Three of the four terminal gaps. The fourth is recorded as owed rather
than faked; see below.
**THE STABLE CLASSIFICATION WAS INCOMPLETE.** Cursor motion still
advanced the mapping revision: `restore_cursor`, `horizontal_tab`,
`move_vertical`, `move_horizontal`, `set_col` and `set_row` all called
`changed()`. Moving the caret denotes nothing new, and a child that
merely repositions its cursor would have cancelled a drag. All six take
the display-only path now.
Worse, **rewriting the same glyph under another style advanced it**,
which is precisely the control SS5b requires to hold. `write_character`
now compares the glyph before writing --- sampled BEFORE
`clear_wide_at`, which blanks a cell that is part of a wide pair and
would otherwise make every rewrite look like a change. That ordering
was found by instrumenting the failing row, not by reading the code.
**THE SNAPSHOT CARRIED DOCUMENT-ONLY STATE FOR TERMINALS.**
`view_top`, `view_left`, wrap, content columns, fold policy and folds
describe a document projection and take no part in a terminal's, where
the child's screen decides the mapping. They live inside the `Document`
arm now; only common geometry --- buffer identity, rows, columns ---
stays outside.
**AND THE REVISION WAS NOT PUBLICATION-CONSISTENT.**
`view_mapping_identity` read the LIVE screen revision while
`projection_ref` returns the last PUBLISHED cells, so buffered output
under synchronized-output would stamp displayed cells with authority
they were never painted under --- a frontend echoing a generation
matching nothing it can see. `ScreenProjection` carries
`mapping_revision` now and the published value is what is read.
**The witnesses were separated across the seam**, which review named
exactly: `screen.rs` proved the counter, the daemon proved enum
selection, and a `view_mapping_identity` returning a constant would
have left both green. A daemon-level row now drives real events through
a panel terminal and asserts the daemon's generation moves on a new
glyph and holds across a style-only rewrite and across cursor motion.
**OWED, NOT DONE: the scroll-anchor row.** The anchor is in the key,
but three attempts failed to drive a scroll from this fixture ---
`scroll_lines` wants a viewport the projection registers on its own
schedule, and `scroll_view` with an explicit size reports no movement
after forty line feeds. Recorded in the ledger rather than faked or
quietly dropped: without it, a constant ANCHOR alongside a live
revision still passes every terminal row that exists.
The two test hooks are `#[doc(hidden)] pub`, not `#[cfg(test)]`,
because the rows needing them are integration tests and those link the
library without `cfg(test)`.
Verified: focused suite 37/37, `cargo test --lib` 1945 green, clippy
clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
All four closure gaps in one correction. Three of them are defects in
what I committed as G1-G4; the fourth overturns a claim I made about
what could not be witnessed.
**THE KEY IS NOW EXACT, NOT PROBABILISTIC.** It was a `DefaultHasher`
digest, so authoritative equality rested on the absence of collisions
--- and a collision silently ACCEPTS a stale gesture, which is precisely
the failure the key exists to prevent. It is a `PanelMappingSnapshot`
struct compared structurally now. The emitted `mapping_generation`
stays a `u64` on the wire; only the daemon's own comparison changed.
**THE TERMINAL DOMAIN WAS ABSENT, AND THE BUFFER REVISION WAS WRONG.**
The key hashed the panel buffer's content revision for every target
kind. For a terminal that is doubly wrong: SS5b says the buffer revision
does not decide the mapping, and what does --- the screen --- was not
consulted at all. `PanelMappingContent` now splits by kind, and
terminals carry the screen's mapping revision plus the view's scroll
anchor.
That revision had to be built. `Screen::generation` cannot serve:
it advances from 39 sites including style, title, bell, tab stops and
cursor motion, none of which changes what a coordinate denotes.
`Screen` now carries `mapping_revision`, and the classification FAILS
SAFE --- `changed()` bumps both by default, and only the eleven
explicitly display-only arms call `display_only_changed()`. Anything
unclassified is treated as content, because over-cancelling a gesture
is a nuisance while under-cancelling one lets a stale coordinate reach
a child.
**"NO PRODUCTION PATH REACHES A TRANSPOSITION" WAS WRONG.** I recorded
the rows/cols product mutation as unwitnessable and kept the separate
hashing on principle. Resize plus redeclare reaches it: 4x80 -> 8x40
holds the area at 320 while swapping the dimensions, and
`last_content_cols` is not refreshed until the next render, so the two
grid fields are isolated. The row exists and the product mutation now
fails.
**G3 WAS INCOMPLETE.** It covered idle and cursor only. Focus is added
at the daemon level --- the tempting error is folding the whole frame,
which carries a `focused` flag, into the key. Styling is pinned
structurally instead: the snapshot has no style field, so there is
nothing a recolour could touch. The terminal controls live in
`screen.rs`, at the level the classification lives, with a positive
half so a revision that never advanced at all cannot pass them.
**AND MUTATION TESTING FOUND ANOTHER UNWITNESSED BRANCH.** Routing
terminal panels through the DOCUMENT arm left all thirty-five rows
green --- the `is_terminal` branch had no daemon-level witness at all.
A row now pins that the snapshot picks its domain by target kind, and
that mutation fails.
Mutations: display-only events bumping the mapping revision (the
screen-level control fails); terminal panels keyed on the buffer
revision (the domain row fails); rows*cols as an area (the
transposition row fails); plus G1-G4's original five, still biting.
Verified: focused suite 36/36, `cargo test --lib` green, clippy clean.
Full `--protocol` gate reserved for the checkpoint after bilateral
gating, per the standing procedure.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
The key itself, its domain, and the witnesses for both. No gating and no
replay yet.
**DERIVED FROM A FINGERPRINT, NOT BUMPED AT MUTATION SITES.**
`panel_mapping_fingerprint` hashes what actually decides which byte a
cell means --- buffer identity, grid rows and columns, `view_top`,
`view_left`, wrap mode, content columns, fold POLICY and fold CONTENT,
and the buffer's content revision --- and the generation advances
whenever that changes. This makes the changing/stable split
STRUCTURAL: an input that is hashed moves the key by construction, and
one that is not cannot. Bumping by hand at each mutation site would
have made "advances after any mapping mutation" a promise about
someone remembering.
Folds are hashed at their SOURCE, the registry's ranges, rather than
through the derived `VisibleLineMap`, whose only public summary is
`is_identity()` --- too coarse, since a fold edit that leaves the map
non-identity still changes which source line a row shows.
**ONE SEAM, READ BY BOTH SIDES.** `panel_mapping_generation` advances
if the fingerprint changed and returns the current value; projection
will stamp with it and inbound validation will compare against it, so
"what the frontend was shown" and "what the daemon checks" cannot
drift. Computed ON DEMAND, deliberately: a mutation not yet painted has
still changed the inverse, and a gesture arriving in that gap must be
refused. Deriving from the last emitted frame recreates the hole.
**Nondecreasing, and never cleared.** `Absent` yields no key to stamp
--- which is not a key of zero --- but the high-water mark survives, so
a frame delayed across a hide cannot roll authority backward. First
establishment takes 1; zero is the wire's invalid value.
**MUTATION TESTING FOUND MY WITNESSES UNDER-SPECIFIED, TWICE.**
With only the content-edit row present, dropping `view_left` from the
key stayed GREEN, and so did collapsing the grid to `rows * cols`. That
is exactly what the closure predicted --- "a key that ignores
`view_left` passes every row that only scrolls vertically" --- and it
is why G2 is enumerated per input rather than asserted in aggregate.
Six legs now, one per input, each touching only its own.
Mutations that bite: omit the content revision (3 rows), omit
`view_left`, omit wrap, omit fold policy, and include the CURSOR --- a
stable input, caught by G3.
**One mutation does NOT bite, and the row says so rather than
pretending.** Collapsing rows and columns to a product stays green,
because `last_content_cols` co-varies with a column change and the row
count co-varies with a resize: the key moves by another input either
way. Only a transposition (2x6 -> 6x2, identical product) would isolate
it, and no production path reaches one --- rows come from the band's
height, columns from the frame declaration, and nothing swaps them. The
key hashes them separately anyway; hashing a product because no test
can currently tell the difference would be choosing the weaker
construction for the suite's convenience.
G4b --- that an in-flight drag survives a selection repaint through
real replay --- stays owed by the rebased replay lane, which is the only
branch where replay exists.
Verified: focused suite 34/34, `cargo test --lib` green, clippy clean.
Per the standing procedure the eleven-stage `--protocol` gate is
reserved for the next coherent checkpoint.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
SS5b's first implementation commit: the two appended variants, the
version constants, and the pins that hold them in place. No gating, no
key, no replay --- those are the next commits, and the variants are
REFUSED everywhere until their gate lands.
**APPENDED AT THE TRUE END, confirmed by the discriminants.**
`PanelPointer` is 15, `TextInput` 16, `PanelPointerMapped` **17**;
`Present` 0, `Absent` 1, `PresentMapped` **2**. "Beside `Present`" would
have been adjacent insertion, which shifts every discriminant below and
silently re-interprets an older peer's bytes. `mapping_generation` is a
`u64`, last within each variant, documented invalid at zero --- the
value a default-constructed sender produces, so accepting it would let
a peer opt out of the check by sending nothing.
