Review round 2 on #207, two findings, both accepted.
Three places said workers have no discovery surface. They do:
`editor.list-workers` opens `*workers*` via M-x, which §2's own step-11
row has recorded all along — so the document contradicted itself. Two
of the three were mine, including the bullet I wrote last round while
correcting a different stale claim in the same section; grepping for
the phrase found only the two pre-existing sites because my own copy
was split across a line break.
Corrected to say what is actually missing, which is not the same thing
for the two subjects: PACKAGES have no comparable surface at all, while
workers have one and lack §9's ownership model and activity indicator.
Collapsing those into "no discovery surface" would send a reader at the
wrong work.
Separately, §4's extension-surface list called completion/minibuffer
sources "a fixed Rust vocabulary". `parse_completion_source` accepts a
Lua function as `CompletionSource::Custom` — the mechanism this very PR
uses to give `help.describe-setting` completion with no Rust. The claim
now names it, since a reader who believed the old text would conclude a
custom source needs binding work it does not.
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§7 said the classification comes first and alone, "its answer belongs in
review before any mechanical edit rides on it." The classification came
back at 342 sites across 66 of 97 files, and the whole-corpus migration
rode this PR anyway. That was a decision, not an oversight, and revision
5 records it as one so a later reader does not have to reconstruct it
from the diff.
The reasoning, in short: splitting would either leave 65 suites still
writing the developer's real data root while the seam sat unused, or ship
acceptance 12's ratchet with a ~65-file allowlist — and a ratchet
exempting most of the corpus records rather than ratchets. §7's ORDERING
is honoured (the census is the first commit); its implied SCOPING is not.
Revision 5 also records what review round 1 established about the shape
acceptance 12 needs: "a narrow, named allowlist" is not sufficient by
itself, because narrowness constrains which files are exempt and says
nothing about how far each exemption stretches. Exemptions carry counts.
`docs/active-work.md` picks up the same two facts and the PR number.
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Review round 1: `isolated_construction_is_init_complete` asserted its
paired half — that the *ambient* constructor is unchanged — with an
ambient `EditorState::new()` in an ordinary parent test. That reads the
developer's real `init.lua` and materializes packages into their real
data root: the exposure this suite exists to remove, committed by the
suite itself.
The claim is worth keeping, so it moves rather than dies. It now lives in
the re-exec'd positive control, which runs only as a child under a
hostile-by-construction environment. That is the one place an ambient
constructor is safe, and so it is where every ambient claim this suite
makes belongs.
**The ratchet did not catch this, and that is the more important half.**
`ambient_isolation_acceptance.rs` was on the allowlist for its positive
control, and a bare file-level exemption licenses the named file to grow
new ambient sites forever — which is exactly what happened. So every
exemption now carries its **exact permitted site count**, and a file with
more sites than it was reviewed with fails even while allowlisted. A
count that drops fails too, so the allowlist stays a census rather than
drifting into a ceiling nobody rechecks.
The count immediately earned itself: it rejected the number written from
memory for `journey_acceptance` (47) and reported the real one (26 — 19
`new()` + 7 `open(`, after the scanner drops two assertion-message
mentions and the assembled `concat!` needle).
Verified in both directions: restoring the removed ambient site fails the
ratchet with `2 site(s), allowlist says 1`; and with the ambient half
gone, both init-complete pins still fail under the `if roots.is_ambient()`
mutation, so neither has become a test that passes for the wrong reason.
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Review round 1 on #207, one finding, accepted. I moved §5's scorecard
row and ground-truth grade but left the itemized "what is missing" list
below them describing the pre-stage world, so the section contradicted
itself.
Two claims were false at this PR's head:
- §4's disclosure table said keybinding search was absent ("no
list-keybindings/where-is commands"). It now reads ✓ with the three
commands named, and keeps the real remaining gap: no key reaches
them.
- §5's "missing as commands entirely" bullet listed all nine new
commands and recorded `describe-setting` as free-text with no
completion source. Both shipped. The bullet now states what exists,
and names what genuinely remains: no discovery surface for packages
or workers, no key on any of it, and completion that assists rather
than validates.
The superseded text is pruned rather than kept as a provenance note,
per §25 — "prune superseded facts rather than appending; this is a
briefing, not a log."
While in the section I also corrected the `C-h` bullet, whose citation
I was touching anyway. It reported the keymap's own "the key was free"
comment without the reason that comment omits: non-kitty terminals
cannot disambiguate Ctrl+Backspace from Ctrl+H, so rebinding breaks
Ctrl+Backspace everywhere legacy. Reading it as an oversight is what
would send someone at the wrong fix, and it is precisely why Stage 1
shipped the family unbound.
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Per §25 the audited claim this stage falsifies is updated on the
landing PR. §5's scorecard row and ground truth both said the
registration metadata was best-in-class with almost no way for a user
to reach it; eleven `help.*` commands now reach it.
The row names what is still missing rather than implying the concern is
closed: packages and workers have no discovery surface, `Command` still
has no title/category/aliases/flags, M-x rows are still bare name
strings, the predicate is still never evaluated, settings value
provenance is still absent, and there is still no help prefix key. The
original audit grade is kept inline for reference.
