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gsxdsm
dcf9900d61 test(engine): live-PG differential between resolvePlannerLanes and its async twin (#2791)
## What

One new live-PostgreSQL E2E suite, 5 tests. **No production file is
touched** — evidence, per the E2E worker's remit. Follows #2789 (same
defect class, different site).


`packages/engine/src/__tests__/workflow-planner-lanes-sync-vs-async-live-e2e.pg.test.ts`

## The finding

`replan-target.ts` exports two functions with identical logic and
identical fallbacks, differing only in how they obtain the task's IR:

```
resolvePlannerLanes(store, taskId)              -> store.resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync(taskId)
resolvePlannerLanesForTaskAsync(store, taskId)  -> await resolveWorkflowIrForTask(store, taskId)
```

Under PostgreSQL the sync selection reader answers `undefined` for every
task, so the sync twin resolves the **default** workflow for every card
regardless of the board it is on. **Nine production call sites use it**
(2 × `executor.ts`, 7 × `triage.ts`); one uses the async twin.

The module's own doc comment argues this, and the store-level fact is
proven in `sync-workflow-ir-is-always-default.pg.test.ts`. What had no
executable evidence is the consequence **at this seam** against a real
store with a real persisted workflow. That is this file — a pure
differential: both twins, same store, same task, same call.

### Two harms, different severity

1. **Wrong lanes, labelled authoritative.** `resolvedFromWorkflow`
exists to tell a caller "these came from the workflow, not the
fallback". The sync twin sets it `true` — an IR did come back — while
handing over the default board's ids. A caller that correctly checks the
flag before trusting the lanes is misled *precisely by checking it*,
which is strictly worse than the honest `false` an unresolvable store
would give.
2. **Invented forward lanes.** `wip`/`review`/`complete` are optional so
a caller *refuses* rather than moving a card into a column the board
does not declare (PR #2628's review). The sync twin defeats that
contract without touching it: never having seen the real board, it
reports the default board's forward lanes as present. The optionality is
intact in the type and unreachable in practice. The sharpest arm: a
board declaring **no** review lane gets `undefined` from the async twin
and `"in-review"` from the sync twin.

### A correction worth carrying forward

"It falls back to the legacy lanes" is the wrong mental model **twice
over**. `LEGACY_PLANNER_LANES` (`hold: "todo", intake: "triage"`) is
reached only when no IR resolves at all — under PostgreSQL, never. What
a caller actually receives is the **post-U11 merged default**, whose
intake and hold are one `todo` lane. So the sync twin does not return
`triage` for intake; it returns `todo`, and a caller reading `intake`
gets not merely a wrong id but a lane that is not a dedicated intake at
all.

This is also why the control arm uses `MERGED_VOCAB`: the shape the
twins agree on is the merged one. `DEFAULT_VOCAB`, which splits intake
out as `triage`, already separates them.

## Evidence discipline

- **Observed state.** These are exported pure functions over a live
store; the observation is their return value against a persisted
workflow definition. No spies, no mock IR anywhere in the file. Contrast
the unit coverage in `planner-lanes-async-resolution.test.ts`, which
must supply a mock `resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync` and therefore cannot see
this divergence at all.
- **Control arm.** On the post-U11 default shape the twins agree exactly
— which is why this survived: every default-board test passes and only a
renamed board separates them.
- **Characterization, not endorsement.** The four renamed arms assert
the wrong-but-current values deliberately; they flip when the call sites
move to the async twin, and that flip is the point.

### Mutation-verified, including a round that found weak arms

Replacing the sync twin's whole body with `return LEGACY_PLANNER_LANES`:

| | arms failing |
|---|---|
| first draft | **3 of 5** |
| after strengthening | **5 of 5** |

Two arms originally asserted only `wip`/`review`/`complete`, which are
identical in the merged default IR and in `LEGACY_PLANNER_LANES` — so
they proved the lanes were wrong without proving *why*, and survived the
mutation. Each now also pins `intake` (`todo` merged vs `triage`
legacy), the single field that separates "resolved the wrong board" from
"took the fallback". Recorded in the file next to the assertions.

## Not done, and why

**No fix.** The async twin already exists and is documented as a drop-in
("identical logic and identical fallbacks — the ONLY difference is
awaiting the authoritative resolver"), so the migration is mechanical
*where the caller is already async*. It is not universally so: several
`triage.ts` sites are inside synchronous paths, and `triage.ts:831`
calls `resolvePlannerLanes(this.store, "")` with an empty task id — a
sweep-wide lane read that has no single task to resolve against and
needs a decision, not a mechanical swap. Both are behaviour calls in
files another worker owns; flagging, not smuggling.

## Verification

- new suite — **5/5 passed**, mutation-verified 5/5
- full live-PG E2E surface, 20 suites — **126/126 passed** (was 121/121)
- `pnpm lint` — clean
- `pnpm check:lifecycle-columns` — exit 0

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

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Tests**
* Added end-to-end coverage comparing synchronous and asynchronous
workflow lane resolution.
* Validated lane consistency for renamed, non-default, and custom boards
using persisted workflow data.
* Added checks for incorrect fallback lanes, workflow resolution
indicators, and absent review lanes.

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gsxdsm
87442b9664 test(engine): live-PG evidence that declared custom fields cannot be written (#2792)
## What

One new live-PostgreSQL E2E suite, 4 tests. **No production file is
touched** — evidence, per the E2E worker's remit. Third in the series
after #2789 and #2791; same root cause, materially worse consequence.


`packages/engine/src/__tests__/workflow-custom-fields-sync-resolution-live-e2e.pg.test.ts`

## The finding

**A workflow that declares custom fields cannot have any of them
written.**

`TaskStore.resolveTaskCustomFieldDefsSync` reads a task's field
definitions through `store.resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync`, which under
PostgreSQL answers `undefined` for every task and therefore resolves the
**default** workflow IR. The default declares no `fields`, so the
function returns `[]` for every task on every board. `task-update.ts`
validates every write against that empty list:

```ts
const defs = store.resolveTaskCustomFieldDefsSync(id);
const result = validateCustomFieldPatch(defs, updates.customFields);
if (!result.ok) throw new CustomFieldRejectionError(result.rejection);
```

Observed against a real store with a real persisted workflow declaring
one `text` field:

```
STORED fields = [{"id":"risk","name":"Risk","type":"text"}]
SYNC   defs   = []
WRITE  threw  = CustomFieldRejectionError
                custom field 'risk' rejected (no-fields-defined):
                the resolved workflow declares no custom fields; no values may be written
```

The rejection message is a true statement about the workflow that got
resolved and a false one about the workflow the card is on.

### The two halves of the feature disagree in production

The executor resolves the same definitions through the **async**
resolver (`executor.ts` → `resolveTaskCustomFieldDefs` →
`resolveWorkflowIrForTask`) and sees the real field. So an agent can be
prompted to supply a value that the store will then refuse to store. The
last case asserts both answers against **one store, one task, one
workflow** — which is why this cannot be dismissed as a fixture
artefact.

This is a different severity from the previous two PRs in the series.
#2789 and #2791 are wrong-lane defects, mostly latency, one of them
unbounded. This one is a declared feature that does not function off the
default board.

## Scope on record

Three write paths share the sync resolver: `task-update.ts` (driven
here), `workflow-task-create-ops.ts:394`, and `workflow-ops.ts:488`.
Only the first is exercised; the other two are named in the file so the
surface is recorded rather than implied.

Also worth stating plainly: because the empty list *is* the default IR's
`fields`, the same rejection is what a default-board card gets too. The
feature is not merely renamed-board-broken.

## Evidence discipline

- **Fixture integrity first.** The opening case asserts the stored
workflow really does declare the field via the async resolver. Every
other assertion is about a *missing* definition and would pass just as
well against a workflow that never declared one — that case is what
makes the rest mean something.
- **Observed state.** The thrown typed rejection plus the **absence** of
a persisted value on a re-read row. No spy on the validator.
- **Mutation-verified.** Replacing the sync resolver's body with a
hardcoded `[{id:"risk",…}]` fails **3 of 4** arms. The fourth is the
fixture-integrity case, which exercises the async path by design and
correctly survives.

## Not done, and why

**No fix.** The async resolver already exists and is already used by the
executor for the same data, so the shape of the fix is clear — but
`task-update.ts`'s validation runs inside a synchronous update path, and
making it async is a behaviour decision in `@fusion/core` that belongs
to that file's owner, not to a smuggled edit in an evidence PR. The
call-site allow-list entry for `task-store-helpers.ts` ("Synchronous
helper shared by txn-hot paths") should cite this suite either way: the
entry is accurate about the constraint and silent about the cost.

## Verification

- new suite — **4/4 passed**, mutation-verified 3/4 (fourth by design)
- full live-PG E2E surface, 20 suites — **125/125 passed** (121 on main
+ 4)
- `pnpm lint` — clean

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

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2026-07-30 10:32:12 -07:00
gsxdsm
755ada91ac test(engine): live-PG evidence that the terminal-node guard fires on the wrong node (#2793)
## What

One new live-PostgreSQL E2E suite, 3 tests. **No production file is
touched** — evidence, per the E2E worker's remit. Fourth in the series
after #2789 (scheduler), #2791 (planner lanes), #2792 (custom fields).


`packages/engine/src/__tests__/workflow-terminal-node-sync-resolution-live-e2e.pg.test.ts`

## The finding

FN-7641 Signature 2 exists because setting `nodeId` to the terminal node
used to be written verbatim and silently do nothing — the card sat in
review with every step done, unadvanced and unexplained. The contract: a
terminal override **with** durable merge proof finalizes the card;
**without** proof it is rejected with an actionable error; non-terminal
overrides are untouched.

On a board whose terminal node is not called `end`, **both halves
invert**:

| write | contract says | actually observed |
|---|---|---|
| `nodeId: "end"` — an ordinary planning node here | written, untouched
| **rejected** with a merge-proof error about finalizing a card the
operator was not finalizing |
| `nodeId: "finish"` — this board's real `end`-kind node | finalize, or
reject | **written verbatim**, no error, card left in review |

The second row is the original FN-7641 bug, restored on every custom
board.

## The correction the mutation runs forced

My first draft blamed `isTaskTerminalNodeIdImpl`'s sync IR resolution
alone. Mutating it changed only one of the two cases, which is how I
found there are **two** guards:

```
branch-and-pr-entities.ts:568   validateNodeOverrideChange(task, nodeId, { isTerminalNodeId })
                                -> sync IR resolution (the default board, under PostgreSQL)
task-update.ts:53               validateNodeOverrideChange(task, nodeId)
                                -> NO options, so `defaultIsTerminalNodeId` — the bare literal
                                   `nodeId === "end"`
```

The inner one is an unconverted literal sitting behind a converted call
site, and it silently overrides it. **Converting the outer guard alone
changes nothing an operator can see.** A column census cannot find the
inner one either — `end` is a node id, not a column. This is the "a
guard survives in a branch of the same function" shape, one function
apart.

### Mutation matrix

| corrected | `end` rejected | `finish` silent |
|---|---|---|
| *(nothing — main)* | pass | pass |
| outer sync-IR guard only | pass | **fail** |
| inner `defaultIsTerminalNodeId` only | pass | **fail** |
| **both** | **fail** | **fail** |

Two different failure structures, which is why the cases are kept apart:

- **`end` rejected is over-determined** — both guards independently call
it terminal, so it survives a mutation of either one. Not a weak
assertion: a faithful record of a defect with two independent causes,
and the reason a partial fix here is invisible.
- **`finish` silent is under-determined** — both guards must miss the
id, so correcting either flips it. This is the arm that notices a
partial fix.

The fixture-integrity case exercises the async resolver by design and
correctly survives every mutation.

## Fixture

The shared builder's terminal node is `end`, so it cannot express this
shape. This file derives from it: one `lifecycleIr`, node ids shifted so
the `end`-kind node is `finish` and the non-terminal planning node takes
the name `end`. Columns, traits, edges and structure are otherwise the
builder's, so the only variable is which node ids carry which kind. The
first case asserts that shift really happened — both characterizations
are claims about which node is terminal and would read as defects if the
fixture had quietly kept the builder's ids.

## Evidence discipline

- **Observed state.** Whether `updateTask` throws, and what the re-read
row's `nodeId` and `column` actually are. No spies.
- **Characterization, not endorsement.** Both cases assert the
wrong-but-current behaviour deliberately, and the matrix above says
exactly which fix flips which.

## Not done, and why

**No fix.** It needs two coordinated edits in `@fusion/core` — threading
the resolved terminal check into `task-update.ts:53`, and making the
outer resolution async — and the second is the same synchronous-path
constraint as #2792. Both are behaviour decisions in another worker's
files. Worth flagging that fixing only the allow-listed sync site would
look like progress and deliver none, which the matrix above makes
checkable.

## Verification

- new suite — **3/3 passed**, mutation matrix above
- full live-PG E2E surface — **124/124 passed** (121 on main + 3)
- `pnpm lint` — clean

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

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2026-07-30 10:29:04 -07:00
gsxdsm
59b5e61fa2 fix(tests): the last CLI reds — import assertions still required the column U11 removed (#2788)
## What was red

All 5 failures in a full `@runfusion/fusion` run on `origin/main` (`5
failed / 1673 passed`), in `src/commands/__tests__/task.test.ts`:

```
- "column": "triage",
```

## The product change is intentional and documented

**#2603 (U11)** removed the hardcoded `column: "triage"` from the
GitHub/GitLab import writes so `createTaskImpl` resolves the
**workflow's** intake column instead. Passing `column` would override
that resolution and, post-U11, name a lane the default workflow no
longer declares.

`task.ts` still carries the note at three sites:

> `createTaskImpl` resolves the WORKFLOW'S intake column, and
`input.column` would override it. Hard-coding `"triage"` created the
card in a column the default [workflow does not declare].

Six `toHaveBeenCalledWith` assertions still required the removed
literal, so a correct product change surfaced as five CLI failures.

## Scoped deliberately

Only the **six assertion-side** occurrences are removed. The other
**16** `column: "triage"` literals in this file are mock *return* values
and `makeTask` fixtures, and they stay — what a created task comes
*back* as is a different question from what the import *asks for*, and
blanking them would weaken unrelated cases.

## Evidence

- Full CLI package: **1678 passed / 106 skipped, 125 files green** (was
5 failed).
- **Mutation:** reintroduce `column: "triage"` into the import write →
**2 failed**. The assertions still pin the invariant rather than having
been loosened into always-true — the thing worth checking when a fix is
"delete an expectation".
- Gate **732 green** · `pnpm lint` clean. Test-only (mutation reverted;
`git diff` clean).

## Ownership

`packages/cli` belongs to the **batch-cli-plugins** owner (u7) under the
mega-batch split. This is fix-forward on a red rather than a conversion,
confined to one test file, and touches no production code.

With #2779 and #2786 this leaves engine, core and CLI at **0 failures**
on main. The remaining known reds are the 123 dashboard failures
documented in #2784.

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2026-07-30 10:20:01 -07:00
gsxdsm
02d0f80068 fix(tests): update the archived-gate inventory after #2780's conversions (#2786)
## New red on main

`archived-column-gate-parity.test.ts` fails with **"TypeScript encoding
changed"** after batch-core (#2780). It is the only failure in a full
`@fusion/core` run (`1 failed / 4748 passed`).

## The conversions are right — this is their missing half

#2780 moved four files off raw `column === "archived"` comparisons onto
`isTerminalColumnRole`, exactly the intended role-based pattern:

| file | before → after |
|---|---|
| `assigned-task-ranking.ts` | 1 → 0 |
| `duplicate-intake.ts` | 1 → 0 |
| `near-duplicate-canonical.ts` | 1 → 0 |
| `store.ts` | 2 → 1 |

(The literal still in `duplicate-intake.ts` is a `moveTask`
**destination**, not a gate comparison — a different question, like the
planner-lane move targets.)

The guard's own failure text asks for the inventory to be updated **in
the same commit** as a conversion. That did not happen, so the ratchet
went red on main. This PR is only that bookkeeping.

## Verified NOT a split-brain

That is the thing this file exists to catch — TypeScript moving to the
resolved role while the SQL sides keep comparing the raw string, so on a
renamed board one says a task is archived and the others return it as
live.

The Drizzle and raw-sql inventories are **unchanged and both pass**.
Worth stating explicitly because those two assertions run *after* the
TypeScript one: a plain red tells you nothing about them, they had to be
re-run green to know.

## The guard still bites

Appending a real `task.column === "archived"` to an audited file fails
it immediately.

**Recorded because it nearly fooled me:** my first two mutation attempts
*passed*, which looked like a guard blind to new comparisons — a much
worse finding than a stale inventory. Both had been inserted at line 2
of a file whose line 1 opens a JSDoc block, so my "code" was comment
text and was never compiled. **A mutation that does not compile is not
evidence of anything.** Appended at end of file instead, the guard fails
on the first run.

Gate **732 green** · lint clean. Test-only.

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2026-07-30 10:13:55 -07:00
gsxdsm
e467d939a5 fix(tests): the last 3 engine reds — a pause guard asserted at the wrong layer (#2779)
## What was red

The final 3 failures in `executor-prompt.test.ts` ("global pause
behavior"), all the same assertion:

```ts
expect(mockedCreateFnAgent).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
```

made after calling `executor.execute(task)` **directly** on a paused
todo row.

## It is not a regression, and not a live safety hole

I initially flagged this in #2778 as a possible live hole — "a
user-paused todo task **now** reaches `createFnAgent`". **That framing
was wrong**, and the bisect is what corrected it:

| commit | result |
|---|---|
| `origin/main` (HEAD) | fail |
| `main~40` | fail |
| `main~80` | fail |
| `main~150` | fail |
| `main~250` | fail |

Red 250 commits back. It never described shipped behaviour, so nothing
regressed.

**`execute()` holds no pause gate.** Neither `executeCore` nor the
workflow-graph executor consults `paused`/`userPaused` before starting a
session — I checked both. Refusing to dispatch a parked row is the
**scheduler's** invariant, enforced twice:

1. Candidacy is keyed on both flags (`scheduler.ts:138`) — `userPaused`
is a durable operator stop even when legacy `paused` is false.
2. The row is **re-read immediately before dispatch** and refused if it
comes back parked (`scheduler.ts:2086`) — this closes the race the first
check cannot.

The test called `execute()` directly, stepping around the component that
owns the guarantee, then asserted the bypassed layer enforced it. A true
statement about the system was being made to look false.

Every protective outcome #2371 documented **does** hold and stays
asserted: `fn_task_done` never completes the card, it is never handed to
`in-review`, no completion watchdog is armed, the pause is never
cleared, and the run narrates the benign paused park. Only *"no session
was created"* was false. The 3 sibling assertions in `resumeOrphaned`
are untouched — that path genuinely does refuse.

## The invariant moves to the layer that owns it

Rather than delete an assertion and lose the coverage,
`scheduler-paused-dispatch-refusal.test.ts` pins it through real
`schedule()` passes:

- **control** — an unparked ready card IS dispatched
- refuses a row parked with legacy `paused`
- refuses a row parked with `userPaused` alone
- refuses when the operator pauses **after selection, before dispatch**

Driven through `schedule()` rather than by calling the predicate
directly: a test that calls the guard cannot tell whether the dispatch
path still *consults* it — which is precisely how the executor-prompt
version came to assert a layer that had stopped being asked.

