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Merges upstream kunchenguid/firstmate@main into this fork's main (merge commit, no rebase, no force-push), bringing the fork from 212 commits behind / 4 ahead to fully current with upstream while preserving all four fork-only changes.

Upstream range merged: 69d660ad (merge base) .. e31bc6e6 (upstream/main tip), 212 commits. Includes the Pi watcher continuity fix, the seeded-secondmate-home Pi trust prompt fix, and contribution-observation/teardown hardening that this fleet hit this week.

Conflicts and resolutions (6 files)

  1. AGENTS.md — merge-authority paragraph on red-PR waivers. Took upstream's wording (points to fm-pr-merge.sh's header as single owner, per this repo's own single-owner-rule) since it describes the superseded mechanism below.

  2. bin/fm-pr-merge.sh — fork's github_read_required_checks (GraphQL rollup isRequired) vs upstream's github_read_required_contexts (branch protection + rulesets REST, with check-producer app-id binding and --allow-missing for unreported required checks). Took upstream's implementation wholesale. It is a strict superset: it still narrows judged checks to exactly what the base branch requires (the fork's original goal, so advisory-tier checks that fail on purpose don't block merge), and additionally treats a required check that never reported as blocking (a gap the fork's version had) with producer-identity verification the fork's version lacked. Confirmed only one fork commit (1e8058e0) had ever touched this file since the merge base, so nothing fork-specific was lost.

  3. tests/fm-pr-merge.test.sh — took upstream's version wholesale to match fix(bin): judge only the checks a pull request's base branch requires #2; it already covers required-check narrowing, missing-check refusal, and waivers comprehensively (150+ "required" references) with no leftover references to the superseded fork symbols.

  4. bin/fm-spawn.sh (two hunks) — additive, not competing. Fork added pi_model_validate (exact-catalog-match guard against Pi's fuzzy --model resolver routing to an uncredentialed provider) and its call site; upstream added pi_supports_approve (seeded-secondmate-home Pi trust-prompt bypass) and the worker-account-pin block. Kept both functions and both call sites.

  5. tests/fm-spawn-dispatch-profile.test.sh — the fake Pi probe's --help/--list-models branches needed to report both the upstream --approve/--tui-mode version gating and the fork's model catalog for pi_model_validate. Merged both into one case statement.

  6. bin/fm-test-run.sh (two hunks) — a test-family classification list and a portable-serial duration-hint table. Additive: inserted the fork's fm-pi-model-guard.test.sh entry alongside upstream's newly added harness test files (durations are documented as balance hints only, so a conservative estimate for the fork's test is fine).

  7. docs/architecture.md (two hunks, same underlying topics as fix(bin): judge only the checks a pull request's base branch requires #2 and the pool-root feature) — for the merge-guard paragraph, took upstream's wording for the same supersession reason as fix(bin): judge only the checks a pull request's base branch requires #2. For the Treehouse pool-root paragraph, upstream has not solved that problem (no mention of private pool roots anywhere in its text), so kept the fork's pool-root-aware locking description while folding in upstream's independent wording improvements to the adjacent sentence about reassigned-slot claims.

Status of the four fork-only changes

Commit Change Status
cfcd0115 (#1) secondmate homes get their own Treehouse pool root Kept as-is. Upstream has no equivalent; fm_treehouse_home_pool_root, its use in fm-spawn.sh/fm-teardown.sh, and tests/fm-treehouse-home-pool-root.test.sh all merged cleanly with no conflicts.
d2d718f2 (#3) pin a Treehouse that supports --root/TREEHOUSE_ROOT Kept as-is. bin/fm-install-treehouse.sh had zero upstream commits touching it; merged with no conflicts.
1e8058e0 (#2) judge only the checks a PR's base branch requires Superseded by upstream 8d2ee291 ("refuse merges with unreported required checks") and its surrounding required-context work. Upstream's github_read_required_contexts does everything the fork's github_read_required_checks did (narrow judged checks to the base branch's declared required set) plus handles unreported required checks and verifies check-producer identity, which the fork's version did not. See resolution #2 above.
1e346580 (#4) refuse Pi worker launches whose --model lacks an exact credentialed match Kept as-is. pi_model_validate and its test file merged additively alongside upstream's unrelated Pi-launch additions (pi_supports_approve, worker-account pin); no functional overlap.

Tests

Ran the colocated tests for all four fork changes plus the test suites for every file touched by conflict resolution:

  • tests/fm-pi-model-guard.test.sh — 8/8 passed
  • tests/fm-treehouse-home-pool-root.test.sh — 11/11 passed
  • tests/fm-spawn-dispatch-profile.test.sh — all passed (covers fm-spawn.sh's conflict-resolved regions: pi_model_validate, pi_supports_approve, worker-account pin)
  • tests/fm-test-run.test.sh — all passed (covers fm-test-run.sh's conflict-resolved family/duration tables)
  • tests/fm-worker-account-live-e2e.test.sh — passed (claude, pi checked; pi-signed sub-check honestly skipped, binary not installed on this host)
  • tests/fm-pr-merge.test.sh — 1 failure: github-zero-exit-queue-required: refusal did not name the concrete observed state. Confirmed pre-existing on upstream/main alone (reproduced in a separate worktree checked out directly to upstream/main, same failure, not introduced by this merge or its conflict resolution).

No regressions introduced by this merge; the one failing test fails identically on plain upstream/main before this PR's changes.

Scope

No feature or fix beyond the merge itself. Not merging this PR; the configured merge authority decides. Nothing pushed to upstream.

CI follow-up (addressed per firstmate review)

Two real CI failures surfaced on the first push, both investigated per gh run view --log-failed:

  1. Behavior portable serial 1 — tests/fm-watch-triage.test.sh failed at could not acknowledge the intentional re-arm 6 stop, a timing-sensitive real-process polling assertion in a watcher-continuity test area neither the fork's four commits nor any conflict-resolved file touches (confirmed via git log on the merge base: the fork only ever touched bin/fm-wake-lib.sh, which merged with zero conflicts). A local run of the same file passed that exact subtest but hit a different, unrelated local-environment assertion later in the file, consistent with CI-runner timing flakiness rather than a merge regression. Re-running the same commit's CI reproduced this theory: both serial 1 and serial 6 passed clean on re-run with no code change in that area.

  2. Behavior portable serial 6 — tests/fm-worker-account.test.sh, "an unpinned Pi spawn with an unqualified model should succeed", a genuine interaction bug between two independently-developed features: the fork's pi_model_validate (commit 1e346580) ran against the ambient Pi root before the upstream worker-account pin (0afc6b4d) resolved which root a pinned launch actually uses, so a pinned launch's model got judged against a catalog the pinned launch never reads from. Fixed in d510203f: pi_model_validate now runs only for the unpinned path; fm_worker_account_check's own sign-in/--list-models check already proves the model against the correct pinned root. Updated the two unpinned-Pi-spawn fixtures in the test file to give their ambient root a matching catalog entry (the shape pi_model_validate itself reads), replacing reliance on an unrelated fixture that happened to return no rows.

A subsequent run also hit Behavior portable serial 2 getting cancelled mid-run, then wedged on a re-run before completing clean on a third attempt — consistent with transient GitHub-hosted-runner/install-step flakiness, not a code issue.

Every check except the expected PR must be raised via no-mistakes (this is a direct-PR task per its intake, not a no-mistakes one) is now green.

tiago-peixoto and others added 30 commits September 16, 2026 23:25
…n decisions aren't lost (kunchenguid#3753)

* test: reproduce buried status declarations in shared readers

* fix: share status event reads and preserve open blockers

* fix: retain terminal scout and ship status declarations

* no-mistakes(review): Fix status chronology, legacy completions, and reader performance

* no-mistakes(review): Share terminal decision reconciliation across fleet snapshots

* no-mistakes(review): Unify terminal supersession across cached folds and consumers

* no-mistakes(review): Filter per-key status history while preserving terminal chronology

* no-mistakes(test): Preserve parent lock ownership in Bash 3.2 subshells

* no-mistakes(review): Anchor legacy status tokens so prose cannot hide pauses

* no-mistakes(document): Document latest-event status read and kind-scoped fold cursor

* no-mistakes(lint): Quote literal done in test for-lists for SC1010

* ci: expect 19 snapshot/fleet-view tests

This branch adds a fleet-snapshot regression, so the stock macOS Bash
lane's hardcoded guard of 18 'ok - ' lines fails on the new count.
Bump the guard and its message to 19.

* no-mistakes(review): Restore multiline child outcome reporting

* no-mistakes(review): Select ledger terminal events through bounded shared reader

* no-mistakes(review): Report newest open decision instead of preferring blocked

* no-mistakes(review): Require colon before ship/scout terminal supersession in fold

* no-mistakes(review): Gate socket-down override on latest event; drop lock matrix

* no-mistakes(review): Fold only colon-bearing or keyed lines as decision transitions

* no-mistakes(review): Pre-select candidate lines before per-key closing-verb fold

* no-mistakes(test): Update fleet-view expectations to newest-open-decision rule

* no-mistakes(document): Align status-read docs with fold-resolved crew state

* no-mistakes(document): Correct status-reader contracts in classify-lib and crew-state headers

* no-mistakes(ci): Greptile P1 (bin/fm-crew-state.sh:729, "Stale socket blocker survives") was a real defect introduced by commit b7c2183 on this branch, and is fixed. Root cause: the daemon-socket-down override took its verb check from `last_status_line "$LOG"` but its evidence and emitted detail from `$LOG_LINE` (status_current_line = the fold's newest still-open decision). Those are different lines whenever a later recognized `blocked:` event is one the decision fold declines. Reproduced by sourcing bin/fm-classify-lib.sh on `blocked: no-mistakes daemon socket is missing` followed by `blocked [key=pending-reply-t3]: still waiting on the answer` (reserved-namespace key whose note does not speak that vocabulary, so _fm_decision_key_transition_allowed rejects it): open set still holds the socket blocker, last_status_line returns the newer line, its verb is blocked, so the gate passed and the stale daemon-down evidence overrode a healthy attributed run. Fix (bin/fm-crew-state.sh): capture LOG_LATEST=$(last_status_line "$LOG") once and read verb, socket-down evidence, and the emitted note all off that same line, so the override fires only while the socket-down declaration is itself the log's latest recognized event — preserving the narrow override the prior round's user instruction asked for. Comment updated to state that contract. No new machinery; the two-line conflation was removed rather than papered over. Regression: extended tests/fm-crew-state.test.sh:test_socket_refusal_override_expires_when_the_crew_moves_on with the reproduced sequence, asserting the run-step reading (state: working, source: run-step) and absence of the override detail. It fails before the fix ("not ok - a later unfolded blocked event also hands the reading back to the run (missing: 'state: working')") and passes after. Verified locally: tests/fm-crew-state.test.sh, tests/fm-fleet-snapshot-view.test.sh, tests/fm-classify-decision-key.test.sh, tests/fm-watch-triage.test.sh, tests/fm-captain-hold-lifecycle.test.sh all pass; bin/fm-lint.sh (shellcheck 0.11.0 + actionlint) exits 0. Changes left uncommitted in the worktree

* test: fold terminal-cleanup snapshot coverage into the completed-scout case

Keep the ship/scout/secondmate supersession assertions without adding a
nineteenth top-level fleet-view test, so CI can stay at the upstream suite count.

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify socket-down override expiry in architecture doc

* ci: retrigger flaky contribution check
…nchenguid#4689)

* fix(spawn): launch codex crewmates with codex's hook layer disabled

A freshly launched Codex worker never reached its instructions. Codex
stopped it on an interactive "Hooks need review" modal whose selection
sits on "Review hooks", which is neither trusting nor declining.
Firstmate's key plane carries only Enter, Escape and Ctrl-C with no arrow
navigation, so the selection cannot be moved, and pre-accepting the
prompt by writing Codex's own trust store would record an operator
consent that was never given.

The hooks are the machine's own ~/.codex/hooks.json plus any project's
.codex/hooks.json. A crewmate needs neither: its turn-end signal is the
-c notify= program on the same launch, and Firstmate's project hooks are
primary-session infrastructure that stands down in a child worktree.

Crewmate and scout launches now pass --disable hooks. That is the
opposite of --dangerously-bypass-hook-trust, which RUNS the untrusted
hooks; disabling the feature runs none of them and leaves the operator's
~/.codex untouched. An unknown feature name is a hard Codex error, so a
release that drops the flag fails the launch loudly instead of silently
restoring the modal. A secondmate is a primary in its own home and keeps
the project hooks its turn-end guard and session-start digest ride on.

Verified on codex-cli 0.151.0: the modal is gone and the turn-end
notification still lands.

This unblocks the second review that every finished pull request is supposed to get.

Fixes kunchenguid#4673

* no-mistakes(review): Fix contradictory hook count in Codex verification record
…d#4669, Fixes kunchenguid#4670) (kunchenguid#4710)

* fix(bin): settle terminal contributions and wake once per read-failure episode

A contribution whose last good observation is merged or closed is final:
poll no longer re-reads it, projection keeps it fresh, and a stale error
recorded beside it is cleared once. A genuine forge-read failure on an open
contribution still records its error on every cycle but prints the
unavailable wake only when it starts a failure episode; a successful read
ends the episode. Open PRs linked from done tasks keep being observed.

The false unavailable beside a complete observation was budget exhaustion
mid-observation, already fixed by kunchenguid#4661.

* fix(review): Settle terminal contribution owners

* fix(review): Deduplicate shared contribution failure episodes

* fix(test): Preserve settled terminal contribution records
* fix(crew-state): select authoritative validation runs by identity

Use the AXI run overview and id-addressed status reads to preserve replacement review gates, report competing live runs as unknown, and retain newer failures. Keep the coarse ledger in creation order rather than preferring an older live row.

