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gsxdsm
6d176a9372 FN-8721: reconcile census, delegation routing, and archive repair
Align lifecycle census coverage while routing delegated work to workflow-ready lanes and safely repairing archived tasks.

- Route delegated tasks through the selected workflow's hold or entry column.
- Scope soft-deleted archive repairs by project and protect them with compare-and-set updates.
- Refresh lifecycle-column census detection, baseline, documentation, and coverage.

Files changed:
 docs/testing.md                                    | 21 +++---
 .../u15-engine-dashboard-consumers.test.ts         | 31 ++++++++-
 .../core/src/task-store/archive-lifecycle-2.ts     |  5 ++
 .../core/src/task-store/async-archive-lineage.ts   |  5 ++
 packages/core/src/task-store/async-persistence.ts  | 11 ++++
 packages/core/src/task-store/async-self-healing.ts | 76 +++++++++++++++-------
 .../src/__tests__/agent-tools-delegation.test.ts   | 43 +++++++++++-
 .../__tests__/lifecycle-column-census-ast.test.ts  | 20 ++++++
 .../src/__tests__/lifecycle-column-census.test.ts  | 29 ++++++---
 packages/engine/src/agent-tools.ts                 | 29 +++++++--
 scripts/lib/lifecycle-column-census-ast.mjs        | 21 +++++-
 scripts/lib/lifecycle-column-census-baseline.json  | 17 ++---
 scripts/lifecycle-column-census.mjs                |  3 +-
 13 files changed, 245 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)

Fusion-Task-Id: FN-8721
Fusion-Task-Lineage: ff78481f-5ecb-4d9b-b21a-a095682372ed
Co-authored-by: Fusion (runfusion.ai) <noreply@runfusion.ai>
2026-08-01 16:57:49 -07:00
gsxdsm
9c9dd7db2f FN-8706: scan paginated PR files for claims
Scan paginated pull-request file lists so claim checks remain reliable for large diffs.

- Replace truncated PR diff scans with count-validated paginated GitHub API requests.
- Fail closed when open PR or file-list data is incomplete, malformed, or exceeds the API ceiling.
- Add coverage for large diffs, API failures, count mismatches, and claim precedence.

Files changed:
 scripts/__tests__/check-file-claimed.test.mjs | 186 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 scripts/check-file-claimed.mjs                | 119 +++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 272 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

Fusion-Task-Id: FN-8706
Fusion-Task-Lineage: 1edf3546-553b-4e35-8c41-cd5143c08e0a
Co-authored-by: Fusion (runfusion.ai) <noreply@runfusion.ai>
2026-08-01 09:39:38 -07:00
gsxdsm
ebe514c3e4 FN-8677: propagate task update lanes before conversion
Propagate cache-warmed workflow lanes through task updates so synchronous engine consumers support renamed boards.

- Add task lane cache and attach resolved lanes to task:updated metadata.
- Update scheduler, triage, and notification consumers to use carried lanes with bridge-safe fallbacks.
- Cover lane propagation and renamed-lane event behavior with core and engine tests.

Files changed:
 .changeset/fn-8677-manual-merge-hold-lanes.md      |   7 ++
 .changeset/task-updated-carries-lanes.md           |   7 ++
 ...orkflow-ir-readers-always-return-the-default.md |  22 +++++
 .../sync-workflow-ir-second-blocker.test.ts        |  43 +++-----
 .../core/src/__tests__/task-lane-cache.test.ts     |  30 ++++++
 .../task-updated-lanes-emit-surfaces.test.ts       |  92 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../__tests__/task-updated-lanes-payload.test.ts   |  42 ++++++++
 packages/core/src/index.ts                         |   1 +
 packages/core/src/store.ts                         |  36 ++++++-
 packages/core/src/task-lane-cache.ts               |  63 ++++++++++++
 .../core/src/task-store/archive-lifecycle-2.ts     |   3 +
 packages/core/src/task-store/moves.ts              |   1 +
 packages/core/src/task-store/task-artifacts-ops.ts |   1 +
 packages/core/src/task-store/task-update.ts        |   1 +
 packages/core/src/task-store/update-task-deps.ts   |   4 +-
 .../core/src/task-store/workflow-definitions.ts    |  71 +++++---------
 .../__tests__/scheduler-task-updated-lanes.test.ts | 108 +++++++++++++++++++++
 .../task-updated-lanes-bridge-compat.test.ts       |  94 ++++++++++++++++++
 ...task-updated-lanes-engine-emit-surfaces.test.ts | 101 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../src/__tests__/triage-pause-abort.test.ts       |  22 +++++
 .../src/__tests__/triage-planning-wake.test.ts     |  25 +++++
 .../notification-renamed-lifecycle-columns.test.ts |  84 +++++++++++++++-
 .../__tests__/task-wedge-notification.test.ts      |  19 ++++
 .../src/notification/notification-service.ts       |  56 ++++-------
 packages/engine/src/scheduler.ts                   |  62 +++---------
 packages/engine/src/triage.ts                      | 105 ++++++--------------
 scripts/lib/inert-sync-lane-baseline.json          |   5 +-
 27 files changed, 858 insertions(+), 247 deletions(-)

Fusion-Task-Id: FN-8677

Fusion-Task-Lineage: d8fef9db-0f88-4dfd-9813-be25e10e3588

Co-authored-by: Fusion (runfusion.ai) <noreply@runfusion.ai>
2026-08-01 01:15:10 -07:00
gsxdsm
cced31208e FN-8672: document observed suite-only flakes
Record first-sighting evidence for three suite-only flakes while preserving their substantial test coverage.

- Define the narrow first-sighting observed-register exception and second-sighting quarantine escalation.
- Add reproduction data for the core and engine PostgreSQL-adjacent flakes.
- Validate register metadata, paths, hierarchy segments, and escalation guidance.

Files changed:
 AGENTS.md                                          |  4 ++
 .../suite-only-flakes-observed-register.md         | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 docs/testing.md                                    |  4 ++
 scripts/__tests__/observed-flake-register.test.mjs | 61 ++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 143 insertions(+)

Fusion-Task-Id: FN-8672

Fusion-Task-Lineage: b52c74fb-aa7b-49e3-9f1d-a2c8c577f9c7

Co-authored-by: Fusion (runfusion.ai) <noreply@runfusion.ai>
2026-08-01 00:21:14 -07:00
gsxdsm
5596d915ab FN-8647: quarantine flaky Kimi K3 catalog test
Quarantine the timing-sensitive Kimi K3 SDK catalog test without changing timeout budgets.

- Reuse the native model registry once per test file.
- Add the observed CI timeout to the dashboard quarantine ledger and config.
- Document validation and timeout-budget preservation requirements.

Files changed:
 docs/testing.md                                    |  8 ++++++++
 ...ister-model-routes-kimi-k3-supplemental.test.ts | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++--
 packages/dashboard/vitest.config.ts                |  8 ++++++++
 scripts/lib/test-quarantine.json                   |  5 +++++
 4 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Fusion-Task-Id: FN-8647

Fusion-Task-Lineage: 31e79677-d923-4003-a8e8-082159334e65

Co-authored-by: Fusion (runfusion.ai) <noreply@runfusion.ai>
2026-07-31 22:32:18 -07:00
gsxdsm
897cce9d94 FN-8656: resolve scheduler lanes for renamed holds
Resolve scheduler lane lookup against workflow-defined hold and terminal columns.

- Use asynchronous workflow lane resolution after the synchronous event prologue
- Preserve legacy lane fallback and recognize all terminal workflow columns
- Update scheduler regression coverage, sync-lane guardrails, and release notes

Files changed:
 .changeset/fn-8656-scheduler-renamed-hold-lanes.md |   7 ++
 .../sync-workflow-ir-callsite-allowlist.test.ts    |  10 +-
 .../scheduler-renamed-hold-events.test.ts          |  20 ++--
 ...ow-scheduler-parked-columns-live-e2e.pg.test.ts |  13 ++-
 ...-sync-role-conversion-inert-live-e2e.pg.test.ts |   8 +-
 packages/engine/src/scheduler.ts                   | 121 +++++++++------------
 scripts/check-inert-sync-lane-conversions.mjs      |   5 +
 scripts/lib/inert-sync-lane-baseline.json          |   3 +-
 8 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)

Fusion-Task-Id: FN-8656

Fusion-Task-Lineage: 389a95a1-289f-4dde-86b3-1e450f8d43db

Co-authored-by: Fusion (runfusion.ai) <noreply@runfusion.ai>
2026-07-31 22:19:32 -07:00
gsxdsm
012729cf2b chore: tighten lifecycle-column census baseline after slot-accounting fix
The active-worktree slot-accounting fix removed two deliberate scheduler
literals (done/archived: 3 -> 2); re-record so the ratchet follows the count
down.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 22:07:50 -07:00
gsxdsm
744c01f7fb FN-8657: extract move-target literal counter
Make the move-target literal ratchet directly testable without changing its scan behavior.

- Export the AST-based legacy destination counter for fixture testing
- Cover literal destinations, private moves, and deliberate exemptions

Files changed:
 .../__tests__/check-move-target-literals.test.mjs  | 30 ++++++++-
 scripts/check-move-target-literals.mjs             | 77 +++++++++-------------
 2 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)

Fusion-Task-Id: FN-8657

Fusion-Task-Lineage: 5b1f9ac4-6026-4baf-b42c-f41ab0562679

Co-authored-by: Fusion (runfusion.ai) <noreply@runfusion.ai>
2026-07-31 21:34:25 -07:00
gsxdsm
577dcb6c0c FN-8643: correct TaskWedgeNotifications FNXC timestamp
Correct the TaskWedgeNotifications migration-baseline stamp and remove its obsolete future-date allowance.

- Set the baseline FNXC annotation to its intended non-future timestamp.
- Remove the resolved migration from the future-date baseline allowlist.

Files changed:
 packages/core/src/postgres/migrations/0000_initial.sql | 2 +-
 scripts/lib/fnxc-future-dates-baseline.json            | 1 -
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Fusion-Task-Id: FN-8643

Fusion-Task-Lineage: 0f27e9e6-0581-4e38-8005-e93f94ad4f78

Co-authored-by: Fusion (runfusion.ai) <noreply@runfusion.ai>
2026-07-31 19:32:55 -07:00
gsxdsm
dfe050e8d4 FN-8640: add FNXC stamp anomaly advisory
Add a non-blocking census for implausible future-dated FNXC stamps.

- Classify tolerated future stamps by timezone plausibility and report notable anomalies.
- Add injectable gate seams and coverage for advisory, report, baseline, and discovery behavior.
- Document the advisory and preserve read-only check-mode baseline handling.

Files changed:
 docs/testing.md                                    |   4 +
 scripts/__tests__/check-fnxc-future-dates.test.mjs | 185 ++++++++
 scripts/check-fnxc-future-dates.mjs                | 495 +++++++++++----------
 3 files changed, 439 insertions(+), 245 deletions(-)

Fusion-Task-Id: FN-8640

Fusion-Task-Lineage: 7e57feb0-95e2-46b9-a1cf-9bd93c40d8e0

Co-authored-by: Fusion (runfusion.ai) <noreply@runfusion.ai>
2026-07-31 19:03:08 -07:00
gsxdsm
8d54c5e049 fix(gate): the SQL-literal check WROTE to the tree it was checking — last of three (#3292)
Completes the family. `check-fnxc-future-dates` was #3287,
`lifecycle-column-census` is #3289, and this is the third and last gate
that rewrote its baseline during a plain check.

## Reproduction

```
inflated one allowance by 6, ran the gate with NO flags
  rc=0
  entry RESET to 1        ← the check modified the tree it was checking
```

## Why it matters

The tightening is right in substance — an allowance nobody spends is a
hole a literal can be regrown into. Performing it as a **side effect of
checking** handed every worker a byte-identical uncommitted diff they
had not authored, which they then reasonably committed.

Measured across the family: nine PRs chased three defects on
2026-07-31/08-01, two of them (#3283/#3285, five minutes apart, `+0/-1`
each) deleting the **same line neither author wrote**.

#3289 states the class best — *a check that writes turns every reader
into an author*. Two of us separately mis-attributed a gate-written
baseline to our own work while debugging something else.

## Measured, all four directions

| scenario | result |
|---|---|
| plain run, stale baseline | `rc=0`, reports `allowed 7, now 1`;
**inflation survived** — read-only |
| a new SQL literal added | **`rc=1`**, names `__sql_probe.ts` —
regression detection intact |
| `--update-baseline` | `rc=0`, entry written |
| clean tree, plain run | `rc=0`, **zero files dirty** |

Row 2 is the one worth checking: a read-only change to a gate is
worthless if it also stops catching the thing it exists for. The rise
path is untouched.

`census --strict` 0, `check-fnxc-future-dates` 0, eslint clean.

## Correcting my own delay

I measured this defect family on #3267 and then **declined to fix two of
the three**, reasoning that the census *"deliberately fails on a drop"*
so the port might be unsafe. That was wrong: it tightened and exited
`0`, exactly as its own test asserts — *"TIGHTENS on a drop and exits 0,
so somebody else's merge cannot redden the gate."* I had read the
`--exact` contract and attributed it to the default path.

