#165's own commits could not update the handoff snapshot to name the
merge that contains them, so the protocol obligation lands here.
- `docs/agent-handoff.md`: absorb the dired lane into §1, replacing the
placeholder that promised exactly this. The bullet carries Stage 1's
durable substrate facts — why the tolerant `read_dir` had to be Rust,
why exposing the core normalizer beat mirroring it in Lua, the
fixed-width `_layout` contract Stage 3 reads offsets from, the
ambient-action buffer guard, treating a failure as the answer instead
of probing, the per-entry error cap, the first mode-scoped keymap and
the pre-existing test it broke, and the dedication a descent does not
carry. Refresh the head-of-`main` anchor and the last-updated line.
- `docs/agent-handoff.md` §5: two ops lessons that cost real time. A fix
must be committed before it is bitten, because `scripts/bite` restores
by `git checkout --` and reverts to HEAD; a CONFLICTING PR runs no CI
at all, because `pull_request` workflows build a merge ref GitHub does
not create while the branch conflicts, and nothing reports the absence.
- `docs/active-work.md`: remove the merged lane per update-protocol rule
4 and summarize it under "Closed since the last snapshot", keeping the
two forward items Stage 2 needs (the rename rebind is first-match-only
over a raw path, and Q#DR5's seam is the main-thread drain). Refresh
the canonical base. Flag the two lane headers that still call a merged
PR "IN REVIEW" — #161 and #166 — rather than editing lanes another
thread owns.
- `COHERENCE.md`: #165 is no longer a PR. Per §25 the audited claims this
work changed were updated when it landed; this corrects their tense in
seven places and the two prose lines that still asserted dired was in
flight.
- `docs/dired-framing.md`: status line to MERGED, and state plainly that
Stages 2 and 3 each still need their own framing.
Docs only; no code, no gate-relevant change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0126d2sikA6jZpFin3rtLCSK
Framing rev 7 adds S1-10..S1-12 -- the three findings that changed
behavior, each stated as the durable lesson rather than as a diff:
painting takes a buffer and seating takes the world, so any post-await
cursor operation needs an active-buffer guard; the rendered columns are
a contract Stage 3 is planned against, so precision yields to width; and
`open_directory`'s changed-nothing-on-failure invariant is itself a
probe, which is why the symlink descent no longer lists the target
twice. Plus the tolerant-channel note: cancellation was never a backstop
for a dired listing, because nothing cancels one.
The ledger records the round, the updated counts (dired 25 + 25 CRDT,
sweep 3,189 across 92), and the process lesson that cost me the fixes
once: a mutation-bite helper restores with `git checkout --`, so a fix
must be committed before it is bitten.
docs/dired-framing.md rev 6: §0 gains the Stage 1 implementation notes
(S1-1..S1-9) -- the normalizer is exposed rather than mirrored (so B2 is
false by one small binding, in the direction Q#DR2 preferred); R2-3's
dedication claim is falsified by the display policy; acceptance 3c
cannot pin the descent routing and now says so; dired is the first
builtin to bind a mode-scoped key, which one pre-existing lib test
assumed impossible; `C-x d` takes no completion source on purpose;
ownership is the handle table alone; the mark column ships blank; a
symlinked directory needs a probe; and interactive origin does not
survive an await.
COHERENCE.md, per its §25 (an audited claim this PR changes updates
here, riding the PR): §1.1's interactive-file-opening fact, §2's journey
step 7, §4's beginner-level `files`, §14's tree bullet (Stage 1 landed a
flat listing and did NOT invent a tree convention), and §15's Priority 1
list. Step 3 stays **Missing at the CLI** with the mechanism spelled
out: `pmacs .` still exits 1, and this arc deliberately does not claim
the CLI path -- it supplies the buffer a directory should resolve to.
docs/active-work.md: the dired lane rewritten for Stage 1, including why
the branch is a fresh cut rather than a rebase of `dired`, the durable
substrate facts, the bite results (one VACUOUS, recorded rather than
relabelled), and the verification. Its canonical-base line was four
merges stale and now names 8c86d34.
docs/agent-handoff.md: one forward pointer only. The handoff describes
merged state, so it absorbs the substance when this merges.
Lands the approved dired framing on main as its own docs PR, and brings
the two required docs current after find-file merged as #162.
The framing was approved after two review rounds (seven findings, then
six) and revised twice more since: revision 4 recorded what implementing
Stage 0 falsified in the approved text, and revision 5 adds the coherence
impact statement that #163 made mandatory for every framing.
The coherence statement is new work, not a restatement. COHERENCE.md
section 20 Priority 1 already names this arc -- a find-file surface and
directory-argument handling -- so the framing now states which journey
steps it touches (7, and partially 3), that it adds no interaction island
because its keys are a mode-scoped keymap through the ordinary registry
and wdired is a mode swap rather than a modal layer, that it adopts the
config registry for dired.kill-when-opening, and that it inherits the
worker-attribution gap for its read_dir jobs without worsening it. It
also draws the boundary against the adjacent Journey Stage 1 arc: CLI
directory handling belongs there, the two meet at resolve_target_buffer,
and dired supplies the buffer a directory should resolve to rather than
growing a second directory surface.
One convergence worth recording: section 2 grades the golden journey
broken at step 3 because pmacs on a directory exits 1, and the mechanism
it cites -- File::open succeeding on a directory, then read_to_end
returning EISDIR -- is the same one Stage 0 pinned in its
accepting-a-directory test, where the pcall turns it into a status
message instead.
The handoff snapshot was stale through eight merges. It now anchors on
main at 2af1ab3, records COHERENCE.md as required reading and a required
framing input, and carries the two minibuffer facts find-file
established: a custom completion source cannot descend directories, and
a selected candidate shadows typed text -- both of which apply to M-x and
switch-buffer, not just find-file.
The ledger gains the dired lane with Stage 1's scope, the reason its one
Rust change cannot be done in Lua, and the rebase note for the dired
branch, whose framing commits become redundant when this lands.
Levi Neuwirth