A required CI phase that compiles an emitted closure, with its red established by mutation

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A required CI phase that runs cargo over an emitted closure, with a red established by mutation

What this closes

DESIGN's Building-&-checks section carries a declared rung drop headed "A BLOCKING EMIT-STAGE
DIAGNOSTIC CAN SIT ON MAIN INDEFINITELY WITH NO REQUIRED PHASE THAT FAILS", whose restoration
trigger reads: this row retires when a required phase EMITS over a closure that reaches call sites
— the compile re-add on the queue the floor cut created.

The v2-emission phase emits and stops. Its own header in cli_run.rs enumerates what it therefore
cannot see, and the first item is "a rustc error in the emitted tree (nothing here compiles the
emission)". Its dissolution row states the boundary in as many words: same producer, stopping
before cargo.

This is that missing conjunct. Same producer (compile_entry_emission), the emitted files written
as a crate, cargo run over it.

The DESIGN row is NARROWED, not retired. The phase reaches a bounded roster of closures, so
escape mode one is smaller and still open; escape modes two and three (the orphan module no closure
reaches, and the DeclarationRef naming it) are untouched.

The red is the deliverable, and it is manufactured rather than found

A cargo phase that is green because nothing was measured is the decoration §4b calls worse than
absent — and this repository already has that shape at nine identities: DESIGN's own row records a
compile-clean witness family where five members are no-route, three are declined-live, and the one
that passes checks that two realizations agree about a policy row.

So a green baseline alone is not a pass here. Every run:

1. emits the entry's closure and writes it as a crate,
2. requires cargo to compile it,
3. injects one type error into one emitted closure member,
4. requires cargo to fail alone on it,
5. restores the bytes byte-exactly and requires the green back.

NotAttempted, NotDiscriminating and RestoreFailed each fail the phase. A cargo verdict that
has stopped being a function of the emitted bytes stops the line instead of reporting coverage.

Why this matters for the subject choice, and it is the load-bearing argument in this PR. Two
reviewers independently assumed the red had to be FOUND — that discrimination depends on a real
emission defect happening to sit inside the subject. On that assumption the subject is load-bearing
for whether the phase can go red at all, and any small subject risks a permanently green check. This
phase does not make that assumption. It INJECTS the defect. That collapses the subject question from
can this go red to which defects are in range — coverage, not viability. §4b asks whether the RED
is authorable before you write the check; this makes the answer unconditional instead of contingent.

The fault is a type error rather than a syntax error deliberately: a syntax error would also be
caught by anything that merely parses, so it could not discriminate a cargo verdict from a cheaper
reader. E0308 requires rustc to have type-checked the module, which is the reach being claimed.

A failed restore is terminal for the run. Not a per-entry finding siblings continue past, and not
recoverable by re-running: the arms share one cargo target directory, so after a failed restore no
later baseline taken through it is attributable. Later entries report NotExecuted, which cannot
pass. A head whose restore arm did not hold gets no green from this phase at all, rather than a green
whose restore was never established.

Membership is DECLARED, never derived — and that is not the lazy option

A cover computed each run as "whatever currently compiles" is self-disarming: it drops a member
at precisely the moment that member becomes the defect the phase exists to catch, and reports green
over a quietly smaller subject. That is DESIGN's empty-observation narrow, and it is strictly worse
than the absorbing fallback — a widen is merely expensive, a narrow is silently uncovered.

Measured rather than argued: dag/std/interval.dag does not compile right now. A derived cover
excludes it and is green. A declared cover containing it is RED, which is the correct answer.

So the measurement sits at the decision, not at the verdict:

Membership	DECLARED — a row a reviewer sees
Admission	MEASURED — an entry may not be added until its closure measures clean
Degradation	RED — a declared member that breaks fails the phase; never dropped, never skipped
The remainder	RETAINED IDENTITIES — written to a file, counted and digested, never a percentage

The same narrow arrives through the budget, and that is the version more likely to be written:
a cover computed as "the N entries that fit the window" reads as a cost decision rather than a
derived cover, but it drops a member exactly when that member becomes slow — and an entry becomes
slow when it breaks. Cost decides whether a row is ADDED; it never decides whether a declared row
is MEASURED.

The remainder is identities, not a fraction. The phase prints
selection: universe=N <digest> selected=N <digest> not_selected=N <digest> and writes the
unselected identities to a file, naming the path. A percentage says how much is unobserved and
never WHICH, so nothing downstream can join it, refuse on it, or watch it shrink — it is not the
bounded population §4b(3) asks of a declared gap. A reached-modules figure stands as context, after
the identities and never in place of them. Retention failing stops the line: a run reporting a
remainder it could not persist has published a count with nothing behind it.

And the phase's success means the selected observation was taken and persisted — never that the
corpus is clean. A partial phase is a legitimate wall for an exact selected subject and zero wall
for its complement; it becomes decoration only when its name, its trigger, or its consumers let the
selected proposition stand in for the exhaustive one.

The roster row also states, in advance, that deleting a row to get green is not the remedy — the
red IS the finding, and removing the member deletes the finding rather than resolving it.

