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gsxdsm	3da8b90ed9	fleet: scheduler.ts 26 → 12 — five quiet wrong answers on a renamed board (finished deps blocked forever, PRs unwatched, missions stalled) (#2729) ... ## Census | | before | after | |---|---|---| | `packages/engine/src/scheduler.ts` | 26 | **22** | | repo backlog | 657 | **653** | Baseline re-recorded in this PR; `--strict` exits 0. Four literals removed, and I want to be exact about why it is four and not seven: the converted predicates keep their legacy literals as the documented **no-metadata fallback**, and the census counts per literal, not per code-quality improvement. Deleting those fallbacks would change behaviour in degraded mode (unresolvable workflow → every dependency reads as unsatisfied → dependents blocked forever), which is the expensive direction to be wrong in. ## What was actually broken **1. Dependency satisfaction was keyed on three column ids.** ```ts return !!dep && (dep.column === "done" || dep.column === "in-review" || dep.column === "archived"); ``` On a board whose complete column is `shipped`, a **finished** dependency matched none of the three. `getUnmetSchedulingDependencies` reported it unmet, and the dependent was parked `blockedBy` — *permanently*, because the dependency can never move anywhere that satisfies the literal. Work stops and nothing rescues it. Satisfaction is now resolved on the **dependency's own board**, since a dependency edge may cross workflows — the dependent can sit on the default board while the dependency lives on a renamed one. Resolution is passed in by the caller (`resolveDependencySatisfactionColumns`) with a caller-owned IR cache, so a sweep reads one IR per distinct workflow rather than one per dependency edge. **2. The review half of the file-scope lease was never converted.** The wip half of this same sweep was fixed on 2026-07-30-16:30 (`scheduler-renamed-wip-file-scope-lease.test.ts`). The review half still read `column === "in-review"`, so on a renamed board no review card entered `activeScopes`, a merging card's worktree files read as **free**, and an overlapping candidate dispatched on top of them. One registry, two halves, disagreeing. It now uses `isReviewColumnRole` over the *same* resolved flags map the wip half uses, so the two cannot drift again. ## Finding I am reporting rather than fixing **The two satisfaction rules in this one function genuinely disagree, and the live one is the broader.** | rule | satisfied when | |---|---| | legacy (**live**) | complete ∪ archived ∪ **review lane** | | marker (shadow) | complete ∪ archived | #2720 settled "satisfied = complete or archived" for `update-task-deps.ts` — which matches the **marker** rule, not the live one. So the scheduler currently treats an in-review dependency as finished and `update-task-deps.ts` does not. Reconciling them is a product decision, not a vocabulary one, so this PR preserves **both** rules exactly as shipped. Narrowing the live rule to match would strand every dependent of an in-review card, which is precisely the failure mode fix 1 exists to remove — I am not doing that as a side effect of a rename conversion. ## Revert proof Each fix reverted **alone**, tests re-run: | reverted | result | |---|---| | dependency satisfaction → literals | **2 failed** / 5 passed | | review lane → `column === "in-review"` | **2 failed** / 5 passed | | neither (shipped) | **7 passed** | Each revert fails exactly its renamed case *and* its "both vocabularies reach the same outcome" invariant, while the default-vocabulary controls stay green — so the failures are attributable to a surviving column-id literal and not to a generally broken path. The suite is differential: one workflow **shape**, two vocabularies with identical traits, only the ids differ. No renamed id collides with a legacy literal, so a surviving `=== "done"` cannot pass by luck. There is also a paired negative (`an UNFINISHED dependency still blocks, under both vocabularies`) so the fix cannot degrade into "always satisfied" — the direction it could overshoot. ## Verification - `pnpm --filter @fusion/engine exec vitest run <19 scheduler/dependency/hold-release/overlap suites>` — **174 passed**, no regressions - new suite — **7 passed** - `pnpm test:gate` — **158 / 487 / 10 / 71 passed** - `pnpm lint` clean · `npx tsc -p packages/engine/tsconfig.json --noEmit` clean · `check:lifecycle-columns --strict` exits 0 ## The remaining 22, triaged Not guessed at — grouped by what they actually ask: - **6 fallback branches already converted** (L258, L265, L439, L440, L1712 and the review twin): trait-first with the literal as documented degraded-mode fallback. These reach 0 by *marking*, not converting. - **10 `from`/`to` move-transition arms** (L899–L1042): a different question ("is this transition *into* a review lane?"), and per the scoping note in `docs/solutions/architecture-patterns/` they should not ride along with `task.column` conversions. - **6 `task.column` reads** (L1061, L1135, L1524, L1546, L1554, L2607): convertible, but two sit in sync methods (`resolveBaseBranch`) needing the caller-resolves-and-passes shape, so they are a separate unit rather than a half-conversion here. --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-30 06:15:05 -07:00
gsxdsm	72d42652e5	fleet: CLI surface 16 → 0 — 'active=0' on a busy board, and a retry gate that disagreed with the dashboard (#2728) ... **Claimed on #2714 before starting.** `packages/cli/src/commands/task.ts` (8) + `dashboard.ts` (8) — **16 → 0**. ## The finding that matters: `active=0` on a busy board The same four-line aggregation appears **four times** in `dashboard.ts` — the TUI stats refresh, the serve summary, the status line, the agent-stats pass. Each compared the default lineage's two ids, so on a renamed board every one reported `active=0` while the board was plainly busy. **This is worse than an inert internal guard.** A recovery path that silently stops firing is invisible until something breaks. A stats line that says zero is **read, believed, and acted on** — *"nothing is running, so I can restart the engine."* The four copies are now one helper, and that is the other half of the fix: four independent copies of a lifecycle decision is how they drift, and these were identical **by accident, not by construction**. One IR read per *workflow*, asserted by call count — because the returned number is identical either way, so only counting the work can see it. ## The retry gate exists twice, and #2713 converted one of them After #2713, `POST /tasks/:id/retry` accepted a renamed board's stalled review card while `fn task retry` refused it with *"not in a retryable state"* — **one operator action answering differently depending on the surface**. The rule, stated at the site: **converting one copy of a duplicated gate creates a disagreement that is harder to diagnose than the original inert guard.** Grep the classifier by name before calling a lane converted. ## The rest - **`fn task set-node` / `clear-node`** rewrote the node override of an *actively executing* card, because the "is in progress" check never matched. That guard exists because the rewrite races the run. - **The duplicate-guard candidate filter** kept completed cards in the comparison set on a renamed board, so a new task was reported as a duplicate of work that had already landed — the opposite of useful. - **The duplicate-lineage `(archived)` marker** never printed, so the operator could not tell a live duplicate from a filed one. ## Two DELIBERATE-LITERALs, with reasons The board-render glyph compares `col` taken from the legacy `COLUMNS` enum **that loop iterates** — the literal matches its own receiver by construction. The real defect is already named in the code above it: a card in a renamed column **is not rendered at all**, which is the R8/U10 surface change, not this glyph. Converting it would hide that behind a trait lookup while the loop still cannot see the card. ## Pre-existing, not mine 5 failures in `commands/__tests__/task.test.ts` (GitHub import) **fail on `origin/main`** — verified by stashing this change and re-running. Someone owns that; it should not ride in here. ## Verification census **16 → 0** · `pnpm test:gate` **10 / 71** · `pnpm smoke:boot` **PASS** · `tsc -p packages/cli` clean · `pnpm lint` clean · `task-retry` 3/3 · 4 new cases with **2 red on revert**. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-30 06:04:23 -07:00
gsxdsm	ddba730a59	fix(core): 8 reds across 4 files — incl. a real FN-8603 contract violation and a ratchet row pinning deleted code (#2725) ... ## Measured Full `@fusion/core` suite: **8 failed / 6 files → 1 failed / 1 file** (4611 passed). `pnpm typecheck` exit 0 across every package, `pnpm lint` clean, gate **726**. The one remaining failure is **not mine to fix** — see the last section. ## Four causes; two are product-side, not test drift **1. A real FN-8603 contract violation.** `tool-output-budget.ts:116` had a bare `console.warn`, breaking the rule that production diagnostics route through the shared logger so severity markers and `FUSION_DEBUG` gating survive. `log-severity-spam-contract` caught it exactly as designed. Now `createLogger("tool-output-budget")`, kept at `warn` — an invalid operator-supplied budget is a real misconfiguration, not routine chatter. **2. A ratchet row pinning deleted code.** The manifest pinned a `local reattached project ${project.id}` demotion in `central-core.ts` whose call site was deleted by `5ae6332563` ("collapse dead SQLite dual-path code"). Verified absent from **all** of `packages/core/src`, not merely moved. A manifest row for deleted code can only ever fail — it ratchets nothing — so it is removed with that provenance recorded in place. **3. An intentional settings overlap.** `agentToolOutputMaxChars` now appears in both scopes. Admitted to the parity list because `settings-schema.ts:462` states the intent outright: *"Project settings participate in the existing effective-settings merge, allowing a project-specific tool-output cap … to override global policy."* Placed in `GLOBAL_SETTINGS_KEYS` order, as that test requires. **4. `maxPostReviewFixes` 3 → 10 — the third file pinning the stale 3.** Driven off the exported `DEFAULT_MAX_POST_REVIEW_FIXES` rather than a fourth literal copy. That constant exists *because* the declaration default and two inline `3`s had already drifted apart once; adding another copy would guarantee a fourth drift. ## duplicate-guard: a narrow seam instead of a rebuilt mock Its 3 failures were `Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'projectId')` — the fake modelled the **deleted SQLite path** (`db.prepare().all()`) and recovered the window by parsing a captured cutoff string. It broke when the query moved to `asyncLayer` + Drizzle. Rebuilding a Drizzle chain to recover a number the policy already returns would be mock-the-world for no gain, so the window policy is now one exported pure function — `resolveFingerprintWindowMs`, the **byte-identical** expression — that both the store query and the tests call. Two side benefits: the ±5s timing tolerance is gone (exact assertions), and the `Math.max(1, …)` floor now has coverage the old cutoff-parsing shape could not see. **Load-bearing, verified by mutation:** restoring the old 5-minute ceiling fails 3 of them; deleting the floor fails the new case. ## The remaining failure is a deliberately-deferred product decision `agent-logs-and-monitor.pg.test.ts > aggregateActivityAnalytics …` expects funnel stage `todo` count 2 and gets 0. This is **already diagnosed and deferred by another worker**, in `activity-analytics.ts:604`: > *"The merged column landing in `triage` while the `todo` stage stays empty is a SEPARATE and larger question — it makes the funnel show a phantom 100% drop between Triage and Todo on every default board since U11 — and it is deliberately not settled here. Changing which stage the Planning column reports would retroactively alter how historical analytics read… Flagged for a product decision on PR #2669."* The merged Planning column carries `["intake","hold","reset-on-entry"]` and `stageForTraits` prefers the earliest stage, so `intake` wins. Either fix — remapping the stage, or changing the expectation — silently settles how historical analytics read. I left it alone rather than pick a side inside a test-repair PR. ## Two "flaky" files that are NOT flaky — and I nearly mislabelled them `pg-test-harness-template-concurrency.pg.test.ts` and `moves-intake-only-hard-cancel.pg.test.ts` each failed in one full-suite run and not another, which reads as flake and would have earned a quarantine entry plus a 14-day deletion clock under the standing rule. Measured in isolation instead: | File | alongside other PG suites | alone | |---|---|---| | `pg-test-harness-template-concurrency` | fails intermittently | **4 passed, 3/3 runs** | | `moves-intake-only-hard-cancel` | failed once | **2 passed** | So this is **shared-PG-template contention between concurrently running suites**, not an inherent flake in either test. Quarantining them would have started a deletion clock on healthy coverage and hidden a real harness-parallelism interaction. Flagged for whoever owns the PG harness; no quarantine entry added. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Bug Fixes** * Improved duplicate-detection window handling with consistent defaults, limits, and minimum values. * Invalid tool output limits now produce standardized warning messages while preserving fallback behavior. * Updated settings and workflow validation to accurately reflect supported configuration defaults and scopes. * **Tests** * Strengthened coverage for duplicate-detection windows and configuration parity. * Removed an outdated logging severity expectation tied to a no-longer-applicable message. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->	2026-07-30 05:33:27 -07:00
gsxdsm	277a034e4b	test(engine): two files missed the logger-mock debug sweep (38 red → 0) + a deleted API still pinned (#2716) ... ## What was red | File | Failures | Error | |---|---:|---| | `notification/__tests__/notification-service.test.ts` | 26 | `schedulerLog.debug is not a function` | | `runtimes/__tests__/child-process-worker.test.ts` | 12 | `runtimeLog.debug is not a function` | `debug` is part of the logger surface (`logger.ts:25`) — the channel the noisy-line demotion moved subsystem chatter onto, gated on `FUSION_DEBUG`. A mock that omits it throws on the **first** demoted call, failing every case in the file for a reason unrelated to what any of them assert. These two were missed by the earlier sweep across 27 engine files. ## Measured | Check | Result | |---|---| | the two files | 38 failed → **38 passed** | | `debug` removed from the mocks again | **38 failed** — the entries are load-bearing | | `pnpm test:gate` | **726 passed** | | `pnpm lint` | clean | Census unchanged — test files only. ## Two real drifts under the mock gap Both re-pointed at what the product actually does, not relaxed: **1. Suppression lines are `debug`, not `log`.** `notification-service.ts` routes all five of its `"suppressed ..."` messages through `schedulerLog.debug`. Two assertions looked on `.log` — where the product no longer writes. Verified by grepping the product for the message before editing the test, rather than assuming the mock was the whole story. **2. `centralCore.getGlobalConcurrencyState` is DELETED, not missing.** The cross-project cap was dropped deliberately (`central-core.ts:2124`, `FNXC:CapacityModel 2026-07-28-23:30`) together with `updateGlobalConcurrency`, `acquireGlobalSlot`, `releaseGlobalSlot` and the `concurrency:changed` event — capacity is two numbers **per project** now. That comment also records the slot pair was already dead: no production caller ever invoked it, so `currentlyActive` was never incremented by real work. The worker's stub provides `getLiveRunningAgentCounts` and `recordTaskCompletion`, so the case is re-pinned to the former. It had been pinning an API the product removed on purpose — the assertion would have kept "passing" a shape that no longer exists if the stub had happened to retain a same-named field. ## Flagged, deliberately not changed `ipc/__tests__/ipc-host.test.ts` and `ipc/__tests__/ipc-worker.test.ts` carry the **same incomplete logger mock** but are currently green (56 passed) because no demoted line is reached on their paths. Adding `debug` there cannot be shown to fail today, so it is recorded here rather than slipped in as an unfalsifiable edit. They go red the moment any code they exercise demotes a line — which is how the 29 files before them broke. Found by scanning every engine logger mock for the pattern, not by guessing.	2026-07-30 05:18:19 -07:00
gsxdsm	3b618f2530	fleet: mission-execution-loop.ts 10 → 2 (one rule, five copies; and why these converted where store.ts's look-alikes could not) (#2711) ... Claiming **`packages/engine/src/mission-execution-loop.ts`** (10). Every one of its 10 census sites is the **same rule written five times**: ```ts linkedTask.column === "done" || linkedTask.column === "archived" ``` ## Census before/after | | before | after | |---|---:|---:| | `mission-execution-loop.ts` | **10** | **2** | Converted 4 of the 5 copies (8 of 10 sites) to the complete/archived roles via core's `resolveTaskLifecycleColumns`. Each site already had `this.taskStore` in scope inside an async method **and already had the linked task fetched**, so the resolution rides along with a read that was happening anyway. ## Why these converted where `store.ts`'s look-alikes could not (#2709) Both read **another task's** column. The difference is not whose column it is: - **Here** — async methods, store at hand, one task per call. A resolution is already affordable. - **`store.ts`** — synchronous `filter` callbacks over a prefetched `taskById` map, where per-dep resolution means N awaits inside a sync predicate on a path that prefetches precisely to avoid per-item I/O. Same-looking code, opposite verdicts. The distinguishing question is **"is a resolution already affordable here"**, not "whose column is it" — worth stating because a fleet worker pattern-matching on the receiver alone would get both wrong. ## Not deduped, deliberately The right shape is one predicate used five times rather than five inline copies — and the FNXC comments above each copy show their intent has already drifted apart. But introducing that predicate is a **new abstraction**, which the fleet rules exclude, and it would fold five reviewable substitutions into one design change. Flagged as the obvious follow-up instead of smuggled in. ## Remaining: 2 The fifth copy, at the `hasLiveFixTask` site, where the terminal check is one clause of a longer `Boolean(...)` expression whose other clauses I would have had to reflow. Reviewability, not difficulty. ## Verification `pnpm test:gate` **GREEN** (158 + 10 + 487 + 71) · the four mission suites **150/150** · `pnpm lint` clean · engine `tsc` clean · `--strict` exits 0. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-30 05:08:10 -07:00
gsxdsm	39523403c7	test(engine): isolate the fast-mode red — v1 seam→column normalization skips start (1 → 0) + an unanswered pause-guard question (#2719) ... ## The fast-mode failure, finally isolated ``` expected [ 'review' ] to deeply equal [ 'start', 'review' ] ``` This resisted **three earlier diagnosis attempts** because nothing about the assertion, the fast-mode flag, or the node kind points at the real mechanism: **column normalization of a v1 IR.** **Isolated by mutation, not by reading.** Swapping the node's `config: { seam: "review" }` for the sibling test's `config: { executor: "skill", ... }` makes `start` reappear in `visitedNodeIds`. So `config.seam` is the trigger — which is not a thing the failure text suggests looking at. The chain: 1. v1 normalization places nodes into synthesized default columns **by seam** (`workflow-ir.ts:150` — `review` → `in-review`, seam-less → `todo`). 2. The card rests in `in-progress`, which this three-node graph has **no node for**. 3. `resolveColumnResumeNode` (`workflow-graph-executor.ts:473`) therefore resumes at the next node **forward** — the review node — instead of re-entering at `start`. That resolver's `>=` comparison is commented for exactly this case: *"a card can rest in a column the pipeline has no node for … and must then resume at the next node forward."* **So the product is right and the expectation was stale.** Visited is `["review"]`. `pnpm test:gate` **726 passed**, lint clean, census unchanged. I also recorded in-file *why the sibling skill-executor case legitimately still expects `start`*: its seam-less node normalizes into `todo`, which is **behind** `in-progress`, so there is no forward match and entry falls back to `start`. That contrast is an accident of config rather than a deliberate difference — so the two expectations must **not** be "aligned", which is the obvious-looking wrong move for the next person here. ## Flagged, NOT fixed: `executor-prompt`'s 3 failures are a real design question These assert that `execute()` refuses to dispatch a user-paused row during a global pause: ``` expect(mockedCreateFnAgent).not.toHaveBeenCalled(); // actually called 1 time ``` The test's own comment (from #2371) states the behaviour as "a paused todo task is no longer dispatched at all". **The guard lives in the scheduler, not in `execute()`** — `scheduler.ts:1515` is the `globalPause` gate, and it is a hard stop that never reaches `.execute(`. These three tests call `executor.execute(task)` **directly**, so no guard fires. That is not merely a test-layer mismatch, which is why I am not "fixing" the assertions. `execute()` has **five call sites outside the scheduler**: - `executor.ts:3333`, `:3495`, `:5702`, `:5858` — internal re-dispatch paths - `runtimes/in-process-runtime.ts:2255` — `void this.executor.execute(task)` Whether each of those is separately gated determines whether work can be dispatched on a user-paused row, or during a global pause, by a path that never consults the scheduler. Two legitimate resolutions exist and they differ in behaviour: 1. give `execute()` its own pause guard (defence-in-depth — but must not break legitimate internal re-dispatch), or 2. retire the direct-`execute()` assertions and cover the invariant at the scheduler layer. Picking either silently inside a test-repair PR would either change lifecycle behaviour around **user pause** — a safeguard this program has re-ratified and told me not to narrow — or delete coverage of it. So it stays flagged with the call-site evidence for whoever owns the pause contract. This is the same file and question I flagged much earlier in the program; it is now backed by the specific line numbers rather than a suspicion.	2026-07-30 04:41:06 -07:00
gsxdsm	a59576607a	test(engine): 11 reds from two intended product changes the tests still pinned (#2717) ... ## The 11 failures, two causes Four files, all confirmed red on clean `origin/main`, all unowned. Neither cause is a product defect. **A. U11 merged the two pre-implementation columns.** `builtin:coding`, `builtin:stepwise-coding` and `builtin:brainstorming` now declare `todo,in-progress,in-review,done,archived` — **no `triage`**. So the entry column is `todo`, the former `triage → todo` graph hop no longer exists (there is no boundary to cross), and the replan rebound (`executor.ts:4392`, via `resolveReboundColumnFor`) targets `todo`. Verified by resolving each built-in IR and printing its column ids, not inferred from the failure text. **B. `maxPostReviewFixes` was raised 3 → 10** via `DEFAULT_MAX_POST_REVIEW_FIXES` (`builtin-workflow-settings.ts:555`). Two files still pinned 3. | File | Before | After | |---|---:|---:| | `workflow-graph-optional-step-fix` | 5 failed | **39 passed** | | `builtin-workflows-lifecycle` | 3 failed | **94 passed** | | `agent-tools-intake-column` | 2 failed | **4 passed** | | `workflow-settings-fallback-alignment` | 1 failed | **3 passed** | `pnpm test:gate` **726 passed**; lint clean; census unchanged (test files only). ## Three choices so these don't re-break on the next rename Swapping `"triage"` for `"todo"` everywhere would have worked and been wrong in three places: 1. **The replan log assertion no longer embeds a column id.** `executor.ts:5366` *interpolates* the resolved column into the message, so a literal there pins a column name inside prose — guaranteed to break again. It now matches the message shape plus the attempt/budget counter, while the destination column stays pinned by the `moveTask` assertion in the same test. 2. **The budget case drives off the imported `DEFAULT_MAX_POST_REVIEW_FIXES`.** That constant exists *because* the declaration default and two inline literal `3`s had already drifted apart once — its own comment says raising the declaration alone "would have left every unset-settings path on the old value". A third copy in a test would repeat exactly that mistake. 3. **`agent-tools-intake-column`'s two guards are RE-PINNED, not deleted.** They hold the default workflow's landing column stable and fired on an intended change, so they still have a job. Deleting them removes the only check; leaving them on `triage` pinned a column that no longer exists. ## What I deliberately did not touch `builtin-workflows-lifecycle` has **18** expectations and only **3** were failing. I changed only those three: the other 15 pass unchanged, which proves those workflows genuinely still declare `triage`. A blanket rename across the file would have broken them — the same trap that bit me earlier in `starved-refinement`, where renaming a shared fixture default broke a test that had been passing. Similarly in `workflow-settings-fallback-alignment`: case (b), which scans engine source for literal `?? <n>` fallbacks, **already passed** — there are no literal fallbacks left for that key because the read sites import the constant. Only the human-readable audit table had lagged. That table is the drift detector, so updating it keeps it honest rather than pinning a value the product abandoned. ## Still red in this area, not in this PR `executor-fast-mode-workflows` (1) and `executor-prompt` (3) remain. They are not column- or budget-drift; `executor-prompt`'s three call `execute()` directly and raise a real design question (whether `execute()` should carry its own pause guard, or whether those direct-call assertions should retire) that I am not answering silently in a test-repair PR.	2026-07-30 04:28:50 -07:00
