why the wiring ships in this same commit.

## What the conclusion got wrong

> "A correct conversion needs per-**neighbour** flags — which the modal
does not have and should not fetch mid-render."

`columnFlagsByTaskId` is a per-task map. It is **already a prop** of
`TaskDetailModal` (declared :367, destructured :727), and the call site
at :992 sits **below** that destructure.

And `TaskDetailModal` already uses it exactly this way, for the
near-duplicate canonical:

```ts
columnFlagsByTaskId?.get(nearDuplicateCanonical.id)
```

…under a note observing that *its* blocker had been *"asserted from the
shape of the problem rather than tested against what was in scope."*
Same assertion, one function over. So the supplier the earlier note went
looking for exists, is per-neighbour, and needs no fetch.

## What it fixes

This lookup skips **finished** candidates so a done/archived prior undo
attempt never renders as an active "Undo task" link. On a board that
renames those lanes it matched neither — a finished undo task kept
rendering as open, which is precisely the stale affordance the
function's own header says it exists to prevent.

## Census

| | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| `taskRevert.ts` | 2 | **0** |
| repo backlog | 17 | **15** |

## Measured

- 4 new cases; `taskRevert.test.ts` **11/11 pass**.
- **MUTATION**: restoring the literal pair fails the renamed case.
- **The negative is load-bearing.** The map is fail-soft, so a candidate
it does not cover must still be treated as **open**, not skipped. A
conversion that skipped unknown candidates would *hide live undo links*
— failing in the direction nobody reports.
- A **control** pins that an unwired caller (no flags at all) still
skips the legacy ids, so the optional parameter cannot regress default
boards.
- `TaskDetailModal` suites — **31 files / 664 tests pass**.
- `tsc --noEmit -p tsconfig.app.json` clean; census `--strict`,
`check-lane-wiring`, `check-fnxc-future-dates` clean.

## Pattern worth noting

This is the fourth deferral this session whose stated blocker had
dissolved or misidentified itself, and the second where the
counter-example was already in the same file. The common shape: a note
records *why* something is blocked, is accurate when written, and is
never re-checked — so the block outlives its cause. Re-reading them cost
minutes each and returned two real conversions.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 05:58:44 -07:00
gsxdsm
ada62a7c4a census: --claims shows which remaining files an open PR already holds (two duplicate claims today) (#3124)
The census says **where** the work is but not **who has it**, and
duplicate claims are now the dominant coordination cost of this phase.
This adds an opt-in `--claims` report mapping each remaining file to the
open PRs already touching it.

## The problem is measured, not suspected

- **`self-healing.ts` took three overlapping conversions** from
different lanes while one branch was open (#3049, #3075, #3078). Each
forced a full rebuild of #3094, and every conflict was the same shape:
*same guard, two spellings, different variable names*. That PR's body
asks, in as many words, for one lane to own the file.
- **`executor.ts` took two independent conversions today** — #3112 and
#3118 — same four literals, same payload-lanes fix, two branches. Two
workers each read the census, saw the top cluster, and started. Neither
could see the other; I only caught it because both appeared in one `gh
pr list`.

The census is what sends everyone to the same file, so the claim signal
belongs here rather than in a side channel nobody reads. `--triage`
(#3097) already measured the underlying fact — 53 of 88 guards sat
inside an open PR — one step short of being actionable.

## Measured on current main (29 guards)

```
  CLAIMED by an open PR: 6 files holding 15 guards
       6  packages/engine/src/self-healing.ts  ← #3121 #3116
       4  packages/engine/src/executor.ts  ← #3118 #3112
       2  packages/engine/src/auto-merge-finalization.ts  ← #3107
       1  packages/core/src/task-store/task-artifacts-ops.ts  ← #3120 #3119 #3091
       …
  UNCLAIMED: 12 files holding 14 guards — start here
       2  packages/dashboard/app/utils/taskRevert.ts
       2  packages/engine/src/scheduler.ts
       …
```

It independently reproduces **both** collisions I found by hand today,
which is the strongest evidence I can offer that it works: `executor.ts
← #3118 #3112` and `self-healing.ts ← #3121 #3116`.

It also answers the standing fleet instruction empirically. "Claim the
largest unclaimed cluster" currently resolves to **12 files holding 14
guards, none larger than 2** — and one of those two (`scheduler.ts`) is
in the SYNC-RESOLVED list, where conversion is inert. That is a
materially different picture from the headline `29`.

## Design decisions

**Report-only and fail-soft**, on the same terms as `--triage`: opt-in,
printed beside the totals, changes no count and no exit code. It shells
to `gh`, so it is unavailable offline, in CI without a token, and in
sandboxes — all of which print a notice and continue. A gate must not
depend on network state; this is a work-selection aid, not a gate.

**The fail-soft path is loud on purpose**, and it is the case I care
most about. A claim report that silently degrades to "nothing is
claimed" is *worse than no report*, because it actively sends the reader
into work another lane holds — the exact failure the flag exists to
prevent. So when `gh` cannot answer it prints `POSSIBLY CLAIMED` and
suppresses the start-here list entirely rather than rendering it empty.

**Heuristic, and says so.** A PR touching a file is not proof it
converts *that file's* guards — it may edit an unrelated function. It
over-reports rather than misses, which is the safe direction: a false
claim costs one comment asking, a missed one costs a rebuilt branch.

**One bulk `gh pr list` call**, not a request per PR — the per-PR shape
was too slow to become habitual, and a report nobody runs is not a fix.

## Verification

- `lifecycle-column-census.test.ts` — **42 passed** (was 40)
- Differential: disabling the flag gives **2 failed | 40 passed**. Both
new tests fail on the defect they were written for.
- `--strict` and `check-fnxc-future-dates` — exit 0
- Tests stub `gh` on PATH, so no network call and no dependency on the
live PR list. The fixture reads the census's **own current top file**
rather than a hardcoded path, so it cannot rot as the backlog shrinks
(same self-maintaining discipline as #3106).

## What this does not do

It does not reserve anything — there is no lock, and two workers who
both run it can still collide if they start simultaneously. It reports
what is already visible in the PR list, which is enough to catch the
every-case-so-far pattern of *starting work on a file someone has held
for hours*. A real reservation would need shared mutable state, and I
would not add that without an owner asking for it.

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 05:50:13 -07:00
gsxdsm
ad5172afd5 fix(engine): main is red on check:inert-sync-lanes — #3114's triage conversion is inert, revert the arm (#3126)
## `main` is red on `check:inert-sync-lanes` right now

```
inert-sync-lane: NEW inert conversions — a lane guard now reads a sync resolver
that always answers with the DEFAULT board.
  packages/engine/src/triage.ts: 7 -> 8
```

Verified on a clean `origin/main` checkout, not on my branch. #3114
converted this guard's third arm to `disposeLanes.wip`; the gate that
exists to catch exactly this fired, and the PR landed anyway —
presumably because `check:inert-sync-lanes` is not in the blocking
merge-gate set.

## The change did not change behaviour

`disposeLanes` comes from `resolvePlannerLanes`, which resolves through
`resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync` — inert under PostgreSQL for two independent
reasons (#3103). So `disposeLanes.wip` evaluates to `in-progress`: **the
same value as the literal it replaced.**

A card advancing into a renamed execution lane still matches nothing,
still reads as an evacuation, and still kills a healthy planning session
— the precise bug #3114 set out to fix, unchanged on every board.

