Commit Graph

401 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Levi Neuwirth adf9611d10
docs: the GUI arc framing, revision 3 approved --- and its Stage 0 lane
Opens the GUI arc. The framing and the lane are this branch's FIRST
commit, which is both the arc's own rule for every PR in it and the
reason this branch exists today rather than after #227: the document
spent two review rounds as an untracked file in one worktree, and
uncommitted work does not travel between machines.

Revision 3 closed two blocking findings from the second round.

The closure comparison is falsifiable now. Revision 2 ordered its
grades but never said how a cell acquires one, and its "normalize to
the head grade" rule mis-graded exactly the rows it was written for:
journey steps 7 and 11 both read "works but undiscoverable" and would
both have graded `Works`, with the undiscoverability demoted to prose
that cannot block closure --- while discoverability IS the substance of
steps 4, 7 and 11. Grades now have observable criteria, a compound step
takes the minimum over declared subclaims, and the table carries three
columns (local TUI, attached TUI, GPU) compared against the local TUI.

Half B's dependency graph was inverted. Viewport facts are ABOUT a
window, and whether a semantic window is a daemon projection or a
frontend-local object is what the model stage decides --- so the facts
cannot be designed first. Revision 2 also had a framing-only stage
handing the sidebar geometry no stage shipped. The order is now model
framing, then the viewport/identity substrate, then splits plus
IMPLEMENTED side geometry, then the sidebar.

Q#GA4 through Q#GA12 are ruled and closed.

Four claims this revision inherited were wrong and are corrected with
their sources rather than quietly dropped: the daemon has always
emitted `InstanceSignal::Bell` (daemon.rs:1373), so Bell is
consumer-only; the GPU NEVER consumes daemon `view_top`, which the
backlog states in as many words; Q#DS9 scopes save AND restore, so
Stage 4b owns both; and the protocol ceiling is v23, not v22 --- #228
raised it after #221, and revisions 2 and 3 both read the range at the
audit anchor without re-reading it afterwards.

The three-column claim is narrowed to what it can support. The attached
TUI handshakes `semantic_render: false` and never consumes the
SemanticFrame family, so a shared GPU/attached gap cannot implicate the
semantic wire. The columns separate local from daemon-attached, and
attached-grid from semantic; source tracing still assigns ownership.

Q#GA6's citation is corrected to the one site that matters: local and
attached document events converge on the document handler, whose only
wheel arms are Up/Down at editor.rs:3189. The sites revision 3 cited
were terminal-content paths.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 21:32:14 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth a1b931fa0e
Merge main into destination-capture, and correct the U4 row it turns on
Merged rather than rebased. Eighteen commits replayed against a ledger
that three other lanes had rewritten meant eighteen conflict
resolutions in `docs/active-work.md`, each one a chance to lose a lane
entry; merging resolves it once, against the state that actually ships,
and leaves the reviewed commits' SHAs intact. Only one file conflicted.

`docs/ci-red-signatures.md` auto-merged **without a conflict** — the
same silent path that produced duplicate U4/U5 ids when #232 rebased.
Verified by hand afterwards: ids U1-U8 are disjoint. They are out of
numeric order (U6/U7 sit ahead of U4/U5) and are left that way rather
than moved, since the note at the U6 row explains the history and
relocating sixty lines inside a merge commit hides real changes.

Three leftover conflict markers were sitting in `docs/active-work.md`
on `main`, committed by an earlier lane's resolution. `git diff --check`
flags them — but only for a working-tree diff, which is why the gate's
`diff-check` step never saw them and they survived several merges.
Removed here.

The U4 row is corrected on evidence this lane produced:

- **Flavour was wrong as a matching key.** The row was filed from
  #229's `lua54` red and put the flavour in the key; #231 reddened the
  identical selector with the identical three fragments twice on
  `luajit`. Matching as filed would have missed both.
- **A fourth sighting was a deliberate bite, not an occurrence** — the
  defect reintroduced on purpose during the test's own development. It
  is recorded for what it proves instead: the genuine defect and these
  CI reds are signature-indistinguishable, same message class and same
  full-timeout duration.
- **The control experiment is written down with its own bounds** — five
  green base observations against 0/2, 4.8% under an equal-rate model,
  and the two facts that bound it: attempt 5 reddened a different
  selector, and the branch side was never resampled.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 20:05:07 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 6983496b74
docs: renumber this lane U4/U5 to U6/U7 --- and git did not warn
The pre-rebase warning was right, and the mechanism is worth recording
because it is the quiet kind.

gate-protocol-build landed its own U4 and U5 in #229. On this rebase
git merged docs/ci-red-signatures.md WITHOUT A CONFLICT --- the two
lanes appended their rows in different places, so there was nothing
textual to resolve --- and produced two ### U4 and two ### U5 headings
describing entirely different incidents. No marker, no complaint.

That is the failure the matching rule exists to prevent, arriving
through the one path a careful conflict resolution would never catch:
there was no conflict to resolve.

Renumbered across all four sites the warning enumerated: both headings,
the prose relation-to-U4 field inside what is now U7, and the
active-work.md reference. Ids verified unique afterwards rather than
assumed.

The warning block itself is retired in place, replaced by a note saying
what was done and why, so the next reader sees a completed action
rather than an outstanding one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:52:49 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 80b3dcf897
docs: the suite is 25, not 26
The previous round left the suite at 24 and this round adds one test,
so it is 25. grep -c on the test attribute confirms 25 and the run
reports 25/25. The bullet said 26, and I repeated it upstream without
counting.

The entry now shows the arithmetic --- 24 before, plus one --- rather
than just a corrected number, and names the earlier figure so a reader
who saw it does not treat this as a second suite.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:51:54 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 3570e1ad42
docs: the third gate run is green, and U5 says so
The two reds recorded a moment ago were followed by a full green run of
the same command on the same tree — all 13 steps, log
`20260809T200907Z-2672209`. Both the lane entry and U5 now carry that,
because a signature row that records only the reds overstates them: the
green rerun is part of the evidence, not a reason to delete the row.

The row stays live and stays U-classified. Three load-sensitive render
budgets going red one per run and then green is consistent with a loaded
machine and with nothing else in hand; it is not a measurement of one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:51:54 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 1a00d8130d
docs: record review round 3, and a sweep red that moves each run
The lane entry gains round 3: the wrong-surface diagnostic, why the job
and process refusals now say different things, the anti-collapse test
and its three mutation checks. Written here rather than left in the
commit message because this file is what a recovering agent reads.

`docs/ci-red-signatures.md` gains **U5**. Two consecutive `scripts/gate`
runs of the same command, on the same tree, red on step `12-sweep` with
a DIFFERENT wall-clock render-budget test each time — 224ms and 258ms
against a 200ms budget, 114ms against a 100ms budget, at load average
12.9/23.9 with sibling worktrees building. Each passes in an isolated
rerun of its own selector, and no selector reds twice.

The rotating selector is the signature, and it is a stronger one than
any single test name: a regression that moved between three unrelated
render paths on an unchanged tree is far less likely than one loaded
machine. The observing diff is two string literals, their doc comments
and one test, and touches no render path at all.

Kept separate from U4 rather than merged. U4 is two budget tests in
`04-lib-crdt` failing TOGETHER; this is three render-budget tests in
`12-sweep` failing ONE PER RUN. Merging them would assert a shared
mechanism nothing in hand shows, and the load confound stays unmeasured
in both — a rival explanation, not a finding.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:51:54 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 028016333c
docs: record review round 2, and R7's control finally discriminated
Two files, no code.

## `docs/active-work.md` — review round 2

The lane's volatile block gains the round-2 record: the three findings,
why P2a's fix is a mapped diagnostic and P2b's is escaping at
presentation rather than rejection at the registry, and the seven new
mutation checks. The gate outcome is recorded with its step counts and
the two stop-signal facts — `journey_acceptance` 47/47 and all three
`#pmacs.process.list()` leak detectors byte-identical to `main`.

It also records what P2a's audit found and did NOT fix:
`pmacs.process.spawn`'s other string fields still convert generically.
That is pre-existing and out of this lane's diff, and it is named so it
is not silently inherited by whoever reads the fixed `purpose` read and
assumes the rest matches.

## `docs/ci-red-signatures.md` — R7's third occurrence, and U4

**R7 reproduced, and the control the second-occurrence note prescribed
finally discriminated — against its own hypothesis.**

Occurrence 2 left exactly one causal path open: the observing lane had
added a GPU-heavy `render_offscreen` test to the same binary, and
contention with a one-second socket handshake was plausible. That note
prescribed the control to run if a third occurrence landed — with the
added test removed, not at the merge base. A third occurrence landed, at
the gate's `gpu` step, with all three fragments verified against the
durable log.

The control was run. **Ten full `-p pmacs-gpu` runs with the added test:
10/10 green. Ten with it `#[ignore]`d, nothing else changed: 1 failure
in 10, all three fragments present.** Removing the suspect made the
failure more frequent, so the concurrent-test path is excluded — no
contention story from that test survives that direction.

The more useful result is the rate. This is the first rerun in R7's
history to reproduce anything at all, and it puts the failure at roughly
1-in-10 under ordinary `-p pmacs-gpu` load. Three sightings were not
enough to bisect a handshake; 1-in-10 is. The row now says so, and tells
the next agent to instrument which side closes the pipe rather than
re-run for green.

The lane is still not attributed — now for a measured reason rather than
an argument from diff shape: the arm without the lane's only
`pmacs-gpu` addition is the arm that went red.

**U4** records the other two reds from that same gate run:
`criterion_1_end_of_line_typing_completes_sub_frame_per_keystroke` and
`composition_overhead_under_ten_percent`, both wall-clock budget
assertions, failing together in `04-lib-crdt` and both green in
isolation and in the next full run. Fragments captured, so unlike U1–U3
it is matchable — it is a `U` row for want of a mechanism, not for want
of evidence. The signature named is **the pair**: two budget tests
failing in one run and neither in the next is far more likely to be one
loaded machine than two simultaneous regressions, and a future run that
reds only one of them is a different incident.

Neither row claims harmlessness, and the concurrent-worktree load
confound is recorded as a rival explanation rather than as a finding,
because it was not measured.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:51:54 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 70262888b4
fix(workers): a safe display-text boundary for purpose and handler names
Review round 2, findings P2a and P2b, plus P3's stale recovery
summaries. Three defects, and the fix is deliberately different in each
place because the constraint is.

## P2a — invalid UTF-8 bypassed the `purpose` diagnostic

`required_purpose` read the field with `value.to_str()?`. Lua strings
are BYTE strings, so `purpose = string.char(255)` is a value a caller
can write, and `?` surfaced mlua's generic conversion error BEFORE this
lane's own diagnostic was ever constructed: the caller was told neither
the field nor the rule.

**This is the third time this project has hit the class** — an unowned
Lua string converted with `?` ahead of the owned message; the
destination-capture lane corrected the same shape two rounds ago. It
refused before spawning and nothing leaked, so the defect was the
message, not the outcome. The conversion failure is now mapped onto
this function's own message, and the new acceptance row asserts on
message CONTENT so retyping the read as a bare `?` breaks the test
rather than silently degrading the error.

Auditing the rest of the lane's diff for the same class turned up
exactly one more: `_push_dispatch_name` took `name: String`, so a
registered handler name that was not valid UTF-8 failed at first
dispatch with mlua's generic message. It now takes `mlua::String` and
maps that failure onto an owned diagnostic naming the argument and the
rule. Those are the only two Lua-string reads this lane added; every
other binding it adds takes `()`.

## P2b — no safe display-text boundary. Two halves, two different fixes

### Handler names are refused at the source

`pmacs.workers.register` type-checked its name and nothing more, which
was defensible while the name died inside `dispatch`. It no longer dies
there: the ambient carries it into every job the handler allocates and
composes it into `purpose`, which `*workers*` and the modeline both
render. So it now gets `purpose`'s meaningful-value standard —
non-empty, not whitespace-only — plus control characters, which have no
legitimate place in a registered identifier.

### Purposes are ESCAPED at presentation, not rejected at the registry

A purpose may legitimately contain a newline: a filesystem path can, and
`pmacs-magit`'s spawn purpose is a whole argv. **This is the shape of
the `#228` decision, and it is consistent with it** — the one-line
constraint belongs to the surface that has it, not to the registry that
does not. There, `Command.description` stays free-form and the two
single-row consumers clip with `description_first_line`. Here the
equivalent is escaping rather than clipping, because a purpose's later
words are load-bearing: an argv's second word says which file, and a
clip would drop it silently.

`purpose_for_one_row` states the property it exists for: **a row must
not be able to forge another row.** It escapes `\n`, `\r`, `\t` and the
rest of the Unicode `Cc` class (which covers ESC, so a purpose cannot
open a terminal escape sequence either), borrows unchanged when there is
nothing to escape — making byte-identity structural rather than
asserted — and deliberately does NOT escape backslashes: no number of
them produces a second row, and doubling them would cost byte-identity
for ordinary text.

Two surfaces call it: the `*workers*` rows, and `ActivitySummary`, which
exists for one consumer that has exactly one row.
`pmacs.workers.snapshot()` is this lane's `describe-command` and stays
raw, which is what makes this a rendering decision rather than data
loss — asserted, not assumed.

## P3 — two stale recovery summaries

`docs/worker-identity-framing.md` still said "Implementation may
proceed"; it is implemented. `docs/active-work.md` still said Stage 1
takes the "first two" of owner/purpose/parent — `owner` was REMOVED in
revision 2, so it takes one of the three, and the claim the whole
`owner` argument overturned was still standing in the volatile state of
record. Both fixed section-locally.

## Verification

`tests/worker_identity_acceptance.rs`, 18 -> 24 tests:

* invalid-UTF-8 purpose refused by THIS lane's message, asserted on
  content, alongside the absent / empty / whitespace / wrong-type /
  metatable rows;
* a whitespace-only handler name and a control-character one are each
  refused AT `register`, asserted on the error and on the handler not
  being installed (dispatch reports `unknown handler`);
* a non-UTF-8 handler name is refused before the handler runs, with the
  dispatch-name stack left empty;
* a purpose containing a newline renders as ONE row in `*workers*` and
  as one line in the modeline — through the real rendering path, the
  latter through a painted frame as well as the evaluator;
* **a purpose crafted to look like a row boundary does not produce a
  second row** — asserted by counting rows, with the escaped text
  asserted present so a renderer that dropped the purpose entirely could
  not pass;
* a purpose with no control characters is byte-identical on both
  surfaces, fixtured with a literal backslash, a literal `\v`, quotes
  and a non-ASCII character.

