Slice 1 S5: WebUI: inbox, tasks, agents, trails; CHAT-03 Gate E #1522

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Part of #1515. Brief: docs/plans/2026-10-04_slice-1.md (43c48d7a), branch refactor, section "Slice 1 S5".

Owner: dewey. Reviewer: darkwing, filbert. The gate and the suites are in the brief section.

Part of #1515. Brief: docs/plans/2026-10-04_slice-1.md (43c48d7a), branch refactor, section "Slice 1 S5". Owner: dewey. Reviewer: darkwing, filbert. The gate and the suites are in the brief section.
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Review request for queue row 40, round 1: Slice 1 S5: WebUI inbox, tasks, agents and trails; CHAT-03 Gate E

  • Owner: dewey
  • Reviewers: darkwing, filbert
  • Gate: darkwing and filbert approve on #1522; webui, conversation, control-board and every test-*.sh green; row 5 Gate E is Jason's (sage)
  • Brief: docs/plans/2026-10-04_slice-1.md § Slice 1 S5: WebUI (inbox, tasks, agents and trails; CHAT-03 Gate E) @72d11de21306
  • Candidate: manifest bcc2b772813ef894090edbdf4e18c9540c3752ffae875c4ad42b79e95a3382ff

The manifest:

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scripts/mosaic queue review record 40 --verdict approve|changes --comment COMMENT_ID --candidate bcc2b772813ef894090edbdf4e18c9540c3752ffae875c4ad42b79e95a3382ff --op OP --by SEAT
<!-- mosaic-queue-op: dewey-r40-review-1 --> <!-- mosaic-queue-round: row=40 round=1 candidate=bcc2b772813ef894090edbdf4e18c9540c3752ffae875c4ad42b79e95a3382ff --> Review request for queue row 40, round 1: Slice 1 S5: WebUI inbox, tasks, agents and trails; CHAT-03 Gate E - Owner: dewey - Reviewers: darkwing, filbert - Gate: darkwing and filbert approve on #1522; webui, conversation, control-board and every test-*.sh green; row 5 Gate E is Jason's (sage) - Brief: `docs/plans/2026-10-04_slice-1.md` § Slice 1 S5: WebUI (inbox, tasks, agents and trails; CHAT-03 Gate E) @72d11de21306 - Candidate: manifest `bcc2b772813ef894090edbdf4e18c9540c3752ffae875c4ad42b79e95a3382ff` The manifest: ```text 9250aa6358f4dcf96b8369fb84607000f0142cefe393ab478014cc6b0c26c539 agents/dewey/work/wui/evidence/s5-mutants.md cef660ecd9389500cfcd1e4d16ca7e14a204a158526d747d75ccd6af6b15e79e agents/dewey/work/wui/S5-GATE-E.md 416a6014762b06fb6dd463bc90a4f28316dd64e8743ac50aff8b1000c551d5ec agents/dewey/work/wui/SLICE1-VIEWS.md 1179401b3252a7e8f54e5bf2f0d7c460d83596cf7140c79cbb38258ec84a7193 agents/dewey/work/wui/TASKS.md 0176ebf077dc24f6ff3fbdad68ff6d73e72fb82c2073e3c13decf686bc23ff04 docs/plans/DEFERRED.md 0a6f74c44a729f1ceba0b4b1a81d1ab984c9a359f2ff755e14e87f72391a37a4 packages/conversation/README.md 38621d505f6ffd859e37c4309f7a2d3a3ee21a53d1ba41b8ff9ca29250a6dc37 packages/conversation/src/cohort.mjs 26f8fa2c7caf794e6224802b8e5d8882419d0bda725d2ab30f0a058a678a57b9 packages/conversation/src/controller.mjs a097edd438c9b5de20ddb3e709ac3a09e362214d5ef72208587fa4cd8e7c74fe packages/conversation/src/pi-pin.mjs ad2b0d9699af0e4b51b22c6b98d7bfb12891800c7810da5d41bfdf72564084fb packages/conversation/src/terminal.mjs a555d3c9394a911cc1e33191eb9112f0a3f0aca8c78ce6adc888a2d40d4a2ffb packages/conversation/tests/cohort.test.mjs 6310ea0163c5fcd3f1cbd15e4433ba9c1897e9649ceed1e8e169ed8fb884ad36 packages/conversation/tests/ctrl-child.mjs 881121aadcf879a56c84722eec7726b0a71160c58bf99056758dab3d285c514d packages/conversation/tests/fake-pi.mjs 622dffadcd80f6abc489997407d63a3e423d1b4bae0614234b9ac3a45bb96257 packages/conversation/tests/flows.test.mjs 28e66a9cc9876660418f4fe171ec51639313ce2ca9675d2e0fdcf7b9c8b5e446 packages/conversation/tests/races.test.mjs e6de71956347ede436be6bcf7689b51c48e3e5455f7ed8871587fece12f3a005 packages/conversation/tests/turns.test.mjs 2c182a1b9214eb541941a2e72ff721d3423193f152d49487914d23ec29fc719d packages/webui/README.md da2ac17666296b954141756fd687652c623560787f03e64b4e43d863b9bfda3d packages/webui/src/bus.mjs 06b35c24ef6e25aeeadeef66ffccf090378e5b51d13cf81b04801dba93407f06 packages/webui/src/cli.mjs 341a3669b3b45b91a724ea1bc338ab56fda18491db55ac96123f252cb93a6935 packages/webui/src/public/bus.css 794c4604dc2b9d0dab5f32e8b44358f3a0f0d7e6682a2cbf393c0f7b42fbb1b8 packages/webui/src/public/bus.js b27d4fbec45f716f2cafee10d8e3abf3be6d2f1701a4f55f52f70dcc9f04fcc4 packages/webui/src/public/index.html 2b60c4bca11b3c53d4affb22ce482c9fb0db6b213ffec298473fe899a9e5d026 packages/webui/src/serve.mjs 18b1bd786a1e74d554d3bc3de4e0c142203fb43fcd860560bfd6263aa9e6ed11 packages/webui/tests/browser.test.mjs 416df2a9a2feca4f1cf9393d092f682eef06850769675b7bb28fc73c05e77010 packages/webui/tests/bus-browser.test.mjs c4ef7ad46824ac85b19b64a1003c82e7585f5a5aea60cc4fc06caee68c6066a1 packages/webui/tests/bus.test.mjs ``` Check a tree against it with `scripts/mosaic queue review verify-commit 40 REF`. Post your verdict as a comment here, then record it: ``` scripts/mosaic queue review record 40 --verdict approve|changes --comment COMMENT_ID --candidate bcc2b772813ef894090edbdf4e18c9540c3752ffae875c4ad42b79e95a3382ff --op OP --by SEAT ```
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Round 1 notes for the candidate in comment 26979 (manifest bcc2b772…). Nothing is committed. Sage commits the candidate after approval.

What changed

  • WebUI views for the inbox, tasks, agents and trails (packages/webui/src/bus.mjs, public/bus.js, public/bus.css). They read through the human transport at /api/bus/*, the same Q1 verbs the CLI uses. The WebUI writes nothing. A decision shows its mosaic decide <id> <key> line with a Copy button (REQ-DEC-3). Anything the Q1 module doesn't return is labeled "X: not in the Q1 module". Each read keeps its last good answer and shows it as stale if a later read fails. The failure titles are "Bus refused the read" (403), "No bus to read" (no config or no bus host) and "The read failed".
  • CHAT-03 I3 follow-ups (DEFERRED, "CHAT-03 I1 round 2 follow-ups"):
    • Seal covers the command. engine takes only {extraArgs, cwd, envKeys}. The command is always this Node plus the pinned Pi bin, checked at construction and again in start(). The test engine comes in through a Symbol key, which JSON can't carry. (N24b)
    • Explicit engine environment. Pi gets ENGINE_ENV plus the *_API_KEY/*_TOKEN names in envKeys; nothing else is inherited. ScopeLauncher adds XDG_RUNTIME_DIR and DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS for systemd-run. (N24b, K19)
  • Lead decision 56 Q5:
    • escalating clears when the force-stop fence throws (Darkwing F2).
    • Input after Ctrl-T or Ctrl-O waits until that action finishes, in the same chunk or a later one (Filbert F2).
  • Gate E script: agents/dewey/work/wui/S5-GATE-E.md.

Choices to check

  1. HOME passes to Pi, so Pi reads ~/.pi/agent unless PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR is set. Pi's credentials and model settings live there.
  2. The engine also sees INVOCATION_ID (from systemd) and PWD/SHLVL (from the shim's /bin/sh, which is bash here). None of them comes from the controller's environment. K19 allows exactly these.
  3. Held input is parsed only after the takeover or reload settles. That covers a refused takeover (the text stays in the composer) and a throw (the held input is still released, and the error propagates).

Suites. Run in a detached worktree of 1e11100b with the candidate files copied in, one suite at a time, TMPDIR=/mnt/storage/scratch/tmp:

Suite Result
webui 20/20
conversation 157/157
control-board 124/124
test-auth 15/0
test-conductor 17/0
test-config 24/0
test-discord 66/0
test-extension-package 18/0
test-foundation 44/0
test-queue 27/0 (node 148/148)
test-release 14/0
test-task 98/0

Mutation check. 10 mutants on scratch copies; all 10 are killed. Table: agents/dewey/work/wui/evidence/s5-mutants.md. Two fixes came from it:

  • K19 was added because the manager mutant survived.
  • N24b now closes its controller in finally, because the seal mutant made turns.test.mjs hang to the 900 s timeout.

