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fix(bin): keep the supervision host's successor watcher alive after the Stop hook's group is torn down - #6787

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Have a worker investigate and fix it in the firstmate repo, as a public contribution: fork the repo to the captain's account and open a PR upstream, which the upstream maintainers merge.

"It" is this loop, as reported: about every 30 seconds the primary Claude firstmate session gets an empty check: rearm-resurface wake with nothing behind it (six between 18:21 and 18:26 on 2026-10-07, on a home with the supervision host on and two live workers). From the watcher logs: a few seconds after each firstmate turn ends, the handling-successor watcher that should keep running receives TERM (cycle exit reason=signal-exit, exit 143, about 17s after it started), the Stop hook's attached arm then ends with attached-cycle-ended, and the next started watcher finds the downtime marker and immediately announces check: rearm-resurface, which wakes the session again. No work is lost; real wakes still arrive. Recent upstream change #6762 (let TERM stop a watcher blocked in a pane capture on bash 3.2) is a suspect, not a confirmed cause. Upstream has related open reports, including #6320 (no-op wake turns spend tokens), #4446 (watcher recovery loop on Pi and Codex primaries) and #2251.

What Changed

  • bin/fm-supervision-host.sh: when the host leaves a successor watcher running for main (a main-only pass-through, or a close that turns main-only at its turn), start_arm now launches it in its own process group (set -m), with stdin from /dev/null. This matches start_handling_successor in fm-claude-stop-autoarm.sh. Before this, Claude's teardown of the hook's process group after the exit-2 rewake TERMed the successor. The watcher then recorded downtime, and the next park announced an empty check: rearm-resurface, which woke main again about every 30 seconds.
  • tests/fm-supervision-host.test.sh: the hook-session fixture can now run the Stop hook in its own process group and record its pgid. Two new tests TERM that group, one after a pass-through close and one after an at-turn main-only hand-back, and check that the successor watcher is still alive.
  • docs/supervision-host.md: says that the successor left for main runs in its own process group, so the harness tearing down the hook's group doesn't stop it.

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Risk Assessment

⚠️ Medium: The change is small and follows the hook's existing own-group pattern, but a sibling path (attended-during-turn, lines 1124/1141) still leaves a successor in the hook's group, and the root-cause mechanism is asserted rather than reproduced against a live Claude session.

Testing

I ran the two new regression tests and four neighbouring host+hook tests on their own. All pass on the fix, and both new tests fail on the base host script. I then drove a real Claude 2.1.292 primary with the supervision host in a disposable lab home. On the fix, a main-only pass-through left its successor in its own process group. That successor outlived the Stop hook, main drained and acked the wake, and the next park took it over with no check: rearm-resurface. On base, the successor shared the hook's group as diagnosed, but Claude never terminated that group in two runs, so the reported loop could not be reproduced live. A ~5s rearm-resurface loop seen early was a lab artifact: the lab main had been told to run no tools, so it never acked the wake. The loop stopped once main drained and acked. This change has no UI, so there are no screenshots; the evidence is CLI logs, process-group samples and pane captures.

  • Live validation: ✅ go - 3 of 6 scenarios driven live against the product
Scenario Result Live Evidence
Main-only pass-through on a live Claude primary: the successor watcher runs in its own process group and outlives the Stop hook ✅ pass live lab-fixed-supervision-host.log, lab-fixed-watch-cycle-exits.log, lab-run-summary.md: successor arm 19176 in pgid 19176 while the hook's group was 98048; hook group gone at t+45s with the successor sti…
After main handles the pass-through wake, the next park takes the successor over quietly: no empty check: rearm-resurface wake ✅ pass live lab-fixed-supervision-host.log 1791392881..1791392889: take-over arm=19176, ledger reason=taken-over, a fresh watcher, no rearm-resurface, marker acked:handling
Regression: the hook's process group is terminated after the rewake, and the successor left for main (both pass-through and at-turn) survives it ⏸️ untested no The prior payload did not establish a live result. This was checked only with the repo's fixture harness: test_pass_through_successor_survives_the_hook_process_group_teardown and test_successor_left_a…
Reproduce the reported loop live on base code (Claude TERMs the successor in the hook's group, then the next cycle announces rearm-resurface) ⏸️ untested no I drove two base-code main-only pass-throughs on a real Claude 2.1.292 lab primary, with main turns of ~9s and ~14s. Claude did not terminate the hook's process group in either run (the successors sta…
Handled engine path unchanged: the host still retires its own-group successor itself when it hands a handled outcome to main ✅ pass live lab-all-watch-cycle-exits.log: successor arm 65027 ran in pgid 65027 (start_successor with ARM_OWN_GROUP=1) and was ended by the host (reason=arm-interrupted) on the engine-handled to-main at 17913924…
Close that turns main-only during the engine turn (handle_wake returns 2, detach_successor): the successor left for main is in its own group ⏸️ untested no The prior payload did not establish a live result. Driving this live needs the offer to flip to main-only exactly between the first offer and the turn-boundary offer inside one engine turn, and that r…
Evidence: Live lab run summary (fixed vs base, process groups, timeline)

Source: Live lab run summary (fixed vs base, process groups, timeline)

# Live lab: Claude 2.1.292 primary + supervision host (disposable fm-lab home)

Setup: `bin/fm-lab-home.sh create`, `config/supervision-host`, one fake task `demo` (meta + status, a `sleep` window `fm-demo` on the lab tmux socket), real `claude` started on `tmux -L fm-lab` from the run worktree with `FM_HOME=<lab>`.
Lab workarounds: a temporary gitignored `.fm-secondmate-home` in the worktree (linked worktrees fail the primary-scope check), and `state/.lock` written with the lab Claude pid (session start stands down inside a gate worktree). Both were removed at teardown.

## Fixed code (HEAD 96c0c99)
- 1791392881 `pass-through attended main-only signal: demo.status`. The successor arm 19176 ran in **pgid 19176**, and the hook's group was 98048.
- The hook group 98048 was gone by t+45s, while the successor arm/watcher 19176/19212 were still alive.
- Main drained and acked. 1791392889: the next park's `take-over arm=19176` produced `taken-over`, then a fresh watcher 22288. No `check: rearm-resurface` followed. The marker reads `acked:handling:*`.
- See lab-fixed-supervision-host.log, lab-fixed-watch-cycle-exits.log, and lab-fixed-primary-pane.txt.

## Lab artifact (not the reported bug)
While the lab main had been told to run no tools, it never ran `bin/fm-wake-drain.sh` or the ack. Each take-over restored `announced:downtime`, so a `check: rearm-resurface` came every ~5s. This is the durable re-handling the rewake text describes.
It stopped as soon as main drained and acked (lab-all-supervision-host.log, 1791392544..1791392723).

## Base code (ac0811c host script, swapped in by atomic rename)
- 1791393041 and 1791393269: main-only pass-throughs. Each successor (arm 45622, arm 76811) stayed in the **hook's pgid 47715**.
- In both runs (main turns of ~9s and ~14s), Claude did not tear down the hook's group. The next park took the successor over normally, and no rearm-resurface followed.
- So the root-cause trigger (Claude TERMing the hook's process group after the exit-2 rewake) did not reproduce on this Claude build in the lab. The red/green fixture test models it.
Evidence: Fixed code: supervision host log from the live lab

Source: Fixed code: supervision host log from the live lab

1791392442	start	gen=host-59772-1791392442	primary=claude
1791392489	handled	turn=host-59772-1791392442.1	posture=attended	rc=0	reports=1	error=0 cost=0.023215 conversation_cost=0.023215 input=8 cache_read=50016 cache_write=2209 output=436 turns=4	signal: /var/folders/m3/81qcpm653_19d59xvhm52h2m0000gn/T//fm-lab.SLyVh4/state/demo.status
1791392489	to-main	branch-outcome: the supervision session handled this wake and recorded captain outcomes for you (store rows 1); run bin/fm-wake-drain.sh, act on its BRANCH OUTCOMES section, and acknowledge them as it prints
1791392492	start	gen=host-71182-1791392492	primary=claude
1791392493	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392496	start	gen=host-74481-1791392496	primary=claude
1791392496	take-over	arm=72886
1791392529	pass-through	attended	main-only	signal: /var/folders/m3/81qcpm653_19d59xvhm52h2m0000gn/T//fm-lab.SLyVh4/state/demo.status
1791392532	start	gen=host-83452-1791392532	primary=claude
1791392532	take-over	arm=81688
1791392534	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392537	start	gen=host-88029-1791392537	primary=claude
1791392539	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392542	start	gen=host-90611-1791392542	primary=claude
1791392542	take-over	arm=89145
1791392544	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392547	start	gen=host-93155-1791392547	primary=claude
1791392547	take-over	arm=91909
1791392549	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392552	start	gen=host-96087-1791392552	primary=claude
1791392552	take-over	arm=94396
1791392554	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392557	start	gen=host-99608-1791392557	primary=claude
1791392557	take-over	arm=98327
1791392559	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392562	start	gen=host-2807-1791392562	primary=claude
1791392562	take-over	arm=1417
1791392564	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392567	start	gen=host-5517-1791392567	primary=claude
1791392567	take-over	arm=4204
1791392569	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392572	start	gen=host-8207-1791392572	primary=claude
1791392572	take-over	arm=6796
1791392574	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392577	start	gen=host-10728-1791392577	primary=claude
1791392577	take-over	arm=9491
1791392579	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392583	start	gen=host-13255-1791392582	primary=claude
1791392583	take-over	arm=12032
1791392585	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392587	start	gen=host-15644-1791392587	primary=claude
1791392587	take-over	arm=14471
1791392589	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392592	start	gen=host-18581-1791392592	primary=claude
1791392592	take-over	arm=16966
1791392594	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392597	start	gen=host-22044-1791392597	primary=claude
1791392597	take-over	arm=20077
1791392599	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392602	start	gen=host-25482-1791392602	primary=claude
1791392602	take-over	arm=23766
1791392605	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392608	start	gen=host-27936-1791392608	primary=claude
1791392608	take-over	arm=26716
1791392610	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392613	start	gen=host-30395-1791392613	primary=claude
1791392613	take-over	arm=29181
1791392615	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392618	start	gen=host-33597-1791392618	primary=claude
1791392618	take-over	arm=31835
1791392620	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392623	start	gen=host-38060-1791392622	primary=claude
1791392623	take-over	arm=34985
1791392625	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392628	start	gen=host-42180-1791392628	primary=claude
1791392628	take-over	arm=40095
1791392630	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392633	start	gen=host-45155-1791392633	primary=claude
1791392633	take-over	arm=43709
1791392635	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392638	start	gen=host-47590-1791392637	primary=claude
1791392638	take-over	arm=46394
1791392640	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392643	start	gen=host-50328-1791392642	primary=claude
1791392643	take-over	arm=49112
1791392645	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392648	start	gen=host-52922-1791392648	primary=claude
1791392648	take-over	arm=51712
1791392650	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392653	start	gen=host-55491-1791392653	primary=claude
1791392653	take-over	arm=54160
1791392655	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392658	start	gen=host-59053-1791392658	primary=claude
1791392658	take-over	arm=57357
1791392660	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392663	start	gen=host-61919-1791392663	primary=claude
1791392663	take-over	arm=60397
1791392665	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392668	start	gen=host-64386-1791392668	primary=claude
1791392668	take-over	arm=63175
1791392670	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392673	start	gen=host-70350-1791392673	primary=claude
1791392673	take-over	arm=66713
1791392675	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392679	start	gen=host-73856-1791392678	primary=claude
1791392679	take-over	arm=71708
1791392681	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392684	start	gen=host-76901-1791392684	primary=claude
1791392684	take-over	arm=75411
1791392686	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392688	start	gen=host-79696-1791392688	primary=claude
1791392688	take-over	arm=78171
1791392690	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392693	start	gen=host-82330-1791392693	primary=claude
1791392693	take-over	arm=81099
1791392695	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392698	start	gen=host-84895-1791392698	primary=claude
1791392698	take-over	arm=83615
1791392700	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392703	start	gen=host-87314-1791392703	primary=claude
1791392703	take-over	arm=86083
1791392705	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392708	start	gen=host-89840-1791392708	primary=claude
1791392708	take-over	arm=88587
1791392710	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392714	start	gen=host-92519-1791392714	primary=claude
1791392714	take-over	arm=91130
1791392716	pass-through	attended	main-only	check: rearm-resurface
1791392723	start	gen=host-98389-1791392723	primary=claude
1791392723	take-over	arm=93869
1791392881	pass-through	attended	main-only	signal: /var/folders/m3/81qcpm653_19d59xvhm52h2m0000gn/T//fm-lab.SLyVh4/state/demo.status
1791392889	start	gen=host-21644-1791392889	primary=claude
1791392889	take-over	arm=19176
Evidence: Fixed code: watcher cycle-exit ledger from the live lab

Source: Fixed code: watcher cycle-exit ledger from the live lab

arm_pid=60346	watcher_pid=60394	origin=started	started_at=1791392442	ended_at=1791392474	exit_code=0	signal=none	reason=actionable-signal	beacon_age=31	lock_before=pid:60394|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:00:42 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:65061
arm_pid=65027	watcher_pid=65061	origin=started	started_at=1791392475	ended_at=1791392489	exit_code=143	signal=TERM	reason=arm-interrupted	beacon_age=14	lock_before=pid:65061|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:01:15 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=none
arm_pid=71377	watcher_pid=71419	origin=started	started_at=1791392492	ended_at=1791392493	exit_code=0	signal=none	reason=actionable-check	beacon_age=1	lock_before=pid:none|identity:none	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:72950
arm_pid=72886	watcher_pid=72950	origin=started	started_at=1791392493	ended_at=1791392497	exit_code=143	signal=TERM	reason=signal-exit	beacon_age=3	lock_before=pid:72950|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:01:33 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=none
arm_pid=74675	watcher_pid=72950	origin=attached	started_at=1791392496	ended_at=1791392497	exit_code=unknown	signal=unknown	reason=taken-over	beacon_age=3	lock_before=pid:72950|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:01:33 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:75160
arm_pid=74675	watcher_pid=75160	origin=started	started_at=1791392497	ended_at=1791392529	exit_code=0	signal=none	reason=actionable-signal	beacon_age=32	lock_before=pid:75160|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:01:37 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:81732
arm_pid=81688	watcher_pid=81732	origin=started	started_at=1791392529	ended_at=1791392533	exit_code=143	signal=TERM	reason=signal-exit	beacon_age=3	lock_before=pid:81732|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:02:09 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=none
arm_pid=83670	watcher_pid=81732	origin=attached	started_at=1791392532	ended_at=1791392533	exit_code=unknown	signal=unknown	reason=taken-over	beacon_age=3	lock_before=pid:81732|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:02:09 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:84093
arm_pid=83670	watcher_pid=84093	origin=started	started_at=1791392533	ended_at=1791392534	exit_code=0	signal=none	reason=actionable-check	beacon_age=1	lock_before=pid:84093|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:02:13 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:86358
arm_pid=86322	watcher_pid=86358	origin=started	started_at=1791392534	ended_at=1791392536	exit_code=0	signal=none	reason=actionable-stale	beacon_age=1	lock_before=pid:86358|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:02:14 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=none
arm_pid=88204	watcher_pid=88246	origin=started	started_at=1791392538	ended_at=1791392538	exit_code=0	signal=none	reason=actionable-check	beacon_age=0	lock_before=pid:none|identity:none	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:89179
arm_pid=89145	watcher_pid=89179	origin=started	started_at=1791392539	ended_at=1791392542	exit_code=143	signal=TERM	reason=signal-exit	beacon_age=3	lock_before=pid:89179|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:02:19 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=none
arm_pid=90799	watcher_pid=89179	origin=attached	started_at=1791392542	ended_at=1791392542	exit_code=unknown	signal=unknown	reason=taken-over	beacon_age=3	lock_before=pid:89179|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:02:19 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:91248
arm_pid=90799	watcher_pid=91248	origin=started	started_at=1791392543	ended_at=1791392543	exit_code=0	signal=none	reason=actionable-check	beacon_age=0	lock_before=pid:91248|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:02:23 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:91943
arm_pid=91909	watcher_pid=91943	origin=started	started_at=1791392544	ended_at=1791392547	exit_code=143	signal=TERM	reason=signal-exit	beacon_age=3	lock_before=pid:91943|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:02:24 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=none
arm_pid=93342	watcher_pid=91943	origin=attached	started_at=1791392547	ended_at=1791392548	exit_code=unknown	signal=unknown	reason=taken-over	beacon_age=4	lock_before=pid:91943|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:02:24 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:93728
arm_pid=93342	watcher_pid=93728	origin=started	started_at=1791392548	ended_at=1791392548	exit_code=0	signal=none	reason=actionable-check	beacon_age=0	lock_before=pid:93728|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:02:28 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:94445
arm_pid=94396	watcher_pid=94445	origin=started	started_at=1791392549	ended_at=1791392552	exit_code=143	signal=TERM	reason=signal-exit	beacon_age=2	lock_before=pid:94445|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:02:29 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=none
arm_pid=96272	watcher_pid=94445	origin=attached	started_at=1791392552	ended_at=1791392553	exit_code=unknown	signal=unknown	reason=taken-over	beacon_age=3	lock_before=pid:94445|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:02:29 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:96801
arm_pid=96272	watcher_pid=96801	origin=started	started_at=1791392553	ended_at=1791392553	exit_code=0	signal=none	reason=actionable-check	beacon_age=0	lock_before=pid:96801|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:02:33 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:98381
arm_pid=98327	watcher_pid=98381	origin=started	started_at=1791392554	ended_at=1791392557	exit_code=143	signal=TERM	reason=signal-exit	beacon_age=2	lock_before=pid:98381|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:02:34 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=none
arm_pid=99793	watcher_pid=98381	origin=attached	started_at=1791392557	ended_at=1791392557	exit_code=unknown	signal=unknown	reason=taken-over	beacon_age=2	lock_before=pid:98381|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:02:34 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:276
arm_pid=99793	watcher_pid=276	origin=started	started_at=1791392558	ended_at=1791392558	exit_code=0	signal=none	reason=actionable-check	beacon_age=0	lock_before=pid:276|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:02:38 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:1451
arm_pid=1417	watcher_pid=1451	origin=started	started_at=1791392559	ended_at=1791392562	exit_code=143	signal=TERM	reason=signal-exit	beacon_age=3	lock_before=pid:1451|ident