**THE COMPILER NAMED EVERY SEAM.** Four non-exhaustive matches:
`semantic_render`'s declaration accessor now sees through both
families, and the three routing sites REFUSE the mapped variant rather
than unwrapping it to legacy meaning. Refusal is the correct default at
an intermediate commit, not a placeholder --- until the frontend can
prove it negotiated v25 it IS a `<= v24` peer for gating purposes, and
painting first would ship a window in which the band is hit-tested with
no mapping identity at all.
**Five mutations, each biting its own rows:**
insert `PanelPointerMapped` before `TextInput`
-> the TextInput pin and the mapped pin. `PanelPointer`'s v23 pin
correctly SURVIVES: its discriminant did not move, which is the
"only the pin whose discriminant moved fails" behaviour G0a
specifies
insert `PresentMapped` before `Absent`
-> the Absent pin and the mapped-frame pin
swap `geometry_epoch` / `panel_epoch`
-> the exact-bytes assertion, while the round-trip stays green.
That is the blind spot G0b exists for, and it is why every
adjacent same-typed field carries a distinct value
bump the wire version without extending the supported set
-> both new tripwires and 1a's v6 ladder
move `ADVERTISED_PROTOCOL_VERSION` to 25
-> the baseline pin
**Version fallout, enumerated rather than discovered one gate at a
time.** Four acceptance-suite tripwires (`bottom_panel_stage2b_gpu`,
`discovery_stage2` x2, `vterm_stage3`, `statusline_segments`) each say
"a wire bump must be a conscious edit here" and each worked. Rather
than fix them one run at a time I grepped the tree for version
assertions and updated all four in one pass.
Review folded five further corrections, two of which fix reasoning of
mine that was wrong:
- I claimed reversing `frame` and `mapping_generation` "fails to
compile" because they are different types. **False for NAMED
variant fields** --- the initializer uses names, so reordering the
declarations compiles and shifts postcard's positional bytes
silently. The pin is the only thing catching that.
- Ladder loops now track `PROTOCOL_VERSION` while TRIPWIRES stay
literal. I had flattened both to `25`. A tripwire is literal so a
bump is a conscious edit; a ladder must move, or the next bump
silently stops testing the top rung. G14b is unaffected ---
`PANEL_MAPPING_MIN_VERSION` stays literal, because there the
arithmetic is exactly the hazard.
- `assert!(24 < MIN)` was a compile-time tautology holding for every
value above 24. Replaced with the literal equality plus
`assert_ne!` against `TEXT_INPUT_MIN_VERSION`: the mapped family
must not share v24's gate, or it is admitted on sessions that
negotiated only `TextInput`.
- Statusline support loop reaches `PROTOCOL_VERSION`; public protocol
history records v25.
**CI-red observations are in the LANE LEDGER, not the registry**, and
that is deliberate: `ci-red-signatures.md` here ends at U9 while the
unmerged replay branch already added a U10, so a row from this branch
would duplicate an id or invent one blind --- which this file's own
history records going wrong, two branches' entries merging "without a
conflict, producing duplicate ids across four sites". R7 twice and the
composition budget once, fragments verified, owed to the registry by
whichever branch merges second.
Gates: all eleven green under `env -u TMPDIR` with `--protocol`,
log 20260815T103555Z. Four runs were needed; three were lost to those
two signatures, not to this diff.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
Close the producer, receiver, protocol-family, and gesture-lifecycle
cross-products in one pass. Separate route witnesses from replay effects,
freeze both old boundaries and new variant fields, and record the bounded
review method for the remaining chain.
Answers review of 15. Framing only. Three items reverse a rule 15
introduced, and one retracts a mutation that was not a defect.
**THE PRODUCER RULE CONTRADICTED PROACTIVE CANCELLATION.** The daemon
cancels BEFORE emitting the replacement frame, so the frontend needs
only to clear its local latch when that frame arrives, and send
nothing. Revision 15 asked it to emit a cancellation tail or retain the
latch: the tail is redundant --- the daemon would receive a release for
a gesture it has already settled, which is the duplicate release the
latch exists to prevent --- and RETAINING IS ACTIVELY HARMFUL, because
it manufactures a `Drag` under the NEW generation with no accepted
`Down`. That is the exact orphan the section exists to prevent,
produced by the rule meant to prevent it.
Ordering is what makes the simple rule safe: cancel, then emit. The
frame's arrival IS the cancellation signal; no second channel is
needed. Witnessed as `Down` -> key advances -> replacement frame ->
motion and physical `Up` produce no new drag and no duplicate release.
**THE LATCH HAD ONE TRIGGER AND NEEDED FIVE.** Cancellation runs on
every loss of gesture authority: generation advance, `Absent`, panel or
buffer identity change, geometry-epoch change EVEN AT AN UNCHANGED CELL
TOTAL, and detach. And an ordinary accepted `Up` must clear the latch,
or a later invalidation finds a gesture it believes live and
synthesises a duplicate release for a button already up --- the replay
lane's D1/D2 orphan race, arriving from the daemon's side.
**G9b's MUTATION WAS A VALID IMPLEMENTATION, NOT A DEFECT.** Keying the
dedupe by `(mapping_generation, coord)` preserves same-generation
suppression and naturally admits the first motion under a new
generation. Requiring it to fail would have forbidden a correct design.
Replaced with two real defects: compare only the cell and never key or
reset by generation (the first post-change motion is eaten), and reset
on every same-generation repaint (pixel-rate traffic returns).
**"PROJECTED CELL IDENTITY" CONTRADICTED THE STYLING CONTROL** in the
same section. The wire `Cell` derives `PartialEq` over `glyph`, STYLE
and `attachment` (`pmacs-protocol/src/cell.rs:153`), so an identity
keyed on cell equality moves on a pure recolour --- while the stable
controls rule style out. Terminal identity is now glyph and row
TOPOLOGY plus the view anchor, excluding face, style and cursor, with a
same-glyph/different-style control: the row that catches an
implementation reaching for `Cell` equality because it is right there.
P2s: zero-generation rows added in BOTH directions as independent legs
(a valid `PresentMapped` with generation zero must be rejected
atomically; a zero-generation `PanelPointerMapped` must be refused);
G7 split into outbound mapped-frame and inbound mapped-pointer legs,
since its old mutation only withheld the frame; G2's grid rows/columns
and fold-map-content/`fold_projection`-policy composites split; and
SS20 now names journey steps 5 and 8 while stating neither grade
changes --- an auditor scanning for grade movement alone would
otherwise conclude this slice touches no journey.
**AND R7 RECURRED, ON A DIFF THAT IS ENTIRELY DOCUMENTATION.** The
first `--protocol` run of this tree failed the `gpu` step on
`managed_retry_survives_transients_and_uses_the_successful_stream`,
with all three required fragments verified from the durable log
(`20260815T072601Z`). Recorded as R7's FIFTH occurrence.
It carries the strongest tree exclusion the row has had: occurrences 1
and 4 argued "unrelated lane", while this branch cannot be related at
all --- no Rust, no wire surface, no `pmacs-gpu` file. The line moved
to `attach.rs:1728` from `:1680`, which the row already treats as
occurrence-specific rather than a fragment. Isolated rerun green, and
the full gate green on the re-run (271/271 in the `gpu` step) --- which
per this file's rerun rule establishes INTERMITTENCE ONLY, though here
there is no tree change to exonerate.
What five occurrences across three flavors and five unrelated lanes now
support is that the failure is NOT LANE-CORRELATED. That is evidence
about where the cause is not. The retirement condition is unchanged.
Gates: all eleven green under `env -u TMPDIR` with `--protocol`,
log 20260815T073556Z.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
Answers review of 14. Framing only. Four of the six reverse something
14 asserted, and a green protocol gate would not have caught any of
them.
**"BESIDE `Present`/`PanelPointer`" WAS POSITIONALLY DANGEROUS.**
"Beside" reads as adjacent, and adjacent insertion shifts every
discriminant below it --- the exact hazard the appended-only rule
exists for. Appended means LAST: `PresentMapped` after `Absent`,
`PanelPointerMapped` after `TextInput`, with a diagram so the next
reader cannot re-derive it wrongly. Field order is stated exactly,
`mapping_generation` is a `u64`, ZERO IS INVALID --- it is what a
default-constructed or half-initialised sender produces, so accepting
it would let a peer opt out of the check by sending nothing --- and the
gate reads `PANEL_MAPPING_MIN_VERSION = 25` rather than a literal.
**BLANKET REFUSAL STOPPED THE WHEEL AFTER ONE TICK.** The first
effective document wheel changes `view_top`, which advances the key, so
the next already-queued tick carries the old generation and is refused:
the panel scrolls once and goes dead until the frontend observes the
new frame. Local terminal scrollback has the same shape.
The discriminator is whether the gesture USES its coordinate.
