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fix(bin): speed up status scans on Bash 3.2 - #77

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/fleet on the local API returns nothing. It shells out to bin/fm-fleet-snapshot.sh, the server allows a subprocess 10 seconds (bin/fm-api-server.mjs:348), and on my home that snapshot takes 41.3s under bash 3.2. It can never finish in time. /blocked fails the same way and returns a 500, because that handler has no try around it the way /rigs does directly below it.

Upstream hit this and fixed it in kunchenguid#3273, merged 29 Aug as 5f310975. They measured their own equivalent producer at 387 seconds. This fork is 96 commits behind upstream and 54 ahead, and a full merge conflicts in 59 files across the supervision core, where the two trees have genuinely different designs. So I took just this fix rather than merging.

That commit is tangled up with bin/fm-home-summary-refresh.sh, which this fork does not carry, so cherry-picking it does not work. I applied only the fm-classify-lib.sh hunk by hand. Upstream had one occurrence of the slow pattern; this fork has two, so both are converted.

This does not fix /fleet. The snapshot drops to 34.9s, still well past the 10s budget, so the endpoint keeps timing out and /blocked keeps returning 500. I am stating that here so nobody reads this PR later and assumes those endpoints are healthy.

The rest of the cost is elsewhere in the fold path. Tracing one snapshot shows roughly 80,000 shell operations, with _fm_key_raw_head and _fm_key_raw_before each running about a thousand times. _fm_key_raw_head does its own [![:space:]] trim at line 228, the same expensive pattern this PR removes from the folds. That is new work rather than a cherry-pick, so it is out of scope here.

What Changed

  • Replace per-line whitespace substitution in decision and activity status folds with case-based blank-line checks.
  • Preserve empty and whitespace-only line handling while avoiding Bash 3.2's slow global bracket-class substitution.

Risk Assessment

✅ Low: Captain, this explicit containment is narrow, preserves the folds’ whitespace behavior, and uses a pattern already present in sibling paths.

Testing

Four focused automated scripts passed, base-versus-target checks preserved decision and activity output, the Bash 3.2 guard benchmark reproduced the performance improvement, the real wake-drain command produced the expected operator-facing decision, evidence was saved, and the worktree remained clean.

Evidence: Blank-line guard behavior, timing, and wake-drain transcript

Source: Blank-line guard behavior, timing, and wake-drain transcript

Bash runtime
GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (arm64-apple-darwin26)

Decision fold output with whitespace-only lines
base: api-shape	needs-decision	pick REST or RPC
target: api-shape	needs-decision	pick REST or RPC
identical: yes

Activity fold output with whitespace-only lines
base: deploy	working	waiting for the canary
target: deploy	working	waiting for the canary
identical: yes

Exact guard timing over 20,000 ordinary status lines
base: global bracket-class substitution
real 5.30
user 5.19
sys 0.06
target: case glob
real 0.12
user 0.11
sys 0.00

End-to-end wake drain output from target commit
OPEN DECISIONS (still open, folded from the durable status logs - not just the latest line):
demo [key=api-shape] needs-decision: pick REST or RPC
OPEN DECISIONS: close one by answering it: bin/fm-send.sh <task> --resolve-key <key> '<answer>'

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Updates from git push no-mistakes

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  • bin/fm-test-run.sh tests/fm-classify-decision-key.test.sh
  • bin/fm-test-run.sh tests/fm-wake-drain-open-decisions.test.sh
  • bin/fm-test-run.sh tests/fm-wake-drain-open-decisions-cursor.test.sh
  • bin/fm-test-run.sh tests/fm-decision-hold-lifecycle.test.sh
  • Loaded base and target fm-classify-lib.sh revisions with /bin/bash -c &#39;eval &#34;$(git show &#34;$1:bin/fm-classify-lib.sh&#34;)&#34;; status_open_decisions &#34;$2&#34;&#39; and compared observable output over whitespace-only lines.
  • Loaded base and target revisions and compared status_open_activities output over whitespace-only lines.
  • Timed 20,000 executions of the old global substitution and new case glob with /usr/bin/time -p /bin/bash -c &#39;&lt;guard loop&gt;&#39; under Bash 3.2.
  • FM_STATE_OVERRIDE=/Users/evanagee/.no-mistakes/evidence/01M1CTY214HVFBJJHTW9WW2MAZ/wake-drain-state-final bin/fm-wake-drain.sh
  • test -s /Users/evanagee/.no-mistakes/evidence/01M1CTY214HVFBJJHTW9WW2MAZ/blank-line-guard-evidence.txt && git status --short
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✅ **Push** - passed

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Reliability

    • Improved synchronization around background wake and queue processing, helping interruption handling behave more predictably.
    • Strengthened recovery evidence when watcher cleanup cannot complete successfully.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for interruption timing and cleanup-publication failures.
    • Added more reliable checks for background processing reaching expected checkpoints.