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	ended_at=1791392685	exit_code=0	signal=none	reason=actionable-check	beacon_age=0	lock_before=pid:77489|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:04:44 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:78205
arm_pid=78171	watcher_pid=78205	origin=started	started_at=1791392686	ended_at=1791392689	exit_code=143	signal=TERM	reason=signal-exit	beacon_age=3	lock_before=pid:78205|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:04:46 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=none
arm_pid=80045	watcher_pid=78205	origin=attached	started_at=1791392689	ended_at=1791392689	exit_code=unknown	signal=unknown	reason=taken-over	beacon_age=3	lock_before=pid:78205|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:04:46 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:80438
arm_pid=80045	watcher_pid=80438	origin=started	started_at=1791392689	ended_at=1791392690	exit_code=0	signal=none	reason=actionable-check	beacon_age=1	lock_before=pid:none|identity:none	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:81133
arm_pid=81099	watcher_pid=81133	origin=started	started_at=1791392691	ended_at=1791392693	exit_code=143	signal=TERM	reason=signal-exit	beacon_age=2	lock_before=pid:81133|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:04:51 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=none
arm_pid=82515	watcher_pid=81133	origin=attached	started_at=1791392693	ended_at=1791392694	exit_code=unknown	signal=unknown	reason=taken-over	beacon_age=3	lock_before=pid:81133|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:04:51 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:82903
arm_pid=82515	watcher_pid=82903	origin=started	started_at=1791392694	ended_at=1791392694	exit_code=0	signal=none	reason=actionable-check	beacon_age=0	lock_before=pid:82903|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:04:54 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:83649
arm_pid=83615	watcher_pid=83649	origin=started	started_at=1791392695	ended_at=1791392698	exit_code=143	signal=TERM	reason=signal-exit	beacon_age=3	lock_before=pid:83649|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:04:55 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=none
arm_pid=85080	watcher_pid=83649	origin=attached	started_at=1791392698	ended_at=1791392699	exit_code=unknown	signal=unknown	reason=taken-over	beacon_age=4	lock_before=pid:83649|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:04:55 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=none
arm_pid=85080	watcher_pid=85464	origin=started	started_at=1791392699	ended_at=1791392700	exit_code=0	signal=none	reason=actionable-check	beacon_age=1	lock_before=pid:none|identity:none	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:86117
arm_pid=86083	watcher_pid=86117	origin=started	started_at=1791392700	ended_at=1791392703	exit_code=143	signal=TERM	reason=signal-exit	beacon_age=2	lock_before=pid:86117|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:05:00 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=none
arm_pid=87500	watcher_pid=86117	origin=attached	started_at=1791392703	ended_at=1791392703	exit_code=unknown	signal=unknown	reason=taken-over	beacon_age=2	lock_before=pid:86117|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:05:00 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:87903
arm_pid=87500	watcher_pid=87903	origin=started	started_at=1791392703	ended_at=1791392704	exit_code=0	signal=none	reason=actionable-check	beacon_age=0	lock_before=pid:none|identity:none	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:88621
arm_pid=88587	watcher_pid=88621	origin=started	started_at=1791392705	ended_at=1791392708	exit_code=143	signal=TERM	reason=signal-exit	beacon_age=3	lock_before=pid:88621|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:05:05 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=none
arm_pid=90026	watcher_pid=88621	origin=attached	started_at=1791392708	ended_at=1791392708	exit_code=unknown	signal=unknown	reason=taken-over	beacon_age=3	lock_before=pid:88621|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:05:05 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:90419
arm_pid=90026	watcher_pid=90419	origin=started	started_at=1791392708	ended_at=1791392709	exit_code=0	signal=none	reason=actionable-check	beacon_age=0	lock_before=pid:90419|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:05:08 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:91188
arm_pid=91130	watcher_pid=91188	origin=started	started_at=1791392710	ended_at=1791392714	exit_code=143	signal=TERM	reason=signal-exit	beacon_age=4	lock_before=pid:91188|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:05:10 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=none
arm_pid=92790	watcher_pid=91188	origin=attached	started_at=1791392714	ended_at=1791392714	exit_code=unknown	signal=unknown	reason=taken-over	beacon_age=4	lock_before=pid:91188|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:05:10 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:93173
arm_pid=92790	watcher_pid=93173	origin=started	started_at=1791392714	ended_at=1791392715	exit_code=0	signal=none	reason=actionable-check	beacon_age=0	lock_before=pid:93173|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:05:14 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:93905
arm_pid=93869	watcher_pid=93905	origin=started	started_at=1791392716	ended_at=1791392724	exit_code=143	signal=TERM	reason=signal-exit	beacon_age=8	lock_before=pid:93905|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:05:16 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=none
arm_pid=98586	watcher_pid=93905	origin=attached	started_at=1791392724	ended_at=1791392724	exit_code=unknown	signal=unknown	reason=taken-over	beacon_age=8	lock_before=pid:93905|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:05:16 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:99093
arm_pid=98586	watcher_pid=99093	origin=started	started_at=1791392724	ended_at=1791392880	exit_code=0	signal=none	reason=actionable-signal	beacon_age=31	lock_before=pid:99093|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:05:24 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:19212
arm_pid=19176	watcher_pid=19212	origin=started	started_at=1791392881	ended_at=1791392889	exit_code=143	signal=TERM	reason=signal-exit	beacon_age=8	lock_before=pid:19212|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:08:01 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=none
arm_pid=21829	watcher_pid=19212	origin=attached	started_at=1791392889	ended_at=1791392890	exit_code=unknown	signal=unknown	reason=taken-over	beacon_age=9	lock_before=pid:19212|identity:Wed Oct  7 20:08:01 2026     bash ~/.no-mistakes/worktrees/da9fc43a9fb8/01M4BJR0YAKXY2EEKTANYG1EYM/bin/fm-watch.sh	lock_after=pid:none|identity:none	successor=started:22288
Evidence: Fixed code: lab Claude primary pane

Source: Fixed code: lab Claude primary pane



⏺ ack

✻ Baked for 1s · done 8:04 PM

⏺ Stop hook feedback

⏺ ack

✻ Churned for 1s · done 8:05 PM

⏺ Stop hook feedback

⏺ ack

✻ Brewed for 1s · done 8:05 PM

❯ New rule for this lab test, superseding the earlier one: for every watcher wake or Stop hook feedback, run bin/fm-wake-drain.sh, then run the exact WAKE_ACK_REQUIRED --ack-through command it prints
  (if it prints one), and if it shows BRANCH OUTCOMES run the mark-processed command it names. Do not run anything else, do not arm watchers, then reply: ack

⏺ ack

✻ Cogitated for 3s · done 8:05 PM

⏺ Stop hook feedback

  Ran 1 shell command

⏺ Stop hook feedback

  Ran 2 shell commands

⏺ ack

✻ Worked for 9s · done 8:05 PM

⏺ Stop hook feedback

  Ran 2 shell commands

⏺ ack

✻ Cooked for 6s · done 8:08 PM

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Evidence: Final lab primary pane

Source: Final lab primary pane


  Ran 2 shell commands

⏺ ack

✻ Worked for 9s · done 8:05 PM

⏺ Stop hook feedback

  Ran 2 shell commands

⏺ ack

✻ Cooked for 6s · done 8:08 PM

⏺ Stop hook feedback

  Ran 2 shell commands

⏺ ack

✻ Sautéed for 7s · done 8:09 PM

⏺ Stop hook feedback

  Ran 2 shell commands

⏺ ack

✻ Crunched for 6s · done 8:10 PM

❯ Lab rule update: for each wake, after the drain and ack, also run: sleep 30   (as its own Bash command), then reply: ack

⏺ ack

✻ Worked for 2s · done 8:13 PM

⏺ Stop hook feedback

  Ran 3 shell commands

⏺ ack. The sleep 30 didn't run: the tool blocks standalone sleep commands, and I didn't work around it.

✻ Cooked for 12s · done 8:14 PM

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Evidence: New regression tests on the base host script (both not ok)

Source: New regression tests on the base host script (both not ok)

not ok - group teardown: the successor watcher (pid 32735) did not survive the hook's process group teardown
not ok - at-turn teardown: the successor watcher (pid 35808) did not survive the hook's process group teardown
Evidence: Fixed live run, key lines
1791392881 pass-through attended main-only signal: demo.status
successor arm 19176 pgid 19176 (hook pgid 98048); hook gone at t+45s, successor alive
1791392889 take-over arm=19176 -> attached reason=taken-over, successor=started:22288
no check: rearm-resurface afterwards; .watcher-down = acked:handling:*

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  • ⚠️ bin/fm-supervision-host.sh:1124 - The fix moves only one of the two successors the host leaves running for main into its own process group. The successor started at line 1124 (start_successor &#34;$CLOSED_ARM_PID&#34;, without ARM_OWN_GROUP=1) can also be left for main: when handle_wake returns 2, line 1141 calls detach_successor, restores downtime, and emits, and the Stop hook then exits 2. That happens when the close arrives under the away posture, so the attended block at 1086 is skipped, but the captain returns before handle_wake re-reads the posture (TURN_POSTURE=attended, attended_acceptor fails). The successor is still in the hook's process group, so the same group teardown stops it, publishes downtime, and the next park's fresh cycle announces an empty check: rearm-resurface. That is the invariant the commit claims to restore: a successor left for main must outlive the hook's group teardown. It costs one spurious wake per occurrence rather than a sustained loop, because the follow-on rearm-resurface close is main-only and goes through the fixed leave_successor_for_main path. Smallest fix at the shared boundary: give every successor its own group inside start_successor (or pass ARM_OWN_GROUP=1 at line 1124 too). Only successors run there, and the host retires its parked arm by pid (retire_arm), so a separate group changes nothing on the handled path. That also lets the ARM_OWN_GROUP env knob (lines 470/477/711) go away. Sites: bin/fm-supervision-host.sh:1124 (start without own group), :1141 (detach to main), :711 (the fixed sibling).
  • ℹ️ tests/fm-supervision-host.test.sh:1472 - The regression test models Claude's teardown as a TERM to the hook's process group right after the hook exits, and asserts only that the watcher survives. The reported live sequence puts the TERM about 17s after the successor started, a few seconds after main's next turn ends, with the next hook's arm ending as attached-cycle-ended. The test does not reproduce that timing, and it does not assert the user-visible outcome: the next park takes over without a check: rearm-resurface wake. The own-group change protects the successor whenever the group is torn down, so this is not a defect. But the root cause has not been confirmed against a live Claude session; confirm on the reporting home that the empty rearm-resurface wakes stop.

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  • ℹ️ tests/fm-supervision-host.test.sh:1472 - The regression test models Claude's teardown as a TERM to the hook's process group right after the hook exits, and asserts only that the watcher survives. The reported live sequence puts the TERM about 17s after the successor started, a few seconds after main's next turn ends, with the next hook's arm ending as attached-cycle-ended. The test does not reproduce that timing, and it does not assert the user-visible outcome: the next park takes over without a check: rearm-resurface wake. The own-group change protects the successor whenever the group is torn down, so this is not a defect. But the root cause has not been confirmed against a live Claude session; confirm on the reporting home that the empty rearm-resurface wakes stop.
✅ **Test** - passed

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  • Live validation: ✅ go - 3 of 6 scenarios driven live against the product
Scenario Result Live Evidence
Main-only pass-through on a live Claude primary: the successor watcher runs in its own process group and outlives the Stop hook ✅ pass live lab-fixed-supervision-host.log, lab-fixed-watch-cycle-exits.log, lab-run-summary.md: successor arm 19176 in pgid 19176 while the hook's group was 98048; hook group gone at t+45s with the successor sti…
After main handles the pass-through wake, the next park takes the successor over quietly: no empty check: rearm-resurface wake ✅ pass live lab-fixed-supervision-host.log 1791392881..1791392889: take-over arm=19176, ledger reason=taken-over, a fresh watcher, no rearm-resurface, marker acked:handling
Regression: the hook's process group is terminated after the rewake, and the successor left for main (both pass-through and at-turn) survives it ⏸️ untested no The prior payload did not establish a live result. This was checked only with the repo's fixture harness: test_pass_through_successor_survives_the_hook_process_group_teardown and test_successor_left_a…
Reproduce the reported loop live on base code (Claude TERMs the successor in the hook's group, then the next cycle announces rearm-resurface) ⏸️ untested no I drove two base-code main-only pass-throughs on a real Claude 2.1.292 lab primary, with main turns of ~9s and ~14s. Claude did not terminate the hook's process group in either run (the successors sta…
Handled engine path unchanged: the host still retires its own-group successor itself when it hands a handled outcome to main ✅ pass live lab-all-watch-cycle-exits.log: successor arm 65027 ran in pgid 65027 (start_successor with ARM_OWN_GROUP=1) and was ended by the host (reason=arm-interrupted) on the engine-handled to-main at 17913924…
Close that turns main-only during the engine turn (handle_wake returns 2, detach_successor): the successor left for main is in its own group ⏸️ untested no The prior payload did not establish a live result. Driving this live needs the offer to flip to main-only exactly between the first offer and the turn-boundary offer inside one engine turn, and that r…
  • tests/fm-supervision-host.test.sh cases run in isolation (scratch copy, removed): test_pass_through_successor_survives_the_hook_process_group_teardown, test_successor_left_at_the_turn_survives_the_hook_process_group_teardown, test_claude_stop_hook_delivers_a_main_only_pass_through, test_claude_stop_hook_delivers_a_close_that_turns_main_only_at_its_turn, test_next_park_takes_over_the_cycle_a_pass_through_left_for_main, test_unrecorded_successor_is_stopped_rather_than_left_for_main: all 6 ok on HEAD
  • Red check: the same two new tests run with bin/fm-supervision-host.sh from ac0811c: both not ok - ... did not survive the hook&#39;s process group teardown
  • Live lab: bin/fm-lab-home.sh create + config/supervision-host, real claude on tmux -L fm-lab with FM_HOME=lab, fake task demo with a status file and an fm-demo window; main-only closes driven by appending needs-decision status lines; process groups sampled with ps -o pid,pgid; host log, cycle-exit ledger and recovery marker inspected
  • Live lab with the base host script swapped in by atomic rename (two runs, main turns of ~9s and ~14s) to look for the hook-group teardown
  • Teardown: tmux -L fm-lab kill-server, checked for leftover lab processes (none), rm -rf of the lab, removed the temporary .fm-secondmate-home marker and the scratch test file; git status clean
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menidi added 4 commits October 7, 2026 18:50
…he hook's process group

The successor a main-only pass-through leaves for main shared the Stop hook's
process group, so the harness tearing that group down after the exit-2 rewake
stopped it. The stop published downtime and the next park's first cycle
announced an empty check: rearm-resurface, which woke main again in a loop.
Start that successor in a process group of its own, as the hook's own
handling successor already is.
…ests in tests/fm-supervision-host.test.sh now call the existing `stop_home_processes "$home"` just before `pass`. The tests are `test_successor_left_at_the_turn_survives_the_hook_process_group_teardown` and `test_pass_through_successor_survives_the_hook_process_group_teardown`. No production code and no other tests changed. The rule broken was that a test must not leave a home's watcher or arm processes running after it passes. These two were the only cases in the changed area that broke it. The other host+hook tests already stop their home, and `test_successor_close_during_main_turn_is_delivered_at_the_next_turn_end` leaves its watcher behind too, but it is an older test you said not to touch. The only reason anything was left over is that the successor's arm now sits in its own process group, outside the hook's teardown. `stop_home_processes` kills the watcher by the pid in its lock file, which stops it no matter which group it is in. **Checks run:** - I ran just these two tests from a scratch copy of the suite (since deleted). Both pass in about 13 seconds. - After each test, a process listing filtered to that test's home directory came back empty once the processes had about a second to exit after TERM. - `bash -n` on the test file passes. - `shellcheck` is not installed here, so I did not lint the file. - I did not run the full serial-2 suite locally. Whether it now finishes under its 30-minute limit will only show on the next CI run
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Speaking as Kun's firstmate: I read the whole diff of head 255b158c against main 329ad4ed and squash-merged it as 3c58ec8e.

What it does: when the supervision host leaves a successor watcher running for main (a main-only pass-through, or a close that turns main-only at its turn), start_arm now starts it in its own process group (ARM_OWN_GROUP=1 → set -m) with stdin from /dev/null. That's the same shape start_handling_successor in bin/fm-claude-stop-autoarm.sh already uses. The harness tearing down the Stop hook's group after the exit-2 rewake no longer TERMs that successor, so it can't record downtime and set off the empty check: rearm-resurface wake loop. The engine-handled path still retires its own successor by pid. Both new fixture tests TERM the hook's group and check that the watcher survives. They fail on the base script and pass on this head.

Security review before approving fork CI: no workflow or CI-script edits, no credential or network handling. It's a process-group flag and a stdin redirect. I approved this head's fork runs 37716912258 (Require no-mistakes) and 37716912263 (CI).

Contract-class: restore. The supervision host runs by default on a Claude primary, and docs/supervision-host.md already specifies that on a main-only pass-through the host "starts the successor watcher cycle and leaves it running". That successor was being stopped by the hook's group teardown. This keeps it alive with no new surface or wake class. Your body is upfront that the Claude-side group teardown didn't reproduce live in the lab. The change is protective either way, because the successor survives whether or not the group is torn down.

VISION.md, rule by rule

  • One captain, one interface: aligns. It removes a recurring empty wake that cost main a turn and tokens about every 30 seconds.
  • Authority is explicit and never inferred: aligns. No authority change.
  • Scripts own the mechanics, agents own the judgment: aligns. A process-group mechanic in the host script.
  • A restart is a non-event: aligns. The watcher left for main survives the hook's teardown, and the next park takes it over.
  • Delegation with a spine: aligns. Regression tests cover both hand-back paths.
  • The fleet outlives any vendor: aligns. It follows the existing harness-agnostic own-group pattern.
  • Scope: aligns. Command-layer supervision only. The always-loaded contract is untouched.

Gates: no-mistakes attestation bound to 255b158c and green, every CI check green including the timing aggregate, CLEAN/MERGEABLE.

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Speaking as Kun's firstmate: this is merged. Thank you @menidi — really appreciate you taking the time on this.

nathanjgaul-agile added a commit to nathanjgaul-agile/firstmate that referenced this pull request Oct 9, 2026
* feat(bin): defer spawns beyond a declared per-project capacity, opt-in (kunchenguid#5343)

* refactor(bin): share the local Firstmate home walk from the wake library

Teardown's walk over the root home and its registered local secondmate homes
moves into bin/fm-wake-lib.sh as fm_local_firstmate_state_dirs, next to
fm_firstmate_root_home, so a second consumer can count task records across
this machine's homes without a copy. Teardown keeps its exact refusal wording
through a thin wrapper.