Coordinate-free gestures --- the document wheel, non-reporting terminal
scrollback --- cannot be mis-aimed by a stale mapping and are EXEMPT.
A child-reported wheel is the opposite case: SGR carries row and
column, so a stale one aims an application action at a cell the user
never pointed at, and it keeps the check. Two-tick witnesses added,
because without them a blanket-refusal implementation passes every
single-event row in the matrix.
**CANCELLATION WAS REACTIVE AND LOSES A RACE.** If the replacement
mapped frame reaches the frontend before the physical `Up`, the
producer resets `pointer_held` and SUPPRESSES THE VERY EVENT that would
have cancelled --- so the daemon is never told, the selection stays
armed, and the child keeps holding its button. It is now PROACTIVE,
triggered by the authoritative key advancing while a gesture is
accepted, and the producer must emit a cancellation tail or retain the
latch rather than clearing first.
That needs state 14 assumed and never specified: an ACCEPTED-GESTURE
LATCH recording whether the `Down` was accepted, whether it reached the
child, and the coordinate, button and encoding a release must match.
Two rules fall out and are ruled here --- a stale `Up` with no accepted
`Down` is INERT, and cancellation NEVER reclaims a controller another
frontend has since taken, because a stale gesture must not steal a live
one's terminal.
**THE EXISTING SCREEN GENERATION CANNOT BE THE TERMINAL KEY.**
`Screen::changed()` bumps from 39 call sites including `SetStyle`,
`Bell`, the tab-stop operations, cursor-only motion and `SetTitle`.
None of those change what a coordinate denotes, so keying on it would
cancel a drag every time the child recoloured a character. A dedicated
terminal mapping revision is defined over projected cell identity,
retained-row identity and the per-view scroll anchor --- with those
five events as explicit STABLE CONTROLS, so a reader who later reaches
for the convenient counter fails a test instead of shipping a cancelled
drag.
**G5'S EFFECTS ARE NOT PROVABLE ON THIS BRANCH**, and 14 claimed them.
`gesture_last_content_cell` and the document/terminal replay exist only
on `panel-pointer-replay` (`pmacs-gpu/src/main.rs:2143` there); the
same struct here is at `:2124` with no such field. The obligations are
split in a table. G5a --- that the key advancing RAISES cancellation
--- stays here on purpose: the trigger is this slice's rule, and moving
the whole row out would leave the proactive ruling with no witness in
the slice that introduces it.
P2s: mutation legs split (wrap vs gutter, terminal content vs
scrollback, G5a-c, G8a/b, G9a/b); G7 given a positive-path mutation;
G11 expanded --- exhaustion must publish `Absent`, clear input
authority, cancel any accepted gesture and LATCH, or a stale panel
stays painted and permanently inert; the v26 correction finished at the
gate and old-peer cells (`:573`); and the SS20 impact statement added
--- hardens an existing panel island, no journey grade changes, no
config, no background work.
**And the pin correction is mine to make: it EXISTS**, at
`src/protocol.rs:1975`, in the ROOT crate's test module rather than
under `pmacs-protocol/` or `tests/` --- which is exactly where I
searched. `message.rs:524` was right and the doubt was wrong; the
contrary claim is removed from both records.
Gates: all eleven green under `env -u TMPDIR` with `--protocol`,
log 20260814T180105Z.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
Own branch, own slice, protocol-bearing, runs alone. Framing only; no
implementation. Blocks `panel-pointer-replay`, which blocks GUI arc 1b.
Answers review of revision 13. Every item below reverses or completes
something 13 got wrong.
**GATING IS REFUSAL, NOT FALLBACK.** Revision 13 said a bare
`PanelPointer` from a new peer would be "handled under the old
semantics". That is a BYPASS: it leaves the exact hole this slice
exists to close, reachable by omitting a field. A >= v25 session
sending the legacy event is REFUSED before mutation, and a >= v25
frontend REJECTS a legacy `Present` rather than painting a band it
cannot safely hit-test. Only negotiated <= v24 keeps legacy semantics;
`Absent` stays common to both families.
**ONE AUTHORITATIVE PER-FRONTEND KEY**, used by projection AND inbound
validation, advanced after any mapping mutation and BEFORE the next
inbound pointer is handled --- whether or not anything has rendered.
Comparing against the last EMITTED frame recreates the hole, because a
mutation not yet painted has still changed the inverse mapping.
**STALE TAILS TERMINATE; THEY DO NOT VANISH.** A blanket drop breaks
liveness: a refused `Up` leaves an empty document selection armed with
a stale anchor, and leaves a reporting terminal child HOLDING A BUTTON
FOREVER. Cancellation is now a ruled outcome --- producer latch reset,
daemon selection and click-chain cleanup, and the child's release
delivered at the last coordinate known good. A cancelled gesture is
explicitly not a replayed one: the release is for liveness, and no
selection or scroll effect is applied from the stale event. Stale
BEGINNINGS may still simply drop.
**THE DOMAIN WAS INCOMPLETE.** `view_left` is added, because 1b makes
horizontal scrolling real. "Cursor movement is stable" is now
CONDITIONAL: a cursor move that triggers vertical or horizontal follow
changes `view_top` or `view_left` and therefore does change the
mapping. Terminal panels are ruled explicitly --- their coordinates are
decided by the SCREEN, so output and scrollback movement change the
generation while their buffer revision does not.
**SS5b HAD NO ACCEPTANCE MATRIX.** G1-G11 now cover the foreign edit
before render, every changing and stable domain entry ROW BY ROW, a
selection repaint that must preserve the generation and let a drag
continue, mid-gesture cancellation, v24 and v25 positive controls with
both wrong-family refusals, identical cells across a generation change
still emitting, atomic retention of frame and generation on an invalid
frame, and fail-closed exhaustion. The per-entry enumeration is
deliberate: one aggregate row cannot show WHICH input moved the key,
and a key ignoring `view_left` passes every vertical-only row.
**MAPPED MOTION KEEPS ITS COALESCING TAGS.** A new variant falling
through to the lossless default would put pixel-rate `Move`/`Drag` on a
bounded queue.
**PINS ACCUMULATE.** Revision 13 said the pin "moves", which would
delete coverage of the shape it protects. `PanelPointer` is retained;
exact `TextInput` bytes are added as the previous-final
`FrontendEvent`; the complete nested `PanelFrame(Absent)` bytes are
added as the previous-final `PanelFramePayload`. Recorded honestly: I
could find NO exact-bytes pin for `PanelPointer` anywhere in the tree,
though `pmacs-protocol/src/message.rs:524` says one is in the tests.
Either my search missed it or the doc overclaims; this slice resolves
it either way, since it must add exact pins regardless.
**AND THIS SLICE OWNS THE VERSION CORRECTION.**
`docs/gui-stage1-input-framing.md` now says 1e's `OpenTarget` is
**v26**, with the reason stated at the top. An expected rebase conflict
on `gui-stage1b-pointer-scroll` is not grounds for leaving the
canonical document false --- which is what I argued last round, and it
was wrong. `ADVERTISED_PROTOCOL_VERSION` stays pinned at 20.
Gates: all ELEVEN green under `env -u TMPDIR`, with `--protocol`
(`build-crdt`, `sweep-crdt`), log 20260814T162843Z.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
Section 3 already forbids starting the gate from a shell that ignores
SIGINT, and already records that an ordinary tool-level background
launch is measured deliverable. It did not cover the other way a
harness convenience turns into false evidence.
The 16-stage suite outruns a ten-minute agent command cap. Wrapping it
in `timeout 580` kills sweep mid-run, and the runner records that stage
as a failure --- indistinguishable in the log from a real red. That
produced one false SS5b gate result.
Records the supported alternative, which is the tool-level background
launch the section already vouches for, and the fallback of labelled
pieces with the record saying which piece produced which result.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
The row rd_precondition_validates_the_whole_conformance_set failed once
in a sweep-crdt run on 2026-08-20 and passed on the two sweeps after it.
The message was not captured, so nothing here explains it --- the
occurrence is recorded and the diagnosis is not.
Also withdraws a mechanism I offered for it. I described the test as
spawning 46 concurrent stubs under load; it runs 45 stubs SEQUENTIALLY
plus one intentional nonexistent-path spawn probe, so there is no
concurrency to be pressured and 46 was a miscount. Thirty consecutive
user-run repetitions at load ~10.5 --- 1,350 stub executions --- did not
reproduce it.
Records the standing instruction that a recurrence must capture the
exact case and error before anyone theorises again.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
Records what the lane closed, measured rather than argued.
A6a is closed by measurement: status 1 with no token classifies as a
boundary error, never `ignored`, green on macOS --- the platform whose
shell exits 1 for an exec failure, which is what produced the original
defect and what a status-only ABI could not distinguish.
A7 stops being "satisfied by disclosure". Both macOS flavours exercised
the helper and gate consumers across the full 45-case shared set. The
R-d consumer stays Linux-only, because its test is crdt-gated while the
macOS jobs build without crdt and Test (crdt) is ubuntu-only --- recorded
as an open gap rather than quietly closed.
