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Levi Neuwirth 6b4d52a5bc
review round 1: the crdt suite Stage 3 missed, and two stale explanations
P1 — compile_mode_crdt_acceptance was never revised. Its three
`compile.run` fixtures still omitted `display`, so the flip placed
output in the panel with `select = false`, the source buffer stayed
active, and `adopt_next_buffer` timed out waiting for a snapshot that
only arrives via the ACTIVE-BUFFER-FOLLOW path. Its subject is CRDT
convergence of a generated buffer, not placement, so it takes the
explicit opt-out — and the reason is recorded at `adopt_next_buffer`,
the helper that actually depends on it, rather than at each call site.

WHY MY OWN VERIFICATION MISSED IT, which matters more than the fix: the
Stage 3 census and every sweep I ran used `--features luajit` WITHOUT
`crdt`, so no crdt-gated suite was ever exercised. The census was
therefore blind to an entire configuration by construction, in exactly
the way #209 exists to prevent. The CI crdt job — added by that lane —
is what caught this, three days after it landed.

Baselined rather than assumed. A worktree at the branch base 21de0b2
sweeps 3715 passed / 0 failed under `luajit,crdt` with
PMACS_REQUIRE_GPU=1; the branch with this fix sweeps 3715 / 0. Identical.

An earlier branch sweep, taken before this fix, reported SEVENTY
failures across THIRTEEN suites. Twelve of those suites — m5_5,
gpu_invocation, gpu_initial_target, m10_11, vterm_stage3 and the rest —
are daemon, socket or GPU suites, and all of them recovered by fixing
three compile tests. The likeliest reading is that the failing
compile-crdt runs leaked daemon or PTY processes that poisoned every
subsequent socket-based suite; what is ESTABLISHED is narrower and
still useful: baseline green, branch green with the fix, and the
collateral confined to process-spawning suites. Count failures, not
causes — the same lesson this stage already learned once, at a
different layer.

Also of note: CI reported only 3 failures because `cargo test` halts
after a failing binary. The workflow does not pass `--no-fail-fast`, so
CI under-reports a multi-suite break exactly as my first census did.

P2 — builtin/runtime/compile.lua's recompile comment still said `_last`
stores only cmdline/cwd. This PR deliberately stores `display` too, so
an explicit opt-out survives replay. Corrected, with the
`display_omitted` arm's remaining purpose stated rather than implied.

P2 — the framing's §7 step 2 still called the resolver extraction
"provably behaviour-preserving", contradicting §1.6b's own record of the
intentional non-string normalization. It is DEFAULT-PRESERVING WITH ONE
INTENTIONAL NORMALIZATION, and now says so where a reader following the
branch plan will hit it.

Verified: fmt, diff-check, compile_mode_crdt 3/3, compile_mode 73/73,
and the full crdt sweep at 3715/0 against a measured baseline of 3715/0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 12:08:28 +02:00
Levi Neuwirth 480158b460
docs: record Arc 7 complete, and what Stage 3 taught
Branch-plan step 6. The lane, the handoff, COHERENCE, and the framing all
still described Stage 3 as ahead.

COHERENCE §14's scorecard row and §20's Priority 5 both said the adopter
default flip was what remained on the panel. It is done, so the panel
half of P5 is closed and the TREE PRIMITIVE becomes the arc's successor —
§14 grades Tree ✗, and DAP's variables view is its next would-be
inventor. That sequencing is now stated where the next framing doc will
read it rather than living in a conversation.

The lane is RETAINED, not removed, because the PR has not landed; rule 4
removes it once Stage 3 merges and its facts are in the handoff. Both
conditions are half-met, and recording that honestly is cheaper than
discovering later which half.

Five durable facts move to the handoff §1, each of which cost a review
round or a defect to learn:

  * A VISIT FROM A PANEL MUST NEVER USE THE RAW SWITCH.
    `pmacs.window.switch_buffer` replaces the buffer in the ACTIVE
    window, so from a panel it clobbers the panel itself. Q#BP11c is the
    contract: after RET, `M-,` must FOCUS the still-present panel rather
    than clone its buffer into the document — and an assertion on the
    active buffer NAME alone cannot distinguish those two outcomes.

  * AN OPT-OUT THAT DOES NOT SURVIVE REPLAY IS NOT AN OPT-OUT. Anything
    that replays a stored invocation must store the escape hatch with
    it, or the escape hatch is a one-shot that silently reverts.

  * Compile's chords are PANEL-LOCAL, deliberately, and `M-x
    compile.kill` still reaches the slot from anywhere. A global chord is
    a command-surface decision framed separately.

  * Two `q` mechanisms coexist by design — presentation history chains in
    the side slot; `p.prev` prevents raw-switch and capability-fallback
    loops. Neither supersedes the other.

  * A CAPABILITY FALLBACK MUST STRIP THE QUIT ACTION TOO, not just the
    side parameters. A quit action stranded on a document window makes a
    later `q` try to restore a presentation that never happened.

The framing reaches revision 4 with the three defects the flip exposed
(§1.7a–c) and the census lesson (§1.6d): it counted FAILURES, not
CAUSES, and the two differed by an order of magnitude — thirteen listview
failures were one missing frame-geometry declaration. Read a census as
"how many assertions move", never "how many decisions are required".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 11:18:04 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth c0eb16bd12
feat(panel): flip the adopter default — Arc 7's last step
Stage 3 steps 3 and 4. Omitting `display` now resolves to the PANEL for
listview, compile and terminal; dired keeps `"current"`, passed
explicitly to the shared resolver. Per-adopter `select` per Q#BP12:
listview true, compile false (passive output must not steal document
focus), terminal true.

The census predicted 37 failures across 5 suites and the flip produced
exactly that — same suites, same per-suite counts. The measurement was a
prediction, not an estimate, which is what the inverted step order was
for. Final sweep: 3449 passed / 0 failed against a 3447 baseline, the
+2 being new pins.

THE CENSUS COUNTED FAILURES, NOT CAUSES. Thirteen listview failures had
ONE root cause: a panel is derived-hidden while frame geometry is
unknown, and listview_acceptance never declared any — it never needed to
while listview defaulted to the current window. One helper took it from
13 to 2. The same applied to m4 and vterm_stage2. Geometry is
authoritative state and a grid frontend's real frame size IS its
declaration; the panel suites have always said so.

