feat: add fleet issue intake with verdict-gated dispatch and captain-close watch

[RooseveltAdvisors]

Intent

Land the fleet issue intake and get PR 5979 green: the branch already carries the fm-issue-intake rename, the --due task-ensure fix, the jev verdict gate (supported dispatches, not_supported declines+closes with the captain carve-out, captain_review holds, fail-open, ledger-idempotent), seven reviewed fix rounds, and a new retry so a tasks-axi build without --why still creates the row - that last fix is what CI serial shard 8 needs. Push, keep PR 5979 checks green, and babysit CI to completion.

What Changed

• Adds bin/fm-issue-intake.sh, which turns stack-monitor SOS bridge events and open sos-labeled GitHub issues into work. Its subcommands are reconcile, comment, watch-condition, watch-fire and status. Each ticket gets one fm-iss-<key> task row, one close watch, one lifecycle comment and one dispatched crewmate. Every step can be re-run safely: the task row ID is the dedupe record, so a replayed event is never dispatched twice. When a tasks-axi build rejects --why, the intake retries the task ensure without that flag so the row is still created.

• Each candidate goes through a jev verdict check before dispatch:

  • supported_bug is dispatched.
  • not_supported gets a decline comment, a label and a close. Tickets already in flight or already closed by the captain are left alone.
  • captain_review is held for the captain and never spawns.

  If jev fails, the intake still proceeds (fail-open), and decisions already recorded in the ledger still apply with --no-verdict. watch-fire posts the captain-closed comment and closes the task row, never the GitHub issue. When GitHub's issue state can't be read, it defers the close; it retires fired watches so a reopened issue gets reported.

• Adds the sos-dispatch-loop agent skill and its entry in the skill trigger index, and registers the skill's audience in docs/documentation-audiences.json (whose entries are also re-sorted). Adds tests/fm-issue-intake.test.sh. Runs comm in bin/fm-test-run.sh under LC_ALL=C so it uses the same collation as its sorted inputs.

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Risk Assessment

⚠️ Medium: The fix does make reopened issues get reported, but its new automatic retire has no guard while watch-fire is still running, so an uncommon race can lose the close records the user ruled must never be lost; this is safe to merge with that gate added as a follow-up.

Testing

I ran the full fm-issue-intake behavior suite. All 47 cases pass, covering: - the verdict gate: supported dispatches, not_supported declines and closes (with the captain carve-out), captain_review holds, and fail-open; - ledger idempotency; - the watch-fire close/reopen rulings, including the latest commit's retire-fired-watch path; - the tasks-axi retry when --why is missing. The fm-test-run coverage guard also passes, and the test sits in portable serial shard 8 of 9, the shard the intent names. I saved the test transcript and the coverage-guard output as evidence. This change is CLI/shell only, so there is no UI to capture. The worktree is clean.

