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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 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 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 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 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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lv428Fth9LRtffwJSsqH7T
2026-07-31 18:49:00 -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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lv428Fth9LRtffwJSsqH7T
2026-07-31 16:50:27 -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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lv428Fth9LRtffwJSsqH7T
2026-07-31 16:01:29 -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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lv428Fth9LRtffwJSsqH7T
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lv428Fth9LRtffwJSsqH7T
2026-07-30 22:07:30 -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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lv428Fth9LRtffwJSsqH7T
2026-07-30 21:38:47 -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".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lv428Fth9LRtffwJSsqH7T
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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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lv428Fth9LRtffwJSsqH7T
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lv428Fth9LRtffwJSsqH7T
2026-07-30 18:58:17 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 595676cd20 merge: integrate main @ b8e18f6 (ledger absorption #199)
`docs/active-work.md`'s snapshot header was the only conflict; main's
absorption version supersedes this branch's. `docs/agent-handoff.md`
auto-merged, and both sides were verified present afterwards rather than
assumed: the absorption's `4cd4a7b` anchor and its new landed-lane
entries, and this branch's macOS occurrence with its run link.

This lane's ledger entry is updated from "revision 4 awaiting review" to
its actual state — implemented, gated, PR open — since the framing was
approved and both implementation commits have landed on the branch.

The full gate suite is re-run on the merged tree rather than inherited
from the pre-merge head. The absorption is docs-only, so a clean merge
is very likely correct — which is exactly when inheriting a green would
be most tempting and least justified.
2026-07-30 13:49:57 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth e1cf1fc76b docs: absorption pass — six merged lanes retired, handoff brought current
Eight PRs merged on 2026-07-29/30 (#188, #190, #191, #194, #195, #196,
#197, #198) and `docs/active-work.md` had drifted to 1,854 lines, most of
it describing work already on `main`. Rule 4 permits removal once a
lane's facts reach `docs/agent-handoff.md`; this does both halves in one
commit so the precondition is satisfied rather than deferred.

Handoff §1: the head-of-`main` anchor moves from `6c9e765` to `4cd4a7b`
and its date from 2026-07-28 to 2026-07-30. New entries for the three
implementation PRs that had no record — #190's pre-filesystem delete
refusal, #191's Stage 1 adoption of the generated-buffer contract, and
#196's dired Stage 2a — plus #188 recorded as landed rather than
proposed.

Ledger: six merged lanes removed (781 lines). Two lanes are NOT removed
and are rewritten to their remaining plan instead, because their arcs are
unfinished: generated-buffer immutability (Stage 1 merged, Stage 2 not
started) and bottom-panel (Stage 2 complete, Stage 3 ahead). The
bottom-panel block said so in its own text — "this lane is not removed at
2B-3's merge" — so a removal keyed on "the PR merged" would have
discarded live planning. The header now states the rule as ARC-done
rather than PR-merged.

Two method notes are recorded in the ledger because they nearly cost
real work:

- A census by PR number is a proxy, not a measurement. Counting `#NNN`
  in the handoff reported that five of these lanes had no record at all.
  Counting by content found most already documented, with the real gap
  being the implementation PRs while their framings were recorded. The
  absorption written from the first count would have duplicated existing
  entries.
- #194 and #195 keep their lessons in §3 and §5 rather than §1, which is
  why a number search finds them once each. Sufficient under rule 3:
  durable knowledge needs a home, not a required section.

Docs only. No code, no protocol change.
2026-07-30 13:23:32 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth b27df705bb feat(process): make the signal diagnostic discriminating (Bets 2-4)
Framing acceptances 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8. Evidence collection only: no
tolerance rule, no change to which process is signalled, no disposition
change.

Three distinct failures previously rendered as one string.

**The PTY fallback is now named.** When a PTY's foreground-group lookup
yields no group, the target falls back to the leader — and until now that
rendered "leader-pid", identical to a pipe child that never had a
terminal. `portable-pty::MasterPty::process_group_leader` collapses every
failure into `None` before pmacs can see it, so the errno was gone too.
pmacs now performs the query itself and reports four distinct outcomes:
no master fd, a failed duplicate with its errno, a failed `tcgetpgrp`
with its errno, and a non-positive answer.

Doing that without `unsafe` is the interesting part. `nix::unistd::
tcgetpgrp` needs `AsFd`; `MasterPty` exposes only `Option<RawFd>`; and
every std route between them is `unsafe`, which this crate forbids.
`filedescriptor::OwnedHandle::dup` takes any `AsRawFd` through a safe
blanket impl and returns an owned handle that IS `AsFd`, so a
lifetime-tied view implementing one safe trait is the whole bridge. The
borrow is what makes it sound: the view cannot outlive the master, so the
descriptor cannot close underneath it.

**The report names the signal.** A failed SIGUSR1 and a failed SIGTERM
were the same text. Note this is a reporting gap only — every failed
`kill` returns before the fatal-signal branch, so failed signals are
disposition-identical whatever they are. A separate control pins that the
fatal/non-fatal difference is real for calls that SUCCEED, which is what
gives the first test its meaning.

**`measured_group` is a real observation.** `expected_group` is
`-leader_pid`, and on the spawn-group path the target is `-leader_pid`
too, so the report printed the same number three times and their
agreement was arithmetic rather than evidence. `getpgid` supplies the one
field that can disagree. It establishes no identity — it is read inside
the same read-then-act window, and no portable mechanism closes that for
a group.

Bites, each by an actual revert, all observed to fail:

- collapsing the PTY fallback back into a bare "leader-pid";
- dropping `signal=` from the report;
- making the measured group restate the pid it was handed;
- replacing the job-control fixture with a plain `sleep`, as a positive
  control on the divergence fixture itself.

All four exact-string sites were updated individually, never by a blanket
rewrite: a wholesale rewrite of expected strings is how a format
regression hides. `:2501`'s first-call disposition pin is retained and
updated for the new format rather than replaced.

`nix`'s `process` feature is now declared explicitly. It already arrived
transitively — nix's own `signal` feature depends on it — which is stable
but invisible, and a real requirement resting on another feature's
internals is one refactor away from vanishing. `filedescriptor` is
declared directly for the same reason: pmacs now calls its API.

The reap ledger's comment claiming "EPERM cannot happen for our own
children" is corrected. Its bounded-growth policy is unchanged, but the
justification was wrong: the probe targets a group, and owning the
spawned child says nothing about a group unless the child is still a
member — which nothing measures. The handoff records this together with
the limit of the evidence: the occurrence does NOT establish that the
child itself received EPERM.
2026-07-30 13:08:47 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 7a271f13f5 merge: integrate main @ 391d38a (PRs #197, #196, #191) into Stage 2B-3
`docs/active-work.md` was the only conflicting file, in the same shape
as #191's: `main` inserted the generated-buffer Stage 1 lane immediately
above the bottom-panel header this branch had rewritten. The resolution
keeps both.

