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Active work — cross-machine resume ledger

Snapshot: 2026-07-28. This file records volatile work that has not landed on main. Read it after docs/agent-handoff.md. Remove completed entries when their PR merges; do not let this become a second permanent backlog.

No lane below is retained past its merge. The PTY terminate diagnostic (#176) was the last one — retained because rule 4 removes a merged lane only after its durable facts reach docs/agent-handoff.md, and that absorption was unowned. This snapshot owns it: #176's facts are now in the handoff (§1's arc bullet and §5's two ops lessons about ticking observers and proving child exit), so its lane is gone. The Lean 4, GPU-terminal-input, inline-math (#172), dired (#169), and terminal config + copy mode lanes were removed the same way — the last of these was #180's work, folded into #182 so two open PRs would stop re-conflicting in this file.

Trust the canonical-base line below over any lane header: if a PR number appears in git log --first-parent githubsucks/main, it has landed regardless of what a lane says.

Two open PRs had no lane here at all before this snapshot — #174 and #171. An open PR is exactly the volatile work this file exists to record, so its absence is a ledger defect rather than a tidy omission: #171 drifted 153 commits while invisible here, and its still-green old CI run describes a tree nobody has looked at since. When a PR is opened, give it a lane. #174 has since merged, so per rule 4 its lane is gone again and its durable lesson is in docs/agent-handoff.md §5; #171's lane is below.

Repository authority

  • Canonical development URL: https://github.com/levineuwirth/pmacs.git. This ledger uses the normalized local alias githubsucks so its refs and recovery commands are identical on every machine. Remote names are otherwise machine-local: origin may name this canonical URL, a release mirror, or something else, and therefore has no authority by name alone.
  • Canonical base at this snapshot: githubsucks/main @ 0442d78 (the M4 config-sink race fix #174, atop bottom-panel Stage 2B-1 #184, the Journey/GPU directory-target ratchet #183, Journey Stage 1a #182 and the previously recorded landed work). Protocol schema support is v6..=v21; the production server-first Hello still advertises v20 — two different facts, and #184 landed only the first. The previous snapshot named 7fd646d, and the recovery floor advances with it: the check below now requires 0442d78 or newer, so a tree at 7fd646d — or at 6bee09d — no longer passes. That is deliberate — the floor moves with the base, because a check that accepts an older commit than the declared base passes on a tree the rest of this file does not describe. Lanes below that name an older base have not been re-based; derive their integration surface from git diff <their base>..main.
  • On the transfer source, origin/main named a release mirror at d3fa632 and lagged badly. On the current destination, origin names the canonical URL. This difference is why all recovery begins by verifying URLs and normalizing githubsucks rather than trusting origin/main.
  • The shared desktop checkout contained unrelated uncommitted work. The branches below were prepared in isolated worktrees; never clean or overwrite the shared checkout to recover them.

Start on another machine by inspecting its remotes:

git remote -v
git remote get-url githubsucks

If the second command says the alias is absent, add it; if it prints a different URL, stop and resolve that collision rather than overwriting an unknown remote:

git remote add githubsucks https://github.com/levineuwirth/pmacs.git

Then recover current refs:

git fetch githubsucks --prune
git log -1 --oneline githubsucks/main
git worktree list
git status --short --branch

The git log command must expose 0442d78 — the base named above — or a newer intentional main. Keep this threshold and the canonical-base line in step: a recovery check that accepts an older commit than the base it declares canonical will pass on a tree the rest of this file does not describe. If it does not, stop and repair the remote/fetch configuration.

The CRDT half of the test corpus is dark in CI — NEEDS A LANE

  • No branch, no framing yet. Found while gating #166, then measured properly during the vterm as-framed audit. Deliberately kept out of #166 so a CI change would not arrive after review approval.

  • Root cause: .github/workflows/ci.yml never enables the crdt feature anywhere — zero hits across the workflow directory. The test job runs cargo test --all-targets --no-default-features --features luajit|lua54. Every #[cfg(feature = "crdt")] test is therefore not compiled in CI, not merely skipped.

  • Measured, --list under CI's exact flags versus the same flags plus crdt: 3,176 vs 3,449 — 273 tests dark. Re-measured at 74301d1 (2026-07-26; at fe8b8ba it read 3,170 vs 3,443, the same 273 dark — #176 added six tests, none of them crdt-gated). The number moves with every merge and must be re-measured, not quoted. #168 reported 3,024 vs 3,288 — 264 dark, 177 in the library — at 1b6a084; #178 then added CRDT-only generated-buffer coverage, and other lanes landed CRDT tests in between. Per target:

    dark CI full target
    185 1,848 2,033 the library itself (src/lib.rs)
    21 15 36 m5_5_acceptance
    13 1 14 gpu_invocation_acceptance
    13 1 14 gpu_initial_target_acceptance
    8 0 8 m10_11_acceptance
    6 0 6 auto_pair_crdt_acceptance
    6 0 6 m10_2_perf
    4 5 9 vterm_stage3_acceptance
    4 0 4 m10_10_perf
    3 0 3 compile_mode_crdt_acceptance
    2 22 24 theme_faces_acceptance
    2 0 2 m11_5_semantic_acceptance
    1 14 15 terminal_copy_mode_acceptance
    1 9 10 vterm_stage1_acceptance
    1 7 8 statusline_segments_acceptance
    1 10 11 gpu_font_acceptance
    1 0 1 auto_indent_crdt_acceptance
    1 0 1 m10_11_perf

    The rows sum to 273; the table is the whole census, not its head.

  • The single worst line is the library. cargo test --lib --features crdt is a REQUIRED local gate in CLAUDE.md, and CI has never run it. 185 library tests — the whole CRDT half — are developer-machine-only, and that count grows with every merged branch that adds a crdt-gated unit test.

  • Ten suites run zero or one test in CI, including gpu_initial_target (#148's entire acceptance, 1/14), gpu_invocation (#141's, 1/14), and a37, the Vterm Stage 3 real-daemon/real-PTY/real-wgpu path that #135 built specifically because "a decoded-message fixture would prove none of the three fit together".

