COHERENCE.md section 25 and the handoff/ledger update protocols make
these ride the PR.
COHERENCE.md:
- Section 6 named one optimistic key classifier and attributed it to the
GPU. There are two, one per replica frontend:
crate::optimistic::classify_key belongs to the pmacs --attach TUI
replica, and pmacs-gpu has its own unrelated optimistic_insert_text /
optimistic_crdt_insert. The section's "kept honest by
dispatch_idle_for" claim is confirmed for both, which this
investigation verified rather than assumed.
- Section 16 graded per-frontend degradation strong on the evidence of
per-frontend fold projection. That grade stands, but the practice is
enforced by convention rather than structure, and this defect is the
counter-example; the note says so and points at what is now structural.
- Section 2 step 8 records that the terminal was broken outright on the
GPU frontend, not merely undiscoverable.
docs/agent-handoff.md section 5 gains four lessons: adjacency does not
make two operations alternatives (and two individually sound idempotence
guards can be jointly useless); bite against every pre-image the fix
could have taken, since the obvious guard here fixes the storm and
introduces a controller leak; a quiet child is an instrument, because a
frame storm hides inside a chatty fixture and a geometric readout is
satisfied by an oscillating geometry; and TerminalMode::Raw makes
sh-based input fixtures useless because there is no ICRNL.
docs/active-work.md gains the lane entry with the branch, the bite
matrix, the named out-of-scope items, and the gate results.
Rides this PR per COHERENCE.md §25 ("when a PR changes any audited claim
here, updating this file rides that PR").
§0 and §7: multi-root LSP affinity moves from in-flight-branch to PR
#161, and §7 gains the rule the slice actually establishes — a
*fallback* root is deliberately NOT an identity, so markerless files
keep sharing one server per language. That is the part a reader would
otherwise assume went the other way.
§1.2 gains the finding this PR turned up, which sharpens the audit
rather than restating it. The section recorded that background failures
produce "no `*errors*` entry"; the sharper fact is that **the channel
does not exist**. Fifteen call sites — `async.lua` (5), `syntax.lua`
(4), and one each in `lsp.lua`, `mcp.lua`, `fs.lua`, `editops.lua`,
`autosave.lua`, `commands/default.lua` — report through `pmacs.error`,
each guarded `if pmacs.error then ...`. It is defined nowhere in
production; the only assignment in the tree is a test stub
(`src/editor.rs:9881`), and `type(pmacs.error)` is nil in a fresh
`EditorState` (probed, not inferred). `pmacs.errors` plural in
compile.lua is an unrelated namespace. All fifteen are dead, and the
guard is what kept it unnoticed — it makes the silence read as
deliberate.
Hence the corollary now recorded beside the rule: report through a
channel with a **test that observes it**, or the guard is
indistinguishable from the silence it was meant to fix.
Also a frequency note: per-root affinity makes the
preconfigured-but-missing-server failure fire once per project root
rather than once per language per session. Unchanged in kind, strictly
more frequent. Surfacing it stays Priority 1 work needing its own
framing — it is user-visible product behavior (what message, where,
with what guidance), not a substrate fix to smuggle into an affinity PR.
Line-number citations in the touched sections re-verified per §25;
symbols are authoritative where they drifted.
COHERENCE.md states the product-coherence thesis (pmacs should be
immediately excellent, progressively understandable, completely
inspectable, and ultimately replaceable) and, per-section, the audited
ground truth of how the codebase measures against it: a scorecard
across 19 concerns, the golden-journey verdict table (breaks at "open a
real project" -- `pmacs .` exits 1), the six hardcoded key-interception
shadows with no transient-keymap mechanism to migrate them to, the
discoverability substrate-without-surface gap, the package/worker
identity gap, and three cross-cutting patterns (substrate without
surface, the silence asymmetry, per-arc coherence debt) that explain
most of the individual findings.
CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md now list it as required reading alongside
agent-handoff.md and active-work.md, and ask new framing docs to state
their coherence impact. No runtime code changes.
Levi Neuwirth