Mutation-checked, seven guards, each failing its own test and no other:
the purpose UTF-8 diagnostic; the `_push_dispatch_name` one; the
register whitespace guard; the register control-character guard; the
`*workers*` call site; the `ActivitySummary` call site; and
`purpose_for_one_row` itself neutered to the identity, which fails both
surfaces' tests and nothing else.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:51:54 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth d4a69cae14
docs: record review round 1, and name the statusline adopter that is not named after its file
Two section-local edits, no reflowing.

**`docs/worker-identity-framing.md` §2** named the three existing
statusline adopters by FILE — `terminal.lua`, `syntax.lua`, `lsp.lua` —
which is accurate and misleading together: `syntax.lua` registers its
provider under the name **`"mode"`**, so the registry inventory reads
`["mode", "terminal", "lsp"]` and a reader looking for the syntax adopter
by name does not find one. That is what made this lane's change to
`tests/statusline_segments_acceptance.rs` surprising, and the next reader
should not have to rediscover it. Also records that where a fourth
registration sorts is decided by **load order**, not by name.

**`docs/active-work.md`'s lane block** records review round 1: the
`pmacs.process.spawn` blocker and its fix at `2162737`, the five refused
shapes, the eleven updated call sites, the two audit-fixture occurrences
that are deliberately untouched, the three added mutation checks, and the
two acceptance suites the round added to the gate line
(`compile_mode_acceptance` and `m8_6_acceptance`, because the round moved
their spawn call sites and `m8_6` covers the `pmacs-magit` package
fixture).

It also records the breaking-change decision with the reasoning that
justified it, rather than only the outcome: the binding has no
API-reference documentation and no stability promise, `lua_to_spec` has
one caller, and §10/P7 put the third-party population at ~zero — so the
cost of requiring the field is at its minimum now and rises from here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:51:54 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 1ca76e055b
docs: the worker-identity lane is implemented, with its gate outcome
Section-local update to `docs/active-work.md`'s "Worker identity Stage 1
(§9)" block, which was written pre-implementation with the lane's first
commit. It now records what actually shipped rather than what was
planned, because the difference is where the reviewable claims are.

Three things it records that a status flip alone would not:

- **`journey_acceptance` passed UNTOUCHED (47/47).** Q#W-7 edits the
  `commit_to` guard family, so that suite was the lane's stop signal: any
  established pin needing an edit would have meant the change altered
  Journey Stage 1a's semantics rather than closing a gap in them. The
  same for all three `#pmacs.process.list()` leak detectors, which are
  Q#W-4's preservation claim.
- **One pre-existing assertion did change**, and it is named here so the
  change is not mistaken for an accommodation: the builtin statusline
  provider inventory in `statusline_segments_acceptance` grows by the
  fourth adopter. That assertion exists to grow.
- **Two residuals, stated rather than tested around.** A raw
  `coroutine.yield` inside either dynamic scope still leaks the scope,
  and Q#W-7's reachability by a real caller is unproven.

Also lists the surfaces that changed shape — the collapsed allocation
funnel, the two grown constructor signatures, the new required fields —
for anyone rebasing a concurrent lane onto this one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:51:54 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 26a26006bb
docs: worker identity framing revision 4 --- scope rule 1, take Q#W-7
Two changes, both from review, both about claiming exactly what is
enforced and no more.

Rule 1 said it covered "all yield points". It covers the two supported
pmacs yield APIs. Raw coroutine.yield remains reachable: R46 is a
convention ("package code uses :await() rather than coroutine.yield",
async.lua:26-27), not an enforcement, and the scheduler diagnoses a
non-Handle yield only after the fact --- step() resumes at :197 and
inspects what came back at :212, by which point the coroutine has
already suspended and the enclosing dispatch never returns to run its
pop. No refusal sited in a yield helper can intercept that.

So the property is stated as what it is: the supported ways to yield
are refused inside the scope, and an R46 violation can still leak the
name --- loudly, through pmacs.error into *errors*, but unrestored.
Section 6 says explicitly that this is NOT asserted, because a test
implying coverage the design lacks is worse than the recorded gap.

Q#W-7 is approved into this lane rather than split out. Same supported
helper, same invariant, same async.lua edit family; splitting would
preserve a known hole without reducing integration risk. So
yield_to_next_tick gains both refusals --- the new
_in_dispatch_name_scope and the missing _in_commit_scope --- and the
commit_to gap closes in the same commit as rule 1. Its witnesses are
the same pair as rule 1: the refusal fires AND the scope restores, on
the reasoning that a guard which raises while leaving the scope pushed
trades a silent fault for a loud one and fixes neither.

Reachability by a real caller stays UNPROVEN and the framing says so in
three places, including here. The defect was found by reading; the
tests pin the guard rather than reproducing a user-visible bug. Nobody
should later cite this as evidence the bug was observed.

The causal-extent paragraph and the Q#W-5 comparison were both
re-scoped to match, since both leaned on "non-yieldable" as an
unqualified property.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:51:54 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 7730f87bba
docs: worker identity framing revision 3 --- the ambient must not yield
Review found that revision 2 asserted the property its whole design
rested on. It called the dispatch-name extent "synchronous" and never
checked. A registered handler is arbitrary Lua running inside
pmacs.async and may call Handle:await(), which parks the coroutine with
the name still pushed --- so every tick callback and every other
coroutine allocating a job in the meantime inherits it. The existing
tests already await inside pcall, so this is the ordinary shape of an
awaiting handler, not a corner case.

Rule 1 now enforces non-yieldability instead of assuming it, and the
enforcement was already in this file: Handle:await refuses to run
inside pmacs.window.commit_to (async.lua:87-90), with a comment giving
exactly this reasoning --- yielding "would restore the scope while this
coroutine is still parked". _in_dispatch_name_scope joins
_in_commit_scope in the same place.

Three details decide whether the guard holds, and all three are pinned:
it rejects before the park, not after; it rejects unconditionally
rather than only when the handle is incomplete, because a guard keyed
on whether the job happened to finish first passes under test and fails
intermittently in production; and it covers both yield points.

That last one is a finding. pmacs.async.yield_to_next_tick
(async.lua:243-245) also yields and is public. Guarding only await
would have left the hole open through a second door.

Which exposes Q#W-7: the existing commit_to guard has exactly that gap
today. yield_to_next_tick carries no _in_commit_scope refusal, so
Journey Stage 1a Q#JR14b invariant has a second entrance. Reported
rather than patched, and reachability by a real caller is explicitly
UNPROVEN --- it is a code reading, not a repro. My vote is to fix it in
this lane since the lane already edits that function family, but it is
another lane invariant so it is a question.

Q#W-5 justification is rewritten rather than left standing. It argued
parent was deferrable because its ambient would span asynchronous
lifetimes while this one did not --- an argument revision 2 was not
entitled to make, since its own ambient could be parked by any awaiting
handler. With rule 1 the distinction is real: this extent cannot be
suspended, and parent cannot be rescued by refusing to yield because
yielding is the mechanism it needs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:51:54 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth e1ca382ea5
docs: worker identity framing revision 2 --- drop owner, specify the name path
Two review blockers, both correct, both about the same failure: a field
or a claim that looks like attribution without being it.

BLOCKER 1 --- owner is not honest before P3. Revision 1 proposed
owner = package-or-builtin while populating it from static
per-subsystem constants at each dispatcher. Those disagree. A generic
dispatcher has no trustworthy knowledge of who invoked it, and
pmacs.process.spawn is callable by any package, so a static "lsp" label
is an origin or category and would confidently misattribute
third-party work to a builtin at exactly the point section 9 wants
attribution.

owner is removed rather than renamed. origin or subsystem would be
honest wording, but a second string field beside purpose, used to group
the view, gets adopted as ownership by the next reader regardless of
its name --- and it would squat on the slot P3 has to fill. Stage 2
needs a grouping key and should get a real one. No P3 alignment is
claimed any more.

BLOCKER 2 --- the handler name needs a mechanism, not a parameter.
Revision 1 said the name was "in hand at the one place that throws it
away". That was wrong about the call chain, and re-reading it is what
showed why: dispatch(name) calls an arbitrary handler, which calls a
Lua wrapper, which calls the Rust binding, and name is a parameter of
none of them. Worse, async.lua:337-345 documents the wrapper layer as
bypassable --- other runtime files are told to call their own raw
_dispatch_* primitives --- so capturing in the wrappers would miss
exactly the callers attribution exists for.

Q#W-2 is rewritten as a contract: a dispatch-name stack owned by the
async runtime and read at allocate, the same single funnel Q#W-1
collapses. Seven rules, including the two that decide whether it is
better than nothing --- unwind-safe popping, because one erroring
handler would otherwise poison every later dispatch with a stale name,
and composition rather than replacement of a caller-supplied purpose,
because replacing recreates blocker 1 in a new place.

It also answers the objection it invites: why is this ambient allowed
when Q#W-5 defers parent for needing one. Because they are different
mechanisms --- this is a synchronous single-threaded extent with a
deterministic pop, and parent needs a lifetime model spanning ticks and
post-settlement callbacks.

Verification takes the reviewer wording fix: presence is a type
obligation now that purpose is non-optional in a private JobSpec, so
the compiler proves it and the tests prove semantics at representative
entry paths. The handler witness must be a registered handler calling a
real dispatcher, not a synthetic funnel test.

The title changed too: "who asked for it" overclaimed once owner left.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:51:54 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth dda90a2c37
docs: frame worker identity Stage 1 (revision 1)
COHERENCE.md section 0 names background-work ownership as one of two
remaining thin ends of the golden journey, and section 20 puts it
outside Priority 1 while conceding it is the last of that priority own
work. Section 9 grades the worker model "mechanism without identity".

The felt gap is narrower than the arc and is checkable: grep -c for
spinner/progress/busy in src/statusline.rs returns 0, so section 3
promise of "visible asynchronous work" is false today unless the user
knows to run M-x editor.list-workers. The git Stage 1 lane in flight
right now records a deliberate negative section 9 impact for exactly
this reason; this lane is the one that repays it.

Two scouting findings shaped the staging rather than confirmed it.

PendingJob carries eight fields, not the seven the audit lists, and the
eighth doc comment cites section 9 by name as the reason identity
belongs on the job and not in a side map. So this extends a merged
decision instead of introducing one.

pmacs.process.list filters to LineOriented, dating to the vterm Stage 1
commit, and three acceptance suites use #pmacs.process.list() as a leak
detector. Widening that accessor to show terminal PTYs would inflate
all three baselines. Making PTYs visible therefore moves to Stage 2
behind a separate accessor, which is a better answer than editing tests
that are correctly detecting a semantic change.

NO WIRE CHANGE, and that is load-bearing for scheduling: discovery
Stage 2 holds the v22-to-v23 bump slot and git Stage 2 is queued behind
it. The activity indicator is a fourth pmacs.statusline.register
provider on the existing StatuslineSegments vector.

The framing also flags a deliberate deviation from the audit rather
than quietly taking it: section 9 names owner/purpose/parent together,
and Stage 1 takes only the first two, because an unpopulated parent
field reads as "no parent" rather than "not tracked".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:51:54 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 3b8e426f90
test(window): pin the cross-frontend exception, and fix two ledger counts
panel_commit_dedication_refusal matches on `fid` as well as on the
profile: a nested commit for a DIFFERENT frontend may dedicate that
frontend's own side slot, because resolve_placement consults only the
requesting frontend's panel_capable and its own one side window, so
nothing done to B can change where A's side request lands.

That promise was documented and unpinned. Both revision 9 nesting
tests drive a single frontend, so the comparison is trivially true
throughout them: deleting it, and making any outer "panel" contract
globally restrictive, passed the whole file.

a_nested_commit_for_another_frontend_may_dedicate_its_own_slot runs
two frontends. While an outer "panel" commit for A is in force, a
nested commit for B dedicates B's slot and is ALLOWED --- and B's
slot is asserted really dedicated afterwards, not merely unrefused.
The far side runs in the same test: A's slot stays undedicated and
A's result still lands in A's panel, so the row cannot pass by having
weakened the restriction generally.

This is the suite's only POSITIVE row; every other asserts a refusal,
which is the shape it was thinnest on. An exception only the doc
comment knows about is one review round from being simplified out.

Mutation-checked: deleting `&& contract.destination.frontend == fid`
fails ONLY this test. Both single-frontend nesting tests pass under
it, which is the evidence they are independent of the frontend match
rather than merely looking so. journey_acceptance (47),
dired_acceptance (31) and cargo test --lib (1920) stay green.

Two ledger corrections, both section-local:

* "Eight writes exist; five are reachable" then listed four. The
  fifth is quit_window's QuitAction::Restore --- the site proved
  unreachable and guarded anyway. It now appears in the list that
  justifies it, and the bullet counts what actually matters: all five
  are guarded.
* The revision 9 mutation paragraph had the preservation counts
  REVERSED (journey 31 / dired 47). It is journey 47 / dired 31,
  matching the bullet further up and measured per target. The same
  reversal is in 394fa43's commit message; that is left as written
  rather than rewriting a pushed commit, and the ledger now says so
  where the numbers are, so a reader following the SHA takes the
  corrected pair.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:11:43 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 5f3f38dfd7
fix(window): keep a panel commit's restriction across nested scopes
Revision 8 refuses, inside a "panel" commit_to, the mutations that
would make its relaxed preflight wrong. A nested commit_to REPLACED
the enclosing contract with its own and restored it afterwards, so
the outer restriction went out of force for the whole inner body:

  commit_to(outer, function()                   -- "panel", relaxed preflight
    commit_to(inner, function()                 -- "document", MASKS the outer
      set_params(panel(), { dedicated = true }) -- ...and succeeds
    end)
    display(result, { side = "bottom" })        -- ...which now FALLS BACK
  end, "panel")

Every step is legal on its own, and the outer commit then overwrote
a newer document buffer --- the P1a failure the lane exists to
remove, reached through one extra call.

What this invalidated, precisely: NOT the enumeration of dedication
write sites. Every site in it is real and still guarded. What was
wrong was the claim that the guard was in force for the whole outer
body. So the enumeration is inherited and qualified, not redone.

Contracts now COMPOSE rather than replace. The core holds a stack;
ScopedFrontendGuard pushes on entry and truncates back to its own
depth on every exit path; panel_commit_dedication_refusal consults
every contract in force rather than the innermost. The strictest
active restriction wins. Matching stays per frontend --- a nested
commit for a different frontend may dedicate its own side slot,
which cannot change where this frontend's side request lands.