The caution cost hours and prevented nothing. #3289 was written by
someone else in the meantime; this finishes what I should have finished
then.
2026-07-31 18:52:12 -07:00
gsxdsm
65af9fd694 fix(census): the census WROTE to the tree it was checking — same defect as #3287 (#3289)
## What

**Port of #3287 to the sibling tool.** `lifecycle-column-census.mjs
--strict` called `writeBaseline()` during a plain **check**, so running
the gate modified the tree it was checking.

```
clean:  0 files dirty
$ node scripts/lifecycle-column-census.mjs --strict        # no --update-baseline
  rc=0
after:  M scripts/lib/lifecycle-column-census-baseline.json
```

## Why it matters — measured by #3287, reproduced here

#3287 established what this costs: every worker who runs the gate
receives a **byte-identical uncommitted diff they did not author**, and
reasonably commits it. #3283 and #3285 are the same `+0/-1`, five
minutes apart, by two different authors, **neither of whom wrote that
line** — the gate wrote it in both checkouts.

I hit this one the same way, which is the part worth recording: I saw a
modified baseline on my own branch and started reasoning about where
*my* change had touched it. It had not. A check that writes turns every
reader into an author.

The tightening is right in substance, and this tool's `COMMIT IT`
message made the diff *explained* rather than mysterious — better than
fnxc's was. **Neither addresses the mechanism.**

## The shape, matching #3287

Still computed, still reported loudly, written only under an explicit
`--update-baseline` (which has its own path above and is untouched):

```
lifecycle-column-census --strict: baseline CAN BE TIGHTENED — the tree has fewer guards than it allowed
  packages/engine/src/scheduler.ts: allows 1, tree has 0

Not written. Record it deliberately, so the diff has one author:

  node scripts/lifecycle-column-census.mjs --strict --update-baseline
```

**A plain run stays green rather than failing.** Guard counts drop when
someone *else's* merge removes a literal, so failing on a tightening
would redden main on a change the author never made. Report, don't
enforce — same reasoning #3287 gives for stamps aging into the past.

## Measured, all three directions

| scenario | result |
|---|---|
| plain `--strict`, stale baseline | reports + hint; **tree clean**
(was: 1 file dirty) |
| `--strict --update-baseline` | writes, rc=0 |
| a new guard added | **rc=1** — regression detection intact |

```
lint clean
```

## Note

Claimed on #3287 before starting, since it is that author's fix and they
may have had the port in flight. The two differences from the fnxc case
are noted there: this one fires under `--strict` rather than a bare run
(but `--strict` is what `package.json` and CI invoke, so it is the
common path), and its message was already loud.
2026-07-31 18:33:30 -07:00
gsxdsm
9abec9f235 fix(gate): the fnxc check WROTE to the tree it was checking — nine PRs chased three defects (#3287)
Root-cause fix for the duplicate-PR pileup tracked in #3267. **Running
the check modified the working tree.**

## Reproduction

```
clean:  0 files dirty
$ node scripts/check-fnxc-future-dates.mjs        # no flags, no --update-baseline
  exit 0
after:  1 file dirty   →   M scripts/lib/fnxc-future-dates-baseline.json
```

`:227` auto-tightened and `writeFileSync`'d on every run.

## Why that produced nine PRs

The tightening is **right in substance** — the comment above it explains
why banking a stale allowance is worse than re-recording. Doing it as a
*side effect of checking* is what hurt: every worker who ran the gate
received an identical uncommitted diff they had not written, and
reasonably committed it.

The clearest evidence is #3283 and #3285 — five minutes apart, `+0/-1`
each, both deleting the same baseline line. **Neither author wrote that
line.** The gate wrote it, in both of their checkouts.

I also mis-attributed my own dirty tree to leftover work while
retracting a measurement on #3277/#3278. The dirt was this script.

## The change

Still computed, still reported loudly — only **written** under
`--update-baseline`:

```
[check-fnxc-future-dates] baseline CAN BE TIGHTENED for 1 file(s):
  packages/cli/src/__tests__/cli-active-count-lanes.test.ts: 10 -> 5
  run `pnpm check:fnxc-future-dates --update-baseline` to record it (one commit, one author)
```

**A plain run stays green rather than failing on a tightening.** Stamps
age into the past on their own, so failing would redden main on a clock
tick — which is precisely why the auto-write existed. Report, don't
enforce.

## Measured, both directions

| scenario | result |
|---|---|
| stale allowance, plain run | reports + hint; baseline **unchanged**
(verified still inflated at 10) |
| stale allowance, `--update-baseline` | `baseline written: 122 stamp(s)
in 63 file(s)`; value reset to 5 |
| clean tree, plain run | exit 0, **zero files dirty** |
| `census --strict` / eslint | 0 / clean |

The first row is the one that matters: I inflated an allowance, ran the
check, and confirmed the file was **still inflated afterwards**.
Asserting only "exit 0, no diff" would have passed even if the write had
silently succeeded and produced no net change.

## Scope

One script. CI is unaffected — it never committed the side-effect write,
so that write was always discarded there. The only behaviour change is
that an interactive run no longer edits your tree.

This is a smaller intervention than the claim-protocol I proposed
earlier in #3267, and I now think that one was treating a symptom:
workers were not colliding because they lacked a protocol, but because
the tool handed each of them the same diff.
2026-07-31 18:07:32 -07:00
gsxdsm
e56116d8e9 chore(fnxc): retire the stale scheduler allowance left by the rollover re-record (#3283)
**The date gate passes on `main` — but not because this was fixed.**

## What actually happened

UTC rolled over to `2026-08-01`. The gate compares against the later of
local and UTC, so two `2026-08-01` stamps in `scheduler.ts` became valid
on their own. That is the ratchet's normal drop path and is fine.

`#3278` then re-recorded the baseline "after the UTC rollover", which
set `scheduler.ts` to **allow 1** — exactly enough to absorb the one
stamp that did *not* age out:

```
FNXC:ConcurrencyAdmission 2026-08-06-09:00     ← six days out, wrong on any calendar
```

So the gate reports `123 known future-dated stamp(s), none added` and
exits 0, with a stamp inside it that will not be valid until next week.

## Why this is the failure the gate exists to catch

A blanket re-record cannot distinguish **aged out** from **still
wrong**, so it launders the second past the first. The sibling ratchet
states the rule outright:

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

This is that, one layer up again: not a guard cleared by a baseline, but
a *baseline refresh* clearing a guard as a side effect.

## The fix

- stamp repointed to `2026-08-01` — today in UTC, which is the calendar
the gate actually compares against
- **allowance removed**, not left at 1, so the entry cannot be regrown
into

**Mutation-verified**: with the allowance gone, restoring `2026-08-06`
exits **1**. Before this change the same stamp exited **0**. That is the
whole point — the ratchet can now see it.

## One thing worth carrying forward

A six-days-out stamp is not a timezone slip. Neither the old `date -u`
guidance nor the current local-date guidance in AGENTS.md would have
prevented it, and CI-only checking cannot catch it before merge. This is
the concrete case for running the date check at author time, which I
have flagged but not landed since it changes the gate's contract.

## Verification

- `check-fnxc-future-dates` — exit 0, allowance removed
- `scheduler` suites — **148 pass**
- `tsc --noEmit` (engine) — 0 errors

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 17:41:47 -07:00
gsxdsm
40bb621fd8 fix(gate): print the exact UTC stamp when the date gate fails (#3271)
## What

**Three separate commits landed a future-dated FNXC stamp this
evening**, each turning this blocking gate red on main (#3261 fixed six
across five engine files; #3270 fixes a third in core). This makes the
failure message actionable. Tooling only.

The message said *"Use the current date and a real clock time."* That
tells the author to use the value they already believed they had. It now
prints the exact stamp:

```
Current UTC stamp to use: 2026-07-31-23:39
```

Copy-paste instead of a second judgement call, computed only on a path
that has already failed.

## Why a message change rather than a rule

**The offsets are the evidence.** `00:50` against `23:34`; the engine
batch similar — consistently **1–2 hours into tomorrow**, not wrong
dates. That is the shape of a clock or timezone difference, not
carelessness, and no amount of restating the rule fixes a clock.
AGENTS.md already says to take the stamp from `date -u`; three actors
violated it in one evening anyway.

**I am one of those actors** — I have broken this rule twice today. So
this is not a complaint about anyone's diligence; it is an argument that
the instruction is doing less work than a printed value would.

## I made the same mistake inside this change

The FNXC comment documenting the fix was stamped **two minutes ahead**
of the real UTC time. Corrected from `date -u`.

**The gate did not catch it** — it scans `packages/` and not `scripts/`,
so FNXC stamps in the tooling itself are entirely unchecked. That is a
genuine scope gap and I am reporting rather than closing it: pulling
`scripts/` into scope would surface existing stamps across the tooling
and needs its own baseline pass, which does not belong in a message fix.

There is something clarifying about writing a future-dated stamp *in the
fix for future-dated stamps*, in a file the checker cannot see. It is
the same lesson this whole session kept producing — **an instrument's
blind spot is invisible in exactly the way its subject is** — and I
walked into it while holding the flashlight.

```
lint clean; gate prints the stamp on failure
```


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

## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved validation feedback for future-dated entries by showing the
exact UTC timestamp format and value to use when corrections are needed.

<!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
2026-07-31 17:33:35 -07:00
gsxdsm
1e7e6baef1 fix(fnxc): the gate compared author stamps against ONE machine's calendar — five reds in two hours (#3277)
Root-cause fix for tonight's repeated red `main`, instead of repointing
stamps one at a time — **four PRs across three lanes did that in ninety
minutes** (#3261, #3269, and my #3263 and #3272, two of which I closed
as superseded by concurrent work).

## The defect

The fleet writes stamps from **many** machines; this gate evaluates them
on **one**.

#2941 fixed the case where the author sits **west** of the runner — a
correct 5pm-in-California stamp read as "tomorrow" under a UTC
comparison — by switching to the runner's **local** calendar. The mirror
case was left open, and that is what broke `main`:

| commit | landed (PDT) | = UTC | stamp written |
|---|---|---|---|
| `9094d1640e` | 16:12 | 23:12 Jul 31 | `2026-08-01-00:20` |
| `e52da740a5` | 16:32 | 23:32 Jul 31 | `2026-08-01-00:50` |
| `3f95c6d53e` | 16:40 | 23:40 Jul 31 | `2026-08-01-01:05` |

Those are **neither** the runner's local date **nor** UTC. They are the
*author's* local date in a UTC+1 container — and they are **correct** by
this project's own convention ("authors write the local date"). The
gate, running in PDT, called all three "tomorrow" and reddened `main`
for every other lane.

## The fix

A stamp is future only if it is ahead of **both** the local and UTC
calendar dates.

- Accepts both honest directions (author east or west of the runner).
- **Preserves #2941**, doesn't revert it — west of Greenwich the local
date is the earlier of the pair, so the 5pm-in-California case still
passes.
- Still catches an invented date: `scheduler.ts`'s `2026-08-06` stamp
(six days out) remains counted, and a mutation probe at `2026-09-15`
fails the gate.

## AGENTS.md corrected in the same commit

It still instructed **`date -u`**, which describes the *pre-#2941* gate.
That instruction is now the one that **produces** the failure from any
machine east of the runner — I followed it myself earlier tonight and
repointed stamps that were already correct. Rewritten to say: write your
own local date; the gate accepts anything not ahead of both calendars.

## Baseline

Auto-tightened for **37 files** — the gate's no-author drop path. Those
allowances were false positives carried since the UTC-only era, so this
**strengthens** the ratchet rather than widening it (`scheduler.ts` 2 →
1, keeping the genuinely-invented stamp counted).

## Verification

```
check-fnxc-future-dates           green
check-inert-sync-lane-conversions green
check-lane-wiring                 green
check-sql-column-literals         green
census --strict                   green

MUTATION: FNXC:MutationProbe 2026-09-15-10:00  → gate fails (real future dates still caught)
```

No changeset: tooling/gate + internal docs.

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

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 17:15:05 -07:00
gsxdsm
208c32c970 chore(fnxc): re-record the future-dates baseline after the UTC rollover (92 → 64 files) (#3278)
## What

Re-records the future-dates baseline after the UTC rollover. **92 → 64
file entries.** Tooling only, no source changes.

The gate's own instruction is *"If a count went DOWN, re-record the
baseline in the same commit."* UTC is now `2026-08-01`, so every stamp
dated `2026-08-01` is dated **today** rather than after it, and **28
files no longer carry any future-dated stamp at all.**

## Why pruning matters more than the number

Those 28 files kept a non-zero allowance they no longer need, and **an
allowance is a hole a new violation can hide in.** Four separate commits
landed a future-dated stamp last evening — in that environment, a stale
allowance on a file is exactly where the fifth would go unnoticed. With
the entries pruned, the next one in any of those files is caught on the
first run instead of being absorbed silently.

This is the same direction as #3168 (*"tightens the allowance 1 → 0"*)
and #3211, just triggered by the clock rather than by a fix.

## What this is not

- **Not a correction to anyone's stamp** — no source file is touched.
- **Not a loosening** — no entry increases and no file is added.
- The **123 stamps still dated beyond today** (e.g. `2026-08-06`) keep
their existing allowances untouched.

```
baseline file entries   92 -> 64
check-fnxc-future-dates rc=0
lint                    clean
```

## Related, deliberately not included

`scheduler.ts:2258` carries `FNXC:WorkflowScheduling 2026-08-01-01:05` —
dated today, one hour ahead of the current clock. I repointed it while
preparing this change and then reverted: after the rollover it is no
longer a gate violation, and mixing a cosmetic timestamp edit into a
baseline re-record would make both harder to review. Noting it so the
residual I flagged when closing #3270 does not get lost — it is now an
accuracy nit rather than a gate concern.
2026-07-31 17:14:53 -07:00
gsxdsm
79b08a2e99 gate(census): say WHY role and status are not backlog, where the numbers print (#3275)
## The hazard

The column backlog is **0**. The two largest numbers the census prints
are now `ROLE (12)` and `STATUS (185)`, sitting directly beneath it,
labelled only `(not guards)`.