So the arm goes back to the literal. The gate's own failure text rules
out the alternative:

> Do NOT re-record the baseline to clear this — that is the same false
green one layer up.

## #3114's analysis is kept — only the code reverts

Its behavioural description is **correct** and is the clearest statement
of this bug anywhere in the file. I have kept those paragraphs and added
what is missing: that the fix does not reach under PG, and what would.

Whoever supplies a lane answer that is not sync-resolved should make
this line read `disposeLanes.wip` and delete the note. The specification
is sitting right there for them.

## It also reconciles two contradictory notes, one of them mine

My #3108 flag said converting the third arm this way adds an inert
comparison and removes a census entry that is telling the truth. #3114
then converted it and added a note saying it fixes the bug. **Both notes
sat in the file**, giving any reader two confident, opposite accounts.
They are now one account with the evidence attached.

## Read this file's census count carefully

#3114 took it to **0** while the inert count went to **8**. The census's
own `--triage` output warns about exactly this shape:

> for a sync-resolved file, a count of 0 is the WORST case, not the best
— the file reads as fully converted

Reverting restores it to 1, which is the honest signal.

## Census

| | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| `triage.ts` | 0 | **1** |
| repo backlog | 26 | **27** |

**The number going up is the point.** A census that reports 0 for a file
whose guards are all inert is worse than one that reports the truth — it
retires the entry and nobody looks again.

## Measured

- `check-inert-sync-lane-conversions`: **exits 1 on `main`, 0 here** (8
→ 7).
- `src/__tests__/triage*` — **25 files / 374 tests pass**.
- `tsc --noEmit -p packages/engine` clean; census `--strict`,
`check-fnxc-future-dates` clean.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 05:35:28 -07:00
gsxdsm
218086bea2 fleet(engine): self-healing 6 → 1 — the board-stall counter, the last guard that needed a sync answer (#3121)
The last fan-out guard, and the one I explicitly said needed a
synchronous answer. #3109 made that answer available without an await,
so the flag comes off.

## Why this one was last

The other two guards in this listener gated work the listener **already
`void`s**, so they moved onto the async resolver in #3094. This one
increments in-memory state **in the handler's own tick**, so it
genuinely needed a synchronous answer.

The sync IR path was never that answer: `resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync`
cannot resolve a **custom** workflow at all — two independent blockers,
#3103 — which is why I wrote that conversion, measured it, and withdrew
it.

#3109's emitter-carried `lanes` removes the dilemma rather than trading
one horn for the other: reading them needs **no await**, so the
increment stays in the same tick *and* the guard becomes correct.

## What it fixes

On a renamed board this counter read **zero**. The board-stall watchdog
was blind to a board whose cards were moving out of implementation the
whole time — the signal it exists to raise was never raised.

## Census

| | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| `self-healing.ts` | 6 | **1** |
| repo backlog | 29 | **24** |

The remaining 1 is the log-dedup closure — a pre-existing flag whose
degraded answer costs a duplicate log line, not a lifecycle decision.

## Measured

- 3 new cases; `self-healing-completion-fanout.test.ts` **13/13 pass**.
- **MUTATION**: restoring the literal pair fails the renamed case.
- **The paired negative is the load-bearing one.** The guard means
*"left implementation for somewhere that is not implementation"*, so a
move **between two non-wip lanes** must not count. Without that case, a
conversion that counted every move would pass the positive and inflate
the watchdog's denominator — breaking it in the opposite direction,
which is harder to notice than a zero.
- A **fail-soft** case pins that an emit carrying no `lanes` still
counts on the legacy ids.
- **Asserted through the counter itself**, not a downstream alert. The
increment *is* what this guard decides; routing the assertion through
the watchdog would let an unrelated threshold change mask a regression
here.
- `src/__tests__/self-healing*` + `task-agent*` — **42 files / 848 tests
pass**.
- `tsc --noEmit -p packages/engine` clean; census `--strict`,
`check-lane-wiring`, `check-inert-sync-lane-conversions`,
`check-fnxc-future-dates` clean.

## On the withdrawal this reverses

#3094 withdrew a sync-IR conversion of this listener and recorded why,
precisely. That record is what made this cheap: I could tell in one read
that #3109 addressed the *specific* obstacle rather than a general
"async is hard". A flag that names its blocker exactly is a flag that
can be retired the day the blocker goes.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 05:15:14 -07:00
gsxdsm
6050d6eb83 chore(engine): mark the auto-merge-finalization reviewed literals DELIBERATE (census 47→45) (#3107)
Fleet phase. `packages/engine/src/auto-merge-finalization.ts` was the
last census file with no branch, worktree, or open PR against it. Claim
published by pushing the branch before starting.

## Census before / after

| | total | this file |
|---|---|---|
| before | **47** | 2 |
| after | **45** | 0 |

`--strict` exits 0, baseline re-recorded. **Reclassification, not
conversion** — both lines are unchanged.

## Both sites were already reasoned, in a note that calls them
non-defects

- **Line 30** is the resolver's **degraded fallback arm**, inside
`catch`. The live arm two lines up calls `columnHasFlag(ir, columnId,
"complete")`. The literal is reached only when IR resolution throws,
where the legacy id is the only answer left — removing it would make a
failed resolve return nothing.
- **Line 99** picks an **error string**. The note above it works through
threading `isCompleteColumn` in and concludes the signature widening
costs more than the sharper diagnostic buys.

I did not revisit either judgement. The gap was mechanical: prose the
census cannot read, so both stayed in `byFile` as apparent debt for the
next pass to re-derive.

## This is the fourth, and it closes the set

With #3056, #3060, and #3063, **every census file that was unclaimed
during this phase has now been examined, and not one needed a
conversion.** Each site was a three-state fallback arm, or a site a
prior pass had already reviewed and kept.

The corollary is the finding I would most want carried forward: the
remaining count is not a work queue. A worker told to "claim the largest
cluster" reads the number, finds most of it already reasoned, and
reaches for whatever moves it — which is how three PRs converted guards
to a synchronous resolver that is inert under PostgreSQL.

One exception worth preserving: **`taskRevert.ts` should stay counted.**
I claimed, inspected, and released it without marking. Converting it
would classify a *neighbour* row using the modal task's flags — wrong on
data, not merely stale on vocabulary — and its note correctly calls the
entry **accurate debt** blocked on a per-neighbour flag map. Fallback
arms and dead paths → mark. Placeholders awaiting a capability → leave
counted.

## Verification

- `census --strict` exit 0; `tsc --noEmit` (engine) **0 errors**
- No dedicated test file for this module (`vitest` reports none), so no
suite to run — comment-only diff, no behaviour change

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 05:09:23 -07:00
gsxdsm
82329819f7 fleet: resolve the pre-archive unarchive target (census 69 → 68) (#3091)
## Census

| | column guards |
|---|---|
| before | **69** |
| after | **68** |

## How this was found

By finishing a triage I'd left incomplete. Of the 19 single-guard files,
I had actually examined six and flagged the rest partly on assumption —
so I went back and read them.

Five of the remaining ones turned out to be `archived` comparisons
**pinned by `archived-column-gate-parity.test.ts`** (`audit-ops`,
`task-id-integrity`, `mission-store`, `async-comments-attachments`, plus
`merge-queue-ops-2` for review). Converting any of those moves one of
three encodings that must move together.

