Two blocking, three major, one minor. All six accepted and verified in
the code before the doc changed.
The affinity key was misstated. `ensure_server` sets `key_uri` only
when the root came from config or a marker walk, so a markerless file
keys on nil and loose files across unrelated directories deliberately
share one server per language. Revision 1's "(root, language)" would
have split what the runtime shares and re-reported one failure once per
directory. The memo now uses the real key and the stage changes no
reuse behaviour.
Dedupe and current-failure state were conflated into one record, and
revision 1 said nothing about recovery. One record cannot do both jobs:
keep it and `*lsp*` shows a failure the user has already fixed; clear
it and the message returns on the next file open. They are now two
records with different lifetimes, the reported identity includes the
command so repointing config at a different missing executable reports
again, and recovery is pinned in both surfaces.
The modeline provider is a pure per-buffer projection by design — it
runs for every window on every paint. Revision 1's "read the failure
table" would have made it derive an affinity key, invoking user root
resolvers and project detection inside painting. The failure is now
projected per buffer at attach time and the segment stays one map
lookup, with a preservation pin that counts resolver invocations.
"Adopt listview's idiom" is replaced by requiring `pmacs.listview.open`
and naming what it guarantees, including `on_refresh` — without which
`listview.refresh` early-returns and `g` is a bound key that silently
does nothing.
The acceptance had no journey ratchet row despite the stage making step
6 real; `tests/journey_acceptance.rs` states that steps 6-12 join as
later stages make them real, and 1b-1 added step 9 the same way. The
end-to-end row is now acceptance 1 and the M4 pins stay beneath it.
Also refreshes the ledger's canonical-base anchor and recovery floor
from `7586905` to `fbcf235`.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lv428Fth9LRtffwJSsqH7T
`COHERENCE.md` §1.2's canonical silence, and journey step 6: a
preconfigured-but-missing language server fails with no status message,
no record, and no modeline marker, while tree-sitter highlighting keeps
working and masks it.
Three findings shape the design, all verified in the tree:
- The reporting pattern is already adopted twice inside `lsp.lua`
itself — root-resolver failures and subscriber failures both report
through `pmacs.editor.set_status` with the `pmacs.error` arm riding
along. The canonical spawn failure at `:658-674` was simply never
converted, so this stage finishes an adoption rather than starting
one.
- Half the stage is already built and unwired.
`LspManager::status_buffer_text()` renders "the `*lsp*` status
buffer", `last_error(sid)` exists, and both are exposed to Lua and
tested — with no production caller, no `*lsp*` buffer and no command.
Several doc comments already refer to that buffer as though it
exists.
- COHERENCE's frequency note is wrong, and the correction decides the
hardest question. It records the failure as firing once per project
root; `LspManager::spawn` returns early *before* both
`status_tracker.ensure` and `clients.insert`, so a failed spawn
leaves no record, the affinity loop cannot see it, and the real rate
is once per file open. Hence the rule the stage adopts: memoize the
report, not the failure — the spawn is still retried, so installing
the binary mid-session recovers with nothing to invalidate.
Records one limitation rather than hiding it: `status_buffer_text`
renders from `self.clients`, which a failed spawn never enters, so the
durable surface cannot yet show the failure natively. The record stays
in Lua for this stage.
Also logs four stale `COHERENCE.md` §1.2 citations for correction when
the stage lands.
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`-D warnings` with pedantic rejects an `if`-then-`panic!`. Same
semantics: the arming variable only makes a missing binary fatal, it
never decides whether the pin runs.
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Implements `docs/journey-stage1b1-compile-defaults-framing.md`
(approved at revision 2). Lua, tests and docs; no Rust change and no
protocol change.
`C-c c` now runs `compile.run`, and the first prompt is prefilled from
the detected project kind through `pmacs.compile.defaults` — seeded
`rust = "cargo build"` and extensible from `init.lua`. `_last` still
wins, so a session that has compiled keeps its own command.
The prompt CAPTURES its directory rather than re-resolving it. Sharing
one resolver between the prompt and the run is necessary and not
sufficient: `pmacs.minibuffer.read` is asynchronous and nothing freezes
the active window while a prompt is open, so two calls to the same
resolver at two different moments are still two different answers — the
user could be offered `cargo build` for A and handed a run in B by
clicking away mid-prompt. This is Journey Stage 1a's `commit_to`
discipline on a smaller seam.
`pmacs.compile.defaults` is public and assignable, so the lookup is
guarded: a throwing `__index`, a non-string entry and a non-table
replacement all degrade to the pre-stage empty prompt and never
prevent compiling.
Only `rust` ships seeded. Rust has one answer; npm/yarn/pnpm,
make/cmake, and `go build` versus `go test` do not, and a wrong prefill
costs more than an empty one.
Adds eight step-9 rows to the journey ratchet and five module pins to
the compile suite. Corrects `COHERENCE.md`, which named a
`ProjectKind::Cargo` that does not exist — the variant is `Rust`, line
77 is its doc comment, and Lua only ever sees the tag string "rust".
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lv428Fth9LRtffwJSsqH7T
Review round 1, one finding, accepted.
"A failed escalation is never retried by anything" was false.
`shutdown()`'s force-kill loop iterates the reap ledger with **no**
`!entry.killed` guard, so it does re-kill an entry the escalation arm
gave up on. The accurate claim is that no later *tick* retries it —
`tick_reap_ledger`'s escalation is guarded by `!entry.killed` and never
fires again for that group.
The overclaim collapsed two failure modes that this lane exists to keep
distinct: a failed escalation leaks the group until editor exit, where
one more attempt is made, while a failed `shutdown()` force-kill leaks
it past exit with nothing left to try. Narrowed in the framing, the
handoff, the active-work ledger and the test commentary.