Nesting itself is NOT forbidden, which was the other candidate fix.
It closes the hole by prohibiting a construction no rule objects to:
commit_to is public Lua API for saying where a continuation's result
belongs, and a body committing to a second destination (a diff
beside a status panel) is where #227's adoption is heading. Only the
restriction needed preserving. Detecting the dedication when the
outer commit resumed was not available either --- that is a late
refusal, which is what revision 7 was rejected for.

Two pins, and they are a pair rather than one test written twice:

* a_nested_commit_cannot_mask_an_outer_panel_restriction drives the
  same four write-site rows through a nested, entirely valid
  "document" commit, and asserts the attempt is refused, the slot is
  still undedicated, and the outer commit's destination is intact.
* an_ordinary_nested_commit_still_runs_and_restores_the_outer_restriction
  pins that nesting without dedication is accepted, that the
  enclosing restriction is back in force once the nested commit
  returns, and that outside every commit dedication is ordinary
  again.

Mutation-checked: restoring the guard to the innermost contract
(.last(), exactly revision 8's swapped slot) fails only the first of
those. The other 13 pins, journey_acceptance (31), dired_acceptance
(47) and cargo test --lib (1920) all stay green. The ordinary-nesting
pin deliberately survives it --- it exists to fail the other
candidate fix.

Also sweeps the comments left by revision 7, which revision 8
superseded: no fallback_commit_refusal symbol remains, but six doc
sites still described placement-boundary enforcement as the
guarantee (ViewDestination, CommitProfile::Panel, CommitContract,
capture_view_destination, commit_destination_refusal,
panel_placement_can_fall_back), plus two comment blocks in the
commit_to binding and one stale mutation note in the acceptance
suite. Net rustdoc warnings down three.

Framing to revision 9; the active-work lane entry updated in place.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:11:43 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 2fc2985029
fix(window): refuse the mutation that would invalidate a panel commit
Revision 8 of `docs/destination-capture-framing.md`, replacing the
revision-7 design at `ca72461`, plus the invalid-UTF-8 profile hole.
The framing now carries §3's enumeration, performed.

THE BLOCKER, unchanged. The `"panel"` commit profile skips preflight
checks 2-4 on the claim that a panel result never touches a document
window. Panel placement FALLS BACK into an ordinary document window
when the frontend is not `panel_capable` or its one side slot is
dedicated elsewhere, and installs the result there --- so a `"panel"`
commit could replace a NEWER document with every stale-intent guard
skipped.

TWO REJECTED SHAPES, kept in the framing as the record of why not
those. Revision 6 predicted the fallback at preflight and argued the
body could not change it; false, because refusing `await` stops another
COROUTINE interleaving, not the body's own synchronous statements.
Revision 7 (`ca72461`) moved enforcement to the placement boundary;
that breaks the invariant `commit_to` exists for --- `docs/agent-handoff.md`
requires it to preflight BEFORE the callback, because a body creates
buffers, handles and paint long before it asks to display anything, so
"validating at display time is four mutations too late". A refusal
arriving after all of that is a partial commit with an error return.

REVISION 8 DOES NEITHER. The preflight stays exactly where it was, and
the mutations that would invalidate it are REFUSED AT THE ATTEMPT ---
the same shape as `Handle:await` being refused inside a commit scope,
for the identical reason: something that would invalidate the scope's
guarantee is rejected outright rather than predicted around or caught
late. With them refused, the fallback never comes into existence.

THE ENUMERATION, PERFORMED --- this is the load-bearing part, and it is
closed for a structural reason rather than because inspection ran out
of ideas. Full working in the framing §3.

`resolve_placement` reaches `Ordinary` from a side request through
exactly two branches, so only two pieces of state are levers at all:
`panel_capable`, and the one side window's `dedicated`.

`panel_capable` is UNREACHABLE from a body: written only where a
`FrontendView` is constructed, and nothing in `src/lua_bindings/`
constructs, registers or unregisters one --- `register_frontend_view`
has callers only in `daemon.rs` and core unit tests.

`dedicated` has eight writes. Five are reachable: `apply_placement`'s
`Side` created, replacing and non-replacing arms, and `set_params`. Two
`Ordinary` arms are harmless --- every `Ordinary` target is filtered
`!is_side`, and one only ever clears the flag. One is a unit test.

Closing the side window is NOT a route, checked rather than assumed:
with no side leaf `side_window_for` returns `None` and placement
CREATES a fresh panel instead of falling back. `panel_hidden` is not
consulted by placement, and `params.side` is unreachable.

`quit_window`'s `QuitAction::Restore { dedicated: true }` is
UNREACHABLE, and this was the surprise --- it looked like a route with
no `dedicated` argument at the call site at all. `Restore` is stored
only on a REPLACING side placement, and a dedicated slot can never be
the target of one: a side request with a different buffer falls through
to `Ordinary`, and an exact-target request is refused by
`window_accepts_buffer`. Guarded anyway, labelled defensive, because
its unreachability is emergent from two rules in another function.

GUARDS SITED WHERE THE PROPERTY CONVERGES. All three `Side` arms are
reached through `apply_placement`, which has EXACTLY ONE caller --- so
one guard in `display_buffer` covers every request-driven dedication,
including spellings that do not exist yet. `set_params` is a genuinely
separate write and is guarded separately; dedication does NOT converge
before the field itself, and that is stated rather than papered over.
`Window::params.dedicated` is a public field, so the compiler does not
enforce the funnel --- the acceptance rows are what would catch a new
direct writer.

WHAT IS DELIBERATELY NOT REFUSED. The document profile is untouched:
constraining its body would newly refuse dired's own documented panel
path, a preservation-suite stop signal. Dedicating a DOCUMENT window is
still allowed, since it cannot change which of panel-or-document a side
request resolves to. And falling back is still allowed --- a frontend
that cannot render a panel degrades gracefully exactly as today,
because this refuses the mutation that MANUFACTURES a fallback, never
the fallback itself.

THE SECOND HOLE. `commit_profile` did `name.to_str()?`, but Lua strings
are BYTE strings, so `string.char(255)` hit mlua's generic UTF-8 error
before `BAD_COMMIT_PROFILE` was constructed --- the same reachability
class as the `Option<String>` defect revision 5 fixed, one layer down.
Bytes now, with the row asserting on message content.

TESTS: 12 pins. The inside-the-body test is ONE ROW PER REACHABLE WRITE
SITE, not per call spelling, because one spelling reaches three
different writes: `set_params`, and `display{side, dedicated}` in each
of the created, replacing and non-replacing arms. Each asserts the
three things revision 8 requires --- the dedication call is refused, the
slot is still undedicated afterwards, and nothing partial was installed
(no `*result*` buffer, panel unchanged, document unchanged).

Mutation-checked per guard: deleting the `display_buffer` guard fails
all three display rows, verified INDIVIDUALLY by rotating each to the
front so the first failure cannot mask the rest; deleting the
`set_params` guard fails only that row.

THREE FRAMING CORRECTIONS ride along, all of them cases of the document
teaching something it later argues against. Section 3 stated the
disproved premise unconditionally --- "the panel case would inherit a
check about a window it never touches" --- a hundred lines before
correcting it, so a reader met the wrong claim first; it is now
qualified at the point of the claim, and section 2 carried the same
unconditional form one section earlier ("it lands in the bottom panel")
and now says it REQUESTS one. The handoff citation was written "section
748" twice when it is LINE 748, and this document's authority is that
its citations can be followed. And the "not asserted exhaustive" hedge
on the route list is retired: the enumeration is closed structurally,
because `resolve_placement` reaches `Ordinary` from a side request
through exactly two branches.

`journey_acceptance` (47) and `dired_acceptance` (31) pass UNCHANGED.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:11:43 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth ccbed7ab55
docs: destination-capture --- a second dedication route, and the ledger head
Review found dedication is reachable by a second path. Beyond
set_params, a body can call display(buf, { side = "bottom", dedicated =
true }), which writes request.dedicated straight into the side window
at editor_core.rs:4535, then request a second panel buffer and cause
the fallback. An implementation guarding only the named set_params call
passes revision 8 test while keeping the original defect.

That is the important part, and it is worth more than the route itself:
the second route was found in review AFTER the first was specified,
which is the evidence that guarding one named call site is not a
design. The framing now requires every discovered route recorded and
given its OWN acceptance row, states that the two known routes are not
asserted exhaustive, and says finding a third is part of the work
rather than a later review job.

The ledger head still announced revision 7 as implemented and correct,
declared the blocker closed, and prescribed placement-boundary
enforcement --- the design review had just rejected. I corrected the
lower Q#DC-2 paragraph last round and left the authoritative block
alone, so recovery met the rejected design first and the correction
second. That is the same one-site correction failure this session keeps
reproducing, and this time in the file whose entire job is to be the
volatile state of record.

The head now names all three designs, which two were rejected and why,
and that the shipped code implements the rejected one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:11:43 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth b72df34bc6
docs: destination-capture revision 8 --- refuse the mutation, keep the preflight
Revisions 6 and 7 were both wrong, in opposite directions, and review
caught each.

Revision 6 predicted the fallback at preflight and argued the body
could not change it. False: the await refusal stops concurrent
interleaving, not the body, which is arbitrary synchronous Lua and can
dedicate the side slot itself.

Revision 7 moved enforcement to the placement boundary. That breaks the
invariant commit_to exists for. Handoff section 748 states it without
qualification --- it preflights every precondition BEFORE invoking the
callback, because dired mutates handle state, prev and paint long
before it reaches anything that could refuse, so validating at display
time is four mutations too late. A refusal that arrives after arbitrary
Lua has created buffers, handles and paint is not a refusal; it is a
partial commit with an error return.

So revision 8 does neither. It keeps the preflight where it is and
REFUSES the mutations that would invalidate it --- the same shape as
the await refusal already in this file, for the identical reason:
something that would invalidate the scope guarantee is rejected rather
than predicted around. Refusal stays mutation-free on the normal
(false, reason) path.

The mutation surface is narrow, which is what makes this tight rather
than aspirational. dedicated is writable from Lua and is one of only
two writable window fields per Q#BP2c; panel_capable has no Lua binding
at all, checked across src/lua_bindings. But the implementation must
ENUMERATE the body-reachable transitions rather than trust that list
--- closing the side window, or any other route to no usable side slot,
counts, and I have not proven those two exhaustive.

If the enumeration is open-ended, the named fallback is to collapse the
two profiles and always run all four checks. Safe, simple, honest, and
it makes the parameterization pointless --- which is why it is the
fallback and not the answer, and why choosing it needs its own
approval.

The inside-the-body test is strengthened accordingly. Revision 7 asked
it to assert that document B was not replaced, which passes on a design
that lets the body mutate freely and merely declines the final
installation. It now asserts the dedication call is refused, the slot
is still undedicated afterwards, and nothing partial was installed. The
refusal must land on the mutation, not on the outcome.

The ledger Q#DC-2 summary still repeated the disproved premise
verbatim, so a recovering reader met two incompatible answers in one
lane entry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:11:43 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 86cd08959a
fix(window): enforce the panel profile at placement, not at preflight
Revision 7 of `docs/destination-capture-framing.md`, closing the
correctness blocker review found in `0efc8c0` and the smaller
reachability hole beside it.

THE BLOCKER. The `"panel"` commit profile skipped preflight checks 2-4
on the claim that a panel result never touches a document window. That
claim is false: panel placement FALLS BACK to an ordinary document
window when the frontend is not `panel_capable` or its one side slot is
dedicated elsewhere -- `apply_placement` says so in its own comment --
and then installs the result there. So a `"panel"` commit could replace
a NEWER document with every stale-intent guard skipped: capture A, the
user opens B, the continuation lands, B is gone. That is the exact
failure `commit_to` exists to prevent, reached through the profile
meant to be the safe one.

WHY NOT A PREFLIGHT PREDICTION. Revision 6 proposed predicting the
fallback at preflight, arguing nothing could change in between because
the body cannot `await`. Refusing `await` prevents another COROUTINE
interleaving; it places no restriction on the body itself, which is
arbitrary Lua running synchronously and can invalidate the snapshot in
two statements -- take the panel, set it `dedicated`, then request a
side display. No preflight predicate closes that, however phrased: the
measurement is taken before the thing it measures is decided.

WHAT THIS DOES INSTEAD. `EditorCore::display_buffer` refuses between
`resolve_placement` and `apply_placement` when a side request resolved
to `PlacementKind::Ordinary` under an active `"panel"` contract whose
destination fails the document preconditions. That is the first moment
the fallback is a fact rather than a guess, and refusing before
`apply_placement` means a refused fallback mutates nothing. The
contract rides on the core, installed and restored by the same
`ScopedFrontendGuard` that scopes the frontend, so a profile can never
outlive the body that declared it; the field is crate-private, so Lua
cannot claim a profile for a placement it did not commit to.

The preflight predicate SURVIVES as an early refusal and not as the
guarantee. `panel_placement_can_fall_back` still gates the relaxation
in `commit_destination_refusal`, so the statically knowable case -- a
frontend that cannot render a panel at all, and will not acquire the
capability mid-body -- refuses before the body allocates a buffer,
registers a handle and paints. That is the same reason `commit_to`
preflights at all. Both layers are pinned, and neither pin subsumes the
other.

The four document checks now live once, in
`EditorCore::document_destination_refusal`: they are evaluated from two
sites, and two hand-written copies is how a backstop ends up weaker
than the thing it backs.

THREE DELIBERATE LIMITS, each a different decision rather than a
stricter version of this one. The document profile is untouched --
re-running its checks at placement would newly refuse dired's own
documented panel path, which is a preservation-suite stop signal. Only
a fallback is guarded, not every `Ordinary` placement -- a `"panel"`
body calling `display_file` is pinned as succeeding. And the refusal is
of the PLACEMENT, not of falling back: a `"panel"` commit with an
intact destination still degrades gracefully into the document window,
because turning graceful degradation into an error would regress every
consumer that works today on a frontend without panel capability.

THE SECOND HOLE. `commit_profile` did `name.to_str()?`, but Lua strings
are BYTE strings, so a `string.char(255)` profile hit mlua's generic
UTF-8 conversion error before `BAD_COMMIT_PROFILE` was ever
constructed -- the same reachability class as the `Option<String>`
defect revision 5 fixed, one layer down. The comparison is on bytes
now, and the invalid-UTF-8 row joins the number/table/boolean rows
asserting on message content.