Each side's newer text wins where that side owns the fact: `main` carries
the corrected #188 status (MERGED/APPROVED, replacing "OPEN, PROPOSED —
do not implement"), and this branch carries the bottom-panel lane's 2B-3
state and the newer snapshot date, replacing main's "2B-2 MERGED; 2B-3 IS
NEXT" and its 2B-2 boundary paragraphs.

Verified: no conflict markers; every line absent from either parent is a
deliberate supersession by the other, enumerated and checked one by one
rather than counted; all three lane headers present exactly once.
2026-07-30 11:16:23 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth ed544fab41 fix(process): arm the setsid dependency, correct the orphan account
Review round 2, three findings.

setsid is util-linux, not coreutils, and the standard `cargo test --lib`
gate must not hard-fail on a tool the README does not declare -- a
minimal or BusyBox container would fail without ever testing pmacs. The
hard assert becomes skip-unless-armed via PMACS_REQUIRE_SETSID, which is
the pattern the silent-skip lane already established, so the test cannot
quietly report `ok` having never run where the tool is guaranteed. CI
arms it on Linux; README declares it. Both arms verified against a PATH
with setsid genuinely removed: unarmed skips with its message, armed
FAILS with the diagnostic.

The durable causal account was wrong, and this corrects it in the
framing, the handoff and the ledger. basedpyright's console script runs
bundled node through `subprocess.run` and WAITS
(nodejs_wheel/executable.py:50, verified in the installed 1.39.6). It
does not exit at spawn. What orphans node is pmacs: `shutdown()` SIGTERMs
the recorded pid -- the Python wrapper -- which dies without forwarding
the signal, leaving node at PPid 1 holding the pipes. The refutation was
already in hand: the initialize handshake succeeds, which a wrapper that
exited at spawn could not have done, and the PPid 1 observation was taken
after shutdown had killed it.

The fix is unaffected -- the deadlock and its bite are unchanged -- but
the parked follow-up changes target: not "tolerate servers that
self-orphan" but "stop orphaning them", i.e. signal the process group
rather than a wrapper pid that swallows the signal. Framing section 5 P2
restated.

Also corrects a stale CI-ordering claim: the handoff said pyright must
stay unarmed until the timeout lane lands, but #195 is this PR's base and
gave every job a timeout-minutes. The one live reason is that CI does not
install basedpyright at all. The ci.yml comment asserting the job has no
timeout-minutes was stale for the same reason and is rewritten.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lv428Fth9LRtffwJSsqH7T
2026-07-29 22:54:06 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 9b1cf3d6c9 fix(process): reproduce the deadlock without a shell
CI falsified rev 2 of the framing. The synthetic reproduction used
`sh -c 'cat <&0 & exit 0'`, and `<&0` does not defeat the POSIX rule it
was chosen to defeat: /dev/null is assigned to an asynchronous list's
stdin *before any explicit redirections*, so by the time `<&0` runs, fd 0
already IS /dev/null and the redirect duplicates it onto itself. bash
happens to skip the default when a stdin redirect is present; dash --
Ubuntu's /bin/sh, and CI's -- does not. It passed locally and failed on
three CI legs.

Control 2 caught it and named its own cause. That is the fourth vacuous
reproduction in this lane and the first found by a control rather than by
a reviewer -- which is the argument for the controls, so the lesson is
recorded that way in the handoff.

The reproduction now uses `setsid --fork cat`: it forks, the parent
exits, and the child inherits stdin/stdout/stderr untouched. No shell, no
asynchronous list, no /dev/null rule, no implementation variance.
setsid(1) presence is asserted rather than skipped -- a skip would
reintroduce the silent-green shape the arming lane removed.

The fix under test is unchanged. Bite re-verified by revert on the new
form: ok in 2.03s with `stdin.take()`, FAILED at 10.00s on the
recv_timeout without it, both controls passing first.

Also adds bottom_panel_stage1_acceptance to the framing's Bet 2 falsifier
list. It holds PTY-in-panel tests and its absence from rev 1 was a real
gap, not a judgement call.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lv428Fth9LRtffwJSsqH7T
2026-07-29 20:58:52 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth eb9b36387c fix(process): close child stdin before joining reader threads
`RuntimeHandles::drop` joined its reader threads in the `Drop` body,
which runs before any field drops. The `ChildStdin` sink lives inside
`StdinWriter` in the `stdin` FIELD, so it could only be released after
the join returned -- and the join was waiting on readers blocked in
`read()` on pipes whose write ends the child still held, because the
child never received the stdin EOF that would have made it exit.

A closed cycle, entirely inside one function. Teardown hung forever.

This is the root cause of `m4_5_basedpyright_initializes_and_negotiates_
encoding` hanging indefinitely -- diagnosed with gdb stacks plus /proc fd
forensics on a wedged process, reproduced 5/5 deterministically. It also
explains why the hang looked intermittent and machine-local: a
shim-launched server orphans its real process (basedpyright's console
script spawns bundled `node` and exits, leaving it at `PPid 1`), so
nothing teardown signals can reach it, while a direct binary like clangd
or gopls is a genuine child whose pipes close on reap.

`spawn_reader`'s `cancel` flag does not help: it is consulted between
reads and around `send_timeout`, never while `read` is blocked. The
existing comment's premise -- "dropping the master closes the kernel pipe
and unblocks `read`" -- holds for a PTY master but not for pipe mode,
where `read` returns only once *every* write end closes.

The fix reuses `close_stdin`'s existing, already-idempotent mechanism at
the one site missing it. Reordering the struct's fields cannot work: a
type's `Drop::drop` body runs before all of its fields regardless of
declaration order.

Bounded claim: this delivers EOF, so it fixes children that drain stdin
to EOF -- which stdio language servers do. A child that ignores EOF, or
that stops draining while bytes are queued (the writer's `write_all` is
blocking), still wedges the join. Making the `read` itself cancellable
via the poll path already used by `spawn_group_reader` is the standing
deferral that covers those, and is deliberately not in this change.

Test: `teardown_closes_stdin_before_joining_readers`, in `--lib` so it
runs in the standard gate. It models the real shape with an orphaned
grandchild, and carries two positive controls, because this lane wrote
three reproductions that passed against the unfixed tree before one
bit. The `<&0` redirect is load-bearing: POSIX XCU 2.9.3 assigns
`/dev/null` to an asynchronous list's stdin when job control is off, so a
bare `cat &` exits immediately and proves nothing. Teardown runs on a
worker thread behind `recv_timeout` so a regression FAILS in 10s rather
than hanging -- a hanging test would reproduce the hazard being removed.