  • ⚠ a37 will report green in the new job without running, unless the job builds pmacs-gpu AND sets PMACS_REQUIRE_GPU=1. Measured 2026-07-26 while gating #173. a37_real_daemon_real_pty_and_headless_gpu_ render_one_terminal_session derives its sibling binary path from CARGO_BIN_EXE_pmacs, and on a missing binary it eprintln!s a skip and returns ok. A fresh worktree running cargo test --features crdt --test vterm_stage3_acceptance reports 9/9 in 0.17 s having never run it; a real run takes ~4 s. Only PMACS_REQUIRE_GPU=1 promotes that skip to a failure, and CLAUDE.md applies that flag to cargo test -p pmacs-gpu — a different package, so the required local gate does not cover a37 either. The gpu-render job already sets the flag, which is what makes fix-shape part 2 sound; state it as a requirement of that job rather than inheriting it by luck, because a crdt leg added to the plain test job would run a37 vacuously.

  • a37 is also load-sensitive, which changes how to read the expected first-run failures. It passed at d152120 and failed at that same commit twenty minutes later, with a second agent saturating the machine with rustc in between; it then failed identically on d152120, 04c5ad1, and the #173 merge commit, which is how #173 established the failure was not its own. The signature is last_frame_text all spaces with rendered_nonuniform_frames nonzero — frames arrive, content does not. pmacs-gpu's own suite flaked the same way under the same load (201/202, then 202/202 on immediate rerun). So a red a37 on the first CI run is ambiguous by construction: before treating it as a real failure, run the same command on the merge base, and prefer serialized execution for this suite over retry-until-green.

  • Sort deliberate from accidental before proposing a fix. Some of the 264 are perf suites that are #[ignore]d by default and belong to their own jobs (m10_2_perf 6, m10_11_perf 1). m10_10_perf has no #[ignore] and no CI job naming it, so it looks accidental. This classification is not finished and is the lane's first task.

  • Fix shape, two parts (the flag combination is verified to work: --no-default-features --features luajit,crdt lists 10 vterm Stage 1 tests versus 9 without):

    1. a crdt leg on the test job for the non-GPU suites and the library;
    2. the GPU-requiring crdt suites onto the existing gpu-render job, which already has lavapipe and PMACS_REQUIRE_GPU=1 — vterm_stage3_acceptance, gpu_invocation_acceptance, gpu_initial_target_acceptance, gpu_font_acceptance.

  • Expect first-run failures, and budget for them. These would execute in CI for the first time ever: real PTY timing on CI runners, wgpu under lavapipe, and daemon-socket tests at unfamiliar concurrency. Start ubuntu-only and decide about macOS from evidence. A red first run is the lane working, not the lane failing.

  • Mitigating fact, verified rather than assumed: #166's three unit pins are not crdt-gated and do run under CI's exact flags, including the controller-release pin whose only job is catching the plausible wrong fix.

  • This lane also owns a --lib --features crdt flake, observed and scoped without overclaiming its cause (inherited from #178's gating, where the terminal lane recorded it). cargo test --lib --features crdt failed ~1 run in 5 on process::tests::setsid_escapee_is_not_reaped_and_teardown_reclaims_readers — active_reader_probe returning None at process.rs:3179 ("live runtime probe"). Pre-existing and unrelated to #178: that branch did not touch src/process.rs at all, and the test passed 10/10 standalone; the observed failures were during parallel full-suite runs. That localizes the trigger to suite load or interaction, but does not distinguish parallelism from another full-suite effect — no serial full-suite bite was run. The leading code-path explanation is the known drain_until trap: draining for Started also ticks, and a tick can reap the leader before the following active_reader_probe. That is an inference from the failure site and control flow, not yet a falsified root cause. Discriminating it belongs here. Two unnamed CRDT failures in #178's round-2 gating are a plausible match but remain unattributed — no test names were captured.

  • A second standing obstacle for this lane: cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --features crdt -- -D warnings fails on main — measured at 74301d1: seven errors before the build aborts, four in src/daemon.rs (useless_conversion at 3996, missing doc backticks at 4076, too_many_lines 112/100 at 4083, an unneeded mut at 4965) and three in tests/vterm_stage3_acceptance.rs (too_many_lines at 637 and 793, a redundant continue at 843). Treat that as a lower bound, not an inventory: Clippy abandons the remaining targets once one fails, and a run on an older tree surfaced a further doc-backticks error in tests/auto_indent_crdt_acceptance.rs:42 that this run never reached. The standing gate list runs Clippy without crdt, so these lints have never been enforced. Any CI job that compiles the crdt targets has to fix them first or it will be red on arrival.

Bottom-panel lane (Arc 7) — 2B-1 MERGED; 2B-2 IN FLIGHT

Stage 1, the Stage 2 framing, Stage 2A, and Stage 2B-1 are all on main. Framing revision 5's three-way split of 2B was explicitly approved on 2026-07-27; revision 6 records PR #184's review correction. 2B-2 — the daemon panel projection and epoch machine — is under way on branch bottom-panel-stage2b2, worktree ../pmacs-bp-stage2b2, branched fresh from githubsucks/main @ 6bee09d. It is not stacked on the 2B-1 branch, which is the rule for every slice in this arc. Note that main has since advanced to 0442d78; the only difference is the test-only #174, so the slice's integration surface is unchanged.

2B-2's boundaries, restated because they are easy to overrun: the production Hello stays at v20 and panel_capable stays false. The slice is dark/test-only capability exactly as 2B-1 was. Compatible v21 activation, the GPU band, and the negotiated capability flip are all 2B-3's, and 2B-3 may not simply change the unsolicited Hello to 21.

  • Stage 2B-1 MERGED as #184 (main @ 6bee09d, 2026-07-28; all twelve checks green on the reviewed head 5539b6e; two review rounds plus a gate-found follow-up). Branch githubsucks/bottom-panel-stage2b and worktree ../pmacs-bp-stage2b are retained and carry nothing unmerged. Durable facts — the schema-support-versus-advertisement split, the shared wire_grid boundary, authoritative Absent, and the two epochs — are in docs/agent-handoff.md §1 per rule 3, not here.

  • What 2B-1 deliberately did not do, because 2B-2 and 2B-3 must not re-litigate it: no producer, no consumer, no capability change. panel_capable is still false for every semantic session, so the journey grade is unchanged and every shipped v20 client remains attachable.

