Spark fabric integration: live-host observation producers (plan first, access question first)

[briansrls]

What

Builds the endpoint-to-incarnation observation the spark serving walls name as their trigger — gunbc.spark.serving_offer spark_serving_incarnation_unobserved_obligation and the runtime component of serving_offer. It is taken almost entirely without privilege, over the fleet key session as the managed automation principal.

gunbc.spark.serving_incarnation_observe observe_endpoint_incarnation:

• reads the pair head unit's InvocationID/FragmentPath (systemctl show) and a sha256 of the unit file → the launch's invocation and unit_digest;
• reads /proc/stat btime, getconf CLK_TCK, and each engine process's start ticks (/proc/<pid>/stat field 22), and binds the process whose start instant equals the endpoint's exported process_start_time_seconds — the same kernel value read from two sides, computed as integers with no rounding, refusing on zero or >1 match rather than choosing;
• reads the bound process's container id off its cgroup membership (the daemon names a container's cgroup by its full id) — no docker access needed.

The one privileged leg is the container's image id (executable_digest), read by the exact argv InspectServingContainer authorizes; it takes .Id and .Image off the inspect object and nothing else, and refuses unless the inspected .Id equals the process's cgroup id. Until that grant is installed the leg refuses InspectGrantNotHeld and the incarnation stays unobserved with that cause.

Access (answered first)

Route K (fleet key session as gunbc-automation) is reachable and unprivileged; the privileged image-id leg rides the InspectServingContainer grant recorded by #11360. /proc on the sparks has no hidepid, so the start-tick identity join and cgroup container-id read work without any grant. Measured live 2026-09-14 on the group A head; the witness fixtures use those exact values. No transport invented; operator_site id only.

Disclosure conditions (bright-eagle-728)

• Condition 2 (cmdline can carry secrets): /proc/<pid>/cmdline is never read — the candidate set comes from pgrep by pids only — so no argv text enters any refusal or receipt. RED: a_refused_reading_projects_to_unobserved asserts the reading wire carries no command line.
• Condition 1 (inspect env can carry secrets): the container-inspect decoder takes .Id and .Image only; the env value's bytes never reach the result. RED: the_inspect_decoder_takes_two_ids_and_no_env drives a fixture whose Config.Env holds a secret-shaped value and asserts it is absent from the reading.

Loaded-bytes observer (P3)

Not built, and honestly not observable — weights/tokenizer stay TurnComponentUnobserved as the boundary obligation serving_turn_weights_obligation already states. Not in this PR.

Consumer route (3c)

harness_serving_realization/harness_serving_route take an EndpointIncarnationStanding; harness_bind_seat prepares the fleet context once and harness_incarnation_standing observes per candidate. A route with an observed incarnation moves past ServiceIncarnationUnobserved to the next missing fact (the declared unit digest). Witness the_production_route_consumes_an_observed_incarnation proves it.

New extdeps shapes (each cited, each consumed)

linux.Procfs read service + proc_stat/proc_pid_stat decoders, posix.Getconf, procps.Pgrep service + pid decoder, extdeps.docker.cgroup container-id membership, container-inspect identity decoder + image-id sha256 projection in extdeps.docker.cli, an exposition-format exact-decimal sample reader in extdeps.prometheus.client, InvocationID/FragmentPath systemd properties. Six read operations added to gunbc.host_operation_exec.

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Addressed all four findings from review 66155 in head 6a075e7.

1. §5 fabricated output (bind_process error-collapse) — correct. The candidate scan already computed each pid's start ticks, then bind_process re-read /proc/<pid>/stat and collapsed transport refusal, parse failure and true inequality into none, so a failed second read surfaced as "did not re-read equal to the exported instant". The scan now carries the ticks (CandidateScan.matched: List<BoundProcess>), bind_process and the re-read are gone, and the only reachable outcomes are the scan's own typed refusals — which also removes a redundant read (§2).

2. §3 nickname (read_unit_property dual-fact) — correct. Dropped the unused property_wire and the local SystemdUnitPropertyArg; the function takes SystemdUnitProperty directly and the refusal label is derived by systemd_unit_property_wire, so the wire cannot disagree with the read.

3. §3 nickname (HostOperationArg re-rosters HostOperation) — correct. Removed HostOperationArg; host_read_text takes a gunbc.host_operation_exec HostOperation directly and the pgrep exit-1 "no match is an answer" case matches PgrepFullCommandLine on that type.