Bite verified by revert: with the fix `ok` in 2.03s; with the single
`stdin.take()` line commented out, FAILED at 10.00s on the timeout, both
controls having passed first.

Docs: framing doc added; handoff gains the drop-body-before-fields lesson
and the reproduction-needs-a-control generalization, and its section 3
caveat is corrected -- the desktop's basedpyright binary was never
broken. The `--skip basedpyright` gate entry stays for now; dropping it
is a separate proposal owed evidence.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lv428Fth9LRtffwJSsqH7T
2026-07-29 19:22:59 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 8ee08d93e5 docs(bottom-panel): record Stage 2B-3 and close Stage 2
Handoff section 1 gains the 2B-3 bullet and the protocol anchor moves to
v21 with the rule that matters stated once: advertise the baseline,
negotiate up from the frontend's AttachRequest, and reserve moving the
advertised version for a change that cannot be expressed additively at
all. 2B-1's forward-looking constraint is marked discharged rather than
deleted, because its acceptance still passes unchanged and that is the
evidence.

COHERENCE section 14 grades the bottom/side panel primitive as complete on
BOTH frontends rather than 'Stage 2 pending its own framing', section 20
P5 follows it, and the section-19 protocol bullet records that the v21
family is live in production without an incompatible handshake change.

The active-work lane is rewritten to the shipped slice, including the
rejected activation alternatives and why the server-first shape forces
each one out, and the one-way compatibility window it leaves open.

The 2B-2 acceptance suite's header said production keeps panel_capable
false for every semantic session. That is no longer true, and its
assertions did not change — which is the point, so the header now says so
rather than being quietly left stale.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lv428Fth9LRtffwJSsqH7T
2026-07-29 19:12:36 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 0b92d4705f docs: record the pipe-masking gate trap in the handoff
Review round 2 found no new defects; this is the one durable item it
asked to be carried further than a commit message.

`cmd | tail -2` returns TAIL's exit status, not `cmd`'s, in fish and
bash alike. So a gate chain of `cargo test ... | tail -2 && ... && echo
"ALL GATES CLEAN"` prints the clean line even when a suite failed, and
that is what happened while gating this lane: a `pmacs-gpu` failure was
summarized as clean. The point worth keeping is that this is not
carelessness a closer read would catch --- the verdict is structurally
absent from the summary the PR then cites. §5 now says to check
`$pipestatus[1]`, or better to redirect each gate to a file and read it
afterwards, which also preserves the full log that section already asks
for. Filed beside the skip-reports-`ok` lesson, which is the same
family: the thing that summarizes a gate must not be able to lose the
gate's verdict.

Also fixes the doc-comment splice in `tests/support/mod.rs`, where the
why-two-directories paragraph landed mid-sentence and left the
include-mechanics explanation stranded inside it. Cosmetic, and review
called it not worth a round on its own --- folded in here because the
file was being touched anyway.
2026-07-29 12:25:29 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 1485f7610b review round 1: classify from libtest, and drop a dangling doc citation
P1 --- the classifier could mislabel a genuine bite, and this repo
manufactures the trigger. It grepped the swapped run's output for
`^error\[E...\]` / `^error: could not compile`, but a failing test can
print those lines itself: `tests/compile_mode_acceptance.rs:572` has a
fixture that emits `error[E0308]: mismatched types` at column 0, and
any suite that dumps buffer or PTY text on failure does the same. A
clean assertion failure --- the strong evidence --- would then be
stamped `OK (COMPILE)`, "weaker evidence", while the new handoff text
tells the reader to trust the label. The verdict was never wrong; the
label was.

Classification now reads libtest's own summary instead:
`test result: FAILED` present means the harness ran and tests failed;
no `test result:` line at all means nothing ran. A third `MIXED` arm
covers "some target ran clean but cargo still failed", which the
two-way split silently folded into the wrong side. This also removes
two latent portability bugs for free: `\|` alternation in a BRE is a
GNU extension, so on BSD grep every failure would have labelled as
assertion; and cargo's coloured `error:` output would have evaded the
grep entirely. libtest's summary lines stay uncoloured when piped, and
`CARGO_TERM_COLOR=never` is now exported so `--color always` in the
passed-through args cannot break the parse either --- that would
otherwise have zeroed `count_passed` and produced a spurious
NO CONTROL.

Verified rather than reasoned: a test made to print BOTH
`error[E0308]: mismatched types` and ``error: could not compile
`probe` `` at column 0, then failed by swap, is still classified
`OK (assertion)`.

P2 --- the ledger cited a file that is not in the tree. The lane
scoped itself by `TEST_IMPROVEMENT.md` §8, which is untracked and
machine-local: not on `main`, not in this PR's tree. That is a
dangling reference for any other machine, which is the failure this
ledger exists to prevent. The entry is now self-contained and says so;
if that audit is to scope later lanes it needs committing in its own
PR first.

P3 --- a comment records that both runs are captured rather than
streamed, and why, so nobody "fixes" it back to streaming and breaks
the parser. Double blank line before the parked lane collapsed.

Also, on review's prompting: the #165 wiped-round incident is now
UNEXPLAINED, and the handoff says so rather than leaving a gap the
next reader will fill by re-deriving the false mechanism. Work was
lost; not by the cause this file blamed. SIGKILL bypassing the trap
and a stash collision in the same round are both candidates, and the
note declines to pick one.
2026-07-29 10:55:42 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 29d02ae1b0 tooling: give scripts/bite a positive control, and correct the handoff
Lane 6 of the test-improvement arc, pulled ahead of its own priority
list because every later lane's evidence is bite-shaped. A verifier
that cannot fail is worth no more than the claims it certifies.

The defect. The script ran only the SWAPPED tree, so "the tests failed
against the old file" was the only thing it ever checked. It could not
distinguish a load-bearing fix from a broken test: a typo, an unrelated
compile break, or a filter matching nothing all make the swapped run
fail, and each printed `bite: OK`.

The control now asserts two things, because passing alone is not
enough --- `cargo test` with a filter matching zero tests exits 0, and
a compile error in the old tree would then still read as OK:

  * the named tests PASS against the working tree, and
  * at least one test actually RAN,

exiting 3 as NO CONTROL otherwise. The swapped run additionally
distinguishes `OK (assertion)` from `OK (COMPILE)`, since an old file
that will not build against the current tree is much weaker evidence:
the tests may never have run at all.

Validated on all three paths rather than the happy one alone. A
zero-match filter reports NO CONTROL. A genuine bite --- PR #190's
`rd1`, which is known to fail against `main` --- reports `control OK
--- 1 test(s) pass` then `OK (assertion)`. A test deliberately broken
so it fails on BOTH trees reports NO CONTROL at exit 3; the previous
script printed `bite: OK` for exactly that case.