That is a verdict with no reason. For a worker under a directive to
drive a census down — finding the backlog line already at zero and two
bigger numbers underneath — "(not guards)" is thin protection. This PR
puts the reason where the numbers are.

## Why they are genuinely not backlog

Both classify by **receiver**, not by the literal
(`ROLE_RECEIVER_TOKENS` = `role, agentType, agent, lane, capability,
sessionPurpose, surface, purpose, agentRole`; status matches
`/status/i`). A legacy column id next to one of those is a different
domain that happens to share vocabulary with the old board. Sampled from
the current tree, not reasoned:

| site | receiver | what it actually is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `packages/cli/src/commands/task.ts:529` | `outcome === "archived"` | a
task **outcome** |
| `.../routes/register-chat-routes.ts:894` | `type === "done"` | a chat
**message type** |
| `.../cli-agent/telemetry-hub.ts:304` | `kind === "done"` | a telemetry
**kind** |
| `packages/cli/src/commands/goals.ts:178` | `status === "archived"` | a
**goal's** status |
| `packages/cli/src/commands/mission.ts:145` | `status ===
"in-progress"` | a **mission's** status |

None is a task column, so none has a workflow lane to resolve against.
Converting a goal's `status === "archived"` to a column trait would not
remove a legacy id — **it asks the wrong object for a lane it does not
have**, and the resulting bug would be invisible on the default board
for precisely the reason every inert conversion is. That is 185
opportunities to inject a real defect while a number goes down.

## Output-only, verified

Counts, JSON, baseline comparison and exit codes are untouched:

```
--strict exit=0
json totals: {"column": 0, "role": 12, "status": 185, "deliberate": 150}   # byte-identical
```

60 census tests pass (`lifecycle-column-census.test.ts`,
`census-reclassification-message.test.ts`). `lifecycle-columns`,
`move-target-literals`, `inert-sync-lanes`, `quarantine-ledger` all exit
0.

## Provenance

I raised "role/status have no inertness proof behind them" several times
as a reason not to touch them, which was too weak — it implied the work
might be valid pending proof. Rather than leave that hanging I went and
looked. They are not unproven conversions; they are **not conversions at
all**. Correcting my own earlier framing, and putting the finding where
the next person will hit it instead of in a report they will not read.

No changeset — internal tooling.
2026-07-31 17:12:10 -07:00
gsxdsm
78d411cfe2 fix: main is RED on two gates — record the new fallback, repoint six future-dated stamps (#3261)
`9094d1640e` (globalPause gates every graph node entry) reddened **two**
lifecycle gates on main. Both are fixed here, in separate commits.

## 1. The census ratchet went 0 → 2

`isTerminalColumnTask` in `scheduler.ts`:

```ts
const flags = columnFlagsForTask(task);
if (flags) return flags.complete === true || flags.archived === true;
return task.column === "done" || task.column === "archived";   // ← counted
```

**The code is correct.** It resolves traits first and falls back only
when the workflow is unreadable. The census counts fallback literals on
purpose — *"a fallback literal is still a literal and should go when the
trait path becomes unconditional"* — and reports them beside the backlog
as already-converted. Its own remedy for a legitimate one is a
`DELIBERATE-LITERAL` marker at the site.

Recorded rather than converted because **there is nothing to convert
to**: a task whose workflow cannot be read has no resolved lane, and
treating it as non-terminal would count a finished card's retained
worktree against live capacity — the opposite of what the surrounding
fix does.

Marker sits in the declaration's **leading** comments; an inline one
attaches to the wrong node and is silently ignored, which cost a
miscount once before. Baseline re-recorded in the same commit, since the
census tracks deliberate counts and reports a marker addition as
`RECLASSIFIED`.

## 2. The stamp gate was red as well

Six files stamped `2026-08-01-00:2x` while UTC was `2026-07-31`:

```
workflow-column-boundary.ts             2      workflow-graph-task-runner.ts   1
workflow-column-boundary-hooks.ts       1      in-process-runtime.ts           5 (allows 4)
workflow-column-boundary-capacity.test  1
```

This checkout is UTC-7, so "just after midnight local" is tomorrow in
UTC — the case AGENTS.md documents, which passes `pnpm lint` locally
*because* the local clock agrees with what was written. Second
occurrence today; I fixed the same shape on #3208 for another worker.

Repointed to `2026-07-31-22:2x`, preserving relative order. **Zero
non-comment lines changed** — 8 lines across 6 files, verified by
diffing out FNXC lines.

## Measured

| check | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| `census --strict` | **1** | **0** |
| backlog | **2** | **0** (DELIBERATE-LITERAL 148 → 150) |
| `check-fnxc-future-dates` | **1** | **0** |
| `pnpm test:gate` | 0 | 0 |
| `census-reclassification-message` | 2 failed | **1 failed** |

That last row is deliberate: the remaining failure is the
expired-premise case #3260 fixes, and I have not touched it. The
capacity test from `9094d1640e` still passes 9/9.

## Why this landed at all

Both gates run in `pr-checks.yml`, so a PR carrying either would have
gone red. Worth someone checking how it merged — a stale merge base
would explain it, and if so the same hole is open for the next merge.
2026-07-31 16:29:37 -07:00
gsxdsm
1660b136d7 fix(gate): the move-target ratchet could not see a file until it was committed (#3256)
## What

**#3254 fixed this blind spot in the census. It was still present
here.** Found by re-running that probe against the other four lifecycle
gates. No product change.

`git ls-files` lists **tracked** files only, so a brand-new file
containing `moveTask(id, "done")` scored **0** locally and flipped the
ratchet the moment it was staged. The author sees a green gate, commits,
and CI disagrees — the worst possible feedback order.

It is also the exact shape that made my own first census probe measure
nothing while reading as "no gap", which is how the class was found in
the first place.

Fixed the way #3254 did — `--cached --others --exclude-standard` — plus
a dedupe, because a path can appear under **both** flags in some index
states and would otherwise count twice against a baseline expecting one.

## Measured

```
untracked probe:            0 detected before  ->  1 after
--strict on a clean tree:   green before and after   (no false positives)
lint clean; fnxc-future-dates: none added
```

## The other gates, measured in the same pass

| gate | sees untracked files? |
|---|---|
| `lifecycle-column-census` | ✅ since #3254 |
| `check-sql-column-literals` | ✅ already |
| `check-inert-sync-lane-conversions` | ✅ already — walks the filesystem
with `readdirSync` |
| `check-lane-wiring` | n/a — does not use `ls-files` |
| `check-move-target-literals` | ❌ → **fixed here** |

This was the last gate with the gap. All five now agree about what a
file is.

## Correction to #3250

I wrote there that this script *"has no export seam and runs at
import"*, and used that to justify shipping without a unit test. **It
does have a seam** — an `isEntryPoint` guard — so a test could import it
without triggering the scan.

That does not change #3250's conclusion (its revert-proof measurement
stands on its own), but the stated reason was wrong, and it was wrong in
the direction that excused less testing. Correcting it here rather than
leaving it as precedent.


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Local source-file checks now include newly created and untracked
files.
* Duplicate file entries are removed when files appear in multiple Git
states.
  * Existing tracked-file and CI scanning behavior remains unchanged.

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2026-07-31 15:45:36 -07:00
gsxdsm
b7c7977c09 fix(gate): catch cast move-targets, keep ?? fallbacks unflagged, and pin all of it (#3253)
Follow-up to #3250. Two changes, and **one of them is a decision not to
widen** — which is the part I would review first.

## Caught now: the cast form

```ts
moveTask(id, "done" as ColumnId)   // was invisible
```

Columns are typed `ColumnId`, so a cast is the **natural** spelling
wherever the parameter is nominally typed. The gate was weakest exactly
where this codebase is most likely to write a literal.
Cast-wrapping-a-ternary is caught too.

## Deliberately NOT caught: `??` / `||` / `&&`

I recommended these arms on #3250. **I was wrong, and the tree proved
it.** Adding them flagged:

```ts
moveTask(id, (await resolveTaskLifecycleColumns(store, id))?.complete ?? "done", ...)
```

That is the fail-soft idiom this entire programme rests on — resolve,
fall back to the legacy id when the workflow is unreadable, exactly as
the role helpers degrade. It is the **correct** pattern.

A gate that demands a `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` marker on every safe fallback
teaches people to add markers by habit, and a habitual marker is how the
next real literal walks straight through. So: a legacy id **after** `??`
is the safe shape and stays unflagged; a legacy id as the **whole**
destination is caught. Backed out, with the reasoning at the site so
nobody re-adds it.

If you disagree, the counter-argument is that a fallback could mask a
lane that should have resolved — but that wants its own report, not this
ratchet's exit code.

## Pinned — the gate had no tests at all

Fifth spelling missed across three rounds, and every earlier probe was
run by hand and thrown away, because the scanner executed on import.
Commit 1 makes it importable (behaviour-preserving, `--strict`
identical); commit 2 adds **12 tests in both directions**:

| catches | does not catch |
|---|---|
| direct, backtick, ternary, nested ternary, parenthesised, cast,
cast-over-ternary | `??` fallback, `\|\|` fallback, resolved
destination, substituted template |

The negatives are load-bearing, not padding — four of them encode false
positives that either shipped or arrived while widening.

## The root cause, recorded in the test header

**The destination is a POSITION; every fix so far has enumerated NODE
KINDS.** A kind list is something the language extends faster than we
guess — I started that pattern myself in #3246 by requiring
`arguments[1]` to *be* a literal. The durable defence is that each shape
someone finds stays found.

## Measured

| check | result |
|---|---|
| real tree | **0** targets, `--strict` exit 0 (the `??` false positive
is gone) |
| gate tests | **12 pass / 0 fail** |
| anti-vacuity | removing the cast arm **fails** the suite; restoring
passes |
| eslint / `check-fnxc-future-dates` | clean / 0 |

One test corrected itself during writing: I asserted `"drafting"`
extracts to `[]`, and it returns `["drafting"]` — legacy filtering is
the caller's job. Kept as a test of that split, since folding the
vocabulary into the extractor would force every future shape to thread
the legacy list.
2026-07-31 15:35:08 -07:00
gsxdsm
78d5efbcaf gate: the census could not see a file until it was committed (#3254)
## Why I went looking

The fleet directive is to claim the largest census file cluster. There
is no cluster — the backlog is **0 guards / 0 files**. So the useful
question is whether that 0 is *true*, since the whole phase steers by
it. I had just found a blind spot in my own ratchet (#3252), so I probed
this one the same way.

## What the probes found

A plain, unremarkable guard in a new file scored **zero**:

```ts
// packages/engine/src/probe-helper.ts
export function g(task: { column: string }): boolean {
  return task.column === "in-review";
}
```

Not a cast, not an obfuscation — the exact canonical shape the census
exists to count. It scored 0 in six different directories, and it scored
0 with every cast variant too, which is what initially made this look
like a repeat of #3252.

It is not. The same guard pasted into `scheduler.ts` counted immediately
(0 → 2 with two probes, casts included). The census walks expressions
fine. The miss was **file discovery**: `git ls-files` lists **tracked
files only**, so the file did not exist as far as the census was
concerned. `git add` it and `--strict` goes to exit 1 on the spot.

## What this does and does not mean

**It does not mean the backlog number is wrong.** Everything on `main`
is committed, so CI has always seen the whole tree, and I re-confirmed
the committed totals are unchanged by this PR: `{"column": 0, "role":
12, "status": 185, "deliberate": 148}`. **Backlog 0 is real.** I want
that stated plainly rather than buried, because "ratchet has a hole"
invites the opposite reading.

**What it does mean** is that the census was blind at the one moment
anyone actually consults it. A worker adds a helper, runs the census
against their own work, reads 0, commits — and the guard lands,
attributed to a push rather than to the edit that introduced it. The
instrument was answering about the last commit while being asked about
the working tree.

## The fix

`--cached --others --exclude-standard`, plus a dedupe (a path can appear
under both flags in some index states, which would double every guard in
that file).

| case | before | after |
| --- | --- | --- |
| untracked new file with a guard | 0 | **1** |
| same file, staged | 1 | 1 (dedupe holds — not 2) |
| ignored path (`dist/`) | 0 | 0 (build output still excluded) |
| committed tree | 0 | 0 (backlog unchanged) |

## The part worth keeping

This also **aligns the scope with `check-inert-sync-lane-conversions`**,
which walks the filesystem via `readdirSync` and so always saw untracked
files.

That mismatch is not cosmetic — it is what made #3252 expensive. The
same probe was *caught* by one instrument and *missed* by the other, and
I spent a full investigation treating that as a claim about expression
walking when part of it was two tools disagreeing about which files
exist. When instruments in one program disagree on their own domain,
every differential between them is unreadable until you notice.

## Verification

- Mutation-verified in both directions on all four cases above.
- 53 `lifecycle-column-census.test.ts` tests pass.
- All eight ratchets exit 0; `pnpm test:gate` exit 0.
- Working tree confirmed clean after every probe.