THREE DEFECTS THE FLIP EXPOSED, each fixed rather than tested around:

1. The OUTLINE panel's `on_visit` used `pmacs.window.switch_buffer` —
   the RAW switch, which replaces the buffer in the ACTIVE window. That
   was harmless while the outline opened into a document window. Once
   the panel became the default the active window WAS the outline panel,
   so RET clobbered the panel with the source and left nothing for `M-,`
   to return to. The references panel was migrated to `display_file`
   when the arc landed; the outline was missed because nothing exercised
   it from a panel until now. Q#BP11c names this exact corruption, and
   both the outline and compile tests now assert `M-,` FOCUSES the
   panel rather than cloning its buffer into the document — an
   assertion the previous one could not distinguish.

2. `pmacs.compile._last` stored only `{cmdline, cwd}`, so a recompile
   reached `start_run` with no `display` and took the new default. A
   user who ran `compile.run{display="current"}` would be moved into a
   panel the moment they pressed `g`. An opt-out that reverts on the
   next recompile is not an opt-out; `display` is stored and replayed,
   with nil kept as nil so an omitted value still resolves to the
   default rather than freezing at the first run's resolution.

3. `opts.display` on a nil `opts` — my own regression, introduced by
   fix 2 and caught by `journey_acceptance`, which is exactly what that
   ratchet is for.

COMPILE'S CHORDS ARE NOW PANEL-LOCAL, and that is a contract rather than
an accidental reachability loss. Every compile chord is bound
`scope = "buffer"`, so with `select = false` none dispatch from the
document — `C-c C-k` included. `acc34` pins it, and pins that
`M-x compile.kill` still reaches the running slot from anywhere via its
`or compile_slot()` fallback. A global chord is a command-surface
decision and belongs in its own framing.

TEST CLASSIFICATION WAS PER TEST, NOT PER SUITE. Two neighbouring
compile tests land on opposite sides: acc15 (RET-visits-error,
jump-back) asserts the NEW default, while acc16 (n/p within compile
output) genuinely needs the buffer selected and says so. compile's
suite-wide helper opts out because ITS subject is compile-BUFFER
behaviour; the placement-subject tests use a second helper that takes
the default. Every opt-out states why. Nothing was mass-added to make a
suite green.

s1_12's two concerns are split as directed: it keeps its Q#GB18
name-keyed-identity bite with explicit `display = "current"`, isolating
the buffer-level `p.prev` skip rule, while a new `s3_1` pins the
side-window presentation chain — C → B → A → delete, ending at the
document with the wrapper collapsed. The mechanisms are complementary:
presentation history chains in the side slot; `p.prev` prevents
raw-switch and capability-fallback loops.

Verified: fmt, diff-check, clippy with and without crdt, --lib 1896,
--lib --features crdt 2081, pmacs-protocol 19, m4 149, required GPU 221,
and the full serialized sweep at 3449/0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 11:10:14 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 8d14e6a334
docs(stage3): make the lane portable and retire its superseded state
Review finding P1: Stage 3 was neither portable nor accurately
recoverable. `bottom-panel-stage3` had no upstream and no
`githubsucks/` ref, while docs/active-work.md still described Stage 3 as
"not started" — so a reader on another machine would have found a lane
claiming nothing existed, and no way to fetch the two commits that did.
That is precisely the failure this ledger records as its own rule:
"When a PR is opened, give it a lane", learned when #171 drifted 153
commits while invisible here. A branch without a PR is the same hazard
with less warning.

The lane now carries branch, base, the two completed steps with their
hashes, what remains, the verification at this head, and a recovery
command.

Review finding P2: the framing retained state the census superseded. It
still said "Nothing has been implemented or measured" and that the
blast-radius measurement "has not been taken", directly contradicting
§1.6b two screens below. Both bullets are rewritten to point at the
measurement rather than deny it, and the dired question is marked
DECIDED rather than left open.

Also records, in both documents, the thing step 2's original commit
message overstated: it is DEFAULT-PRESERVING WITH ONE INTENTIONAL
NORMALIZATION, not "behaviour-preserving". Every adopter kept its
default and the suite is byte-identical to baseline, but terminal's
invalid-input behaviour moved on purpose — and the sweep could not have
caught it, because every existing assertion passes an unknown STRING,
which takes the same path under both designs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 20:35:05 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 41d37fcbcb
refactor(panel): one shared rule for the adopter `display` vocabulary
Stage 3 step 2 (Q#S3-1). DEFAULT-PRESERVING WITH ONE INTENTIONAL
NORMALIZATION — not "behaviour-preserving", which would be too broad a
claim. Every adopter keeps its current default, and the full serialized
suite is 3447 passed / 0 failed with ZERO suites differing from the
pre-change baseline. But invalid-input behaviour DID move, deliberately,
and that is pinned rather than asserted in prose.

Before this, FOUR adopters validated the same three-value vocabulary in
four places: Rust for the terminal, and hand-written Lua copies in
listview.lua, compile.lua and dired.lua, each carrying its own copy of
the error string. `parse_adopter_placement` read like the shared parser
its doc comment implied but had exactly one caller. Four copies of one
rule is how the next adopter gets it subtly wrong, and the next adopter
is DAP.

`resolve_adopter_display(operation, raw, default)` now owns exactly
three things: the vocabulary, the error text, and the default policy.
Reachable from Lua as the internal seam `pmacs.window._resolve_display`.

THE DEFAULT IS A PARAMETER, NOT A CONSTANT, and that is load-bearing
rather than stylistic. listview/compile/terminal will resolve omission
to the panel in step 3; DIRED MUST NOT, because
`pmacs.path.set_directory_handler` calls it with `{ dest = dest }` and
no `display` key at all — a flipped default would open `pmacs .` in a
bottom panel. Passing the default in makes dired's exemption visible at
its call site instead of hidden in a divergent copy.

TERMINAL'S `window` MUTUAL-EXCLUSION STAYS IN ITS OWN WRAPPER. Only the
terminal accepts a `window` id and only it must reject `window` combined
with `display = "panel"`. A helper pretending the four parsers were
identical would be its own defect.

THE NORMALIZATION, DECIDED AND PINNED. Terminal read
`get::<Option<String>>("display")?`, so a non-string value raised mlua's
TYPE error before reaching any custom message, while the Lua copies
stringified it into their own. Nothing pinned either behaviour — every
existing assertion passes an unknown STRING, which takes the same path
under both designs and therefore could not have caught a regression
here. The custom error wins because it names the legal vocabulary; the
value is rendered by TYPE ALONE (`unknown display (integer)`) so the
message cannot imply a string was passed.

Pinned at the terminal entry point in acc19 — the one adopter whose
behaviour changed — asserting the shared error AND that nothing is
created. The type SPELLING is deliberately not pinned: Lua 5.4 says
`integer` where LuaJIT has no integer subtype, so asserting either
literal would pass on one CI flavor and fail on the other. Verified
46/46 under both.