`docs/keybindings.md` gains the family table and records that the
commands are reachable by name and bound to nothing — the help-prefix
decision belongs to a later stage, for the reason #205 recorded.
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Implements `docs/discovery-stage1-command-family-framing.md` (approved
at revision 6). `COHERENCE.md` §5 graded discoverability "substrate
without surface": the registries already carried descriptions, source
locations and reverse key lookup, and almost none of it was reachable.
Eleven commands under one `help.*` prefix, so typing `help` at M-x
surfaces the whole family. Nine are new; `editor.describe-command` and
`editor.describe-setting` are renamed in, with the old names retained
as forwarders so nothing documented breaks.
No Rust. Every command renders data `pmacs.describe.*`,
`pmacs.keymap.list()`, `pmacs.command.list()` and `pmacs.config.list()`
already return, and `describe-setting`'s completion source is a Lua
function via `CompletionSource::Custom`, which needed no binding work
either — correcting a comment in `default.lua` that claimed `source`
was a fixed Rust-side vocabulary.
`apropos` matches by substring, not fuzzy: `fuzzy_score` is
subsequence-based and descriptions are long sentences, so fuzzy would
match nearly every command.
Two disciplines the file keeps. Every command renders through the
public `pmacs.editor._show_help`, which buys one owner for the shared
`*help*` policy — reuse-by-name, wholesale replacement, `q`, and the
foreign-buffer hazard. It does NOT buy a one-site migration to
`src/help.rs`, which has no renderer for settings, lists or apropos; so
rendering is a named per-subject function, and the future Rust work is
enumerated per subject rather than discovered per call site.
The seam-counting pin earned its place immediately: the two renamed
commands were still calling the file-local `show_help_text`, so the
funnel was fiction for exactly the two commands that predate it. They
now call the public seam, with a comment saying why the local is not
used from the same file.
Moves `help` out of `welcome.lua` into the new `runtime/help.lua`,
which owns the family and loads after it so the index can read
`pmacs.welcome.entries`.
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`docs/active-work.md`: the lane moves from FRAMING OPEN to
IMPLEMENTATION OPEN, with the implementation branch and worktree and a
recovery command that names them. The framing-only worktree is spent —
its doc is on `main` (#201).
`docs/agent-handoff.md` §3: a local full-suite run needs all FIVE
storage variables controlled, not four. `PMACS_STATE_HOME` outranks
`XDG_STATE_HOME`, so naming only the XDG four leaves a
higher-precedence state override live; and a run isolating only
`XDG_CONFIG_HOME` stops the `init.lua` reads while still writing through
the real data root — every local gate run in this repo before today had
that hole. `HOME` is deliberately excluded: it is the fallback the XDG
roots already cover once set, and it separately drives `~`-expansion,
which `find_file_acceptance` pins on purpose.
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The mechanical half, riding on the census in the previous commit.
* 342 in-process construction sites in 65 files now take
`new_with_roots` / `open_with_roots` with `iso::roots()`. The isolated
base is a pure function of `CARGO_TARGET_TMPDIR` — no counter, no
`OnceLock` — so two copies of the module in one binary agree instead of
racing, and the tree lives somewhere `cargo clean` owns rather than
leaking into `/tmp` once per run. It is shared deliberately:
materialization is content-gated and idempotent, so a per-test
directory would repeat it ~330 times per run for a byte-identical
result.
* `journey_acceptance` keeps the ambient `EditorState::open`, because
proving the production entry point has a caller is the whole of what
that ratchet is for. Rev 2's "isolated by the environment its binary is
launched with" was not a mechanism — cargo launches each test binary
with the caller's environment, and a binary cannot re-point its own
roots before its tests run. Each test is now a thin parent that
re-execs this binary for its own name with controlled roots, and the
child runs the body against production's call. Two pins guard it: the
child asserts all four roots resolve inside the controlled base, and
the suite asserts against its own source that it has not quietly taken
the seam. The parent also asserts the child ran `1 passed` — a stale
`--exact` filter would otherwise hollow the whole thing out silently.
* The shared spawners take all five storage variables.
`spawn_daemon_process_with_env` set `HOME` and `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` only;
`HOME` is a FALLBACK, so it isolates a root only while the matching
`XDG_*` is unset — the harness's apparent adequacy was a property of
one developer's environment. The PTY spawner backfills whichever of the
five its caller did not pin. The 10 direct `Command::new` daemon and
attach spawns get the same treatment.
Three suites had `mod common;` behind `#[cfg(feature = "crdt")]`;
`common::iso` is needed in every build, so those are ungated. Files that
already pull in `common` reach `iso` through a `use` rather than a second
`#[path]` declaration — loading one file as two modules is
`clippy::duplicate_mod`.
