Mos verified #1023 before relaying and corrected my framing. Verified independently:
review id-58 REQUEST_CHANGES at f6334080, the current head — the block is live, and its
findings are that #1023's own fix is defective (unknown still exits 0, payload-as-argv
hits ARG_MAX, tests do not assert exits).
mergeable:true is git-mergeability, not readiness. The charter's first principle
committed by the orchestrator inside an escalation about proxies. Fifth instance of mine.
The mechanism, named because it will recur: mergeable is not a lie, it is a true answer
to a different question. A false field would have been caught; a true-but-adjacent field
passes every sniff test — which is why the discipline must be mechanical, not attentive.
D-23 corrected backward per D-14-as-amended, original framing quoted.
RM-02: readiness cases must assert the decision-relevant property — latest review state,
CI terminal status on the exact head, required approvals — never a structural proxy.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
RM-02's registered fixtures found this before the registry was built. Worse than the
banked unknown=>exit 0: ci-queue-wait.sh:266 pipes the payload into a classifier
starting 'python3 - <<PY', so python reads its PROGRAM from stdin and json.load never
sees the JSON. Proven empirically — success, failure, pending and malformed all
classify as unknown, and unknown exits 0.
The mandatory pre-push/pre-merge guard therefore returns PASS for every possible input,
including a genuinely failing CI. The six observed meaningless greens were not an edge
case; they are the only output it can produce.
PR #1023 is exactly this fix, open and parked, and its body diagnoses it precisely.
Two aggravating details from that body: pr-ci-wait.sh:38 documented the bug and remedy
and it was never backported to the mandatory sibling (D-14 propagation with a
security-adjacent blast radius); and the fix was opened without re-verification.
Escalated for Jason's #1023 disposition. RM-02 records required-vs-actual with
DEFECT (owner: RM-03); no RM-03 lane opened, guard not edited.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
The gate that actually runs is the installed copy at ~/.config/mosaic/tools/git/;
a repo-scoped registry would test packages/mosaic/framework/tools/git/. Byte-identical
today (sha256 19cda2f7009c536e both) but nothing asserts it.
A registry that verifies the wrong artifact is worse than none — it manufactures
confidence, and the divergence would be invisible from every signal we have: registry
green, CI green, deployed gate arbitrarily different.
D-1/P-ACTIVATION applied to the enforcement mechanism itself rather than to config.
RM-02 gains: for every registered gate with a deployed counterpart, assert
repo-source == deployed-copy with a must-fail control; where none exists, record that
explicitly.
Found by design review before implementation — the only finding tonight not found by
execution, which is the design-first gate on keystone tasks paying for itself.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
ci-postgres reports FAIL under an overall-success pipeline on #2170 and #2175 while all
eight functional steps pass. Most likely a service-pod teardown artifact; the test
step's pg_isready fail-fast guard passed, so the database was available during the run.
Low severity, but the pattern matters: a red that is routinely present and routinely
correct to ignore trains operators and agents to discount reds, and the discounting
generalises. Six instances of a meaningless green are already banked; a meaningless
FAIL is the same erosion with the sign flipped.
Recorded rather than normalised — the first time it is waved through without a note is
when it becomes background noise.
RM-55: treat a non-terminal-success sub-step under an overall-success pipeline as a
reportable anomaly, and make the CI contract state which steps may fail without failing
the pipeline. An implicit allowance is indistinguishable from a bug.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Both the orchestrator and the coordinator read D-14 as forward propagation only: a
ruling reaches the documents stating the new rule. D-20 proved that insufficient —
when D-19 superseded part of D-18, the consequence went forward into the charter and
the delivery conditions but never backward into D-18, which kept asserting a withdrawn
claim until a reviewer disproved it by experiment.
A supersession must update BOTH the documents rendering the new rule AND the finding it
retires, with the retired wording quoted rather than deleted. Interim rule updated
accordingly.
Applying D-14's own rule to D-14, in the same commit that records the amendment.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
rev-974 blocked #1027 a second time, and the defect was in this file, not the code.