gsxdsm	3577cb6adf	fleet: project-engine.ts 12 → 5 — auto-merge silently declined every card on a renamed board (#2706) ... **Claim announced before the work** (on #2689, alongside `register-task-workflow-routes.ts`): `packages/engine/src/project-engine.ts`. **12 → 5.** Repo backlog → **685**. ## The failure mode here has no error signature Every merge guard in this file spelled the lane `in-review`. On a renamed board nothing throws, nothing logs a warning — **auto-merge simply declines every card**: | guard | what a renamed board gets | |---|---| | `requestInterpreterMerge` | returns `noOp: true` — *"parked cleanly in review, awaiting human merge"* — for a card that was in review and fully eligible | | the merge-queue snapshot | returns an **empty list** for a queue full of review cards, so the coordinator sees nothing to admit | | the `taskMoved` auto-merge handoff | never fires, so nothing reaches auto-merge in the first place | | the pause-interruption tracker | drops every card from its paused-review set on the next update, so a merge paused mid-flight is never interrupted | The operator sees cards resting in review with auto-merge **on**, and every log line says the system did the right thing. There is no string to search for — which is the argument for the census being a parse rather than a grep over error messages. ## Implementation notes - **Core's `resolveTaskLifecycleColumns` directly** — the canonical helper, so no new abstraction and no fourth local resolver in a file that had none. - **The merge-queue snapshot resolves per task through a shared `irCache`**, because a merge queue can hold cards from *different* workflows. Per-workflow, not per-card: one IR read each. - **The handoff and its post-grace recheck share one snapshot.** They are halves of one decision — "did this card just enter the merge lane, and is it still there?" — and that is exactly the split that produced the defects in `executor.ts`. ## Revert proof **1 of 3 cases reddens** with the literal restored. The suite invokes the real `requestInterpreterMerge` via `.call()` on a minimal `this` (`runtime.getTaskStore`, `allowInReviewMergeProcessing`, `onMerge`) instead of standing up a whole `ProjectEngine` runtime. The body under test is the shipped one, and *reaching* `onMerge` is the assertion. I would rather explain that seam than either skip the proof or spend the test budget booting a runtime. The default-board case is labelled in the file as no-change evidence, not counted as coverage. ## The remaining 5, flagged not guessed All five are `column === "done"` **merge-confirmation reads** — "did the merge land?". That is a different question from any lane role, and it shares its answer with the dependency guards I flagged in `executor.ts` (`12325`) and `register-task-workflow-routes.ts` (`3995`). Three files, one open question: **what does "landed / satisfied" mean on a board whose terminal column is not named `done`, and is it the complete column or the terminal union?** Deciding it once and applying it to all three is right; swapping it three times independently is how the resolver choice ends up inconsistent — which already happened once inside `executor.ts`, where the correct resolver inverts between two guards a few lines apart. ## Verification `pnpm test:gate` **158 / 10 / 487 / 71** · **56/56** across the six auto-merge / project-engine suites · 3/3 in the new suite · `tsc -p packages/engine` clean · `pnpm lint` clean · census `--strict` exit 0. No changeset: `@fusion/engine` is private, and the behaviour change is confined to renamed boards. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-30 04:25:19 -07:00
gsxdsm	0c7dc8c8ae	feat(census): report MIXED-VOCABULARY files — the shape behind four half-conversion findings in one day (#2704) ... ## The pattern Four review findings dispatched to me in a single day were the **same defect**: a guard converted to role resolution while the function it *feeds* still filters on the literal. The resolved guard admits a custom column, the literal collaborator rejects it, and **nothing errors** — the endpoint returns `repaired: 0` and reads as converted. | PR | resolved side | literal collaborator | |---|---|---| | #2700 | review guard | `reconcileInReviewBranchRebind` filters `=== "in-review"` | | #2700 | retry guard | `isInReviewMissingWorktreeSessionStartFailure` likewise | | #2698 | role-aware tabs | reconciliation effects still compare `"done"` / `"in-review"` | | #2688 | role-derived flags | memos and a `useState` capture keyed on the stale value | Since opening this I have been handed **two more** of the identical shape (#2701, #2702). It is not a coincidence; it is what a conversion phase produces by default. ## What this adds A file where **both vocabularies are live** is where that can happen, so the census now names those files. **Measured: 23 of 134 guard-bearing files, holding 311 of 686 guards** — and the top of the list is exactly where the findings landed: ``` MIXED-VOCABULARY files (a role resolver AND legacy literals): 23, holding 311 guards 110 packages/engine/src/self-healing.ts 57 packages/engine/src/executor.ts 26 packages/engine/src/scheduler.ts 20 packages/dashboard/src/routes/register-task-workflow-routes.ts ``` ## Report-only, deliberately A partially converted file is the **expected** state during a conversion phase. Gating this would punish correct in-progress work and would be routed around within a day. What it buys is that a reviewer of a listed file knows to check the collaborators of anything converted — which is what this repo's **Surface Enumeration** rule already requires, and what each of those PRs missed. The rule exists. The fleet work order does not mention it, so reviewers are catching these one site at a time. ## Verification Five tests, both directions: flags a mixed file; does **not** flag a fully literal one (or the entire backlog lights up and the signal carries no information); does **not** flag a fully converted one; does not match a resolver name inside a longer identifier (the `hold`-inside-`threshold` trap from #2677); survives an unreadable file. **Mutation: dropping the resolver condition fails 2 of 38.** The helper lives in the **lib**, not the CLI — importing the CLI executes it and calls `process.exit`, so nothing defined there is reachable from a test. I found that by trying. 38 census tests green · `--strict` and `--compare` exit 0 · lint clean · gate green (487 + 158 + 10 + 71). **No census numbers change.**	2026-07-30 04:02:19 -07:00
gsxdsm	a037ca93c7	test(engine): un-red the reliability-interactions tier (5 → 0) + a guard that could not fire (#2707) ... ## How this was found Full-suite **shard 3/4** reports no `Tests N failed` summary at all — its log ends mid-`@fusion/engine [1/2]` on a watchdog heartbeat, so the red reads as infrastructure noise. It is not. Facts that ruled out the infrastructure explanations, before touching any test: - watchdog budget is **1500s**; the engine slice died after **~6.5–10.5 min** (varies run to run) — not a timeout, and not a fixed one - job `timeout-minutes: 60`, ran **9.7 min** — not the job timeout - `concurrency.cancel-in-progress: false` — not cancellation - annotation says **exit code 1**, not 137 — not an OOM kill - across **four consecutive runs** the last file named is always `reliability-interactions/explicit-duplicate-marker-sweep.test.ts` Running that file locally reproduces real failures. The summary line is simply missing from the CI log's final chunk (the last ~5s of output never appears), which is what disguised a normal test failure as a crash. ## Four causes, none a product defect | File | Failures | Cause | |---|---:|---| | `explicit-duplicate-marker-sweep` | 2 | fixture seeds `column: "triage"` | | `starved-refinement-x-approval-gate` | 1 | same | | `starved-refinement-x-triage-poll` | 1 | same | | `executor-pending-review-skip-retry` | 1 | review handoff now passes move **options** | `triage` is no longer declared on any workflow post-U11, and these sweeps filter by **role** — so cards seeded there carried no intake role and the sweeps reported 0. ## Measured | Check | Result | |---|---| | `reliability-interactions` | 5 failed → **0** (103 files, **530 passed**) | | `pnpm test:gate` | **726 passed** | | `pnpm lint`, engine `tsc --noEmit` | clean | Census unchanged — test files only. ## The real find: "honors the disable flag" could not fail Forcing `enabled = true` in `resolveExplicitDuplicateMarkerTasks` — i.e. making the sweep **ignore the disable flag entirely** — left all 16 cases **green**. The fixture never set `triageDuplicateResolution`, so the sweep had no resolution action to take and the duplicate survived whether the flag was honoured or ignored. The assertion held for a reason unrelated to the test's name. It had been red only because of the column literal, which would have made "fix the literal, go green" a repair that left a guard guarding nothing. Setting the resolution mode makes that same mutation delete the duplicate and the case fail. Verified both directions: | | mutation applied | |---|---| | before | 16 passed — **guard cannot fire** | | after | **1 failed** / 15 passed | Recorded in-file with the measurement, so nobody strips the setting back out as redundant. ## Two assertions strengthened rather than relaxed - The disable-flag and failed-delete cases now assert the column is **unchanged from a value read before the sweep**, rather than equal to a literal. They cannot pass because a seed happened to land where the assertion looked, and they survive the next column rename. The invariants those cases own are "the flag stops the sweep" and "the task whose delete threw survives" — the column id was always incidental. - The handoff move asserts its **provenance** (`nodeId: "review-pending-handoff"`, `preserveProgress: true`) instead of the `expect.anything()` its siblings in that file use, so a move to the same column by another path cannot satisfy it. ## Still open for whoever owns CI Shard 3/4's log loses its final chunk, which is why a plain test failure presented as a crash and stayed unexplained across at least four runs. Anyone triaging full-suite from shard conclusions alone will keep mis-reading this one; the failure has to be reproduced locally to be visible.	2026-07-30 03:59:13 -07:00
gsxdsm	339f6e7830	fix(census): stop the baseline serialising the fleet — every fleet PR conflicted with every other one (#2699) ... ## The problem Every fleet PR conflicts with every other fleet PR in `lifecycle-column-census-baseline.json` — **even when they convert entirely different files**. I have rebased **six** of my own branches for nothing but this file, and the resolution was *always* "take main's, re-run `--update-baseline`". Never once a real merge. That makes a generated artifact the serialisation point for the whole fleet phase. ## The cause `totals`, `byColumnId`, `properties` and `queryByColumnId` are **derived** — recomputable from the per-file maps — and **`--strict` never reads any of them**. It compares `byFile`, `deliberateByFile` and `queryByFile`, and nothing else. But every conversion changes at least one aggregate line. So those lines were a **shared write on a file whose real content is per-file and disjoint**. Removing them, two PRs converting different files touch no common lines. ## Trade-off, stated because it undoes a deliberate choice An earlier note kept the totals in the pin *"so the new number lands in the diff where a reviewer sees it"*. That was a good reason. The signal survives elsewhere: - the CLI prints the totals on every run; - `--update-baseline` prints each tightened entry by name; - the fleet rules already require a census before/after **in the PR body**. Reversible if the diff-visible number proves to matter more than the conflicts. ## Cost, stated too Merging this makes every in-flight fleet PR re-record once. That is one more instance of an operation they are already performing on every rebase — a one-time cost against a recurring one. ## Verification The end-to-end test that asserted the write via `totals.column` now asserts the same claim via the per-file entry: the stale pin says 1, the rewritten pin must carry the tree's real higher count for that file. **Mutation: suppressing the `--update-baseline` write still fails it**, so the assertion did not weaken. 71 census tests green · `--strict` and `--strict --exact` exit 0 · lint clean · gate green (487 + 158 + 10 + 71). ## Not done A merge driver. `.gitattributes` can name one, but registering it needs `git config` per clone and this repo has no `postinstall`/`prepare` hook to do that — so it would silently not apply for most people. Removing the shared lines fixes the conflicts without needing any local setup.	2026-07-30 03:56:12 -07:00
gsxdsm	78b6b5ba37	fleet: packages/engine/src/executor.ts 85 → 57 (in progress; 4 batches, plus the structural measurement this cluster needs) (#2689) ... **Claiming `packages/engine/src/executor.ts`** — the largest unclaimed cluster (self-healing.ts and scheduler.ts are taken). ## Census | | before | after | |---|---:|---:| | `executor.ts` | 85 | **75** | | repo total | 722 | **712** | | `done` | 195 | 190 | | `archived` | 147 | 142 | Baseline re-recorded in the same commit; it shrinks by exactly the converted count (10 literals across 5 sites). ## Batch 1 — terminal-lane guards Five identical *"this card is already finished, refuse"* guards, all the literal pair `live.column === "done" || live.column === "archived"`. On a renamed board neither matches, so the refusal falls through — the same inert-guard shape as #2670. Converted to `resolveTerminalColumnsFor`, **the helper this file already established** at line 4509 — no new abstraction. It unions the resolved terminal columns with the legacy pair, so each converted guard is a strict **superset** of the literal: it can refuse in more cases, never fewer. That is what makes this batch safe without per-site behavior review. ## The structural measurement this cluster needs #2683 found self-healing.ts unsafe to batch because of **sync** workflow reads — a converted guard there would resolve through a sync path that cannot resolve a selection in production, silently falling back to defaults. I measured whether executor.ts has the same problem, per guard (not per line): | context | guards | |---|---:| | **async** — safe, can `await resolveWorkflowIrForTask` | **71** | | **sync** — needs threading or is not convertible in place | **14** | | module scope | 0 | The 14 sync-context guards are at lines 3455, 3479, 3530, 3540, 4611, 5501, 5502, 5504, 5777, 10213, 12306 (×3), 15782 — `in-progress` 4, `in-review` 4, `archived` 3, `done` 2, `todo` 1. **I am not converting those in place**, and I will flag rather than guess if threading resolved data changes behavior. So: unlike self-healing, this cluster is **83% safely convertible**, which is why it is worth working as a batch. ## Note on #2685 Engine code converts through core's resolvers (`resolveLifecycleColumns`, `resolveTerminalColumns`), not the dashboard `columnRoles` helpers. So the 680-guard helper gap #2685 fixes is **dashboard-side** — this cluster is not blocked on it. ## Verification engine `tsc` clean · lint clean · gate green (487 + 158 + 10 + 71). **Pre-existing failures, not caused by this change:** five tests in `src/__tests__/reliability-interactions` fail, all in `SelfHealingManager.recoverStarvedRefinementTriageTasks`. I confirmed by stashing this change and re-running on a clean tree — they fail there too. This change touches only `executor.ts` and does not go near that path. Flagging rather than fixing: it is someone's cluster and not mine to alter mid-flight. ## Not done Batches 2+ (the remaining 75). I will keep working this file in this PR with small commits, per the fleet rules.	2026-07-30 03:25:21 -07:00
gsxdsm	3d28e264c1	test(self-healing): three suites seeded a column id the product stopped declaring (7 red → 0) (#2695) ... ## What was red `self-healing-advanced-triage`, `self-healing-agent-link-drift`, and `self-healing-starved-refinement` — **7 failed / 19 passed** on clean `origin/main`. All three fail the same way: the sweep returns `0` recoveries where the test expects `1`. ## Cause Those three sweeps were converted from `listTasks({ column: "triage" })` to **role** filters (`filterByPreWipRole(..., ["intake"])`). Each store fake has no workflow-selection readers, so the sweep resolves the **default IR** — in which `triage` is not a declared column at all. The seeded cards carried no intake role, the filters returned no candidates, and the sweeps did nothing. The product change was correct; the fixtures were asserting against a column id the product had stopped declaring. `self-healing.ts` even warns about this exact shape in its own comment: *"Converting a predicate while leaving its source query on a literal produces a sweep that LOOKS converted and does nothing."* The fixtures are the mirror image — a seed on the old literal makes a correctly-converted sweep look broken. **Verified, not assumed.** I resolved the default IR and printed the flags rather than reasoning from column names: ``` todo {"intake":true,"hold":true,"resetOnEntry":true} in-progress {"countsTowardWip":true,"abortOnExit":true,"timing":true} in-review {"mergeBlocker":true,"humanReview":true,...} done {"complete":true} archived {"archived":true,"hiddenFromBoard":true} ``` `todo` is the intake column post-U11 (the merged Planning column). `triage` does not appear. ## Measured | Check | Before | After | |---|---|---| | the three files | 7 failed / 19 passed | **26 passed** | | all 40 `self-healing-*` files | 3 failed files / 7 failed tests | **40 passed / 695 tests** | | `pnpm test:gate` | — | **726 passed** | | `pnpm lint` | — | clean | Restoring the deleted column id reintroduces the failures, so the seeds are load-bearing rather than cosmetic. **Pre-existing, untouched:** the same 9 vitest *"unhandled errors"* and the identical non-zero exit appear on clean main. Verified by reverting only these three test files and re-running — unrelated to the fixtures, so flagged rather than folded in. ## One deliberately surgical spot In `starved-refinement` only the starved refinement's own seed moved. My first pass renamed the file's default seed and **broke a test that was passing** — the auto-approve-all case calls `recoverApprovedTask` directly (no role filter) and asserts a move **into** `todo`, so seeding it in `todo` makes that move degenerate. I reverted and moved one seed instead. That leaves a real question I did **not** answer: post-U11 intake and hold are one column, so a `triage → todo` move may no longer encode anything. Deciding that means changing what the test is *about*, which is a behaviour judgement on someone else's assertion. **Flagged in-file, not guessed.** Also worth noting for whoever converts the remaining backlog: line 43 of that file pairs a `triage` seed against an explicit `todo` seed as a contrast. U11 collapsed those two columns, so the contrast the fixture was drawing no longer exists in the product — not a defect, but any fixture built on intake-vs-hold being distinct is now suspect. Census unchanged (722) — test files are not scanned by the census. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Tests** * Updated self-healing workflow test scenarios to reflect the current intake column. * Improved test coverage for triage, agent-link drift, and starved refinement handling. * Added documentation clarifying workflow column and role-based filtering assumptions. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->	2026-07-30 03:25:06 -07:00
gsxdsm	dfbab18fd5	fix(scheduler): a renamed wip column held NO file-scope lease — two agents could edit the same files (#2693) ... ## The defect `activeScopes` is the file-scope lease registry the dispatch path reads (`scheduler.ts:2167`) to decide whether a candidate overlaps work already in flight. Two column-id literals kept it empty on any board whose columns are renamed: 1. the lease loop gated on `task.column !== "in-progress"`; 2. `shouldHoldActiveFileScopeLease` keyed **both** its branches on `in-progress` / `in-review`, so it returned `false` for *every* card on a renamed board. Forty lines above that loop, the same sweep resolves `countsTowardWip` from the workflow IR for capacity arithmetic. **The scheduler was simultaneously right about capacity and wrong about leases.** Consequence: a second task sharing a file scope **dispatched instead of queueing** — two agents editing the same files, which is precisely what `groupOverlappingFiles` exists to prevent. ## Measured, differential Same workflow *shape* under two vocabularies with identical traits; only the column ids differ, so any difference is attributable to a surviving literal. No renamed id collides with a legacy one, so a surviving `=== "in-progress"` cannot pass by luck. | | default vocabulary (control) | renamed vocabulary | |---|---|---| | fix reverted | queued on lease ✓ | **dispatched into the wip column** ✗ | | fix applied | queued on lease ✓ | queued on lease ✓ | `2 of 3 fail` reverted → `3 of 3 pass` applied. The control passes on **both** sides, so a change that breaks overlap protection generally cannot hide behind this test. I checked the test wasn't vacuous before trusting it: instrumented the run to print the actual `moveTask` calls, and confirmed the renamed case really produced `[["FN-CAND","building"]]` — a genuine dispatch — rather than the candidate simply never being considered. Both failure modes look identical in the assertion. ## Why optional booleans, not a flags object `shouldHoldActiveFileScopeLease` is **exported** and shared with the self-healing / repair paths (`self-healing.ts:4488`, `:5406`) — its own comment says those "must use this same predicate so stale `overlapBlockedBy` cleanup does not preserve blockers the scheduler would ignore". So the role questions became optional parameters that **default to today's literals**: a caller that resolved the traits passes the answer, a caller that has not gets exactly current behaviour. No existing call site changes meaning, and no dependency on #2690. ## Verification | Check | Result | |---|---| | scheduler / capacity / hold-release / overlap / self-healing | **59 test files green** | | `pnpm test:gate` | **726 passed** | | `pnpm lint`, engine `tsc --noEmit` | clean | `self-healing-advanced-triage`, `-agent-link-drift`, `-starved-refinement` are **7 failed / 19 passed both before and after** — verified pre-existing on clean `origin/main` by reverting only `scheduler.ts` and re-running. Flagged, not fixed, and not in scope here. ## Census **722 → 721**, `scheduler.ts` 28 → 27. Baseline re-recorded in the same commit. To be precise about what that −1 is: the *loop* literal is gone, while the two literals **inside** the predicate remain by design as the documented defaults. So this is not "scheduler is now trait-aware" — it is one site, plus the seam that lets callers be. ## Merge-order note **#2690 also records `scheduler.ts` 28 → 27**, converting a *different* site (`isWipColumnTask`'s hand-rolled flags-first copy, `:1690`). The two are independent and do not double-count: if both land, `scheduler.ts` is **26**, and whichever merges second will conflict on `scripts/lib/lifecycle-column-census-baseline.json` and must re-record to 26 rather than resolve to 27. Flagging so the merger does not take one side blindly. ## Still broken, flagged for an owner The **in-review** half. `activeScopes` is also populated for review-lane cards via `t.column === "in-review"` (`scheduler.ts:1751`, `:1757`), and this PR leaves those literals in place: the sweep's flags map holds only `countsTowardWip`, so no review-role answer is available to pass in. Fixing it needs the flags-object change in #2690, after which the same optional parameter added here carries it. Until then a renamed review column still holds no lease.	2026-07-30 03:19:02 -07:00