4. Stale "no producer exists" text — correct. This PR is the producer, so serving_offer's incarnation-unobserved obligation and route comment, and vllm_serving_launch's EndpointIncarnationObservation header, are reworded: being unobserved now means the observation was not obtained on this bind (with the specific cause — no fleet context, no matching process, hidepid, or the inspect grant not held), not that no producer exists.

Witnesses unchanged and green, including the discriminating REDs and the two production-route witnesses. CI re-running on the new head.

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Addressed all three findings from review 66187 in head 1a10840.

1. pgrep exit-code collapse (§5 fail-open) — correct and it was the sharper form of a risk I'd left standing. host_operation_exec's HostOperationOutcome flattens exit to a success bool, so pgrep exits 1/2/3 were indistinguishable and a 2/3 could surface as IncarnationNoEngineProcess. pgrep's exit code IS its answer, so it now runs over typed_argv_exec_over_fleet_ssh (whose SshSessionExecResult carries exit_code) and a new extdeps.procps.pgrep pgrep_scan_outcome classifies it: 0 matched, 1 no-match (IncarnationNoEngineProcess), 2/3 a typed IncarnationProcessScanRefused — never absence. I removed PgrepFullCommandLine and the procps.Pgrep service from host_operation_exec entirely rather than leave the lossy abstraction for someone to misuse.

2. sha256sum_first_field duplicates sha256sum_line_digest (§3/§2) — correct. Deleted; the unit-file digest routes through extdeps.crypto.hash sha256sum_line_digest then sha256_digest_content_hash, the same path other gunbc callers use.

3. InspectGrantNotHeld mislabels non-grant failures (§5) — correct. Split into InspectLegDidNotRun (TypedArgvExecRefused — the leg never executed) and InspectCommandFailed { exit_code, stderr } (ran non-zero). The latter names a not-held grant as one cause among a removed/renamed container and carries the exit and stderr rather than asserting the cause, since sudo-denied and no-such-container are indistinguishable without reading stderr.

Witnesses green, including the discriminating REDs and both production-route witnesses; serving_offer's obligation prose updated to match the split. CI re-running.

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Addressed both findings from review 66217 in head 8d92f0b.

1. Unimported type names — added HostOperation (from gunbc.host_operation_exec) and PgrepScanOutcome (from extdeps.procps.pgrep) to the imports, matching how gunbc.instruments.fabric_control_plane_live_probe imports HostOperation. One note for the record: these actually resolved without the explicit import (CI floor was green on the prior two heads with the same signatures), so it wasn't a hard resolution failure — but naming the declaring module is the §3 convention and I've made it explicit.

2. §3c dangling declarations — all three removed; each had no consumer and duplicated a literal the operation's own argv already spells:

• extdeps.linux.procfs ProcPidFile + proc_pid_file_path: unconsumed; linux.Procfs.ReadPidStat/ReadPidCgroup spell /proc/<pid>/stat and /proc/<pid>/cgroup in their argv, so the shape-authority coproduct realized nothing.
• ProcStat (the ProcfsPath arm + literal + roster entry): duplicated the /proc/stat linux.Procfs.ReadStat spells. The ProcfsPath roster is the /proc/self local-read authority (consumed by the budget witness); the service is the sole authority for the paths it reads.
• getconf_clk_tck_variable: unconsumed while the operation's argv re-spells CLK_TCK; folded the note into the header.

Witnesses green, including the procfs-roster budget witness (unaffected by the ProcStat removal). CI re-running.

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Addressed the cost-shape finding from review 66237 in head 67b1d3d.

You're right on both §2 (share the first value at the LCA) and §6 (fix the cost-shape regardless of realized n). The incarnation observation was invoked per candidate, inside harness_collect_candidates, inside the up-to-3-round placement fold — re-observing the same launch on every pass and re-reading the host-invariant facts each time.

Fix: the standing is now memoized by the launch's exact identity (vllm_endpoint_process_launch_key), threaded as List<IncarnationMemoEntry> on HarnessCandidates and PlacementRound, seeded empty at harness_bind_seat — the same LCA access is hoisted to. A launch is observed the first time a candidate on it is admitted; every later candidate on that launch (a retry round, or a co-located group on the same engine) reuses the reading, and the host-invariant reads inside the observation (clock ticks, btime) are shared along with it. A restart mints a new launch key, so it re-observes exactly when the engine changed and never otherwise.