Refs: kunchenguid#3215

* fix(review): Resolve same-branch run identities beyond capped history

* fix(review): Fix run-selection compatibility, races, and worker-state fallbacks

* fix(review): Limit run validation to the requested branch

* fix(test): Anchor AXI fixtures and document remaining live evidence gaps

* fix(document): Clarify run selection documentation and capture ownership

* fix(lint): Fix ShellCheck diagnostics while preserving fixture isolation
* fix(AGENTS): send a captain-facing outcome instead of shipshape for finished requested work

MAIN answered a supervision-branch outcome for completed captain-requested
work (implementation done, PR ready for review and merge approval) with
"Captain, shipshape.", reading section 9's no-action reply as covering it
and reading the Pi protocol's "do not re-emit the anchor verbatim" as "no
captain-facing response is owed".

Section 9 now limits the shipshape reply to true no-ops (idle re-read,
empty heartbeat, consequence-free acknowledgement) and requires a short
outcome response naming what finished and what word is needed whenever
requested work finishes or a result needs the captain's word, even when a
transcript entry already shows the substance. The Pi protocol's re-emit
rule now says it bounds repetition only, and carries a worked example of
the ready-for-review outcome whose correct processing turn a shipshape
reply fails.

No executable contract evaluates the content of MAIN's captain-facing
reply, so the regression is the protocol example in the owner doc rather
than a text-match test.

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify captain-facing outcomes versus no-ops

* docs(pi): restore the ready-for-review regression example as a preserved-verbatim contract line

The document step condensed the Pi protocol's re-emit rule and dropped the
worked example of a finished, ready-for-review outcome whose correct
processing turn a "Captain, shipshape." reply fails. That example is the
contract's regression: no executable contract evaluates the content of
MAIN's captain-facing reply, so the owner doc's example is the test case.

Restore it directly under the re-emit rule, prefixed as a regression
example that is kept verbatim and never condensed or summarized away.

* no-mistakes(review): Clarify captain outcome and decision-word requirements

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify captain-facing completion outcomes

* docs(pi): require the PR URL in the visible captain-facing outcome reply

Captain review on the regression example: drop the sample reply string
and say only that the ready-for-review outcome requires relaying a
captain-facing outcome response, not just "Captain, shipshape.".

Fold in the visible-PR-handoff failure seen this session: after the
branch outcome reporting this fix green, MAIN's visible reply was only
"Awaiting your merge call." with no PR URL, leaning on the dim anchor.
Section 9's URL rule now also covers a review or merge ask and names the
visible reply as where the URL goes, sourced from the ready status, pr=
metadata, or the supervision branch's summary and never left to a
transcript entry. The Pi protocol adds the same-way failure and places
the captain-facing text in the final visible assistant reply after the
fm_branch_processed call, because Calm hides assistant text emitted in
the same step as a tool call as a working note.

Investigation verdict, evidence in the PR comment: no recent PR caused
the handoff failure; Pi has hidden same-step pre-tool assistant text
since kunchenguid#2339 (2026-08-13), kunchenguid#4655 changed only the Claude Code mod, and
kunchenguid#4658 touched only remote report transfer.

* no-mistakes(review): Restore safe outcome ordering and consolidate PR URLs

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify captain-facing supervision outcomes

* docs(AGENTS): keep the whenever-a-PR-is-mentioned trigger on the consolidated URL rule

The consolidated section 9 URL rule narrowed its trigger to a review or
merge ask, dropping the "whenever a PR is mentioned" catch-all from
kunchenguid#3648 that keeps every PR URL copied from a durable record and never
assembled from memory. Restore that trigger as a union with the review
or merge ask so the one consolidated rule covers both.
* Fix foreign-owner turn-end supervision loop

* no-mistakes(review): Scope foreign-owner safe exit to Claude guard

* no-mistakes(document): Document Claude foreign-owner safe exit
…orb (kunchenguid#4778)

Under set -u, stock macOS bash 3.2.57 treats "${arr[@]}" on an empty
indexed array as an unbound variable and aborts the shell. In
signal_turnend_panes_churned() the missing_keys loop was reachable with
an empty array whenever every churned key already held a fresh
.churn-since-* marker (a second churning turn-end inside an open
deferral window), so each watcher cycle died about half a minute in and
supervision restarted endlessly. The created_keys rollback loops had the
same latent crash on their error paths.

Audit of bin/ for the same pattern found one more confirmed-reachable
case: remote_handoff's noncanonical-body scan iterates to_move, which is
empty when a retried remote handoff finds every key already staged in
the outbox. All other "${arr[@]}" sites are either count-guarded,
guaranteed non-empty by construction, or unreachable while empty.

Guard the three reachable expansions with the repo's existing
"${arr[@]+...}" idiom. New regression test drives a real watcher
through the all-marked churn path; the macos-stock-bash CI lane runs it
under real /bin/bash 3.2 via FM_TEST_ONLY.
… lock. (kunchenguid#4783)

The synthetic harness was named synthetic-claude, which Linux procps truncates to synthetic-claud so fm-lock.sh never matched a harness or wrote state/.lock before the test read it.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* docs: require complete final responses across harnesses

* no-mistakes(document): Document complete final replies for Grok Bot

* docs: point Grok replies to the shared contract owner

* no-mistakes(review): Clarify final recap without batching decision asks
* fix(calm): preserve substantive Pi mid-turn text

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve substantive Pi Calm text per block

* no-mistakes(test): Cover shared Calm preservation boundaries behaviorally

* no-mistakes(document): Consolidate Calm preservation documentation
)

* Improve CI reliability and rebalance full-coverage validation

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify lint partition documentation
…guid#4799)

* Handle Kimi workspace trust dialog

* no-mistakes(review): Retry Kimi trust Enter and gate ready on dialog markers

* no-mistakes(review): Gate Kimi ready on any trust marker and clean captures

* no-mistakes(review): Read visible pane for Kimi trust and ready gates

* no-mistakes(review): Add per-backend visible-pane capture for Kimi trust gate

* no-mistakes(review): Harden Kimi viewport capture and trust dialog detection

* no-mistakes(document): Document Kimi spawn refusal on cmux and Orca
…er (kunchenguid#4775)

* fix(bin): report a record whose agent is gone once instead of escalating forever

The wedge escalation path never asked whether there was still an agent to be
wedged. A wedge is something stuck that might recover, so re-alarming it earns
its cost; an agent that is gone never moves again, its pane never churns, the
idle timer never resets, and the escalate path clears its own timer and re-arms
with nothing bounding the count.

Observed on a live fleet: two finished lanes reached 226 and 203 consecutive
escalations, roughly one every FM_STALE_ESCALATE_SECS, indefinitely - about 400
notifications a day from two lanes with no agent running at all. On one,
fm-control.sh exit answered already-stopped and fm-crew-state.sh read
"failed - run failed". Closing the Herdr pane did not stop it either: with the
pane genuinely gone and herdr pane read returning pane_not_found, the count kept
climbing, because the poll is driven by the record's window= line rather than by
the pane. The cost is not the repetition but that it drowns the alarms that
matter.

fm_backend_agent_state already separates a thinking agent from a gone one at
process level. In the branch that was about to escalate, read it once and treat
only its two recovery-grade verdicts - dead (endpoint present, no agent in it)
and missing (endpoint authoritatively absent) - as proof, reporting that record
once and not re-escalating it while it stays that way. Every other verdict,
including alive, ambiguous, unreadable, unverified, and a read that failed
outright, keeps the identical schedule, reason, and escalation count, so a
genuinely wedged live agent is unaffected. The probe costs at most one backend
read per window per threshold, the same budget the declared-wait consult and the
worktree write probe already take.

The report decides nothing about the record's fate: both lanes still held
unlanded work and teardown refusing them was correct, so retiring, relaunching,
or cleaning up stays with the supervisor. The once-only marker is owned entirely
by that function and is dropped by the same read the moment the endpoint stops
reading gone, so a replacement launched into the same window escalates normally
and its own later death is reported again.

Related, and not closed by this: kunchenguid#4412, kunchenguid#4482, kunchenguid#4316.

Tests drive the real watcher against a record whose endpoint does not exist and
pin both directions: dead and missing report once and never advance the count
across later thresholds, while alive, ambiguous, and unreadable endpoints keep
escalating with the identical reason and a climbing count.

* fix(bin): bind the once-only dead report to the pane it reported

Review of the parent commit found a reachable sequence where a later death in
the same window lost its promised report. The marker was keyed on the verdict
string alone and dropped only when a threshold probe read a non-gone verdict,
but probes run only at thresholds: a replacement launched into the same window
that dies without ever being probed alive - it crashes at startup, or works and
then crashes - was absorbed by the previous death's marker. The pane's first
sight yielded only the generic stale wake and every later threshold matched the
stale marker, so the second death never got the detailed once-report that both
the function's own comment and docs/architecture.md promise.

Record the verdict together with the pane hash it was reported for, and absorb a
repeat only while both still match. A replacement churns the pane, which resets
the stale suppressor, wedge timer, and escalation count while no reset site
touches this marker, so the pane half is what tells the second death apart from
the first. The live-probe drop stays as it was.

Clearing the marker at those reset sites instead would re-open unbounded
re-alarming for a dead pane whose display ever ticks, which is the exact defect
the parent commit exists to close.

The noise bound is unchanged: an unchanged dead pane still absorbs on every
later threshold and never advances the escalation count, and every verdict short
of proof still escalates exactly as before.

* no-mistakes(review): Key the dead-record once-marker on the busy incarnation token

* no-mistakes(document): Document dead-record escalation cap in stale-pane config entry

* no-mistakes(document): Add busy-state inventory line to AGENTS.md

* no-mistakes(document): Document dead-record probe on busy-turn-bound wedge path
…id#4854)

Captain holds have no due semantics and are a hold kind, not a Beads issue
type. The create path now waives due.required and maps to native type task.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* feat(bin): launch every spawned agent with the compact adviser disabled

Every crewmate, scout, and secondmate Firstmate launches now starts with
COMPACT_ADVISER_DISABLE=1, on a fresh spawn and on a relaunch alike, so an
unattended session never activates the compact adviser.
The value is unconditional: no configuration file gates it and there is no
override, unlike the trace carrier beside it.

Three carriers deliver it, because no single one covers every launch shape.
The pane shell receives an export beside GOTMPDIR, so the agent's own children
inherit it too.
The launch command carries an explicit assignment, prepended outermost so it
wins over any ambient value the pane already held.
The cleared launch environment sets it again at the `env -i` boundary and keeps
COMPACT_ADVISER_DISABLE in the fixed operational floor, which is what preserves
the switch when config/launch-env-allowlist empties the environment, and what
delivers it on a remote host that never had the value.

bin/fm-control.sh relaunch, the bootstrap secondmate relaunch, and the remote
secondmate transport all rebuild their launch through bin/fm-spawn.sh, so they
inherit the same floor.
The captain's own primary session is untouched.

The two new suites drive the real spawn and then execute the launch command the
pane actually received, with the harness replaced by a probe that prints its own
environment, rather than matching script text.
They cover ship and secondmate launches with the allowlist absent and enabled,
the pane export and its ordering, fm-control.sh relaunch, and the full parent to
remote-host chain.

* no-mistakes(review): Export compact-adviser disable across compound launches

* no-mistakes(document): Document spawned-agent compact-adviser environment guarantee
…henguid#4894)

* fix(bin): let a background Claude session keep owning its session lock

Session-lock ownership was decided by process ancestry alone. Under an
unattended Claude session the model loop runs in a transient bg-spare
bridged to the front-end by a shared daemon; when that bridge is
recycled the contiguous claude-named ancestry from a hook to the
recorded owner breaks while the owner pid stays alive, so the Stop
auto-arm stood down as a foreign live owner, the turn-end guard ended
every turn with its read-only diagnostic, and fm-lock.sh refused - a
self-sustaining outage until restart.

Ownership is now ancestry membership OR a trusted same-session id,
never id-first:

- fm-session-lock-lib.sh accepts CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ID only when
  CLAUDE_PID is a Claude-shaped member of the current contiguous run,
  compares it against the id recorded in state/.lock-session, and
  requires the recorded pid to still be a live harness. No id, no
  sidecar, an untrusted id, a different id, or a dead recorded pid
  leaves the ancestry verdict unchanged. Ids are never read from ps
  argv.
- fm-lock.sh accepts a same-session holder at both refusal sites,
  writes, refreshes, and clears the sidecar only under its claim lock
  (including the early already-mine exit, skipped only while the
  deferred startup sweep leases that lock), keeps it byte-identical
  across a same-session confirmation, records CLAUDE_PID on lock line 1
  for a session with a trusted id so a shared daemon or front-end that
  outlives the session never keeps a dead session's lock alive, never
  rewrites a live line 1 on a same-session confirmation, and names the
  recorded id in the live-owner refusal.
- The .lock line-1 format is unchanged, so every reader that takes the
  whole first line as the pid keeps working; the guard's foreign-owner
  exit is unchanged and inherits the fix through the shared predicate.

Tests: the ancestry suite drives the ancestry and id signals apart in a
deterministic process table (asserting the divergence) and runs a real
orphaned front-end/daemon/pty-host/spare tree through six phases with
the real lock, auto-arm, and guard scripts; the foreign-owner repro
keeps its negative control and adds a same-id positive control.