gsxdsm	e9e63d8e0f	consolidate/capacity: --strict was red on main (my #2621), 14 stale baselines, routines seeding a deleted column, worktrees-off audit (#2652) ... Capacity unit consolidation. Three coherent themes, small commits inside. ## Census before/after (`node scripts/lifecycle-column-census.mjs`) | | before | after | |---|---:|---:| | triage column guards (the bar) | 10 | **10** | | `--strict` on main | ❌ **RED** | ✅ green | | baseline staleness | 14 files stale | **0** | This branch does **not** move the triage bar — its remaining 10 are moves.ts (dies with the flag), the dashboard cluster, and one deliberate site. It fixes the instrument that measures the bar, plus a live defect the comparison count cannot see. --- ## 1. `--strict` was RED on clean `origin/main`, and it was my fault ``` packages/dashboard/src/routes/register-task-workflow-routes.ts: 22 -> 23 ``` My merged #2621 added a v1-IR pre-WIP fallback answering a greptile P1 and shipped no marker or baseline update, so the program's measuring instrument has been failing on main since it landed. Fixed **at the site** with a `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` marker, not by bumping the baseline. That branch runs only when the IR declares no columns and no nodes, so there is no role to resolve — `resolveLifecycleColumns` returns nothing and the legacy pre-implementation ids are the only pre-WIP signal that exists there. It is *unconvertible*, not unfinished; the sibling `else` two lines down is the trait path for every IR that can answer. A rise that is genuinely correct belongs where a reader will see it. ## 2. The baseline was stale for 14 files — a hole, not cosmetics A stale allowance lets converted guards return while the check stays green. Measured gaps: ``` self-healing.ts allows 126, tree has 111 executor.ts allows 112, tree has 104 moves.ts allows 44, tree has 39 default-workflow-hooks allows 25, tree has 7 mission-feature-sync allows 5, tree has 0 MissionControlPanel allows 4, tree has 0 (+8 more) ``` **Only two of the fourteen are mine.** The other twelve are already-merged conversions by other workers where nobody re-recorded. Re-recorded all fourteen here rather than waiting for twelve PRs, because until it happens the ratchet is not holding the 779 it exists to hold. Flagging it plainly: those drops are other people's work being locked in, not mine being claimed. ## 3. Routines created tasks into the column U11 deleted The routine editor's "Target Column" defaulted to `triage`. That value is submitted as the create step's `taskColumn`, and an **explicit** column bypasses the workflow entry-column resolution added for column-less creates (#2589) — so every routine saved with the untouched default seeded its tasks into a column the board does not declare. Defaulting to `todo` would be the same mistake one column over: a custom workflow declaring no `todo` is seeded into an undeclared column just as surely, because an explicit column overrides entry resolution whatever its value. So the default sends **nothing** and each workflow's own intake resolution decides. The `triage` **option** is removed too, not merely un-defaulted — fixing the initializer alone left the operator able to pick the deleted column one click away, and it was the option labelled "Planning", the name the merged `todo` column now displays. Removing it retires that label inversion as well. Found by scanning **membership** forms rather than comparisons: the comparison census cannot see a `?? "triage"` default, so no count showed this and nobody was looking. Revert-proof — restoring the default fails with *"the default must not name a column at all"*. ## 4. "Worktrees off is INERT" had one unaudited reader The constraint was that `maxWorktrees` become genuinely inert, "not set very high and not skipped by convention". `resolveWorktreeCapacityLimit` returns `null` for that, and its unit tests can only prove the **resolver** is right — they cannot see a second reader, which is the only way the constraint breaks. Audited every `maxWorktrees` read that bounds anything. **Exactly two:** `scheduler.ts` (the admission gate, via the resolver, single call site, optional gate snapshot) and `self-healing.ts`'s `enforceWorktreeCap` — `(settings.maxWorktrees ?? 4) * 2`, a **raw** read. The second is **not a bug** and is left alone: it bounds worktree *directories on disk* and only removes *idle* ones. Worktrees still exist in OFF mode, so that bound must keep applying or idle directories accumulate unbounded. Recorded consequence: in OFF mode the number still governs disk retention while gating no admission — an edge you scoped out. The note says explicitly **not** to unify the two readers: routing hygiene through the resolver returns `null` in OFF mode and silently removes the disk bound, which is a leak dressed as a simplification. New ratchet requires every file bounding on `maxWorktrees` to be named with a reason, and rejects a **stale** allowlist entry. Proven by injecting `active >= (settings.maxWorktrees ?? 4)` into `hybrid-executor.ts`. --- ## Deliberately NOT included - **My own census script.** #2633 landed the canonical one, and it is better than mine — an AST classifier *plus* an independent text classifier with `--compare`, and a baseline that fails on unrecorded **drops** as well as rises. Mine only caught rises. I deleted mine rather than ship a second measuring instrument; three copies of "strip comments" is the drift shape this program keeps paying for, so the worktree ratchet now imports #2633's `stripComments`. - **My TaskContextMenu fix.** Superseded, and by a better answer: main's `isPureIntakeColumn` (intake *without* hold) keeps the merged Planning column shown and suppresses only a bare Ideas capture, which resolves the exact hold-lane objection coderabbit raised against my version. I briefly clobbered that merged work by checking my old file out wholesale, caught it in the diff, and reverted. ## Verification `pnpm lint` clean · core + dashboard `tsc` clean · census suite 23/23 · worktree ratchet 8/8 · RoutineEditor 49/49 · `routes-task-retry-planning-column` 16/16 · `lifecycle-column-census --strict` exits 0. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --- ## Added after review (all four greptile threads were real, and two of them mattered) **The routine fix was half a fix.** `routine-runner.ts:515` *and* `cron-runner.ts:982` both did `column: (step.taskColumn as Column) || "triage"` **after** the step is read, so every routine — including ones saved through the fixed editor — still created tasks into the deleted column. Both now omit it. **The advanced steps editor MANUFACTURED the defect.** `ScheduleStepsEditor.tsx` had three `triage` defaults: the new-step template (`:64`), the per-step initializer (`:95`), and the select still offering it (`:344`). So the path I had *not* fixed produced the bug by default, on fresh data. Template names no column; initializer coerces a persisted `triage`; `triage` removed from the options; empty submits `undefined`. **Four pre-existing tests pinned the defect** and are rewritten to the corrected invariant rather than appeased: | test | asserted | |---|---| | `cron-runner`: "defaults column to triage when taskColumn is not set" | `column: "triage"` | | `ScheduleStepsEditor`: "adds a create-task step..." | `taskColumn` toBe `"triage"` | | `ScheduleStepsEditor`: "allows saving create-task step..." | the legacy column is **resubmitted** | | plus the explicit-column case added beside each, so the fix cannot swallow a deliberate choice | **The allowlist hole was the worst finding.** `AUDITED_BOUNDS` was keyed by FILE, so every bounding expression in an allowlisted file was exempt — a second raw bound in `scheduler.ts` stayed green, the one case that ratchet exists for. Per-expression now, and making it so **immediately surfaced a real second bound the file-level version was hiding** (`maxWorktreesGate.used >= maxWorktreesGate.limit`, safe by construction since the snapshot is `undefined` in OFF mode). Proven by injection. ## Found while re-reading my own deletion, not reported A **rendered tooltip** still named a deleted cap. The "Queued to plan" badge read *"planning starts when a concurrency slot frees up (maxConcurrent / globalMaxConcurrent)"*. The cross-project cap is gone — capacity is two numbers per project — so it told operators their planning waited on a limiter they can no longer find a setting for. Names the surviving dimension only now. ## Coding (Ideas): enforcing #2651 rather than repeating it I took the unowned coding-ideas IR merge, concluded it must not be done, then found **#2651 had already implemented, reverted and documented exactly that** — with better grounding than my own argument. It added no test, so nothing stops the next person reaching the same dead end. So this ships their reasoning as a ratchet, not a second opinion: triage discovery keys on the column's `autoTriage`, so a merged column is either never scanned (cards sit on a bootstrap stub until the **capacity hold** releases them, sending **unplanned** work into in-progress — worse than stalling) or scanning wins and the manual gate is gone. Their scope caveat is kept: `autoTriage` is a general trait field, so only *this preset's* collapse is dead, not manual intake as a concept. The registry does not reject the merged shape, which is why prose was not enough. ## Verification (re-run) `pnpm lint` clean · core + engine + dashboard-app `tsc` clean · `lifecycle-column-census --strict` exits 0 ("every file matches its baseline exactly") · routine-runner 24/24 · cron-runner 156/156 · ScheduleStepsEditor 41/41 · RoutineEditor 49/49 · worktree + coding-ideas 12/12. TaskCard has 2 failures **pre-existing on main** — confirmed identical with my changes stashed. --- ## Bears directly on the closing bar: this PR already removes the 67-guard ratchet slack Measured on current `origin/main` with the census itself: ``` tree total: 787 baseline total: 854 SLACK: 67 FILES ABOVE BASELINE (1): +1 packages/dashboard/src/routes/register-task-workflow-routes.ts (22 -> 23) FILES BELOW BASELINE: 13, totalling 68 unrecorded conversions -18 core/default-workflow-hooks.ts (25->7) -15 engine/self-healing.ts (126->111) -8 engine/executor.ts (112->104) -5 core/task-store/moves.ts (44->39) -5 engine/mission-feature-sync.ts (5->0) -4 core/live-agent-count.ts (10->6) ``` **The slack is not regression — it is 13 files of merged conversions nobody re-recorded**, against exactly **one** rise. This PR re-records the baseline **854 → 782 across 140 files**, which closes it. **And the "+3 that slipped in" is +1, and it is mine.** `register-task-workflow-routes.ts 22 → 23` is the v1-IR pre-WIP fallback my #2621 added; it is justified (that branch runs only when the IR declares no columns or nodes, so there is no role to resolve) but it shipped with no marker and no baseline update — which is why `--strict` has been **red on main since it merged**. Fixed here at the site with a `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` marker rather than by bumping the baseline, because a rise that is genuinely correct belongs where a reader will see it. Sequencing note for the auto-lowering change: if this lands first, that work is purely the mechanism (auto-lower, or fail with tighten instructions) rather than a cleanup, and the two re-records will not collide in the same file. Also worth carrying into that mechanism, from building the same guard here: **`--update` must refuse to RAISE.** An earlier version of mine wrote current counts verbatim, so a developer who added a literal and ran the documented update command locked the regression in as the new ceiling — the mirror of the high-water problem. Lowering can be unattended; raising should be a hand edit with the reason recorded. ## Third piece of residue from my own deletion `updateGlobalConcurrency` in the dashboard API client PUT to `/api/global-concurrency`, a route removed when the machine-wide cap went. Zero callers; the only reference was the `legacy.ts` barrel re-export. Deleted both. `fetchGlobalConcurrency` **survives on purpose** — the GET route remains and serves live utilization telemetry to the footer and Command Center; nothing gates on it. That is the third: after the second raw `maxWorktrees` reader and the "Queued to plan" tooltip. A deletion is not finished when the enforcement goes — the client, the label and the tooltip outlive it. --- ## Re-greened the dashboard API tests: 117 failures on main, ONE root cause These would have polluted the closing verification pass, and nobody owned them. `api()` builds headers via `new Headers(...)` and returns `Object.fromEntries(headers.entries())` — and `Headers.entries()` **lowercases every key**, so the object reaching `fetch` is `content-type`, not `Content-Type`. `ab87d0d80` then added `x-fusion-client: dashboard-ui` for run-audit attribution. Both changes are correct; neither is visible at a call site, so **114 assertions across 7 files** kept asserting the old shape and went red together. Fixed by naming the shape **once** in `app/test/apiRequestHeaders.ts` rather than patching 114 literals — restating a shared fact 114 times is what made a two-line client change look like 117 failures. Deliberately not a loose `objectContaining`: these tests are the only thing pinning that the attribution header is sent *at all*. **117 → 4.** The remaining 4 are unrelated pre-existing CSS failures (`task-detail-modal-tablet-width` ×3, `space-token-defined` ×1) — confirmed identical on clean main with my changes stashed. ### A gap this surfaced, recorded not papered over Three routes failed in the *opposite* direction — they send the old shape because they call `fetch()` **directly**, bypassing `api()`, so they never get the attribution header. `client.ts` claims the opposite: > "Applied once here rather than per-call so no future mutation route has to remember it." That does not hold for a route that bypasses the helper it is applied in. **Measured in `app/api/`: 8 files make direct `fetch()` calls and 7 include mutations (POST/DELETE)** — among them `ai-sessions.ts`'s DELETE, which is the same class as the four-delete incident the header was added for. So the attribution fix has a hole in exactly its motivating case. Not fixed here: routing those onto `api()` is a behaviour change across the API layer and belongs to its owner, not to a test re-green. Those assertions use a separate `API_JSON_HEADERS_NO_ATTRIBUTION` constant so the gap stays **visible** — if a route is later moved onto `api()`, its test fails and points at the note explaining why. --- ## This branch takes the triage bar 10 → 5, and makes `--strict` green `node scripts/lifecycle-column-census.mjs` on this branch reports **triage 5**, against **10** on `origin/main`. The five removed are the ScheduleStepsEditor template/initializer/option and the RoutineEditor default/option — the automation paths that were creating tasks into the deleted column. **`--strict` was also RED on clean main, twice over, and both causes were the same mistake:** a thorough written rationale the tool cannot read, because the marker was not where the census looks. The census reads a comparison node's **leading comments**; a `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` in the JSDoc above the enclosing function or declaration does not reach the comparison inside it. | site | why it is legitimate | why the tool could not see it | |---|---|---| | `columnRoles.ts:80` `isHoldColumnRole` | degrades to `columnId === "todo"` only when a column has **no resolved traits** — identical in kind to `LEGACY_PRE_IMPLEMENTATION_COLUMN_IDS` directly above, which escapes counting only because a Set is a membership form | rationale written, **no marker token** | | `MissionControlPanel.tsx` ×3 | the SDLC funnel **alias table** — maps `to-do`/`ready`/`review`/`shipped` onto one display stage with an explicit `other` bucket, and nothing branches on it | marker in the JSDoc; the comparisons are arrow bodies **inside the array literal**, which it does not reach | The second only surfaced because converting the `triage` stage to a Set removed its count and exposed the siblings — red gate, justification sitting three lines above, unreachable. Both are markers, no behaviour change. Neither is a conversion candidate: resolving the funnel table to traits would **drop the non-column aliases it exists to accept**. **For the auto-lowering work:** the marker-placement rule is now the recurring trap — three instances, three different authors, including me. A marker that does not register is indistinguishable from no marker, and the failure mode is a red gate with a written explanation nobody can act on. If the census accepted a marker anywhere in the enclosing declaration's comments, none of the three would have happened. Baseline re-recorded per the tool's own instruction ("Re-record the baseline in the SAME PR that lowered the count"). <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit - **Bug Fixes** - Task “Actions” menus no longer appear on bare cards in the Planning column. - Routines, scheduled tasks, and create-task steps now respect each board’s configured workflow intake column instead of using a retired default. - Legacy tasks saved with the retired intake column are migrated to automatic workflow resolution. - Target-column selection now offers only “Automatic (workflow intake)” and “Planning,” removing the obsolete option. - Capacity/planning messaging and related UI tooltip text were clarified; concurrency cap updates are managed per project. - **Tests** - Added/updated coverage for workflow intake resolution, create-task target column behavior (including legacy coercion), capacity safeguards, and API request consistency. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-30 03:10:35 -07:00
gsxdsm	aa02db5782	fleet: scheduler.ts 28 → 27 + make the column-role predicates reachable from the other 80% of the backlog (#2690) ... ## Census **722 → 721**; `packages/engine/src/scheduler.ts` **28 → 27**. Exactly the one site converted. Baseline re-recorded in the same commit — `--strict` flagged the stale allowance itself, and `in-progress` went 138 → 137. ## The unblocker (commit 1) The role helpers live in `packages/dashboard/app/utils/columnRoles.ts`, a dashboard-**app** module. Measured against the census: | Location | Guards | Share | Helpers importable? | |---|---:|---:|---| | `packages/engine/**` | 316 | 43% | no | | `packages/dashboard/app/**` | 150 | 20% | **yes** | | `packages/core/**` | 148 | 20% | no | | `packages/dashboard/src/**` | 78 | 10% | no | | `packages/cli/**` | 24 | 3% | no | **Only 20% of the backlog can call them at all.** #2685 widens the helper *set* correctly; that is coverage, not location. `packages/core/src/column-roles.ts` is the same flags-first / legacy-id-fallback predicate placed where the other 80% can reach it — core already exports `resolveColumnFlags`, so no new resolution machinery comes with it. **Semantics are mirrored from #2685, not invented**, so the two sets cannot answer the same question differently: `complete` EXCLUDES `archived`; `wip` keys on `countsTowardWip` (the same flag capacity arithmetic uses); `review` accepts `mergeBlocker` OR `humanReview`. One addition — `isTerminalColumnRole` for the `!== "done" && !== "archived"` union, the most repeated shape in the backlog. 10 tests cover both modes of all 8 predicates, including the **degraded no-flags fallback** — the half with no coverage when these lived only in the dashboard app — plus the two cases that prove the predicate does something rather than nothing: a renamed column carrying the right trait answers yes, and a legacy id carrying the WRONG trait answers no. ## A trap every fleet worker converting engine code will hit A new core export must be added to **both** `index.ts` and `index.gate.ts`. The `engine-core` gate project resolves `@fusion/core` to a bundle built from `index.gate.ts` (`scripts/build-engine-core-gate-bundle.mjs`). An export present only in `index.ts` is `undefined` at runtime under the gate: 13 `scheduler-workflow-cutover` tests failed with `isWipColumnRole is not a function`, in a file that does not mock `@fusion/core` at all. The symptom points at the consumer, the cause is the barrel. I nearly mis-attributed this. Baseline first: `scheduler-workflow-cutover` is **42 passed on clean main**, so the 13 were mine — not pre-existing. That measurement is the only reason I looked at the barrel instead of "fixing" the tests. ## The conversion (commit 2) `scheduler.ts:1690`'s `isWipColumnTask` was a hand-rolled copy of `isWipColumnRole` — it stored only `countsTowardWip` as a boolean and re-implemented flags-first-then-legacy-id inline. It now stores the resolved flags object and lets the shared predicate decide. Behaviour is identical in all four states: column present with the flag true or false (flags win), column absent from a resolved IR, and IR resolution failed (both defer to the legacy id). | Check | Result | |---|---| | `scheduler-workflow-cutover` | **42 passed** before and after | | 21 scheduler/capacity/hold-release files | **372 passed** | | `pnpm test:gate` | **726 passed** | | `pnpm lint` | clean | ## Flagged and skipped, not guessed **`scheduler.ts:1736` — a latent legacy-vocabulary defect, not a conversion.** `if (task.column !== "in-progress") continue;` gates the file-scope-lease loop on the literal, ~40 lines below capacity arithmetic that is trait-aware. On a renamed WIP column the loop silently does nothing while capacity counts the same cards correctly. Converting it *changes behaviour* on renamed boards (from wrong to right), which the fleet rules put out of scope — so it is flagged here for whoever owns that fix. It is the same class as U10's six legacy-vocabulary defects. **`hold-release.ts:343`** — already marked `DELIBERATE-LITERAL`. It is the legacy half of FN-5719's dual-accept pair; converting it would make both halves compute the same answer, deleting the compatibility signal *and* its divergence detector while looking like a cleanup. Untouched. **`task-merge.ts:254`** — the documented fallback for callers that have not proven lane identity; trait-aware callers pass `skipColumnIdentityCheck`. Untouched. **The other 14 `scheduler.ts` sites** have no flags in scope (e.g. `isLegacyDependencySatisfied(dep: Task | undefined)`, `shouldHoldActiveFileScopeLease(...)` — task-only pure functions). Threading an IR in changes signatures and call graphs: behaviour change, out of scope. This is why the cluster is 28 → 27 and not 28 → 0, and the reachability measurement behind it is #2687. No changeset: `@fusion/*` are private and no `@runfusion/fusion` behaviour changes.	2026-07-30 03:01:36 -07:00
gsxdsm	bb3bdab999	The ratchet follows the count down — a drop tightens instead of reddening the gate (coordinator item 2) (#2679) ... Taken after asking twice for reassignment with no reply, and after the same failure bit a **third** time. No open PR touches the census CLI, so this is unowned in practice — **U12, say so if you have started and I will close this in favour of yours.** ## What changed A **drop** now tightens the baseline instead of failing. Failing hard was defensible in isolation — a stale allowance is a hole, since those guards can return up to the old count while the check stays green. What it missed: **The drop is almost never the failing author's to fix.** Eleven files dropped during one merge wave, none of those PRs re-recorded, and none of their authors did anything wrong. Measured three times since CI began gating this: `columnRoles.ts` 0 → 1, then `executor.ts` twice. A permanently-red gate is a bigger hole than a stale allowance, because it gets ignored and then nothing is guarded at all. **The rise check — the ratchet's actual purpose — is untouched and still fails hard.** ## The residual, named rather than glossed In CI the write is discarded with the runner, so the committed baseline stays stale until someone commits a tightened one. The exposure is bounded (regrowth only up to the old count), printed on every run, and strictly smaller than the exposure from a check people route around. `--strict --exact` restores hard failure for the pinned end state. **One writer:** the write is now a named `writeBaseline()` shared by the tighten path and `--update-baseline`, rather than a second `writeFileSync`. Two writers for one artifact is how they drift — a lesson this file already learned once. ## Exercised end to end | scenario | result | |---|---| | drop, `--strict` | exit **0**, `TIGHTENED`, allowance rewritten 9 → 6 | | drop, `--strict --exact` | exit **1**, baseline untouched | | rise, `--strict` | exit **1** | | clean | exit **0** | Pinned through the real CLI with an isolated baseline. Revert proof: restoring the hard failure fails **1 of 32**. ## Two of my own mistakes, recorded **A vacuous assertion, in the case that guards against vacuity.** I first wrote `expect(allowedAfter).toBeLessThan(4 + allowedAfter)` — true for every number. Replaced with a comparison against the inflated value the fixture started from. This file documents that trap repeatedly and I still walked into it, which is the argument for the mechanical revert check over careful reading. **The env override is `FUSION_CENSUS_BASELINE_PATH`**, not the `FUSION_CENSUS_BASELINE` I used in the first draft — so the first version of these cases silently ran against the **real** baseline and passed for the wrong reason. A test whose fixture never took effect is the same failure as a test whose fixture can't fail. ## Verification 32/32 census suites, `pnpm test:gate` **71/71**, `--strict` exits 0, `pnpm lint` clean, `docs/testing.md` updated. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --- ## Update — the base-ref ratchet (review round 2, commit `4895845579`) The first version of this PR shipped a **named residual**: the tightening write dies with the CI runner, so the committed allowance stays high and a later PR can regrow guards up to it while `--strict` prints green. I called the exposure bounded and moved on. Greptile flagged it P1 and was right — naming a hole is not closing one. `--strict` now stops trusting the committed number for files the branch touched. It measures each **changed** file at the base commit (`FUSION_CENSUS_BASE_REF`, else the PR base branch, else `origin/main`) and fails if the file carries more guards than the base ref has. **The enforced ceiling is what main has today**, so a stale, missing, or long-unrecorded baseline no longer opens a window. | decision | why | |---|---| | changed files only, `<ref>...HEAD` | untouched files have main's counts by construction; censusing all ~400 at the base ref is ~400 `git show` calls to re-derive numbers that cannot have moved. Three-dot also stops charging this branch for guards that landed on main after the fork. | | a new file's base allowance is **0** | "absent at the base ref" as unbounded would make a new file the cheapest place to hide a fresh guard | | fails **open** on an unresolvable ref, printing `SKIPPED` | a shallow clone cannot produce an honest comparison; a degraded run must not read as a clean one. The baseline comparison still applies. | | merged into the existing `regressions` list | one failure per file, and `--update-baseline` keeps working as the deliberate escape hatch. No new exit path. | **Revert proof, measured both ways.** With the base-ref block removed, the regrowth fixture — base commit 2 guards, HEAD 5, baseline allowing 9 — exits **0** with `TIGHTENED`, which is precisely the reported scenario. With it: exit **1**, `column-guard count ROSE`, `above its count on the base ref`, baseline left at 9. **3 of the 4** end-to-end cases go red on revert. The fourth passes without the fix by design — it is the genuine-conversion case the auto-tighten exists to keep green, and a case that reddens either way proves nothing. The end-to-end suite builds a throwaway two-commit `git init` repo under the temp dir, because this exploit is a property of the **plumbing**, not of the comparison: resolving a ref, working out the changed set, reading base source through `git show`. The comparator itself is pure with the reader injected (`findRegrowthAgainstBase`), with its own cases in `lifecycle-column-census-ast.test.ts` — including the one that would silently pass everything, looking up the wrong key in `summarize().byFile`. **Rebased onto `origin/main` @ bc782d8d92** (the branch was forked before the recent merge wave; its baseline read 746 against a tree of 722). Verification on the rebased branch: census **722** / `--strict` exit 0 · **70/70** across both census suites · `pnpm test:gate` **71/71** · `pnpm lint` clean. --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-30 02:56:08 -07:00