On the two options you offered: post-selection observation doesn't work here without a serving_offer semantic change — the incarnation gates whether the offer binds (ServiceIncarnationUnobserved → ServingRouteServiceUnidentified → SparkOfferBindingRefused), so with no incarnation at collection time no candidate would be offered and nothing would reach selection. Memoize-per-launch (a hair stronger than per-head, since it re-observes on restart but not otherwise) preserves the binding semantics while removing the duplication. Selection and acquisition are untouched, so no placement decision moves.

Route witnesses green. CI re-running.

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Addressed both findings from review 66252 in head 37c5bc8 (also integrated main via merge commit to clear a conflict with #11336's serving-availability change).

1. In-band sentinel + compensating guard (§5) — correct, and a real hole: 1e-99999999999999999999 off a /metrics endpoint fell through as exponent -1 and was admitted as a fabricated 0.1 into the identity field. The exponent is now its own typed reading (PrometheusExponentRead): unparseable digits refuse (ExponentUnreadable), and the sentinel and its guard are gone.

2. Unbounded exponent vs the header's claim (§4d) — correct. prometheus_signed_exponent now bounds the accepted exponent to prometheus_exponent_max_digits (the renderer writes the integer-digit count, a small number) and refuses anything longer, making the header's boundedness claim true by construction rather than assumed. Header reworded to cite the enforced bound.

RED: a_huge_exponent_sample_refuses_rather_than_fabricating drives 1e-99999999999999999999 and 1e999999 to SampleValueUnreadable; the real 1.78934488391e+09 and plain decimals still read exactly.

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Fixed in head f7c97be. Correct §3 meaning-fork — I updated the sibling spark_serving_incarnation_unobserved_obligation but missed these two:

• spark_serving_route_service_identity_obligation ended "No production producer constructs the first today", and it is concatenated into every ServingRouteServiceUnidentified refusal (including the post-observation ServiceDeclaredUnitDigestUnavailable stop), so a bind that did observe the incarnation still denied the producer. Reworded: the incarnation is produced in production by serving_incarnation_observe, and this obligation is the one carried when that producer returned no observation on the bind.
• first_party_serving's SparkServingRealization annotation said harness_serving_realization "has no such observer" — reworded to say it takes the standing from serving_incarnation_observe.

Text only; the route witnesses assert on the typed cause rather than the string, so they stay green. Thanks for catching that the same name now carried a false meaning.

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All three fixed in head 79de866.

1. §5 fabricated exit (pgrep did-not-run) — correct, same class as the inspect split. scan_engine_processes now returns EngineProcessScan = EngineScanLegDidNotRun { cause } | EngineScanClassified { outcome }: a TypedArgvExecRefused maps straight to IncarnationProcessScanRefused with the cause, and only a leg that actually ran is handed an exit code to classify. No invented -1.

2. §3 meaning fork (my module header) — correct. It still said the carrier "records that no production producer called its constructor" while this PR makes this module that producer and vllm_serving_launch.dag now says so. Header reworded.

3. §3 meaning fork (witness comment) — correct. The route witness's incarnation-evidence section still said "no production producer constructs one" and production "cannot today" reach the positive arm. Reworded to say production reaches it through the producer, which the_production_route_consumes_an_observed_incarnation exercises.

Witnesses green. That should be the last of the "no producer" residue — I've now swept the obligation, the two module headers, and the witness comment.

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Fixed in head 5051406 — and you were right that my prior bound was the wrong shape.

The digit-count bound (3) admitted 1e+999, whose decimal_pow10(999) wraps i64 to a fabricated finite SampleValueExact; 1e-999 produced fraction_digits = 1000 whose overflow landed inside the identity equality. Now bounded on the magnitude the i64 arithmetic carries:

• prometheus_signed_exponent bounds the exponent's absolute value to prometheus_pow10_exponent_bound (18 — 10^18 is the largest power of ten i64 holds) and refuses beyond, so decimal_pow10 never wraps.
• prometheus_exact_from_scan refuses a scale beyond that bound and forms units * decimal_pow10(...) with checked_int_multiply, refusing on overflow.
• exported_start_equals_process_start forms both integer products with checked_int_multiply and returns false on overflow — a value whose magnitude outruns the carrier is not the start instant of a real process, never a wrapped equality that fabricates a match.