* feat(bin): defer spawns beyond a project's declared machine capacity

A project whose machine-local resource only serves a few workers at once had
no way to tell Firstmate so: every queued item was launched, and the surplus
workers spent full-context turns retrying the resource.

config/project-capacity in the root home now declares how many workers each
named project admits at once on this machine. bin/fm-spawn.sh counts the ship
and scout records on the same project origin across the root and its local
secondmate homes, skipping ones whose ready PR is recorded, while holding the
shared project lock through publication. A spawn with every place held exits 75
before any brief render, endpoint, worktree, record, or backlog move, so the
item stays queued; batches report it as deferred. Undeclared projects keep
today's uncapped dispatch, and an unreadable declaration refuses rather than
guessing the limit.

Refs kunchenguid#4237

* no-mistakes(review): Document that capacity matches the clone directory name

* no-mistakes(document): Rewrap stale fm-wake-lib root-home doc comment

* no-mistakes(review): Dedupe local state dirs by identity to avoid double-counting

* no-mistakes(document): Rewrap fm_local_firstmate_state_dirs error doc comment

* no-mistakes(ci): I fixed all four Greptile findings. All 14 tests in tests/fm-project-capacity.test.sh pass, and shellcheck at warning level is clean on the changed files. Each new test failed against the old code and passes now. - **ci-1 (spaced names):** a declaration line must give a name its capacity whenever the name is a valid clone directory name. `fm_project_capacity_lookup` now trims each line, skips blank lines and lines whose first non-blank character is `#`, and takes the last field as the capacity. Everything before that field is the name, so it may contain spaces. The old error cases still refuse: a single field is rejected, and trailing text leaves a last field that is not an integer. The library header and docs/configuration.md now say a name starting with `#` cannot be declared. New test `test_spaced_project_name_is_declared` declares `my heavy project 1` next to an indented comment line and gets a deferral. - **ci-2 (unreadable records):** the holder count must never silently leave out a holder. `fm_project_capacity_occupants` now refuses when a local home's state directory exists but cannot be read or listed, or when a `.meta` file cannot be read. The error names the path, and `fm-spawn.sh` shows it in its existing refusal message. New test `test_unreadable_holders_refuse_admission` covers an unreadable record in the root home and an unreadable state directory in a registered local secondmate home, then checks that the spawn is admitted once both are readable. The test is skipped when run as root. - **ci-3 (Orca lock):** any spawn that can become a holder for a capped project must take that project's lock. The lookup now also reports whether the declaration caps any project at all, and an Orca spawn takes the per-origin lock whenever it does. This covers every capped same-origin clone. It also covers some cases where no same-origin clone is capped, because a spawn cannot find clones under other directory names without searching for them. With no declaration file, Orca still skips the lock. The comments in the library and in the `fm-spawn.sh` header are updated. The Orca test now clones the origin as `project-2`, which has no declaration, and checks that its Orca spawn refuses while the lock is held and publishes no record. - **ci-4 (worktrees):** `assert_nothing_created` now also compares the project's `git worktree list` from before and after a deferred spawn. Both tests that call it take that snapshot first. Files changed: bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh, bin/fm-spawn.sh, docs/configuration.md, tests/fm-project-capacity.test.sh

* fix(bin): declare capacity for a project name that begins with #

A clone directory whose name begins with # was skipped as a comment, so that project stayed uncapped. A line is a declaration when the # is written against the rest of the name and the line ends with a capacity; a # followed by whitespace stays a comment.

* no-mistakes(document): Rewrap project-capacity library header comment

* no-mistakes(ci): Lint 2 fails because this PR's code pushes ShellCheck past its memory cap. ShellCheck ran out of memory analyzing bin/fm-teardown.sh in CI (reason=memory, rc=251, peak about 8.39 GB). On current main the same file passes at about 7.29 GB. **Cause:** the new `fm_local_firstmate_state_dirs` function in bin/fm-wake-lib.sh had a conditional `. fm-secondmate-registry-lib.sh` with a `# shellcheck source=` directive inside the function. ShellCheck followed that source again, inside a function scope, wherever fm-wake-lib.sh is sourced, and bin/fm-teardown.sh is the heaviest root that sources it. Measured locally with `shellcheck --norc --external-sources bin/fm-teardown.sh`: - current main (fd325b1): 7.29 GB - main merged with this PR: 7.86 GB - the same merge without the in-function source: 7.27 GB **Rule this restores:** this change must not make any lint root heavier than it is on main. That function holds the only new nested source in the change. **Fix:** I removed the in-function source, which no caller needs. Both callers already load the registry library at top level before calling the function: - bin/fm-teardown.sh sources it directly. - bin/fm-spawn.sh, the only user of bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh, gets it through bin/fm-ff-lib.sh. I also documented the requirement in the function's comment and in the "Requires" note in bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh. No behaviour changes. **Verification:** - ShellCheck on head: bin/fm-teardown.sh peaks at 7.12 GB and bin/fm-spawn.sh at 6.68 GB, both with rc=0. bin/fm-wake-lib.sh and bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh lint clean. - tests/fm-project-capacity.test.sh, tests/fm-teardown.test.sh (102 ok) and tests/fm-teardown-endpoint-safety.test.sh all pass. Files changed: bin/fm-wake-lib.sh, bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh

* fix(bin): release the Herdr session lock when reclaim finishes

A concurrent resume in another home waits five seconds for that lock.
Reclaim is the last presentation change on the recovery path, so holding
the lock through the launch tail made the waiter time out. The contributions
arm check also freezes its one-second clock, the same way the budget tests
do, because an unfrozen clock can tick past before the first forge read.

* no-mistakes(review): Keep Herdr session lock through launch handoff after reclaim

* no-mistakes(review): Skip the spawning task's own record in capacity count

* no-mistakes(review): Restore release test comment above its test

* docs: scope PR-ready re-evaluation to a declared project capacity

A ready pull request frees a place only when that project declares capacity, so the always-loaded backlog contract should re-evaluate on that handoff only in that case.

* fix(bin): name the Lavish read message count by the same label as its section (kunchenguid#6785)

fm-procevent-lavish.sh read labels tag=message rows SESSION-ENDING MESSAGE
only when session_ended is true and CAPTAIN MESSAGE otherwise, but the
count line always said session_ending_message_count. Several composer
messages on a still-open board were therefore counted as session-ending.

The count line now follows the same session_ended switch:
session_ending_message_count once the session ended, captain_message_count
otherwise. Message rows stay out of the annotation count, per triage.

Fixes kunchenguid#6743

* fix(herdr): make the presentation lock namespace per OS account (kunchenguid#6780)

The Herdr presentation lock namespace was the fixed machine-global
/tmp/firstmate-herdr-presentation, so on a host where two OS users run
Firstmate on Herdr the first account to create it owned it and every
teardown from the other account was refused with no way to clear it.

Suffix the namespace with the account uid. The owner-uid and mode-700
checks are unchanged, so a foreign-owned or wrong-mode name at this
account's path is still refused and never adopted, chowned, or removed.

Fixes kunchenguid#4716.

* Fix OpenCode arm plugin to decide with the shared supervision predicate (kunchenguid#6809)

The OpenCode session plugin's shouldArm kept its own copy of the need
test that only looked for in-flight task records, while the turn-end
guard decides with fm_supervision_needed in bin/fm-supervision-lib.sh,
which also counts registered process-event sources and trusted custom
checks. With an empty fleet but any registered source or check, the
guard blocked every turn end while the plugin declined to arm - a loop
the guard's own repair line could not resolve because it names the
plugin as the fix.

The plugin now delegates the decision to the shared predicate through
bash, keeping the local away-record decline and the x-mode.env arm
override. OpenCode plugin test fixtures now carry the real predicate
their arming path sources, and the arm suite gains six cases asserting
the plugin's decision against the shared verdict over the same
synthetic state directories.

Co-authored-by: Mia Sun <mia@Bigs-Mac-mini.localdomain>

* fix(bin): resolve a pending reply only from its own task's status line (kunchenguid#6792)

* fix(bin): resolve a pending reply only from its own task's status line

Remote reply ingestion handed every corr= token in a mate's payload to
fm_pending_reply_try_resolve together with that mate's own status log,
so one mate echoing another mate's token resolved the other request.
Honor a status-file override only when it is the record's own
parent_status, and match the corr= token as a whole word.

Fixes kunchenguid#6538

* no-mistakes(document): docs: scope remote reply settlement to the asked mate

* docs(skills): index the six missing agent-only skill triggers (kunchenguid#6784)

agent-skill-trigger-index claims to be the complete agent-only trigger
index but omitted operational-home-layout, session-start-recovery,
validation-supervision, ship-landing, scout-completion, and
away-quiet-supervision. Add each with its own description's trigger,
placed beside the related entries.

The decision-hold-lifecycle redirect stub stays out, per triage.

Fixes kunchenguid#6503

* test: make agent process fixtures compatible with multicall sleep (kunchenguid#6814)

* test: share a rename-safe agent stand-in across liveness suites

On Ubuntu 26.04, `sleep` is the uutils multicall binary, which refuses to
run when invoked through a symlink named after another utility. The Herdr
descendant process-walk tests built their agent-named process as a `pi`
symlink to the host `sleep`, so the process exited at once, its parent shell
was gone before the walk ran, and both cases read `unknown unreadable` and
failed on that host. The suite stops at its first failure, so every later
case went unrun. The Herdr control smoke test's `claude` symlink has the
same construction.

The tmux liveness suite already solved this with a host-compiled spinner and
a survival-checked `sleep` fallback. That builder moves into tests/lib.sh as
fm_agent_standin, and the tmux suite, both Herdr descendant cases, and the
Herdr control smoke test now use it. When no stand-in can survive a foreign
name, a case skips with the reason instead of failing.

tests/fm-test-fixtures.test.sh gains a portable regression with a fake
multicall `sleep`, so it bites on hosts whose own `sleep` is single-purpose.

* no-mistakes(document): Correct Herdr verification fixture reference

* ci: retrigger cancelled shard

* fix(bin): keep the supervision host's successor watcher alive after the Stop hook's group is torn down (kunchenguid#6787)

* fix(bin): keep the supervision host's pass-through successor out of the hook's process group

The successor a main-only pass-through leaves for main shared the Stop hook's
process group, so the harness tearing that group down after the exit-2 rewake
stopped it. The stop published downtime and the next park's first cycle
announced an empty check: rearm-resurface, which woke main again in a loop.
Start that successor in a process group of its own, as the hook's own
handling successor already is.

* no-mistakes(review): Give the at-turn successor left for main its own group

* no-mistakes(document): Document own-group successor for turn-start hand-back too

* no-mistakes(ci): I made the change you asked for: both new teardown tests in tests/fm-supervision-host.test.sh now call the existing `stop_home_processes "$home"` just before `pass`. The tests are `test_successor_left_at_the_turn_survives_the_hook_process_group_teardown` and `test_pass_through_successor_survives_the_hook_process_group_teardown`. No production code and no other tests changed. The rule broken was that a test must not leave a home's watcher or arm processes running after it passes. These two were the only cases in the changed area that broke it. The other host+hook tests already stop their home, and `test_successor_close_during_main_turn_is_delivered_at_the_next_turn_end` leaves its watcher behind too, but it is an older test you said not to touch. The only reason anything was left over is that the successor's arm now sits in its own process group, outside the hook's teardown. `stop_home_processes` kills the watcher by the pid in its lock file, which stops it no matter which group it is in. **Checks run:** - I ran just these two tests from a scratch copy of the suite (since deleted). Both pass in about 13 seconds. - After each test, a process listing filtered to that test's home directory came back empty once the processes had about a second to exit after TERM. - `bash -n` on the test file passes. - `shellcheck` is not installed here, so I did not lint the file. - I did not run the full serial-2 suite locally. Whether it now finishes under its 30-minute limit will only show on the next CI run

* test: make tmux Claude readiness checks independent of permission footers (kunchenguid#6823)

* test: use idle composer readiness for Claude tmux guards

* no-mistakes(test): Fix attended supervision test expectations and isolate worker state

* no-mistakes(document): Correct live guard coverage and readiness documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Captain, fixed SC2100 by quoting the cursor-agent assignment in tests/fm-host-mirror-live-e2e.test.sh. Reproduced the failure before editing; pinned ShellCheck lint on both PR test files, bash syntax checks, and git diff --check now pass

* test: preserve attended successor close assertions

* no-mistakes(test): Fix attended live test watcher takeover expectations

* no-mistakes(document): Correct stale attended guard documentation

* Revert "no-mistakes(document): Correct stale attended guard documentation"

This reverts commit 8e59d89.

* Revert "no-mistakes(test): Fix attended live test watcher takeover expectations"

This reverts commit c0b8510.

* test(herdr): accept safe exit refusals and clean lab once (kunchenguid#6818)

* test: stabilize watcher lock race fixtures (kunchenguid#6887)

* test: order stale watcher-lock fixture races explicitly

* no-mistakes(review): Removed duplicate stale-steal reap call

* Rerun CI after the merge

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Co-authored-by: Asser AboElkhair <asser.aboelkhair@gmail.com>
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witt3rd added a commit to witt3rd/firstmate that referenced this pull request Oct 10, 2026
* fix: prevent unnecessary remote worker turnover (#6431)

* fix: prevent healthy remote job worker turnover

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize full LaunchAgent repair and verify launchd-tracked owners

* no-mistakes(review): Let launchd-tracked unpublished spawns start before reloading

* no-mistakes(document): Document remote worker heartbeat and serialized LaunchAgent recovery

* no-mistakes(ci): Full CI log showed the idle-worker regression exceeded its outdated command budget (82 versus 80) after independent heartbeat ownership checks were added. Raised the budget to 120 while retaining the separate busy-poll sleep limit. Remote-job and LaunchAgent executable tests passed, as did bash syntax validation and git diff --check. No production behavior changed

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed missing readiness recovery under verified live ownership, preserving the serving PID and private file mode. Added executable regressions for deletion during a blocked sweep and stale readiness diagnostics without LaunchAgent reload. Deletion regression failed before the fix. Both remote-job test suites, bash syntax validation, and git diff --check passed

* no-mistakes(ci): Full CI log identified a flaky ownership-loss test racing an already-authorized heartbeat refresh. Replaced backdating and a fixed sleep with bounded observation of readiness expiry through the public probe. Production behavior unchanged. Remote-job and LaunchAgent executable suites passed; bash syntax validation and git diff --check passed

* fix: wait for launchd bootout cleanup

* no-mistakes(document): Document remote worker recovery and read-only turnover verification

* no-mistakes(review): Publish worker identity before lock owner records

* no-mistakes(document): Document worker identity publication safety invariant

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed ci-1: replacement workers discard predecessor readiness before publishing identity and roll back identity if lock-owner recording fails. Added executable regressions reproducing both defects. LaunchAgent and orphan-reap suites, shell syntax checks, and git diff --check passed. No live service state was modified

* no-mistakes(ci): Restored lock-owner-before-identity publication and removed the identity rollback and reordering-only tests. Retained an executable regression proving predecessor readiness is rejected until replacement startup completes. LaunchAgent and orphan-reap suites, shell syntax checks, and git diff --check passed. Other changes remain intact; the retained-identity interrupted-repair edge remains out of scope. No live service state was modified

* fix: speed up remote-job sequence claim cleanup (#6575)

* fix(remote-job): reap expired seq claims with one directory walk

The hourly claim sweep forked uname+stat per .seq-claims entry and blocked
serving for ~85s at ~17k dirs. Delete expired empty claim dirs with a single
find -exec rmdir batch and cache the host uname for remaining mtime reads.

* no-mistakes(review): Restore original path mtime helper and drop uname cache

* no-mistakes(test): Restore claim retention eligibility; focused retention and serving tests pass

* no-mistakes(document): Document single-walk claim cleanup and regression entrypoints

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed Lint 2’s reproduced SC1091 by adding the tests/lib.sh ShellCheck source directive to the retention test. Runtime behavior is unchanged. ShellCheck passed for both new claim tests; Bash syntax, the retention behavior test, and git diff --check passed

* fix(tests): keep fixture registries out of git worktree roots

A TMPDIR pointed at a repository root placed live .fm-test-* registries
beside tracked files, and a concurrent git add during the claim-walk CI
fix round committed three of them. Route registries and fixture roots
through a TMPDIR that refuses git worktree roots, remove the stray files,
and pin the escape with a behavioral cleanup test.

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve whole-second claim expiry in single-walk sweep

* no-mistakes(document): Correct temporary-directory resolution documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed ci-3 by changing only the stale, fresh, and read-only orphan fixture paths in tests/fm-test-fixture-cleanup.test.sh to use $FM_TEST_TMPDIR. All seven tests passed both normally and with TMPDIR set to the worktree root. Shell syntax and git diff --check passed

* feat(bin): record no-mistakes pipeline spend per task at teardown, opt-in (#5354)

* feat(bin): record each task's no-mistakes pipeline spend at cleanup

no-mistakes keeps every pipeline agent invocation's token usage only in its
local agent_invocations records, and cold pipeline agents (review, test,
document) leave no session log, so a task's review-loop cost never reached
Firstmate's records and could not be attributed after cleanup.

bin/fm-pipeline-spend.sh attributes a task's runs by the repository
no-mistakes resolves for the task copy, the task branch, and the branch's
creation (a relaunch mints a new spawn_gen while the branch keeps
validating), then sums every invocation, failed and cancelled included.
Token fields use no-mistakes' per-round deltas so resumed review rounds are
not counted twice, and unrecorded values stay unknown rather than zero.
show prints the record read-only; record appends it once per task
incarnation to data/pipeline-spend.jsonl. Teardown records it for every
ship task it cleans up, before deleting the branch and the task record.

fm_nm_state_db becomes the one owner of where no-mistakes' state database
lives, shared with the capped run-inventory reader.