COMPILE NEEDED AN EXPLICIT OMISSION CAPTURE, and finding that out is
what this step is for. The resolver collapses omission into its default,
but compile's recompile gate distinguishes them: it fires on OMISSION
only, never on an explicit `display = "current"`, which is the
documented opt-out and must reach the raw switch even when the previous
run was panel-placed. Resolving first and testing `== "current"`
afterwards would have silently merged the two and broken the opt-out
with every test still green. `display_omitted` is captured before the
resolver call and the gate keys on it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 20:25:27 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 0224c68b73
docs(stage3): the fallout census — 37 failures, and a transitive adopter
Branch-plan step 1, whose whole point is that it precedes the flip. The
throwaway edit is NOT in this commit; only the measurement survives it.

A CENSUS THAT STOPS AT THE FIRST FAILING BINARY IS NOT A CENSUS. The
first sweep reported 2 failures in 1 suite and looked comfortingly
small — `cargo test` halts after a failing test binary, so everything
alphabetically past bottom_panel_stage1_acceptance never ran. With
--no-fail-fast the real figure is 37 failures across 5 suites. Any
re-measurement must pass that flag or under-report by an order of
magnitude, which is the same silent-success shape this arc keeps
finding.

M4_ACCEPTANCE WAS PREDICTED BY NOBODY — not the parent framing, not
Q#BP12's adopter table, not revision 1. Its two failures are the LSP
hover and outline panels, which are LISTVIEW CONSUMERS, so flipping
listview's default reaches the LSP suite transitively. Q#BP12's four
rows are the DIRECT population; the real one is everything built on
listview. That is the intended behaviour, but the map has to say so or
the next listview-based feature inherits a default nobody documented.

THE PROPORTIONS INVERT THE OBVIOUS READING. compile_mode has the most
failures (17) and the least placement content — process-lifecycle and
styling tests that merely use compile and now find its output
elsewhere. listview_acceptance has fewer (13) but loses THREE QUARTERS
of its suite, and its failures are placement in substance.

Classification decided per test, not per suite, because two
neighbouring compile tests land on opposite sides: acc15
(RET-visits-error, jump-back) is placement — Q#BP12 explicitly requires
panel → RET source → M-, back to the still-present panel with the
document window intact — while acc16 (n/p walk within compile output)
genuinely needs the compilation buffer selected and takes an explicit
display = "current". A sweep classifying per suite would have got both
wrong.

Both M4 failures are placement-subject: outline_panel_opens_visits_and_
restores is almost a direct realization of criterion 58 (open → visit →
jump-back → quit), and hover_doc_panel keeps the omitted default while
asserting the new placement plus its existing content and quit
guarantees. Neither takes display = "current".

Tree verified clean after revert: the three default-resolution branches
are unchanged on disk.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 19:55:44 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth fa12095873
docs: frame bottom-panel Stage 3 — the adopter default flip
Arc 7's last step. Stages 1, 2A, 2B-1, 2B-2 and 2B-3 are all on main;
the panel is complete on both frontends and every mechanism this stage
needs exists. What remains is the decision the arc deferred on purpose:
omitting `display` should mean the panel, not the selected window.

Revision 2, approved with amendments. The scout found the parent
framing's plan sound and two of its details drifted.

THE FLIP IS THREE SITES IN TWO LANGUAGES, and a fourth validator that
must not move. `parse_adopter_placement` reads like the shared parser
its doc comment implies but has EXACTLY ONE CALLER, the terminal;
listview and compile each re-implement the same three-value validation
in Lua, including their own copy of the error message. Changing only
the Rust parser would leave both Lua adopters resolving omission to the
current window — a half-flip that looks done and behaves inconsistently
per adopter.

DIRED IS A FOURTH COPY OF THE VALIDATOR AND MUST KEEP `"current"`.
Review caught this; revision 1 had it as a leaning. The mechanism is
specific rather than stylistic: `pmacs.path.set_directory_handler`
passes `{ dest = dest }` with NO `display` key, so `pmacs .` resolves
by omission. Flipping dired's default would open the golden journey's
first directory listing in a bottom panel. The distinction that makes
this principled rather than an exception: listview, compile and terminal
produce output the user CONSULTS; dired produces a document the user
WORKS IN. The panel default is right for the first kind and wrong for
the second.

UNIFY NARROWLY, NOT WHOLESALE. A shared
`resolve_adopter_display(operation, raw, default)` owns the vocabulary,
the error text and the default policy, with dired passing
`default = "current"` so its exemption is a parameter rather than a
divergent copy. Terminal's `window` mutual-exclusion stays in its Rust
wrapper — the parsers are not identical and a helper pretending
otherwise would be its own defect.

One normalization is named rather than absorbed: terminal reads
`get::<Option<String>>("display")?`, so a non-string value raises mlua's
TYPE error before the custom "unknown display" message, while the Lua
callers `tostring()` it into their own. Different observable behaviour
for the same bad input; unifying the error text without deciding this
would silently change one of them.

`select` IS A CORRECTNESS REQUIREMENT, and Q#BP12's citation drifted.
`seat_cursor` is at listview.lua:130, not :64 — :64 is now a name-variant
constant. The constraint holds and is worse than "focus preference":
`seat_cursor` drives `pmacs.editor.move_down()`, which acts on the ACTIVE
window, so an unselected listview panel seats the cursor in the user's
document. That is why the table's `select` differs per adopter —
listview true, compile false, terminal true — and why a uniform value
would look right and break compile's passive output.

TESTS ARE MEASURED BEFORE THE FLIP, NOT AFTER. Two Stage 1 acceptance
tests assert the old default deliberately: acc19 (:1223) opens a
listview with no `display` specifically to seed a DOCUMENT window "so
side-affine placement cannot be vacuous" — the flip breaks its
anti-vacuity guarantee, not merely its assertion — and acc19b (:1308) is
built around a recompile reaching `start_run` with no `display`. The
sweep rule is stated: a test whose SUBJECT is placement asserts the new
default; a test whose subject is compile or terminal behaviour opts out
only when its setup genuinely requires the document window. Mass-adding
`display = "current"` to make suites green would convert a behavioural
change into an invisible one.

Acceptance gains a NEGATIVE criterion (9): omitted `display` still means
document placement for direct dired AND for `pmacs .`. That is the
criterion that catches a well-intentioned "make all four consistent"
change.

Framing only. No code, no flip, no test changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 18:28:05 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 7bfb238474
docs: absorb the v1.1.0 release, and correct what it made stale
Two parts, one intent: record the release, and fix the user-facing
surfaces it falsified.