Also records that the two m4_24_* rows failing locally under crdt do not
reproduce in CI, at this branch or at 72da24a: local-environment
-specific, not a code defect and not this lane's.
panel-mapping-generation is unblocked, and its sixteen-stage gate must
run in the foreground --- the condition its stage 15 always needed.
Per the standing convention this absorption does not advance any
canonical base to its own commit.
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X3 and X4 deliberately use dedicated stderr payloads, so describe the
sentinel as belonging to the branch-discriminating cases rather than to
every conformance stub.
Two closure gaps.
1. Both suites asserted only `cases.len() == 45`, so the exact
45-entries-over-43-distinct-inputs regression could recur unnoticed
--- the one where X3 collapsed into 1/E/empty and X4 into
0/V/safe/bare, leaving two framing-specified cases silently
unexercised. shared_cases() now asserts uniqueness over
(status, stdout, stderr), inside the generator so no consumer can
forget it. Verified by reverting both payloads to the sentinel: it
fails naming X3.
2. Comments and ledger still said every stub emits the sentinel, which
the explicit X3/X4 payloads had made false. They now say the
BRANCH-DISCRIMINATING cases carry it while X3 and X4 deliberately
carry their own --- X3 the canonical ignored wording with no token,
X4 noise --- and that this is what makes them distinct inputs. The
duplicated `self::`/`super::` explanation left over from the nesting
fix is reduced to the correct one.
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Five findings. The first was red CI that my local gate could not have
caught.
1. `crate::common` cannot resolve when gpu_invocation_acceptance.rs is
compiled as a nested module of gpu_initial_target_acceptance.rs,
where `crate::` is the outer test crate. Now `super::common`, which
resolves in both modes --- verified by compiling each target
explicitly. Clippy's `(Some(1 | 2), true)` folding applied too.
The reason this shipped: plain `./scripts/gate` omits sweep-crdt,
the only stage that compiles the nested target under crdt, while
04-lib-crdt builds the lib alone. This lane gates with `--protocol`,
and the ledger now says so.
2. X3 and X4 had stopped being the cases the framing specifies:
stub_script() gave every case the same sentinel stderr, so X3 lacked
the canonical ignored text and X4 was byte-identical to
0/V/safe/bare --- 45 entries, 43 distinct inputs. Case now carries an
explicit stderr payload; X3 emits the canonical wording with no
token, and both consumers assert they never repeat it.
3. The capture-creation-failure row asserted exit, wording and stage
output but not residue. It now inspects the temporary root before
its RAII drop and requires it empty.
4. The exact-token test covered safe and error but not ignored, despite
the ledger claiming all three. The ignored arm now asserts its exact
stdout, driven through a SIGINT-ignoring shell.
5. The ledger's claim that the status-2 mutation is caught only by the
dedicated row is superseded --- the sentinel matrix catches it --- and
the self-referential "this commit" is replaced by bc7d776.
Also records two PRE-EXISTING crdt-only failures found while gating
properly (m4_24_bare_string_glob_stays_relative and
m4_24_d3_fallback_base_is_the_smallest_attachment_dir): they reproduce
in isolation and fail identically at 72da24a, so they are not this
lane's, and no cause is claimed for them.
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Full gate GREEN on the committed head 8802d6a, all 8 stages, log
20260820T072102Z-3009434.
Two provenance corrections recorded rather than smoothed over:
- The first attempt on that same head failed 07-sweep on
composition_overhead_under_ten_percent, a perf budget unrelated to
this lane's surface, green in isolation and already recorded as a
recurring signature on the panel-mapping-generation ledger. Both
runs are kept. No cause is claimed for the first --- only that the
second is the head-exact evidence.
- The earlier 20260819T190930Z-2647615 run finished about thirty
seconds BEFORE bc7d776 was committed, so it described the
implementation tree, not a committed head. It is relabelled
accordingly rather than left standing as gate evidence for a commit
that did not yet exist.
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Four acceptance gaps, all upheld.
1. Neither suite distinguished a validated refusal from a boundary
error. Both exit 2 (and both produce Err in Rust), so comparing exit
codes or is_ok() let a validator that accepts EVERY status-2 pair
pass the whole matrix --- the precise defect A6c exists to catch.
Every stub now emits a sentinel on stderr, and an Outcome enum
(Safe / ValidatedIgnored / ValidatedError / Boundary) is asserted
branch-exact: a validated verdict must surface the sentinel, a
boundary failure must withhold it. Verified: mutating the gate to
accept any status 2 now fails the MATRIX, where before it only
failed a dedicated row. Each helper arm's exact stdout token is
asserted as well.
2. The 45-case set was duplicated in both suites and could drift while
both still reported length 45. It now lives in
tests/common/sigint_conformance.rs and both validators consume the
same vectors.
3. A8 was incomplete --- nothing forced capture-directory creation to
fail. A bounded row points TMPDIR at a missing directory so
`mktemp -d` fails, asserting boundary error 2, no stage execution and
no residue; mutating the failure branch to fall through makes it
fail. Temporary directories are RAII throughout, replacing the
keep()-plus-manual-cleanup shape.
4. The R-d comment still claimed a shared helper means the consumers
"can never disagree" and described status-only behaviour. Both were
withdrawn by revision 13; the comment now points at the shared matrix
as what actually keeps them in step.
36 gate rows, 16 GPU rows, clippy clean, full gate green.
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The helper now emits its verdict token on stdout with diagnostics on
stderr, and both consumers validate the PAIR rather than the status
alone. This closes the macOS defect CI found: a shell that cannot
execute the helper exits 1, which the status-only ABI read as
`ignored`, so a broken guard told the operator their environment
ignores SIGINT.
Gate (shell consumer):
- guard-local capture directory, created before the gate's own
temporary roots exist, with cleanup armed BEFORE the helper runs and
disarmed on the safe path so the gate's later trap is undisturbed;
- `|| sigint_status=$?` retained --- a bare invocation dies under
`set -eu` before the status is read, which was the original bug;
- `expected_token` selected by an explicit status case before any
`set -u`-sensitive use, since an out-of-range status has none;
- byte comparison via `cmp` against both permitted encodings, because
a shell variable neither preserves NUL nor carries the child status;
- the helper's stderr is surfaced ONLY for validated verdicts; a
boundary failure prints the gate's own wording and withholds the
untrusted child output;
- every refusing branch prints status= and token=.
R-d (Rust consumer) validates the same pair from Command::output()
bytes. It needs no capture files, and its spawn-error path has no status
at all --- the boundary the shell cannot represent.
Conformance: 45 shared cases generated as a cross-product over token
class, encoding and status, run by BOTH validators so they cannot
diverge, plus Rust's X2 for 46 overall. 34 gate rows, 16 GPU rows, full
gate green.
Mutations, each biting its row: accepting any status 2 regardless of
token; surfacing child stderr on a boundary failure; emitting the token
to stderr. The first is caught by the dedicated error row rather than
the conformance set --- most of the set's boundary cases have empty
stderr, so they cannot tell which branch produced the exit 2 --- and
that limitation is recorded rather than left implicit.
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Revision 13 is approved at 5dece3e after closing the status-preserving
capture, guard-local cleanup, exact-byte grammar, stderr trust, complete
pair matrix and consumer-specific boundary blockers.
The replacement may now be implemented under the A1-A8 contract. PR
#241 remains unmergeable until that implementation is complete, gated,
and green on macOS.
Close the last three approval blockers in revision 13.
The shell algorithm now removes and disarms its guard-local capture on
the safe path, selects the expected token through an explicit status
case before any set-u-sensitive use, and sends every out-of-range status
straight to boundary error. The load-bearing `|| status=$?` remains in
place. A mechanical set-eu exercise covers safe, ignored, validated
error, status 126 and capture-creation failure; every path returns the
specified public status and leaves no capture residue.
The conformance accounting now distinguishes the 45 cases shared by the
shell and Rust validators from Rust's additional no-status spawn-error
case. A shell exec failure necessarily becomes a shell status, so it
cannot exercise that Rust-only input. The text also stops claiming that
Rust uses file-backed capture: only the shell needs files, while Rust
compares Command::output byte vectors directly.
No remedy implementation. PR #241 remains blocked until revision 13 is
recorded approved.
Three blockers, all upheld.
1. The file-backed snippet dropped `|| status=$?` and invoked the helper
bare. Under scripts/gate's `set -eu` that terminates the gate at the
helper's non-zero exit, before the status is ever read --- which is
the ORIGINAL shipped bug, reintroduced in the very section written to
replace it. The load-bearing shape is restored and commented as such.
2. $tmp does not exist where the guard runs. The guard sits immediately
after the worktree resolves and deliberately precedes the log
directory, ambient root and GATE_TMPDIR, so it must create and own
its capture directory --- with the cleanup trap armed BEFORE the
helper is invoked, and a disarm on the safe path so the gate's own
later trap setup is undisturbed. New A8 witnesses that no capture
directory survives any path, including failure to create one:
the guard was placed early to leave nothing behind, and a capture
directory must not weaken that.