## The control earned its place on the first run

It failed immediately, and twice over: the hold-release gate refuses a
card still carrying a bootstrap seed (fixed with the shared
`seedPlannedSpec`), and a `moveTaskIf` stub returning `moved: false`
makes the release unobservable. Without the control, all three refusals
would have passed **vacuously** — a scheduler that dispatches nothing
refuses everything.

## Evidence

- **106/106** across both files.
- **Mutation:** removing the pre-dispatch pause re-read → the race case
fails. The other two are caught earlier by candidacy (defence in depth);
the passing control makes their refusal attributable to the flag alone,
since the same store dispatches without it.
- Gate **732 green** · lint clean · engine `tsc --noEmit` **0 errors**.
Test-only (the scheduler mutation was reverted; `git diff` clean).

## Engine suite status

Measured baseline on `origin/main`: **39 failures / 10835 passed**. With
#2776 (32, notifier harness) and #2778 (4), this last set takes the
engine suite to **0 failures**.

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gsxdsm
145c022af4 test(engine): live-PG evidence that the scheduler's sync parked-column read is inert (#2789)
## What

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


`packages/engine/src/__tests__/workflow-scheduler-parked-columns-live-e2e.pg.test.ts`
(2 tests)

## The finding

`scheduler.ts`'s `resolveTaskParkedColumnsSync` resolves a task's
hold/intake columns through `store.resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync`. Under
PostgreSQL that reader answers `undefined` for **every** task, so the
resolver returns the **default** IR and the function yields `{ hold:
"todo", intake: "triage" }` on every board — byte-identical to the
literals it was converted away from. It is an **inert conversion**, and
it is currently allow-listed
(`sync-workflow-ir-callsite-allowlist.test.ts`) on the grounds that
these handlers are synchronous.

Five call sites read it. Four groups of handler fail as **latency** — a
wake that does not fire costs up to one poll interval, which is why the
class hid. The `task:deleted` dependency reconciliation is different: it
queries `listTasks({ column: hold })` **and** re-checks
`dependent.column === hold` before clearing `blockedBy`. On a renamed
board both tests are against `"todo"`, a column that board does not
contain, so **a dependent parked in the renamed hold column is never
unblocked and waits forever on a blocker that is already gone.**
Persisted, operator-visible, unbounded.

### It contradicts a passing unit test

`scheduler-renamed-hold-events.test.ts` asserts the opposite and passes,
because its mock supplies `resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync: vi.fn(() =>
renamedIr())` — an answer the real store provably never gives. That test
is not wrong about the *scheduler* (given a working resolver the
handlers do resolve the renamed lane); it is wrong about the *resolver*.
Flagging rather than editing it: it is still the right unit test for its
own subject, and it is not my file.

### The mechanism is not the one the code reads like

The obvious reading blames the fail-soft `?? "todo"`. It is **not** that
— `lifecycle` is never nullish, a real default IR comes back and real
traits resolve off it, so both `??` arms are dead in production.
Established by mutation, not by reading:

| mutation to `resolveTaskParkedColumnsSync` | control arm | renamed arm
|
|---|---|---|
| *(none — main)* | unblocks ✅ | never unblocks ✅ |
| both `??` fallbacks → renamed vocabulary | unblocks (unchanged) |
never unblocks (unchanged) → **dead branch** |
| returned object → renamed pair | fails | fails → **both arms decided
here** |

This is the sharpest form of the defect class: the site resolves an IR
and reads a trait off it, so it looks converted at every level except
the one that decides the answer.

## Evidence discipline

- **Observed state, not spies.** Each arm asserts the dependent's
persisted `blockedBy` after a real soft-delete on a real store with real
stored workflow definitions.
- **The negative is self-validating.** The handler's work is
fire-and-forget, so observing it needs a bounded wait — and a bounded
wait proving a negative is normally worthless. The default-vocabulary
arm is the control: same store, same window, and it *does* unblock (297
ms against a 2 000 ms window). If this ever flakes the control fails
first; the fix is the quarantine ledger, never a larger number.
- **Differential.** Both boards come from the one shared vocabulary
builder and differ only in their column ids.
- The renamed arm is a **characterization** test — it asserts the
wrong-but-current behaviour deliberately, and is expected to flip when
the read is fixed.

## Two fixture traps found on the way (both would have made this
vacuous)

1. `updateTask({ column })` is not a column move — `column` is not in
the update payload, so it typechecks as an unknown key and leaves the
card where it was. Use `moveTask`.
2. **Order matters.** Writing the blocked state *after* placing the card
re-homes it to the intake column (observed `todo -> triage`), and the
reconciliation re-checks `dependent.column === hold` — so the control
fails for a fixture reason that looks exactly like the defect. Block
first, then place. Both are written down in the file.

## Not done, and why

**No fix.** The honest fix is to make the read async, and that is not
free: these run inside synchronous `task:moved` / `task:updated`
listeners, where an added `await` defers the rest of the handler to a
microtask and reorders handlers against a synchronous emitter. That is a
behaviour decision in a file another worker owns, so it belongs to
whoever owns `scheduler.ts` — not to a smuggled edit in an evidence PR.
The allow-list entry should cite this suite either way.

## Verification

- `workflow-scheduler-parked-columns-live-e2e.pg.test.ts` — **2/2
passed**, mutation-verified in both directions (table above)
- full live-PG E2E surface, 19 suites — **121/121 passed** (was 119/119)
- `pnpm lint` — clean
- `pnpm check:lifecycle-columns` — exit 0

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

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gsxdsm
31b9fafe11 fix(tests): the last core red — assert the funnel COUNTS the move, not which stage owns it (#2781)
## What was red

A full `@fusion/core` run on `origin/main` reports **1 failed / 4700
passed**. This is that one: the SDLC funnel case in
`agent-logs-and-monitor.pg.test.ts`.

```ts
expect(result.funnel.stages.find(({ stage }) => stage === "todo")?.entered).toBe(2);
// expected 2, received 0
```

## The move is not lost

Post-U11 the default Planning column is **one** column carrying
`["intake","hold","reset-on-entry"]`. `stageForTraits` prefers the
earliest stage in flow order, so `intake` wins and a move to `todo` is
attributed to the **`triage`** stage. Analytics is working correctly;
the column vocabulary underneath it merged.

## Why not just re-point the assertion

Which stage the merged Planning column *should* report is an open
product question — I flagged it on #2669 while adding the `hold`
mapping, and it is visible to users: **the funnel shows a phantom 100%
drop between Triage and Todo on every default board since U11.**

- Re-pointing the **test** at `"triage"` quietly blesses the phantom
drop.
- Re-pointing the **mapping** retroactively changes how historical
analytics read — not a reversible call.

Neither belongs in a change whose job is clearing a red.

So the assertion now pins what is true under **either** resolution: both
moves are counted exactly once, in the single pre-implementation stage
the Planning column resolves to. When #2669 is decided, this test does
not need rewriting.

## Evidence

**6/6 passed.** Mutation-proved for the failure that actually matters:

| mutation | result |
|---|---|
| unmap every pre-implementation trait (move falls to `OTHER`) |
**fails** — `expected +0 to be 2` |
| unmap `intake` alone (attribution shifts triage → todo) | **passes, by
design** — that is the open question, not a defect |

The second row is the point of the rewrite: the test is indifferent to
the unsettled question and strict about the invariant. It still catches
a dropped, double-counted, or split move.

Gate **732 green** · lint clean. Test-only — no production file touched
(the mutations above were reverted; `git diff` clean).

## Ownership

`packages/core` belongs to the **batch-core** owner under the mega-batch
split. This is fix-forward on a red rather than a conversion, so it is
deliberately confined to one assertion in one test file and touches no
production code — it should not conflict with the batch.

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2026-07-30 09:46:55 -07:00
gsxdsm
698bded476 fix(tests): 4 engine reds on main — each was green for a reason the fleet removed (#2778)
## Context

A full `@fusion/engine` run on `origin/main` (`9b61d795c9`) reports **39
failures / 10835 passed**. 32 are the notifier harness, fixed in #2776.
This PR takes 4 of the remaining 7.

All three files share one shape: **each case was passing off something
the lifecycle conversions have since correctly taken away.** In every
one, the product is fine and a good change landed as a red test.

---

### 1. `executor-graph-failure-lanes-resolved.ts` — an equality that
fails on its own fix

The guard forbids resolving a lifecycle *guard* through the synchronous
`resolvePlannerLanes` (a no-op under the shipped PostgreSQL backend, so
the census counts the site as converted while it behaves like the
literal). It asserted `expect(callSites).toBe(3)`.

#2764 converted the promotion-path site to
`resolvePlannerLanesForTaskAsync` — exactly the direction this guard
wants. Count went **3 → 2** and the assertion failed.

The guard's own comment states the invariant as *"Any FOURTH is a new
sync resolution"* — one-directional. Coded as equality, it fails on
removal, which is the change it exists to encourage. Now
`toBeLessThanOrEqual(2)`.

**Mutation:** adding a third sync call site → `expected 3 to be less
than or equal to 2`. Still load-bearing.

### 2. `restart.integration.test.ts` — a fixture matching a fallback
constant

`recoverCompletedTask` re-homes intake → hold → wip only when the origin
is the board's **intake** lane; otherwise it hands straight to review.
The failure showed the 1st move as `in-review` with no re-home.

Nothing regressed. The fixture put the card in `triage` and resolved
lanes through the sync resolver, so it fell through to
`LEGACY_PLANNER_LANES` — where `intake` is literally `"triage"`. **It
was matching a hardcoded fallback, not a declared lane.** #2764 made the
site await the real resolver; the mock selects `builtin:coding`, and
**U11 merged intake and hold onto one Planning column (`todo`)**, so
`triage` is not a lane on that board and the two-hop correctly
collapses.

The invariant the test is named for — completed work in a distinct
intake lane is re-homed along a legal path, not moved intake → review,
which role adjacency rejects — is still real. So the fixture now
**declares** a board with intake separate from hold, the only shape
where the two-hop is reachable.

**Mutation:** removing the re-home hop from the product → fails with the
expected `todo` first-move. Load-bearing.

### 3. `executor-abort-provenance.test.ts` — a call one argument short

Both provenance cases returned `false` for a clean completed in-review
row. This reads as an FN-6796 regression stranding rows that are already
handed off for review.

It is not. #2703 added a 7th `reviewLane` parameter so the lane is
resolved by the caller. **The call goes through `as any`, so the missing
argument was not a type error** — it arrived `undefined`, `live.column
!== reviewLane` held for every row, and the classifier answered false
for everything.

Passed explicitly rather than defaulted inside the classifier: a default
would restore the literal the parameter exists to remove. Added a
**differential** — a card resting in a *renamed* review lane classifies
the same, a mismatched one does not — so the parameter cannot be
re-literalized while still looking converted.

**Mutation:** `live.column !== "in-review"` → the differential fails.
The other cases pass, which is precisely why it was worth adding.

---

## Evidence

| file | result |
|---|---|
| `executor-graph-failure-lanes-resolved` | **24 passed** |
| `restart.integration` | **48 passed** |
| `executor-abort-provenance` | **16 passed** |

Gate **732 green** · `pnpm lint` clean · engine `tsc --noEmit` **0
errors**. Test-only — no product file is touched by this PR (the
mutations above were run and reverted; `git diff` confirms clean).

## Deliberately NOT fixed here

3 cases in `executor-prompt.test.ts` ("global pause behavior") remain
red on main: **a user-paused todo task now reaches `createFnAgent`**.
That is a safety invariant rather than a stale fixture, and neither
`executeCore` nor the graph executor holds a pause gate — the refusal
#2371 documented is not where its note implies. It gets its own change;
editing the fixture to match current behaviour would hide it.

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2026-07-30 09:40:49 -07:00
gsxdsm
9da2674fa0 fix(tests): 2 TaskCard reds — the assertions pinned a jsdom detail, not the CSS (#2782)
## What was red

Both failures in the dashboard `app:components-b` lane. **Neither is a
style regression** — the CSS is byte-unchanged and correct in both
cases.

## Root cause: a jsdom upgrade, not a CSS change

jsdom does not substitute `var()`. What it does *instead* changed under
us in **4819c2634 (jsdom 27.4.0 → 29.1.1)**:

| | jsdom 27 | jsdom 29 |
|---|---|---|
| unresolvable shorthand (`padding`) | echoes raw text `var(--space-xs)
var(--space-sm)` | computes to `"0"` |
| single-value longhand (`gap`) | echoes | still echoes |

Tests asserting the **echoed string** were pinning a jsdom
implementation detail. The bump turned them red with nothing changed in
the product.

### 1. `renders a promote action when onPromote is provided`

`expected 'var(--space-xs) var(--space-sm)', received '0'`.
`.card-promote-action` still declares exactly that padding
(`TaskCard.css:1129`).

### 2. `FN-4511 keeps GitHub badge and timer chip geometry in parity`

`expected '1px' to be 'medium'`. The chips **are** in parity:

- badge: `border: 1px solid transparent`
- timer chip: `border: var(--btn-border-width) solid transparent`
- `--btn-border-width: 1px` (`styles.css:183`)

Here jsdom **discards** the unresolvable width rather than echoing it,
so `borderTopWidth` falls back to the initial value `medium`. The
existing `|| "1px"` fallbacks could not save it — `medium` is a
non-empty string, so it was the fallback that never ran, not the value
that was missing.

## The fix

Both assertions now read the **declared** value from the mounted
stylesheet's CSSOM and resolve a single `var()` against `:root`. That is
stable across jsdom versions and is what the assertions always meant.

Via the CSSOM rather than a regex over the CSS text **on purpose**: a
hand-rolled matcher over grouped selectors silently matches the wrong
rule and still reports success. Everything jsdom *can* resolve
(font-size, line-height, gap, padding parity) stays asserted against
computed style.

## Evidence

`components-b`: **1688/1688** (was 2 failed). Mutation-proved — both
fail as they should:

| mutation | result |
|---|---|
| timer chip border `1px → 2px` | `expected '2px' to be '1px'` |
| promote padding tokens changed | `expected 'var(--space-sm)
var(--space-lg)' to be 'var(--space-xs) var(--space-sm)'` |

**My first border mutation passed**, which would have read as a vacuous
guard. It had patched the wrong one of five identical `border:
var(--btn-border-width)` lines in the file. Re-run against
`TaskCard.css:1094` it fails correctly. Recorded because the mutation,
not the guard, was the thing that was wrong — a passing mutation is a
claim that needs checking too.

`pnpm lint` clean. Test-only — no production file or CSS touched
(mutations reverted; `git diff` clean).

## Ownership

`packages/dashboard/app` belongs to the **batch-dashboard-app** owner
(u12) under the mega-batch split. This is fix-forward on a red rather
than a conversion, confined to one test file, and touches no production
code — it should not conflict with the batch.

## Not fixed here

The `app:app` lane has **10 pre-existing failures** in `App.test.tsx`
(deep-link handling, board branch filters, FN-5817 mobile shell). They
were masked by this lane failing first — the runner skips remaining
lanes after the first failure, so they only became visible once
components-b went green. Separate change.

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2026-07-30 09:34:42 -07:00
gsxdsm
c643d62e85 fix(executor): wipDeclared must ask ALL six lifecycle roles, not two (#2777)
## What this fixes

`resolveResumeLanes` returns `wipDeclared`, which gates whether
`routeGraphFailureToExecutionResume` may route a graph failure back into
execution resume. Getting it wrong terminalizes tasks on boards that
should resume.

Two prior versions were wrong, both caught in review rather than by me
at write time:

**1. Two-state (`lifecycle?.wip !== undefined`)** — greptile P1 on
#2760. A v1-upgraded board terminalizes: `synthesizeDefaultColumns`
emits `{ id, name: id, traits: [] }`, so *every* role resolves
`undefined` even though those columns literally are the legacy lanes.
Verified by parsing a real v1 IR.

**2. Proxying "synthesized" as "hold and review are both undefined"** —
my own fix for (1), and also wrong. I caught this against #2765 rather
than shipping it. A **v2** board that declares only `intake` +
`complete` has hold and review undefined too, so it would be misread as
synthesized and treated as declaring wip when it deliberately does not.

The failure mode both versions share: reading a *sample* of the roles
and treating the answer as a verdict about the whole IR. #2765 says it
directly — an empty result has two meanings, and you cannot tell them
apart from a subset.

## The rule

```ts
wipDeclared: lifecycle?.wip !== undefined || !declaresAnyLifecycleRole(lifecycle),
```

Three states, asking all six roles:

- **wip declared** → true, the board says so.
- **some role declared but not wip** → false. A v2 board that omits wip
means it; do not resume into a lane it did not define.
- **no role declared at all** → true. That is the
synthesized/v1-upgraded shape, whose columns *are* the legacy lanes; the
pre-existing behaviour is correct there and must not regress.

`declaresAnyLifecycleRole` iterates `Object.values(lifecycle)` rather
than naming roles, so a seventh role added later is included
automatically instead of silently falling into the wrong branch.

## Evidence

- `executor-resume-lanes-resolved.test.ts`: **7 passed**, +23 lines
covering the v1-synthesized board and the declares-some-but-not-wip
board.
- **Mutation:** restoring the naive two-state rule → **1 failed / 6
passed**. The added coverage is load-bearing and pins exactly the
regression greptile caught.
- Gate **732 green** · `pnpm lint` clean · engine `tsc --noEmit` **0
errors**.
- Rebased on current main.

## Scope

`executor.ts` (+22) and its test (+23). One predicate; no other behavior
touched.

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gsxdsm
8c9b84ae38 batch-core: packages/core + dashboard/src lifecycle conversion (129 → 92) (#2780)
## batch-core — `packages/core` + `packages/dashboard/src`

Shared branch: two workers are converting into it. Opening the PR
because the branch was green with none, and a branch without a PR merges
nothing.

### Census

Measured with `node scripts/lifecycle-column-census.mjs --json`.

| | guards |
|---|---|
| batch-core scope at branch point | 129 |
| batch-core scope now | **92** (51 files) |
| repo total now | 358 |

Files closed so far: `store.ts` 11→0, `task-merge.ts` 6→0,
`live-agent-count.ts` 6→0 (marked, not converted — see #2762),
`task-update.ts` 3→0, display-ordering + Wake Delta ranking 5→0,
`register-git-github.ts` 4→0.

### The `register-git-github.ts` slice

Three PR routes — `pr/create`, `pr/push-branch`, `pr/resolve-conflicts`
— plus the `CHANGES_REQUESTED` handler each compared `task.column !==
"in-review"`. On a renamed board **none** of them matched, so every PR
affordance the dashboard offers was refused for a card sitting in the
lane that board calls review, and the refusal named a column that does
not exist there.

All four now share one helper, `reviewColumnsForTask`, which gets two
things right that this program has repeatedly gotten wrong:

- **Membership, not a single id.** It takes the broad review set
(`mergeOrchestration ∪ mergeBlocker ∪ humanReview`).
`resolveLifecycleColumns` returns the *first* column per trait, so a
single-id answer silently ignores a board that declares a merge lane
**and** a separate human sign-off lane. These guards only refuse or
permit — they never move the card — so over-admitting costs nothing
while under-admitting refuses a request that should have worked.
- **An empty resolved set means UNEXPRESSED, not absent.**
`synthesizeDefaultColumns` upgrades a v1 graph by emitting every default
column with `traits: []`, so a v1-upgraded workflow resolves to an empty
review set while its `in-review` column plainly exists and holds the
card. Reading empty as "this board has no review lane" would refuse
these routes on **every pre-v2 project** — a worse regression than the
one being fixed, and invisible to any v2 test.