ABSORPTION. v1.1.0 shipped and nothing recorded it. docs/active-work.md
had no distribution lane, the handoff anchor still named c5f7501, and
COHERENCE.md — a REQUIRED framing input — still asserted "zero release
machinery exists" and graded journey step 1 as source-build-only. Both
are now false, and a framing doc written against them would have been
written against a lie.

  * §0 scorecard: step 1 Partial -> Works; §17 Missing -> Partial; the
    journey row moves off "steps 1, 11 and 12 remain the thin end" to
    name 11 and 12 only.
  * §17 ground truth rewritten: what Stage 1 shipped, and the nine
    things it explicitly did not.
  * §20 Priority 8: "State: zero" -> Stage 1 shipped, with the blocker
    it named ("every other priority's value is invisible until this one
    exists") recorded as LIFTED. Its next increment is a DECISION about
    channels/update/signing, not a queued plan — worth stating so nobody
    treats Stage 2 as pre-approved.
  * A distribution lane in active-work.md, rewritten-not-removed because
    the arc is not done.

Five durable facts move to the handoff §1, each of which cost something
to learn:

  * a release build can produce FIVE binaries and three must never ship;
    layer-2 exclusion is load-bearing, demonstrated when target/release
    still held all three after building only two;
  * `env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION")` expands in the crate being COMPILED, and
    three correct tests could not fail while two crates shared a number;
  * pin release runners, and assert the glibc floor from the binary
    rather than trusting the pin;
  * a tag pushed before its workflow reaches the default branch does
    nothing, SILENTLY;
  * verify from the downloaded artifact, with a negative control — the
    1,576 `loro` strings mean nothing without the control build's zero.

STALENESS, found by reading the surfaces a new downloader hits first.

`pmacs --help` claimed the TUI was "currently the only frontend;
reserved for the M4 GUI rollout, where `pmacs` will default to the GUI".
That is not merely dated — it is false in a release that SHIPS the GPU
frontend as a second binary. Rewritten to say what -nw actually does
(name the default explicitly for scripts and wrappers), and --gpu now
states its two real preconditions: a `crdt` build, and pmacs-gpu either
beside the binary or on PATH. Both are things a downloader can get
wrong and neither was documented where they would look.

Also in main.rs: the TLS attach line said "activation in v0.2" and four
doc comments dated themselves "v0.1" or "M4+" while describing behaviour
that is still current. The behaviour claims were accurate; only the
version labels lied, so the labels are gone rather than the sentences
rewritten. One comment gained a correction it needed regardless —
FrontendChoice is IN-PROCESS dispatch and the GPU frontend is not a
value of it, which the old text implied it eventually would be.

README status block: v1.0.0 -> v1.1.0, protocol v20 -> v21, and it
pointed at docs/roadmap-2026-07.md for "current direction" — a file that
opens by calling itself a historical snapshot and redirecting to the
handoff. It now points at COHERENCE.md and the handoff, and mentions the
arcs that landed since it was last touched.

Verified: fmt, diff-check, clippy with and without crdt, --lib 1896,
--lib --features crdt 2081, pmacs-protocol 19, m4 149, required GPU 221,
and `pmacs --help` rendered and read.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 18:09:59 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth d0570cdf72
docs(release): a tag before the merge does nothing, silently
Operational note for §7's step 5, recorded before it can bite rather
than after.

For `on: push: tags`, GitHub resolves the workflow file AS IT EXISTS AT
THE TAGGED COMMIT, and it registers a repository's workflows from the
DEFAULT BRANCH. Verified while #211 was in review: `gh workflow list`
reports only CI, because release.yml lives on the branch and not yet on
main.

So tagging any commit that predates the merge produces no run, no error,
and no release. That failure mode is worse than a red one: a silent
no-op is indistinguishable from "the run has not started yet", which is
exactly what someone watching for an RC would assume. Cut the RC from
the merge SHA and confirm a run actually appeared before drawing any
conclusion from its absence.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 14:46:27 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 84b1620e7e
feat(release): binaries on tag — Distribution Stage 1
.github/workflows/ had exactly one workflow and it was test-only: no
release job, no artifact upload, no tags-to-binaries path. Installing
pmacs meant `git clone` plus knowing the feature-flag matrix.
COHERENCE.md §17 grades this "missing — zero release machinery exists";
this moves it to Partial and completes journey step 1.

Scope is one stage: binaries when a `v*` tag is pushed, attached to a
GitHub Release. Channels, rollback, update-in-place, signing, RHEL 9 and
Intel macOS are out of scope and named in the framing's §5.

WHAT SHIPS: pmacs and pmacs-gpu, both at 1.1.0, CRDT-enabled, co-located
in one archive, with SHA256SUMS. pmacs-protocol stays at 1.0.0 — it is
the wire crate and versions on its own schedule.

THE VERSION BUMP EXPOSED A REAL DEFECT, and it is the reason this PR
touches src/ at all. `InstanceIdentity::for_running_process` is defined
in pmacs-protocol and expanded `env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION")` THERE. `env!`
expands in the crate being compiled, so the field documented as "Pmacs
version string" carried the PROTOCOL crate's version. That identity
reaches Lua as `pmacs.instance.identity()` and goes on the wire in
`Hello`, so a 1.1.0 release would have told every attached frontend it
was 1.0.0.

Nothing could have caught it earlier. Three tests assert
`id.pmacs_version == env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION")` evaluated in the pmacs
crate — the correct assertion — but while both crates read 1.0.0 they
compared the same number reached by two different paths and COULD NOT
FAIL. Deciding to hold pmacs-protocol at 1.0.0 while moving pmacs is
what made them discriminating; all three failed on the bump. The version
is now a parameter so `env!` expands in the caller's crate. A test can
be correct and still prove nothing when the two things it compares are
equal for a reason unrelated to the code under test.

TWO LAYERS OF BINARY EXCLUSION, and layer 2 is load-bearing —
demonstrated, not argued. Cargo auto-discovers src/bin/*.rs, so a
release build can produce five binaries and three must never ship
(pmacs-audit is a contributor tool; pmacs_fake_lsp and pmacs_fake_mcp
are test fixtures). Layer 1 names explicit --bin targets. Layer 2 stages
an explicit asset list, and building this branch produced exactly the
case it guards: after building ONLY --bin pmacs and -p pmacs-gpu,
target/release still held all three forbidden binaries, left by an
earlier `cargo test --release`. Swatinem/rust-cache restores that kind
of directory in CI. An implementation trusting layer 1 and archiving the
directory would have published a fake language server in the first
release.