  • 2B-3 inherits a hard constraint from 2B-1's review: it owns a compatibility-preserving v21 activation mechanism and may not simply change the unsolicited Hello to 21. The handshake is server-first, so that one-line change locks out every shipped v20 frontend before it can even send an AttachRequest.

  • Two review rounds, and what each cost. Round 1: PanelFrame needed an explicit buffer_id, the transport ratchet had to drive the real attach path rather than a detached codec assertion, and shared grid bounds needed one validator. Round 2: the server-first Hello made the advertised v20↔v21 compatibility one-way; COHERENCE.md and the handoff still named only v20 schema support; framing §9 named a nonexistent aggregate 2B suite instead of the three exact slice suites; and the panel plus copied-terminal "one byte over" fixtures were actually two bytes over.

  • The full gate — not review — found two version-ladder omissions and one probe contradiction. The statusline and Vterm Stage 3 ladders still pinned v20 and rejected v21. Separately, Vterm Stage 3's headless probe exited its loop as soon as resize plus two nonuniform composites were observed, while its acceptance later required the PTY child's VTERMROW output in the final frame; the v20-compatible handshake made that scheduling race deterministic, so the report sampled a blank frame. The probe now waits for the exact child-output observation its acceptance asserts.

  • The probe fix then leaked its own fixture, and that is the reusable lesson. The generic runner hard-coded the producer fixture's VTERMROW breadcrumb, so the CAT input fixture could satisfy every assertion yet never satisfy the loop exit — it waited out the 20-second safety deadline and passed on the deadline. Producer probes now name their own required frame text while input probes finish on the latched echo, and the report exposes completion_observed which both paths assert, so a deadline-driven pass cannot hide a stall again.

  • Final verification on the reviewed head: cargo fmt --check; strict workspace Clippy; library 1,849 passed + 3 ignored default and 2,034 passed + 4 ignored CRDT; bottom-panel Stage 1 / 2A / 2B-1 46 / 17 / 16; folding Stage 2 48; GPU font 11; statusline 8 CRDT; m11_5 semantic 2 CRDT; GPU initial target and invocation 15 / 15 CRDT; the handshake consumers m5_5 / m5_7 / mode-system wiring 36 / 7 / 1 CRDT; Vterm Stages 1 / 2 / 3 10 / 6 / 9 CRDT, including the required real daemon + real PTY + real wgpu probe; M4 121 passed + 3 ignored + 1 filtered; required GPU 202/202; the isolated-config one-invocation full workspace sweep; and git diff --check.

    • Retained as classification rather than erased: the first required-GPU pass was 201/202 on a_fraction_draws_rule_pixels_between_its_operand_rows, a rendering test structurally outside a protocol-only diff, which passed immediately in single-threaded isolation and 202/202 on the mandatory complete rerun. Separately, library and Vterm attempts inside the restricted tool sandbox produced Operation not permitted failures in socket-based attach tests; the authoritative outside-sandbox reruns passed.

  • Ordering for the rest of the arc is fixed: 2B-2 branches from landed main; 2B-3 branches only after 2B-2 lands; Stage 3 (the adopter default flip) last. Each slice starts fresh from landed main.

  • Stage 2A MERGED as #177 (main @ 0a3fcd1, 2026-07-26, all twelve checks green at 8424172, three review rounds). Branch githubsucks/bottom-panel-stage2a and worktree ../pmacs-bp-stage2a are retained and carry nothing unmerged. Five commits: the classified census routing, the painter extraction + acceptance, the lane record, then the round-1, round-2 and round-3 review fixes. No protocol change; no behavior change for any frontend today — with panel_capable = false for semantic sessions, primary_document_window returns view.active in every existing configuration, so this is seam adoption that becomes load-bearing in 2B.

  • Stage 2A verification on its merge result: cargo fmt --check clean; strict workspace Clippy clean; 1,832 default + 2,015 CRDT library tests; bottom_panel_stage2a_acceptance 17; bottom-panel Stage 1 46; statusline segments 8 CRDT; m11_5 semantic 2 CRDT; GPU initial target 14 CRDT; terminal config 12 CRDT; vterm Stage 1/2 10 / 6; folding Stage 2 48; M4 121; required GPU 202; git diff --check clean.

  • Every routed producer is now pinned at a seam its production caller uses, and each pin was falsified by revert: #1 follow, #2 lazy CRDT upgrade, #3 CursorByte, #5 decorations, #7 Viewport (aligns without focusing), #8 Pointer (aligns and focuses), #9 the terminal-context gate, #12 statusline, #21 the publication filter, plus the focus-class negatives. #1/#3/#21 required extracting three named helpers, because their only production caller is dispatcher_loop, which no test can drive.

  • Three lessons about the TESTS, not the code, all from review: (a) a structural test comparing the two authorities directly does not catch a misrouted consumer — only consumer-level assertions do; (b) a daemon-path test must register_session or the event is dropped at the uninstalled-session check before reaching the code under test; (c) a discriminating fixture must make the two routings DISAGREE — comparing two non-terminal buffers, or two windows with no selection, yields the same answer either way and proves nothing. Round 2 found four of my own pins vacuous by exactly these shapes, and round 3 found two more problems of the same family: a pin placed at a HELPER while production called it from a producer (reverting only the producer's call site left every test green), and a socket-pair assertion whose blocking read made a regression HANG instead of fail. Both now assert at the producer, with read timeouts on every read.

  • Review round 1 closed: 4 P1 + 2 P2, all real. The P1s were a stale-Pointer focus steal (the failed-alignment arm returned the window, so #8's activation focused it before dispatch_pointer rejected the buffer), the missing A2A-2 two-context fan-out, a census suite that asserted the AUTHORITY rather than the CONSUMERS, and the missing main integration. Two of the new pins were themselves vacuous on the first attempt — the dispatcher test passed because an unregistered session is dropped at daemon.rs:1962 before reaching the aligner, and the painter test was a fixed-point check that survived deleting text_view.render. Both now fail under their own bite.

  • vterm_stage3_acceptance::a37 is a pre-existing flake here, not a Stage 2A regression: measured 6/8 failures on the base commit and 7/8 on the branch in matched isolated samples. It needs a real daemon + real PTY + headless GPU and is documented load-sensitive. It also silently returns ok unless pmacs-gpu has been built, and is crdt-gated so CI never runs it at all.