Disclosure: no live unattended Claude background session ran on the
verifying machine. The topology is documented by the real process
listings in kunchenguid#3902, kunchenguid#2314, kunchenguid#3398, and kunchenguid#4066; coverage is the structural
predicate plus the executable fixtures, not a live pass.

Residual: bin/fm-sessionstart-nudge.sh keeps its own private ancestry
walk (it only decides whether to print a nudge) and may nudge on a
resume in the recycled case.

Out of scope, deliberately: no structured lock format, no guard budget
changes, no daemon-identity rejection, no fork lineage.

* no-mistakes(review): Wait for claim lock; revert failed sidecars

* no-mistakes(review): Revalidate ownership after wait; restore sidecars

* no-mistakes(review): Roll back sidecar by publication phase

* no-mistakes(review): Restore sidecar only if lock line is unchanged

* no-mistakes(review): Trust session ids without a spelling allowlist

* no-mistakes(review): Disarm sidecar rollback before backup cleanup

* no-mistakes(document): Updated session-lock ownership documentation
* feat: park main under the away posture on Pi

While the away-posture record exists on a Pi primary, the supervision branch
takes every actionable wake, no processing turn opens on main, captain rows
accumulate for the return brief, and main's standing authority relocates to
the branch through the existing guarded scripts.

- lib/fm-branch-dispatch.ts: read the record at every routing decision; while
  it exists claim check, decision-owned, and heartbeat rows too, keeping the
  two broken-queue vetoes; expose checkSeqs so a claimed check row lifts task
  scoping.
- fm-primary-pi-watch.ts: offer every actionable row under the record; a
  declined wake and every watcher-failure alarm still reach main.
- fm-branch-supervision.ts: drop the legacy .afk decline; append a fixed
  POSTURE: AWAY tail carrying the record's read-back verbatim per wake; open no
  processing request while the record exists, re-checked immediately before a
  request would open and at every run boundary; present the accumulated rows
  at the first run boundary after archive.
- fm-lease-lib.sh: fm_lease_forbid_branch passes the branch for opted-in
  actions only while fm-afk-contract.sh validate succeeds on a confirmed live
  record; PR merge, fresh spawn, and decision answer opt in, local landing
  never does.
- fm-send.sh: a --resolve-key naming an open needs-decision or captain-held
  task is a decision answer and meets the partition; blocked: keys stay
  steering.
- fm-spawn.sh: enforce the record's spend cap for a fresh ordinary spawn by
  either actor; relaunches and secondmates exempt.
- fm-branch-prompt.sh: fixed Postures section and the verbatim
  ask-user-authority policy; the prefix stays byte-stable.
- fm-afk-return.sh: count what the away session handled from the store.
- docs, afk skill, AGENTS.md stub: main parked on Pi, green merge gate
  absolute while away.
- tests: watcher and branch extension suites, fleet-record, merge, and
  decision-answer suites cover the relocation, the vetoes, the tail, the
  parked processing turn, the cancellation, the re-presentation, and the
  spend cap; dated live-guard evidence recorded.

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse branch merge after preflight archive race

* no-mistakes(review): Fix away wake, spawn, and processing races

* no-mistakes(review): Suppress parked processing; narrow away-only rejection

* no-mistakes(review): Abort dedicated processing; gate branch spawn once

* no-mistakes(review): Stamp away-only on the dispatch offer

* no-mistakes(review): Treat invalid away records as spend-cap absence

* no-mistakes(review): Drop spawn test hook; abort processing-opened runs

* no-mistakes(review): Bind abort to opening prompt; cap-read absence

* no-mistakes(review): Limit away branch spawn to queued work only

* no-mistakes(document): Correct AFK posture documentation
* ci: simplify CI job timeouts to a three-tier policy

Replace the scattered per-job timeout values (10m parallel, 25m lint, 30m
serial, 10m macOS) with three readable tiers, each a hang tripwire with
headroom rather than a packing estimate:

- fast (5m): coverage guard, repo invariants, timing aggregate
- normal (30m, one shared budget): lint partitions, portable parallel
  shards, portable serial shards, macOS stock Bash
- heavy (Herdr only): 20m step tripwire on the family run so always()
  cleanup still runs, under a 75m job-level last-resort backstop

The workflow's header comment states the policy and points at
docs/fm-test-portable-shards.md "Timeouts", which now owns it, and each
job names its tier beside timeout-minutes. tests/fm-ci-workflow.test.sh
asserts the policy against the parsed workflow instead of the old
per-job minute values: every job joins exactly one tier, exactly three
distinct job-level values exist, the fast tier stays within 5-10
minutes, the normal budget stays at least double the modeled parallel
lane sum reported by fm-test-run.sh --check-coverage, and the Herdr step
tripwire stays below its job backstop with an always() cleanup after it.

Concurrency supersession, shard counts, lane membership, and fail-fast
settings are unchanged.

* no-mistakes(review): Decouple the normal timeout from packing estimates

* no-mistakes(review): Assert Herdr teardown follows the family run

* no-mistakes(review): Pin Herdr family-run timeout to 20 minutes

* no-mistakes(review): Ignore comments when identifying Herdr steps

* no-mistakes(review): Identify Herdr steps by declarative ids

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify authoritative three-tier timeout policy
…nchenguid#4895)

* fix(bin): keep supervisor status closes from waking the same home

A drain that already folded OPEN DECISIONS has presented those bytes even
when the watcher has no matching seen marker. Treat that fold, and the
presentation cursor, as known so the bookkeeping close stays quiet while
later worker lines still signal.

* no-mistakes(review): Keep folded worker failures waking past supervisor closes

* no-mistakes(review): Wake on unlisted folded worker lines; batch multi-key closes

* no-mistakes(review): Stop folded worker resolved lines from counting as already read

* no-mistakes(document): Correct self-announced close marker contract in docs
* Stop steering operators away from Herdr

* no-mistakes(review): Neutralize remaining Herdr opt-out documentation wording
…enguid#4973)

* fix(bin): treat a live no-mistakes run as current after rebase

A running run on the task's branch is authoritative regardless of head.
Matching only the local head made a rebased in-flight run look failed.

* no-mistakes(review): restrict coarse live-any-head to foreign-branch answers

* no-mistakes(review): reject gate-parked runs from the executing predicate

* no-mistakes(review): hoist gate-marker patterns into single run-lib owner

* no-mistakes(review): require live daemon for head-free run binding

* no-mistakes(review): require answered daemon-down before unbinding live runs

* no-mistakes(review): extend daemon guard to anchored continuation routes

* no-mistakes(review): delete live-any-head; restore dead-daemon verdict

* no-mistakes(review): keep parked gates parked; name dead daemon everywhere

* no-mistakes(review): set dead-daemon verdict instead of emitting early

* no-mistakes(review): align selected route with legacy dead-daemon handling

* no-mistakes(review): drop unproven-record binds; narrow coarse gate reading

* no-mistakes(review): narrow header, drop vestigial guard, retarget tests

* no-mistakes(review): revert coarse gate override; require answered-down probe

* no-mistakes(review): cache one daemon probe; stop duplicating run id

* no-mistakes(review): restrict coarse dead-daemon verdict to moved-off rows

* no-mistakes(review): delete coarse dead-daemon extension and gate note

* no-mistakes(review): delete remaining coarse dead-daemon block and stale docs

* no-mistakes(document): document rebase-safe live-run bind and unverified-record verdict
…4994)

* fix(bin): stage the launch command in a private file and type a short source line

A long launch line typed while the fresh pane shell is still busy waits in the
terminal's canonical line buffer, which drops input past about 1,024 bytes on
macOS, so the pane was left at an unfinished command with no agent running.
fm-spawn now writes the assembled command to the task's own temp root under
umask 077 and types only a short line that sources it.

Refs kunchenguid#4559

* fix(bin): keep the per-task temp root private before staging the launch command

The root lives at a predictable path under /tmp and now holds the whole launch
command. Create it with mode 0700, refuse one that already exists as anything but
a directory owned by this user that nobody else can write, and tighten an owned
one, so no other local user can plant or swap the staged file.

Refs kunchenguid#4559

* fix(bin): enforce private staged launch file mode

* test(spawn): cover long staged Claude launches

* no-mistakes(review): Namespace launch files and prove truncation staging

* no-mistakes(review): Use immutable per-spawn launch filenames

* no-mistakes(document): Document staged launch delivery safeguards

* no-mistakes(ci): Updated eight behavior tests/fakes to execute or inspect immutable staged launch files instead of expecting inline launch commands. This restores Muse, secondmate lifecycle/restart, remote trace/parent binding, compact-adviser, and Orca coverage. All affected tests, dispatch-profile regression, fixture tests, syntax checks, ShellCheck, and git diff checks pass

---------

Co-authored-by: Vytautas Stankus <svycka@gmail.com>
* Add isolated Herdr runbook to test instructions

* no-mistakes(review): Drop substring matching from test.instructions contract

* no-mistakes(review): Assert commands.test key absence in YAML

* Drop unit-first sentence and instructions contract test

Captain-scoped follow-up on the Herdr-lab test.instructions ship:
keep the lab safety runbook only, and leave the no-mistakes contract
test focused on commands.test absence.
…uid#4873) (kunchenguid#5001)

* docs(vision): accept vendor-semantics and 9k contract-ceiling amendments (kunchenguid#4873)

Replace the pixels-of-today's-UI rule with a quarantined, version-pinned
surface-adapter exception recorded as standing debt. Cap the always-loaded
contract at 9,000 words and require prune-or-trigger before a crossing change
lands.

Co-authored-by: Kun Chen <kunchenguid@users.noreply.github.com>

* docs(vision): restore accepted three-sentence vendor-semantics form (kunchenguid#4873)

Replace the compressed paraphrase with the issue's accepted wording:
a named quarantined version-pinned adapter, expected to break, recorded
as standing debt that never hardens into a shared contract.

Co-authored-by: Kun Chen <kunchenguid@users.noreply.github.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Cursor Agent <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Co-authored-by: Kun Chen <kunchenguid@users.noreply.github.com>
…or-owed gate (kunchenguid#4974)

* fix(watch): recheck a gate awaiting a human instead of wedge-escalating it

A lane whose validation run is parked at a gate waiting on a human
decision is correctly quiet, but nothing in its status line says so: the
evidence is the pipeline's own gate state rather than anything the worker
wrote. The wedge timer read that silence as a suspected wedge and climbed
the escalation ladder for as long as the wait lasted, and each escalation
cost a supervising turn. The landed declared-wait consult does not reach
it, because a live ordinary crewmate never reports a declared pause, and
raising FM_STALE_ESCALATE_SECS would delay genuine wedge detection for
every lane by the same amount.

The threshold now reads a second, independent record when the status line
accounts for nothing: whether the crew's current state is a gate whose
answer is owed by a human. That is minted only from the gate's own
findings table, by a row whose `action` column is exactly `ask-user`,
located by position out of the table header the way nm_gate_step_row
already reads its row - never searched for over the run payload, where a
finding's free-text description or a branch name satisfies a search just
as well. A gate awaiting the CREWMATE's own answer keeps the unchanged
escalation schedule, reason and demand-deep-inspection wording, because a
crewmate that goes quiet before answering its own gate is exactly the
wedge the ladder exists to catch.

Each kind of wait now carries the human it is on, the action that clears
it, and whether that human is the captain as data alongside the verdict,
rather than as wording chosen per branch where the recheck is written, so
the deferral cannot word one kind of wait as another and a new kind
cannot ship without deciding all of them. A parked gate has no written
record of when its wait began, so its recheck publishes no wait age at
all rather than one read from the quiet window this deferral resets on
every pass, which would report the same small number for a gate of any
age. Like every other captain-facing recheck here it is absorbed in
silence while the away-posture record exists, arming no throttle, so the
recheck is owed in full the moment the record is archived.

The consult runs only in the at-threshold branch that was about to
escalate, beside the worktree walk already there, and only for lanes
whose status line explained nothing.

Closes kunchenguid#3055

* no-mistakes(review): require an unanswered decision before deferring a parked gate

* no-mistakes(review): reset the away-silenced timer, fail-safe findings parse, US-joined wait records

* test(watch): pass the pane hash wedge_timer_check now takes

Upstream gave wedge_timer_check a sixth <pane-hash> argument for its
dead-record probe. The malformed-wait-record rounds drive the real function
directly, so they pass one, and stub fm_backend_agent_state to a live agent so
the probe that runs after a refused deferral keeps the unchanged ladder rather
than reading a backend the child shell has none of.

* no-mistakes(review): Bind parked-gate wait to its run, owe it firstmate

* no-mistakes(document): correct wait-kind count, crew-state reader scope, gate-key coupling

* feat(watch): make the parked-gate wait deferral opt-in

The wedge timer deferring a lane parked at a validation gate is new
supervision behaviour rather than a restored one, and it decides which
lanes give up the escalation ladder, so it now ships as a default-off
per-home option instead of changing every home on upgrade.

config/wedge-defer-parked-gate arms it. The flag is read before the
decision fold, so an unconfigured home spends no fold or current-state
read, writes no record, and keeps the unchanged escalation schedule,
reasons and demand-deep-inspection wording; a test counts the reader
calls in both directions to pin that.

It is not inherited by secondmate homes: each home supervises its own
crew and owns that trade separately, the same reason
config/turnend-churn-absorb is home-local.

The away-posture absorb returns to leaving the idle timer alone, which
it had restarted only because the costly consult could reach it. A
parked-gate wait is owed to the supervisor rather than the captain, so
it never enters that branch, and the recheck owed on return is again
owed in full the moment the record is archived.

