CI red on #221: all five Test jobs, one identical test, every platform
— deterministic, not a flake. The production code was never wrong.
WHY MY GATES MISSED IT. The standing gate is "the touched acceptance
suites", selected from the diff. A PROTOCOL_VERSION bump breaks
version-assertion tests that appear nowhere in it. Worse, CI showed
only ONE of the eight, because cargo stops at the first failing
target; the rest surfaced only under `--tests --no-fail-fast`, and one
at a time would have cost four more red rounds.
Three of the eight were invisible even to that, because they are
crdt-gated real-daemon tests asserting on a live socket. Found by
`--tests --features crdt --no-fail-fast`. That is the handoff's
existing "a local sweep is blind to whichever configuration it does
not build" lesson, hit again by a different lane.
THREE TRIPWIRES, WORKING AS DESIGNED. `assert_eq!(PROTOCOL_VERSION,
21)` in statusline_segments, bottom_panel_stage2b_gpu, and
vterm_stage3 are meant to fire and take a deliberate edit; each says
so in its own comment. Updated to 22 with the reason recorded. Worth
noting the pin that must NEVER be edited —
ADVERTISED_PROTOCOL_VERSION == 20 — did not fire, which is the
mechanism behaving exactly as designed.
FIVE DEFECTS, ONE SHAPE: an absolute contract expressed as arithmetic
on, or equality with, a MOVING constant. Each was true when written
and silently false afterwards.
- `PROTOCOL_VERSION - 1` meaning "below the panel version". Held
only while PROTOCOL_VERSION == PANEL_MIN_VERSION; at v22 it
equalled PANEL_MIN_VERSION exactly, so the fixture's "old" peer
became panel-capable and the daemon correctly sent it a frame.
Now `PANEL_MIN_VERSION - 1`.
- `assert_eq!(PANEL_MIN_VERSION, PROTOCOL_VERSION)` — a coincidence
true only while panels were the newest feature. Replaced by the
two durable bounds: above the advertised floor, at or below this
binary's wire.
- `assert_eq!(PROTOCOL_VERSION, 21)` in a test named
`the_panel_stage_takes_protocol_v21` — the current wire as a proxy
for the panel stage's own version, in a test whose name says which
one it means. Now PANEL_MIN_VERSION.
- `session_protocol_version == "21"` in two real-daemon probes. What
the counter-offer activates is THIS BINARY's wire, so the literal
was only ever right by accident. Now PROTOCOL_VERSION, plus an
explicit `>= PANEL_MIN_VERSION` for the panel capability the
literal had been carrying implicitly.
The codebase already had the right idiom: src/daemon.rs and
pmacs-gpu/src/main.rs spell it `PANEL_MIN_VERSION - 1` in five places.
Every outlier was in tests/.
ALSO LOGGED, NOT FIXED: U2 in ci-red-signatures.md.
`process::tests::m6_1_pty_raw_mode_disables_kernel_echo` failed once
during a full corpus run and did not reproduce (108 targets exit 0,
plus 3 isolated --lib runs at 1917/0). It is in no registry row, so it
is a new incident, and leaked `pmacs --daemon` processes remain an
unexcluded rival explanation. Recorded with a selector this time —
unlike U1, whose name I destroyed by piping through `tail`.
Gates: fmt; clippy --workspace --all-targets -D warnings, both
configurations; --lib 1917/0; --lib --features crdt 2102/0; --tests
--no-fail-fast 108 targets exit 0; --tests --features crdt
--no-fail-fast 108 targets exit 0; PMACS_REQUIRE_GPU=1 -p pmacs-gpu
228/0; git diff --check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
Levi Neuwirth
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