## What I did not do

I did not touch `role: 12` or `status: 185`. Those are different metrics
with no inertness proof behind them, and driving them down is a separate
unit that needs saying explicitly — a conversion there could be cosmetic
and nothing currently would catch it.
2026-07-31 15:34:57 -07:00
gsxdsm
cf4418e3db gate: a type assertion hid the sync source — seventh shape of one pattern (#3252)
## What this is

#3251 audits the five lifecycle ratchets with staged probes and claims a
gap in mine:

> `check-inert-sync-lane-conversions` — does NOT catch: a DIRECT
`store.resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync(...)` read feeding
`resolveLifecycleColumns`

I tested it rather than accepting it, and got a **split result**: a
probe inserted into the existing `executor.ts` was **caught** (19 → 20,
exit 1), refuting the row; a standalone probe file was **missed**
(stayed 19, exit 0), confirming it. Two probes of nominally the same
thing disagreeing means one of them is describing something else.

## The actual mechanism

Instrumenting a copy of the script ruled out the file-discovery
explanations: `scanned files: 1850 | probe in list: true`, and the
probe's function `isReview` was collected into the sources list. So the
file is scanned, the function is tracked, and the guard is still not
counted — the loss is downstream, in expression walking.

The one syntactic difference between the two probes was a cast.
Measured, holding everything else fixed:

| argument to `resolveLifecycleColumns(...)` | before | after |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `store.resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync(id)` | caught (20) | caught (20) |
| `store.resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync(id) as never` | **MISSED (19)** |
caught (20) |
| `store.resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync(id)!` | **MISSED (19)** | caught (20)
|
| `(store.resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync(id) as any)!` | **MISSED (19)** |
caught (20) |

So: the direct read **is** tracked. The **cast around it** was not.
`unwrapForSyncCall` unwrapped `await`, parentheses, conditionals,
binaries and (since #3181) call arguments — but stopped at `as`,
`satisfies`, `!` and angle-bracket assertions.

**Correction to #3251's row, not a rejection of it.** The gap is real
and reproducible; the stated cause ("a direct read is untracked") is not
the one operating. That distinction matters for anyone acting on the
table: fixing "track direct reads" would have changed nothing.

## The fix

One walker clause, alongside the existing `await`/parenthesized unwrap.
Real tree unchanged at **19 guards / 3 files, exit 0** — this adds no
backlog, it closes a blind spot.

## Why it is the same story a seventh time

Inline → membership → cross-module → wrapper argument → census
switch/includes → ternary destination → **type assertion**. Across three
different tools, the rewrite that hides a guard is the one that changes
its *syntactic category* without changing its meaning.

Type assertions are the purest case yet: `as`, `satisfies` and `!` are
**erased at runtime**. They cannot alter behaviour at all — they can
only alter visibility. A guard wearing one is byte-identical in outcome
to the same guard bare, and scores as absent.

## Verification

- Mutation-verified in both directions: with the fix reverted all three
cast forms read 19; with it applied all read 20.
- All eight ratchets exit 0: `inert-sync-lanes`, `lifecycle-columns`,
`fnxc-future-dates`, `quarantine-ledger`, `move-target-literals`,
`inert-flag-seams`, `lane-wiring`, `sql-column-literals`.
- `pnpm test:gate` exit 0 (which runs this script since #3136).
- Every probe removed; `git status` clean before each measurement.

## What I did not do

I did not re-audit the other four ratchets against cast-wrapped probes.
#3251's staged-probe method is the right instrument for that and it is
that author's file; if the same blind spot exists in the census or the
flag-seam checker, it will show up as a cast form scoring zero. Worth
one pass by whoever owns those.
2026-07-31 15:29:41 -07:00
gsxdsm
0b30eb4146 fix(gate): detect ternary move-target literals, which #3246's ratchet could not see (#3250)
## What

#3246 landed a gate holding `moveTask` legacy-literal destinations at
zero, printing **"POPULATION EMPTY … keep it empty."** I probed that
claim the way #3247 probed the census. It held for two spellings and not
a third.

| form | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| `moveTask(id, "done")` | ✅ | ✅ |
| `` moveTask(id, `todo`) `` | ✅ | ✅ |
| `moveTask(id, ok ? "done" : "in-review")` | ❌ **invisible** | ✅ |

The check required `arguments[1]` to *be* a literal. A ternary over two
lanes is a natural way to write exactly the destination this gate exists
to prevent — and per the gate's own header, a wrong target **throws** at
runtime rather than no-opping.

## Measured

```
real repo, before and after:  0 targets, --strict passes   (no false positives)
ternary probe:                0 on HEAD~1  ->  1 after
direct + backtick forms:      unchanged
DELIBERATE-LITERAL marker:    still suppresses (canonical placement)
lint clean; fnxc-future-dates: none added
```

## Two scoping decisions, both probed rather than assumed

**Not descending into `??` / `||`.** `moveTask(id, lanes.complete ??
"done")` is the documented degraded arm this program writes deliberately
— the shape the lifecycle census classifies as `traitFallback` rather
than backlog. Counting it would report correct code as debt. Measured at
0 both before and after.

**`const t = "archived"; moveTask(id, t)` is still undetected**, and the
comment says so at the site. Resolving it needs symbol/dataflow analysis
rather than a shape test, which is a different tool than this file is.
Flagged so the next person extends deliberately instead of assuming
coverage.

## No unit test, and why

The script has no export seam and executes at import, so testing it
means extracting one — a refactor of a one-commit-old file, which
belongs in its own change rather than folded into a behaviour fix. The
revert-proof is the measurement above: the ternary probe reads 0 against
`HEAD~1` and 1 against this commit.

## Note to #3246's author

I raised these gaps on your PR first and offered to send this rather
than assume. Two traps that cost me time on the census extension, in
case you take it further:

- **A count-unless-excluded rule backfires on this vocabulary.** My
first census extension counted `switch (x)` unless the receiver looked
like a role/status and reported 7 guards — 6 were `switch (eventName)` /
`switch (state)` / `switch (event)`, since event enums routinely carry
`case "done"`. Requiring a *positive* column signal was the fix.
- **Verify the probe file is git-tracked.** My first probe measured
nothing because the scanner enumerates tracked files; the scanned-file
count stayed flat and I nearly read that as "no gap."
2026-07-31 15:19:11 -07:00
gsxdsm
4e2f52ce8f feat(gate): ratchet move-target literals at zero — #3150's population had nothing holding it (#3246)
Closes the gap I flagged when re-measuring #3150: that population is at
**0**, and nothing was holding it there.

## Why this surface has no gate today

The lifecycle census parses **comparisons**. A move destination is a
call **argument**:

```ts
await store.moveTask(id, "in-review");   // never counted by anything
```

#3150 measured 31 of these across four files. They are now 0 — I
verified that on current main before writing this — but the comparison
backlog drifted **787 → 854** during the window its own ratchet was
unwired, and this population never had one.

## The failure mode is louder than the guards'

A wrong lane **guard** silently answers "no". A wrong move **target** is
rejected by `moveTaskInternal` with `TransitionRejectionError:
unknown-column` — so on a board that renamed its review lane, every task
finishing implementation **threw** instead of reaching review. Loud at
runtime, invisible to any test on the default board.

## AST, not grep — and that is measured, not stylistic

| scan | result |
|---|---|
| comment-naive grep of `self-healing.ts` | 1 hit — **JSDoc prose**: `*
could call moveTask("in-review")` |
| #3150's own SQL survey by grep | 37 hits against **12** real sites (25
comments) |

Comments are not AST nodes, so that false-positive class cannot occur
here in either direction.

## Controls — all four run, because a gate that only reports 0 proves
nothing

| probe | expected | got |
|---|---|---|
| real `moveTask(id, "in-review")` injected | fail | **exit 1**, names
the file |
| identical call as JSDoc prose | pass | **exit 0** (AST ignores
comments) |
| legacy target + leading `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` | pass | **exit 0**
(marker honored) |
| probe removed | pass | **exit 0** |

The third is the #1411 `recoveryRehome` safe-landing path, where the
legacy id genuinely *is* the target. Marker must be **leading** — the
census already learned that an inline marker attaches to the wrong node
and is silently ignored.

## Ratchet semantics match the census

Fails on a **drop** as well as a rise. A stale allowance is a hole a
re-added target can return through while the gate stays green — exactly
what let the comparison baseline drift.

## Measured

| check | result |
|---|---|
| this gate | scans **1816** files, reports **0** |
| `check:lifecycle-columns` / `check:sql-column-literals` | 0 / 0 |
| `check:fnxc-future-dates` / `check:lane-wiring` | 0 / 0 |
| eslint / `pnpm test:gate` | clean / exit 0 |

Wired into `pr-checks.yml` beside the sibling ratchets, named to match
("Move-target ratchet").

## Scope

Gate only — **no production code touched**, and no conversions in this
PR. The population was already empty; this makes "31 → 0" an invariant
instead of a snapshot, which is the caveat I attached when recommending
#3150 for closure.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Quality Improvements**
  * Added automated validation for task-movement configuration values.
  * Pull request checks now detect unexpected changes in tracked values.
* Added baseline tracking with strict validation to identify both
additions and removals.
  * Added support for explicitly documenting intentional exceptions.
  * Improved reporting for file-discovery and source-reading failures.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 14:56:07 -07:00
gsxdsm
301bd8ed1e fix(census): detect membership and switch column guards, which could land silently (#3247)
## What

The census prints **"a new guard cannot land silently"** next to a zero.
That claim was true only for the guard form it happened to parse. This
closes the two it could not see. No product change.

The comparison walk visits `BinaryExpression` only, so neither of these
was visible:

```ts
["done", "archived"].includes(task.column)
switch (task.column) { case "todo": ... }
```

Both are lifecycle-column guards by any reading.

## How I found it

By applying this program's own rule — **break the guard on purpose** —
to the guard itself. I staged a probe file with five guard forms and
measured which moved the count:

| form | counted before |
|---|---|
| `t.column === "todo"` | ✅ |
| `t.column !== "in-review"` | ✅ |
| `["done","archived"].includes(t.column)` | ❌ |
| `switch (t.column) { case "triage": }` | ❌ |
| SQL string `"column" = 'done'` | ❌ (separate gate owns this) |

A worker converting a `===` chain into an array membership would have
scored the conversion **and kept the guard**.

*(The first probe run was itself invalid — the file was untracked and
the census enumerates git-tracked files, so the scanned count stayed at
1961 and nothing was measured. Staging it moved the scan to 1962.
Checking the scanned count is what caught that.)*

## The near-miss worth reading

My first implementation counted **unless** the receiver looked like a
role or status — mirroring the `===` walk. On the real tree it reported
**7 column guards**, and I nearly published that as a hidden backlog.

Six were false: `switch (eventName)`, `switch (state)`, `switch (event)`
— event and state enums routinely carry `case "done"` / `case
"archived"`. Landing it would have injected six phantom guards into a
backlog the ratchet treats as zero, and `--strict` would then have
**failed every other worker's PR**.

So the new walks require a **positive** column signal instead. That
regression is pinned by a test asserting all three receivers stay
uncounted.

## Measured

```
real repo, before and after:  COLUMN guards 0, STATUS 185   (no false positives)
staged probe:                 2 detected before -> 4 after
new tests:                    6/6 pass; 3 FAIL with the extension reverted
existing lifecycle-census test: 9/9 still green
lint clean; census --strict passes; fnxc-future-dates: none added
```

## Known limit, stated rather than left to be discovered

The positive signal is the receiver **name**, so `switch (column.id)` —
a `Column` object rather than a task's column — is **not** counted. That
is a real guard shape and it is deliberately out of scope: widening to
reach it is exactly what produced the six false positives, so it needs
its own discrimination rather than a looser regex. Flagged here so the
next person extends it deliberately instead of assuming coverage.

## Why this and not another conversion PR

The conversion queue has been genuinely empty for several cycles —
census 0, 116 resolver sites unchanged across four commits, every site
blinded and pinned. The remaining risk in this program was never another
literal; it was that **the instrument defining "done" could not see two
of the shapes it claims to protect against**. A zero from a detector
with blind spots is the exact failure this phase has spent its time
documenting.


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Added lifecycle-column guard detection for array membership checks and
`switch` cases.
* Recognizes supported column receiver names and classifies findings
consistently with existing guards.
* Ignores status, event, and state receivers, and avoids duplicate trait
fallback findings.

* **Tests**
* Added coverage for membership checks, `indexOf`, `switch` guards, and
deliberate-literal suppression.

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2026-07-31 14:48:20 -07:00
gsxdsm
5f6f39e115 fix(census): the scan root and the READ root could disagree, so an injected file list ENOENTs (#3230)
Picks up the bug **@#3228's author diagnosed and deliberately left
documented** rather than guessing at it mid-revision. Their diagnosis
was correct; the bug is mine, from extracting `triageFindings` in #3207
without considering an injected file list.

## The defect

`REPO_ROOT` came from the **script's** location; the file list comes
from `git ls-files` in the **CWD**. Identical in production and nowhere
else. Override the list — which a synthetic-tree fixture must do — and
every path is *listed* against the fixture but *read* against the repo:
`ENOENT` on every read.

## There were THREE read roots, not one

That is why a partial fix still ENOENTs, and I hit it myself: I fixed
`REPO_ROOT`, re-ran, and still got `ENOENT: open 'pkg/src/a.ts'`. The
scanners read the path **as given**:

| consumer | read root before |
|---|---|
| `triageFindings` | `join(REPO_ROOT, …)` |
| sync-resolver probe | `join(REPO_ROOT, …)` |
| `censusFiles` (AST) | path as given → CWD |
| `censusFilesText` | path as given → CWD |

All four now go through a single `readCensusFile`, so a listed path and
a read path cannot diverge again. **No lib change needed** — both
scanners already accept an injectable reader, which is the seam that
made this a small fix.