The corrected claim was asserted in three documents and pinned by
nothing, so it gets a pin: a failed escalation marks the entry, the
survivor stays alive across ticks, and `shutdown()` — with no fault
planned, so its force-kill really lands — still reaps it. Bitten by
adding the missing `!entry.killed` guard to that loop: the new pin
fails and the other five stay green.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lv428Fth9LRtffwJSsqH7T
Not a new design round. Every bet resolved, and one acceptance turned
out to be satisfiable vacuously.
Acceptance 2's in-drain clause said "the live descendant's named late
output absent" without saying how the descendant stays live. It does
not, by default: `poll_one` TERMs the whole group on leader exit. The
first fixture's marker was therefore absent on both paths, and the pin
would have stayed green with the collapse fixed.
Bets 1 and 2 hold — every site took a directed outcome without
restructuring, and every consequence is reachable, so the lane does not
shrink. Bet 3 resolves the shutdown coupling as real and measured. Bet
4 is falsified exactly as its own clause anticipated: `ProcessEvent` is
keyed by `ProcessId` while the ledger is keyed by pgid and is
deliberately independent of managed records, every production consumer
polls per known id, and `take_all_events` has no production consumer at
all. Q#RL3 is answered accordingly and reporting is parked as its own
lane.
Also records the four sites and the two reusable lessons in
`docs/agent-handoff.md` — that a seam for a background loop has to be
directed, and that an absence assertion is only as good as its
fixture's ability to produce the thing.
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Found by bite-testing, not by review. With the in-drain seam reverted,
the pin still passed both content assertions and failed only the
consumed-plan check — meaning "LATE-MARKER is absent" was holding for
a reason unrelated to the probe.
`poll_one` sends SIGTERM to the whole group on leader exit, so the
untrapped descendant died before its 0.5s sleep finished. The late
marker never arrived on *either* path, which makes the absence
assertion vacuous: it would have stayed green with the collapse fixed.
The descendant now installs `trap '' TERM` behind `survivor_script`'s
readiness gate, so it survives the group TERM and writes its marker at
0.5s — well inside the 2s drain timeout the real path would run to.
Re-bitten: the reverted seam now fails on the LATE-MARKER assertion
itself.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lv428Fth9LRtffwJSsqH7T
Implements `docs/reap-ledger-silent-failures-framing.md` (revision 3).
Diagnosis only: every pin asserts CURRENT behaviour, including the
behaviour that is wrong. No disposition changes.
The ledger discards the result of four `kill(2)` calls, and each
discard has its own consequence:
- the liveness probe cannot tell ESRCH from any other errno, so an
unreachable group is deleted from the ledger exactly as a dead one
is, cancelling its escalation;
- the deadline escalation sets `killed = true` whether or not the
SIGKILL landed, so a failed one is never retried by anything;
- `shutdown()`'s force-kill does the same on the path written
specifically to stop a leak at editor exit;
- `final_drain_runtime`'s twin collapses every errno into "dead",
which quiesces the drain and cancels the readers.
None had an injection seam, so none was testable. This adds one, on
Q#PD4's terms: the injection replaces the *result only*, and every
branch, syscall and bookkeeping step downstream is production code.
The seam is directed per site, because `shutdown()` signals every
managed process before it reaches its ledger force-kill — a single
undirected slot would be eaten by the wrong call and the test would
pass while proving nothing. The persistent sites take a FIFO each,
since the shutdown-coupling pin needs a failed force-kill and a failed
subsequent probe pending at once. The in-drain site instead takes one
outcome that repeats for one whole drain: a one-shot is consumed by
the next 1ms probe and can never survive the 50ms window `quiesced`
requires.
Fixture state is per-supervisor, never global, and teardown asserts
every planned outcome was consumed — an unconsumed plan means the
fixture never reached the site, which would leave an absence
assertion vacuous.
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Two blocking, two major. All four accepted and verified in the code
before the doc changed.
Sharing one cwd resolver between the prompt and the run does not
prevent drift. `pmacs.minibuffer.read` is asynchronous, nothing freezes
the active window while a prompt is open, and `run` re-resolved at
accept time — so the prompt could offer `cargo build` for A and execute
in B. Two calls to the same resolver at two different moments are still
two different answers. The interactive command now captures
`context()` and passes its `cwd` through to `run`. This is Journey
Stage 1a's `commit_to` discipline on a smaller seam: capture at request
time, never re-derive from whatever is ambient when the async work
lands.
No pin crossed the accept boundary. N1-N5 compared values the prompt
and the resolver had already agreed on, so a wrong directory inside
`on_accept` — exactly the defect above — passed every one of them. Two
pins now accept: N3 switches windows between prompt and RET and reads
the directory back two ways, and N4 accepts `cargo build` unedited in a
real Cargo fixture and asserts a clean exit.
N3's old falsifier was not discriminating: `project_root_of_active()`
already returns the innermost root, so re-detecting from it yields the
same kind and the pin would have stayed green. The mixed-fixture pin is
now N5 with a falsifier it actually catches, and says what it does not.
And §6.1 contradicted §3.1 — a Cargo workspace subdirectory holds no
`Cargo.toml` and correctly receives `cargo build`. The predicate is a
detected project, not a file in that one directory.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lv428Fth9LRtffwJSsqH7T
`COHERENCE.md` §20 Priority 1 names Journey Stage 1b as the golden
journey's remainder and it had no branch, no framing, and no lane —
the only §20 priority with nothing in flight. This frames the first
third of it: journey step 9, build or test the project.
Scope is a global `C-c c` for `compile.run` plus a first prompt
prefilled from the detected project kind instead of empty. Lua, tests
and docs; no Rust change, no protocol change. LSP spawn guidance and
the welcome buffer are separate stages (§7).
Three ground-truth findings the framing rests on:
- `ProjectKind::Cargo` does not exist. COHERENCE names it twice; the
variant is `ProjectKind::Rust` and line 77 is its doc comment. Lua
matches the tag string `pmacs.project.detect` already returns, so
the stage needs no new Rust primitive.