D-18's AC2 restatement omitted the accidental/independent scope D-19 made mandatory,
and D-18 asserted the tampered-manifest control turns integrity 'from a claim into a
property'. It does not and cannot — that sentence predated D-19 and was never revised
when D-19 landed. rev-974 disproved it by experiment: a same-UID consistent
manifest+marker rewrite passed preflight.
Two banked findings firing on the orchestrator at once: the integrity-claim corollary
(I wrote a claim in the voice of a property, in the document defining the rule against
it), and D-14 propagation — I carried D-19's consequence forward into the charter and
the delivery conditions but never back into the finding it superseded. Backwards
propagation is the same defect as forwards and I did not audit for it.
Corrected in place with the original wording quoted and the disproof recorded, not
silently rewritten.
RM-02 fifth clause: documentation asserting a security or integrity property is itself
a claim requiring a negative control observed red. Prose is not exempt from the
mission's evidentiary standard, and governing prose least of all.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Per Mos, with his two additions.
Charter gains a fourth first-class principle: when a property cannot exist at the layer
that specified it, three honest moves are mandatory — implement what the layer can
guarantee; state the boundary in BOTH directions (what it does not defend AND what it
does, since either alone misleads); and record the real guarantee as a TRACKED
DEPENDENCY, not prose. A written-down gap is acceptable engineering; an implied-fixed
gap is the mission's core failure in a new costume.
The residual risk is now RM-59 (depends_on RM-12, RM-21, RM-25) — a real backlog task
owned by the choke-point executor and spine, which verify from outside the worktree's
authority. Mos's point: 'record where the guarantee comes from' only holds if the record
is a live dependency someone must close; a documented gap with no owner becomes a
permanent gap that reads as intentional.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Implementing the D-18 manifest hit CWE-345: manifest and marker share one same-UID
writable tree, so that actor can regenerate both and pass. No local construction fixes
self-authentication without a key outside its authority. The seat escalated rather than
calling it tamper-resistant — the charter corollary working on its first real test.
Ruling: Option A, scope AC2 to accidental/independent/stale mutation, retain the design.
The undefendable boundary is not the weak link (same-UID write already owns the source,
the tests, preflight.mjs and .husky); AC2 exists for the D-5 staleness class, against
which the design works; and a real anchor arrives with the choke-point executor and PG
spine, which verify outside the worktree's authority.
Acceptable only with honest labelling: threat model verbatim in code and PR, the words
tamper-proof/tamper-evident/secure barred there, scope carried in AC2's restatement,
residual risk named as backlog, all controls kept RED-first.
Generalizable: when a property cannot exist at the layer it was specified, implement
what the layer can guarantee, state the boundary precisely, and record where the real
guarantee comes from. A known gap written down is acceptable; a gap implied fixed is not.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Per Mos. Two first-class principles alongside observe-the-property:
1. Pre-registration prevents RETROFITTING and nothing else. A pre-registered check set
can be WRONG (D-8), INCOMPLETE (D-17), or INTERNALLY INCONSISTENT (D-18). It confers
neither correctness nor coverage nor consistency. All three modes were found on this
mission's own first delivery, by the machinery applied to its own work. RM-02's four
clauses are the enforceable form.
2. Never ship an integrity claim dressed as a property. A verification artifact
writable by the actor whose behaviour it certifies certifies the attack. It must sit
inside its integrity envelope, publish atomically, and carry a tamper negative
control observed red. If it cannot be made tamper-evident, say so and reconsider —
an honest 'this cannot be verified' is always available and always preferable to
laundering foreign content as certified.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Implementing D-17's fix surfaced a conflict between criteria, not within one. AC2
(reject symlinked generated state) cannot hold alongside AC4 (canonical build
succeeds): verified independently that apps/web sets output:'standalone' and the built
tree carries 42 legitimate pnpm symlinks under .next/standalone. Only building the
tree reveals it.
Completes the chain: a pre-registered check set can be WRONG (D-8), INCOMPLETE (D-17),
or INTERNALLY INCONSISTENT (D-18).