Handoff correction, verified rather than inherited. §5 claimed the
script "restores by `git checkout --`, which reverts the file to HEAD",
destroying uncommitted work, and cited a wiped review round during
#165. The mechanism description is false: the script copies the file to
a mktemp path before swapping and restores from that copy under an
`EXIT INT TERM` trap, touching no git state beyond a read-only
`git show`. The commit-before-gating rule is kept --- it stands on
gate-results-describe-the-pushed-tree --- but the false mechanism is
removed, because a reader who believes bite eats uncommitted work will
reach for `git stash` to protect themselves, which is the repo-global
trap the script exists to avoid.

No product code. No tests changed.
2026-07-29 10:12:38 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 7c1563c2c2 merge: integrate main @ 6c9e765, and absorb three landed lanes
Merges `main` (PRs #186 and #171) into the 2B-2 branch — a clean
auto-merge, no conflict — and carries the ledger absorption those two
merges left owed.

`main` currently describes three lanes wrongly. The #186 lane still
says "OPEN, PROPOSED, DO NOT MERGE" and the #171 lane still says
"AT REVISION 9, AWAITING APPROVAL", because each PR merged carrying its
own pre-merge lane text; #187's lane says "OPEN" for the same reason
this commit exists. Rule 4 forbids relabelling a landed lane and allows
removing it only once its durable facts reach `docs/agent-handoff.md`,
so no earlier commit could legally fix any of them. This one does both
halves together.

Handoff §1 gains three arc bullets and an advanced anchor (`7586905` ->
`6c9e765`):

  * bottom-panel Stage 2B-2, recording what the review round taught
    rather than what the feature does — a durable transition
    implemented as a per-frame effect is a bug shape and four of five
    findings were that one shape; a producer should be checked against
    the other frontend kind's equivalent; a panel may legitimately be
    wider than a PTY; and mutation testing cannot reach behaviour never
    modelled, which is why 16/16 passed while five real defects stood;
  * dired Stage 2 (#171) as an approved framing with no implementation,
    carrying the order-independence decision and the reason a token was
    rejected rather than built, the already-destructive refused kill,
    path-derived buffer names, and the uncorrelated URI-store writers;
  * the resource-op delete guard (#186) likewise, carrying the
    four-phase ordering, why `find_buffer_for_path` is the wrong
    lookup, that pmacs advertises no `workspace.workspaceEdit`
    capability at all, and that `pmacs.fs.remove` is guarded by
    neither lane.

The ledger then drops both framing lanes (335 lines) and rewrites the
bottom-panel lane to the remaining 2B-3 plan rather than deleting it,
since 2B-3 and Stage 3 are still ahead. Two stale claims elsewhere in
the file are corrected as a consequence: the intro's "#171's lane is
below", and the recovery block's instruction not to start 2B-3 until
#187 lands.

#188 deliberately gets no lane here. Its lane lives on its own branch
and arrives with it — writing one here for work that lands elsewhere is
what makes this file re-conflict on every merge.

No runtime code. No protocol change.
2026-07-28 22:33:12 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 61202d50c1 Record PR 187 and its review state
Advance the canonical landed-base anchors through the docs-only main
updates, give PR 187 a complete volatile lane, and stop calling Stage
2B-2 the next unstarted slice in the durable handoff.

Record both review rounds, the round-2 code checkpoint, verification,
and exact cross-machine recovery.
2026-07-28 21:59:43 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 6fc7fee044 docs: absorb #174 and advance the anchors to 0442d78
#174 merged while this PR was open, so the lane it had just been given
is already a merged lane. Rule 4 removes those rather than relabelling
them — but only once the durable facts are in the handoff, so do both
here in that order.

docs/agent-handoff.md
- §5 gains the lesson: a wait predicate WEAKER than the assertion it
  guards is a race on whichever platform loses it, and "wait until the
  file mentions X, then assert Y" races whenever Y is stricter than X.
- Two things that generalize past the fix ride with it: a race you
  cannot reproduce can still be bitten at one remove (an unsatisfiable
  predicate proves the wait is load-bearing; the old predicate still
  passing proves a local run cannot tell them apart), and the obvious
  fix is sometimes worse — the sibling m4_26 is deliberately left alone
  because closing it the easy way trades a precise assertion diff for a
  vague five-second hang.
- Header and §1 anchor advance to 0442d78, noting #174 is test-only and
  #184 remains the substantive change at that head.

docs/active-work.md
- Remove the #174 lane; the header paragraph now says where it went.
- Canonical base and recovery floor advance to 0442d78. The floor
  explicitly rejects 6bee09d as well as 7fd646d, per its own rule that a
  check accepting an older commit than the declared base passes on a
  tree the file does not describe.
- Bottom-panel lane: 2B-2 is IN FLIGHT, not merely "next" — branch,
  worktree, and the fact it is branched fresh rather than stacked. Its
  boundaries are restated because they are easy to overrun: production
  Hello stays v20, panel_capable stays false, and 2B-3 may not simply
  bump the unsolicited Hello.
- dired lane: the re-scout is under way on the existing branch, so #171
  keeps its three-round history and the product is a rev 5.
- Both lanes note that main advancing to 0442d78 changes nothing for
  them, since #174 is test-only.

The bottom-panel framing doc keeps its 6bee09d ground-truth line: that
is a scouting statement about what was actually read, and re-anchoring
it to a commit nobody re-scouted against would be a false claim.
2026-07-28 17:04:17 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth e05ac819b5 docs: sync the durable records to landed main @ 6bee09d
PR #184 (bottom-panel Stage 2B-1) merged, but the four documents that
new work is supposed to start from still described it as open. Advance
every canonical anchor and close the one obligation that was blocking a
lane removal.

docs/agent-handoff.md
- §1's head-of-main anchor moves 7fd646d -> 6bee09d.
- State schema support and production advertisement as two separate
  facts: SUPPORTED is now v6..=v21, the server-first Hello still says
  v20, and #184 landed only the first.
- New §1 bullet for Stage 2B-1 carrying its durable substrate: the
  server-first incompatibility argument, the shared wire_grid boundary
  and why per-axis caps are a parameter, authoritative Absent, and the
  panel_epoch / geometry_epoch split.
- New §1 bullet for the PTY terminate diagnostic (#176), plus two §5
  ops lessons: a drain that ticks is not an observation, and how to
  prove a child exited without waitid or unsafe.

docs/active-work.md
- Canonical base and the recovery floor both advance to 6bee09d.
- Remove the #176 lane. It was retained only because rule 4 requires
  its facts to reach the handoff first; that move is in this commit, so
  the lane goes.
- Rewrite the bottom-panel lane as 2B-1 MERGED with 2B-2 next, branching
  fresh from landed main rather than stacking.
- Annotate the documentation lane with measured staleness (1 ahead, 320
  behind) without deleting it, since nothing has decided its fate.

docs/bottom-panel-stage2-framing.md
- Status header records 2A and 2B-1 as merged and 2B-2 as next. No
  revision bump: the header is landed state, and no design decision in
  the document changed.