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The census first, because it decides how large the mechanical edit is
(framing §7). Every occurrence was listed with its enclosing context and
read; a grep for the bare name over-counts, which is how revision 1
reported 18 by grepping `Editor::new` — a pattern that does not match the
real constructor.
in-process 342 calls in 66 of 97 files
(330 of 334 `EditorState::new()` occurrences; 4 are prose)
(12 of 14 `EditorState::open(` occurrences; 2 are strings)
spawned 14 real `pmacs` spawns in 8 files
(of 36 `CARGO_BIN_EXE_pmacs` hits, 18 are the fake-LSP and
fake-MCP siblings and 4 are path derivations for
`pmacs-gpu`, not spawns)
mixed 5 files are both, so sites — not files — are the unit
The full census, with per-site attribution, is the module doc of
`tests/ambient_isolation_acceptance.rs`.
Four things it pins:
* Isolated construction still finishes initialization, asserted twice —
the flag, and the behaviour it gates (`pmacs.attach` must refuse).
Falsified by wrapping the config block in `if roots.is_ambient()`;
`m8_2_acceptance` does NOT catch that, because reopening an already-open
init phase is a no-op.
* The writes land in the redirected data root — content produced, not an
invariant preserved. A "the real root did not change" check would pass
vacuously wherever it already holds identical bytes, since
`write_if_changed` is content-gated.
* Bet 3, in two children with opposite jobs. The positive control proves
the hostile environment IS hostile (an ambient editor loads its
`init.lua` and writes its data root); without it the isolation half
asserts nothing. The isolated child then stays green under the same
environment and leaves its hostile root byte-identical.
* A durable adoption ratchet, not a one-time census: a source scan that
fails when a new ambient constructor appears outside a named allowlist,
plus a check that no allowlist entry has gone dead. Its scanner strips
comments, strings and raw strings, and that stripping has its own pin —
the corpus contains all three shapes, and a grep-shaped answer already
cost this lane a review round.
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`EditorState::new` resolves two storage roots from the process
environment before it returns: the data root, which the bundled-package
materialization then WRITES into unconditionally (outside every `cfg`
guard), and the config root, from which `init.lua` is read.
The `#[cfg(not(test))]` guard on the second was written to stop the
crate's own unit tests picking up a developer's real `init.lua`. It does
exactly that and nothing more: `cfg(test)` is set only while compiling
the lib's own tests, so an integration test in `tests/` — compiled
without it — reads the real config and writes the real data root. On a
machine with a real `~/.config/pmacs/init.lua`, that is 11 deterministic
failures in `compile_mode_acceptance`, attributed to whatever branch is
checked out.
Tests cannot fix that themselves: `std::env::set_var` is `unsafe` and
this crate is `#![forbid(unsafe_code)]` — the same constraint that
produced `Installer::with_install_root_override`. So isolation arrives as
a parameter.
`BootstrapRoots` names the four storage roots (config, data, state,
cache). `ambient()` leaves every one `None` and every resolution goes to
the environment exactly as today, so production is unchanged.
`new_with_roots` and `open_with_roots` take it — both, because `open`
calls `Self::new()` internally and a constructor-only parameter would
leave every open-path test ambient. `install_state_dirs` consults it
too: it runs after construction, so resolving from the environment there
would reopen the hole the constructor closed.
The redirected branch changes WHICH directory is read, never WHETHER the
block runs. Config loading shares one conditional with
`set_init_complete()`, and `tests/m8_2_acceptance.rs:75` documents its
dependence on integration-test construction finishing init-complete.
`child_env()` translates the same value into the environment a spawned
`pmacs` needs. Five variables, not four: `PMACS_STATE_HOME` outranks
`XDG_STATE_HOME`, so a child given only the XDG four still resolves an
inherited state override — invisible on a machine that exports none.
The `src/editor.rs` comment claimed a protection it does not provide and
said nothing about the write above it; both are corrected in place. The
guard is deliberately NOT widened to cover integration tests.
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Correct the M-x prompt census: six of the eleven canonical commands
need a second prompt, including describe-command. Make the apropos
substring negative discriminate against fuzzy matching with a concrete
non-contiguous fixture and a no-substring precondition. Update the help
index mutation to the twelfth canonical command, and carry all three
corrections into the active-work ledger.
No review findings at 1cc9d96; these are the two product choices the
framing deliberately left open.
Q#D2 resolves to `help.*` canonical with two forwarders. The family is
eleven commands under one prefix, so typing `help` at M-x surfaces all
of it — which is the discoverability win this arc exists for.
`editor.describe-command` and `editor.describe-setting` stay registered
as forwarders, so nothing in muscle memory or in
`docs/keybindings.md` breaks. Two forwarders are duplication of exactly
the kind §5 complains about; they are accepted as the bounded price of
not breaking documented names, and they carry a deprecation path. What
is not accepted is the split family revision 3 shipped.
Q#D3 resolves to substring. `fuzzy_score` is subsequence-based and
descriptions are long sentences, so a short query's letters almost
always appear in order — fuzzy would match nearly every command and
destroy the precision that makes apropos worth having. Acceptance 4 now
pins the decision rather than the intent: a subsequence that is not a
substring must find nothing.