Ruling: build-certified symlink manifest — .next itself still rejected; descendants
rejected unless exactly certified. Stronger than blanket rejection because it catches
retargeting. AC2 restated and RECORDED with provenance rather than absorbed, since
silently resolving a conflict between pre-registered criteria destroys the point of
registering them.
Hardening: the manifest is generated state, so a manifest writable by whoever plants a
rogue symlink certifies the attack. Must be inside the integrity envelope, published
atomically, with negative controls observed red first including manifest-tampered.
RM-02 fourth clause: the registry must detect conflicts between criteria, and retain
original text plus restatement plus reason when a criterion changes meaning.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
rev-974 blocked PR #1027: AC2 was pre-registered and explicitly required rejecting
symlinked generated state; the implementation accepts it (ln -s into .next, preflight
exits 0 instead of 43) while the acceptance suite ran 21/21 green throughout.
Confirmed independently: preflight.mjs:82-92 rejects symlinks on the SOURCE path,
:28 merely skips symlinked dirs, and the generated-state path :141-163 checks uid but
never isSymbolicLink(). The suite's only symlink cases cover the turbo binary and a
source file.
Sharpens D-8 rather than repeating it. D-8: pre-registration does not confer
CORRECTNESS. D-17: it does not confer COVERAGE — a suite can be green with every
criterion appearing satisfied while a criterion's actual requirement is untested.
RM-02 third clause: the registry must bind each criterion to the specific case that
exercises it and prove that case red before trusting its green. Mutation testing
pointed at the criterion-to-case mapping, not just the gate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Propagating Mos's ruling in the same commit that records it, per D-14's interim rule.
The hermeticity fix IS PR #1024, which sits in Jason's parked delivery stack, so its
disposition is his — marked SUPERSEDED-PENDING-JASON alongside #1023. D-16 strengthens
urgency without transferring ownership; we do not open a third lane on a parked PR.
Class sharpened: a pre-push gate an operator cannot run locally is a gate only CI
enforces, so pointing .husky/pre-push at it misrepresents where the gate lives.
Non-hermetic gates make every green host-dependent.
#1027 proceeds on CI-green; the local exit-97 is a host-specific guard abort and is
not a merge consideration.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Ran down Mos's flag. Both hypotheses were wrong: CI runs exactly 'pnpm test' (same
command, path IS exercised) and is green, while this host exits 97 on an
environment-dependent BASH_LINENO guard (#973) that aborts on bash 5.2.15 and not in
CI's container. PR #1027 touches zero files under packages/mosaic, so the guard is
genuinely pre-existing — f10-coder's report was accurate in every particular, and main
is equally affected here.
Not 'merges step around a red' but something worse in one respect: the local gate and
the CI gate disagree about what passing means. No agent on this host can get a green
pnpm test on any branch. A gate only CI can run cannot be a pre-push gate.
Second defect found while establishing this: in the main checkout the same package
fails differently (exit 1) because a test scans the working tree and picks up
apps/coordinator/venv third-party site-packages. A test whose verdict depends on
untracked files is not hermetic — same contamination source that broke format:check,
one foreign tree breaking two independent gates.
Coordinate with #1007/#1024 rather than opening a third lane.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
f10-coder holds gitea-mosaicstack-f10-coder.token with write:repository scope and was
verified at mint by 'repo access returns 200'. It cannot push: collaborator lookup
404s and its own token reports push:false, pull:true.
Capability has three independent layers — token file (raw-API auth), tea login (tea
path), repository permission (actual write authority) — and satisfying two proves
nothing about the third. Scope bounds what a token may ATTEMPT; repository permission
decides what the user may DO.
The charter principle failing on the check meant to confirm capability: a 200 on a
READ was accepted as evidence of WRITE. written-unverified treated as verified, by
both provisioner and orchestrator, one layer above D-12.
RM-50's pre-dispatch check must assert effective permission for the intended operation
(permissions.push == true as that seat), not token existence or a read returning 200.