gsxdsm	da77e61118	A rate-limited provider kept getting hammered — the executor and merger lane checks were still literals (#2672) ... `taskUsesProvider` resolves a task's **active lane** to decide which providers it is running on. The **planner** half was converted to traits — its own note in that function describes this exact failure and says it was fixed — and the **executor** and **merger** halves were left as `task.column === "in-progress"` / `=== "in-review"`. So on a renamed board an actively-executing card resolved **no providers**, and a provider rate limit never paused it: the engine kept sending work to the limited provider with that card. ## Measured Renamed board (`building` = wip, `checking` = review), limit triggered by a peer: | lane | before | after | |---|---|---| | executor | `["FN-TRIGGER"]` | `["FN-TRIGGER","FN-PEER"]` | | merger | `["FN-TRIGGER"]` | `["FN-TRIGGER","FN-PEER"]` | The trigger was paused either way — but only through the *always-include-the-trigger* fallback, and **that is what made the hole quiet**: one task always gets paused, so the behaviour looks like it works. Resolved from the **same per-workflow IR cache** the planner lane already uses, so this adds no reads. Both halves fail soft to the legacy literal, so an unresolvable workflow behaves exactly as before. ## How it was found — the part worth keeping A scan for *"legacy literal within a few lines of a role-resolved call"* flagged this file. That is the same heuristic that produced #2670, and it is now 2 for 3. The first thing I suspected here was the `done`/`archived` terminal filter. I wrote that fix, and **its revert stayed green.** That is not a dead end — chasing *why* it would not go red showed the lane check already excludes finished cards, so the terminal literal there is genuinely redundant, and the real defect was one line over in the lane check itself. **A revert that stays green is information: either the guard is vacuous, or you are looking at the wrong line.** I dropped the unprovable change and kept the provable one. The `done`/`archived` filter is deliberately unchanged, with that reason recorded in the test. ## Revert proofs, isolated - wip lane back to the literal → **1 of 55 fails** (the executing peer) - review lane back to the literal → **1 of 55 fails** (the merger peer) Three paired cases pass under both, so "pause everything with that provider" cannot pass for "resolve the lane": a card parked in the renamed planning lane is **not** paused on an executor limit, a wip card is **not** paused on a merger limit, and the legacy vocabulary still pauses peers when no workflow resolves. ## Verification - 55/55 `usage-limit-detector`; `pnpm test:gate` **71/71**; engine typecheck clean; `pnpm lint` clean - census unchanged at 748 — the fail-soft literals remain by design, which is why the count is not the measure of this fix 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-30 02:50:30 -07:00
gsxdsm	3e80dcb8ef	fix(test): a Vite prefix-match alias silently unresolved a core subpath (greens full-suite shard 1) (#2686) ... ## What `full-suite.yml` shard 1 on main fails with **zero test failures** — it dies on a resolution error: ``` Failed to resolve import "@fusion/core/task-delete-attribution" from "packages/dashboard/app/api/client.ts" ``` **Root cause.** Vite string aliases match by **PREFIX**. So `find: "@fusion/core"` → `core/src/index.ts` rewrites `@fusion/core/task-delete-attribution` into `core/src/index.ts/task-delete-attribution`, which cannot resolve. The narrower subpath alias has to come *first*. The module exists and *is* correctly declared in `packages/core/package.json` exports — this is purely a test-config trap, and `packages/dashboard/vitest.config.ts` already documents it in a comment. Six configs alias `@fusion/dashboard` (whose `app/api/client.ts` imports that browser-safe leaf) while lacking the narrower alias, so they inherited the trap. This carries the same one-line pattern to all six. ## Measured `dependency-graph` — the project actually red on main: | | Test files | Tests collected | |---|---|---| | before | 3 failed \| 17 passed | 147 | | after | **20 passed** | **180** | **33 tests were never collected** — neither passing nor reported as failing. That is the part worth flagging: an unresolved import removes tests from the run silently, and the shard's own summary printed no `Tests N failed` line at all, which is why this red looked like infrastructure noise rather than a real defect. No regressions: `reports` 110, `cli-printing-press` 41, `compound-engineering` 317, **gate 726** — all green. `pnpm lint` clean. `@fusion/desktop` is `1 failed | 264 passed` **both before and after**; verified pre-existing on clean `origin/main` by reverting just that one config and re-running. Cause is `@fusion-plugin-examples/roadmap` entry resolution, unrelated — **flagged, not fixed.** ## Deliberately not changed Engine's *second* `@fusion/core` alias (the `.gate-bundle/core.mjs` entry) is untouched: that lane bundles core on purpose, and pointing it at source would defeat the isolation the gate bundle exists to provide. ## Full-suite triage this came out of (for whoever owns the rest) Reading the four red shards of the last completed run on main (`30523568756`): | Shard | Real cause | Owner | |---|---|---| | 1/4 | **this PR** — resolution error, 0 test failures | — | | 2/4 | 23 failed: `store-wedge-resolution.pg`, `central-archive-secrets`, `task-delete-caller-attribution`, `task-delete-nonblocking-cleanup` | #2669 / #2675 cover the first two | | 3/4 | **watchdog SIGKILL** mid-`@fusion/engine [1/2]` — no test failures, no summary | unowned | | 4/4 | 17 failed, all in `@runfusion/fusion` CLI (`project.test.ts` 8, `task.test.ts` 5, `extension.test.ts` 2, +2) | unowned | Two of the four shard reds contain **no failing test at all**, so "main's full-suite failure count" cannot be read off the shard conclusions — it has to be read off `Tests N failed` summary lines, and shards 1 and 3 emit none.	2026-07-30 02:47:14 -07:00
gsxdsm	dc50425e98	docs: correct 104 future-dated FNXC timestamps across 61 files (#2680) ... ## What The FNXC convention exists so a reader can place a note against the change that motivated it. A stamp dated *after* the edit landed defeats exactly that. This is program-wide drift, not one author's slip — I contributed to it in my own commits this week, which is how I noticed it. ## Measured, on this tree **104 stamps across 61 files** dated later than the day they were written, from one day ahead to **2026-10-19 (81 days)**: | count | date | count | date | count | date | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 50 | 2026-07-31 | 6 | 2026-08-05 | 3 | 2026-08-13 | | 17 | 2026-08-01 | 1 | 2026-08-07 | 1 | 2026-08-19 | | 7 | 2026-08-02 | 1 | 2026-08-12 | 2 | 2026-08-26 | | 11 | 2026-08-03 | | | 3 | 2026-10-19 | An earlier number I circulated was ~70. That came from a narrower pathspec and was wrong; **104** is the measurement. ## How Each stamp is rewritten to the date of the commit that introduced **that line**, via per-line `git blame` — deliberately *not* stamped uniformly with today's date. A uniform stamp swaps a wrong date for a different wrong date and flattens the ordering that makes these comments navigable; blame preserves it. Times of day are untouched, and a blame date in the future is clamped rather than trusted. ## Why the verification is listed A docs sweep across 61 files is precisely where a stray edit hides, so the safety claims are mechanical rather than asserted: - every changed line begins with a comment marker — **no code touched**; - **no test asserts an FNXC date later than today**, so no `toContain` assertion on embedded source text can be silently invalidated (several such assertions do exist); - CSS files, which carry several of those assertions, are outside the pathspec. ## Verified lint clean · merge gate green (487 + 158 + 10 + 71) · `census --strict` exit 0 · tsc clean for core, engine, and dashboard (`tsconfig.app.json`). **No behavior change.** Comment text only. ## Not done here A guard preventing recurrence. A check that rejects an FNXC stamp dated after the commit would stop this returning, but it needs a decision about where it runs (lint rule vs. gate) and it is a behavior change to CI — it does not belong riding inside the sweep it would police.	2026-07-30 02:38:58 -07:00
gsxdsm	543f4a556c	Tell an already-converted fallback literal from an unconverted guard — 19 of 19 dashboard scan hits were the former (#2677) ... The batch phase is about to hand per-file guard lists to cheap workers, and the census currently cannot distinguish **"not yet converted"** from **"converted, with a documented degradation."** ## The measurement that makes this a class, not a preference A proximity scan for *"legacy literal near a role-resolved call"* — the heuristic that produced #2670 and #2672 from the engine — returned **19 hits across the dashboard and zero defects.** Every one was: ```ts if (flags) return flags.hold === true || flags.countsTowardWip === true; return column === "todo" || column === "in-progress"; // reachable only without traits ``` That literal is **correct**: it answers for callers with no resolved column metadata, which is the case `resolveLifecycleColumns` returns `undefined`-for-the-whole-struct to preserve. A worker told to "convert" it would delete the only answer available when traits are absent. ## And the difference is structural, so the parser can see it In **both** engine defects the literal sat in a **separate statement beside resolved data**, not in a fallback branch. Proximity cannot tell those apart; an AST can. `traitFallback` flags the ternary form and the **early-return** form (which is how most are actually written), and deliberately does **not** flag a fallback whose test is itself a column-*name* check — otherwise any `if/else` over column names would launder itself. ## Reported beside the backlog, not subtracted from it ``` COLUMN guards (the backlog): 746 of the column guards, 9 are trait-fallback branches (already converted) ``` A fallback literal is still a literal and should go when the trait path becomes unconditional. This only says which **kind** of work it is. **Advisory, and structurally so:** `traitFallback` never changes `kind`, and the count lives *outside* `totals`. My first attempt put it in `totals` and broke two existing suites that correctly deep-equal that shape — an advisory number does not belong in the structure that defines the bar. ## Revert proof Forcing `traitFallback: false` fails **3 of 33** (both fallback forms, plus the kind-unchanged case). The two *negative* cases pass under the revert — which is the point: they assert what must **not** be flagged, and a classifier that flags nothing satisfies them trivially. Worth stating, because a revert proof that only counts failures would look stronger than it is. ## Baseline Re-recorded: `executor.ts` 87 → 85 was **main's own drift** from #2568 landing, so `--strict` was red on main again. #2668 made the re-record possible; the auto-tighten (coordinator item 2) is still open, and this is the third time in this program that a legitimate merge has left the gate red for everyone else. ## Verification 62/62 across both census suites, `pnpm test:gate` **71/71**, `--strict` exits 0, `pnpm lint` clean. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **New Features** * Added reporting for legacy column comparisons found in trait-fallback branches. * Census results now include a separate count for these fallback-related column guards. * Human-readable reports display the new metric alongside the existing backlog totals. * **Tests** * Added coverage for fallback detection across ternary, early-return, and conditional patterns. * Added safeguards to prevent false positives in resolved-data and column-name checks. * **Maintenance** * Updated baseline census metrics to reflect revised classifications. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-30 02:33:19 -07:00
gsxdsm	87a4dbdc60	test(u9): a release-leg E2E fixture that diagnoses itself (same defect found 3x independently) (#2678) ... ## What The planned-spec release-leg fixture defect has now been diagnosed **three times independently** — #2634 (`workflow-lifecycle`), #2643 (`workflow-merged-board`), and again in `workflow-planning-lane`. Each time it cost real time, because it presents as a *scheduler* bug rather than a fixture bug. The mechanism: `createTaskWithReservedId` leaves a bootstrap seed (`# <id>\n\n<description>`), `isUnplannedForExecution` (`hold-release.ts`) refuses to move an unplanned card out of any intake- or hold-trait column, and the sweep reports `held: [{ reason: "move-rejected-or-no-slot" }]` while releasing nothing. That is **the gate working.** This extracts the write into `seedPlannedSpec` (`_planned-spec-fixture.ts`) which **self-checks against the real predicate the gate uses** (`isUnplannedSeedPrompt`, imported — not restated) and throws naming the fixture as the cause. Three call sites converted; their ~12-line comments collapse to a pointer, so the diagnosis and both dead-end hypotheses live once, at the seam that causes them. ## Measured (real PostgreSQL, not estimated) | Check | Result | |---|---| | 3 converted families + new ratchet | **41 pass / 41** | | Guard neutered (`if (false)`) | **4 of 5** ratchet tests fail | | Original defect reproduced faithfully | **3 of 7** planning-lane tests fail | | `pnpm lint`, engine `tsc --noEmit` | clean | **The ratchet fails on the original defect.** It drives the two real seed shapes through the production builders (`buildBootstrapPrompt`, `buildRefinementSeedPrompt`) rather than local imitations, so it cannot keep passing if the seed shape drifts — which is exactly the drift the fixture absorbs. The one test that survives the neutered guard is the happy path, which should not move. **The fixture is load-bearing, not decorative.** Proven by reproducing the defect end-to-end: production `buildBootstrapPrompt` on the created row with the guard bypassed → 3 planning-lane tests fail, including its own control case. A false mutation is worth recording, because it nearly produced a wrong "not load-bearing" verdict: a *hand-written* seed passed 7/7. `isUnplannedSeedPrompt` is **byte-equality** against a prompt built from the task's own title/description, so only a byte-exact seed reproduces it. A *missing* prompt does not either — `isUnplannedForExecution` catches the read error and returns `false`. ## Deliberately not converted `workflow-rebound-family`'s `PROMPT.md` write. It is a content-preservation artifact asserted byte-identical across a re-home, not a release-gate fixture; the helper would overwrite the very bytes under assertion. ## Reversible decisions taken (per standing authority) - **`opts.content` seam.** Exists so the ratchet can drive a known seed and prove the throw fires. Without it the guard could only ever be observed passing — the "guard that reports success without checking anything" failure mode. Documented as test-only. - **`title`/`description` optional.** The check is shape-based: both recognised seed forms are `<heading>\n\n<description>` with no section headings, so the written spec cannot match either for *any* description. Omitting them cannot mask a positive, and a test asserts that directly. - **`merged-board`'s spec text lengthened** to match the other two (both were already non-seed, so behaviour is unchanged; verified by the 41-pass run). ## Method correction worth propagating My collision scan was wrong and I nearly acted on it. `git diff origin/main origin/<branch> -- <file>` reports a difference when a branch is merely **stale** (the file did not exist at its base), so it flagged dashboard and CLI PRs as touching engine E2E files. Diffing against each branch's **merge base** is correct. Re-run under the fixed method: all five files here are uncontested, and `feature/code-organization-wave17` genuinely does touch `packages/engine/src/triage.ts` (so that one stays hands-off). ## Lane `.pg.test.ts` under engine-default, `pgDescribe`-skipped without PostgreSQL — the merge gate is unaffected. Throwaway per-file database, never port 4040, no temp-root walk.	2026-07-30 02:19:17 -07:00
gsxdsm	07c29757a3	The archived half of the terminal pair, end to end (#2568's fix landed first and is better) (#2670) ... **Live on `main`.** `parkCompletedBlockedTask` opens with *"is this card already finished?"* and answered it with: ```ts if (task.column === "done" || task.column === "archived") return false; ``` On a renamed board neither matches, so the guard was **inert** — and inert here is not a missed rescue, it is active damage: the very next block rebounds the card to its planning lane. **A completed card sitting in a renamed complete or archived column was moved backwards out of it.** ## Why this survived two reviews #2644 (mine) converted the **rebound** half to resolve its target by role. This **terminal** half stayed a literal. A role-resolved rebound behind a name-matched guard means the renamed board takes the rebound and never the guard — the same half-conversion shape as the evacuation branch, except the two halves were owned by different changes, so neither review saw both. Worth keeping as a review heuristic for the remaining conversions: **when a converted site sits next to an unconverted one, the conversion can make the neighbour worse — and a diff showing only one of them looks complete.** ## Relationship to #2568 The fix exists there, stranded four deep in a stack whose bottom (#2544) has not merged, so nothing in that chain has reached `main`. This re-lands **only** the guard, directly against `main`. I have noted it on #2568 so its author can drop that hunk rather than resolve it twice; I took no other part of that PR (its extraction and the terminal-pair ownership change are still theirs). ## Deliberate choices - **Fail-soft to `["done", "archived"]`** — an unresolvable workflow behaves exactly as the literal pair did. - **An unclassifiable column is NOT terminal.** Being unable to prove a card is finished must not be the same as proving it is; that is what keeps a stranded card moving. ## Revert proof Restoring the literal pair fails **2 of 5** — the renamed complete and archived cases. Three paired cases pass under the revert, so neither "never park" nor "always park" can pass for resolving the lanes: a genuinely mid-pipeline card is still parked, the legacy pair still answers when no workflow resolves, and an unclassified column still gets the park. ## Verification - 5/5 new; 22/22 with `executor-rebound-already-there` and `executor-task-done-blocked` - `pnpm test:gate` **71/71**; engine typecheck clean; `pnpm lint` clean - census: `executor.ts` **87 → 85** column guards; baseline re-recorded in the same commit 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Reliability** * Improved handling of completed/blocked tasks when workflow column naming changes, ensuring tasks aren’t parked or moved incorrectly in archived or non-terminal lanes. * **Tests** * Added Vitest coverage to verify terminal-lane decisions, including cases where workflow resolution occurs mid-operation and lane placement changes during the wait. * **Maintenance** * Updated lifecycle column census baseline numbers to match current workflow usage. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-30 02:16:30 -07:00
gsxdsm	e711fbab15	The ratchet's baseline could not be re-recorded once a file rose — the one state that blocks a correct conversion (#2668) ... Unowned (no open PR touches the census CLI — only its baseline JSON) and **live**, since #2654 gates CI on `--strict`. ## The problem `--update-baseline` sat **behind** the rise exit, so the only supported way to re-record was unavailable in exactly the situation that needs it. That matters because **a conversion legitimately adds a literal.** The correct shape for a caller that may have no traits is `flags ? flags.x : columnId === "legacy"`, and each one raises a file's count by one. Measured on current main: `columnRoles.ts` went **0 → 1** from precisely that shape (added by #2647, documented at the site, correct code). So a worker doing the right thing meets a red gate whose only escape is hand-editing the JSON. That is how a ratchet becomes something people route around rather than run — and then it guards nothing. This is the same failure mode as a guard that cannot fire, arrived at from the other side. ## The change `--update-baseline` is an explicit operator action, so it re-records **unconditionally** and prints what it accepted under `ACCEPTED RISES`. Swallowing a rise silently is the real danger; refusing to let anyone re-record is the same danger one step later, wearing a red check nobody trusts. **The rise check is unchanged** and still exits 1 without the flag. **One writer now.** The old second `writeFileSync` behind the rise exit is deleted rather than left unreachable — two writers for one artifact is how they drift. The `!deliberateTracked && updateBaseline` special case went with it, since the unconditional block covers the legacy-shape migration too. ## Exercised end to end On a real rise injected into `live-agent-count.ts`: ``` rise + plain --strict exit 1 (the ratchet still bites) rise + --strict --update-baseline exit 0 "ACCEPTED RISES live-agent-count.ts: 6 -> 7" ``` Four cases assert the CLI's own source, because exit codes are the contract and the pure summarizer cannot express them: the write precedes the rise check, the branches exit 0 and 1 respectively, accepted rises are **named**, and there is exactly **one** writer. ## A note on the revert proof, because it caught me twice My first attempt to move the block back was a **no-op**: the marker I sliced on (`if (regressions.length > 0) {`) also appears *inside* the update block, so the "revert" reassembled the file unchanged and the suite stayed green. **A revert proof that does not go red can mean the guard is vacuous *or* that the revert did not land** — and the second is easy to miss when you are expecting the first. The real revert fails **2 of 27**, and the assertions now verify marker *uniqueness* before slicing on it. ## Verification - 27/27 census suites; `--strict` exits 0; `pnpm test:gate` **71/71**; `pnpm lint` clean - census on this tree: 748 column guards, **4 triage** (all in `moves.ts`'s flag-OFF block, deletion-scheduled with #2655) 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-30 01:46:36 -07:00
gsxdsm	632d10a9b4	fix(engine): a completed-blocked guard was inert on renamed boards — plus one owner for the terminal pair (#2568) ... Two commits: a behaviour-preserving extraction, then the behaviour change. ## ⚠️ Stack note worth acting on **#2550 and #2554 both report MERGED, but their content is not on `main`.** They merged into their *base branches*, and the bottom of that stack (**#2544**) is still open. Nothing in this chain has reached `main` yet. Nothing is lost — everything is in `origin/feature/workflow-e2e-merge-rebound`, which is why this PR targets it. But "merged" reads as "landed" and here it doesn't. **Merging #2544 flows the whole chain down.** ## The bug `parkCompletedBlockedTask` opens with *"is this card already finished?"* and answered it with: ```ts if (task.column === "done" || task.column === "archived") return false; ``` On a renamed board neither matches, so **the guard was inert** — and the very next branch (`if (task.column !== "todo")`) would then have **moved a completed card back out of its own terminal column**. A guard that never fires does not fail a test. This one was found by tracing the last ledger site, not by anything going red. ## Why a shared owner, not a local fix `merger-ai`'s `isAlreadyFinalizedColumn` held the **only** copy of the per-role terminal-pair rule — a P1 learned the hard way (PR #2471 review): a per-**set** fallback collapses to one element for a workflow declaring `complete` but no `archived`, silently dropping the archived half of every already-finished check. Executor's guard was the raw literal pair, so **whoever converted it next would have re-made exactly that mistake** — the lesson lived in a comment in another file. Hence `resolveTerminalColumns(ir)` in core: one owner, one place for the rule. ## Evidence, and its limits **Commit 1 (extraction) is proven behaviour-preserving**: `workflow-already-finalized-live-e2e` is unchanged and green through the delegation, and the per-set mutation **still fails** through the shared helper. **Commit 2 (the fix) is unproven at the call site, and I'm labelling it rather than implying otherwise.** `parkCompletedBlockedTask` is private and reached only from inside executor dispatch — I could not drive it end to end. So the shared helper gets its **own** tests, in both partial-role directions, precisely because its other consumer can't vouch for it. The call site is a one-line delegation to a tested function. Weaker evidence than the rest of this unit's work. Saying so, because quietly counting it as proven is the exact failure this unit exists to catch. ## Census 417 → 416. That ratchet (#2557) is a **ceiling**, so it stays green without coordination; lower the pin when convenient. ## Verification - E2E suites 10/10; helper unit tests 5/5 - core + engine `tsc --noEmit` clean - `pnpm test:gate` green (414 + 10 + 71) 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --- ## Note on the conflict status (2026-07-31) GitHub reports this PR `CONFLICTING / DIRTY`. **It is not.** Three independent checks: - `git rebase origin/main` on the pushed head reports *"up to date"* and leaves the SHA unchanged — the branch is already on top of main. - `git merge-tree` against the merge base produces **zero** conflict markers. - `origin/main` is unchanged at the commit this was rebased onto. The remote SHA matches the local head, so the push landed. The `mergeable` field is a **stale computation** — it goes stale after a force-push and doesn't always recompute. This branch has now been rebased and force-pushed four times against that cached value. Worth guarding at the source: the auto-retry treats `mergeable` as ground truth, so a stale value generates conflict notices indefinitely. Confirming with a trial rebase or `git merge-tree` before dispatching distinguishes "actually conflicting" from "GitHub hasn't recomputed" — one command, and it ends the loop. Verification on the current head: merge gate green (487 + 158 + 10), engine + core tsc clean, lint clean, 20 tests in the affected suite, zero unresolved threads. --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-30 01:33:03 -07:00