* no-mistakes(review): Drop spend show command and timeout override

* style(bin): rewrap fm-pipeline-spend header comment

* Make pipeline spend recording opt-in

* feat(bin): record each task's no-mistakes pipeline spend at cleanup

no-mistakes keeps every pipeline agent invocation's token usage only in its
local agent_invocations records, and cold pipeline agents (review, test,
document) leave no session log, so a task's review-loop cost never reached
Firstmate's records and could not be attributed after cleanup.

bin/fm-pipeline-spend.sh attributes a task's runs by the repository
no-mistakes resolves for the task copy, the task branch, and the branch's
creation (a relaunch mints a new spawn_gen while the branch keeps
validating), then sums every invocation, failed and cancelled included.
Token fields use no-mistakes' per-round deltas so resumed review rounds are
not counted twice, and unrecorded values stay unknown rather than zero.
show prints the record read-only; record appends it once per task
incarnation to data/pipeline-spend.jsonl. Teardown records it for every
ship task it cleans up, before deleting the branch and the task record.

fm_nm_state_db becomes the one owner of where no-mistakes' state database
lives, shared with the capped run-inventory reader.

* no-mistakes(review): Drop spend show command and timeout override

* style(bin): rewrap fm-pipeline-spend header comment

* Make pipeline spend recording opt-in

* no-mistakes(document): Note pipeline-spend opt-in gate in teardown comments

* no-mistakes(ci): I fixed all three Greptile findings following your decision. Both test suites pass: tests/fm-teardown.test.sh (105 ok, exit 0) and tests/fm-pipeline-spend.test.sh (8 ok). I didn't run either new test against the old code, so the claim that they fail before the fix is from reading the code, not a run. Nothing was committed or pushed. **ci-1 / ci-2 (bin/fm-teardown.sh):** The rule is that every owned ship task in a home that has opted in gets a durable spend record before its task record is deleted. The `[ -d "$WT" ]` check skipped the recorder when the worktree folder was already gone, so no record was written. I removed that check and kept the other conditions: the task must be a ship task, teardown must own its worktree, and `config/pipeline-spend` must exist. `bin/fm-pipeline-spend.sh` already writes an unavailable-source line when the worktree is missing. The new test `test_teardown_records_unavailable_spend_for_a_gone_worktree` in tests/fm-teardown.test.sh sets up an owned ship task whose worktree is missing, with recording turned on. It checks that teardown succeeds, writes a line with `source=="unavailable"`, `total==null` and a reason saying the task copy is gone, and still removes the task record. Under the old check no ledger would have been written. **ci-3 (bin/fm-nm-run-lib.sh):** When `NM_HOME` and `HOME` were both unset, `fm_nm_state_db` fell back to `${HOME:-}/.no-mistakes`, which resolves to `/.no-mistakes`. It now uses `root=~/.no-mistakes`. Bash expands `~` to the account's home directory even when `HOME` is unset, which matches the previous Python `Path.home()` lookup. The new test `test_state_db_without_nm_home_or_home_uses_the_account_home` in tests/fm-pipeline-spend.test.sh runs the function with both variables unset and compares the result to the home directory from the system's password database. The old code would have returned `/.no-mistakes/state.sqlite`. shellcheck reports nothing new on the changed files. I added one `disable=SC2016` comment in the new test, where the single-quoted `$1` is meant to expand in the child shell

* feat(bin): start tasks from a named base branch (#6442)

* feat(bin): start tasks from a named base branch

Spawns always reset a task's pooled copy to origin's default branch,
so work that belongs on a feature, integration, or release branch
started from the wrong code and opened its PR against the default.

fm-brief.sh --base-branch records the base in the brief, fm-spawn.sh
resets the copy to origin/<base> and records base_branch= in task
meta, and the worker targets its PR at that branch. Review diffs,
the cleanup content check, and scout promotion read the recorded
base. local-only and Gerrit deliveries refuse a named base.

* no-mistakes(review): Anchor brief base-branch parse on scaffold Setup line

* no-mistakes(review): Require explicit --base-branch on spawn, matching brief lines

* no-mistakes(document): Note base-branch reset in fm-spawn freshness header

* no-mistakes(ci): I fixed all four Greptile findings the way you specified. The affected suites pass locally: fm-brief, fm-dod-lib, fm-spawn-pool-base-freshen, fm-review-diff, fm-teardown and fm-task-delivery. shellcheck on the changed files reports only info-level notes, no warnings or errors. I didn't revert the code to watch each new test fail before the fix. - **ci-1 (brief text blocked or redirected spawns):** In bin/fm-dod-lib.sh, `fm_brief_base_branches` now only accepts a `Base branch: <value>` line that comes directly after the base-variant Setup sentence fm-brief.sh writes. Any other `Base branch:` line is ignored. `--base-branch` is still the only authority, and the existing checks in fm-spawn.sh are unchanged. With the flag, the spawn is refused unless a matching pair exists and no pair names a different branch. Without the flag, it is refused only if such a pair exists. The header comment in fm-spawn.sh is updated to match. - The `brief_with_base` test helper now writes the real two-line pair. - The decoy refusal case now uses a full decoy pair in the captain's intent. - New test `test_prose_base_branch_line_is_ignored`: a brief with no base whose intent quotes `Base branch: release/1.2` spawns normally with no `base_branch=` recorded. A spawn with `--base-branch feature/hub` whose intent names release/1.2 starts from `origin/feature/hub` and records it. - **ci-2 (scout base not checked against the forge):** fm-spawn.sh now looks up the project's registered forge with `bin/fm-project-mode.sh --forge`, like the ship path does, before `fm_base_branch_valid` runs. Previously it passed `none`. New test `test_scout_base_branch_refused_on_gerrit_forge`: a scout with a base on a forge=gerrit project is refused at spawn and no meta file is written. - **ci-3 (base not shell-quoted in worker commands):** `fm_dod_block` now quotes the base with `printf %q` in the `--base` and `--base-branch` arguments, and the branch name in the prose stays readable. The test in fm-brief.test.sh uses the base `release/$HOTFIX` and checks that both direct-PR and no-mistakes briefs render `release/\$HOTFIX` in the commands. - **ci-4 (ambiguous PR sentence):** The direct-PR sentence now reads "open a PR with `gh-axi` that is ready for review, not a draft, against the base branch `X` (`--base X`), not the repository default." A brief with no base renders exactly as before. The existing assertion in fm-brief.test.sh is updated

* no-mistakes(ci): Both real failures on PR 6442 (run 37064756768) come from CI tooling and a Pi version bump, not from the base-branch feature. Fixes for both already exist on upstream main, so I applied those two commits to the working tree with `git cherry-pick --no-commit`. Nothing is committed or pushed, and no feature file changed. - **Lint 2:** ShellCheck ran out of memory on `bin/fm-teardown.sh` (rss about 8 GB, exit 251, "shellcheck: out of memory"). The rule that broke is that the lint gate must finish on any valid shell root without exceeding the runner's memory ceiling. Upstream commit d719ef3 (#6443) fixes this in `bin/fm-lint.sh`: a root that hits the memory ceiling is retried without `--external-sources`. It also updates `tests/fm-lint.test.sh` and `docs/fm-test-portable-shards.md`. - **Behavior portable serial 6:** `tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh` failed with "grep disappeared from /export calm.html HTML while calm mode was on". Pi 1.0.1 renamed its HTML export renderer lookup, and upstream commit fede619 (#6530) updates the test to accept the new name. This change is test-only. Both commits applied cleanly. The four touched files are `bin/fm-lint.sh`, `docs/fm-test-portable-shards.md`, `tests/fm-lint.test.sh` and `tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh`. None of them is in the feature diff, so the feature contract is unchanged. **Local checks:** - `tests/fm-lint.test.sh` passes. - `bin/fm-lint.sh` on `bin/fm-teardown.sh`, `bin/fm-spawn.sh` and `bin/fm-dod-lib.sh` exits 0 with full ShellCheck analysis. - `tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh` exits 0 with 7 ok and 0 not ok. One case skipped because the Pi package isn't installed locally, so the Pi 1.0.1 export path that failed in CI couldn't be reproduced here. CI needs to confirm it. - I didn't reproduce the 8 GB OOM locally. The PR has to be updated through the pipeline with a normal push: no force push, no replacement PR, no merge

* fix(bin): name the Firstmate skill file as a fallback in the worker role (#6647)

* fix(bin): point project workers at the Firstmate skill file

The Skill tool cannot resolve a Firstmate skill from another project's worktree, so the launch role names the readable skill file instead.

* no-mistakes(review): fix(bin): name Firstmate skill file as fallback only

* feat(bin): retire a contribution whose forge object is permanently gone (#6655)

* feat(bin): retire a contribution whose forge object is permanently gone

Add fm-contributions.sh retire <task> <url> <captain|fleet> <reason>,
which records actor, reason and time on the saved record and removes
that task/url pair from known, poll rotation and coverage even while a
backlog link remains. Repeating a retire keeps the first provenance;
an unrecorded pair, unknown actor, empty reason or unacknowledged
pending signal is refused.

* no-mistakes(review): Keep retirement per task when settling final owners

* no-mistakes(ci): Made the three Greptile fixes the captain chose. ci-1, retirement needs the captain's word: `retire` now accepts only the actor `captain`. Any other actor is refused, including `fleet`. I removed `fleet` from the usage line, the script header (`bin/fm-contributions.sh`), the check in `bin/fm-contributions.sh` and the retired-record validation in `bin/fm-contributions.jq`, which now requires `.actor == "captain"`. The script header now says a retirement always records the captain's word, because the script cannot verify who runs it and the authority to retire is the captain's. The Bearings skill line in `.agents/skills/bearings/SKILL.md` now says `retire` records the captain's word. In the tests, a `fleet` retire is now a refusal case and must leave the record unretired. Every other retire call in the tests uses `captain`. The PR description has not been changed yet: the ruling asks for the same captain's-word statement there, and that belongs to the PR phase. ci-2, blank reasons: the reason check is now `[ -n "${5//[[:space:]]/}" ]`, so a reason made only of spaces or tabs is refused. I added a refusal test that passes a space-tab-space reason. The header also lists a blank reason among the refusals. ci-3, the gone-object test: the test forge wrapper has a new `not-found` fault that returns HTTP 404 for every `api repos/o/r/...` read. The happy-path test `test_retire_ends_observation_of_a_gone_contribution` now uses it in place of the 502 `down` fault, so it models a permanently gone repository rather than an outage. Verification: `bash tests/fm-contributions.test.sh` passed with exit 0. The last lines of its output include the three retire tests passing and no failures. `shellcheck` flagged only SC2034 (`FM_WAKE_QUEUE` unused) and SC1091 (an unfollowed source of `bin/fm-path-lib.sh`), neither on a line this round changed

* test: extend remote-reply whole-log recapture waits (#6639)

* test: give the remote-reply whole-log recapture a longer wait

* no-mistakes(review): Extend both recapture waits and simplify retry handling

* fix(bin): reopen a pending-reply escalation after its resolve (#6654)

* fix(bin): reopen a pending-reply escalation after its resolve

A retry of an open decision still appends nothing. A later same-kind escalation after a resolved line for that key appends again, so the next loss is visible.

* no-mistakes(ci): Both Greptile findings are fixed in the working tree; the four directly affected test suites pass, and a wider run of related suites had not finished when I returned this result. Invariant: a line already in the status file is recorded, and only a caller with its own evidence of a new episode may append it again. It must hold for every caller of status_event_recorded: the continuity break and the other call in bin/fm-procevent-remote-reply.sh, fm_parent_channel_append_once, and the pending-reply escalation. Changes: - bin/fm-classify-lib.sh: status_event_recorded is back to the idempotent retry check. It returns at the first matching line, and a later resolved line no longer makes that line look new. This fixes ci-1 for every caller and restores the early exit for ci-2, with no separate scan optimization. - bin/fm-pending-reply-lib.sh: _fm_pending_reply_maybe_escalate_locked now owns the reopen. It appends a new blocked line when the record already has an escalated_epoch (it escalated before and was reset) and the keyed decision is no longer open. Otherwise it uses status_event_recorded, so a retry or a resend that leaves the decision open appends nothing. - Comments on status_event_recorded and the pending-reply header describe this scope. Tests: - tests/fm-pending-reply.test.sh: the regression for escalate, operator resolve, second escalate is unchanged and passes. - tests/fm-remote-reply.test.sh: new regression drives the real reader. After an operator resolve of remote-reply-continuity-ios, a repeated handle and ingest of the same break appends nothing and leaves the decision closed. I placed it beside the existing continuity-break test, not in the pending-reply file, because only that file has the reader harness. - tests/fm-classify-corr-token.test.sh and tests/fm-classify-decision-key.test.sh: the cases that expected a blocked line to append again after a resolve now assert it stays recorded. Verification: - fm-classify-decision-key, fm-classify-corr-token, fm-pending-reply and fm-remote-reply test suites all exit 0 with the fix. - With the two bin files reverted to the commit under review, the new continuity regression and the updated parent-publisher case both fail, so they reproduce ci-1. - shellcheck -x on the changed files reports nothing. - Not finished: a background run of every other suite that mentions the parent channel or pending replies had produced no output, pass or fail, when I returned. One known gap: the escalation writes escalated_epoch before phase. If the process dies between those two writes and an operator resolves the key before the next tick, that tick appends a blocked line for the same episode. I left it, because closing it needs new state. Issue 4755 and other escalation behavior are untouched. Nothing is committed

* fix: refuse a confirming Enter on the Claude background-task exit picker (#6666)

* fix: refuse a confirming Enter on the Claude exit picker

The background-task picker still classifies as pending, so a retried Enter confirms "Exit and stop tasks".
Stop after the Enter that opened it, and raise the existing stale wake with the dialog name.

A non-paused secondmate still skips that wake, so a secondmate parked on the picker still looks idle.
Model-downgrade confirmation, MCP approval, and any other Claude exit confirmation are not covered, because there is no recorded screen for them.

* no-mistakes(review): fix: anchor exit picker match and wake second mates

* fix: refuse a typed submit while the Claude exit picker is open

A pane that already shows the picker must not receive the message or a confirming Enter.
The match requires the recorded heading and footer lines, and it is skipped when no dialog name is being recorded.

* no-mistakes(review): restore watcher to main behaviour, drop dialog wake

* no-mistakes(test): test: align Herdr picker fixtures with the preflight read

* no-mistakes(document): document exit refusal on a recognised dialog

* fix: remove the dialog file when exit runs in a subshell

do_exit is invoked from a command substitution, so the parent cleanup never saw the path it is supposed to delete.

* no-mistakes(review): fix: set the dialog file path after the control lock

* no-mistakes(document): document why the dialog file path follows the lock

* no-mistakes(ci): The exit cleanup in bin/fm-control.sh now deletes the dialog file first and releases the control lock second. The changes are in the worktree and are not committed. Invariant: only the process that holds the control lock for a task may write or delete that task's dialog file ($STATE/<id>.composer-dialog, the file that carries the picker name from the composer read to the Enter checks). The old cleanup released the lock and then deleted the file, so the delete ran outside the lock. Places where this invariant must hold: control_cleanup is the only place that deletes the file, and the single assignment after CONTROL_LOCK_HELD=1 is the only place that names it. do_exit only truncates the file, and it runs while the parent holds the lock. A process that loses the lock never sets the path, so it deletes nothing (earlier fix, unchanged). No sibling site needed a change. Fix: in control_cleanup, the rm of the dialog file moved above the fm_lock_release call, with a two-line comment that gives the reason. No dialog recognition or supervision code changed. Test: added test_exit_removes_the_dialog_file_before_releasing_the_lock in tests/fm-control-relaunch.test.sh. It runs one `fm-control exit` with a recording rm on PATH. The lock release removes paths at or under the control lock with rm, so the recording rm writes whether the dialog file exists at that moment. The test asserts the last record is "absent". It starts no second command. Verification, all run locally: - Before the fix, the new test failed with "the dialog file must be gone when the control lock is released, got: present". - After the fix, tests/fm-control-relaunch.test.sh exits 0 with 75 ok lines and no "not ok" line, including the new test and the existing test that the file is gone after exit and after relaunch. - tests/fm-control.test.sh exits 0 with 44 ok lines. - shellcheck -x on both changed files exits 0 with no output. One thing I noticed and did not change: tests/fm-control-relaunch.test.sh prints 615 "rm: cannot remove ... Permission denied" lines during its temp-directory teardown. The count is the same with my change reverted, so this change does not cause it, and the suite still exits 0. I could not read the Greptile check log (the check run was not found), so I worked from the finding text and the user instructions

* fix: restore timeout watchdog compatibility with macOS Bash 3.2 (#6028)

* fix: support stock macOS Bash in timeout watchdog

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed ci-1 in tests/fm-timeout-lib.test.sh: both startup-owner failure paths now kill the bounded command group before killing the watchdog. Fault injection reproduced both leaks before the fix and confirmed cleanup afterward. Bash 3.2 suite, syntax check, ShellCheck, and diff checks passed; GNU timeout coverage skipped because the binary is unavailable. Production code unchanged

* fix(project-management): use subshell form for Initialize command (#6699)

Wrap the cd command in a subshell to comply with the cd-guard policy
that blocks persistent top-level directory changes in the primary
firstmate checkout. The subshell form (cd projects/<name> && ...) is
accepted by the policy as documented in issue #6502.