  • Two suites are dark without --features crdt: m11_5_semantic_acceptance reports 0 tests and gpu_initial_target_acceptance reports 1 in the default config. Both are semantic-census suites, so Stage 2A must be gated with the feature on or its most relevant coverage never executes.

  • Stage 1 merged as #155 (main @ e745068, 2026-07-24, after two review rounds). No protocol change. Durable substrate facts live in docs/agent-handoff.md §1; the two round lessons are in §5.

  • Landed-docs follow-up merged as #156 (main @ d152120, 2026-07-25).

  • Stage 2 framing: docs/bottom-panel-stage2-framing.md revision 6 is on branch githubsucks/bottom-panel-stage2b (revision 5 is commit 56301ed there), worktree ../pmacs-bp-stage2b. Revisions 1–4 remain on githubsucks/bottom-panel-stage2-framing (head 4fbd47f, four framing commits, revision 4 at 49757e5). Round 1 closed 2 blocking + 3 high; round 2 closed 1 blocking + 2 high + 1 medium and decided both open items; round 3 closed 1 blocking + 1 high + 1 medium. No open items remain. Revision 5 adds no decision; it records the approved 2B-1/2B-2/2B-3 implementation split. Revision 6 corrects the server-first compatibility contract, durable protocol claims, exact acceptance-suite names, and limit + 1 fixture. The parent framing docs/bottom-panel-framing.md (rev 4) remains authoritative, including its acceptance criteria 37–55.

  • Retained, carrying nothing unmerged: branch bottom-panel and worktree ../pmacs-bottom-panel.

  • Stage 2 ships as four serial implementation slices, each landing before the next branches: 2A = classified §1.3 census routing + paint_frame per-window painter extraction (with the active-window auto-scroll preparation), no protocol change; 2B-1 = reserved protocol schema v21, with production advertisement held at v20, (InstanceMessage::PanelFrame plus FrontendEvent::{FrontendCellGeometry, PanelResizeRows, PanelPointer}, gated both directions, each extended enum byte-pinned on its own previous final variant); 2B-2 = daemon panel projection and epoch machine; 2B-3 = compatible v21 activation, the GPU band, and the negotiated panel_capable flip. Stage 3 is the adopter default flip.

  • Correction — this entry previously mis-stated the census contract. It is not "route every consumer through primary_document_window". Q#BP14 classifies the 23 reads into four classes and routes only the Projection class that way; focus/input (#13–#15, #23), focus chrome and surface-routed (#16–#19), and focus/session (#20) keep their own authorities. Rerouting them would break remote-op validation and application, DispatchIdle, presence, focused search/menu/completion routing, and terminal bell ownership. The Stage 2 framing carries the full table.

  • The GPU document bottom is three boundaries, not one. text_area_bottom (pmacs-gpu/src/main.rs:8490) is today status_band_top, geometry_capacity_bottom, and document_text_bottom at once. Once a band is installed they diverge: the status chrome must stay pixel-identical at the physical window bottom while document consumers move. A blanket rewrite of that helper moves both together and passes an "everything moved" assertion, so the Stage 2 criterion asserts both directions in one scenario. The census is 20 production sites (8 status-owned, 12 document-owned) + 1 definition + 8 test sites = 29 matches; the framing carries the per-site table. The three easiest to misclassify are document completion :6140, minibuffer candidates :7351, and edge scrolling :8561 — each with its own visible symptom.

  • Folding Stage 3 and this arc's Stage 2 both touch the semantic projection. Whichever is framed second re-scouts the other's landed state.

Folding lane (Arc 6) — Stages 1 and 2 MERGED; Stage 3 (GPU) is next

Both shipped stages are on main; nothing in this arc is in flight. Stage 3 has no branch and no framing yet.

  • Stage 1 (headless fold engine) merged as #142, Stage 2 (grid/daemon collapse) as #149 — both under "Closed since the last snapshot".
  • Retained, carrying nothing unmerged: branches folding / folding-tui and worktrees ../pmacs-folding / ../pmacs-folding-tui. The framings docs/folding-framing.md (rev 5) and docs/folding-stage2-framing.md (rev 4) are the approved artifacts Stage 3 re-scouts against.
  • Stage 3 (GPU) obligations, already named by the framings — the starting point for its own framing doc: GPU collapse at TUI parity; caret/hit-test fold-awareness; the BufferSnapshot fold-mirror clear (parent R2-4 — without it, empty-after-revert diff suppression leaves stale folds on the GPU, the same trap class as #120); CRDT-origin and GPU-optimistic interactive unfold (parent R2-3); and flipping FrontendView.fold_projection to true for semantic frontends, which Stage 2 deliberately left false (Q#FD21).

