COHERENCE.md section 0 names background-work ownership as one of two
remaining thin ends of the golden journey, and section 20 puts it
outside Priority 1 while conceding it is the last of that priority own
work. Section 9 grades the worker model "mechanism without identity".
The felt gap is narrower than the arc and is checkable: grep -c for
spinner/progress/busy in src/statusline.rs returns 0, so section 3
promise of "visible asynchronous work" is false today unless the user
knows to run M-x editor.list-workers. The git Stage 1 lane in flight
right now records a deliberate negative section 9 impact for exactly
this reason; this lane is the one that repays it.
Two scouting findings shaped the staging rather than confirmed it.
PendingJob carries eight fields, not the seven the audit lists, and the
eighth doc comment cites section 9 by name as the reason identity
belongs on the job and not in a side map. So this extends a merged
decision instead of introducing one.
pmacs.process.list filters to LineOriented, dating to the vterm Stage 1
commit, and three acceptance suites use #pmacs.process.list() as a leak
detector. Widening that accessor to show terminal PTYs would inflate
all three baselines. Making PTYs visible therefore moves to Stage 2
behind a separate accessor, which is a better answer than editing tests
that are correctly detecting a semantic change.
NO WIRE CHANGE, and that is load-bearing for scheduling: discovery
Stage 2 holds the v22-to-v23 bump slot and git Stage 2 is queued behind
it. The activity indicator is a fourth pmacs.statusline.register
provider on the existing StatuslineSegments vector.
The framing also flags a deliberate deviation from the audit rather
than quietly taking it: section 9 names owner/purpose/parent together,
and Stage 1 takes only the first two, because an unpopulated parent
field reads as "no parent" rather than "not tracked".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