COHERENCE.md
- §16 names #184 as the PR that landed the reserved v21 family.

No runtime code, no protocol change, no gate suite implicated.
2026-07-28 16:28:21 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth ab7c207904 Keep the v21 panel wire dark for v20 clients
Reserve the additive v21 panel schema without advertising it in the
server-first production handshake. Pin a real shipped-v20 client attach,
make the two aggregate-budget ratchets exactly one byte over, and update
the framing, coherence audit, handoff, and volatile lane record.
2026-07-28 14:08:17 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth c8895a85d3 Merge canonical main into bottom-panel Stage 2B-1
Integrate main through the Journey/GPU directory-target ratchet (#183).
The public managed-GPU probe additions compose with the v21 wire layer.

Resolve the volatile ledgers to the landed state: advance the canonical
anchor to 7fd646d, remove the completed ratchet lane, preserve the
approved Stage 2 revision-5 recovery facts, and mark the integrated
2B-1 tree as awaiting its from-start full gate rerun.
2026-07-28 11:38:19 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth ec4191fd8e test(journey): pin post-quiescence GPU dired surface
Consume the directory session's later replacement snapshot and assert
the canonical dired header plus a known listing entry before checking
daemon reuse.

Correct the bottom-panel revision-5 recovery branch and advance the
durable handoff to the Journey Stage 1a main anchor.
2026-07-28 09:48:48 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth d88d60eba6 Merge canonical main into bottom-panel Stage 2B-1
Integrate the Journey Stage 1a merge without rewriting the already
reviewed protocol branch. Record the approved three-way Stage 2B split,
advance the canonical recovery anchor, remove the landed Journey lane,
and put 2B-1 into its full-gating state.
2026-07-27 22:16:11 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth d0817314f9 merge: fold the terminal landed-docs PR (#180) into this branch
Two open documentation PRs editing the same three ledger files
re-conflict on every merge to `main` — the treadmill #169 and #176 each
paid three resolution rounds for. #180 was docs-only and already
CONFLICTING against `main`; folding it here retires one of the two
writers instead of resolving the same file twice.

Also integrates `githubsucks/main` @ `42025e4` (Lean 4 Stage 4b #181).

Conflicts resolved, and three claims corrected rather than picked:

* **The head-of-`main` anchor.** Both sides named `74301d1`, which is no
  longer true — `#181` has landed. The anchor now reads `42025e4` and
  leads with it, in `docs/agent-handoff.md` §1 and the active-work
  canonical-base line, and **the recovery floor moved with it**: the
  `git log` check requires `42025e4` or newer, per that section's own
  rule that a floor accepting an older commit than the declared base
  passes on a tree the file does not describe.
* **The Lean 4 bullet contradicted the anchor I had just written.** Its
  header still said "stages 1, 2, 3a, 3b LANDED" and its Stage 4b
  sub-bullet still said "implemented and in review", while the anchor
  above it now records #181 as merged. Both corrected: all six stages
  landed, #181 named.
* **The COHERENCE §2 grade.** #180's side still carried "broken at step
  3" / "Broken at entry" in both the ground truth and the §0 scorecard;
  this branch's corrections win, since they are what the code change in
  this PR makes true.

The removal note at the top of `docs/active-work.md` is reattributed:
the terminal config + copy mode lanes were #180's removal, and it now
says so and says why the fold happened.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-26 18:36:55 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 8e31ca4646 Merge remote-tracking branch 'githubsucks/main' into journey-stage1a-directory-open 2026-07-26 18:33:44 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth d9d1c0b423 test(journey): pin the destination commit, and land the doc updates
Completes Journey Stage 1a: the `commit_to` acceptance suite (framing
§6 N4, N6, N6b, N6c, P1, P2, P3) plus the documentation updates
COHERENCE §25 requires the PR to carry.

Bite-testing the new pins found a real gap. Deleting the
`ScopedFrontend` arm from `acting_frontend` left N4 green, because
`ScopedFrontend::enter` also swaps `core.active_frontend` and the
ambient fallback then answers correctly on its own. The arm is
load-bearing in exactly one case — a commit reached from inside an
interactive command, where the origin sits between the override and the
ambient value — and nothing pinned it. N4b is added, driven through
`dispatch_key` because that is the only thing that establishes an
interactive origin, and the mutation now bites it.

Two smaller corrections found the same way:

* `commit_to`'s forged-destination message was unreachable. Typed as
  `AnyUserData`, mlua rejected a table during argument conversion, so a
  caller got "error converting Lua table to userdata" — true, but naming
  neither the rule nor the remedy. The parameter is now `mlua::Value`
  and the pointed message fires.
* P1 and P2 also fail on full revert, since `commit_to` does not exist
  on the pre-image, so §6.0's "legitimately green on the pre-image" does
  not describe them. They stay in the P list because their
  discriminating falsifier is the named mutation — a revert-only check
  cannot distinguish "validates" from "validates in time" — and each pin
  now says so at its own site rather than being silently mislabelled.

Bite results, each run against the whole suite:

  scope stops swapping `core.active_frontend`  -> N6a, P3 fail; nothing else
  preflight moved after the callback           -> P1, P2 fail; nothing else
  drop the `ScopedFrontend` arm                -> N4b fails; nothing else

Docs: COHERENCE §2 grade + step-3 verdict row, §20 Priority 1 and the
arc list; the GPU initial-target framing's Q#GT6 and acceptance 10,
whose directory case this stage deliberately supersedes; handoff §1;
the active-work ledger; framing rev 7.

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2026-07-26 17:25:22 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth d1bff6ac30 fix(lean4): count fan-outs where a claim cannot skip the count
Round 11 put the nesting count in the expander, which is optional. A
consumer at a lower priority can CLAIM and stop the chain before the
expander runs, while that fan-out's deferred-expansion subscriber still
runs — so the nested pass went uncounted, looked like the outermost
one, expanded early, and outer pairing resumed with a record the
replace had invalidated. `\alp(` gave `α(` again.

The count now comes from a no-op consumer registered at the minimum
priority, which runs first in every chain invocation that reaches any
consumer at all. Its guarantee is exactly the ordering contract the
chain already rests on, and it degrades safely: the only thing that can
skip it is a claim ahead of it, which skips the expander too, so
nothing is queued in that fan-out either.