A capability check that cannot fail on a seat lacking write permission is itself an
inert gate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Applied D-14's own interim rule immediately instead of waiting to be bitten again, and
it caught a second instance within minutes: MISSION.md's standing directives still
stated the DB hard-cutover with no mention of Mos's binding qualification that the
spine must not be a single-point hard-stop (degraded mode + rollback artifact
required). A seat reading the charter would have designed toward an availability
posture the coordinator had explicitly rejected, with the superseded 'no DB means the
fleet stops' recommendation nowhere contradicted.
Two un-propagated rulings out of two that touched charter text. Without a mechanism,
propagation failure is the default outcome, not an oversight — which is the argument
for D-14 being a requirement rather than a discipline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
D-14: DECISION-1 was ruled and applied to TASKS.md while MISSION.md — the charter a
cold-starting seat reads first — kept the superseded wire-in target for hours, flagged
CONTESTED on the board but never corrected in the source of truth. A resuming seat
would have read the rejected target as authoritative. Caught by hand during an
unrelated edit; nothing would have caught it otherwise.
P-MISSION-001 turned on ourselves: a decision that lives in a ruling and a board note
but not in the authoritative record has been AGREED, not MADE. Requirement: rulings
must propagate mechanically — decisions as records, documents rendering rather than
restating, and a must-fail check where duplication is unavoidable. Interim rule until
the DB cutover: the same commit that records a ruling updates every document stating it.
D-13 updated with Mos's reconciliation: 5 of 6 mosaicstack-provisioned seats have no
tea login — systemic, not a one-off. Supersedes D-11(b): the token-file set is
necessary but NOT sufficient; capability is per-path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
The charter's build-1 cell still named mosaic_orchestrator.py::run_single_task after
DECISION-1 ruled against it. Leaving the charter contradicting the ruled decision would
mislead any future reader who starts there — corrected in place with the rationale and
provenance, rather than only in TASKS.md.
Also: status PLANNING -> EXECUTING; scout TODO discharged (file is in-tree) with a note
that its findings stand but its recommended wire-in point is superseded.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Charter gains a first-class principle per Mos: no write is done until the requested
PROPERTY is observed; a success exit code is not evidence. Success output is designed
to be believed — that is why the inert-gate class exists and why the P-WRAPPER
tri-state is not optional. Recorded with its provenance: the orchestrator committed
this exact error (D-12), and three of the session's twelve instances were its own.
D-13: diagnosing D-12 found two parallel credential registries that can disagree.
gitea-mosaicstack-mos-dt-0.token EXISTS, but tea has no mosaicstack login for that
identity — so raw-API paths work while tea-dependent wrapper paths silently degrade.
tea is not stale; the login does not exist. Capability declared authoritative by the
token-file set does not govern the tea path.
RM-04 must reconcile the registries (or assert agreement at startup, with a must-fail
control). RM-50's pre-dispatch check must verify capability for the path actually used.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
PR #1027 was created with -d because it carries partial unproven work. tea auth was
stale, the wrapper fell back to the raw API which cannot set draft, warned on stderr,
and exited 0. The PR sat open and mergeable for ~25 minutes, protected only by the
word DRAFT in its title and body. I had reported it to the coordinator as a draft.
Three failures: a fallback silently degrading a SAFETY flag (nuisance for --labels,
dangerous for --draft); a correct warning nobody consumed; and my own failure to
verify the flag took effect — I checked the PR existed, not that it had the property
I required. That is written-unverified treated as verified, by me, on exactly the
class of tool this mission exists to distrust.
Fixed via the WIP: title prefix; draft:True verified after.
RM-02 gains a must-fail control: a wrapper that cannot honour a safety-relevant
argument must exit non-zero. RM-24 gains this as its canonical tri-state example.
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]>
Per Mos. MOSAIC_GIT_IDENTITY resolves the TOKEN; commit author comes from git config
user.name/user.email, a separate setting that fell back to the generic value. The
export could never have fixed authorship — my worker brief instructed only the export,
so the seat did what it was told and the commits were still mis-attributed. The error
was in the brief before it was in the finding.
Requirement is COHERENCE: token and authorship must agree; either half alone is drift.
Belongs in seat setup, verified by an exit-asserting test that commits and asserts the
author — not in prose a seat can follow correctly and still end up wrong.