- The compile cwd is resolved inside `run`, after the prompt closes,
so a suggestion built in the command's `fn` would obey a different
rule than the run. The stage extracts one resolution and has both
consume it.
- The last-resort cwd is `std::env::current_dir()` at call time, which
in tests is the pmacs repo root — itself a Cargo project. Negative
pins are built so that fallback is never reached.
Records one limitation rather than fixing it: after `pmacs <dir>` the
active buffer is dired's and pathless, so the cwd falls through to the
process cwd. That needs COHERENCE §8's execution-location model, not a
reach into dired's private handle table.
Adds the journey lane to the active-work ledger.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lv428Fth9LRtffwJSsqH7T
Refine the framing's in-drain test seam: a one-shot probe error cannot
survive the 50 ms quiescence interval, so the test-only override lasts
for one drain context and remains per-supervisor. Name the in-drain
SIGKILL as a non-observable local fact rather than adding an untestable
seam, and synchronize the revision-three ledger record.
The revision-2 commit shipped the framing alone. Its ledger edit was
generated by a script that aborted on a line-wrap mismatch before
writing, so `b881bd4` left the lane entry describing revision 1 — three
silent failures instead of four, no in-drain twin, no site-directed
seam, and the withdrawn "Bet 1 ships alone" staging.
Synchronized now: four sites including `final_drain_runtime` and its
distinct reader-cancellation consequence; journey step 9 rather than 8;
the `any_running()` precondition on the shutdown coupling; and the
first PR scoped as seam plus tests.
The failure mode is worth naming, because a partial write is exactly the
shape that leaves a document confidently wrong: the commit succeeded and
reported one file changed, which is easy to read as success when two
were intended.
Three blocking and two major findings, all accepted, all verified in the
code first.
- **§0 named the wrong journey step**, and contradicted Q#RL5 in the same
document. The ledger arms only for `spec.group`, which spawn rejects
for PTY mode, so no terminal reaches it. The only production
`group = true` caller is compile mode, making this journey step 9
(build/test) plus general pipe-process cleanup.
- **A fourth site was missed.** `final_drain_runtime` collapses every
probe errno to "dead" while no tick runs, discards its SIGKILL result,
and sets its own flag. It is not identical to the persistent ledger —
a later tick can retry that, this decision is terminal for the drain —
and its consequence differs: a false "dead" cancels the readers, so
the failure mode is truncated output rather than a leaked process. It
also constrains the seam, being a free function with no `&mut self`.
- **The staging contradicted itself**: "Bet 1 ships alone" against an
acceptance requiring failure-path tests, under one-branch/one-PR. It
was also wrong on its own terms — a seam with no tests does not show
it reaches the intended production calls. The first PR is now seam
plus behaviour-preserving tests, still diagnosis-only.
- **A generic seam is the wrong shape.** `shutdown()` calls
`self.signal(*id, SIGKILL)` before its ledger force-kill, so one
shared "next kill errno" would be consumed by the wrong call and the
test would pass while proving nothing. The seam is now site-directed
with four independently addressable outcomes, expressing more than one
pending result because the coupling test needs two at once, and with
fixture cleanup stated rather than assumed.
- **§1.3 overstated the loop coupling.** Early exit needs the ledger
empty AND `any_running()` already false. The precondition is now in
the ground truth and in Bet 3's fixture requirement.
Framing only. No code.
Unparked from PR #200's §5, which retired the premise justifying the
ledger's leniency and deliberately changed no disposition.
Scouting found three silent failures where #200 named two. A probe error
of any errno drops the entry and cancels escalation; a failed escalating
SIGKILL is recorded as a success and never retried; and `shutdown()`
discards its own force-kill result identically — on the path written
specifically to stop a leak at editor exit.
Two facts shape the lane. `shutdown()`'s final loop terminates when the
ledger empties, which happens through the same silent drop, so the probe
error that hides a leak can also end the cleanup loop early — the probe
cannot be made strict in isolation. And all three paths are untestable
today: `tick_reap_ledger` and `shutdown()` call nix directly and consult
no injection seam, unlike `signal()`'s `forced_kill_errno`, so every one
of the five existing ledger tests exercises only the success path.
Diagnosis first; no disposition change is proposed. Stage A of the signal
lane had three tolerance rules rejected across three revisions, each for
concluding something about one entity from something about another, on
this same data structure.
The framing states plainly that none of the three has been observed:
#200 saw an explicit SIGTERM fail in `signal()`, not a ledger call.
Framing only. No code.
`docs/active-work.md` auto-merged without conflict — this branch's lane
entry sits above the folding lane, clear of the six blocks #199 removed.
Verified rather than assumed: all lane headers checked afterwards.
The merge surfaced a stale statement on `main`. The process-signal lane
still read "PR #200 open, four review rounds closed, held for review",
which stopped being true when #200 merged as `a2a92bb`. Its arc is
complete — Stage A #176 and Stage B #200 both landed, and the items its
§5 parked become their own lanes — so under the rule #199 established
(a lane retires when its ARC is done, not when a PR merges) it is
removed and recorded under "Closed since the last snapshot".
Doing that here rather than deferring it: this PR already edits the
file, and leaving a known-false statement on `main` to keep a PR
single-purpose is the wrong trade. The alternative was letting it stand
until the reap-ledger lane, which is scoped next and inherits from the
very §5 list being retired.
Review round 5: one blocking, one major. Both documentation-only; the
runtime fixes from round 4 are unchanged.
**The pre-kill sample was overclaimed.** Acceptance 4 said the measured
group "describes the target that was attempted". It does not. `getpgid`
and `kill` remain separated by the same read-then-act window §1.5 is
built on, so the sample can be stale by the time the signal is
delivered. Moving it earlier removes a POST-HOC reading; it does not
make the reading contemporaneous. The criterion now says it records
pre-kill evidence about the attempted target, and adds an explicit
sentence forbidding any acceptance from claiming otherwise.