The other plausible home does not work and the comment now says why: a
subscriber registered beside `run_deferred` is too late, because the
whole nested fan-out completes inside the OUTER chain's subscriber,
before either of them runs.

Acceptance 45o pins the short-circuit path — a consumer at 25 that
claims when the record is nil, so the nested pass never reaches the
expander. 45n passes against this bug, which is why both exist.
Counting in the expander fails 45o and nothing else.

Framing rev 12 also names the shape rounds 10–12 share: each fix was
correct about the failure it was shown and wrong about the boundary of
the mechanism it leaned on — the chain's copy semantics, then its
re-entrancy, then its short-circuit. A queue that outlives the thing
that filled it has to name that thing, not approximate it.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011LFvC4FQtux4y32KuevZ7B
2026-07-26 17:15:24 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 0d7ec7e3a6 fix(lean4): tie the deferred expansion to the fan-out that queued it
`buffer.after-edit` fan-outs NEST — the typed-edit contract supports a
consumer calling `pmacs.hook.run`, and typed_edit.lua's header says so
in its second paragraph. A nested run re-enters every subscriber,
including the deferred expansion's, while the OUTER chain is still
walking its consumer list and pairing has not yet seen the terminator.

So a consumer registered at priority 75 — between the expander at 50
and pairing at 100 — that runs one nested fan-out made `\alp(` yield
`α(` again: the nested pass consumed the queued expansion and edited,
and outer pairing then resumed holding a record the replace had
invalidated. That is round 10's failure reached through the chain's
documented re-entrancy seam rather than through claiming, which is why
deferring alone did not close it.

Deferring work past a fan-out means owning WHICH fan-out it belongs to.
The chain's subscriber and this module's each run exactly once per
fan-out, in that order, so counting invocations of the first and
matching them off in the second identifies the nesting level. Only the
outermost pass expands; a nested one leaves the expansion queued. No
new seam in typed_edit.lua, which is merged Stage 4a substrate.

Both halves bite: removing the level check and never counting
invocations each fail the new acceptance 45n.

Also fixes a test comment that still described the span design round 10
discarded — it claimed the expansion replaces the span "INCLUDING the
terminator". The behaviour asserted was right; the explanation was
stale. Framing rev 11.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011LFvC4FQtux4y32KuevZ7B
2026-07-26 17:00:58 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth f3103a6953 fix(lean4): defer the expansion past the chain, and guard its point
Three defects, all about what happens AROUND the expansion rather than
about resolving an abbreviation.

A pair character that TERMINATES an abbreviation never reached
auto-pairing: `\alp(` gave `α(`. Q#LN22 already said the terminator is
not claimed and the implementation claimed it whenever an expansion
succeeded. Merely declining is not enough either — the chain hands each
consumer a copy of the record made before any consumer ran, so
expanding inside the chain invalidates the copy pairing is holding and
the closer is silently lost. Verified by mutation rather than assumed:
expand-then-decline reproduces `α(` exactly.

The expansion therefore runs on its OWN `buffer.after-edit` subscriber,
registered after typed_edit.lua's and before lsp.lua's. A claim stops
the chain but not a separate subscriber, which is the point: pairing
claims the terminator it reacts to. The replaced span now covers only
the leader and the typed text, so pairing's closer lands outside it and
survives. One undo restores the same text either way, because the
terminator was always its own insert.

That second subscriber is a new instance of Q#AP7 — lsp.lua flushes
didChange synchronously on the signature-trigger path, and `(` is a
trigger — so acceptance 45m pins it with the sighelp fake server: no
didChange may ever carry the unexpanded text.

The relevance check is now three-part, as pairing's has been since
#110: buffer, window, AND `ed.cursor() == rec.post_cursor`. A redefined
self-insert can insert the completing character and then move the
point, and expanding over a span the user has left teleports them back
into it.

Cursor placement after the replace is context-guarded, as
`repair_cursor` is. A buffer intercept may switch buffers while
`buf:replace` runs; the unguarded `goto_byte` then translated the Lean
buffer's pre-edit point through the Lean buffer's edit and applied it
to whatever was ambient.

Q#LN22, criterion 38's span wording, and the ledger are corrected to
describe the deferred design rather than the one that shipped — the
rationale's source, not only the sites quoting it. Acceptance 45j/45k/
45l/45m added; framing rev 10.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011LFvC4FQtux4y32KuevZ7B
2026-07-26 16:47:54 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth d2ab3761c7 docs: correct the non-adopter attribution and two stale anchors
Round 6. Documentation only; no code, no protocol change.

1. **The four-writer table mapped the wrong buffers to `ensure_slot`.**
   Verified at the call sites: `ensure_slot` has exactly two callers,
   `*compilation*` (`compile.lua:1090`) and `*shell-command*` (`:1125`).
   `*search-results*` is an **independent panel** in
   `builtin/commands/default.lua` with its own intercept (`:869`),
   round-trip mark and writes; `compile.lua` declares its name only to
   answer a predicate (`:216`), which is what made it look like a third
   slot. Round 5 fixed an undercount and introduced a misattribution in
   the same paragraph — the count was right, the mechanism was not.

   The table is now keyed by **writer**, not by buffer, so the mapping
   cannot silently drift again: four mechanisms, five buffers. It carries
   an explicit "do not read `ensure_slot` as covering the search panel"
   note, because that is the specific wrong inference.

   Corrected identically in `COHERENCE.md` §14 and the framing's
   deferred-lane text, which both carried the error.

   The scope claim is narrowed with it. "Every generated buffer outside
   copy mode" was too wide: `*workers*`, `*help*` and `*buffer-list*` are
   generated but do not use this idiom, and the REPL package's intercept
   (`packages/repl/init.lua:187`) is an op-filtering editing policy
   rather than a read-only panel. The claim is now "every remaining
   intercept-protected writer", and the two excluded groups are named so
   the next reader does not have to re-derive the boundary.

2. **The recovery floor contradicted itself.** The canonical-base line
   said the check accepts `a27f646` or anything newer while the check
   below required `74301d1`. The floor genuinely advanced; the prose now
   says so outright — a tree at `a27f646` no longer passes — and states
   why the floor must move with the base rather than trailing it.