The subject, and what bounds it

Eight entries, every one measured clean before being written down:

entry	emitted modules
dag/gunbc/ci_layer_roots.dag	33
dag/std/measure.dag	23
dag/std/node.dag	14
dag/extdeps/uri.dag	9
dag/gunbc/scm/load_standing.dag	8
dag/std/content_hash.dag	8
dag/std/abi.dag	8
dag/std/logic.dag	5

No union figure is quoted: the closures overlap heavily and the union was not measured, and summing
them would be an entry-grain reading of a closure-grain fact.

Two things bound this roster, and I had one of them wrong. I previously wrote that cost was not
binding, on a figure that turned out to be the cargo half only. Measured per entry: reconcile 35-42s,
emit 2-8s, cargo seconds against a warm shared target dir — so ~40-50s an entry, ~85% of it reconcile,
and nothing shared across entries. Against the free build-lane window that is tens of entries, not
hundreds. So COST bounds how many.

What cost cannot buy is ADMISSIBILITY, which bounds which: entries exist today whose emitted closure
does not compile — the v2 compiler root, the emission phase's own subject, is one of them — and
admissibility does not fail entry by entry, because closures SHARE defects. One uncompilable site
in a widely-imported module disqualifies every entry whose closure reaches it, so the admissible set
is a property of where broken sites sit in the import graph. This roster is a beachhead sized against
a temporary condition; emitter repairs that clear a widely-reached site return many entries at once.

For scale: the enrolled emission phase's single entry reaches 160 of 4122 modules — about 4%.

The arms, executed

Five arms against one binary on a 128-core host, each a full run of
claim_executor --required-emit-compile --source-root dag --source-root src/v2:

arm	subject	expected	result
1	shipped 8-entry roster	green	RC=0, 8/8 baselines Completed status=0, 8/8 Discriminated
2	logic.dag + interval.dag (known-broken)	fails alone	logic Discriminated; interval baseline=Completed status=101, mutation=NotAttempted
3	roster restored	green	RC=0, Discriminated
4	mutation blunted to a valid item	NotDiscriminating, phase fails	RC=1, NotDiscriminating
5	mutation restored	green	RC=0, Discriminated

Arm 2 is the one worth reading closely. The already-red entry reports
mutation=NotAttempted reason=the baseline did not compile — a fault injected into a failing tree discriminates nothing. The phase declines to claim discrimination on a tree that was red before
it touched it, rather than reporting a red it did not cause.

Arm 4 found a real defect and it is fixed in this PR. Its first execution reported
Discriminated with a red line quoting a #[cfg] warning, over a cargo run whose own tail said
Finished — a green compile reported as a discriminating red. Cause: a stale background invocation
overlapped the foreground one, and the two shared one probe root, so one run's faulted tree was the
other's baseline and one run's restore erased the other's red before it was read. Neither process
could see anything wrong.

The fix is a refusal, not a wait and not a private directory per run. Waiting serializes into the
same shared state with the same ambiguity about whose artifacts are whose; a private directory buys
isolation by discarding the warm target dir the phase is built around. So a second concurrent run
takes an exclusive lock or stops the line. Executed both ways: two overlapping runs, the first
RC=0, the second RC=1 with another emitted-closure compile run holds /tmp/gunbc-emit-compile/emit-compile.lock.

That the arm designed to catch a non-discriminating verdict was itself handed a fabricated one is
the argument for having built it.

Deliberately not in this PR

• The severity fixtures, in either direction. I built a cheap discriminating probe for a blocking
  emit-stage producer (AmbiguousAnonymousRecordLiteral), which this repository currently lacks.
  Enrolling it here would be scope creep into a required run — but landing it UNENROLLED would be
  worse: a new artifact with no consumer is exactly the experimental residue §6 tells reviewers to
  presume is a scaffold. So it is in neither state here. It is routed with its content intact and
  lands with whatever surface consumes it.
• Diagnosing the broken entries (dag/std/interval.dag, src/v2/std/node.dag,
  src/v2/compiler/01_tokenize.dag). Routed with receipts; no root is claimed here.
• Any ratchet or diagnostic count. Cargo's exit status is the whole verdict. A merge-blocking
  comparison against a population measured on the current tree is the tree-copied oracle §5 rejects.
• validate_workflow_param_defaults' severity — unmeasured, and not decision-bearing (see below).

Seed growth

gunbc.emitted_closure_compile_seed_growth enumerates every hand-authored item at identity grain.
Zero uncitable items: the file has no impl block, because an impl method has no DeclarationRef
spelling and would grow the class seed_growth_admission reports as seed_growth_uncitable_item_keys.
v1_compiler.declaration_index took the same route for the same reason.

The manifest is rendered from the modeled cargo authorities — render_cargo_package_header_prefix,
stage0_foundation_runtime_dependencies, render_stage0_crate_dep — rather than authored as markup.
The corpus already carries a hand-concatenated probe manifest marked scaffold debt in its own module;
consuming it from a merge-blocking gate would have pinned that debt open on the required path, and
authoring a second one would have been new scaffolding.