Not in this row

  • A live PM session through CHAT-03 waits on S6 (row 41). Nothing outside the tests constructs a Controller yet. Gate E steps 2 and 5 need it.
  • Filbert F1 (frozen-cgroup test) stays open in DEFERRED.
  • Gate E itself is Jason's.
Round 1 notes for the candidate in comment 26979 (manifest `bcc2b772…`). Nothing is committed. Sage commits the candidate after approval. **What changed** - WebUI views for the inbox, tasks, agents and trails (`packages/webui/src/bus.mjs`, `public/bus.js`, `public/bus.css`). They read through the human transport at `/api/bus/*`, the same Q1 verbs the CLI uses. The WebUI writes nothing. A decision shows its `mosaic decide <id> <key>` line with a Copy button (REQ-DEC-3). Anything the Q1 module doesn't return is labeled "X: not in the Q1 module". Each read keeps its last good answer and shows it as stale if a later read fails. The failure titles are "Bus refused the read" (403), "No bus to read" (no config or no bus host) and "The read failed". - CHAT-03 I3 follow-ups (DEFERRED, "CHAT-03 I1 round 2 follow-ups"): - **Seal covers the command.** `engine` takes only `{extraArgs, cwd, envKeys}`. The command is always this Node plus the pinned Pi bin, checked at construction and again in `start()`. The test engine comes in through a Symbol key, which JSON can't carry. (N24b) - **Explicit engine environment.** Pi gets ENGINE_ENV plus the `*_API_KEY`/`*_TOKEN` names in `envKeys`; nothing else is inherited. ScopeLauncher adds `XDG_RUNTIME_DIR` and `DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS` for systemd-run. (N24b, K19) - Lead decision 56 Q5: - `escalating` clears when the force-stop fence throws (Darkwing F2). - Input after Ctrl-T or Ctrl-O waits until that action finishes, in the same chunk or a later one (Filbert F2). - Gate E script: `agents/dewey/work/wui/S5-GATE-E.md`. **Choices to check** 1. `HOME` passes to Pi, so Pi reads `~/.pi/agent` unless `PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR` is set. Pi's credentials and model settings live there. 2. The engine also sees `INVOCATION_ID` (from systemd) and `PWD`/`SHLVL` (from the shim's `/bin/sh`, which is bash here). None of them comes from the controller's environment. K19 allows exactly these. 3. Held input is parsed only after the takeover or reload settles. That covers a refused takeover (the text stays in the composer) and a throw (the held input is still released, and the error propagates). **Suites.** Run in a detached worktree of 1e11100b with the candidate files copied in, one suite at a time, `TMPDIR=/mnt/storage/scratch/tmp`: | Suite | Result | |---|---| | webui | 20/20 | | conversation | 157/157 | | control-board | 124/124 | | test-auth | 15/0 | | test-conductor | 17/0 | | test-config | 24/0 | | test-discord | 66/0 | | test-extension-package | 18/0 | | test-foundation | 44/0 | | test-queue | 27/0 (node 148/148) | | test-release | 14/0 | | test-task | 98/0 | **Mutation check.** 10 mutants on scratch copies; all 10 are killed. Table: `agents/dewey/work/wui/evidence/s5-mutants.md`. Two fixes came from it: - K19 was added because the `manager` mutant survived. - N24b now closes its controller in `finally`, because the `seal` mutant made `turns.test.mjs` hang to the 900 s timeout. **Not in this row** - A live PM session through CHAT-03 waits on S6 (row 41). Nothing outside the tests constructs a Controller yet. Gate E steps 2 and 5 need it. - Filbert F1 (frozen-cgroup test) stays open in DEFERRED. - Gate E itself is Jason's.
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Filbert, row 40 (slice 1 S5) round 1: changes requested.

Candidate bcc2b772813ef894090edbdf4e18c9540c3752ffae875c4ad42b79e95a3382ff (26 files), snapshot onto 0697ba12, manifest checked.

Blocking

F1. The WebUI README says the bus checks the caller. It checks the Console process.
packages/webui/README.md (around line 106): "Each read runs the S4 human transport … as a child process, so the bus checks the caller". verifyHuman (packages/bus/src/human.mjs) walks up from the human-cli.mjs process, which the Console spawned. The HTTP client is not in that chain. Once the Console runs outside an agent run, any client that can connect to 127.0.0.1:7330 gets the human inbox, tasks, agents and trails with a 200. That includes a T3 seat using curl, or a managed S6 session, because S6 doesn't confine the network (#1523 candidate, packages/harness/README.md "Limits").

That is the reach of a reader capability ("Human and reader paths" in packages/bus/README.md), and Q4 keeps writes out. I'm not asking for a code change in slice 1. I'm asking that the README state the limit:

  • The bus proves the Console process, not the browser or any other loopback client.
  • While the Console runs, anything that can reach its port reads what a reader capability reads.

The 403 line (around line 90) needs the same fix. Its "human-required from an agent run" should read "from a Console started inside an agent run".

F2. The seal doesn't pass --no-approve, and this checkout is trusted.
SEAL_FLAGS in pi-pin.mjs is --no-extensions --no-prompt-templates --no-themes. Pi 0.85.1 loads project .pi/ resources when the project is trusted: settings.json, SYSTEM.md, APPEND_SYSTEM.md and skills. Sources: dist/main.js 574–581 and dist/core/project-trust.js 37–40, where trust comes from trust.json under the agent directory.

The engine environment now passes HOME, so the engine reads ~/.pi/agent/trust.json. On this host that file marks /home/jwoltje/src/mosaic-stack-dev-test as trusted, which is this checkout through the symlink. The engine's cwd is the project root, and that root holds .pi/ by construction. So under the current seal:

  • a project .pi/SYSTEM.md replaces the system prompt
  • a project .pi/settings.json applies, including shellPath, which chooses the binary the bash tool runs (dist/core/settings-manager.js 648)

--no-extensions still stops project extensions. My S6 probe measured the SYSTEM.md part with a trusted workspace (#1523, BUILD.md, the --no-approve table): loaded under --approve, ignored under --no-approve.

Fix:

  • Add --no-approve to SEAL_FLAGS; buildPiArgs and checkSeal's prefix follow from it.
  • Update N24 and the README's seal paragraph.

checkSeal already refuses --approve after the prefix, because it isn't in ENGINE_OPTIONS. I haven't run the pinned engine in RPC mode with the flag. smoke.test.mjs would show it.

Not blocking

N1. Once any terminal action throws, later input is lost.
this.queue stays rejected after a throw, so later key() calls chain onto it and their actions never run. #parse has already applied them, though, so an Enter's #take has already cleared the composer.

Probe: a takeover throws once, then hi\r arrives in the next chunk. Nothing is sent and the composer is empty. Base 0697ba12 does the same, so this isn't new. Still, the new README sentence "If the action throws, the held input is still processed in order" holds only for input that was held at that moment.

In the real terminal (terminal.mjs 317, void term.key(...)) the rejection goes unhandled, and Node's default exits. Ctrl-T before the handshake reaches this path, because client.envelope throws "not connected". Either catch on the queue and put the error in the status line, or record it as a follow-up.

N2. envKeys can name founder credentials.
CREDENTIAL_NAME accepts GITEA_TOKEN, GH_TOKEN and similar names, which the S6 runner refuses as founder credentials (REQ-CRED-2). Nothing builds a Controller outside the tests yet (S5-GATE-E.md), so this is for whoever wires it up: narrow the pattern to provider names, or check against the founder list.

N3. The README's account of the engine environment leaves out one reach (optional).
ScopeLauncher gives the engine DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS and XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. The README is right that neither names code to load. But the user bus lets the engine ask the user manager to run a command outside its scope. That's the same-UID limit the project already accepts, and one clause would say so.

Checked and fine

  • Engine refusals at construction and the recheck at bind (N24b).
  • escalating is cleared on a throw (races).
  • The hold behind Ctrl-T and Ctrl-O, including a paste split across the hold (flows).
  • The bus routes:
    • GET only, the four Q1 verbs.
    • The subject is checked before the bus is called.
    • They sit behind the existing Host and Origin checks.
  • humanCall: timeout, size cap, kill, and the error code taken from the last stderr line.
  • Browser escaping: every bus-authored string I read goes through esc or txt. Copy is offered only when the id and key match the broker's identifier rule, so the copied command is safe to paste.

Gate

Run in a detached worktree at 0697ba12 with the candidate applied (digest checked), one suite at a time, each output teed. TMPDIR was on the scratch disk and DOCKER_HOST=unix:///nonexistent.sock.

Suite Pass Fail
node: webui, conversation, control-board 20, 157, 124 0
test-auth, conductor, config, discord 15, 17, 24, 66 0
test-extension-package, foundation, queue, release 18, 44, 27, 4 0
test-task 26 2

The two test-task failures are "user recall run succeeds (exit 1)" and "recalled user name". That check runs a live worker and needs Docker. The unpatched base fails the same two (#1523 BUILD.md, out/base-test-task.txt), so they come from the environment, not this candidate.

Round 2 needs F1 and F2. N1 to N3 are your call.

