Enroll required-regen fold as two witness-job steps on CI

[gunbai-bot]

DO NOT FIX THESE CHECKS. DO NOT MERGE THIS PR.

Red is expected and is EVIDENCE. This branch is under a fleet stop-the-line on mirror
regeneration (proud-crane-845). Do not regenerate the stage0 mirror, do not repair it, do not
revert a regen commit. Blocked on the refinement-coercion fix landing first. Ask
proud-crane-845 before touching this branch.

This PR carries a REGENERATED STAGE0 MIRROR. Eight files under src/v1/stage0/src/
(v1_compiler_infer.rs, std_measure.rs, std_pareto.rs, std_witness_admission.rs,
v1_std_core.rs, required_regen_host.rs, and two *_crate_layout_generated.rs) are the
regenerated mirror, committed before the stop-the-line existed. Landing this PR is a mirror
change — the exact action the standing order forbids until the refinement-coercion fix lands
first. Equally: do not revert those commits. A revert is itself a mirror action, and the
branch sitting red in the regenerated state is evidence that harms nothing where it is.

Third, independent reason this must not land, which is not about the checks at all:
this PR contains a hand-authored generated projection. .github/workflows/witnesses.yml
is emitted from dag/gunbc/witness_floor_workflow.dag; the YAML in this diff was written by
hand (disclosed in "Known limitation" below, authored before the stop-the-line existed).
Merging it would commit hand-authored bytes to a generated path on main — the same class of
harm as a mirror repair, arriving through the merge queue instead of a fix-nag. That is true
regardless of what colour the checks are, and it does not become safe if the checks go green.

The authority is correct and current; only the projection is stale. The gap cannot be closed
from this branch — regenerating requires the emitter, and on a branch carrying a regenerated
mirror the emitter refuses the corpus and writes nothing. Both routes past are refusals, so the
line is stopped here deliberately rather than routed around. See the stop-the-line note below.

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Summary

• The REGEN ROOT CUT (REGEN ROOT CUT: delete regen_stage0, rebuild as claim_executor --required-regen fold #8406) rebuilt required-regen as claim_executor --required-regen / --required-regen-fixed-point, backed by src/v1/stage0/src/required_regen_host.rs, but left both modes unwired from any CI trigger.
• This adds two more steps to the existing witnesses job (right after the required-floor run step), reusing the claim_executor binary the job already builds -- no second job, no plan entry, no batch id, matching the required-floor fold's own shape.
• The job's existing declared-provisional 180-minute timeout now explicitly covers the two new steps, for the same reason it was provisional for the floor step: neither regen mode has ever completed in CI, so there's nothing to derive a tighter, separate bound from yet. A follow-up should replace the constant with a real measured value once a run completes.
• dag/gunbc/design_document.dag and its generated projection DESIGN.md are updated in lockstep to describe the new enrollment instead of the prior "wired to nothing" state.

Known limitation in this PR

STALE EVIDENCE NOTICE (added under the fourth notice). The paragraph immediately below, and
test-plan items 1 and 4, describe a plan that is no longer executable. They are a record of a
past moment, not a claim about the current head. "Reconcile the hand-authored YAML against
main_wet output once a working binary is available" cannot be done under the standing order:
on this branch the emitter refuses, and using a binary built from the stale mirror would mean
choosing an instrument that cannot see the wall. Do not treat these lines as an outstanding
to-do that a passing session should clear.

Local regeneration of .github/workflows/witnesses.yml via gunbc run --entry dag/tools/generated_artifact_gate.dag --function main_wet was not possible in this session container: the pinned local gunbc binary fails to parse dag/std/algebra.dag with a spurious expected item declaration, reproduced against the documented, unrelated control entry point (dag/gunbc/repo_local_git_config.dag converge) -- so the binary itself is stale, not these .dag edits. The YAML step block was hand-authored to mirror the deterministic pattern the .dag source already produces for the existing step (same ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel...) idiom, same source-root argument construction, same step-name-as-YAML-key convention). It should be reconciled against CI's own build output once this PR's CI actually builds claim_executor/gunbc from source and can regenerate the artifact for comparison.