The three archive assertions are bite-verified: a smuggled
pmacs_fake_lsp, a missing pmacs-gpu, and a cleared executable bit are
each caught, with the honest archive passing.

THE GLIBC FLOOR IS ASSERTED, NOT TRUSTED. Pinning ubuntu-22.04 sets the
floor at 2.35 (Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12 — NOT RHEL 9 at 2.34, which needs
a container or cross-build and is parked). But a pinned runner proves
nothing about the artifact, and the failure surfaces as a bare
`GLIBC_2.39 not found` on a user's machine with no clue which commit
caused it. The build reads versioned-symbol requirements out of the
binary and fails above the floor, so switching to ubuntu-latest fails in
CI instead of shipping. Bite-verified both directions on a glibc 2.44
host. Both runners are pinned; macos-latest would drift the minimum
supported macOS with no commit to point at.

Preflight runs before any build: the tag must match the root crate
version (stripping a prerelease suffix, so v1.1.0-rc.1 and v1.1.0 both
match 1.1.0), and the tagged commit must be an ancestor of main. Both
catch mistakes that are cheap now and expensive once a public URL
exists. The suite is not re-run — CI already tested the commit — but
nothing otherwise enforced that a tag points at a tested one.

Verified: fmt, diff-check, clippy with and without crdt, --lib 1896,
--lib --features crdt 2081, pmacs-protocol 19, m4 149, required GPU 221,
and the full serialized crdt sweep at 3,715 passed / 0 failed / 30
ignored — identical to the pre-change baseline, so the protocol
signature change broke nothing. Archive staging, contents, executable
bits and both --version outputs were exercised against a real release
build locally.

No release is cut by this PR. Per the framing's §7 the RC is tagged
after merge, from the merge SHA.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 14:40:47 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 2ed2596046
docs: frame Distribution Stage 1 — binaries on tag
.github/workflows/ contains exactly one workflow and it is test-only.
There is no release job, no artifact upload, no tags-to-binaries path.
Installing pmacs means `git clone` plus knowing the feature-flag matrix.
COHERENCE.md §17 grades this "missing — zero release machinery exists",
and §20 puts it at Priority 8 with the note that every other priority's
value is invisible until it exists.

Scope is deliberately ONE STAGE: binaries when a tag is pushed,
attached to a GitHub Release. Channels, rollback, update-in-place,
signing and first-launch tool detection are out of scope and named in
§5. A baseline, not the arc.

Revision 2, approved with amendments. Two of them corrected revision 1:

THE GLIBC ARITHMETIC. Revision 1 implied that moving off ubuntu-latest
buys reach "several distro generations" including RHEL 9. It does not.
RHEL 9 ships glibc 2.34, which is BELOW the 2.35 floor a pinned
ubuntu-22.04 build sets, so RHEL 9 is excluded by that choice rather
than covered by it. The floor is now stated explicitly with its table,
so a RHEL 9 user reads "not supported yet" instead of discovering a
loader error; supporting it needs a lower-glibc container or
cross-build and is parked.

WHY CO-LOCATION IS REQUIRED. Revision 1 said separating `pmacs` from
`pmacs-gpu` makes `--gpu` "silently fail". Verified against
src/main.rs:304: `gpu_binary` prefers a co-located binary when that path
is_file(), falls back to a bare-name PATH lookup, and on failure names
both — "sibling … is absent and PATH lookup for pmacs-gpu failed". So
the requirement is that a release archive be SELF-CONTAINED for a user
who unpacks it somewhere off PATH, not that failure is quiet.

The load-bearing finding: a release build can produce FIVE binaries and
three must never ship. Cargo auto-discovers src/bin/*.rs, so alongside
pmacs and pmacs-audit it also builds pmacs_fake_lsp and pmacs_fake_mcp —
test fixtures. Exclusion is therefore two-layered, because neither layer
suffices alone: explicit --bin targets so the unwanted binaries are not
produced, AND an explicit staged asset list so the archive's contents
are a decision rather than a directory's residue. Layer 1 alone still
archives whatever a cached target/release holds from an earlier step;
layer 2 alone relies on a list nobody re-checks when a new src/bin/*.rs
appears.

Two facts checked rather than assumed while framing:
`pmacs-gpu --version` already exists (pmacs-gpu/src/main.rs:667) and
prints "pmacs-gpu <ver> (protocol v21)", so asserting both binaries
report 1.1.0 is directly implementable after the bump. And `run_gpu`
refuses a non-CRDT build outright — "pmacs: --gpu requires pmacs built
with --features crdt" — which is a direct citation for shipping CRDT
rather than the inference from capability defaults revision 1 used.

Framing only. No workflow, no version bump, no release.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 14:14:07 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 3fade5411b
docs: absorption pass at c5f7501#209 landed, and six weeks of drift
Two jobs: absorb the CI CRDT coverage lane now that #209 has merged, and
clear documentation drift that predates it and was found while reading
in on a new machine.

ABSORPTION. docs/active-work.md's lane is REWRITTEN, not removed —
rule 4 removes a lane when its ARC is done, and three named follow-ons
remain. It shrinks from 10,441 to 3,037 characters because rule 3 puts
durable architecture in the handoff and leaves only volatile state here.
The follow-ons, each with its reason:

  * the macOS crdt leg, deferred pending first-run evidence that NOW
    EXISTS and is favourable — the non-crdt macOS legs pass at 3,474,
    thirteen fewer than ubuntu's 3,487 purely from cfg-compilation of
    the Linux-gated process tests, and no crdt-specific failure appeared
    anywhere;
  * the --lib --features crdt flake, which did NOT reproduce in #209's
    runs — but every run was --test-threads=1 and the trigger was seen
    under PARALLEL load, so that is consistent with the drain_until
    hypothesis rather than evidence against it. Its own PR: a
    product-defect hypothesis, where all of #209 was configuration;
  * the crdt_replica serde default, a third default mechanism that
    disagrees with the Default impl in non-CRDT builds, untestable
    without a self-describing format this crate does not depend on.

Five durable facts move to the handoff §1, each of which contradicted
something previously recorded: gpu-render runs a DIFFERENT PACKAGE than
the suites the old fix-shape wanted moved there; PMACS_REQUIRE_GPU is
absent from two of the four GPU suites; m10_10_perf is a CI-default
tripwire rather than a bench; --keep-going is what makes a clippy run an
inventory instead of a lower bound; and a feature can matter to a crate
a per-test census scores as unaffected.