FOUR DOC SITES repeated the false claim (`ViewDestination`'s own doc
twice, `capture_view_destination`, `ViewDestinationLua`) and are
corrected. Nothing else relied on it: dired, the only Lua `commit_to`
consumer, takes the two-argument document profile and already had all
four checks; `compile.lua`'s `already_in_panel` queries live state; and
the terminal adopter's rollback keys off `created_side`, already false
on a fallback.

Tests: 12 pins, up from 8. Three carry the enforcement split and none
subsumes another -- the pre-established fallback (both causes, the body
must not run), the inside-the-body transition (the body runs, the
result must not land), and the graceful fallback (a valid destination
still lands). Mutation-checked four ways; the pattern of which rows
survive each mutation is in `docs/active-work.md`.

`journey_acceptance` (47) and `dired_acceptance` (31) pass UNCHANGED.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:11:43 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth edb84a520d
docs: destination-capture revision 7 --- enforce at placement, not preflight
Review found revision 6 fix unsound for the same reason its target was.

Revision 6 moved the panel/document decision to a preflight prediction,
arguing nothing could change before placement because commit_to refuses
await. That refusal stops CONCURRENT INTERLEAVING --- another coroutine
mutating state while this one is parked. It does nothing about the body
itself, which is arbitrary synchronous Lua and can obtain the panel,
set dedicated = true, and then request panel display. Preflight sees a
reusable panel and relaxes checks 2-4; the body causes the fallback;
the result replaces a stale document.

No preflight predicate closes this, however phrased --- the measurement
is taken before the thing it measures is decided. So enforcement moves
to the placement boundary, where resolving to Ordinary for a request
that asked for a side IS the fallback rather than a forecast of one.
The commit scope is already Rust-side app data, so the profile and the
destination can ride there.

The tempting non-fix is named so nobody reaches for it: widening the
predicate from "will it fall back" to "could it ever" is always true,
since the body can always dedicate the slot --- which collapses the two
profiles and buys nothing.

Section 7 gains the test that distinguishes the designs: the callback
dedicates the side slot MID-COMMIT. Both fallback tests revision 6
asked for establish their state before commit_to is entered, so a
preflight-snapshot design passes them. A design passing only those two
has not been shown to work.

The ledger claimed the lane implemented with eight pins covering
section 7. Those pins were written against revision 5 matrix, which
review disproved --- none exercises a fallback placement. A recovering
machine reading that entry would have prepared a PR from a lane with an
open correctness blocker.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:11:43 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 6032ed1c2a
docs: destination-capture revision 6 --- the panel matrix was unsound
Q#DC-2 gave the panel profile only check 1, on the stated claim that a
panel result never touches a document window. That claim is false, and
the tree says so in its own comment: reaching Ordinary while a side was
REQUESTED means the request fell back --- not panel-capable, or the one
side slot is dedicated elsewhere --- and the result is then installed
into an ordinary document window.

So a "panel" commit on a non-panel-capable frontend could replace a
NEWER document while skipping every stale-intent guard, reintroducing
exactly the failure this API exists to prevent. Reproduced in review,
not theorised. That makes it a correctness defect rather than a
strictness preference, and it is my framing error: I wrote the matrix.

The relaxation is now conditional on the placement really being a
panel. Both fallback causes are readable from core state at preflight,
and nothing can change between preflight and placement because
commit_to runs its body synchronously in a scope that refuses await ---
so the prediction cannot go stale under the commit it guards.

What is deliberately NOT the fix: refusing a panel commit that would
fall back. Falling back is existing, intentional behaviour for a
frame without panel capability, and refusing would turn a graceful
degradation into an error. The panel profile relaxes checks; it does
not get to change where things land.

Also closes an invalid-UTF-8 hole in the profile diagnostic. Lua
strings are byte strings, so string.char(255) reaches to_str() and
produces mlua generic conversion error before the documented message
naming the accepted values is ever constructed. Same reachability class
as revision 5 Option<String> defect, one layer further down --- which
is worth noticing, because I fixed that one and did not look for the
next one.

And the header said "Pre-implementation. Awaiting approval" through
revisions 2 to 5 while the ledger recorded the lane approved and
implemented.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:11:43 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 3e64898c64
docs: record the destination-capture lane as implemented
Section-local edit to the lane's own block; several lanes edit this file
concurrently.

Records the two commits, the green gate line (both preservation suites
unchanged), the mutation checks that show a matrix of deliberate
omissions is not passing vacuously, and the two places the framing did
not match the tree:

- the rename was 11 references across 5 files, not 8 across 4 —
  `src/daemon.rs` also calls the capture;
- Q#DC-4's "frontend with no document window" is a DEFENSIVE branch.
  Q#BP6 asserts a layout always keeps a non-side window, with a
  `debug_assert!` in `non_side_target` that fires under `cargo test`, so
  a registered frontend in a healthy editor always has a live document
  window. The decision stands, but #227 should not expect to meet that
  refusal.

Neither changed a decision, and both are recorded rather than quietly
absorbed: the framing says "counted, not estimated", and the next reader
will check.

`ViewDestination`'s own doc comment is corrected in the same commit,
because it repeated the framing's over-claim ("a frontend showing only a
side window") in the one place a reader would trust it, and
`capture_view_destination` now says how reachable its empty pair
actually is. Code, not only ledger, since the ledger is not what someone
reads when they wonder whether that branch can fire.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:11:43 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth a177d61bf3
docs: destination-capture revision 5 --- make the profile error reachable
Revision 4 API spec contradicted itself at the binding boundary. It
required profile: Option<String> AND a pointed error naming "document"
and "panel" when a non-string arrives. mlua rejects a number or table
during argument conversion, before the closure body runs, so that
message was unreachable: a caller passing 42 would have got mlua
generic conversion error instead.

This is the identical trap the existing binding already documents for
dest --- typed Value rather than AnyUserData specifically so the
message stays REACHABLE and names the rule --- and revision 4 quoted
that comment as its reasoning while repeating the mistake one argument
to the right.

The profile is now mlua::Value, validated in the body. Nil and absence
BOTH mean document, spelled out because a Lua caller threading an
optional variable produces nil rather than absence and a third
behaviour there would stay invisible until someone hit it. A
non-string is refused by the same message that names the accepted
values.

The verification bullet is now the guard on the type choice rather than
on the behaviour: the non-string refusal is asserted ON ITS CONTENT, so
retyping the argument to Option<String> later stops the assertion
matching rather than silently degrading the error a user sees.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:11:43 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 1b4046b624
docs: destination-capture revision 4 --- pin the commit_to call shape
Revisions 2 and 3 said "the profile is declared at commit_to" and never
said how. That is not a detail. The binding accepts exactly (dest,
body) today, so without a specified form #227 has no stable API to
adopt against, and the promise that existing callers keep their
semantics was a hope rather than a contract.

Q#DC-5: commit_to(dest, body [, profile]). An optional TRAILING string,
typed Option<String>, so there is no arity sniffing and no
table-or-function dispatch on argument 2 --- the existing binding chose
Value over AnyUserData specifically to keep its error message reachable
and naming the rule, and a polymorphic second argument would undo that.

Trailing reads badly after a long inline closure, but that is not the
call shape in use: dired defines a named local commit at dired.lua:670
and calls commit_to(opts.dest, commit) at :717. Verified, not assumed.
Against a named body the trailing profile reads fine.

The value set is CLOSED --- document and panel, exactly Q#DC-2 two
profiles. A third is a decision, not a spelling.

Omitted means document, and that is the load-bearing part: every
existing two-argument call keeps all four preflight checks by
definition of the signature, so journey_acceptance passing untouched
follows from the API shape rather than from care.

An unrecognized profile is an ERROR naming the accepted values, not a
silent fallback to document. A fallback would hand a caller stricter or
looser checks than it asked for, which is the failure the whole
parameterization exists to prevent. Its witness asserts the legacy
two-argument form through a check the panel profile OMITS --- a
stale-buffer refusal --- because asserting merely that it does not
error would pass on a call silently downgraded to panel, which is the
regression that would quietly void Journey Stage 1a guarantees.

Git mapping settled here rather than rediscovered during adoption:
*git-status* takes panel, *git-diff* takes document.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:11:43 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 6b8e07c730
docs: destination-capture revision 3 --- decide Q#DC-4, pin the gate line
Q#DC-4 contradicted Q#DC-2, and on the primary panel API. Q#DC-2
concluded a panel profile depends only on a live frontend, so it can
commit with no document window at all; Q#DC-4 still voted to return nil
in exactly that case and told git to fall back to ambient behaviour.
Those cannot both hold, and the fallback advice was independently
wrong: falling back to ambient IS the P1a bug this lane exists to
remove.

Decided rather than voted on, since it is the primary API. The
destination document pair is optional; capture_destination() is
profile-blind and argument-free, because making capture profile-aware
would force a caller to know at capture time what it will do at commit
time, which is the opposite of why capture exists. The profile is
declared at commit_to, where Q#DC-2 parameterization already lives, and
a document-profile commit with no document pair is refused alongside
the other four preflight refusals. Capture never returns nil while a
frame exists.

Section 4 outline and Q#DC-1 were updated to match rather than left to
disagree --- Q#DC-1 no-arguments answer is now load-bearing rather than
incidental, because no arguments is what keeps capture profile-blind.

The ledger gate line said "new suite plus dired". --acceptance is
repeatable, so it now carries the executable command including
journey_acceptance and dired_acceptance, both named as preservation
suites and a stop signal. A volatile ledger that understates required
coverage is how a recovering machine runs a weaker gate than the lane
agreed to.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:11:43 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 91e4e514a1
docs: destination-capture revision 2 --- full matrix, preservation suite, coherence
Three review findings.

Q#DC-2 parameterization was incomplete. Revision 1 said only "skip the
stale-buffer check for a non-replacing continuation", but a panel
result does not depend on the captured document window at all: it does
not replace that window buffer (check 3), does not occupy it (check 4),
and does not need that specific window to exist (check 2). Retaining
any of the three can reject git.status for an unrelated document-window
change; dropping them without an explicit profile risks weakening
document replacement. The question now carries a four-row matrix with
two profiles, and check 1 --- the requesting frontend still has a
layout --- is the entire panel profile.

That has a consequence the framing now states rather than leaving to be
discovered: if the panel profile needs only the frontend, a frontend
with no document window can still host a panel, so Q#DC-4 return-nil
rule is right for the document profile and possibly wrong for the panel
one. Settled as part of answering Q#DC-2, not after it.

tests/journey_acceptance.rs joins dired as a named preservation suite
and stop signal. It carries 27 commit_to references across nine named
pins --- forged destination, scope-and-restore on normal return and on
raise, await refusal, delivery to the requesting frontend, the
declining-listener redirect guard, and two already named preservation_*
--- and Journey Stage 1a own framing treats it as a required gate. A
lane that generalizes its substrate does not get to relax that. The
stop signal now covers both suites: a suite edited to accommodate the
change under test has stopped being evidence.

The coherence-impact section was missing entirely. CLAUDE.md and
COHERENCE.md section 25 both require one for coherence-affecting work,
and this lane qualifies twice over --- new Lua API surface, and a
generalization of a Journey substrate. Section 16 is the section it
serves. Journey steps: none added, one protected. Islands, config
registry: none. Section 9: neutral, and stated precisely, because
knowing which frontend a result belongs to is NOT knowing who asked for
it --- that is the worker-identity arc and the two should not be
conflated just because both concern async continuations.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:11:43 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 71ef951535
docs: frame a general destination capture (revision 1)
PR #227 review found that git async completions surface in whichever
frame is active when git exits, and named the right mechanism:
commit_to exists for exactly this continuation boundary, built by
Journey Stage 1a Q#JR14 because the work settles a tick or more later,
by which time the ambient frontend, window and buffer may all name
something else.

The fix is not available to git, which is why this is a lane rather
than a line in #227. commit_to takes a DirectoryDestinationLua that is
nonconstructible from Lua by deliberate design, and the only site that
mints one is inside the path.open-directory listener dispatch, from a
pub(crate) capture. Any async Lua continuation that is not a directory
open has no way to say where its result belongs.

The captured data is already generic --- frontend, window, buffer, with
nothing directory-specific in it. Only the name and the capture site
are, and the rename is 8 references across 4 files, counted rather than
estimated.

The substantive question is Q#DC-2, and scouting is what surfaced it.
Git two continuations are different in kind. *git-status* goes to the
bottom panel, because listview.open resolves display with a "panel"
default. *git-diff* replaces a document window, deliberately, so the
status panel it was invoked from stays visible beside it. The
stale-intent check that commit_to preflight runs --- the window still
shows the captured buffer --- is right for the second and wrong for the
first: the panel never touches that window buffer, so refusing because
the user switched files there is a refusal with no relationship to what
the continuation does. One shape either over-refuses the panel case or
under-checks the document case, and the framing votes for a
parameterized preflight while holding that vote loosely.

No adopter in this lane. Git adoption is #227 work after this lands; a
prerequisite that also converts its first consumer makes the two
impossible to review separately.

Verification carries a stop signal rather than a target: if any
existing dired test needs editing, the generalization changed Journey
Stage 1a semantics and that is cause to stop, not to adjust a test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 14:11:43 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 5cf1d61b92
fix(discovery): clip command descriptions at the single-row surfaces
PR #228 review found a correctness gap this lane made reachable. The
GPU dropdown derives its height, its visible window and its
selection-highlight offset from `rows.len()` — ONE logical row per
candidate — while a detail carrying a line break shapes into more
physical lines than that. One such row misaligns every row below it
and the highlight with it. The grid TUI has the same exposure from the
other side: it writes the description into a single-row suffix on the
minibuffer band.

## Why not reject CR/LF at registration

That was the obvious fix. It was implemented, measured, and abandoned
on evidence.

MCP tool registration renders a whole schema block into
`Command.description` — tool text, blank line, `Arguments:`, then one
line per argument (`tests/fixtures/pmacs-mcp-tools/init.lua:272`, a
`table.concat(lines, "\n")`, used at `:496`). And
`tests/m9_6_acceptance.rs:583-598` ASSERTS four of those lines. A
one-line guard in `CommandRegistry::define` fails 36 tests across
`m9_6` (19/25), `m9_7` (16/19) and `m9_8` (1/17), in both feature
configurations, and could only be made green by deleting a shipped
acceptance criterion.