* test(watch): pin that the away-silenced hold leaves the idle timer alone

The absorb no longer restarts the timer, so the recheck owed on return is
owed in full rather than a cadence into the return. Nothing asserted
that, so a restart could be reintroduced silently.

* no-mistakes(review): document away-silence rationale, pin captured gate component

* no-mistakes(test): anchor gate row scan to the braced findings header

* no-mistakes(document): pin same-block gate row invariant in crew-state comment
…uid#5007)

* fix(control): let the owning seat reclaim a task whose endpoint is gone

A destroyed pane or workspace made `missing` a terminal state. Relaunch
accepted only `dead` and said to stop the agent first; exit refused
`missing` and said to reconcile the task first; there is no reconcile
verb. Each command named the other as its prerequisite, so a task whose
terminal went away could not be reclaimed by anything, and a no-mistakes
approval it was parked on had no seat left to answer it.

`missing` is agent-free a fortiori: there is no endpoint, so there is no
agent in it. Widen the existing guards rather than add a verb.

- fm-spawn --relaunch accepts a positively proven `missing` and creates
  one fresh endpoint in the recorded worktree; the record it already
  republishes rebinds the task to it. A `dead` endpoint is still adopted
  in place.
- fm-control exit reports `endpoint-gone` instead of dying, so the
  relaunch transaction's stop step no longer dead-ends, and re-resolves
  the endpoint from the record before verifying the replacement.

The duplicate-agent refusal is untouched: both verdicts come from the
same recovery-grade classifier, which claims `missing` only from positive
absence, so `alive`, `ambiguous`, and `unreadable` all still refuse. The
backends' own create paths refuse a live same-labeled endpoint as a
second independent guard. The worktree, its branch, commits, uncommitted
changes, armed poll and registration, record rows, and status log are all
untouched - a reclaim is a recovery, never a teardown.

A secondmate is excluded: its gone-endpoint recovery already has one
owner in the session-start liveness sweep, so relaunch refuses and names
it rather than becoming a second path to the same outcome.

Tests reproduce both halves of the deadlock, the reclaim succeeding,
unlanded work surviving it, and the refusals that still hold.

* no-mistakes(review): prove endpoint absence per backend before reclaim rebinds

* no-mistakes(review): give exit and relaunch one absence proof; pin herdr rebind session

* no-mistakes(review): narrow endpoint reclaim to herdr; tmux refuses honestly

* no-mistakes(review): stop refusals and docs asserting unestablished causes

* no-mistakes(review): stop herdr fixture helper losing tmp-root registration

* no-mistakes(review): document workspace drift and absence-probe server residue

* no-mistakes(review): correct rebind limitation to its one reachable case

* no-mistakes(review): stop claiming reclaim leaves instructions untouched

* no-mistakes(document): scope fm-control-lib purity claim, note reclaim coverage

* no-mistakes(rebase): read the staged launch file in the herdr fixture

Rebasing onto main picked up kunchenguid#4994, which stages a long worker launch
command into a script and delivers the short `. '<path>'` line instead of
the literal command. The tmux fake and tests/fixtures.sh were updated for
that; the herdr fake this branch adds was written before it and still
keyed "an agent now exists on this pane" off the literal
`encode launch-brief` text, so after the rebase it never marked the
rebound pane live and the reclaim's alive-wait read `dead`.

Dereference the staged file first, exactly as the tmux fake above does.
Test-fixture only; no production path changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* no-mistakes(document): note reclaim placement in herdr and scripts inventories

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…3764)

* test(status): reproduce missing event emission time

* wip(status): preserve optional event emission time

* test(status): document indirect clock stub invocation

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve historical status bytes during reply recovery

* no-mistakes(test): Fix timestamped status assertions and remote fixture dependencies

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve captain regex overrides for timestamped status events

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify status event timing and publication contracts

* no-mistakes(lint): Quote literal done to satisfy ShellCheck

* no-mistakes(ci): Captain, updated .github/workflows/ci.yml to expect 19 snapshot tests instead of 18, matching the PR’s added regression. Reproduced the failure before the fix. Stock Bash 3.2.57 verification passed: parse sweep, 19 snapshot tests, 53 Bearings tests, and the public-followup regression. Workflow lint and diff checks passed

* no-mistakes(test): Preserve terminal notifications with malformed timestamp tags

* no-mistakes(test): Stamp Rovo spawn failures with emission time

* no-mistakes(document): Verify status event documentation

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix ShellCheck quoting in status emission-time tests

* no-mistakes(ci): Captain, fixed four lifecycle assertions to accept emission timestamps while preserving publication and retry checks. Reproduced the CI failure before the fix. The lifecycle suite now passes with six Beads capability skips; syntax, targeted ShellCheck, and diff checks passed

* no-mistakes(ci): Captain, fixed malformed timestamp colons hiding actionable events using shared normalization. Original bytes and unknown ages are preserved. Regression reproduced before the fix; classifier and remote-reply suites, targeted lint, syntax, and diff checks passed

* no-mistakes(review): Stamp remote escalations at call sites, drop new flag

* no-mistakes(review): Accept stamped escalation and close lines in test assertions

* no-mistakes(review): Restore reserved-key answered-note guard for stamped closes

* test(status): accept optional emission time in PR-provenance assertions

The kunchenguid#4148 provenance test landed on main with exact unstamped greps.
Parent-channel lines from this branch carry [at=<epoch>], so strip only
that tag before the same exact match. No production change.

* no-mistakes(review): Accept stamped ready signal in PR fallback scrape

* no-mistakes(review): Drop relay flag, stamp parent events at call sites

* no-mistakes(review): Stamp worker terminal-signal instructions, revert fm-on fixture

* no-mistakes(review): Accept optional stamp in live cmux drift guard

* no-mistakes(review): Restore original test invocation order in two suites

* no-mistakes(review): Strip only well-formed numeric status time tags

* no-mistakes(document): Drop stale unstamped PR-ready line spelling from channel doc

* no-mistakes(review): Stamp agy spawn-failure status lines with event time

* fix(bin): normalize status event times in-shell and freeze the budget test clock

Two paths made a status event's emission time cost more than it should.

The captain-relevance fallback piped every line through awk to drop a
well-formed `[at=<epoch>]` tag before matching, so a supervisor sweep paid a
fork per line just to prepare a regex match. Shell parameter expansion does the
same strip with no fork, and the retry-dedup scan now reuses that one helper
instead of carrying a second copy of the rule in awk. The copies had already
drifted: the shell side stripped tags from lines with no colon, which the awk
rule left whole, so a colonless line could be mistaken for one already
recorded. One definition, checked against the awk rule it replaces over the
edge cases and a 4000-line fuzz.

tests/fm-contributions.test.sh froze its fixture clock only in exhaust mode. In
hang mode the poll set DEADLINE to the real now plus a one-second budget, and
when the second ticked before the first forge call the loop broke without ever
calling gh: forge/calls was never written and the assertion failed reading a
missing file. Freezing the clock in both modes removes the dependence on wall
time; the bounded call is still cut by the real timeout, so the observation the
test asserts still starts.

Emission time stays optional on new status records, and legacy or malformed
lines keep an unknown age.

* no-mistakes(review): Stamp ask-user escalation line and fix Kimi status assertion

* no-mistakes(document): Drop stale unstamped done-line spelling from watcher docs

* test: fold emission-time snapshot coverage into the fixture case

Drop the incidental ci.yml 18-to-19 count hunk so the PR no longer
touches workflows. Keep every emission-time assertion by folding it
into test_fixture_snapshot_json.

* no-mistakes(review): replace brief date substitution with epoch placeholder; drop emitted_at_epoch

* no-mistakes(review): align untimed normalizer with epoch parser; tolerate placeholder stamp in PR scrape

* no-mistakes(review): strip undelimited at-tags; correct brief stamp header

* no-mistakes(review): normalize stamps at both captain-regex sites; restore mtime freshness

* no-mistakes(review): strip colon-bearing stamps for relevance; fix headers and test oracles

* no-mistakes(review): narrow escalation match to stamp tolerance; pin note verb

* no-mistakes(review): read note and key past colon-bearing stamps

* test(status): keep inactive reconcile assertions stamp-tolerant

These two oracles were made stamp-tolerant while resolving one of the
branch's merges from main. The rebase drops merge commits, so that
adaptation was lost and both assertions went back to matching an exact
substring that a stamped line no longer contains: the tag lands before
the colon, so "failed [key=k]: ..." is now "failed [key=k] [at=N]: ...".
Strip a well-formed tag before matching, as the branch's other oracles do.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* no-mistakes(review): unstamp fold colon tests; reserve stamp width in cap

* no-mistakes(document): correct stale unstamped status-line spellings in docs

* no-mistakes(document): quote brief-test literals for lint; correct stamp-helper contract comments

* no-mistakes(ci): rename subshell-local epoch in delivery-race stub

The serialization test overrides fm_pending_reply_mark_delivered inside a
(..) subshell. Its `epoch` local collided with the same name in
status_line_at_epoch/status_stamp_line, which this branch added and this
suite now calls at top level, so ShellCheck 0.11.0 reported SC2030 and
failed Lint 2. The stub already prefixes its other locals with `pending_`
for the same reason; `epoch` was the leftover.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: ship clean Lavish host fixes

* no-mistakes(review): Fix Lavish classifications and fail-closed host loading

* no-mistakes(review): Restore Lavish host state across retries and launches

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve destination Lavish host when configuration is absent

* no-mistakes(document): Document Lavish status and host guarantees
…#5076)

* feat(afk): make the captain's away words the whole mandate

Retire the clause fields, verb list, never-set scan, refused records, and
the per-task merge-grant list from the away-posture record. The record is
now version 2: the captain's words verbatim plus expected return, spend
cap, and reach line; a version 1 record still validates, reads, and
archives so a live away window is never broken by the upgrade.

The supervision branch reads the words at the tail of every wake and acts
on them by its own judgment through the guarded scripts under standing
authority, never by analogy, holding for the return on doubt, and opens
each such outcome summary with "per your away instructions:" so the
return brief can render the words beside the session's account. While the
record exists any green merge runs under away authority (ledger tag
"away"); red merges, --allow-red, asynchronous and queued merges, and
local-only landing stay refused. The branch may file a backlog item the
words explicitly call for before dispatching it under the spend cap.

Tests drive fm-afk-contract.sh, fm-afk-launch.sh, fm-afk-return.sh, and
fm-pr-merge.sh as commands: version 2 written, version 1 read, retired
flags and subcommands refused by name, green merges landing under the
record, red and waived-red refused, the record lock still closing the
authority-read window, and the Pi away tail carrying the words.

* no-mistakes(review): carry the away read-back to the session verbatim

* no-mistakes(review): match the exact away-action marker in the return brief

* no-mistakes(review): refuse a words block truncated by a damaged line

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh away-role contract documentation
…unchenguid#5049)

* fix(bin): render the remote charter's steering-inbox path host-local

A freshly provisioned remote secondmate read a parent-home absolute
steering-inbox path in its charter - a location that exists on no route -
and spent its first turn discovering the gap and filing a blocked
decision for what was a render defect. The seed's remote-copy rewrite now
maps the inbox to the route's host-local parent-route inbox, exactly as
it already maps the reply-log path, so every mention - bare path, listing,
and handled/ acknowledgement - lands host-local.

Both rewrites also become plain assignments, because a quoted substitution
nested inside a double-quoted printf argument leaks literal quotes into
the replacement text on stock macOS bash. The lifecycle suite pins the
corrected render both directions against the real seed, provisioning,
and delivery route, sharing one fixture value between the render truth
and the delivery truth.

Closes kunchenguid#5012

* no-mistakes(document): document remote charter's host-local steering inbox
karotkriss and others added 28 commits September 29, 2026 11:20
…ery (kunchenguid#6126)

* fix(bin): measure pending-reply grace from turn completion, not delivery

Fixes kunchenguid#6057

The pending-reply guard demanded a repost ("REPOST REQUIRED: previous
marked request had no correlated parent report") while the second
mate's correlated reply was already on its way.
fm_pending_reply_send_recovery measured its grace window from delivery
instead of from the request turn's completion, so any turn longer than
the grace fired the demand the moment the turn ended, before the reply
could have landed. The missed-report escalation had the same gap: it
fired the instant the recovery turn's completion was observed, with no
grace at all.

Both now measure grace from the relevant turn's completion (request
turn for the recovery repost, recovery turn for the escalation), and
both take one fresh, uncached read of the parent status file
immediately before firing, accepting a correlated line regardless of
its verb. Transport-failure escalations stay immediate, and the
one-repost limit is unchanged.