Fixes #6502

* feat(bin): add armable daily startup growth check (#6725)

* Add daily startup growth check

* no-mistakes(review): watch printed startup memory, retain growth baselines, drop knobs

* no-mistakes(review): delegate budget verdict, report before publish, pin shim home

* no-mistakes(review): baseline first sightings silently, drop mtime, spare secondmates

* no-mistakes(review): cap the wake line, validate budget verdict fields

* no-mistakes(review): guard record schema, check appends, tighten assertions

* no-mistakes(review): drop arbitrary tracked library, make re-arm idempotent

* no-mistakes(review): correct tracked-set wording, restore shim guards, register artifacts

* no-mistakes(review): exit on signal instead of publishing partial record

* no-mistakes(document): correct startup-growth record removal cost in state registry

* no-mistakes(test): sweep orphaned empty startup-growth temp records on due evaluation

* no-mistakes(document): note watcher need for armed startup growth check

* no-mistakes(ci): Diagnosed "Behavior portable serial 5": the shard failed on tests/fm-contributions.test.sh in test_arm_plumbs_a_configured_budget_into_the_check_shim (inherited mode) with "generated check did not attempt a read" and a missing forge/calls file. Root cause: bin/fm-contributions.sh:379-382 computes DEADLINE=$(date +%s)+BUDGET and then gates each read on DEADLINE-$(date +%s) >= OBSERVATION_RESERVE (= min(BUDGET,15)). At the one-second budget this test uses, that gate demands zero elapsed whole seconds, so a wall-clock second boundary crossing between the two date calls makes the poll loop break before any forge read. The test calls wrap_forge (which installs a fake date reading $FORGE/clock only when that file exists) but never seeded forge/clock, so it ran against the real clock. The repo already documents this exact hazard at tests/fm-contributions.test.sh:675-677 and freezes the clock in every other budget-constrained test: test_budget_exhaustion_keeps_prior_record (both modes), test_genuine_failure_near_deadline_is_unavailable, test_reservation_defers_later_url_when_fifteen_seconds_do_not_remain, test_slow_read_deadline_kill_is_budget_refusal, test_budget_is_cut_down_to_the_watcher_check_bound. test_arm_plumbs was the only omission; its single loop body covers both the configured and inherited modes. The remaining wrap_forge users run the default 20-second budget (5 seconds of slack above the reserve) and are not reachable by this race. Fix (smallest, matching the sibling idiom): added the clock freeze `/bin/date +%s > "$home/forge/clock"` plus a two-line comment inside that test's loop, before the poll. Three added lines in tests/fm-contributions.test.sh; no production code and no other file touched. Verification: reproduced the exact CI failure message by running a scratch copy whose fake date advances one second per read (worst case of the unfrozen clock) - missing forge/calls, "not ok - generated check did not attempt a read". With the fix, the single test passes 10/10 standalone and the full tests/fm-contributions.test.sh passes all 46 assertions with exit 0. tests/fm-startup-growth-check.test.sh still exits 0. bash -n and shellcheck -S warning are clean on the edited file; scratch repro files were removed, leaving only the intended three-line change. Note for the author: this flake is not caused by this branch - tests/fm-contributions.test.sh is untouched by the PR and the race is pre-existing, surfacing only on a loaded runner (the shard's neighbouring assertions show 80+ second gaps). It was fixed because it is genuine nondeterminism with an established in-repo remedy and the check cannot otherwise go green. No work was done on the unselected greptile findings (ci-2..ci-5) or the cancelled "Behavior portable serial 2" check (ci-6)

* no-mistakes(ci): Diagnosed "Behavior portable serial 6": the omitted log section (fetched with gh api) shows the shard failed on tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh in test_hidden_block_geometry_e2e with "Pi Calm hidden-block geometry E2E did not complete the /reload viewport transition" (exit=1, duration_ms=23437; the family line pure-contract-unit count=3 duration_ms=51193 failed=1 matches devin-harness 3203 + calm-pi 23437 + task-delivery 24553). Root cause: tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh:2831 wait_for_geometry_transition detected the /reload by SAMPLING a single intermediate frame - it polled tmux capture-pane for Pi's transient "Reloading keybindings, extensions, skills, prompts, themes, and context files..." box and only accepted the rebuilt transcript afterwards (elif gated on saw_transient). Pi shows that box only while the reload runs and replaces it via dismissReloadBox when done, so on a loaded runner the box can live entirely between two polls; saw_transient then stays 0 forever and the 600-attempt wait times out although the reload fully succeeded. Reproduced locally under CPU oversubscription with CI's Pi 1.0.4: 1 failure in 8 runs, diagnostics proving the mechanism ("DIAG: transition timeout saw_transient=0 attempt=600") while the captured viewport already showed the completed reload status row and the intact collapsed transcript. Not a Pi-version regression: 1.0.4's handleReloadCommand and both banner strings are identical to the installed 0.85.1, and shard 6 of the previous pipeline run (job 112490351105) passed this same script on Pi 1.0.4. Invariant violated: a TUI E2E assertion must key off a durable state the UI retains, never off one intermediate frame polling may miss. Sibling enumeration: the helper was defined once and called once; grep for transient/saw_/two-stage waits across tests/, bin/ and .pi/ found no other one-shot-frame wait - every other wait in the file keys off durable text presence/absence or off continuously repeating animation frames (the working-ship motion checks) where sampling eventually connects; no doc or other test referenced the helper. Fix (smallest, one helper): renamed it wait_for_geometry_reload and made it wait for the durable status row Pi appends once the reload completed and the chat was rebuilt ("Reloaded keybindings, extensions, skills, prompts, themes, and context files", a persistent chat child via showStatus, present in both 0.85.1 and 1.0.4) together with CALM_GEOMETRY_FINAL. That marker is absent before the reload and never appears if the reload throws, so the check is strictly stronger than before (a failed reload now fails the test instead of passing on transient-then-final). One file changed: tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh, 2 hunks, no production code. Verification: deterministic before/after - with polls spaced 0.4s apart (the loaded-runner worst case) the pre-fix helper fails with exactly the CI message and the post-fix helper passes; 12/12 consecutive passes of the isolated test under load with Pi 1.0.4; full file 15/15 ok exit 0 under LANG=C.utf8 (matching the runner locale); bash -n, shellcheck -S warning and bin/fm-lint.sh clean; scratch repro files and the temp Pi 1.0.4 install removed, git status shows only the one intended modification. Notes: (1) the flake is not caused by this branch - that test file is untouched by the PR and the race is pre-existing; fixed because it is genuine nondeterminism and the check cannot otherwise go green. (2) Under far harsher load than CI applies a separate unrelated flake appeared in the same test: Pi's "Warning: tmux extended-keys is off..." row occasionally lands between the collapsed [skill] ahoy row and the final response, making assert_geometry_gap see 5 rows instead of 2. Different cause, never seen in CI, and its plausible remedies would change key delivery for the other TUI tests in the file, so it was left alone rather than growing this fix

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Co-authored-by: Quartermaster <quartermaster@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(bin): reopen the remote-reply continuity decision on a later break (#6708)

* fix: reopen a remote-reply continuity break after repair

A later break for the same route and reason was swallowed after the
operator resolved the first one, because the status line matched for
the life of the log. The continuity ingest now appends again when the
cursor has moved or retirement has reset that episode, and an unchanged
re-read still appends nothing.

status_event_recorded is unchanged. Its other callers are the
pending-reply escalation, which already decides its own episode, the
parent-channel note append, and the remote document transfer note.

* no-mistakes(review): seed continuity episode for already recorded break line

* no-mistakes(document): document when a remote-reply continuity break reopens

* no-mistakes(ci): The adapter now stores the continuity episode record before it appends the `blocked` line, so a failed store appends nothing. The changes are uncommitted in the worktree, in `bin/fm-procevent-remote-reply.sh` and `tests/fm-remote-reply.test.sh`. **Invariant:** a continuity `blocked` line is on the parent status log only when the episode record for that break is already stored. Only the `continuity-broken` branch of `cmd_ingest` appends that line, so the fix is at that one place. **What changed in `cmd_ingest`:** - It decides first whether the break needs a line, then stores the episode record, then appends. - If storing the record fails, it stops with "cannot record continuity episode" and appends nothing. - If the line is already on the log and no episode record exists, it stores the record and does not append. **One addition you did not ask for:** if the append fails after the record is stored, the adapter puts the earlier record back (or deletes the new one when none existed). Without that, the retry would read as the unchanged repeat and append nothing, which is the issue 6701 failure again. **Deviation from your test instruction:** the test does not use `chmod` on the cursor directory. `write_continuity_episode` runs `chmod 700` on that directory before every write, so a read-only directory is made writable again. The test instead makes `mktemp` fail for the episode's temporary file in that directory, the same way the existing receipt-failure test does. **Tests added to `tests/fm-remote-reply.test.sh`:** - Store failure: the second break exits 1, appends no `blocked` line and opens no decision. One retry after storage recovers exits 3 and appends a single line. - Append failure: with the status log read-only, the third break exits 1 and appends nothing. One retry after the log is writable exits 3 and appends a single line. **Verification:** `bash tests/fm-remote-reply.test.sh` ends with "ALL TESTS PASSED" with the fix. Against the script at commit b750c828 the same test file fails at "a continuity break appended its line before its episode was stored". `shellcheck -S warning` reports only an unused loop variable at line 667 of the test file, which this change does not touch. I ran no other test files. The Greptile Review check log could not be retrieved, so I worked from the finding text alone

* fix: record a continuity break's reader position on its status line

A later break at another cursor is then a different line, so the existing
duplicate check appends it and reopens the decision. An unchanged re-read
builds the same line and appends nothing.

* fix: reopen a continuity break after an identical restore

A retirement that puts the same bytes back used to rebuild the recorded line, so the later break stayed closed. The retirement count on that line makes the later break distinct.

* no-mistakes(review): remove continuity match for full-prefix line without retirement count

* no-mistakes(document): clarify what a continuity break status line records

* fix: remove the reply cursor before recording retirement

A stop between those steps must leave the count unchanged, so an unchanged continuity break still builds the same line.

* fix(control): drop busy_gen from the task record when an incarnation is retired (#6733)

* fix(control): drop busy_gen when an incarnation is retired

A deliberate exit removed the busy sidecar and left busy_gen in the task record, so the two records disagreed about whether that incarnation was still observable.

* no-mistakes(review): drop GNU-only chmod and unreached sidecar-absent branch

* no-mistakes(review): correct lock comment to name the deadlock

* no-mistakes(ci): The test `test_exit_drops_meta_busy_gen_with_the_sidecar` in tests/fm-control.test.sh now compares the whole task record (the `state/<id>.meta` file), so the Greptile finding is fixed. Invariant: after `exit` retires an incarnation, the task record must equal the record from before `exit` with only the `busy_gen` line removed. This test is the only place in the change that asserts the record survives the rewrite, so it is the only site to fix. The other `busy_gen` tests assert that the line stays, and they do not go through the rewrite. What changed: before `exit`, the test writes the record without its `busy_gen` line to `expected.meta`. After `exit`, the test runs `diff` between that expected copy and the real record, and fails with the diff output if they differ. This one comparison replaces the two earlier checks (no `busy_gen` line left, and the `window` line present), because it covers both. I did not change bin/fm-control.sh or any other file. How I know it works: - I ran `bash tests/fm-control.test.sh`: exit code 0, 45 lines starting with `ok`, no other lines. - I temporarily changed the rewrite in bin/fm-control.sh to also drop the `harness` line. The test then failed with `not ok - exit should drop only busy_gen from the task record:` and the diff `< harness=codex`. The earlier `window`-only check would have passed that rewrite. I restored bin/fm-control.sh afterwards; `git status` shows only tests/fm-control.test.sh modified. - `bash -n` and `shellcheck` on the test file report no new warnings from the edit. The change is not committed; the working tree holds it

* test: cover PID collisions in harness ancestry detection (#6484)

* test(secondmate-harness): scope fake ps -codex label for pid 5252 to the liveness probe

Closes #6456

* no-mistakes(ci): Updated the collision test to log and assert that PID 5252 was queried before selecting 4242. Full fm-secondmate harness suite passes

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Co-authored-by: YifuGu <ironerumi@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix: share Pi Calm's working-ship widget slot (#1854)

* fix(calm): share the standalone Pi Calm working-ship widget slot

Firstmate Calm and the user-global standalone Pi Calm both install an
animated working-ship widget during agent runs. Each claimed its own Pi
widget key, so a session loading both (the main Firstmate home) rendered
two boats. Pi replaces widgets under one key, so claiming the shared
"calm-working-ship" slot keeps dual-install sessions to a single boat
while a Firstmate-only session is unchanged.

Pins the shared slot contract in the working-ship module test so the key
cannot silently diverge again.

* test(calm): pin the shared working-ship widget key in CI, document dual-install

The key-parity assertion inside the Pi fixture only runs where the
@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent package is installed, so CI never
exercised it. Add a source-level twin that needs nothing but the
tracked file, and note in docs/calm.md that the boat shares the
standalone Pi Calm working-row widget slot.

* no-mistakes(review): Add executable dual-install widget replacement coverage

* no-mistakes(review): Guard shared widget cleanup with disposal ownership

* no-mistakes(document): Document shared Calm working-ship slot behavior

* test(calm): read the standalone Calm slot from its own module

The dual-install check registered both boats itself under the shared
slot, so it could only prove that Pi replaces a widget under one key: it
would still pass if the standalone Pi Calm extension installed its boat
under a different key, which is the two-boat regression the check exists
to prevent.

Read the standalone extension's own working-ship module when it is
installed - FM_STANDALONE_CALM_SHIP, else ~/.pi/agent/extensions/calm -
and drive the check with the key that module exports, so a rename on
either side registers two widgets and fails naming both keys. A pinned
shared-slot contract still covers a machine without the extension, and
the run reports which side it used instead of passing silently over an
absent extension.

Verified: the touched Pi Calm suite passes and reads the installed
standalone extension; with a copy of it whose key is renamed to
calm-working-ship-v2 the suite fails naming the drift.

* no-mistakes(review): Gate stock-row restoration by shared-widget ownership

* no-mistakes(review): Removed redundant widget-key source assertions

* no-mistakes(document): Document shared Calm working-ship widget ownership

* feat(bin): add opt-in --herdr-resume-lock-wait to fm-spawn (#6649)

* fix(herdr): make exact-resume presentation-lock wait instead of a bounded timeout

The exact-resume path in bin/fm-spawn.sh used the same 50-attempt-then-
give-up lock acquire as the new-task-create path, but the two paths are
not equivalent on contention: a create has no prior state to strand and
can safely fall back to a flat layout, while a resume is recovering a
specific existing identity that a concurrent recovery may legitimately
be holding the lock for. Giving up there does not degrade gracefully,
it hard-fails the resume outright. The suite's own concurrent
cross-home recoveries test already asserts both concurrent recoveries
succeed with a genuine reclaim, and the file's header comment already
(inaccurately) claimed lock contention falls back to the ordinary flat
layout for both paths alike, so the intended contract was always that
recoveries serialize and both succeed, not that either one refuses
under a short bound.

Give spawn_herdr_presentation_order_lock_acquire a wait mode that uses
this file's own established fm_lock_acquire_wait idiom (already used
for its other fleet-shared locks) instead of the bounded loop, and use
it only at the exact-resume call site. The new-task-create call site
is unchanged and keeps its bounded-then-flat-fallback behavior, which
is already covered by its own passing test. Dead-owner PID-liveness
reclaim inside fm_lock_try_acquire still bounds the wait against a
holder that crashed mid-hold.

Adds a deterministic regression test that holds the shared session
lock from an unrelated process for well past the old bound, then
asserts the resume succeeds with a genuine reclaim and took close to
the full hold duration, so a fix that merely widens the bound rather
than genuinely waiting is still caught. The existing concurrent
cross-home recovery test exercises this under real timing but does not
reliably outlast a fixed bound on its own.

Corrects the header comment's claim that create and resume share one
bounded-then-flat-fallback behavior on lock contention; they no longer
do.

* no-mistakes(document): Document Herdr recovery waiting for presentation lock

* no-mistakes(document): Update stale hard-refusal claim in verification log

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the Greptile finding on tests/fm-backend-herdr-presentation-e2e.test.sh:1389 by bounding the resume lock-wait regression's spawn_task call. Added an optional 4th `deadline_seconds` arg to the `spawn_task` helper (defaults to empty, so all ~20 other existing call sites are unaffected and unwrapped by `timeout`). The lock-wait test now passes `LOCK_WAIT_HOLD_SECONDS + 60` (90s) as the deadline, and a dedicated check for exit code 124 emits a clear "hung for over Xs instead of waiting out a Ys lock hold" diagnostic before falling through to the existing pass/fail assertions, which are unchanged. No product code was touched. Verified with `bash -n`, `shellcheck -x` (no warnings), a standalone reproduction of the timeout/no-timeout/success paths, the project's `bin/fm-lint.sh --fast` on the file (clean), and the full `tests/fm-lint.test.sh` suite (all 46 assertions pass)

* no-mistakes(ci): Replaced the direct `timeout "$deadline_seconds"` call in `spawn_task()` (tests/fm-backend-herdr-presentation-e2e.test.sh) with the repo's portable bounded-execution helper: sourced `bin/fm-timeout-lib.sh` at the top of the file and changed `deadline_cmd=(timeout "$deadline_seconds")` to `deadline_cmd=(fm_run_timed "$deadline_seconds")`. This removes the GNU/BSD `timeout` dependency that would fail with exit 127 on a stock macOS host without coreutils, while preserving identical semantics (exit 124 on bound-hit, command's own exit otherwise), which the existing `[ "$LOCK_WAIT_STATUS" -eq 124 ]` diagnostic check already relies on. Verified: `bash -n` syntax check, `bin/fm-lint.sh --fast` clean, full `tests/fm-lint.test.sh` suite (46/46 pass), and a standalone repro confirming `fm_run_timed` returns 124 on timeout and 0 on success identically to the prior `timeout` call. No other direct `timeout` calls exist in this file or elsewhere in the PR's diff, so no sibling sites remain

* fix(herdr): gate exact-resume lock wait behind --herdr-resume-lock-wait

Keep refuse-by-default on presentation-order lock contention for Herdr
exact resume. Callers that need concurrent recoveries to serialize must
pass --herdr-resume-lock-wait; unbounded blocking on a third-party session
lock is never the default.

Update docs and the real-Herdr e2e suite so the default path asserts the
refusal and the opt-in path asserts the wait.

* no-mistakes(test): Fix e2e test's lost exit status after if/fi with no else branch

* docs(herdr): stop advertising --herdr-resume-lock-wait on --relaunch

The relaunch path reuses the recorded endpoint and never takes the
presentation-order lock, so the flag is inert there. Drop it from the
--relaunch usage line and state where the flag applies.

* no-mistakes(review): Clarify lock-wait docs; simplify bash-3.2-safe spawn_task helper

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed ci-1 (Greptile P2). In tests/fm-backend-herdr-presentation-e2e.test.sh, the failure cleanup `cleanup_all` stopped only `LOCK_CONTENTION_OWNER_PID`. It now also stops `LOCK_REFUSE_HOLDER_PID` and `LOCK_WAIT_HOLDER_PID`, the holders of the two new contention cases, so a `fail` before their explicit `wait` no longer leaves them running. Both new PIDs are initialised empty next to the existing one, and each is cleared right after its successful `wait` so cleanup never touches a finished PID. I changed nothing else. `bash -n` passes. The real Herdr e2e run passed both new cases ("default resumed identity refuses session lock contention" and "--herdr-resume-lock-wait waits out session lock contention instead of refusing"). The full run hit my 550s timeout in a later, unrelated case, after the new cases passed

* fix(bin): let TERM stop a watcher blocked in a pane capture on bash 3.2 (#6762)

* fix(bin): let TERM stop a watcher blocked in a pane capture on bash 3.2

Stock macOS bash 3.2 holds a HUP or TERM until a running command
substitution's child exits, and the watcher read every pane through
$(fm_backend_capture ...). A blocked backend read therefore held the
watcher's stop for as long as the read lasted, and a stopped watcher left
the hung read orphaned. tests/fm-watch-triage.test.sh
test_term_stops_a_watcher_blocked_inside_a_poll failed on /bin/bash 3.2
for this reason while passing on bash 5.