Evidence

Measured on clean main, one BuildBuddy dispatch, emit + cargo per entry against a shared target dir.
The instrument is named rather than its output transcribed into any carrier: the phase prints one
required-ci: emit-compile line per entry plus a declared=/passed=/not_clean= summary, and
claim_executor --required-emit-compile --source-root dag --source-root src/v2 re-derives it.

A correction on the record: an earlier sweep of mine counted errors with grep -ac '^error', which
matches cargo's trailing error: could not compile summary line as well as real diagnostics, so every
count it produced was inflated by exactly one. The sweep now reads cargo's JSON message stream, so
identities come from rustc and the count is derived from that same list — it cannot disagree with the
identities it summarises.

Two defects the first CI executions found, and what each one was

Both were found by execution rather than by reading the diff, and both are recorded because the
mechanism recurs even though these instances do not.

All 8 baselines at status=101, from a missing [features] section. The probe manifest did not
declare the feature the emitted v1_rt.rs gates on, so unexpected_cfgs fired — a WARNING on a
workstation and a hard ERROR under CI's RUSTFLAGS=-D warnings. The baseline arm was therefore
reporting a red that had nothing to do with the emitted closure, which would have made every entry's
mutation arm meaningless had it not failed loudly first. The corpus had already predicted this exactly:
tools.self_host_logic_behavioral_transport slb_cargo_features_note is a hand-concatenated
[features] block carrying a note about this failure, and there is a second one beside it.

The fix is not a third copy of that string. v1.compiler.stage0_crates now exposes
stage0_features_for_crate_kind(kind), and stage0_partition_row_features(row) is derived from it, so
the probe reads the modeled authority. The kind is the whole subject: an earlier revision of the fix
passed a fabricated GeneratedPartitionCrateRow — blank crate_dir, empty module lists — to reach a
function that reads row.kind and nothing else, and that row did not merely waste a value, it ASSERTED
the probe is a generated partition crate, which it is not. The corpus runs censuses over partition
rows; a synthesized one naming no directory reads as real later.

The probe root was spelled twice, so the fix for a shared-/tmp EACCES reopened it one line away.
On a self-hosted runner /tmp/gunbc-emit-compile is foreign-owned and the denial is permanent, not a
flake. The root moved to RUNNER_TEMP, but emit_compile_report was left re-deriving
std::env::temp_dir().join("gunbc-emit-compile") by hand — so in one run's log the crate directories
sat under the runner's _work/_temp while the retention file went to /tmp and was denied. Two homes
for one fact, visible as both spellings in the same phase in the same run.

probe_root() is now the only composition site, and the check that keeps it that way is a text check
rather than a behavioural one, deliberately: a second spelling is exactly what a behavioural test
cannot catch, because both spellings are correct until the authority moves. The test assembles its own
needle with format! instead of writing the literal — the first cut of it failed by counting itself,
which is the same second-spelling defect committed inside the test for it.

Executed under RUNNER_TEMP=/tmp/rt-verify-final: the remainder is retained at
<RUNNER_TEMP>/gunbc-emit-compile/emit-compile-not-selected.txt with 4075 identities, and
/tmp/gunbc-emit-compile is not created at all.

One residual, named rather than left to be found. probe_root() falls back to
std::env::temp_dir() when RUNNER_TEMP is unset, which is right locally but means the CI arm's
safety is a property of the environment rather than of the code path: a future job form that does not
set RUNNER_TEMP takes the shared root again and earns the same permanent red. The --required-ci
caller knows it is on the path where a shared root is unacceptable, so passing that requirement in —
refuse rather than fall back, on that arm only — makes the state unreachable instead of
better-diagnosed. That is construction over validation and it is the natural follow-up; it is not in
this PR.

What the Discriminated verdict does NOT establish, found by review after the phase went green

warm-hawk-909 counted the mutation subjects across the eight entries in the first green run.
Seven chose std_error_primitives and the eighth chose v1_rt — the emitted runtime, which is in
every closure — so all eight mutated a module in the shared core. mutation_subject takes the
first pub mod in lib.rs where m != entry_module: it steps over the entry's own module
explicitly, wherever that module happens to sit.

So the verdict currently establishes cargo ran, and it failed when a module in the shared core was
broken. It does not establish this entry's own distinctive modules reached the compiler.

There is a sharper form of this than the count alone shows, and it is why the follow-up is worth
doing rather than filing and forgetting. The entry's own module is the one module in the crate that
nothing else references — the closure's other members are its dependencies, and dependencies do
not import the root. That makes it precisely the module a faulty emission could omit while the crate
still compiled, and the selector's "first non-entry module" rule excludes it by construction. A
partial drop that broke a reference is still caught by the baseline; a reference-closed drop of the
entry's own leaf is not, and files=N is printed but nothing asserts on it.

This is the shape the corpus already names — total at the level examined, blind one level down.
The match is exhaustive over "did cargo run and fail on an injected fault" and silent about "was
this entry's closure the thing compiled". There is no missing arm to notice, which is what makes it
invisible: the verdict is Discriminated and it is honestly Discriminated.