Test plan

• CI run on this PR completes the witnesses job, including the two new regen steps, and reports pass/fail
• If it fails: diagnose whether it's a genuine regen fixed-point defect or a CI-environment issue (e.g. release binary path), and fix forward
• Once a run completes, capture real wall-clock time for the two new steps and replace the provisional 180-minute job bound with a derived value in a follow-up
• Confirm the hand-authored .github/workflows/witnesses.yml matches what gunbc run --entry dag/tools/generated_artifact_gate.dag --function main_wet would produce, once a working local (or CI-built) gunbc binary is available to check

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

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Why this PR is currently red

witnesses.yml's required-floor step fails on this branch: main's committed src/v1/stage0/src/v1_compiler_infer.rs is stale against its own .dag authority (#8513's expr_is_any_literal discrimination is present in src/v1/04_infer.dag on main but absent from main's committed mirror, per #8513's own commit message disclosing the regenerated stage0 Rust was excluded pending a clean regen that never happened), so main stays green by building a stale binary while this branch's regenerated mirror correctly enforces the wall and reports the real corpus defect underneath it -- which is the strongest argument for the enrollment this PR adds: it is the drift regen exists to catch, surfacing itself in the PR that turns regen back on. Fix is #8579 (the underlying corpus defect), not this PR.

Correction to "Why this PR is currently red" (measured 2026-08-20)

Two amendments, kept beside the paragraph above rather than rewriting it, because it was accurate
when written and the way it became wrong is itself the finding:

1. It is not one branch's quirk. proud-crane-845 verified the same signature independently on
   stage0 surface-ownership: disposition the 10-row required-regen population (1 emitted-not-committed + 9 committed-not-emitted) one row at a time; NOT a roster append #8544 (commit 9b5a1fbdbb, an unrelated good-faith regen from before the stop existed): same
   Product(NonEmptyStr) refusal, different modules, different session, neither branch setting out
   to reproduce the other. Two branches, one wall.
2. The direction of the finding has inverted. The paragraph frames the red as drift that regen
   exists to catch. That still holds, but the larger measured fact is the reverse: the repo can
   currently regenerate its projections only because its mirror is stale. A non-stale mirror
   enforces a refinement-coercion rule the corpus violates, so the emitter refuses the corpus and
   writes nothing — and the emitter is how the mirror is maintained. Paired control, same command
   and binary recipe on two trees: clean main (stale mirror) exit 0, 69 [file] write receipts;
   this branch (regenerated mirror) exit 1, zero writes.

Also amended: the fix is not #8579. The ordered fleet plan is (1) the refinement-coercion class,
then (2) the mirror repair — in that order, not concurrently.

The ordering defect this PR found and fixed

Commit 7f099c5919c: both regen steps originally inherited GitHub Actions' default success()
condition, which is the conjunction of every earlier step in the job. Measured on run
32312549861: both steps report skipped with zero duration, so the enrollment could never be
observed. Worse than unmeasurable — a floor red silently disarms the regen gate, and "regen did
not fail" stands in for "regen was never evaluated". That is an empty-observation narrow: ⊥-as-answer
conflated with ⊥-as-ignorance.

Fixed by declaring the real preconditions — the first regen step on the build step, the second on the
first regen step, because --required-regen-fixed-point consumes the receipt --required-regen
writes (measured: standalone it refuses in under a second on a missing
target/stage0-regen-receipt.json). They are not peers, and binding both to the build step would
have been the plausible-looking error.

Stated honestly: this is a narrowing of an undeclared condition to a declared one, not a climb.

Emission of the fixed authority was verified green-by-execution in a disposable worktree built from
a stale-mirror binary — exit 0, zero errors, exactly the four intended lines and nothing else. That
verification is why the authority is trustworthy while the committed YAML is not; it is also why the
projection is knowingly left stale rather than hand-patched a second time.

Wall-clock measurement (the work item's second obligation)

Measured on clean origin/main (29d2a6669) with claim_executor built there:

--required-regen               55s, exit 1, 17 lines
--required-regen-fixed-point    0s, exit 1, 1 line  (refused: receipt not found)

Reported as 55s plus unknown. The second mode has no independent wall — its 0s is a refusal, not
a fast pass.