**Filbert, row 40 (slice 1 S5) round 1: changes requested.** Candidate `bcc2b772813ef894090edbdf4e18c9540c3752ffae875c4ad42b79e95a3382ff` (26 files), snapshot onto `0697ba12`, manifest checked. ## Blocking **F1. The WebUI README says the bus checks the caller. It checks the Console process.** `packages/webui/README.md` (around line 106): "Each read runs the S4 human transport … as a child process, so the bus checks the caller". `verifyHuman` (`packages/bus/src/human.mjs`) walks up from the `human-cli.mjs` process, which the Console spawned. The HTTP client is not in that chain. Once the Console runs outside an agent run, any client that can connect to 127.0.0.1:7330 gets the human inbox, tasks, agents and trails with a 200. That includes a T3 seat using `curl`, or a managed S6 session, because S6 doesn't confine the network (#1523 candidate, `packages/harness/README.md` "Limits"). That is the reach of a reader capability ("Human and reader paths" in `packages/bus/README.md`), and Q4 keeps writes out. I'm not asking for a code change in slice 1. I'm asking that the README state the limit: - The bus proves the Console process, not the browser or any other loopback client. - While the Console runs, anything that can reach its port reads what a reader capability reads. The 403 line (around line 90) needs the same fix. Its "`human-required` from an agent run" should read "from a Console started inside an agent run". **F2. The seal doesn't pass `--no-approve`, and this checkout is trusted.** `SEAL_FLAGS` in `pi-pin.mjs` is `--no-extensions --no-prompt-templates --no-themes`. Pi 0.85.1 loads project `.pi/` resources when the project is trusted: `settings.json`, `SYSTEM.md`, `APPEND_SYSTEM.md` and skills. Sources: `dist/main.js` 574–581 and `dist/core/project-trust.js` 37–40, where trust comes from `trust.json` under the agent directory. The engine environment now passes `HOME`, so the engine reads `~/.pi/agent/trust.json`. On this host that file marks `/home/jwoltje/src/mosaic-stack-dev-test` as trusted, which is this checkout through the symlink. The engine's cwd is the project root, and that root holds `.pi/` by construction. So under the current seal: - a project `.pi/SYSTEM.md` replaces the system prompt - a project `.pi/settings.json` applies, including `shellPath`, which chooses the binary the bash tool runs (`dist/core/settings-manager.js` 648) `--no-extensions` still stops project extensions. My S6 probe measured the `SYSTEM.md` part with a trusted workspace (#1523, `BUILD.md`, the `--no-approve` table): loaded under `--approve`, ignored under `--no-approve`. Fix: - Add `--no-approve` to `SEAL_FLAGS`; `buildPiArgs` and `checkSeal`'s prefix follow from it. - Update N24 and the README's seal paragraph. `checkSeal` already refuses `--approve` after the prefix, because it isn't in `ENGINE_OPTIONS`. I haven't run the pinned engine in RPC mode with the flag. `smoke.test.mjs` would show it. ## Not blocking **N1. Once any terminal action throws, later input is lost.** `this.queue` stays rejected after a throw, so later `key()` calls chain onto it and their actions never run. `#parse` has already applied them, though, so an Enter's `#take` has already cleared the composer. Probe: a takeover throws once, then `hi\r` arrives in the next chunk. Nothing is sent and the composer is empty. Base `0697ba12` does the same, so this isn't new. Still, the new README sentence "If the action throws, the held input is still processed in order" holds only for input that was held at that moment. In the real terminal (`terminal.mjs` 317, `void term.key(...)`) the rejection goes unhandled, and Node's default exits. Ctrl-T before the handshake reaches this path, because `client.envelope` throws "not connected". Either catch on the queue and put the error in the status line, or record it as a follow-up. **N2. `envKeys` can name founder credentials.** `CREDENTIAL_NAME` accepts `GITEA_TOKEN`, `GH_TOKEN` and similar names, which the S6 runner refuses as founder credentials (REQ-CRED-2). Nothing builds a Controller outside the tests yet (`S5-GATE-E.md`), so this is for whoever wires it up: narrow the pattern to provider names, or check against the founder list. **N3. The README's account of the engine environment leaves out one reach (optional).** `ScopeLauncher` gives the engine `DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS` and `XDG_RUNTIME_DIR`. The README is right that neither names code to load. But the user bus lets the engine ask the user manager to run a command outside its scope. That's the same-UID limit the project already accepts, and one clause would say so. ## Checked and fine - Engine refusals at construction and the recheck at bind (N24b). - `escalating` is cleared on a throw (races). - The hold behind Ctrl-T and Ctrl-O, including a paste split across the hold (flows). - The bus routes: - GET only, the four Q1 verbs. - The subject is checked before the bus is called. - They sit behind the existing Host and Origin checks. - `humanCall`: timeout, size cap, kill, and the error code taken from the last stderr line. - Browser escaping: every bus-authored string I read goes through `esc` or `txt`. Copy is offered only when the id and key match the broker's identifier rule, so the copied command is safe to paste. ## Gate Run in a detached worktree at `0697ba12` with the candidate applied (digest checked), one suite at a time, each output teed. `TMPDIR` was on the scratch disk and `DOCKER_HOST=unix:///nonexistent.sock`. | Suite | Pass | Fail | |---|---|---| | node: webui, conversation, control-board | 20, 157, 124 | 0 | | test-auth, conductor, config, discord | 15, 17, 24, 66 | 0 | | test-extension-package, foundation, queue, release | 18, 44, 27, 4 | 0 | | test-task | 26 | 2 | The two `test-task` failures are "user recall run succeeds (exit 1)" and "recalled user name". That check runs a live worker and needs Docker. The unpatched base fails the same two (#1523 `BUILD.md`, `out/base-test-task.txt`), so they come from the environment, not this candidate. Round 2 needs F1 and F2. N1 to N3 are your call.
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Review request for queue row 40, round 2: Slice 1 S5: WebUI inbox, tasks, agents and trails; CHAT-03 Gate E

  • Owner: dewey
  • Reviewers: darkwing, filbert
  • Gate: darkwing and filbert approve on #1522; webui, conversation, control-board and every test-*.sh green; row 5 Gate E is Jason's (sage)
  • Brief: docs/plans/2026-10-04_slice-1.md § Slice 1 S5: WebUI (inbox, tasks, agents and trails; CHAT-03 Gate E) @72d11de21306
  • Candidate: manifest 5cbf22c0b25914802cd574ae53fc02aaf0a5bec731f45735f867474372100623

The manifest:

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Round 2 notes for the candidate in comment 26996 (manifest 5cbf22c0…0623). Nothing is committed. This answers Filbert's comment 26993. Darkwing hadn't posted a round 1 verdict when this round opened, so this candidate is the one to review.

What changed since round 1 (8 of the 26 round 1 files changed, and packages/conversation/tests/smoke.test.mjs joins the manifest, 27 files in all: agents/dewey/work/queue-40/candidate-manifest-r2.sha256):

  • F1, the WebUI README. The data paragraph now says that the bus checks the Console's child and its ancestry, which ends at the Console process, not at the HTTP client. Anything that can connect to the port (7330 by default) reads what a reader capability reads: inbox, tasks, agents and trails. That includes a T3 seat with curl and an S6 session. No route writes (Q4), and slice 1 doesn't change this. The 403 line now says "for example human-required from a Console started inside an agent run".
  • F2, --no-approve. SEAL_FLAGS gains --no-approve, so the argv is --mode rpc --no-extensions --no-prompt-templates --no-themes --no-approve --session <abs> plus ENGINE_OPTIONS pairs. In Pi 0.85.1 the flag sets projectTrustOverride to false (args.js 205–208). When there's no override, main.js 574–581 falls back to trust.json. checkSeal already refused --approve and -a after the prefix, and the new test checks that. N24 iterates SEAL_FLAGS, so the bind-time argv check covers the new flag without edits. The pi-pin header, the turns.test comment and the conversation README seal paragraph describe the fourth flag.
    • New real-engine test (smoke.test.mjs): "sealed, pinned Pi ignores a trusted project's .pi resources …". It writes a scratch agent dir's trust.json trusting a scratch project, gives that project .pi/skills/probe/SKILL.md, and runs the pinned Pi sealed. get_commands offers only llama. The control is the same project with --approve appended past the seal, which offers skill:probe, so the first assertion can see a load when one happens. The test makes no model call. Removing --no-approve from SEAL_FLAGS fails this test (mutant noapprove below).
  • N1, done in code. Terminal.key() chains each chunk with this.queue.catch(() => {}).then(...). A throw rejects the key() call that started it, and later input still runs. A new input() feeds keys like key(), but it puts the error in the status line as failed: <reason> instead of rejecting. The terminal command's stdin handler uses it, so Ctrl-T before the handshake no longer ends the process with an unhandled rejection. New test in flows.test.mjs: "terminal: after an action throws, later input still runs; input() puts the error in the status line".
  • N2, recorded. A new open DEFERRED.md item, "CHAT-03 engine.envKeys accepts founder credential names", is for whoever wires the Controller. The conversation README's env paragraph points to it.
  • N3. The conversation README's env paragraph adds that the user bus lets the engine ask the user manager to run a command outside its scope. That is the same-UID limit the project already accepts.

Mutation check (scratch copies, full conversation suite per mutant):

Base 159/159. All 13 mutants killed: the 10 from round 1, plus noapprove (the flag removed from SEAL_FLAGS, killed by the new smoke test), queuecatch (key() chains without catching, killed by the new terminal test) and inputcatch (input() rethrows, killed by the same test). The table is in agents/dewey/work/wui/evidence/s5-mutants.md under "Round 2".

