Mos ruled (c): coder-mos1 stays idle/parked, not manually rotated. It holds no in-flight work, so
there is nothing to rotate FOR, and a manual in-pane restart would dress a missing mechanism as a
lifecycle operation — the D-41 overclaim itself. It stays AVAILABLE through RM-61's re-review in case
that review needs its context; the next NEW lane goes to a fresh seat, not to a seat at 67%.
RM-62 filed, because a dependency stated as prose with no owner becomes the permanent gap the charter
warns about. Bringing the execution fleet under roster/systemd management BLOCKS RM-50, RM-58 and
P-LIFECYCLE-001 — each is unsatisfiable against its real population until it lands. Banked explicitly
that both would FAIL against their real target today: RM-50 applied now quarantines the seat
implementing RM-50, and RM-58 has no mechanical reset path for any seat that needs one. RM-50 and
RM-58 now carry RM-62 as a hard depends_on edge, and RM-50 carries the requirement that acceptance be
proved against the unmanaged execution fleet rather than the roster-managed canaries.
RECORD CORRECTION, initiated by Mos and banked here: this session's opening rotation validated the
checkpoint+rehydration DESIGN losslessly — the residency attestation genuinely passed from the files —
but the MECHANISM was a manual pane respawn. "The handoff rehydrated losslessly" is earned; "rotation
worked" overclaims a mechanism that does not exist, and that overclaim is D-41. Same distinction as
D-23's inert guard: the step ran, one property was observed, the mechanism was not. Board header now
says so rather than implying a lifecycle rotation occurred.
D-37 and D-41 are one cluster — the execution fleet lacks both its shared-infrastructure and its
lifecycle management. Mos owns both, sequenced at a seam, never mid-lane.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Went to rotate coder-mos1 mechanically; `mosaic fleet restart` cannot reach it. Every seat executing
this mission is systemd inactive/disabled and flagged UNMANAGED — coder-mos1, rev-974, f10-coder,
merge-gate, the pm-scouts, rev-3107b, ultron-3107, and mos-remediation itself. The roster-managed
population is a different set of seats from the ones doing the work.
RM-50 applied today would quarantine the entire remediation fleet including the seat implementing it.
RM-58's mechanical out-of-band reset cannot be performed at all, so the only rotation available is what
D-4 says does not count: asking the agent, or killing a pane by hand. Requirement banked on both: their
acceptance must be demonstrated against the UNMANAGED execution population, because a criterion proved
only on roster-managed canaries is tested on the wrong population — D-17's coverage class one layer up.
Today's rotation is therefore labelled honestly as a manual pane restart with a hand-verified handoff,
not as a lifecycle operation. The step ran; the property was not observed (cf. D-23).
Did not run fleet restart against a disabled unit while the live pane held RM-61 and RM-03 state.
Disposition escalated to Mos.
Also records the handoff artifact as the positive control: typed state, and it surfaced D-12 recurring
live (PR #1033's draft property silently dropped by a wrapper fallback), an unrunnable check declared
rather than substituted, and suspicions labelled as suspicions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
D-39: I contaminated an open independent review. RR12 was an open registered check and I sent rev-974
my CONCLUSION, not just my observation. rev-974 then downgraded an automated Codex review that had
flagged RR12 as a blocker, in line with my framing. The bias sat in my instrument, not the reviewer's
diligence — a subordinate is agreeable by construction, and the divergence instruction I attached
cannot undo having named the answer first. Mos adopted the rule fleet-wide: a dispatcher may relay
observations and reproductions into an open review, never its own verdict on an open check.
Re-adjudicated by a mechanically fresh seat with no access to my framing: NON-BLOCKING, independently,
on stronger evidence than either prior pass (accept-set matrix proving the accepted set is a strict
subset of a correct case-insensitive comparison's, so it cannot false-certify; exploit path hunted and
ruled out; all 0x110000 codepoints scanned for a fold that could smuggle non-hex onto a valid SHA).
So contamination did not change the answer, and the finding stands anyway — a correct answer reached
by a contaminated process still corrupts the process.
D-40: that same fresh seat looked outside its question and found a type confusion inside the exact
conjunction the exemption rests on. `step.get("exit_code") == 0` is True for JSON false, and
coder-mos1 added the float case. Verified by me on the real #2188 record: false and 0.0 both yield
exit 0 with exempted_steps 1 — the exemption GRANTED; "0" and null correctly block. Two of four
near-miss types satisfy a conjunction whose whole justification is that it is exactly scoped.
Consequence: I reported #1033 gate-ready at 033b2ffb (RR1-RR12 pass, review 69 APPROVED, CI #2193
success 9/9) and then had to hand Mos a finding that may disqualify what I had just certified. Better
that than defending the report. Disposition is Mos's; coder-mos1 escalated it to blocker unilaterally
and moved to push — held, because the author does not adjudicate their own PR and does not void a live
APPROVED review plus terminal-green CI by pushing. Head frozen, fix prepared and unpushed, ACKed.
Board doctrine now carries both rules: never relay a conclusion into an open review, and the author
never adjudicates their own blocker status.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
rev-974 review 68 @ 033b2ffb: RR1-RR12 all PASS. RR7 is the strong one — all four binding predicates
proved RED against the old e7b29219 verifier, and the original attack under the old interface returned
exit 0 with exempted_steps=1, proving the PRIOR DEFECT rather than merely unsupported syntax.
