P1 --- the workflow contradicted this lane's own claim. `components:
rust-analyzer` rode the shared `dtolnay/rust-toolchain` step, which
matrixes over ubuntu AND macos, so the binary would have been present
on both. PRESENCE, not PMACS_REQUIRE_LSP, is what decides whether a
gated test body runs --- the unset variables on macOS only meant
absence would be tolerated there, not that the tests stay skipped. Two
rust-analyzer tests would therefore have executed on macOS for the
first time ever, on the legs that are simultaneously the CI critical
path and the documented flake surface, one of them doing real indexing,
none of it covered by the Linux-only local runs behind this lane. Moved
into the Linux-gated step so the text and the workflow agree.
P2 --- the ledger promised a base and pasted nothing. Worse than the
review knew: a script was run to substitute it, reported success,
matched no text, and the result was never re-read. The claim shipped on
the strength of a tool's exit status. The entry now carries the pasted
base and a recovery command, and records the lesson in the terms this
ledger keeps relearning --- asserting a measurement is not making one,
and a tool reporting success is not the measurement either.
P3 --- tool versions pinned (gopls v0.16.2,
vscode-langservers-extracted 4.10.0, yaml-language-server 1.15.0), so
CI no longer drifts with upstream publishes and a break has a commit
here to bisect against. `tests/support/` now states why it exists
beside `tests/common/`: the latter re-exports daemon and PTY
machinery, and pulling that into three binaries that spawn neither to
reach a six-line environment check is the wrong trade. Recorded as a
cost, with the rule that a third such directory means consolidating
rather than continuing.
Also recorded, because §1.2 is NOT fully closed by this lane: the
guards arm the ENTRY skip only, and m4_acceptance's mid-test
"workspace likely still indexing; skipping" survives --- so even armed,
that test's one assertion can still vanish under load, which is exactly
when a regression would show. Mid-test skips want their own pass. And
the follow-up this lane creates: removing the documentation lane
removes the only pointer to githubsucks/handoff-2026-07-20, so that
branch needs deleting after merge or nothing will ever mention it
again.
P4 --- the consolidated lua skip message names PMACS_TEST_LUAJIT again;
the `or_else(locate_shell("luajit"))` path still honours it and the
escape hatch had become undiscoverable. Double blank line before the
parked lane collapsed.
One gate note worth carrying rather than burying. A `PMACS_REQUIRE_GPU=1
cargo test -p pmacs-gpu` run failed once during this round, naming the
`--bin pmacs-gpu` target, and my gate chain still printed a clean
summary because `cmd | tail -2` in an `&&` chain returns TAIL's exit
status, not cargo's. Four subsequent runs pass 202/202 and the failure
has not reproduced, so it is recorded as observed-and-unreproduced
rather than explained. The masking is the durable part: a gate summary
assembled through a pipe can report success over a failure.
Gates re-run after the fix: fmt; clippy -D warnings; --lib 1863; --lib
--features crdt 2048; m4_acceptance 121; m6_5 11; m6_8 8; required GPU
202 (x4); git diff --check clean.
Levi Neuwirth
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