Generated-buffer immutability framing lane — PR #188 OPEN, PROPOSED

  • Portable branch: githubsucks/generated-buffer-immutability; worktree ../pmacs-generated-immutability. PR #188, base main, forked from githubsucks/main @ ad41cf1, integrated to 7586905 (#189, COHERENCE.md only; clean merge, no conflict). Framing only — docs/generated-buffer-immutability-framing.md, revision 3, plus this lane. No runtime code, no protocol change.
  • PROPOSED — two review rounds closed (ten findings, six P1, four P2). Not approved. Do not implement, do not merge.
  • What it frames. The class-wide half of the set_generated_contents invariant that docs/agent-handoff.md §4 and COHERENCE.md §14 both record as unfinished: Buffer::undo gates on ensure_writable() (src/buffer.rs:1302) and never consults the intercept chain, so the add_intercept-plus-bypass_intercept idiom leaves the rope writable and every affected buffer emptiable. All five families were reproduced by execution at ad41cf1, not inferred; the transcripts are in the document's §0 and §2.
  • Recommended primitive: Buffer::apply_generated_edit(op), exposed as a { generated = true } option on the existing Lua mutators, with set_generated_contents reimplemented as its whole-buffer wrapper. It is the only candidate in which the buffer is never observably unlocked. Revision 3 pins the transaction (framing §3.4): its own run_buffer_edit arm — not the bypass arm, which calls begin_edit, which calls ensure_writable first (src/buffer.rs:725) and would refuse every generated write to a locked buffer — one &mut Buffer method, eight named exits, relock and flag-clear unconditional, and history cleared iff the revision advanced.
  • Two stages, two PRs. Stage 1 — listview ownership fix plus its identity-routing fix in the same PR, dired and listview adopting the shipped primitive, the window-coordinate clamp, and the fold decision. Stage 2 — the new primitive, compile's nine write sites, the search panel's four, compile/search ownership + routing, the path-backed refusal plus mark_clean, the generated_lock provenance field, and the bounded unlock_generated.
  • Six facts from this lane that other lanes need before it merges:
    • bypass_intercept is the wrong inventory key. It misses *buffer-list*, *help* and *workers*, which are generated with plain writes and no intercept at all. docs/agent-handoff.md §4's four-row table inherits that blind spot — and undercounts by one: src/help.rs:354 replace_help_buffer is a fifth writer mechanism (own find-or-create, Buffer::apply_edit, own mark_clean) writing the same *help* buffer as default.lua:1239, which does not mark clean. Two owners, one buffer, two copies of the name constant across the FFI boundary.
    • COHERENCE.md §14's listview consumer list was wrong and is now FIXED — PR #189 (main @ 7586905) landed exactly the correction this lane measured. Nothing owed. Recorded so it is not re-asserted.
    • Three writers adopt any buffer sharing their name — listview.lua:95, compile.lua:263, default.lua:861-868 — against a rule the tree already states at terminal.lua:300-305 and implements at dired.lua:476-504. Measured: a foreign *references* is clobbered and left permanently un-editable, and a pmacs.compile.run that raises on validation still leaves a foreign *compilation* un-editable. Today M-x buffer.undo — this arc's bug — is the only recovery, so the arc must not lock these buffers before fixing ownership.
    • Disambiguating a name breaks the sites that read one. Census in framing §2.10: 19 units across 14 grep lines, two genuinely broken. listview.lua:44's panels[d.name] (written under the requested name at :97, read under the actual name) has four consumers, and the fourth — listview.open:118-123's never-capture-a-panel guard — fails inverted and silently, capturing a panel as its own q target. compile.lua:216's is_generated_buffer has two. compile.lua's slots is not affected: keyed by a module constant at both ends, with slot_for_buffer id-based.
    • read_only is one boolean serving THREE policies (framing §2.11): the generated lock; terminal identity (src/terminal/session.rs:305); and, as a reader, src/lua_bindings/fold.rs:313's "is this a document buffer" test, pinned by tests/folding_acceptance.rs:570. Consequence for any lane: locking a buffer silently disables pmacs.fold.fold on it, with the status fold rejected: not a document buffer.
    • The SHIPPED set_generated_contents can overwrite a live terminal identity buffer. It does self.read_only = false unconditionally (src/buffer.rs:546), so it lifts a lock it did not install, writes, and re-locks. Present on main, untested, unframed anywhere before this revision. Bounded in Stage 2 by the generated_lock field.
  • Overlap warning. Stage 2 touches src/lua_bindings/mod.rs's buffer mutator bindings and src/buffer.rs. Do not run it concurrently with the apply_resource_op lane or the bottom-panel 2B work without assigning those files to one lane first. The framing itself touches neither.
  • Cross-lane, settled, not re-decided here. #186 owns the urgent pre-filesystem refusal for synchronous apply_resource_op; #171 later owns full post-delete lifecycle reconciliation, including the async race where a buffer becomes modified after dired dispatch. #171's Q#DR25 is deferred INTO this lane — confirmed against #171 revision 7 (fd7ae37), which states that dired's listing becoming immutable is "owned by the generated-buffer-immutability lane" and that "Stage 2 does not implement it, does not gate on it, and carries no acceptance for it." This lane's Stage 1 claims that work. Neither ordering conflicts: #171 Stage 2b changes paint's callers, this lane changes paint itself. Revisions 1 and 2 of this framing never mentioned Q#DR25 at all; revision 3 §9b records it.
  • Re-measured at ad41cf1 while scouting: 276 CRDT-dark tests (3,251 vs 3,527), by cargo test --all-targets --no-default-features --features lua54[,crdt] -- --list | grep -c ': test$'. Recorded here because the section above asks for exactly that and warns against quoting a stale figure; it does not replace that section's per-target census, which was not re-derived.

dired Stage 2 framing lane — PR #171 OPEN, STALE, DO NOT MERGE AS-IS

  • Portable branch: githubsucks/dired-stage2-framing (head ab42a79, four framing commits); worktree ../pmacs-dired-stage1. PR #171, base main. Framing only — docs/dired-stage2-framing.md, 1,570 lines, no runtime code.

  • Measured 2026-07-28: 4 commits ahead of main, 153 behind, merge base c8ec8f3. GitHub reports it mergeable, and its old CI run is green — both facts are about a tree nobody has looked at in 153 commits, and the document still says PROPOSED.

  • The commit history embodies three review rounds. That is not the same as approval, and GitHub records no formal review or comment on it. Do not read the round count as a green light.

  • Its dependencies moved materially underneath it, which is the real reason not to merge. Note that dired Stage 1 (#165) and find-file (#162) are its base, not new arrivals — the merge base c8ec8f3 is #165's merge commit. Eighteen PRs landed after it, and at least three change ground the framing stands on:

    • #178 gave generated buffers a write invariant (Buffer::set_generated_contents). Dired's listing is a generated buffer, and dired is named in the handoff as one of the writer mechanisms that has not adopted it. Stage 2's marks and operations write that buffer constantly.
    • #182 (Journey Stage 1a) made resolve_target_buffer the single directory-open path, with dired demoted to a replaceable slot (pmacs.path.directory_handler) rather than a hook subscriber. Any Stage 2 claim about how a directory reaches dired is now describing a mechanism that no longer exists in that form.
    • #179/#181 landed the typed-edit consumer chain, which is the fan-out a rename transaction has to survive.

    Re-scout against 6bee09d, publish a new revision, and get explicit framing approval before any implementation. The re-scout is under way on the existing branch, so PR #171 keeps its three-round history; the product is a revision 5, not a new document. (main has since advanced to 0442d78, but the only difference is the test-only #174, so no re-scout conclusion turns on it.)

  • The rename problem the framing must still answer, restated because it is the hard part: a rename is a transaction across five path owners — the buffer path, the buffer name, the URI-keyed LSP stores plus DiagnosticView (whose URI is set once at construction), dired's pathless handles, and a captured Lua local that no transaction can reach.