3. The case count was fiction. T0 + LF is a valid third encoding per
status --- and is what the shipped helper actually emits, since it
prints with echo --- and "a different valid token" has two
possibilities per status, so sampling one left half the mismatches
untested. Now enumerated: two valid encodings, six mismatched
valid-token pairs each in both encodings, eight malformed classes,
giving 14 per status x 3 = 42, plus four out-of-band cases = 46.
Earlier drafts claimed twelve, then twenty-three, then thirty-four,
each a count of a set that had not been enumerated; the document now
says so.
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Three blockers, all upheld, and the first two say the same thing: the
capture mechanism I specified cannot implement the contract above it.
1. The sentinel idiom destroys the helper status. In
out=$("$helper"; printf x) the last command is printf, so the
assignment returns 0 whatever the helper did --- measured: a helper
exiting 1 gives assignment status 0.
2. A shell variable cannot carry the byte grammar. Command substitution
drops NUL in POSIX sh and bash --- and, measured here, zsh KEEPS it.
So TOKEN NUL validates in one shell and not another, which is worse
than lossy for a contract two consumers must implement identically.
Both defects live in variable capture, so the spec now uses
file-backed capture: redirect stdout and stderr to files, read the
helper's own status directly, and compare bytes with `cmp` against
generated want/want_lf files. Files preserve every byte including
NUL; Rust compares out.stdout against TOKEN and TOKEN+LF. If a
future consumer must use a variable, the status has to be carried
out explicitly and the NUL divergence still bars a byte-equality
claim --- both recorded.
3. The matrix was not the claimed cross-product: it omitted
(1, unknown-version) and applied malformed and whitespace cases only
at status 0, so a validator that checked tokens strictly for 0 and
accepted arbitrary status-1 output passed all 23 rows. Replaced by a
generated ten-token-class x three-status cross-product --- only the
diagonal validates, the other 27 combinations are boundary errors ---
plus four out-of-band cases: out-of-range status, spawn failure, the
untrusted-stderr case, and stderr noise on an otherwise valid pair.
34 cases. The stale "same twelve cases" sentence is gone.
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Four blocking issues, all upheld. The first defeats the whole design if
left standing.
1. Boundary errors trusted unvalidated stderr. A helper exiting 1 with
NO token but the canonical "SIGINT is ignored" text would classify
as boundary error --- correctly --- and then tell the operator their
environment ignores SIGINT. A6 satisfied in the classification,
violated in the message actually read. Now: a validated pair's
stderr IS the diagnosis and is surfaced unchanged; a boundary
failure's stderr is untrusted, and the consumer emits its own
wording, omitting the child's or labelling it untrusted. New A6b
witnesses exactly that case (conformance row 23), with a mutation
for a consumer that surfaces it anyway.
2. The matrix did not prove exact-pair validation: no invalid status-2
pair existed, and the expected column collapsed validated
(2, :error) with boundary errors, so a validator accepting every
status 2 passed all twelve rows. The matrix is now a 23-case
cross-product distinguishing `error (validated)` from
`error (boundary)`, with (2, missing), (2, :safe), (2, :ignored) and
(2, unknown-version) all boundary. New A6c pins it.
3. Normalisation was internally inconsistent and not implementable
identically. "Strip one newline then trim ASCII whitespace" removes
further newlines, so TOKEN\n\n would have validated while the same
clause demanded single-line output --- and POSIX $() strips ALL
trailing newlines while Rust returns raw bytes, so the consumers
could not have agreed even on a correct rule. Replaced by one byte
grammar, stdout := TOKEN | TOKEN LF, with NO trimming, plus the
shell sentinel idiom `out=$(helper; printf x); out=${out%x}` so the
shell preserves what it must compare. Vectors added for extra
newline, leading newline, surrounding spaces, CRLF and doubled
token.
4. The ledger's old A7 assertion --- satisfied by disclosure, Linux-only,
no non-Linux unix reachable --- contradicted its own macOS record
twenty lines above. Marked explicitly as revision-12 history with
the live record named.
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Five blocking inconsistencies, all upheld. The first was the worst: the
document specified a validated pair and then printed an algorithm that
emits no tokens and a consumer flow that proceeds on exit 0 alone ---
accepting 0 with a missing token, the exact defect revision 13 forbids.
1. The algorithm now emits exactly one token per arm on stdout with
diagnostics on stderr; the consumer flow is pair-validation with
explicit normalisation (strip one trailing newline, trim ASCII
whitespace, require exactly one line); and the outcome table is
keyed on pairs, with a fourth row for boundary error including
macOS's status 1 with no token. `safe` is validated like the
others --- a status arriving without its token did not come from
this helper.
2. A6a is SCOPED TO THE GATE. R-d never sees a shell status: the gate
goes through /bin/sh, which turns an exec failure into an exit
status, while Rust's Command returns a spawn error with no status
at all --- conformance row 12, not row 5. And macOS CI does not
compile R-d's test, which is crdt-gated while the macOS jobs build
without crdt. R-d on macOS is unexercised, and the framing says so
rather than implying coverage.
3. A7 is restated against measurement. It cannot still say no
non-Linux unix was tried when macOS ran and went red: five of six
helper/gate rows pass there, one defect is named, R-d is recorded
Linux-only, and the remaining portability claim is labelled a
contract argument.
4. "Both consumers use the same helper so they can never disagree" is
withdrawn --- true when the status WAS the verdict, false once each
consumer validates a pair independently in a different language.
Replaced by a twelve-case conformance matrix both validators must
agree on, including the macOS case and a normalisation case.
5. The token-to-stderr mutation is remapped from A2 to A1/A3, with
the reasoning recorded: with stdout empty every outcome becomes
boundary error, which still satisfies A2 as written since A2 only
requires "not the deadline message". A2 stays broad and A6 pins
which diagnosis appears.
The ledger is aligned: the mechanism is established rather than
hypothesised, the "stderr prints the raw status" claim is corrected ---
the number appears only in the catch-all, and this failure took the
other branch --- and revision 12 is marked superseded.
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CI found revision 12's status-only ABI unsound on macOS. An unexecutable
helper makes macOS /bin/sh exit 1, which the ABI already reads as
`ignored`, so the gate told the operator their environment ignores
SIGINT when in fact the guard never ran. Linux returns 126 and mapped it
correctly, which is why local gating never saw it. Five of six SIGINT
rows pass on macOS; this is the sixth.
My proposed repair --- move `ignored` from 1 to 3 --- was rejected in
review, correctly: it relocates the collision rather than closing it,
since an execution failure can return any nonzero status. The
generalisation is what matters: NO EXIT STATUS CAN PROVE THE HELPER RAN.
Revision 13 therefore replaces the status-only ABI with a validated
(status, token) pair --- 0/1/2 paired with pmacs-sigint-v1:safe /
:ignored / :error, token on stdout, diagnostics on stderr. Any other
pair, including macOS's status 1 with no token, is a boundary error
mapped to 2. The public status meanings are preserved; what changes is
that a status must now be corroborated by something only the helper
could have printed.
Every refusing branch must also print the observed status and the token
state --- valid, missing or unexpected --- as diagnostic context, never
as the classifier. Revision 12 printed the number only in its catch-all,
so the macOS path had to be identified indirectly by which message text
appeared.
A4 gains four token mutations, each named against the row it must bite,
including accepting a missing token --- the shipped defect itself. A6 is
extended to cover missing, mismatched and unknown tokens in both
consumers, and a new A6a makes the macOS case a concrete obligation:
status 1 with no token must classify as boundary error, never ignored,
and the row is satisfied only when that platform is green.
Also records that A7 earned its keep: satisfied by disclosure because
the portability claim was argued rather than measured, and wrong the
first time it was measured.
No implementation. PR #241 stays blocked.
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CI on 916007b: 12 green, 2 red, both macOS Test jobs, and exactly one
row --- gate_maps_an_unexecutable_helper_to_error_not_ignored, left
Some(1) right Some(2). The other five SIGINT rows pass on macOS.
This is the A7 portability finding the review pre-declared, and it is a
real one: the gate returned 1, meaning `ignored`, for a helper it could
not execute --- the exact conflation §7c forbids.
The cause is not established. The leading hypothesis is that the ABI's
1 is ambiguous by construction: 1 means "ignored", and 1 is also a
status shells hand back for assorted failures. On Linux an unexecutable
file yields 126 and the catch-all maps it to 2; if macOS /bin/sh
returns 1 instead, the two cases are the same number at the boundary
and no catch-all can separate them. That would call for verdicts
outside the range shells produce, which is a design change needing its
own revision --- not something to patch here.
This commit only makes the failure self-diagnosing: the assertion now
includes the gate's stderr, which prints the raw probe status it saw.
The first failure could not say which status produced it, because the
message discarded stderr.
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Two ledger findings, both mine.
The lane block still said "No PR" while its own header and a new entry
recorded PR #241.