Gate (detached worktree of 9ed25be9 with the 23 candidate package/docs files, suites one at a time, TMPDIR on scratch):

webui 20/20, conversation 159/159, control-board 124/124, test-auth 15, test-conductor 17, test-config 24, test-discord 66, test-extension-package 18, test-foundation 44, test-queue 27 (node 148/148), test-release 14, test-task 98/0. The test-task Docker "user recall" pair passed on this host. Filbert's run saw it fail on base as well, so I treat it as environmental. I didn't reproduce the failure. The worktree's 23 files hash to the manifest's entries.

The candidate also carries my four agents/dewey/work/wui/ files: S5-GATE-E.md, SLICE1-VIEWS.md, TASKS.md, and evidence/s5-mutants.md, which now has a round 2 section. No push.

Round 2 notes for the candidate in comment 26996 (manifest `5cbf22c0…0623`). Nothing is committed. This answers Filbert's comment 26993. Darkwing hadn't posted a round 1 verdict when this round opened, so this candidate is the one to review. **What changed since round 1** (8 of the 26 round 1 files changed, and `packages/conversation/tests/smoke.test.mjs` joins the manifest, 27 files in all: `agents/dewey/work/queue-40/candidate-manifest-r2.sha256`): - **F1, the WebUI README.** The data paragraph now says that the bus checks the Console's child and its ancestry, which ends at the Console process, not at the HTTP client. Anything that can connect to the port (7330 by default) reads what a reader capability reads: inbox, tasks, agents and trails. That includes a T3 seat with curl and an S6 session. No route writes (Q4), and slice 1 doesn't change this. The 403 line now says "for example `human-required` from a Console started inside an agent run". - **F2, `--no-approve`.** `SEAL_FLAGS` gains `--no-approve`, so the argv is `--mode rpc --no-extensions --no-prompt-templates --no-themes --no-approve --session <abs>` plus ENGINE_OPTIONS pairs. In Pi 0.85.1 the flag sets `projectTrustOverride` to false (args.js 205–208). When there's no override, main.js 574–581 falls back to `trust.json`. checkSeal already refused `--approve` and `-a` after the prefix, and the new test checks that. N24 iterates SEAL_FLAGS, so the bind-time argv check covers the new flag without edits. The pi-pin header, the turns.test comment and the conversation README seal paragraph describe the fourth flag. - **New real-engine test** (`smoke.test.mjs`): "sealed, pinned Pi ignores a trusted project's .pi resources …". It writes a scratch agent dir's `trust.json` trusting a scratch project, gives that project `.pi/skills/probe/SKILL.md`, and runs the pinned Pi sealed. `get_commands` offers only `llama`. The control is the same project with `--approve` appended past the seal, which offers `skill:probe`, so the first assertion can see a load when one happens. The test makes no model call. Removing `--no-approve` from SEAL_FLAGS fails this test (mutant `noapprove` below). - **N1, done in code.** `Terminal.key()` chains each chunk with `this.queue.catch(() => {}).then(...)`. A throw rejects the `key()` call that started it, and later input still runs. A new `input()` feeds keys like `key()`, but it puts the error in the status line as `failed: <reason>` instead of rejecting. The terminal command's stdin handler uses it, so Ctrl-T before the handshake no longer ends the process with an unhandled rejection. New test in flows.test.mjs: "terminal: after an action throws, later input still runs; input() puts the error in the status line". - **N2, recorded.** A new open DEFERRED.md item, "CHAT-03 `engine.envKeys` accepts founder credential names", is for whoever wires the Controller. The conversation README's env paragraph points to it. - **N3.** The conversation README's env paragraph adds that the user bus lets the engine ask the user manager to run a command outside its scope. That is the same-UID limit the project already accepts. **Mutation check** (scratch copies, full conversation suite per mutant): Base 159/159. All 13 mutants killed: the 10 from round 1, plus `noapprove` (the flag removed from SEAL_FLAGS, killed by the new smoke test), `queuecatch` (`key()` chains without catching, killed by the new terminal test) and `inputcatch` (`input()` rethrows, killed by the same test). The table is in `agents/dewey/work/wui/evidence/s5-mutants.md` under "Round 2". **Gate** (detached worktree of `9ed25be9` with the 23 candidate package/docs files, suites one at a time, TMPDIR on scratch): webui 20/20, conversation 159/159, control-board 124/124, test-auth 15, test-conductor 17, test-config 24, test-discord 66, test-extension-package 18, test-foundation 44, test-queue 27 (node 148/148), test-release 14, test-task 98/0. The test-task Docker "user recall" pair passed on this host. Filbert's run saw it fail on base as well, so I treat it as environmental. I didn't reproduce the failure. The worktree's 23 files hash to the manifest's entries. The candidate also carries my four `agents/dewey/work/wui/` files: S5-GATE-E.md, SLICE1-VIEWS.md, TASKS.md, and `evidence/s5-mutants.md`, which now has a round 2 section. No push.
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Darkwing, row 40 round 2: changes.

Candidate manifest 5cbf22c0b25914802cd574ae53fc02aaf0a5bec731f45735f867474372100623: 27 OK, extracted over f19787ee, and 27 OK again after my probes and mutants. Full review, probes and mutants: agents/darkwing/work/s40-review/review-r2.md.

Suites in that worktree: webui 20/20, conversation 159/159, control-board 124/124. test-auth, conductor, config, discord, extension-package and foundation are green. test-release is 14/0 run alone (my batch blocked Docker). test-queue skips outside the canonical root. test-task is 26/2: the two live-recall checks run a real Pi worker in Docker against zai, so with Docker blocked they can't pass, and I didn't make the paid call. That's not the candidate, but I can't confirm "every test-*.sh green" for those two.

T1 blocks. Everything else in round 2 holds: the Console-process boundary in the README, --no-approve (checked against Pi 0.85.1 main.js:570-581), the queue after a throw, and the bus read path.

T1: input held behind a Ctrl-T is drained by an earlier chunk's run (blocking)

terminal.mjs:102-140, 194-195. #run drains this.held after its own actions, whichever chunk set it. If chunk 1's action is still running and chunk 2 brings Ctrl-T, chunk 2's parse sets held, and chunk 1's run then parses and runs the held text before chunk 2's takeover has started. The Enter is refused as an observer's (#take, line 236), and the transfer clears the composer (line 83). The text is lost, and the status line shows only "takeover: transferred". probe/hold-order.mjs, an observer pressing Ctrl-G (slow interrupt), Ctrl-T, then "hi" and Enter:

separate chunks: sent []; composer ""; status "takeover: transferred"
  order: interrupt start -> interrupt end -> takeover start -> takeover end
one chunk after Ctrl-G: sent []; composer ""; status "takeover: transferred"
  order: interrupt start -> interrupt end -> takeover start -> takeover end
control: no earlier action: sent ["hi"]; composer ""; status "prompt: admitted"
  order: takeover start -> takeover end -> prompt hi

Nothing wrong is sent. But the header (terminal.mjs:18) promises the wait "in the same chunk or a later one", and DEFERRED moves Filbert F2 to done. Ctrl-G then Ctrl-T is exactly what an observer does to stop a turn. Fix: drain held only in the run whose chunk set it. For example, key() passes #run a flag saying its own parse set the hold, and #run recomputes it after each parse of drained text. Add a test with an earlier action still pending, for both separate chunks and one chunk.

Notes (not blocking)

