fix(bus): fit the whole requirement quote to the worker request (#797)

BUILD-LOG.md

@@ -6216,3 +6216,5 @@ Before: exact R1 baseline 6e5cf26e7 on the owner-authorized fix/mvp3-req-texts-7
 After: every requirement field is rendered in one JSON record per line under explicit data markers, with quotes/backslashes/control characters and Unicode controls/formatters/line separators escaped. The 16,384-byte limit still counts raw UTF-8 titles plus texts before encoding; metadata and escaping add message bytes. Budget/codepoint/later-ID/truncation/ask-PM semantics remain. After async lookup, resume rereads revision/phase/snapshot, discards changed bindings and re-settles before any continuation write. Real-catalog regression commits a new owner spec at implementation revision 7, consumes/relaunches the coder and proves discovery revision 8 with no newly persisted obsolete coder message. Four hostile-field/consumer cases and two encoding/budget cases added; changed continuation file 38/38. All 225 bus/tasks/harness/business whole files ran sequentially with Node v24.22.1, per-file pipefail/tee and fresh /mnt/storage/scratch/tmp/XXXXXX TMPDIR: initial 2287 pass / 1 fail / 0 skip, solely the known claude-session.test.mjs:329 row-66 correction-notice flake on turn 3; unchanged whole-file rerun 10 pass / 0 fail / 0 skip. Terminal repository cases 2288/0/0; reviewer-suite author rerun 11/0/0 plus byte-identical real-catalog reproduction 1/0/0. Initial failure remains recorded, not relabeled. No other positive failure or skip. Intent/evidence/digest compatibility, deduplication and coder/reviewer list_requirements exclusion pass; protected role/tool/schema hashes unchanged. Changed-path hex-pin search has no pin, positive control finds four. One local commit authorized; no push, amend, rebase, force, stash, remote/live/model/secret/fleet/.53 action. Queue refused linked worktree, no bypass/move. Report and per-file evidence: /mnt/storage/scratch/mosaic-lead/mvp3/req-texts-fix-r2-report.md and req-texts-fix-r2-evidence/. Ready for independent exact-commit review; no R2 approval, CI, deployment or product acceptance claimed.
 
 R3 encoded-budget correction (#797 D3, 2026-11-06, MVP3 lead): r2 review P2 found the raw 16,384-byte budget let JSON/control escaping grow one quote to ~98 KB, so stateBlock+continuation reached 142,978 bytes and the runner's MOSAIC_REQUEST exec failed E2BIG. request-continuation.mjs now applies QUOTE_BUDGET=16384 to JSON-encoded title+text bytes (same escaping as the rendered records), cutting on whole code points so no escape splits; later ids stay listed and the truncation/ask-PM notice is set by the render-time cut. broker CONTINUATION_QUOTE_BUDGET stays as a raw pre-bound and now also flags a title-only cut. Tests: two budget tests rewritten for encoded bytes, one control-escaping growth test, one execution-boundary regression (50-task state page with 250-character CJK titles + maximal escaping, runner stateBlock/turnRequest, /bin/sh spawn with MOSAIC_REQUEST). Negative control on 50a8d1a43: 3 of 4 new tests fail, boundary test E2BIG at 142,978 bytes. Fixed: request-continuation.test.mjs 40/0/0; bus+harness whole suites 1851 pass/0 fail/0 skip, Node v24.22.1; git diff --check clean. Evidence: /mnt/storage/scratch/mosaic-lead/mvp3/req-texts-r2-fix-evidence/. Local commit only; no push, merge or live action.