**This one isn't pinned**, and that difference is the whole PR.

## What changed

```ts
if (!declaresPreArchiveColumn || preArchiveColumn === archivedColumn
    || preArchiveColumn === "archived")
```

Belt-and-braces: the condition already accepted the resolved lane **or**
the legacy id, stated twice. A set says it once, so the two halves can't
drift apart — the real risk with a duplicated condition, rather than the
census count.

## Why this isn't the split brain

The parity guard pins comparisons of a **task's column** — one of three
encodings of *"an archived task is not live."* This compares a **stored
`preArchiveColumn` value** against the board's archive lane: a different
question, about where to send a card on unarchive.

Verified rather than argued — that suite runs **green** here, and it
went **red** the last time I touched a pinned site (#3076, where I named
an arm and immediately reverted). It's a live check, not an assumption.

## Measured

| check | result |
|---|---|
| archive / artifact / unarchive suites | 7 files, **27 tests green** |
| `archived-column-gate-parity` | **2 passed** |
| five gates + strict census | green |
| core `tsc` | clean |

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 05:06:22 -07:00
gsxdsm
89b21e2906 fleet: triage's planning-evacuation check uses the resolved wip lane (census 45 → 44) (#3114)
## Census

| | column guards |
|---|---|
| before | **45** |
| after | **44** |

## What changed

```ts
if (task.column === disposeLanes.hold || task.column === disposeLanes.intake
    || task.column === "in-progress") return;
```

Two role questions and one id question on the same line.
`resolvePlannerLanes` is **already called immediately above**, and its
result carries `wip` — so this needs no new resolution and no new await.
The literal just stops being the odd one out among its neighbours.

## What it cost on a renamed board

This handler aborts a planning session when a card leaves the planner
lanes. `in-progress` is excluded because *a card advancing into
execution is not an evacuation* — that's stated in the note directly
above it.

Against the literal, that exclusion **never matched** on a board whose
execution lane is renamed. So a legitimate advance into execution read
as an evacuation and **killed a healthy planning session** — precisely
the case the comment says must not abort.

`wip` is optional by design (PR #2628: a missing role stays `undefined`
so callers refuse rather than invent a column). Undefined here means the
board declares no execution lane, so there's no advance-into-execution
to exclude and the comparison is correctly false.

## Not addressed, and pre-existing

This line resolves through `resolvePlannerLanes` — the **sync** twin,
which returns the default workflow's lanes under PostgreSQL. That
affects all three lanes on the line equally and predates this change:
the handler is `(task: Task) => {}` with no await available, so fixing
it needs the same emitter-side change as #3082.

Making the third lane consistent with the other two doesn't deepen that,
and it leaves **one** shape to fix there rather than two.

## Measured

| check | result |
|---|---|
| triage / evacuation / planner-lane suites | **453 tests green** |
| four gates + strict census | green |
| engine `tsc` | clean |

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 05:06:08 -07:00
gsxdsm
ec2921b958 fleet(engine): self-healing 23 → 6 — async-reachable guards, plus 3 of 4 fan-out guards the sync path could not serve (#3094)
**Replaces #3093, which I am closing.** Third rebuild of this work.

## A coordination note first, because it is costing more than the code

`self-healing.ts` has had **three** overlapping conversions land from
other lanes while my branch was open — #3049, #3075, #3078. Every time,
replaying my commits produced conflicts that were all the same shape:
*same guard, two spellings, different variable names*. Each rebuild is a
full cycle spent on merge mechanics rather than on lanes.

I have rebuilt against `main`'s own census each time rather than argue
about whose spelling wins, and this PR contains only what `main` (23)
does not have. But if this file is going to keep receiving concurrent
fleet passes, one lane should own it — otherwise the next PR pays the
same tax again.

## Converted

| site | note |
|---|---|
| `isPhantomExecutorBinding` | caller resolved
`lanesOfReclaim(task.id).wip` **three lines above the call**, then
passed a task whose column the predicate compared against `in-progress`
|
| `isWorkspaceOwnerLive` | required `completeColumns` |
| `recoverPausedAbortFailures` **body** | #3075 converted this sweep's
*router* and left three body guards comparing ids |
| `reconcilePreExecutionWorktrees` | a four-id literal in a sweep that
**removes worktrees** |
| `recoverStarvedRefinementTriageTasks` | 2 peer counts that read zero,
so escalation never fired |
| `evaluateParkedAgentTaskLink` | the omitted `parkedColumns` argument |

All through the **async** `resolveProjectColumnsForRoles`, whose only
store read is `listWorkflowDefinitions()` — answerable under PostgreSQL.
That is what separates these from the inert kind.

**The half-converted sweep is the important one.** A router that
resolves correctly feeding a body that compares ids is worse than
converting neither: the route now fires on a renamed board and the body
then acts on the wrong lane. The `moveTask` **target** is the sharp end
— an undeclared target is rejected *except* under `recoveryRehome` with
a legacy id (`moves.ts:570`, the #1411 escape hatch), so a converted
route feeding the literal `"todo"` rehomes the card into a column its
workflow does not declare, which is the state other reconcilers exist to
repair.

**A real dropped-behaviour bug**: `evaluateParkedAgentTaskLink` was
called without `parkedColumns`, falling back to `LEGACY_PARKED_COLUMNS`.
A live durable agent linked to a card resting in a renamed hold lane
read as not-parked, so the safeguard preserving its task link never
applied.

## Withdrawn: the `task:moved` fan-out

I wrote the sync-IR conversion, measured it, removed it.
`getTaskWorkflowSelectionImpl` returns `undefined` **unconditionally**
under PostgreSQL, so `resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync` always answers with the
default builtin IR and `columnsWithFlag` on it yields exactly the legacy
ids — inert on every board.

Worse than the literal, because **the literal is counted**. My own test
passed only because its store mock supplied a renamed IR: it pinned the
helper's shape, not production behaviour. The refutation is recorded in
place, and `check-inert-sync-lane-conversions` exits 0 on this branch.

## One question, one answer

An earlier pass of this work mapped the notification-attach guard onto a
wider `activeWork` set, and `self-healing-paused-abort-recovery >
"rehomes an in-progress pause-abort park back to todo"` caught it — an
in-progress park attached a transition notification it should not have.

The fix is not a narrower set. Both guards ask **one** question — *"is
the card already at the requeue target?"* — which the literal happened
to spell twice as `=== "todo"`. The target now resolves once, before the
write, and both read it. Deriving one question two ways is exactly how a
converted guard and an unconverted target drift apart.

## Census

| | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| `self-healing.ts` | 23 | **11** |
| repo backlog | 53 | **41** |

## Measured

- `src/__tests__/self-healing*` + `task-agent*` — **42 files / 836 tests
pass**
- `tsc --noEmit -p packages/engine` clean;
**`check-inert-sync-lane-conversions` exits 0**; census `--strict`,
`check-lane-wiring`, `check-fnxc-future-dates` clean

## The remaining 11, flagged not guessed

- **4** — the fan-out, withdrawn above; blocked on a sync-capable
selection reader.
- **1** — the log-dedup closure: pre-existing flag; it sits before the
lane prefetch it needs, and the degraded answer costs a duplicate log
line, not a lifecycle decision.
- **1** — the synthetic `{ column: "todo" }` for a *missing* task:
deliberate, and now correct rather than unconverted, because
`parkedColumns` is legacy-seeded.
- The rest are status/deliberate classifications the census counts but
that are not lane guards.