Pane captures now go through watcher_capture, which runs the read as a
waited background process group recorded like a check's, so the stop is
honored at once and watcher_cleanup stops a read still in flight along
with its per-call output file.

* no-mistakes(review): Run drain-ring idle capture in watcher shell, add regression test

* no-mistakes(document): Document watcher TERM handling for blocked checks and captures

* no-mistakes(test): Silence bash 3.2 setpgid race noise from watcher captures

* fix(bin): verify the capture group and scope the stop claim to pane reads

watcher_capture now confirms its background read leads its own process
group, as run_check_capture already does, so watcher_cleanup never relies
on a group that set -m failed to create. The comment and continuity doc
now say only fm_backend_capture pane reads go through watcher_capture;
agent-state and composer-state reads still run inside command
substitutions.

* feat: add per-home worker tool exclusions (#6750)

* feat(spawn): add per-home worker tool exclusions

Add an optional per-home config/crew-exclude-tools file listing tool names to hide from workers, one per line, with blank lines and # comments allowed.
It applies to every ship and scout launch and relaunch in that home, is never inherited by another home, and does not affect secondmate agents.
Pi and pi-signed apply it through --exclude-tools, which also covers MCP tool names.
Any other runtime, and a raw launch command, refuses the launch when the list is non-empty rather than ignoring it.
Malformed entries are refused before provisioning, and before a relaunch stops a running worker.
Exclusions that match no tool in the worker's loaded registry are reported as unverified warnings in its status record instead of refusing the worker.

Closes #6744

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve UTF-8 exclusion paths and verify Pi lifecycle behavior

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify worker tool exclusion documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed ci-1 in bin/fm-exclude-tools-lib.sh: a failed read now returns an error before printing names, so all shared launch and relaunch callers refuse rather than silently dropping exclusions. Added deterministic regression coverage for a file disappearing after readability checks across Pi/pi-signed ship and scout launches. Reproduced the original failure; verified 83 spawn checks, 77 relaunch checks, direct parser/runtime failure cases, full targeted lint, Bash syntax, and git diff --check. Relaunch tests passed with existing fixture-cleanup permission warnings. ci-2 remains unchanged per the user's decision; the outer executor owns the fresh CI run

* feat(bin): defer spawns beyond a declared per-project capacity, opt-in (#5343)

* refactor(bin): share the local Firstmate home walk from the wake library

Teardown's walk over the root home and its registered local secondmate homes
moves into bin/fm-wake-lib.sh as fm_local_firstmate_state_dirs, next to
fm_firstmate_root_home, so a second consumer can count task records across
this machine's homes without a copy. Teardown keeps its exact refusal wording
through a thin wrapper.

* feat(bin): defer spawns beyond a project's declared machine capacity

A project whose machine-local resource only serves a few workers at once had
no way to tell Firstmate so: every queued item was launched, and the surplus
workers spent full-context turns retrying the resource.

config/project-capacity in the root home now declares how many workers each
named project admits at once on this machine. bin/fm-spawn.sh counts the ship
and scout records on the same project origin across the root and its local
secondmate homes, skipping ones whose ready PR is recorded, while holding the
shared project lock through publication. A spawn with every place held exits 75
before any brief render, endpoint, worktree, record, or backlog move, so the
item stays queued; batches report it as deferred. Undeclared projects keep
today's uncapped dispatch, and an unreadable declaration refuses rather than
guessing the limit.

Refs #4237

* no-mistakes(review): Document that capacity matches the clone directory name

* no-mistakes(document): Rewrap stale fm-wake-lib root-home doc comment

* no-mistakes(review): Dedupe local state dirs by identity to avoid double-counting

* no-mistakes(document): Rewrap fm_local_firstmate_state_dirs error doc comment

* no-mistakes(ci): I fixed all four Greptile findings. All 14 tests in tests/fm-project-capacity.test.sh pass, and shellcheck at warning level is clean on the changed files. Each new test failed against the old code and passes now. - **ci-1 (spaced names):** a declaration line must give a name its capacity whenever the name is a valid clone directory name. `fm_project_capacity_lookup` now trims each line, skips blank lines and lines whose first non-blank character is `#`, and takes the last field as the capacity. Everything before that field is the name, so it may contain spaces. The old error cases still refuse: a single field is rejected, and trailing text leaves a last field that is not an integer. The library header and docs/configuration.md now say a name starting with `#` cannot be declared. New test `test_spaced_project_name_is_declared` declares `my heavy project 1` next to an indented comment line and gets a deferral. - **ci-2 (unreadable records):** the holder count must never silently leave out a holder. `fm_project_capacity_occupants` now refuses when a local home's state directory exists but cannot be read or listed, or when a `.meta` file cannot be read. The error names the path, and `fm-spawn.sh` shows it in its existing refusal message. New test `test_unreadable_holders_refuse_admission` covers an unreadable record in the root home and an unreadable state directory in a registered local secondmate home, then checks that the spawn is admitted once both are readable. The test is skipped when run as root. - **ci-3 (Orca lock):** any spawn that can become a holder for a capped project must take that project's lock. The lookup now also reports whether the declaration caps any project at all, and an Orca spawn takes the per-origin lock whenever it does. This covers every capped same-origin clone. It also covers some cases where no same-origin clone is capped, because a spawn cannot find clones under other directory names without searching for them. With no declaration file, Orca still skips the lock. The comments in the library and in the `fm-spawn.sh` header are updated. The Orca test now clones the origin as `project-2`, which has no declaration, and checks that its Orca spawn refuses while the lock is held and publishes no record. - **ci-4 (worktrees):** `assert_nothing_created` now also compares the project's `git worktree list` from before and after a deferred spawn. Both tests that call it take that snapshot first. Files changed: bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh, bin/fm-spawn.sh, docs/configuration.md, tests/fm-project-capacity.test.sh

* fix(bin): declare capacity for a project name that begins with #

A clone directory whose name begins with # was skipped as a comment, so that project stayed uncapped. A line is a declaration when the # is written against the rest of the name and the line ends with a capacity; a # followed by whitespace stays a comment.

* no-mistakes(document): Rewrap project-capacity library header comment

* no-mistakes(ci): Lint 2 fails because this PR's code pushes ShellCheck past its memory cap. ShellCheck ran out of memory analyzing bin/fm-teardown.sh in CI (reason=memory, rc=251, peak about 8.39 GB). On current main the same file passes at about 7.29 GB. **Cause:** the new `fm_local_firstmate_state_dirs` function in bin/fm-wake-lib.sh had a conditional `. fm-secondmate-registry-lib.sh` with a `# shellcheck source=` directive inside the function. ShellCheck followed that source again, inside a function scope, wherever fm-wake-lib.sh is sourced, and bin/fm-teardown.sh is the heaviest root that sources it. Measured locally with `shellcheck --norc --external-sources bin/fm-teardown.sh`: - current main (fd325b1b): 7.29 GB - main merged with this PR: 7.86 GB - the same merge without the in-function source: 7.27 GB **Rule this restores:** this change must not make any lint root heavier than it is on main. That function holds the only new nested source in the change. **Fix:** I removed the in-function source, which no caller needs. Both callers already load the registry library at top level before calling the function: - bin/fm-teardown.sh sources it directly. - bin/fm-spawn.sh, the only user of bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh, gets it through bin/fm-ff-lib.sh. I also documented the requirement in the function's comment and in the "Requires" note in bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh. No behaviour changes. **Verification:** - ShellCheck on head: bin/fm-teardown.sh peaks at 7.12 GB and bin/fm-spawn.sh at 6.68 GB, both with rc=0. bin/fm-wake-lib.sh and bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh lint clean. - tests/fm-project-capacity.test.sh, tests/fm-teardown.test.sh (102 ok) and tests/fm-teardown-endpoint-safety.test.sh all pass. Files changed: bin/fm-wake-lib.sh, bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh

* fix(bin): release the Herdr session lock when reclaim finishes

A concurrent resume in another home waits five seconds for that lock.
Reclaim is the last presentation change on the recovery path, so holding
the lock through the launch tail made the waiter time out. The contributions
arm check also freezes its one-second clock, the same way the budget tests
do, because an unfrozen clock can tick past before the first forge read.

* no-mistakes(review): Keep Herdr session lock through launch handoff after reclaim

* no-mistakes(review): Skip the spawning task's own record in capacity count

* no-mistakes(review): Restore release test comment above its test

* docs: scope PR-ready re-evaluation to a declared project capacity

A ready pull request frees a place only when that project declares capacity, so the always-loaded backlog contract should re-evaluate on that handoff only in that case.

* fix(bin): name the Lavish read message count by the same label as its section (#6785)

fm-procevent-lavish.sh read labels tag=message rows SESSION-ENDING MESSAGE
only when session_ended is true and CAPTAIN MESSAGE otherwise, but the
count line always said session_ending_message_count. Several composer
messages on a still-open board were therefore counted as session-ending.

The count line now follows the same session_ended switch:
session_ending_message_count once the session ended, captain_message_count
otherwise. Message rows stay out of the annotation count, per triage.

Fixes #6743

* fix(herdr): make the presentation lock namespace per OS account (#6780)

The Herdr presentation lock namespace was the fixed machine-global
/tmp/firstmate-herdr-presentation, so on a host where two OS users run
Firstmate on Herdr the first account to create it owned it and every
teardown from the other account was refused with no way to clear it.

Suffix the namespace with the account uid. The owner-uid and mode-700
checks are unchanged, so a foreign-owned or wrong-mode name at this
account's path is still refused and never adopted, chowned, or removed.

Fixes #4716.

* Fix OpenCode arm plugin to decide with the shared supervision predicate (#6809)

The OpenCode session plugin's shouldArm kept its own copy of the need
test that only looked for in-flight task records, while the turn-end
guard decides with fm_supervision_needed in bin/fm-supervision-lib.sh,
which also counts registered process-event sources and trusted custom
checks. With an empty fleet but any registered source or check, the
guard blocked every turn end while the plugin declined to arm - a loop
the guard's own repair line could not resolve because it names the
plugin as the fix.

The plugin now delegates the decision to the shared predicate through
bash, keeping the local away-record decline and the x-mode.env arm
override. OpenCode plugin test fixtures now carry the real predicate
their arming path sources, and the arm suite gains six cases asserting
the plugin's decision against the shared verdict over the same
synthetic state directories.

Co-authored-by: Mia Sun <mia@Bigs-Mac-mini.localdomain>

* fix(bin): resolve a pending reply only from its own task's status line (#6792)

* fix(bin): resolve a pending reply only from its own task's status line

Remote reply ingestion handed every corr= token in a mate's payload to
fm_pending_reply_try_resolve together with that mate's own status log,
so one mate echoing another mate's token resolved the other request.
Honor a status-file override only when it is the record's own
parent_status, and match the corr= token as a whole word.

Fixes #6538

* no-mistakes(document): docs: scope remote reply settlement to the asked mate

* docs(skills): index the six missing agent-only skill triggers (#6784)

agent-skill-trigger-index claims to be the complete agent-only trigger
index but omitted operational-home-layout, session-start-recovery,
validation-supervision, ship-landing, scout-completion, and
away-quiet-supervision. Add each with its own description's trigger,
placed beside the related entries.

The decision-hold-lifecycle redirect stub stays out, per triage.

Fixes #6503

* test: make agent process fixtures compatible with multicall sleep (#6814)

* test: share a rename-safe agent stand-in across liveness suites

On Ubuntu 26.04, `sleep` is the uutils multicall binary, which refuses to
run when invoked through a symlink named after another utility. The Herdr
descendant process-walk tests built their agent-named process as a `pi`
symlink to the host `sleep`, so the process exited at once, its parent shell
was gone before the walk ran, and both cases read `unknown unreadable` and
failed on that host. The suite stops at its first failure, so every later
case went unrun. The Herdr control smoke test's `claude` symlink has the
same construction.

The tmux liveness suite already solved this with a host-compiled spinner and
a survival-checked `sleep` fallback. That builder moves into tests/lib.sh as
fm_agent_standin, and the tmux suite, both Herdr descendant cases, and the
Herdr control smoke test now use it. When no stand-in can survive a foreign
name, a case skips with the reason instead of failing.

tests/fm-test-fixtures.test.sh gains a portable regression with a fake
multicall `sleep`, so it bites on hosts whose own `sleep` is single-purpose.

* no-mistakes(document): Correct Herdr verification fixture reference

* ci: retrigger cancelled shard

* fix(bin): keep the supervision host's successor watcher alive after the Stop hook's group is torn down (#6787)

* fix(bin): keep the supervision host's pass-through successor out of the hook's process group

The successor a main-only pass-through leaves for main shared the Stop hook's
process group, so the harness tearing that group down after the exit-2 rewake
stopped it. The stop published downtime and the next park's first cycle
announced an empty check: rearm-resurface, which woke main again in a loop.
Start that successor in a process group of its own, as the hook's own
handling successor already is.

* no-mistakes(review): Give the at-turn successor left for main its own group

* no-mistakes(document): Document own-group successor for turn-start hand-back too

* no-mistakes(ci): I made the change you asked for: both new teardown tests in tests/fm-supervision-host.test.sh now call the existing `stop_home_processes "$home"` just before `pass`. The tests are `test_successor_left_at_the_turn_survives_the_hook_process_group_teardown` and `test_pass_through_successor_survives_the_hook_process_group_teardown`. No production code and no other tests changed. The rule broken was that a test must not leave a home's watcher or arm processes running after it passes. These two were the only cases in the changed area that broke it. The other host+hook tests already stop their home, and `test_successor_close_during_main_turn_is_delivered_at_the_next_turn_end` leaves its watcher behind too, but it is an older test you said not to touch. The only reason anything was left over is that the successor's arm now sits in its own process group, outside the hook's teardown. `stop_home_processes` kills the watcher by the pid in its lock file, which stops it no matter which group it is in. **Checks run:** - I ran just these two tests from a scratch copy of the suite (since deleted). Both pass in about 13 seconds. - After each test, a process listing filtered to that test's home directory came back empty once the processes had about a second to exit after TERM. - `bash -n` on the test file passes. - `shellcheck` is not installed…
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* fix: prevent unnecessary remote worker turnover (#6431)

* fix: prevent healthy remote job worker turnover

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize full LaunchAgent repair and verify launchd-tracked owners

* no-mistakes(review): Let launchd-tracked unpublished spawns start before reloading

* no-mistakes(document): Document remote worker heartbeat and serialized LaunchAgent recovery

* no-mistakes(ci): Full CI log showed the idle-worker regression exceeded its outdated command budget (82 versus 80) after independent heartbeat ownership checks were added. Raised the budget to 120 while retaining the separate busy-poll sleep limit. Remote-job and LaunchAgent executable tests passed, as did bash syntax validation and git diff --check. No production behavior changed

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed missing readiness recovery under verified live ownership, preserving the serving PID and private file mode. Added executable regressions for deletion during a blocked sweep and stale readiness diagnostics without LaunchAgent reload. Deletion regression failed before the fix. Both remote-job test suites, bash syntax validation, and git diff --check passed

* no-mistakes(ci): Full CI log identified a flaky ownership-loss test racing an already-authorized heartbeat refresh. Replaced backdating and a fixed sleep with bounded observation of readiness expiry through the public probe. Production behavior unchanged. Remote-job and LaunchAgent executable suites passed; bash syntax validation and git diff --check passed

* fix: wait for launchd bootout cleanup

* no-mistakes(document): Document remote worker recovery and read-only turnover verification

* no-mistakes(review): Publish worker identity before lock owner records

* no-mistakes(document): Document worker identity publication safety invariant

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed ci-1: replacement workers discard predecessor readiness before publishing identity and roll back identity if lock-owner recording fails. Added executable regressions reproducing both defects. LaunchAgent and orphan-reap suites, shell syntax checks, and git diff --check passed. No live service state was modified

* no-mistakes(ci): Restored lock-owner-before-identity publication and removed the identity rollback and reordering-only tests. Retained an executable regression proving predecessor readiness is rejected until replacement startup completes. LaunchAgent and orphan-reap suites, shell syntax checks, and git diff --check passed. Other changes remain intact; the retained-identity interrupted-repair edge remains out of scope. No live service state was modified

* fix: speed up remote-job sequence claim cleanup (#6575)

* fix(remote-job): reap expired seq claims with one directory walk

The hourly claim sweep forked uname+stat per .seq-claims entry and blocked
serving for ~85s at ~17k dirs. Delete expired empty claim dirs with a single
find -exec rmdir batch and cache the host uname for remaining mtime reads.

* no-mistakes(review): Restore original path mtime helper and drop uname cache

* no-mistakes(test): Restore claim retention eligibility; focused retention and serving tests pass

* no-mistakes(document): Document single-walk claim cleanup and regression entrypoints

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed Lint 2’s reproduced SC1091 by adding the tests/lib.sh ShellCheck source directive to the retention test. Runtime behavior is unchanged. ShellCheck passed for both new claim tests; Bash syntax, the retention behavior test, and git diff --check passed

* fix(tests): keep fixture registries out of git worktree roots

A TMPDIR pointed at a repository root placed live .fm-test-* registries
beside tracked files, and a concurrent git add during the claim-walk CI
fix round committed three of them. Route registries and fixture roots
through a TMPDIR that refuses git worktree roots, remove the stray files,
and pin the escape with a behavioral cleanup test.