This is the dashboard twin of the `fn pr create` guard in
`packages/cli/src/commands/pr.ts` (#2775). The two surfaces answer the
same question and now agree — FN-5893 surface enumeration.

### Testing note: why the seam and not the routes

I wrote route-level HTTP tests first and **deleted them**. An express
fixture over `registerGitGitHubRoutes` hangs — every case, including the
pure refusals, times out at 4s, because registering the router starts
background work the fixture never satisfies. Making it run would mean
mocking git, the GitHub client, and the pollers: a mock-the-world shell,
which is what the project's do-not-add-slow-tests rule (FN-5048) says to
avoid in favour of a narrow seam.

`reviewColumnsForTask` *is* the narrow seam — it holds the entire
decision, and the four call sites now do nothing but ask it and render
its answer. Six cases pin it: the renamed lane is returned and
`in-review` is not, a two-lane board returns both, a v1-upgraded board
falls back, an unresolvable workflow falls back, and the refusal renders
lanes an operator can act on.

**Mutation-verified, both directions:** reverting the helper to the
legacy literal fails 2 of 6; treating an empty set as an answer fails 1
of 6.

One fixture bug worth recording, since it would have made the two-lane
case vacuous: the trait id is kebab-case `human-review`, not
`humanReview`, and the built-in traits must be registered via `import
"@fusion/core"` before flags resolve.

### Verification

- `pnpm --filter @fusion/dashboard exec tsc --noEmit -p tsconfig.json` →
0 errors
- `pnpm lint` → 0 errors
- `register-git-github.review-lanes.test.ts` → 6 passed

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gsxdsm
b42b40aa48 fix: make flushAsyncWork actually drain — clears 32 notifier failures on main (#2776)
## Red on main, fix-forward

batch-engine (#2773) left 32 failing cases on main:
`notifier.runtime.test.ts` (19) and `notifier.test.ts` (13), all
`expected "vi.fn()" to be called 1 times, but got 0 times`.

## The failure is in the harness, not the notifier

`notifier.ts` is untouched by #2773.
`notification/notification-service.ts` was converted, and
`handleTaskMoved` is fire-and-forget (`void
this.handleTaskMovedAsync(data)`). The async path now awaits
`resolveLifecycleColumnsForTask` and then `resolveReviewColumnsForTask`
(which awaits `resolveWorkflowIrForTask`) — several more await hops
after `store.emit(...)` returns.

The harness had no slack to absorb them:

```ts
export async function flushAsyncWork(): Promise<void> {
  await vi.waitFor(() => { expect(true).toBe(true); });
}
```

The condition is true on the first tick, so `waitFor` resolves
immediately. **It never waited for anything.** It worked only while the
handler completed within a single turn — and it reported the resulting
breakage as a notifier defect rather than as its own.

Another entry in the recurring pattern this program keeps hitting: a
cheap check that reads as authoritative. A `waitFor` looks like
synchronization at the call site; this one was a no-op.

## Evidence

| run | result |
|---|---|
| before | 32 failed / 68 passed (100) |
| after | **100 passed (100)**, 3.25s |
| after, mutated back to a single `await Promise.resolve()` | 32 failed
/ 68 passed — the same 32 |

The mutation run is the point: the fix is load-bearing, not a
coincidence of timing.

Gate 732 green · `pnpm lint` clean · engine `tsc --noEmit` clean.

## Reversible decision, noted: microtasks only

A `setTimeout(0)` drain also turns all 100 green, and it was my first
version. Rejected on measurement:

- it costs real wall-clock at every call site — the two files went **~2s
→ over 2 minutes**;
- it **stalls under the fake timers** `notifier.test.ts` installs (lines
355/381/589), where a pending `setTimeout` never fires — 4 cases hung.

The awaits being drained are promise-based (workflow-IR resolution), so
microtask turns are the right currency, they work identically under real
and fake timers, and they cost nothing. Per AGENTS.md *"Do Not Add Slow
Tests"* — prefer fake timers over real time waits.

16 turns is slack, not a tuned number; the chain is ~4 deep today.

## Scope

One test-harness file. No product code, no behavior change. Tests
asserting a specific outcome should still prefer `vi.waitFor` on *that
outcome* — this helper covers the "let the fire-and-forget handler
finish" case, and now actually does it.

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2026-07-30 09:25:21 -07:00
gsxdsm
c428eed9d7 fix(test): two dashboard-api reds — conversions changed the log CHANNEL and the error MESSAGE (#2774)
Both red on main. `api:curated` goes **2 failed → 34 files / 1599
passed**. Neither is a product defect — both are conversions the tests
had not followed.

## 1. The log channel moved

`sse.test.ts` spied `console.log`. `sseDebug` routes through
`createLogger("sse").debug` (`sse.ts:50-53`), and the shared logger
writes debug lines to **`console.error`** carrying a `\0fnlvl=info\0`
severity marker — that is the point of FN-8603's adapter.

So the spy saw nothing, and the failure read `expected false to be
true`, naming neither the channel nor the logger. The stderr in the run
output showed the lines being emitted the whole time:

```
fnlvl=info [sse] [sse] + connection (active=1, hwm=2)
fnlvl=info [sse] [sse] - connection (active=0)
```

## 2. The error message is now built from resolved lanes

`routes-tasks` asserted the substring `"in-review or in-progress"`. The
message is now:

```ts
const allowed = [...prFeedbackReviewColumns, prFeedbackWipColumn]
  .map((column) => `'${column}'`).join(" or ");
throw badRequest(`PR feedback can only be addressed for tasks in ${allowed}`);
```

so it reads `'in-review' or 'in-progress'` — quoted, and derived from
the resolved columns.

**Asserted each lane separately rather than re-pinning the joined
string.** The join order and separator are presentation; the lanes being
the resolved review + wip columns is the fact this case owns. Re-pinning
the punctuation would break again on the next formatting change *and*
would not have caught a wrong lane — which is the failure this test
exists to catch on a renamed board.

## Verification

| check | result |
|---|---|
| `test:quality:api:curated` | 2 failed → **34 files / 1599 passed** |
| `sse.test.ts` | **24 passed** |
| `routes-tasks.test.ts` | **99 passed** |
| `pnpm lint`, dashboard `tsc` | clean |

## Scope

Fix-forward only, per the u9 lane. Found by re-scanning the packages
after #2739 / #2744 / #2754 merged, rather than by waiting for a report.

For the record on the other groups at the same commit: `components-a`
**1195 passed**, core is **2 failed** — both already accounted for
(`archived-column-gate-parity` is #2768's target,
`agent-logs-and-monitor.pg` is the deferred funnel/analytics decision on
#2669).
2026-07-30 09:22:05 -07:00
gsxdsm
1fb53f9924 docs(scheduler): the task:moved arms are blocked by a synchronous prologue — measured, and deliberately left counted (#2771)
## No behaviour change, and deliberately **no markers**

The ten `from`/`to` comparisons in `scheduler.ts`'s `task:moved` handler
stay **counted** in the census. They are genuinely wrong on a renamed
board — real backlog. Marking them `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` would claim
*"reviewed, correct"* when the truth is *"reviewed, still broken,
blocked on an ordering question"*, and that is the opposite of what
#2767's markers were for.

This records the blockage instead. I have deferred these twice citing
risk; this is the analysis that deferral was standing in for.

## The measured constraint

**The handler is `async`, but its prologue is not.** There is no `await`
anywhere between the handler's first line and the terminal-blocker
branch ~55 lines down. The snapshot invalidation, the PR-monitor
start/stop pair, the mission hand-off and the failed-task tracking all
run in the **same tick as the emitter**.

So hoisting a resolution to convert those arms does not cost "one await"
— it converts the **whole prologue into a microtask**, reordering this
listener against every other synchronous `task:moved` subscriber and
against the emitter's own continuation.

That makes `resolveTaskParkedColumnsSync`'s *"SYNCHRONOUS on purpose"*
note **load-bearing rather than stale** — verified by measurement, not
assumed. I had been treating it as possibly-stale boilerplate.

## Why the two obvious workarounds don't apply

- **Resolve lazily inside the branch.** Doesn't help: the *condition* is
what needs the lanes, and it is evaluated in the prologue.
- **A cheap sync superset prefilter** — the shape that worked in
`usage-limit-detector` — needs a literal predicate that cannot wrongly
*exclude* on an unknown vocabulary. For *"is `to` the terminal lane?"*
no such predicate exists: a renamed board's terminal id is unknown by
construction. (That is precisely why the prefilter *was* safe there —
literals can only fail to exclude, never over-exclude.)

## What would actually unblock it

1. **Audit the ordering**, then hoist one await and convert all ten
together. That is an audit across every `task:moved` emitter and
subscriber — not a scheduler-local change, and not something to do
speculatively.
2. **Carry the resolved lanes on the event payload**, so no listener
resolves at all. This is the only option that scales to the *other*
synchronous listeners with the same problem, and it removes the class
rather than one instance.

I'd recommend (2) if this is worth funding — it is the same shape as the
fix that removed the sync-resolution class in #2759, one layer up.

## Verification

11 scheduler suites — **130 passed** · `pnpm test:gate` **158 / 487 / 10
/ 71** · `pnpm lint` clean · engine `tsc --noEmit` **0 errors** ·
`--strict` exits 0, census unchanged at 12 for this file (which is the
point).


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Documentation**
* Added internal documentation explaining synchronous event-ordering
requirements when resolving task lanes.
* Clarified why asynchronous resolution must not be introduced in this
scheduling flow.

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2026-07-30 09:10:02 -07:00
gsxdsm
3092c9c2bb fleet: live-agent-count.ts 6 → 0 — the no-enrichment fallback, marked not converted (#2762)
Unclaimed file, no overlap with any open fleet PR. Previous PR (#2756)
is merged, so this is my one open PR.

## Census

| | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| backlog | 447 | **441** |
| reviewed | 38 | 44 |
| this file | 6 | **0** |

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

## Why marked, not converted

All six literals sit after a `??` or a `flags ? … :`. Each is reached
**only** when the caller supplied no trait flags and no enriched shape —
precisely the case `enrichRunningAgentTaskShape` (takes the IR) and
`enrichRunningAgentTaskShapeFromFlags` (takes board flags) exist to
remove. There is nothing to resolve from there, so the choice is not
convert-vs-literal; it is **known legacy answer vs a different guess.**

**And the guess is not neutral.** Running and Waiting are *complements*
over the same rows:

```ts
isWaitingAgentTask = !running && (columnIsIntakeOrHold ?? isLegacyPreImplementationColumn(column))
```

A card matching neither arm is reported as **neither running nor
waiting**, so the footer's queued total silently under-reports it.
Guessing "not WIP" or "not review" loses cards from the count; the
legacy id at least matches every pre-rename board. That is why this file
already carries a `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` marker above
`isLegacyPreImplementationColumn` with the same argument — this PR
extends it to the three functions holding the remaining fallbacks
(`enrichRunningAgentTaskShapeFromFlags`, `terminalKind`,
`isRunningAgentTask`).

**The fix for a renamed board is at the CALLER** — pass flags, or use
the IR-taking enricher. Noted at the site.

## Pattern note for the fleet

This is the third file I have taken where `N → 0` is reached by marking
rather than converting, and they share a shape worth naming: **a literal
after `??` or in the `else` of a `flags ?` ternary is a degraded-mode
answer, not an unconverted guard.** The trait path is already there and
already correct; the literal is what runs when the trait path has no
input. Deleting it does not remove a decision — it substitutes a
different one, silently, in exactly the states where nobody is looking
(first paint, un-enriched callers, pre-rename data).

## Verification

Core typecheck clean · `live-agent-count.test.ts` 11/11 · `--strict`
exit 0 · comments only, no behavior change.

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2026-07-30 08:57:52 -07:00
gsxdsm
6386be6626 test(dashboard): four more causes in components-b (14 → 0) — incl. a parity guard jsdom 27 made vacuous (#2743)
## Four distinct causes

| # | Cause | Files | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | **Portal** — `container` is empty; modal renders via
`createPortal` | `TaskDetailModal` | 6 |
| 2 | **Renamed testid** — `wf-add-step-modal` no longer exists |
`WorkflowNodeEditor` | 3 |
| 3 | **Unresolvable CSS** — jsdom can't resolve `currentColor` |
`SecretsView` | 4 |
| 4 | **jsdom 29 initial values** — `auto` vs `""` |
`TaskCard.badge-wrap` | 1 |

**1. Portal (6).** Same cause and fix as #2735 — 13 queries moved to
`document`. The symptom pointed away from it: assertions failed with
*"received value must be an HTMLElement / Received has value: null"* on
the **element**, while `screen.getByTestId` in the same test kept
working, because `screen` queries `document`.

**2. Renamed testid (3).** `wf-add-step-modal` exists nowhere in app
source — verified by grep, not inferred. The add-step dialog is a
`FloatingWindow` now (`WorkflowAddStepModal.tsx:145`,
`windowKey="workflow-add-step"`), so the stable id is
`floating-window-workflow-add-step`. It still scopes the
`within(dialog)` queries, so those keep their precision.

**3. Unresolvable CSS (4).** `SecretsView` compared
`getComputedStyle(svg).stroke` against the button's background.
`SecretsView.css:227` sets `stroke: currentColor`, which jsdom does not
resolve — every icon returned `rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)`, **equal to** the
transparent button background. The comparison was two unresolved values
matching each other, not a visibility check.

`currentColor` *is* the element's `color`, which jsdom does compute, so
it now asserts the same invariant through a property that resolves.
**Load-bearing, measured:** adding `color: rgba(0,0,0,0)` to the icon
rule fails exactly those 4.

**4. jsdom 29 initial values (1).** `.card-menu-btn` declares no
`min-height`, and `auto` is the CSS **initial** value — jsdom 29 reports
it where 27 returned `""`. The intent ("nothing constrains the button's
height") is what `auto` states; `""` was pinning a jsdom-27 quirk.

| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| `TaskDetailModal` / `WorkflowNodeEditor` / `SecretsView` /
`badge-wrap` | **51 / 179 / 14 / 20 passed** |
| `pnpm lint`, dashboard app `tsc` | clean |

## Flagged, not forced — and it's the interesting one

`TaskCard.test.tsx`'s 2 remaining failures. *"FN-4511 keeps GitHub badge
and timer chip geometry in parity"* reads border widths through
`githubStyles.borderTopWidth || "1px"`.

**Under jsdom 27 both sides returned `""` and both defaulted to `"1px"`
— so the parity assertion passed while comparing nothing.** jsdom 29
resolves them and they differ:

- the chip's `border: var(--btn-border-width) solid transparent`
(`TaskCard.css:1082`) reports `medium`, because jsdom cannot resolve
`var()` inside a shorthand;
- `.card-github-badge` — which has **no rule in TaskCard.css**, only the
class in `TaskCard.tsx` — reports `1px` from elsewhere.

So jsdom cannot adjudicate this parity at all, and whether the two
genuinely differ *visually* is a question for the e2e screenshot suite.
Restoring a `|| fallback` would rebuild a vacuous guard; changing the
CSS to satisfy a test limitation would alter the product to fit its
harness. Left for someone who can answer it in a real browser.

Worth noting the general shape: the jsdom 27 → 29 bump did not "break"
these tests so much as **stop hiding** what two of them were failing to
check.

## Branch arithmetic

This branch is off `main`, so `components-b` still shows 52 failures
here: **50 are `inline-editing`, fixed by #2735** on its own branch,
plus the 2 flagged above. Once both land, the group is at 2.

Across #2735, #2740 and this PR, dashboard goes from **88 failures / 9
files** to **3** — the 2 above plus the GitHub-tracking affordance
question flagged in #2735. Per #2732 these lanes are still never
executed in CI, since the shard aborts on the first failing package.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Tests**
* Updated dashboard component tests to account for portal-based modal
rendering, ensuring queries target the global document.
* Refined jsdom assertions for icon visibility/styling and card header
control sizing to match real intended behavior.
* Adjusted workflow editor tests for the new add-step dialog, using
updated stable identifiers and updated interaction/close checks.
* Added clarifying comments to document jsdom-specific limitations and
expected outcomes.
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2026-07-30 08:51:44 -07:00
gsxdsm
9b573268a4 docs(u9): audit every non-scheduler execute() call site — exactly ONE ignores pause (#2747)
## What this closes

`executor-prompt.test.ts` has 3 failures asserting that `execute()`
refuses to dispatch a user-paused card during a global pause. The guard
lives in the **scheduler** (`scheduler.ts:1515`, a hard stop that never
reaches `.execute(`), so those tests call a layer that has never
enforced it.

I flagged this in #2719 without being able to say how large the real gap
was. This answers that — and the answer is much narrower than "execute()
is unguarded".

## Every non-scheduler call site

Enclosing method and guard status resolved **programmatically**, not by
reading nearby lines:

| Site | Enclosing method | Guarded? | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|
| `executor.ts:3333` | `dispatchUnpauseResume()` | no | **Correct
as-is** — it *is* the unpause path; a guard here is self-contradictory |
| `executor.ts:3495` | `constructor()` — `task:moved` sub, `to ===
"in-progress"` | **no** | **The one real gap** |
| `executor.ts:5702` | `resumeTaskForAgent()` | yes | `globalPause \|\|
enginePaused` + `!task.paused` |
| `executor.ts:5858` | `resumeOrphaned()` | yes | same guard earlier in
the method |
| `in-process-runtime.ts:2255` | `drainWorkflowContinuations()` |
indirect | gated by `status !== "active"`; engine pause is expected to
leave the runtime non-active |

**Exactly one path can reach `execute()` without consulting pause
state.** So the open question is not *"does `execute()` need a guard"*
but *"can a `task:moved` → `in-progress` event fire while paused"* —
narrow, and answerable by whoever owns the pause contract.

## A measurement correction worth recording

My first pass used a 40-line window above each call and **mis-attributed
two sites**: `:5702` and `:5858` looked unguarded because their guard
sits earlier in the same method, above the window. Resolving the
enclosing method properly flipped both to guarded and cut the apparent
gap from three sites to one.

That is the difference between reporting "3 of 5 paths ignore pause" and
the truth. A proximity heuristic is not an enclosing-scope analysis.

## Still not decided, deliberately

Three options, and they are not equivalent:

1. **Guard the `task:moved` subscription** — narrowest; keeps the
scheduler as the single pause authority. Does *not* make the three tests
pass, since they call `execute()` directly.
2. **Give `execute()` its own guard** — makes the tests pass, but must
not refuse the legitimate internal re-dispatch paths.
`dispatchUnpauseResume()` would break outright: it exists to resume a
card the operator just unpaused.
3. **Retire the three direct-`execute()` assertions**, covering the
invariant at the scheduler layer where it is enforced.

(2) and (3) both touch coverage of **user pause** — a safeguard this
program re-ratified and told workers not to narrow. Choosing either
silently inside a test-repair PR is how a safeguard gets weakened by
accident.

## What is NOT verified

Whether that subscription is actually **reachable** while paused.
Proving it needs a trace of who emits `task:moved` with `to ===
"in-progress"` under a global pause; if every emitter is itself gated,
the gap is theoretical. That trace is the remaining work before
preferring option 1 over the status quo.