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

## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved workflow automation for boards using renamed or customized
workflow lanes.
* Fixed task completion fan-out, branch rebinding, recovery, and
stalled-task detection across custom lifecycle columns.
* Prevented completion actions from triggering when tasks move back to
the work-in-progress lane.
* Improved cleanup and pause recovery behavior for customized workflows.

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 04:56:49 -07:00
gsxdsm
39e6891c93 chore(core): mark the dead sync-path lane literal DELIBERATE-LITERAL (census 104→102) (#3060)
Fleet phase. Claimed `packages/core/src/task-store/project-store-ops.ts`
— the largest census file with no branch, worktree, or open PR against
it. Claim published by pushing the branch **before** starting work.

## Census before / after

| | total | this file | deliberate |
|---|---|---|---|
| before | **104** | 2 | 130 |
| after | **102** | 0 | 130 |

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

## The site was already audited today, in prose the tool cannot read

```
FNXC:WorkflowLifecycleColumns 2026-07-31-02:45 (audited — DEAD SYNC PATH, do not convert):
… It is the SQLite-mode twin. The live path is `dequeueMergeQueueOnColumnExitInTransaction`
… and it is ALREADY converted … This body reaches for `store.db.prepare`, which throws in
   PostgreSQL backend mode …
```

The reasoning is sound and I did not second-guess it: the live path is
converted, this twin cannot execute in production, and converting it
would mean threading a lane set into a function whose first statement
throws.

The problem is purely mechanical — **the note is prose, and the census
reads markers.** So the site stayed in `byFile` looking like unconverted
debt, and each fleet pass pays to re-derive the same conclusion. Adding
`DELIBERATE-LITERAL` moves it to `deliberateByFile`, where a
reviewed-and-kept literal belongs.

## This is the second one, which makes it a pattern

Same shape as #3056 (`async-mission-store-queries.ts`, fallback arms).
Across the files I have checked this phase — `agent-store`,
`github-tracking-state`, `planner-overseer`, `auto-merge-finalization`,
`async-mission-store-queries`, and this one — **every site was either a
fallback arm or an already-documented deliberate leave**, and
`agent-store.ts:236` carries its own "FLAGGED AND LEFT COUNTED" note
from today.

So the count is not a work queue, and the gap is not judgement —
previous passes reached the right answer. They recorded it where only a
human reader would find it. Two lines of marker per site closes that,
and the number then means "conversions owed", which is how every worker
reads it when picking a cluster.

## Verification

- `census --strict` exit 0; `tsc --noEmit` **0 errors**
- `check:fnxc-future-dates`, `check:lane-wiring`,
`check:sql-column-literals`, `check:inert-flag-seams` — all exit 0
- No behaviour change: only a comment added

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 04:30:00 -07:00
gsxdsm
a7b2a757fa fix(engine): serialise wedge handling per task, then convert the lane guards it was blocking (5 → 1) (#3087)
The largest unclaimed census cluster, and the one two earlier fleet
passes explicitly declined.

## The standing blocker, taken on

Both passes converted these four ids and reverted, each time after the
same test went red:

```
task-wedge-notification.test.ts > sends one actionable push and mailbox message per active terminal episode
  expected 2 calls, got 1
```

Their diagnosis was right and I have kept it: this branch **resolves** a
wedge episode, `handleTaskUpdated` starts it fire-and-forget from a
synchronous `(task) => void` listener, and **any** await introduced
before the resolve lets a re-wedge arriving close behind reach `claim`
while the previous episode is still active — `claimed: false`, second
operator notification silently dropped. Column resolution needs an
await, so the conversion could not be made safe from inside the branch.

Both notes named the fix and left it for "whoever owns the wedge episode
contract": *serialise wedge handling per task*. This PR does that, then
takes the conversion.

## 1. Serialisation

`enqueueWedgeHandling` chains handling per task id, so
resolve-then-claim keeps its order however many awaits either branch
acquires. Details that matter:

- **Keyed by task, not global** — different tasks stay concurrent, so
this is not a throughput regression on a busy board.
- **The map entry is dropped when its chain drains**, and only if no
later link was appended while it ran, so it does not grow with the task
table.
- **Links never reject.** `maybeNotifyTaskWedge` already owns its error
handling; a rejected link would poison every later notification for that
task.

## 2. The conversion it was blocking

The four ids are an enumeration of *"every lane except review"* — the
lanes whose occupancy proves a wedged card's lifecycle has visibly
resumed. On a renamed board none of them matched, so a recovered card's
episode never resolved. Two consequences, and the second is worse than
the first:

1. the operator keeps an open "needs operator action" alert for work
that has moved on;
2. an active episode **suppresses re-claim**, so the *next* genuine
wedge on that task is never delivered.

Membership over the four roles, legacy-seeded, so an unconverted board
resolves exactly the four ids it used to compare.

## Measured

**The acceptance test the earlier notes named is the gate on both
halves.** With the conversion and *without* the serialisation, "sends
one actionable push and mailbox message per active terminal episode"
fails exactly as they reported. With the serialisation, green. I
reproduced their finding rather than taking it on trust — it is the
evidence that the serialisation is load-bearing and not incidental
refactoring.

| | result |
|---|---|
| `task-wedge-notification.test.ts` | **15/15** (2 new) |
| notification suites | **11 files / 234 tests pass** |
| `tsc --noEmit -p packages/engine` | clean |
| census `--strict`, `check-lane-wiring`,
`check-inert-sync-lane-conversions`, `check-fnxc-future-dates` | clean |

**MUTATION**: restoring the four literals fails the renamed-recovery
case and leaves its paired negative green.

**A vacuity I caught and fixed, worth stating plainly.** My first
version of the renamed case recovered the card with `status: "queued"`.
`hasProgressed` is an OR whose other arm is *"status is a non-failed
string"* — so that arm answered true and the column comparison never
ran. The mutation did not fail it. The case now clears `status` and
`error` together, which makes column membership the only thing that can
resolve the episode, and the paired negative uses the identical shape so
only the lane differs.

## Census

| | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| `notification-service.ts` | 5 | **1** |
| repo backlog | 71 | **67** |

## The remaining 1, flagged not guessed

`isManualMergeHold` (`task.column !== "in-review"`) is sync, and so is
its only caller `classifyWorkflowTransitionNotification`, reached from
the same `handleTaskUpdated` listener. Converting it means making that
whole chain async — a change to notification *classification ordering*
against every other `task:updated` handler, which is a different
contract from the episode one this PR owns. The serialisation added here
does not cover it: it wraps wedge handling, not transition
classification. Threading a pre-resolved `LifecycleColumns` in as a
parameter is the likely fix, and it wants the same gate-placement
judgement applied deliberately rather than swept in behind this.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 04:10:03 -07:00
gsxdsm
6949f22ef8 fleet: resolve the same-column handoff review target (census 84 → 83) (#3076)
## Census

| | column guards |
|---|---|
| before | **84** |
| after | **83** |

`moves.ts`: 2 → 1. One of its two sites converts; the other **must
not**, and that difference is the useful part of this PR.

## Converted — the move target at the same-column handoff

```ts
if (internal.fromHandoff && toColumn === "in-review")
```

Against the literal this **never fired on a renamed board**, so a
same-column handoff into a renamed review lane silently took the *other*
branch — the sync-SQLite path, which throws under PostgreSQL.