Capability check mechanized: capability IS token-file existence. Before dispatching
seat X to provider Y, test gitea-<Y>-<X>.token exists. The token-file set is the
authoritative capability registry.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
RM-01's seat was briefed to export MOSAIC_GIT_IDENTITY; its commits are authored as
the generic mosaic-coder fallback, so git history cannot say which seat did the work.
P-WRAPPER-001 reproduced on our own delivery.
Separately, nothing at dispatch time revealed the seat lacked a credential for the
target provider — discovered only when it failed mid-task after ~$9 and 69% context.
get_gitea_token behaved correctly by refusing to borrow another slot's token; the
dispatch-time information simply did not exist.
RM-50 gains per-seat capability declaration + pre-dispatch check; RM-04 gains
identity-binding verified by an exit-asserting test rather than assumed from an
export in a brief.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Same required gate, both directions wrong: fails OPEN on state=unknown (5 meaningless
greens this session, wrong branch too), and fails CLOSED on credential resolution,
hard-blocking a worker's completed work. The identical command succeeded from that
worker's own worktree in another shell, so the checkout was fine.
A gate that waves through unchecked work and blocks ready work has its failure modes
backwards. Availability failures must degrade to a loud, audited CANNOT_ASSERT;
correctness failures must block. Also the Pi-brick shape: a gate whose unavailability
prevents recovery from it.
RM-03 extended to a third requirement: distinguish CANNOT_ASSERT from
ASSERTED_NOT_READY, both registered with must-fail controls, neither exiting 0 silently.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
KICKSTART resume now points at origin/remediation/state for the live board, per Mos's
cadence ruling: every tick is pushed to the rolling branch immediately (durable
per-tick, no per-tick main PR); main carries periodic snapshots only. Reading the
board from main would silently yield a stale tick, so the step warns explicitly.
D-9 hardened: comms/v1 must use file/stdin transport, never argv interpolation.
Standing interim rule until then — agent-send -f for any body with special
characters, never -m. Mandatory in every worker brief alongside the D-8 clause.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
agent-send.sh -m with backticks executes them as command substitution: the recipient
got a mangled body plus a shell error, and the send still reported success. Same class
as the known pr-create.sh backtick bug — two tools in the comms path treating a
message body as shell input.
The failure mode is the mission's own pattern: silent corruption with a success
receipt.
Requirement on RM-40/RM-42: comms/v1 must carry payloads verbatim with no shell
interpretation at any hop, with a byte-identical round-trip test (backticks, command
substitution, quotes, newlines) registered under RM-02 including a must-fail control.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Closes#953.
GATE RECORD: review CLEAR at this exact head (author != reviewer, pre-registered diff-blind checks) + terminal-green CI at this exact head + queue guard clear.
CI CAVEAT (#973): green on the wake suites is currently WEAKER THAN IT LOOKS, IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. grep error/spawn exit codes are read as absence across 257 assertion sites in six idiom forms; 36 inverted (&&-fail) sites — including 19 credential-security canaries — fail toward GREEN under load. These greens were obtained on solo reruns after load-correlated FALSE reds (2115/2116/2118; main itself was red). This merge's safety therefore rests on the CONTENT review, not on the green. Remediation charter fa551c2d0 is authored and in flight.
Co-authored-by: mos-dt-0 <[email protected]>
Closes#952.
GATE RECORD: review CLEAR at this exact head (author != reviewer, pre-registered diff-blind checks) + terminal-green CI at this exact head + queue guard clear.
CI CAVEAT (#973): green on the wake suites is currently WEAKER THAN IT LOOKS, IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. grep error/spawn exit codes are read as absence across 257 assertion sites in six idiom forms; 36 inverted (&&-fail) sites — including 19 credential-security canaries — fail toward GREEN under load. These greens were obtained on solo reruns after load-correlated FALSE reds (2115/2116/2118; main itself was red). This merge's safety therefore rests on the CONTENT review, not on the green. Remediation charter fa551c2d0 is authored and in flight.