* no-mistakes(review): Document grace window as measured from turn completion

* no-mistakes(ci): Both Greptile findings were real and caused by this PR, so I fixed them. The full `tests/fm-pending-reply.test.sh` suite passes. **ci-1 (a reply could be overwritten by a repost).** The rule that must hold: a recovery send is recorded only if the record is still unresolved, checked under the same per-correlation lock that resolution uses. The escalation path already did this (`_fm_pending_reply_maybe_escalate_locked` reads fresh and publishes under one lock). The recovery path did not: `fm_pending_reply_send_recovery` did its fresh read through `fm_pending_reply_try_resolve`, which let go of the lock before the send was recorded. A reply landing in that gap could be overwritten, and the repost would go out anyway. Now `send_recovery` takes the lock once and, while holding it, re-checks that the phase is still `awaiting_report`, runs the fresh uncached read, and records the send (sender pid and identity, attempt time, phase `recovery_sending`). It releases the lock before actually sending, so the lock is not held during the send. It uses the same lock helpers the other lock wrappers use. Grace timing, the one-repost limit and the escalation path are unchanged. **ci-2 (the test would pass even without the fix).** In `test_recovery_fresh_status_read_resolves_before_firing`, the reply is still appended to the status file, but the stored file signature is then set to the file's new signature. That stands in for a same-size rewrite that the signature cache cannot see. The test first checks that a normal cached read misses the reply, then that the fresh read before sending catches it. I also added the same check for the fresh read before escalation, which the review said was uncovered. The test now sets its own send hook, so it no longer depends on one left over from an earlier test (that leftover had made failures exit silently). **Checks:** - I removed the fresh-read bypass at each site in turn and reran the suite. With it gone from recovery, the test fails with "recovery must not fire once a correlated reply has landed". With it gone from escalation, it fails with "the fresh pre-escalation read should have resolved the record, got escalated". With both in place, all tests pass. - Shellcheck with `-x` timed out locally. Without `-x` and ignoring SC1091, the only warnings are SC2034 on the existing `maybe_escalate` lock wrapper, which is not part of this change. The new code adds no warnings. Changes are in `bin/fm-pending-reply-lib.sh` and `tests/fm-pending-reply.test.sh`. Nothing is committed yet; a plain commit message such as "fix(bin): record the pending-reply recovery send under the fresh-read lock" fits the instruction

* no-mistakes(ci): ci-1 was real and caused by this PR. The same bug was also in the escalation path, so both are fixed. The full tests/fm-pending-reply.test.sh suite passes. The rule that must hold: a recovery repost or an escalation goes out only if the record's phase, read after the fresh-read resolve, is still what it was before. The resolver writes phase=resolved first and only then writes the other resolution fields. If one of those later writes fails, it returns an error even though the record is already resolved. Places this rule applies, both fixed: - Recovery (fm_pending_reply_send_recovery): the fresh-read resolve now runs first, and the phase is re-read right after it, whatever it returned. The send is recorded and made only if the phase is still exactly awaiting_report. This replaces the earlier phase check rather than adding a second one. - Escalation (_fm_pending_reply_maybe_escalate_locked): same bug. After a failed resolve it went on to publish the blocked line and set phase=escalated. One added line after the resolve call returns 1 without publishing if the phase has changed. Test: added test_partial_resolve_write_blocks_firing. It forces a failure on the resolved_epoch write after a correlated reply has landed. It checks that the recovery send hook is never called, that no escalation line is published, and that the phase stays resolved. The forced failure runs in a subshell so it can't affect later tests. Checks: - With the recovery fix reverted, the new test fails with "recovery must not fire after a partial resolve". - With the escalation fix reverted, it fails with "partial resolve should block escalation, got escalated". - With both fixes in, every test passes. - Shellcheck was run with SC1091 excluded and without -x, not through the repo's lint script. The only new message is one SC2329 info on the test's override function; other test overrides in the same file already get that same info, unsuppressed. Changed files: bin/fm-pending-reply-lib.sh and tests/fm-pending-reply.test.sh. Nothing is committed. Suggested plain commit message: "fix(bin): recheck pending-reply phase after the fresh read before sending
…to stderr (kunchenguid#6001)

* fix: provider-table lookup never writes a broken-pipe error to stderr

Fixes kunchenguid#5956

fm_quota_single_provider_for_harness returned from its while read loop
as soon as it found a match, closing the pipe while
fm_quota_single_provider_table's printf could still be writing.
Where SIGPIPE is ignored, as on GitHub Actions runners, bash then
prints "printf: write error: Broken pipe" on the resolver's stderr,
which intermittently broke the one-diagnostic-line assertions in
tests/fm-dispatch-resolve.test.sh.

Read the whole table before answering, the way
fm_control_harness_supported already does, so the writer always
finishes. Return values and output are unchanged.

Reproduced by running tests/fm-dispatch-resolve.test.sh with SIGPIPE
ignored on a single pinned core under CPU contention: 30 of 30 runs
failed before the fix, 0 of 30 after. Note: reproducing requires
setting the trap inside the tested shell because nice(1) resets an
inherited SIGPIPE ignore to SIG_DFL. tests/fm-quota-choose.test.sh
passes and bin/fm-lint.sh is clean.

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed both Greptile findings the user chose to address. ci-1 (bin/fm-quota-axi-lib.sh:154). Invariant: looking up a harness must always end with status 0 and print the provider, even when the caller runs under `set -e`. The loop body `[ -z "$found" ] && [ "$harness" = "$1" ] && found=$provider` now ends in `|| :`. Every iteration succeeds and the whole table is still read. Only `fm_quota_single_provider_for_harness` loops over the table this way, so this is the one place the fix was needed. One caveat: on bash 5.3 the old code did not actually exit under `set -e`, because the `while` loop is not the function's last command, so the new `set -e` test would have passed before this fix too. The change makes the loop's success explicit, as the user asked. ci-2 (regression coverage). I added three cases to the existing `tests/fm-quota-choose.test.sh`, all calling the public lookup function after sourcing the library: 1. With SIGPIPE ignored (`trap "" PIPE`), it looks up every harness 200 times and checks that nothing reaches stderr. 2. A deterministic version of the race: the table function is wrapped so it writes the first row, pauses 0.2 s, then writes the rest. With SIGPIPE ignored, it checks that looking up `claude` prints `claude` and writes nothing to stderr. The stress loop alone reproduced the bug in only about 1 of 5 local runs, which is why this case exists. 3. A direct call under `set -e` prints `claude`. Verification: - `bash tests/fm-quota-choose.test.sh`: all pass. - Same test against the pre-PR library (fa48367, via `FM_ROOT_OVERRIDE`): fails with `printf: write error: Broken pipe`. The deterministic case failed in one run and the stress loop caught it in another. - `shellcheck` on both files: clean. - `tests/fm-dispatch-resolve.test.sh`: passes
…isioning (kunchenguid#6162)

* fix: survive Pi 0.99 rendering and Git 2.55 local-clone races

Pi 0.99 puts arguments on the stock tool header and leaves hidden custom messages in the export conversation column. Match that header, and keep Calm's boundary on the visible column. Clone a remote home with --no-local so a prune during Git's loose-object copy cannot fail the seed.

* no-mistakes(review): Stop SIGPIPE write errors; cover older Pi export and project clones

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify Calm export visibility and tool rendering

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the dispatch diagnostic to list every provider-less use/default profile in one line and added a multi-profile behavior test. Shortened supervision fixtures using the existing engine-grace and park-clock knobs; removed stray scratch files. Dispatch tests, syntax checks, and three targeted supervision cases passed. CI’s prior supervision duration was 751s; the single permitted local full-suite run timed out at 1200s, so an after-duration is not established. The cancelled serial check had no failure verdict. The outer executor should record the measured before/after duration in the PR body when available

* no-mistakes(review): Gate Pi 0.99 call headers by version; drop hidden-row assertion

* no-mistakes(review): Test stock call headers under Pi 0.87 and 0.99 stubs

* no-mistakes(test): Fix older-Pi queued-row test and verify park-boundary behavior

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify Pi Calm export and queued-turn documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the stock macOS Bash 3.2 parse failure in tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh; its parse check passes. The watcher CI failure is in unchanged code: the isolated five-minute/66-minute case passes locally, but the CI log omits the drain error needed to establish its cause. No speculative watcher fix was made. The full local watcher suite timed out after 500 seconds
…6169)

* Prevent premature Lavish board handoffs

* Prove Lavish arm lacks reply acknowledgement

* Confirm Lavish replies before arming worker boards

* no-mistakes(review): Post Lavish reply only after locked arm eligibility checks

* no-mistakes(review): Fail Lavish reply closed on unknown version

* no-mistakes(document): Correct Lavish reply documentation and remove stale guidance

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify Lavish reply routing and remove duplicate version guidance
…#6154)

* feat: inherit the supervision-host opt-out from the primary

Move the supervision host's off opt-out out of config/supervision-host into
its own presence flag, config/supervision-host-off, and add that flag to the
primary-authoritative inherited config set. A primary that opts out now opts
every secondmate home out at spawn and convergence, and clearing it converges
them back. config/supervision-host stays the home-local engine choice.

Shape: config/supervision-host mixed two things, a fleet posture (off) and a
per-home engine and model. Only the posture should follow the primary, so it
becomes a separate presence flag that rides the existing inherited-config
mechanism (FM_INHERITABLE_CONFIG in bin/fm-config-inherit-lib.sh) with no new
machinery, while the engine line stays local. The parse stays in its one
owner, fm_supervision_host_enabled. There is no migration or compatibility
handling for a home that still holds off in config/supervision-host.

Primary off, mate on: inherited material is primary-authoritative by design,
so a mate cannot keep the host while the primary is opted out, and a mate's
own opt-out is removed at the next convergence while the primary has none.
Running the host on a mate is the primary's choice for the fleet; no override
mechanism is added.

Live validation (disposable bin/fm-live-lab.sh lab, Claude primary with a
real seeded secondmate, --supervision-host off):
- up: every readiness check ok, including "host: none running, as expected"
  and a live mate session; the spawned mate home held the inherited
  config/supervision-host-off and the gate read primary OFF, mate OFF.
- primary removed its opt-out, then bin/fm-config-push.sh reported
  "supervision-host-off: pushed - mirrored primary absence" and a config
  reread sent; the gate read primary ON, mate ON, and the live mate handled
  the reread.
- primary opted out again and pushed: "supervision-host-off: pushed", mate
  gate OFF.
- down stopped every lab process and left no lab process running.

Out of scope, follow-up: default-on for the other harnesses, away-daemon
retirement, rollout.

* no-mistakes(document): Document inherited supervision-host opt-out ownership

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed ci-4: with `--supervision-host off --mate`, lab readiness now requires the inherited flag in the mate home and a disabled mate supervision-host gate. The focused behavior test, shellcheck, and diff checks pass. Left ci-1–ci-3 untouched as directed

* no-mistakes(test): Fix mate readiness HOST_OFF initialization in lab up

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed Lint 2 by making the new test’s fixtures source resolvable to ShellCheck; its off/on readiness test and ShellCheck now pass locally. Behavior portable serial 5 failed in the unchanged remote-reply test at generation 7. That test passes locally, and no PR-caused defect was identified, so no remote-reply code was changed
…nguid#6179)

* fix(tests): cut the fixed sleeps in supervision-host cycles

The serial CI lane keeps brushing its 30-minute cap because
fm-supervision-host.test.sh spends ~903s of the job, and per the
run-36635306527 case profile the top nine cases are all multi-cycle
ones (3-10 park/close/turn cycles each): every close waits out the
host's sleep $POLL in await_close plus a watcher sleep $FM_POLL scan
cycle, and every engine turn waits out the fixed sleep 1 descendant
snapshot. That is ~3s of pure sleep per cycle before any real work.

The host poll now accepts positive decimal seconds through a new
seconds_or validator (FM_SUPERVISION_HOST_POLL), and the engine turn's
snapshot loop takes FM_SUPERVISION_ENGINE_SNAPSHOT_SECONDS, also a
positive decimal defaulting to one second - the smallest seam at each
wait's single owner. The suite drives them at 0.2 alongside the
existing FM_POLL=0.5 and FM_ARM_ATTACH_POLL=0.2 knobs, so the real
poll loops still run. The park-boundary case moves onto the injected
test clock instead of a real 3s wait, per-case cleanup polls the host
pid rather than sleeping a full second, and the proof-by-absence
windows (flood re-escalation, successor re-announce, watcher
persistence, recovery staying off main) shrink from 2-3s to 1s, which
still spans two watcher polls at the test cadence.

Every assertion, process lifecycle, and reaping path is unchanged;
production defaults stay at one second. Isolated case timings on a
contended host, base vs branch: attended-latch 54.3->34.6s,
undelivered-dialog 67.7->59.1s, away-latch 46.5->30.5s, held-cadence
47.9->21.6s, unreadable-mirror 39.2->38.5s, park-limit 18.2->12.3s,
registration-fallback 14.1->10.0s, first-cycle-status 12.6->8.4s,
latch-scope 16.7->16.3s. Full suite: 65/65 pass. fm-lint and
shellcheck clean.

* no-mistakes(review): Wait for scan lock release before duplicate check

* no-mistakes(document): Correct supervision snapshot cadence documentation

* fix(tests): keep production poll cadence, probe exits at 0.1s

The fractional poll cadences multiplied the cost of each loop body:
full process-table scans in the engine turn and process refreshes in
await_close ran five times more often, which swamped the thin CI runner
and nearly doubled every multi-cycle case (serial 5 was cancelled at its
30-minute limit on run 36635306527's successor). Restore the production
cadence and notice arm/engine exits with a cheap kill -0 probe at a
tenth of a second between the one-second bodies instead: strictly less
dead time than baseline with no added CPU.

Also hold each injected-clock park bound well past its case's
wall-clock checks so a host that ignored the test clock fails instead
of silently passing at a real-time boundary, and restore the shortened
proof windows (watcher liveness, recovery-off-main absence, first-cycle
stream) to their baseline depth.

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify supervision engine snapshot documentation
…henguid#6192)

* fix: rebalance portable CI from current duration measurements

* no-mistakes(test): Test serial packing boundary and verify endpoint timeout cleanup

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify timeout guidance and remove duplicated packing estimates
…nguid#6216)

* fix(bin): run no repository hook when core.hooksPath is empty

The per-task hook wrapper refused every commit in a repository whose own
config sets core.hooksPath to the empty string, because git rev-parse
--git-path hooks fails on it. Plain git reads that setting as no hooks, so
the wrapper now runs none; every other lookup failure still refuses and
shows git's error.

