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mos-dt-0andClaude Opus 5 4520d2f672 docs(remediation): promote two first-class principles to the charter; dispatch RM-02 round 3
Mos ruled both open questions and promoted the pattern to the charter.

PRINCIPLE 1 — the anchor must live outside the audited party's authority. You cannot fix "the author
controls X" by deriving X from something the author also controls; deriving only MOVES the control
point. Third independent arrival of one conclusion, each reached while shipping something else and each
from a different direction: the manifest certifying its own tree (D-19), the sandbox evaluating code
that enters before the boundary exists (D-25), and now the registry seam derived from a path the author
also places (D-45). Three impossibility-derivations of the same conclusion is the strongest
architectural evidence this mission has produced, and it is what forces Builds 1-2 rather than making
them a preference.

PRINCIPLE 2 — no universally-quantified check may pass over an empty set. "All registered cases ran" is
vacuously true when there are none. Non-emptiness and anchoring are preconditions asserted before the
quantified check runs, not properties hoped for after. The identical vacuity appeared twice at two
levels — seam=HEAD emptied the commit range, an emptied manifest emptied the registry population — and
the first was fixed as an instance, so it returned one level up. Corollary, same disease: a clause
written for the instance that produced it is not a clause.

Q1 ruled: the merge-base anchor IS in scope for f10-coder in this PR. It is git-computable against
main, which the author does not control, so reordering or splitting within the branch cannot move it —
an existing non-author-controlled reference, no new infrastructure. RM-60's execution boundary is a
sibling under the same principle but a different mechanism (where gate-verify runs, not what the anchor
is) and stays with Mos and Jason. Honesty required in both directions: the merge-base anchors to main,
whose integrity rests on the merge discipline this registry enforces — a bootstrap, sound against an
author who cannot rewrite main and NOT sound against an attacker who can, with that residual bound to
the Builds 1-2 dependency rather than implied.

Q2 ruled: state the empty-set principle as a general clause now, and generalize the D-38/D-40 criteria
the same way — quantify over the population instead of relabeling the originating instances.

Round 3 dispatched to f10-coder: merge-base anchor plus delayed-introduction must-fail; empty-set
precondition as a general clause with an emptied-registry must-fail; generalized clauses bound across
the gate inventory; each red-first. Number.isInteger accepting zero/negative/unsafe pipeline numbers
banked as a non-blocking follow-up.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
2026-08-01 12:08:21 -05:00