DRIFT, all of it predating this lane and all found while reading in:

  * COHERENCE.md §20's Priority 1 still read "runs to step 5; thin from
    step 6" and called Stage 1b-3 "in flight", while §0's scorecard said
    step 10 and 1b-3 had landed. §20 is a REQUIRED FRAMING INPUT per
    CLAUDE.md, so a stale priority annotation there does not just sit
    wrong — it misdirects the next framing doc written against it. Its
    arc-cuts list carried the same two errors.
  * docs/agent-handoff.md §1 described Discovery Stage 1 and Journey
    1b-3 as "IMPLEMENTED, PR open" while §1a, twenty lines above,
    correctly recorded both as merged. A file that contradicts itself is
    worse than one that is merely behind.
  * docs/side-quest-backlog.md, compiled 2026-07-14, listed #123 as an
    open PR (merged 2026-07-21), #137 as "in review" (merged), and
    HTML/CSS as an unshipped grammar (#146 shipped it AND its injection
    consumers). It is the cross-cutting index, so a stale entry sends
    someone to build something that already exists. Its north-star
    section now says plainly that every original item has shipped and
    that the file no longer sets direction — COHERENCE.md §20 and the
    handoff §1a do, and both postdate it.
  * docs/json-yaml-framing.md's status line advertised "PR #123 open and
    awaiting review" for six weeks after that PR merged. Corrected in
    the status line only; the revision-4 body is the as-reviewed text
    and is left unedited.

No code, no workflow, no protocol change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 13:56:23 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 9f28816ce2
docs: confirm the predicted CI counts, and re-record the head_sha trap
Acceptance 8 in its strongest form. The ledger predicted the post-round-2
job totals from the census — 3,766 for Test (crdt) and 3,487 for
Test (ubuntu/luajit) — and run 30706324644 @ 71a1ebd reported exactly
those. Predicting the count before the run and matching it says more
than reconciling one afterwards: a vacuous leg would have landed near
the non-crdt job's figure.

Also records two readings that would otherwise be misread:

The macOS legs report 3,474, thirteen fewer than ubuntu's 3,487. That is
cfg-compilation, not lost coverage — the Linux-gated process tests
(setsid, the `bash -m` job-control corroboration) are not built there
rather than skipped.

And the head_sha trap bit again. Round 1's run (30705916037 @ 6519bc3)
was CANCELLED, not green: round 2's push superseded it, which is the
concurrency group working exactly as its comment in ci.yml describes. A
`gh pr checks` summary polled around that moment reported the PREVIOUS
run's results — with entirely plausible timings — and round 1 was
briefly reported as passing on that basis. This ledger already carried
the lesson from #178 ("verified by head_sha, not by the check summary").
It recurs because the wrong answer looks exactly like the right one, so
it is now recorded against this lane too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 11:58:38 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 71a1ebd4b7
review round 2: assert the CRDT capability defaults, not their round-trip
Review finding (P2), and it is this lane's own defect class one level
down. Round 1 added a `-p pmacs-protocol --features crdt` step so that
crate compiles both ways. That step EXECUTED
`InstanceCapabilities::default` in both configurations and asserted
NOTHING about it: the crate's only use of that value is a transport
round-trip, and a round-trip is invariant to the values. An all-false
default — or one whose three fields disagreed with each other — encodes,
decodes, and passes identically in both builds.

Running code is not testing it. That is the same sentence this whole
lane is about, and round 1 committed the smaller version of it while
fixing the larger one.

Three tests now pin the defaults, and the split is the point:

  * under `crdt`: multi_frontend, crdt_replica and semantic_render all
    default true. Advertising false on a CRDT build would strand every
    frontend in single-frontend mode.
  * without `crdt`: all three default false. Advertising true would be
    wire-protocol false advertising — those code paths are
    conditionally compiled out.
  * FrontendCapabilities::default is all-false in BOTH builds, and this
    test is DELIBERATELY NOT feature-gated.

That third one pins an asymmetry nothing else did.
FrontendCapabilities derives Default and is feature-INVARIANT, while
InstanceCapabilities is feature-DEPENDENT. It is load-bearing rather
than an oversight: an instance advertises what it can do, a frontend
OPTS IN through the negotiation handshake, and a v1 frontend has no
local CRDT state regardless of how the crate it links was compiled.
Making the frontend side track the feature would have frontends
claiming support they do not have. A future edit that "makes them
consistent" now fails a test that says why not to.

All three fields are asserted separately rather than by comparing whole
structs, because they track one `cfg!` and a change flipping only some
of them is exactly the regression worth catching.

Bite-verified rather than assumed: mutating `multi_frontend` to a
literal false gives `FAILED. 18 passed; 1 failed` with the expected
assertion message; restoring returns 19/19. Both configurations now
report 19 tests, up from 17, with the correct cfg-gated test running in
each.

Left untested and recorded instead: `InstanceCapabilities::crdt_replica`
carries `#[serde(default = "default_true")]`, a THIRD default mechanism
that is unconditional and therefore disagrees with the `Default` impl in
a non-CRDT build. Exercising it needs a self-describing format and this
crate's only serde dependency is postcard, which is not one. Adding
serde_json as a dev-dependency to test a divergence this lane did not
introduce is scope creep.

Also corrects a note that round 1 made stale: the ledger's "do not
subtract the two jobs' totals" figures (3,485 and 3,747) were measured
BEFORE round 1 added the protocol step, and round 2 adds two tests to
that crate. Expected totals are now 3,487 and 3,766. The root-package
census is untouched at 3,467 / 3,746 — the new tests live in a sibling
crate, which is precisely the region scripts/feature-census cannot see.

Verified: fmt, diff-check, clippy on pmacs-protocol in both feature
configurations, and workspace clippy --features crdt --keep-going.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 11:37:19 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 6519bc3461
review round 1: record PR #209's state, and close a census blind spot
Review finding (P2): docs/active-work.md and docs/agent-handoff.md both
still said "PR not yet open". This file's own rule is that an open PR
gets a lane recording its state — "When a PR is opened, give it a lane",
written after #171 drifted 153 commits while invisible here. Both now
carry PR #209, its six commits, and the first CI run.

That run is worth recording rather than merely citing, because it
discharges the one risk the framing could not close locally. ALL 14
CHECKS GREEN, including both new jobs (Test (crdt) 12m20s, M10 Perf
Gates (crdt) 5m40s) and the macOS/luajit leg that is the documented
flake surface. This was the first time in the project's history that
any of these tests executed in CI.