3. **Two anchors survived the integration.** Lean 4 Stage 4a said it was
   part of "the `fe8b8ba` anchor above" when the anchor had become
   `74301d1`; it now refers to the anchor rather than restating a commit,
   which is what let it go stale. And #168's closed entry called its own
   `fe8b8ba` figure "the live figure" — it is a reading taken at
   `1b6a084`, kept as history, and now says so and points at the
   coverage lane as the single authority with an explicit "do not quote
   this one forward".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016gGQC6eqHJVbZJ5Hg7aLer
2026-07-26 16:45:12 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth d14fe4c4b9 Merge githubsucks/main (#169, #176) into docs-terminal-copy-mode-landed
Two doc conflicts, both in favour of `main`, and both are this PR's own
findings arriving from the other side:

- **The dired lane.** #169 did exactly what round 5 finding 5 said it
  would: absorbed dired Stage 1 into handoff §1 and removed the ledger
  lane per rule 4. This branch carried a placeholder saying #169 owned
  that text; the placeholder is dropped and #169's version taken whole.
  This is the rule working — one PR, one authority per paragraph.
- **The canonical base.** Both sides edited it. Resolved to `74301d1`,
  now naming #169 and #176, keeping `main`'s added guidance that a
  recovery threshold must move with the base it declares canonical (a
  check that accepts an older commit passes on a tree the file does not
  describe). The threshold moved with it.

Consequences of the merge, folded in:

- **The census is re-measured on the merged tree**: 3,176 vs 3,449 —
  still **273 dark**, 185 of them in the library. #176's six new tests
  are not `crdt`-gated, so both totals moved and the gap did not. The
  per-target table is unchanged.
- **The `crdt` Clippy failure is re-measured too, and the previous count
  was wrong** — it was read off a different checkout. At `74301d1` it is
  seven errors before the build aborts: four in `src/daemon.rs`, three in
  `tests/vterm_stage3_acceptance.rs`. Recorded as a **lower bound**,
  because Clippy abandons the remaining targets once one fails, and an
  older tree showed a further error in
  `tests/auto_indent_crdt_acceptance.rs` this run never reached.
- **The PTY-terminate lane (#176) is marked MERGED and retained**, with a
  note at its head saying why it survives rule 4: no landed-doc PR owns
  moving its facts to the handoff, so removing it now would delete the
  record rather than move it. The ledger preamble's stale-on-purpose
  paragraph is rewritten around that one lane; the Lean 4 and
  GPU-terminal-input headers it used to disclaim no longer exist.
- The flake note's "`src/process.rs` last changed by the Darwin PTY
  signal-name fix" is dropped — #176 changed it. The load-bearing half
  (#178 did not touch that file at all) is what remains.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016gGQC6eqHJVbZJ5Hg7aLer
2026-07-26 16:37:41 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth f8ca722d66 merge: integrate main (74301d1) into Stage 4b
Reconciles the handoff and ledger against a main that advanced past
this branch's base: the header, `main` anchor, and canonical-base
description take main's richer versions restamped to 74301d1, main's
new PTY-terminate lane is kept alongside the Lean lane, and main's
Stage 4a/rev-8 lane history is dropped in favour of the Stage 4b lane
that supersedes it — per this ledger's own rule to remove entries when
their PR merges.

Also fixes the coherence census's second count, which still said eight
settings three paragraphs below the nine it now lists.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011LFvC4FQtux4y32KuevZ7B
2026-07-26 16:37:19 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth e4c9d65231 docs: fix five review-round-5 findings in the landed-doc refresh
Documentation only; no code, no protocol change. All five findings
reproduced before fixing.

1. The CRDT-dark census was stale. Re-measured at `fe8b8ba` under CI's
   exact flags versus the same flags plus `crdt`: 3,170 vs 3,443 —
   **273 dark, 185 in the library**, not the 264/177 #168 measured at
   `1b6a084`. The per-target table is regenerated (it gains a
   `terminal_copy_mode_acceptance` row, acc16e's, from this very arc),
   the rows are stated to sum to the total, and the lane now says the
   number moves with every merge and must be re-measured rather than
   quoted. #168's figure is kept as a dated historical reading with a
   pointer to the live one.

2. The generated-buffer non-adopter inventory was short by half. It is
   **four writers, not two**: listview panels (`listview.lua:60-61`),
   `*compilation*` **and** `*search-results*` — both through
   `compile.lua`'s shared `ensure_slot`, so naming only the first
   undercounts a mechanism rather than a buffer — and dired
   (`dired.lua:371`). All four pair an erroring intercept with
   `bypass_intercept` writes over a still-writable rope, and all four are
   emptiable by `M-x buffer.undo`. Corrected in the handoff §4 (as a
   table, with each writer's shape), `COHERENCE.md` §14, and the
   framing's deferred-lane text. The adoption estimate gains a
   consequence: the two `compile.lua` slots append and need a streaming
   variant; listview and dired are whole-buffer replaces and are the
   cheap half.

3. The ledger's canonical base still named `a27f646` while the same file
   recorded #168 and #178. Now `fe8b8ba`, with the recovery check's
   accept-or-newer floor moved with it — a stale floor is what lets a
   wrong base pass verification.

4. The completed terminal lane is **removed**, not marked complete. Rule
   4 of this file's own update protocol says a lane goes when it merges,
   and its opening contract says the file records only what has not
   landed. Its durable facts moved first: a new arc bullet in the handoff
   §1 (the snapshot materializes, so the dispatch-shadow count stays at
   six; `prune` reacts to removal rather than causing it; ownership means
   the handle table, never found-by-name; profiles are a raw Lua table
   and why the escape cache lives on `TerminalSession`; what criterion
   17 must assert when it can finally be written; the `cat -v` echo probe
   and count-don't-match rule), with the `set_generated_contents`
   invariant already in §4. A compact entry remains under "Closed since
   the last snapshot". The gate-run flake the lane carried moved to the
   CI `crdt`-coverage lane, which owns its discrimination — verbatim,
   including its explicit refusal to claim a root cause.

5. The refreshed handoff was internally stale: it anchors on a `main`
   that contains #179 and #165 while still calling both "in review".
   Both now read MERGED. Dired's durable facts are deliberately **not**
   absorbed here — that is open PR #169's job, and writing it from two
   PRs would put two authorities on one text — so the dired lane stays,
   with a note saying why it survives rule 4 and who removes it.

Also recorded while verifying finding 4's new home: the `crdt` Clippy
failure on `main` is re-verified with exact sites (four in `src/daemon.rs`,
one in `tests/auto_indent_crdt_acceptance.rs`), because any CI job that
compiles the `crdt` targets is red on arrival until they are fixed.

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2026-07-26 16:28:04 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth a53965474d feat(lean4): the Unicode input method (Arc 8 Stage 4b)
Typing `\alpha` in a Lean 4 buffer gives `α`; `\<>` gives `⟨⟩` with the
point between them. The abbreviation table is vendored from
vscode-lean4 and the expander is a typed-edit consumer registered on
the Stage 4a chain at priority 50, ahead of auto-pairing.