  • Intended serial implementation once approved: 2a rename/delete reconciliation substrate with no dired UI, 2b marks and operations, 2c mkdir/copy/recursive-delete primitives, then Stage 3 wdired.

  • Ownership warning: dired 2a overlaps src/editor_core.rs, builtin/runtime/lsp.lua, and the URI-keyed LSP state with other coherence work. Do not run it concurrently with Journey Stage 1b without assigning those files to one lane first.

Parked lane: kill-ring browser + persistence

  • Portable branch: githubsucks/kill-ring-browser
  • Parked framing head: 503c489
  • State: framing only, revision 2; no implementation and no PR.
  • Status: explicitly parked by the user on 2026-07-20.
  • Its original scout was based on 0efb5cd. The preserved framing marks this ground truth stale and requires a complete re-scout against the then-current githubsucks/main before implementation.
  • Compile-mode has merged since the original scout, so old “compile-mode in flight” keybinding/touch-set assumptions are not authoritative.

Recovery worktree, only when the user un-parks it:

git worktree add --track \
  -b kill-ring-browser \
  ../pmacs-kill-ring-browser \
  githubsucks/kill-ring-browser

Documentation lane — STALE, AND ITS DISPOSITION IS UNDECIDED

Measured 2026-07-28, not inferred: githubsucks/handoff-2026-07-20 is at c11d7e7, 1 commit ahead of main and 320 behind. Its whole diff against main is four documentation files (docs/active-work.md, docs/agent-handoff.md, docs/roadmap-2026-07.md, docs/vterm-framing.md), every one of which has been rewritten repeatedly since by the landed-doc PRs #156/#168/#169/#172/#180. Rule 4 removes a lane on merge or abandonment, and this one looks abandoned in substance — but "looks abandoned" is not the same as a decision, and no PR was ever opened for it. This snapshot deliberately annotates rather than deletes: whoever confirms the branch carries nothing unique removes the section. The bullets below are its original claims, preserved as written and now unverified.

  • Portable branch: githubsucks/handoff-2026-07-20
  • Carries synchronized AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md, this ledger, the durable handoff refresh, and the keybinding reference correction.
  • It changes no runtime code.
  • Review and merge this documentation branch separately; it must not be folded into a feature framing branch.
  • Now also absorbs both landed arcs: Vterm Stage 1 (#126) and the config registry (#127). Canonical main is merged into it up to 2e37c04, so its diff against main is documentation only.

Closed since the last snapshot

  • Terminal configuration + copy mode arc — BOTH STAGES MERGED, lane removed. Stage 1 #173 (main @ cf54270, one review round) and Stage 2 #178 (main @ fe8b8ba, four review rounds, twelve checks green on head 1b44c69 — verified by head_sha, not by the check summary), both 2026-07-26, both with no protocol change. Approved framing: docs/terminal-config-and-copy-mode-framing.md rev 4, committed as the first commit of Stage 1's branch; its Q#TC6a carries a superseded-in-part box rather than a silent rewrite. Durable facts moved to docs/agent-handoff.md §1 (the arc bullet) and §4 (the set_generated_contents invariant) per rule 3 below, and to COHERENCE.md §14. Stage 2 ships eight of nine criteria and the missing one is named — criterion 17 needs a real GPU frontend, so it waits on the a37 footing; the handoff records what it must assert. Branches githubsucks/terminal-config and githubsucks/terminal-copy-mode with worktrees ../pmacs-terminal-config and ../pmacs-terminal-copy-mode are retained. The gate-run flake found while gating #178 moved to the CI crdt-coverage lane above, which owns its discrimination.

  • Dired Stage 1 (the directory view) — MERGED as #165 (main @ c8ec8f3, 2026-07-25, after one review round). pmacs has a directory surface: C-x d / C-x C-j, one read-only buffer per directory named *dired:<canonical path>*, a dired major mode carrying RET/f, ^, n/p, g, q, s. No wire change (v20). The Rust is two things — a per-entry-tolerant read_dir (Q#DR6), which had to be Rust because read_dir_blocking fails a whole listing on any of five per-entry conditions and a tolerant wrapper cannot be written in Lua at all, and normalize_buffer_path going pub as pmacs.path.canonicalize (Q#DR2's preferred end state, so no Lua mirror exists and Stage 2 owes no mirror removal). The frozen m8_1/m8_2/m8_3 counts are unchanged, which is the additivity gate. 15 claims bite-verified; one came back VACUOUS (acceptance 3c cannot pin descent routing — dired holds focus in its own panel, so dedication is the only discriminator) and is documented at the assertion rather than relabelled. Its branch (dired-stage1) and worktree (../pmacs-dired-stage1) are done; the abandoned dired branch (ffdd642, ../pmacs-dired-arc) was superseded by a fresh cut and carries nothing unmerged. Stage 2 (marks and operations) and Stage 3 (wdired) each still need their own framing, and the frozen fixture shrinks after Stage 3. Durable substrate facts and both new ops lessons live in docs/agent-handoff.md §§1/5; the implementation notes are docs/dired-framing.md §0, S1-1…S1-12. Two named forward items for Stage 2: apply_resource_op's rename rebind is exact-PathBuf-equality, first-match-only, looked up with the raw path while stored paths are normalized — so a directory rename strands every buffer under it, and pmacs.fs.rename has zero production callers, so it can be fixed at the primitive; and Q#DR5's seam is the main-thread drain AsyncRuntime::tick, not _take_result, where rename settles as an undifferentiated ReplyKind::FsUnit and so must be keyed on JobKind::FsRename.