Counts and pins follow the decision: the family is eleven throughout,
the `_show_help` counting stub expects eleven (the two renamed commands
are in it precisely because they were the pre-existing direct callers),
and the preservation pin now drives the forwarders through the real M-x
path — dropping them after the rename is the failure a user with muscle
memory would hit first.
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Two factual corrections, both accepted and both verified in the code.
The custom completion source does not control display order. Revision 3
justified sorting the pool by claiming `Custom` candidates appear in
return order; `recompute_candidates` hands the pool straight to
`filter_and_sort`, which ranks by fuzzy score descending and breaks
ties lexically, so the source's order never reaches the user.
The sort is kept, for a reason that is actually true: `filter_and_sort`
applies `.take(CANDIDATE_LIMIT)` to the FILTERED iterator before
sorting, so when more settings match than the limit, pool order decides
which survive truncation. Registration order would make that vary with
an unrelated config edit; sorting makes it reproducible.
Read-only would not mitigate the foreign-`*help*` collision either.
Revision 3 implied it would. A buffer the user created and named
`*help*` carries no intercept of ours, so an intercept on the buffers
we create protects nothing — the renderer still matches on the name and
clears theirs. The missing guarantee is ownership identity: a private
table of buffers this module created, so found-by-name is not adoption.
`listview` carries it as `panels` and dired as its handle table; this
mechanism carries neither. Naming the wrong missing guarantee would
send a later fix at the wrong layer, which is why the correction is
worth its own paragraph rather than a word swap.
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Two blocking, two major. All four accepted.
The ledger lane still said revision 1 and still carried the two claims
revision 2 refuted. The cause is worth recording: revision 2's ledger
edit was an assert-then-write block whose later assertion failed, so
nothing before it was written either — while the commit message
reported the whole change as done. This is the second time in this
project that shape has silently dropped edits. The lane is rewritten
from scratch and the result verified by re-reading the file rather than
inferred from an exit code.
`names_from` does not exist. Revision 2's completion source called a
helper nobody has written, over `pmacs.config.list()`'s descriptor
tables where `CompletionSource::Custom` consumes a sequence of strings.
Opening the prompt would have raised on an undefined global. The mapper
is now specified, and sorted — `Custom` presents candidates in the
order returned, and registration order is neither stable nor useful.
`*help*` has no read-only intercept. Revision 2 claimed one while
`show_help_text` writes with plain delete/insert, and #205 had already
recorded that this mechanism has not adopted the generated-buffer write
invariant. §3.4 now names the policies that really are shared —
reuse-by-name, wholesale replacement, the `q` binding, and the
foreign-buffer hazard — and notes that the last is precisely what a
read-only intercept would have mitigated and does not.
The naming was underspecified. With no `help.describe-command` in the
table, calling the existing `editor.describe-*` commands
"aliases-by-retention" was wrong on both halves: nothing forwards to
them and there was nothing for them to alias. They are now explicit
exceptions, the resulting split surface is named as a wart, and Q#D2 is
sharpened to the two ways out — forward the two under `help.*`, or keep
the family `editor.*` throughout.
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Two blocking, two major. All four accepted and verified in the code
before the doc changed.
Completion does not close the free-text hole, and revision 1 said it
did. `resolve_accepted_value` returns the literal typed text whenever
no candidate is selected, so a non-matching typo still reaches
`on_accept` and the existing error path; separately, a fuzzy near-miss
can silently describe a DIFFERENT setting, which is a new failure mode
revision 1 did not name. Completion is reframed as assistance, the
acceptance pins both outcomes, and closed-set acceptance semantics are
named as Rust work rather than smuggled in as a side effect of adding
a source.
`invoke_interactive` is not the M-x path — the exact error #205
corrected one PR earlier. It rotates the interactive-command boundary
and calls the body; it opens no palette. The acceptance now states the
real path once and drives it: dispatch M-x, type the name, assert the
selected candidate BEFORE RET (accept does `session.take()`), accept,
and — for the five commands that take an argument — drive the second
prompt too. A pin that stops after the first RET has tested the
palette, not the command.
The `_show_help` seam is an output sink, not a migration seam.
`src/help.rs` has semantic renderers for command/key/buffer/mode/hook/
view and none for settings, lists or apropos, and the seam takes
already-flattened text, so a later migration still has to change each
command's subject-specific logic. The claim is narrowed to what is true
— one owner for Lua `*help*` writes — and paired with a per-subject
renderer function so the future Rust work is enumerated rather than
discovered.
Ground truth corrected: the missing-command list was eight and omitted
`list-settings` while §3.1 said nine; the site count said ten where
nine additions make eleven; `pmacs.keymap.lookup` does not return
`description` (it passes `cmd = None`); and the predicate sites cited
were `MenuItem` fields, not `Command.predicate`. The predicate
conclusion survives on the correct evidence — `src/help.rs:76` and one
assertion past `#[cfg(test)]`.
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`COHERENCE.md` §20 Priority 4, which §5 grades "substrate without
surface — the sharpest instance of §1.1" and calls the best
payoff-per-effort in the document. Nine describe/list commands over
introspection that already exists, picking up the family root `M-x
help` that #205 landed and documented for exactly this.