This is worth naming rather than quietly editing: the framing's whole
spine is that this telemetry establishes less than it appears to, and
round 4 fixed a real ordering defect and then inflated the fix's meaning
inside the document that governs it.
**`95897f7`'s commit message carries the same overclaim.** It is not
amended — force-pushing a branch under review to rewrite history would
hide the error rather than correct it. This message is the correction,
and the two read in sequence.
**A dead doc comment was documenting a constant.** The original
pre-Stage-B acceptance-1 block survived the rewrite and came to rest
above `const BASH`, so the file explained a string constant with the
sentence this entire lane exists to remove — "here they are asserted to
agree only because nothing has moved the terminal", describing a test
that no longer exists. Removed; only the BASH explanation remains.
Verified the overclaim is gone from the whole tree, not only the cited
line: no hits in `docs/` or `src/`.
Gates: 11 gates, 4,471 tests, zero failures.
Review round 4: three blocking, one major. All accepted.
**`measured_group` was sampled after the failure.** It ran inside
`signal_failure_report`, after the `kill` and after `observe_leader`,
while the framing and the function's own doc both said before. A
concurrent group change would have made the diagnostic report
post-failure state as evidence about the attempted target. It is now
sampled in `signal` before the kill and passed into the report, so the
field describes the target that was attempted rather than the state the
failure left behind.
**The Linux corroboration did not exercise the production lookup.** Its
helper read `portable_pty::process_group_leader` — the accessor this
lane stopped using on the signal path — so `pty_foreground_group` could
have fallen back on every call with every test still green. Forcing it
to always fall back demonstrates the hole exactly: the corroboration
fails, and the injected pin PASSES, because the injected tests supply
the group themselves and structurally cannot detect a broken lookup.
The helper now calls the production lookup, and the corroboration forces
only the kill so the report is built from a real terminal read. The
residual limitation is recorded rather than left to the green: on macOS
`pty_foreground_group` has no end-to-end coverage, because the platform
cannot produce the precondition.
**The framing did not update its own acceptance contract.** Revision 5
recorded Bet 1's falsification in the revision history and in the bet,
and left the normative criterion demanding the real-shell rewrite — the
"implementation quietly diverges from the contract" shape this project
already recorded as a lesson on #191/#188. Acceptance 1 now describes
the injected pin, 1a adds the corroboration and its macOS limitation,
and 4 states the sampling order. The ledger is synchronized: revision 6,
four commits, 4,471 tests, bash armed on Linux only.
**`TargetSource`'s doc had the wrong classification.** Two of the four
variants target the leader pid, not one, and the pid-versus-group split
does not line up with PTY-versus-pipe — which is why the fallback needed
its own variant rather than reusing `LeaderPid`.
Gates: 11 gates, 4,471 tests, zero failures.
CI falsified framing Bet 1. Both macOS legs reported
job control never moved the terminal off the leader
(leader=8542, foreground groups observed: [8542])
with the terminal staying on the leader for the entire 10s bounded wait.
Linux diverges reliably — 20/20 locally and green on both ubuntu legs —
so this is a platform difference rather than a flake, and rerunning past
it would have been wrong.
The framing named this outcome and prescribed the response, so that is
what ships rather than an improvised fix:
- The divergent case is pinned by INJECTING the foreground group at the
`signal_target` seam. Deterministic, runs on every platform. The
injection seam widens from failure-only to either outcome; the branch,
target choice, leader observation against the real child, and report
construction all remain production code.
- Verified still discriminating: the `leader_pid`-substitution mutation
fails it, `target=-1707909` against an expected `-1707910`. That was
the whole point of the original rewrite and it survives the fallback.
- The real shell is retained as corroboration in
`job_control_really_diverges_the_foreground_group`, Linux-only. It
skips on macOS by PLATFORM CHECK rather than by arming: the
precondition genuinely does not hold there, so running it would assert
a false claim about macOS instead of finding a bug.
- Framing revision 5 records the falsification and states exactly how
the injected pin is weaker — it proves the target is read from the
lookup rather than substituted from the leader; it does not by itself
prove any real shell produces that divergence.
`PMACS_REQUIRE_BASH` moves to Linux-only. The earlier reasoning for
arming both platforms — macOS is where the failures happen, so Linux-only
leaves it dark where it matters — was right about the diagnostic and
wrong about this test, which cannot produce its precondition on macOS at
all. Arming it there made a missing binary fatal for a test that can
never run. The measurement is recorded in ci.yml and the README so it is
not re-derived.
Gates on this tree: 11 gates, 4471 tests, zero failures.
One blocking and two major findings, all accepted.
- The isolated gate still inherited `PMACS_STATE_HOME`, which wins over
`XDG_STATE_HOME` in `user_state_dir` (`src/state.rs:47-68`), so
controlling the four XDG storage variables did not isolate state on a
machine that exports it. The contract now names the exact five
variables rather than counting roots.
- Q#TI5 still called self-spawn the durable regression guard after
revision 3 had accepted that it proves behaviour, not continued
adoption. It now names both guards and their different jobs: self-spawn
is the behavioural proof, the checked source inventory is the adoption
proof.
- The active-work lane still said revision 2 and still prescribed an
isolated `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` alone; both are synchronized, and the stale
config-only gating note elsewhere in the ledger is corrected to say it
isolates the observed symptom rather than the gate.
Framing only. No code.
`docs/active-work.md`'s snapshot header was the only conflict; main's
absorption version supersedes this branch's. `docs/agent-handoff.md`
auto-merged, and both sides were verified present afterwards rather than
assumed: the absorption's `4cd4a7b` anchor and its new landed-lane
entries, and this branch's macOS occurrence with its run link.
This lane's ledger entry is updated from "revision 4 awaiting review" to
its actual state — implemented, gated, PR open — since the framing was
approved and both implementation commits have landed on the branch.
The full gate suite is re-run on the merged tree rather than inherited
from the pre-merge head. The absorption is docs-only, so a clean merge
is very likely correct — which is exactly when inheriting a green would
be most tempting and least justified.