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### **D-1 / P-ACTIVATION + hygiene — committed `.npmrc` hard-pins `store-dir=/root/.local/share/pnpm/store`.**
Correct for the CI container (runs as root), fatal for EVERY non-root local checkout: `EACCES` on `/root/.local/share/pnpm/store/v10/server/server.json`. A committed config that only works on one runtime is exactly the activation-skew class. Fix candidate: make store-dir env-overridable, not hardcoded.
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### **D-3 / P-FLEET-001 — the seats running this mission are UNMANAGED.** `mos-remediation`, `rev-974`,
`planner-opus`, `planner-sol` appear in NO roster (`~/.config/mosaic/fleet/roster.yaml`, `agents/`). Planners run on socket `default`; the roster declares `mosaic-fleet`. This is the exact "one roster-owned socket/host + quarantine unmanaged + stale GC" failure P-FLEET-001 indicts — observed on the remediation mission's own fleet. Prerequisite for INBOX identity-addressing.
### **D-2 / hygiene — husky `prepare` fails `EPERM` copying into root-owned `.husky/_/`.** Repo working
tree has root-owned dirs (`.husky/`, repo root) under a non-root agent. Worked around with the intended `HUSKY=0` escape hatch (does NOT disable the existing pre-commit/pre-push hooks).
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### **D-5 / P-QUEUE-001 + P-CONFORMANCE-001 — KEYSTONE: an inert gate that erased its own evidence.**
Merged PR #868 (`b79336a8`) shipped a file that FAILS `pnpm format:check` ⇒ the CI format gate did not block. An unrelated later PR (#872) then reformatted that file via its own `lint-staged`, so `main` went green again and nobody learned the gate had failed to fire. Verified blob-level under the repo's own config. **Detection must be per-merge-commit against that commit's own tree** — a "is main green today" check reports all-clear on this exact defect. Binding on RM-02/RM-55. Full chain in `TASKS.md` §1a. NOT quiet-patched, by Mos's ruling: patching the symptom destroys the signal.
### **D-4 / P-LIFECYCLE + hygiene — a dispatched agent silently IGNORED an in-message context reset.**
planner-sol was at 64.3%/372k; the brief asked it to reset first; it began work on dirty context anyway. Only an out-of-band `/new` driven by the orchestrator guaranteed clean state. Confirms the postmortem thesis: **instructions are not enforcement.** Reset must be a mechanical pre-dispatch step, not a request.
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### **D-7 / P-FLEET-001 — stale-GC-on-disk: shared 30G /tmp hit 100% ENOSPC, degrading two seats.**
~5.2G was session scratch dead 8-9 days (this session's own footprint: 88K). Same missing capability as orphaned-tmux-session GC, applied to disk — not a quota or discipline problem. Resolved manually by Mos (lead coordinator) after independent verification; `/tmp` now 79%. **The gap IS the finding:** the authority to reap exists, the deterministic reaper does not. Folded into RM-50 with explicit requirements (mechanical liveness, age threshold, dry-run, audit event per reap — never a heuristic sweep). Refusing to unilaterally delete another session's scratch was correct doctrine; the fix is a reaper, not braver agents.
### **D-6 / P-QUEUE-001 — the mandated queue guard returned PASS on an UNKNOWN state, live, today.**
Running the required `ci-queue-wait.sh --purpose push` before pushing produced `state=unknown ... exit 0` — the exact defect at `ci-queue-wait.sh:282-288` that PR #1023 is parked on. It also evaluated `branch=main` rather than the branch being pushed. The mission's own required pre-push gate passed me on an indeterminate result. Third independent live instance of the class.
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### **D-8 / P-CONFORMANCE-001 — a PRE-REGISTERED acceptance check that was not runnable as written.**
PR #1025 AC2's fixture `mkdir -p apps/*/venv/lib` creates a literal `apps/*/venv/lib` dir when the glob is unmatched — it did not test what it claimed. rev-974 ran it exactly as written, caught it, re-ran the intended assertion at an explicit path, and **disclosed** rather than silently substituting a working fixture and reporting PASS. **Pre-registration protects a check from being retrofitted to the implementation; it does not make the check correct.** An unverified gate appeared inside the mechanism built to catch unverified gates. Hard requirement on RM-02: the registry must self-verify that every registered case runs AND can fail — presence is not evidence.
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byte budget by ROLLING OUT, never by rewording what stays) -->
### Decisions log — full record in [`TASKS.md`](./TASKS.md)
All 44 findings (D-1…D-6 in `BOARD-LEDGER.md`, D-7…D-43 + D-38c in `TASKS.md`) and every ruling with its
rationale live there. **Not duplicated here** — a second copy is a second thing to go stale, which this
board had done three times in one night (gate list, capability registry, DECISION-1 status), and three
more times by the next rotation seam (RM-61 "building", "nothing implemented yet", DECISION-1/2/3
"must be ruled"). The rulings a fresh seat needs are items 47 above; they are **not** repeated here,
because that repetition is what went stale.
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byte budget by ROLLING OUT, never by rewording what stays). Canonical: MISSION.md + TASKS.md §5 -->
### Sequencing — see [`MISSION.md`](./MISSION.md)
Builds 1-5, the cross-cutting retirements, and DECISION-1's corrected wire-in target are stated once in
the charter and `TASKS.md` §5. **Not repeated here** — the previous copy of DECISION-1's status on this
board is one of the six stale restatements below.
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(D-43: roll out, never reword). Authoritative home: TASKS.md D-11 / D-11a / D-11b. -->
- Capability is **per-path** (D-11b → **superseded in part by D-13/D-15**): a token file is **necessary,
not sufficient**. Three layers — token file (raw-API), `tea` login (tea paths), **repository permission**
(writes). Before dispatch, assert `permissions.push == true` **as that seat**, not token existence and
not a 200 on a read. Mos owns provisioning; escalate missing pairs.
- Seat identity (D-11a): token identity AND `git config user.name`/`user.email` must BOTH be set and
agree. Exporting `MOSAIC_GIT_IDENTITY` alone does NOT fix commit authorship.
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### Why the board must not restate the delivery gates (D-26)
Restating the gate from memory is how the merge-gate step went missing from mission setup twice,
once inside the correction for it (**D-26**).