Fixes kunchenguid#6171

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse commits when core.hooksPath is a valueless key

* no-mistakes(document): Document empty core.hooksPath handling in commit attribution docs

* no-mistakes(ci): When the wrapper refuses a commit, Git's hook-lookup error now shows up once instead of twice. That required changing one line in the wrapper, and the tests were extended so both bad-config cases would catch the duplicate. Invariant: when the wrapper refuses, Git's lookup error must appear exactly once. In the failure path, the only Git call besides the deliberate second lookup is the `git config --get --type=path core.hooksPath` check in `runtime_chain_body` (`bin/fm-git-strip-ai-trailers.sh:168`). That check prints the same error, so it was the one place to fix. I added `2>/dev/null` to it. Its exit status still decides the outcome: an empty value still runs no hook, and anything else goes on to the second lookup, which prints Git's error once, and the commit is refused. Tests (`tests/fm-git-strip-ai-trailers.test.sh`): - The unresolvable-path test (`~fm-no-such-user-6171/hooks`) now requires `failed to expand user dir` to appear exactly once in the refused commit's output. - The valueless-key test now requires `missing value for 'core.hookspath'` to appear exactly once. - Pre-existing bug in the unresolvable-path test: its `git add` ran after the bad config was set, so it failed silently (exit 128) and the "refused commit" had nothing staged. The test now stages the file before writing the config, the same way the valueless test does, so a real commit gets refused. - The empty-string test is unchanged and still passes, so an empty `core.hooksPath` still runs no hook. Verification: - With the wrapper change reverted, both new checks fail with `expected '1', got '2'`. With the change in place, the whole suite passes. - `bash -n` passes. shellcheck shows only an info-level SC1091 note about sourcing `lib.sh`, which was already there before this change. - `git status` lists only the two intended files
…kunchenguid#6213)

* fix(bin): let a stale record on a reassigned slot retire records-only

When a pool slot's owner claim names another task, the stale record's
teardown touches nothing under the slot, so the exclusive-slot record scan
no longer refuses it. Full teardowns of a slot this task still claims, or
one with no claim, keep the refusal.

Fixes kunchenguid#6184

* no-mistakes(document): Note claim-over-record precedence for reassigned teardown slots
…uid#6240)

* fix(bin): keep the steering doorbell short under deep homes

The doorbell printed the task inbox's absolute path twice, so under a deep
home it grew to about 290 characters and a Herdr submit reported it never
reached the pane on every re-ring. It now names the inbox once by its short
<task>.inbox name and points at the full path the worker's brief already
gives, so its length no longer depends on the home's depth.

Fixes kunchenguid#6120

* no-mistakes(review): Export FM_TASK_INBOX at launch and name it in doorbell

* no-mistakes(ci): ci-1 (Behavior portable serial 9) was caused by this PR, and I fixed it in the test. tests/fm-claude-trust.test.sh failed with "the launch command did not carry a brief doorbell". Its claude_launch_doorbell helper stripped exactly two leading `export ...;` statements before reading the final prompt argument. This PR adds a third one (`export FM_TASK_INBOX=...`) to every launch, so the helper was reading the wrong command. The invariant: a test that parses the launch command must skip every leading export statement, however many there are. I checked every test that parses the launch this way. The only other ones are the two helpers in tests/fm-spawn-dispatch-profile.test.sh, and they already loop over all exports. The kimi and dispatch-profile exact-string checks were updated earlier in this PR. The fix makes claude_launch_doorbell use the same loop (`while [[ "$command" == export\ *\;* ]]; do command=${command#*; }; done`) and then take the last argument. The ordinary path still works: the claude spawn test and the secondmate-clone spawn test both resolve the brief record through the same helper. Verified locally: `bash tests/fm-claude-trust.test.sh` exits 0 with no failing cases. ci-2 (Behavior tests (Herdr)) was not caused by this change, and I made no code change for it. In tests/fm-backend-herdr-presentation-e2e.test.sh, the concurrent secondmate recovery failed with "herdr presentation recovery could not acquire its session lock; refusing a concurrent resume". Two reasons it is not this PR: - The same failure, in the same test and case, happened on run 36655209015 for the unrelated branch fm/fm-contributions-old-gh-compat about 14 hours earlier. - This PR's change cannot lengthen how long the lock is held. The launch is written to a file and sent to the pane as `. launch.N.sh`, so the extra export changes neither the pane submit nor the lock hold time. The cause is a race that was already there: spawn_herdr_presentation_order_lock_acquire gives up after 5 seconds, and a concurrent real-Herdr recovery can hold the lock longer. Fixing that means changing the product's lock timeout, which is outside this PR. It should be tracked separately, and a rerun of the Herdr job is expected to pass. The only file changed is tests/fm-claude-trust.test.sh
… no turns (kunchenguid#4859)

* fix(dod): drive no-mistakes with one foreground call, not a background poll

The brief told workers to background the drive call and poll `axi status`
because one call "routinely outlives what your harness lets a single
command run". That advice contradicts the tool it drives: `no-mistakes
axi run --help` documents `--wait` with an 8m default, existing precisely
"so an agent harness with a 10-minute tool cap gets a structured return
instead of an unbounded hang".

Following the old text, a worker could never idle - a backgrounded call
returns in milliseconds, so it does not wait at all - and each attempt
leaked a live timer that later fired as a paid wake. Tell workers to make
one foreground call, let it block, and repeat it when it returns on
elapsed wait rather than on a gate or outcome.

Also drops the generalisation that told workers on any unestablished
harness to assume a command cap and use the same shape, which exported
the defect to harnesses with no such cap.

* fix(bin): let a waiting worker spend no turns until it is answered

A worker waiting on a decision, a pipeline gate, CI, or a heavy-test slot
kept taking model turns: the brief told it to list its inbox at any natural
checkpoint, and six automatic senders nudged secondmates whatever their open
decisions.

- The ship and scout briefs gain one Waiting section: end the turn after
  needs-decision or blocked, and hold an external wait inside ONE blocking
  command bounded by the harness's own command ceiling. The checkpoint clause
  is deleted. Forbidding the wrong shapes is not enough on its own, so the
  section also names the blocking foreground `until` loop as the wait a Claude
  Code worker may use, because that harness can refuse a sleep-then-check
  command while pointing at backgrounding, which is the one shape a waiting
  worker must not take.
- fm-send --automatic defers (exit 4, nothing written or rung) while the
  target has an open decision or blocker of its own; every automatic sender
  passes it and keeps its retry state, and the pending-reply recovery waits
  the same way.
- The two senders that report the result classified it by matching the text of
  the send's captured output against `deferred:*`. fm-send runs bin/fm-guard.sh
  as a supervision warning, and that guard prints its worktree-tangle banner
  whenever the primary checkout is on a feature branch, which is exactly what a
  CI pull-request checkout is. The banner lands ahead of the `deferred:` line,
  so the match fell through and a waiting mate was reported as a failed send,
  with the banner as the reason. Both senders now classify on fm-send's exit
  status, which is the contract the deferral is actually stated in, and select
  the `deferred:` line out of the output rather than assuming it came first.

The third root cause, a no-mistakes definition of done that backgrounded the
drive call and polled axi status, is fixed by this branch's parent commit
"drive no-mistakes with one foreground call, not a background poll"; this
commit takes that text as is and adds the regression test.

Upstream's spawn abort path no longer calls the lease-return helper at all,
so the fork's missing-helper guard and its pin-feature test line are moot
here and are not ported.

The command ceilings each harness enforces, and the probes behind the named
Claude Code wait, are recorded in docs/verification/runtime-backends.md.

* no-mistakes(review): Exempt captain holds, quiet deferred reconcile, clarify worker pauses

* no-mistakes(document): Document deferred automatic nudges, rereads, and reply recovery

* no-mistakes(document): Ring unlanded fire-and-forget steers exactly once more

* no-mistakes(ci): The failing check, "PR must be raised via no-mistakes", reads the pipeline's attestation record, which says document=skipped. No file in the repository can change that record, so I did not touch the check or the PR body. As you said, the no-mistakes rerun after this run finishes will re-execute the document step and record document=completed. The one change is the documentation sentence you ordered. It adds a line to docs/remote-secondmates.md, right after the line saying the remote host runs no re-ring ladder of its own: "A fire-and-forget record, such as a reconcile ask, gets its single retry ring only on the local plane: the remote steer leg owes no re-ring, so a swallowed remote doorbell for one waits for the next ring into that inbox, and a remote-side retry is known follow-up scope." No behavior changed. Checks: tests/fm-documentation-audiences.test.sh passes (4/4) and bin/fm-lint.sh is clean. The change is left uncommitted in the working tree for the pipeline to pick up

* no-mistakes(review): Hold automatic wakes until a mate's own decision closes

* no-mistakes(document): Document watcher delivery of deferred remote re-read nudges

* no-mistakes(review): Merge duplicate elapsed-wait reattach instructions in DOD

* no-mistakes(test): Resolve merged default decision in remote-reply recovery fixture

* no-mistakes(test): Source classify lib so config-push retry-deferred honors open decisions

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed a flaky test that also fails on main. Neither this PR's bin/fm-brief.sh nor its bin/fm-dod-lib.sh change is involved: bin/fm-dispatch-resolve.sh sources neither file. Another branch (fm-attended-cutover-smoothing-s1, run 36343879084) failed the same shard 8 check the same way, on a different case ("a rule-criterion match prints one diagnostic line, got 2"). Root cause: `fm_quota_single_provider_for_harness` in bin/fm-quota-axi-lib.sh returned from its `while read` loop as soon as it found a match. That closed the pipe while `fm_quota_single_provider_table`'s `printf` was sometimes still writing. GitHub Actions runners ignore SIGPIPE, so bash printed `fm-quota-axi-lib.sh: line 138: printf: write error: Broken pipe` to the resolver's stderr. That is the extra line. I reproduced it locally by running the test with SIGPIPE ignored: 2 of 20 runs failed, one with the resolver's diagnostic line plus two broken-pipe lines. Invariant: looking up a harness in the provider table must never make the table writer fail. The only reader of that table is this function, and all of the resolver's lookups (line 208 without stderr redirected, line 222 with it) go through it. So the fix is in that one place: read the whole table, then print the match. The same file now shows it reads the full table first, like `fm_control_harness_supported` does. Return values and output are unchanged. Verification: with SIGPIPE ignored, tests/fm-dispatch-resolve.test.sh failed 0 of 30 runs after the fix (2 of 20 before). tests/fm-dispatch-resolve.test.sh, tests/fm-brief.test.sh, tests/fm-send-inbox.test.sh, tests/fm-quota-choose.test.sh and tests/fm-quota-array-dispatch-live-e2e.test.sh all pass, and shellcheck is clean. tests/fm-procevent-quota.test.sh fails locally with or without the change ("process-event state root is not a private directory"), so that failure comes from the local environment, not from this fix. No new test was added: the existing one-diagnostic-line assertions already catch this whenever SIGPIPE is ignored, as it is in CI

* Revert "no-mistakes(ci): Fixed a flaky test that also fails on main. Neither this PR's bin/fm-brief.sh nor its bin/fm-dod-lib.sh change is involved: bin/fm-dispatch-resolve.sh sources neither file. Another branch (fm-attended-cutover-smoothing-s1, run 36343879084) failed the same shard 8 check the same way, on a different case ("a rule-criterion match prints one diagnostic line, got 2"). Root cause: `fm_quota_single_provider_for_harness` in bin/fm-quota-axi-lib.sh returned from its `while read` loop as soon as it found a match. That closed the pipe while `fm_quota_single_provider_table`'s `printf` was sometimes still writing. GitHub Actions runners ignore SIGPIPE, so bash printed `fm-quota-axi-lib.sh: line 138: printf: write error: Broken pipe` to the resolver's stderr. That is the extra line. I reproduced it locally by running the test with SIGPIPE ignored: 2 of 20 runs failed, one with the resolver's diagnostic line plus two broken-pipe lines. Invariant: looking up a harness in the provider table must never make the table writer fail. The only reader of that table is this function, and all of the resolver's lookups (line 208 without stderr redirected, line 222 with it) go through it. So the fix is in that one place: read the whole table, then print the match. The same file now shows it reads the full table first, like `fm_control_harness_supported` does. Return values and output are unchanged. Verification: with SIGPIPE ignored, tests/fm-dispatch-resolve.test.sh failed 0 of 30 runs after the fix (2 of 20 before). tests/fm-dispatch-resolve.test.sh, tests/fm-brief.test.sh, tests/fm-send-inbox.test.sh, tests/fm-quota-choose.test.sh and tests/fm-quota-array-dispatch-live-e2e.test.sh all pass, and shellcheck is clean. tests/fm-procevent-quota.test.sh fails locally with or without the change ("process-event state root is not a private directory"), so that failure comes from the local environment, not from this fix. No new test was added: the existing one-diagnostic-line assertions already catch this whenever SIGPIPE is ignored, as it is in CI"

This reverts commit c719928.