gsxdsm	1f149d21de	fix(engine): TAKING spec-staleness.ts + mission-feature-sync.ts — planner lanes (2 triage guards → 0) (#2616) ... **Claiming `packages/engine/src/spec-staleness.ts` and `packages/engine/src/mission-feature-sync.ts`.** Deliberately *not* `self-healing.ts` (contended) or `task-creation.ts` (#2589 in flight). ## Guard counts | scope | before | after | |---|---|---| | `spec-staleness.ts` | 1 | **0** | | `mission-feature-sync.ts` | 1 | **0** | | repo-wide `column === / !== "triage"` in `packages/*/src` (excl. tests) | 26 | **24** | **21** once #2612 (comments-ops, 3 guards) also lands. ## What was silently broken **mission-feature-sync** — *"has this task returned to a planner lane?"* decided whether a mission feature drops from `in-progress` back to `triaged`. Keyed on the legacy pair, a card sent back for re-planning on a renamed board left its feature stuck at `in-progress` **forever**: the mission board showed work in flight that nobody was doing, and nothing said so. **spec-staleness** — the preserved-progress skip refuses to fire for an **intake** card, since a card being specified has no progress to protect. Keyed on `triage`, a renamed-board intake card looked like started work and its stale spec was skipped instead of re-planned. ## The union is a deliberate call, and the existing suite forced it My first cut *replaced* the legacy pair with the resolved lanes. That broke a real case: **post-U11 the default lineage has no `triage`**, so a legacy row still resting there stopped counting as a planner lane. `usage-limit-detector` already made this call for the same situation and wrote down why — **over-inclusion is the safe direction**. Marking a feature `triaged` for a card in a legacy planner column is recoverable; a mission board permanently showing phantom work is the bug. So the legacy pair stands and resolved lanes are *added* to it. Worth noting the existing test is what caught this, not review — which is the argument for converting against a real suite rather than in isolation. ## A parameter, and why that needs the ratchet `spec-staleness`'s predicate is **pure** (a task, no store), so the role arrives as a parameter and both callers resolve it. That optionality is exactly the caller-omission hazard this program has already shipped twice, so the function is also registered in core's `role-parameter-caller-audit` (#2588). **This PR's tests prove the parameter is honoured; the audit proves it is passed. Neither alone is enough** — that split is the whole lesson of #2586. ## Mutation-verified | mutation | result | |---|---| | mission-feature-sync → legacy pair only | the two renamed cases fail | | spec-staleness → restore the `triage` literal | its renamed case fails | Negatives included in both: demoting a **WIP** card's feature would report running work as un-started, and never-skipping would discard every card with real progress. ## Verification - new suites 4/4 and 3/3; `mission-feature-sync` + `spec-staleness` 27/27 - engine `tsc --noEmit` clean; `pnpm test:gate` green (482 + 132 + 10) - `executor-prompt` reports 3 failures **both with and without** this change — pre-existing, baselined by stashing rather than assumed 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-30 00:54:01 -07:00
gsxdsm	dca20496f4	consolidate/u7: plugins to zero + 8 executor rebound guards + resume lanes (supersedes #2607, #2635, #2640) (#2644) ... Consolidation branch for U7, per the new one-branch working mode. **Supersedes #2607, #2635, #2640** — the three of my PRs that were stuck on review threads. My other seven (#2602, #2605, #2606, #2611, #2621, #2628, #2633) are green with **zero unresolved threads** and are deliberately left alone for the merge sweep. ## What is in here, file by file | file | change | guards before → after | |---|---|---| | `plugins/…/glasses/src/agent-actions.ts` | gates, destinations and degraded-resolution refusal all resolve from the task's own workflow | 2 → 0 | | `plugins/…/glasses/src/quick-capture.ts` | accepted capture columns come from the board; default no longer names the deleted column | 1 → 0 | | `plugins/…/glasses/src/settings.ts` | quick-capture default was `triage`, the column #2515 removed | (assignment, uncounted) | | `plugins/…/dependency-graph/src/GraphTaskNode.tsx` | redundant column condition deleted | 1 → 0 | | `packages/engine/src/executor.ts` | 8 rebound guards compare the resolved column; 4 resume-eligibility literals share one resolver | 151 → 143 (+4 off-bar) | | `packages/engine/src/__tests__/` | 4 new suites, 26 cases | — | `plugins/` reaches **zero** column guards with this branch. ## The three threads it closes **#2607 — five findings, all mine, all the same rule.** I kept *qualifying* a legacy-id fallback instead of removing it: | attempt | rule | hole review found | |---|---|---| | 1 | fall back to `todo` when the role is missing | moved cards to phantom columns | | 2 | …only if the workflow **declares** `todo` | aliased **review** lane named `todo` | | 3 | …and only if no other role is assigned to it | **traitless** parking column named `todo` | The qualifications were the mistake. Once `resolveLanes` returns a lane set the workflow *has* a column vocabulary, so "no column carries the hold trait" is a complete answer — refuse. `destination()` is two lines now, with no aliasing surface left to qualify. Plus a sixth, which is a genuinely different state: **degraded resolution is indistinguishable from the default board.** `resolveWorkflowIrForTask` is total by design — a missing definition silently returns the *default* coding IR — so a card on a custom board whose definition could not be read resolved to `todo`/`in-progress`. `undefined` lanes cannot express that (it means "no workflow at all", where the legacy ids *are* the answer). The actions now refuse with 409. #2618 would replace this check with resolver provenance; it is not merged, so this does not depend on it. **#2635 — "seven rebound sites remain untested."** Fair; my "same shape" note was an assertion, not coverage. Seven of the eight need a live graph run to reach, so the *shape* is pinned instead: a static check that no guard in front of a rebound move compares against a column literal, with a vacuity case (the same detection run against the original shape) and a match-count floor (≥8), because a guard reporting success on zero matches is worse than no guard. **#2640 — duplicate workflow resolution.** Framed as I/O; it is also a correctness bug. Eligibility and re-entry are two halves of one decision and resolved the workflow separately, so a workflow edit landing between them has the halves reading *different boards*. Now one caller-owned memo per decision — caller-owned because a process-lifetime cache would have to guess when a mid-flight workflow edit invalidates it. ## Behavioural findings, not tidying - **The last-resort recovery for completed-but-stranded work did not exist off the default lineage.** `promotedFromPlannerColumn` was false on a renamed board, so finished work resting in planning was never promoted; the code fell through to a review handoff that role adjacency rejects, and the card stayed stuck with its work complete. - **Rebound guards could not see the column their own move targeted.** U5b converted the move target; the eight `column !== "todo"` checks in front of it were left literal, so on a renamed board the engine moved a card into the column it was already in — and `moveTaskInternal` runs reset-on-entry on every real move, so at the `preserveProgress: false` site it reset step progress a second time. - **The FN-1404 `task:move` audit row was lying**, recording `to: "todo"` while the move target was resolved. A run-audit trail that disagrees with the move it describes is worse than none. Not a comparison, so no census counts it. - **A task interrupted by an engine pause never resumed on a renamed board** (off-bar, `in-review`/`in-progress` literals): four comparisons decided one question and had to agree; two of them disagreed on a renamed board, so re-entry silently never fired. ## Revert proofs, isolated per site | reverted | result | |---|---| | `destination()` back to attempt 3 | 3 of 38 fail | | degraded-resolution refusals removed | 2 of 42 fail | | capture set back to the legacy five | 2 of 3 fail (renamed-board suite) | | forward exclusions → literals | 1 of 14 fails | | missing-wip refusal removed | 2 of 14 fail | | `promotedFromPlannerColumn` → literals | 3 of 7 fail | | promotion target → `"in-progress"` | 3 of 7 fail | | one rebound guard → `!== "todo"` | 1 of 3 fails (static shape) | | resume lanes → legacy trio | 1 of 5 fails | Every conversion is paired with a negative — a forward move, a not-a-planner-lane card, a default-lineage card, an unresolvable workflow — so neither "always fire" nor "never fire" can pass for "resolve the role". ## Commit discipline Twelve commits, each one thing: the code move (`resolvePlannerLanes` out of `triage.ts`) is separate from every behavior change, and each review fix is its own commit with its own revert proof. ## Verification - `pnpm test:gate` **71/71** - 162/162 across the glasses plugin's 19 files; 26/26 across the four new engine suites - engine + glasses typecheck clean; `pnpm lint` clean 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Bug Fixes** * Engine recovery and retries now work correctly with renamed or customized workflow columns. * Tasks in manual-intake columns are no longer automatically planned. * Agent actions and quick capture now respect each board’s declared columns and lifecycle stages. * Awaiting-approval tasks are recognized regardless of their current column. * Command Center SDLC funnel stages now accurately reflect customized workflows. * **Documentation** * Added guidance for safely changing workflow-column logic and interpreting lifecycle-column checks. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-30 00:52:55 -07:00
gsxdsm	f6010ef558	fix(test): planning-lane E2E is RED on main (2/7, incl. its own control) — same unplanned-spec fixture defect #2634 fixed next door (#2658) ... Found while establishing the pre-closing E2E baseline for the final verification pass (closing bar, item 4). **Two of this family's seven cases are failing on `origin/main` right now**, and one of them is its own control. ``` releases an ordinary held card on a default board (the control) expected [] to include 'FN-OK' holds a card parked for approval MID-SWEEP, after the snapshot read expected false to be true ``` ## Cause — the same defect #2634 repaired in the file next door `seedHeldTask` creates the task and never writes a `PROMPT.md`, so the card carries only the bootstrap seed. FN-7648's `isUnplannedForExecution` reads that file for any card resting in an intake- or hold-trait column and refuses to move an unplanned card into a processing column, so the sweep released nothing. **Being held was the gate working.** The fixture was exercising the gate rather than the sweep — which is exactly why the *control* failed, and a failing control means the rest of the family's assertions cannot be trusted either. `workflow-lifecycle-live-e2e` had the identical problem and #2634 fixed it the same way. This file landed alongside it (#2611) and did not get the same treatment. Worth stating twice because it is a general rule for this directory: **a release/scheduler fixture that does not model a card which cleared specification is testing the gate, not the sweep.** ## The check that matters more than the fix #2611's stated value is "3/7 red without the guard". Making red tests green is the easiest thing in the world to do wrongly, so I verified the family still discriminates *after* the seed — disabling `isTaskBlockedOnApproval` in `hold-release.ts` still kills exactly three, and the same three: | killed by mutation | |---| | does NOT release a card blocked on manual plan approval on a **default** board | | does NOT release a card blocked on manual plan approval on a **renamed** board | | holds a card parked for approval **MID-SWEEP**, after the snapshot was read | Two cases turned green, zero discriminating power lost. Without that mutation this change would be indistinguishable from weakening the tests until they passed, which the standing rule forbids. Note the third killed case is also one of the two that were failing: it was red for the fixture reason **and** genuinely proves the guard. ## Why it is worth a PR of its own The closing bar's final verification pass (gate, `verify:fast`, all E2E, census) has to run on a green tree. Two red E2E cases on main would otherwise show up in that report as a new failure and cost a diagnosis at exactly the wrong moment. Pre-closing baseline for the record — **13 E2E families, 109 tests, these 2 the only failures**: ``` green agent-count 13 · agent-link 5 · lease-rebound 6 · lifecycle 24 · merge-family 7 merge-rebound 4 · merge-safeguards 10 · merged-board 5 · planner-lane 5 planner-lane-resolution 3 · rebound-family 15 · stranded-column 5 RED planning-lane 7 (2 failing) ``` ## Verification 7/7 green, mutation 3/7 as designed, engine typecheck clean (0 lines), `pnpm lint` exit 0, `pnpm test:gate` exit 0. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-30 00:47:43 -07:00
gsxdsm	2fb0df9da8	docs(replan-target): the flagged follow-up is done — the note said otherwise (#2665) ... Comment only. The block above `resolveReplanTargetColumn` still reads: > **STILL A REAL FOLLOW-UP** … the `return "triage"` fallbacks on the no-match and throw paths name a column the default lineage no longer declares … flagged rather than fixed That directly contradicts the code six lines below it. **#2598 landed the fix:** the no-match path now returns `roles?.hold ?? roles?.intake`, and the throw path returns `undefined`. I wrote that note. A stale *"not fixed yet"* sitting above a fixed implementation is worse than no note — the next reader either distrusts the code or re-does work that is already done. This is the closing-bar item 3 I was assigned, and I nearly re-did it myself: I had the change written and reverted before checking whether main had overtaken me. ## One thing worth recording about #2598's version Its catch-path answer is **stronger than the one I had drafted**. I was going to return `"todo"` — the better guess, since post-U11 the default lineage declares `todo` and not `triage`. #2598 returns `undefined` instead, which forces callers to handle "this workflow could not be resolved" explicitly rather than papering over it with a plausible column id that the move path may then reject. That is the same lesson as the sync-reader audit in #2653: **a defective lookup that returns a valid-looking answer is worse than one that admits it does not know.** Recorded in the comment so the reasoning survives. ## Verification Engine typecheck clean · **51/51** across both replan-target suites · comment-only, no executable change. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-30 00:47:19 -07:00
gsxdsm	b6b2fdcdc6	test(U7): rescue the orphan-triage regression test — main has the fix but not its test (#2663) ... Main already carries **every other artifact** from #2593 — the provenance fix, the `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` markers in `TaskCard`/`TaskDetailModal`/`register-routes`, the audit doc. The one thing missing is the test. That is the same artifact class that vanished when #2645's branch was force-pushed, so I rebased #2593 onto current main, found every commit conflicting because the work had landed by other routes, and rescued the one piece that had not. **#2593 can now be closed** — it carries nothing else main lacks. **#2654 needs rebasing onto main** rather than stacking on it. ## What makes this test worth rescuing It took three attempts to write honestly, and the reason is pinned in the test body: on a bare mock, `resolvePlannerLanes` reads `resolveTaskWorkflowIrSync`, which the mock does not define, so it returns `LEGACY_PLANNER_LANES` (`intake: "triage"`) and a `triage` card matches the **first** arm — the orphan arm is never reached. Every earlier fixture I wrote passed through that short-circuit and proved nothing. All three cases stub that reader with the merged default (`intake: "todo"`), which is what production resolves, leaving the orphan arm as the only thing deciding. They differ **only** in the workflow readers. | case | role | |---|---| | **C** — workflow declares `triage` as a review lane | **the discriminator.** Pre-fix, the sync reader ignores the selection, returns the default IR declaring no `triage`, so the arm fires and a card is finalized out of a custom workflow's code-review column | | **B** — workflow resolves, declares no `triage` | positive control; without it "returns false" is unfalsifiable | | **A** — workflow unresolvable | **behavior pin, NOT a regression test** — passes in both worlds | I had A labelled "REGRESSION" until the mutation said otherwise. It is relabelled with the null result documented, because a future edit making it flip would mean the arm's scope changed. ## Verification, stated precisely **231/231** against main's implementation. The mutation that proved C discriminates was run on the branch where the pre-fix code still compiled. **It cannot be re-run against main**: the `WorkflowIr` type import was removed along with the fix, so a naive revert no longer transforms. I am stating that rather than implying I re-verified it here — the discrimination was demonstrated, just not on this base. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-30 00:37:20 -07:00
gsxdsm	3bf9bf5f74	collapse the plan-admission-throttle payload to one gate (+ AGENTS.md) (#2562) ... The cross-project semaphore is deleted, so `task:plan-admission-throttled` was describing a gate that no longer exists. Nothing wires `options.semaphore` any more, which left three things dead-but-visible: - `semaphoreAvailable` was permanently `Infinity`, so `Math.min(projectRoom, …)` was a no-op keeping a deleted limiter in the arithmetic - `blockedBy` was a **discriminator** between `"running-agent cap"` and `"global semaphore"`; only the first can occur - four `semaphore*` metadata fields were always `undefined`, and two more terms in the dedupe signature were constant ## `blockedBy` is kept, not dropped Even though it is now a constant. The event exists (FN-8600) to answer *“why did this card sit queued to plan?”* after the fact — a named reason answers that even when there is one gate, whereas a payload with **no** reason field reads as “unknown”. It costs nothing and preserves the shape if a second gate is ever added. The dedupe signature drops the two semaphore terms and keeps the eligible task IDs — that term is what stops a **new** card’s stall being swallowed when the counts land on an unchanged tuple, which is the property the event depends on. ## AGENTS.md It documented the removed field names verbatim, so it is updated in the same commit. Leaving docs describing a payload the code cannot emit is exactly the readable-but-wrong artifact this program keeps deleting. ## Verification `pnpm lint` clean · engine `tsc` clean · `pnpm test:gate` green · triage suites **234/234**. --- **Correction I owe on `concurrency.ts`, measured rather than estimated.** I earlier told the coordinator ~75% of its 886 lines could go with the cross-project cap. That was line-range arithmetic and it was wrong. With the cap now fully removed, `concurrency.ts` is **still 886 lines**, because `AgentSemaphore` has four consumers unrelated to it — `verification-concurrency` (maxConcurrentVerifications), `research-orchestrator` (research runs), `experiment-executor` (maxConcurrentExperiments), `step-session-executor` (parallel steps) — plus `ProjectAdmissionCoordinator`, which is FN-8453 oldest-first **ordering**, not a limiter. The real remaining win there is the pre-held-slot bookkeeping and the idle-semaphore leak recovery, which existed to service the global instance; I will measure that as its own slice rather than quote a fraction. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Bug Fixes** * Updated plan admission throttling to consistently use the project’s running-agent capacity. * Improved throttle audit events by reporting stable capacity details and removing obsolete semaphore information. * Preserved accurate deduplication for repeated throttling events, including changes in stalled tasks. * **Documentation** * Updated run-audit guidance to match the revised throttling event format. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-30 00:31:27 -07:00
gsxdsm	8393bba7dc	U7: the replan rebound targets a column the workflow declares (R7) — re-landed on main (#2598) ... > Based on `main`, no dependencies. Re-landed after closing the stacked chain (#2517, and #2551 below) that never reached main. ## What main already has, and what it lacks Main independently converted the planner-lane **parameters** in this file — and **better than I had**: it splits `plannerColumn` from `roles.mergedPlanningColumn`, because a merged lane joins the FN-8596 arrival-order rescue but *not* the "planner column is never advanced" shortcut. That work is main's and untouched here. What main still lacks is the **R7 fix**: `resolveReplanTargetColumn` returns `"triage"` **by fiat** for any workflow declaring neither legacy id — `builtin:marketing` (ideation/backlog/drafting/…) and every fully renamed set. A Plan Review REVISE therefore moves the card into a column its workflow **does not declare**, for `reconcileUndeclaredTaskColumns` to clean up after. A move the engine makes on purpose, not drift. | Workflow | Target | Changed? | |---|---|---| | `builtin:coding` / stepwise | `todo` | no | | Coding (Ideas) | `todo` | no | | `builtin:marketing` | `backlog` (its own hold) | **yes** — was `triage`, undeclared | | declares no planning lane | `undefined` → park | **yes** — was `triage` by fiat | ## The ordering the existing suite taught me Legacy ids stay preferred **first**, and the trait resolution prefers **hold over intake**. That is not arbitrary: Coding (Ideas) declares `ideas` as its intake, and `ideas` is **manual capture with no AI** (plan R10) — a rejected plan sent there stops being replanned at all. The old code got Ideas right **by accident**: it never recognised `ideas` as intake and fell through to `todo`. An "intake first" trait rule would have shipped that regression dressed as a cleanup, and three existing Ideas tests were the only thing between me and doing it. ## An inverted comment, corrected The function's own U11 note read: *"the second lookup asks for `todo`, which U11 deletes… the first lookup still matches `triage` (which U11 keeps)"*. **That is backwards.** #2515 keeps `todo` and deletes `triage`, so the consequence is the opposite of what was written — the `todo` branch is what saves builtin coding. Fixed rather than left, because a comment that inverts a merge's direction sends the next reader to the wrong branch. ## Fail-closed callers `undefined` means "nowhere to replan" (plan U5: *skipped with a log rather than moved arbitrarily*). All four call sites park **visibly** rather than log a move they did not make. The scheduler's rebound still writes `needs-replan` — deliberately, since that is what blocks dispatch and the branch has already decided the card must not be released — with only the *log* made conditional. ## The superseded test is deleted, not skipped A skipped test is a guard that cannot fire. Its replacement asserts the new contract **and** the R7 invariant directly — *"a column this workflow declares"*, not just an id — plus a new case for a workflow with no planning lane at all. ## Verification | Check | Result | |---|---| | replan-target | 41/41 | | with scheduler-trait-dispatch + pre-release-plan-review | 55/55 | | `tsc --noEmit` (engine) | clean | | `pnpm lint` | clean | | `pnpm test:gate` | green (482 + 10 + 71) | | `pnpm check:changesets` | clean | `triage.test.ts` still shows main's **8 pre-existing #2515 failures** — unchanged by this, fixed by **#2576**. ## Closing #2551 Its parameter work is superseded by main's better version; this PR carries the only part main lacked. Same story as #2517: a stacked PR outlived the surface it was converting. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-30 00:31:03 -07:00
gsxdsm	cf6133da8b	consolidate/e2e — E2E evidence: already-finalized terminal roles (real merge entry, no git) + ledger corrections (#2648) ... Consolidation branch for the E2E-evidence worker. Two commits, both engine test/comment only — **no production code, census unchanged**. ## Census (the authoritative instrument) `node scripts/lifecycle-column-census.mjs` on this branch: **triage 10, total 784** — identical to its base. `lifecycle-column-census-ast.test.ts` and `lifecycle-column-census.test.ts` pass (15). This PR neither shrinks nor grows the backlog; it is evidence. ## What it contains, file by file | file | change | |---|---| | `packages/engine/src/__tests__/workflow-already-finalized-live-e2e.pg.test.ts` | **new** — 3 cases, live PG store + real `runAiMerge` | | `packages/engine/src/__tests__/workflow-lifecycle-live-e2e.pg.test.ts` | comment only — retires two unproven-ledger entries | ## The evidence: `isAlreadyFinalizedColumn` never needed the real-git lane My unproven-sites ledger listed it as requiring a git harness because it is module-private inside `runAiMerge`. Reading the function instead of costing the lane: `runAiMerge` reaches it after only `store.getTask`, a pure workspace assert, and a pure branch resolve — **before** the merge blocker, settings, and any branch sync. `projectRootDir` is never touched on that path, and the short-circuit returns a `noOp` rather than throwing. Reachable through the real public entry point with no repository at all. ### Why two cases and not one The guard resolves terminal columns **per role**: ```ts terminal = [lifecycle.complete ?? "done", lifecycle.archived ?? "archived"] ``` #2471's P1 caught the first cut replacing the whole legacy **pair** as soon as *any* terminal role resolved — a workflow declaring `complete` but no `archived` collapsed to one element, silently lost the archived short-circuit, and an archived card then threw *"must be in 'in-review'"* for a card whose real state was "already done, nothing to do". A per-set rule passes for whichever role **is** declared and fails the other, so a single case cannot tell the two rules apart. The shared fixture declares `complete` (renamed `shipped`) and **no** `archived`, so it is exactly that partially-declared shape — resolved half and fallback half live on one board. Mutation-verified, each killing only its own case: | mutation | kills | |---|---| | per-**set** replacement (the #2471 defect) | the legacy-`archived` fallback case | | legacy pair only (conversion reverted) | the renamed-`shipped` case | Plus a differential: a renamed **review** card must not report already-finalized. Without it both cases above would pass for a guard that finalizes everything — turning every merge into a silent no-op, the worst failure this function has. Evidence strength is stated in the file header rather than overclaimed: this reads a returned **decision**, not a persisted row, so it proves the renamed board resolves and short-circuits — not that a card moves. ## Ledger corrections (comment only) Two entries retired, both wrong the same way — each stated a **lane cost** as if it were an impossibility: - `columnIsIntakeOrHold` — "consumers are dashboard-side" is true and irrelevant; its one consumer is an exported pure function. Proven on merged and renamed boards by work already merged in #2631. - `register-task-workflow-routes.ts` — "standing up the route shell is mock-the-world" was false; `createApiRoutes` + `test-request.js` is this repo's established convention with ten existing suites for that file. Covered by its owner in #2614. Counting this PR's own subject, that is **seven** wrong lane-cost inferences in that ledger. The rule it keeps violating is unchanged and now recorded in the file: read what the FUNCTION touches before costing a lane for it. ## Verification `pnpm test:gate` exit 0 (695), `pnpm lint` exit 0, engine typecheck clean, 28 tests green across the AST ratchet and the three merged-board/planner-lane/already-finalized families. ## Not in scope here The `performWorkflowRerunBounce` E2E. The harness exists (`new TaskExecutor(store, "/tmp/test", {})`), but `executor.ts:4305` gates the rebound on the legacy `in-progress`/`in-review` pair while resolving its target by role — so on a renamed board the bounce never fires and the resolved target is unreachable. An E2E asserting today's behaviour would cement that. It is executor.ts's owner's fix; evidence should follow it. Detail in #2632's thread. --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-30 00:27:30 -07:00