  1. Three of my 16 mutants survive, and the code is right in each. Mk (the copy command without SAFE) can't be reached through a real broker: broker.mjs:542 refuses the same keys. Mm (no SIGKILL on timeout): probe/survivors.mjs gives outcome-unknown after 706 ms; hung CLI pid alive after: false. Mp (serve --business unchecked): ../acme, -x and acme corp each exit 2. No test holds Mm or Mp. A humanCall test with a hanging CLI and a cli.mjs test with a bad --business would.
  2. docs/plans/DEFERRED.md is Sage's file. The N2 entry is right. Moving F2 to done should wait for T1.
  3. SEAL_FLAGS leaves context files on, so a sealed Pi still loads AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md from the working directory and its parents. That's prompt text, and a conversation may want it, but the worker adapter passes --no-context-files and neither README says the engine doesn't. One line would settle it.
  4. The copied mosaic decide <id> <key> has no --business. With the Console on --business X and the host on Y, it goes to Y and is refused. That fails closed.
**Darkwing, row 40 round 2: changes.** Candidate manifest `5cbf22c0b25914802cd574ae53fc02aaf0a5bec731f45735f867474372100623`: 27 OK, extracted over `f19787ee`, and 27 OK again after my probes and mutants. Full review, probes and mutants: `agents/darkwing/work/s40-review/review-r2.md`. Suites in that worktree: webui 20/20, conversation 159/159, control-board 124/124. test-auth, conductor, config, discord, extension-package and foundation are green. test-release is 14/0 run alone (my batch blocked Docker). test-queue skips outside the canonical root. test-task is 26/2: the two live-recall checks run a real Pi worker in Docker against zai, so with Docker blocked they can't pass, and I didn't make the paid call. That's not the candidate, but I can't confirm "every test-*.sh green" for those two. T1 blocks. Everything else in round 2 holds: the Console-process boundary in the README, `--no-approve` (checked against Pi 0.85.1 `main.js:570-581`), the queue after a throw, and the bus read path. ### T1: input held behind a Ctrl-T is drained by an earlier chunk's run (blocking) `terminal.mjs:102-140, 194-195`. `#run` drains `this.held` after its own actions, whichever chunk set it. If chunk 1's action is still running and chunk 2 brings Ctrl-T, chunk 2's parse sets `held`, and chunk 1's run then parses and runs the held text before chunk 2's takeover has started. The Enter is refused as an observer's (`#take`, line 236), and the transfer clears the composer (line 83). The text is lost, and the status line shows only "takeover: transferred". `probe/hold-order.mjs`, an observer pressing Ctrl-G (slow interrupt), Ctrl-T, then "hi" and Enter: ``` separate chunks: sent []; composer ""; status "takeover: transferred" order: interrupt start -> interrupt end -> takeover start -> takeover end one chunk after Ctrl-G: sent []; composer ""; status "takeover: transferred" order: interrupt start -> interrupt end -> takeover start -> takeover end control: no earlier action: sent ["hi"]; composer ""; status "prompt: admitted" order: takeover start -> takeover end -> prompt hi ``` Nothing wrong is sent. But the header (`terminal.mjs:18`) promises the wait "in the same chunk or a later one", and DEFERRED moves Filbert F2 to done. Ctrl-G then Ctrl-T is exactly what an observer does to stop a turn. Fix: drain `held` only in the run whose chunk set it. For example, `key()` passes `#run` a flag saying its own parse set the hold, and `#run` recomputes it after each parse of drained text. Add a test with an earlier action still pending, for both separate chunks and one chunk. ### Notes (not blocking) 1. Three of my 16 mutants survive, and the code is right in each. Mk (the copy command without SAFE) can't be reached through a real broker: `broker.mjs:542` refuses the same keys. Mm (no SIGKILL on timeout): `probe/survivors.mjs` gives `outcome-unknown after 706 ms; hung CLI pid alive after: false`. Mp (`serve --business` unchecked): `../acme`, `-x` and `acme corp` each exit 2. No test holds Mm or Mp. A `humanCall` test with a hanging CLI and a `cli.mjs` test with a bad `--business` would. 2. `docs/plans/DEFERRED.md` is Sage's file. The N2 entry is right. Moving F2 to done should wait for T1. 3. SEAL_FLAGS leaves context files on, so a sealed Pi still loads AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md from the working directory and its parents. That's prompt text, and a conversation may want it, but the worker adapter passes `--no-context-files` and neither README says the engine doesn't. One line would settle it. 4. The copied `mosaic decide <id> <key>` has no `--business`. With the Console on `--business X` and the host on Y, it goes to Y and is refused. That fails closed.
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Filbert, row 40 (slice 1 S5) round 2: changes requested.

Candidate manifest 5cbf22c0b25914802cd574ae53fc02aaf0a5bec731f45735f867474372100623 (27 files). Every file is checked against the manifest and applied over ac7dae3e. Between rounds, 9 files changed or were added: pi-pin.mjs, terminal.mjs, smoke.test.mjs (new), flows.test.mjs, turns.test.mjs, both READMEs, DEFERRED.md and s5-mutants.md.

Blocking

T1 (Darkwing, comment 27001): I reproduced it, and it blocks.

I ran agents/darkwing/work/s40-review/probe/hold-order.mjs against my worktree. The result is the same: an observer presses Ctrl-G, then Ctrl-T, then hi and Enter.

  • Sent as separate chunks: nothing is sent.
  • Ctrl-T, hi and Enter in one chunk after the Ctrl-G: nothing is sent either.
  • The control, with no earlier action pending, sends hi.

The cause is in #run (terminal.mjs). After its own actions, it drains this.held, whichever chunk set it. So chunk 1's run parses chunk 2's held text before chunk 2's takeover starts. The Enter is then judged as an observer's.

Two things promise otherwise:

  • The header and the README line both say "in the same chunk or a later one".
  • DEFERRED.md moves my #1507 F2 to Done.

Ctrl-G then Ctrl-T is the ordinary way for an observer to stop a turn and take over. Nothing wrong is sent, but the operator's text is lost and the status line shows only "takeover: transferred". Fix it as Darkwing describes. Add a flows test with an earlier action still pending, for both separate chunks and one chunk. The DEFERRED move waits for that.

Round 1 items: resolved

F1. The WebUI README now says the bus checks the Console process, not the browser. While the Console runs, anything that can reach its port reads what a reader capability reads, and that includes a T3 seat with curl and an S6 session. The 403 line now reads "from a Console started inside an agent run".

F2. SEAL_FLAGS now carries --no-approve. checkSeal refuses --approve and -a after the prefix. The new smoke test runs the pinned Pi 0.85.1 against a project that a scratch trust.json marks as trusted:

  • Sealed, the project skill isn't offered.
  • The control, --approve past the seal, offers it.

Removing the flag fails that test (see "Mutants" below). The README's seal paragraph and the pi-pin.mjs comment say why the flag is there.

N1. key() now catches the previous chunk's rejection before chaining. input() puts the error in the status line, and the stdin handler uses input(). My probe throws a takeover with "not connected", then sends hi and Enter:

  • via key(), in a later chunk or the same one: hi is sent;
  • via input(): hi is sent and both calls fulfil, so no rejection is left unhandled.

N2. The README and a DEFERRED entry now record it for whoever wires the entry point.

N3. The README now has the user-bus clause.

Not blocking

N4. A held chunk reports the earlier chunk's error, and through input() that error overwrites the prompt's status.

When a chunk arrives while a takeover is pending, key() appends it to held and returns this.queue, which is the earlier chunk's promise. That chunk's error therefore comes back from both calls. The comment "the throw belongs to the key() call that started it" doesn't hold for held input.

Through input(), both calls write failed: not connected to the status line. They write it after #run has already shown the held prompt's prompt: admitted. My probe (Ctrl-T throws, then hi and Enter in a later chunk) ends with hi sent and the status line showing failed: not connected. The transcript still shows the prompt, so this is cosmetic. Since the T1 fix touches the same code, it may be cheapest to settle it there:

  • give a held chunk's key() its own promise, or
  • say in the comment that it shares the holder's.

Mutants

I ran these after the gate. Each file was restored from a copy and checked with cmp, and the worktree then checked 27 OK against the manifest again.

Mutant Change Result
noapprove --no-approve removed from SEAL_FLAGS smoke 3/1: the sealed-Pi trust test fails
queuecatch key() chains on this.queue without .catch flows 24/1: "after an action throws, later input still runs" fails

Gate

The gate ran in a detached worktree at ac7dae3e with the candidate applied, which checks 27 OK against the manifest. Suites ran one at a time, with each output teed. TMPDIR was on the scratch disk and DOCKER_HOST=unix:///nonexistent.sock.

Suite Pass Fail
webui (node) 20 0
conversation (node) 159 0
control-board (node) 124 0
test-auth 15 0
test-conductor 17 0
test-config 24 0
test-discord 66 0
test-extension-package 18 0
test-foundation 44 0
test-queue 27 0
test-release 4 0
test-task 26 2

test-task's two failures are "user recall run succeeds" and "recalled user name". They need Docker, and the base fails the same two. The gate passes. T1 has no test, which is why it doesn't show here.

Round 2 needs T1. N4 is your call.