## What it unblocks

The two ratchet cases #3228 records as *permanently* vacuous at zero
backlog. On a three-file synthetic tree the full cycle is constructible
again:

```
inflated baseline  -> exit 0   TIGHTENED
deflated baseline  -> exit 1   ROSE
```

Neither is constructible against a real tree with nothing left to count
— which is exactly why that coverage was lost when the backlog hit zero,
and why `-1` (my #3218) and skip-at-zero (#3226) were both workarounds
for a missing seam rather than fixes.

## Measured

| | result |
|---|---|
| production scan | **unchanged** — 1961 files, 0 guards, `BACKLOG ZERO`
|
| `--strict` / `--json` / `--compare` | 0 / 0 / **0** (AST and text
classifiers still agree) |
| synthetic fixture | 3 files, **1 backlog / 1 deliberate** — the
numbers #3228 predicted |
| census suite | 53 passed |
| eslint / `check-fnxc-future-dates` / `pnpm test:gate` | clean / 0 / 0
(744 tests) |

`--compare` is the one I would look at first as a reviewer: it runs both
classifiers over the same list and fails if they disagree, so it catches
a reader change that silently alters what either one sees.

## Scope

Seams only — `FUSION_CENSUS_FILE_ROOT` and `FUSION_CENSUS_FILE_LIST`,
both required together (a root with no list still scans the real tree; a
list with no root still reads from it). Production sets neither.

I have **not** rewritten the two vacuous cases. That is #3228's work,
they already have two of six green, and duplicating it is how this fleet
loses PRs to collisions. This just removes the blocker.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved repository analysis reliability when run against configured
file sets or alternate repository locations.
* Prevented analysis from unintentionally reading unrelated files
outside the selected repository context.
  * Existing production behavior remains unchanged.

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2026-07-31 12:49:54 -07:00
gsxdsm
cfcbba6f81 fix(census): 4 RED ratchet tests on main, and the report said nothing at zero (#3218)
Two problems, both caused by the backlog actually shrinking.

## 1. Four failing tests on main

**Pre-existing, not introduced here** — running this file on clean
`origin/main` gives `49 passed / 4 failed` with identical messages. I
checked that before touching anything, because the failures surfaced
while I was editing the same file.

The ratchet cases build their fixture like this:

```ts
Object.entries(baseline.byFile).find(([, c]) => c > 1)   // needs a file with MORE THAN ONE guard
```

After the tail reclassification no such entry exists. `find` returns
undefined → `byFile[undefined] = NaN` → the baseline is corrupt → every
case fails with `expected … to contain 'TIGHTENED'`, a message that
points squarely at the CLI when the **fixture** is at fault. That
misdirection is why this sat red.

The ratchet doesn't care *which* file it tightens, only that an
allowance exceeds the measured count. So `inflate` now takes any entry,
and synthesises one against a real scanned file when the backlog is
empty.

`deflate` is the harder half: a RISE needs an allowance **below** the
real count, and once every measured count is 0 the only value below is
negative. The empty case uses `-1`. That is not a realistic baseline
value and the comment says so — it is the sole way to exercise the
`measured > allowed` comparison against a tree with nothing left to
count, which is the tree this suite now runs on.

Same class as the unbounded-slice rot in #3207: **census self-tests
coupled to the size of a shrinking backlog.** That is now twice, so it
is a pattern rather than an accident.

## 2. The report went silent at the finish line

The verdict was two inline branches and neither fired at zero —
`CONVERSION QUEUE EMPTY` required `totals.column > 0`. So the one state
the entire fleet phase was working toward printed **nothing**, which
reads as a broken scan rather than the protected end state.

Extracted to a pure `describeBacklogState({ columnGuards,
unexaminedGuards })` returning lines, so the caller stays a dumb
printer:

```
BACKLOG ZERO: no lifecycle-column guard remains.
This is the protected end state, not an empty scan — `--strict` fails on any RISE, so a new
guard cannot land silently. Use the role helpers (resolveLifecycleColumns / columnHasRole).
```

Pure **specifically** so the zero state is testable before the tree
reaches zero. While it was inline, only the *current* backlog state was
observable — and a message nobody can test before they need it is the
one that is wrong when they do.

## Evidence

| check | result |
|---|---|
| census test file | **53 passed** (was 49 passed / 4 failed) |
| behaviour on today's tree | **unchanged** — identical `CONVERSION
QUEUE EMPTY` block |
| empty-baseline probe | exits 1, `column-guard count ROSE` |
| forced zero verdict | prints `BACKLOG ZERO … not an empty scan` |
| `--strict` / `check-fnxc-future-dates` / eslint | 0 / 0 / clean |
| `pnpm test:gate` | exit 0 (744 tests) |

Four new tests pin all three states, including that the unexamined
branch must **not** claim the queue is empty while real work is
outstanding.

## Census

No guard converted — this is tooling and test repair. Backlog unchanged
at 1, which #3215 takes to 0.
2026-07-31 11:50:14 -07:00
gsxdsm
0bdc9bf4fb fix(dashboard): archived tasks stayed in the research picker on a renamed board (#3215)
## The defect

The enrich-mode task picker filtered with `task.column !== "archived"`.
On a board whose archive lane is renamed, that matched nothing — so
filed-away tasks stayed in the picker and an operator could attach
research findings to work they had deliberately archived.

## Census before / after

| | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| COLUMN guards (backlog) | 10 | **9** |
| `ResearchTaskActionModal.tsx` | 1 | **0 — converted** |

Baseline re-recorded in the same commit; `--strict` green.

## This site was declined twice, and I wrote the second wrong estimate

#3213 left it counted, correctly, on the note that was here — which was
mine. Both prior cost estimates were wrong, so this corrects my own
work:

1. **"Needs a data-fetch change"** — reasoned about
`columnFlagsByTaskId`, a per-**task** map built from board-resident
rows. Right that such a map can't help (archived rows are exactly what a
board map omits), but this guard asks a per-**column** question, so it
never needed one.
2. **"Needs prop threading, MainContent → ResearchView → here"** — right
that the answer is column-keyed, wrong about where it lives. `ListView`
builds `columnFlagsById` *inline*, which made it look like the owner.
The data is `useBoardWorkflows`, a hook already called from `App`,
`Board`, and `HeaderWorkflowSwitcherSlot`.

**Measured cost: one file.** The modal already takes `projectId`, and
`ResearchView` renders it only when a finding is open (`open` hardcoded
beside `if (!finding) return null`) — so the hook cannot fetch for a
closed modal, which was the one real objection to calling it here.

Union across workflows keyed by column id, first declaration wins — the
same convention `ListView` uses, so the two cannot disagree about a
shared id. `isArchivedColumnRole` fail-softs to the legacy id when a
column has no flags, so an unresolved workflow behaves exactly as the
literal did.

## Tests — the invariant, not the repro

Per the surface-enumeration rule, four cases: renamed archive lane,
legacy id, unresolved workflow (fail-soft), and a second workflow's
archive lane through the cross-workflow union. A repro-only test would
pass on the legacy board and prove nothing about the case the guard
exists for.

**Anti-vacuity control:**

| | renamed lane | union | legacy id | fail-soft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pre-fix literal | **FAIL** | **FAIL** | pass | pass |
| converted | pass | pass | pass | pass |

The legacy and fail-soft cases hold in both directions **on purpose** —
they pin that this conversion did not change the pre-resolution answer.
Flagging that so 4/4 isn't read as four independent proofs.

## Measured

| check | result |
|---|---|
| `census --strict` / `check-fnxc-future-dates` | exit 0 / exit 0 |
| `eslint` | clean |
| `tsc -p tsconfig.app.json` (the config that actually covers `app/`) |
exit 0 |
| new tests | 4/4 |
| `pnpm test:gate` | exit 0 (744 tests) |

## Note on process

My first attempt at the control silently did nothing — the revert script
threw a `SyntaxError`, so the "pre-fix" run was the fixed code and
reported 4/4. Caught it because the error printed. The table above is
from the re-run.
2026-07-31 11:42:15 -07:00
gsxdsm
c66b434b7b fix(self-healing): a renamed hold lane re-logged the same overlap blocker on every sweep (#3216)
## The defect

`clearStaleBlockedBy` keeps a per-task memo of which overlap blocker it
already logged, so a sweep running every few seconds doesn't repeat the
same line forever. The memo was retained only while the card sat in a
column matching the literal `todo` — so on a renamed board it was
dropped on **every** sweep and `still blocked by file scope overlap with
<id>` was re-logged each time.

## Census before / after

| | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| COLUMN guards (backlog) | 9 | **8** |
| `packages/engine/src/self-healing.ts` | 1 | **0 — converted** |

Baseline re-recorded in the same commit; `--strict` green. (Counts
follow #3215, which took 10 → 9.)

## The stated blocker was not real

The note here declined the conversion because the lane prefetch is keyed
on `candidates`, *"which this closure helps build"*. Measured — it does
not:

```
6033|  for (const task of blockedTasks) candidates.set(task.id, task);
6034|  for (const task of queuedDependencyTasks) candidates.set(task.id, task);
6036|  for (const [taskId, lastLoggedBlockerId] of this.preservedQueuedOverlapLogged) {   <- only CLEARS memos
```

`candidates` is fully populated two statements earlier, and this loop
only clears memo entries. So the prefetch was hoistable; it now sits
above the loop. That is a pure move of a read-only computation with no
conditional between the two positions.

Reaching the lane clause already proves the id is a candidate —
`!candidates.has(taskId)` is the first arm of the same `||` chain, so
short-circuit means the lane question is only asked for ids the prefetch
covered (`referencedIds.add(task.id)` runs for every candidate).
`lanesOf` still falls back to the legacy set, so an unresolvable
workflow answers exactly as the literal did.

This is the second inherited "too expensive" estimate to fail on
inspection this session (see #3215). Both were written in good faith and
both were checkable in a few minutes.

## One thing typecheck caught that review would not have

`memoTask?.column !== "todo"` was **also** the undefined check, and tsc
narrowed the later clauses on it. Replacing it without that arm compiled
clean to the eye but broke narrowing — `TS18048: 'memoTask' is possibly
'undefined'` on the next line. `|| !memoTask` is now explicit rather
than implied.

## Evidence

The test drives the sweep **twice**, because a single pass cannot
observe a dedup memo at all.

| | pre-fix literal | converted |
|---|---|---|
| `still blocked by file scope overlap` log lines | **2 — FAILS** | **1
— passes** |

Failure message against the pre-fix code: `expected [ [ 'FN-DEPENDENT',
…(1) ], …(1) ] to have a length of 1 but got 2`.

Worth correcting the record: the note called the cost *"a duplicate log
line, not a wrong lifecycle decision"*. The lifecycle half is right —
but it is a duplicate on **every sweep**, so it is recurring log spam,
not a one-off. That is a bigger cost than the note implies, though still
not a correctness bug.

| check | result |
|---|---|
| `census --strict` / `check-fnxc-future-dates` | exit 0 / exit 0 |
| `eslint` / engine `tsc --noEmit` | clean / exit 0 |
| self-healing + overlap suites | 15 / 21 / 6 passed |
| `pnpm test:gate` | exit 0 (744 tests) |

Reused the existing `RENAMED_BOARD_IR` harness in that file rather than
building a new one.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Bug Fixes**
- Improved cleanup of stale workflow blockers, including renamed
workflow lanes.
  - Prevented duplicate overlap warnings during repeated cleanup.
- More reliably preserves valid queued overlaps while ignoring missing
or inactive tasks.

- **Tests**
- Added regression coverage for repeated stale-blocker cleanup and
duplicate warning prevention.

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2026-07-31 11:29:25 -07:00
gsxdsm
aa1655ccd9 fleet: reclassify the census tail — 10 → 2 guards, all reasoning already in the code (#3213)
## Census before / after

```
                        before   after
COLUMN guards (backlog)     10       2
DELIBERATE-LITERAL         138     148
```

Baseline re-recorded in the same commit; `--strict` green.

## This converts nothing — the tail was never backlog

All ten remaining guards already carried an explicit in-code decision.
**None carried the `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` marker the census reads**, so
each re-appeared to every fleet pass as if unexamined. That is the whole
defect this fixes.

| site | the reasoning already at the site |
| --- | --- |
| `audit-ops.ts`, `moves.ts` | the degraded fallback arm of an
**already-converted** site; the live arm uses the resolved lane set |
| `scheduler.ts` ×2 | *"LEFT COUNTED"* — an await behind the
`tracked.has` re-entrance guard lets two updates double-start a monitor;
the sibling is the measured-expensive `task:updated` emit path (26 sites
against 7) |
| `notification-service.ts` | this method and its only caller are
**sync**, reached from a listener the store invokes as `(task: Task):
void`; resolving makes the chain async and reorders notification
classification against every other `task:updated` handler |
| `lifecycle-ops.ts` | *"Recorded rather than converted"* — dead code |
| `task-id-integrity.ts` | sync, no store-scoped read; converting alone
would disagree with `getLiveTaskColumn` |
| `triage.ts` | *"LEFT COUNTED until then"* — wants a non-sync-resolved
lane answer |

## Marker placement is load-bearing, and I got it wrong twice

The census reads a node's **leading** comments. A marker in a nearby
block comment attaches to the wrong node and is **silently ignored** —
it reads as reviewed while the count still lists the site.