Co-authored-by: mos-dt-0 <[email protected]>
Closes#958.
The preimage definition (source-adapter.sh) is the single most consequential file in the wake pipeline — every observed_hash is a sha256 of what it emits — and it was UNVERSIONED: no git history, no backup. When it was edited at 07:27 on 2026-07-30, attribution was recoverable only because an agent transcript happened to still be on disk. A11 gives that file durable provenance (option (2) of #958: recorded content-addressed, not in-band).
DESIGN, per the pre-registration:
- Provenance is OUT-OF-BAND (never on the adapter's stdout) — an in-band record would advance observed_hash for every source at once and manufacture the re-baseline it exists to explain (B3).
- The obligation never depends on the provenance path: a missing/corrupt store cannot halt the detector or swallow a wake (#940 advisory-fields precedent; B4).
- DESC_FMT=d1 is NOT the provenance record — the tag versions the descriptor FORMAT; a behaviour change that keeps descriptor shape re-baselines every hash and leaves the tag unchanged (B6).
CREDENTIAL HARD GATE (rebuilt after the first verdict FAILED it): byte capture is now RECORD-ONLY BY DEFAULT (extras opt in via WAKE_PREIMAGE_CAPTURE), not allow-by-default-refuse-on-shape — because a shape list can only refuse the secrets someone already enumerated, and the tool's own usage text recommended adding detector.env (where HMAC material lives). Deny is evaluated on BOTH raw and resolved path forms with resolved anchors, ordered before allow — closing the realpath-before-deny ordering defect that let a renamed symlink target through.
VERIFICATION (reviewer, mos-dt, independent of the author's claims):
- Seven decoy cases by planted-marker-then-grep-whole-state-dir: known cred path / same-name symlink / RENAMED-target symlink / prefixed secret / prefixless secret / opted-in-symlink-to-DENIED-target all REFUSED; opted-in-symlink-to-ALLOWED-target CAPTURED (positive control that the harness can capture at all, and that C was not closed by breaking every symlink).
- Polarity-completeness self-test RE-RUN with the shape list stubbed always-allow AND both deny lists stubbed — case D still safe: the flip is complete, the shape list is not load-bearing. Each stub proven live first (a stub that silently fails to apply reports the dangerous state as safe).
- B11: rm-then-change fails LOUD (rc=1), refuses to re-baseline, leaves the ledger absent; absent-with-emptied-objects still first-installs cleanly (absent-is-not-corrupt not paid for by breaking first install).
- RED-first reproduced exactly P13-P16 pre-fix; each refusal corroborated three ways (loud stderr, ledger row captured:false WITH a hash so attribution survives refusal, objects/ holding only the adapter).
KNOWN RESIDUAL (filed #969, non-gating): the deny check is both-forms but the suite needles only the resolved form — a deny reduced to resolved-only survives 17/17 green and would leak a renamed-symlink case. No reachable leak at this head (shipped code correct on all seven decoys); it constrains a FUTURE edit. Doctrine: a both-forms fix needs a needle per form; a fixture that satisfies its assertion through a DIFFERENT rule is testing the rule it did not mean to test.
Authored by pepper (sb-it-1-dt); independently reviewed by mos-dt (sb-it-1-dt) under diff-blind pre-registration (7242688b1, predating first read) — NOT CLEAR on the first verdict (B2/B11 failed by decoy), CLEAR at 8aff7d8 after the polarity rebuild. Manifest version 0.7.0.
Co-authored-by: mos-dt-0 <[email protected]>
Closes#946.
The digest omitted a quarantined entry's claim from disclosure while still advancing the ack watermark it instructed the consumer to run — converting a fail-safe HOLD into a silent DISCARD, through the documented normal path. Measured: the burial instruction was re-issued FIVE times, four fresh digests plus one system-initiated redelivery fired purely because the entry had gone unconsumed for 1826s. That redelivery is the proof of the 'indefinitely' half: the mechanism re-asserted itself with no new information.