So the one-line constraint goes where the constraint actually is: the
surfaces that have one row. `Command.description` stays free-form,
which it legitimately is.

## The change

`Command::description_first_line` clips to the first CR **or** LF — a
lone CR ends a line too, and an LF-only clip would pass a bare `\r`
straight through to the same surface. Both single-row consumers call
it: the semantic producer filling `MinibufferRow.detail`
(`src/semantic_render.rs`) and the TUI suffix (`src/editor.rs`). A
first line that is empty ships as `None` rather than `Some("")`, which
would draw trailing padding.

No ellipsis or truncation marker, matching the in-tree precedent and
the minibuffer's own width rule.

`describe-command` and `help.list-commands` are untouched and still
report every line. That is what makes this a rendering decision rather
than data loss, and it is asserted, not assumed.

## Precedent, already in this tree

The same MCP fixture clips a tool RESULT to its first line because
"a multi-line set_status would corrupt the row layout"
(`init.lua:277-285`), leaving width clipping to the frontend. Same
hazard class, same resolution.

## Verification

`src/command.rs`: a schema block registers AND clips, in all three
break forms; a single-line description is byte-identical after the
clip; an empty first line clips to empty.

`tests/discovery_stage2_acceptance.rs`: an MCP-shaped description
reaches the TUI band and the GPU row as one line, through the real
prompt path — with the full text still reachable via
`describe-command` asserted alongside, so a clip that deleted the
schema block everywhere would fail rather than pass.

`pmacs-gpu`: one physical shaped line per logical candidate row — the
geometry invariant the dropdown depends on.

Mutation-checked: neutering `first_line` to the identity fails all
four new break-handling tests
(`a_multi_line_description_registers_and_clips_to_its_first_line`,
`a_description_whose_first_line_is_empty_clips_to_empty`,
`a_multi_line_description_reaches_the_tui_band_as_one_line`,
`a_multi_line_description_reaches_the_gpu_row_as_one_physical_line`)
and leaves the two "did not tighten past purpose" tests green.

`Command.description`'s doc comment claimed "one-line", which the MCP
path openly violates. It now states the real contract and records why
a registration guard must not be re-proposed.

`m9_6`/`m9_7`/`m9_8` pass COMPLETELY UNTOUCHED, and are now named
gate suites so that stays on the record.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 13:52:32 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth bf561ff296
docs: record PR #228 and its merge block
The lane heading said "no PR yet". It also needs to carry WHY the PR is
merge-blocked, because a reader who finds only "blocked" will treat it
as backlog hygiene and unblock it by rerunning the gate.

The problem is gate integrity. --protocol promises the CRDT workspace
sweep, that sweep has a documented precondition (handoff section 5),
and the script does not run it --- confirmed by reading the plan
emitter, not inferred from the failure. So a --protocol result can be
decided by whether the build directory happened to contain pmacs-gpu
rather than by the diff under test.

It was latent until #225 gave each worktree its own target directory. A
shared target dir usually already had pmacs-gpu built, which satisfied
the precondition by accident and hid the omission.

Unblocking needs both halves recorded: the scripts/gate repair as its
own framing and PR, and then a fresh-target rerun of this branch
protocol gate under the repaired script. A rerun alone would reproduce
the same accident.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 13:52:32 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 70e5781420
feat(discovery): M-x rows carry descriptions — protocol v22 -> v23
`Command.description` has always been required and has always been
rendered by `help.list-commands`. It was missing at the one moment it
would change a decision: the M-x row. This carries it there.

COHERENCE.md §5's clause "M-x rows are still bare names", per
docs/discovery-stage2-framing.md revision 3.

## The wire half is additive, and the old variant is FROZEN

postcard is not self-describing: enum variants encode by index and
fields by position. Widening `MinibufferPrompt.candidates` in place
would make every v12–v22 peer MIS-DECODE the bytes rather than ignore
them — and gating the widened form at `>= 23` would not rescue them
either, because with only one variant to gate they would receive no
minibuffer message at all. Compatibility requires the old shape to
still exist AND still be sent.

So `MinibufferPrompt` is retained unchanged for `12..=22`, and
`MinibufferPromptRows { prompt, input, cursor, rows, selected, total }`
is APPENDED as the final variant, carrying `MinibufferRow { label,
detail: Option<String> }`. A new row type, not `CompletionPopupRow`,
whose `kind` is an LSP `CompletionItemKind` code with no honest value
for a command (Q#D2-1).

Exactly one of the two reaches any peer, ever. The producer selects on
the session's negotiated version, so the CLOSE necessarily uses the
same family as the OPEN — a rows session closed by a legacy clear
leaves the dropdown on screen forever. The daemon's write loop gates
both directions again, with the legacy gate written as a RANGE
(`12..MINIBUFFER_ROWS_MIN_VERSION`) rather than a floor, so a v23 peer
cannot receive both and double-render.

`ADVERTISED_PROTOCOL_VERSION` stays 20, untouched.

## The TUI half involves no wire at all

`src/editor.rs` contains zero references to `MinibufferPrompt`:
`paint_minibuffer` reads `core.minibuffer` directly. So it reads
`Command.description` from the registry in-process, which is why this
half is independent of the bump.

Clipping is three ORDERED steps (§3.4), and the guarantee is "never a
PARTIAL name", not "the name always survives" — the prompt and typed
input consume the budget first, so the remainder can be too small even
for the bare name. If the whole name does not fit, the suffix is
omitted entirely; only once it fits is a description attempted; a
description that does not fit whole is dropped, leaving today's
`[name]`. No ellipsis stub, and no prefix of a name is ever emitted.

## Verification

`src/protocol.rs` gains this repo's FIRST literal postcard byte
fixtures: `minibuffer_prompt_v12_wire_bytes_are_frozen`, open and
cleared. A round-trip freezes nothing — it encodes and decodes with
the same types, so a field addition leaves it passing while every
shipped peer breaks. Bite-verified: reordering two fields of
`MinibufferPrompt` leaves `minibuffer_prompt_round_trips_through_postcard`
green and fails the fixture.

`line_wrap_facts_encoding_is_unchanged_by_the_v23_build` pins the
PREVIOUS final variant, per the handoff §4 rule that an appended
variant's own round-trip cannot detect a discriminant shift.

`tests/discovery_stage2_acceptance.rs` runs ONE daemon serving a v22
and a v23 session simultaneously, through the real M-x key path, and
asserts each receives its own variant AND ONLY its own — open and
close alike — by collecting every minibuffer message rather than
filtering for the expected one.

No cross-version cache test, deliberately (§3.2):
`SemanticRenderState::for_peer` bakes the negotiated version in at
attach and is dropped at detach, so a cache cannot span two versions.
A test for an impossible condition passes forever while teaching the
next reader that the hazard is real.

Five version assertions updated, each read before editing:
`src/protocol.rs` (the `PROTOCOL_VERSION` tripwire, renamed; and the
v6-floor ladder's accepted/rejected ranges),
`tests/statusline_segments_acceptance.rs`,
`tests/bottom_panel_stage2b_gpu_acceptance.rs`,
`tests/vterm_stage3_acceptance.rs`. No `ADVERTISED_PROTOCOL_VERSION`
assertion fired.

Gates: `scripts/gate --protocol --acceptance discovery_stage2_acceptance`
— all ten green, including the strengthened two-configuration sweep.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 13:52:32 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 6eecbfcca1
docs: record discovery Stage 2 framing approval
Revision 3 was approved 2026-08-09 at 6a9a25d, after the three stale
internal references were cleared. The lane heading and the framing
status line both still said "in review", which is the kind of
contradiction that makes a reader trust whichever line they hit first.

The lane entry now also records WHAT the three review rounds found,
rather than only how many there were. A count says the doc was
reviewed; the list says what class of error it was reviewed for, which
is the part a later reader can act on.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 13:52:32 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 0e260e0377
docs: clear three stale references revision 3 left behind
Revision 3 corrected the cache model in section 3.2 and the clipping
rule in 3.4, then failed to propagate either. Internal contradictions in
a framing document are worse than the original errors: a later reader
resolves them by picking whichever statement they read first.

  - Q#D2-4 still summarised the design as "per-variant cache keys",
    contradicting 3.2's corrected one-per-peer model. Now names the
    `peer_knows_minibuffer_rows` producer gate and the single per-peer
    cache, with a parenthetical recording that the sentence was stale
    rather than silently rewriting history.
  - Section 6 still required the cross-version cache test that
    revision 3 removed as unfalsifiable. Replaced with what IS
    assertable --- a v22 and a v23 peer attached simultaneously each
    receive their own variant and only their own --- and the bullet
    says why the other test is absent, so it does not get "restored"
    later by someone who notices the gap.
  - The active-work lane still called the framing revision 2.

Swept for the same class of residue from the other two corrections
("the name must survive", "both frontends render"); the remaining hits
are the notes ABOUT those corrections, which are deliberate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 13:52:32 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth e9bfe9a14c
docs: frame Discovery Stage 2 (revision 2) — M-x rows
COHERENCE.md section 5 grades discoverability Partial after Stage 1 and
names "M-x rows are still bare names". The descriptions ALREADY EXIST
--- `Command.description` is required, and `help.list-commands` renders
them --- so this is substrate without surface in its purest form: the
information is present, surfaced elsewhere, and absent from the one
moment it would change a decision.

TWO REVISION-1 CLAIMS WERE WRONG, both checkable in the tree:

  - "Change `candidates` in place and gate at >= 23." Postcard is NOT
    self-describing: fields encode positionally, so a v22 peer decoding
    `Vec<MinibufferRow>` where it expects `Vec<String>` mis-reads the
    bytes rather than skipping them. And gating would not have rescued
    it --- with only one variant to gate, a v12-v22 peer would have
    received NO MINIBUFFER AT ALL. That variant goes to every peer
    negotiated >= 12 (src/daemon.rs:1472).

    Revision 2 is additive: `MinibufferPromptRows` APPENDED to the enum
    (indices are positional; inserting renumbers everything),
    `MinibufferPrompt` frozen for v12-v22, per-peer selection, per-
    variant cache keys, and close matching the open's family --- a
    mismatched close is how a popup stays on screen forever.

  - "Both frontends render label + detail." The grid TUI never reads
    `MinibufferPrompt`; src/editor.rs contains ZERO references to it.
    It paints from `core.minibuffer` and renders the selected candidate
    as `format!("  [{cand}]")` (src/editor.rs:5484). The rich wire
    reaches pmacs-gpu only.

    So the TUI half is a LOCAL formatting change --- it is in-process
    with the core and reads `Command.description` from the registry
    directly, with no wire involvement. The contract is pinned
    including clipping: THE NAME SURVIVES AND THE DESCRIPTION IS
    DROPPED at narrow widths, because a clipped name is strictly worse
    than today's bare one. A multi-row TUI chooser is explicitly not
    this lane.

This lane HOLDS THE BUMP SLOT. Git Stage 1 is no-wire and runs beside
it; git Stage 2 needs a bump and must wait.

Q#D2-5 records a trap that arrives with the feature: richer rows make
M-x LOOK like a closed set, inviting someone to make acceptance reject
unmatched input. Completion is assistance, not validation ---
`resolve_accepted_value` returns literal typed text by design --- so
that would be a behaviour change, not a rendering one, and it is out of
scope.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 13:52:32 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 9a1e11c0c8
fix(lsp): a `/` search boundary no longer disables the LaTeX marker walk
`latex_within_boundary` answered a question about path COMPONENTS with
string arithmetic:

    dir:sub(1, #boundary + 1) == boundary .. "/"

With a `/` boundary the needle is `"//"`, which no canonical path
begins with. Every ancestor was therefore judged out of bounds, the
marker walk never examined a single directory, and each chapter of a
thesis got its own root — two texlab processes for one document tree.
The lane's headline behaviour, silently off, with all fourteen shipped
tests still green because every one of them clamps the boundary to its
own tempdir.

Fixed by comparing segments rather than characters, so the root is a
boundary with zero segments — containing everything by construction
instead of by a special case, and tolerating a trailing separator for
free. The same root-is-special trap sat at two other points on the same
path and is closed with it:

  * `latex_parent_of` returned nil for a top-level directory, making `/`
    the one directory the walk could never examine — the identical bug
    from the far end. It now yields `/`, matching `walk_for_marker`'s
    `Path::ancestors` on the Rust side, and still terminates because `/`
    has no component to strip.
  * `latex_root_for` sliced `/paper.tex` to an EMPTY directory, which
    canonicalizes to nothing and made the resolver DECLINE — and a
    decline is the one path that falls through to `pmacs.project.detect`,
    whose walk includes `.git`. A document at the filesystem root now
    roots at `/`.
  * `latex_marker_in`'s join is guarded for `dir == "/"`, which this
    change makes reachable for the first time; the naive form produces
    `//name`, the one spelling POSIX leaves implementation-defined.

Two new pins plus a strengthened one, 16 tests:

  * `two_chapters_share_one_server_under_a_root_search_boundary` — the
    defect end to end through ATTACH, not on the predicate, because the
    symptom is two servers rather than a wrong string. Restoring the old
    comparison fails exactly this test, with the two-server output.
  * `latex_root_walk_stops_at_the_search_boundary` now asserts BOTH
    directions. "Stops at the boundary" is also satisfied by a walk that
    never runs — which is precisely what a `/` boundary produced — so the
    hermeticity property (R8's shape: a stray `latexmkrc` above the
    tempdir must stay invisible) is now paired with the walk still
    climbing to, and examining, the boundary directory itself.
  * `latex_root_for_a_document_at_the_filesystem_root_is_the_root`.

Also corrects `docs/active-work.md`: §3 no longer awaits a revision 3 —
`b5eaf27` IS revision 3 — and the lane entry now records that boundary
handling has been this resolver's interesting part twice, so a reader
weighing whether to trust it knows where to look first.

Gates: ALL GREEN via `./scripts/gate --acceptance lsp_latex_acceptance`.
`/tmp` on this machine is a near-full tmpfs and three grep tests fail
there with `QuotaExceeded`; the green run used
`TMPDIR=/home/jeans/build/pmacs-gate-tmp/lsp-latex`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 10:48:49 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 12b7ee58d8
docs: LaTeX framing revision 3 --- step zero corrected the premise
The .texlabroot caveat is discharged, and discharging it falsified the
reasoning behind it.

.texlabroot is real, and texlab marker set is wider than this document
listed --- the bare texlabroot and latexmkrc spellings count too, and
the walk takes the innermost. The implementation ships texlab own set.