And the self-referential checkpoint wording had gone false, which is the
same trap as naming a branch's own tip: "this entry's own commit adds
the A6 rows" was true when written at 167d830 and false by d64d300, and
"the entry's own commit adds only the gate record" was 7cef9ca. Every
event now carries its IMMUTABLE sha --- implementation 3206433, A6 rows
and bounded negative path 167d830, factual corrections c9cc8dd, gate
record 7cef9ca, PR record d64d300 --- and only the branch tip stays
symbolic, which is the one pointer that has to.
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Opened from gpu-probe-sigint-teardown into main after the quiet 8/8 gate
on c9cc8dd. Not merged; awaiting review rounds.
Docs-only, per the recording exemption that keeps gate evidence from
recursing.
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Full gate GREEN on the committed head c9cc8dd, all 8 stages, log
20260819T160220Z-2339958, started at load 3.90.
The preceding attempt on the SAME head is kept rather than dropped. It
failed 04-lib-crdt and 07-sweep on four wall-clock rows --- the
composition budget, the summary-flatten scaling row, dired's 200ms
budget and a lean4 progress notification --- none of which touches this
lane's change. Load average was 49.6 and an unrelated
./verify_task_state.sh run was compiling under a separate toolchain at
/usr/local/rustup, having started about three minutes in and
overlapping precisely the two failing stages.
That overlap is recorded as evidence of WHEN, not proof of WHY. This
lane already retracted one confident environmental attribution, so the
red run was treated as "not valid evidence" rather than explained away,
and the green run on the same commit is what settles it. Had any of the
four failed again on a quiet machine it would have been a real finding
on this branch.
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Both mine, both checkable against evidence already in the repo.
The ledger said 35 gate-acceptance rows. The suite has 33. The 35 was
git_status_stage1_acceptance's result line, which sits immediately
below gate_script_acceptance's in the sweep log; I read the wrong one.
The correction names the misread so the next reader can see how a
transcription from a sweep log goes wrong.
The framing header newly attributed revision 12's approval to 7752bcb.
It was 1fc0df6 --- as the ledger says and as 7752bcb's own commit
message says in its first line. Restored.
The full gate is re-run on THIS commit rather than on the tree that
preceded it; the previous run finished twenty seconds before 167d830
was committed, so it described an uncommitted tree.
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Three findings, all upheld.
1. A6 was witnessed only for the helper. Both consumers now have real
-path rows.
Gate side, driven through a stub worktree --- a temp git repo holding
a copy of scripts/gate and a controlled helper --- so the gate's own
code path runs against each verdict without touching the checked-in
helper: a stub exiting 2 refuses with the ERROR wording and never
"SIGINT is ignored"; a NON-EXECUTABLE stub maps 126 to boundary
error 2 with its own wording. That second case is what the original
guard got wrong twice.
R-d side: the precondition is split into sigint_diagnosis() ->
Result, so the message is testable rather than reachable only
through a panic in a test that cannot run under the condition it
describes. The new row asserts safe proceeds, ignored says so and
says "NOT a teardown defect", error says "could not determine" and
never "ignored", and an unrunnable helper is undecidable at the
boundary.
2. The refusal row violated this suite's no-recursion constraint: it
invoked the ordinary gate, so a regression of the exact `if !` bug
would have launched eight real gate stages inside the gate suite.
It now uses --self-test, which drives the same runner over a
hardcoded synthetic plan, so the negative path stays bounded
whatever the guard does. under_ignored_sigint() also takes the
program and arguments POSITIONALLY --- `exec "$@"` --- instead of
interpolating them into script text, which broke for any path
containing a space or shell metacharacter, and every path here comes
from a tempdir or CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR.
3. The portable checkpoint is recorded: implementation at 3206433,
pushed, signed, clean, full default gate green 8/8 foreground. The
framing header no longer says implementation "may proceed" --- it
reports IMPLEMENTED. And docs/agent-handoff.md §3 gains the durable
rule: never start the gate or cargo test from a shell that ignores
SIGINT, `setsid nohup ... &` is forbidden, SIG_IGN is inherited
across fork and survives exec, the gate refuses with no override,
and scripts/check-sigint-deliverable answers the question directly.
35 gate-acceptance rows, 16 gpu_invocation_acceptance rows, full gate
green.
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Four findings, all upheld, and the first was a live bug I shipped.
1. R-b's non-zero handling was unreachable. scripts/gate runs under
`set -eu`, so the bare helper invocation killed the shell at exit 1
or 2 and neither `sigint_status=$?` nor the refusal messages ever
ran; an unexecutable helper would have escaped as raw 126/127 rather
than boundary error 2. Reproduced before fixing.
The first repair was ALSO wrong, and worse: `if ! helper; then
sigint_status=$?; fi` captures the status of the NEGATED condition,
which is always 0, so the gate printed the ignored diagnosis and
then ran the entire suite. The working shape is `helper ||
sigint_status=$?` --- failure handled, so `set -e` does not fire and
`$?` is the helper's own --- which is the idiom the helper already
uses internally. Statuses 1 and 2 pass through unchanged; everything
else, including 126/127, maps to 2 at the boundary and is never
reported as "SIGINT is ignored".
The guard also moved to immediately after the worktree resolves,
before any log directory, ambient root or tmpdir exists, so a
refused run leaves nothing behind.
2. The behaviour had no durable coverage, which is exactly why 27
passing gate tests missed both bugs. Four rows added: helper safe,
helper ignored, helper error (and never ignored), and gate refusal
before stage 1. Ignored-SIGINT is simulated with `trap "" INT`,
which is the real mechanism --- SIG_IGN inherited across fork and
surviving exec --- not a stand-in. Verified to bite: mutating the
gate back to either shipped bug fails
gate_refuses_to_start_when_sigint_is_ignored and nothing else.
3. The ledger now records the implementation, both bugs, the four rows
and their mutation check.
4. A7 is recorded SATISFIED BY DISCLOSURE, which is the fallback
revision 12 allows when no non-Linux unix is reachable. The earlier
"stays open" contradicted the approved contract and is withdrawn.
Tried: Linux x86_64, all three outcomes, all consumers. Not tried:
every non-Linux unix. Claimed: POSIX shell only, no /proc, no
sigaction --- labelled a contract argument, not a measurement.
The full default gate passes all eight stages foreground; it caught a
rustfmt violation in the new test code on the first attempt, which is
the guard-and-gate arrangement working as intended.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
scripts/check-sigint-deliverable is the single checked-in helper, to the
ABI revision 12 fixed: exit 0 safe with no diagnostic, exit 1 ignored
with the canonical wording, exit 2 error with a distinct one. The inner
probe's `|| exit 24` arms are the load-bearing part --- without them a
FAILED kill also falls through to exit 0 and gets misread as inherited
SIG_IGN, which is the one wrong answer the helper exists to prevent.
R-b: scripts/gate runs it before any stage and stops on a non-zero
status, surfacing the helper's stderr unchanged and adding only that no
stage ran. It does not re-derive the classification or supply its own
wording. Plan/print modes skip it, since they run nothing. No override.
R-d: the target test calls the same helper first and panics with
"precondition failed --- this is NOT a teardown defect" plus the helper's
own stderr, instead of reaching the misleading "child did not exit
within 5s". The Linux-only /proc D1/D2 instrument is removed now that
its evidence is portable, taking the platform dependency with it.
Witnesses:
A1 backgrounded gate stops before stage 1 with the ignored
diagnosis, exit 1.
A2 backgrounded direct test reports the precondition failure, NOT
the 5s deadline.
A3 foreground: both target copies pass in 0.16s and the guard is
silent.
A4 mutations measured, each biting its named row --- removing the
trap bites A3 (fg 0->2), treating inner 0 as safe bites A1/A2 (bg
1->0), collapsing error into ignored bites A6 (forced 2->1).
A5 the full default gate passes all 8 stages foreground, and
--print-plan is byte-identical to HEAD's: no stage added,
removed, reordered or made conditional.
A6 forced probe failure yields exit 2 and the error wording, not
the ignored wording.
A7 exercised on Linux x86_64 only, all three outcomes; no non-Linux
unix was reachable, so A7 stays OPEN there and the portability
argument is labelled contract-level, not measured.
Also records that this session's tool-level background mode leaves
SIGINT deliverable while setsid nohup ... & does not --- so the construct
that caused this lane was never necessary for long runs.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
Revision 12 is approved at 1fc0df6 after closing the controlled-arm
provenance, total-helper-ABI, and standing-ledger blockers. Record that
R-b plus R-d implementation may proceed under the replacement A1-A7
contract.
Make the second controlled-arm record portable without changing what it
claims: identify head 77b623c, transcribe the actual foreground and
background harness invocations, include the exact evidence-recording
harness, label the captured exit as cargo's, and carry both full binary
digests in both arm columns.
Turn the signal probe into an implementable shared ABI. The checked-in
helper owns classification and diagnostics: 0 is safe, 1 is inherited
ignore, and 2 is probe error. Preserve kill failure in the inner shell,
surface the helper's stderr unchanged in both consumers, and witness the
error outcome in both paths. Correct the mutation mapping so removing
the trap bites foreground success rather than the ignored-signal rows.
Synchronize the active-work ledger with the rerun head, total helper
contract, A1-A7 witnesses, and qualified portability claim.