SCOPE — this was NOT a missing check in the consume path. Measured before the fix: dead-letter occurrences were digest.sh 27, store.sh 0, ack.sh 0, detector.sh 0, reconcile.sh 0. Quarantine was owned ENTIRELY by the renderer; the store that advances the watermark had zero knowledge the ledger existed, so an entry could be quarantined by one subsystem and consumed by another with no possible interaction. The fix is therefore a deliberate cross-module decision — option (b), quarantine recorded into a store-owned file, preserving the existing direction of dependency — pre-registered by the consumer before any diff existed.
VERIFICATION
- Pipeline 2107 terminal SUCCESS at e11bc6622, read clone-inclusive from the provider API rather than through `pipeline-status.sh` (which filters `.type != "clone"` per workflow and would hide a clone failure behind an all-green table): 9/9 children success, exit 0 each, no non-success member. Its `test` step runs all nine wake harnesses via turbo -> packages/mosaic `test` -> `test:framework-shell`.
- Independent review by the consumer on the affected lane: eleven pre-registered acceptance checks, authored and delivered BEFORE the diff was read — the file list deliberately unlooked-at, because a filename alone would have disclosed which option was chosen. All eleven resolved, no blocker.
- The check that decides it: a RAW `ack.sh consumed --upto N` with no digest involved must refuse to advance past a quarantined seq — the case an agent hits when a digest is MISSED, and the one that would have sunk a disclosure-only fix. Covered at the head as a named assertion (T13 ordinary-path bypass), written independently of the reviewer's list.
- Mutation: one asserted site disabled -> TWELVE assertions die, every one BEHAVIOURAL, ZERO count assertions, including one killing across the module boundary the fix spans.
- RED control at base a6b5f6a: 34 and 10 assertions fail, matching the body exactly.
- Coordinator re-verify by a different instrument than the reviewer used: static reference counts across the base/head boundary — store.sh 0 -> 49, ack.sh 0 -> 6, `--agent` unchanged at 4 (so #949 correctly stayed out). A fix present-but-inert passes the count and fails the mutation; a fix behaviourally correct but smuggling #949 passes the mutation and fails the count. Neither result is reachable by repeating the other.
KNOWN RESIDUALS
- The `consumed-hashes` repair criterion is met only for keys that RE-EMIT. A corrupted row whose key never recurs stays false indefinitely; the sweep covers those, and the known-false row named in the acceptance criteria had already self-healed by re-emission rather than by design — safe by population, not by design.
- The audit's clean-sweep message names one unprovable class; a second exists (a surviving dead-letter row with an empty `observed_hash` cannot be convicted either). Wording, not logic. Filed separately.
- The audit's provability bound makes dead-letter RETENTION load-bearing for auditability. Nothing prunes it today, so this is latent — but any future rotation or size cap silently converts provable rows into unprovable ones with no signal at either end. This is not a defect; it is a property that BECAME load-bearing and is recorded nowhere. Filed separately.
- `test-wake-detector.sh` D4 fails at this head AND identically at base, with an empty diff over detector files — pre-existing, tracked, not introduced here.
Authored by pepper (sb-it-1-dt); reviewed independently by mos-dt (sb-it-1-dt). The mos-dt-0 commit and fork identity does not identify the author — attribution collapse tracked separately.
Co-authored-by: mos-dt-0 <[email protected]>
Closes#944.
_has_hard_locator accepted only repo+issue / 40-hex sha / file — the forge vocabulary. The detector emits path (+snapshot_sha when attested) and NEVER emits file/issue/sha, so predicate and sole producer shared ZERO keys and every class=actionable board_file entry dead-lettered. Latent since #920, whose harness pinned the detector's own emission shape as its malformed example — the suite certified the gap it was written to guard.
Fix: `path` becomes a hard-locator arm, and ONLY path. Bare path-less snapshot_sha is a deliberate NON-arm (would widen past the board_file vocabulary); Q11(d) asserts it still quarantines at 7/40/64 chars, spanning the detector's ^[0-9a-f]{7,64}$ attestation range.