The remaining blocker was metadata, not code: the live PR body still said "DO NOT MERGE" and "the
exemption will not be implemented", describing an earlier head. Verified independently — the controls
were injected in 3931b0e2/9455cd6a/25ac5971/ef9d23ab and the final delta does not touch
.woodpecker/ci.yml at all. The body was true when written and went stale as the branch evolved. That
is D-38 one layer out: the PR that binds evidence to its subject shipped a description that was not
bound to its subject, and D-36's staleness class on provider metadata rather than a repo file.
Fixed as metadata only. Head confirmed unmoved at 033b2ffb from both provider and git, body SHA-256
b0198d98 matched the author's reported digest byte-for-byte, both stale strings absent. Because the
commit never moved, the twelve results stand and no third review round is owed — only the discharge
of the finding by the reviewer who raised it.
Exact-head CI #2193: success, 9 children, 9/9 success including clone, read from -f json (D-33).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
D-38 — RM-61's terminal-green verifier certified the right RECORD for the wrong COMMIT. rev-974
mutated only #2188's commit field and the gate still exited 0. Confirmed by construction: at
e7b29219 the whole verifier had exactly one "commit" line (159), no expected-head parameter, no
comparison, no failure path. D-24 at the gate layer — a true answer to a different question.
The transferable half is the AC set, not the verifier: AC1-AC8 ALL PASSED and the PR was still
NO GO, because every registered check tested whether the signature discriminates and none tested
whether the evidence was bound to its subject (coverage-failure-mode-2, D-17 class). Mos ruled a
STANDING clause into RM-02 coverage: "does this gate bind its evidence to the subject under
review?" — every gate can fail this way and pass its own ACs.
D-37 — one shared .git/config silently re-identified EVERY worktree. extensions.worktreeConfig is
unset, so a worker's repo-local identity write rebinds all linked worktrees at once; the
orchestrator checkout and rev-974's review worktree both authored as coder-mos1. Distinct from
D-34, not an instance: MOSAIC_GIT_IDENTITY was exported and correct and still resolved wrong.
Sharp edge is gate-16 defeated in the artifact — the reviewer would author its pre-registered ACs
as the author of the code under review. No contamination occurred. Containment (explicit -c, no
shared-config rewrites mid-flight) is the standing order; the real fix is authorised and owned by
Mos, sequenced at a quiet seam. #1024 is implicated: repo-local pinning is the colliding mechanism.
Also pre-registers the twelve RM-61 re-review checks at exact head 033b2ffb BEFORE the reviewer
reads the diff, and rebuilds the board for a cold read — RM-61 "building", "nothing implemented
yet", and DECISION-1/2/3 "must be ruled" were all stale, the D-36 class again at the same seam.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Orchestrator rotating at ~803k tokens (~4x threshold). A mission built on
rotation-not-compaction should not run its own coordinator past it.
Board rewritten as the rehydration artifact: in-flight state, a read-this-first block
for the incoming seat, and the live rulings it most needs. Under the 8KB cap.
AUDIT AT THE SEAM found THREE stale restatements on this board, each of which would have
misled the incoming orchestrator:
1. the delivery-gate list still OMITTED the merge-gate verdict step (the D-26 defect
itself, still sitting on the board after MISSION.md was corrected);
2. capability described as 'token-file set = authoritative registry', superseded by
D-13/D-15 (capability is per-path; assert permissions.push as that seat);
3. Sequencing still said DECISION-1 was CONTESTED and 'do not treat it as settled'
hours after it was RULED — an incoming seat would have re-litigated a closed decision.
All three were restatements of text owned elsewhere. Replaced with references, per the
mission's own render-not-restate principle: a second copy is a second thing to go stale,
and this board proved it three times in one night.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
First genuine gate-ready of the mission. Head triple equal at 78ec47cd, latest review
APPROVED at the current head, CI 9/9 by JSON scan with two-observer agreement.
Recorded the shape worth remembering: the queue guard is still inert for this merge
because RM-03 is the fix — the last merge to pass through the broken gate is the one
that fixes it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
First run on this branch where ci-postgres passed, so no exemption question arises.
Recorded that the artifact's intermittency is evidence FOR RM-61's negative-control
requirement: intermittent means delivery is a coin flip until the signature is proven to
discriminate from a real database failure.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Head triple verified independently twice (orchestrator + f10-coder): local = origin =
PR #1030 = pipeline #2182. Full step scan rather than a tests-complete inference.
Queue guard not offered as evidence.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Per Mos's item 4. The gate definition was incomplete from setup because the gates were
restated from memory rather than referenced, and the omission propagated into every
worker brief since — then recurred inside the correction itself (D-26).
Board now carries the referenced sources, the gate order, freeze-after-GO, the
coordinator/orchestrator split, and the queue-guard zero-information field form.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Board now carries the pre-dispatch capability check (token-file existence), the
token/authorship coherence rule, and the accreted worker-brief doctrine, so a
compacted or fresh seat inherits them mechanically rather than by recall.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
mos-dt-0andMos