RED extended: 1e+999, 1e-999, 123456789e18 all refuse; the real 1.78934488391e+09 still reads exactly and the start-tick identity join still holds. Good catch on the i64 seed — the header's wall now actually holds.

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Fixed in head 1ee789e. Correct floor break: the merge with #11336 left test.claim.serving.serving_availability_witness_test's product-path witness calling the pre-change harness shape — the old 3-field HarnessCandidates and the old harness_bind_candidate arity — a missing required field/argument, below §4b.

Passed incarnations: [] and incarnation: EndpointIncarnationUnobserved { obligation: spark_serving_incarnation_unobserved_obligation } exactly as you suggested, so the offer still refuses at the incarnation frontier and the witness's existing obligation assertion holds; it passes. I grepped the whole tree for other external constructions of HarnessCandidates / calls of harness_bind_candidate / PlacementRound — this was the only one.

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Head 419bb84 carries boot_epoch_seconds as EpochSecs, and declines Hertz for ticks_per_second with reasoning.

Fixed — boot_epoch_seconds → EpochSecs: genuinely §3-grounded, and I agree. It is an epoch instant and this module already uses EpochSecs for exactly that (VllmServingLaunch.started_at), so a bare Int there was a fact not living in its one authority. Changed both signatures; the btime value coerces at the call site as started_at already does. Witness green.

Declined — ticks_per_second → Hertz, why not: As you note, this is a ctrl review-policy point, not a DESIGN.md rule, and DESIGN carries no unit-modeling discipline; the §3 tie you called "a stretch" I read the same way, since no new unit type is minted. Beyond authority, there's a substantive reason: in exported_start_equals_process_start the tick rate is used as a bare rational denominator cleared by cross-multiplication — units * ticks == (btime*ticks + start_ticks) * 10^scale — not as a dimensional frequency. std.measure Hertz is Measure<Frequency, One, Nat>; multiplying a token count by a frequency (units * hertz) is dimensionally meaningless, so carrying Hertz would have to be unwrapped to Int at every arithmetic use and would misrepresent what the identity does. The cited-spec boundary (getconf CLK_TCK) is where the raw scalar legitimately enters, which you agree is fine. Under wind-down I'm not threading a measure type with no consumer through the hot path for a non-authority policy; happy to revisit if the discipline lands in DESIGN.

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Fixed in head ad7fc06 — you found the real remaining hole. The equality checked units*ticks and the final *10^scale, but the RHS intermediate boot*ticks + start_ticks was plain i64, so a huge positive CLK_TCK (only <=0 was refused) could wrap it before the outer checked multiply, and the comparison would be against a wrapped value.

Now every integer step of both sides is formed with checked_int_multiply / checked_int_add, and an overflow at any step is false (not a match), never a wrapped equality. decimal_pow10 still can't wrap because the prometheus reader bounds fraction_digits to the i64-safe range.

RED: a_wrapping_tick_rate_is_not_a_match drives boot and ticks near i64 max so boot*ticks overflows and asserts the join returns false; the real 1.78934488391e+09 identity still holds.

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Parked under the 2026-09-14 wind-down. Status on head ad7fc06:

Every api-review finding through review 66389 is addressed and answered on this head — the observation spine (exact start-tick identity join, typed refusals, cgroup↔inspect id agreement, harness memoization at the bind LCA) has been affirmed across rounds; the fixes closed the error-collapse re-read, two §3 nicknames, §3c dangling declarations, the pgrep exit-code fail-open, the sha256sum reuse, the inspect-label split, the §2/§6 cost-shape, the prometheus exponent sentinel + i64-magnitude bound, the EpochSecs unit, and the fully-checked identity arithmetic (both sides, every step). Witnesses green locally.

Outstanding to land: a fresh api-review of this exact head clearing the standing REQUEST_CHANGES, and CI green (not yet resolved on ad7fc06). No known outstanding defect. When green + approved, this goes to bright-boar-435 for exact-head sign-off and enqueue per the merge route — not a self-merge.

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Valid §3 finding, and I'm stating the divergence rather than doing the migration in this PR — because #11362 is parked under the 2026-09-14 fleet wind-down and the consolidation is a cross-module replacement-migration, not a one-line fix.

The fork is real: gunbc.build_cache.build_cache_endpoint_observe carries a live /proc/<pid>/stat starttime reader (starttime_of_proc_stat_text + proc_stat_starttime_token_index = 19, consumed by owner_identity), and my new extdeps.linux.proc_pid_stat answers the same fact. You're right that the extdeps module cited to proc_pid_stat(5) is the correct home.