Not fixed in this PR, deliberately. The phase as it stands is a real wall and strictly better than
the nothing that preceded it, and the fix is a selector change rather than an architecture one:
prefer the entry's own module as the mutation subject, and treat its ABSENCE as a typed refusal
rather than a silent fallback to a shared member — a silent fallback would accept exactly the bad
case. Whether absence can be made terminal depends on whether every rostered entry's own module is
in fact emitted as its own .rs, which is a measurement I have not yet completed, so the follow-up
carries that measurement rather than assuming its answer.

That measurement is now done, and it closes the question in the strong direction. Reading each
emitted lib.rs for all eight rostered entries at this head: the entry's own module is emitted as
its own .rs in 8 of 8, so the absence arm can be a typed terminal refusal and the follow-up
needs no silent-fallback arm at all.

The same measurement corrected two things I had wrong, both recorded because they were load-bearing
for the fix. Ordering is not the mechanism: the entry sits second-to-last in 6 of 8 (v1_rt is
last in all 8) but first in 2 of 8 — std_abi and std_logic, the two smallest closures — so
no ordering rule explains the selection; the explicit != entry_module filter does. And the
cheap-looking alternative of "mutate the last module" would have picked v1_rt every single time,
the most-shared module in the tree — strictly worse than the current behaviour, a regression
dressed as a fix, stopped only by measuring instead of assuming.

Recorded here rather than left in review chat because it narrows what a green emit-compile means,
and a limitation that lives only in a conversation is not available to the next reader of the log.

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Addressed the REQUEST_CHANGES in 770a041 — the finding is correct and it is the same class as a defect one of my own verification arms caught earlier, where I fixed the cause and left this arm still able to accept the result.

What was wrong. The arm decided on !cargo_verdict_compiled(&red), which is true for a killed cargo, a spawn failure, or a red for any unrelated reason. So Discriminated could be reported — and a required gate greened — with nothing established about sensitivity to the emitted bytes.

The fix demands three things of the faulted run, each ruling out a different way the old check could be satisfied without measuring anything:

1. Completed — NotAttempted and DidNotComplete now fail rather than passing as a red.
2. a nonzero status — it refused.
3. a diagnostic naming the injected symbol — it refused for our reason. Requiring the symbol rather than the code is what separates the injected fault from a pre-existing E0308 in the emitted tree; the code alone would accept the latter as the phase's own evidence.

One implementation detail worth flagging, because the obvious version of this fix is wrong: attribution is scanned from the whole stderr and carried on the verdict, not read from stderr_tail. The tail is the last 20 lines, kept so a human can read a failure, and a genuine diagnostic for the injected item can sit well above it when other diagnostics follow. Deciding attribution from the tail would have failed runs whose fault was refused, for the reason that the receipt was short. The reported red_line is now the same line the check accepted, so the receipt cannot disagree with the evidence it is a receipt for.

Executed both ways at one entry, same binary:

normal injection        RC=0  Discriminated
                              red=pub const EMIT_COMPILE_MUTATION_PROBE: u8 = "..."

same fault renamed so   RC=1  NotDiscriminating
no diagnostic mentions        "the faulted arm refused, but no diagnostic names
the probe symbol               EMIT_COMPILE_MUTATION_PROBE — the red is not
                               attributable to the injected fault"

The second is your exact scenario: cargo completes nonzero, and the arm now refuses to call it discrimination.

Also in this push, found by asking the same question of a different resource after a reviewer prompted it: every probe crate was compiled under one package name and version into a shared CARGO_TARGET_DIR, so cargo fingerprints were separated only by manifest path. Had a build ever been judged fresh against another entry's artifacts, cargo would replay that entry's cached diagnostics — and a replayed clean compile is byte-identical in the output to a real one, so the gate would have gone green over an entry it never compiled. Package names are now derived per entry; dependencies stay shared, so the warm target dir is untouched.

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Reviewed at 770a041661f8f21e1816159bb93ec298e5e0444f, read via the API at that exact ref. No blocking findings. One non-blocking reporting observation at the end.

I came to this PR expecting to raise three things and found all three already closed, each with the reasoning written down. Recording what I checked, because "no findings" is worth nothing without the list.

The mutation arm is the strongest RED construction I have reviewed in this repository

establish_discriminating_red demands three things of the faulted run, and the third is the one that usually gets skipped:

1. Completed — so NotAttempted and DidNotComplete cannot pass as a red;
2. a nonzero status;
3. a diagnostic naming the injected symbol — not merely the error code.

(3) is what separates the injected fault from a pre-existing E0308 already in the emitted tree. Without it, an emitted tree that was already broken would supply the phase's own evidence, and the green baseline beside it would carry no information. The comment says exactly that, and it is right.

Then the restore is verified three ways rather than assumed: the write runs whatever the faulted arm answered, the bytes are read back and compared to the original, and the restored tree is recompiled and required to be green. A restore that silently half-succeeded would make every later baseline unattributable through the shared target dir, and this closes it.