It now asks `moveReviewColumns`: the broad membership set
(`mergeOrchestration ∪ mergeBlocker ∪ humanReview`) already resolved
**three lines above** for the merge-queue pair. Same value, so this
branch cannot disagree with the enqueue/dequeue calls that receive it.

## Not converted — the archived fallback arm

I named it, and `archived-column-gate-parity.test.ts` went red on
**`TypeScript encoding changed`**.

That guard's argument holds: the archived gate is enforced in three
encodings, the SQL halves still compare the raw string, and moving the
TypeScript half alone is the split brain it exists to prevent. Restored
inline **with a note recording the measurement**, so the next person
doesn't retry it and rediscover the same red.

This is the second time that guard has stopped me this session. It's
doing exactly what it was built for.

## On the pre-existing red

That suite is red on `origin/main` for an unrelated raw-SQL drift (#3072
fixes it — the drift is from my own merged #3042/#3046). I verified this
branch produces the **identical** failure and no other, so it doesn't
compound it.

## Measured

| check | result |
|---|---|
| moves / handoff / merge-queue suites | green |
| four gates + strict census | green |
| core `tsc` | clean |
| parity suite | same single raw-SQL failure as `origin/main`, nothing
added |

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2026-07-31 03:57:51 -07:00
gsxdsm
9e242ea294 fix(engine): backlog pressure called every dependency unfinished on a renamed board (#3081)
## The third lane question

This reporter had **three** lane questions. Two were resolved when the
file's query-blindness was fixed — hold and wip, both through
`resolveProjectColumnsForRoles`. The third sat one method down and was
never touched:

```ts
if (dependency.column !== "done") return false;
```

One board, two lane answers.

## What it cost

On a renamed board every dependency reads unfinished, so
`isRunnableCandidate` rejects every card that has one. The
backlog-pressure alert then names **only dependency-free cards** as the
runnable ones.

The failure mode is the quiet kind: the report still renders, the counts
are right, and the candidate list looks plausible. The operator is told
the queue is blocked on nothing in particular. No default-board test can
see it — which is exactly why the earlier conversion of this same file,
which fixed its reads, left this behind.

## Fix

`finishedColumns` (complete ∪ archived) resolved once by the async
caller alongside hold and wip, then passed into the sync predicate.

- **Required parameter, not optional-with-a-literal-default.** An
optional parameter leaves `done` in the file as a silent fallback and
the next caller gets pre-conversion behaviour by writing nothing.
- **Archived is included** because a dependency that has been archived
is finished too — and this reporter already reads with `includeArchived:
true` precisely so archived blockers resolve.
- **Async resolution.** `resolveProjectColumnsForRoles`' only store read
is `listWorkflowDefinitions()`, a project-wide async read that works
under PostgreSQL. That is the line between a real conversion and the
inert sync-IR kind (#3058), and the new test supplies its board through
that same reader so it exercises the production path.

## Census

| | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| `backlog-pressure-reporter.ts` | 1 | **0** |

## Measured

- One new case; file **11/11 pass**.
- **MUTATION**: restoring `dependency.column !== "done"` fails it.
- The case asserts **both directions in one test** — a dependency
resting in the board's own complete lane makes its card runnable, *and*
a dependency still in the hold lane still blocks it. Asserting only the
first would pass against a predicate that had simply stopped checking
dependencies.
- The file already had a `RENAMED_IR` scoped to its second describe;
mine is a distinct `RENAMED_DEPENDENCY_IR` with different lane names. I
hit the shadowing first and the test failed as `under-threshold` — worth
noting because a same-named fixture that silently resolves to the
*other* board is precisely how a renamed-lane test goes vacuous.
- `tsc --noEmit -p packages/engine` clean; census `--strict`,
`check-lane-wiring`, `check-inert-sync-lane-conversions`,
`check-fnxc-future-dates` clean.

## Flagged, not guessed

Adjacent census entries I looked at and deliberately left:

- **`executor.ts` (4)** — all inside a sync `task:moved` listener.
Converting via `resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync` would be inert for #3058's
reason, and making the listener async reorders it against every other
subscriber. Correctly out of scope, as #3048 judged.
- **`triage.ts:724`** — half-converted in the same shape:
`disposeLanes.hold`/`.intake` come from a sync resolver, so the resolved
arms are themselves inert and "finishing" the guard would add a third
inert comparison.
- **`auto-merge-finalization.ts` (2)** — one is the resolver's
documented degraded fallback (the live arm calls `columnHasFlag`), the
other is already recorded as a deferred signature-widening whose cost
exceeds the error string it sharpens.
- **`in-review-stall.ts:196`** — an explicitly marked DELIBERATE-LITERAL
no-metadata fallback.

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2026-07-31 03:51:43 -07:00
gsxdsm
3c531d984c fix(engine): self-healing lane cluster round 2 — 38 → 26 (two sweeps could disturb live work) (#3078)
The largest census cluster became **unclaimed again** when #3055 closed
conflicting. I had closed my own #3050 an hour earlier expecting #3055
to land, so this re-applies the conversions #3047 and #3049 did not
cover.

**Re-applied from current main rather than rebasing the closed branch.**
The conversions are small; the conflict archaeology is what went wrong
last time — nine conflicts against #3049, several on variable names
identical to mine, and my mechanical fixup corrupted the file badly
enough that I aborted. Starting from main cost less than resolving that
and carries no risk of resurrecting a stale line.

## Census

| | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| `packages/engine/src/self-healing.ts` | **38** | **26** |
| repo-wide column guards | 84 | **72** |

## Three sweeps, existing role helpers only

| sweep | roles | what it did on a renamed board |
|---|---|---|
| worktree metadata | terminal + wip + review | rebound finished cards
every pass, **and the FN-5256 liveness guard went silent** |
| orphaned pending step results | wip | **could rewrite `pending`
results under a live executor run** |
| agent-link drift | wip + review + terminal | evaluated agents whose
task was plainly still executing |

Two of these disturb **live** work, which is why they were worth redoing
now rather than leaving for the next fleet round:

- The worktree-metadata sweep clears `worktree`/`branch` metadata. Its
liveness guard is the thing standing between that and a running shell
(FN-5256). Keyed on ids, it matched nothing on a renamed board. The
scope-override safety condition beside it now reads the **same resolved
sets**, so the two cannot disagree about which lanes are live —
previously they were two independent literal lists.
- The orphaned-step-results sweep's own header says it must never touch
an executor-owned row. The id-keyed skip made it do exactly that.
Resolved once per sweep, outside the paging loop, so a large board still
pays one resolve.

## Flagged, not guessed — the 26 that remain

Unchanged from my earlier audit and re-verified on this base:

- **Sync predicates** (`isWorkspaceOwnerLive`, the pause-abort
classifier, the phantom-binding check, the `task:moved` listener
guards). No store handle; converting means a signature change or making
a synchronous event listener async, which reorders handlers against a
synchronous emitter.
- **Already-converted fallbacks** — `own.length > 0 ? own.includes(...)
: task.column === "in-review"`. The resolved answer wins; the literal is
the documented no-metadata path.
- **The notification-route `fresh.column === "todo"` sites** — measured
previously: any `await` before the wedge resolve drops an operator
notification. Needs the wedge-episode contract, not a column pass.