Evidence: fm-issue-intake behavior test transcript

Source: fm-issue-intake behavior test transcript

ok - reconcile creates one task row, comment, watch, and dispatch
ok - reconcile is idempotent across replays and lost cursors
ok - a lost bridge event is healed from GitHub and never double-dispatches
ok - watch-condition is closed-only and fails closed
ok - watch-fire comments once, closes the task row, and never the issue
error: unknown transition 'nonsense' (want one of: dispatched declined repro-confirmed fix-up deployed verified captain-closed)
ok - transition comments are canonical, bounded, and never close the issue
ok - dry-run reports the plan and changes nothing
ok - legacy fm-sos rows stay authoritative across the rename
ok - a by-design request is declined, closed, and never re-declined
ok - an uncertain ticket is held for the captain and never acted on
ok - verdict failure fails open to captain review
ok - the verdict is decided once and ledgered across replays
ok - a decline comments once and a failed close retries only the close
ok - an event without a url keeps the row body and cursor aligned
ok - one GitHub issue is never split into two candidates
ok - a stale pre-rename watch is retired and re-armed against the renamed script
ok - a marker-less ticket stays one ticket across the event and heal passes
ok - a failed spawn is retried and never ledgered as dispatched
ok - watch-fire never captain-closes an issue intake declined
ok - a gate-off run honors the recorded decline instead of dispatching
ok - a gate-off run keeps a recorded captain_review hold
ok - --no-dispatch posts no dispatched comment; the full run does
ok - a manual comment is never duplicated by reconcile or watch-fire
ok - legacy dispatch and verdict records still bind every guard
ok - a reopened declined ticket is reported to the captain, never dropped
ok - an already-dispatched ticket is held for the captain, never declined
ok - a captain-closed ticket is never declined, commented, or closed
ok - a closed issue is never commented on, watched, or spawned
warn: malformed dedupe key 'bad key 7f3c1a52-9b41-4c2e-9d6a-1f0b2c3d4e5f' for GH #1921; using gh-issue-1921
warn: malformed dedupe key 'bad key 7f3c1a52-9b41-4c2e-9d6a-1f0b2c3d4e5f' for GH #1921; using gh-issue-1921
warn: non-numeric event id 'None'; cursor will not advance on it
ok - a malformed key and a missing event id degrade to idempotent behavior
ok - a stale close record over an open issue is held for the captain
warn: GH #1922 shares dedupe key '7f3c1a52-9b41-4c2e-9d6a-1f0b2c3d4e5f' with GH #1921; keeping the per-issue identity
warn: GH #1922 shares dedupe key '7f3c1a52-9b41-4c2e-9d6a-1f0b2c3d4e5f' with GH #1921; keeping the per-issue identity
ok - two issues carrying the same marker both produce candidates
ok - backlog payloads beyond the exec string limit never wedge reconcile
ok - a tasks-axi without --why still gets its row
ok - an unreadable report is deferred, never judged
ok - an unknown GitHub state never permits dispatch
ok - a decline completes with a named warning when its label fails
ok - a not_supported ticket already closed at intake closes its row
ok - watch-fire reports a reopen after recording the close, and reconcile holds it
ok - watch-fire never loses a close to a transient GitHub failure
ok - an unbound marker twin never adopts another issue's row
ok - overlapping reconcile passes never both dispatch
bash tests/fm-issue-intake.test.sh  29.17s user 12.85s system 101% cpu 41.506 total

Evidence: fm-test-run coverage guard output

Source: fm-test-run coverage guard output

FM_TEST_COVERAGE ok total=240 parallel=24 parallel_max_ms=417163 parallel_imbalance_ms=2894 parallel_unhinted=0 serial=200 serial_shards=9 serial_unhinted=19 herdr=16

- Outcome: 🔧 1 issue found ✅ across 4 runs (6m12s)

Pipeline

Updates from git push no-mistakes

✅ **intent** - passed

✅ No issues found.

✅ **Rebase** - passed

✅ No issues found.

⚠️ **Review** - 1 warning

• ℹ️ bin/fm-issue-intake.sh:250 - The retry without --why runs after any failure of the first tasks_axi add, not just an unknown-flag rejection, because stderr is discarded. On the fleet fork, which does accept --why, a transient first-call failure (lock contention, a brief I/O error) followed by a successful retry creates a P0/P1 row with no --why metadata, and nothing records it. No ticket is lost and the row still gets created, so the only cost is missing metadata. If that matters, capture stderr and retry only when it names --why.

• ⚠️ bin/fm-issue-intake.sh:579 - The new guard if ! gh_state "$issue"; then ... return 1 treats rc 2 (GitHub could not tell) the same as rc 1 (open again). fm-procevent-when.sh claims its fired marker before running the action and fires at most once: an action-failed outcome is terminal, the runner retires the registration, and no handler in bin/ re-runs it. Concrete sequence: the captain closes GH #N, watch-condition confirms CLOSED, then the gh issue view inside watch-fire hits a transient failure (rate limit or network). watch-fire exits 1, the watch is gone, and no captain-closed comment, task-closed record, or closed handoff marker gets written. The next reconcile never re-offers #N: the heal path lists only open issues and the bridge cursor has already moved past the event. The reporter is never notified and the task row stays open forever. Before this change, watch-fire trusted the condition's close and always announced it, so this is a new silent loss. The reopen case is still covered, because reconcile re-arms the watch for a reopened open issue. Fix: abort only when gh_state returns 1 (confirmed open). On rc 2, trust the condition that just saw CLOSED and continue, or at least keep the watch armed so it retries.

• ℹ️ bin/fm-issue-intake.sh:548 - apply_decline now returns 1 when --add-label $DECLINE_LABEL fails, so a failed label add is retried on later passes. gh issue edit --add-label fails every time when the label does not exist in the repo, for example when FM_ISSUE_DECLINE_LABEL is overridden or the repo was never provisioned with not-supported. In that case every not_supported ticket gets its declined comment, then stays open and undeclined, and the bridge cursor stays blocked on every pass with only a generic 'failed: decline' line. This looks like a deliberate retry choice. Consider naming the label in the failure message so the misconfiguration is obvious.