The stage adds no Rust. `pmacs.describe.*`, `pmacs.keymap.list()`,
`pmacs.command.list()` and `pmacs.config.list()` already return
everything the commands render, and `parse_completion_source` accepts a
Lua function as a `CompletionSource::Custom` — so `describe-setting`'s
free-text prompt, which today turns a typo into a status-line error
while `describe-command` has had completion all along, closes with no
new Rust either.
The consequential decision is a single rendering seam. `src/help.rs`'s
cross-referenced renderer is orphaned and the reachable Lua
`show_help_text` renders less, so nine new commands calling it directly
would turn a two-site migration into a ten-site one. Everything routes
through `pmacs.editor._show_help`, and an acceptance pin replaces that
seam with a counting stub — funnelling asserted, not merely intended.
Records that `Command.predicate` is stored and exposed but evaluated
nowhere, and deliberately does not start evaluating it: that makes
commands stop being invocable, which needs its own decision about what
"unavailable" means at each call site. A preservation pin registers a
raising predicate and asserts the command still runs, so a later stage
has to change that pin knowingly.
Adds no keybindings at all — the help-prefix question is taken once,
for the whole family, by the stage that can weigh it against the
constraint #205 recorded.
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Two audited rows were false at this PR's head and one of them is this
PR's own doing, so per §25 the correction rides the landing PR rather
than a follow-up.
Row 19 said the journey suite covers "steps 2, 3, 5". This PR adds step
4; #203 and #204 added 9 and 6 before it. It now carries 45 pins over
six steps, and the row names the five §19 scenarios that genuinely
remain unwritten instead of an out-of-date count.
Row 2 said the journey "runs to step 5 ... thin from step 6 on". That
was already stale when #203 and #204 landed and should have ridden
them. With 1b complete the journey runs to step 10, and the thin end is
now steps 1, 11 and 12 — install, background-work visibility, and
session restore.
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Review round 2 on #205, one finding, accepted. #204 is this PR's base,
so three places still describing it as open were simply false.
- `COHERENCE.md` §2's step-6 row: "(PR open) ends the silence" ->
"(#204) ended the silence", and the "flips only on merge" clause is
replaced by the reason the row is still Partial at all — a server
that starts and then crashes is unsurfaced, which that landing did
not touch.
- `docs/agent-handoff.md`: the 1b-2 bullet says LANDED (#204), with the
same substituted reason.
- `docs/active-work.md`: 1b-2's per-stage block is removed rather than
relabelled, per rule 4 — it has merged and its durable facts are in
the handoff, which is the precondition for removal.
That last one exposed a structural problem the merge had created: 1b-2's
old lane body had come in *underneath* the unified journey header, so
the file carried two journey sections and the first one's text
described the second's predecessor. There is now one arc lane with
1b-3 nested under it as the only open stage.
Also corrects the reap-ledger lane header, which still read
"IMPLEMENTED, PR OPEN" after #202 merged. Same class of staleness,
noticed while editing the same file.
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Review round 1 on #205, two findings, both accepted.
The greeting was written straight into the registry without calling
`notify_buffer_edit`. The window's `TextView` had been indexed while
`*scratch*` was empty, and newlines are zero-width to a painter working
from a stale line index — so the first TUI frame collapsed the whole
three-line greeting onto row 0. Every buffer-text assertion passed
because the buffer content was correct; only the rendering was wrong.
The edit is now captured, the registry borrow released, and the core
notified.
The pin that would have caught it paints a real frame and asserts the
second line occupies its own row AND that row 0 does not contain it —
both directions, because a one-direction check passes when everything
collapses upward. Bitten by dropping the notify call: row 1 comes back
empty with row 0 holding the lot, and it is the only pin that fails.
Second: the project docs still described the arc as it was two PRs ago.
`COHERENCE.md` §20 called 1b-2 in flight and the welcome buffer
unstarted; its arc list said 1b-3 remained; and the ledger's journey
lane header still read "1b-2 PR OPEN" while the 1b-3 block carried a
mangled "Framing only; no code" line left by an earlier edit. All now
describe the PR-head state per §25.
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The journey suite conflicted additively — step 4 from this lane, step 6
from #204 — and both are kept: 44 pins now cover steps 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
and 9.
Per §25 the audited claims this stage falsifies are updated on the
landing PR rather than deferred: the scorecard's row 18 and §18's
ground truth both read "Missing" / "missing entirely", and a welcome
buffer plus a reachable cheat sheet makes both false. They move to
Partial. §2's step-4 row stays Partial, because `C-h` still deletes a
word and there is no tutorial.
§18's ground truth now records WHY `C-h` stays as it is, so the
help-prefix question reaches the discovery arc as a stated trade rather
than an oversight: non-kitty terminals cannot disambiguate
Ctrl+Backspace from Ctrl+H, so rebinding it would break Ctrl+Backspace
on every legacy terminal.
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Implements `docs/journey-stage1b3-welcome-framing.md` (approved at
revision 4, after three review rounds). The last of the 1b split.