Three blocking and two major findings, all accepted. Two were verified
by running the thing rather than reading it.
- **Journey isolation had no executable mechanism.** Cargo launches each
integration-test binary with the caller's environment, and a binary
cannot re-point its own roots before its tests run — the `set_var`
prohibition applies to itself. Revision 2's "isolated by its launched
environment" therefore assumed the external wrapper this lane exists
to delete. Now named and pinned: each journey test re-execs
`current_exe()` with `--exact`, a marker, and controlled roots; the
child runs the real body against the ambient `EditorState::open`, so
the production-entry-point ratchet is untouched while the roots are
contained. The same helper serves the hostile-environment check.
- **One self-spawning test is not a ratchet.** It proves the seam works
and cannot notice a raw `EditorState::new()` added to another binary
later. A checked source inventory, falsifiable by adding an ambient
constructor, is now acceptance 12.
- **The root list and the gates disagreed with the audit.** The scope is
now explicit — bootstrap STORAGE roots only (config, data, state,
cache). `HOME`'s non-storage semantics are excluded by decision, not
omission: `expand_tilde` resolves user-entered `~` and
`find_file_acceptance` pins it deliberately, so redirecting `HOME`
would retarget a user-facing feature. `XDG_RUNTIME_DIR` addresses
sockets, not stored data.
- **The gate instruction itself was insufficient**, and this is the
finding with immediate consequences: isolating only `XDG_CONFIG_HOME`
stops the reads and leaves the write path open. Every local gate run
in this repository today had that hole.
- **The count was one high and the ledger overstated it further.** 65
files call the constructor; 66 mention it. The 66th, `m5_6_acceptance`,
mentions it only to say it deliberately does not use it — making it
the third place in the suite documenting the `cfg(test)` gap. The
ledger's "all 96 test files load the real config" was false.
- **The recovery command did not work**, verified by running it:
`git worktree add <path> <remote-only-branch>` fails with `fatal:
invalid reference` after a bare fetch. Replaced with the explicit
tracking-branch form.
Framing only. No code.
Four blocking and two major findings, all accepted, all verified in the
code before acceptance. The lane's scope changes: it is about ambient
roots, not about init.lua.
- The read-only assumption was already false. `EditorState::new`
materializes bundled packages unconditionally and before config
loading, into `XDG_DATA_HOME` or `$HOME/.local/share`, and
`materialize_all` creates directories. Confirmed on the development
machine: `~/.local/share/pmacs/builtin-packages/` exists with v0.1.0
and v1.0.0. This upgrades the lane from "local gates lie" to "tests
write into real user data".
- The population count was wrong and its stated method did not match the
command that produced it: 18 from a grep for `Editor::new`, which does
not match the real constructor `EditorState::new`. 66 of 96 files
construct an editor directly.
- File-level classification cannot work: 5 files are both in-process and
spawned. Classification moves to construction sites.
- The seam must cover `EditorState::open`, which calls `Self::new()`
directly, while `journey_acceptance` requires that exact public entry
point to avoid a dead-production-path test. Resolved by isolating
journey through its launched environment rather than a different call.
- Isolated construction must still return `is_init_complete() == true`.
Config loading and `set_init_complete()` share one block, and
`m8_2_acceptance.rs:75` documents its dependence on integration-test
construction being init-complete — the `cfg(test)` gap is load-bearing
in that one respect.
- Revision 1 both proposed and parked a hostile-config CI leg. Resolved
in favour of a test-binary self-spawn, which travels with the test
rather than the workflow file, and which now also asserts the hostile
root is unmodified afterwards.
- The lane is recorded in `docs/active-work.md`, which revision 1 omitted
despite the volatile-work protocol requiring it.
Also documents six ambient roots where the shared daemon harness sets
two, and why setting HOME only isolates a root whose XDG variable is
unset — the harness's apparent adequacy is a property of one developer's
environment.
Framing only. No code.
Eight PRs merged on 2026-07-29/30 (#188, #190, #191, #194, #195, #196,
#197, #198) and `docs/active-work.md` had drifted to 1,854 lines, most of
it describing work already on `main`. Rule 4 permits removal once a
lane's facts reach `docs/agent-handoff.md`; this does both halves in one
commit so the precondition is satisfied rather than deferred.
Handoff §1: the head-of-`main` anchor moves from `6c9e765` to `4cd4a7b`
and its date from 2026-07-28 to 2026-07-30. New entries for the three
implementation PRs that had no record — #190's pre-filesystem delete
refusal, #191's Stage 1 adoption of the generated-buffer contract, and
#196's dired Stage 2a — plus #188 recorded as landed rather than
proposed.
Ledger: six merged lanes removed (781 lines). Two lanes are NOT removed
and are rewritten to their remaining plan instead, because their arcs are
unfinished: generated-buffer immutability (Stage 1 merged, Stage 2 not
started) and bottom-panel (Stage 2 complete, Stage 3 ahead). The
bottom-panel block said so in its own text — "this lane is not removed at
2B-3's merge" — so a removal keyed on "the PR merged" would have
discarded live planning. The header now states the rule as ARC-done
rather than PR-merged.
Two method notes are recorded in the ledger because they nearly cost
real work:
- A census by PR number is a proxy, not a measurement. Counting `#NNN`
in the handoff reported that five of these lanes had no record at all.
Counting by content found most already documented, with the real gap
being the implementation PRs while their framings were recorded. The
absorption written from the first count would have duplicated existing
entries.
- #194 and #195 keep their lessons in §3 and §5 rather than §1, which is
why a number search finds them once each. Sufficient under rule 3:
durable knowledge needs a home, not a required section.
Docs only. No code, no protocol change.
Integration tests read the developer's real `~/.config/pmacs/init.lua`.