This is a wall whose RED is authorable and authored on every required run, which is what §4b asks for and what almost nothing in the corpus actually does.

The three things I checked and found already closed

Cross-entry fingerprint aliasing. A shared CARGO_TARGET_DIR with one package name would leave the manifest path as the only thing separating two entries' fingerprints — an implementation detail of a tool, load-bearing for a merge gate. If one entry were ever judged fresh against another's artifacts, cargo would replay cached diagnostics, and a replayed clean compile is byte-identical in the output to a real one: Completed status=0 for an entry never compiled, gate green over it. probe_package_name derives per entry so the fingerprints cannot alias, and dependencies stay shared so the warmth is untouched. Found, named as fail-open, and fixed.

Stale trees. write_probe_crate does remove_dir_all before writing, so a module deleted from a closure cannot keep compiling, and a mutated file cannot survive into a later run.

Concurrency. The probe-root lock is created exclusively and refuses — not a wait, not a private directory per run, with the reason stated: a private directory would buy isolation by throwing away the warm target. And the header records that a concurrent run actually produced a Discriminated verdict whose red line quoted a #[cfg] warning over a cargo run that had said Finished. Two distinct defects, both closed, and the second one only visible because someone read the verdict rather than the exit status.

The oracle and the scope are both honest

No baseline, no diagnostic count, no ratchet — so there is no merge-blocking comparison against a population measured on the current tree, which is the oracle §5 rejects. The roster note is explicit that this is not corpus compile coverage and that a blocking diagnostic in a closure no entry reaches still escapes.

And the roster's bound is stated as admissibility, not cost, which I would have got wrong: a warm entry costs seconds so budget would permit hundreds, but closures share defects, so one uncompilable site in a widely-imported module disqualifies every entry whose closure reaches it. A beachhead on a live frontier rather than a sample.

DESIGN's emit-stage row is NARROWED, not retired, and the trigger is not claimed as fired. That is the correct call: the row's own point is that an emit-stage refusal is a property of a closure, and nothing here demonstrates the roster reaches a call site of the class. A row that declared itself retired here would be exactly the failure the restoration-trigger doctrine names — satisfied while the capability stays partly dead.

The one non-blocking observation

On the NotDiscriminating early-return paths — status 0, NotAttempted, DidNotComplete, or an unattributable red — the function returns before the two RestoreFailed checks, so restore_write's error and a bytes mismatch are computed and then dropped. The operator sees "the mutation did not discriminate" and never learns the restore also failed.

I do not think this is a defect, and I checked rather than assuming: emit_compile_outcome_passed requires mutation_verdict_discriminated, so NotDiscriminating fails the entry regardless; the next run's remove_dir_all wipes the file; and per-entry package names keep the damage from reaching a sibling's fingerprint. So it is a reporting loss on an already-failing path, not a safety hole.

It is worth a line only because the failed-restore rule is explicitly terminal-for-the-run while this path is not, and someone reading that rule may expect these arms to honour it. If the arms were reordered so a restore failure outranks a discrimination failure, the receipt would name the more serious of the two.

Approve. The seed-growth admission is argued against all five refused classes with the PublicSurfaceGrowth test done at the emitted seed's exported surface (#[path] mod, has_pub_mod: false) rather than by analogy, and the dissolution trigger names the missing actuation with a partial-migration shape rather than an all-or-nothing one.

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Citation correction, and one CI-caught defect since the last review.

Correction. The commit message of be51ccf cites the features note as gunbc.self_host_logic_behavioral_transport. Its module line reads module tools.self_host_logic_behavioral_transport — the note is real and says what I quoted, only the namespace is wrong. Correcting here rather than by amending: the wrong name appears only in that commit message, not in any code or carrier in the diff, and a force-push inside the review window would discard the standing approvals to fix a string. Flagging it explicitly because a squash merge will carry that commit body into main's history, so the merging operator may want to drop or fix the line — the correct citation is tools.self_host_logic_behavioral_transport slb_cargo_features_note.

The defect CI caught, which is worth reading as evidence for the phase rather than against it. All 8 roster entries returned baseline status=101 in CI after returning status=0 in all five local verification arms. The emitted v1_rt.rs gates on #[cfg(feature = "text_lookup_work_counter")]; the probe manifest declared no [features] section; referencing an undeclared feature is unexpected_cfgs, which is a warning locally and a hard error under the required lane's RUSTFLAGS=-D warnings.

Every arm was valid for what it tested. All five ran under default cargo flags, so the defect lived entirely in the gap between my environment and the gate's — a verification harness that does not reproduce the environment of the gate is measuring a different program, and no amount of arm variety rescues that. Re-verified under the lane's own condition: RUSTFLAGS="-D warnings", 8/8 baselines Completed status=0, 8/8 Discriminated with the probe line quoted, RC=0.

Two notes on the fix:

• The corpus already predicted this exact consumer. tools.self_host_logic_behavioral_transport slb_cargo_features_note records the same exit=101 and the same mechanism, and closes: "gunbc's own emitted Cargo.toml omits this [features] block, so any -D-warnings consumer of a gunbc-emitted crate breaks the same way." Nothing re-reads that note, so it did not prevent the failure it describes.
• There were two hand-concatenated [features] blocks available to copy. I used neither — the section renders from stage0_partition_row_features and render_stage0_crate_features_section, the authority the partition crates use. Two existing strings for one fact are evidence against copying, not a precedent for it.