But the caveat framed marker 1 as conditional on texlab honouring the
FILE, which was the wrong question. Every arm of texlab ancestor walk
searches documents already loaded, and that workspace is built from the
folders the CLIENT supplies. Observed: with rootUri at chapters/, no
ancestor marker widened texlab view and its dependency graph never
reached the parent document; with rootUri at the marker directory the
parent resolved either way.

So texlab honours the root it is handed and never corrects a too-narrow
one. config.latex.root IS the project scope, which makes the resolver
the whole value of the lane for a multi-file thesis rather than a
nicety --- the opposite of how section 2 "Slice 1 is one config entry"
reads.

Second correction, and this one was a real trap. Revision 2 said .git
is deliberately excluded from the walk and stopped there. Omitting it
is not sufficient: project_root_for falls through to
pmacs.project.detect when a resolver returns nil, and that walk lists
.git among its markers at src/project.rs:184. A resolver that politely
declined on a markerless file would hand texlab the monorepo by the
back door, with the exclusion looking correct at every line you would
think to read. The resolver never declines for a file with a directory,
and the fixture asserts the shared detector really would have answered
the repo root so the pin cannot pass vacuously.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 10:48:49 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 22d72fa7f7
docs: record the LaTeX lane as implemented, step zero discharged
Section-local edit to the lane's own block in `docs/active-work.md`.

The heading moves from "BRANCHED, framing in review" to "IMPLEMENTED,
gates green, no PR yet", and the §3 `.texlabroot` caveat is written up
as discharged rather than merely resolved: what texlab actually does,
how it was observed, and the one place the framing now reads stale.

The substantive finding recorded here is not "the marker works". It is
that texlab's own root walk only sees markers belonging to documents
already in its workspace, and the workspace comes from the folders the
client supplies — so texlab honours the root pmacs hands it and never
corrects a too-narrow one. That makes `config.latex.root` the project
scope rather than a hint, which is worth carrying forward whether or
not anyone rereads the framing.

Also recorded: the shared-`CARGO_TARGET_DIR` trap, because a bare
`cargo test` in this worktree fails with compile errors from a sibling
lane's code and reads exactly like a broken branch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 10:48:49 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 75f5f97582
docs: authorize LSP LaTeX implementation, precisely
Recorded as "implementation authorized" rather than "approved", because
that is what happened: the user authorized dispatch after a summary of
revision 2 four corrections, not after returning findings on the
document the way they did for the other four lanes.

The distinction matters for one reason. Section 3 .texlabroot caveat is
unverified and blocking --- texlab 5.25.1 is installed and its version
and CLI were checked, but the CLI exposes only run and inverse-search,
so its LSP-level behaviour was never established. A framing marked
plainly "approved" invites a reader to treat that caveat as settled
prose. It is step zero of the work.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 10:48:49 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 7992054153
docs: LSP LaTeX coverage framing revision 2, on a branch at last
Revision 1 was untracked, on main, in a single checkout. By the handoff
own rule --- work is portable only after it is committed and pushed ---
it did not travel. Committing it here is the first fix.

Three factual corrections, all from checking rather than reading.

haskell-language-server IS installed on this machine, along with its
wrapper. Revision 1 said it was not, and that claim was the entire
basis of its Slice 1 / Slice 2 split. Only OCaml still lacks a server.
The argument for leaving Haskell out survives, but on use evidence ---
the .hs files are a rarely-edited Hakyll generator --- not on
dependency cost.

Slice 1 is smaller than framed. Revision 1 proposed filetype mappings
for .tex/.latex/.sty/.cls "so highlighting and LSP agree on what a
LaTeX file is". They already agree, by construction: the grammar
carries exactly those extensions at src/syntax.rs:1111,
grammar-extension detection sits AHEAD of the LSP filetype map in the
precedence chain per the merged grammar framing at :166-171, and
lsp.lua:267-270 calls the filetype map "mainly the LSP-only fallback".
The real missing piece is one config entry.

Q#LX3 deferral argument read a stale line. COHERENCE.md:124 and :867
both record multi-root LSP affinity as merged in #161; only :1669 still
says "first slice in flight", contradicting the same document twice.
The one item revision 1 said could justify deferring therefore
dissolves. The COHERENCE.md inconsistency is real and is left for
whoever next touches section 20 rather than smuggled in here.

Q#LX2, which revision 1 called the question most likely to make the
entry wrong in practice, is now answered rather than shrugged at. An
upward marker walk through config.latex.root, which already accepts a
resolver function. .git is deliberately excluded: a repository root is
the wrong answer for LaTeX, since texlab wants the document root, and
this is the one place where copying the other fourteen entries
instinct would be actively wrong.

The .texlabroot marker is marked UNVERIFIED and blocking. texlab 5.25.1
is installed and its version and CLI were checked directly, but the CLI
exposes only run and inverse-search, so its LSP-level behaviour was not
established. Confirm against a live session before implementing. Same
discipline the gate-protocol-build lane applies to its own
precondition: the thing the design rests on gets observed, not
reasoned about.

Also renumbered Q#HS1 to Q#LX4, because revision 1 Q#LX2 collided with
a live question ID in the merged grammar framing for the same language.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-10 10:48:49 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth ae6a815435
docs: two unresolved macOS signatures from #229 CI, as separate rows
PR #229 first CI run went red on Test (macos-latest / lua54) with
a_pty_resize_blanks_the_host_before_repainting. The rerun turned that
selector green in 0.50s against 20.26s failing, and went red on a
DIFFERENT selector, ctrl_c_during_reconnect_sleep_yields_clean_exit.
Per this file matching rule that is a new incident, not the resize
signature occurring twice, so they are two rows.

U4 records the resize failure with its exact fragments. The diff is
excluded on two structural grounds that do not depend on a rerun: #229
touches no src/ at all and no test but gate_script_acceptance, and the
sibling luajit leg passed on the same commit. A deterministic platform
defect fails both flavours --- that is how #227 non-UTF-8 fixture
presented.

U5 records the Ctrl-C failure at deliberately WEAKER exclusion
strength, and says so in its own field. The changed gate suite ran
earlier in the same job and creates worktrees and directories. No
leaked child or persistent signal-state mutation was observed, but "the
diff touches no src/" is not the same argument here as for U4, because
cross-suite leaked state is a path reachability reasoning does not
close. Its control is to run m5_8_acceptance alone, without the gate
suite ahead of it, before attributing anything either way.

Neither row claims a mechanism. The exit status shows only that Ctrl-C
arrived as SIGINT rather than as the raw-mode key event the test
drives; whether injection preceded raw mode, raw mode was lost, or
something else happened is open, and the fragment does not separate
them.

Also flagged: worker-identity-stage1 independently defines its own U4
and U5. This lane merges first, so that branch must renumber on rebase
--- a conflict resolved textually without renumbering would leave two
different incidents sharing an id, which is the failure the matching
rule exists to prevent.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-09 23:30:53 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 93d557a527
docs: record the witness as closed, and what the audit found next door
Revision 5's ledger edits were written while the witness was still the
open blocker, and landed alongside the commit that closed it --- so the
entry asserted both at once: an OPEN BLOCKER bullet saying this lane
"currently ships without the regression guard it was created to
provide", and, further down, that same gap closed at 677fd25. A
recovering machine reads the top of an entry first, so the stale half
is the half that gets acted on. Reconciled in place: the heading, the
framing bullet and the blocker bullet now say re-opened by review and
CLOSED at 677fd25, and point at the bullet that closed it.

The script header cited framing revision 4; it is revision 5.

Also recorded, from auditing whether any OTHER assertion in that suite
is detached from the thing it names: renaming every other plan step ---
fmt, clippy, lib, m4, gpu, sweep, diff-check, acceptance-<suite> ---
leaves all 20 tests green. For most that is only a log filename and a
FAILED: entry. `sweep` is not: the runner's end-of-run listing globs
*-sweep.log and *-sweep-crdt.log, so renaming that step silently
empties the "read these, do not re-run and grep" listing that is the
U2/U3 remedy, with the suite still green. Left open deliberately and
said so --- that listing exists only on the RUN path, and every test in
this file is no-gates by design, so there is no cheap witness for it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-09 18:18:34 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 74d735ff8d
docs: gate framing revision 5 --- pin both emitter pairs, correct print-plan
Revision 4 said it would close the rename hole for the sweep as well as
the build, and then did not: its verification bullet required only a
singular real-plan pair in the context of build-crdt. The hole is
symmetric --- renaming sweep-crdt slips through exactly the same gap
--- so section 7 now pins BOTH emitter pairs explicitly, name and exact
command, asserted from the emitter where the name still exists.

Two older bullets also still claimed named steps appear in
--print-plan. They do not; that mode prints commands only, which is the
wording that let the attribution witness drift away from the step it
names in the first place. --print-plan is now described as the command
and order witness, and nothing more.

The ledger recorded revision 4 as approved and implemented, and
presented the synthetic self-test as the attribution witness. Both were
read as done. A recovering machine or a PR preparation from that entry
would have shipped this lane without the regression guard it exists to
provide.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-09 18:11:14 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 49bc141500
docs: record the acceptance run, and the red that came with it
The acceptance criterion is witnessed: `scripts/gate --acceptance
gate_script_acceptance --protocol` on a target root that did not exist
beforehand goes green in all eleven steps, with `09 build-crdt ok`
producing `debug/pmacs-gpu` and `gpu_invocation_acceptance` at 15
passed / 0 failed where the same suite is 3 / 12 without the build
step. No manual build anywhere, which is the thing that was false.

An EARLIER attempt at that same cold run went red, and it is recorded
rather than dropped once a later run was green. Fifty failures across
m5_5/m5_6/m5_7/m5_8 --- all real-daemon suites --- with the signature
"daemon exited with exit status: 101 before socket appeared;
socket=/tmp/.tmpXXXX/pmacs.sock" and an EMPTY daemon stderr. Not the
pmacs-gpu signature, and no row in docs/ci-red-signatures.md matches
it.

Re-running the same test binary from the same target directory gave
36/36. Per that registry's own rule a green rerun establishes
INTERMITTENCE ONLY, never environmental cause, so this is left open
rather than blamed on the load it happened under.

What DOES rule out this lane's change is a construction argument, not
the rerun: the root crate declares `default = ["luajit"]`, so
`--no-default-features --features luajit,crdt` enables exactly the same
feature set as the sweep's `--features crdt`. `build-crdt` cannot hand
the sweep a differently-featured binary, so it has no mechanism by
which to break a daemon suite.

Also records that the new assertions were mutation tested --- wrong
features, wrong position, unconditional emission, an aborting runner,
and the build folded into `sweep-crdt` each fail the suite.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-09 17:15:56 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 898a98120c
docs: one normative home for the crdt sweep's build precondition
The durable half of this lane is a boundary question, not the missing
line. `scripts/gate`'s header names handoff section 3 as the owner of
its reasoning, and this precondition lived in section 5's hazard
register --- a coherent cause for the omission rather than mere
oversight. A requirement the script was never told to encode is one it
will keep not encoding.

So section 3 gains it NORMATIVELY: the build joins the protocol-bump
block as a third line, with its own load-bearing bullet covering the
mechanism (pmacs-gpu has no tests/ directory, so cargo never uplifts
its bin), the measurement that makes it conditional, and why it was
latent until per-worktree target directories stopped hiding it.

Section 5 keeps the INCIDENT and its signature, which is history rather
than contract, and now says so: twelve
`gpu_invocation_acceptance::crdt::*` failures on a target directory
with no `debug/pmacs-gpu`, first seen on PR #228's first gate run.
Recast so that seeing the signature again reads as "the script was
bypassed", not "the requirement moved".

The script's header keeps citing section 3 and ONLY section 3. Citing
both would split one executable contract across two homes and weaken
the script's only clean boundary at the same time as Q#GR-4 declines to
build any automated check for prose drift. A boundary that is neither
enforced nor singular is not a boundary.

The ledger records Q#GR-1's observed answer rather than the question:
both sweeps run alone from the same cold disposable target with
`debug/pmacs-gpu` asserted absent beforehand --- default exit 0 with
the binary still absent afterwards, crdt exit 101 with exactly twelve
failures --- plus the silent-skip finding, which is the part nobody was
looking for: a54 reported `ok` in that cold crdt sweep because its only
non-spawning path is its skip branch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-09 16:39:35 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 12affd78e1
docs: gate framing revision 3 --- a witness that can fail, and the ledger
Two findings, both about a claim that could not be falsified.

The --self-test plan put the failing step last. With the failure last,
a runner that ABORTS on failure and one that CONTINUES produce
identical output, so the witness for Q#GR-2 policy --- the suite keeps
going --- would have passed on a runner doing the exact opposite. The
plan is now three lines with a passing SENTINEL after build-crdt,
asserted to have written its own log. That is the only thing that
distinguishes the two behaviours, and it turns Q#GR-2 from a declared
policy into an observed one.

The plan test also now pins the EXACT command, not only the step name
and its position. A build-crdt running plain cargo build would leave
the gate exactly as unsound while looking repaired --- the crdt sweep
needs those specific features, which is the whole defect.

The ledger still recorded the superseded boundary decision: "section 3
gains it, section 5 keeps the incident, and the script cites both".
Revision 2 replaced that with section 3 as the sole normative home and
the script citing section 3 alone. active-work.md is the volatile
cross-machine record, so a recovering machine reading the stale entry
would have rebuilt revision 1 wrong boundary. Now updated, and it says
which decision it supersedes rather than silently replacing it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-09 16:10:09 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 4e02cb09b4
docs: gate framing revision 2 --- one normative home, a real witness
Three review findings.

The normative build requirement goes entirely into handoff section 3.
Revision 1 proposed section 3 gaining it while the script header cited
both sections, which splits one executable contract across two homes
and weakens the single clean boundary the script has --- at the same
time as Q#GR-4 declines to build any automated check for prose drift. A
boundary that is neither enforced nor singular is not a boundary.
Section 5 keeps the incident and its signature, which is history rather
than contract.

Q#GR-1 observation procedure was unsafe and insufficient. "Delete
pmacs-gpu from a target directory" mutates a live worktree build
directory, and removing one binary does not establish that the other
artifacts and feature permutations are cold --- a stale dependency
graph can satisfy the run for reasons the experiment never sees. Now: a
disposable target, the binary asserted ABSENT before each run as a
recorded precondition, and the two sweeps run separately so neither can
be explained by the other having built the binary first. That last
point is the same accident that hid this defect for the whole life of
the shared target dir.