  • GPU terminal input (the double terminal-layout sync) — MERGED as #166 (main @ b889873, 2026-07-25, one review round, all twelve checks green after a macOS PTY-timing rerun). The dispatcher applied both terminal-layout syncs to every attached frontend; a semantic session satisfies both conditions, so its PTY was resized twice per tick forever and the child took a SIGWINCH storm that made a GPU terminal untypable while output still flowed. sync_terminal_layout is now split into a frontend-kind-neutral half (panel reconcile + controller liveness) and a grid-only geometry half, with the loop body extracted to sync_terminal_layouts_for_tick so the exclusivity is structural. No protocol change (v20). Durable lessons are in docs/agent-handoff.md §5; the framing (docs/gpu-terminal-input-framing.md rev 2) carries three falsified hypotheses, the two-pre-image bite matrix, and two named out-of-scope items (Q#GT5 interactive-shell echo on a raw PTY, which reproduces in-process and so is not the GUI/TUI asymmetry; and a geometry change appearing to clear the visible screen, which reproduces pre-fix). Branch gpu-terminal-input and worktree ../pmacs-gui-term-input retained. Its landed-doc pair MERGED as #168 (main @ 1b6a084, 2026-07-26): #166 recorded as landed, the CI crdt-coverage gap measured (264 tests dark workspace-wide, 177 in the library — a reading taken at 1b6a084 and kept here only as history. The CI crdt-coverage lane above is the authority for the live figure; do not quote this one forward), the vterm audit corrected — "only 3 of 9 acceptances drive a real daemon" was optimistic; without the frontend binary the honest number is 2 — and the a37 findings folded into the coverage lane.

  • Inline-math slice — MERGED as #158 (main @ 5aa9044, 2026-07-25). Detect → parse → layout → draw for $…$, entirely inside pmacs-gpu, no protocol change. Verified by the user's manual pass on a real paper after the landing. What is worth carrying forward:

    • The v0 subset is 34 Greek symbols, sub/superscript, and \frac. An unsupported command fails the whole span back to source, so on a real document most inline spans still show LaTeX. Widening the symbol map is the highest-value next increment — ahead of display math, which is also deferred.
    • A stale frontend binary is invisible from the source tree. The slice lives only in pmacs-gpu, so after it merged the feature was absent until cargo build --release -p pmacs-gpu and a client restart; the daemon needs neither. Diagnose with strings on the binary (Latin Modern Math, MathBox) rather than by re-reading the checkout, which was already current.
    • Main was integrated three times in one day (8c86d34, 46a1b8f, b889873), merged not rebased to preserve review anchors. Two conflicts, both this ledger and nothing else. The dangerous case was the one that did NOT conflict: #166 auto-merged into pmacs-gpu/src/main.rs, the file this lane rewrites, because the two edits sat in different regions of it. Decide whether to integrate from the shared-file set, never from whether git complained.
    • Integration was proved by test-count reconciliation, not by a green run: predict what the other side adds, then check the deltas. GPU 199→202 matched e547a90's 3; later lib 1,826→1,829 and CRDT 2,003→2,006 matched #166's 3, with GPU unchanged because #166 adds none. Suites 91→92 was #161's new binary.
    • Why the branch had no CI for a day: a conflicting PR builds no merge ref, so no pull_request run is created. The ledger previously recorded this cause as unidentified; it is not. Check mergeable and confirm a run exists for the current head SHA.
    • m4_5_basedpyright has no timeout and hangs forever, parking a --workspace sweep (observed 2h26m at 38 of 92 suites). It is intermittent, so an earlier clean sweep proves nothing. Sweep with cargo test --workspace --no-fail-fast -- --skip basedpyright and judge progress by whether the suite count advances.
    • Named v0 approximations: the peer-caret half of acceptance 14 is pinned at the mapping level, not pixels; a soft-wrapped spacer draws its box whole at the first run's origin; the fit budget reads the bundled code face even under a custom set_font family.

  • Bottom panel Stage 1 — MERGED as #155 (main @ e745068, 2026-07-24, after two review rounds). Window placement, window parameters, TUI side windows, the divider, and the adopter display opt-in, with no protocol change. Both rounds found the same class of defect and are worth keeping:

    • Round 1: the Q#BP6 side-window split guard had no production caller — C-x 2 still reached plain split_active — and survived because the acceptance test called the core method directly.
    • Round 2: Q#BP7's terminal growth re-arm had never been implemented, and the assertion meant to pin it (at_bottom) is a geometric readout that a still-anchored view satisfies; the anchor assertions beside it compared "" with "" because the PTY fixture emitted LF-only output.
    • Post-round-2 self-review, caught by CI going red on all four Test jobs: resolving pmacs.window.buffer()'s no-argument arm through the acting frontend made a total function partial, and six runtime modules silently dropped operations (kill_ring_acceptance 30/30 → 25/5). Fixed in 9110f9f before merge.
    • Gating fact found on the way: the workspace sweep must run with an isolated XDG_CONFIG_HOME, because the real user init.lua installs a local package and the losing race leaks a status message into painted-frame comparisons. There is also a latent pre-existing main bug in the buffer CRDT undo path, unrelated to this arc.
    • compile_mode_acceptance is load-sensitive under default parallelism (~1 run in 3, a different test each time); verified pre-existing by swapping in main's compile.lua. It is 67/67 at --test-threads=1.

  • GPU initial target — MERGED as #148 (main @ 0dd16a5, 2026-07-24, after two review rounds). pmacs --gpu [--socket …] FILE opens a target before the GPU window appears. Protocol bumped 19 → 20: a semantic-session SessionBootstrapRequest after AttachRequest, plus an appended InstanceMessage::InitialTargetResult pre-window readiness barrier; v6–v19 wire encodings are unchanged. Root owns launcher tilde/cwd resolution and exact raw-byte path transport; the daemon resolves/dedups/loads the target and runs load/switch hooks inside one dispatcher transaction, then publishes CRDT-upgraded targets to existing grid replicas (gated on upgraded_to_crdt, independent of the load/create outcome, so a dedup onto a hidden not-yet-backed buffer still reaches pre-attached replicas — round 2 finding). Semantic replicas receive a publication only when displaying that buffer, so a second target launch cannot switch an existing GPU window. Round 2 also closed a failure-containment gap: every dispatcher-side bootstrap failure now shuts down the socket (a dropped write-half clone does not close a shared FD), and the dispatcher drops any event from a session that was never installed, rather than reaching absent render/size state. Integrated cleanly with Folding Stage 2 (#149): fold projection at attach is selected from the same negotiated semantic_render bit the target bootstrap uses. Its lane, worktree (../pmacs-gpu-initial-target), and branch (gpu-initial-target) are done; the -framing branch is kept. Durable substrate facts and both review-round lessons live in docs/agent-handoff.md §§1/5 and docs/gpu-initial-target-framing.md rev 3.