Both decision folds used ${line//[[:space:]]/} purely to ask whether a
status line holds any non-space character. Under bash 3.2, which is what
/bin/bash is on macOS, that global bracket-class substitution costs tens
of milliseconds per line, and both folds run it on every line of every
task's status log.

A case glob answers the same question in one pattern match.

Measured on a real home with 19 tasks, under bash 3.2:

  bin/fm-fleet-snapshot.sh --json   41.3s -> 34.9s

Output is unchanged: same JSON keys, same 19 tasks.

This is upstream's fix from kunchenguid#3273, applied by hand
because that commit is entangled with fm-home-summary-refresh.sh, which
this fork does not carry. Upstream had one occurrence; this fork has two,
so both are converted.

Not a complete fix for the snapshot's cost. 34.9s is still well over the
API server's 10s budget, so /fleet continues to time out. The remaining
cost sits elsewhere, notably _fm_key_raw_head's own [![:space:]] trim.

Tests: fm-classify-decision-key (17), fm-wake-drain-open-decisions (9),
fm-wake-drain-open-decisions-cursor (7), fm-decision-hold-lifecycle (20).
53 assertions, 0 failures.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HWvXMV5mHjsQDvMpB1x9NE
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The changes optimize blank-line checks and improve test synchronization. Wake-drain tests now use an explicit readiness marker. Watcher cleanup tests now exercise a real marker-publication failure.

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Shell and test reliability

Layer / File(s) Summary
Whitespace guard updates
bin/fm-classify-lib.sh
Two functions use shell case matching to detect non-whitespace lines without creating stripped copies.
Wake-drain interruption readiness
bin/fm-wake-drain.sh, tests/fm-wake-queue.test.sh
The drain writes a readiness marker before its test delay. The interruption test waits for this marker and uses an expanded polling limit.
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tests/fm-watch-arm.test.sh
The test rejects cleanup marker publication through a fake mv, ends the watcher through a status wake, and verifies retained recovery evidence.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a6a32

The PR preserves classifier output while improving Bash 3.2 scan performance. It is mergeable with explicit owner awareness because one watcher test can mask an unexpected non-zero process exit, potentially allowing a regression in test coverage to go unnoticed.

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wait_for_exit "$first_arm" 120
status=$?
[ "$status" -ne 124 ] || fail "marker-failure fixture watcher did not exit after its wake"

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the expected watcher exit status.

wait_for_exit returns the watcher status when the process exits. This check rejects only timeout status 124. An unexpected non-zero watcher exit can be ignored, and later filesystem assertions can still make the test pass. Assert the expected status, or the exact intentional non-zero status for this fixture.

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In `@tests/fm-watch-arm.test.sh` around lines 495 - 497, Update the wait_for_exit
assertion for first_arm in the marker-failure fixture to validate the watcher’s
expected exit status, rather than rejecting only timeout status 124. Preserve
the timeout failure message and allow only the exact intentional non-zero status
if this fixture is expected to exit unsuccessfully.

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…ct map, and handover

Seed docs/specs/upstream-rebase.md from the fork's main, because the spec did not
exist on c/main, then add the sections this ticket calls for:

- A conflict map assigning all 138 conflicting files from `git merge-tree
  --write-tree c/main origin/main` to the C1 to C8 ticket that owns each one,
  with the six cross-cutting files that fit no ticket and the per-ticket totals.
- A running-the-suite section with the exact runner and CI-lane commands and the
  observed baseline from a full `bin/fm-test-run.sh --all` on this Mac: 219
  scripts, 18 failures, 28 gate skips, 4h07m under a machine load near 40, with
  every failure re-run alone and classified as root defect, missing tool,
  this-machine environment, or load.
- The trial-home handover: the exact remote, checkout, state-archive, and
  session-start steps firstmate runs at /Users/evanagee/Sites/firstmate-trial.
- The outcome of the four rideable fixes: #71, #90, and the calm half of #86
  ported; #77 dropped because the root already carries it.

Refs #77
Refs #71
Refs #90
Refs #86
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