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve whole-second claim expiry in single-walk sweep

* no-mistakes(document): Correct temporary-directory resolution documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed ci-3 by changing only the stale, fresh, and read-only orphan fixture paths in tests/fm-test-fixture-cleanup.test.sh to use $FM_TEST_TMPDIR. All seven tests passed both normally and with TMPDIR set to the worktree root. Shell syntax and git diff --check passed

* feat(bin): record no-mistakes pipeline spend per task at teardown, opt-in (#5354)

* feat(bin): record each task's no-mistakes pipeline spend at cleanup

no-mistakes keeps every pipeline agent invocation's token usage only in its
local agent_invocations records, and cold pipeline agents (review, test,
document) leave no session log, so a task's review-loop cost never reached
Firstmate's records and could not be attributed after cleanup.

bin/fm-pipeline-spend.sh attributes a task's runs by the repository
no-mistakes resolves for the task copy, the task branch, and the branch's
creation (a relaunch mints a new spawn_gen while the branch keeps
validating), then sums every invocation, failed and cancelled included.
Token fields use no-mistakes' per-round deltas so resumed review rounds are
not counted twice, and unrecorded values stay unknown rather than zero.
show prints the record read-only; record appends it once per task
incarnation to data/pipeline-spend.jsonl. Teardown records it for every
ship task it cleans up, before deleting the branch and the task record.

fm_nm_state_db becomes the one owner of where no-mistakes' state database
lives, shared with the capped run-inventory reader.

* no-mistakes(review): Drop spend show command and timeout override

* style(bin): rewrap fm-pipeline-spend header comment

* Make pipeline spend recording opt-in

* feat(bin): record each task's no-mistakes pipeline spend at cleanup

no-mistakes keeps every pipeline agent invocation's token usage only in its
local agent_invocations records, and cold pipeline agents (review, test,
document) leave no session log, so a task's review-loop cost never reached
Firstmate's records and could not be attributed after cleanup.

bin/fm-pipeline-spend.sh attributes a task's runs by the repository
no-mistakes resolves for the task copy, the task branch, and the branch's
creation (a relaunch mints a new spawn_gen while the branch keeps
validating), then sums every invocation, failed and cancelled included.
Token fields use no-mistakes' per-round deltas so resumed review rounds are
not counted twice, and unrecorded values stay unknown rather than zero.
show prints the record read-only; record appends it once per task
incarnation to data/pipeline-spend.jsonl. Teardown records it for every
ship task it cleans up, before deleting the branch and the task record.

fm_nm_state_db becomes the one owner of where no-mistakes' state database
lives, shared with the capped run-inventory reader.

* no-mistakes(review): Drop spend show command and timeout override

* style(bin): rewrap fm-pipeline-spend header comment

* Make pipeline spend recording opt-in

* no-mistakes(document): Note pipeline-spend opt-in gate in teardown comments

* no-mistakes(ci): I fixed all three Greptile findings following your decision. Both test suites pass: tests/fm-teardown.test.sh (105 ok, exit 0) and tests/fm-pipeline-spend.test.sh (8 ok). I didn't run either new test against the old code, so the claim that they fail before the fix is from reading the code, not a run. Nothing was committed or pushed. **ci-1 / ci-2 (bin/fm-teardown.sh):** The rule is that every owned ship task in a home that has opted in gets a durable spend record before its task record is deleted. The `[ -d "$WT" ]` check skipped the recorder when the worktree folder was already gone, so no record was written. I removed that check and kept the other conditions: the task must be a ship task, teardown must own its worktree, and `config/pipeline-spend` must exist. `bin/fm-pipeline-spend.sh` already writes an unavailable-source line when the worktree is missing. The new test `test_teardown_records_unavailable_spend_for_a_gone_worktree` in tests/fm-teardown.test.sh sets up an owned ship task whose worktree is missing, with recording turned on. It checks that teardown succeeds, writes a line with `source=="unavailable"`, `total==null` and a reason saying the task copy is gone, and still removes the task record. Under the old check no ledger would have been written. **ci-3 (bin/fm-nm-run-lib.sh):** When `NM_HOME` and `HOME` were both unset, `fm_nm_state_db` fell back to `${HOME:-}/.no-mistakes`, which resolves to `/.no-mistakes`. It now uses `root=~/.no-mistakes`. Bash expands `~` to the account's home directory even when `HOME` is unset, which matches the previous Python `Path.home()` lookup. The new test `test_state_db_without_nm_home_or_home_uses_the_account_home` in tests/fm-pipeline-spend.test.sh runs the function with both variables unset and compares the result to the home directory from the system's password database. The old code would have returned `/.no-mistakes/state.sqlite`. shellcheck reports nothing new on the changed files. I added one `disable=SC2016` comment in the new test, where the single-quoted `$1` is meant to expand in the child shell

* feat(bin): start tasks from a named base branch (#6442)

* feat(bin): start tasks from a named base branch

Spawns always reset a task's pooled copy to origin's default branch,
so work that belongs on a feature, integration, or release branch
started from the wrong code and opened its PR against the default.

fm-brief.sh --base-branch records the base in the brief, fm-spawn.sh
resets the copy to origin/<base> and records base_branch= in task
meta, and the worker targets its PR at that branch. Review diffs,
the cleanup content check, and scout promotion read the recorded
base. local-only and Gerrit deliveries refuse a named base.

* no-mistakes(review): Anchor brief base-branch parse on scaffold Setup line

* no-mistakes(review): Require explicit --base-branch on spawn, matching brief lines

* no-mistakes(document): Note base-branch reset in fm-spawn freshness header

* no-mistakes(ci): I fixed all four Greptile findings the way you specified. The affected suites pass locally: fm-brief, fm-dod-lib, fm-spawn-pool-base-freshen, fm-review-diff, fm-teardown and fm-task-delivery. shellcheck on the changed files reports only info-level notes, no warnings or errors. I didn't revert the code to watch each new test fail before the fix. - **ci-1 (brief text blocked or redirected spawns):** In bin/fm-dod-lib.sh, `fm_brief_base_branches` now only accepts a `Base branch: <value>` line that comes directly after the base-variant Setup sentence fm-brief.sh writes. Any other `Base branch:` line is ignored. `--base-branch` is still the only authority, and the existing checks in fm-spawn.sh are unchanged. With the flag, the spawn is refused unless a matching pair exists and no pair names a different branch. Without the flag, it is refused only if such a pair exists. The header comment in fm-spawn.sh is updated to match. - The `brief_with_base` test helper now writes the real two-line pair. - The decoy refusal case now uses a full decoy pair in the captain's intent. - New test `test_prose_base_branch_line_is_ignored`: a brief with no base whose intent quotes `Base branch: release/1.2` spawns normally with no `base_branch=` recorded. A spawn with `--base-branch feature/hub` whose intent names release/1.2 starts from `origin/feature/hub` and records it. - **ci-2 (scout base not checked against the forge):** fm-spawn.sh now looks up the project's registered forge with `bin/fm-project-mode.sh --forge`, like the ship path does, before `fm_base_branch_valid` runs. Previously it passed `none`. New test `test_scout_base_branch_refused_on_gerrit_forge`: a scout with a base on a forge=gerrit project is refused at spawn and no meta file is written. - **ci-3 (base not shell-quoted in worker commands):** `fm_dod_block` now quotes the base with `printf %q` in the `--base` and `--base-branch` arguments, and the branch name in the prose stays readable. The test in fm-brief.test.sh uses the base `release/$HOTFIX` and checks that both direct-PR and no-mistakes briefs render `release/\$HOTFIX` in the commands. - **ci-4 (ambiguous PR sentence):** The direct-PR sentence now reads "open a PR with `gh-axi` that is ready for review, not a draft, against the base branch `X` (`--base X`), not the repository default." A brief with no base renders exactly as before. The existing assertion in fm-brief.test.sh is updated

* no-mistakes(ci): Both real failures on PR 6442 (run 37064756768) come from CI tooling and a Pi version bump, not from the base-branch feature. Fixes for both already exist on upstream main, so I applied those two commits to the working tree with `git cherry-pick --no-commit`. Nothing is committed or pushed, and no feature file changed. - **Lint 2:** ShellCheck ran out of memory on `bin/fm-teardown.sh` (rss about 8 GB, exit 251, "shellcheck: out of memory"). The rule that broke is that the lint gate must finish on any valid shell root without exceeding the runner's memory ceiling. Upstream commit d719ef3 (#6443) fixes this in `bin/fm-lint.sh`: a root that hits the memory ceiling is retried without `--external-sources`. It also updates `tests/fm-lint.test.sh` and `docs/fm-test-portable-shards.md`. - **Behavior portable serial 6:** `tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh` failed with "grep disappeared from /export calm.html HTML while calm mode was on". Pi 1.0.1 renamed its HTML export renderer lookup, and upstream commit fede619 (#6530) updates the test to accept the new name. This change is test-only. Both commits applied cleanly. The four touched files are `bin/fm-lint.sh`, `docs/fm-test-portable-shards.md`, `tests/fm-lint.test.sh` and `tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh`. None of them is in the feature diff, so the feature contract is unchanged. **Local checks:** - `tests/fm-lint.test.sh` passes. - `bin/fm-lint.sh` on `bin/fm-teardown.sh`, `bin/fm-spawn.sh` and `bin/fm-dod-lib.sh` exits 0 with full ShellCheck analysis. - `tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh` exits 0 with 7 ok and 0 not ok. One case skipped because the Pi package isn't installed locally, so the Pi 1.0.1 export path that failed in CI couldn't be reproduced here. CI needs to confirm it. - I didn't reproduce the 8 GB OOM locally. The PR has to be updated through the pipeline with a normal push: no force push, no replacement PR, no merge

* fix(bin): name the Firstmate skill file as a fallback in the worker role (#6647)

* fix(bin): point project workers at the Firstmate skill file

The Skill tool cannot resolve a Firstmate skill from another project's worktree, so the launch role names the readable skill file instead.

* no-mistakes(review): fix(bin): name Firstmate skill file as fallback only

* feat(bin): retire a contribution whose forge object is permanently gone (#6655)

* feat(bin): retire a contribution whose forge object is permanently gone

Add fm-contributions.sh retire <task> <url> <captain|fleet> <reason>,
which records actor, reason and time on the saved record and removes
that task/url pair from known, poll rotation and coverage even while a
backlog link remains. Repeating a retire keeps the first provenance;
an unrecorded pair, unknown actor, empty reason or unacknowledged
pending signal is refused.

* no-mistakes(review): Keep retirement per task when settling final owners

* no-mistakes(ci): Made the three Greptile fixes the captain chose. ci-1, retirement needs the captain's word: `retire` now accepts only the actor `captain`. Any other actor is refused, including `fleet`. I removed `fleet` from the usage line, the script header (`bin/fm-contributions.sh`), the check in `bin/fm-contributions.sh` and the retired-record validation in `bin/fm-contributions.jq`, which now requires `.actor == "captain"`. The script header now says a retirement always records the captain's word, because the script cannot verify who runs it and the authority to retire is the captain's. The Bearings skill line in `.agents/skills/bearings/SKILL.md` now says `retire` records the captain's word. In the tests, a `fleet` retire is now a refusal case and must leave the record unretired. Every other retire call in the tests uses `captain`. The PR description has not been changed yet: the ruling asks for the same captain's-word statement there, and that belongs to the PR phase. ci-2, blank reasons: the reason check is now `[ -n "${5//[[:space:]]/}" ]`, so a reason made only of spaces or tabs is refused. I added a refusal test that passes a space-tab-space reason. The header also lists a blank reason among the refusals. ci-3, the gone-object test: the test forge wrapper has a new `not-found` fault that returns HTTP 404 for every `api repos/o/r/...` read. The happy-path test `test_retire_ends_observation_of_a_gone_contribution` now uses it in place of the 502 `down` fault, so it models a permanently gone repository rather than an outage. Verification: `bash tests/fm-contributions.test.sh` passed with exit 0. The last lines of its output include the three retire tests passing and no failures. `shellcheck` flagged only SC2034 (`FM_WAKE_QUEUE` unused) and SC1091 (an unfollowed source of `bin/fm-path-lib.sh`), neither on a line this round changed

* test: extend remote-reply whole-log recapture waits (#6639)

* test: give the remote-reply whole-log recapture a longer wait

* no-mistakes(review): Extend both recapture waits and simplify retry handling

* fix(bin): reopen a pending-reply escalation after its resolve (#6654)

* fix(bin): reopen a pending-reply escalation after its resolve

A retry of an open decision still appends nothing. A later same-kind escalation after a resolved line for that key appends again, so the next loss is visible.

* no-mistakes(ci): Both Greptile findings are fixed in the working tree; the four directly affected test suites pass, and a wider run of related suites had not finished when I returned this result. Invariant: a line already in the status file is recorded, and only a caller with its own evidence of a new episode may append it again. It must hold for every caller of status_event_recorded: the continuity break and the other call in bin/fm-procevent-remote-reply.sh, fm_parent_channel_append_once, and the pending-reply escalation. Changes: - bin/fm-classify-lib.sh: status_event_recorded is back to the idempotent retry check. It returns at the first matching line, and a later resolved line no longer makes that line look new. This fixes ci-1 for every caller and restores the early exit for ci-2, with no separate scan optimization. - bin/fm-pending-reply-lib.sh: _fm_pending_reply_maybe_escalate_locked now owns the reopen. It appends a new blocked line when the record already has an escalated_epoch (it escalated before and was reset) and the keyed decision is no longer open. Otherwise it uses status_event_recorded, so a retry or a resend that leaves the decision open appends nothing. - Comments on status_event_recorded and the pending-reply header describe this scope. Tests: - tests/fm-pending-reply.test.sh: the regression for escalate, operator resolve, second escalate is unchanged and passes. - tests/fm-remote-reply.test.sh: new regression drives the real reader. After an operator resolve of remote-reply-continuity-ios, a repeated handle and ingest of the same break appends nothing and leaves the decision closed. I placed it beside the existing continuity-break test, not in the pending-reply file, because only that file has the reader harness. - tests/fm-classify-corr-token.test.sh and tests/fm-classify-decision-key.test.sh: the cases that expected a blocked line to append again after a resolve now assert it stays recorded. Verification: - fm-classify-decision-key, fm-classify-corr-token, fm-pending-reply and fm-remote-reply test suites all exit 0 with the fix. - With the two bin files reverted to the commit under review, the new continuity regression and the updated parent-publisher case both fail, so they reproduce ci-1. - shellcheck -x on the changed files reports nothing. - Not finished: a background run of every other suite that mentions the parent channel or pending replies had produced no output, pass or fail, when I returned. One known gap: the escalation writes escalated_epoch before phase. If the process dies between those two writes and an operator resolves the key before the next tick, that tick appends a blocked line for the same episode. I left it, because closing it needs new state. Issue 4755 and other escalation behavior are untouched. Nothing is committed

* fix: refuse a confirming Enter on the Claude background-task exit picker (#6666)

* fix: refuse a confirming Enter on the Claude exit picker

The background-task picker still classifies as pending, so a retried Enter confirms "Exit and stop tasks".
Stop after the Enter that opened it, and raise the existing stale wake with the dialog name.

A non-paused secondmate still skips that wake, so a secondmate parked on the picker still looks idle.
Model-downgrade confirmation, MCP approval, and any other Claude exit confirmation are not covered, because there is no recorded screen for them.

* no-mistakes(review): fix: anchor exit picker match and wake second mates

* fix: refuse a typed submit while the Claude exit picker is open

A pane that already shows the picker must not receive the message or a confirming Enter.
The match requires the recorded heading and footer lines, and it is skipped when no dialog name is being recorded.

* no-mistakes(review): restore watcher to main behaviour, drop dialog wake

* no-mistakes(test): test: align Herdr picker fixtures with the preflight read

* no-mistakes(document): document exit refusal on a recognised dialog

* fix: remove the dialog file when exit runs in a subshell

do_exit is invoked from a command substitution, so the parent cleanup never saw the path it is supposed to delete.

* no-mistakes(review): fix: set the dialog file path after the control lock

* no-mistakes(document): document why the dialog file path follows the lock

* no-mistakes(ci): The exit cleanup in bin/fm-control.sh now deletes the dialog file first and releases the control lock second. The changes are in the worktree and are not committed. Invariant: only the process that holds the control lock for a task may write or delete that task's dialog file ($STATE/<id>.composer-dialog, the file that carries the picker name from the composer read to the Enter checks). The old cleanup released the lock and then deleted the file, so the delete ran outside the lock. Places where this invariant must hold: control_cleanup is the only place that deletes the file, and the single assignment after CONTROL_LOCK_HELD=1 is the only place that names it. do_exit only truncates the file, and it runs while the parent holds the lock. A process that loses the lock never sets the path, so it deletes nothing (earlier fix, unchanged). No sibling site needed a change. Fix: in control_cleanup, the rm of the dialog file moved above the fm_lock_release call, with a two-line comment that gives the reason. No dialog recognition or supervision code changed. Test: added test_exit_removes_the_dialog_file_before_releasing_the_lock in tests/fm-control-relaunch.test.sh. It runs one `fm-control exit` with a recording rm on PATH. The lock release removes paths at or under the control lock with rm, so the recording rm writes whether the dialog file exists at that moment. The test asserts the last record is "absent". It starts no second command. Verification, all run locally: - Before the fix, the new test failed with "the dialog file must be gone when the control lock is released, got: present". - After the fix, tests/fm-control-relaunch.test.sh exits 0 with 75 ok lines and no "not ok" line, including the new test and the existing test that the file is gone after exit and after relaunch. - tests/fm-control.test.sh exits 0 with 44 ok lines. - shellcheck -x on both changed files exits 0 with no output. One thing I noticed and did not change: tests/fm-control-relaunch.test.sh prints 615 "rm: cannot remove ... Permission denied" lines during its temp-directory teardown. The count is the same with my change reverted, so this change does not cause it, and the suite still exits 0. I could not read the Greptile check log (the check run was not found), so I worked from the finding text and the user instructions

* fix: restore timeout watchdog compatibility with macOS Bash 3.2 (#6028)

* fix: support stock macOS Bash in timeout watchdog

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed ci-1 in tests/fm-timeout-lib.test.sh: both startup-owner failure paths now kill the bounded command group before killing the watchdog. Fault injection reproduced both leaks before the fix and confirmed cleanup afterward. Bash 3.2 suite, syntax check, ShellCheck, and diff checks passed; GNU timeout coverage skipped because the binary is unavailable. Production code unchanged

* fix(project-management): use subshell form for Initialize command (#6699)

Wrap the cd command in a subshell to comply with the cd-guard policy
that blocks persistent top-level directory changes in the primary
firstmate checkout. The subshell form (cd projects/<name> && ...) is
accepted by the policy as documented in issue #6502.