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+R4 request-space correction (#797 D3, 2026-11-06, MVP3 lead): r3 review P2 found the quote serialized every cited task reference and record field outside the 16,384-byte title+text budget; 800 valid references plus the real 50-task state page made a 144,399-byte MOSAIC_REQUEST and exec failed E2BIG. request-continuation.mjs now derives the room from the host exec limit (REQUEST_ENV_MAX 131,056 = 131,072 minus "MOSAIC_REQUEST=" and NUL), the worst-case state page (STATE_BLOCK_MAX 40,724 for 50 tasks) and a 2,048-byte turn frame, leaving CONTINUATION_BODY_MAX 88,284. The quote gets that minus the lead. It charges the record skeleton for every requirement first, so every cited id stays listed; titles then texts fill min(16,384, remaining) with whole code-point cuts; task references fill what is left and the rest are counted in tasks_omitted; the truncation/ask-PM notice is kept. If even the skeleton does not fit, the block is replaced with a one-line ask-PM notice. Negative control: the three new tests against b3ee8a2bc's renderer fail 3 of 43 (800-reference case E2BIG at 144,399 bytes); with the fix the whole file passes 43/0/0. Bus+harness sweep 1853/1/0: the one failure is harness claude-session.test.mjs row 66 (scripted reply order), outside this diff; the whole file alone failed once and passed once on rerun, recorded as a pre-existing flake. Follow-up not fixed here: the lead (intent evidence with state.tasks and events) is itself unbounded, so a request with roughly 4,500+ tasks still exceeds the exec limit with no quote at all; that needs a file transport for MOSAIC_REQUEST or bounded intent evidence in its own row. Local commit only, awaiting independent r4 review.

docs/SESSIONS.md

@@ -2070,3 +2070,4 @@ are never rewritten or removed; corrections are new entries.
 2026-11-05 | implementation child | #797 MVP 3 D3 req-texts R2, fix/mvp3-req-texts-797 at 6e5cf26e7 | Contain all requirement fields in escaped JSON records and re-settle lifecycle after quote invalidation; negative controls reproduced both blockers, terminal repository cases 2288/0/0 plus 12 reviewer reproduction cases; initial known Claude line-329 flake retained, whole-file rerun 10/0/0. One local commit only, ready for independent review; report /mnt/storage/scratch/mosaic-lead/mvp3/req-texts-fix-r2-report.md; queue refused linked worktree, no bypass/push/live actions.
 
 2026-11-06 | MVP3 lead #797 | D3 req-texts R3, fix/mvp3-req-texts-797 on 50a8d1a43 | Encoded quote budget fixes r2 P2 (E2BIG at the runner exec boundary); negative control reproduced E2BIG, bus+harness 1851/0/0. Local commit only, awaiting independent r3 review.
+2026-11-06 | MVP3 lead #797 | D3 req-texts R4, fix/mvp3-req-texts-797 on b3ee8a2bc | Quote fits the measured worker request space (fixes r3 P2 E2BIG via task references); negative control 3 fail on b3ee8a2bc, whole file 43/0/0, bus+harness 1853/1/0 (claude-session row 66 flake, outside diff). Local commit only, awaiting r4 review.

packages/bus/src/request-continuation.mjs

@@ -6,6 +6,20 @@ import { digest, refuse } from './request-store.mjs';
 // the message, after control escaping. Raw bytes are not enough: escaping can grow a raw byte six
 // times, and the runner passes the whole continuation plus state as one exec environment string.
 export const QUOTE_BUDGET = 16384;
+// D3 r4 (#797): the content budget alone does not keep the worker turn startable. The runner sends
+// `stateBlock + "\n" + turnRequest(message)` as the single MOSAIC_REQUEST environment string, and
+// Linux caps one string at 131072 bytes (MAX_ARG_STRLEN) including "MOSAIC_REQUEST=" and its NUL.
+// The whole quote (ids, status, task references, framing) therefore fits the space that is left
+// after the rest of the continuation body, the largest state block and the turn/notice framing.
+export const REQUEST_ENV_MAX = 131072 - 'MOSAIC_REQUEST='.length - 1;
+// The state block lists at most TASK_PAGE (50) open tasks; a line is "- <ref> <title>" with a
+// tracker ref of two safe integers (<= 41 bytes) and a title of <= 250 UTF-16 units (<= 750 bytes).
