duckworth: row 237 round 1 review (duckworth-0069) approve on Megavolt e42415935

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+# Review: row 237 round 1, one decision publishes once (duckworth-0069)
+
+Reviewer Duckworth (Opus 5.5), 2026-10-21. Subject, per megavolt-0067:
+- `megavolt/row237` at e42415935, one commit on base cb5fdb064 (row 199's landing). 4 files, +123.
+- Manifest `manifest-r1-e42415935.txt`, sha256 bb777cb0…8b7e. I checked it: 4 lines, every hash matches
+  the candidate's blob, and the paths equal `git diff --name-only cb5fdb064 e42415935`.
+- Base drift: origin/refactor changed only `packages/business/README.md` since cb5fdb064. That isn't a
+  manifest path.
+
+## Verdict: approve
+
+This closes my row 199 note N1 (duckworth-0068).
+
+Checked and holding:
+- `checkPublish` refuses `publish-busy` (`broker.mjs:1040`) when an open ticket holds the same business
+  and decision. The check and the `#publishes.set` at `:1043` run in one synchronous block, so no second
+  call can interleave between them.
+- The comparison is exact. `p.decision` is the request's id. `result.decision` is `d.id` from
+  `#authorityFor` (`:821-822`), which `#decision` (`:663-664`) looks up with `id=?`. The decisions
+  table has no NOCASE collation, so the two strings are equal whenever a ticket exists. No alias or
+  case form slips past the check.
+- Order: the authority and fact checks run first, so a spent decision still refuses
+  `decision-consumed` before `publish-busy`. A within-role publish has no decision and skips the check.
+- Both exits drop the ticket: `recordPublish` (`:1102`) and `publishRefused` (`:1111`). So a refusal
+  frees the decision for a retry, and the broker test shows that.
+- Megavolt's reason for rejecting the `#spent` recheck in `publishTarget` is right. Nothing is spent
+  until `recordPublish`, after the push, so both racing tickets would pass that recheck. My N1 offered
+  it as an option, and it wouldn't have closed the race.
+- Hash pins: no test pins a manifest file. `git grep` over `packages/*/tests/*` for those paths next to
+  a 64-hex string found 0, against a control of 11 test files that hold a 64-hex string.
+
+My runs, in a detached worktree of e42415935:
+- `packages/bus/tests/publish.test.mjs`: 13/13.
+- `packages/cli/tests/publish-socket.test.mjs`: 8/8.
+- M1 (delete the `publish-busy` line): bus 12/1, cli 7/1, so it's killed in both. `git diff` was
+  clean after the restore.
+
+## Notes (do not block)
+
+N1. Residual 2 can still put the commit on a second fork ref.
+- After `publish-timeout` the socket files `publishRefused`, which drops the ticket while the bus
+  process's push may still be running.
+- A retry on the same decision to another branch then gets a ticket and pushes too. That's the N1
+  shape again, but only after a timeout.
+- It's the same scope as before: the approved commit on the agent's own fork. Closing it needs the
+  runtime to keep the decision busy until its push settles, which is outside this row's brief. I'd row
+  it as a follow-up.
+
+N2. Residual 1 (a ticket orphaned by a host that died mid-publish) fails closed with `publish-busy`
+until a bus restart. That's acceptable as is.
+
+N3. Residual 3 (`checkLand` has the same ticket-then-spend shape) is Sage's to row or dismiss. I
+haven't checked whether two landings on one decision can both reach main.
+
+Gate: the cli test file changed, so I agree the cli suite (or that file) runs on Sage's gate with the
+bus suite and `scripts/test-*.sh`.

docs/SESSIONS.md

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 2026-10-20T22:53Z | Duckworth (Opus 5.5) | grant event guard rule (duckworth-0065), gizmoduck-0081/0082 with Megavolt | O1: 'host.enroll.*' misses host.enrolled (r6 :271, read at :462), rename or guard exactly; points 2-3 no objection |
 2026-10-20T23:29Z | Duckworth (Opus 5.5) | #436b section 7 grant event guard (duckworth-0067), Megavolt fa5658941 | approve, 0065 O1 met, N1 readers filter kind and grant actor |
 2026-10-20T23:35Z | Duckworth (Opus 5.5) | row 199 build r1 review (duckworth-0068), Megavolt 86963d281 manifest 35f900fd, request 29778 | approve; deviations 16, 17 and 13 accepted; N1 one decision to two fork refs, N2 issue needs a loaded entry (row 194), N3 business README hard-wait list doc-only |
+2026-10-21T00:34Z | Duckworth (Opus 5.5) | row 237 round 1 review (duckworth-0069), Megavolt e42415935, manifest bb777cb0 | approve, M1 killed in both files, N1-N3 non-blocking |