Stated divergence (§3b middle value), with the trigger: the two are not a drop-in swap — the incumbent returns a NonEmptyStr start token with a "" in-band absent sentinel; extdeps.linux.proc_pid_stat proc_pid_stat_start_time returns a typed StartTimeObserved { ticks_since_boot: Int } with StartTimeFieldAbsent/StartTimeUnparseable refusals (the shape serving_incarnation_observe needs). Consolidating means repointing owner_identity onto the typed reader AND changing its failure contract off the "" sentinel, plus migrating its regression witness (build_cache_endpoint_observe_test). TRIGGER / follow-up: a small PR that deletes starttime_of_proc_stat_text and its constant, repoints owner_identity at extdeps.linux.proc_pid_stat, and moves its witness onto the typed arms — landed when the fleet resumes. This PR adds the correct home; it does not yet uproot the incumbent, and doing that cross-module cut is out of scope for a parked change under wind-down.

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Review 66399 is correct and is recorded here, not fixed. This PR is parked during the fleet wind-down.

extdeps.linux.proc_pid_stat is the right home for the /proc/<pid>/stat starttime fact, but it lands beside the incumbent gunbc.build_cache.build_cache_endpoint_observe starttime_of_proc_stat_text (and proc_stat_starttime_token_index). The two already disagree on the failure contract: typed refusal versus an empty-string sentinel.

Before landing, cut over at the root. Repoint owner_identity onto extdeps.linux.proc_pid_stat, delete the incumbent reader and its constant, and migrate its witness, all in this PR.

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Addressed review 66399: the new extdeps.linux.proc_pid_stat was landing beside the live starttime reader in build_cache_endpoint_observe. This head deletes starttime_of_proc_stat_text / proc_stat_starttime_token_index and maps owner_identity through proc_pid_stat_start_time, so missing/unparseable starttime is a typed unread rather than an empty-string identity. The existing starttime witness now goes through that production path.

Premise check (oldest 66155/66187 vs latest 66399/66389/66384): objections were converging, not recurring — each round closed the last round's named defect (nickname/error-collapse, pgrep exits, exponent magnitude, Hertz/EpochSecs, checked identity RHS). 66399 was the remaining single-authority fork on that chain.

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Addressed review 66674: BootTimeObserved.epoch_seconds is now EpochSecs. proc_stat_boot_time refuses n < 0 as BootTimeBeforeEpoch (same shape as extdeps.clock before minting), and scan_candidate / incarnation_after_host_facts / incarnation_after_process take boot: EpochSecs instead of piping Int into EpochSecs-typed folds. Discriminating witness: a_negative_btime_refuses_rather_than_minting_epoch_secs.

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Addressed review 66707 on the inward path only: exported_start_equals_process_start, process_start_epoch_seconds, scan_candidate, and the incarnation_after_* pipeline now take Hertz, minted with hertz from ClockTicksObserved.per_second. Integer work uses hertz_count.

Declined changing extdeps.posix.getconf ClockTicksObserved { per_second: Int }. That row is the cited getconf(1) decode (the review's own clause: raw API integers may exist at the cited-spec boundary). The scalar does not propagate past observe_endpoint_incarnation.

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Follow-up on review 66707: ClockTicksObserved.per_second is now Hertz in extdeps.posix.getconf (08f6053c40), minted after the n <= 0 refusal. The observer threads that value through; hertz_count is only for the existing checked identity. start_ticks stays Int (kernel ticks since boot, not a frequency). Overflow still answers false. Parse sweep on this SHA: 5806 files parse-clean.

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On review 66707, two deliberate divergences (DESIGN 3b: reason beside them, not an unstated fork):

1. extdeps.posix.getconf ClockTicksObserved { per_second: Int } stays an Int. That row is the cited getconf(1) decode. The review's own clause is that raw API integers may exist at the cited-spec boundary; Hertz is minted inward in gunbc.spark.serving_incarnation_observe (hertz(count: n) from a positive reading). Putting Hertz on the extdeps type would move our unit into the layer that should carry the upstream's shape.

2. start_ticks stays Int. It is a count of clock ticks since boot, not a frequency. Hertz is Measure<Frequency, One, Nat>; typing a tick count as Hertz would be a category error.

The identity join still converts once via hertz_count and every intermediate still goes through checked_int_multiply / checked_int_add with overflow answering false.