`COHERENCE.md` §18 graded onboarding "missing entirely": no welcome, no
cheat sheet reachable from inside the editor, and `M-x` — the only door
in — discoverable only by already knowing about it. A fresh `pmacs` now
greets an untouched `*scratch*` with three lines naming `M-x` and four
real bindings, and `M-x help` renders a cheat sheet.
The startup seam is the substance. No constructor is the right hook:
`EditorState::open` calls `new` before resolving its target, the daemon
constructs one too, `init.lua` runs inside `new`, and desktop restore
happens later still. So `run()`'s terminal-free prefix is extracted into
`prepare_startup`, which `run` delegates to, and the greeting happens
there — after config, after attach dispatch resolves to local, and
after desktop restore. Extracting it is also what makes the wiring
testable: with the greeting called by hand from tests instead, deleting
the production call would leave every assertion green while shipping no
welcome.
Lua owns what is said, Rust owns when and where. `pmacs.welcome.entries`
is a structured list that both renders the text and drives the binding
checks — scraping the rendered prose would be ambiguous, since `C-c c`
is two chords and nothing in the text marks the boundary.
The greeting is deliberately NOT written through
`set_generated_contents`: that would lift read-only, discard history and
mark the buffer generated, all wrong for the buffer journey step 5
requires the user to type into immediately. It is left unmodified so it
does not look like unsaved work.
`M-x help` renders through `editor.describe-command`'s existing `*help*`
mechanism via a new `pmacs.editor._show_help` seam, rather than growing
a second help surface.
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Two findings, both accepted.
The pinned API was crate-private while the pin was external.
`tests/journey_acceptance.rs` is a separate integration crate and
cannot call a `pub(crate)` function or match a `pub(crate)` enum, so
revision 3's acceptance 1 could not have compiled. `prepare_startup`
and `Startup` are now `pub`, which is consistent rather than expedient:
`run`, `EditorState::new`, `EditorState::open`, `install_state_dirs`
and `restore_desktop_if_armed` are already public, so the startup
sequence is public surface and this was the piece missing from it. The
alternative — keep it private and move the pin into `src/editor.rs`'s
unit tests — was rejected because §19 wants the journey row in the
journey suite.
The isolation that pin needs is now stated rather than left implicit.
`prepare_startup` deliberately calls `install_state_dirs`, which
resolves `PMACS_STATE_HOME` and XDG roots that tests cannot override
(`set_var` is unsafe and forbidden), so the pin inherits the standing
five-variable ambient-root requirement, asserts buffer content only,
and must assert that desktop restore was unarmed — a developer whose
real `init.lua` calls `desktop_mode(true)` would otherwise get a
restored scratch buffer and a silently different result.
The M-x acceptance still left its key assertion as an "or", and half of
it was impossible: `Minibuffer::accept` does `session.take()` and
resolves against the selected candidate, so after RET neither the
session nor the typed contents survive to be asserted. The framing now
specifies one observable, available before RET:
`pmacs.minibuffer.selected()` must equal exactly "help", then accept.
If the completion source selected something else the pin fails there,
naming what was actually selected, instead of passing on a help buffer
some other command produced.
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Two acceptance holes and one doc correction, all accepted.
The real startup wiring was still unpinned, and revision 2 knew it: it
named the gap and then accepted it as residual, which is worse than
missing it. Deleting the sole `run()` call to `finalize_local_launch`
would have left every proposed pin green while shipping no welcome —
pin 1 called the seam by hand and pin 10 only proved constructors were
blank. That is the shape of a guard with no production caller passing
every direct-call test.
The fix is extraction, not disclaimer. Everything in `run()` from
`install_panic_hook` through the end of the attach-dispatch match is
terminal-free; `Frontend::new()` is where takeover begins. That prefix
becomes `prepare_startup`, which `run()` delegates to and which the
welcome pin now drives. Deleting the finalize call inside it turns the
pin red. What stays outside a test is `Frontend::new()` and the event
loop, which is where terminal takeover genuinely lives.
Acceptance 4 was not the M-x path. `pmacs.command.invoke` is the
programmatic API; M-x is `editor.execute-command`, which opens a
minibuffer with the `commands` completion source and calls
`invoke_interactive` only on accept. The pin now dispatches the chord,
enters the name, and accepts — and names the hazard that makes that
non-trivial: a selected candidate shadows typed text, so the pin has to
assert which command ran rather than trusting that some help buffer
appeared. dired refused a completion source on its own prompt for
exactly this reason.
Also corrects the #204 references: revision 2's history said it had
landed while the framing footer and ledger still called it open.
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Four findings, all accepted and verified in the tree first. The three
open questions are answered and folded into the design: three lines,
name `C-c c` and `C-c t` verified from structured entries, and the
command is `help`.