ACCEPTANCE 8 HOLDS AGAINST THE REAL RUN. Test (crdt) reported 3,717
passed / 0 failed / 30 ignored: the 3,746 all-targets census (with
basedpyright NOT skipped, as it is locally) plus one doc test, less the
30 ignored. The job demonstrably compiled and ran the crdt corpus rather
than reporting green over nothing — which was the whole point of writing
that criterion while the local sweep was already green.

A trap for the next reader is recorded with it: DO NOT SUBTRACT THE TWO
JOBS' TOTALS. Test (ubuntu/luajit) reports 3,485 and Test (crdt) 3,747,
a difference of 262 rather than 279, because the jobs run different
SETS — the non-crdt job adds pmacs-protocol's 17 tests. The dark count
is the all-targets comparison, 3,746 - 3,467. The wrong number looks
entirely plausible.

Chasing that discrepancy found a real gap, and one this lane's own tool
could never have surfaced: PMACS-PROTOCOL HAS ITS OWN `crdt` FEATURE.
It gates no tests, so a per-test census reports 17 either way and scores
the crate as unaffected — but it changes `cfg!(feature = "crdt")`
EXPRESSIONS inside InstanceCapabilities::default and
FrontendCapabilities::default, so those same 17 tests exercise different
runtime values under it. CI had only ever run the non-crdt ones. Closed
with an explicit `-p pmacs-protocol --all-targets --features crdt` step,
verified 17/17.

The blind spot is structural, not an omission, so it is documented at
the tool rather than fixed in it: scripts/feature-census censuses the
workspace DEFAULT MEMBER, because that is what a bare
`cargo test --all-targets` builds. Sibling crates are invisible to it no
matter what configs are passed. The durable lesson: A FEATURE CAN MATTER
TO A CRATE A PER-TEST CENSUS SCORES AS UNAFFECTED. Check siblings by
hand.

Verified: ci.yml parses at 10 jobs, script syntax clean, fmt,
diff-check, and the new protocol step green locally.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 11:26:28 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 57abcd940e
docs: record the CI CRDT coverage lane and its corrections
Framing revision 3, plus the ledger and handoff updates the lane owes.

docs/active-work.md's "NEEDS A LANE" block is replaced rather than
annotated: the lane now has a branch, a framing, an implementation and
verification, so the old text's premise ("no branch, no framing yet")
was the part that needed removing. Its stale figures go with it — the
273-dark reading at 74301d1 and the seven-item clippy list, both
superseded and both explicitly labelled do-not-quote in the new block.

The corrections this lane produced, all now recorded where the next
reader will hit them:

  * m10_10_perf is a CI-DEFAULT REGRESSION TRIPWIRE, not a bench. Its
    bounds are deliberately generous "to catch catastrophic regressions,
    not to verify a tight perf claim", so #[ignore]ing it to give it a
    perf job would have reduced coverage inside a coverage lane. The
    framing had this backwards through revision 1 and says so.

  * gpu-render runs `cargo test -p pmacs-gpu` — a DIFFERENT PACKAGE from
    the root-package GPU suites. The long-recorded fix-shape of "move
    the GPU-requiring crdt suites onto gpu-render, it already has
    lavapipe" does not work as written.

  * PMACS_REQUIRE_GPU is not uniform: absent from
    gpu_invocation_acceptance and gpu_initial_target_acceptance
    entirely, so it cannot serve as blanket proof the GPU suites ran.

  * The dark-test classification found THREE dispositions, not two:
    benches awaiting a job, deliberately-manual operator tests, and
    known-defect markers. Collapsing the second into the first gives a
    CI job to tests whose #[ignore] reason says not to.

  * §1.1's own target-column claim was wrong, and scripts/feature-census
    caught it. Eleven targets run with zero tests under CI's flags;
    eight of those gain tests under crdt and three are helper binaries
    with no tests in either. The framing had merged two true statements.

Acceptance 9 is revised rather than quietly met at a lower bar. The
planned deliberately-broken-test bite is replaced by the --covers
coverage assertion plus the CI count reconciliation, and the doc states
what that trades: stronger on the claim specific to this lane (the old
job STRUCTURALLY cannot see these tests), and no longer proving that a
failing crdt test turns the job red — which is generic cargo and Actions
behavior, not anything this lane changes.

The handoff gains a census hazard beside the existing sweep note,
because every trap in it was hit while writing the script and one of
them survived two framing revisions: libtest prints `name: test` with no
space before the colon, a zero-test target prints only its Running line,
and both configurations need an --ignored pass or pre-existing ignores
get attributed to the feature.

The ledger also records what is NOT established, which is the lane's
whole remaining risk: the sweep is green SERIALIZED ON A DEVELOPER
MACHINE, and the failures this lane expects are hosted-runner timing and
concurrency. That green removes the "tests are wrong" explanation and
leaves the expected one untested. It must not be quoted as evidence the
CI leg will be green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 11:00:12 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 72102738a7
docs(ci): frame the dark CRDT half of the test corpus
`.github/workflows/ci.yml` never enables the `crdt` feature anywhere, so
every `#[cfg(feature = "crdt")]` test is not compiled in CI — not
skipped, not filtered, not reported. 279 tests have never executed in
CI, and 186 of them are in the library, whose `cargo test --lib
--features crdt` invocation CLAUDE.md lists as a required pre-PR gate.
CI has never once run a required gate.

Named in docs/active-work.md as "NEEDS A LANE" since it was found while
gating #166, with no branch and no owner until now.

Revision 2, approved. What the scout established beyond the ledger:

- The census moved and was re-measured at 4223dd3: 279 dark, not the
  ledger's 273. Plus a fact the old census did not carry — eight test
  binaries contain zero tests under CI flags, so they build, run, and
  report ok with nothing in them.

- "279 dark" overstates the fix. Eleven are #[ignore]d, so a plain crdt
  leg recovers 268. All 279 are now assigned a disposition: 268 by the
  leg, 7 by a new m10-perf-gates job, 3 deliberately manual, 1 an
  ignored known-defect marker. The lane recovers 275 of 279 and the
  other four are excluded for stated reasons rather than left as
  residue.

- The classification docs/active-work.md called "the lane's first task"
  is finished, and it found three dispositions rather than two:
  benches awaiting a job, deliberately-manual operator tests, and
  known-defect markers.

- The ledger's clippy inventory was stale in both directions. It warned
  its own list was "a lower bound, not an inventory" because clippy
  aborts on first failure; --keep-going is what converts it. The
  complete set is eight findings across four files, none behavioral.

- A hole in the proposed fix shape: the gpu-render job runs
  `cargo test -p pmacs-gpu`, a different package from the four root-package
  suites the fix wants to move there. And PMACS_REQUIRE_GPU is absent
  from two of those four, so it cannot serve as blanket proof they ran.