The ordering is load-bearing. 64 abbreviation keys contain a character
in the `lean4` pair set, so with pairing first, typing `\[` would
insert `[]` and corrupt the pending key to `\[]` before the second `[`
arrives — `\[[]]` becomes unreachable. The consumer therefore claims
every keystroke that EXTENDS a pending abbreviation, not only one that
completes an expansion; claiming only completions would hand each
intermediate `[` to pairing by a different route.

The vendored table is an ORDERED SEQUENCE, not a map. Upstream breaks
equal-length ties by source declaration order — 101 prefixes depend on
it, and `\f` resolves through `f<` rather than `f>` — which a
`pairs`-iterated Lua table cannot express. `scripts/regen-lean-abbrev`
takes a vscode-lean4 commit, emits the file with its provenance header,
and aborts on a duplicate key, invalid UTF-8, or a round-trip mismatch.

Undo is cross-peer-degraded on CRDT frontends and that is accepted and
named, not papered over (Q#LN21): `\alpha` arrives as six source-peer
optimistic inserts while the expansion is one daemon-peer replace.
`set_round_trip_input` would fix it and also makes `dispatch_idle`
report false, so RET would stop inserting a newline.

Round 9 corrects three approved acceptance criteria that the real table
contradicts, found by simulating the state machine over all 1,855
entries and re-reading upstream at the pinned commit rather than
re-reading the prose. `\to` is not eager — `top`, `to0` and `toa`
extend it. `\zzzz` expands to `ζzzz ` because `ze`, `zeta` and
`zsqrtd` exist; only `$ % , ; @ W` open no key at all. And `\alpha`'s
undo does not restore `\alpha ` because `alpha` IS eager, so the
terminator is a separate edit. Criteria 38, 41 and 42 now state both
paths, and the false halves are asserted too: they read as correct
until the table is consulted.

Three implementation traps worth the record. The generator's own
round-trip check was broken twice and failed closed both times:
`str.splitlines()` splits on U+2028, which 53 symbols contain, and
escaping through `chr(byte)` produced a latin-1-shaped string that the
UTF-8 write re-encoded. The first check compared in-memory strings and
agreed with itself; it now stages the file, re-reads the bytes from
disk, and renames into place only on a match. And the expansion SHRINKS
the buffer, so the point must be placed explicitly — pairing's
no-cursor-motion rule holds only for an insert AT the cursor, and
without this every self-insert after the first expansion is silently
rejected and the editor looks dead.

25 acceptance tests plus one `--lib` test for the optimistic CRDT
producer (45f), which is where the gate list's `--features crdt` run
reaches it; a crdt-gated integration test would be dark in CI and in
the gates both. Fifteen mutations bite, each failing its target. Three
of these tests were vacuous when first written and biting is what
found them: the abandonment test asserted text a surviving record
would also produce, the re-arm test used an example that never reaches
the re-arm branch, and both switch tests ran through
`find_or_open`'s fresh-load path rather than `buffer.after-switch`.

No protocol change (Q#LN14). Also reconciles the handoff and ledger
for Stage 4a (#179) and adds `lean.abbrev` to COHERENCE.md's
config-registry adoption census, now nine settings.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011LFvC4FQtux4y32KuevZ7B
2026-07-26 16:24:06 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 44f5e44b9f docs: record #168 and #178 as landed, and the generated-buffer invariant
Documentation only; no code, no protocol change.

Handoff §1 anchors on `main` @ `fe8b8ba` and leads with terminal copy
mode (#178) and its landed-doc pair (#168). The active-work terminal lane
flips to BOTH STAGES MERGED, and the #166 lane records #168 landing with
what it measured: 264 tests dark workspace-wide for want of `crdt` in CI,
and the vterm audit's honest count of acceptances that drive a real
daemon (2, not 3).

The substantive addition is a new §4 substrate invariant for
`Buffer::set_generated_contents`, because it is now the one authorized
write for every generated buffer and three of its properties are
non-obvious enough that four review rounds were spent finding them:

- an intercept is not read-only — `Buffer::undo` reaches the rope through
  `ensure_writable` without consulting the intercept chain, and rebinding
  the undo chords does not help because `M-x buffer.undo` needs no
  keymap;
- a bare `set_read_only` would be worse than nothing, since it also
  refuses the owner's refresh — the pairing is the primitive, which is
  why no Lua `set_read_only` exists;
- a rope write is only half of an edit: the returned `Edit` must be
  fanned out, or a displaying window paints the new rope with stale line
  offsets and replica mirrors never import the write.

Also recorded: history clearing must clear whichever history the buffer
has (the v0.1 stacks are bypassed in CRDT mode), that `*compilation*` and
listview have NOT adopted the primitive and remain emptiable by
`M-x buffer.undo`, and that this does not replace `set_round_trip_input`
— the two guards cover different copies, and a daemon refusal arrives
after the frontend has already painted.

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2026-07-26 15:48:03 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth f3e0b98ced Merge branch 'main' into docs-dired-stage1-landed
Re-integrated after #168 landed the ledger refresh. Five conflicts, none
resolved by taking a side wholesale:

- Both head-of-main anchors take main's a27f646 wording (written by
  #168); the ledger keeps this branch's caveat about lanes naming an
  older base.
- The dired lane section is pruned, which is this PR's purpose, but main
  had meanwhile pruned the GPU terminal input lane as landed — so the
  union drops both stale lanes rather than resurrecting either.
- "Closed since the last snapshot" keeps BOTH new entries: dired Stage 1
  #165 from this branch and GPU terminal input #166 from main.

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2026-07-26 15:41:58 -04:00
Levi Neuwirth 42f601a7ec Merge branch 'main' into gpu-terminal-input-docs, and refresh the ledger
The handoff's "last updated" paragraph conflicted; resolved by writing
the current statement rather than taking either side, and the same pass
clears the staleness the ledger had accumulated while five PRs contended
for it:

- Both head-of-main anchors (handoff §1 and the ledger's canonical base)
  now name a27f646, and list terminal config #173, the bottom-panel
  Stage 2 framing #175, Stage 2A #177 and Lean 4 Stage 4a #179 — plus
  the CRDT undo repro #157 and the inline-math landed-doc refresh #172,
  which are merged but had dropped out of both lists.
- The bottom-panel lane records Stage 2A as MERGED (#177 @ 0a3fcd1)
  instead of IN REVIEW, and states what 2B is: approved, unstarted,
  branching from main rather than stacking, with §7.2's criteria and
  §5.3's three-boundary trap named.
- The Lean 4 lane records Stage 4a as MERGED (#179 @ a27f646); its
  "framing-only, no code, awaiting approval" bullet was false.

The dired lane is left alone deliberately: #169 is the PR that records
dired Stage 1 as landed, and owns that heading.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RuhVYUPHXMHG8r2z4tsDPR
2026-07-26 14:43:43 -04:00