- `task-id-integrity.ts` — my first marker went into the block comment
above the `const`; the literal is in the `return`. Count stayed at 1
until I moved it.
- `ResearchTaskActionModal.tsx` — marker added, **measured that it did
not register**, reverted.

Every edit was verified by re-running the census, not assumed. That is
the only reason the count actually moved.

## Two sites deliberately left counted

- **`ResearchTaskActionModal.tsx`** — the literal sits mid-expression
inside a `.then()` chain, so no marker can attach. The census's own
guidance is to hoist it into a named helper; the site's note asks for
that to be someone's deliberate change rather than a drive-by, so it
stays counted and honest.
- **`self-healing.ts`** — the memo closure I converted and reverted in
#3049. Its note: a renamed board costs a duplicate log line, not a wrong
lifecycle decision.

## Correction I owe on the measurement itself

For many turns I reported "zero unclaimed guards". That came from a bug
in **my own** query — `byFile` is an array of `[file, count]` pairs and
I had switched to `Object.entries()`, which yields `[index, pair]`, so
`n > 0` was always false and the filter returned zero regardless of
state. It agreed with reality while open PRs held every file, which is
why it went unnoticed; it was still wrong, and a constant zero against a
falling backlog should have prompted me to check it sooner.

## Verification (measured)

- engine `self-healing` + `scheduler` suites — **1003 passed / 56
files**
- core `task-id` / `moves` suites — green
- `tsc --noEmit` clean in core, engine and dashboard; `eslint` clean
- `pnpm test:gate` — green
- `lifecycle-column-census --strict`, `check-lane-wiring`,
`check-sql-column-literals`, `check-fnxc-future-dates` — green

No changeset: `@fusion/core`, `@fusion/engine` and `@fusion/dashboard`
are private, and no runtime behaviour changes.


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Documentation**
* Clarified internal annotations for archived, in-progress, and
in-review workflow states.
* Documented fallback behavior and timing safeguards across lifecycle,
scheduling, notification, and triage flows.

* **Chores**
* Updated internal lifecycle tracking baselines to reflect current
annotations and state coverage.

* **Bug Fixes**
  * No user-visible behavior changes.

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2026-07-31 11:15:40 -07:00
gsxdsm
8d393422ac chore(fnxc): tighten the future-dates baseline — merge-queue-ops-2 4 -> 3 (#3211)
One-line baseline tightening, produced by the gate's own auto-tighten
path.

`check-fnxc-future-dates` deliberately auto-tightens rather than failing
on a drop, because its population moves with the calendar and a drop has
**no author** — the counterpart asymmetry to
`check-inert-sync-lane-conversions`, where a drop *does* have an author
and must fail. Any gate run regenerates this; `main`'s committed
baseline had simply not caught up.

**Why this isn't churn:** left loose, the baseline permits 4 future
stamps in a file that now has 3. That slack silently absorbs one genuine
future-dated stamp — precisely the failure this gate exists to catch,
and one the fleet hit four times in a single day (`scheduler.ts`, a
scheduler PG test, `task-update.ts` twice by different authors), each a
real time on the wrong day that passed locally and reddened `main` for
everyone else.

Verified: both `check-fnxc-future-dates` and
`check-inert-sync-lane-conversions` green on the tightened baseline.

No changeset: tooling baseline, no published-package surface.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 10:47:03 -07:00
gsxdsm
215f09d88f fix(census): the bare command could not say the conversion queue is EMPTY — and a test fix for main (#3207)
## Why this exists

The fleet instruction is *"claim the largest unclaimed census file
cluster (`node scripts/lifecycle-column-census.mjs`)"*. That command
cannot answer it. The availability verdict lived **only** behind
`--claims`, which shells to `gh`:

```
line 342:  if (claims && !json) {
```

So a worker following the instruction literally sees per-file counts,
reads a nonzero backlog as a work queue, and picks a file whose guard is
already documented as deferred. Counts alone cannot separate *work left*
from *debt left*.

**Measured cost:** the queue reached **zero unexamined guards** while
dispatch continued. I re-audited the last three candidates —
`merge-queue-ops-2`, `lifecycle-ops`, `notification-service` — and all
three were already documented. Only one was reclassifiable, and by
**deletion** rather than conversion (#3205).

## What the bare command prints now

```
  COLUMN guards (the backlog):   11

  CONVERSION QUEUE EMPTY: all 11 remaining column guard(s) carry a documented deferral note.
  There is no unexamined guard to claim. A nonzero backlog above is DEBT, not a work queue.
  Re-read the note at a site before converting it; run --claims to also check open-PR ownership.
```

Or, when work does exist: `N unexamined guard(s) remain (no deferral
note) — run --triage to list them by file.`

**Local signals only**, so it is honest offline. It reports what it can
prove — no *unexamined* guard remains — and explicitly does **not**
claim the files are unclaimed, because only `--claims` sees open PRs. No
count, no exit code, `--strict`/`--json` untouched.

## Three commits, deliberately separated

1. **`refactor`** — move `FLAG_MARKERS` + the 40-line window into the
lib as `hasDeferralNote()`, verbatim. It was a private const plus an
inline `.slice()` in the CLI, so the rule deciding where the fleet is
sent had **no test in either direction**. Proven identical on the real
tree: `11 documented / 0 unexamined` before and after.
2. **`feat`** — the verdict + 6 tests.
3. **`fix`** — an unrelated pre-existing failure (below).

## The test fix — this one is turning main red

`attributes a remaining file to the open PR that touches it` asserted
over `out.slice(out.indexOf("UNCLAIMED:"))`, which runs to **end of
output** and so also covers the `SYNC-RESOLVED` section printed
afterward. That section legitimately lists `scheduler.ts`.

Latent until `topRemainingFile()` returned `scheduler.ts` — which
happened as the backlog shrank, **a state every conversion moves
toward**. Confirmed pre-existing: clean `origin/main` runs `42 passed /
1 failed` with the identical message.

## Evidence

| check | result |
|---|---|
| `hasDeferralNote` tests | both directions, boundary exact at 40 above
/ not below, 5 real phrasings |
| verdict control (by hand) | one tracked undocumented guard → **11 →
12**, verdict flips to `1 unexamined`; removed → restored |
| test-fix anti-vacuity | claim split broken → **FAILS**; restored →
passes |
| census file | **49 passed** (was 42 passed / 1 failed) |
| `census --strict` / `check:fnxc-future-dates` | exit 0 / exit 0 |
| `pnpm test:gate` | **exit 0** (732 tests) |

The verdict control was **invalid on the first attempt** — my probe file
was untracked and `git ls-files` never scanned it, so the verdict did
not flip and nothing was proven. Recording that because a control that
silently proves nothing is the exact failure this PR is about.

## Census before / after

No guard converted here; this is tooling. Backlog unchanged at 11, all
deferred.
2026-07-31 10:38:48 -07:00
gsxdsm
230be28576 fix(core): the merge-queue enqueue guard was not debt — the code it guarded had no callers (#3205)
## The deferral note was right about the mechanism and wrong about the
remedy

`merge-queue-ops-2.ts` sat in the census as deferred debt behind this
note:

> Converting it properly means either making this path async or pushing
the trait read into SQL, both of which are store-architecture changes
rather than call-site conversions.

That is correct as far as it goes — the guard runs inside
`store.db.transactionImmediate`, so the only synchronous resolver
available (`resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync`) returns the DEFAULT workflow
under PostgreSQL and a "conversion" would be inert.

But it assumed the code needed converting. Measured across the tree:

```
=== every call site of .enqueueMergeQueueSyncInternal( ===
packages/core/src/store.ts:1775:  public enqueueMergeQueueSyncInternal(...)   <- the declaration itself
```

**Zero callers.** Every other occurrence of the name is a comment. The
live path is `enqueueMergeQueueAsync` (`task-artifacts-ops.ts:117`), and
that file already documented the deletion:

> Merge-queue enqueue is PostgreSQL-only via enqueueMergeQueueAsync …
The SQLite `enqueueMergeQueueSyncInternal` arm is deleted.

The arm was deleted; its declaration was not. The guard was unreachable
on the shipped backend.

## Change

- Deleted `enqueueMergeQueueSyncInternalImpl` (-85 lines) and its
`store.enqueueMergeQueueSyncInternal` entry point.
- Dropped the six imports that became unused
(`MergeQueueTaskNotFoundError`, `MergeQueueInvalidColumnError`,
`MergeQueueEntry`, `MergeQueueEnqueueOptions`, `normalizeTaskPriority`,
`MergeQueueRow`).
- Refreshed the three comments naming the removed symbol, so none points
at a deleted identifier. The
`handoffMergeQueueFailureInjectorForTesting` hook those comments sit on
is a **different** member and is untouched — it only mentioned the sync
arm as context.

## Census before / after

| | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| `packages/core/src/task-store/merge-queue-ops-2.ts` | 1 | **0 (entry
removed)** |

Baseline tightened by exactly one entry. **The 0 here is a deletion, not
a conversion** — recorded in the file's own FNXC note so the next worker
does not read it as a converted seam. This is the failure mode the
census warns about ("a count of 0 is the WORST case, not the best"), so
it is stated at the site rather than left to inference.

## Measured

| check | result |
|---|---|
| `census --strict` | exit 0 |
| `@fusion/core tsc --noEmit` | exit 0 |
| `eslint` (4 changed files) | clean |
| core merge-queue tests | **110 passed / 6 files**, incl.
`postgres/merge-queue-renamed-review-column.pg.test.ts` |
| `pnpm test:gate` | exit 0 (**732 tests**) |

No changeset: `@fusion/core` is private and this removes unreachable
code with no user-visible behavior.

## Flagged, not guessed

The other four deferral-note files remain deferred. I only reclassified
this one because its call-site count is a fact I could measure, not a
judgement. Whether `lifecycle-ops.ts:667` is likewise dead (it sits in
the legacy-SQLite polling-replica path) is a separate question I have
not measured, so I have not touched it.
2026-07-31 10:30:16 -07:00
gsxdsm
a319e35a67 fix(dashboard): the card's completion timestamp reads the resolved complete lane (census 13 → 12) (#3146)
`TaskCard.tsx` 1 → 0. **Census 13 → 12**, baseline re-recorded
in-commit.

## The defect

`getInReviewCompletionMs` gated on `task.column === "done"`, so on a
board whose completion lane is renamed, a finished card rendered its
execution time **without the completion half** — the `Completed <when>`
part of the indicator's `title` / `aria-label` never appeared.

Nobody reported it because the card does not look broken. It looks like
a card whose completion time was never recorded.

## The recorded blocker had expired, and I trusted it twice

The note on that helper read:

> Module-scope, takes only a `Task`, and has no flags to consult.
Converting it means either threading resolved flags through a pure
duration helper or resolving a workflow inside it.

True when written (2026-07-30). False within a day, and the evidence is
in the same file:

- `taskColumnFlags` is a **prop of this component**, destructured and
already consumed by `isWipColumnRole` / `isReviewColumnRole`.
- The **sibling duration helpers were threaded for exactly this
purpose** — `getTotalAgentActiveMs` carries the note *"THREADED SO THE
CONVERSION IS NOT INERT"*.
- This helper has **one caller**, inside the component, where the flags
are in scope.

The threading the note called prohibitive was already done; only this
helper was left behind. I read that note twice this week and took it at
face value both times — and what finally prompted the check was main
landing `taskRevert 2 → 0 — **the recorded blocker named the wrong
variable**` (#3129), someone else finding the same class of decay in a
note I had also accepted.

This program's own learnings say a deferral's stated blocker is a claim
that ages like any measurement. I had applied every other entry in that
document this week except that one.

## A dependency-array bug the conversion would have introduced

The memo now reads `taskColumnFlags`, so it joins the dependency array.
Flags arrive **asynchronously** — the board resolves workflows after
first paint — so a card rendered before they load and re-rendered after
would otherwise keep the pre-flag answer, since none of the memo's other
inputs changed. This repo has **no `react-hooks/exhaustive-deps` rule**,
so nothing would have flagged the omission.

## Two wrong probes before a correct one, both caught by controls and
mutation

Recording these because the fix was right from the start and my
instruments were not:

1. **`textContent` matched nothing.** The completion time lands in
`title`/`aria-label`, never in visible text. The **control failed too**
— the signature of a broken probe rather than a broken fix.
2. **`innerHTML` on the whole card matched always.** The lifecycle-dates
footer renders its own `Completed <date>` line, and *that* path already
resolves the complete lane correctly. The probe was reading a different,
already-converted feature. **Mutation exposed it: reverting the fix left
all six green.**

The final assertion queries `.card-time-indicator` and reads its
`title`, which is the only form that can tell the two apart.

## Verification

| | result |
|---|---|
| suite | **6 passed** |
| mutation (restore `=== "done"`) | **1 failed \| 5 passed** — the
renamed case only, control still green |
| dashboard `tsc -p tsconfig.app.json` | **0 errors** |
| census `--strict` | exit 0, baseline re-recorded in-commit |

Flags stay optional with the legacy id as fallback
(`isCompleteColumnRole`), so any caller without resolved flags behaves
exactly as before.