🔧 Fix: Keep watch-fire closes on unreadable GitHub; label failure non-blocking
✅ Re-checked - no issues remain.

• ⚠️ bin/fm-issue-intake.sh:583 - The last commit (d17434d, made in response to a Greptile P1) reverses the user's round-2 ruling on watch-fire-drops-close-on-transient-gh-failure. The ruling said: "On an unknown state, do NOT consume the terminal fired marker as a completed close ... A transient GH failure must never permanently lose the captain-closed comment, the task-closed record, or the reporter handoff marker". It also asked for a test showing that "a transient gh_state failure inside watch-fire does not lose the captain-closed records (they appear on the next pass)". The code now returns 1 on any non-zero gh_state, including rc 2 (unknown). Here is how the close gets lost. fm-procevent-when.sh claims the fired marker before the action runs (fm-procevent-when.sh:459), and an action-failed result is terminal. Reconcile's heal path lists only open issues (--state open, bin/fm-issue-intake.sh:223), and the bridge cursor has already moved past the event. So when the captain closes the issue and the gh issue view inside watch-fire hits a transient failure, no automated path ever writes the captain-closed comment, the task-closed record, or the closed handoff marker. The test was also rewritten to assert the opposite of the ruling (test_watch_fire_defers_the_close_when_github_is_unreadable asserts that no close is recorded). The only recovery is the manual 'verify manually' step for action-failed in SKILL.md:64. The new test's name says 'defers', but nothing picks the close up later. The Greptile concern (don't announce a close for an issue that may have been reopened) conflicts with the recorded ruling, so the user has to choose. Options: (a) restore the round-2 behaviour, where rc 2 trusts the close the condition just confirmed; or (b) keep refusing on rc 2 but add a real retry, e.g. reconcile re-offers ledgered, dispatched issues that have no closed record and no live watch spec, and records the close once gh_state confirms CLOSED.

🔧 Fix: Record watch-fire close on unreadable state; hold reopened issues
1 info still open:

• ℹ️ bin/fm-issue-intake.sh:582 - The new comment in cmd_watch_fire says that when GitHub reports the issue open again (rc 1), "the open issue is re-offered by the next reconcile, which re-arms the retired watch". That re-arm is not automatic. When the runner retires the registration after the action fails, the when-sos-<issue>.spec file stays on disk; only fm-procevent-when.sh retire deletes it. Reconcile arms a watch only when that spec file is missing (bin/fm-issue-intake.sh:~820). So the open issue gets no close watch until the captain follows the SKILL.md action-failed steps and runs retire sos-<issue> by hand. The new test test_watch_fire_never_announces_a_reopened_issue confirms this: it runs that manual retire before reconcile. Nothing is lost, because the hold appears as action-failed and SKILL.md:64-70 documents the manual retire. Only the code comment is inaccurate. Reword it to say the watch is re-armed after the captain retires the dead spec.

• 🚨 bin/fm-issue-intake.sh:590 - The latest commit c78cb1d reverses the user's round-4 ruling for the second time. That ruling came from a Greptile conflict and is recorded as superseding it. It said: "perform the durable records FIRST (comment, task-closed, closed marker), and treat the state read purely as diagnostic ... An UNREADABLE state (rc 2 ...) must never decide the outcome". It also required test (a): "unreadable gh_state inside watch-fire still yields the captain-closed comment + task-closed + closed marker (next pass at the latest)" and test (c): "no path leaves the fired registration retired with the close unrecorded". The new hunk if [ "$state_rc" -ne 0 ]; then echo "not-confirmed-closed ..."; return 1; fi makes rc 2 exit before the comment, the row close, and the closed record. The failure path: the captain closes GH #N. watch-condition sees CLOSED. The gh view inside watch-fire hits a rate limit, and watch-fire exits 1. fm-procevent-when has already claimed its fired marker, and the action-failed result is terminal. On the next reconcile, gh_open_sos_issues lists only --state open issues (line 223), and the bridge cursor has already moved past #N's event, so #N is never a candidate again. The captain-closed comment, the task-closed record, and the closed handoff marker are never written, and the task row stays open. The new comment at lines 578-583 says reconcile "closes the row of a closed one" once the wake is retired. No such path exists: the rc-2 skip branch at lines ~793-810 runs only for candidates, and SKILL.md:68-70 says a fired watch is never re-armed for a closed issue. The test was renamed and rewritten to test_watch_fire_defers_the_close_when_github_is_unreadable. It now asserts that no comment is posted, the row stays open, and no close is recorded, which is the opposite of ruling test (a). Nothing on a later pass checks that the close is ever recorded. Either restore round-5 behavior (1b98c82: record the close on rc 2 and hold only on rc 1), or add a real deferral path so reconcile re-offers ledgered issues that have no closed record and no live watch, and records the close once GitHub confirms CLOSED. Per the ruling, note the Greptile conflict in the review summary.