- The full serialized crdt sweep is green: 3,715 passed, 0 failed, 30
  ignored, reconciling exactly to the 3,746 census. That green result
  shaped the acceptance criteria more than a red one would have — a
  green pre-measurement is the condition under which a vacuous CI job
  ships unnoticed, so the criteria gained a count reconciliation and a
  deliberately-broken-test bite.

Revision 1 -> 2 also corrects revision 1's classification of
m10_10_perf, which was wrong in a way that would have made the lane
worse: the suite is a deliberate CI-default regression tripwire with
generous bounds, not a bench, so adding #[ignore] would have shipped a
coverage reduction inside a coverage lane.

Framing only. No workflow change, no source change, no branch plan
executed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 09:34:27 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth c8f111413f docs: absorption pass at cfc1710 — the whole board, before a machine move
Nine PRs landed since the handoff's anchor (#199-#207) and it named
only four of them, so a fresh machine would not have learned that
ambient-root isolation exists, that the journey arc's 1b split
completed, or that the reap-ledger diagnostic landed. The ledger's
canonical base and recovery floor were five merges stale, and three
lanes described merged work as in flight.

Taken now because ZERO PRs are open. The ledger's own rule is never to
open a standalone refresh PR — because with several PRs open a lane
written on `main` re-conflicts at every merge — and this is the one
window where that cost is nil.

The handoff gains §1a, "Outstanding work — the whole board", which is
the point of the pass rather than a by-product: every arc against §20's
priority order with its next step, every open lane, every deferred item
attributed to the framing that parked it, and the standing hazards
someone running gates on a new machine needs — the three known flakes
by name, the basedpyright skip, the crdt sweep's build prerequisite,
and why a green a37 means nothing alone.

Two arcs completed, so per rule 4 their lanes are removed and their
facts are in the handoff: Journey Stage 1 and test ambient-root
isolation. Discovery and reap-ledger merged a stage each, so their
lanes are rewritten to the remaining plan rather than deleted — the
discovery lane now enumerates Stage 2 in dependency order and carries
the two Stage-1 facts a Stage-2 author would otherwise rediscover.

Base and floor advance together to `cfc1710`, per the file's own rule
that a floor accepting an older commit than the declared base passes on
a tree the document does not describe.

The recovery path was EXERCISED rather than asserted: from an empty
directory, clone, alias, fetch, floor check, and a lane worktree all
ran clean. The two-argument `git worktree add` still fails for a
remote-only branch, which is why every lane spells out the `-b` form.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lv428Fth9LRtffwJSsqH7T
2026-07-31 21:03:33 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 4d4bb22035 Merge remote-tracking branch 'githubsucks/main' into discovery-stage1-commands 2026-07-31 20:10:02 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth b3131dbf95 docs(framing): record the deliberate departure from the §7 branch plan
§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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lv428Fth9LRtffwJSsqH7T
2026-07-31 19:46:33 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth c0407dc6a7 docs(coherence): §5 substrate-without-surface -> Partial
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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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lv428Fth9LRtffwJSsqH7T
2026-07-31 19:17:22 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 22925964d9 docs: record the ambient-isolation lane and its five-variable rule
`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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2026-07-31 18:49:00 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 513a7dfa58 docs(discovery): finalize Stage 1 framing review
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.
2026-07-31 18:28:35 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth f4359f12b4 docs(discovery): framing revision 5 — decide Q#D2 and Q#D3
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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2026-07-31 18:20:41 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 1cc9d96ba6 docs(discovery): framing revision 4 — close review round 3
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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2026-07-31 18:12:59 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth aa932f9586 docs(discovery): framing revision 3 — close review round 2
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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2026-07-31 18:08:58 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 9e79b6b9a3 docs(discovery): framing revision 2 — close review round 1
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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2026-07-31 17:52:56 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 791bde1a0c docs(discovery): frame P4 Stage 1 — the describe/list command family
`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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2026-07-31 17:42:03 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 08bc1a153c docs: record 1b-2 as landed; collapse the journey lane to one block
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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2026-07-31 16:50:27 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 94036774a8 fix(welcome): notify the core after writing scratch; unstale the ledger
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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2026-07-31 16:43:02 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 35cc9ff0c5 merge: integrate main @ 5376af1; move the §18 and scorecard grades
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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2026-07-31 16:01:29 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 2927d2fec1 docs(journey): framing revision 4 — close review round 3
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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2026-07-31 14:55:57 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth d8c6328872 docs(journey): framing revision 3 — close review round 2
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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2026-07-31 14:45:24 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 1928a3af20 docs(journey): framing revision 2 — close review round 1
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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2026-07-31 14:38:45 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 02645a71b0 docs(journey): frame Stage 1b-3 — say something when the editor opens
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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2026-07-31 14:28:19 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth bc3a465c9e merge: integrate main @ 1f290d5; discharge #203's doc-flip obligation
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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2026-07-30 22:13:34 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 2d1812c431 feat(lsp): say when the language server did not start — journey step 6
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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2026-07-30 22:07:30 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth d6b7951b92 docs(journey): framing revision 4 — close review round 3
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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2026-07-30 21:52:15 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 732aa282cc docs(journey): keep keybinding audit state aligned with PR #203 2026-07-30 21:45:28 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 45775246ca docs(journey): framing revision 3 — close review round 2
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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2026-07-30 21:42:20 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 0b1716b5cd fix(journey): canonicalize the compile-directory expectation; unflip the grades
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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2026-07-30 21:38:47 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 931d949c6b docs(journey): framing revision 2 — close review round 1
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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2026-07-30 21:34:02 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 638b108774 docs(journey): frame Stage 1b-2 — say when the language server did not start
`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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2026-07-30 21:24:56 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth a62dbfb4d3 Merge remote-tracking branch 'githubsucks/main' into journey-stage1b1-compile-defaults 2026-07-30 21:13:19 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 6bee82c1a5 feat(compile): make building discoverable — journey step 9
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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2026-07-30 21:13:12 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 7df13f2257 fix(process): scope the escalation claim to ticks, and pin the boundary
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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2026-07-30 20:41:03 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 2a1cf9be2e docs(process): framing revision 4 — record what implementing found
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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2026-07-30 18:58:17 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 44c3be1ed4 docs(journey): framing revision 2 — close review round 1
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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2026-07-30 18:40:34 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth e26ddd5ec3 docs(journey): frame Stage 1b-1 — make building discoverable
`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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2026-07-30 18:15:58 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth a9a1484ff7 docs(process): make reap-ledger seam falsifiable
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.
2026-07-30 16:41:10 -04:00