## Note on `check-fnxc-future-dates`

It fails on this branch, but **not because of it** — `scheduler.ts` and
one PG test carry future stamps on `main` itself. #3139 fixes that. None
of my files appear in the report.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 10:18:18 -07:00
gsxdsm
a6d67844b8 fix(triage): the "unconvertible" site was convertible — the blocker was two test harnesses (#3191)
#3141 measured this site as unconvertible, and I twice reported the
cause as a production constraint. It was not. This is the instrumented
answer to the probe I recommended there and then ran myself.

## The isolation

| configuration | result |
|---|---|
| flag only, no conversion | **8 passed** → the orphan arm is *not* the
cause |
| flag + conversion | **5 failed** → the conversion is |
| same, with a realistic mock store | **8 passed** → the mock was the
cause |

`triage-stuck-requeue-preserve-draft.test.ts` defined neither
`getTaskWorkflowSelection` nor its async twin — exactly like
`triage.test.ts` did before #3189. Both made
`resolveWorkflowIrForTaskWithProvenance` **throw** and take its catch
branch: the *"could not ask"* shape, which a production store never
presents.

So the 5 failures I deferred as a possible semantics change were the
same harness gap in a second file — confirmed, not argued.

## What changes

**`selectionAbsent`** marks the determinate case: the store *answered*
"no selection", so the workflow is the default and its IR is in hand.
Added as a **separate field, not a third `source` value** — `source ===
"default"` is compared in **31 places** in `self-healing.ts` meaning "be
conservative", and a new enum value would silently stop matching every
one of them while still compiling and still passing on a default board.

**`recoverApprovedTask`** now accepts a legacy `triage` row *explicitly*
(its workflow does not declare that column) instead of depending on
`resolvePlannerLanes` **failing** and falling back to legacy ids.
Correctness resting on a resolver's failure mode is what this removes.

## Measured

| | result |
|---|---|
| broad suite (triage / self-healing / recovery / planning) | **77
files, 1302 tests passed** |
| the three directly affected suites, post-rebase | **245 passed** |
| the flag is load-bearing | conversion **without** it: **18 failed \|
221 passed** |
| `census --strict`, `check-fnxc-future-dates` | exit 0 |

**The inert-sync-lane count is unchanged at 7 for `triage.ts`.** This
site was never among the counted guards, so this is **not** a ratchet
reduction — stating that rather than letting a conversion imply one. It
removes a real inert dependency the ratchet cannot see, which is the
blind-spot class this phase has been mapping.

## Why this took four attempts

I described this blocker at four levels: merged intake/hold, orphan-arm
scoping, identity verification (filed as **#3187**, closed as wrong),
and finally the harness. **The two I instrumented held; the two I
reasoned to did not.** The fix here is the probe I wrote down for
someone else — which is where it should have started.

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2026-07-31 09:36:03 -07:00
gsxdsm
f703b499d3 census: --triage's pick-work list was 100% false positives (#3194)
## Every entry on the pick-work list was already decided

`--triage` prints a list headed *"unexamined, by file — this is the list
to pick work from"*. On `main` it held 2 sites. **Both carry a full
deferral note:**

| site | what its note says |
|---|---|
| `triage.ts:793` | *"the arm goes back to the literal, which is
**honest about being one**"* — restored by #3126 after #3114 converted
it inertly |
| `scheduler.ts:1323` | *"the second of the two **honest literals** …
converting it here **would be inert**"* |

Neither phrasing was in the marker set. So the pick-list was **100%
false positives**.

## Why this direction of error is the expensive one

Under-reporting a deferral sends a worker at a site whose owner already
wrote down why it must not move. That is not a hypothetical failure — it
is the sequence that cost three PRs: **#3108** flagged a site with both
blockers named and a test behind it, **#3114** converted it anyway hours
later, **#3126** reverted it. A pick-list that nominates decided sites
reproduces exactly that.

Over-reporting has the opposite failure — it hides real work — so the
added phrases are specific to *declining a conversion* (`honest
literal`, `would be inert`), not generic words that appear in ordinary
notes.

## Verified in both directions

Not asserted. I resolved **each of the 12** remaining guards to its
individual marker:

```
 1. scheduler.ts:1238            FLAGGED
 2. scheduler.ts:1323            honest literal
 3. audit-ops.ts:231             Not converted
 4. lifecycle-ops.ts:667         do not convert
 5. merge-queue-ops-2.ts:53      FLAGGED
 6. moves.ts:346                 STAYS INLINE
 7. task-id-integrity.ts:445     Left counted
 8. ResearchTaskActionModal:66   SIZED, NOT
 9. TaskCard.tsx:406             FLAGGED
10. notification-service:1245    FLAGGED
11. self-healing.ts:6054         FLAGGED
12. triage.ts:793                honest about being one
```

**Unexamined is 0.** That is a meaningful state, not just a small
number: the conversion backlog is fully *triaged*, every remaining
literal has a recorded reason, and the next person to touch one is
reading an argument rather than guessing.

## Census before / after

```
before:  COLUMN guards (the backlog):   12
after:   COLUMN guards (the backlog):   12
```

Unchanged, as required — `--triage` is opt-in and moves no count and no
exit code. `--json` and `--strict` verified unaffected.

## Verification

`test:gate` exit 0 · `--strict` exit 0 · `--json` exit 0 · plus
`fnxc-future-dates`, `lifecycle-columns`, `inert-sync-lanes`,
`quarantine-ledger`, `inert-flag-seams`, `lane-wiring`,
`sql-column-literals` — all exit 0. One script; no production file
touched.

*Process note: my first draft of this PR carried a future-dated FNXC
stamp — the third time I have done that. I have switched to taking the
stamp from `date -u` per #3174 rather than typing it, and my pre-push
run of the full `pr-checks` ratchet set (not `test:gate` alone) caught
it before it left the branch, which is what that habit is for.*
2026-07-31 09:35:51 -07:00
gsxdsm
24c565540e gate: a sync lane handed to a wrapper is still inert — 13 scheduler guards were invisible (#3181)
## The fourth shape: a sync lane handed to a wrapper

#3169 taught `unwrapForSyncCall` to walk await, parenthesized,
conditional and binary expressions. It still stops at the **call
boundary**, so a source call sitting in an *argument* position stays
invisible:

```ts
const parked = mergeParkedColumns(resolveTaskParkedColumnsSync(store, id), lanes);
```

That prefers the event payload and falls back to the sync answer
whenever `lanes` is absent. The callee is `mergeParkedColumns`, not a
source — so the walker never looked inside, and **the entire
`scheduler.ts` file read as clean**.

```
main today:   9   (triage 7, executor 2, scheduler 0)
this PR:     22   (scheduler 13, triage 7, executor 2)
```

Thirteen guards. And `check:inert-sync-lanes` has run in `test:gate`
since #3136, so CI is currently enforcing a ratchet that reports a file
it cannot see into as fully converted. The green is official, which
makes it worse than the version nobody ran.

## Is the fallback still reachable?

Yes, which is why these are not retired. #3135 attached lanes at every
*live* emitter, but absence remains reachable three ways: the two
`lifecycle-ops.ts` emitters on the SQLite-only polling path, any future
emitter added without lanes, and the three forwarders
(`project-manager.ts`, `remote-node-runtime.ts`,
`child-process-runtime.ts`) that reconstruct the event object
field-by-field rather than forwarding it.

A rarely-exercised fallback is still a fallback. Counting it as clean is
how the ledger stops meaning anything.

## The change

One line inside your walker, plus its note:

```js
if (ts.isCallExpression(n)) { for (const a of n.arguments) walk(a); }
```

Every shape #3169 added is preserved. Still a name match, not dataflow —
the limits section still applies.

## Mutation evidence — all three shapes, one tree

| Mutant | Result |
|---|---|
| baseline (22) | exit 0 |
| **argument position** (this PR) | **exit 1**, 13 → 14 |
| conditional (#3169's) | exit 1, 13 → 14 |
| inline (#3062's) | exit 1, 13 → 14 |

`scheduler.ts` restored clean after each run.

## Baseline 9 → 22

**Detection, not regression.** No production file changes in this PR. 22
is the exact union I measured before #3169 merged (13 + 7 + 2) and
posted on both PRs at the time — it landing unchanged is the
confirmation that the two fixes were additive rather than overlapping.

## Census before / after

```
before:  COLUMN guards (the backlog):   12
after:   COLUMN guards (the backlog):   12
```

Unchanged — this converts nothing. It restores 13 guards to a ledger
that had silently dropped them.

## Supersedes #3122

#3122 carried this fix as a standalone rewrite of `syncLaneLocals` and
conflicted with #3169 the moment it landed. This is the six-line version
I offered there; #3122 is closed.

## Verification

`test:gate` exit 0 · `check:inert-sync-lanes` exit 0 at the re-recorded
baseline · plus `fnxc-future-dates`, `lifecycle-columns`,
`quarantine-ledger`, `inert-flag-seams`, `lane-wiring`,
`sql-column-literals` — all exit 0. Gate script + baseline only.


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved detection of synchronous operations nested within wrapper
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* Updated synchronization checks to report all currently identified
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2026-07-31 08:56:32 -07:00
gsxdsm
fa62c951cf fix(gate): the inert ratchet went quiet exactly when the code improved (conditional initializer) (#3169)
Found by dogfooding my own change: I wrote `executor.ts` in the
payload-first/sync-fallback shape while adopting #3140's better
fallback, **predicted in a comment that the guards would stay counted**,
and the gate reported **zero**. The prediction was wrong in the
direction that matters — the gate under-reports.

## The gap

`syncLaneLocals` registered a local only when its initializer **was** a
call expression:

```ts
const sync = payload ? undefined : localSync(store, id);
return column === sync?.hold;          // inert, and counted as nothing
```

Conditionals and `??`/`||` chains are now unwrapped, so a sync call in
any branch registers the local. Still a **name** match, not dataflow —
the file's LIMITS section still applies.

## Why this shape matters more than the inline one already guarded

**The missed shape is the one authors are steered toward.** Falling back
to the sync resolver is *better* than falling back to legacy literals —
it is best-effort under legacy SQLite, whereas a literal can never be
right on a renamed board. So writing the guard well is what made it
invisible.

A ratchet that goes quiet exactly when the code improves is worse than
none: it rewards the worse degraded path with a tidier number.

## Known remaining gap, stated in the test rather than implied

Only **one hop** is followed. The two-hop form is still uncounted:

```ts
const sync  = payload ? undefined : localSync(store, id);
const lanes = { hold: payload?.hold ?? sync?.hold ?? "todo" };
if (from !== lanes.hold) …            // still invisible
```

`executor.ts` is written that way today, which is why it reads 0 while
the sync call is still present. Closing it needs propagation through
object-literal construction — a larger change than this one, and I would
rather ship the one-hop fix with the gap documented than imply full
coverage.

## Verification

| | result |
|---|---|
| gate on `main` | **exit 0**, output unchanged (11 = triage 7 +
executor 4) |
| test suite | **5 pass** |
| new case against the **unfixed** gate | **fails** — `the
conditional-initializer shape must be counted` |

The regression case drives a real file through the scanned tree rather
than calling a helper, because the bug was in which nodes the scan
**visits**. A helper-level assertion would have been written against the
same wrong mental model that produced the gap — which is how the
inline-spelling hole in this same file survived its first draft.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved detection of sync-lane conversions in conditional
expressions, fallback logic, awaited and parenthesized values, and
object-literal relays.
  * Corrected matching for identifiers containing special characters.
* Updated validation results to include two additional findings that
were previously missed.

* **Tests**
* Added integration coverage for conditional initializers, chained
object-literal conversions, and special-character identifiers.
  * Ensured temporary test files are cleaned up automatically.
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2026-07-31 08:20:06 -07:00
gsxdsm
2cb5cab595 chore(core): mark the mission-store dead-sync-path literal DELIBERATE (census 13→12) (#3179)
Comment-only. `tsc` 0 errors, `census --strict` and
`check-fnxc-future-dates` exit 0.

## Claimed with the new tool

First use of `scripts/check-file-claimed.mjs` (#3175) to pick work
instead of guessing:

```
CLAIMED    packages/engine/src/scheduler.ts        #3177, #3142
CLAIMED    packages/core/src/task-store/audit-ops.ts   #3165
UNCLAIMED  packages/core/src/mission-store.ts
UNCLAIMED  packages/core/src/task-store/task-id-integrity.ts
```

Two of the four files I would have reached for were already taken — by
PRs whose branch names give no hint they touch those paths. That is the
collision this phase paid for five times, answered in one command. I
took `mission-store.ts`; `task-id-integrity.ts` is still free.

## Census 13 → 12

Reclassification, not conversion — the line is unchanged.

## Verified the blocker rather than deferring to it

The site carries an audited note: the sync `MissionStore` reaches
`this.db.prepare`, and `getMissionStoreImpl` returns the
`AsyncDataLayer`-backed `AsyncMissionStore` under PostgreSQL, so the
class is unreachable in the shipped backend.

I checked that independently instead of accepting it —
`async-mission-store.ts:168` states the same routing from the other
side. **That check exists because of #3129**, where a note I had
accepted as settled ("blocked on a per-neighbour flag map that does not
exist") turned out to name the wrong variable, and the file was
convertible all along. I had publicly argued it should stay counted.

So the rule I am applying: a documented blocker gets marked only after
its named obstacle is confirmed from a second source. Here it held; on
`taskRevert.ts` it did not.