VERIFICATION
- Pipeline 2105 terminal-green at fa36da8. Its `test` step reaches all nine wake harnesses via turbo -> packages/mosaic `test` -> `test:framework-shell`, which names each suite explicitly. The two-levels-down indirection matters: no search of .woodpecker/* can see it, and that is exactly why this question was got wrong earlier today and then corrected. CI therefore DOES attest the quarantine suite and the detector suite at this head.
- Independent review (mos-dt, consumer on the affected lane) PASS at fa36da8, from a detached worktree: predicate provably unmoved from fb3c3c3 (comment-stripped sha256 identical, _has_hard_locator body byte-identical), RED control at base reproduced exactly 8 failures all Q11 including "got 6".
- Third reviewer (wake-judge) ACCEPT on both judgment calls: the Q1 assertion reversal is a legitimate correction (the flip was forced, not elective — base fixtures red 19 assertions against the head predicate) and path-alone satisfies §2.1, whose operative test is "one targeted call, never a search" — two of its four named exemplars already resolve to current state. Requiring path+snapshot_sha jointly would permanently dead-letter a declared source class and conflict with #940's advisory-fields ruling.
- Judge's mutation criterion met: with the reconciled exemption disabled, the gate-level assertion ("an ORIENTATION-tier enumeration must NOT be quarantined") dies at this head and did not exist as a casualty before F1.
- D4 (detector lock re-acquisition) fails intermittently at base AND head; git diff base..head over the detector files is EMPTY, so it is out of this PR's surface on structural grounds rather than on a re-roll. Known defect, fix identified (detector.sh:516, fd 9 leaked into sleep), tracked separately.
KNOWN RESIDUALS
- ENUM-B is now the sole address-free reconciled fixture, so the exemption's gate-level guard is a population of one. Safe by population, not by design. Author follow-up: assert ENUM-B carries no hard-locator arm so the harness guards its own premise.
- The binding spec (CONVERGED-DESIGN.md §2.1, separate repo) still enumerates four forge tokens and reads narrower than the shipped gate. Tracked as #948, sequenced after the dragon-lin reseed.
- Hard-locator arms are type-loose: repo/file/path accept any non-null JSON value. Pre-existing; `sha` fails closed only by accident of test(). Tracked separately.
Authored by pepper (sb-it-1-dt); reviewed independently by mos-dt (sb-it-1-dt) and wake-judge. The mos-dt-0 commit/fork identity does not identify the author — attribution collapse tracked in #3092.
Co-authored-by: mos-dt-0 <[email protected]>
grep is line-oriented, so a multi-line knob value passed the per-line anchors and was still fatal in arithmetic. Replaced with a case pattern matching the whole string, so an embedded or leading newline rejects. Manifest bumped 0.6.12 -> 0.6.13: three materially different detectors had shipped under one version string, and version= is the component sole self-identity claim.
Authored-by: pepper
Reviewed-by: mos-dt (independent, at this head; transfer proven by blob-hash equality)
Merged-by: Mos
Co-authored-by: mos-dt-0 <[email protected]>
The slack knob was interpolated raw into $((...)) under set -u: a malformed value was FATAL to the poll, falsifying the poll-never-fails invariant, and a negative value inverted the guard to deny-all. Shape validation alone was insufficient — bash reads a leading zero as octal, so 08/09 passed the regex yet were fatal and 0300 silently meant 192. Now validated ^[0-9]{1,9}$ with a loud fallback to 300, then forced to base-10 via 10# so the knob means what the operator wrote.
Authored-by: pepper
Reviewed-by: mos-dt (independent, found both the original defect and the radix residual)
Merged-by: Mos
Co-authored-by: mos-dt-0 <[email protected]>
Adapter emits snapshot sha/ts out-of-band on fd 3 so a changing value never enters the delta-gate hash. Detector validates advisorily (sha regex, epoch sanity before arithmetic, future-skew slack); malformed metadata is dropped loudly and never gates the wake. Digest renders snapshot_sha/snapshot_ts plus a git-show re-verify hint. Adapters that never write fd 3 are byte-identical.
Reviewed-by: Mos (design, independent)
Reviewed-by: mos-dt (artifact, hardening §2)
Co-authored-by: mos-dt-0 <[email protected]>
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