Three findings, all upheld.
1. The arm provenance was malformed and over-claimed. The "fully
expanded" background command still contained <the fg command above>
and <log> placeholders; both table rows were one cell short of the
header, putting log prefixes under "binary hashes" and leaving the
digest column empty; and the full binary hashes had been read later
from reused paths, which cannot retroactively prove what each arm
executed --- the same provenance rule this document states in §7,
applied against my own record.
Rather than weaken the claim, the arms were re-run at head 77b623c
with FULL SHA-256 captured per run, immediately after each run,
before anything could rebuild them. Both arms: identical
0890b78c...4124c and ef6ff1c1...c696, dirty=0, fg exit=0 ok=2, bg
exit=101 failed=2 SigIgn=0x1007. Byte identity is now carried by the
capture rather than by inference. Commands are written out with no
placeholders, and the table cells line up.
2. The ledger still transported superseded operative instructions: a
"remedy not selected" heading, D0b still owed under A3, journey step
12(a) still assigned, and the old three-consecutive-run A2 contract.
All four now match revision 12's §8/§9 --- remedy selected, D0b
satisfied and not owed, journey steps NONE with gate trustworthiness
named instead, and A1-A7 replacing the three-run contract, which was
written for a flakiness that is now explained.
3. The helper contract was not total. The raw probe reaches exit 0 both
when the kill was a no-op AND when the kill itself failed, so a
broken probe would report "inherited SIG_IGN" and fail the gate for
the wrong reason. The helper now owns the classification and returns
one of safe / ignored / error; consumers consume the verdict and
never re-derive it. `error` is not folded into `ignored` --- it fails
the gate with a different diagnosis, because "your environment
ignores SIGINT" and "the guard could not run" are different
problems. A6 witnesses the distinct error outcome, A7 requires a
non-Linux unix exercise or an explicit statement of what was tried,
and A4 gains a mutation for collapsing error into ignored. R-b's
stale "needs an explicit override" is reconciled with §7c's no
-override decision.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
Third occurrence of the same process failure, and the one I had already
written the lesson for twice. ab43132's message said the ledger no
longer claims implementation-absent or mechanism-unknown. The ledger
script died on a stale anchor, and because I separated the steps with a
newline instead of chaining them, `git commit` ran regardless. Gating
one step is not enough when the next step is not gated too.
The ledger now records what the framing does: mechanism KNOWN, remedy
SELECTED as R-b + R-d via the portable probe, A3/D0b satisfied by the
controlled explanation so D0b is not owed, revision 12 awaiting
approval, D1/D2 done rather than "the next step", and the diagnostic
instrument named as the only implementation so far.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
Two record defects plus the remedy decision.
1. Withdrawn claims were still asserted elsewhere. The header and §4c's
consequences still said bet 1 FALSIFIED, A5 STRUCK, and that a real
pmacs --gpu "behaves correctly" --- none of which D4 established,
since D4 never ran. Both now say withdrawn/retired BY SCOPE, with
the explicit note that nothing here shows a real session is correct,
only that no observed evidence of a user-facing defect survives.
§4c's pre_exec-implies-assertion conclusion is replaced by a pointer
to §7b/§7c. A3/D0b are marked SATISFIED by the controlled
explanation --- D0b is not owed and will not run. §9's "Beyond step
12(a)" is gone, since no journey step is touched. The ledger no
longer says implementation-absent, mechanism-unknown, or D1/D2-next.
2. Provenance made portable. Both arm commands are fully expanded
rather than delegating to a machine-local arms.sh. Full SHA-256 of
the two executed binaries are recorded; the 16-character log values
are relabelled PREFIXES and carry no claim. The standalone
foreground/background SigIgn table is labelled UNRECORDED
CORROBORATION --- read ad hoc, no head, no log, no digest --- and the
portable probe supersedes it as the recorded check.
Remedy selected, §7c: R-b + R-d through one checked-in helper wrapping
a behavioural probe --- sh -c 'trap "exit 23" 2; kill -INT $$; exit 0' ---
which exits 23 when SIGINT is deliverable and 0 when inherited as
ignored. Verified here in both contexts. POSIX shell only, so it answers
§7b's portability criterion: no /proc, so not Linux-only, and no
sigaction, so no unsafe. scripts/gate fails immediately with the
explicit diagnosis; the target test reports the same precondition
failure if run directly; no override, because a gate under ignored
SIGINT cannot produce valid evidence. R-c rejected. The Linux-only
D1/D2 instrumentation is removed once its evidence is portable.
A1-A5 are replaced for the new work --- guard bite, direct-test
diagnosis, foreground success unaffected, mutation, and an otherwise
unchanged gate --- with the old teardown criteria kept in §8b, marked
non-binding, so the change of target is visible rather than silent.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
Four findings on revision 11, all upheld.
1. The operative contract still said the opposite of §4c. Bet 1 read as
open; §7 said the mechanism was unknown with D3/D4 pending; §8 kept
the old criteria and a conditional A5; §9 claimed a journey-12(a)
product repair; the ledger and the revision-10 paragraph still said
D1/D2 had not started. Each is now rewritten as executed, withdrawn,
discharged or superseded --- §9 in particular now records journey
steps touched: NONE, for the stated reason that no product behaviour
changes, with gate trustworthiness named as what the lane does
affect.
2. The causal evidence is now portable and cleanly reproduced. The
first capture came from d12.log, which finished five minutes BEFORE
afe3631 committed the diagnostic code and ran in the reused d0a-B
target --- inadmissible provenance, now marked as the first sighting
only. Replaced by controlled arms on committed head 38f2af4,
dirty=0, in this worktree's own target, with BYTE-IDENTICAL binary
hashes across arms (0890b78cca22ac1e, ef6ff1c15e11062a): foreground
exit=0 ok=2, background exit=101 failed=2 SigIgn=0x1007. The outer
invocation is recorded as a first-class column, since it is the
causal variable and every earlier "exact command" omitted it. The
historical foreground/background mapping is marked RECONSTRUCTED
from the transcript, not captured --- no pre-existing row carries an
outer-invocation field, which is precisely why the matrix stayed
confounded for nine revisions.
3. D4 was never executed, so bet 1 is WITHDRAWN BY SCOPE rather than
falsified, and A5 is RETIRED BY SCOPE rather than struck. Nothing
here shows a real wgpu session behaves correctly; what is shown is
that no observed evidence of a user-facing defect survives. The lane
is now gate/test correctness only.
4. The remedy is not selected. §7b evaluates four candidates --- runner
normalisation, an early gate guard, fixture isolation via pre_exec,
and a test-local precondition assertion --- with portability as a
selection criterion, noting /proc is Linux-only while the suite is
cfg(unix) and sigaction querying is unsafe. Likely R-b + R-d, but
nothing is chosen or implemented here. Revision 11's leap from
"pre_exec is unsafe" to "therefore an assertion" did not follow.
Also renames the meaningless african_close() helper (38f2af4).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
The D1/D2 instrument carried a helper called african_close() that
returned ")". The name was meaningless --- it described nothing about
/proc/<pid>/stat --- and the two call sites duplicated an awkward
rsplit/nth chain around it.
Replaced by d12_stat_field_after_comm(pid, n), which says what it reads
and documents the field numbering it anchors: comm is parenthesised and
may contain spaces and parentheses, so the only safe anchor is the last
")", after which 0=state, 1=ppid, 2=pgrp, 3=session.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
afe3631's message described revision 11 in detail. The commit contains
only the test file: the script that was to write the framing died on a
stale anchor --- the approval commit had reworded the header --- and the
shell chain ran `git commit` regardless of its exit status.
This is the SECOND time in this lane, and I recorded the lesson for it
in ea0f3bf: "asserting the edit is not enough if the commit does not
depend on it". I then repeated it. This commit gates `git commit` behind
the editing script's exit status, which is what the earlier note should
have changed and did not.
The framing is now actually at revision 11, AWAITING APPROVAL, carrying
§4c: SIGINT ignored group-wide (SigIgn=0x1007, signal 2), zero SigPnd
and zero per-thread SigBlk so ignored rather than blocked delivery,
shared pgid so nothing escaped the group; the foreground/background
SigIgn comparison; the controlled two-arm experiment; the invalidation
of the subset-vs-full matrix as confounded with my own invocation
method; and the consequences --- bet 1 falsified, A5 struck, the §7/§8
remedy withdrawn in favour of a runner practice and a precondition
assertion.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
The instrument is diagnostic-only: keyed on the PID the test already
owns, snapshotting the test parent, launcher and launcher's children
before the SIGINT, 50ms after, and at the deadline, with per-thread
SigBlk/SigPnd, SigIgn/SigCgt, SigPnd/ShdPnd and PID/PPID/PGID/SID.
Nothing it does changes what the test asserts.
It found the mechanism on the first reproducing run, and the answer is
that I caused the failure.
SIGINT was IGNORED by every process in the target group.