The suite is green in CI and deterministically red on any machine with a
real config, attributed to whatever branch is checked out — 11 of 67 in
`compile_mode_acceptance` on 2026-07-30, 67/67 with an isolated
`XDG_CONFIG_HOME`.
The mechanism is that `src/editor.rs:770` guards config loading with
`#[cfg(not(test))]`, which is set only when compiling the crate's own
unit tests. An integration test links pmacs as an ordinary dependency, so
the guard is inactive for all 96 of them. The hazard was identified and a
mitigation was written; its scope does not match the threat.
The obvious fix is unavailable: `std::env::set_var` is unsafe and the
crate forbids unsafe, which the repo already knows —
`Installer::root_override` exists for exactly this reason.
Framing only, awaiting review round 1. No code changes.
Framing acceptances 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8. Evidence collection only: no
tolerance rule, no change to which process is signalled, no disposition
change.
Three distinct failures previously rendered as one string.
**The PTY fallback is now named.** When a PTY's foreground-group lookup
yields no group, the target falls back to the leader — and until now that
rendered "leader-pid", identical to a pipe child that never had a
terminal. `portable-pty::MasterPty::process_group_leader` collapses every
failure into `None` before pmacs can see it, so the errno was gone too.
pmacs now performs the query itself and reports four distinct outcomes:
no master fd, a failed duplicate with its errno, a failed `tcgetpgrp`
with its errno, and a non-positive answer.
Doing that without `unsafe` is the interesting part. `nix::unistd::
tcgetpgrp` needs `AsFd`; `MasterPty` exposes only `Option<RawFd>`; and
every std route between them is `unsafe`, which this crate forbids.
`filedescriptor::OwnedHandle::dup` takes any `AsRawFd` through a safe
blanket impl and returns an owned handle that IS `AsFd`, so a
lifetime-tied view implementing one safe trait is the whole bridge. The
borrow is what makes it sound: the view cannot outlive the master, so the
descriptor cannot close underneath it.
**The report names the signal.** A failed SIGUSR1 and a failed SIGTERM
were the same text. Note this is a reporting gap only — every failed
`kill` returns before the fatal-signal branch, so failed signals are
disposition-identical whatever they are. A separate control pins that the
fatal/non-fatal difference is real for calls that SUCCEED, which is what
gives the first test its meaning.
**`measured_group` is a real observation.** `expected_group` is
`-leader_pid`, and on the spawn-group path the target is `-leader_pid`
too, so the report printed the same number three times and their
agreement was arithmetic rather than evidence. `getpgid` supplies the one
field that can disagree. It establishes no identity — it is read inside
the same read-then-act window, and no portable mechanism closes that for
a group.
Bites, each by an actual revert, all observed to fail:
- collapsing the PTY fallback back into a bare "leader-pid";
- dropping `signal=` from the report;
- making the measured group restate the pid it was handed;
- replacing the job-control fixture with a plain `sleep`, as a positive
control on the divergence fixture itself.
All four exact-string sites were updated individually, never by a blanket
rewrite: a wholesale rewrite of expected strings is how a format
regression hides. `:2501`'s first-call disposition pin is retained and
updated for the new format rather than replaced.
`nix`'s `process` feature is now declared explicitly. It already arrived
transitively — nix's own `signal` feature depends on it — which is stable
but invisible, and a real requirement resting on another feature's
internals is one refactor away from vanishing. `filedescriptor` is
declared directly for the same reason: pmacs now calls its API.
The reap ledger's comment claiming "EPERM cannot happen for our own
children" is corrected. Its bounded-growth policy is unchanged, but the
justification was wrong: the probe targets a group, and owning the
spawned child says nothing about a group unless the child is still a
member — which nothing measures. The handoff records this together with
the limit of the evidence: the occurrence does NOT establish that the
child itself received EPERM.
Framing §3 Bet 1 and acceptance 1. Committed alone, per the branch plan:
this bet decides whether the diagnostic is worth extending at all, so its
result belongs in history before anything depends on it.
The previous version of
`a_group_directed_kill_failure_reports_target_and_leader_separately`
spawned `/bin/sleep` on a PTY and asserted the same pid three times,
conceding in its own doc comment that the values "are asserted to agree
only because nothing has moved the terminal". The entire premise of the
diagnostic is that the terminal's foreground group and the spawned leader
are different entities, and no test exercised a case where they were.
The fixture now drives job control: `bash -m` runs a foreground job in a
fresh process group and hands it the terminal, so `tcgetpgrp` reports a
group that is not the leader. The trailing `; :` is load-bearing — with a
single simple command `bash -c` execs in place, which would leave the
leader owning the terminal and silently restore the agreement.
The bounded wait is also load-bearing rather than defensive. A probe of
this fixture observed the foreground group as the leader FIRST and only
then as the job's group, so measuring immediately would pin the
non-divergent case. The fixture additionally asserts the diverged group
still holds a live member, so a divergent number cannot come from a dead
group.
Falsified in both directions by substituting `leader_pid` for the
`tcgetpgrp` result in `signal_target`:
- the new test FAILS — target=-1020100 (leader) against the expected
-1020103 (foreground group);
- the OLD test, restored verbatim alongside the same mutation, PASSES.
That pair is the finding: the previous acceptance pinned the
substitution as acceptable.
`/bin/bash` is declared as an optional test dependency and armed with
PMACS_REQUIRE_BASH on BOTH CI platforms, not only Linux — the signal
failures this diagnostic exists to explain have so far occurred only on
macOS. The guard tests the exact path the fixture spawns rather than
`which bash`, because a system with bash on PATH but not at `/bin/bash`
would pass a `which` guard and then fail the spawn.
Verified: both arming arms exercised against an absent path (unarmed
skips, armed fails by name); 20/20 repetitions of the test; `cargo fmt
--check`, `cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings`, and
`cargo test --lib` (1877 passed) all clean; ci.yml parses.
No production behaviour changes.