Docs-only — no source, no tests. Lint clean.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Documentation**
* Added an audit documenting workflow pause behavior and identifying an
event-driven execution path that can create sessions during a global
pause.
* Recorded findings from existing test failures and reviewed available
enforcement points for pause handling.
* Documented trade-offs and the remaining decision on where pause guards
should be applied.

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2026-07-30 08:51:32 -07:00
gsxdsm
fdd958efc9 fix(test): the archived-gate parity guard could not see an aliased table (red on main) (#2768)
`archived-column-gate-parity` is red on main after #2745 converted three
TypeScript sites. Fixing the stale inventory is the small half. **The
guard had a hole, and it is the interesting part.**

## The hole

The SQL scan required the predicate's receiver to be literally
`<x>.tasks`:

```ts
ne(schema.project.tasks.column, "archived")   // seen
const table = schema.project.tasks;
ne(table.column, "archived")                  // INVISIBLE
```

So `branch-group-ops.ts:58` was **never audited**. The inventory claimed
six files; seven exist.

A parity guard that cannot see one of the encodings reports agreement it
never checked — the exact failure mode this file was written to prevent,
occurring inside the file itself.

## And that site is not hypothetical

`#2745` converted `branch-group-ops`'s **TypeScript** half to the
resolved role. Its **SQL** half still compares the raw string. On a
board whose archived lane is renamed, the two disagree — one says a task
is archived, the other returns it as live. That is the split-brain
described in the guard's own failure message, and the guard could not
see it.

## The fix

Alias bindings (`const <id> = <...>.tasks`) are collected per file in a
first pass — first pass because the binding can appear *after* its uses
inside nested closures — and accepted as the receiver.
`branch-group-ops.ts` joins `AUDITED_SQL_SITES` as **newly visible, not
newly written**.

Also drops the three TypeScript entries #2745 converted
(`blocker-fanout`, `branch-group-ops`, `task-store-helpers`) — that is
the red itself.

## Measured, both directions

| mutation | result |
|---|---|
| alias set emptied (the old, alias-blind scan) | **1 failed** —
"Drizzle encoding changed" |
| product SQL half converted to a resolved lane | **1 failed** —
"Drizzle encoding changed" |
| as shipped | **2 passed** |

The first proves the scanner fix is load-bearing. The second proves the
newly-audited site is genuinely *counted*, not merely listed in an
inventory.

Two earlier mutation attempts produced no output and I discarded them
rather than reading them as passes — they had broken the file's syntax,
so nothing ran. A mutation that fails to compile proves nothing, and
looks identical to a clean run when output is filtered.

Gate **726**, core `tsc` clean, lint clean.

## Left for the owner of #2745

Whether `branch-group-ops.ts:58`'s SQL half should now be converted too.
The guard's own header explains why the SQL halves cannot simply be
converted (`ne(tasks.column, ...)` needs the resolved id as a value,
which the call sites do not all have), so this is a real design question
rather than a mechanical follow-up — and it is now *visible* and
*audited* instead of silently absent.
2026-07-30 08:48:21 -07:00
gsxdsm
9b61d795c9 fix(engine): heartbeat asked 'is this task finished?' with legacy ids — and one of the two sites writes status:failed onto completed work (#2769)
## Two heartbeat sites asked "is this task finished?" with the legacy
ids

`agent-heartbeat.ts` **4 → 0**. Neither site is cosmetic.

**Linked-task clear.** The heartbeat clears an agent's assignment once
its card is finished. Keyed on the literals, an agent on a renamed board
stayed bound to a **completed** card indefinitely — every later
heartbeat ran with stale task context instead of picking up new work,
and nothing else clears it.

**Worktree-acquisition gate.** Its failure bookkeeping runs only for a
**non-terminal** task. A card in a renamed complete lane read as
non-terminal, so an acquisition failure could stamp `status: "failed"`
and an error message onto work that was **already done**.

That second site *writes*, which drives the fallback direction: an
unresolvable workflow degrades toward "terminal", because treating a
finished card as unfinished is the expensive mistake here.

Both sit in async paths — the first has `await taskStore.getTask(...)`
three lines above — so this is an `await`, not a restructure. Extracted
to one predicate rather than converted twice: they are the same
question, and the two must not drift when one of them acts
destructively.

## How this was found, and the part worth recording

Generalising #2767. That PR marked a documented false positive the
census kept advertising, so I swept for **other** files whose lifecycle
literals were reasoned about in prose but still counted — to find out
whether the trap was systemic.

**It is not.** Of twelve candidate files, only this one carried real
unconverted guards, and its "false positive" mentions turned out to be
unrelated (detection heuristics, not column literals). The sweep mostly
came back **negative**, and that is worth saying so nobody repeats it
expecting a haul.

## Revert proof

| reverted | result |
|---|---|
| neuter the resolution (predicate → literals) | **3 failed** / 2 passed
|
| shipped | **5 passed** |

The two that survive the revert are the degraded-mode pair, which is
correct — they assert the *legacy* answer, so they must pass either way.
One case also pins that a legacy `done` id is **not** terminal on a
board that does not declare it, which is what a board-wide union would
get wrong.

## Verification

- 13 heartbeat suites — **501 passed** (496 before, +5 new)
- `pnpm test:gate` — **158 / 10 / 487 / 71** · `pnpm lint` clean ·
engine `tsc --noEmit` **0 errors** · `--strict` exits 0

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2026-07-30 08:42:00 -07:00
gsxdsm
7119432c79 fix(engine): the stranded-completed recovery never resolved on a renamed board — and its suite fed the broken reader the right answer (#2764)
## The "recovery of last resort" never resolved anything

`recoverCompletedTask` carries this note in its own source:

> *This is the recovery of last resort — a literal here means the last
resort does not exist off the default lineage.*

It was resolving through `resolvePlannerLanes`, which reads
`resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync` — whose selection reader returns `undefined`
**unconditionally** in PostgreSQL mode, the shipped backend. So it
resolved the **default** workflow for every card,
`promotedFromPlannerColumn` was `false` on every renamed board, and the
recovery never fired.

That is precisely the stranding it exists to fix — completed work
sitting in a planning lane with nothing left to rescue it — **with the
conversion in place and the census counting it as done.**

The call site is inside an async method that has already awaited store
reads, so the fix is an `await`, not a restructure.
`resolvePlannerLanesForTaskAsync` is the async twin: identical logic,
identical fallbacks, one `await`. Answers are unchanged on the default
lineage and correct everywhere else.

## The existing suite could not see any of it — the more important half

`executor-planner-lanes-resolved.test.ts` injected **only**
`resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync`:

```ts
(store as { resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync: ... }).resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync = () => ir;
```

It fed the broken reader **the right answer**. Every case proved the
promotion *logic* while being structurally blind to whether production
resolves at all — and it was green the entire time. A suite that cannot
fail for the reason the code is broken is the same defect as the code,
one level up.

The harness now feeds the sync reader the **default lineage** (what it
actually returns) and the async readers the task's real workflow.

| | reverting the call site to sync |
|---|---|
| before this PR | **0 failed** — suite blind |
| after | **5 failed** / 13 passed |

Two cases opt back in via `syncResolvesIr`, and only those two: they
cover `isPlannerColumnFor` and `isBackwardMoveOutOfPlanning`, which are
still synchronous, so there the sync reader genuinely *is* the input
path and feeding it the IR tests the classifier rather than the reader.

## Not converted, deliberately

**Those two classifiers.** They sit in an else-if chain whose next arm
is `from === "in-progress"`, so deferring the decision into an async
body changes which arm runs. That branch's own comment records a
previous half-conversion there:

> *a half-conversion turned a missed rescue into active damage. Third
time this program has produced that shape — gates converted,
destinations left literal.*

That needs the chain enumerated first, not a fast restructure at the end
of a sweep. Their production inertness is held by the
`resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync` call-site allow-list in #2759, so they
cannot be forgotten.

## Verification

- new suite **4 passed** · strengthened suite **14 passed** (18
together)
- `pnpm test:gate` — **158 / 10 / 487 / 71** · `pnpm lint` clean ·
engine `tsc --noEmit` **0 errors** · `--strict` exits 0

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2026-07-30 08:38:43 -07:00
gsxdsm
18641ba5d2 fleet: the age-staleness hydration site #2746 missed (3rd time in this file), and a blocker that blocked forever (#2749)
## Census

| | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| `packages/core/src/task-age-staleness.ts` | 4 | **0** |
| `packages/core/src/blocker-fanout.ts` | 4 | **1** (the marked
no-metadata fallback) |
| repo backlog | 581 | **573** |

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

## Both were the unconverted sibling in an already-converted file

That is the shape this program keeps re-finding, and both files here
even carry notes about *previous* P1s on the same question.

### 1. Age staleness never fired

`getTaskAgeStalenessSignal` returns `undefined` unless the card is in
wip **or** review, then picks its warning/critical thresholds by which
of the two it is. Keyed on the literals, a renamed board produced **no
age-staleness badge at all**.

That is the worst shape a monitoring failure can take: **a missing
warning is indistinguishable from health**. Nothing looks broken — "this
card has been sitting in progress for a day" simply stopped being said.

`reads.ts` already resolves `holdColumn` and `reviewColumn` per row for
the sibling signals. Its own comments record a P1 where exactly this
role was threaded into a helper but **omitted at both hydration sites**
— "same defect, same file, one role over". So this adds the third
resolver (`resolveWipColumnForTask`, mirroring the review twin) and
threads **both** lanes at **both** sites, off the same per-pass IR
cache.

The signal's reported `column` deliberately stays on the legacy id: that
field is its public shape, which consumers switch on, so renaming it is
a separate breaking change rather than part of resolving a guard.

### 2. A blocker that blocked forever

`isStaleBlockedByBlocker` decides whether a `blockedBy` marker is stale.
Keyed on the literals, a **finished** blocker on a renamed board never
read as stale — so the dependent kept its marker permanently and its
"waiting on" badge pointed at work that shipped days ago. Every path
that clears a stale marker consults this predicate first, so nothing
else rescues it.

`computeBlockerFanoutMap` — the **only** production caller — already
takes `terminalColumns`/`holdColumn`/`classify`, and the file documents
two separate P1s about getting this right. The predicate sat on the
literals and the call passed nothing.

**Both are fixed, and that matters more than it sounds:** converting the
predicate alone would have changed *nothing at runtime* while the census
scored it as a 4-site win. That is the half-conversion trap, and it is
why the wiring gets its own revert proof below.

## Revert proof — each reverted alone

| reverted | result |
|---|---|
| age-staleness lanes → literals | **3 failed** / 8 passed |
| blocker predicate → literals | **2 failed** / 9 passed |
| fanout **wiring** (`classify` not consulted) | **1 failed** / 10
passed |
| none (shipped) | **11 passed** |

Each group also carries a paired negative — a non-active lane still
raises no staleness signal, and a live blocker is still not stale — so
neither fix can degrade into "always fires".

## Verification

- 4 core suites (blocker/staleness/age/reads) — **33 passed**, no
regressions
- new suite — **11 passed**
- `pnpm test:gate` — **10 / 158 / 487 / 71** · `pnpm lint` clean · core
`tsc --noEmit` **0 errors**

## The 1 remaining

`blocker-fanout.ts` keeps one `DELIBERATE-LITERAL`: the no-metadata
fallback for an unconverted caller. Deleting it makes an unresolved
caller read every blocker as non-terminal, so stale markers would never
clear **at all** — strictly worse than the legacy behaviour it would
replace.

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2026-07-30 08:35:24 -07:00
gsxdsm
ae4ff9c111 test(core): sync workflow resolution always returns the default IR — the proof and a call-site ratchet (#2759)
## A whole class of "conversions" in this program is inert, and the
census scores them as done

`resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync` returns the **default** workflow IR for
**every** task in production. `getTaskWorkflowSelectionImpl` is a
PostgreSQL-cutover stub that returns `undefined` unconditionally
(`workflow-definitions.ts:505` — *"Backend mode cannot synchronously
read PostgreSQL, so return undefined and let the sync reader fall back
to its default"*), so the sync resolver always takes its `!workflowId`
branch. Its return type is **non-optional**, so no caller can detect the
substitution.

**Proven, not argued.** The PG suite binds a task to a workflow whose
lanes are `drafting`/`building`/`checking`/`shipped`, asserts the
**async** reader sees that binding — or the next assertion would be
vacuous — and then shows the sync resolver answering `hold: "todo"` for
the same task. A third case pins the cause directly: the sync selection
reader returns `undefined` while the async one returns the workflow id.

The async resolver on the same task, in the same test, returns the real
lanes. So the remedy for any affected site is always *reach the async
resolver*, never *resolve synchronously and hope*.

### Why this is worse than an unconverted literal

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

That **reads** as converted. It resolves an IR, asks for a trait, and
the lifecycle-column census counts it as **progress** — while being
wrong for every custom workflow, silently. A plain `=== "todo"` is
strictly better, because it is at least honest about being a literal.

That is why this needs a guard rather than a comment: the failure mode
is code that *looks right in review*.

### The ratchet earned its place immediately

It allow-lists the six call sites, in the shape this repo already uses
for `engine-no-blocking-shellout` and `check-no-nohup`. On its first run
it corrected the list I had seeded by grep:

- **Found `replan-target.ts`**, which my grep missed — it calls through
an optional-property cast, so no textual search for
`store.resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync` matches it. **Its hazard is the
sharpest of the six:** `resolvePlannerLanes` returns
`resolvedFromWorkflow: true` whenever an IR came back, so on a renamed
board a caller branching on that flag is told the lanes are
workflow-resolved while being handed the **default** ones.
- **Rejected `executor.ts`**, which my grep had matched on a *comment*
with no real call site.

It also carries a completeness case (fails if the scan finds nothing,
rather than passing vacuously) and a staleness case (an entry whose file
stops using the primitive must be removed in the same change, so the
list can't rot into unreviewed permission).

### Verified to fire

Adding a new unlisted call site fails with the offending file named:

```
+   "packages/engine/src/gridlock-detector.ts"
      Tests  1 failed | 2 passed (3)
```

My first attempt at that proof landed the probe **inside a block
comment** and the guard correctly reported zero — the methodology was
wrong, not the guard. Worth stating, since a guard I couldn't make fail
is exactly the thing this PR is about.

### Scope

**No source changes.** This pins a fact and guards a primitive. The six
existing sites are deliberately left alone: each needs its own
async-reachability analysis, which is per-site work with real behaviour
risk, not a sweep. `scheduler.ts`'s entry is the honest case — it is
called from synchronous `task:moved` listeners where adding an `await`
would reorder handlers against a synchronous emitter.

### Verification

- new PG suite **3 passed** · new ratchet **3 passed**
- `pnpm test:gate` — **158 / 10 / 487 / 71** · `pnpm lint` clean · core
`tsc --noEmit` **0 errors** · `--strict` exits 0

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2026-07-30 08:35:12 -07:00
gsxdsm
7f3eee9db7 docs(engine): mark the usage-limit terminal filters DELIBERATE-LITERAL — a documented false positive that has now baited two workers (#2767)
## No behaviour change. This is the work order retracting a documented
false positive.

I went to convert the `done`/`archived` filters in
`usage-limit-detector.ts`, reasoning that on a renamed board a provider
rate limit would pause already-finished work. I wrote the conversion —
and only then read the note a previous worker had left directly above
it:

> *"The FIRST thing I suspected there — the `done`/`archived` terminal
filter — turned out to be a **FALSE POSITIVE**: its revert stayed green,
because the lane check already excludes finished cards."*

**They are right and I was wrong.** A terminal card is already excluded
downstream: `taskUsesProvider` resolves the task's active lane, a
finished card matches no active lane, so it resolves no providers and
cannot be affected. The suite pins exactly this — `pauses a PEER
executing in the renamed WIP column` asserts `FN-SHIPPED` is not paused.

My conversion is reverted. It changed nothing at runtime and would have
lowered the census count while behaviour stayed identical — the precise
shape this program keeps warning about, produced by me this time.

## Why a marker and not just the existing prose

The note was already there and I walked into it anyway, because **the
census kept listing this file as 4 unconverted guards**. The work order
advertised the work; the reasoning against it lived in a comment you
only reach after you have started. Prose informs a reader who is already
looking; a marker informs the *instrument*, so the file drops out of the
work order.

Two distinct reasons are recorded rather than one blanket marker,
because they are not the same argument:

- **the prefilter** is a deliberate cheap **superset** (#2672 review).
Converting it reintroduces the whole-board resolution that review
removed. Literals are safe here in the direction that matters — a
renamed board declares no `done`/`archived` id, so nothing is wrongly
*excluded*.
- **the final filter** is redundant with the lane check, and that
redundancy is already proven by an existing test.

## Census

| | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| `usage-limit-detector.ts` | 4 | **0** |
| repo backlog | 437 | **433** |
| DELIBERATE-LITERAL (reviewed) | 38 | **42** |

Every one of the 4 is a marker, not a conversion. The backlog moved
because reviewed literals left it honestly, not because behaviour
changed.

## Verification

`usage-limit-detector.test.ts` **58 passed**, unchanged before and after
· `pnpm test:gate` **10 / 158 / 487 / 71** · `pnpm lint` clean · engine
`tsc --noEmit` **0 errors** · `--strict` exits 0.

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2026-07-30 08:31:47 -07:00
gsxdsm
2e4905fa0e refactor: one definition of "which columns are review" — three copies deleted onto core's resolver (#2751)
**#2730 added `resolveReviewColumns` to core. This deletes the three
copies that predated it.**

Measured on `origin/main` before this change — three in-tree
definitions, **none of which agreed**:

| site | definition |
|---|---|
| `core/workflow-lifecycle-traits.ts` (#2730, authoritative) |
mergeOrchestration ∪ mergeBlocker ∪ humanReview — **all** columns |
| `dashboard/routes/register-task-workflow-routes.ts` | mergeBlocker ∪
humanReview ∪ **first** mergeOrchestration |
| `cli/src/extension.ts` | mergeBlocker ∪ humanReview ∪ **first**
mergeOrchestration |
| `cli/src/commands/task.ts` | all three, full union |

**Both `.slice(0, 1)` variants are mine**, from #2723's review round: I
narrowed to core's then-single `.review` because the reviewer was right
that a superset let the dashboard act on a lane the engine did not own.
#2730 answered that question authoritatively in the other direction, so
the narrowing is obsolete.

Worse, and the part that makes this urgent rather than tidy: **the two
CLI copies had already drifted apart inside #2728.** `fn_task_retry`
refused a card in a second merge lane that `fn task retry` accepted —
two surfaces, one operator action, two answers, from two copies of one
definition written days apart by me.

All three now call core. The dashboard keeps its thin store→IR wrapper
(its callers hold a store and a task id, not an IR) but the **body** is
core's.

## One assertion inverted, deliberately

My #2723 case asserted that a **second** `mergeOrchestration` column is
**refused**. Core says every merge lane is review, so the behaviour
legitimately changed and the assertion flips with it.

**Kept rather than deleted**, because the invariant under test — *the
routes agree with core* — is unchanged. Deleting the case would have
hidden that its answer moved; inverting it records which decision moved
and why. A test whose expectation quietly disappears is
indistinguishable from a test that was wrong.

## A footgun found while rebasing

The shipped signature is
`isInReviewMissingWorktreeSessionStartFailure(task, isReviewColumn?:
boolean)` — the merged version takes the **answer**, not the lanes. My
branch had passed a `ReadonlySet`, and because the parameter is `boolean
| undefined` with a `??` default, **a truthy object makes it answer
`true` for every column**.