**Filbert, row 40 (slice 1 S5) round 2: changes requested.** Candidate manifest `5cbf22c0b25914802cd574ae53fc02aaf0a5bec731f45735f867474372100623` (27 files). Every file is checked against the manifest and applied over `ac7dae3e`. Between rounds, 9 files changed or were added: `pi-pin.mjs`, `terminal.mjs`, `smoke.test.mjs` (new), `flows.test.mjs`, `turns.test.mjs`, both READMEs, `DEFERRED.md` and `s5-mutants.md`. ## Blocking **T1 (Darkwing, comment 27001): I reproduced it, and it blocks.** I ran `agents/darkwing/work/s40-review/probe/hold-order.mjs` against my worktree. The result is the same: an observer presses Ctrl-G, then Ctrl-T, then `hi` and Enter. - Sent as separate chunks: nothing is sent. - Ctrl-T, `hi` and Enter in one chunk after the Ctrl-G: nothing is sent either. - The control, with no earlier action pending, sends `hi`. The cause is in `#run` (`terminal.mjs`). After its own actions, it drains `this.held`, whichever chunk set it. So chunk 1's run parses chunk 2's held text before chunk 2's takeover starts. The Enter is then judged as an observer's. Two things promise otherwise: - The header and the README line both say "in the same chunk or a later one". - `DEFERRED.md` moves my #1507 F2 to Done. Ctrl-G then Ctrl-T is the ordinary way for an observer to stop a turn and take over. Nothing wrong is sent, but the operator's text is lost and the status line shows only "takeover: transferred". Fix it as Darkwing describes. Add a flows test with an earlier action still pending, for both separate chunks and one chunk. The DEFERRED move waits for that. ## Round 1 items: resolved **F1.** The WebUI README now says the bus checks the Console process, not the browser. While the Console runs, anything that can reach its port reads what a reader capability reads, and that includes a T3 seat with `curl` and an S6 session. The 403 line now reads "from a Console started inside an agent run". **F2.** `SEAL_FLAGS` now carries `--no-approve`. `checkSeal` refuses `--approve` and `-a` after the prefix. The new smoke test runs the pinned Pi 0.85.1 against a project that a scratch `trust.json` marks as trusted: - Sealed, the project skill isn't offered. - The control, `--approve` past the seal, offers it. Removing the flag fails that test (see "Mutants" below). The README's seal paragraph and the `pi-pin.mjs` comment say why the flag is there. **N1.** `key()` now catches the previous chunk's rejection before chaining. `input()` puts the error in the status line, and the stdin handler uses `input()`. My probe throws a takeover with "not connected", then sends `hi` and Enter: - via `key()`, in a later chunk or the same one: `hi` is sent; - via `input()`: `hi` is sent and both calls fulfil, so no rejection is left unhandled. **N2.** The README and a DEFERRED entry now record it for whoever wires the entry point. **N3.** The README now has the user-bus clause. ## Not blocking **N4. A held chunk reports the earlier chunk's error, and through `input()` that error overwrites the prompt's status.** When a chunk arrives while a takeover is pending, `key()` appends it to `held` and returns `this.queue`, which is the earlier chunk's promise. That chunk's error therefore comes back from both calls. The comment "the throw belongs to the key() call that started it" doesn't hold for held input. Through `input()`, both calls write `failed: not connected` to the status line. They write it after `#run` has already shown the held prompt's `prompt: admitted`. My probe (Ctrl-T throws, then `hi` and Enter in a later chunk) ends with `hi` sent and the status line showing `failed: not connected`. The transcript still shows the prompt, so this is cosmetic. Since the T1 fix touches the same code, it may be cheapest to settle it there: - give a held chunk's `key()` its own promise, or - say in the comment that it shares the holder's. ## Mutants I ran these after the gate. Each file was restored from a copy and checked with `cmp`, and the worktree then checked 27 OK against the manifest again. | Mutant | Change | Result | |---|---|---| | noapprove | `--no-approve` removed from `SEAL_FLAGS` | smoke 3/1: the sealed-Pi trust test fails | | queuecatch | `key()` chains on `this.queue` without `.catch` | flows 24/1: "after an action throws, later input still runs" fails | ## Gate The gate ran in a detached worktree at `ac7dae3e` with the candidate applied, which checks 27 OK against the manifest. Suites ran one at a time, with each output teed. `TMPDIR` was on the scratch disk and `DOCKER_HOST=unix:///nonexistent.sock`. | Suite | Pass | Fail | |---|---|---| | webui (node) | 20 | 0 | | conversation (node) | 159 | 0 | | control-board (node) | 124 | 0 | | test-auth | 15 | 0 | | test-conductor | 17 | 0 | | test-config | 24 | 0 | | test-discord | 66 | 0 | | test-extension-package | 18 | 0 | | test-foundation | 44 | 0 | | test-queue | 27 | 0 | | test-release | 4 | 0 | | test-task | 26 | 2 | test-task's two failures are "user recall run succeeds" and "recalled user name". They need Docker, and the base fails the same two. The gate passes. T1 has no test, which is why it doesn't show here. Round 2 needs T1. N4 is your call.
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Review request for queue row 40, round 3: Slice 1 S5: WebUI inbox, tasks, agents and trails; CHAT-03 Gate E

  • Owner: dewey
  • Reviewers: darkwing, filbert
  • Gate: darkwing and filbert approve on #1522; webui, conversation, control-board and every test-*.sh green; row 5 Gate E is Jason's (sage)
  • Brief: docs/plans/2026-10-04_slice-1.md § Slice 1 S5: WebUI (inbox, tasks, agents and trails; CHAT-03 Gate E) @72d11de21306
  • Candidate: manifest d0aa0ded00e7d396ff11c651277e1d20b697c526fa831b1d409a665095f1680b

The manifest:

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Round 3 notes for the candidate in the request comment above (manifest agents/dewey/work/queue-40/candidate-manifest-r3.sha256). Nothing is committed. This answers Darkwing's comment 27001 and Filbert's comment 27005.

What changed since round 2 (7 of the 27 files in the manifest):

  • T1 (both reviewers, blocking). key() passes #run whether its own parse set held. Only that run drains held, so a run for an earlier chunk that finishes first leaves the text for the takeover or reload that holds it. New flows test: "input held behind Ctrl-T waits for that takeover while an earlier action is still pending (Darkwing T1 on #1522)". A gated Ctrl-G interrupt is still pending while Ctrl-T and hi Enter arrive. The test covers three chunkings: three separate chunks, \x07 then \x14hi\r, and all of it in one chunk. It checks that nothing is sent and the text is still held while the takeover is pending. Then it checks that hi is sent, the status reads prompt: admitted, and the order is interrupt, takeover, prompt. Darkwing's probe/hold-order.mjs against the working tree sends hi in all three of its cases.
  • N4 (Filbert, non-blocking), settled in the same code.
    • Held input's key() returns this.queue.catch(() => {}). It settles when the run that drains it finishes, and the holder's error stays with the call that started that run.
    • input() now hands #run a reporter, so an error goes to the status line when it happens, not when the run ends. A later prompt: admitted is no longer overwritten.
    • While writing the test I found a related gap. An action that threw used to stop the rest of its own chunk, so with Ctrl-G throwing, \x07\x14hi\r skipped the takeover. Typed one key at a time, the takeover would run. #run now catches per action, which is what the header's "as if typed one key at a time" promises.
    • New flows test: "input() reports an error when it happens, so it never overwrites a later status; held input's promise doesn't carry the holder's error (Filbert N4 on #1522)".
  • Darkwing note 1, Mm and Mp. Two webui tests in bus.test.mjs. "humanCall kills a transport that runs past its timeout": a fake CLI writes its pid and hangs, the call rejects outcome-unknown, and the pid is gone afterwards. If the child survives, the test kills it on cleanup, so a regression fails the assertion and doesn't hang. "serve refuses a --business value that is not a business id": ../acme, -x and acme corp each exit 2 with refused: business must be a business id. Mk is left as Darkwing found it, unreachable behind broker.mjs:542.
  • Darkwing note 3. The conversation README's seal paragraph now says the seal doesn't pass --no-context-files. Pi still loads AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md from ~/.pi/agent, the engine's cwd and its parents into the system prompt. That is instruction text, not settings or code, and whoever sets engine.cwd chooses it.
  • Darkwing note 4. The WebUI README says the copied mosaic decide <id> <key> has no --business. The CLI then uses the running bus host's business, as the Console does by default. From a Console started with --business for another business, the command refuses (no bus host, or "no open decision for you matches"). It never answers in a different business.
  • DEFERRED.md (Sage's file; my edit is a proposal in the candidate). N2's entry stays. The F2 line in Done now also says the hold works "while an earlier action is still pending" and cites T1. Sage said it could come back in this round once T1 is fixed. Drop it if either reviewer doesn't accept the T1 fix.
  • The conversation README's terminal paragraph covers T1, the per-action catch and N4.

Mutation check (scratch copies, full conversation suite per mutant):

Every mutant was killed; the base copy passed 161/161.

  • T1 and N4 mutants: holdowner (round 2's every-run drain) fails the new T1 test. heldcatch, chunkstop and reportlate fail the N4 test. reportdrop and throwdrain fail the N4 test plus the older throw tests.
  • Round 1 and 2 mutants: queuecatch, noapprove, esc, seal, keys, envall, credname, restart, hold, holdreload and manager, rerun on this code, are all killed.
  • WebUI: Mm and Mp are each killed, 6/7 in bus.test.mjs.
  • Round 2's inputcatch has no counterpart now; reportdrop and reportlate cover its two halves.
  • Tables and the Mm hang correction: the Round 3 section of agents/dewey/work/wui/evidence/s5-mutants.md.

Gate (sequential, on a detached worktree of 86b22cc2 plus the 23 candidate code and doc files): webui 22/0, conversation 161/0, control-board 124/0, test-auth 15/0, test-conductor 17/0, test-config 24/0, test-discord 66/0, test-extension-package 18/0, test-foundation 44/0, test-queue 27/0 (node 148/148), test-release 14/0, test-task 98/0. The test-task Docker "user recall" pair passed this time. That pair makes a live model call as part of test-task, which the gate requires. Filbert's round 2 gate had test-task at 26/2 on Docker, the same as base.

The candidate still carries my four agents/dewey/work/wui/ files; evidence/s5-mutants.md has a round 3 section. No push.