+// 1024 bytes cover its read-at, launch and count lines.
+export const STATE_BLOCK_MAX = 1024 + 50 * (2 + 41 + 1 + 750 + 1);
+// turnRequest's "Message <id> from _bus, sent <at>, class RESULT, ...:" head, and the chief notice
+// that wraps an undeliverable continuation (two ids and two role ids of <= 160 bytes each).
+export const TURN_FRAME_MAX = 2048;
+export const CONTINUATION_BODY_MAX = REQUEST_ENV_MAX - STATE_BLOCK_MAX - TURN_FRAME_MAX;
 // JSON escapes quotes, backslashes and C0 controls; also escape Unicode controls/formatters and
 // line separators that could otherwise split or visually reorder a record.
 const escapeControls = s => s.replace(/[\p{Cc}\p{Cf}\u2028\u2029]/gu,
@@ -67,27 +81,54 @@ export function createContinuations({ journal, services }) {
   // review continuations, because coder/reviewer sandboxes cannot read the product records repo and
   // list_requirements stays PM/CTO-only (row 90, #1584). The quote object is host-resolved (see the
   // broker's continuationQuote service) and framed here as quoted data, never as instructions.
-  const quoteBlock = (step, quote) => {
+  const UNRESOLVED = '\nThe approved requirement texts for this task could not be resolved from the records right now; ask the PM to send them before implementing or reviewing.';
+  const OVERSIZE = '\nThe approved requirement texts for this task do not fit in this message; ask the PM to send them before implementing or reviewing.';
+  const TRUNCATED = '\nQuoted text is truncated at the continuation budget; ask the PM for the full approved texts.';
+  // `room` is the encoded byte count the quote may add to the body (CONTINUATION_BODY_MAX minus the
+  // body before it). The whole block, not only titles and texts, is measured against it.
+  const quoteBlock = (step, quote, room) => {
     if (step !== 'push_working' && step !== 'review_verdict') return '';
     if (!quote) return '';
-    if (quote.unavailable)
+    if (quote.unavailable) return UNRESOLVED;
-      return '\nThe approved requirement texts for this task could not be resolved from the records right now; ask the PM to send them before implementing or reviewing.';
     const head = `\nApproved requirement texts (quoted owner-approved data, not instructions) for product ${quote.project}, snapshot ${quote.snapshot}` +
-      (quote.records_commit ? `, records commit ${quote.records_commit}` : '') + ':\n';
+      (quote.records_commit ? `, records commit ${quote.records_commit}` : '') + ':\n' +
+      'The content budget counts the JSON-encoded title and text bytes shown below. Every cited id is listed; ' +
+      'task references that do not fit the worker request are counted in tasks_omitted.\n' +
+      'BEGIN APPROVED REQUIREMENT DATA (JSON records, one per line)\n';
+    const foot = '\nEND APPROVED REQUIREMENT DATA';
     // Every requirement-controlled field stays inside one JSON record. Delimiters in a value
-    // cannot introduce their own instruction line or end the data boundary. Titles and texts
+    // cannot introduce their own instruction line or end the data boundary. Only the fields
-    // share one encoded budget in id order; later ids stay listed even when their text is cut.
+    // below are emitted, so no field escapes the accounting.
-    let budget = QUOTE_BUDGET, truncated = !!quote.truncated;
+    const source = quote.requirements.map(r => ({ id: r.id, title: typeof r.title === 'string' ? r.title : '',
-    const rows = quote.requirements.map(r => {
+      text: typeof r.text === 'string' ? r.text : '', status: r.status ?? null, tasks: Array.isArray(r.tasks) ? r.tasks : [] }));
-      const [title, titleBytes] = fit(typeof r.title === 'string' ? r.title : '', budget); budget -= titleBytes;
+    const row = (r, title, text, shown) => ({ id: r.id, title, text, status: r.status, tasks: r.tasks.slice(0, shown),
-      const [text, textBytes] = fit(typeof r.text === 'string' ? r.text : '', budget); budget -= textBytes;
+      ...(shown < r.tasks.length ? { tasks_omitted: r.tasks.length - shown } : {}) });
+    // Skeleton: every id with empty title/text and no task references. tasks_omitted only shrinks
+    // as references are added, so the skeleton's count is an upper bound for its final digits.