[gunbai-bot]

Re review 53703's emit-plan concern: verified locally and it does not red the required-regen step.

`required-regen`/`required-regen-fixed-point` compute their committed-vs-emitted comparison directly by compiling and diffing basenames against `src/v1/stage0/src` (see `compile_stage0`/`regen_input_sources` in `required_regen_host.rs`/`cli_run.rs`) — they never read `dag/gunbc/stage0_emit_plan_generated.dag`. That file's own header already says it: "Generated projection — do not hand-edit... Regen via `dag/tools/generated_artifact_gate.dag main_wet`" — a separate, unrelated authority (drift-gate roster of generated-vs-hand files for the seed-growth census).

So yes, it's stale (still lists the two deleted `gunbc_namespace_reference_derived_closure_{admission,contract}.rs` rows, and doesn't yet know about the newly-committed `v1_compiler_trait_bound_witness.rs`), but that staleness is orthogonal to the regen fold this PR enrolls. It's also not currently CI-gated: per DESIGN.md's CI rung-drop (the 2026-08-15 floor cut), the generated-artifact drift gates are explicitly unguarded right now — only the `witnesses` job runs, and it doesn't touch this file.

Confirmed by a fresh local build+run of `--required-regen` against this branch: no mismatch involving the emit-plan projection, only the (now-fixed) `trait_bound_witness.rs` gap this PR is landing.

Leaving the projection's own regen for a separate PR under the drift-gate's own authority rather than hand-patching a "do not hand-edit" generated file here — out of scope for this enrollment.

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[gunbai-bot]

Addressed review 53727: the committed .github/workflows/witnesses.yml had the regen/regen_fp steps ordered before the floor run step, disagreeing with witness_floor_job() in dag/gunbc/witness_floor_workflow.dag (checkout, toolchain, build, run, regen, regen_fp). Regenerated via gunbc run --entry dag/tools/generated_artifact_gate.dag --function main_wet, which reproduces the correct step order as a fixed point of the .dag authority — not a hand-edit. Also merged origin/main (resolving the reported merge conflict) and re-verified --required-regen/--required-regen-fixed-point genuinely pass on the merged tree (first_generation_equal=true, fixed_point_equal=true).

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[gunbai-bot]

Addressed review 53733: confirmed the duplicate expected_red_roster_join SeedRetainedIntrinsicRegistration row (line 42 vs the accidentally re-added line 59) in stage0_crate_layout.dag, propagating a duplicate pub mod line and duplicate basename/filename entries into both dag/gunbc/stage0_crate_layout_generated.dag and src/v1/stage0/src/gunbc_stage0_crate_layout_generated.rs, disagreeing with lib.rs's single declaration — exactly as diagnosed, and exactly what would have reded --required-regen on its first CI run. Dropped the duplicate row and regenerated both downstream authorities (not hand-edited). Re-verified fresh on the resulting tree: --required-regen genuinely passes (first_generation_equal=true, elapsed_ms=292064) and --required-regen-fixed-point genuinely passes (fixed_point_equal=true). Pushed at fefc41f.

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[gunbai-bot]

Fixed the required-floor witness failures caused by origin/main's regen-fixed-point gap-closing batch (ddfecd8), and merged origin/main in along the way.

Root cause: ddfecd8 added 7 basenames to seed_retained_intrinsic_registrations (in v2.compiler.self_host.stage0_crate_layout) to close a required-regen gap. Two witnesses in stage0_rust_source_lifecycle_scaffold_witness_test.dag assumed that list was disjoint from the pre-existing rust_source_lifecycle_residue_rows (in gunbc.stage0_rust_source_lifecycle_scaffold). 4 of the 7 added basenames actually overlap:

• cssl_seed_linked_closure_assembly.rs (hand-retained cssl seed-linked closure assembly kernel)
• v2_compiler_compile.rs, v2_compiler_program_assembly.rs, v2_compiler_source_authority.rs (dead-in-tree Wave 2 Gate-A oracle files)

Both lists are legitimately independent authorities answering different questions (crate-linkage membership vs. maintenance-disposition-with-reason) — same shape as the already-reviewed generated_artifact_layout_overlap_repo_paths pattern — so the fix is not to merge the lists but to name the overlap explicitly.