Integrate canonical main, restore PTY errno capture through the safe
filedescriptor duplication bridge, narrow the macOS occurrence to what
it actually measured, and make the job-control fixture foreground and
discriminating.
Record the portable framing lane and exact recovery commands in the
active-work ledger.
Three blocking and three major findings, all accepted, all verified in
the code before acceptance.
- The PTY errno proposal is withdrawn. `nix::unistd::tcgetpgrp` needs
`F: AsFd`; `MasterPty` exposes only `Option<RawFd>`; every route from
a raw fd to `AsFd` is unsafe and the crate forbids unsafe. The claim is
reduced to distinguishing the fallback without the errno.
- Revision 2 called `getpgid` ungated. It is not: the gate is a
block-level `feature!` opened 168 lines above the function, and rev 2
read the four lines immediately above it. Both calls are available
because nix's own `signal` feature depends on `process`, verified with
`cargo tree` and by compiling them. The lane now declares `process`
explicitly rather than inheriting it.
- Bet 4's `setsid` fixture was impossible: a `spec.group` child is
already a process-group leader and a group leader's `setsid` fails
with EPERM. Replaced with a `setpgid`-into-an-existing-group fixture
with a readiness handshake and explicit cleanup.
- "Recoverable" is withdrawn. `tick_reap_ledger` drops its entry on any
probe error — including the EPERM this occurrence proves reachable —
and discards the SIGKILL result while marking the entry killed. The
claim is now that escalation remains scheduled, and that still-silent
path is parked as its own lane.
- Revision 2 falsified the wrong sentence. Stage A's disjointness claim
was about the PTY path and remains true; what the occurrence falsifies
is the ledger's own EPERM comment.
- Failed SIGUSR1 and SIGTERM are disposition-identical, because every
failed kill returns before the fatal-signal branch. Acceptance 3 now
separates the failure-format comparison from a successful-call
disposition control.
- Bet 5 proposed a test that already exists at src/process.rs:2501. It is
cited as ground truth and retained, not invented.
No code changes. Framing only, awaiting review round 3.
Stage B of the lane that merged as PR #176. Stage A parked every
tolerance rule behind one condition — evidence — and the macOS failure on
PR #191 is the first occurrence carrying Stage A's self-describing
format, so the evidence now exists.
It does not support any parked rule, and per review round 1 it does not
support an identity claim either. This lane is evidence collection only:
no tolerance rule, no retargeting, no disposition change.
Round 1 raised two blocking and two major findings. All four are
accepted, and all four were verified against the code first:
- the landed acceptance at src/process.rs:2400 asserts the same pid three
times, so substituting leader_pid for tcgetpgrp would pass it;
- a numeric pgid cannot establish group identity, and no portable
mechanism can (pidfd covers processes, not groups; macOS has none);
- the PTY foreground-lookup fallback renders identically to a normal pipe
child, and portable-pty discards the tcgetpgrp errno before pmacs sees
it;
- the report never names the signal, though disposition differs between
fatal and non-fatal ones.
Revision 1 was written to a session scratchpad rather than a branch, so
it was not on githubsucks and review necessarily landed on Stage A's
merged document instead. That is recorded in the revision history: work
is portable only after it is committed and pushed, and this lane broke
that rule on its first step.
No code changes. Framing only, awaiting review round 2.
`docs/active-work.md` was the only conflicting file, in the same shape
as #191's: `main` inserted the generated-buffer Stage 1 lane immediately
above the bottom-panel header this branch had rewritten. The resolution
keeps both.
Each side's newer text wins where that side owns the fact: `main` carries
the corrected #188 status (MERGED/APPROVED, replacing "OPEN, PROPOSED —
do not implement"), and this branch carries the bottom-panel lane's 2B-3
state and the newer snapshot date, replacing main's "2B-2 MERGED; 2B-3 IS
NEXT" and its 2B-2 boundary paragraphs.
Verified: no conflict markers; every line absent from either parent is a
deliberate supersession by the other, enumerated and checked one by one
rather than counted; all three lane headers present exactly once.
`version_mismatch_clean_disconnect` asserted that the `VersionMismatch`
`server` field equals `ADVERTISED_PROTOCOL_VERSION`. Until this stage
that constant and `PROTOCOL_VERSION` were both 20, so the assertion could
not distinguish them and happened to pin the wrong one. Stage 2B-3 splits
them — the advertised value is a compatibility floor, `PROTOCOL_VERSION`
is the ceiling a frontend may counter-offer up to — and the daemon
correctly reports the ceiling, so the stale assertion failed on all four
CI Test legs.
The production behaviour is right and is unchanged here. Only the test
moves, and it now pins the divergence in both directions: the `Hello`
assertion above holds the advertised floor, a new `assert_ne!` holds the
fact that the reported version is deliberately not that floor.
That second assertion is why this is not a one-character edit. Stage
2B-3's own pin for this rule, `an_unsupported_offer_is_refused_by_name`,
is `#[cfg(feature = "crdt")]` and CI never enables `crdt` — so it is dark,
and `m5_5_acceptance` is the only live guard CI runs on this behaviour.
Bite: reverting `src/daemon.rs:757` to `ADVERTISED_PROTOCOL_VERSION`
fails the test with `left: 20, right: 21` and the named message; restored,
it passes. Verified against the whole suite under an isolated
`XDG_CONFIG_HOME` — 3303 tests, 100 binaries, zero failures.
`docs/active-work.md` was the only conflicting file. #196 added the dired
Stage 2a lane at the position this branch had used to relabel the #188
framing lane header; the resolution keeps both, changing neither side's
wording.
`src/editor_core.rs` auto-merged. Both lanes touch it, so a clean
textual merge is not evidence of a clean semantic one — the gate suite
is re-run in full on the merged tree rather than inherited from the
pre-merge head.
Resolution verified for line loss in both directions: the resolved file
differs from `main` only by this branch's own authored edits, and
differs from this branch only by additions taken from `main`.