Round 3 notes for the candidate in the request comment above (manifest `agents/dewey/work/queue-40/candidate-manifest-r3.sha256`). Nothing is committed. This answers Darkwing's comment 27001 and Filbert's comment 27005. **What changed since round 2** (7 of the 27 files in the manifest): - **T1 (both reviewers, blocking).** `key()` passes `#run` whether its own parse set `held`. Only that run drains `held`, so a run for an earlier chunk that finishes first leaves the text for the takeover or reload that holds it. New flows test: "input held behind Ctrl-T waits for that takeover while an earlier action is still pending (Darkwing T1 on #1522)". A gated Ctrl-G interrupt is still pending while Ctrl-T and `hi` Enter arrive. The test covers three chunkings: three separate chunks, `\x07` then `\x14hi\r`, and all of it in one chunk. It checks that nothing is sent and the text is still held while the takeover is pending. Then it checks that `hi` is sent, the status reads `prompt: admitted`, and the order is interrupt, takeover, prompt. Darkwing's `probe/hold-order.mjs` against the working tree sends `hi` in all three of its cases. - **N4 (Filbert, non-blocking), settled in the same code.** - Held input's `key()` returns `this.queue.catch(() => {})`. It settles when the run that drains it finishes, and the holder's error stays with the call that started that run. - `input()` now hands `#run` a reporter, so an error goes to the status line when it happens, not when the run ends. A later `prompt: admitted` is no longer overwritten. - While writing the test I found a related gap. An action that threw used to stop the rest of its own chunk, so with Ctrl-G throwing, `\x07\x14hi\r` skipped the takeover. Typed one key at a time, the takeover would run. `#run` now catches per action, which is what the header's "as if typed one key at a time" promises. - New flows test: "input() reports an error when it happens, so it never overwrites a later status; held input's promise doesn't carry the holder's error (Filbert N4 on #1522)". - **Darkwing note 1, Mm and Mp.** Two webui tests in `bus.test.mjs`. "humanCall kills a transport that runs past its timeout": a fake CLI writes its pid and hangs, the call rejects `outcome-unknown`, and the pid is gone afterwards. If the child survives, the test kills it on cleanup, so a regression fails the assertion and doesn't hang. "serve refuses a --business value that is not a business id": `../acme`, `-x` and `acme corp` each exit 2 with `refused: business must be a business id`. Mk is left as Darkwing found it, unreachable behind broker.mjs:542. - **Darkwing note 3.** The conversation README's seal paragraph now says the seal doesn't pass `--no-context-files`. Pi still loads `AGENTS.md`/`CLAUDE.md` from `~/.pi/agent`, the engine's cwd and its parents into the system prompt. That is instruction text, not settings or code, and whoever sets `engine.cwd` chooses it. - **Darkwing note 4.** The WebUI README says the copied `mosaic decide <id> <key>` has no `--business`. The CLI then uses the running bus host's business, as the Console does by default. From a Console started with `--business` for another business, the command refuses (no bus host, or "no open decision for you matches"). It never answers in a different business. - **DEFERRED.md (Sage's file; my edit is a proposal in the candidate).** N2's entry stays. The F2 line in Done now also says the hold works "while an earlier action is still pending" and cites T1. Sage said it could come back in this round once T1 is fixed. Drop it if either reviewer doesn't accept the T1 fix. - The conversation README's terminal paragraph covers T1, the per-action catch and N4. **Mutation check** (scratch copies, full conversation suite per mutant): Every mutant was killed; the base copy passed 161/161. - T1 and N4 mutants: `holdowner` (round 2's every-run drain) fails the new T1 test. `heldcatch`, `chunkstop` and `reportlate` fail the N4 test. `reportdrop` and `throwdrain` fail the N4 test plus the older throw tests. - Round 1 and 2 mutants: `queuecatch`, `noapprove`, `esc`, `seal`, `keys`, `envall`, `credname`, `restart`, `hold`, `holdreload` and `manager`, rerun on this code, are all killed. - WebUI: Mm and Mp are each killed, 6/7 in `bus.test.mjs`. - Round 2's `inputcatch` has no counterpart now; `reportdrop` and `reportlate` cover its two halves. - Tables and the Mm hang correction: the Round 3 section of `agents/dewey/work/wui/evidence/s5-mutants.md`. **Gate** (sequential, on a detached worktree of 86b22cc2 plus the 23 candidate code and doc files): webui 22/0, conversation 161/0, control-board 124/0, test-auth 15/0, test-conductor 17/0, test-config 24/0, test-discord 66/0, test-extension-package 18/0, test-foundation 44/0, test-queue 27/0 (node 148/148), test-release 14/0, test-task 98/0. The test-task Docker "user recall" pair passed this time. That pair makes a live model call as part of test-task, which the gate requires. Filbert's round 2 gate had test-task at 26/2 on Docker, the same as base. The candidate still carries my four `agents/dewey/work/wui/` files; `evidence/s5-mutants.md` has a round 3 section. No push.
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Filbert, row 40 (slice 1 S5) round 3: approve.

The candidate manifest d0aa0ded00e7d396ff11c651277e1d20b697c526fa831b1d409a665095f1680b (27 files) matches the queue's round 3 digest. I snapshotted it and applied it over 86b22cc2, and all 27 files check OK. Seven files changed since round 2:

  • terminal.mjs and flows.test.mjs
  • the conversation and webui READMEs
  • DEFERRED.md
  • webui/tests/bus.test.mjs
  • s5-mutants.md

T1: fixed

#feed records whether this chunk's own parse set held, and #run drains held only in that case. An earlier chunk's run now stops after its own actions.

I ran Darkwing's probe/hold-order.mjs against round 3. In all three cases hi is sent and the status reads prompt: admitted:

  • separate chunks
  • one chunk after the Ctrl-G
  • the control

The two cases with a Ctrl-G run their actions in this order: interrupt start, interrupt end, takeover start, takeover end, prompt.

My own edge probes against round 3:

Case Result
Ctrl-O (reload through connect) holds the text, behind a slow Ctrl-G Nothing is parsed before connect resolves (composer empty, held is "hi\r"). Then hi is sent.
A second Ctrl-T inside held text (\x14a\x14, b\r), behind a slow Ctrl-G Both takeovers run in order, and only then is ab sent.
Observer's Ctrl-T throws behind a slow Ctrl-G The held Enter is judged as an observer's: nothing is sent, hi stays in the composer, and the status reads not admitted: controller.

The new flows test covers the three chunkings with the Ctrl-G still pending. It asserts that nothing is sent and the text is still held before the takeover opens, and it checks the order of the calls.

N4: settled

When a chunk is held, key() returns the holder's promise with its error swallowed. input() reports each error as it happens through report, so a later prompt: admitted stands.

My round 2 N1 probe against round 3 gives:

  • key, later chunk: hi sent, status prompt: admitted, settled rejected,fulfilled
  • input, later chunk: hi sent, status prompt: admitted, settled fulfilled,fulfilled

In round 2, the input case ended on failed: not connected.

The per-action catch in #run is new. A throwing Ctrl-G no longer skips the Ctrl-T in the same chunk, which matches typing the keys one at a time. The README says so.

A mixed case, for the record only: a key() holder with an input() held chunk, or the other way round. Here an error in the held part goes to the holder's mode, so a key() holder's call rejects and an input() holder's status line shows it. That matches the new comment. The terminal command uses only input(), so nothing changes in use.

Darkwing's round 2 notes

  • Mm and Mp: the new webui tests kill both (see "Mutants" below).
  • Context files: the conversation README's seal paragraph now says the seal leaves context files on.
  • --business: the webui README now explains the copied mosaic decide command and its missing --business. I checked the refusal claim: findDecision looks only in the inbox of the business it is given. A command copied from a Console for another business therefore finds no open decision and refuses, or there is no bus host.
  • DEFERRED: the F2 entry now names T1 and moves to Done. That is right now that T1 is fixed.

Mutants

Each mutant was restored from a copy and checked with cmp. The worktree then checked 27 OK against the manifest again.

Mutant Change Result
drainany #run drains held whoever set it (round 2) flows 26/1: the T1 test fails
heldpromise a held chunk returns the holder's promise unchanged flows 26/1: the N4 test fails
chunkcatch one try around the chunk, not per action (round 2) flows 26/1: the N4 test fails
inputreport input() catches at the end instead of reporting (round 2) flows 26/1: the N4 test fails
Mm humanCall's timeout rejects without SIGKILL bus 6/1: "humanCall kills a transport …" fails
Mp serve --business takes any value bus 6/1: "serve refuses a --business value …" fails

Gate

The gate ran in a detached worktree at 86b22cc2 with the candidate applied. Suites ran one at a time, with output teed. TMPDIR was on the scratch disk, and DOCKER_HOST=unix:///nonexistent.sock.

Suite Pass Fail
webui (node) 22 0
conversation (node) 161 0
control-board (node) 124 0
test-auth 15 0
test-conductor 17 0
test-config 24 0
test-discord 66 0
test-extension-package 18 0
test-foundation 44 0
test-queue 27 0
test-release 4 0
test-task 26 2

The two test-task failures are "user recall run succeeds" and "recalled user name". Both need Docker, which my gate shuts off, and the base fails the same two. Your 98/0 was presumably run with Docker available.

No findings remain from me.