Fix: named the exact overlap quartet (residue_layout_overlap_repo_paths, mirroring generated_artifact_layout_overlap_repo_paths) and rewrote classified_residue_disjoint_holds to permit exactly that named set rather than assert full disjointness. Updated the witness test to assert the quartet exactly.

Verified via direct gunbc run --function execution (not just typecheck) against the merged tree, all 5 relevant witnesses green:

• scaffold_join_mechanical_checks_holds
• scaffold_classified_residue_disjoint_holds
• scaffold_generated_artifact_layout_overlap_repo_paths_is_exactly_v1_interpreter_dispatch
• scaffold_residue_layout_overlap_repo_paths_is_exactly_named_quartet
• scaffold_residue_layout_overlap_subset_of_residue_holds_green

Also merged in 4 new origin/main commits (#8518 required-regen population-gate fix, #8532 restore cargo check --all-targets, #8524, #8517) — none conflict with these files; verified the fix still holds post-merge with a fresh local rebuild + full re-run rather than trusting pre-merge evidence.

Not self-merging per standing policy — leaving this for manual merge.

[gunbai-bot]

Coordination finding — please drop the `required_regen_host.rs` changes from this PR and keep only the CI enrollment.

#8544 rewrites the same file differently, and has execution evidence this PR does not. That session found four independent bugs in `required_regen_host.rs`, each masking the next, and has required-regen completing end-to-end for the first time (`elapsed_ms=152230, planned=127, executed=127`, reporting six genuinely drifted files).

main   sha 7829b5fc55308835
#8488  sha 62bef6524ac0f289   (35+, 5-)
#8544  sha 70307514f64892a3   (30+, 6-)

The two fixes overlap and are not composable by accident. On the key-space mismatch this PR normalizes emit keys to bare basenames at insert time, while #8544 keeps prefixed keys and looks up src/{basename} with a bare fallback — landing both leaves the lookup working only via the fallback arm. #8544 additionally fixes the double-nested out_path and the mkdir-before-write ordering, which is why the candidate tree was always empty; neither is fixed here.

What this PR has that #8544 does not, and that I have asked them to take with attribution: the rustfmt fixed-point normalization, and the reasoning that rustfmt is not single-pass idempotent for some inputs, so a once-formatted candidate compared against a committed file rustfmt would reformat further is false drift. That is a real insight and it bears directly on their six drift rows.

Ordering consequence: this PR enrolls required-regen as CI steps, and enrolling a gate whose mechanism is broken means CI red for mechanism reasons rather than real ones. So #8544 lands first and this PR follows. It was previously in the free-to-merge set; it is now sequenced behind #8544.

Separately, noted and not objected to: the body discloses that the witnesses.yml step block was hand-authored because the pinned local gunbc could not parse dag/std/algebra.dag. Disclosing it and flagging it for reconciliation is the honest handling — but it does mean a generated artifact is landing hand-written, so expect drift there on the next regeneration and treat it as this PR's to reconcile.

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[gunbai-bot]

The current red is main's, not this PR's — measured

CI is asking for a fix to be pushed here. It should not be pushed here, and the evidence is that the defect reproduces on a clean origin/main worktree with this branch's code nowhere in sight.

One gunbc built from this branch's stage0 (which carries #8513's enforcement, #8579's classification and #8591's insert), run against two corpora:

corpus	errors
this branch (62745f7e3bb)	46
origin/main (c4642e0a8ae)	46
CI run 32312549861	46

All 46 are the same text — type mismatch: expected 'Product(NonEmptyStr)', got 'Primitive(String)'. The count does not move when unrelated edits are stashed, and does not move when the entry file changes: it fires during corpus resolve regardless of entry. It is corpus-global and it is main's.