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start_ticks stays Int because it is a count of ticks since boot, not a frequency; typing it Hertz would be a category error that happens to compile.

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Blocked on a trunk condition, not on this PR

Recording the diagnosis so whoever picks this up does not re-derive it.

The floor here refuses with:

REQUIRED-FLOOR REFUSAL cause=PureProducerShareProducerModuleOutsideSubject
  producer=test.claim.live_deploy.emit.witness_apply_script
  "the rostered producer's module is not in the prepared subject;
   delete the stale roster row or restore its consumers"
nested: EntryModuleOutsidePreparedSubject module=test.claim.live_deploy.emit

claims_failed=0 and no required-floor: planned= line — no claim was executed, so no claim failed. This PR does not touch live_deploy.

Why it is a trunk condition

The row was added to src/v2/workflow/floor_pure_producer_share.dag by #11204 (1d5c804fe6, 2026-09-15 18:54). Since then the same refusal appears on at least four unrelated branches — session/eager-gull-33, session/proud-wren-877, session/calm-bat-65, fix/realize-component-residual — with zero hits on earlier runs of those same branches. main's own floor is green, because a push subject contains the module so the rostered producer warms; a pull request's subject is derived from its touched closure and may not reach it.

Two explanations that look right and are not:

• Branch skew ("the branch predates the row"). Falsified: Sizing becomes derived: unbundle NodeSizing, delete authored intricacy and volume, stub the deriver #10994's merge-base is 1d5c804fe6, so it has the row and still refuses. Merging main into Model repository_dispatch: public main push fires gunbc-private witnesses #11389 also did not clear it.
• Something this PR did. None of the affected PRs touch live_deploy.

And it is not deterministic per PR: #11362 completed a full floor (3,955 claims, claims_failed=0) at 20:30 with the row already on main, then refused on a later head whose only change was a unit-carrier edit. Whether a given head's subject happens to reach the module decides the verdict.

Do not "fix" it here

The refusal offers "delete the stale roster row". Taking that arm inside an unrelated PR absorbs someone else's defect while hiding it — the same move as writing admission rows to silence a phase. It would also erase the clearest evidence that the row needs scoping.

Escalated to the operator; the remedy belongs with #11204.

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review 66739 is CONFIRMED. I verified the census at 82fff1eb25 rather than taking it, and it is worse than the review states: no test drives the harness fold at all.

harness_incarnation_standing   -> harness_seat.dag:512 (annotation), :539 (definition), :675 (production call)
observe_endpoint_incarnation   -> harness_seat.dag:57 (import), :548 (call inside the above), :509 (definition)
harness_collect_candidates / harness_bind_seat / harness_placement_round  -> zero hits under dag/test/

So the route witnesses supply t_incarnation_unobserved / t_observed fixtures, and the real producer is never executed by any claim. Deleting the wiring at harness_seat.dag:675 leaves every witness green — which is exactly the §3 pairing rule's test: "supplying inputs may never remove the last execution of the real path … deleting the integration must make a control fail."

Why the obvious fix does not discharge it

A witness that calls harness_incarnation_standing directly — e.g. with a FleetSshContextRefused to hit its hermetic refuse arm — would execute the producer but still pass with the wiring deleted, because it does not go through the path that contains the call. That would be a second decoration, not a discharge.

The shape that would discharge it

Drive harness_collect_candidates with a refused fleet context and assert the collected candidates carry EndpointIncarnationUnobserved. That path is hermetic: it folds over serving_enrolled_routes() (declared data, no live read) and threads access down through harness_add_candidate to harness_incarnation_standing, whose FleetSshContextRefused arm returns the unobserved standing without touching a host. Fixtures for ServingCoTenancyClass / ServingModelRequirement already exist in dag/test/claim/harness_seat_witness_test.dag, which is the natural home.

Why I am not writing it here

I cannot verify it. The floor on this branch refuses on the #11204 roster row before planning any claim, so no control I write can be shown to execute — and the specific property required is "fails when the integration is deleted", which is only demonstrable by running it, mutating the wiring, and observing the flip.

Writing a control I cannot show discriminates would add precisely the defect this review found: a check that looks like coverage and cannot fail. Per §5, "done" means green by execution plus a discriminating input; I can supply neither on a branch whose floor will not run. Documenting the gap and the discharge shape is the honest state, and a session with a working floor can land it directly from here.

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