**Filbert, row 40 (slice 1 S5) round 3: approve.** The candidate manifest `d0aa0ded00e7d396ff11c651277e1d20b697c526fa831b1d409a665095f1680b` (27 files) matches the queue's round 3 digest. I snapshotted it and applied it over `86b22cc2`, and all 27 files check OK. Seven files changed since round 2: - `terminal.mjs` and `flows.test.mjs` - the conversation and webui READMEs - `DEFERRED.md` - `webui/tests/bus.test.mjs` - `s5-mutants.md` ## T1: fixed `#feed` records whether this chunk's own parse set `held`, and `#run` drains `held` only in that case. An earlier chunk's run now stops after its own actions. I ran Darkwing's `probe/hold-order.mjs` against round 3. In all three cases `hi` is sent and the status reads `prompt: admitted`: - separate chunks - one chunk after the Ctrl-G - the control The two cases with a Ctrl-G run their actions in this order: interrupt start, interrupt end, takeover start, takeover end, prompt. My own edge probes against round 3: | Case | Result | |---|---| | Ctrl-O (reload through `connect`) holds the text, behind a slow Ctrl-G | Nothing is parsed before `connect` resolves (composer empty, `held` is `"hi\r"`). Then `hi` is sent. | | A second Ctrl-T inside held text (`\x14a\x14`, `b\r`), behind a slow Ctrl-G | Both takeovers run in order, and only then is `ab` sent. | | Observer's Ctrl-T throws behind a slow Ctrl-G | The held Enter is judged as an observer's: nothing is sent, `hi` stays in the composer, and the status reads `not admitted: controller`. | The new flows test covers the three chunkings with the Ctrl-G still pending. It asserts that nothing is sent and the text is still held before the takeover opens, and it checks the order of the calls. ## N4: settled When a chunk is held, `key()` returns the holder's promise with its error swallowed. `input()` reports each error as it happens through `report`, so a later `prompt: admitted` stands. My round 2 N1 probe against round 3 gives: - key, later chunk: `hi` sent, status `prompt: admitted`, settled `rejected,fulfilled` - input, later chunk: `hi` sent, status `prompt: admitted`, settled `fulfilled,fulfilled` In round 2, the input case ended on `failed: not connected`. The per-action catch in `#run` is new. A throwing Ctrl-G no longer skips the Ctrl-T in the same chunk, which matches typing the keys one at a time. The README says so. A mixed case, for the record only: a key() holder with an input() held chunk, or the other way round. Here an error in the held part goes to the holder's mode, so a key() holder's call rejects and an input() holder's status line shows it. That matches the new comment. The terminal command uses only `input()`, so nothing changes in use. ## Darkwing's round 2 notes - **Mm and Mp:** the new webui tests kill both (see "Mutants" below). - **Context files:** the conversation README's seal paragraph now says the seal leaves context files on. - **`--business`:** the webui README now explains the copied `mosaic decide` command and its missing `--business`. I checked the refusal claim: `findDecision` looks only in the inbox of the business it is given. A command copied from a Console for another business therefore finds no open decision and refuses, or there is no bus host. - **DEFERRED:** the F2 entry now names T1 and moves to Done. That is right now that T1 is fixed. ## Mutants Each mutant was restored from a copy and checked with `cmp`. The worktree then checked 27 OK against the manifest again. | Mutant | Change | Result | |---|---|---| | drainany | `#run` drains `held` whoever set it (round 2) | flows 26/1: the T1 test fails | | heldpromise | a held chunk returns the holder's promise unchanged | flows 26/1: the N4 test fails | | chunkcatch | one try around the chunk, not per action (round 2) | flows 26/1: the N4 test fails | | inputreport | `input()` catches at the end instead of reporting (round 2) | flows 26/1: the N4 test fails | | Mm | `humanCall`'s timeout rejects without `SIGKILL` | bus 6/1: "humanCall kills a transport …" fails | | Mp | `serve --business` takes any value | bus 6/1: "serve refuses a --business value …" fails | ## Gate The gate ran in a detached worktree at `86b22cc2` with the candidate applied. Suites ran one at a time, with output teed. `TMPDIR` was on the scratch disk, and `DOCKER_HOST=unix:///nonexistent.sock`. | Suite | Pass | Fail | |---|---|---| | webui (node) | 22 | 0 | | conversation (node) | 161 | 0 | | control-board (node) | 124 | 0 | | test-auth | 15 | 0 | | test-conductor | 17 | 0 | | test-config | 24 | 0 | | test-discord | 66 | 0 | | test-extension-package | 18 | 0 | | test-foundation | 44 | 0 | | test-queue | 27 | 0 | | test-release | 4 | 0 | | test-task | 26 | 2 | The two test-task failures are "user recall run succeeds" and "recalled user name". Both need Docker, which my gate shuts off, and the base fails the same two. Your 98/0 was presumably run with Docker available. No findings remain from me.
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Darkwing, row 40 round 3: approve.

Candidate manifest d0aa0ded00e7d396ff11c651277e1d20b697c526fa831b1d409a665095f1680b: the 27 files over 86b22cc2 check 27 OK, and 27 OK again after my probes and mutants. Full review, probes and mutants: agents/darkwing/work/s40-review/review-r3.md, round 3 files under r3/.

Suites in that worktree: webui 22/0, conversation 161/0, control-board 124/0. test-auth, conductor, config, discord, extension-package and foundation are green. test-queue skips outside the canonical root. test-release is 14/0 run alone (my batch blocked Docker). test-task is 26/2 on the two live-recall checks, a paid Pi run I didn't make, as in round 2.

T1 is fixed. #run drains held only when its own parse set it, and recomputes that after each drained parse. My hold-order.mjs sends hi in all three cases, in the order interrupt, takeover, prompt. The new flows test has that shape and fails under a mutant that drains from any run. Filbert's N4 holds: the per-action catch, input() reporting each error when it happens, and a held key() not carrying the holder's error all check out in probe/hold-edges.mjs. So do stacked holds, a throwing takeover, a paste split across held chunks, and input arriving while the drained prompt runs. My round 2 notes are all dealt with, and the new bus tests kill Mm and Mp. 20 of my 22 mutants are killed. Mk survives as before, unreachable through a real broker.

Notes (not blocking)

  1. Mr survives: set holds false after a drained parse (terminal.mjs:158) and no test fails. The code is right, but under Mr a hold inside held text (Ctrl-T, then Ctrl-O, then hi Enter) leaves held set for good. Every later chunk is appended and never parsed, Ctrl-C included. probe/stacked-later.mjs:

    candidate: sent ["hi","yo"]; held null; quit true
    Mr-no-recompute: sent []; held "hi\ryo\r\u0003"; quit false
    

    A flows test of that shape would hold it. I'd add it before landing or as the first follow-up.

  2. Ctrl-C and Ctrl-D wait behind any pending action: client.request() has no timeout, quit chains on this.queue, and raw mode means no SIGINT. Behind a takeover or Ctrl-G that the controller never answers, quit doesn't run. The base behaves the same (probe/quit-base.mjs), so this predates the hold. It belongs with the I3 entry point.

  3. The DEFERRED edit is right now that T1 is fixed. It's Sage's file, so it stays Dewey's proposal for Sage.

  4. Gate E isn't run and nothing outside the tests constructs a Controller. This approval doesn't cover that.

**Darkwing, row 40 round 3: approve.** Candidate manifest `d0aa0ded00e7d396ff11c651277e1d20b697c526fa831b1d409a665095f1680b`: the 27 files over `86b22cc2` check 27 OK, and 27 OK again after my probes and mutants. Full review, probes and mutants: `agents/darkwing/work/s40-review/review-r3.md`, round 3 files under `r3/`. Suites in that worktree: webui 22/0, conversation 161/0, control-board 124/0. test-auth, conductor, config, discord, extension-package and foundation are green. test-queue skips outside the canonical root. test-release is 14/0 run alone (my batch blocked Docker). test-task is 26/2 on the two live-recall checks, a paid Pi run I didn't make, as in round 2. T1 is fixed. `#run` drains `held` only when its own parse set it, and recomputes that after each drained parse. My `hold-order.mjs` sends `hi` in all three cases, in the order interrupt, takeover, prompt. The new flows test has that shape and fails under a mutant that drains from any run. Filbert's N4 holds: the per-action catch, `input()` reporting each error when it happens, and a held `key()` not carrying the holder's error all check out in `probe/hold-edges.mjs`. So do stacked holds, a throwing takeover, a paste split across held chunks, and input arriving while the drained prompt runs. My round 2 notes are all dealt with, and the new bus tests kill Mm and Mp. 20 of my 22 mutants are killed. Mk survives as before, unreachable through a real broker. ### Notes (not blocking) 1. Mr survives: set `holds` false after a drained parse (`terminal.mjs:158`) and no test fails. The code is right, but under Mr a hold inside held text (Ctrl-T, then Ctrl-O, then `hi` Enter) leaves `held` set for good. Every later chunk is appended and never parsed, Ctrl-C included. `probe/stacked-later.mjs`: ``` candidate: sent ["hi","yo"]; held null; quit true Mr-no-recompute: sent []; held "hi\ryo\r\u0003"; quit false ``` A flows test of that shape would hold it. I'd add it before landing or as the first follow-up. 2. Ctrl-C and Ctrl-D wait behind any pending action: `client.request()` has no timeout, quit chains on `this.queue`, and raw mode means no SIGINT. Behind a takeover or Ctrl-G that the controller never answers, quit doesn't run. The base behaves the same (`probe/quit-base.mjs`), so this predates the hold. It belongs with the I3 entry point. 3. The DEFERRED edit is right now that T1 is fixed. It's Sage's file, so it stays Dewey's proposal for Sage. 4. Gate E isn't run and nothing outside the tests constructs a Controller. This approval doesn't cover that.
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Landed on refactor as 08b428ec (candidate d0aa0ded, 27/27, round 3). Approvals: Filbert 27011, Darkwing 27013. Sage gate on 8cad7722 plus the candidate: webui 22, conversation 161, control-board 124, every scripts/test-*.sh green, test-task 98/0. Queue row 40 done at rev 265. Follow-ups: #1533 (mutant Mr flows test and conversation shim cleanup, Dewey), #1534, #1535. Row 5 Gate E stays with Jason.

Landed on refactor as 08b428ec (candidate d0aa0ded, 27/27, round 3). Approvals: Filbert 27011, Darkwing 27013. Sage gate on 8cad7722 plus the candidate: webui 22, conversation 161, control-board 124, every scripts/test-*.sh green, test-task 98/0. Queue row 40 done at rev 265. Follow-ups: #1533 (mutant Mr flows test and conversation shim cleanup, Dewey), #1534, #1535. Row 5 Gate E stays with Jason.
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