Owner decision after live verification of M18: an explicit agents-dir
override that cannot resolve the named seat now refuses the launch
(exit 4, names the seat and dir) instead of launching seatless and
unbounded. Unsetting the override keeps the M13 plain governed TUI.
MOSAIC_ROLES_DIR needs no symmetric change - the M18 gate already
refuses unresolvable role contracts.
Task suite 88 -> 90 (refusal + refusal-names-the-seat). TOOLS.md Agent
section documents the refusal.
Suites 24/90/14/17 + verify green.
Role contracts (roles/<role>.json): roleVersion, name bound to filename,
tools ceiling (subset of pi built-ins), network declared (none|api-only|
open; enforced when network policy lands). Strict schema, fail closed -
a non-role document refuses resolution.
mosaic-task.mjs resolve-role: config-free contract validation, emits
MOSAIC_ROLE_TOOLS / MOSAIC_ROLE_NETWORK.
agent.sh: a declared role binds to its contract. Missing/invalid contract
refuses the launch (exit 2, names the role - the under-equipped-seat
failure mode, mirroring M17 skills). Effective tools = ceiling ∩ requested
(CLI --tools or agent.json caps); no request -> ceiling stands; narrowing
and tool-free outcomes loud on stderr. Adapters unchanged; headless M9
chain (mission ∩ task) untouched.
Ships roles/researcher.json (existing seat declares the role; without the
contract the fail-closed gate would refuse its launch).
Task suite 74 -> 88: contract resolution, wrong-kind/name/network/
duplicate/unsupported/missing refusals, ceiling narrowing E2E (mock
adapter), tool-free E2E, missing-contract refusal. Test-authoring
correction recorded in BUILD-LOG (a check that registered on one path
only, caught by count arithmetic).
Suites 24/88/14/17 + verify green.
ms-communications: integrated as-authored - owner preamble restructure +
collaborator delivery-discipline hunks from the #43 calibration (own
session output is not a send path; the tool performs the preamble flip;
receiving rule 3 requires actually running agent-send.sh).
ms-conductor: collaborator redraft integrated (canon-aligned tracking
surfaces, one-action cadence, fail-closed core) with one conductor
remediation - step 3 now distinguishes refusal (fail closed, never
bypass) from runner outage (direct dispatch to a qualified live seat via
ms-communications permitted, recorded loudly as degraded: no sandbox, no
run record; suites still gate integration). Preserves the owner's
outage-dispatch intent inside invariant 6.
docs/TOOLS.md: release.sh ensure row added (M16 subcommand existed in
code but not in the doc - flagged by the collaborator, verified in
release.sh usage).
Authorship: owner (ms-conductor doctrine, preamble restructure) +
ms-test collaborator (delivery hunks, redraft); remediation + integration
by conductor (dragon-lin:darkwing). Suites 24/74/14/17 + verify green;
unslop clean.
- release.sh health gate runs with MOSAIC_ENSURE_SKIP=1: the gated task run
cannot re-enter release self-determination
- run-task.sh warns on release drift instead of silently using a stale image
- ROADMAP: M20 decision recorded (packages/* monorepo at usurpation,
continuity-first); restructure sequenced as M20 phase 1
Closes#39
jason.woltje