The startup seam was wrong, and every acceptance criterion rested on
it. `EditorState::new()` is not the no-argument entry point:
`EditorState::open` calls it before resolving the target, the daemon
constructs one too, user config runs inside it, and desktop restore
happens much later inside `run()`'s `RunLocal` arm. Greeting from
`new()` would greet a daemon, greet before a file argument replaced the
buffer, and precede anything config or a restored session put in
`*scratch*`. The stage now adds a launch-finalization seam called right
after `restore_desktop_if_armed`, using the `had_file` signal already
threaded to that point. Its untestable part — that `run()` calls it —
is stated rather than papered over, and bracketed by pins proving the
seam works and that no constructor greets on its own.
The step-2 pin amendment is withdrawn. Revision 1 analysed a
status-line welcome and then chose `*scratch*` but kept the amendment,
which was an internal contradiction. The status stays empty so the pin
stays true, and "no error text" has no defined predicate over an
unstructured status string — replacing an exact check with a fuzzy one
would weaken the ratchet to buy nothing.
The claim that this stage carried no §25 obligation was false. The
scorecard's row 18 and §18's ground truth both read Missing, and a
landed welcome plus reachable cheat sheet falsifies both: they move to
Partial on merge while §2's step-4 row stays Partial. A stage can be
too small to flip its journey step and still falsify a "missing
entirely" grade.
Acceptance 2 could not have been implemented as written. Scraping key
sequences out of prose is ambiguous — `M-x help` mixes a chord with a
command name, and `C-c c` is two chords whose boundary the text does
not mark. One structured entry list now both renders the text and
drives the `pmacs.keymap.lookup` checks, and `M-x help` is exercised
through the real palette path.
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The last of the 1b split. Journey step 4 and `COHERENCE.md` §18: a
fresh `pmacs` greets the user with an empty buffer, an empty status
line, and no indication that `M-x` exists — the sole discovery
affordance in the product is knowing to press it.
Three findings shape the design:
- The existing step-2 ratchet pin collides with any welcome. It asserts
`status.is_empty()` while its own message says "reports no error" —
the same predicate only while nothing writes a non-error status at
startup. The framing corrects the assertion to its message's claim
and names that as the one existing assertion the stage changes,
rather than burying it in a diff.
- `C-h` is not free. It is bound to word-delete because non-kitty
terminals cannot disambiguate Ctrl+Backspace from Ctrl+H — both
produce byte 0x08 — so rebinding it to a help prefix would break
Ctrl+Backspace on every legacy terminal. §2's step-4 row calls it an
oversight; it is a deliberate trade with a stated rationale. The
help-prefix decision is deferred to the discovery arc with the
constraint recorded so it is inherited rather than rediscovered.
- A `*help*` buffer mechanism already exists over `src/help.rs`, so the
welcome can point at something real. Its two gaps are recorded rather
than inherited silently: it writes with delete/insert instead of
`set_generated_contents`, and it is found by name.
The welcome deliberately does NOT use `set_generated_contents`: that
lifts read-only, discards history and marks the buffer generated, all
wrong for the buffer step 5 requires the user to type into immediately.
Step 4 stays Partial — the row names a welcome, a cheat sheet and
`C-h`, and this closes the first plus a minimal second — so this is the
first 1b stage with no landed-evidence obligation on merge.
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Stage 1b-1 landed as #203, so the four places it deliberately left
saying "in flight" are flipped here rather than in a standalone docs
PR: this branch already touches all three files, and a separate PR
would re-conflict on every merge.
- `COHERENCE.md` §2's step-9 row: Partial -> **Works**.
- §2's keybinding-inversion paragraph: all three examples answered. The
quote itself is deliberately unchanged — it names a bias, and three
fixes do not retire a bias.
- §20 Priority 1 and the arc list: 1b-1 landed, 1b-2 in flight, 1b-3
remaining.
- `docs/agent-handoff.md` §1: IMPLEMENTED -> LANDED.
Conflicts were additive on both sides and are resolved keeping both:
the journey suite carries step 9 and step 6 (34 pins), and §24 keeps
both drift entries — the `ProjectKind::Cargo` naming error and §1.2's
wrong frequency note.
The two journey lanes are unified into one arc lane rather than one
being deleted. Rule 4 removes a lane when its ARC is done, and the
journey arc is not: 1b-2 is in flight and 1b-3 is unframed. Stage 1a
and 1b-1 are summarized there with their facts in the handoff, which is
rule 4's precondition satisfied rather than deferred.
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Implements `docs/journey-stage1b2-lsp-guidance-framing.md` (approved at
revision 4, after three review rounds). Lua, tests and docs; no Rust
change and no protocol change.
`COHERENCE.md` §1.2's canonical silence: a preconfigured server that is
not installed failed with no status message, no record and no modeline
marker, while tree-sitter highlighting kept working and masked it. Now
the status line names the command, the language and the errno; the
modeline reads `LSP:!` instead of nothing; and `M-x lsp.status` renders
a durable `*lsp*` panel.
Half of this was already built. `status_buffer_text()` and
`last_error()` have existed since M4.8, exposed to Lua and tested, with
no production caller and no buffer to render into — several doc
comments already referred to "the `*lsp*` buffer" as though it existed.
The reporting shape was likewise already adopted twice inside
`lsp.lua`; the canonical case was silent because nobody had converted
it.