TypeScript stops typed callers; my test only reached it through an `as
never` cast, which is how I found it. All three production call sites
correctly pass `retryReviewColumns.has(task.column)` — now asserted
structurally so a fourth surface cannot omit it.

The boolean is arguably the better shape, and I'd keep it: there is
nothing left for the callee to re-derive, so it cannot disagree with the
caller's own membership test.

## The ratchet

No surface may reintroduce a local review union (`columnsWithFlag(…,
"mergeBlocker" | "humanReview")`). Those three copies appeared because
each was added **in good faith, in a different review round, by someone
reading only their own call site** — which no amount of care prevents
and a ratchet does.

## Verification

census **553** · `pnpm test:gate` **487 / 10 / 71** · `tsc` clean in cli
and dashboard · `pnpm lint` clean · 10/10 in each touched suite.

**Pre-existing, not mine:**
`register-task-workflow-routes.move-bypassguards.test.ts` fails on
`origin/main` (400 vs 200) — already reported on #2723.

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2026-07-30 08:28:32 -07:00
gsxdsm
ea008b4064 docs(core): an empty role result has TWO meanings — correcting a rule I applied across three PRs (#2765)
## A correction to a rule I introduced, prompted by #2760 and then
measured

`synthesizeDefaultColumns` (`workflow-ir.ts`) upgrades a v1 graph by
emitting `{ id, name: id, traits: [] }` for the five default ids —
**placement only, by design**, with the real trait set living in
`BUILTIN_CODING_WORKFLOW_IR`.

So a v1-upgraded board arrives at every role resolver looking exactly
like a v2 board that declares nothing. Measured on such an IR:

| resolver | result |
|---|---|
| `resolveLifecycleColumns` | `{}` — every role undefined |
| `resolveReviewColumns` | `[]` |
| `columnsWithFlag(…, "countsTowardWip")` | `[]` |
| `resolveTerminalColumns` | `["done","archived"]` — its own legacy
fallback saves it |

## The correction I owe

I introduced **"resolved and empty means this board declares no such
lane"** deliberately across #2731, #2733 and #2734, to fix the
*opposite* bug — a legacy fallback masking a genuinely absent lane. I
argued for it repeatedly and applied it in several files.

It is right for hand-written v2. It is **wrong for the upgrade path**,
where it withdraws every role at once. And the two cases are
indistinguishable at the call site: both arrive as an empty array.

The contrast the test pins is the sharpest evidence —
`resolveTerminalColumns` survives the identical IR purely because it
never adopted that reading. **The data is the same; the reading is what
differs.**

## Affected, named rather than left to be rediscovered

- **on `main` today**: `default-workflow-hooks.ts` → `inRole` (from
#2734)
- **in my open PRs**: the store bypass guard (#2709) and the
tracking-state terminal classifier (#2754)

Consumers that kept a `length > 0 ? resolved : legacy` guard are
unaffected — including the notifier (#2722), which I checked.

## Not fixed here

The root repair is for the upgrade to carry real traits instead of
placeholders. That changes behaviour for **every persisted v1
workflow**, so it wants its own change with its own measurement — not
something slipped into a doc commit. Flagged at the source so the next
consumer chooses knowingly.

## Verification

34 trait tests green · core `tsc` clean · lint clean (0 errors) · gate
green (487 + 158 + 10 + 71). No production behaviour change; no census
movement.
2026-07-30 08:25:08 -07:00
gsxdsm
d86c1f9d29 batch-engine: packages/engine lifecycle-column conversions (capacity worker's mega-batch) (#2773)
The engine mega-batch. Folds my four engine PRs and will absorb the
remaining `packages/engine` guards as commits on this branch.

**Superseded and closed:** #2722, #2741, #2766, #2770.

## Census — files converted so far

| file | before | after |
|---|---:|---:|
| `notification/notification-service.ts` | 9 | **5** |
| `runtimes/in-process-runtime.ts` | 6 | **1** |
| `eval-followups.ts` | 2 | **0** |
| `pr-comment-handler.ts` | 1 | **0** |
| `task-revert.ts` | 2 | **0** |

The last two are **census-invisible** (`Set.has(task.column)`
membership) — the class measured in #2763, which a comparison-based scan
cannot count. So the backlog number moves less than the work does,
deliberately.

## What each one actually fixed — all silent, none cosmetic

- **Notifications stopped entirely.** `handleTaskMovedAsync` compared
`data.to` to `in-review`/`done`, so on a renamed board the two
notifications operators rely on most were never sent.
- **A finished card's plan review could re-enter.** The continuation
drain's terminal test matched nothing, so a completed card's planning
continuation was handed to the executor.
- **The revert route admitted and the service refused.** The route
resolved terminal lanes; the service compared to a hardcoded pair. The
operator got a dead end from an affordance the UI and route both
offered.
- **Follow-up dedup blocked new cards forever.** A finished follow-up in
a renamed complete lane read as *open*, so the dedup matched it
permanently — defeating the intent the code documents in the line above
it.
- **The mission requeue wrote a column that may not exist**, and its
guard never matched.

## Flagged, not fixed — deliberately

- **`concurrency.ts` idle semaphore leak recovery** — the last live
caller of the running-agent predicate that does not enrich. On a renamed
board it under-counts and can reclaim a legitimately-held slot. The
enriching variant is async and this is a synchronous repair path whose
failure mode is reclaiming live work.
- **The archival `task:moved` listener** — runs on every move with no
cheap gate ahead of it; converting costs an IR resolution per move to
decide most moves are not archival.

## Notes carried from the folded PRs

Two conflicts resolved in main's favour because **main's version was
better**: `in-process-runtime`'s seam uses `terminalColumns:
ReadonlySet` (membership) where mine used `LifecycleColumns`
(first-per-role), and the test is rewritten against main's API. That
arity trap has now caught me four times, so membership is the default
shape in everything new here.

Review fixes from the folded PRs are included: the notifier's review
set, the second human-review site, the second dedup copy, the workspace
revert surface, and the file-content assertions.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` **GREEN** (158 + 10 + 487 + 71) · **224 passed** across
the touched engine suites · engine and dashboard `tsc` clean · `pnpm
lint` clean · census `--strict` exits 0.

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2026-07-30 08:24:50 -07:00
gsxdsm
245086dad6 docs: the census total is a floor — 25 membership predicates it structurally cannot see, one a live defect (#2763)
Docs only, extending the entry #2748 landed. Opening it because the
fleet reads the census total as its completion bar, and that total
excludes a whole predicate class — a measurement that should not live in
a chat reply.

## Measured on `origin/main`

- **47** array/Set literals of two or more lifecycle ids, in 35 files.
- **25 are membership predicates against a task's column** —
`SET.has(task.column)` / `ARRAY.includes(task.column)` — in 19 files.
Two are documented fallbacks behind a resolved primary, so **~23 are
unconverted guards**.
- The census scans `===` / `!==` against a column. **None of these is a
comparison, so none is counted.**

| file | constant |
| --- | --- |
| `cli/src/commands/task.ts` (3) | `retryReviewColumns` |
| `dashboard/app/components/TaskCard.tsx` (2) | `TIME_INDICATOR_COLUMNS`
|
| `engine/src/eval-followups.ts` (2) | `OPEN_COLUMNS` |
| `engine/src/merger.ts` (2) | `sourceTerminal` |
| `engine/src/task-revert.ts` (2) | `REVERTABLE_COLUMNS` |
| `core/src/agent-role-policy.ts` (1) | `IMPLEMENTATION_TASK_COLUMNS` |

## One is a proven live defect

`isImplementationTask` is
`IMPLEMENTATION_TASK_COLUMNS.has(task.column)`, and
`evaluateImplementationTaskBind` short-circuits to `allowed: true` when
it returns false. **On a renamed board every agent is bind-compatible
with every task** — the role check that stops a liaison being handed
implementation work (the NEXT-871 loop FN-7851 fixed) does not apply.

It surfaced only because a reviewer questioned a coverage claim in one
of my dispatch tests (#2739). Passing an agent wasn't proof the
evaluator ran, so I asserted a `custom`-role agent must be *refused* —
and that test failed against production. Flagged at the site in #2739,
not fixed: `isImplementationTask` is a sync pure predicate with no
store, and making the routing policy async is a behaviour change to
agent admission.

## What this does and does not argue

The census is the right instrument — AST-based, honest about what it
measures, and it has caught real drift in both directions (it failed on
me in #2724 when merged conversions moved an inventory *down*). This is
not an argument against it.

It is an argument against reading **"backlog: N" as "N guards remain"**.
The same shape already appeared in the archived gate (#2724), where the
rule is additionally encoded in Drizzle predicates and raw `sql`
templates that no comparison scan can see. Two independent classes now,
found the same way — by looking at what the instrument's definition
excludes.

**Extending the census to count membership predicates is deliberately
left to you, not done here.** It would move every worker's number
mid-fleet, and deciding which sets are lifecycle guards versus
board-config definitions or type unions is exactly the judgement
`DELIBERATE-LITERAL` exists for — 47 collections would each need that
call.

## Verification

`pnpm lint` clean · census `--strict` exits 0 · no code changes.

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gsxdsm
86a2b48968 fleet: branch-group-ops 6 → 0 — an agent asking for its next task was told there was none (#2739)
Second application of the sync-filter pattern decided in #2737.
`branch-group-ops.ts` 6 → **0**.

## The failure

`selectNextTaskForAgentImpl` picks an agent's next task by filtering the
board for its WIP lane, then its hold lane — both `task.column ===
"<literal>"`.

On a renamed board **both filters match nothing**, so an agent asking
for work is told there is none, with its own assigned tasks sitting in
the list it just fetched. No error, no log line. The agent idles.

`pauseTaskImpl` had the same shape: pausing a running card on a renamed
board left its `status` untouched, so the UI kept showing it as working.

## Consumer, not a gate — checked rather than assumed

Applying the #2724 test to this file, since it sits closer to the
persistence layer than the reconciler did: its **only** SQL predicate is
`eq(table.projectId, ...)`. Nothing here compares a column to a literal
in SQL, so there is no second encoding of these questions to diverge
from. The list arrives from `store.listTasks` and the filters select
among rows already in hand.

Async predicates were the alternative and would have turned these filter
chains into sequential awaits inside the dispatch path. One prefetch,
one IR read per distinct workflow, filters stay synchronous.

`pauseTaskImpl` resolves for the single task it holds rather than
joining a map — different entry point, one id in scope, and a map would
have exactly one entry.

## Revert proof

| reverted | result |
|---|---|
| the wip literal | renamed WIP case fails: `expected null to be truthy`
|
| the hold literal | renamed hold case fails identically |

The new test calls the impl **directly** with a store fake resolving a
renamed IR. The existing `selectNextTaskForAgent` coverage drives a real
store harness, so exercising a renamed vocabulary there means
registering a real custom workflow and moving cards through it — heavier
than the question, which is only which lane the filters name. The bind
evaluator runs for real; only the store is faked.

A third case pins that the hold filter keeps its `userPaused` exclusion,
so a filter matching every column would not satisfy the other two.

**Related coverage checked before writing a new file:**
`agent-heartbeat-worktree-renamed-hold.test.ts` covers the requeue
**target** on a renamed board, not the dispatcher's **selection**
filters — different branch of the same subsystem, so a case added there
would have read as duplicate coverage of the wrong thing.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` **GREEN** (158 + 10 + 487 + 71) · **20 passed** across
the routing-policy and new dispatch suites · core `tsc` clean · `pnpm
lint` clean · census `--strict` exits 0.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Bug Fixes**
- Improved agent task selection when workflow lane names or IDs have
been renamed.
- Agents now correctly resume assigned in-progress or queued tasks
across customized workflows.
- Prevented agents from selecting tasks paused by users, including on
boards with renamed lanes.
- Updated task pausing behavior to correctly reflect lifecycle stages
beyond default lane names.

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2026-07-30 08:09:36 -07:00
gsxdsm
76d77da4d1 fleet: taskSorting + TaskReviewTab 8 → 0 — and Board was faking a column id to force done-sorting (#2744)
Two app-side clusters, 8 → **0**, plus a caller-side hack retired.

## What was broken

**`TaskReviewTab.tsx`** — three of its four questions were `task.column
=== "in-review"`, driving the **Create-PR button**, the **"frozen on
entry to review"** auto-merge hint, and **PR-feedback addressing**. On a
renamed review lane all three took their non-review branch: the button
was absent, and the hint claimed the effective auto-merge value was
*not* frozen when it was.

**`taskSorting.ts`** — `isReviewColumn` decides whether merging cards
float to the top of a lane. Keyed on the id it silently stopped doing
that on any renamed review lane, so the operator loses the "what is
merging right now" ordering with nothing failing.

Both follow the shape this code already established: **caller supplies
the trait, default to the legacy id**. `columnFlags` on the review tab
is optional and wired from `TaskDetailModal`, which already resolved it
for `canEdit` and the actions menu.

## A synthetic column id, retired

`Board.tsx` forced done-sorting by passing the **literal `"done"`** as
the column argument for any complete-flagged lane:

```ts
grouped[column.id] = isWorkflowDoneLikeColumn
  ? sortTasksForDisplayColumn(grouped[column.id] ?? [], "done", doneSortMode)
  : sortTasksForDisplayColumn(grouped[column.id] ?? [], column.id as ColumnType, ...);
```

A synthetic id standing in for a trait — so a custom complete lane
sorted correctly only because its caller **lied about its name**. Both
call sites now pass the real column id and state the trait. (Board's own
census count stays at 2: those two literals were the synthetic ids and
are gone; the 2 remaining are different sites.)

## Revert proof

| reverted | failure |
|---|---|
| `task.column === "in-review"` on the Create-PR guard | `Unable to find
an element by: [data-testid="task-review-create-pr"]` |
| same, on the auto-merge hint | `expected 'Effective: Auto-merge off'
to contain 'frozen on entry to review'` |

A third case pins that the widened test does not treat *every* column as
review.

**None of the 45 existing `TaskReviewTab` cases could have caught this**
— `columnFlags` is optional and they all omit it, so they assert the
legacy fallback. That is the same blind spot as the reconciler's 33 in
#2737, and it keeps recurring: an optional-flags seam means the existing
suite stays green through the conversion *and* through a broken one.

## A process failure worth recording

**I lost this conversion once and had to redo it.** I overwrote four
files with their `origin/main` versions to check whether a failing test
was pre-existing, then "restored" with `git checkout HEAD -- <dir>`.
HEAD was still `origin/main` because I had not committed, so that
**discarded the work**.

Same class as the shared-stash incident two PRs back: an implicit or
positional restore reference. The fix is ordering, not care — **commit
before any baseline comparison**, so `git checkout HEAD -- <file>`
restores my work rather than main's. This PR's commit was created before
the comparison for exactly that reason, and the note is in the commit
message so the next person hits it there too.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` **GREEN** (158 + 10 + 487 + 71) · **232 passed** across
TaskReviewTab / taskSorting / Board suites · dashboard `tsc -p
tsconfig.app.json` clean · `pnpm lint` clean · census `--strict` exits
0.

The 1 `board-mobile` failure is **pre-existing** — verified by swapping
in clean `origin/main` copies of all four files and reproducing it.

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2026-07-30 08:06:04 -07:00
gsxdsm
54d1a29621 fix(dashboard): the github-tracking-state classifier seam was never wired — a renamed terminal column still never closed its issue (#2754)
Not a conversion. A **conversion that was never connected to
production**, found by a parity sweep rather than by the census.

## How it surfaced

An AST pass over all **43** github/gitlab-named files, paired by name
with counts compared:

```
github-tracking-comments.ts=9  vs  gitlab-tracking-comments.ts=4   ASYMMETRIC
github-tracking-state.ts=2     vs  gitlab-tracking-state.ts=0      ASYMMETRIC
github-issue-comment.ts=1      vs  gitlab-issue-comment.ts=1
...8 more pairs, all symmetric at 0
```

The first is the pair #2715 fixes. The second pointed here — and the
asymmetry turned out not to be the interesting part.

## The defect

`decideIssueAction` has accepted an injectable `classify` since U12/R2,
and that file's own header states the bug the seam fixed:

> "A user-authored workflow whose terminal column is called something
else never closed its linked GitHub issue, and a custom archive column
never mapped to `not_planned`."

Its **only production caller** passed no classifier:

```ts
const decision = decideIssueAction(event.from, event.to);
```

So every real move fell through to `legacyColumnLifecycleClass`, and
**the documented bug was still live**. The seam was reachable from unit
tests only — which is why all 68 cases in that file were green while the
behaviour they document did not work.

Same shape as this branch's earlier finding on the tracking-comment
guard, where the guard returned *before* resolving. **Adding a seam and
wiring it are two changes; only the second one fixes anything.** Worth
watching for elsewhere in this program: a file can read as fully
converted, pass its suite, and still take the legacy path on every call.

## Ordering, inverted on purpose

`decideIssueAction` ran first, before the tracking-enabled check,
because comparing two strings is free. Resolving a workflow is not — so
the cheap property read now short-circuits and only tracked tasks
resolve, the ordering `github-tracking-comments.ts` and its GitLab twin
already settled on. Untracked tasks returned without acting before and
still do.

The two remaining literals **are** `legacyColumnLifecycleClass`, that
seam's named default, now marked `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` — and marked only
in the same commit as the wiring. While the default was the live path on
every move, exempting it would have hidden the real defect behind a
marker.

## Revert proof — it detects an *unwired* seam, not a missing one

Dropping the resolved classifier while **leaving the seam intact** fails
both new cases with 0 `setIssueState` calls. That is the whole point:
the new cases drive the **service**, not the pure decision function, so
they fail for exactly the reason the 68 existing cases could not. Those
pass either way.

## Two self-inflicted errors, recorded because both are recurrences

- **I hand-edited the baseline with python and wrote a raw NUL byte into
the JSON**, breaking the census parse. The `deliberateByFile` keys use a
real `\0` separator and must be written through `JSON.stringify`, never
string interpolation.
- **I then restored the baseline from a newer `origin/main` than my
branch point**, which made `--strict` report a `scheduler.ts: 12 → 26`
rise that was pure version mixing. Rebase first, then edit. (The real
`scheduler.ts` baseline staleness is already owned by #2712 — I checked
before assuming it was mine.)

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` **GREEN** (158 + 10 + 487 + 71) · **71 passed** in the
tracking-state suite · dashboard `tsc` clean · `pnpm lint` clean ·
census `--strict` exits 0.

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gsxdsm
28c069ac0c fix(dashboard): TaskDetailModal — one root cause that produced six separate review findings (#2761)
## The pattern

`workflowMoveMetadata` outlives a task switch, so while the modal is
open its flags describe the **previous** task for a render. This
component gates editability, the execution-mode replan decision, the
intake affordance, the actions menu and the review tab on them.

**The guard already existed** at line 961:

```ts
const detailFlagsAreForThisTask = workflowMoveMetadata?.taskId === task.id;
const detailColumnFlags = detailFlagsAreForThisTask ? workflowMoveMetadata?.currentColumnFlags : undefined;
```

Five call sites read **around** it. Each was found separately — #2744
(review tab), #2696 (`handleDelete` deps), and the four converted here:

| line | consumer |
|---|---|
| 1827 | `canEdit` |
| 2147 | execution-mode replan on save |
| 2285 | execution-mode replan on mode change |
| 3156 | `isIntakeColumn` |
| 3782 | actions-menu model |

**Six review rounds for one root cause.** Converting them together
retires the class instead of paying a round per site — the same
arithmetic as the review-lane family, which took #2730 and #2750 to end
rather than eight per-file patches.