* no-mistakes(review): Retry deferred local instruction nudges via the watcher

* no-mistakes(review): Document watcher retry for deferred local instruction nudges

* no-mistakes(ci): I fixed both review findings you selected (ci-1 and ci-3). I did not touch the deferral check in bin/fm-send.sh. ci-1 (bin/fm-config-push.sh, retry_deferred_rereads) - Rule that must hold: a deferred reread stays flagged until it is actually delivered. - Before the fix, the flag was removed before any of the steps that can skip a mate: the remote lock-path lookup, validate_secondmate_home, the local lock-path lookup, and the lock acquire. A skip at any of those dropped the flag, so the watcher lost track of the reread. - Now the flag is removed in one place only, when the send succeeds (rc 0). A skipped home, a busy lock, a deferred send (rc 4) or a failed send all leave it in place. The re-mark calls on a busy lock and on rc 4 were no longer needed, so I removed them. I updated the comment above the function to match. - Side effect: a send that keeps failing now stays flagged, so the watcher retries it on every poll and logs each failure. That follows your "don't clear until delivered" rule, but it replaces the old behaviour of leaving a failed send to the next config push or session start. - New test in tests/fm-secondmate-sync.test.sh: T8j "a deferred flag survives a skipped invalid home and is retried once it validates". It takes the home's marker away to make validation fail, checks that nothing is sent and the flag stays, then puts the marker back and checks that the nudge is delivered and both the flag and the retry marker are cleared. It fails on the old code and passes now. ci-3 (bin/fm-secondmate-restart.sh) - Rule that must hold: no automatic send wakes a mate that is waiting on its own open decision. - The two automatic sends in this script are the fallback reread nudge (fall_back_to_nudge) and the persist request. Both now pass --automatic. If a persist request is deferred, its correlation is discarded and the mate goes to the fallback nudge, which is also deferred, so the mate is reported as unreached. - New test in tests/fm-secondmate-restart.test.sh: T3b. It gives a mate an open needs-decision and runs a restart. It checks that both sends report as deferred, the mate's doorbell is never rung, its inbox gets no message, nothing is stopped, and the mate is reported as unreached with exit status 3. It fails on the old code and passes now. - The test marks the watcher as alive first. Without that, the watcher-down warning is printed first and becomes the reported reason instead of the deferral message. Verification - tests/fm-secondmate-sync.test.sh passes. - tests/fm-secondmate-restart.test.sh passes. - tests/fm-secondmate-harness.test.sh (the other test that exercises --retry-deferred) passes. - The fm-send-inbox test that covers automatic deferral passes. I only looked at the last lines of that run, not the whole file. - `shellcheck -x` on the four changed files is clean

* Pin autoarm supervision model in secondmate restart T3b

The fresh watcher beat the test writes proves a live watcher only under the
autoarm model; on CI hosts with no detected harness the persistent model
demands a lock-holding watcher, so the watcher-down banner became the
reported reason and the deferral assertion failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Keep deferred secondmate nudges retryable under the inheritance lock.

A bootstrap instruction nudge could write its deferral flag outside the lock the watcher retry holds, so a concurrent retry could delete a flag that had just been set. A restart fallback that is deferred now records the same marker and flag, so the watcher delivers it once the decision closes.

* no-mistakes(document): Document watcher retry of deferred restart re-read nudges

* Send secondmate reread and restart nudges immediately again.

Deferring those nudges let a later config push drop an incomplete transfer once the decision closed. They now send as they do on main.

* Make the no-turn wait opt-in behind config/wait-no-turns.

Homes that do not create the file keep the previous briefs, drive text, and sends.

* no-mistakes(document): Document wait-no-turns inbox wording change in configuration

* no-mistakes(review): Keep checkpoint inbox check; forbid only polling while waiting

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed ci-2 (Greptile: a concurrent retry marker gets lost). The rule that was broken: the watcher may remove only the `.retry-ring` mark for the record it just processed. A newer mark written in the meantime is owed its own retry. `fm_task_inbox_clear_retry` is the one shared function that removes the mark, and I fixed it there. In `bin/fm-task-inbox-lib.sh` it now takes the record path. It compares the mark's content with that record's name and removes the mark only when they match. When the mark names a different record it returns success and leaves the mark alone. It still fails only when the processed record's own mark can't be removed. Both callers in `bin/fm-watch.sh` now pass `"$rec"`: the dead or missing pane path and the path after a retry ring. So the fix holds at both removal sites. Tests, in `tests/fm-task-inbox.test.sh`: - I added an optional `FM_RING_MARKS_RETRY` hook to the fake tmux. It writes a newer record's mark while the doorbell is being typed, which reproduces the race deterministically. - I added `test_watcher_retry_keeps_a_newer_mark`. The owed retry rings once, the newer mark survives, and a later check rings the newer record once and then clears its mark. The test fails without the fix ("the spent retry removed a newer record's mark written during its ring") and passes with it. - I updated the direct `clear_retry` call in the existing unit test to pass the record. Results: `tests/fm-task-inbox.test.sh` passes in full and `tests/fm-send-inbox.test.sh` passes 15/15. Shellcheck reports only SC1091 "not following sourced file" notices. As instructed, I didn't change the brief inbox wording

* no-mistakes(document): Fix stale wait-no-turns inbox wording in inbox lib comment

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Cursor Agent <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Co-authored-by: Kun Chen <kunchenguid@users.noreply.github.com>
…note (kunchenguid#6140)

* fix(bin): record Gerrit change URLs as close notes

Teardown's backlog_done_args hands every ship's recorded pr= URL to
fm_backlog_done as --pr, and tasks-axi refuses any --pr that is not a
canonical GitHub or Forgejo pull request. A Gerrit change URL therefore
left the item In flight after cleanup, and the pending backlog-close
record replayed into the same refusal at every session start.

fm_backlog_done now rewrites a --pr whose value fm_pr_url_parse reads
as a Gerrit change into --note "Gerrit change <url>". The mapping sits
at the tasks-axi call rather than in the pending-close record, so
records already written with --pr replay to a close unchanged. The
captain-held retain path records the URL in its deliverable line and
skips the update --pr it cannot make.

* no-mistakes(review): Note retained Gerrit change URL when captain answers early

* no-mistakes(document): Document Gerrit change URL handling in captain-hold retention
* perf(remote): separate active job sampling from dispatcher cadence

* no-mistakes(document): Link remote wait timing to its authoritative contract

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed ci-1 with two narrowly scoped SC2030 annotations documenting intentional subshell-local legacy and active cadence overrides in tests/fm-remote-job.test.sh. Runtime behavior is unchanged. Reproduced the lint failure before the fix; afterward ShellCheck 0.11.0 with source following, Bash syntax validation, the complete remote-job behavior suite, and git diff --check all passed

* perf(supervision): reduce park, delta and dispatcher polling

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify poll latency contracts and authoritative documentation pointers
…henguid#6221)

* fix(bin): load backend sibling libraries under zsh

fm_backend_source kept each backend's sibling list in one space-separated
string and iterated it unquoted. zsh does not word-split an unquoted
expansion, so the readability check saw the whole list as one path and
refused every backend with more than one sibling. Hold the list in the
function's positional parameters instead, which needs no word splitting
in Bash 3.2, Bash 5, or zsh.

The existing zsh case in tests/fm-backend.test.sh covers it wherever zsh
is installed.

* test: run the Calm mod suite on stock Bash 3.2

The suite injected shell values into its generated Node scripts with the
${value@Q} transformation, which needs Bash 4.4. Stock macOS Bash 3.2
reports a bad substitution, so every case failed before it asserted
anything. Build each JavaScript string literal with JSON.stringify
through a small helper instead, which works on any Bash and is a valid
literal for any value.

* no-mistakes(review): fix(bin): rename zsh-special path local in fm_backend_source

* test: narrow the zsh backend claim to name matching

Under zsh the adapters locate their siblings through BASH_SOURCE, so a
successful fm_backend_source is not a full load. Assert only what the
contract states, and pass js_string values after -- so node never reads
a leading-dash value as its own option.

---------

Co-authored-by: Nova Agent B <novaagentb@gmail.com>
…tatus scans (kunchenguid#5263)

* fix(bin): exclude a remote mate's own parent channel from self-home scans

A remote secondmate home's outbound parent channel lives at state/parent-replies.status inside its own state dir, so the watcher's signal scan enumerated it as a task status file and the open-decisions fold classified it as a phantom task named parent-replies: every parent-channel append spun a spurious signal wake and a phantom open decision in the mate's own home.
fm-parent-channel-lib.sh gains fm_parent_channel_outbound_status, which resolves the channel into the mate's own state dir for the remote route only, and fm-classify-lib.sh's status_scan_parent_channel_exclude wraps it for the fleet-wide scans.
The watcher's scan_signals and heartbeat fail-safe backstop, the whole-file and incremental open-decisions folds, the presentation snapshot, and the unread-surface scan now skip exactly that resolved path.
The exclusion is home-shape-aware: a parent-replies.status in a main home or a local mate is an ordinary task log and keeps waking and folding, and every other status file is untouched.

* no-mistakes(review): exclude a remote mate's parent channel from the daemon heartbeat scan

* no-mistakes(document): Document remote mate parent-channel scan exclusion

* ci: retrigger portable serial 4

* no-mistakes(ci): CI check 'Behavior portable serial 7' failed in tests/fm-contributions.test.sh ('reservation poll failed'). CI stderr showed bin/fm-contributions.sh:345 arithmetic 'DEADLINE - 6\n90077104: syntax error in expression': the fixture's fake date returned a torn two-line clock value. Root cause: the fake forge wrapper in wrap_forge advances the shared controllable clock via a non-atomic read-modify-write ('$(cat $FORGE/clock) + 6' with truncate-in-place '> $FORGE/clock') while concurrent background gh calls run and the fake date reads the same file; an interleaved truncate+write publishes a half-written value (CI's torn '6\n90077104', tail of 1790077104) or an emptied-read value ('6'), which either breaks the poll's arithmetic (nonzero exit -> 'reservation poll failed') or defeats the 15-second reservation defer. This is a pre-existing test-fixture race, not caused by the PR's diff (base..target touches no contributions code; the same commit passed this shard in run 35711207830 earlier the same day). Fixed the flaky fixture at its root: clock_bump() now writes each new value to a per-process mktemp file in the same directory and publishes it with mv (atomic rename), so concurrent forge callers and the fake date always read one complete old-or-new clock; fault patterns and deltas are unchanged. Verified: minimal 3-way concurrency repro shows the old wrapper corrupting (12/32/38 outcomes incl. empty-read) while the rename-based wrapper never corrupts (20/20 clean); the full tests/fm-contributions.test.sh passes twice (all 38 assertions ok, incl. the reservation, budget-exhaustion, genuine-failure, shared-once, and latency tests); 10 isolated reservation runs pass; shellcheck rc=0; worktree contains only this one-file change

* no-mistakes(document): drop stale file-set copy in daemon catch-all comment
…6307)

* fix(bin): name the accepted verdict actors in fm-contributions help and refusal

* fix(ci): Updated tests/fm-contributions.test.sh to assert exactly captain, fleet, maintainer, and nobody in command-emitted help and refusal output. Three focused regressions passed; all three extra-actor mutations were rejected. ShellCheck, syntax, and diff checks passed. Production code remains unchanged
…chenguid#6306)

* fix(bin): recognise a clone root git names with different path spelling

fm-fleet-sync compared git's --show-toplevel with pwd -P as strings, so a clone
root that git recorded with different casing (case-insensitive volume) was
skipped as not a clone root and never refreshed. Compare filesystem identity
instead, which also covers symlink spelling.

* fix(document): Remove stale clone-root comparison comment
)

* test(calm): pin Pi's regular TUI mode where pane assertions read scrollback

Pi 1.0.0 defaults its TUI to a fullscreen alternate-screen mode whose
scrollable transcript is application-owned, so rows that leave the viewport
never enter terminal scrollback and tmux capture-pane -S can no longer see
them. The Pi Calm e2e launches now pass --tui-mode regular wherever the flag
exists so the transcript assertions keep reading real scrollback on both the
Pi 1.0.0 line and earlier Pi lines, which have no such flag and render
regular-only anyway.

* no-mistakes(document): Correct Pi TUI documentation and scrollback rationale
…ries (kunchenguid#6331)

* fix(bin): encode captain-hold reasons and reject self-inventory in complete

hold now stores a reason with parentheses, line breaks, or percent signs
through a reversible percent encoding that every reader decodes, instead of
refusing it. hold --origin records the origin on the held task, and complete
refuses the origin as its own inventory entry and an entry held for a
different origin; holds with no recorded origin are accepted and flagged.

* fix(review): Decode marked hold reasons consistently across readers

* fix(review): Remove unnecessary lifecycle test dispatch

* fix(review): Correct hold origin identity and inventory recovery

* fix(review): Record origins before placing backend holds

* fix(document): Clarify captain-hold validation and reason reader documentation

* fix(ci): Fixed both findings: failed backend holds restore the previous origin, and invalid base64/UTF-8 reasons remain verbatim. Added regressions and documented valid-literal ambiguity. Both failures were reproduced before fixes. Verification: 54 lifecycle tests and 9 wrapper tests passed; 7 Beads-specific cases skipped because tasks-axi is markdown-only. Focused lint and diff checks passed. No pipeline or publication actions performed
* fix(bin): take over the watcher cycle a main-only pass-through leaves

An attended main-only pass-through leaves a successor watcher cycle
running through main's handling turn. The session's next park attached
to that cycle instead of owning it, so the successor's arm, orphaned by
its host's exit, kept owning the watcher while the new park's arm polled
it twice a second until the next close or the park boundary, hours later
in a quiet second mate. A second-mate restart hit this every time, since
its persist request is a main-only close.

The host now records the successor it leaves for main, and the next
host's first cycle runs bin/fm-watch-arm.sh --take-over on it: when that
arm still owns the healthy watcher, the new arm stops it, reports a
reason the cycle delivered first, and otherwise owns a fresh cycle. The
stop's own downtime publication is undone over an acknowledged episode
when no wake was appended in between, so the handover wakes nobody.