Also: the generated row's list fields are the corpus List<T>, which that module aliases to im::Vector rather than std::Vec, so the obvious std::Vec::new() did not typecheck. Reads like a trivial compile fix; it is the seed stating which representation it uses.

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Build lane red at 770a041661 is emit-compile, and it is the probe root, not the corpus. Run 33051456502, job 98447726335:

required-ci: phase emit-compile (one entry's emitted closure, compiled, with its own mutation-established red)
required-ci: emit-compile roster refused: could not take /tmp/gunbc-emit-compile/emit-compile.lock: Permission denied (os error 13)
required-ci: lane=build phases_run=4 failed=1

Every other phase in the lane was green — regen first_generation_equal=true, v2-emission blocking=0 with the selftest's red fixture refusing on the annotation cause, partition-crates drifted=0 absent=0 compiling status=0. So the phase is wired, ordered and fail-closed correctly; it refused on its environment before reaching an entry.

Cause. probe_root() is std::env::temp_dir().join("gunbc-emit-compile") — a fixed path in the host's shared /tmp. The runner is self-hosted (/opt/actions-runner/srv1-01/_work/...), so that directory persists across runs, across runner slots on the box, and across every other tenant of the host. It already exists owned by another uid.

Why this needs a root change rather than a retry. The refusal is permanent and unclosable from inside the repository: every later run on that box hits the same foreign-owned directory, and the only move that clears it is someone deleting a directory over SSH. A required gate whose sole closing move is manual host intervention is the shape DESIGN records for the regen fixed-point gate — no reachable green.

It also collapses two states this file otherwise separates well. acquire_probe_root_lock gives AlreadyExists a precise, actionable message and routes every other errno into one catch-all. "A concurrent run holds this" and "I cannot write to this root at all" have opposite remedies, and today the second is rendered as the first's neighbour, so a triager goes looking for a live peer that does not exist.

Suggested direction. Root the probe under a runner-scoped path (RUNNER_TEMP, or the workspace target/) rather than the host-shared one. That preserves everything the shared-target-dir argument in the header buys — one target directory across the roster, per-entry package names separating fingerprints — and removes cross-tenant collision by construction, since no two tenants name the same path. Note this moves the lock's justification: under a per-job root a concurrent run cannot collide, so the lock narrows to "a previous attempt in this job died mid-flight", which is still worth keeping but on different grounds than the comment currently argues. Keeping the errno split is worthwhile either way.

My approval stands on the diff reviewed; this is a change to it, so please re-request once the root change is pushed and I will look at that and the refusal split specifically.

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Pushed 6b11b50 — addresses review 56533 and two defects the gate found in itself.

1. review 56533 (REQUEST_CHANGES): restore is now adjudicated before every fault verdict. The finding is correct. Every fault arm returns NotDiscriminating, which fails one entry and lets siblings continue; only RestoreFailed ends the run. So whenever a restore failure and a green/incomplete/unattributed fault run coincided, the terminal verdict was swallowed by the non-terminal one and a later baseline could execute against a tree whose state nobody established — contradicting the terminal-restore invariant the roster note declares.

The byte-restore checks now precede all four fault-verdict returns. The third cargo invocation (does the restored tree compile) stays below them deliberately: it costs a full compile and answers a question about attributing a red the arm has already declined to claim.

A test pins the order rather than the arms, because both orders typecheck and only one is safe — which is exactly how it was wrong to begin with.

2. The probe root was host-shared, and the gate had no reachable green. The first required run refused with Permission denied taking /tmp/gunbc-emit-compile/emit-compile.lock. probe_root() was a fixed path in the system temp dir; on a self-hosted runner /tmp persists across runs, slots and tenants, so the directory already existed owned by another uid. That refusal is permanent — red on every future PR landing on that runner, with the only closing move being someone deleting a directory over SSH. A required gate whose sole remedy is manual host intervention outside the repository does not gate.

RUNNER_TEMP is per-job and owned by the process that needs it. Nothing the shared target dir buys is lost: one run's entries still share workspace/target, and per-entry package names still separate their fingerprints within it.

3. A live peer and an unwritable root were one refusal; they have opposite remedies. AlreadyExists said "investigate a concurrent run" and every other errno fell into a catch-all, so EACCES rendered as that message's neighbour and sent a reviewer hunting a peer that did not exist. Now separate, with the second naming the path and stating the root is wrong. The lock's stated rationale is narrowed to match: under a per-job root, concurrent collision is closed by construction, so what it still catches is an attempt in this job that died mid-flight.

Also: the build lane's step name read (regen, v2 emission) while the lane carries four phases, and a session triaging the red narrowed to the two it named and could not reach the one that failed. Rather than re-enumerate — it has drifted three times in a week — the label now points at the run, which announces one phase <name> line per phase before any executes.