gsxdsm	20878e9d5f	census: count column: "<legacy>" query filters as a separate, separately-pinned instrument (backlog unchanged at 784) (#2650) ... Pre-launch input for the 779-guard fleet. **The backlog number does not move: 784 before, 784 after.** This adds a second number beside it. ## The problem it measures A guard is not the only way a legacy column id decides behaviour: ```ts const todo = await this.store.listTasks({ column: "todo", slim: true }); ``` That is a **source query** — it selects the rows a sweep considers *at all*. On a renamed or merged board it returns nothing, so a sweep whose per-task predicate was correctly converted still does nothing, while looking converted. `self-healing.ts:2849` names the pairing in prose, and #2560 had to repair exactly that combination after a converted predicate was left with a literal query. The census walks comparison `BinaryExpression`s. A `PropertyAssignment` is not one, so this class was invisible to the instrument **and to its ratchet** — it could grow silently. Measured: **83 query filters, 43 IR node definitions.** I proved one live consequence earlier on #2648: `recoverStuckMergeDeadlocks` cannot see a renamed board at all — the renamed rows exist and none appear in its three-literal union (`renamedInsideUnion=0`, on a live PG store). ## Why this matters *before* the fleet is briefed The fleet rule is *"the baseline ratchet must shrink by exactly the converted count."* In `self-healing.ts` — the largest batch at 111 — both classes sit in the same functions, so today a worker either: - converts only the comparisons → arithmetic is clean, and sweeps whose source query still filters a dead literal stay blind; or - converts the query too → the count does **not** move by the converted amount, and a more-correct PR looks like a miscount. The second punishes the better worker. With a second pinned number, converting a query becomes visible work instead of an apparent error. ## Counted separately, deliberately `totals.column` is a published shape — the baseline, the reporter, and other workers' in-flight PRs read it, and the completion bar is defined against it. Growing it would move a number the program is actively driving to zero. So the new counts live in `summary.properties` / `queryByFile`, under their own baseline keys, with their own both-directions ratchet (same rule as #2633's, including the stale-allowance half). `totals` keeps its **exact** shape — two existing tests assert it with `toEqual`, and breaking a contract others depend on mid-flight to add a number is not worth it. ## Definitions are not queries Workflow IR graph nodes carry `column:` to declare where a node lives — `{ id: "review", kind: "...", column: "in-review" }`. That is the lineage describing itself: not a lookup, not convertible, and ~43 of the raw matches. They are told apart **structurally** (an `id`/`kind` sibling in the same object literal), not by filename, so a definition written anywhere classifies the same way. ## Baseline seeding, stated plainly `--update-baseline` could not pin a **new** category: the regression check runs before the write, and with no prior key every file reads as a rise. I seeded the three new keys once, directly, leaving every guard field byte-identical. The diff is purely additive — no removals. ## Finding, not caused by this change **`--strict` is already red on clean main**: `register-task-workflow-routes.ts` is **23** against a baseline of **22**. Verified by stashing this branch and re-running on an unmodified tree. Until that is reconciled the guard ratchet is passing nothing — worth fixing before the fleet starts relying on it as the work order. ## Verification - census suites **44 green**, 6 new cases: counted; kept out of the backlog; definition-not-query; both instruments independent (a bug routing comparisons into the query bucket would otherwise look clean on both); `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` honoured; non-legacy id ignored - `node scripts/lifecycle-column-census.mjs` → backlog still 784 - `pnpm lint` exit 0, `pnpm test:gate` exit 0 (695) --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-30 00:27:18 -07:00
gsxdsm	2771408bba	ci: enforce the lifecycle-column ratchet — it has never actually run (#2654) ... **The ratchet was advisory.** `scripts/lifecycle-column-census.mjs` existed only as `pnpm census:lifecycle-columns` — without `--strict` — and **no workflow invoked it**. Nothing has ever compared the tree to the baseline. Every "the baseline ratchet holds them" assumption in this program rested on a check that does not run. That explains both classes of hole: **1. Three PRs lowered counts without re-recording,** leaving allowances the deleted guards could return through while every check stayed green. I've tightened them across #2593 and earlier PRs, but nothing stops the next one. **2. #2621 GREW the count while its own title claimed "count 0 → 0".** It added `column === "triage"` and `column === "todo"` at `register-task-workflow-routes.ts:2681`, taking that file to **23 against an allowance of 22**. It landed unchallenged. This is the failure mode the ratchet exists to prevent, and it happened *inside this program*, in a PR that asserted the opposite. ## The change Adds `check:lifecycle-columns` (the census with `--strict`) to the `pr-checks.yml` lint job, next to `check:changesets` and `check:routes-modular` — the established pattern. **~1.8s over ~1950 files**, so this is not a slow-test addition. ## Proven to fail, in both directions A guard that reports success without checking anything is worse than no guard, so: | injected defect | result | |---|---| | `const __probe = (c: string) => c === "triage"` added to `moves.ts` | `count ROSE — moves.ts: 39 -> 40`, exit 1 | | run against main's current baseline | exit 1 on `mission-feature-sync.ts: allows 5, tree has 0` | Both reverted; exit 0 restored. Note the second row: **this check is RED on main right now**, which is the point. ## Merge order **Stacked on #2593**, which carries the `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` marker for the #2621 site (a v1 IR declares no roles, so no trait can answer that question) plus the baseline re-record. Standalone on main this PR is red — correctly. **Merge #2593 first**, then this. I stacked rather than duplicating those two edits because I already caused one conflict today by appending related content from two branches, and #2651 merged a correction ahead of the section it corrected. Same-content edits in two PRs is the same mistake. ## Census Unchanged by this PR: **776 total, triage 5, reviewed 16** — it adds no guards and converts none. It only makes the numbers enforceable. ## For the fleet This should land before the 776-guard fleet launches. The brief says "the baseline ratchet must shrink by exactly the converted count" — until now nothing verified that claim, so a batch worker could report a shrink that did not happen, or grow the count while converting, and CI would agree. --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-30 00:20:31 -07:00
gsxdsm	642a4fa264	consolidate/u12 — U12 consolidation: 4 live defects, the AST ratchet fail-closed, and the moves.ts flag scoped (#2647) ... One branch, one PR, per the consolidation directive. Contents file-by-file below. **Supersedes #2625** (its overlapping conversions landed via U11's #2624/#2626/#2636; only the parts nobody else did are folded here). **#2630 and #2639 stay open** — both green with zero threads, per rule 3. ## Four live defects, each measured **1. Every planning card renders an actions menu.** `TaskContextMenu.tsx` still had `shouldShowActionsMenu: task.column !== "triage"` on main *after* the rest of that file was converted. Since #2515 removed the id, the condition is TRUE for every card, so the suppression stopped applying anywhere — including on cards whose menu is empty, the orphaned click target the Surface Enumeration rule exists to catch. Found **twice independently**: by reading the guard, and again by the invariance test below, which failed on main with `shouldShowActionsMenu` true on one lineage and false on another. That is the argument for an invariance property over per-site conversion — the file had already been converted "2 → 1" and the survivor was the live one. **2. Worktree upcoming-work list empty on renamed boards.** `groupByWorktree` filtered `t.column === "todo"`. On the default board the id and the role coincide so every existing test passed; renamed, it matched nothing and a whole panel read as idle. **3. Hold-lane FIFO ordering lost on renamed boards.** `sortTasksForDisplayColumn` gated priority-then-FIFO on `column === "todo"`, degrading to the generic id-ordered sort elsewhere. Cards simply appear in the wrong order, silently. **4. The AST ratchet still failed open** — fourth time in that file, third found by review. `receiverName` understood only one-level property access and bare identifiers, so `task["column"]`, `metadataColumn(entry, "to")`, ternaries, `(task!.column)` and backtick literals were dropped. **Measured on main: `in-progress` 196 → 197, `in-review` 211 → 213** — three real guards nobody counted, including `metadataColumn(entry, "to") === "in-review"` in `reliability-metrics.ts`. Now walks wrappers, resolves calls to the callee name, and emits a `<SyntaxKind>` **sentinel** for anything unnameable: counted *and* trips the classification guard, so a human judges it instead of it vanishing. ## Per-file guard counts | file | before | after | |---|---:|---:| | `app/components/TaskContextMenu.tsx` | 1 | **0** | | `app/utils/worktreeGrouping.ts` | 1 | **0** | | `app/components/taskSorting.ts` | 1 | **0** | The other dashboard files I had converted reached 0 via U11's PRs; where our work overlapped I took theirs during the rebase, including two places where theirs was **stronger** than mine — they deleted Column's unreachable quick-create arm outright (with fixtures migrated) where I had converted it, and they verified the same `isPreExecutionHoldColumn` degraded-set asymmetry I did, independently. ## Flip precondition: the moves.ts flag is scoped, not flipped `move-target-declared-census.test.ts` answers precondition 2 with measurement. 41 engine `moveTask` calls have literal targets — `todo` 27, `in-progress` 7, `done` 6, `archived` 1 — and **all four are declared by the default lineage**, so the default board is not the exposure. `triage` appears only in a comment noting `replan-target.ts` used to hardcode it. My own grep had said `todo=29`; the AST says 27, because grep counts comments. The exposure is **custom** lineages: 20 of the 41 carry no `recoveryRehome` and would reject with unknown-column post-flip; 21 are exempt via the #1411 carve-out, which makes that carve-out load-bearing. I did not flip the flag. It is six seams, not the `789`/`837` pair every summary including mine described, and seam 2 turns on *new refusals* rather than swapping equivalent implementations — a green suite says nothing about that. #2639 pins the blast radius. ## Tests - `column-role-id-invariance.test.tsx` — hold traits fixed, vary only the column id across MERGED / LEGACY / RENAMED; every decision must agree. Drives the real consumers, so a component keeping an inline comparison fails it. Includes a unanimous-and-**false** case so it can't be satisfied by a predicate hardwired to true. **This is the test that caught defect 1 on main.** - `worktreeGrouping.test.ts` — includes two cards both in a column named `staging`, one hold and one not, asserting opposite answers. That assertion is impossible under a board-wide column-id set, which is why hold resolution is keyed per task via `getEffectiveTaskWorkflowId` (#2625 review). - `taskSorting.test.ts` — discriminates on the **tiebreak**, not priority: both branches sort by priority, so my first version passed for the wrong reason. Equal-priority cards whose `createdAt` order disagrees with their id order. - `no-hardcoded-lifecycle-columns.test.ts` — 16 detector cases: 11 shapes counted, 4 legitimate ignored, one asserting the sentinel path. Revert checks, all run: menu suppression → diff names the field; worktree → `expected [] to include 'FN-50'`; sort → `FN-2, FN-9` instead of `FN-9, FN-2`; ratchet → the 3 recovered guards disappear. ## One site that should never be converted `MissionControlPanel.tsx:46` — `{ id: "triage", match: (c) => c === "triage" || c === "signal" || c === "backlog" }` is a deliberate name-similarity heuristic for the SDLC funnel; it matches synonyms and folds unknown columns into an "other" bucket so custom columns still contribute. Converting it changes what the funnel displays. Like the `live-agent-count` fallbacks, it belongs in a documented floor — **the ratchet's target is that floor, not zero.** `DocumentsView.tsx:73` is convertible but the file has no column flags at all, so a real fix means plumbing board-workflow metadata into a view that doesn't fetch it — its own unit of work. ## Verification `pnpm lint` clean. `pnpm test:gate` green (10 / 482 / 71). `tsc -p packages/dashboard/tsconfig.app.json` and `packages/core/tsconfig.json` clean. Core ratchet + seam suites 24/24. Dashboard target suites 37/38 — the one failure is the pre-existing `"Back to In Progress"` label casing, confirmed identical on the base. --- ## Added after the initial push **5. `TaskCard` lost inline editing on renamed boards; `TaskDetailModal` kept it.** Still live on main: the modal resolved field editability from traits in U10/R8, the card used a hardcoded `{triage, todo}` set with **no trait path at all** — even though `taskColumnFlags` was already in scope. On a renamed board the title was editable in the modal and the pencil was missing from the card. Body moved unchanged into `isFieldEditableColumnRole` so the two surfaces cannot drift again. The veto traits are the substance: a column can legally carry `hold` **and** a WIP or review trait, and a plain `intake || hold` check would let an operator rewrite a description while a session executes against it. Coverage gap **measured, not assumed**: mutating `canEdit` back to the hardcoded set left `TaskCard*` at the same failure count as the unmutated run — nothing caught it. The four render cases assert the real `aria-label`; that mutation now fails with `Unable to find an accessible element ... name 'Edit task'`. **6. The ratchet's target is a documented FLOOR, not zero** — and this changes the completion bar. Zero is not reachable, and chasing it means breaking working code. Two categories are permanent, now protected as positive assertions so a future sweep cannot "finish the job" by deleting them: - `MissionControlPanel.tsx`'s `FUNNEL_STAGES` is a deliberate **name-similarity** heuristic — it matches `signal`, `backlog`, `to-do`, `ready`, `shipped` and folds unrecognised columns into an "other" bucket so a custom board still contributes counts. It is not asking whether a column has the intake trait; it buckets arbitrary column *names* for display. Asserted on the **synonym list**, because the synonyms are what prove it is name matching — if they disappear the site has changed character and the exemption stops applying. - `live-agent-count.ts`'s no-flags arm is reachable (a remote store is deliberately given an empty flag map; a card in an undeclared column has no flags at all) and deleting the literal makes such a card match **no** arm, so the queued total silently under-reports a stranded card. A count with an undocumented floor invites someone to drive it to zero. **Not done, and why:** `DocumentsView.tsx:73` is convertible but that file has no column flags anywhere, so a real fix means plumbing board-workflow metadata into a view that does not fetch it — its own unit of work, not something to smuggle into a conversion. **Re-verified after these commits:** `pnpm lint` clean, `pnpm test:gate` green (10 / 482 / 71), `tsc` clean on core and `tsconfig.app.json`, core ratchet suite 26/26, `columnRoles` 10/10, `TaskCard.test.tsx` 384/386 (the 2 are pre-existing CSS assertions). `TaskDetail*` is 130 failed / 551 passed **both with and without** this change — verified by stashing, so pre-existing and unrelated. --- ## Flag resolution: preconditions 1 and 2 are now DISCHARGED. Precondition 3 is blocked, and by evidence. **Precondition 1 — the side-effect equivalence proof — done.** `moves-flag-equivalence.test.ts` runs the same journey under both flag states against live PG and diffs the persisted row. **Result: identical** — whole-row equality across 128 fields plus an equal timing shape, over `todo → in-progress → in-review → todo → in-progress`. That test was **wrong twice** before it meant anything, and both times it was passing: 1. **It proved nothing.** `experimentalFeatures` is **global-only**, and `moves.ts` reads `getSettingsFast()`, which filters global-only keys out of the project layer. My `updateSettings` write was silently discarded, `useWorkflow` was false in *both* runs, and the "proof" compared the legacy path against itself. Found by stamping the flag-ON branch and observing the test still passed. Now written via `updateGlobalSettings`, and the helper **asserts the flag took effect** before the journey runs. 2. **The journey was forward-only**, so it never reached the reopen hook's field resets (`status`, `error`, `blockedBy`, pause clearing) — a mutation there passed. Extended with a backward move and a re-entry. Mutation-verified after both fixes: stamping seam 3, and diverging the reopen hook, each fail the comparison. **Precondition 2 — done, and its answer is a blocker.** The census says the default board is safe: all 41 literal engine move targets are declared by the default lineage. But **20 of those 41 carry no `recoveryRehome`**, so on a custom lineage that does not declare `todo` / `in-progress` / `done`, seam 2 would start rejecting them with unknown-column. That is a user-facing break on custom boards, not a theoretical one, and it is not fixed by the equivalence proof — seam 2 adds *new refusals* rather than swapping implementations. **So the flip is one step away, and the step is not mine to take alone:** those 20 call sites need to resolve their target from the task's workflow (or justify `recoveryRehome`), and they live across engine lanes in `moves.ts` caller territory — U2b/MAIN. Flipping before that trades a dormant flag for broken custom boards. What remains for precondition 3 once those land: flip both readers **atomically** (`moves.ts` + `workflow-task-create-ops.ts`, since the latter computes the preflight the former consumes), delete the flag-OFF branch with its guards, and drop the settings key. --- ## CORRECTION: seam 2 is not a blocker. My earlier claim was wrong. I stated in #2639 and above that "with the flag off there is **no** target-column validation on the move path", so flipping would introduce new refusals. **That is not what happens.** Reproduced against live PG: the identical custom-lineage move rejects with the flag **OFF** as well — ``` Error: Invalid transition: 'backlog' -> 'todo'. Valid targets: building ``` Transition validation is already in force on the flag-OFF path. So for the shape in question — an engine move to a column the task's own workflow does not declare — **the move already fails today**, and seam 2 introduces no new break for it. The 20 census sites lacking `recoveryRehome` are broken on a custom lineage *now*, not broken by the flip. I found this because the discriminator I added to prove "the flag is the cause" failed. Had I written the test to my assumption it would have passed and the false claim would have shipped — the same way the equivalence test passed while proving nothing until I tried to make it fail. **Revised precondition status:** | precondition | status | |---|---| | 1 — side-effect equivalence | **discharged** — identical rows, mutation-verified both directions | | 2 — seam-2 exposure census | **discharged, and it is not a blocker** — the rejection predates the flag | | 3 — flip both readers atomically, delete the flag-OFF branch, drop the settings key | **the remaining work** | So the flip is no longer gated on fixing 20 engine call sites. What it is still gated on is precondition 3 being done atomically across `moves.ts` and `workflow-task-create-ops.ts` (the latter computes the preflight the former consumes), which is `moves.ts` caller territory. Three cases now cover seam 2: the flag-ON rejection, the flag-OFF rejection (asserting the error *message*, so a change in which guard rejects stays visible rather than reading as agreement), and the #1411 `recoveryRehome` carve-out succeeding — pinning why that carve-out is load-bearing and must not be tidied away. --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-30 00:13:58 -07:00
gsxdsm	f5cc416ae4	U7 item 3: the replan no-match fallback named a column no lineage declares (#2659) ... **Item 3 from the closing bar.** Behaviour change, own commit. ## The defect `resolveReplanTargetColumn` fell back to the literal `"triage"` when a workflow declared neither legacy planner id. That names a column the workflow doesn't declare — and since #2515 the **default lineage doesn't declare it either**, so the fallback pointed at a column that exists nowhere. The replan move then either failed outright or put the card somewhere no sweep owns. Resolved through `resolveReboundTarget` (KTD-10: hold → intake → first declared) — the same helper every other rebound path uses, so replan lanes and rebound lanes stay consistent instead of drifting. ## The catch path keeps its literal, deliberately It's reached only when resolution **throws** — not when it silently falls back to the default IR, which returns a real workflow and takes the `todo` branch above. With no IR there's nothing to resolve, and swapping one arbitrary literal for another changes behaviour without evidence about the workflow. Documented at the site so the asymmetry reads as a decision, not an oversight. ## Test Written first and observed **red**. It asserts the target is a column the workflow actually declares: ```ts expect(workflowHasColumn(ir, target)).toBe(true); ``` rather than pinning a specific id — so it can't pass by naming a *different* wrong column, which is how the previous version of this test stayed green while the fallback was broken. **Mutation-verified:** restoring the literal fails it. ## Verification 40 replan-target tests green, engine tsc clean, lint clean, merge gate green (487 + 132 + 10). No changeset: `@fusion/engine` is private. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)	2026-07-30 00:13:39 -07:00
gsxdsm	be63e72f10	U11 [E2E evidence]: live-PG proof for the stranded-column rescue and the planner-lane asymmetry (8 tests, test-only) (#2629) ... **Completion bar #3 for my phases.** Test-only, no production changes, no guard-count movement — the two live-PG E2E suites I held during the freeze. ## Why these exist Every U11 slice I shipped closed with the same caveat: *all evidence is unit-level*. Three claims in particular were argued from reading code, and each is the kind a mock would happily confirm: 1. #2515 left `triage` a legal id but removed it from the default lineage. 2. #2603 — `createTask` resolves the workflow's intake column, and an explicit `column` **overrides** it. Nine write sites were removed on that reasoning. 3. #2591 — a card stranded on a legacy planner id is admitted by planning discovery, which is what lets it heal with no data migration. Both suites drive a **real PostgreSQL TaskStore** (per-file throwaway database) and the **real shipped workflows**, not fixture IRs. Claim 3 goes through the real `discoverReadyPlanningTasks` — the method the poll calls. Every assertion is on **observed persisted state** (fresh `getTask` after clearing the task cache), the rule inherited from `workflow-lifecycle-live-e2e.pg.test.ts`, because "a function was called" is exactly what has passed falsely on this program before. ## Two things the E2E found that unit tests did not **The shared fixture's "merged" shape was not #2515's.** Omitting `separateIntake` leaves the hold column with *no* intake trait, so the resolver reports `undefined` — "I have no intake to name" — whereas the shipped merged lineage carries intake **and** hold on one column and reports `[]` — "intake exists and *is* the hold column". Callers treat those differently: `undefined` keeps their legacy default, `[]` positively asserts no dedicated planner lane. Assuming the plain shape was the merged shape is how a test appears to cover #2515 while covering something else. Added an opt-in `mergedIntake` to model the real thing; the third shape is now asserted explicitly. **`insertWorkflowDefinitionSync` throws in backend mode** — it's the SQLite path. The suites use `createWorkflowDefinition` + `writeTaskWorkflowSelection` like the other live E2Es, including binding to the id the *store* allocated rather than the one passed in, which the lifecycle suite documents as a way a renamed-workflow fixture silently resolves to the default IR. ## Fixture changes are opt-in Both new options follow the existing `mergeOrchestration` precedent: seven suites build on this builder and a shared fixture must not silently change an existing suite's subject. ## Naming `workflow-planner-lane-**resolution**-live-e2e` deliberately, to stay distinguishable from #2611's `workflow-planning-lane-live-e2e`. Different subjects — that one drives the real hold-release sweep, this one drives the resolvers the lane guards consume. Near-identical names would invite someone to delete one as a duplicate. ## Verification - 8 new tests green against a real PG store - **Mutation-verified:** disabling the #2591 rescue in `discoverReadyPlanningTasks` fails claim 3, and only claim 3 - Merge gate green (482 + 132 + 10), engine tsc clean, lint clean **Pre-existing failures, not from this PR:** the full live-E2E sweep is 82 tests / 2 failed, both in `workflow-lifecycle-live-e2e.pg.test.ts`. Verified by swapping main's `_workflow-vocabulary-fixture.ts` in and re-running: 2 failed either way, identical. They are main's, and they appeared since my earlier clean run of that suite — worth a look against bar #2. ## What this does not cover Neither suite runs a planning **session** — that lane is the AI, substituted here as `testMode` does in production. So this proves a card is *admitted* and re-homable, not that a full plan-and-release round trip happens. The release half is covered by the existing lifecycle E2E. No changeset: `@fusion/engine` is private and this is test-only. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)	2026-07-30 00:07:20 -07:00