* no-mistakes(review): Keep left-arm record until the orphaned arm is gone

* no-mistakes(review): Relinquish successor arm only after durably recording it

* no-mistakes(review): Relinquish successor only after its record reads back

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify successor takeover guarantees and authoritative documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed ci-1: acknowledgement restore now requires the exact taken-over arm/watcher ledger row with signal=TERM, awaited within a short bound. Otherwise takeover proceeds without erasing downtime. Added a self-exit regression confirmed failing before the fix and passing afterward; ordinary takeover tests and the full watcher-arm suite pass. Updated Generation reuse documentation. Syntax, diff checks, and ShellCheck pass with existing SC1091/SC2034 warnings excluded. ci-2 remains unchanged

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify watcher take-over recovery and restart limits
…cessor already closed (kunchenguid#6355)

* fix(bin): restore supervision host hand-back continuity

* no-mistakes(review): Scope host hand-back failure fallback to lost pending:handling

* no-mistakes(review): Remove stray scratch test copy tests/.tmp-rest.test.sh

* no-mistakes(test): Initialise successor globals so early hand-back survives set -u

* no-mistakes(document): Document host hand-back downtime failure and Claude lost-handback notice

* no-mistakes(ci): I fixed the Greptile finding. The rule that must hold: when the supervision host hands back an actionable wake, its rewake is refused, and no watcher is healthy, the hand-back still has to reach main as a delivered notice. That must be true whether the recovery marker is `pending:handling` or `announced:handling`. Only one place applies this check: the lost hand-back fallback in `bin/fm-claude-stop-autoarm.sh`. **Fix:** that check now accepts both `pending:handling:*` and `announced:handling:*` tokens (a one-line change). Nothing else in the fallback changed: - Refusals on any other marker, such as an already acknowledged one, still exit 0 silently and open no failure episode. - The notice is still sent once per episode, and repeats are recorded as `failed-suppressed`. **Tests:** - `tests/fm-claude-stop-autoarm.test.sh`: the lost hand-back test now runs as a shared helper with two variants, one writing a `pending:handling` marker and a new one writing `announced:handling` (`test_host_lost_announced_handback_notifies_once_per_episode`). - `tests/fm-supervision-host.test.sh`: the end-to-end test where downtime restoration fails is now a shared helper too, with a new `announced` variant (`test_claude_stop_hook_notifies_when_closed_announced_successor_downtime_restore_fails`). It moves the handling episode to `announced` before the host hands back. Without the fix the hook would exit 0 here; the test requires exit 2, `outcome=failed` and a delivered failure notice. **Verification (all under nice -n 10):** - The full `tests/fm-claude-stop-autoarm.test.sh` suite passed (rc=0), including both lost hand-back variants and the benign-refusal test. - In `tests/fm-supervision-host.test.sh` I ran only the four hand-back test functions, all passing (rc=0). The suite can't run single functions, so I used a temporary copy with a trimmed test list and deleted it afterwards; `git status` shows only the 3 intended files changed. - shellcheck is clean on all three changed files. I did not run `bin/fm-lint.sh`. - I did not run the new tests against the unfixed code; the claim that they fail without the fix comes from reading the old check
* perf: cut remote-job idle process creation in the three hot loops

Post-update host measurement still attributes most idle churn to three
per-sample loops: result-consumer state reads and date calls, the delta
reader's capture/hash pass on every poll, and the lane preemption scan's
per-field pipelines. This drops each to its minimum without touching the
contracts around them.

* fm_remote_job_read_state gains an optional result-variable form backed
  by fm_remote_job_read_line, a builtin-only bounded record read (regular
  non-symlink file, byte bound, one newline-terminated line, tolerated
  unterminated tail, no carriage returns). fm_remote_job_wait samples
  state and the SECONDS clock with no per-sample children; one date call
  converts the epoch deadline once.
* fm-remote-delta-read stats the log each poll and re-runs the bounded
  capture and hashing only when size, mtime, ctime, inode, or device
  change. The snapshot's own stat writes the comparison key, so a log
  that moves between the gate and the capture is never read as stable.
* worker_preempting_waiter_exists reads state, home, and the staged argv
  head with builtins only. The now-unused worker_job_command goes away.

The bounded reads use -d '' -n, which behaves identically on the macOS
stock bash 3.2 and current bash; -N does not exist on 3.2. Tests cover
the malformed-record corpus, delta identity gating, fork-free lane
scanning through counting PATH shims, and same-home versus cross-home
preemption. No signal traps or sleep contracts change.

* no-mistakes(review): Restore subsecond delta keys and byte-bounded builtin record reads

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify delta snapshot caching and coarse-timestamp fallback

* no-mistakes(lint): Scope UTF-8 regression locales to individual function calls

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed both lint failures by applying the documented production-library analysis boundary at the two affected test imports. Runtime behavior is unchanged; the library remains independently linted. Canonical full-analysis lint passed for the library and both suites, as did bash syntax checks and git diff --check
…ommands (kunchenguid#5963)

* fix(composer): read a titled Claude top rule as the composer's edge

A named Claude Code session draws its title into the composer's top rule.
The strict separator predicate rejected that row, so the closing rule read
as a lower unmatched separator and an idle, empty composer classified
unknown on every cursorless backend, refusing fm-send, exit, and relaunch.

Spare a bare agent-glyph row sandwiched between a width-proven titled rule
and the screen's only unmatched separator directly below it. The strict
separator predicate, dead-shell rule, and blank-row posture are unchanged.

Fixes kunchenguid#5601
Fixes kunchenguid#5558

* no-mistakes(test): Keep Claude's grey slash command in Herdr payload proof

* no-mistakes(test): Make missing-herdr version check hermetic to installed herdr
…#6387)

* fix: pre-approve Pi trust for seeded secondmate homes

Unattended first launches of Firstmate-seeded Pi secondmate homes stalled on
"Trust project folder?" until Enter. Probe --approve like --tui-mode and pass
it only for --secondmate when help advertises it (.fm-secondmate-home signal),
leaving ordinary workers and older Pi unchanged.

* no-mistakes(document): Consolidate Pi seeded-home trust documentation ownership

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed Lint 1’s unused polling counter. Diagnosed Behavior portable serial 4 as a pre-existing delta-reader test clock race; replaced timing-dependent rewrite and deletion with deterministic executable-boundary synchronization. ShellCheck, Bash syntax checks, and git diff --check passed. Delta-reader tests passed three consecutive runs; all three live Pi trust cases passed. Production behavior unchanged
…--external-sources (kunchenguid#6443)

* fix(lint): retry memory-bound roots without external sources

* no-mistakes(review): Make fallback tests portable and correct source-following telemetry

* no-mistakes(review): Remove committed parity fixtures and use disposable test roots

* no-mistakes(document): Document ShellCheck memory fallback and telemetry

* no-mistakes(review): Cover bounded and unbounded fallback RSS behavior

* no-mistakes(document): Correct stale lint fallback documentation

* no-mistakes(document): Correct stale lint test documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): The memory fallback (the retry without --external-sources) now gets only the time left in its root's original deadline, so it can no longer outlast the CI job. Invariant: one root's first attempt plus its fallback must fit inside a single FM_LINT_ROOT_SECONDS deadline, plus the cleanup grace. Only one site started a new deadline: the fallback call in fm_lint_run_root. The deadline is the only budget involved, because the memory limit already applies to each process separately. Changes in bin/fm-lint.sh: - fm_lint_exec_root now takes a <seconds> argument instead of always reading FM_LINT_INTERNAL_ROOT_SECS. - The first attempt passes the full deadline. - The fallback passes floor((start + deadline - now) / 1000) seconds. - When bounds are enforced and less than 1 second is left, no retry starts. fm_exec_timed rejects 0 seconds, so the retry cannot run with no time. The root keeps reason=memory, and the shard output says "no time left in its Ns deadline to retry without it". - Unbounded local runs have no deadline and behave as before. - The header comment now describes the shared deadline. Changes in tests/fm-lint.test.sh: a new test, test_memory_fallback_spends_only_the_remaining_root_deadline, runs only on hosts that can enforce bounds. It uses a 6 s deadline and 1 s grace. - Case 1: the first attempt runs 3 s and then fails with memory status 251. The test asserts one fallback ran, reported reason=timeout, and the root's recorded duration is under 7000 ms. - Case 2: the first attempt runs 5.2 s. The test asserts no fallback starts, the skip is explained, and the sidecar records memory with source-following 1. Verification: - Full `nice -n 10 bash tests/fm-lint.test.sh` passed, including the new test, in about 5 minutes. - Case 1 run against the HEAD script: the root took 9168 ms, so the under-7000 ms check fails before the fix. - `bin/fm-lint.sh bin/fm-lint.sh tests/fm-lint.test.sh` reported no findings. - The CI workflow is unchanged, so the Test step still runs only tests/fm-lint.test.sh with nice -n 10 and the 12 GiB ShellCheck limit
…tension log opt-in (kunchenguid#5489)

* Fix Pi watcher successor-gap confirmations and add extension log

Accept an already-acknowledged handling confirmation as a no-op when the
generation matches, confirm the restoration's own recovery token with a
superseded (not rejected) outcome on generation mismatch, retire an arm on
confirm failure only when the failed token names that exact pid, and record
restore attempts, readiness timeouts, and confirm results in the bounded
state/.watch-extension.log. Regression tests: already-acked no-op plus
mismatch/dead-pid/lock-mismatch rejections and the manual-restart churn
contract in fm-watch-arm.test.sh, and a mid-restore marker advance with no
rejection appendix in fm-pi-watch-extension.test.sh.

* Treat a dead arm child as an empty slot so repair and retry recover

startArm and scheduleRetry answered unchanged while holding a ChildProcess
whose OS process was already gone but whose close had not fired, so neither
the repair tool nor the retry timer started anything until that close fired.
Gate slot occupancy on a liveness check (exit/signal codes plus pid probe)
and start a fresh arm instead, with a regression test driving the repair
tool against a dead-but-unclosed child.

* no-mistakes(document): Document new Pi extension log knob

* no-mistakes(review): Fix confirm-failure retire token match, add distinct-pid test

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify retire guard needs pid and generation

* Make the Pi extension diagnostic log opt-in and default-off

Only a positive FM_WATCH_EXTENSION_LOG_KEEP_LINES enables
state/.watch-extension.log. Unset, empty, non-numeric, zero, and
negative values disable logging entirely, so the default run writes
nothing and never creates the file. The shared positiveInteger
fallback semantics stay untouched for the retry and timeout knobs.
docs/configuration.md owns the knob contract and
docs/watcher-continuity.md points at it. Tests: the superseded-delivery
case runs opted in, and a new case proves unset, zero, and non-numeric
values create no log file while delivery still succeeds.

* no-mistakes(document): Qualify extension-log coverage bullet as opt-in

* no-mistakes(ci): The two reported checks (CI run 36372002913, Require no-mistakes run 36372069208) show conclusion action_required with 0 jobs and no logs because this is a fork PR (RibatTRW/firstmate) and GitHub is holding the workflow runs awaiting maintainer approval; that gate is external to the code and needs a maintainer to approve the runs. While verifying the change locally I found a real defect the approved CI run would hit: the PR's new test test_handling_delivered_rejects_a_superseded_generation failed deterministically. Invariant violated: reopen-announced (a non-successor/manual arm start) mints a fresh recovery generation only when the durable wake queue holds unrecovered work; an announced episode with an empty queue must be left untouched so idle arm starts never churn generations (the [ -s queue ] guard from kunchenguid#4819, relied on by bin/fm-watch.sh:2413 and covered by the append-reopens and announcement-bound sibling tests). The test called reopen with an empty queue and expected churn, so the fix establishes the queued-work precondition (append one wake, re-announce, re-read the generation) before asserting the reopen mints and the old confirmation mismatches. Test-only change, 14 lines in tests/fm-watch-arm.test.sh. Verified: fm-watch-arm.test.sh 25/25 ok on two consecutive runs, fm-pi-watch-extension.test.sh 55/55 ok, and shellcheck reports only one pre-existing warning outside the edited region

* no-mistakes(document): Restore blank line in watcher-continuity docs

* Route superseded Pi deliveries like confirmed ones and cover the retire guard

A superseded handling confirmation now falls through to the normal delivery
path, so an accepting supervision branch owns the wake instead of main.
Scope the watcher-continuity token-pinned confirmation and narrowed retire
rule to Pi, since omp and OpenCode still confirm against the current
successor. Add tests that fail when the retire guard, the scheduled-retry
gate, or the deferred-close gate is reverted, relabel the churned-generation
characterization test, and use a reaped pid for the dead-pid rejection.
# Conflicts:
#	AGENTS.md
#	bin/fm-pr-merge.sh
#	bin/fm-spawn.sh
#	bin/fm-test-run.sh
#	docs/architecture.md
#	tests/fm-pr-merge.test.sh
#	tests/fm-spawn-dispatch-profile.test.sh
…mbient one

pi_model_validate (fork commit 1e34658) ran against the ambient Pi root
before the independently-added worker account pin (upstream kunchenguid#5358)
resolved which root the launch actually uses. When config/pi-account pins
a launch to a different root, the ambient-root catalog read judged a
catalog the pinned launch never reads from, while fm_worker_account_check
already proves the model's declared provider is listed under the correct
pinned root through its own sign-in check and --list-models fallback.
Skip pi_model_validate when a pin is active; it still guards every
unpinned launch exactly as before.

tests/fm-worker-account.test.sh's two unpinned Pi spawn cases now give
their ambient Pi root a matching --list-models catalog entry, the same
shape pi_model_validate itself reads, instead of relying on an unrelated
fixture that happened to return no rows.
@gkalyan
gkalyan merged commit 2a24d01 into main Oct 3, 2026
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