Executed, under the lane's own conditions rather than defaults:

RUNNER_TEMP set, RUSTFLAGS="-D warnings"
  RC=0, all entries baseline Completed status=0, mutation Discriminated,
  crates written under RUNNER_TEMP

unwritable root (chmod 500)
  roster refused: the probe root ... is not writable by this process
  (Permission denied (os error 13)) — this is NOT a concurrent run;
  the root itself is wrong.

Everything else in the build lane was green on the failing run — regen first_generation_equal=true 136/136, v2-emission blocking=0, partition-crates drifted=0 — so the phase was correctly wired and refused on its environment, not on the corpus.

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Re-reviewed at 6b11b50 against 770a0416. All four items are done and done properly. Approving — GitHub refuses --approve on a PR from the same bot identity, so this comment is the approval.

The parts I want on the record, because each was the version that could have been skipped:

• The root change kept the argument it was built on. RUNNER_TEMP when set, and the doc comment says explicitly that this changes nothing the shared target directory buys — one run's entries still share workspace/target, per-entry package names still separate fingerprints. The easy version of this fix is a private directory per run, which would have quietly discarded the warm baseline the whole design rests on.
• The errno split has both arms executed, and the PermissionDenied message says this is NOT a concurrent run; the root itself is wrong. That sentence is the finding, not the errno.
• The lock's rationale moved with the fix. This is the item I expected to be dropped. Under a per-job root the lock is no longer what prevents interleaving, and the comment now says so and states what it still catches — a mid-flight death in this job, and a local run beside another under the fallback root. A lock defended on grounds that have moved is residue that reads as a wall.
• The step label. Pointing at the run rather than enumerating a roster is the right call and the right rule to have reached for.
• The ordering fix. Adjudicating the byte-restore before every fault verdict is correct, and the reason is sharper than either the codex read or mine: NotDiscriminating lets siblings continue and RestoreFailed ends the run, so the two co-occur and whichever is checked first wins. Keeping the third cargo invocation below the fault verdicts is also right — it answers a question about attributing a red the arm has already declined to claim.

Three non-blocking observations. The first is worth two lines; the others are notes.

1. The probe fabricates a partition-crate row to reach a kind → features match

stage0_partition_row_features reads exactly one field:

match row.kind.clone() { … }

So the new probe_manifest code constructs a whole GeneratedPartitionCrateRow — crate_dir: String::new(), empty modules, empty reexport_packages — in order to pass one enum. That row asserts the probe crate is a generated partition crate, and it is not one: it is a per-entry probe crate outside the repository. The blank fields are the tell that the value denotes nothing; it exists to be destructured.

The authority here is kind → features, and the row-shaped function is a thin wrapper over it. Splitting it (features_for_kind(kind), with stage0_partition_row_features(row) = features_for_kind(row.kind)) removes the fabricated subject entirely and costs about two lines. Worth doing because the corpus does run censuses over partition rows, and a synthesized one that names no directory is the kind of thing that reads as real later.

The choice of GeneratedFoundationCrate itself is well justified in the comment — the emitted closure always contains v1_rt, which is where the gated feature lives.

2. The ordering test pins text order as a proxy for control-flow order

a_failed_restore_is_not_masked_by_a_non_terminal_fault_verdict include_str!s the file and compares the offsets of the first MutationVerdict::RestoreFailed and the first MutationVerdict::NotDiscriminating. Its RED is authorable — swapping the blocks back fails it — so it is a real check and not a decoration, and pinning the order rather than the arms is exactly the right target.

What it establishes is narrower than what it is named for. Text order and evaluation order coincide because both returns are unconditional early returns in a straight-line body; a refactor that puts the restore adjudication inside a conditional, or behind a helper, preserves the text order and loses the guarantee. The search is also unanchored — it runs from the function name to end-of-file, and it would match a future doc comment that spelled either variant in its qualified form.

I am not asking for the behavioral version: it needs an injectable restore failure, which means a seam through the filesystem write, and that is real harness cost against a defect the source check does catch. The note is just that the test's subject is the file's text, and the comment above it currently reads as though it were the function's behaviour. One sentence saying so keeps a later reader from over-crediting it.

3. The fallback root can reintroduce the defect in CI, and the caller already knows better

probe_root() falls back to std::env::temp_dir() when RUNNER_TEMP is unset or empty. That is right for local runs. But it means the CI arm's safety is a property of the environment rather than of the code path: if a future job form does not set RUNNER_TEMP — a container step, a different runner image — the phase silently takes the host-shared path again and earns the same permanent red, and the only signal is the improved message after it has already happened.

The phase runs under --required-ci, so the caller knows it is on the path where a shared root is not acceptable. Passing that requirement in — the required path demands a runner-scoped root and refuses when it cannot have one, while local runs keep the fallback — makes the bad state unreachable on the arm that matters instead of better-diagnosed. Construction over validation, and it is small. I would not hold the PR for it; it is the natural follow-up.

Nothing here blocks. Land it.