Review round 2, three findings.
setsid is util-linux, not coreutils, and the standard `cargo test --lib`
gate must not hard-fail on a tool the README does not declare -- a
minimal or BusyBox container would fail without ever testing pmacs. The
hard assert becomes skip-unless-armed via PMACS_REQUIRE_SETSID, which is
the pattern the silent-skip lane already established, so the test cannot
quietly report `ok` having never run where the tool is guaranteed. CI
arms it on Linux; README declares it. Both arms verified against a PATH
with setsid genuinely removed: unarmed skips with its message, armed
FAILS with the diagnostic.
The durable causal account was wrong, and this corrects it in the
framing, the handoff and the ledger. basedpyright's console script runs
bundled node through `subprocess.run` and WAITS
(nodejs_wheel/executable.py:50, verified in the installed 1.39.6). It
does not exit at spawn. What orphans node is pmacs: `shutdown()` SIGTERMs
the recorded pid -- the Python wrapper -- which dies without forwarding
the signal, leaving node at PPid 1 holding the pipes. The refutation was
already in hand: the initialize handshake succeeds, which a wrapper that
exited at spawn could not have done, and the PPid 1 observation was taken
after shutdown had killed it.
The fix is unaffected -- the deadlock and its bite are unchanged -- but
the parked follow-up changes target: not "tolerate servers that
self-orphan" but "stop orphaning them", i.e. signal the process group
rather than a wrapper pid that swallows the signal. Framing section 5 P2
restated.
Also corrects a stale CI-ordering claim: the handoff said pyright must
stay unarmed until the timeout lane lands, but #195 is this PR's base and
gave every job a timeout-minutes. The one live reason is that CI does not
install basedpyright at all. The ci.yml comment asserting the job has no
timeout-minutes was stale for the same reason and is rewritten.
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Integrated main (#195) first so the lane block is written on top of it
rather than conflicting with it — the one conflict this file always has,
paid at the merge that was happening anyway.
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Review round 1 widened two contracts this document had stated narrowly, and
a narrow statement is what let the implementation drift inside it:
R7-1 — the stable-probe decision was written about the geometry DECLARATION,
which let painting and hit-testing keep using the document-dependent advance.
Three grids, one asserted. It now covers all three consumers, resolved once
and cached behind the declaration so they agree by construction.
R7-2 — the x=0 full-width contract was stated about `total.cols` and read as
a claim about the declaration alone; it governs the band's content rectangle
too, remainder included.
R7-3 records that splitting the advertised baseline from PROTOCOL_VERSION
makes the VersionMismatch server field load-bearing rather than incidental.
R7-4 names criterion 54's fixture and why it drives the real display="panel"
adopter opt-in instead of opening a terminal and moving it.
A2B-3 and criterion 48 gain the halves that were implicit and therefore
skipped.
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Review round 1: six findings, four sharing one shape — the panel layer was a
partial port of the document/terminal layer, and the tests asserted the
declaration side only, so each omission was invisible. Audited as a port
rather than patched as a list.
GEOMETRY AGREEMENT (P1). Three grids had drifted apart. The declaration
subtracted `TEXT_LEFT` from its width against the parent framing's explicit
contract ("`total.cols` describes the full-width panel grid beginning at
x=0; document `TEXT_LEFT`/gutter padding is unrelated"), while painting and
hit-testing used the document-dependent `mono_advance` and the declaration
used the stable probe. So daemon columns could overflow the surface and a
click could resolve to a different cell than the one painted — and the new
test separated the two advances and then asserted only the declaration, so
it saw none of it.
The fix is structural, not three edits: the advance is cached BEHIND the
declaration (`PanelBand::declared_advance`) and painting and hit-testing read
it. They cannot disagree, because there is one value. The band's rect is now
x = 0 across the full surface width, and the fractional right-edge remainder
is band background that maps to no cell — which is what the framing says and
what `hit_test_cell`'s column bound already enforced.
GESTURES (P1). Only `Move` was sent. Left press never armed, so `Drag(Left)`
was never emitted and panel selection could not work; releases outside the
band were dropped, leaving the daemon holding a button down; right-click and
wheel never consulted the band at all and were applied to the document
underneath.
The root cause is that four handlers each decided for themselves whether the
band owned a pixel, and three did not ask. There is now ONE authority —
`PointerSurface` / `classify_pointer_surface` — and all four route through
it, so a future handler cannot quietly forget the band. `PanelBackground` is
its own arm: the remainder is the band's pixel even though it emits no
`PanelPointer`, so it must not fall through either.
PASSIVE CARET (P1). The producer ships `cursor` for a passive panel too — it
is the window's real point and the daemon does not suppress it — so painting
it unconditionally put a second insertion caret on screen. Gated on
`frame.focused`, the presentation bit Q#BP14b reserves for exactly this.
UNDERLINES (P2). `build_grid` planned them and nobody consumed them. Straight
forms now ride the quad batch and curly rides the squiggle pipeline, the same
split the terminal path makes for the same reason.
VERSION MISMATCH (P2). The daemon reported the advertised baseline as the
server version while its own `PROTOCOL_VERSION` is 21, contradicting the wire
field's own documentation and inverting the upgrade advice. The field doc now
states what each side can know, and the acceptance is re-pinned — it had been
holding the wrong value in place.
Two gaps the audit found beyond the six, same shape:
* the headless probe never armed the panel wire at all, so no probe could
ever exercise a band;
* a disconnect left the band on screen — the frozen, live-looking surface
the terminal arm already refuses.
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The four findings were one shape — a failure that left state wrong and
told nobody — so the lane records them as one lesson rather than four
bugs: every one was a `pcall` or a discarded return value, and each
looked like defensive coding.
Also records the round-1 pin that passed with its own bug restored
(acceptance 53's attribution assertion was satisfied by the deleted
path's basename appearing elsewhere in the same message), the refreshed
gate numbers, and that `main` was re-measured after the round and had
not moved.
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Levi Neuwirth