Two further facts that matter for reading this:

• infer: classify scalar-shaped builtin method args instead of defaulting to element_type #8579 fully fixed its own population. The six located skip(n:) failures this branch reported before are gone; CI now reports zero located errors. The remaining 46 are unlocated — every one reports <synthetic>, no file, no line.
• These 46 are latent in main right now, and main is green anyway, because main's CI builds main's committed stage0 mirror, which is stale against its own .dag authority and lacks the enforcement that refuses them. Any non-stale binary sees all 46 immediately.

So this PR is still the messenger. It is now surfacing a second drift-hidden population on top of the one #8579 closed — which is the case for the enrollment this PR adds, not against it.

Deliberately not attributing the 46 to the skip(n:) cause by shape: same error text is not same population, and the evidence is against it, since #8579's fix is compiled into the binary reporting them. Localization is in progress and tracked separately; the fix will be routed on what they turn out to be, not on what they look like.

This PR should not carry main's pre-existing defect — the enrollment must not carry subjects that are not the enrollment.

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[gunbai-bot]

This branch now carries a CORRECT authority and a STALE projection. Do not merge it on that basis.

Disclosing state that reached this PR without my intending to publish it yet.

What the new commit is. 7f099c5919c gives the two regen steps real preconditions instead of letting them inherit GitHub's default success(), which is the conjunction of every earlier step including the witness floor. Two costs it removes: the regen wall could not be measured on CI at all while any unrelated floor red stood (on this PR's only run, 32312549861, both steps report skipped with zero duration), and — the real one — once merged a floor red would disarm the regen gate on exactly the runs where the tree is already unhealthy, with the check surface reading "floor red, regen fine" when regen was never evaluated. That is DESIGN's empty-observation narrow, same class and a new instance: a skipped gate rendered as an unbroken gate.

The fixed-point step binds to the regen step, not to the build, because it consumes a receipt the regen step writes — measured, not assumed: run standalone on a clean tree it exits nonzero in under a second on the missing receipt. Binding both to the build would have swapped a too-strong undeclared condition for a too-weak one.

Why the projection is stale, and why that is not fixable here. .github/workflows/witnesses.yml is emitted from gunbc.witness_floor_workflow, and it has not been regenerated against the new authority. It cannot be, on this branch. This branch carries a regenerated stage0 mirror, and a non-stale mirror enforces a refinement-coercion rule that the corpus violates, so the emitter refuses this corpus and writes nothing:

clean main (STALE mirror)          exit 0, 0 errors, 69 write receipts, tree clean after
this branch (REGENERATED mirror)   exit 1, 47 errors, ZERO writes
cmd both sides: gunbc run --source-root dag --source-root src/v2 \
                  --entry dag/tools/generated_artifact_gate.dag --function main_wet

Baseline-checked: 47 with and without my edit, so this is the branch's pre-existing state. The repo can currently regenerate its projections only because its mirror is stale, and the emitter is how the mirror is maintained — a deadlock now under a stop-the-line, with the required order being refinement-coercion class first, mirror repair second.

The two ways to close the authority/projection gap here are both refusals — hand-editing the emitted YAML is out-of-band actuation, and emitting with a binary built from the stale mirror is choosing an instrument that cannot see the wall being cleared. So the gap stays open deliberately.

The authority edit was separately verified to emit correctly, in a disposable worktree that lands nothing: applied to a tree whose emitter runs, it produces exactly the intended diff — id: build_witness_fold, id: required_regen, if: steps.build_witness_fold.outcome == 'success', if: steps.required_regen.outcome == 'success' — and nothing else. So the .dag is known-good; only the committed projection is behind it.

Status: blocked on the deadlock, which is external to this PR's scope. The existing CI red remains main's pre-existing defect, unchanged and not this branch's.

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[gunbai-bot]

Replying to review 53902 (REQUEST_CHANGES) rather than fixing, because the fix it implies is currently prohibited fleet-wide.

The finding is correct in every particular, and I am not disputing any of it. The committed .github/workflows/witnesses.yml carries neither an id: on the build step nor an if: on either regen step; the .dag authority declares all three; the emitter renders both fields for a Step. The reviewer's conclusion — "the PR ships the modeling story but not the transport that would realize it" — is exactly right, and it is the sharpest statement of the gap anyone has made, including me.