gsxdsm	177c2309d9	consolidate/u11: a hold column is a planner lane only if it precedes wip (real defect in merged code) + funnel aliases (triage 11 -> 10) (#2645) ... **Consolidation branch for u11/u7.** Supersedes #2624. Contents changed substantially while it sat unmerged — this body reflects what is actually in it now. ## Measured with the authoritative census, not grep `node scripts/lifecycle-column-census.mjs` — **triage guards 11 → 10.** ## 1. A real defect in merged code: a hold column is only a planner lane if it precedes implementation Found by greptile on #2616, verified by me, fixed here at the source because that PR cannot land. `resolveLifecycleColumns` returns `hold` as the **first** hold-trait column in declared order, with no positional constraint relative to wip (`workflow-lifecycle-traits.ts`: `hold: first(LIFECYCLE_ROLE_FLAGS.hold)`). A workflow using a hold trait for a **mid-pipeline wait** — a pause after implementation starts — therefore had that column returned as its planner lane, and `reconcileMissionFeatureState` demoted the feature to `triaged`. The mission board reported started work as not-yet-started: silent, and wrong in the direction that makes a roadmap lie. This is my defect, introduced in #2610. **Why it survived:** every lineage anyone has tested puts the hold *in front* of wip, so the default and Ideas boards are unaffected and no existing test could see it. **The fix is positional, with a deliberate asymmetry.** A hold column counts only when it appears before wip in declared order. When wip cannot be located the hold is left **out** rather than guessed — including it wrongly demotes live work on the roadmap, while excluding it wrongly costs only a `triaged` transition the next reconcile re-applies. Mutation-verified: dropping the positional test fails the mid-pipeline case and nothing else. ## 2. MissionControlPanel funnel aliases Assessed and **deliberately not trait-converted**. These are heuristic *name aliases* for a canonical SDLC stage — the matcher already accepts `signal`/`backlog`/`ready`/`shipped` because it buckets arbitrary boards, with an `other` fallback. Post-#2515 a default board's planning cards sit in `todo` and count at the Todo stage, leaving Planning at zero: the funnel reporting where cards *are*, not a guard that stopped firing. Hoisted to a named set so it stops reading as unconverted. This is the **DISPLAY-ALIAS** class the census still lacks — receiver *is* a column id, purpose is presentation rather than a lifecycle decision. `DocumentsView`'s status dot is the other one. Without that bucket a ratchet will keep demanding conversions that make the product worse. ## What I dropped, because main's version was better The original #2624 carried a `TaskContextMenu` conversion. #2626 landed `isPureIntakeColumn` — intake **without** hold — while mine treated any intake-flagged column as intake. That's wrong for a **merged Planning column**: it carries both traits, cards there wait for capacity and have real actions, so I would have suppressed the menu where it belongs — a new regression in place of the one I was fixing. Theirs is correct. Mine is gone, along with its now-invalid test and a helper nothing else used. ## Verification - merge gate green (482 + 132 + 10), engine tsc clean, dashboard tsc clean, lint clean - 7 planner-lane tests green, mutation-verified No changeset: `@fusion/engine` and `@fusion/dashboard` are private. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)	2026-07-30 00:00:46 -07:00
gsxdsm	3e8f604848	test(engine): census the UNCONVERTED lifecycle surface — 417 legacy column literals, ratcheted (#2557) ... Test-only, no production change. Independent of my other open PRs. ## The number nobody was counting This program has two censuses, and **both count converted things**: the unproven-sites ledger (callers of the lifecycle-role resolvers) and `raw-workflow-columns-flag-census` (reads of the `workflowColumns` flag). Neither counts what is still keyed to a legacy column id — **which is where every defect this program has found actually lived**: | defect | the literal | |---|---| | pool-id sentinel (capacity gate never bound) | `?? "builtin:coding"` vs the counter's sentinel | | agent-link leak (slot consumed forever) | terminal column matched against a fixed id set | | stale-paused badge silent on renamed boards | `task.column !== "todo"` | | merge chokepoint threw on a finished card | the `done`/`archived` pair | | recovered card stranded harder | `?? "todo"` | Every one was found **by hand, one at a time, by whoever happened to look.** ## Measured **438 lifecycle decisions keyed to a legacy column name** (417 comparisons + 31 `??` column fallbacks, minus 8 agent-id false positives and 2 lines carrying both shapes), across 85+ production files — 94 in `self-healing.ts`, 70 in `executor.ts`, 26 in the dashboard task-workflow routes. That is the real size of the remaining surface. It dwarfs the 15-site resolver census I've spent this unit closing, which is worth knowing before anyone calls the vocabulary work finished. ## A hit is not a bug Many are correct — documented legacy fallbacks, the legacy-adoption path, code genuinely about the built-in workflow. The census claims only that each site decides by **name** rather than by **role**, and therefore needs a human judgment. Reporting 417 as a bug count would be exactly the overclaiming this program keeps correcting. ## A ceiling, not an equality — deliberate The sibling flag census fails in both directions. That number moves only when two units touch it. **This** one moves whenever any of a dozen concurrent conversion slices lands, and an exact-equality assertion would go red on work heading the *right* way. A test that's red for good reasons gets suppressed, and a suppressed ratchet is worse than none — the failure mode AGENTS.md's quarantine rule exists to prevent. So the count may fall freely and may never rise; when it falls, the failure message says to lower the pin. ## Verified in both directions - green at 417 - adding **one** literal to `replan-target.ts` → `census ROSE to 418 (ceiling 417)` - the regex is unit-tested to count a **decision**, not a mention: a column id in a fixture, a log line, or a `moveTask` argument is not counted — inflating the number into noise is how a census stops being acted on - unreadable sources **fail closed** rather than silently shrinking the count ## Follow-up (a8c150b12): the census was blind to three of the five defects it cites I ran the census against its own header. It lists five motivating defects; the comparison-only regex counted **two**. The pool-id sentinel, the rebound strand and the terminal fallback are all `??` **defaults** — invisible to a `.column === "x"` pattern. A census that cannot see three of the five bugs it names as its reason to exist is worse than none: it reports a number that *feels* like coverage. That is precisely the overclaim this unit keeps catching in other people's work — caught here in mine, and only because the header wrote the examples down somewhere they could be tested against. It now counts two shapes — deciding **by** a name (`===`/`!==`) and **defaulting** to one (`??`) — and pins the five motivating examples as a test case, so the pattern cannot narrow back without failing. **Measured: 417 comparisons + 31 fallbacks, of which 2 lines carry both shapes → 446 lines.** Ceiling raised 417 → 446 to cover the missing shape, not to excuse new debt. `?? "builtin:coding"` stays deliberately uncounted: it defaults a *workflow* id rather than a column and is legitimately correct at most sites. It already has a stronger guard — `scripts/check-capacity-pool-id.mjs` bans it only where the value reaches a capacity counter, which is the only place it's wrong. Verified both directions: green at 446; adding one fallback of the newly-counted shape → `census ROSE to 447 (ceiling 446)`. ## Follow-up 2 (98f4264fd): 8 false positives removed — 446 → 438 Then I checked the census against real source instead of trusting the pattern. Its top-scoring fallback file was `triage.ts` with 8 hits — and **every one is `agentId: task.assignedAgentId ?? "triage"`**, an *agent* id, not a column. `"triage"` is both a column id and the synthetic agent id triage stamps on its audit rows. Eight of ~34 fallbacks is a quarter of that shape: enough to make the number **wrong** rather than merely imprecise. A census with known false positives is one people learn to discount — the same end state as not having one, which is exactly what its own header warns about. Excluded, and the exclusion is **pinned as a test case** so it can't creep back: the three agent-id spellings must match the raw shape *and* be filtered, while a genuine column fallback that also mentions triage (`first("intake") ?? "triage"`) must still count. **Residual imprecision is stated rather than tuned away.** A couple of counted lines are display defaults (a column rendered in CLI output). They stay: the census claims each site *needs a human judgment*, and a display default passes that judgment in seconds. Chasing them costs more than the precision buys and makes the pattern too clever to trust. Agent-ids were excluded because they're a quarter of the shape — not because any false positive is intolerable. Ceiling 446 → **438**. Verified both directions: green at 438; one new fallback → `census ROSE to 439`. ## Verification - census 3/3; engine `tsc --noEmit` clean; `pnpm test:gate` green (414 + 10 + 71) 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-29 23:54:49 -07:00
gsxdsm	2a4013b723	consolidate/u9 — review+merge lane: E2E evidence, re-greens, and the conversion blocker (#2646) ... **U9's consolidation branch.** Supersedes nothing — #2637 and #2643 are green with zero threads and left for your sweep per rule 3. ## Contents | File | Change | Before → After | |---|---|---| | `__tests__/executor-step-numbering-zero-based.test.ts` | isolate the review-handoff `moveTask` call so the assertion is attributable | **1 failed / 3 passed → 4 passed** | | `__tests__/ce-workflow-step-executor.test.ts` | re-green against the block-first merge boundary | **3 failed / 48 passed → 51 passed** | | `__tests__/goal-anchoring-audit.test.ts` | swallow path reports at debug, not `console.warn` | **1 failed / 6 passed → 7 passed** | Triage-guard counts: **no change**. My lane has no remaining column receivers — the rest belong to the capacity/U7/U8/U11/U12 workers, or are deliberate compat retentions I verified individually (`spec-staleness.ts` carries its own "U11 proof" block; `live-agent-count.ts`'s literal fallback is reachable by flag-less callers). Commits kept small and separated: signature fix, then attribution fix, then the boundary re-green, then the debug-channel fix. **Census reconciliation:** `node scripts/lifecycle-column-census.mjs` reports **11** triage guards on main, and **none are in the review/merge lane** — they are the `moves.ts` flag-OFF branch plus the dashboard cluster. Nothing in this branch moves that number, and I am not chasing the 779 non-triage guards per your instruction. ## 1. The review-handoff assertion (and a lesson) The handoff gained a third argument (workflow move provenance), so a two-arg `toHaveBeenCalledWith` failed on the extra options object while the card moved correctly. My first fix used `expect.anything()` — and I *documented in the comment* that six mutations couldn't make it fail, then shipped it anyway. Greptile (P2) correctly called that out: this flow records two `moveTask` calls, so the assertion is satisfied by the boundary move even if the handoff regresses. **Documenting a weakness is not removing it.** Now the test selects the handoff call by its own marker (`workflowMoveMetadata.reason === "workflow-review-handoff"`), asserts exactly one such call, and asserts its target column: | Mutation | Before | After | |---|---|---| | change the seam's `reason` | green | **NEW=1**, this test only | | retarget the seam to `"done"` | green | **NEW=1**, this test only | ## 2. The merge boundary changed shape `ensureWorkflowMergeBoundaryTask` (`executor.ts:7808`) now **refuses** a foreach step-execute region with incomplete pre-merge node proof — logging `"Workflow merge boundary blocked: <reason>"` and returning **without moving**. The move-then-check sequence this file pinned is gone: `"Workflow merge boundary moved task to in-review before requesting merge"` no longer exists anywhere in production. Three fixes, one per failure: 1. **negative case** pinned the retired move-first log. Now pins the *stronger* property the new order gives: an unproven card is **not moved into review at all**. The old assertion could only say "it was moved, then blocked". Log text asserted by stable prefix — the reason clause enumerates missing instance ids, which is legitimately volatile. 2. **"moves direct-to-merge tasks into in-review"** got zero calls: its fixture recorded no node results, so the gate blocked it. Added one `steps#0:step-execute` pre-merge result. 3. **"completes graph-native checklist projection"** also got zero calls. Its existing `plan` result proves *some* pre-merge node ran but not the per-instance work; the gate additionally requires an instance per foreach step-execute. Added the two matching its two steps. (2) and (3) are the same class as the lifecycle E2E `seedTask` fix in #2634: a fixture that never modelled completed work, asking the engine to advance it, and reading the correct refusal as a failure. Proof shape matched to the evaluator (`source: "node"`, `phase: "pre-merge"`, terminal = `passed`/`skipped`) rather than guessed. Verified the gate is what these fixtures exercise: disabling the boundary proof check fails the negative case (`NEW=1`, that test only). `pnpm test:gate` green, `pnpm lint` clean. ## Where U9 actually stands The conversion (S06/S07/S08) is **not** done, and is now precisely characterised rather than "blocked on U8": `workflow-graph-executor.ts:310` short-circuits every `MERGE_REGION_KINDS` entry to the legacy merge seam, so `merge-gate`, `merge-attempt`, `manual-merge-hold`, `retry-backoff`, `recovery-router` and both `branch-group-*` handlers **never execute**. `createMergeGateHandler` does read `task.autoMerge` and emit auto-on/auto-off — and is never called. The builtin IR's `outcome:auto-*` edges are unreachable. **U9's conversion, concretely: stop short-circuiting `MERGE_REGION_KINDS` and let those nodes run.** S06/S07/S08 all hang off that one change. Safeguard 2 has no node-level representation today, so enabling the region without carrying the `autoMerge` contract into it would let an `autoMerge:false` card merge on PR-readiness alone. Full write-up in `docs/plans/workflow-owned-merge-stack/u9-safeguard-baseline.md` (#2634). ## 3. A recurring class worth a shared helper `goal-anchoring-audit`'s swallow path now reports via `log.debug` (a deliberate demotion of log noise), and `debug` is FUSION_DEBUG-gated so vitest emits nothing — the test asserted a channel that was both wrong *and* disabled. I kept both halves of the contract (swallowed **and** reported) by enabling the flag for that case, rather than deleting the awkward assertion. **This is the third instance this session** — `worktree-pool`, `self-healing`'s auto-archive line, and now this. If a fourth appears it deserves a shared test helper rather than three bespoke fixes. ## Two failing files I could NOT responsibly take — flagged, not touched **`executor-prompt.test.ts` (3 failures) — I ESCALATED THIS AND I WAS WRONG. Retracting.** I flagged these as a possible real pause-contract violation: an agent session spawning while an operator has globally paused the engine. I then finished the diagnosis, and the evidence goes the other way. Recording the retraction with the same detail as the alarm, because a false alarm aimed at another unit costs them a chase. **The discriminator I asked for, resolved.** Six tests in that file assert `expect(mockedCreateFnAgent).not.toHaveBeenCalled()` during global pause; 3 fail. Splitting them by what they drive: | Assertions | Drives | Result | |---|---|---| | `does not resume unpaused in-progress task while global pause is active` (+2 siblings) | no executor method — `task:updated` / resume paths | **pass** | | `parks todo tasks in in-progress when fn_task_done…` (+2 siblings) | `executor.execute(...)` **directly** | **fail** | So the guard holds on every event-driven path and is absent only from the direct `execute()` entry. **And `execute()` is not the guard site — the scheduler is.** `scheduler.ts:1491` is an explicit hard stop (*"Global pause (hard stop): halt all scheduling activity"*), with a second gate at `:1055`, and the scheduler never calls `.execute(` at all — dispatch routes through the runtime. In production a global pause halts scheduling before anything reaches the executor. **Conclusion: the pause contract is intact in production.** The 3 failing tests call `execute()` directly, bypassing the upstream gate, and assert a defence-in-depth check *inside* `execute()` that is not there. They are testing a path production does not take during a pause. What that leaves is a real but much smaller question, and a design one rather than a defect: should `execute()` carry its own pause check as defence-in-depth, given non-scheduler callers exist (self-healing, manual retry)? If yes, add the guard and all six assertions pass. If no, the 3 direct-`execute` assertions are asserting a guarantee the architecture places elsewhere and should be retired. **I have not changed either the code or the tests** — but nobody needs to hunt a pause-contract regression, because there isn't one. **`executor-fast-mode-workflows.test.ts` (1 failure) — mechanism not isolated.** `visitedNodeIds` is `['review']` where the test expects `['start','review']`. Three probes failed to explain it: giving the review node an explicit `column: "in-progress"` changed nothing (so it is not column-based entry resolution), and swapping `seam: "review"` for a plain prompt config did not isolate it either. Two structurally identical sibling tests in the same file still pass with `['start', ...]`, so something in graph traversal distinguishes them that I did not find. That is U8/graph-executor territory; I am not asserting a `visitedNodeIds` shape I cannot explain. ## Still open and green - **#2637** — `task-delete-notice` 21 failed → 34 passed. - **#2643** — shellout allowlist re-pin. **Merge early:** it re-drifts whenever `executor.ts`/`self-healing.ts` line counts shift, with no git conflict to warn you. It already drifted once while open (`executor.ts:17106 → 17198`) and I re-pinned it. --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-29 23:50:59 -07:00
gsxdsm	6ed284f36a	drop the dead semaphore parameter from dropPreHeldExecutorSlot (#2574) ... Small follow-on to the cross-project cap removal. `dropPreHeldExecutorSlot(taskId, semaphore?)` released a cross-project semaphore slot. That semaphore is deleted, and **all 16 production call sites passed `this.options.semaphore`**, which nothing wires any more — so the release was a no-op on an always-undefined value: an optional parameter that reads as if it does something. ## What is *not* deleted Pre-held slots are **dual-purpose**: a cross-project semaphore slot **and** the FN-8453 per-project coordinator reservation. Only the first is gone. The reservation is the half that matters — every rejection path funnels through this helper so an early scheduler/triage return cannot permanently consume a project slot — and it stays. That is why this is a parameter change, not a helper deletion. Sites that still hold a semaphore reference release it **explicitly** next to their drop, so behaviour is unchanged for any caller that supplies one. Nothing wires one in production today, but silently leaking a slot for a caller that does is not a trade a cleanup is allowed to make. ## One real leak fixed — found by a failing test, not by reading `ProjectAdmissionCoordinator.admitOldest`’s release lambda took the pre-held branch and **returned**, relying on the deleted parameter to hand the host slot back. With the parameter gone, that branch unwound the registration and the reservation while **leaking the host slot** the attempt had acquired. The release is now unconditional across both branches. Worth noting how it surfaced: the test that caught it (`drops a declined candidate’s pre-held executor slot`) asserted `semaphore.activeCount`, which I had initially assumed was just coupling to the deleted half. It was not — it was pinning a real invariant. ## Tests Five cases in `concurrency.test.ts` pinned `sem.activeCount` through a drop. Each is re-pointed at the surviving contract — registration and reservation unwound, nothing left for a later pass to “take” — with the semaphore assertions moved to the sites that now own the release. ## Verification `pnpm lint` clean · engine `tsc` clean · `pnpm test:gate` green · `concurrency.test.ts` **56/56**. The 8 `triage.test.ts` failures are **pre-existing** — reproduced identically with this branch’s `triage.ts` replaced by main’s. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-29 23:34:52 -07:00
gsxdsm	3aa942ee5f	capacity: spawned agents count against the project agent count (#2579) ... Two configurable numbers per project. `maxSpawnedAgentsPerParent` (5) and `maxSpawnedAgentsGlobal` (20) were a **third and fourth** limiter with private budgets invisible to both. ## This closes a hole, not just knobs A spawned child **is** an agent and gets **its own git worktree** (branched from the parent’s — the tool’s own description says so), but children were counted by **neither** capacity gate. A fan-out could put up to 20 extra worktrees on disk while the scheduler believed the project was at its configured limit. The operator’s two numbers were simply wrong about what was running. ## The old caps also measured the wrong thing `totalSpawnedCount` decrements on child cleanup, but the per-parent **set** is cleared only when the **parent task** ends. So `maxSpawnedAgentsPerParent` throttled *cumulative* spawns across a task’s life rather than *concurrent* ones — a long-running task could exhaust its budget with five children that had all long since finished, and the operator had no way to see why. ## Fix `fn_spawn_agent` gates on the same project agent count every other lane uses (`computeTopLevelConcurrencyClaimedFromStore`) plus live children. One number, one answer, no private budget that can disagree with the board. The refusal names **Max Concurrent Tasks** — a control the operator actually has. The old messages pointed at settings that no longer exist, which is worse than no message: it sends someone hunting for a knob that is not there. ## Verification **Revert-proof, measured:** restoring the private budgets turns **3 of the 4** new cases red — a project at 1/1 could still spawn, which is precisely the hole. `executor.ts` restored byte-identical. `pnpm lint` clean · core + engine `tsc` clean · `pnpm test:gate` green (414 + 10 + 71) · new suite 4/4 · `settings-default-descriptions` 4/4. There was no spawn-capacity test before this; the file is new. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **New Features** * Spawned agents now count toward the project’s **Max Concurrent Tasks** capacity. * Agent spawning is blocked when capacity is reached, including concurrent spawn attempts. * **Bug Fixes** * Prevented over-allocation during simultaneous agent spawns. * Restored available capacity when agent creation fails. * **Changes** * Removed separate per-parent and global spawned-agent limits. * Updated settings to reflect the revised capacity controls. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-29 23:34:41 -07:00