SigIgn=0x1007 on the test parent, the launcher and the probe --- signals
1, 2, 3, 13, and signal 2 is SIGINT. All SigPnd/ShdPnd and every
per-thread SigBlk are zero, so this is ignored delivery, not blocked
delivery; launcher and probe share pgid, so nothing escaped the group.
kill(-pgid, SIGINT) is a no-op, the launcher waits in do_wait for a
child never told to stop, and the 5s deadline fires.
The ignore is inherited from the shell. Measured both ways: a foreground
child has SigIgn=0x1000 (SIGPIPE only), a `setsid nohup ... &` child has
SigIgn=0x0007 (SIGHUP|SIGINT|SIGQUIT). SIG_IGN is inherited across fork
AND survives exec, so it reaches the probe. Controlled experiment, same
command and tree minutes apart: foreground both copies ok, backgrounded
both copies FAILED.
I adopted `setsid nohup ... &` on 08-16 to stop the Bash tool's ten
-minute cap truncating gate runs. That is the "onset" this lane spent
nine revisions investigating. The subset-vs-full distinction was never
real --- every reduction ran foreground, every full sweep backgrounded,
perfectly confounded --- so §4's matrix measured my invocation method.
D0a's both-uniform-red is consistent: it backgrounded both arms.
Consequences: bet 1 is falsified and A5 struck, since an interactive
terminal does not ignore SIGINT and Ctrl-C on a real session works. The
probe's shutdown path is not defective. What remains is a runner
practice and a test that fails obscurely when its precondition is
absent. Framing promoted to revision 11, AWAITING APPROVAL, because the
problem statement has changed and the §7/§8 remedy no longer follows.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
Revision 10 is approved at 4fba9f6 after aligning A3 with the D0b
contingency. The demonstrated D1/D2 mechanism may account directly for
the subset/full difference; otherwise D0b remains mandatory before the
lane closes.
Record that diagnostic-only D1/D2 are authorised but have not started.
No mechanism or fix is claimed yet.
Revision 10 retires D0b only as a precondition: a demonstrated D1/D2
mechanism may account directly for the subset/full difference, while a
mechanism that does not account for it triggers D0b before closure.
A3 still stated the old unconditional rule that D0 must recreate the
comparison in every case. Make the acceptance criterion match the
diagnostic decision: record the direct explanation when it exists;
otherwise run D0b under captured provenance and explain or explicitly
leave its result unexplained. Either path remains mandatory before the
lane can close.
Three statements survived the narrowing and contradicted it, plus one
ellipsed path in the supposedly exact command block.
- §4b's heading still read "the source hypothesis is eliminated" ---
the exact claim the section body withdraws. It now reads "the
commits do not discriminate today".
- §4a said the endpoints settle whether 7599661..724b785 contains a
regression. They do not: they settle only whether a BISECT IS
CURRENTLY JUSTIFIED. Those are different questions, and D0a's
both-uniform-red answers the first while leaving the second open.
- §4b claimed execution "under the approved contract" while the same
revision acknowledges uptime was never captured. The departure is
now stated up front, before the results rather than after them:
uptime is UNKNOWN for all ten runs, everything else held, no
classification depends on the missing field, and D1/D2's harness
must capture the full list.
- The manifest's <TD> definition still abbreviated the second target
directory as .../d0a-B inside a block labelled exact. Both paths
are written out; no ellipsis remains in it.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
Two findings, both upheld.
1. The portable provenance was corrupted and incomplete --- worse than
the machine-local pointer it replaced, because it looked verifiable
and was not. Every log digest had lost its leading hex character
(A#1 recorded as 1c0fe47d55d8f5e... where the value is
e1c0fe47d55d8f5e): the extraction started one byte late in
`logsha=<value>`. The captured /tmp and MemAvailable columns were
dropped, and the command block used ellipsed paths. All ten digests
are corrected, both columns restored, and the command is written out
in full with only two named placeholders.
Separately: `uptime` was NEVER CAPTURED. §7's condition list names
it; the harness kept the load averages from it and discarded the
elapsed time. It is now recorded as UNKNOWN for all ten runs, with
the condition list marked as only partially satisfied rather than
implied met. The classifications stand --- none depends on uptime ---
and D1/D2's harness must capture the whole list.
2. Retiring D0b materially changes the approved diagnostic sequence,
which made D0b mandatory before every other diagnostic. The document
still claimed revision 9, approved at 15c25ec, for a decision that
approval does not contain. Promoted to revision 10 and marked
AWAITING APPROVAL; D0a's execution and result are reported under
revision 9, and D1/D2 do not begin until revision 10 is approved.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
18b74d7's message said the framing was corrected on all three findings.
It was not. That script asserted its anchors and died on the second one
--- the endpoint-table rows carry a two-space indent my anchor omitted ---
and since it writes only at the end, NONE of the framing edits landed.
The manifest and ledger edits in that commit are real; the framing ones
were not, and I pushed the claim anyway.
The assertions worked exactly as intended and I ignored their verdict:
the shell chain ran `git commit` regardless of the script's exit status.
Asserting the edit is not enough if the commit does not depend on it.
Now actually applied to the framing:
- §4b: "source hypothesis is eliminated", "the interval cannot contain
the transition" and "not reachable by source" are withdrawn. What
survives is that the two commits DO NOT DISCRIMINATE UNDER CURRENT
CONDITIONS, so no bisect is justified now. A historical regression
could be masked by a later environmental effect or a source/
environment interaction; failing to discriminate is not the same as
not differing. The onset window is deprioritised, not excluded.
- §7 endpoint table: both uniform-same rows now say the commits do
not discriminate under current conditions, rather than that the
interval does not contain the transition.
- §7 D0b: retired as a precondition, with the reason recorded and the
obligation preserved under A3 --- if D1/D2 do not account for the
subset-vs-full difference, D0b runs before this lane closes.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
Three findings, all upheld.
1. The causal conclusion overreached, in the same way this lane has
overreached before. Uniform-red at both endpoints today proves only
that the two commits DO NOT DISCRIMINATE UNDER CURRENT CONDITIONS.
"Source hypothesis eliminated", "the interval cannot contain the
transition" and "unreachable by source" are withdrawn from the
framing, the manifest and the ledger: a historical regression could
be masked by a later environmental effect, or by a source/environment
interaction under which both commits now fail. Failing to
discriminate is not the same as not differing. "No bisect is
justified under current conditions" is what survives, and the
approved endpoint table's two uniform-same rows are corrected to say
the same thing.
2. D0b was still mandatory, and going to D1/D2 would have skipped an
approved step. It is now RETIRED AS A PRECONDITION with the reason
recorded: it existed to make the reduction matrix trustworthy so the
subset-vs-full comparison could locate the mechanism indirectly,
and D0a has since produced a reliable direct reproduction that D1/D2
measure against. Re-running ten reduction rows to sharpen an
indirect instrument while a direct one is in hand is the wrong order
of work. The obligation is NOT discharged: A3 still binds, so if
D1/D2 fail to account for why every subset passed, D0b runs before
this lane closes.
3. Provenance is now portable. The exact per-run command and a
transcribed ten-row table --- start time, class, red bins, load,
freeMB, daemon count, log digest --- are committed, rather than
delegated to a machine-local results.tsv. Raw logs stay local by
design. The transcription also surfaces something the delegation hid:
the leaked-daemon count climbs 72 -> 108, four per run, monotonically
while every run classifies identically. Recorded, not implicated.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
Ten runs under the approved contract: counterbalanced A B B A A B B A A
B, N = 5 per endpoint, clean detached worktrees at 7599661 and 724b785,
isolated target directories, the gate's build-crdt precondition then its
sweep-crdt command, dirty=0 verified per run. Zero voids, zero splits.
A (7599661) uniform-red. B (724b785) uniform-red. By the approved
endpoint table that is the both-endpoints-uniform-same row: the
difference is NOT captured by those two commits.
What it settles:
- No bisect of 7599661..724b785 is justified, and none will run.
7599661 passed inside sweep-crdt on 08-15 and fails 5/5 clean today,
so the interval cannot contain the transition.
- The onset window is demoted --- still a true observation, but not
reachable by source.
- A RELIABLE REPRODUCTION now exists: 10/10 today across two commits
at ~4 minutes per run. This is D0a's most useful product, because
D1/D2 no longer depend on catching a rare event.
What it does not settle: anything about the mechanism. One cheap
negative on "what else changed" --- no package activity in the window per
pacman.log, nearest on 08-18 --- and it is not pursued further, because
with a reproduction in hand direct measurement dominates archaeology.
A's three extra failing binaries are recorded rather than swept up:
a54_real_daemon_real_pty_and_headless_gpu_render..., a v21/v20 row
expected to differ at that older commit, and m6_1_pty_mode_lifecycle.
Two of the three are process/PTY-spawn rows, the same family as the
target. None affect classification, which reads only the two target
copies.
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Revision 9 is approved at 15c25ec after the portable manifest and compact
ledger summary preserve the endpoint direction required by D0a.
Record that approval durably before diagnostic implementation begins. The
mechanism remains unknown, no fix is proposed, and panel-mapping-generation
remains held until this teardown lane closes.
Levi Neuwirth