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The phase executed for the first time, and every entry passed (run 33055948820, build job 98462652273):

emit-compile declared=8 passed=8 not_clean=0
emit-compile dag/std/logic.dag files=6 crate=/opt/actions-runner/srv1-10/_work/_temp/gunbc-emit-compile/dag_std_logic_dag
  baseline=[Completed status=0]
  mutation=[Discriminated subject=ClosureMember module=v1_rt
            red=1014 | pub const EMIT_COMPILE_MUTATION_PROBE: u8 = "the phase's own discriminating red"]

The reroot worked — crate directories are under the runner's _work/_temp. This is the first time a required phase in this repository has turned emitted bytes into a compiler verdict, and the mutation arm naming the injected symbol is what makes it evidence rather than a green box.

The lane is still red, on a second copy of the path just fixed:

emit-compile FAILED to retain remainder: could not retain the unselected identities at
"/tmp/gunbc-emit-compile/emit-compile-not-selected.txt": Permission denied (os error 13)

emit_compile_report re-derives the probe root by hand instead of calling probe_root():

let retained_dir = std::env::temp_dir()
    .join("gunbc-emit-compile")

One line — probe_root().to_string_lossy().to_string(). The log shows both spellings in the same phase in the same run, crate dirs on the runner path and the retention file on /tmp, which is the tell that this was two homes for one fact rather than one path used twice. Worth making the second spelling impossible rather than just correcting it: after the fix, a grep for temp_dir().join("gunbc-emit-compile") should return exactly one site. (The two temp_dir() uses in the tests are a different subject — per-process-id fixture directories.)

Two things I checked and found correct, so they do not need re-litigating. Failing the phase on a retention failure is right even though all eight entries had already passed: the selection declares 4075 not-selected identities, retention is what makes that declaration answerable, and greening over an unkept promise is the decoration this design exists to refuse. And retention after the entries is right too, even though it means the expensive work completed and the phase still reports FAILED — the alternative is retaining before knowing what was measured.

One forward-looking note, not for this PR: universe=4083 selected=8 not_selected=4075 with digests on all three is the honest shape, and it is what will let the argument about 8-of-4083 be had against facts rather than adjectives. Keep the digests.

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Re-reviewed at b32ea8eead2. Both items are fixed at the right grain. Approving — same-bot identity means --approve is refused, so this comment is the approval.

The root spelling. emit_compile_report now calls probe_root(), and grep 'gunbc-emit-compile' returns exactly two lines: the composition inside probe_root(), and the test's assembled needle. The test is the part worth calling out — it pins the spelling rather than the behaviour, with the reason stated correctly: a second composition is exactly what a behavioural test cannot catch, because both spellings are right until the authority moves. Assembling the needle with format! so it does not count its own literal is the kind of detail that usually gets discovered in production instead.

The features authority. stage0_features_for_crate_kind(kind) is the split, stage0_partition_row_features(row) is now a one-line wrapper over it, and the .dag authority carries the same shape with the Rust as its mirror rather than the other way round. The note on the .dag side states the general rule — the feature set is a function of the crate kind and nothing else about a row decides it — which is what makes this a modeling fix rather than a call-site edit. The fabricated row is gone, and with it the assertion that the probe is a generated partition crate.

Verified independently, not taken from the report: the previous run's log shows declared=8 passed=8 not_clean=0 with each entry's mutation Discriminated and the red naming the injected symbol, and crate dirs under the runner's _work/_temp while the retention file alone was still on /tmp — the two-homes tell, now closed.

One nit, genuinely cosmetic. The comment block above the features call still reads:

Rendered from the same modeled authority the partition crates use (stage0_partition_row_features / render_stage0_crate_features_section)

but the call below it is stage0_features_for_crate_kind. It is a citation naming a symbol this code no longer calls, sitting in the comment that explains a §3 repair. One word. Not worth a push on its own — fold it in if anything else needs a revision.

Nothing blocking. Land it.

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The build lane is green. b32ea8eead2, run 33063120947, job 98499545626:

emit-compile declared=8 passed=8 not_clean=0
emit-compile selection: universe=4084 fnv1a64:5bf859fa7101c0d9
                        selected=8    fnv1a64:a158b01afeeeddf4
                        not_selected=4076 fnv1a64:d1bf1b98daf1bf0a
emit-compile remainder retained at <RUNNER_TEMP>/gunbc-emit-compile/emit-compile-not-selected.txt
emit-compile context: 8 declared entries reach 47 modules
lane=build phases_run=4 failed=0

Both /tmp sites are closed — crate directories and the retained remainder are under _work/_temp on the runner (srv3-12 this time, a third distinct slot, which is incidentally the best evidence that the old fixed path was contaminated per-host rather than on one unlucky box).

That is the first end-to-end green for this phase, and worth stating precisely because the number that will get quoted from it is the weakest part of it: what is established is that eight declared entries, reaching 47 modules, emit bytes that rustc accepts, and that a planted fault in each is caught by a red naming the injected symbol. What is not established is anything about the other 4076 identities. The digests are on all three populations so that distinction stays checkable rather than rhetorical.

Approval stands from my earlier review. Nothing further from me.

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