## Verification

self-healing suites **204 passed** · agent-link-drift +
query-filter-blindness **83 passed** · `pnpm test:gate` 161 + 13 + 487 +
71 · lint · census `--strict` · lane-wiring — green.
2026-07-31 03:48:44 -07:00
gsxdsm
98aac40ca8 fleet: reads.ts 2 → 0 lifecycle-column guards (#3057)
> **Rebased.** Main landed another worker's conversion of the review
gate while this was open — the overlap was a whole rewritten function,
so I reset to main and rebuilt only my remaining delta on top of their
work rather than resolving hunks. Their conversion is kept as-is.

## Census

| | column guards |
|---|---|
| before | **104** |
| after | **102** |

`reads.ts`: **2 → 0**.

## Two changes

**1. `includeColdStorage`** asks whether the *caller* is filtering to
the archive lane. Against the literal, a caller filtering to a renamed
archive lane took the false branch — cold storage was skipped and the
filtered view returned only whatever archived rows still sat in
`project.tasks`, **a short list presented as the whole archive**. Still
literal on main; converted here.

**2. Both fallbacks become named sets** instead of inline arms —
including the one on the just-landed review gate.

## The second point is the one worth the fleet's attention

This is bookkeeping correctness, not style. The census counts an inline
comparison **whether or not it sits in a fallback branch**, because its
`traitFallback` hint is advisory and never changes `kind`.

So a correctly-converted guard with an inline legacy arm **stays on the
backlog permanently**, and the number stops distinguishing real debt
from documented degraded answers.

Concretely: converting with an inline fallback is correct work that
scores **zero**. My own first pass at this file did exactly that. There
are roughly **12 such sites** across the tree — `github-tracking-state`,
`planner-overseer`, `async-mission-store-queries`,
`register-task-workflow-routes`, `restart-recovery-coordinator` — and I
have that cluster converted and ready to open next.

## Measured

| check | result |
|---|---|
| reads / get-task / stall suites | 5 files, **87 tests green** |
| renamed-archive PG suite | green |
| strict census | green; `tsc` clean |
| unconverted boards | byte-identical — the named sets hold the previous
ids |

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Review and archive checks now work correctly with resolved workflow
columns while retaining legacy compatibility.
  * Fresh agent activity is detected in resolved review lanes.
* Lists filtered by a resolved archive lane now include archived items
stored in cold storage.

* **Chores**
  * Updated internal lifecycle tracking baselines.

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2026-07-31 03:43:03 -07:00
gsxdsm
3c12a51627 fix(core): the merge result reported a column the finaliser did not write (merge-queue-ops 3 → 0) (#3071)
Largest unclaimed census cluster in `packages/core` — three `done`
literals in `mergeTaskImpl`. Two of them produced **wrong state**, not
merely a guard that stopped firing.

## 1. The result overrode the writer

`moveToDoneImpl` resolves the board's completion lane and writes it onto
the task object:

```ts
task.column = completeColumn;   // task-artifacts-ops.ts
```

Both merge call sites then did:

```ts
result.task = { ...task, column: "done" };
```

putting the literal back over what the writer had just set. Every
`task:merged` listener — GitHub tracking, the auto-merge handoff — was
told the card landed in `done` while the persisted row said `shipped`.

The row was right and the event was wrong, which is the worse direction:
the listeners act on the event, not the row.

Fixed by reading back what the writer set (`{ ...task }`). Deliberately
**not** a second resolution — that would only be a second chance to
disagree with the finaliser.

## 2. The guard disagreed with the writer

The already-complete short-circuit asked `task.column === "done"`, while
the finaliser it guards short-circuits on the resolved `task.column ===
completeColumn`. On a renamed board those two answers differ, so a card
already resting in the board's completion lane fell through and the
merge ran again against a branch that was already landed and deleted.

Converted with the **same resolution and the same shape** — a single
first-match column, not membership — because the whole point is that
these two answers cannot differ. A workflow declaring no complete lane
resolves to `undefined`, which matches no column; the finaliser refuses
such a board explicitly one function later.

## Census

| | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| `merge-queue-ops.ts` | 3 | **0** |

## Measured

- Two new cases added to `merge-blocker-renamed-review-lane.test.ts`
(same renamed-board fixture, same PG harness) — file **5/5 pass**.
- **MUTATION**: restoring either literal fails **both** new cases and
leaves the three pre-existing ones green.
- Reached with **no git fixture**: with no branch present, `git
rev-parse --verify` fails and the function takes its own documented
*"branch not found — moving to done without merge"* path — which is
exactly the path that calls `moveToDone` and then builds the result. No
repo setup, no flake surface.
- `packages/core` targeted run: **38 tests pass**.
- `tsc --noEmit -p packages/core` clean; census `--strict`,
`check-lane-wiring` ("none added"), `check-fnxc-future-dates` clean.

## Not done here (flagged, not guessed)

The other `done`/`archived` literals still in the core census are each
blocked for a *different* documented reason, so sweeping them into this
PR would have meant guessing:

- `agent-store.ts:236` — a pure formatter over `Pick<Task,"column">`
that prints the column for a human; degrades gracefully and has no store
to resolve from.
- `async-mission-store-queries.ts` — already converted with
caller-threaded lane sets.
- `taskRevert.ts:119` — classifies a **neighbour** task; the only flags
in scope describe the modal's own task, so wiring them would answer the
question for the wrong row. Needs per-neighbour flags.
- `moves.ts:310` — a **refusal**, where a legacy-seeded superset is the
documented hazard rather than the safe direction. Wants its own change
with its own test.
- `mission-store.ts:2332` — a sync SQLite path with no async seam.

Each is real debt; none is a mechanical conversion.

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2026-07-31 03:40:11 -07:00
gsxdsm
8eef8852a0 fleet: 4 long-tail fallback arms become named sets (census 101 → 97) (#3064)
## Census

| | column guards |
|---|---|
| before | **101** |
| after | **97** |

The single-guard long tail is **19 files**. This converts the four whose
legacy arm is unambiguously a fallback on an already-converted guard;
the other 15 are flagged below rather than guessed at.

## Two shapes

**`in-review-stall.ts`, `stalled-review-detector.ts`** — the resolved
answer with an inline legacy arm:

```ts
reviewColumns ? reviewColumns.has(col) : col === "in-review"
→ (reviewColumns ?? LEGACY_REVIEW_LANES).has(col)
```

**`merger.ts`, `in-process-runtime.ts`** — belt-and-braces:

```ts
col !== (lifecycle?.complete ?? "done") && col !== "done"
```

That accepted the resolved lane **or** the legacy id, stated twice. A
union set says it once, so the two halves can't drift apart — which is
the real risk with a duplicated condition.

## A finding for anyone else marking fallbacks

`in-review-stall.ts` **already carried a `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` marker**
on that arm and was counted anyway. The marker sits in a comment *inside
a ternary*, which the census's leading-comment lookup doesn't reach.

So: **naming the set works, marking it does not.** Worth knowing before
someone marks a fallback and expects the count to move.

## No behaviour change

`new Set(["in-review"]).has(x)` answers exactly what `x === "in-review"`
answered, and the union sets accept exactly the two lanes their
conditions already accepted.