  • Folding Stage 2 (grid/daemon collapse) — MERGED as #149 (main @ 6ed4fe9, 2026-07-24, after five review rounds). The grid TUI now renders collapses. Spine (Q#FD12): src/fold_view.rs's VisibleLineMap, derived from the fold store plus a window's line offsets and never stored, threaded as Option<&'a VisibleLineMap> on a lifetime-bearing Viewport<'a> that stays Copy. No wire schema or protocol change; the GPU path is Stage 3. 48 acceptance tests on the real paint_frame grid, every behavioral claim bite-verified. Durable design points, each a trap Stage 3 inherits:

    • the map's unit is a merged hidden component (overlapping or adjacent intervals unioned, keeping the earliest visible head), not a fold — folds may cross, and a later fold's own head can be hidden;
    • instances are per rendered window and per command/event operation, never per frame; a command's map follows the operation's target window, since a wheel event names a pane without activating it;
    • fold projection is per-frontend (FrontendView.fold_projection) — shared EditorCore motion would otherwise make a simultaneous unfolded GPU session's cursor skip lines it still displays;
    • a hidden cursor normalizes by position, not row, and set_view_top clamps in the setter rather than being repaired at render time;
    • the interactive-Lua unfold keys on the post-intercept edit site — a managed buffer intercept may legally relocate the op.

    Process notes worth keeping: main moved under the arc, and the merge was textually clean but not semantically clean (#146 added Viewport literals the new folds field invalidated) — a clean git merge-tree does not mean the merged tree compiles. CI was red at review on the macOS/luajit outline_5_level_100_entry_renders_within_100ms budget flake and went green on rerun.

  • Documentation ledger refresh — MERGED as #147 (main @ 0a479ae, 2026-07-24). The #142 housekeeping, expanded after review found the ledger stale through four merges rather than one. Its own macOS/luajit red was the vterm VTERM_ALT_READY PTY timeout; green on rerun.

  • Web grammars HTML + CSS — MERGED as #146 (main @ 47581f4, 2026-07-23). .html/.htm/.xhtml and .css highlight off the official tree-sitter-html 0.23 / tree-sitter-css 0.25 crate query constants (no in-repo overlay), and HTML's INJECTIONS_QUERY lights up <script> → js and <style> → css. Durable lesson recorded in docs/web-grammars-html-css-framing.md: the highlight.rs capture table is global, so adding a capture name retro-paints every other language — check the reverse direction and pin it.

  • LaTeX Stage 1 — MERGED as #144, with its parent inline-math framing committed as #145 (main @ f09b0a1, 2026-07-23). .tex/.latex/.sty/.cls highlight via codebook-tree-sitter-latex 0.6 plus the first in-repo query overlay (builtin/queries/latex/highlights.scm, include_str!) — the reusable pattern for grammars whose crate ships no usable queries. The crates.io tree-sitter-latex is provably broken (no scanner.c). The math parser and Tiers 3–4 are deferred to the inline-math arc.

  • Folding Stage 1 (headless fold engine) — MERGED as #142 (main @ c49a8c7, 2026-07-23, after three review rounds; round 3 clean). The instance-side fold store + translating/dropping View, the structural source (derived head line, closer-aware tail), the Lua data API + interactive C-c @ commands, the command-path pre-edit unfold, and authoritative-empty FoldState production landed with no protocol bump. The folding branch and worktree (../pmacs-folding) are retained but carry nothing unmerged; the folding-framing.md framing is preserved. CI red at merge was an unrelated environmental perf flake (outline_5_level_100_entry_renders_within_100ms, macOS/luajit only), green on rerun. Stage 2 has since merged as #149 (above); durable substrate seams live in docs/agent-handoff.md §1.

  • Vterm Stage 3 (protocol v19 + GPU terminal) — MERGED as #135 (main @ cac4961, 2026-07-22, after two review rounds). Arc 5's terminal stage is complete (compile mode #113, Stage 1 #126, Stage 2 #130, Stage 3 #135). Its lane, worktree (../pmacs-vterm-gpu), and branch are done; durable substrate facts live in docs/agent-handoff.md and docs/vterm-framing.md.

  • Branches deleted 2026-07-22 (authorized): vterm-stage3-framing (Revision 8 framing; its content is carried on vterm-gpu, verified as a superset before deletion — the branch was NOT an ancestor of vterm-gpu because the framing was copied rather than merged, so it needed a forced local delete) and tab-width-parity (a clean ancestor of main via #137). Both removed as worktree + local ref + githubsucks ref; the origin tracking refs were pruned. The -framing branches for each are deliberately kept.

  • Tab-width rendering parity — MERGED as #137 (main @ 2625ec7, 2026-07-22). One fixed 8-column TAB_STOP_COLUMNS in pmacs-protocol now drives core/TUI columns, GPU code projection, and minimap width; source bytes and protocol ranges are unchanged. Its lane, worktree, and tab-width-parity branch (local + githubsucks) are deleted; the tab-width-parity-framing branch is kept. This closes the long-standing "tab width is a rendering-parity bug, NOT a config gap" deferral recorded in docs/agent-handoff.md §5.

  • Locals-query processing — MERGED as #134 (with handoff #136), and modeline detection handoff #133. Both landed between this lane's base and its canonical-main integration.

  • Config registry — MERGED as #127 (main @ 2e37c04). Its lane (config-registry, worktree ../pmacs-config-registry) is done; the branch is kept but carries nothing unmerged. Durable substrate facts moved to docs/agent-handoff.md §1 per rule 3 below.

  • Both this and Vterm Stage 1 ran as concurrent lanes in sibling worktrees off main, with the shared files (src/editor.rs, src/lua_bindings/mod.rs, src/lib.rs) assigned to one lane each in advance. The rebase of the second lane onto the first had zero conflicts — worth repeating for future parallel work, along with its precondition: agree the file split before either lane starts, and keep each lane's footprint in the other's files to a single line.

Update protocol

Whenever a listed lane changes materially:

  1. update its public branch and head/state here;
  2. record new verification and remove superseded caveats;
  3. keep durable architecture in docs/agent-handoff.md, not here;
  4. remove the lane after merge or abandonment;
  5. verify every recovery command from a clean worktree before calling the transfer complete.