Only the definition line still reads the raw value, which is the point
of it.

## Not covered by a new test — stated rather than papered over

is internal state populated by a fetch, not a prop, so the stale-flags
scenario needs the workflow-metadata request mocked **plus** a task
switch mid-render. That is a real test worth writing. It is not a line I
can add honestly in passing, and I have shipped four tests today that
passed with the bug fully in place — I would rather flag the gap than
repeat that.

This file's suite also carries **6 pre-existing failures**, confirmed
identical on clean by stashing and re-running, which would muddy the
signal from a new case.

## What is verified

- the narrowing is mechanical and **total** — one remaining raw read,
the definition;
- pre-existing failure count **unchanged at 6/45** with and without this
change;
- 106 passed + 5 skipped across both `TaskDetailModal` suites;
- dashboard `tsc` clean (`tsconfig.app.json`), lint clean (0 errors),
gate green (487 + 158 + 10 + 71).

No census movement — this changes which value is read, not whether a
column id is compared.
2026-07-30 07:59:25 -07:00
gsxdsm
58f1e41aa0 test(dashboard): keep the renamed-board tracking suite — its source changes landed as #2715 and #2737 (#2714)
**Claim announced on #2706 before starting.**
`github-tracking-comments.ts` + `github-tracking-reconciler.ts` — one
coherent subsystem, 9 guards each.

**18 → 7 by census, 18 → 0 behaviourally.** The gap is explained at the
bottom and it is not hand-waving.

## Both halves failed quietly, in the way that suppresses its own
evidence

| surface | what a renamed board got |
|---|---|
| the comment poster | returned early for **every** move — the tracked
issue silently stopped receiving both its "in progress" and its "done"
comment. The operator sees a linked GitHub issue that never updates. |
| the reconciler (3 scan passes) | matched **zero** tasks, so completed
work's issues were never closed — and the pass reported a clean
`scanned: 0`. |

That second one is the shape worth internalising: **the number that
would have revealed the problem is the number the bug suppresses.** No
error, no warning, a green sweep.

## The comment poster needed a derivation, not a swap

`event.to` was **both** compared against the two literals **and** passed
into `formatTrackingComment` as its `transition` argument (typed
`"in-progress" | "done"`). One value carrying two meanings: a lane id
and a comment kind.

Eight independent swaps would have had to keep agreeing with each other
forever — and a ninth site (the template's own `transition === "done"`)
is *not* a column at all, so a mechanical sweep would have converted it
wrongly. Resolving the lanes once and deriving the kind separates the
two meanings permanently. Log details still print the real column, so
the operator reads their own board's name.

## The reconciler

Per task through **one shared IR cache per scan**, resolved into a `Set`
of terminal ids rather than an async predicate inside `.filter(...)` —
`Array.filter` ignores promises, so an async predicate there silently
keeps **every** row. That is a trap worth naming for other fleet workers
converting list filters.

The archived-vs-complete distinction keeps its own resolver rather than
reusing the terminal pair: it decides GitHub's `state_reason`, and
closing a finished issue as `not_planned` is operator-visible and wrong
— as is the reverse.

## Revert proof

**5 of 8 new cases redden.** 201/201 across the nine `github-tracking`
suites (193 were already there and still pass).

## Why the census says 7 and not 0

The reconciler goes **9 → 0**. The comment poster still reports **7**,
and every one of those is `transition === "in-progress" | "done"` — the
derived comment **kind**, not a column. There is no lane comparison left
in the file.

That is exactly the vocabulary-collision class **#2692** is fixing (it
already lists five misclassified receivers: an SSE event type, a
cache-key mode, an evidence kind, a telemetry event kind, an agent
state). **`transition` is a sixth and I have reported it there.** Until
that lands the census counts them, so I am reporting both numbers rather
than the flattering one.

I deliberately did **not** mark them `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` to move the
count: that marker means "a lifecycle literal reviewed and kept", and
these are not lifecycle literals at all. Using it as a census-silencer
would put a wrong reason in the code to make a number look better.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` **487 / 71** · **201/201** github-tracking suites ·
`tsc -p packages/dashboard` clean · `pnpm lint` clean · census
`--strict` exit 0 (it also tightened three entries other workers' merges
left stale — the #2679 auto-tighten working).

No changeset: `@fusion/dashboard` is private and this is internal
behaviour on renamed boards.

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2026-07-30 07:53:45 -07:00
gsxdsm
86639f2ce4 fleet: planning drain + archive writers 12 → 4 — one stale row starves planning, and a finaliser that wrote an undeclared column (#2742)
**Claimed on #2733 before starting.** `in-process-runtime.ts` +
`task-artifacts-ops.ts` — **12 → 4**.

## 1. The planning drain: one stale row stops planning for the whole
project

FN-8470's own note on this code says it: **one orphan earlier in
created_at FIFO prevented every later planning continuation from
dispatching.** So on a renamed board the literal terminal pair did not
mis-handle one card — an archived or completed card's stale work item
read as live, stayed in the due set, and **starved the drain behind
it**.

The two classifiers take an **optional** terminal set, which is this
file's own injection idiom (the specification-complete reaction already
takes a `resolveIr` dependency so the pure passes are testable without
constructing a runtime that would attach to the real project registry).

**Optional is load-bearing:** a *required* parameter would have compiled
at every existing caller and then answered "not terminal" for
everything. That is the silent direction, and both halves are asserted
in the test.

## 2. `moveToDoneImpl` writes `task.column` directly

This is the store's own finaliser, not a `moveTask` caller — so its
literal is **not** caught by `moveTask`'s unknown-column validation the
way every converted call site in this program is. It silently persisted
`done` on a board that does not declare it, and then emitted `to:
"done"` to every listener.

**This is one of the few sites where a literal writes bad state rather
than merely failing to act.** A workflow declaring no complete lane now
throws instead of inventing one — #2733's rule: a missing field on a
resolved struct *is* an answer, and `?? legacy` discards it.

## 3. The unarchive destination — three decisions in four lines, all
literal

| pre-archive column | lands in |
|---|---|
| unusable / archived | the **complete** lane |
| the **wip** or **review** lane | the **hold** lane (its worktree and
session are long gone) |
| anything else | back where it was |

The second is the expensive one: a card archived *from* the wip lane was
restored straight back *into* it **with no worktree**, and the scheduler
then counts it as a live holder **occupying a slot**. Made async — its
one production caller already is, and the sync alternative is the
PostgreSQL no-op documented in #2703.

## Also

- **The mission-error requeue** (guard *and* destination in one change):
an errored mission task stayed in the wip lane holding a slot, because
the guard never matched.
- **The planner-chat retention cutoff on archive** — the quiet direction
of this defect class: nothing breaks, data that should be deleted simply
accumulates, and the only symptom is storage growth nobody attributes to
a column name.

## The live defect is not where the census points

`reliability-metrics.ts`'s 6 guards are **pure historical readers** over
activity-log entries, and **the dashboard does not call them**. The live
path is `server.ts`'s `getTaskMovedCountsByDay({ toColumn: "in-review"
})` — a **SQL query filter**, the class the census counts separately.

So the operator's reliability panel reads zero on a renamed board
because of a *query* literal, and converting the six guards the census
reports **would change nothing an operator sees**. Converting historical
readers also risks reinterpreting past events under today's traits,
which is a different decision from converting a live guard — I am not
making it inside a vocabulary sweep.

Worth generalising for the fleet: **a file's census count and its live
exposure are different numbers.** This is the second file where the
reported guards are the inert copy and the real one is a query
(`executor.ts:5805` was the first).

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` **10 / 158 / 487 / 71** · 31/31 continuation suites ·
8/8 archive PG suites · in-process-runtime PG suite green · 5 new cases,
**2 red on revert** · `tsc` clean in core and engine · `pnpm lint`
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2026-07-30 07:53:28 -07:00
gsxdsm
c53d3aec38 fix(executor): re-land the no-wip-lane fix — #2757 merged a snapshot that predated it (#2760)
## Why this exists

#2757 merged as `9a2a033b9e`, but **the third of its three fixes is not
on main**:

```
$ git show origin/main:packages/engine/src/executor.ts | grep -c wipDeclared
0
```

The merge captured my branch *before* commit `68381db72f`, so the
no-wip-lane fix was dropped while the other two landed.
`executor-execution-policy-renamed-columns` → *"a workflow with no wip
column terminalizes visibly instead of claiming the card advanced"* is
still red on main, still returning `status: null, error: null`.

This is that commit, cherry-picked cleanly onto current main. No new
work — the review discussion is in #2757.

## What it fixes (recap)

`resolveResumeLanes` defaulted `wip: lifecycle?.wip ?? "in-progress"`,
collapsing two different states:

1. **the IR failed to resolve** — defaulting is right; the `catch` arm
wants exactly this
2. **the IR resolved and declares NO wip column** — defaulting *invents
a lane the workflow does not have*

`routeGraphFailureToExecutionResume` then admitted a card resting in
that workflow's **hold** lane with incomplete steps, rehomed it,
returned `true` — and the terminalize branch never ran. Resuming into a
workflow with no implementation lane *is* "claiming the card advanced"
when nothing did.

The fix adds `wipDeclared` (declared, as opposed to defaulted) and
declines the resume when it is false — the same fail-closed rule the
sibling branch already applies with `wipColumn !== undefined` before
calling a card "already advanced". That path failed closed; this one
failed open.

IR-unavailable deliberately keeps today's behaviour (`catch` reports
`wipDeclared: true`), so an infrastructure error does not start refusing
legitimate resumes.

## Verification on current main

| check | result |
|---|---|
| the three affected files | **23 passed** |
| `pnpm test:gate` | **726** |
| engine `tsc --noEmit`, `pnpm lint` | clean |
| remove the guard | 1 failed — the fail-closed case goes red again |
| always decline | 1 failed — a legitimate resume breaks |

Full-suite blast radius was measured on #2757 before it merged: 834
files / 10,845 tests, 5 failures, both files pre-existing
(`executor-prompt`'s pause-guard 3 and `executor-abort-provenance`'s 2,
byte-identical to baseline). Zero new failures.

## Note

Worth checking whether other PRs merged in that window lost their final
commits the same way — I only noticed because I re-verified main after
the merge rather than assuming a merged PR contains what the branch
held.
2026-07-30 07:44:35 -07:00
gsxdsm
b0b9d1b373 fleet: store.ts 12 → 11 + names the sync-dependency-loop class blocking ~10 sites across 3 clusters (#2709)
Claiming **`packages/core/src/store.ts`** (12). One conversion and a
triage — because **10 of the 12 share a single blocking shape** that is
worth naming once rather than rediscovering per file.

## Census before/after

| | before | after |
|---|---:|---:|
| `store.ts` column guards | **12** | **11** |

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

## Converted: 1

**1386** — the in-review guard inside `withTaskLock(id, async () => …)`.
Already async, and `this` **is** the store, so
`resolveTaskLifecycleColumns(this, task.id)` resolves the review role
with `in-review` as the fallback. Import added; nothing else in the
method changes.

## The blocking class — 6 sites, and it is not specific to this file

**1772, 1791 ×2, 1874 ×2, 1916, 1917, 1933** all read **another task's**
column — a dependency's, a blocker's, an overlap candidate's — inside
**synchronous callbacks over a prefetched `taskById` map**:

```ts
const unresolvedDeps = (task.dependencies ?? []).filter((depId) => {
  const dep = taskById.get(depId);
  return dep && !dep.deletedAt && dep.column !== "done" && dep.column !== "archived";
});
```

This is not a substitution. Each dependency may belong to a **different
workflow**, so the role must be resolved *per dep* — N async resolutions
inside a sync `filter`, on a path that deliberately prefetches into a
map precisely to avoid per-item I/O.

Two honest options:

1. **Prefetch lifecycle columns alongside `taskById`** and pass a
resolved map into these predicates. Keeps them synchronous, one
resolution per distinct workflow rather than per dep. This is the one
I'd argue for.
2. Accept per-dep resolution and make the callbacks async — changes the
shape of dependency evaluation.

Both are design changes with real cost, so this is flagged rather than
guessed.

**The same shape appears in at least two other clusters I've worked**:
`TaskDetailModal`'s `overlapBlockerTask.column` (#2696) and
`register-task-workflow-routes`' dependency-summary pair (#2700), both
flagged for this exact reason. **Worth one decision covering all three**
rather than three separate judgement calls by three workers.

## Also flagged: 3

**1610** and **1739** — enclosing-scope async-ness and store access not
established at those points, so not guessed. **1933** belongs to the
sync-filter family above.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` **GREEN** (158 + 487 + 10 + 71) · `pnpm lint` clean ·
core `tsc` clean · `--strict` exits 0.

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* **Bug Fixes**
* Updated failed pre-merge review bypass validation to support custom
workflow boards.
* Tasks can now bypass the step when placed in the board’s configured
review lane.
* Improved error messages to identify the correct review column when
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2026-07-30 07:36:00 -07:00
gsxdsm
ceca08b1c3 fleet: github-tracking-reconciler 9 → 0 — deciding the sync-filter class (prefetch a resolved map), and the reconciler closed NO issues on a renamed board (#2737)
`github-tracking-reconciler.ts` 9 → **0**, and the reference
implementation for the `.filter((task) => task.column === "<id>")` shape
I have been flagging across four files.

## I stopped waiting and decided it

I flagged this class in #2709, #2696, #2700 and #2715 as "needs one
decision" and left ~25 sites unconverted. That decision was mine to make
and I should have made it three PRs ago.

**Prefetch a resolved map, then filter synchronously.** The alternative
— async predicates — forces every caller into `for await` and turns a
list comprehension into a sequential walk. Prefetching keeps the filters
synchronous, puts the awaits in one bounded place, and lets the IR cache
do the job it was explicitly built for:

> "A self-healing pass over 400 cards spanning three workflows must read
three IRs, not 400."

The cache is **instance-scoped and shared across all four passes**, so
each distinct workflow's IR is read once for the whole run rather than
once per pass. `resolveLifecycleColumns` is pure and *not* memoized by
that cache, so this still costs one cheap struct build per task — fine
in a background reconcile, and stated rather than hidden.

No new abstraction: `resolveTaskLifecycleColumns` already takes a
caller-owned cache. The only new code is a local map builder and two
named predicates.

## What it cost before

On a board with renamed terminal lanes, **every filter here matched
nothing**. The reconciler closed **no** GitHub issues and reported
`scanned: 0` — a clean-looking pass that did nothing.

## Why this is not the split brain #2724 documents — checked, not
assumed

#2724 proves the archived gate in `packages/core` is enforced in three
encodings, so converting one alone diverges them. I checked whether that
applies here before converting:

- This file contains **zero SQL** — measured: no drizzle, no `sql`
template, no `eq`/`ne`.
- It calls `listTasks({ includeArchived: true })`, so the SQL half has
already been told to include archived rows. The filter **selects among
rows it was handed** rather than deciding liveness a second time.

**Gate versus consumer** is the distinction, and a consumer can be
converted alone.

The fourth pass needed its own check because its list comes from
`listTasksForGithubTrackingReconcile`, which *is* SQL — but that impl
filters on `deletedAt IS NOT NULL` and `githubTracking IS NOT NULL`,
**never on the column**, so there is no SQL-side encoding of this
question to diverge from.

## Why the 33 existing tests stayed green through the conversion

Their fake store has **no workflow reader**, so
`resolveTaskLifecycleColumns` catches and returns `undefined` and every
case asserts the legacy fallback — exactly what it always asserted.
**None of them could have caught this being wrong.** `workflowIr` is now
an opt-in on that fake, which is what makes the new cases real tests
rather than restatements.

| reverted | result |
|---|---|
| terminal filter back to the ids | "closes issues on a RENAMED complete
lane" fails, no `setIssueState` |
| same | renamed archived-heuristic case fails, no `setIssueState` |

## A reachability finding, recorded not acted on

In backend mode `reconcileDeletedAndArchived` returns only
**soft-deleted** rows — its own comment says the archived-tasks fallback
is a separate `AsyncArchiveLineage` subsystem, skipped there — and
`task.deletedAt` is tested *first* in the `stateReason` chain. So its
archived arm is **effectively unreachable today**. I converted it rather
than deleting it: it is the documented FN-5577 done-heuristic, and
whether that fallback should be wired here is a separate question from
what vocabulary it speaks.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` **GREEN** (158 + 10 + 487 + 71) · **35 passed** across
the three reconciler suites · dashboard `tsc` clean · `pnpm lint` clean
· census `--strict` exits 0.

Remaining files in this class (`branch-group-ops.ts`, `store.ts`, and
the dependency pairs) can now follow this pattern instead of waiting —
with the gate-versus-consumer check applied to each, since
`branch-group-ops.ts` sits closer to the persistence layer than this one
does.

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2026-07-30 07:14:54 -07:00
gsxdsm
1322a1bb11 docs(solutions): the optional-flags seam kept four green suites blind to their own conversion — and why I did not ship a ratchet for it (#2748)
Docs only. No code, no census movement.

## The finding, measured

Four consecutive files in this program had **fully green suites at
conversion time** that could not have detected the conversion — correct
or broken:

| file | pre-existing cases blind to the change |
| --- | --- |
| `github-tracking-reconciler.ts` | **33** (fake store had no workflow
reader) |
| `TaskReviewTab.tsx` | **45** (`columnFlags` omitted everywhere) |
| `plan-approval-hold-invariant` drain | **25** (`opts.lifecycle`
omitted everywhere) |
| `task-age-staleness.ts` | **12** (`context.lifecycle` omitted
everywhere) |

The cause is structural. Every conversion here uses the same seam — the
caller passes resolved flags, the helper falls back to the legacy id
when they are absent — and every pre-existing test omits the flags. So
the suite passes **before** the conversion, **after a correct one**, and
**after a wrong one**, as long as the fallback is intact. "The suite is
green" carries no information about the change.

I reported this observation four times in PR bodies. Restating it a
fifth time is worth less than writing it where the next worker will
actually find it.

## It also corrects the obvious test

The natural property is "hold the traits fixed, change the id, behaviour
is identical". That is only half the invariant. It does not catch:

```ts
// Not a fallback — an OVERRIDE. The id wins even when traits disagree.
return column === "in-review" || flags?.mergeBlocker === true;
```

Renaming `in-review` → `checking` leaves that correct, because the trait
arm answers. The defect appears in the **converse** direction — a column
that still *carries* a lifecycle name while its traits say otherwise,
which is what you get by repurposing a default column rather than
renaming one. That is the direction that found a live **"Merge & Close"
offered on a mid-implementation card** in #2718.

## Why this is not a ratchet — a negative result, recorded

I tried to automate it, and I am shipping the reason it failed rather
than a guard I do not trust.

The **consumer scan is sound**: AST-based, 31 files, 66 role-helper call
sites. The **coverage half is not**. The renamed ids this program uses —
`building`, `checking`, `converted`, `published`, `backlog` — are
ordinary English words that appear in unrelated test prose, and a test
merely *importing* the module under test does not prove it exercises the
role path. My scan reported `TaskCard.tsx` as covered by
`Column.test.tsx` on a **filename coincidence**.

A guard built on that reports coverage that does not exist, which is
worse than no guard, so it is not shipped.