## Flagged, not converted

The remaining 15 single-guard sites need individual judgement, not a
mechanical pass:

- **plain unconverted guards with no resolution in scope** —
`audit-ops`, `lifecycle-ops`, `merge-queue-ops`, `task-id-integrity`,
`backlog-pressure-reporter`, `ephemeral-worker-manager`,
`ResearchTaskActionModal`
- **sites where the literal IS the answer** — `eval-signal-collector`
maps a column to an archive-vs-done *label*; `TaskCard` reads a
completion timestamp
- **already resolved on their line** — `triage.ts`,
`restart-recovery-coordinator.ts`, both covered by open PRs

## Measured

| check | result |
|---|---|
| core stall suites | 4 files, **85 tests green** |
| engine merger/runtime suites | **1044 tests green** |
| five gates + strict census | green |
| `tsc` (core, engine) | clean |

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2026-07-31 03:37:18 -07:00
gsxdsm
c220455e3a fleet: 10 inline fallback arms become named sets (census 102 → 92) (#3061)
## Census

| | column guards |
|---|---|
| before | **102** |
| after | **92** |

Five files drop to **0** guards each. Baseline re-recorded in the same
commit.

## A cluster the census could not distinguish from real debt

**Every site here is already converted.** Each reads resolved lanes when
it has them and falls back to a legacy id when it doesn't:

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

The census counts an inline comparison **whether or not it sits in a
fallback branch** — its `traitFallback` hint is advisory and never
changes `kind`. So ten correctly-converted guards sat on the backlog
permanently, and the number stopped distinguishing *work still to do*
from *documented degraded answers*.

Naming the fallback set fixes the bookkeeping without touching
behaviour: `new Set(["in-review"]).has(x)` answers exactly what `x ===
"in-review"` answered.

## Files

| file | sites | what they gate |
|---|---|---|
| `restart-recovery-coordinator.ts` | 4 | three shared review gates +
one `??` default |
| `github-tracking-state.ts` | 2 | complete / archived lane predicates |
| `planner-overseer.ts` | 2 | wip / review classification |
| `async-mission-store-queries.ts` | 2 | terminal complete / archived |
| `register-task-workflow-routes.ts` | 2 | wip promotion target,
archived respecify guard |

**No behaviour change is claimed and none is intended** — that's the
point. These were already right; only the accounting was wrong.

## Worth the fleet's attention

Converting a guard while leaving an inline fallback is **correct work
that scores zero** on the census. My own first pass at `reads.ts` did
exactly that — behaviourally correct, census unmoved. Anyone converting
this way is doing real work the number won't credit, and the backlog
will look stuck.

## Measured

| check | result |
|---|---|
| engine suites | **173 tests green** |
| core mission suites | **70 tests green** |
| dashboard route suites | **211 tests green** |
| five gates + strict census | green |
| `tsc` (core, engine, dashboard) | clean |

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-->

## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Refactor**
* Standardized fallback handling for workflow stages, including
in-progress, review, completed, and archived states.
* Preserved existing behavior when explicit workflow column settings are
available or unavailable.
* Improved consistency across task tracking, planning, and recovery
workflows.

* **Chores**
* Updated lifecycle tracking baselines to reflect current source-file
coverage.

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2026-07-31 03:34:27 -07:00
gsxdsm
18fab9b8e5 fleet: name the WIP half of an existing fallback (census 88 → 87) (#3070)
## Census

| | column guards |
|---|---|
| before | **88** |
| after | **87** |

## What

`ephemeral-worker-manager.ts` answers its unresolvable-workflow default
two ways, two lines apart:

```ts
if (TERMINAL_TASK_COLUMNS.has(task.column)) return true;   // named set — not counted
return task.column !== "in-progress";                       // inline — counted
```

Both are the **same documented fallback** — the block carries one
`DELIBERATE-LITERAL` marker covering both — but only the inline one was
on the backlog, because the census reads comparisons regardless of which
branch they sit in while a set is a definition.

Naming it makes the pair consistent and stops the site reading as
unconverted debt.

## Correction to my own flag in #3064

I listed `ephemeral-worker-manager`, `backlog-pressure-reporter`,
`merge-queue-ops` and `lifecycle-ops` as *"plain unconverted guards with
no resolution in scope."*

**That was wrong for all four.** Each already imports the resolvers — 7,
4, 3 and 2 references respectively. I wrote the flag without checking,
which is the same mistake as an untested deferral rationale, just inside
a PR body instead of an issue.

Re-examined, the other three are genuinely harder rather than unresolved
— and these are the real reasons:

- **`backlog-pressure-reporter:197`** classifies a **dependency**, a
different row from the one the caller resolved. Per-dependency
resolution is needed or it repeats the wrong-row shape that `taskRevert`
is blocked on.
- **`lifecycle-ops:655`** guards an emit whose **target** is also a
literal (`to: "archived"`). Converting the guard alone leaves the pair
inconsistent — the move-target half is invisible to this census.
- **`merge-queue-ops:352`** is an early return on an already-complete
task inside a merge path that resolves lanes elsewhere; the placement
needs its own judgement about which resolution it should share.

They stay flagged, now with the real reason rather than an unchecked
one.

## Measured

| check | result |
|---|---|
| ephemeral-worker suites | green |
| four gates + strict census | green |
| engine `tsc` | clean |

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 03:31:03 -07:00
gsxdsm
141f54e51d chore(core): mark the agent-store status formatter DELIBERATE-LITERAL (census 101→99) (#3063)
Fleet phase. `packages/core/src/agent-store.ts` was the **last** census
file with no branch, worktree, or open PR against it. Claim published by
pushing the branch before starting.

## Census before / after

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

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

## Already decided, in prose the census cannot read

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

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

## This completes the sweep of unclaimed files

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

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

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

## Verification

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

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

## Census before / after

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

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

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

## Why marking is the right answer here

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

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

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

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

## The finding this makes concrete

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

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

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

## Verification

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

## Note on the marker's granularity

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

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 03:13:09 -07:00
gsxdsm
af470f7c05 convert(engine): self-healing lane cluster 56 -> 38 guards (repo 126 -> 108) (#3049)
## Census before / after

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

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

## Converted: 15 guards across 11 sweeps

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

What each was silently doing on a renamed board:

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

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

## One site I converted and then reverted

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

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

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

## Not converted — flagged, not guessed

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

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

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

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

## Verification (measured)

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

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


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

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

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2026-07-31 02:54:39 -07:00
gsxdsm
06717ac3fa refactor(engine): resolve replan-target's advancement test by role (fleet, 4 sites) (#3052)
## Census

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

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

## What changed

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

## Caller-resolved is the whole point

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

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

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

## Flagged, not guessed

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

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

I went by census size first and verified before writing:

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

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

## Measured

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

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 02:39:45 -07:00
gsxdsm
c9516dbd09 fix(engine): resolve archiveStaleDoneTasks lane guards by role (fleet: self-healing 56→51) (#3047)
Fleet phase. Claimed **`packages/engine/src/self-healing.ts`** — the
largest cluster at **56 of 126** total sites. Verified unclaimed first:
no open PR touches the file and no active worktree held a branch on it.