🔧 Fix: Record watch-fire close first; state read diagnostic only
1 warning still open:

• ⚠️ bin/fm-issue-intake.sh:594 - The new comment says a reopen between the condition and the action "is covered by reconcile, which reports a close record over an open issue as captain_review on the next pass". That only holds if someone deletes the watch spec first. Since 98c6450, rc 1 makes watch-fire exit 0, so the runner reports fired. For fired, SKILL.md:57-59 only says to acknowledge the wake; it says nothing about running retire. A successful fire leaves when-sos-<issue>.spec on disk, because only cmd_retire deletes it (fm-procevent-when.sh:624). On the next reconcile, GH heal re-offers the open issue. The verdict is supported_bug and handled=0. The spec exists and the dispatched comment and dispatch are both recorded, so new_work=0. That skips closed_reason_for (lines ~787-797), which is the only place the "closed earlier and open again" hold is emitted. Nothing is printed, review is not incremented, and the open issue drops silently on every pass. This breaks the user's rule that a live, open GitHub issue is never silently dropped, and it contradicts the round-6 ruling's premise that the existing mitigation already covers this case. The test test_watch_fire_reports_a_reopen_after_recording_the_close hides the gap: it runs fm-procevent-when.sh retire by hand before reconcile, a step the documented fired handling never takes. SKILL.md:57 also still says fired means the captain closed the issue. Fix at the reconcile boundary without changing the watch-fire ordering: when a closed (or captain-closed) record exists for the issue and GitHub reports it open, emit the reopened captain_review hold whatever new_work is. Then drop the manual retire from the test so it proves the documented flow.

🔧 Fix: Retire fired close watches so reopened issues get reported
1 warning still open:

• ⚠️ bin/fm-issue-intake.sh:705 - The new block runs $WHEN retire sos-<issue> whenever the spec and the .fired marker both exist. The when runner writes .fired before it runs the action (fm-procevent-when.sh:459), not after the action finishes. fm-procevent.sh cmd_retire then stops a runner this home owns (stop_runner_pid, fm-procevent.sh:~2180). The source-retirement block covers only task-owned sources, so it does not protect a when source. That means a reconcile pass that offers the issue while watch-fire is running will kill watch-fire partway through. Candidates stay reachable in that window: a bridge event past a cursor that an earlier failed candidate holds back is re-offered on every pass, and a reopen can race the action. If watch-fire dies between the captain-closed comment and log_line "closed ...", the retire also deletes the spec and the fired marker, and no captured result is left. The close and handoff records are then lost for good. This breaks ruling (c): "no path leaves the registration retired with the close unrecorded". The runner's own 'fired but no outcome captured' warning, which would reveal this, goes to /dev/null through 2>&1. Fix: retire only after watch-fire has finished. The cheapest gate is to also require ledger_recorded "closed key=[^ ]* issue=$issue" (or a declined record). watch-fire writes that record before its diagnostic state read, so a retire after that point loses no durable record. Another option is to require a captured when-sos-<issue>.*.result in the inbox.

🔧 **Test** - 1 issue found ✅

• ℹ️ bin/fm-issue-intake.sh:250 - The commit message says npm tasks-axi 0.2.6 rejects --why. The tasks-axi 0.2.6 installed on this box accepts add <id> <title> --priority 1 --why x and saves priority_why. So the retry could only be shown with a stub that rejects --why, not with a real binary. The retry is harmless either way, but whether it clears CI serial shard 8 will only be known from the CI run.
• bash tests/fm-issue-intake.test.sh (full intake suite, 33 cases, all ok)
• Regression check: ran only test_ensure_survives_a_tasks_axi_without_why against git show HEAD~1:bin/fm-issue-intake.sh. It failed with failed: task ensure and task_created=0
• Ran the same single test against the fixed script: it passed
• tasks-axi add probe "Probe" --priority 1 --why x --json in a scratch git repo, to check whether the locally installed 0.2.6 supports --why

✅ No issues found.