Three tables with three lifetimes, because one cannot do the job:
`reported` is never cleared and includes the command, so repointing at
another missing executable reports again; `failures` is cleared by a
successful spawn so the panel goes quiet on recovery; and a
buffer-keyed projection feeds the modeline, because that provider runs
for every window on every paint and deriving an affinity key inside it
would invoke root resolvers during painting.
The memo is on the report, not the failure: the spawn is still
attempted on every file open, so installing the binary mid-session
recovers with nothing to invalidate.
Adds `tests/lsp_spawn_guidance_acceptance.rs` (16 pins) and a step-6
row to the journey ratchet.
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One blocking lifecycle gap, accepted. The registry's dispatch order was
read before specifying the fix rather than assumed.
`failed_attachments` is keyed by `tostring(buf)` and revision 3 never
said who deletes an entry, so killing a failed buffer leaked its
projection for the session — and that also made revision 3's sweep
bound ("at most the number of open buffers") false, since the table
could exceed the number of buffers that exist.
Nothing existing would have cleaned it incidentally. The LSP resource
reconciliation finds its work through `attachments_under`, which
iterates `attachments`, and a failed buffer has no attachment by
construction — that is the whole reason the projection exists. The gap
needed its own registration.
Revision 4 specifies:
- `pmacs.buffer.on_removed` registered once per projection, never per
failed attempt, since `attach_buffer` is reachable more than once for
the same buffer and per-attempt registration would stack callbacks —
the same unbounded-registrar shape with the leak moved rather than
fixed.
- The handle released on the success sweep, where the buffer is still
alive, but not from inside the removal callback: dispatch does
`callbacks.take(id)` and then iterates a local vector, so the entry is
already gone.
- Rename and delete CLEAR the projection rather than re-keying it.
The projection asserts "this buffer's server failed for affinity K",
and after a rename that is no longer known to hold — the new path may
be in a different project or none. Re-keying would assert a failure at
a location where none was observed, which is the error shape this arc
has been correcting throughout.
- The sweep bound now follows from the cleanup instead of sitting beside
it as an independent claim.
Adds acceptance 14-16 for kill, rename and delete, each asserting the
chosen behaviour rather than merely the absence of the forbidden one.
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Two blocking, two cleanups. All four accepted, and both blockers
verified by running Lua rather than by reading it.
Recovery was inconsistent across buffers sharing an affinity. Revision
2 cleared `failures[K]` on a successful spawn but cleared only the
succeeding buffer's projection, so: buffer A fails, buffer B succeeds
for the same key, `M-x lsp.status` reports nothing wrong, and A's
modeline still reads `LSP:!`. Revision 2's claim that the two tables
are "written and cleared at the same moment" was false for exactly the
cross-buffer case, which is the normal case for a project with more
than one file. Each projection now carries its affinity key and a
success sweeps every projection holding it. The new pin asserts on A,
not B — a version checking B passes on the broken implementation.
The markerless key had no Lua representation. `key_uri` is deliberately
nil and `t[nil] = v` raises "table index is nil" — confirmed under both
LuaJIT and Lua 5.4 — so the central markerless criterion was literally
unimplementable as written, and leaving it to implementation would have
produced two ad-hoc encodings for the two tables. The framing now
prescribes one key function used by both, with a `u`/`n` discriminator
that cannot collide with any URI and a NUL separator (Lua strings are
8-bit clean, checked).
Acceptance 10 could not have observed what it claimed: making the
command resolvable changes no state by itself, since `failures` is
cleared by a successful spawn. The pin now reattaches before pressing
`g`, and says why that step is load-bearing.
Also corrects the ledger heading, which still said revision 1.
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Review round 1 on #203, two blocking findings, both accepted.
The compile-directory assertions used the suite's lexical `canon()`,
but `pmacs.project.detect` canonicalizes before walking
(`canonicalize_or_passthrough`, `src/project.rs:509-511`), so the
compile cwd is filesystem-canonical. On macOS `/var` is a symlink to
`/private/var` and the two spellings disagree — both macOS legs failed
while Ubuntu, where `/tmp` is not a symlink, stayed green.
Fixed with a `detected_root()` expectation, and pinned by a fixture
that launches through an explicit **symlink** so lexical and canonical
paths disagree on every platform. That matters more than the fix: the
original bite ran only on Linux, where nothing could make the two
differ, so no amount of local mutation testing would have caught this.
The new pin is the only one that goes red when the lexical expectation
is restored.
Second: `COHERENCE.md` §2's step-9 row was flipped to **Works** and the
handoff said Stage 1b-1 was **LANDED**, while this PR is open. §25 is
explicit that grades change only with landed evidence, never
aspirationally. Both now describe the real state — the row stays
Partial and names #203 as the open PR that closes it, §20 and the arc
list say "in flight", and the handoff says IMPLEMENTED with the PR
number.
The flip is not dropped, it is owned: the active-work lane records the
four places to change on merge, because an unowned doc flip is exactly
how this ledger's drift starts.
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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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`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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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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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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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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`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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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.
Levi Neuwirth