The attribution criterion had no feasible witness. gate_script_acceptance
deliberately runs no gates, so plan assertions prove name and order and
nothing about runtime behaviour. The obvious seam is a trap: making
PLAN_FILE injectable would turn the script into a general command
executor through its runner eval --- the same class of defect this
script own review already caught in --acceptance and fixed with a
parse-time refusal. Reintroducing it one lane later, in the tool whose
purpose is to be trustworthy, is not a trade worth making.

Q#GR-5 proposes --self-test over a HARDCODED two-line synthetic plan,
true and false, with the failing one named build-crdt. No injection,
no real gate, and it tests the thing actually under test: whether the
runner names the right gate when a command fails. Whether cargo build
really fails is cargo business.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-09 15:57:47 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 01316cbc74
docs: frame the scripts/gate --protocol build step (revision 1)
--protocol promises the CRDT workspace sweep. That sweep documented
precondition is cargo build --workspace --no-default-features
--features luajit,crdt (handoff section 5:532-535), and the plan
emitter at scripts/gate:187-204 has no build step at all --- read from
the source, not inferred from the failure.

The interesting part is why it stayed invisible. Before #225 every
worktree on this machine resolved to one shared CARGO_TARGET_DIR, which
almost always already contained a pmacs-gpu binary, so the precondition
was satisfied by accident on essentially every run. Per-worktree target
dirs start empty. So this is not a bug #225 introduced; it is a
pre-existing gap in the documented procedure that #225 stopped hiding.

That also decides the urgency. A red gate is fine --- it stops you. The
hazard is the reverse: a GREEN --protocol run whose crdt sweep was
decided by what happened to be in the build directory rather than by
the diff. A gate reporting coverage it does not have is exactly what
#225 exists to prevent, so the tool shipping with this gap teaches the
opposite of what it is for.

Observed on PR #228 first gate run: twelve
gpu_invocation_acceptance::crdt::* failures, all "build pmacs-gpu
before this acceptance suite", with debug/pmacs-gpu absent from the
fresh target dir.

The durable half is a boundary question rather than a missing line. The
script header names handoff section 3 as the owner of its reasoning,
and this precondition lives in section 5 --- a coherent cause for the
omission, not oversight. Q#GR-3 proposes section 3 gains it, section 5
keeps the incident and its signature, and the script stops naming
section 3 as its only source.

Q#GR-1 is marked as the one thing this lane will not accept on
reasoning: whether the default sweep also needs the binary must be
established by deleting it and running both sweeps. The whole defect is
a precondition nobody checked, and establishing its replacement by
reading would repeat the error at one remove. The mechanism section
states its own inference (the failing tests are namespaced ::crdt:: and
so are probably feature-gated) and marks it unverified.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
2026-08-09 15:22:04 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 4bc55e8dd2
build: scripts/gate — a target dir per worktree, and one gate suite (#225)
* build: scripts/gate — a target dir per worktree, and one gate suite

Parallel worktrees do not work on this machine, and the reason is one
exported variable: every checkout builds into one CARGO_TARGET_DIR, and
cargo takes an EXCLUSIVE LOCK on it. Two lanes building at once do not
run in parallel — the second blocks — and they invalidate each other's
artifacts, so alternating between them recompiles from scratch. Parallel
development under that arrangement is slower than serial.

MEASURED, BECAUSE THE FIRST PLAN WAS WRONG. The shared directory is
285G, which drove a proposal to add sccache so per-worktree directories
would not lose artifact sharing. That number is years of accumulation
across TWO projects (pmacs and levcs share it). Measured directly: a
cold `cargo test --workspace --no-run` is 80s and 19G. And sccache
across two target directories hits 50% on C/C++ and **0.00% on Rust** —
rlibs embed their target-dir path, so dependency artifacts are not
bit-identical between directories and `--extern` hashes cascade into
misses. There is no sharing worth buying back. sccache stays configured
and earns its keep on C/C++; it is not what makes parallel lanes work.

The script also owns the FIXED gates, because a procedure living only in
prose gets executed differently each time — twice in the session that
motivated this:

  - a sweep run with `--tests` instead of `--workspace`, silently
    dropping pmacs_protocol and pmacs_gpu, including protocol tests that
    same lane had just written;
  - a sweep piped through `grep` before anyone read it, so an
    intermittent red could not be matched against ci-red-signatures —
    a row needs its fragments. That is registry note U2, and then U3
    when it happened AGAIN.

Hence durable per-gate logs with the sweep paths printed. The remedy is
real: this lane's own run diagnosed its failures from the log without
re-running anything.

WHAT THE SCRIPT IS NOT AUTHORITATIVE FOR. Handoff §3 keeps policy and
keeps CHOOSING the touched acceptance suites, which arrive only via
`--acceptance`. No script can infer those from a working tree, and one
that guessed would report coverage it does not have.

THREE HAZARDS SPECIFIED RATHER THAN LEFT TO CHANCE:

  - `cmd | tee log` reports TEE's status, so a failing gate would exit 0
    and the suite would read green. `pipefail` is not POSIX.
  - `cmd > log; rc=$?` never reaches the assignment under `set -eu`
    (which scripts/bite already uses) — the shell exits at the failing
    command, so nothing prints which gate failed or where its log is,
    destroying the point of capturing it. The runner is therefore an
    `if` condition, the only `set -e` exemption.
  - CARGO_TARGET_DIR (env) OVERRIDES build.target-dir in config.toml, so
    a per-worktree config file silently does nothing. Only a
    per-invocation value beats it.

Pruning is dry-run by default, `--force` to delete, and refuses any
directory without a `.pmacs-gate-target` marker. "Live" means a git
worktree record carrying NO `prunable` line — git keeps listing a
worktree whose directory was deleted without `git worktree remove`, and
treating listed as live would make exactly the reclaimable directories
permanently ineligible.

ONE HONEST FINDING FROM MUTATION TESTING. Three mutations came back
vacuous, and all three are redundant defences rather than test holes:
git already returns resolved physical paths from both
`rev-parse --show-toplevel` and `worktree list --porcelain`, so canon()
is belt-and-braces; and the prune path guards the marker twice. Recorded
in the script and the tests so a later reader does not mistake a
"vacuous" result for a gap — or delete a defence because a test did not
notice.

VERIFICATION. 11 acceptance tests over the no-gates paths (running the
script for real inside the suite would recurse), each pointed at a
tempdir via PMACS_GATE_TARGET_ROOT so the real managed root is
unreachable — a prune bug is unrecoverable. Mutation-tested: `--tests`
in the sweep, an unconditional CRDT sweep, and pruning on a dry run all
fail their intended test.

Observed in a real run, which is how the framing said to confirm the
parts a test cannot: the failed-gate names and log paths print, the
ambient directory is created and reaped by the exit trap, and every log
appears. The run exits non-zero because of R8 — the pre-existing,
merge-base-confirmed listview failure — which means `scripts/gate`
cannot go green on this machine until R8 is diagnosed. That is a
property of the tree, not of this change.

Framing: docs/gate-script-framing.md (revision 4, approved).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai

* fix(gate): two ways the script could do harm, and four smaller defects

Review round 1 on #225. Neither blocking finding was a design gap ---
both were the implementation failing to honour its own framing, which
is the case a framing document cannot prevent by itself.

PRUNE COULD DELETE EVERY MANAGED DIRECTORY. §2.6 requires the live
worktree set to be ESTABLISHED. The code piped `git worktree list`
straight into awk and the caller masked the result with `|| true`, so
running from outside any repository produced an EMPTY live set --- and
an empty live set means "every managed directory is an orphan", so
`--prune --force` would have deleted all of them, live lanes' artifacts
included. The failure mode was silent and total.

Two refusals now, and they are deliberately redundant: not inside a
worktree, and the enumeration itself failing. `live_worktrees` captures
git's output and returns non-zero rather than emitting nothing, so
"I cannot tell what is live" is unrepresentable as "nothing is live".
An empty porcelain listing counts as failure too --- a repository always
has at least its own worktree.

--ACCEPTANCE WAS SHELL-INJECTABLE. The name is interpolated into a
command the runner evaluates, and nothing validated it, so
`--acceptance 'x; rm -rf ~'` would have run. Now an allowlist of what a
cargo test target can actually be named --- letters, digits, underscore,
hyphen --- refused at parse time, before any gate. Rejection rather than
escaping: there is no legitimate suite name that needs quoting.

FOUR SMALLER ONES:

  - Log directories carried a whole-second timestamp, so two runs in the
    same worktree within one second shared one and could overwrite each
    other's evidence --- reintroducing U2/U3 through a naming choice.
    The PID is now part of the name.
  - The ownership marker is DOCUMENTED as one line, so it is enforced as
    one line instead of read head-first. Acting on the first line of a
    file we did not understand is how a corrupted marker authorises a
    deletion.
  - The `prunable` test returned green when `git worktree add` failed,
    so the only coverage of that rule could silently never run. It now
    fails loudly.
  - Its cleanup ran after the assertions, so a panicking assertion would
    have left the real repository carrying a stale worktree record. Now
    a `Drop` guard.

MUTATION TESTING, HONESTLY REPORTED. The injection and marker fixes bite
individually. The two prune guards do NOT --- each alone satisfies the
outside-repo test, so mutating one at a time reads as vacuous. Removing
BOTH fails the test, which is what establishes that the test detects the
unsafe state rather than being blind to it. Recorded in the test so a
later reader does not delete one guard on the grounds that nothing
noticed.

ALSO: handoff §3's ambient-root caveat still said "until the
ambient-root isolation lane lands". #206 merged; the five variables are
now belt-and-braces for external and integration paths, and `scripts/gate`
sets them regardless.

R8 PROMOTED. `docs/ci-red-signatures.md` gains the reason it stops being
a catalogued curiosity: with the gate suite reduced to one command, R8
makes that command exit non-zero on a clean tree EVERY TIME, and a gate
that is always red is a gate nobody reads. `docs/active-work.md` gains a
lane. It is still not a regression from #223 or #225 --- the merge-base
control says so --- and the lane's first job is diagnosis, because a
change that made the assertion pass without explaining the prefix strip
would convert a visible failure into an invisible one.

15 acceptance tests. Observed run re-confirmed: failed gates named with
log paths, ambient directory created and reaped, distinct log directory,
exit 1 from R8 alone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai

* docs: the #225 lane, and R8 diagnosed to a stray /tmp/.git

TWO LEDGER GAPS, both found by review.

and — the part that matters — an explicit GATE STATUS: NOT GREEN
section. `scripts/gate` exits 1 on this branch and on a clean `main`
because R8 fails m4_acceptance and therefore the sweep. That is a merge
blocker under the standing rule, and #225 is the worst possible lane to
grant a silent exception to: it is the lane that makes the gate suite
authoritative, and a tool shipping with its own gate red teaches the
opposite of what it exists to teach.

The lane also records that it was written after the PR existed, again,
because review asked again. Two lanes in a row now. The correction from
only evidence of that.

R8 DIAGNOSED, and the `TMPDIR` hypothesis was right:

  1. `display_path` (builtin/runtime/lsp.lua:2397) shortens a location
     against the DETECTED PROJECT ROOT before rendering it.
  2. `project.detect` walks UPWARD for a marker; from
     /tmp/.tmpXXXX/r.rs it reaches /tmp.
  3. This machine has a stray `/tmp/.git` — an EMPTY DIRECTORY, not a
     repository. The `.git` marker is directory-only, so an empty
     directory still matches.
  4. Root resolves to /tmp, the prefix is stripped, and the rendered row
     is exactly the observed `.tmpXXXXXX/r.rs:12:3`.

Controlled, not inferred: the same test with TMPDIR outside /tmp PASSES.

THE CODEBASE ANTICIPATED THIS BY NAME. src/project.rs:208 documents
`detect_project_within(start, markers, stop_root)` as existing "so a
stray marker in a temp-dir's ancestor (e.g. a developer's /tmp/.git)
can't leak into a fixture that lives below it." The mechanism exists;
this fixture does not use it.

So the row splits, and the halves need different fixes. The failure is
ENVIRONMENTAL — nothing about pmacs is wrong when a real project root
sits above a file, that is the feature, and removing /tmp/.git makes the
gate green immediately. The fixture being ENVIRONMENT-DEPENDENT is a
real defect, and bounding its detection is what retires the row.

PROVENANCE UNRESOLVED, and I am not going to assume in my own favour:
/tmp/.git is dated 2026-08-07 23:17, inside this session's window, and
may have been created by this session's own work — a stray git
invocation from /tmp would do it. The earlier merge-base control stays
valid as "this tree has it" but says nothing about WHEN the environment
acquired the marker, so "pre-existing" must not be read as
"long-standing".

Nothing deleted: /tmp/.git is outside the repository and I cannot
confirm I created it, so removing it is the user's call.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai

* docs: rebase onto the R8 fix; scripts/gate now exits 0

#226 (`dcb852e`) retired R8 by bounding the LSP fixture's project
detection. This branch rebases onto it, and the thing that was blocked
is now demonstrable: **`scripts/gate` exits 0** --- all nine gates green
in one command, the first time the tool has passed the suite it exists
to run. That is #225's own acceptance criterion, and it could not even
be stated while the script did not exist on `main`.

REBASE RESOLUTION, per the standing rule that #226's R8 documentation is
authoritative. Every conflict was in R8 text this branch wrote while the
row was still an open investigation:

  - two in `docs/ci-red-signatures.md`, both resolved to #226's retired
    row with this branch's pre-fix copy dropped;
  - the framing-doc pair --- e71e1bd added `docs/r8-fixture-boundary-
    framing.md`, 7cfba73 removed it --- both SKIPPED. They are net-zero
    here and `main` owns that file authoritatively; replaying the second
    would have deleted `main`'s copy, which is the one failure mode a
    mechanical "resolve each conflict in turn" would have walked into.

TWO STALE LANES REMOVED. This branch's "R8 --- NEEDS A LANE"
investigation block describes a diagnosis that has since happened and a
fix that has since landed. And #226's own lane arrived through the
rebase still saying "OPEN, HELD FOR REVIEW"; Rule 4 retires it now that
it has merged, its durable facts already being in the retired registry
row and the handoff section 6 census. Leaving either would have left the
ledger asserting that a merged fix was still an open investigation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-09 09:43:33 +00:00
Levi Neuwirth dcb852e740
fix(tests): bound the LSP fixture's project detection — retires R8 (#226)
* docs: frame the R8 fixture-boundary fix (revision 2)

R8 fails m4_acceptance deterministically on one machine, and the
diagnosis is that the fixture never bounds its own project detection.