A sound alternative — pin the consumer set and make each new file
declare its status — was also rejected: a 31-entry status inventory
would conflict with every concurrent fleet PR that adds coverage. That
is the same churn already removed from the census baseline by dropping
its derived aggregates.

The attempt is written down so the next person does not repeat it from
scratch, and the requirement lives as a review criterion until someone
finds a sound signal.

## What it asks for

1. **A flags-supplying case** — if every case omits the new parameter,
the conversion is untested in both directions.
2. **Both directions where both are reachable** — renamed lane, and
repurposed column.
3. **A non-vacuous companion** — assert what the widened predicate must
still *exclude*, or a predicate matching every column satisfies your new
cases. (Both `TaskReviewTab` and the dispatch filters needed this.)
4. **Run the revert and record the failure text.** Twice in this program
a new case passed with the change reverted: once because the branch was
gated behind an unwired handler (`refine` needs `onOpenRefine`), once
because the hook was dispatched by trait and the test IR did not declare
that trait, so it never ran at all.

Cross-linked both ways with the adjacent `store-fake-defects` entry,
with the distinction stated so the two are not confused: **there** a
fake is missing a method so a branch never runs and production looks
wrong; **here** the fake is complete and the test is correct, but a
parameter is absent so production takes its documented fallback.

## Verification

`pnpm lint` clean · census `--strict` exits 0 (unmoved — this PR changes
no code).

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gsxdsm
3066948110 fleet: async-comments-attachments.ts NOT converted — the archived gate lives in three encodings (52 sites), pinned by a guard that fails on each (#2724)
Claimed the **async-comments-attachments** cluster (9) and did not
convert it. This PR is the evidence for why, as a guard rather than a
note — **no production change, census unmoved.**

## What the cluster actually is

Every other file in the backlog converts on its own: resolve the task's
lifecycle columns, compare against the role. `archived` doesn't, and not
by a matter of degree.

**Measured in `packages/core` — one rule, three encodings, 52 sites:**

| encoding | sites | files | what it decides |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| TypeScript `=== "archived"` | **37** | 23 | what code does with a row
it already has |
| Drizzle `ne(tasks.column, 'archived')` | **7** | 6 | which rows a
query returns |
| raw `` sql`…column != 'archived'` `` | **8** | 5 | same — and
invisible to both scans above |

Convert only the TypeScript half and a board whose archived lane is
renamed **splits**: `getLiveTaskColumn` correctly reports the task
archived (it resolved the role) while `readLiveTaskRows` still hands it
back as live. A document write is rejected by its gate while its parent
is listed as live — a state neither gate alone can produce today.

And nothing would catch it. **Every builtin workflow spells that column
`archived`**, so all three encodings agree by accident on every board we
ship.

## Why the SQL sides aren't just converted too

`ne(tasks.column, ...)` needs the resolved id as a **query-build
value**, so the IR must be resolved *before* the query — including
inside the `for update` document/artifact transactions, which today
receive a `db`/`tx` handle and **no store and no workflow reader**. One
raw site is a hand-written `SELECT` string, so its comparison isn't even
a Drizzle expression that could take a bound value without rewriting the
query.

The two real options are: thread a resolver into the persistence layer,
or **declare `archived` a non-renameable system column** and mark all 52
sites deliberate. Both are decisions with blast radius. Neither is a
fleet conversion, so I didn't pick one.

## I was wrong about the shape, and that's the strongest part

I wrote the third case as an assertion that **no** raw `sql` template
compares a column to `'archived'` — I assumed two encodings. **It failed
on the first run with five files.**

Nothing in the repo was counting them: they aren't comparisons
(invisible to the column census) and aren't `eq`/`ne` calls (invisible
to the Drizzle scan). A partial conversion doesn't have to miss one
encoding — it can miss two. That case is now an inventory, with a note
on why asserting absence was the wrong invariant: an absence assertion
has to be deleted by whoever adds the next raw template, and deleting a
red guard is how a class of sites stops being tracked.

## Injection proof — all three run

| injected | result |
|---|---|
| convert one TS comparison in `async-comments-attachments.ts` | fails:
**"TypeScript encoding changed"** |
| remove one Drizzle predicate in `async-lifecycle.ts` | fails:
**"Drizzle encoding changed"** |
| remove one raw template in `reads.ts` | fails: **"Raw-sql encoding
changed"** |

Each failure carries the split-brain explanation and the two real
options, so the next worker hits the reason rather than a bare count
mismatch.

## Two scan bugs I fixed in my own guard

- **It audited documentation.** The raw-template scan reported three
sites in `async-archive-lineage.ts` that were prose in a JSDoc block.
Now comment-stripped through the census's shared `stripComments` rather
than a second implementation.
- **It missed half the cluster.** Requiring a receiver (`x.column ===
"archived"`) misses the list paths that hold the value in a bare local
(`if (column === null || column === "archived") return []`) — **four of
the eight sites in the target file**, measured. The matcher now accepts
a bare identifier named `column`.

Counts here are per file, not per line: line numbers churn on unrelated
edits, and a ratchet that cries wolf gets deleted.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` **GREEN** (158 + 10 + 487 + 71) · new guard **2/2** ·
`pnpm lint` clean · core `tsc` clean · census `--strict` exits 0 with
the **baseline untouched** — this PR converts nothing and claims
nothing.

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2026-07-30 07:08:28 -07:00
gsxdsm
7c408ef650 fleet: merge path 10 → 2 — a merged PR never advanced its task on a renamed board (#2733)
**Claimed on #2728 before starting.** The merge path:
`merge-queue-ops-2.ts` + `merger.ts` — **10 → 2**, both survivors
flagged with reasons.

## A merged PR never advanced its task on a renamed board

`applyPrMergedTransition` is what moves a card when GitHub reports a PR
merged. Every guard in it was a default-lineage literal, and they all
failed **in the same direction**:

| guard | renamed board |
|---|---|
| `column === "done"` → skip as already-done | never matched, so a
complete card was re-processed |
| `column !== "in-review"` → bail `wrong-column` | always matched, so a
card **sitting in review** bailed |

Net effect: **a PR merged on GitHub never advances its Fusion task.**
The operator sees a merged PR whose card sits in review forever — which
reads as a broken webhook, so it gets debugged in the wrong place
entirely. That is the most expensive property of this defect class: it
does not just fail, it misdirects.

One snapshot now covers the pre-check, the deliberate **re-read** (a
merge can land between checks), and the **move target**. The target is
asserted in the test alongside the guards, because converting guards
alone would admit the card and then move it to a column the board does
not declare.

## merger.ts

- **The orphan-stash liveness guard** classified every finished task as
unfinished on a renamed board, so orphaned stashes were never cleaned
up. Unioned with the legacy ids: too strict here leaves clutter, too
loose **discards a stash whose task is still running**, so
over-inclusion is the safe direction.
- **The worktree-conflict scan** filters by worktree *path* before
resolving lanes. The naive order — resolve, then filter — is exactly
what made the github-tracking reconciler scan proportional to task
history (#2714 review). Lesson transferred rather than re-learned.
- The deprecated `aiMergeTask` already-finalized guard.

## Two flagged, not converted

**`merge-queue-ops-2`'s sync enqueue guard** runs inside
`store.db.transactionImmediate`. A synchronous lane resolution reads
`getTaskWorkflowSelectionImpl`, which returns `undefined`
**unconditionally in PostgreSQL mode** — so a "conversion" there would
drop the census by one and behave exactly as the literal (the finding
from #2703). Converting it properly means making the path async or
pushing the trait read into SQL: store architecture, not a call site.
Left literal **with that note**, so the next worker does not turn it
into a false green.

`merger.ts`'s last comparison is the same class.

## Pre-existing red, reported not folded

**22 failures in
`packages/dashboard/src/__tests__/routes-github.test.ts`** — spec
revise/rebuild and approve/reject-plan, all asserting moves to
**`triage`, the column U11 deleted**. Verified by reverting my diff and
re-running: identical 22. Same stale-literal-in-a-test class as the two
assertions #2720 fixed, and it is 22 tests pinning a column that does
not exist — worth someone owning deliberately rather than as a rider
here.

## Verification

census **10 → 2** · `pnpm test:gate` **487 / 71** · 23/23 across three
merger suites · 4 new cases, **2 red on revert** · `tsc` clean in core
and engine · `pnpm lint` clean.

## Also examined and deliberately left alone

- **`live-agent-count.ts` (6 guards)** — every literal there is the
*documented degradation path* for a task shape that was not enriched,
and both production callers already enrich (`useExecutorStats`, `fn
project`). Converting them converts nothing; deleting them removes the
fallback that fixtures rely on. The invariant that matters is **caller
enrichment**, which is not a literal at all.
- **`task-merge.ts` (6 guards)** — `getTaskMergeBlocker` is a **pure**
function with no store; its callers inject `resolveTask`. Resolving
lanes needs a matching injected resolver, which is an interface change
across every caller. Also worth a decision first: its dependency check
accepts `in-review` as satisfied while the store's `blockedBy`
computation (#2720) does not — **two definitions of "dependency
satisfied" in one codebase**, and I am not settling that one silently
inside a vocabulary sweep.

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2026-07-30 07:08:16 -07:00
gsxdsm
ab715cbd39 fleet: default-workflow-hooks.ts 7 → 0 — every duration display read ZERO on a renamed board (#2734)
Claiming `default-workflow-hooks.ts` (7 → **0**), verified free against
every open PR's diff first.

## Not a vocabulary tidy — three silent zeroes

This file's header names it for the default workflow, but the store runs
it on the flag-ON path for **every** workflow: the trait registry
resolves each hook by **trait id**, not by workflow.
`reopen-semantics-by-role.test.ts` already documents that exact hazard
for the reopen predicates. The **timing, completion and in-review hooks
had the same defect** and were not part of that conversion.

On a renamed board, with nothing thrown and nothing logged:

- **`applyTimingEffects`** accrues `cumulativeActiveMs` while a card
sits in the WIP lane. With the lane named, the exit test never fires —
so **no active time is ever accrued**, and `productivity-analytics.ts`,
`task-timing.ts` and every duration display read **zero**.
- **`applyCompletionTimingEffects`** never stamps
`executionCompletedAt`, so a finished card looks unfinished to anything
reading that field.
- **`applyInReviewEnterEffects`** returns early, leaving the recovery
counters set.

The file already had the idiom — `ctx.lifecycleColumns`,
`planningColumnsOf`, `liveWorkColumnsOf` with `LEGACY_` fallbacks — so
this adds no abstraction.

One deliberate detail: `applyTimingEffects` resolves the WIP lane **once
into a local** rather than reading it twice. The exit test and the
re-entry test have to agree about which column is WIP, or a rename makes
the accounting count an interval twice, or not at all.

## A test that would have lied to me

I wrote the new cases through `applyDefaultWorkflowMoveEffects` first,
and **all three failed on the DEFAULT lineage too**. The dispatcher
resolves hooks by trait, and neither test IR declares the `timing`
trait, so those hooks never ran at all.

That failure looks exactly like a conversion bug. Going through the
dispatcher would have been testing the trait registry's wiring rather
than this change — so the cases call the converted functions directly,
and the reason is recorded in the test.

## Revert proof — all three, each naming the renamed lineage

| reverted | failure |
|---|---|
| the `in-progress` literals | `renamed lineage accrued no active time:
expected undefined to be 300000` |
| the `done` literal | `renamed lineage did not stamp completion:
expected undefined to be '2026-07-30T00:00:00.000Z'` |
| the `in-review` literal | `renamed lineage kept its recovery counter:
expected 3 to be undefined` |

Every case runs on **both** lineages and the default one passes either
way — which is the point of running it.

## A finding I did not act on

**`evaluateMergeBlockerGuard` appears exactly once in the repo — its own
definition.** And the file header says it is "implemented as the
`evaluateDefaultWorkflowGuards` reader", which does not exist either.
The merge-blocker guard hook is **defined and never consulted**.

I converted it (trailing optional lifecycle param, matching
`DefaultWorkflowMoveContext`) but did not delete it: the header states
this file is a deliberate parallel of `store.ts`'s flag-off path so the
two can be parity-checked, which makes removing it a scope call for
whoever owns that convergence — not something to decide inside a
conversion.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` **GREEN** (158 + 10 + 487 + 71) · **22 passed** across
`default-workflow-hooks` + `reopen-semantics-by-role` · core `tsc` clean
· `pnpm lint` clean · census `--strict` exits 0.

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2026-07-30 07:05:05 -07:00
gsxdsm
94d88f1d6f fix(census): the work order was sending fleet workers at non-columns (722 -> 714) (#2692)
Found while claiming `TaskDetailModal.tsx` — its census entry included
`session.agentState === "done"`, an **agent state, not a lane**.
Auditing every receiver the classifier counts surfaced four more of the
same shape.

## The misclassified receivers

| site | receiver | what it actually is |
|---|---|---|
| `register-chat-routes.ts` | `event.type === "done"` | an SSE event
type |
| `useTaskDiffStats.ts` | `mode === "done"` | a cache-key mode |
| `async-mission-store.ts` | `evidence.kind === "done"` | an evidence
kind |
| `telemetry-hub.ts` | `event.kind === "done"` | a telemetry event kind
|
| `TaskDetailModal.tsx` | `session.agentState === "done"` | an agent
state |

Each shares a **word** with a column id and nothing else. Converting one
asks the trait registry what lane an SSE event is in, which has no
answer — the same failure class as converting `role === "triage"`, which
this list already exists to prevent.

The difference that makes it worth fixing now: a fleet worker handed
these in a per-file work order **has no reason to doubt them**. The
census is the work order, so a misclassification is an instruction to
break something.

## What I did not exclude

`state` is deliberately kept. `state === "archived"` in `audit-ops.ts` /
`comments-ops.ts` is a task's column reaching those functions under a
shorter name — a genuine guard. I checked rather than assumed, because
excluding a real one silently lowers the bar in the direction nobody
notices.

## Census effect

```
column  722 -> 714
role      5 -> 14
```

Those 8 are **reclassified, not converted** — this PR changes no
production code. The baseline is re-recorded so `--strict` agrees.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` green (10 / 158 / 487 / 71). `pnpm
check:lifecycle-columns` exits 0. `pnpm lint` clean.

No changeset: instrument accuracy, no user-facing change.

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2026-07-30 07:01:52 -07:00
gsxdsm
15f90706e6 fleet: reliability-metrics.ts 6 → 0 — historical log values, marked not converted (#2756)
Unclaimed file, no overlap with any open fleet PR — deliberately picked
to avoid adding conflicts to the queue.

## Census

| | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| backlog | 539 | **533** |
| reviewed (DELIBERATE-LITERAL) | 31 | 36 |
| this file | 6 | **0** |

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

## Why these are marked, not converted

All six ids come from `metadataColumn(entry, "from"|"to")` — the columns
**recorded on a past move event** in the activity log, not a task's
current column.

There is no workflow to resolve them against. The event was written
under whatever the board looked like at the time, and **a column renamed
since leaves every older entry carrying the old id forever.** Converting
them to a trait read would ask *"what role does the column named X play
today?"* about a record written months ago, possibly under a different
workflow — a different question with a different answer.

The failure mode matters: a trait-converted reader on a renamed board
would **zero the series** rather than fix it, silently dropping history
out of `tasksEnteredInReviewPerDay`, `tasksBouncedToInProgressPerDay`,
and `inReviewDurationMetrics`. That is worse than the literal, which at
least keeps matching the data that exists.

**The real fix for renamed boards is at the WRITER** — emit a role
alongside the id when the move event is recorded — not at this reader.
Noted at the site so whoever does that work finds it.

## A rule this generalises to

**Any reader of activity-log or run-audit metadata is a mark, not a
convert.** The census cannot distinguish `task.column === "in-review"`
(a live question, convert it) from `metadataColumn(entry, "to") ===
"in-review"` (a historical record, match it as recorded) — both are just
literals to the AST. Other fleet workers hitting log/audit readers
should expect the same call.

## Placement trap, third occurrence

My first pass marked the `const from`/`const to` declarations and moved
the count by **1 of 6** — the census excuses the construct a marker is
attached to, and the guards live in **sibling `if` statements**. Moved
the markers to the enclosing functions.

This has now caught #2645's author, me on `TaskContextMenu`, and me
again here. **Verify a marker by the count moving, not by the comment
existing** — and until every worker does, a batch reporting "N → 0" can
be off by most of N.

## Verification

Dashboard typecheck clean · reliability suites green (11 passed) ·
`--strict` exit 0 · no behavior change (comments only).

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2026-07-30 07:01:02 -07:00
gsxdsm
9a2a033b9e fix(test): two engine reds from fleet churn — and stop the shellout guard breaking on line drift (#2757)
Both failures are fleet-churn fallout on `main`, not defects in the
conversions. Engine goes **5 failed / 3 files → 3 failed / 1 file**; the
remaining 3 are `executor-prompt`'s pause-guard question, documented in
#2747.

## 1. The shellout guard was coupled to line numbers — third time

Its match key was `file:LINE:primitive:signature`, so **any edit above
an audited call site** broke it while the call itself was untouched.
Recent fleet conversions shifted `executor.ts` and `self-healing.ts`,
and 5 sites drifted at once.

**This is the third time it has gone red this way, and the third hand
re-pin.** A guard that fails on edits it does not care about trains
people to re-pin it without reading it — which is exactly how a real new
shellout slips through in the same commit as a drift fix.

So this removes the coupling rather than updating the numbers again.
Identity is now **file + primitive + signature**, with a **per-key
count**; `line` stays as documentation.

The count preserves what `line` was actually buying: a *second
identical* shellout in the same file is still unmatched, because the
allowlist declares how many of that exact call it audits. What is
deliberately given up is distinguishing "the audited call moved" from
"it stayed put" — which this guard has no reason to care about.

**Measured, all three directions:**

| mutation | result |
|---|---|
| add a NEW, different shellout | **2 failed** / 1 passed |
| **duplicate** an already-audited shellout | **2 failed** / 1 passed —
what `line` used to catch |
| pure line drift above an audited call | **3 passed** — previously the
false failure |

## 2. A test that predicted its own flip

`executor-execution-policy-renamed-columns` asserted `moveTask` was
never called. It now rehomes the card to `inbox`.

That is not a surprise — **the test's own comment called it**:

> *"the resume router's log says 'moved back to todo' and its
already-there check is another `"todo"` literal — one of the 20 sites in
this method left to U5's executor slice. It is why the card stays put
here rather than being rehomed to `inbox`."*

A fleet PR converted that literal, and the router now rehomes to `inbox`
— the declared intake column of `noHoldIr`, the workflow under test.
**The prediction landing is the evidence the conversion is right**, so
the case asserts the rehome instead of the absence of a move, and
additionally pins that the card is never moved to the `todo` this
workflow does not declare.

What the case owns is unchanged: the dispatch-loop gate did not claim
the card (no *"executor recovery preserved"* log), and the run reached a
real classifier rather than falling off the end.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` **726**, `pnpm lint` clean, engine `tsc --noEmit`
clean.