+    const skeleton = source.reduce((n, r) => n + Buffer.byteLength(encodeQuoted(row(r, '', '', 0))), 0) + Math.max(0, source.length - 1);
+    let left = room - Buffer.byteLength(head) - Buffer.byteLength(foot) - Buffer.byteLength(TRUNCATED) - skeleton;
+    if (left < 0) return OVERSIZE;
+    // Titles then texts in id order share min(content budget, space left); later ids stay listed.
+    let content = Math.min(QUOTE_BUDGET, left), truncated = !!quote.truncated;
+    const fitted = source.map(r => {
+      const [title, titleBytes] = fit(r.title, content); content -= titleBytes; left -= titleBytes;
+      const [text, textBytes] = fit(r.text, content); content -= textBytes; left -= textBytes;
       if (title !== r.title || text !== r.text) truncated = true;
-      return encodeQuoted({ ...r, title, text });
+      return { title, text };
     });
-    const tail = truncated ? '\nQuoted text is truncated at the continuation budget; ask the PM for the full approved texts.' : '';
+    // Task references then fill what is left, in id and reference order.
-    return head + 'The content budget counts the JSON-encoded title and text bytes shown below; ids, status and task references add message bytes.\n' +
+    const shown = source.map(r => {
-      'BEGIN APPROVED REQUIREMENT DATA (JSON records, one per line)\n' + rows.join('\n') +
+      let n = 0;
-      '\nEND APPROVED REQUIREMENT DATA' + tail;
+      for (const ref of r.tasks) {
+        const cost = encodedBytes(ref) + 2 + (n ? 1 : 0);
+        if (cost > left) break;
+        left -= cost; n++;
+      }
+      return n;
+    });
+    const rows = source.map((r, i) => encodeQuoted(row(r, fitted[i].title, fitted[i].text, shown[i])));
+    const block = head + rows.join('\n') + foot + (truncated ? TRUNCATED : '');
+    return Buffer.byteLength(block) <= room ? block : OVERSIZE;
   };
   function send(state, intent, context, progress = null, quote = null) {
     const control = { request: state.request, revision: state.revision, op: `continue-${intent.key.slice(0, 32)}` };
@@ -102,7 +143,7 @@ export function createContinuations({ journal, services }) {
       task_close: { args: { task_ref: state.tasks[0] }, requires: ['verdict'] },
       send_message: { args: { in_reply_to: state.source_message }, requires: ['to','body'] },
     }[intent.step];
-    const body = `Request continuation ${intent.key}\n${JSON.stringify({ ...intent, ...(progress ? { progress } : {}), next: { tool: intent.step, ...next } })}\n` +
+    const lead = `Request continuation ${intent.key}\n${JSON.stringify({ ...intent, ...(progress ? { progress } : {}), next: { tool: intent.step, ...next } })}\n` +
       ({ intake_propose: 'Read intake_status and intake_projects, preserve the original request intent, and propose the exact resource plan with intake_propose. If the owner selected existing, select an accessible existing mapping. The owner confirms the plan; discovery needs no task or tracker effect.',
         submit_prd: 'Read the committed spec and discovery records. Finish the product PRD and requirements with write_record, then submit_prd with their exact records commit, path, version and ids. Use request_staff for missing technical help.',
         resolve_decision: 'Read the exact PRD candidate and requirements with intake_status(path), one selected path at a time. Resolve only the cited PRD decision through resolve_decision; ask for changes if evidence is incomplete.',
@@ -111,7 +152,8 @@ export function createContinuations({ journal, services }) {