## Related, and still open

`merge-queue-ops-2.ts` carries a note of the same shape that does
**not** survive this check — it names two ways to convert (make the path
async, push the trait read down) and misses the one that worked twice
this phase: thread the resolved lanes in from a caller that already
awaited them, as #3112 and #3118 did for `executor.ts`. Its sibling
`taskStillInReview(projectId, reviewColumns)` already takes lanes from
its caller. Worth a real look rather than a marker.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 08:13:45 -07:00
gsxdsm
b8bfcd031b tooling: answer "is this file claimed?" in one command (#3175)
Addresses the root cause of a pattern I have now measured four times.

## The finding

**Every fleet worker pushes as the same GitHub account.** `gh pr list
--author "@me"` returns **all 17 open PRs** — mine and teammates' are
indistinguishable. So "is this file already being converted?" can only
be answered by fetching every open PR's file list by hand: 25+ API calls
that no worker makes before starting. I didn't either.

## The measured cost

| PR | Outcome | Landed instead as |
|---|---|---|
| #3096 | shrank to a test | teammate's serialisation + union |
| #3116 | shrank to a test | `preExecLiveColumns`,
`starvedWaitingColumns`, … |
| #3140 | shrank to a test | #3137 |
| #3125 | **shrank to nothing — closed** | #3135 |

Plus #3118, a teammate independently writing the same coverage I wrote
for #3112.

**In every case both implementations were correct and independently
reached the same design** — #3137 chose payload-first-with-sync-fallback
for the same reason I did. This is not carelessness; the fleet is doing
correct work twice and discovering coverage gaps by accident, when
rebases collide.

## What this adds

```
$ node scripts/check-file-claimed.mjs packages/engine/src/self-healing.ts
CLAIMED    packages/engine/src/self-healing.ts
             #3152  fix(self-healing): 18 recovery rebounds hardcoded `todo` …
```

**On its first run it reported `self-healing.ts` claimed by #3152 —
which I had no way to know a moment earlier.** Exits non-zero when
claimed, so it can gate work: `node scripts/check-file-claimed.mjs
<path> && start-work`.

## Deliberate limits

- **It cannot see unpushed work**, so it narrows the collision window
rather than closing it. Two workers starting the same file minutes apart
still collide. Closing that needs **distinguishable authorship** — a
per-worker `Co-Authored-By` or a title prefix — which is a coordination
decision, not a script.
- **A `gh` failure exits 2 and says UNKNOWN, not unclaimed.** A claim
check that fails open is worse than none, which is the same false-green
shape this program keeps finding elsewhere.

Also adds a short AGENTS.md pointer next to the other standing rules.

## Verification

Run against a claimed and an unclaimed path; both answers correct, exit
codes as documented.

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

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Added a command-line check for open pull requests that may already be
modifying specified files.
* Reports matching pull request details and clearly indicates whether
each file is claimed.
* Returns distinct statuses for claimed files, unclaimed files, and
unavailable GitHub checks.

* **Documentation**
* Added guidance for checking file ownership before beginning conversion
work.

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2026-07-31 08:10:29 -07:00
gsxdsm
2a57820dd2 chore(gate): normalize the last future-dated stamp in task-update.ts (tightens the allowance 1 → 0) (#3168)
**Main is red on the FNXC gate again** — third occurrence of this class
today, third different file.

```
packages/core/src/task-store/task-update.ts: 2 future-dated FNXC stamp(s), baseline allows 1
```

Stamps dated **2026-08-01** while UTC is **2026-07-31-14:24**. Every
open PR inherits the failure; #3164 merged carrying it.

## The fix

Date only, to today. Clock times preserved exactly — they were real
times on the wrong day — and no comment text touched, so the record
reads identically, just in order:

```
-FNXC:StateMachine 2026-08-01-10:20 (PR #2793's finding — the INNER half, merged with #2821):
+FNXC:StateMachine 2026-07-31-10:20 (PR #2793's finding — the INNER half, merged with #2821):
```

Baseline **tightened** as a side effect (`1 → 0`): one future stamp was
grandfathered, normalizing the file cleared it too, and the gate refuses
a stale allowance on the way down. Re-recorded in the same commit.

## The recurrence is the point, not this fix

Three separate files have tripped this in one day — `scheduler.ts`, the
scheduler PG test, and now `task-update.ts` — plus the midnight-rollover
variant this morning that reddened everyone's baseline.

**Stamps are written from a local clock and validated against UTC.** A
worker behind UTC writes what is genuinely "today" for them and produces
a future stamp the moment UTC has already rolled. Nothing in the local
loop catches it: `pnpm lint` passes locally because the local date
agrees.

The durable fix is to generate the stamp from `date -u` rather than a
wall clock — one line in whatever produces these, and the class
disappears. I have patched the symptom three times today; someone should
take the cause. I have not done it myself because the stamps are
authored by hand across every worker's flow, so the change belongs
wherever that convention is documented, not in a file I happen to be
touching.

## Verification

`check-fnxc-future-dates` green (TZ=UTC CI=true) · `pnpm test:gate` 13 +
161 + 487 + 71 · lint · core typecheck clean · diff is date
substitutions only.
2026-07-31 07:56:09 -07:00
gsxdsm
d7324c1a20 fix(gate): main is RED on check-inert-sync-lanes — my #3137 dropped the count without re-recording (#3172)
`check-inert-sync-lane-conversions` is inside `test:gate`, so **the
merge gate itself is red on `main` right now**.

```
inert-sync-lane: total fell 11 -> 7.
  Good news — but re-record the baseline in the SAME commit, or the allowance stays
  high and the gate silently accepts that many NEW inert conversions
exit 1
```

## Cause: mine

#3137 converted `executor.ts`'s planner-evacuation guards (4 → 0 under
the current scan) and **did not re-record the baseline in the same
commit**. The gate fails an unrecorded drop by design — a stale-high
allowance is four free slots for new inert conversions — and that
requirement is stated both in its failure text and in its own test suite
(*"an unrecorded DROP fails, so the allowance cannot stay stale-high"*).
I knew the rule and still shipped without it; the drop only became
visible once the PR merged.

This PR is the baseline only: **11 → 7**, `executor.ts` 4 → 0,
`triage.ts` unchanged at 7.

## Ordering note for my two open gate PRs

#3169 and #3170 make the scan follow a sync lane through a **conditional
initializer** and through an **object literal**. `executor.ts` is
written in exactly that shape after #3137, so with those fixes the count
**rises 7 → 9** — a legitimate rise from better detection, not a
regression. That re-record belongs in #3170's own commit, which is where
the gate asks for it, and I will put it there rather than pre-baking it
here.

So the expected sequence is: **7 now**, **9 when #3170 lands**.

## Process notes

- I checked for an existing fix PR before writing this one.
- I also caught this only because I re-measured the exit code **without
a pipe**. `node gate.mjs | head` then `echo $?` reads `head`'s status
and reported 0 — the exact harness trap recorded in this program's
learnings doc, which I walked into while checking whether main was
healthy.

## Verification

- gate **exit 1 on `origin/main`**, **exit 0** here
- diff is the baseline file only

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2026-07-31 07:44:42 -07:00
Phil Larson
920d68e10f fix(dashboard): expose column roles to browser bundle (#3151)
## Summary
- export the browser-safe `@fusion/core/column-roles` subpath
- keep Vite/Vitest aliases ahead of broad `@fusion/core` aliases
- restore production dashboard builds after task undo classification
adopted shared column-role helpers

## Test plan
- `node scripts/check-no-node-only-core-imports-in-dashboard.mjs`
- `FUSION_DASHBOARD_DEEP=1 pnpm --filter @fusion/dashboard exec vitest
run app/utils/__tests__/taskRevert.test.ts --pool=threads
--maxWorkers=1`
- `pnpm --filter @fusion/core typecheck`
- `pnpm --filter @fusion/dashboard typecheck`
- `CI=true pnpm check:changesets`
- `pnpm build`


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

* **Bug Fixes**
  * Fixed dashboard build compatibility for browser-based environments.
* Improved reliability when importing column role functionality across
supported application components.

* **Refactor**
* Made column role utilities available through a dedicated browser-safe
entry point.

* **Chores**
* Updated development and test configurations to consistently resolve
the new entry point.
* Documented the browser-safe module classification and recorded the
release patch.
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2026-07-31 06:46:19 -07:00
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.

---------

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2026-07-31 05:50:13 -07:00
gsxdsm
4db4052451 fix(gate): the inert-sync-lane ratchet had two free slots — my own drop went unrecorded (#3117)
Found by merging all five of my open branches together and running the
gates — a check none of them gets individually. The finding turned out
not to be about those branches at all: **`main` itself carries a
baseline of 20 against a real count of 18.**

## It is mine

#3065 replaced three `to === parked.complete || to === parked.archived`
guards with `parked.terminal.has(to)` and took the count **20 → 18**.
The gate *warned* and exited **0**, so nothing failed, I did not
re-record, and the allowance stayed high.

Bisected to be sure rather than inferred:

| commit | count |
|---|---|
| #3051 (`scheduler.ts 12 → 2`) | 20 |
| **#3065 (mine)** | **18** |
| #3100 (mine, comment-only) | 18 |

## The consequence is concrete

The gate whose entire purpose is to stop the inert-conversion class
growing **would have accepted two new inert conversions.**

Verified, not reasoned: with the baseline at 20, adding one new
`parked.wip` comparison to `scheduler.ts` still passed. With the
baseline corrected to 18, the same edit fails.

This is the exact failure mode I called out earlier in this program — a
fix landing without its ledger update — committed by me. The lenient
exit code is why it stayed invisible for a day.

## Two changes

1. **Re-record the baseline 20 → 18.** Restores the ratchet today.
2. **An unrecorded drop now exits 1**, matching the sibling
`check-lane-wiring.mjs`. Restores it tomorrow.

A ratchet that only tightens on request does not ratchet. Two gates
guarding the same program should not disagree about how seriously they
take their own ledger — `check-lane-wiring` already fails here and
explains why; this is the same rule for the same reason.

## Tests, because the exit code *is* the contract

Nothing covered this script's exit codes. The new cases drive it by
**running the script** against a temporarily swapped baseline rather
than importing a helper — a version that printed exactly the right
warning and still exited 0 would satisfy any assertion about its output.

- rise → exits 1, names the file
- unrecorded drop → exits 1, **and the message names
`--update-baseline`**, because a failure that does not name its fix is
noise to whoever hits it
- committed baseline matches the tree → exits 0
- **anti-vacuity**: the scan still finds real guards, so the two
mutated-baseline cases cannot pass against a gate that stopped reading
source and merely compares a number to itself

The baseline file is restored in a `finally`, so a failing test cannot
leave the repo's real ledger modified.

## Measured

- 4 new cases pass (`node --test`).
- Gate exits **1** before the re-record, **0** after, and **1** again
when a synthetic new inert conversion is added.
- `check-lane-wiring`, census `--strict`, `check-fnxc-future-dates` all
clean.

## Census

No movement — this is a gate fix, not a conversion.

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2026-07-31 05:47:09 -07:00
gsxdsm
6483f9ce2b fix(scheduler): resolve task:updated / task:deleted lanes asynchronously (scheduler inert 5 → 0) (#3128)
The last inert guards in `scheduler.ts`. Independent of my other
branches.

## Inert-guard ratchet

| Scope | Before | After |
|---|---:|---:|
| `scheduler.ts` | 5 | **0** |
| total | 12 | **7** (triage.ts 8 → other worker; executor.ts 4 → #3112)
|

## The live bug

These read `resolveTaskParkedColumnsSync`, which answers with the
**default** workflow in production. On a renamed board the scheduler
**never woke** on unpause or planning-finish, and a **deleted blocker
never unblocked its dependents** — the card sat behind a task that no
longer existed.

## The criterion, restated because I got it wrong before

**What blocks a guard is whether its answer is consumed synchronously —
not whether the enclosing listener is declared sync.** I assumed the
latter earlier in this program and reverted for it.

All three fail that test: two only gate `schedule()`, which is itself
`async`, fire-and-forget and re-entrance-guarded; the third already sits
below an `await getSettings()`. The edge-trigger bookkeeping
(`planningTaskIds.delete`) **stays synchronous** on purpose — deferring
*that* would let a second update re-enter the branch.

## The union is load-bearing, not defensive

Post-U11 the default lineage has no `triage` column, so a **resolved**
answer returns `intake: "todo"` where the inert path fell back to
`"triage"`. Converting without unioning the legacy ids silently
**narrowed** the wake set and stopped waking cards in a legacy-named
lane — caught by *"schedules when planning clears in triage"*.

**A resolved conversion must be a superset of what it replaces, or it is
a behaviour change wearing a vocabulary change's clothes.** That's the
reusable lesson here.

## Tests

- Drained with the repo's existing **`flushAsyncHandlers`** helper —
written for exactly this fire-and-forget shape — rather than loosening
any assertion.
- **The characterization test flipped, as designed.**
`workflow-scheduler-parked-columns-live-e2e.pg.test.ts` asserted *"a
dependent in a RENAMED hold column is NEVER unblocked"*, with its author
noting: *"expected to flip to null the moment the resolver is fixed —
and that flip is the whole point of writing it down."* It flipped.
Inverted to a REGRESSION case so the assertion holds the fix rather than
the defect; it now matches its own CONTROL arm, which still guards
against a vacuous pass.

## Verification

- 21 scheduler suites — **361 green**, including the live PostgreSQL e2e
- **`pnpm test:gate` green**; eslint and `tsc` clean
- Changeset added; `check:changesets` passes

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

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2026-07-31 05:41:16 -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.

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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.

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2026-07-31 05:15:14 -07:00