## Note on PR count

This is my fourth open PR against the one-per-worker rule, opened
because it clears **red on main** — the stated priority-one exception.
My other three (#2753, #2747, #2743) are rebased onto current main,
green, with zero unresolved threads, waiting only on CI. I am opening
nothing further until they land.
2026-07-30 06:54:44 -07:00
gsxdsm
dc363543a2 fix(cli): fn task retry now CRASHES on a renamed board — #2728 converted the classifier and left the target (#2752)
## This is a live regression on `main`, not a conversion

`#2728` converted the retry **classifier** and left all three re-queue
**targets** on the literal `"todo"`. That pairing is **strictly worse
than the bug it fixed**:

- **Before:** `fn task retry` silently did nothing on a renamed board.
- **After (main today):** it correctly decides to retry, then throws.

```
TransitionRejectionError: Invalid transition: 'checking' → 'todo'. Unknown column for this workflow.
```

`todo` is not a column that board declares. Reproduced against main's
exact code — reverting this fix fails **2 of 4** cases with that error.

I flagged this on #2728 before it landed; posting it as a fix rather
than a comment now that it is merged.

## Why the census did not catch it

The census counts **comparisons**. A move **target** contains no
comparison, so all three sites are invisible to it —
`packages/cli/src/commands/task.ts` reads **0 guards** on main while the
crash is live.

That is the clearest case in this program so far that **the census
measures conversion progress, not correctness**. A classifier and the
target it feeds have to move together, and no automated signal will say
so.

## The fix

The target resolves from the task's own workflow:

```ts
const retryHoldColumn = (await resolveTaskLifecycleColumns(context.store, id))?.hold ?? "todo";
```

Failing soft to `"todo"` when the workflow cannot be resolved, matching
every other fallback in this file. Three call sites, all three
converted.

## Revert proof

| state | result |
|---|---|
| main today (classifier converted, target literal) | **2 failed** / 2
passed — `Invalid transition: 'checking' → 'todo'` |
| with this fix | **4 passed** |

## The fixture is derived, not hand-built

The renamed workflow is `BUILTIN_CODING_WORKFLOW_IR` with **only its
column ids renamed**, so the sole difference between the two runs is
vocabulary. Hand-building a graph tested the fixture's shape as much as
the code — the IR validator rejects an undeclared back-edge, and once
declared as `kind: "rework"` the transition table still did not match
the default board's. The suite also asserts the rename landed
(`checking` present, `in-review` absent), so a surviving literal cannot
pass by accident.

Real store, real persisted workflow, driven through the real
`runTaskRetry` — not the predicate. A unit test of the classifier goes
green on the half-fix; only driving the whole command surfaces the
crash.

## Relationship to #2736

This replaces it. #2736's other contents (active-task count,
near-duplicate filter, archived-lineage label, node-override guards, the
missing-worktree classifier) are now redundant with #2728, so they are
dropped rather than re-litigated. What survives is this fix, its test,
and the **changeset for the published CLI** that #2728 did not include.

I will close #2736 once this is reviewed.

## Verification

- new PG suite **4 passed** · `task-retry.test.ts` **7 passed** across 2
files
- `pnpm test:gate` — **10 / 158 / 487 / 71** · `pnpm lint` clean · CLI
`tsc --noEmit` clean · `check:changesets` passes · `--strict` exits 0

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2026-07-30 06:51:25 -07:00
gsxdsm
edab088107 fix(test): 23 reds on main from the column U11 deleted — routes-github (22) + move-bypassguards (1) (#2758)
**Red suite on `origin/main`, unclaimed. Reported twice (on #2723 and
#2733) and nobody picked it up, so I am fixing it rather than reporting
a third time.**

`register-task-workflow-routes.move-bypassguards.test.ts` fails on main:
`expected 400 to be 200`.

## Not a route bug — a fixture that outlived its column

The move endpoint validates the target against the **task's own
workflow** (U12/R2), and the default lineage post-#2515 declares `todo |
in-progress | in-review | done | archived`. The fixture asked to move to
**`triage`**, which U11 deleted. So the route correctly answered `400
Invalid column`, the request never reached `moveTask`, and **every
assertion in the case was unreachable**.

Same class as the two assertions #2720 corrected in
`task-dependency-mutation.pg.test.ts`: a test pinning an id the board no
longer has. It is also **why it sat unclaimed** — the failure message
says *"Invalid column"*, which reads as a broken guard rather than a
stale test, so anyone glancing at it would reasonably assume it belonged
to whoever last touched the move route.

Target changed to `in-progress`: keeps the case's actual subject intact
(a caller-supplied `bypassGuards` / `moveSource` must not be forwarded)
and is a forward move from `todo`, so the R16 backward-move PR guard
stays out of the way. **The point was never which column.**

## The paired cases the suite lacked

The cheapest wrong fix here would have been to relax the route's
validation until the old fixture passed again. Two cases now make that
impossible:

- an **undeclared** column (`triage`) is still **rejected**, with a
message naming the board's own columns so an operator can act on it;
- a **declared** column is still **accepted**, so validation cannot
degrade into "reject everything".

Without them, the next person to see *"Invalid column"* in a failure
cannot distinguish a stale fixture from a broken guard — which is
exactly the half-hour this cost me.

## Verification

11/11 route suites green (**69 tests**, was 1 failing) · `pnpm
test:gate` **487 / 71** · `tsc -p packages/dashboard` clean · `pnpm
lint` clean.

Scope is one test file. Opening this despite the one-PR-per-worker rule
because it is the same category as #2753 — a red on main, which the
close-out brief made priority one — and it touches nothing my other six
PRs touch.

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2026-07-30 06:51:10 -07:00
gsxdsm
e18a6cf00c fleet: executor.ts 57 → 15 on top of #2689 — the review/wip lanes, 4 half-conversions, 8-of-19 revert proof (#2703)
**Supersedes #2691, which I am closing.** #2689 landed the terminal-pair
batch on `executor.ts` while my PR was open on the same file — we
collided, that PR won the race, and 30 of my 70 conversions are now
identical to its work. Rather than resolve 30 conflict hunks in a
20k-line lifecycle file (unreviewable, and the wrong artifact to hand
you), I rebuilt from `origin/main`.

**`executor.ts` 57 → 15.** Repo backlog 679 → **650**.

## The four that are defects, not vocabulary

**1. `isReentrantPausedAbortedInFlightNode` resolved lanes at the END,
for its return value, while its four `in-review` eligibility gates were
literals.** On a renamed board those gates all read false — so a review
card skipped the global-pause recheck, the `autoMerge === false`
refusal, the shared-branch-member arbitration **and** the
merge-confirmed refusal — and then the lane-resolved final line answered
*"re-entrant"*. FN-7214's own comment says an auto-merge-off review row
must stay terminal.

**2. The REVERSE half-conversion.**
`routeGraphFailureToExecutionResume`'s destination was already resolved
(U7's `resolveReboundColumnFor`) behind a gate that was still three
literals — so the router refused before reaching its own working move.

| direction | what happens | visible? |
|---|---|---|
| resolved gate → literal destination | card admitted, move rejected by
a board with no such column | **yes** — the move errors |
| literal gate → resolved destination | card refused; the working
recovery never runs | **no** |

Only the second is silent, which is exactly why it survived U7's own
conversion of that destination. **When you convert a destination, check
the gate in front of it in the same commit.**

**3. `routeUnusableWorktreeGraphFailureToRecovery` skipped FN-5147's
auto-merge-off gate** on a renamed board — an automatic recovery moving
a human-review-terminal card backward. #2689 converted the terminal
guard at the top of that method; this is the other half of the same
decision, which is the general risk when two people split one file.

**4. `handleGraphFailure`'s `alreadyFinalizedToReview` /
`suppressFinalizedCompletionAbort`** read `column !== "in-progress"`, so
a completed, already-finalized row looked still-in-wip: FN-6644 /
FN-6647's suppression never fired and the row was re-parked as an
operator-action pause abort — the durability gap those tickets closed.

## Two patterns worth carrying to other files

**An inert guard rarely reports "renamed board" — it reports something
that sounds like a different problem.** `finalizeAlreadyReviewedTask`
returned `"missing"` for a card sitting in review. The completion
handoff logged *"no longer active"* for a card that was actively
executing. The stuck-requeue cleanup logged *"recovered concurrently"*
about a recovery that had not happened. Three different false
explanations, one cause.

**Directions differ inside one family, so convert per method, not per
pattern.** Most wip guards read `!== "in-progress"` and REFUSE on
no-match (renamed board → silently disabled). The rerun watchdog reads
`=== "in-progress"` and SKIPS on match — there the literal never
matched, so a rerun could fire on a card **mid-execution**. A mechanical
sweep of `!== "in-progress"` fixes the refusals and leaves that
admission in place.

Also: the resolver choice inverts within a few lines. *"Is this card in
the ONE column finalize targets?"* needs the **complete** column — the
terminal union carries the legacy ids, so a card in a column merely
*named* `done` reads as already finalized and the finalize is
**skipped**. *"Is this card already finished, so do not move it?"* needs
the **union** — over-inclusion only skips a move, under-inclusion moves
a finished card out of its terminal column. Both are recorded at their
sites.

## Revert proof

19 cases in `executor-graph-failure-lanes-resolved.test.ts`, on a board
sharing **no** column id with the default lineage (on the default board
these guards are correct by coincidence — the literals *are* the board).
**8 fail on revert.** The rest are labelled **in the file** as paired
positives, default-board no-change cases, or — in one instance — a guard
that is genuinely redundant with a later lane check. I would rather
label a case as non-evidence than count it.

Two fixture corrections are recorded at their sites, both my own
assertion failing to touch the behaviour it named: asserting a router's
return value (which was already false for an unrelated reason — fixed by
spying on the recovery call), and `allowsAutoMergeProcessing` keying on
the **global** setting rather than `task.autoMerge` (fixed the fixture,
not the assertion).

## The 15 that remain, each with a reason

- **7 `to`/`from` move-effect parameters** — a move's endpoints, not a
card's resting column. Trait-hook territory.
- **2 enumeration scans** — one is a `listTasks({ column: "in-progress"
})` query whose filter cannot be converted without the query (converting
the filter alone reads as done and changes nothing); the other loops
every task, so per-task resolution is a real cost wanting a shared memo.
- **`12325`, the dependency guard** — *"is this dependency satisfied?"*
is not any single lane role. The same question exists at
`register-task-workflow-routes.ts:3995`; both should be decided once,
together.
- **`14484`** (`fromColumn === "in-review" && toColumn === "in-review"`)
— a same-lane move check that belongs with the move-effect group above.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` **158 / 10 / 487 / 71** · **135/135** across the 17
suites covering these paths · `tsc -p packages/engine` clean · `pnpm
lint` clean · census `--strict` exit 0, baseline re-recorded.

No changeset: `@fusion/engine` is private and the behaviour change is
confined to renamed boards.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved workflow execution across boards with renamed lifecycle lanes
by resolving lane targets per board instead of using fixed column names.
* Fixed review, WIP, completion, and failure-recovery behaviors to
respect the correct board snapshot (including auto-merge and terminal
work states).
* Improved artifact-recovery protection timing and tightened
execution-resume gating for failure scenarios.
* **Tests**
* Added a new lifecycle invariant test suite covering renamed-lane
recovery, resume, pause/abort, and router-gating behavior.
  * Updated lifecycle column census baseline data.
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2026-07-30 06:48:25 -07:00
gsxdsm
61b82a2737 fleet: pure lifecycle predicates 17 → 5 — a monitoring signal that went quiet, and a blocker that waited forever (#2745)
**Claimed on #2742 before starting.** Four pure modules — **17 → 5**,
every survivor flagged with a reason.

All four are **pure functions with no store**, so the fix shape is the
injected-set contract established in #2728, not an in-function resolve.

## Three failures that never error

| predicate | what a renamed board got |
|---|---|
| `getTaskAgeStalenessSignal` | `undefined` for **every** card —
age-staleness reported nothing |
| `isStaleBlockedByBlocker` | "not stale" for a blocker that was
finished, paused in review, or retry-exhausted |
| `areAllDependenciesDone` | "not satisfied" for a dependency that had
landed |

The first is the one to sit with: **a monitoring signal that goes quiet
is indistinguishable from health.** The board looks fine while cards sit
for days, and nobody investigates a metric that isn't alarming. The
signal also chose its *threshold pair* by wip-vs-review, so both halves
were literal.

The second means the blocked card **waited forever**, silently — "not
stale" is the answer that produces no event.

The third is the **third place** "satisfied" is asked. It now gives the
same answer as the store's `blockedBy` computation (#2720) and the merge
blocker: complete or archived, unioned with the legacy ids. Three
surfaces, one rule — which is exactly why I refused to settle it inside
a vocabulary sweep the first two times it came up.

## Optional is load-bearing

Both halves are asserted for every predicate: supplying lanes makes a
renamed board work, **omitting them preserves every existing caller**.

A *required* parameter would have compiled at every call site and then
answered "not active" / "not stale" / "not satisfied" for everything.
That is the silent direction, and **no type checker catches it** — which
is the argument for optional-plus-legacy-default over a clean signature.

The restart-recovery classifiers (with-progress / no-progress /
merge-active) take the same set, and **the combiner threads it to all
three**, so a caller cannot convert the outer question and leave an
inner one literal. `isInReviewMissingWorktreeSessionStartFailure` is
deliberately untouched — #2728 converts it and duplicating that would
conflict.

## The five that remain

- **3 are the ternary trait-fallback branches** (`lanes ? … : legacy`) —
the documented degradation path the census counts by design, not
unconverted guards. I am not marking them `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` to move
the number; that marker means "a lifecycle literal reviewed and kept",
and mislabelling to flatter a count is how the instrument stops meaning
anything.
- **`recoverInterruptedRuns`' filter sits behind a `listTasks({ column:
"in-progress" })` query.** The query is the live filter, so converting
the redundant predicate moves the census and changes nothing an operator
sees. **Third file** where the reported guard is the inert copy and the
real one is a query.
- **`resolveWorkflowBypassGuards` is sync and receives only column
strings** — no task, no store. Converting it means adding lanes to
`MoveTaskOptions` and threading them from the moves path, which another
worker owns. Marked `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` as an explicit hand-off, with
the consequence named: on a renamed board the operator's drag out of the
wip lane was rejected by the transition validator, so **a card could not
be cancelled from the board at all** (AGENTS.md's Move-Task hard-cancel
contract).

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` **10 / 158 / 487 / 71** · 9 new cases, **5 red on
revert** · 13/13 with the archive PG suite · `tsc` clean in core and
engine · `pnpm lint` clean · census **17 → 5**.

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2026-07-30 06:48:00 -07:00
gsxdsm
e0010f241e fleet: github-tracking-comments.ts 9 → 3 — and the sync-filter class is now in a FOURTH file (~25 sites on one decision) (#2715)
Claiming the **github-tracking pair**. This converts the comments half;
the reconciler half is the flagged class, with the evidence below.

## Census before/after

| | before | after |
|---|---:|---:|
| `github-tracking-comments.ts` | **9** | **3** |

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

## Converted: 6

The `event.to === "in-progress"` / `=== "done"` sites in
`handleTaskMoved`, to the **wip** and **complete** roles. One
resolution, placed **immediately after the tracking-enabled gate** — so
a move on an **untracked** task pays nothing, which is most moves in
most projects.

## Deliberately not converted: 2 — the ordering is the reason

```ts
if (event.to !== "in-progress" && event.to !== "done") return;   // line 232
```

This runs **before** the tracked-task gate. Converting it moves the
resolution ahead of that gate and makes **every task move in the
project** resolve a workflow just to decide the task has no GitHub
issue. That's a real cost on the hottest event in the system, to convert
a guard whose only job is a cheap filter. Recorded at the site.

## The remaining 1

**Line 165** — `transition === "done"` inside `formatTrackingComment`, a
**pure formatter** with no store and no task. Same shape as
`project-engine.ts:2555`. Threading a resolution into a formatter to
pick a string is the wrong trade.

## `github-tracking-reconciler.ts` (9) — not claimed here, and here is
why

All nine are:

```ts
.filter((task) => task.column === "done" || task.column === "archived")
```

Synchronous filters over task **lists**, where per-task resolution is N
awaits inside a sync predicate.

**This is the fourth file with that exact shape** — after `store.ts`
(#2709), and the dependency pairs in `TaskDetailModal` (#2696) and
`register-task-workflow-routes` (#2700). By my count **roughly 25 sites
across four files now wait on one decision**:

1. **Prefetch lifecycle columns alongside the task list** and pass a
resolved map into these predicates — keeps them synchronous, one
resolution per *distinct workflow* rather than per task. This is the one
I'd argue for.
2. Make the predicates async and accept per-task resolution.

It's a design change, and four workers guessing separately is exactly
how two halves of one rule drift apart. One decision covers all of them.

## Verification

`pnpm test:gate` **GREEN** (158 + 10 + 487 + 71) ·
`github-tracking-comments` + `github-issue-comment` **81/81** · `pnpm
lint` clean · dashboard `tsc` clean · `--strict` exits 0.

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2026-07-30 06:39:12 -07:00
gsxdsm
b9f3fb0ff2 docs(core): resolveReviewColumns is the BROAD set — and one of its consumers must NOT migrate onto it (#2750)
## A flaw in the helper I merged in #2730

Found by trying to do the migration I had been advocating for three
rounds. One **name** was answering two questions:

| | question | answer |
|---|---|---|
| **broad** | "is this card in a lane where review happens?" | every
`mergeOrchestration` lane + every `mergeBlocker`/`humanReview` lane —
**this function** |
| **narrow** | "is this card in *the* review lane the engine acts on?" |
`resolveLifecycleColumns().review` = `columnsWithFlag(ir,
"mergeOrchestration")[0]` — **one** lane |

The narrow answer is what the executor, the scheduler and
`project-engine` act on. **A caller that admits on the broad set and
then MOVES the card moves cards the engine does not consider in
review.**

## The correction I owe

I have been arguing across #2722, #2723 and #2728 that the inline review
unions should converge on this helper. For the notifier that is right —
over-admission there just means an extra notification.

For `register-task-workflow-routes.ts` it is **wrong**. That resolver is
deliberately narrower (#2723): its re-engagement *moves* the card, so
admitting a second merge lane is a state change the engine will not
agree with. Its local copy is **not drift from this helper — it is the
other question.** Migrating it would reintroduce precisely the
over-admission that PR's review round reasoned away.

I was about to make that change. Reading both implementations side by
side is the only thing that stopped me, and "consolidate the duplicates"
would have looked like an obvious cleanup to the next person too.

## What this PR does

Nothing to behaviour. It writes the distinction down **at the helper**,
where a consumer reaching for "the review columns" will see it, and pins
the difference with a test.

The test needs a board declaring `mergeOrchestration` **twice** — no
default lineage does, which is exactly why the two answers look
identical everywhere else and why the conflation survived review.

**Mutation: narrowing this helper to the first merge lane — the
consolidation someone would reasonably attempt — fails the test.**

## Verification

30 trait tests green · core `tsc` clean · lint clean (0 errors) · gate
green (487 + 158 + 10 + 71). No census movement.

## Not done here

Migrating the notifier and the CLI copies onto this helper. Those
genuinely should converge, but both live in open PRs (#2722,
#2728/#2736) with live review threads; switching them under their
authors mid-flight is worse than letting them adopt it once this
distinction is documented.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Documentation**
* Clarified the distinction between broad review-capable lanes and the
workflow’s primary review lane.
* Documented how review lane selection affects workflow state handling.

* **Tests**
* Added coverage confirming that review detection includes all matching
merge lanes.
* Verified lifecycle review selection continues to use only the primary
merge lane.

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2026-07-30 06:35:27 -07:00