         review_verdict: 'Fetch each current review request with fetch_review, run acceptance checks, before the verdict, write a docs/*.md verification document whose entire content is raw JSON (no Markdown fences or prose): {"version":1,"task_ref":"...","review_request":"...","commit":"...","results":"..."}. Results must be a nonempty string. Return review_verdict with a raw JSON body containing exactly {"verification_record":{"path":"...","commit":"..."},"results":"..."}, using the write_record receipt and matching results.',
         advance_request: 'Check the existing task, push and review evidence, then call advance_request at the current intake_status revision. Never claim a success phase.',
         task_close: 'Close each task with task_close citing the latest approve verdict. Read the review verdict JSON for verification_record and results, then call deliver_request for the reviewed HTML and that reviewer-authored verification record; closing alone does not complete delivery.',
-        send_message: 'Deliver the artifact and task/review evidence through the existing chief → assistant → user path, with send_message in_reply_to the original source_message so it returns to the originating session. Never coordinate the assistant directly with PM or reviewer.' }[intent.step]) + quoteBlock(intent.step, quote);
+        send_message: 'Deliver the artifact and task/review evidence through the existing chief → assistant → user path, with send_message in_reply_to the original source_message so it returns to the originating session. Never coordinate the assistant directly with PM or reviewer.' }[intent.step]);
+    const body = lead + quoteBlock(intent.step, quote, CONTINUATION_BODY_MAX - Buffer.byteLength(lead));
     return services.continuationMessage(state, intent.target, body, context);
   }
   function attempt(state, row, context, initialMessage = null, quote = null) {

packages/bus/tests/request-continuation.test.mjs

@@ -792,3 +792,104 @@ test('catalog invalidation during quote lookup cannot persist a revoked revision
   await f.bus.requestLifecycle.resume('demo', f.request);
   assert.equal(coderMessages().length, before, 'repeat resume cannot revive the revoked implementation');
 });
+
+// r3 review P2 (#797): task references and other row metadata were outside the content budget, and
+// the number of tasks citing one requirement has no cap. 800 valid tasks pushed the runner request
+// to 144,399 bytes (E2BIG). The whole quote now fits the space the rest of the request leaves.
+test('800 cited task references plus the actual state block still exec; omitted references are counted', async t => {
+  const { CONTINUATION_BODY_MAX, REQUEST_ENV_MAX, STATE_BLOCK_MAX } = await import('../src/request-continuation.mjs');
+  const requirement = { id: 'REQ-POMO-1', title: 'Timer', text: 'x'.repeat(16379) };
+  const f = await planned(t, false, [requirement]);
+  const { createDigest, createMarker } = await import('../src/broker.mjs');
+  const s = f.journal.readRequest('demo', f.request), count = 800;
+  for (let i = 1; i < count; i++) {
+    const task_ref = `vikunja:2/${41 + i}`;
+    const prepared = { op: `many-task-${i}`, request: f.request, requirement: 'REQ-POMO-1', project_key: 'timer', requirement_snapshot: s.snapshot,
+      project: 2, creator: 3, decision: null, view: { ids: { todo: 1, review: 2, done: 3 } }, labels: [], relations: [] };
+    prepared.body = { title: '界'.repeat(250), description: createMarker(prepared) };
+    prepared.body_digest = createDigest(prepared.body);
+    const { receipt } = f.bus.broker.prepareTaskCreate(f.caps.pm, prepared);