• bash tests/fm-issue-intake.test.sh on target commit 6bc91ed2: every case passed, including test_decline_completes_despite_a_failed_label, test_watch_fire_records_the_close_when_github_is_unreadable, test_ensure_survives_a_tasks_axi_without_why, and the reopened, captain-closed and duplicate-marker cases
• Regression check: temporarily swapped in bin/fm-issue-intake.sh from HEAD~1 and ran the suite again. It failed with not ok - a failed label must not block the decline, which proves the new test catches the old blocking behavior. The file was restored afterwards and the worktree is clean.

✅ No issues found.

• bash tests/fm-issue-intake.test.sh (whole targeted suite for bin/fm-issue-intake.sh, 41 tests, exit 0)
• test_watch_fire_records_the_close_when_github_is_unreadable: gh_state rc 2 inside watch-fire still posts the captain-closed comment, closes the row, and writes the task-closed and closed ledger records
• test_watch_fire_never_announces_a_reopened_issue: rc 1 gives the 'hold: GH #N is open again - captain_review' line, posts no close comment, leaves the row open, and after the watch is retired the next reconcile re-arms it
• test_ensure_survives_a_tasks_axi_without_why: the task row is created when the tasks-axi build rejects --why (CI serial shard 8 needs this)
• test_decline_completes_despite_a_failed_label: decline comment, close and ledger record complete, with a warning that names the label
• Verdict-gate paths: supported dispatches, not_supported declines and closes (captain carve-out), captain_review holds, fail-open, ledger idempotence, duplicate-marker candidates, overlapping reconcile passes

✅ No issues found.

• bash tests/fm-issue-intake.test.sh: all 47 cases pass (about 41s)
• Latest commit's case: test_watch_fire_reports_a_reopen_after_recording_the_close (after a fired watch, reconcile retires the spec and reports the reopen as a captain hold on every later pass)
• Earlier rulings: test_watch_fire_records_the_close_when_github_is_unreadable (the close is recorded when the GitHub state can't be read) and the case where tasks-axi has no --why but the row is still created
• bin/fm-test-run.sh --check-coverage (lane/shard coverage guard, touched by the LC_ALL=C comm change)
• bin/fm-test-run.sh --list --lane portable-serial-<k>of9 for k=1..9 to confirm fm-issue-intake.test.sh runs in serial shard 8

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✅ **Lint** - passed

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✅ **Push** - passed

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[greptile-apps]

Confidence Score: 3/5

[High risk] Adds new intake and dispatch system for fleet issue handling.

The PR is not yet safe to merge because fired-watch retirement can interrupt close recording, and an unreadable state can still produce a closure announcement.

_{Reviews (5) · Last reviewed commit: "no-mistakes(review): Retire fired close ..."}

[greptile-apps]

Declines can lose their label If adding the not-supported label fails, this command ignores the error and intake continues to close the issue and record the decline as complete. Later passes do not retry the label, leaving the closed ticket without its intended classification.

[greptile-apps]

Unreadable state records a close If the watch sees a closed issue, the issue is then reopened, and GitHub is unreadable when watch-fire runs, gh_state returns an unknown state. This guard proceeds anyway, posting “Closed by the captain,” closing the task row, and recording a closure for an open ticket. The action should defer those effects unless it can confirm the issue is still closed.

Suggested change

	gh_state "$issue" || state_rc=$?
	if [ "$state_rc" -eq 1 ]; then
	echo "not-closed: $issue is open again; no captain-closed announcement" >&2
	return 1
	fi
	gh_state "$issue" || state_rc=$?
	if [ "$state_rc" -ne 0 ]; then
	echo "not-confirmed-closed: $issue is open or its state is unknown; no captain-closed announcement" >&2
	return 1
	fi

[greptile-apps]

Fired watch interrupts close A reconcile pass can see the .fired marker while watch-fire is still running. This new retirement path can then stop the runner before it finishes posting the comment, closing the task row, and recording the handoff. The watch cannot fire again, so the captain’s close may be left partly recorded or unrecorded. Retire the watch only after its outcome has been captured and handled.

Knowledge Base Used: Watch and wake workflows