`display_path` (builtin/runtime/lsp.lua:2397) shortens a location
against the DETECTED PROJECT ROOT. `pmacs.project.detect` walks upward
for a marker; from /tmp/.tmpXXXX/r.rs it reaches /tmp, where this
machine has a stray EMPTY `.git` directory. The `.git` marker is
directory-only, so an empty directory matches, the root resolves to
/tmp, and the prefix is stripped.

THE PRODUCT BEHAVIOUR IS CORRECT AND IS NOT CHANGING. Shortening a
location against its project root is the feature. The defect is that
the fixture's assertion depends on whether the developer's /tmp happens
to contain a `.git`.

THE MECHANISM ALREADY EXISTS AND THIS SUITE ALREADY USES IT.
`src/project.rs:208` documents `detect_project_within(.., stop_root)` as
existing "so a stray marker in a temp-dir's ancestor (e.g. a
developer's /tmp/.git) can't leak into a fixture that lives below it."
It is exposed to Lua as `pmacs.project.set_search_boundary`; eight test
files make fourteen real calls to it, five of them in m4_acceptance
itself --- one carrying that same hazard as a comment. `open_against_fake`
(tests/m4_acceptance.rs:7985) is one helper that missed the pattern.

THE WITNESS PLANTS ITS OWN HAZARD, so the proof is not a property of
this machine: an empty `.git` in a temporary ancestor, the file one
level below, boundary at the file's parent. With the boundary the row
renders absolute; reverting it strips the prefix deterministically on
every machine, including CI where /tmp/.git does not exist. The
/tmp/.git observation stays as corroboration, not as the bite.

`scripts/gate` is deliberately NOT a criterion: this lane branches from
main, where that script does not exist (it is unmerged on #225). Naming
it would make this lane depend on an artifact absent from its own base.
R8 lands first on its own merits; #225 then rebases and takes "gate runs
green" as ITS criterion.

Q#R8-1 records a limitation rather than discovering it later:
parent-as-boundary is correct only while fixtures put the file as a
direct child of the fixture root. A future nested fixture cannot fix
itself by passing a deeper path --- the boundary is DERIVED from the
parent, so a deeper path clamps sooner, never later.

Provenance of /tmp/.git is left permanently unresolved, and the document
says why no timestamp is treated as authoritative.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai

* fix(tests): bound the LSP fixture's project detection — retires R8

`open_against_fake` never set a search boundary, so the panel tests'
rendered paths were shortened against whatever project root detection
found ABOVE their tempdir. On a machine with a stray `/tmp/.git` that
meant `/tmp` --- and the assertion that spells a path out failed
deterministically. Registry row R8.

THE PRODUCT BEHAVIOUR WAS NEVER WRONG AND IS NOT CHANGED. Shortening a
location against its project root is the feature; a file that really is
inside a project really should render relative to it. What was wrong is
that a fixture's assertion depended on the contents of the developer's
/tmp.

THE MECHANISM WAS ALREADY THERE. `src/project.rs:208` documents
`detect_project_within(.., stop_root)` as existing "so a stray marker in
a temp-dir's ancestor (e.g. a developer's /tmp/.git) can't leak into a
fixture that lives below it" --- naming this exact hazard. It is exposed
to Lua as `pmacs.project.set_search_boundary`, eight test files make
fourteen real calls to it, and five of those are in this same file, one
carrying that hazard as a comment. This was one helper that missed a
pattern its own file already used.

THE WITNESS PLANTS ITS OWN HAZARD, so the proof is not a property of one
machine. `a_planted_ancestor_marker_does_not_reach_the_rendered_row`
creates an empty `.git` in a temporary ancestor with the file one level
below, and asserts the row stays absolute. Reverting the boundary fails
it with `proj/r.rs:12:3` --- relative to the PLANTED marker, not to
/tmp, because the nearer ancestor wins. That is what makes it bite in
CI, where no /tmp/.git exists; confirmed by also running it with TMPDIR
outside /tmp.

Resting the bite on /tmp/.git would have been the same mistake as a test
that passes only where the developer happens to be standing.

/tmp/.git IS DELIBERATELY LEFT IN PLACE. Deleting it would hide the
hermeticity defect rather than fix it, its provenance is unresolved, and
it is the only thing on this machine that reproduces the row --- which
makes it useful, not merely untouchable. The R8 fix is verified WITH it
present.

VERIFICATION. The R8 test passes on the machine that reproduces it. Full
m4_acceptance 151/0. `--lib` 1920, `--lib --features crdt` 2105,
`-p pmacs-gpu` 241, fmt, clippy, `git diff --check`. The full workspace
sweep exits 0 across 113 targets --- the first fully green local sweep of
this session, R8 having been the only obstacle.

`scripts/gate` is deliberately not a criterion: this branches from main,
where it does not exist. #225 rebases onto this and takes a green gate
run as ITS criterion.

R8 is RETIRED CAUSALLY --- mechanism removed plus a discriminating,
portable witness --- and moved to the retired section with its
disposition. What the retirement does NOT claim is stated there: 113
`new_with_roots` constructions in this suite alone, an unknown number
equally unbounded, harmless only while their assertions do not render a
path. That census is now a named §6 follow-on, because the next one will
otherwise look like a fresh mystery rather than a known class.

Framing: docs/r8-fixture-boundary-framing.md (revision 2, approved).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai

* docs(tests): reunite the listview doc comment with its test; state the PR

Three review findings, one of which is mine to own plainly.

I REPORTED A SHA I NEVER VERIFIED. The previous message named the PR
head as `21f0ed1`. That object does not exist in this repository. The
true head is `78d8e1c` --- local tip, `githubsucks/r8-fixture-boundary`,
and the PR all agree, and it is what was reviewed. No command in that
turn ever printed `21f0ed1`; I asserted an identifier instead of
reading one, which is precisely the failure a head-SHA check exists to
catch. Verified this time before writing it down.

THE DOC COMMENT DOCUMENTED THE WRONG TEST. Inserting the new witness
anchored on `#[test]\nfn flat_listview_...`, which sits BELOW that
test's 17-line doc comment --- so the comment about outline and flat
listview consumers ended up introducing the planted-marker test, which
touches neither, while the test it was written for was left bare. Moved
back. No behaviour change; both tests still pass.

That is a general hazard of anchored insertion worth naming: anchoring
on the `fn` line silently steals whatever documentation precedes it.

STALE STATE IN TWO DOCS. The framing still said "Pre-implementation.
Awaiting approval" after being approved and implemented, and the ledger
lane said "PR PENDING" after #226 opened. Both now record approval,
implementation, the PR link, and that it is held for review with no
merge authorization.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-09 08:54:06 +00:00
Levi Neuwirth b833b139e2
docs: retire the QoL arc's three lanes, re-homing their durable residue (#224)
* docs: retire the long-lines lane, the QoL arc having closed at #223

Rule 4, applied in its stated order: durable facts to
`docs/agent-handoff.md` FIRST, then the lane goes. The ledger is for
volatile branch/checkpoint/recovery state, and none of that survives a
merge worth keeping.

What moved to the handoff, because it is architecture rather than
bookkeeping:

  - The GPU is not a grid consumer, so it could not inherit
    `view_left`; `code_scroll_left` is its own, in pixels, local
    viewport state with no wire and no version bump.
  - The work was ONE transform and ONE clip, written before any
    consumer moved. glyphon honors `TextBounds` so the text layers
    clip themselves; the manual quad and squiggle renderers do not,
    and nothing needed them to before this stage because no
    code-relative x could be negative.
  - Washes crop rather than drop — the same boundary Stage 4's review
    caught the TUI painter getting wrong.
  - Both lifecycle resets are observed PRE-MOTION, because a later
    cursor motion repairs the offset anyway.
  - `pmacs_protocol:📜:follow_left`: the follow rule beside
    `classify`, called by both frontends. The approved exception to
    Stage 5's scope, recorded in the framing doc §1.2a.
  - The two witnesses that exist because mutation testing found the
    TESTS wrong rather than the code — the unwitnessed glyph layer, and
    the completion predicate a far-off-left test could not catch.
    "Test a boundary AT the boundary" is the transferable part.

The `## Long lines (QoL arc)` block is removed whole; nothing else in
the ledger referenced it.

NOT REMOVED, and not an oversight: the QoL Stage 1 (#219) and Stage 2
(#220) blocks. Rule 4 would now reach them too — the arc they belong to
is closed — but Stage 2 carries a live named follow-on, capability-aware
keymap resolution (Q#Z3 option A, deliberately deferred), plus the
"first eager state consumer" restore-seam finding. Those need re-homing
before their blocks can go, which is a judgment beyond retiring the lane
that was asked for. Flagged rather than done.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai

* docs: complete the retirement — Stages 1 and 2, and the stale anchors

The previous commit removed the long-lines lane and stopped short. Two
things were still wrong.

STALE ANCHORS. The handoff was dated 2026-08-06 with `main` at
`db1bbe9` — five merges behind. Now 2026-08-08 at `9a26ac8`, with the
arc's five merges named in the ancestry chain, and the same in
active-work's canonical-base record and recovery floor (a tree at
`db1bbe9` no longer passes; it would lack the whole arc).

**The recovery path was re-exercised, not SHA-swapped.** That file
warns that advancing the base is exactly when the commands are most
likely to have rotted and that a swapped SHA reads identically to a
verified one — so: fresh clone into an empty directory, `githubsucks`
alias added, `git fetch --prune`, `9a26ac8` confirmed an ancestor of
`githubsucks/main`, and a worktree recovered with the three-argument
form. All four steps clean.

STAGE 1 AND STAGE 2 BLOCKS. Keeping them left false live planning
standing: "Stage 3 is long-line wrap/scroll, which is a design round:
no horizontal viewport exists at all" — written before #221–#223 built
one. A merged lane that still describes the future is worse than no
lane.

Re-homed first, per Rule 4's order:

  - **FG-INV is a CONSUMER contract**, and it lives on the protocol
    type because that is where consumer authors read it. It had been a
    doc comment on a PRIVATE PRODUCER FIELD, which is why the one
    consumer never honored it.
  - **Seven tests covered that flag and all seven tested the
    producer.** None asserted a consumer acts on it. "Add a test for
    the flag" had already been done — §5's enforcement/documentation
    drift in a second register.
  - **`install_state_dirs` is the eager-state-consumer seam.**
    Builtins and `init.lua` run before it, so `pmacs.state.read` at
    module load returns nothing, always. `saveplace` and `recentf`
    escape it only because both read lazily. Any future eager consumer
    belongs at the same seam.
  - **A GPU-only binding cannot be expressed**: `Scope` has no frontend
    identity and `FrontendEvent` no command-invocation variant. #220
    shipped commands without bindings for that reason, not preference.

  - **Capability-aware keymap resolution** is now a named §6 backlog
    item: CROSS-CUTTING, NOT STARTED, needs its own framing. It says so
    explicitly, and says not to start it as a half-lane attached to
    another stage's branch — which is how it would arrive by accident.
    No implementation, no lane, no design.

What is deliberately NOT preserved: the recovery commands for
`full-grid-resync` and `gui-zoom`. Those branches are merged; a
recovery command for a branch nobody should check out is the kind of
stale instruction this ledger exists to avoid. The framing docs remain
on disk as the historical record.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai

* docs: the live schema range is v6..=v22, and #224 gets its own lane

Two review findings against the retirement.

THE SCHEMA RANGE. The canonical-base paragraph still said `v6..=v21`.
The upper bound moved to **v22 at #221**, which added
`InstanceMessage::LineWrapFacts` — so that line had been wrong for two
merges, including the one this branch is retiring the lane for.

Verified against `pmacs-protocol/src/message.rs` rather than carried
forward: `SUPPORTED_PROTOCOL_VERSIONS` is `6..=22`, `PROTOCOL_VERSION`
is 22, and `ADVERTISED_PROTOCOL_VERSION` is **20** and did not move.
The paragraph now says so, and says the advertised constant must not be
edited to chase the range — it is a permanent baseline, and the session
version is settled one message later by the frontend's counter-offer.

It also now states which claims it governs: historical `v21` statements
elsewhere describe a stage as it landed and are correct there. Only this
current-state paragraph tracks the live range, so only this one goes
stale when the range moves.

A LANE FOR #224. This file requires a lane for **every open PR**, and
the PR that retires other lanes is not exempt. Added with the branch,
the ref-not-a-SHA recovery command, the docs-only scope, and the
verification — including that the recovery path was re-exercised rather
than SHA-swapped, and that the full gate suite is deliberately not
re-run for a change that cannot reach it.

The entry is honest about its own lateness: it was written AFTER the PR
existed, which is the standing correction from #171 and #215 being
missed again, and it took review asking. Back-dating the block to look
compliant would have destroyed the only evidence that the practice
still slips. It carries its own retirement instruction — next
absorption after #224 merges.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai

* docs: scope the two provenance paragraphs that claimed to be current

Both said "this line is the head-of-`main` anchor". Neither was, and a
provenance note that claims currency is worse than a plainly historical
one — it disagrees with the real anchor at the top of the file while
looking authoritative.

The bottom-panel paragraph keeps its `v6..=v21` facts, which are correct
for the stage they describe. What changes is scope: "a current session"
becomes "a session at that anchor", and the closing clause now says
these statements describe the historical `6c9e765` anchor, with the
live range pointed at "Repository authority" in `docs/active-work.md`
(`v6..=v22` since #221; advertised baseline still v20). The
counter-offer mechanism is called out as still current independent of
which numbers it carries, since that part did not go stale.

The second was MY inconsistency, introduced earlier on this branch. I
rewrote that bullet's opening to "Beneath the QoL arc, at `db1bbe9`"
and left its closing claiming to be the head-of-`main` anchor, so the
bullet contradicted itself. It now names what it actually is — the
`db1bbe9` ancestry chain — and points at the top of the file.

Both cross-references name the file they point into. "Repository
authority" is a section of `docs/active-work.md`, not of this one, and
an unqualified "above" would resolve to nothing here.

Noted, not acted on: the bottom-panel arc has its own currency drift in
this file (§1 says Arc 7 COMPLETE at #213, two later paragraphs still
call Stage 3 the remaining step). Pre-existing, unrelated to the QoL
retirement, and not this PR's to fix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 13:10:24 +00:00