gsxdsm	152fedbd32	record the detector audit: gridlock and stuck-task are keeps, with evidence (#2581) ... Answering the review question *“does gridlock detection still have a job?”* — with evidence rather than assumption, and recording it so the question is not re-opened by someone reading the name. **No behaviour change.** Comments only. ## Gridlock detector — KEEP `GridlockEvent.reasons` is typed `"dependency" | "overlap"`. It detects **dependency deadlock** and **file-scope overlap deadlock** via the scheduler’s `pathsOverlap` / `filterPathsByIgnoreList`. That has nothing to do with limiters arbitrating against each other — two tasks can still block on a dependency cycle or a shared file scope no matter how many agents the operator allows. The hypothesis that gridlock ≈ competing limiters deadlocking was reasonable from the name, and wrong. ## Stuck-task detector — KEEP Detects a stuck **agent** — a live session repeating the same tool call, or emitting no activity signal — via tool fingerprints and inactivity windows. Orthogonal to how many agents may run: a single agent on an unlimited board can still wedge. ## Evidence Measured for both: **zero** references to `maxConcurrent` / `maxWorktrees` / `semaphore` / `capacity` / `slot`. Both are live and wired — gridlock via `project-engine.ts → notifier.notifyGridlock`, stuck-task via `in-process-runtime.ts`. The note lives in each file because the natural reading of “gridlock” is “limiters deadlocking”, and deleting a live detector on that reading would remove real coverage silently. Each note states the question a future cleanup should actually ask — *is dependency/overlap deadlock still possible?* — rather than *is capacity simpler now?* `pnpm lint` clean · engine `tsc` clean · `pnpm test:gate` green · detector suites **108/108**. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-29 23:34:30 -07:00
gsxdsm	0c07584d51	U11 fallout: disprove the coding-ideas column collapse, and correct a U11 note that recorded the merge backwards (#2651) ... Two findings, no behavior change. Both are about **recorded reasoning that was wrong** — the kind that sends the next person the wrong way. ## 1. The coding-ideas column collapse does not work (IR change reverted) I implemented it — deleted `ideas`, moved its `intake`/`autoTriage: false` onto Planning, repointed the `start` anchor, updated the IR suites to the merged shape (they went green, 44/44). Then the wider suites failed and showed why it cannot work. **The manual gate IS the column boundary.** `replan-target.ts` names the discriminator in its own comment: *"The real discriminator is which lane the triage service SCANS, which depends on the intake column's `autoTriage` config."* So `ideas` is unscanned, `todo` is scanned, and "promote" means moving the card from one into the other. Merge them and one column must be both: | if… | consequence | |---|---| | `autoTriage: false` wins | never scanned → nothing is ever planned → the capacity hold releases an **unplanned** card into `in-progress`, violating FN-7648 | | scanning wins | `autoTriage: false` is meaningless → the manual gate is gone → the preset duplicates the default Coding workflow | **8 tests fail, and they are not fixtures** — they encode the promotion flow itself, e.g. `store-create-intake-column.test.ts` › *"promotes an Ideas-parked task to todo without planning it (still bootstrap-stub PROMPT.md)"*. Rewriting them would have meant inventing what "promote" means with no destination column, which is how a broken flow gets blessed by a green suite. **What it would actually take:** a promoted flag the triage scan reads, so one column can hold both "not yet promoted" and "being planned". That is a new lifecycle signal, not a column merge — the same shape as the deferred `needs-replan` follow-up. Happy to scope it. **I also corrected my own earlier checklist** in this doc, which said to delete the now-dead `isUnplannedStartCreate` arm. Wrong: `autoTriage` is a general trait field (`builtin-traits.ts`), so any custom workflow can declare a manual intake with `intake !== hold`. The arm is dead only for this preset. ## 2. `replan-target.ts` recorded the U11 merge backwards The note claimed U11 deletes `todo` and keeps `triage`. It is the reverse — Shape B kept the id `todo` and deleted `triage`, precisely so the ~120 `column === "todo"` guards kept their meaning and no data migration shipped. The default lineage now declares `todo, in-progress, in-review, done, archived`. The lookups are correct today, but **for the opposite reason to the one recorded**: the default lineage falls *through* the `triage` lookup and lands on `todo`, its merged planning column. `triage` still matches the workflows that genuinely declare it (Lead generation, PR review). Also flagged without changing (it would be a behavior change): the `return "triage"` fallbacks on the no-match and throw paths name a column the default lineage no longer declares, so a workflow with neither `triage` nor `todo` gets a nonexistent target. ## Census **Unchanged: 781 total, triage 5.** This PR adds no guards and converts none — `workflowHasColumn(ir, "triage")` is a call argument, not a comparison, so it is outside what the census counts either way. ## Verification 41/41 engine replan-target suites (including the existing `replan-target-merged-planning-column` suite that covers the corrected behavior) · engine typecheck clean · the reverted IR restores the tree to main's content for those three files, verified by `git checkout --`. --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-29 23:26:49 -07:00
gsxdsm	22a66c3a51	fix(test): re-pin the blocking-shellout allowlist after source lines moved (5 lines, 0 new sanctions) (#2643) ... **A failing ratchet, fixed without widening it.** 5-line diff, no production change. `pnpm test:gate` green. `engine-no-blocking-shellout.test.ts` was red on main, reporting **5 unaudited synchronous shellouts** (1 in `executor.ts`, 4 in `self-healing.ts`). ## No new violation — the allowlist went stale The allowlist is keyed by `(file, LINE, primitive, signature)`. `self-healing.ts` shrank during the U4 extractions, so the recorded lines drifted. Every flagged signature was **already sanctioned**: self-healing's three sat at 4445/4451/4488 and are now at 4127/4133/4170. The file carries an FNXC note for precisely this case — *"Re-pin all audited shellouts after current main moved source lines without changing the sanctioned short-git-plumbing calls."* **Re-pinned by signature, not by hand:** for each of the 33 entries, find the line whose trimmed text equals the recorded signature and take the occurrence closest to the old line — which stays stable when a signature repeats, e.g. `merger.ts`'s six identical `git reset --merge` calls. Result: **5 lines moved, 0 signatures unfound**, so nothing became sanctioned that was not sanctioned before. ## A wrong turn worth recording I first read the guard's *"only after proving timeout and maxBuffer bounds"* as applying to every sanctioned site. I checked all 5, found none had `timeout` or `maxBuffer`, and was about to add bounds to `executor.ts` and `self-healing.ts` — an unnecessary production change in two files other workers are actively editing. Re-reading the guard's own comment corrected it: the bounds criterion belongs to `BOUNDED_GIT_DIFF` (data-dependent diff output, where the buffer can grow with the repo), not to `SHORT_GIT_PLUMBING`. All 5 are `rev-parse` / `merge-base --is-ancestor` / `rev-list --count` / `branch --list` — fixed-size output, already the sanctioned category. ## Verified the ratchet still bites A re-pin could silently widen a guard, so I checked rather than assumed: injecting an unaudited `execSync("git log --all")` into `integration-branch.ts` **fails** the ratchet and it names the offending signature; reverting returns it to green. ## Why this one was worth taking A red ratchet is the worst failure mode for a guard — it stops being a signal and starts being noise someone silences. This one had already caught a real class of defect (unbounded sync shellouts on the shared event loop), and it was red for a purely mechanical reason. `workflow-lifecycle-live-e2e` (#2634, merged) and `executor-review-verdicts` (#2641) clear two more of main's 13 failing engine-default files; this is a third. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-29 23:23:25 -07:00
gsxdsm	14c73ab727	U11 [tool-availability + skill-resolver + cli/task]: name the 3 literals that are NOT columns (48 -> 45) (#2619) ... **Taking: `engine/tool-availability.ts`, `engine/skill-resolver.ts`, `cli/commands/task.ts`** — the three census hits that are not board columns. ## Census | file | before | after | |---|---:|---:| | `packages/engine/src/tool-availability.ts` | 1 | **0** | | `packages/engine/src/skill-resolver.ts` | 1 | **0** | | `packages/cli/src/commands/task.ts` | 1 | **0** | | **repo total (comment-stripped)** | **48** | **45** | ## These are not lifecycle guards — converting them would have been wrong - **`tool-availability`** — `surface: "triage" | "executor"` is an **agent lane**. The lane that writes specs keeps its name whatever the board calls its planning column. Resolving it from a workflow IR would make an agent's prompt depend on board configuration. - **`skill-resolver`** — `sessionPurpose === "triage"` is an **agent role**. Same argument: a role doesn't move when a board renames a column. - **`cli task list`** — the glyph chain distinguished **active** columns from the rest and nothing else; all four active ids mapped to the same `●`. Each is now named (`AgentResearchSurface`, `ROLE_FALLBACK_SESSION_PURPOSES`, `ACTIVE_COLUMN_GLYPH_IDS`) so the next person working the census sees at a glance that they're out of scope, rather than re-deriving it as I had to. ## A real divergence my own equivalence test caught I first wrote the glyph as the tempting inverse: ```ts const dot = col === "done" || col === "archived" ? "○" : "●"; ``` That is equivalent across all six lifecycle ids and **not** equivalent for anything else — the original chain fell through to `"○"` for an unrecognised id, while the inverse renders it as **active**. The loop only walks the six `COLUMNS` today, so nothing would have caught it in practice; a renamed workflow reaching this code later would have silently changed how its columns render. Shipped as an explicit ACTIVE set that mirrors the fallthrough exactly. The test asserts equivalence over the six ids **and** over unknown ids, which is where the difference lives. That's the point of testing a "pure rename" at its edges rather than only where it's currently exercised. ## Verification - 71 tests green across skill-resolver / heartbeat-skills / tool-availability / the new equivalence suite - merge gate green (482 + 132 + 10), engine + CLI tsc clean, lint clean ## Note on the remaining count Of the 45 left, `replan-target.ts` (2), `board-workflows.ts` (2) and `archive-planning.ts` (1) show up in a **raw** grep but are **0** real — every hit is inside a comment. A raw grep reports 53; comment-stripped is 45. Real remaining work concentrates in `self-healing.ts` (11), `register-task-workflow-routes.ts` (6), and the parked `moves.ts` / `default-workflow-hooks.ts` (9). No changeset: `@fusion/engine` is private; the CLI change is display-identical. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --- ## ⚠️ Read before merging — these are ROLE renames, not column conversions The coordinator's hand classification says several literals in this PR "must be left exactly as they are" because they compare an **agent role**, not a task column, and resolving them to a column trait would be a bug. **I agree, and this PR does not do that.** What it does: replaces a bare `=== "triage"` with a **named role predicate** — `isPlanningAgentLane`, `AgentResearchSurface`, `ROLE_FALLBACK_SESSION_PURPOSES`. Behaviour is **byte-identical** for every input. No IR is consulted, no trait is resolved, no column is involved. The reason to keep it rather than revert: the danger isn't the literal, it's that nothing at the call site tells the next person `"triage"` here means a *lane*. A list of exceptions maintained elsewhere only helps someone who finds the list; a call named `isPlanningAgentLane` helps whoever is reading the line. It also shrinks what the #2630 ratchet's ignore list has to carry. Reversible: if the preference is to leave the literals untouched, say so and I'll strip these hunks — but then the ratchet's ignore list must carry **all twelve** role sites or it can never reach zero, because those six are correct code. ## Classification finding Bucketing by the **receiver** of the comparison (not the literal) mechanically separates guards from roles, and it found **six role sites currently listed as "real column guards"**: | site | receiver | what it actually is | |---|---|---| | `usage-limit-detector.ts:144, 207` | `agentType` | agent type — the column test one line above is *already* trait-driven | | `skill-resolver.ts:432` | `sessionPurpose` | session purpose | | `tool-availability.ts:32` | `surface` | agent surface (`"triage" \| "executor"`) | | `effective-model-resolution.ts:148` | `entry.agent` | agent-log lane | | `useTasks.ts:162` | `entry.agent` | agent-log lane | So the real bar is roughly **39**, not 45. The rule that found all twelve without judgement calls: `column`/`toColumn`/`taskColumn`/`c` are guards; `role`/`agent`/`agentType`/`surface`/`sessionPurpose` are not. Worth teaching #2630's ratchet directly.	2026-07-29 23:10:11 -07:00
gsxdsm	f91b8a4178	TAKING mission-feature-sync.ts: roadmap reconciliation resolves lifecycle roles (unowned drift site) (#2602) ... > **Taking `packages/engine/src/mission-feature-sync.ts`** from the shared backlog — announced in the title per the collision protocol. Based on `main`, no dependencies. It is in **no unit's file list**: absent from the plan's per-file census *and* from the drift review's ownership split (self-healing, dashboard, triage/replan-target, core, executor). It is a planning-lane reader. ## What was broken `reconcileMissionFeatureState` maps a task's lifecycle **position** onto its mission feature's roadmap status, and read five column literals: `done`, `archived`, `in-progress`, `in-review`, `triage`/`todo`. On a renamed workflow **every branch answers "no"**, so the function collapses to a permanent `noop`. **What an operator sees:** a mission roadmap frozen at whatever status it last held, while the tasks underneath it run to completion. Nothing errors, nothing retries. Worse than a wrong status, because a stale roadmap reads as a stable one. ## Guard counts (per the reporting requirement) | Metric | Before | After | |---|---:|---:| | `column === / !== "triage"` in this file | **1** | **1** | | role comparisons converted | — | **5** | **The metric does not move here, and I am not claiming it does.** The five role comparisons are converted; the one literal that remains is the deliberate scoped migration acceptance this change *adds*. That is the third time on this program the real fix has been invisible to the convergence count — the count finds the site, it does not define done. Worth knowing while the shared backlog is being tracked by that number: repo-wide it currently reads **29** triage comparisons (including 4 in `plugins/`, which are also unowned). ## Fallback direction matters **Unresolvable workflow falls back to the legacy ids, not to `noop`.** A mission whose workflow cannot be read should keep tracking on the default vocabulary rather than go silent — going silent *is* the failure being fixed, so the fallback must not reproduce it. **The planner-lane branch also accepts an orphaned legacy id.** A pre-existing test asserted a card in `triage` returns its feature to `triaged`; that stopped holding for the default lineage after #2515 — the migration-window population again. Accepting `triage`/`todo` additively keeps those rows tracked, **scoped to ids the workflow does not declare**, for the reason greptile gave on #2593: a custom workflow may legitimately name its **review** lane `triage`, and mapping a card there to `triaged` would walk the roadmap backwards while the task is awaiting merge. ## A test of mine that proved nothing until fixed The scoping case first used a `triaged` feature. The planner-lane branch only fires for an **in-progress** feature, so the fixture fell through to the review branch and **passed under both implementations**. It discriminates only once the feature status lets the wrong branch win — verified by reverting the scoping and watching exactly that case fail. ## Revert proofs | Reverted | Result | |---|---| | all five literals restored | **5 of 15 fail** — every renamed case; every default case passes | | legacy acceptance unscoped | **1 of 15 fails** — the custom-`triage`-as-review case | ## Verification | Check | Result | |---|---| | new suite | 15/15 | | pre-existing mission-feature-sync + mission-autopilot + scheduler-trait-dispatch | 94/94, **no expectation edits** | | `tsc --noEmit` (engine) | clean | | `pnpm lint` | clean | | `pnpm test:gate` | green (482 + 10 + 71) | | `pnpm check:changesets` | clean | ## Next from the shared backlog Taking `plugins/fusion-plugin-even-realities-glasses/src/agent-actions.ts` (3) and `plugins/fusion-plugin-dependency-graph/src/GraphTaskNode.tsx` (1) next — 4 sites in `plugins/`, which no unit owns and which the #2587 ratchet now scans. Shout if anyone is already there. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-29 23:06:55 -07:00
gsxdsm	9edc746f96	E2E evidence: the MERGED board (third completion criterion) — plus a RETRACTION of my #2613 escalation (#2632) ... This is the merged-board half of the evidence assignment. **It is red, deliberately, and the red is the finding.** Do not merge it to make the red go away — the assertions are correct and `main` is broken. ## Escalation first: #2613 broke the default board, and the gate did not notice `6a33d8f8c` — *"Phase B — TAKING task-creation.ts: intake classification by trait (4 sites → 0)"* (#2613) — regressed four E2E cases, including **the default-vocabulary full lifecycle**, which is scenario 1 of the whole E2E assignment. Attribution is a clean single-file revert, not a guess: ``` HEAD (main): 4 failed | 39 passed HEAD with ONLY 6a33d8f8c's task-creation.ts reverted: 28 passed (both files fully green) ``` Failing: 1. `scenario 1 — DEFAULT vocabulary … persists the card in the expected column at every stage` 2. `scenario 2 — RENAMED vocabulary … writes the same column-transition audit trail as the default` 3. `releases a card out of the merged lane on capacity — the release is not a self-move` 4. `does not re-release a card that already left the merged lane` **`pnpm test:gate` is green on this branch — exit 0, 695 tests.** #2613 merged through a green gate, and its own tests pass. This is the eighth time this program a test has passed without exercising its subject, and the first one an E2E family caught rather than review. ### Mechanism `isIntakeColumn` in `task-creation.ts` decides whether a new card gets a **bootstrap** prompt (freeform, "triage will plan this later") or a **specified** prompt (planned, executable). #2613 rewrote it as: ```ts const isIntakeColumn = (intakeFacts.intake !== undefined && task.column === intakeFacts.intake) || … ``` where `intakeFacts.intake` falls back to the **default workflow's** intake when the create supplies no `workflowId`. Post-U11 the default workflow's intake **is `todo`**. So any card created directly in `todo` is now classified as intake and gets a bootstrap prompt — unplanned. Unplanned cards do not advance through the graph (no `NodeEntered` audit rows → failures 1 and 2) and hold-release will not release them (FN-7648: no unplanned card enters a processing column → failures 3 and 4). Before U11 this was safe: `triage` was intake and `todo` was a distinct lane, so creating in `todo` meant "planned work". The merge deleted that distinction. ### Why this is the exact trap you warned about You said you did not want *"a conversion that swaps the literal for a trait lookup WITHOUT checking what the guard was for."* The old `task.column === "triage"` guard meant **"is this card unplanned?"** On a merged board, intake-vs-hold **cannot answer that question at all** — one column is both. The distinguishing fact is not the column; it is whether the caller supplied a spec. Resolving the role faithfully still gets the wrong answer, because the question was never really about the column. Not fixing it from here: `task-creation.ts` is #2613's owner's file, and the fix is a design call about which fact replaces the column test. ## What the evidence itself adds Three families extended to the U11 shape — one column carrying **both** intake and hold. That breaks a class of guard renamed boards structurally cannot reveal: | shape | consequence | |---|---| | `intake && !hold` | **unsatisfiable** — silent | | hold → intake release | **self-move**, re-fires every poll — loops | | `intake && column !== "triage"` | inverts to **always-true** — silent | Two are silent and one loops, so every case sweeps **twice** and asserts no re-release; a single pass cannot tell a no-op from a self-move. ### A fixture that could not fail My first merged row used `MERGED_VOCAB`, which is *faithful* to U11 — it reuses the legacy ids, because that is what the default lineage has. That fidelity **destroyed its discriminating power**: its hold column *is* `todo`, so a guard falling back to the `todo` literal returns the same answer as one resolving the role. The "hold but not intake" mutation left all 23 green. Added `MERGED_RENAMED_VOCAB` — merged *structure*, renamed *vocabulary* — the only combination where the collapse is observable **and** the literal is wrong. Same mutation now fails exactly 1 of 23. Both vocabularies stay: one asks *"does the collapse break the release path"*, the other *"is the role actually resolved"*. One rebound mutation was **genuinely unobservable** rather than undetected — `hold` is also the first column in that fixture, so the fallback chain lands there regardless. Pointing rebound at `complete` instead fails 9 of 15. Recorded rather than papered over. ## For the CAPACITY worker before `self-healing.ts` is marked done `self-healing.ts:2952` and `:9134` query `listTasks({ column: "triage" })`. Converting the 10 guards leaves those sweeps **blind** — they never see a renamed card, so the guard is correct and unreachable. Query and guard convert together or not at all. There are **137** such `column: "<legacy id>"` sites repo-wide, 52 in that one file, and the 45→0 grep counts none of them because they are object properties, not comparisons. **The bar can reach zero with sweeps still unable to fire.** 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-29 22:59:37 -07:00
gsxdsm	8e211d1870	TAKING scripts/: parse instead of grep — an AST classifier for the lifecycle-column bar, cross-checked by a second implementation (#2633) ... The program's completion bar is "`column === "triage"` reaches zero". This measures what that bar actually covers, and checks the measurement in so it cannot drift. ## The number, measured by the checked-in tool ``` lifecycle-column-census: scanned 1956 source files COLUMN guards (the backlog): 1031 ROLE comparisons (not guards): 10 DELIBERATE-LITERAL (reviewed): 4 by column id: 313 done 217 in-review 201 in-progress 177 archived 83 todo 40 triage top files: 151 packages/engine/src/executor.ts 136 packages/engine/src/self-healing.ts 50 packages/dashboard/app/components/TaskCard.tsx 44 packages/core/src/task-store/moves.ts 34 packages/dashboard/app/components/TaskDetailModal.tsx ``` **`triage` is under 4% of the class.** Every one of those 1031 sites is the same defect: a lifecycle decision made by column NAME, which stops matching the moment a board renames a column. The bar can be met in full while 991 identical guards remain — and two files hold a quarter of them. ## The tracked count is wrong in three directions at once Each of these cost real work this week, which is why this is a PR and not a comment. 1. **Vocabulary.** It measures one of six legacy ids. 2. **Receiver.** It is anchored on locals named `column`/`toColumn`/`fromColumn`, so it never saw the three real guards in `executor.ts` written against `from` and `originColumn`. One of those meant completed-but-stranded work was never recovered on a renamed board, with nothing else owning that state (converted in #2628). 3. **Collision.** `role === "triage"`, `agentType === "triage"`, `entry.agent === "triage"` compare an **AGENT ROLE**. The planner *lane* is named `triage` and keeps that name — U11 removed the *column*. Ten such sites were counted as backlog, and the "obvious" fix (renaming the role) silently empties the planner's prompt template and mis-binds its model markers. A count that is too high and too low simultaneously sends work to the wrong files while hiding the files that need it. So the census reports **three separate numbers** and never nets them. ## Proven to fail on the original defect Not asserted — exercised: ``` $ # reintroduce `task.column === "triage" || task.column === "todo"` into live-agent-count.ts $ node scripts/lifecycle-column-census.mjs --strict; echo "exit=$?" packages/core/src/live-agent-count.ts: 10 -> 12 exit=1 $ # restore the file $ node scripts/lifecycle-column-census.mjs --strict >/dev/null; echo "exit=$?" exit=0 ``` The CLI also exits 1 when its own file list comes back empty — a guard that reports success without checking anything is worse than no guard. ## 12 regression cases, split by what they defend Must catch: all six ids; a guard on a local named `from`/`originColumn` (verbatim the executor.ts shape); single quotes; negation; several comparisons on one line. Must **not** catch: role comparisons; comment prose (two tracked "guards" in `replan-target.ts` were prose about a filter that lives in another file); a trailing `// … === "triage"` on a code line; sites carrying a `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` marker. Plus: **one marker cannot launder a distant guard in the same file** — that is how allowlists rot. ## Report-only, deliberately `--strict` compares per-file counts against `scripts/lib/lifecycle-column-census-baseline.json` and fails when any file's count **rises**. It is **not** wired into the merge gate: a thousand-site backlog cannot be a blocking check the day it is first measured, and a guard nobody can pass is a guard everyone disables. Owners tightening their own area re-record the baseline in the PR that lowers it. This is the ratchet shape the `DELIBERATE-LITERAL` markers scattered through the program already anticipate. ## Stated limitation Classification is by receiver **name**, so a future field named `agent` that holds a column would be misclassified as a role comparison. Recorded at the site, and it is precisely why the two classes are reported separately instead of netted into one figure. ## Verification - 12/12 new cases (`packages/engine/src/__tests__/lifecycle-column-census.test.ts`) - `pnpm test:gate` **71/71**; `pnpm lint` clean - `pnpm census:lifecycle-columns`, `--json`, and `--strict` all exercised end to end - documented in `docs/testing.md`; no production code touched 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-07-29 22:52:18 -07:00