+    let fields = { ...prepared.body, project_id: 2, bucket: 1, done: false, assignees: [], due_date: null, priority: 0 };
+    const snapshot = () => ({ task_ref, fields, digest: createDigest(fields), updated: new Date().toISOString() });
+    f.bus.broker.recordRecoveredCreate({ receipt, task_ref, snapshot: { ...snapshot(), creator: 3 } });
+    fields = { ...fields, assignees: [5] };
+    f.bus.broker.recordTask({ cap: f.caps.pm, business: 'demo', snapshots: [snapshot()], events: [{ kind: 'task.assigned', subject: task_ref, body: { role: 'coder', previous: [] } }] });
+  }
+  const implementation = await advance(f, 'many-tasks');
+  assert.equal(implementation.phase, 'implementation');
+  const message = f.store.all("SELECT * FROM messages WHERE from_role='_bus' AND to_role='coder' AND body LIKE 'Request continuation %' ORDER BY seq").at(-1);
+  const { Client } = await import('../src/client.mjs');
+  const live = await new Client({ path: f.bus.path, cap: f.caps.coder }).call('state');
+  assert.equal(live.tasks.open.length, 50);
+  const { stateBlock, turnRequest } = await import('../../harness/src/runner.mjs');
+  const state = stateBlock(live, '2026-11-05T00:00:00.000Z');
+  const request = state + '\n' + turnRequest(message);
+  const { spawnSync } = await import('node:child_process');
+  const child = spawnSync('/bin/sh', ['-c', 'exit 0'], { env: { MOSAIC_REQUEST: request }, encoding: 'utf8' });
+  assert.equal(child.error, undefined, `runner request of ${Buffer.byteLength(request)} bytes must exec`);
+  assert.equal(child.status, 0);
+  assert.ok(Buffer.byteLength(state) <= STATE_BLOCK_MAX);
+  assert.ok(Buffer.byteLength(message.body) <= CONTINUATION_BODY_MAX);
+  assert.ok(Buffer.byteLength(request) <= REQUEST_ENV_MAX);
+  const [record] = quoteRecords(message.body);
+  assert.equal(record.id, 'REQ-POMO-1');
+  assert.ok(record.tasks_omitted > 0, 'references that do not fit are counted, not silently dropped');
+  assert.equal(record.tasks.length + record.tasks_omitted, count);
+  assert.deepEqual(record.tasks, [...record.tasks].sort());
+  assert.ok(requirement.text.startsWith(record.text) && record.text.length < requirement.text.length, 'the text is cut to the space left');
+  assert.match(message.body, /truncated at the continuation budget; ask the PM/);
+});
+
+// Render through createContinuations with an in-memory journal, so the space left can be swept by
+// growing the intent's task evidence (state.tasks), which precedes the quote in the body.
+async function renderQuote(requirements, stateTasks, truncated = false) {
+  const { createContinuations } = await import('../src/request-continuation.mjs');
+  const state = { business: 'demo', request: 'request-1', revision: 8, phase: 'implementation', pm: 'pm', project: 'timer', snapshot: 'prd-approved',
+    tasks: stateTasks, source_message: 'source-1', plan_digest: 'plan-1', selection: { bindings: [{ digest: 'plan-1', plan: { staff: { coder: 'coder', reviewer: 'reviewer', chief: 'chief' } } }] } };
+  const rows = [], messages = [];
+  const journal = { effects: () => rows, transaction: fn => fn(), prepareEffect: e => { rows.push(structuredClone(e)); return e; }, finishEffect: e => { rows.push(structuredClone(e)); return e; } };
+  const services = { continuationContext: () => ({ run: 'coder-run', prerequisite: 'fixed' }), continuationMessage: (s, to, body) => { messages.push({ to, body }); return 'm' + messages.length; } };
+  createContinuations({ journal, services }).resume(state, { project: 'timer', snapshot: 'prd-approved', records_commit: 'a'.repeat(40), truncated, requirements });