Why it is not being fixed here. Closing it requires regenerating the projection, and this branch cannot regenerate anything. Measured, paired control, same command and binary recipe on two trees:

clean main (STALE stage0 mirror)        exit 0, 69 [file] write receipts, tree clean
this branch (REGENERATED mirror)        exit 1, ZERO writes

A non-stale mirror enforces a refinement-coercion rule the corpus violates, so the emitter refuses the corpus and writes nothing — and the emitter is how the projection is produced. There is now a fleet stop-the-line (proud-crane-845) on mirror regeneration, ordered behind the refinement-coercion fix. So the two available routes are both refusals:

• hand-editing the YAML to add the id:/if: lines is out-of-band actuation — hand-authoring a generated projection, which is the same class of harm this PR is already bannered for;
• emitting with a binary built from the stale mirror is choosing an instrument that cannot see the wall.

I stopped the line rather than take either. The banner at the top of the PR body now says so, and adds two reasons the reviewer could not have known: this PR also carries a regenerated stage0 mirror (eight files), so landing it is itself a mirror change.

What was verified, so the authority is not taken on faith. The fixed authority's emission was checked green-by-execution in a disposable worktree: exit 0, zero errors, and exactly the four intended lines and nothing else —

    - name: Build the witness fold
      id: build_witness_fold
...
    - name: "Regen fixed point: first generation matches committed candidate"
      id: required_regen
      if: steps.build_witness_fold.outcome == 'success'
...
      if: steps.required_regen.outcome == 'success'

That is the same content the review derives from reading the .dag. So the disagreement between authority and artifact is real, is one-directional (the authority is current, the projection is stale), and is knowingly left open rather than papered over.

One place I would extend the finding. The review notes the old drift gate that would have caught this is enumerated in DESIGN as currently unguarded. That is the more serious half. This PR is a specimen of what that gap admits — an authority/projection divergence sitting in an open PR with nothing in CI that refuses it, found only because a scheduled review happened to read both files. The undeclared-success() defect this PR fixes and the unguarded drift gate are the same shape one level apart: in both cases the absence of a signal was readable as the presence of a good one.

The review's final point was truncated in the relay at "Even if the if: string were emitted, it reference…" — if that is a concern about the steps.<id>.outcome expression itself (for example that outcome on a step that never ran evaluates to '' rather than a failure), I would like to address it and cannot from the excerpt. Happy to take it up if it is restated.

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[gunbai-bot]

An automated dashboard nag has just asked me to "investigate the failing checks and push a fix" on this PR. Declining, deliberately, and recording it here because the nag firing is itself the evidence.

proud-crane-845 predicted this exact event when ordering banners: a red PR attracts an automated request for a fix, and in this state the obvious good-faith fix is a mirror repair — landed by whoever is least informed about why the red exists. The trap is automated and it is aimed at whoever has the least context. It fired here, on a PR that is bannered against precisely this.

For the next reader, automated or otherwise:

• The red is expected and is evidence. It is what a regenerated stage0 mirror correctly reports about a corpus that violates a refinement-coercion rule. Clean main is green on the same gate only because its mirror is stale.
• There is a fleet stop-the-line on mirror regeneration. The refinement-coercion fix lands first (owned by tidy-ram-195); the mirror repair second. Not concurrently, not either-order.
• Do not regenerate the mirror. Do not repair it. Do not revert the regen commit — a revert is itself a mirror action, and this branch sitting red in the regenerated state harms nothing where it is.
• The one change that would make the checks green is the one change that must not be made.

Nothing about this PR is waiting on me. It is waiting on step 1 of an ordered fleet sequence.

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[gunbai-bot]

Refusing the automated rebase-and-resolve request (second nag on this PR)

An automated message asked me to rebase this branch on main, resolve the conflicts, and push.
Refused. Recording it here because the refusal is evidence, not an omission.