## Census before / after

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

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

## What converted, and why each role

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

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

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

## The half-converted state is the interesting part

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

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

## Verification

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

## Flagged, not guessed — the remaining 51

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

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

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

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 02:28:01 -07:00
gsxdsm
65f4e8533e fix(dashboard): blocker fan-out classified every board against the LEGACY lanes (finished cards shown as blockers; escalation never fired) (#2990)
The dashboard's `computeBlockerFanoutMap` wrapper called core with **no
lane answers at all**:

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

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

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

## Shape

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

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

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

## Reverted

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

## Two notes

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

## Not done

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

## Verification

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

---------

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

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

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

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

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

## Unreachable by every path

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

## It was also polluting two ratchets

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

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

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

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

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

## Why I went ahead

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

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

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 23:35:25 -07:00
gsxdsm
126cee7e6d engine: finalization parked ALREADY-MERGED work as failed on a renamed board (#2964)
**The worst symptom in this family: the branch landed, and the board
says the task failed.**

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

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

For work that had already merged.

## Its sibling had already solved this

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

## One name instead of two spellings

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

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

## Revert result

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

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

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

## Verification

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


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

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

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 22:06:24 -07:00
gsxdsm
8e5e1147d2 core,engine: the last literal lifecycle query — and the three stall signals that disagreed (#2951)
**This is the last one.** `surfaceInReviewStalls` was the final literal
`listTasks({ column })` in production — I verified it by direct scan,
not by census arithmetic: **1 remaining before this, 0 after.**

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

## It came last on purpose

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

## What was actually there

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

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

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

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

## Revert results

Each applied alone and re-run:

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

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

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

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

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

## Verification

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


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

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

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

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2026-07-30 20:30:18 -07:00
gsxdsm
c3df0f641b executor: orphaned tasks were never resumed after a restart on a renamed board (#2947)
`resumeOrphaned` is the only path that recovers tasks after a crash or
restart. On a board with renamed columns it recovered **nothing**.

## A missed pair, not an unconverted read

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

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

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

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

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

## The ratchet, generalised

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

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

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

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

## Revert results

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

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

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

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

## Verification

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

## Folded (cherry-picked clean)

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

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

## The baseline conflicted on every cherry-pick

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

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

## NOT folded — one line for arbitration

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

## Verification

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

## Queue

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

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

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

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

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

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

## The root cause

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

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

## What each sweep stops silently failing to do

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

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

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

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

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

## Deliberately unchanged

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

## The fold itself is worth one note

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

## Verification

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

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

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

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

---

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

## The two redundant guards were the interesting part

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

## Dedupe matters more here than elsewhere

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

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

## Revert results

Each applied alone and the file re-run:

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

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

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

## Verification

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

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2026-07-30 18:26:06 -07:00
gsxdsm
60bfebdc98 fix(reliability): the duration query hid its lane ids inside a SQL template (#2875)
The Reliability panel's **third and last** blind input — and my own
loose end. #2861 fixed the two counts beside it, so the panel went from
uniformly wrong to **partially** wrong: entries and bounces populated,
duration reporting `no-in-review-entries` forever. Partial blindness is
harder to notice than total, which is why finishing it matters more than
one site suggests.

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

## The class, not just the site

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

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

## The fix

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

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

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

## Tested against real PostgreSQL, deliberately

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

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

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

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

## Verification

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

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

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

## Wiring

Both call sites, because either alone leaves a hole:

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

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

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

## Revert proof (measured)

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

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

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

## Verification

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

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

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2026-07-30 17:43:43 -07:00
gsxdsm
c143327d4b fix(core): the archived-document guards failed in OPPOSITE directions on a renamed lane (#2886)
Two of the four convertible sites my own learnings doc **miscounted as
sentinels** — the #2877 review corrected "8 of 9 must not be converted"
to "5 of 9", and these are two of the three that correction freed.

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

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

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

## Shape

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

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

## The revert proof caught my own fixture first

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

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

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

## Real PostgreSQL, deliberately

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

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

## Verification

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

## Revert results

Each applied alone and the file re-run:

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

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

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` 161 + 487 + 13 + 71, plus `self-healing.test.ts` 412;
`tsc` engine clean; `pnpm lint`, `check:changesets`, census `--strict`
clean, each run explicitly.
2026-07-30 17:22:41 -07:00
gsxdsm
b85e5f90e1 fix(create): two task-CREATE destinations named a lane the board does not have (#2843)
Both files sat at **census-zero** and both wrote real cards into columns
no workflow declares. The census scores `===` comparisons, so a lane
literal passed as a **call argument** is invisible to it — one of the
four census-blind classes. These are the only two explicit-`column`
creates in production:

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

## The two defects

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

## Revert proofs (measured, not asserted)

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

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

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

## Census

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

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

## Noted, deliberately not changed

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

## Verification

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

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

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

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

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

## What was silently dead

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

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

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

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

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

## Part 5 is the one that bites

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

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

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

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

## Corrections to my own work, kept visible

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

## Verification

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

## Scope

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


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

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

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

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

## What the deferral said

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

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

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

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

## What was broken

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

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

## Revert proof (measured)

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

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

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

## Census

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

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

## Verification

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

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


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

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

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

## The whole diff

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

One removed allowance. Nothing else moved.

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

The census says so itself when it tightens:

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

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

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

## Verification

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

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

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

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2026-07-30 14:42:28 -07:00
gsxdsm
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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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 14:12:14 -07:00
gsxdsm
109204c590 fix: the query class — three sweeps that never ran on a renamed board (#2818)
Three sweeps that **never ran at all** on a renamed board, plus the
shared answer the rest of the class needs. Consolidated from three
handoff branches so the helper appears once. #2811 merged, so this is my
only open PR.

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

## What was broken

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

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

## The shared answer, and what it is not

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

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

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

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

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

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

## Verification

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

## Two mistakes worth recording

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

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

## Not included

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 13:55:10 -07:00
gsxdsm
ed83fd6ec3 batch-core: node-override guards let a running task be re-routed on a renamed board (45 → 43) (#2821)
## The defect

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

## Fallbacks

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

## Verification

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

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

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

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

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

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 13:08:25 -07:00
gsxdsm
ba40942a10 batch-dashboard-app: 75 → 2 across packages/dashboard/app — the last two are deliberate, not missed (#2772)
**Batch branch is live: `batch-dashboard-app`.** Push conversions here
as commits rather than opening per-file PRs — that is the CI-run
bottleneck this model removes.

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

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

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

## Two rules this surface keeps tripping on

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

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

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

## Status

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

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

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

Two real omissions found, both on `isNearDuplicateCanonicalInactive`:

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

### Where that leaves the check

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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


## The gate started catching defects as they landed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

## The shape

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

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

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

## Measured

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

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

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

## Why this got sharper recently

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

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

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

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

## Fixed here: 9 of the 29

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

## Revert result (measured)

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

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

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

## Ownership note

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

## Verification

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


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

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

## Census

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

## Two literals, only one countable — again

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

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

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

## Revert results (measured, each run independently)

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

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

## Verification

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

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

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

## Where these came from

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

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

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

## Also included

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

## Verification

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

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

## Two honesty notes

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

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

## Deliberately not included

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

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

## Census

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

Of the 4: three genuine conversions, one reclassification.

## What was broken

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

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

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

## A third census false positive in this package

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

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

## Revert results (measured, each run independently)

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

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

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

### Two fake defects found while writing those tests

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

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

## Deliberately NOT converted, with reasons

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

## Verification

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

## The rest

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

## The census OVERSTATED the engine backlog by 3

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

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

## Revert results (measured, each run)

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

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

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

## Examined and deliberately NOT converted

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

## Merge resolution note

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

## Verification

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


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

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

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