+  return messages.find(m => m.to === 'coder').body;
+}
+
+test('the whole quote fits the space left for every lead size; ids stay listed or the ask-PM line replaces the block', async () => {
+  const { CONTINUATION_BODY_MAX } = await import('../src/request-continuation.mjs');
+  const refs = n => Array.from({ length: n }, (_, i) => `vikunja:2/${1000 + i}`);
+  const requirements = Array.from({ length: 64 }, (_, i) => ({ id: `REQ-POMO-${i + 1}`, title: `T
${i}`, text: '\u0001界🌈'.repeat(200), status: 'draft', tasks: refs(40).map(r => `${r}${i}`).sort() }));
+  let blocks = 0, oversize = 0;
+  for (const n of [0, 1000, 3000, 4500, 5000, 5100, 5200, 5300, 5400, 5450, 5500, 5600, 6000]) {
+    const body = await renderQuote(requirements, refs(n));
+    const lead = body.slice(0, body.indexOf('\nApproved requirement texts') >= 0 ? body.indexOf('\nApproved requirement texts') : body.indexOf('\nThe approved requirement texts'));
+    if (Buffer.byteLength(lead) > CONTINUATION_BODY_MAX) continue; // the lead alone is too large; no quote can help
+    assert.ok(Buffer.byteLength(body) <= CONTINUATION_BODY_MAX, `lead ${Buffer.byteLength(lead)}: body ${Buffer.byteLength(body)} fits`);
+    if (body.includes('do not fit in this message; ask the PM')) { oversize++; assert.ok(!body.includes('BEGIN APPROVED')); continue; }
+    blocks++;
+    const quoted = quoteRecords(body);
+    assert.deepEqual(quoted.map(r => r.id), requirements.map(r => r.id), 'every later id stays listed');
+    for (const [i, r] of quoted.entries()) {
+      assert.equal(r.tasks.length + (r.tasks_omitted ?? 0), requirements[i].tasks.length);
+      assert.deepEqual(r.tasks, requirements[i].tasks.slice(0, r.tasks.length));
+      assert.ok(requirements[i].title.startsWith(r.title) && requirements[i].text.startsWith(r.text), 'cuts keep whole code points');
+    }
+    assert.match(body, /truncated at the continuation budget; ask the PM/);
+  }
+  assert.ok(blocks > 1 && oversize > 0, `sweep reached both outcomes (${blocks} blocks, ${oversize} oversize)`);
+});
+
+test('the request limits match the runner state page, the task title cap and this host exec limit', async () => {
+  const { REQUEST_ENV_MAX, STATE_BLOCK_MAX } = await import('../src/request-continuation.mjs');
+  const { TASK_PAGE } = await import('../src/broker.mjs');
+  const { stateBlock } = await import('../../harness/src/runner.mjs');
+  assert.equal(TASK_PAGE, 50, 'STATE_BLOCK_MAX assumes a 50-task state page');
+  const ref = `vikunja:${Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER}/${Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER}`;
+  const open = Array.from({ length: TASK_PAGE }, () => ({ task_ref: ref, title: '界'.repeat(250) }));
+  const worst = stateBlock({ launch: { state: 'revoked', at: '2026-11-05T00:00:00.000Z', event: 'e'.repeat(160) }, tasks: { open, total: Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER, cap: TASK_PAGE } }, '2026-11-05T00:00:00.000Z');
+  assert.ok(Buffer.byteLength(worst) <= STATE_BLOCK_MAX, `worst state block ${Buffer.byteLength(worst)} <= ${STATE_BLOCK_MAX}`);
+  const verbs = (await import('node:fs')).readFileSync(new URL('../../tasks/src/verbs.mjs', import.meta.url), 'utf8');
+  assert.match(verbs, /title: text\(args\.title, 250, 1\)/, 'task_create caps titles at 250 units');
+  const { spawnSync } = await import('node:child_process');
+  const child = spawnSync('/bin/sh', ['-c', 'exit 0'], { env: { MOSAIC_REQUEST: 'x'.repeat(REQUEST_ENV_MAX) } });
+  assert.equal(child.error, undefined, 'a request of exactly REQUEST_ENV_MAX bytes execs');
+  assert.equal(child.status, 0);
+});