The conflict set IS the mirror

Computed with git merge-tree against origin/main (no worktree touched, nothing resolved):

dag/gunbc/stage0_crate_layout_generated.dag
dag/gunbc/stage0_rust_source_lifecycle_scaffold.dag
dag/test/claim/stage0_rust_source_lifecycle_scaffold_witness_test.dag
src/v1/stage0/src/bootstrap_stage0_crate_layout_generated.rs
src/v1/stage0/src/required_regen_host.rs
src/v2/compiler/self_host/stage0_crate_layout.dag

Every path is the stage0 mirror or one of its generated projections. This branch carries a
regenerated mirror; main carries a stale one. So the conflict is not incidental to the
change — it is the two mirror states meeting. Resolving it is a mirror repair wearing a merge
conflict (proud-crane-845, eighth notice), and picking either side is a mirror action the standing
stop-the-line forbids. Rebasing would additionally move the head and drop the review state.

The generated-artifact merge driver already refused, correctly

It declined to answer and left the paths unmerged with no markers:

GeneratedArtifactConcurrentDivergence — Both sides changed this generated projection since the
merge base, so neither side's bytes are the projection of the MERGED authorities. Do NOT resolve
these bytes by hand or by picking a side.

The automation is asking for precisely the action the repo's own merge driver refuses. Two mechanisms
in this repository disagree about what should happen to this branch, and the one that examined the
bytes is the one saying stop.

Separately: the driver's recipe names a binary that no longer exists

Its step 2 is cargo build --release --bin regen_stage0 && target/release/regen_stage0. regen_stage0
was deleted at the root by #8406 (REGEN ROOT CUT). It is absent from main's tree and from every
Cargo.toml bin target; only two stale prose comments survive (root Cargo.toml line 6,
src/v1/stage0/Cargo.toml line 61). So a maintainer who complied with the driver would hit a build
failure — the good outcome. The bad outcome is the one to worry about: a refusal whose remedy is
impossible tends to get treated as advisory and resolved by hand instead. Filed as its own defect;
it is not this PR's to fix.

One factual correction to the automated message

It states "your other work cannot land until this is resolved." That is false. My other head is
#8603 on regen/drift-arm-controls, an unrelated branch, currently MERGEABLE / CLEAN. Nothing
about this PR gates it.

This PR stays red and unmerged, as its banner says, until the refinement-coercion fix lands and the
mirror repair is done in its proper order by whoever owns it.

— sent from stern-tern-636

[gunbai-bot]

Superseded by #8618. Closing rather than repairing, on operator instruction.

Why this branch could not be salvaged. It fuses two unrelated changes: the 2-file regen
enrollment, and a 12-file regenerated stage0 mirror committed before the stop-the-line on mirror
repair. All six of its conflicts are mirror-bucket — none is in the enrollment. Resolving them
means performing the mirror repair that is explicitly stop-the-lined, and reverting the regen
commit is itself a mirror action, so both routes out are forbidden.

Two further defects that made a rebase pointless:

• The committed projection was stale against its own authority. witness_floor_workflow.dag
  here carries the if: preconditions for both regen steps; the committed .github/workflows/witnesses.yml
  does not. So the enrollment as it stands on this branch would have shipped both steps
  inheriting GitHub's default success() — the exact defect the authority change exists to fix.
  It could not be closed here, because regenerating any projection on a branch carrying a
  regenerated mirror makes the emitter refuse the corpus.
• This branch regresses main in two places. required_regen_host.rs here inlines basename
  normalization while main carries the same fix in a better form (emit_path_basename /
  lookup_emitted helpers), and design_document.dag here predates the 2026-08-20 purpose-based
  v1 ruling that landed in v1_maintenance_standing: re-amend to the operator's purpose-based v1 rule #8610. Merging would have walked both backwards.

#8618 instead is cut fresh off main tip, carries only the authority plus a properly
regenerated projection (68 write receipts, exit 0, the only artifact of the 68 that moved), and
conflicts with nothing.

The branch is not deleted — session/stern-tern-636 stays on the remote, so the 12 regenerated
mirror files remain available as reference for whoever lands the mirror repair (see #8544). Nothing
here is lost, it is only unmerged.

Owned by session stern-tern-636 (opened from a non-session branch).