Fixes #6502

* feat(bin): add armable daily startup growth check (#6725)

* Add daily startup growth check

* no-mistakes(review): watch printed startup memory, retain growth baselines, drop knobs

* no-mistakes(review): delegate budget verdict, report before publish, pin shim home

* no-mistakes(review): baseline first sightings silently, drop mtime, spare secondmates

* no-mistakes(review): cap the wake line, validate budget verdict fields

* no-mistakes(review): guard record schema, check appends, tighten assertions

* no-mistakes(review): drop arbitrary tracked library, make re-arm idempotent

* no-mistakes(review): correct tracked-set wording, restore shim guards, register artifacts

* no-mistakes(review): exit on signal instead of publishing partial record

* no-mistakes(document): correct startup-growth record removal cost in state registry

* no-mistakes(test): sweep orphaned empty startup-growth temp records on due evaluation

* no-mistakes(document): note watcher need for armed startup growth check

* no-mistakes(ci): Diagnosed "Behavior portable serial 5": the shard failed on tests/fm-contributions.test.sh in test_arm_plumbs_a_configured_budget_into_the_check_shim (inherited mode) with "generated check did not attempt a read" and a missing forge/calls file. Root cause: bin/fm-contributions.sh:379-382 computes DEADLINE=$(date +%s)+BUDGET and then gates each read on DEADLINE-$(date +%s) >= OBSERVATION_RESERVE (= min(BUDGET,15)). At the one-second budget this test uses, that gate demands zero elapsed whole seconds, so a wall-clock second boundary crossing between the two date calls makes the poll loop break before any forge read. The test calls wrap_forge (which installs a fake date reading $FORGE/clock only when that file exists) but never seeded forge/clock, so it ran against the real clock. The repo already documents this exact hazard at tests/fm-contributions.test.sh:675-677 and freezes the clock in every other budget-constrained test: test_budget_exhaustion_keeps_prior_record (both modes), test_genuine_failure_near_deadline_is_unavailable, test_reservation_defers_later_url_when_fifteen_seconds_do_not_remain, test_slow_read_deadline_kill_is_budget_refusal, test_budget_is_cut_down_to_the_watcher_check_bound. test_arm_plumbs was the only omission; its single loop body covers both the configured and inherited modes. The remaining wrap_forge users run the default 20-second budget (5 seconds of slack above the reserve) and are not reachable by this race. Fix (smallest, matching the sibling idiom): added the clock freeze `/bin/date +%s > "$home/forge/clock"` plus a two-line comment inside that test's loop, before the poll. Three added lines in tests/fm-contributions.test.sh; no production code and no other file touched. Verification: reproduced the exact CI failure message by running a scratch copy whose fake date advances one second per read (worst case of the unfrozen clock) - missing forge/calls, "not ok - generated check did not attempt a read". With the fix, the single test passes 10/10 standalone and the full tests/fm-contributions.test.sh passes all 46 assertions with exit 0. tests/fm-startup-growth-check.test.sh still exits 0. bash -n and shellcheck -S warning are clean on the edited file; scratch repro files were removed, leaving only the intended three-line change. Note for the author: this flake is not caused by this branch - tests/fm-contributions.test.sh is untouched by the PR and the race is pre-existing, surfacing only on a loaded runner (the shard's neighbouring assertions show 80+ second gaps). It was fixed because it is genuine nondeterminism with an established in-repo remedy and the check cannot otherwise go green. No work was done on the unselected greptile findings (ci-2..ci-5) or the cancelled "Behavior portable serial 2" check (ci-6)

* no-mistakes(ci): Diagnosed "Behavior portable serial 6": the omitted log section (fetched with gh api) shows the shard failed on tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh in test_hidden_block_geometry_e2e with "Pi Calm hidden-block geometry E2E did not complete the /reload viewport transition" (exit=1, duration_ms=23437; the family line pure-contract-unit count=3 duration_ms=51193 failed=1 matches devin-harness 3203 + calm-pi 23437 + task-delivery 24553). Root cause: tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh:2831 wait_for_geometry_transition detected the /reload by SAMPLING a single intermediate frame - it polled tmux capture-pane for Pi's transient "Reloading keybindings, extensions, skills, prompts, themes, and context files..." box and only accepted the rebuilt transcript afterwards (elif gated on saw_transient). Pi shows that box only while the reload runs and replaces it via dismissReloadBox when done, so on a loaded runner the box can live entirely between two polls; saw_transient then stays 0 forever and the 600-attempt wait times out although the reload fully succeeded. Reproduced locally under CPU oversubscription with CI's Pi 1.0.4: 1 failure in 8 runs, diagnostics proving the mechanism ("DIAG: transition timeout saw_transient=0 attempt=600") while the captured viewport already showed the completed reload status row and the intact collapsed transcript. Not a Pi-version regression: 1.0.4's handleReloadCommand and both banner strings are identical to the installed 0.85.1, and shard 6 of the previous pipeline run (job 112490351105) passed this same script on Pi 1.0.4. Invariant violated: a TUI E2E assertion must key off a durable state the UI retains, never off one intermediate frame polling may miss. Sibling enumeration: the helper was defined once and called once; grep for transient/saw_/two-stage waits across tests/, bin/ and .pi/ found no other one-shot-frame wait - every other wait in the file keys off durable text presence/absence or off continuously repeating animation frames (the working-ship motion checks) where sampling eventually connects; no doc or other test referenced the helper. Fix (smallest, one helper): renamed it wait_for_geometry_reload and made it wait for the durable status row Pi appends once the reload completed and the chat was rebuilt ("Reloaded keybindings, extensions, skills, prompts, themes, and context files", a persistent chat child via showStatus, present in both 0.85.1 and 1.0.4) together with CALM_GEOMETRY_FINAL. That marker is absent before the reload and never appears if the reload throws, so the check is strictly stronger than before (a failed reload now fails the test instead of passing on transient-then-final). One file changed: tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh, 2 hunks, no production code. Verification: deterministic before/after - with polls spaced 0.4s apart (the loaded-runner worst case) the pre-fix helper fails with exactly the CI message and the post-fix helper passes; 12/12 consecutive passes of the isolated test under load with Pi 1.0.4; full file 15/15 ok exit 0 under LANG=C.utf8 (matching the runner locale); bash -n, shellcheck -S warning and bin/fm-lint.sh clean; scratch repro files and the temp Pi 1.0.4 install removed, git status shows only the one intended modification. Notes: (1) the flake is not caused by this branch - that test file is untouched by the PR and the race is pre-existing; fixed because it is genuine nondeterminism and the check cannot otherwise go green. (2) Under far harsher load than CI applies a separate unrelated flake appeared in the same test: Pi's "Warning: tmux extended-keys is off..." row occasionally lands between the collapsed [skill] ahoy row and the final response, making assert_geometry_gap see 5 rows instead of 2. Different cause, never seen in CI, and its plausible remedies would change key delivery for the other TUI tests in the file, so it was left alone rather than growing this fix

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Co-authored-by: Quartermaster <quartermaster@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(bin): reopen the remote-reply continuity decision on a later break (#6708)

* fix: reopen a remote-reply continuity break after repair

A later break for the same route and reason was swallowed after the
operator resolved the first one, because the status line matched for
the life of the log. The continuity ingest now appends again when the
cursor has moved or retirement has reset that episode, and an unchanged
re-read still appends nothing.

status_event_recorded is unchanged. Its other callers are the
pending-reply escalation, which already decides its own episode, the
parent-channel note append, and the remote document transfer note.

* no-mistakes(review): seed continuity episode for already recorded break line

* no-mistakes(document): document when a remote-reply continuity break reopens

* no-mistakes(ci): The adapter now stores the continuity episode record before it appends the `blocked` line, so a failed store appends nothing. The changes are uncommitted in the worktree, in `bin/fm-procevent-remote-reply.sh` and `tests/fm-remote-reply.test.sh`. **Invariant:** a continuity `blocked` line is on the parent status log only when the episode record for that break is already stored. Only the `continuity-broken` branch of `cmd_ingest` appends that line, so the fix is at that one place. **What changed in `cmd_ingest`:** - It decides first whether the break needs a line, then stores the episode record, then appends. - If storing the record fails, it stops with "cannot record continuity episode" and appends nothing. - If the line is already on the log and no episode record exists, it stores the record and does not append. **One addition you did not ask for:** if the append fails after the record is stored, the adapter puts the earlier record back (or deletes the new one when none existed). Without that, the retry would read as the unchanged repeat and append nothing, which is the issue 6701 failure again. **Deviation from your test instruction:** the test does not use `chmod` on the cursor directory. `write_continuity_episode` runs `chmod 700` on that directory before every write, so a read-only directory is made writable again. The test instead makes `mktemp` fail for the episode's temporary file in that directory, the same way the existing receipt-failure test does. **Tests added to `tests/fm-remote-reply.test.sh`:** - Store failure: the second break exits 1, appends no `blocked` line and opens no decision. One retry after storage recovers exits 3 and appends a single line. - Append failure: with the status log read-only, the third break exits 1 and appends nothing. One retry after the log is writable exits 3 and appends a single line. **Verification:** `bash tests/fm-remote-reply.test.sh` ends with "ALL TESTS PASSED" with the fix. Against the script at commit b750c828 the same test file fails at "a continuity break appended its line before its episode was stored". `shellcheck -S warning` reports only an unused loop variable at line 667 of the test file, which this change does not touch. I ran no other test files. The Greptile Review check log could not be retrieved, so I worked from the finding text alone

* fix: record a continuity break's reader position on its status line

A later break at another cursor is then a different line, so the existing
duplicate check appends it and reopens the decision. An unchanged re-read
builds the same line and appends nothing.

* fix: reopen a continuity break after an identical restore

A retirement that puts the same bytes back used to rebuild the recorded line, so the later break stayed closed. The retirement count on that line makes the later break distinct.

* no-mistakes(review): remove continuity match for full-prefix line without retirement count

* no-mistakes(document): clarify what a continuity break status line records

* fix: remove the reply cursor before recording retirement

A stop between those steps must leave the count unchanged, so an unchanged continuity break still builds the same line.

* fix(control): drop busy_gen from the task record when an incarnation is retired (#6733)

* fix(control): drop busy_gen when an incarnation is retired

A deliberate exit removed the busy sidecar and left busy_gen in the task record, so the two records disagreed about whether that incarnation was still observable.

* no-mistakes(review): drop GNU-only chmod and unreached sidecar-absent branch

* no-mistakes(review): correct lock comment to name the deadlock

* no-mistakes(ci): The test `test_exit_drops_meta_busy_gen_with_the_sidecar` in tests/fm-control.test.sh now compares the whole task record (the `state/<id>.meta` file), so the Greptile finding is fixed. Invariant: after `exit` retires an incarnation, the task record must equal the record from before `exit` with only the `busy_gen` line removed. This test is the only place in the change that asserts the record survives the rewrite, so it is the only site to fix. The other `busy_gen` tests assert that the line stays, and they do not go through the rewrite. What changed: before `exit`, the test writes the record without its `busy_gen` line to `expected.meta`. After `exit`, the test runs `diff` between that expected copy and the real record, and fails with the diff output if they differ. This one comparison replaces the two earlier checks (no `busy_gen` line left, and the `window` line present), because it covers both. I did not change bin/fm-control.sh or any other file. How I know it works: - I ran `bash tests/fm-control.test.sh`: exit code 0, 45 lines starting with `ok`, no other lines. - I temporarily changed the rewrite in bin/fm-control.sh to also drop the `harness` line. The test then failed with `not ok - exit should drop only busy_gen from the task record:` and the diff `< harness=codex`. The earlier `window`-only check would have passed that rewrite. I restored bin/fm-control.sh afterwards; `git status` shows only tests/fm-control.test.sh modified. - `bash -n` and `shellcheck` on the test file report no new warnings from the edit. The change is not committed; the working tree holds it

* test: cover PID collisions in harness ancestry detection (#6484)

* test(secondmate-harness): scope fake ps -codex label for pid 5252 to the liveness probe

Closes #6456

* no-mistakes(ci): Updated the collision test to log and assert that PID 5252 was queried before selecting 4242. Full fm-secondmate harness suite passes

---------

Co-authored-by: YifuGu <ironerumi@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix: share Pi Calm's working-ship widget slot (#1854)

* fix(calm): share the standalone Pi Calm working-ship widget slot

Firstmate Calm and the user-global standalone Pi Calm both install an
animated working-ship widget during agent runs. Each claimed its own Pi
widget key, so a session loading both (the main Firstmate home) rendered
two boats. Pi replaces widgets under one key, so claiming the shared
"calm-working-ship" slot keeps dual-install sessions to a single boat
while a Firstmate-only session is unchanged.

Pins the shared slot contract in the working-ship module test so the key
cannot silently diverge again.

* test(calm): pin the shared working-ship widget key in CI, document dual-install

The key-parity assertion inside the Pi fixture only runs where the
@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent package is installed, so CI never
exercised it. Add a source-level twin that needs nothing but the
tracked file, and note in docs/calm.md that the boat shares the
standalone Pi Calm working-row widget slot.

* no-mistakes(review): Add executable dual-install widget replacement coverage

* no-mistakes(review): Guard shared widget cleanup with disposal ownership

* no-mistakes(document): Document shared Calm working-ship slot behavior

* test(calm): read the standalone Calm slot from its own module

The dual-install check registered both boats itself under the shared
slot, so it could only prove that Pi replaces a widget under one key: it
would still pass if the standalone Pi Calm extension installed its boat
under a different key, which is the two-boat regression the check exists
to prevent.

Read the standalone extension's own working-ship module when it is
installed - FM_STANDALONE_CALM_SHIP, else ~/.pi/agent/extensions/calm -
and drive the check with the key that module exports, so a rename on
either side registers two widgets and fails naming both keys. A pinned
shared-slot contract still covers a machine without the extension, and
the run reports which side it used instead of passing silently over an
absent extension.

Verified: the touched Pi Calm suite passes and reads the installed
standalone extension; with a copy of it whose key is renamed to
calm-working-ship-v2 the suite fails naming the drift.

* no-mistakes(review): Gate stock-row restoration by shared-widget ownership

* no-mistakes(review): Removed redundant widget-key source assertions

* no-mistakes(document): Document shared Calm working-ship widget ownership

* feat(bin): add opt-in --herdr-resume-lock-wait to fm-spawn (#6649)

* fix(herdr): make exact-resume presentation-lock wait instead of a bounded timeout

The exact-resume path in bin/fm-spawn.sh used the same 50-attempt-then-
give-up lock acquire as the new-task-create path, but the two paths are
not equivalent on contention: a create has no prior state to strand and
can safely fall back to a flat layout, while a resume is recovering a
specific existing identity that a concurrent recovery may legitimately
be holding the lock for. Giving up there does not degrade gracefully,
it hard-fails the resume outright. The suite's own concurrent
cross-home recoveries test already asserts both concurrent recoveries
succeed with a genuine reclaim, and the file's header comment already
(inaccurately) claimed lock contention falls back to the ordinary flat
layout for both paths alike, so the intended contract was always that
recoveries serialize and both succeed, not that either one refuses
under a short bound.

Give spawn_herdr_presentation_order_lock_acquire a wait mode that uses
this file's own established fm_lock_acquire_wait idiom (already used
for its other fleet-shared locks) instead of the bounded loop, and use
it only at the exact-resume call site. The new-task-create call site
is unchanged and keeps its bounded-then-flat-fallback behavior, which
is already covered by its own passing test. Dead-owner PID-liveness
reclaim inside fm_lock_try_acquire still bounds the wait against a
holder that crashed mid-hold.

Adds a deterministic regression test that holds the shared session
lock from an unrelated process for well past the old bound, then
asserts the resume succeeds with a genuine reclaim and took close to
the full hold duration, so a fix that merely widens the bound rather
than genuinely waiting is still caught. The existing concurrent
cross-home recovery test exercises this under real timing but does not
reliably outlast a fixed bound on its own.

Corrects the header comment's claim that create and resume share one
bounded-then-flat-fallback behavior on lock contention; they no longer
do.

* no-mistakes(document): Document Herdr recovery waiting for presentation lock

* no-mistakes(document): Update stale hard-refusal claim in verification log

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the Greptile finding on tests/fm-backend-herdr-presentation-e2e.test.sh:1389 by bounding the resume lock-wait regression's spawn_task call. Added an optional 4th `deadline_seconds` arg to the `spawn_task` helper (defaults to empty, so all ~20 other existing call sites are unaffected and unwrapped by `timeout`). The lock-wait test now passes `LOCK_WAIT_HOLD_SECONDS + 60` (90s) as the deadline, and a dedicated check for exit code 124 emits a clear "hung for over Xs instead of waiting out a Ys lock hold" diagnostic before falling through to the existing pass/fail assertions, which are unchanged. No product code was touched. Verified with `bash -n`, `shellcheck -x` (no warnings), a standalone reproduction of the timeout/no-timeout/success paths, the project's `bin/fm-lint.sh --fast` on the file (clean), and the full `tests/fm-lint.test.sh` suite (all 46 assertions pass)

* no-mistakes(ci): Replaced the direct `timeout "$deadline_seconds"` call in `spawn_task()` (tests/fm-backend-herdr-presentation-e2e.test.sh) with the repo's portable bounded-execution helper: sourced `bin/fm-timeout-lib.sh` at the top of the file and changed `deadline_cmd=(timeout "$deadline_seconds")` to `deadline_cmd=(fm_run_timed "$deadline_seconds")`. This removes the GNU/BSD `timeout` dependency that would fail with exit 127 on a stock macOS host without coreutils, while preserving identical semantics (exit 124 on bound-hit, command's own exit otherwise), which the existing `[ "$LOCK_WAIT_STATUS" -eq 124 ]` diagnostic check already relies on. Verified: `bash -n` syntax check, `bin/fm-lint.sh --fast` clean, full `tests/fm-lint.test.sh` suite (46/46 pass), and a standalone repro confirming `fm_run_timed` returns 124 on timeout and 0 on success identically to the prior `timeout` call. No other direct `timeout` calls exist in this file or elsewhere in the PR's diff, so no sibling sites remain

* fix(herdr): gate exact-resume lock wait behind --herdr-resume-lock-wait

Keep refuse-by-default on presentation-order lock contention for Herdr
exact resume. Callers that need concurrent recoveries to serialize must
pass --herdr-resume-lock-wait; unbounded blocking on a third-party session
lock is never the default.

Update docs and the real-Herdr e2e suite so the default path asserts the
refusal and the opt-in path asserts the wait.

* no-mistakes(test): Fix e2e test's lost exit status after if/fi with no else branch

* docs(herdr): stop advertising --herdr-resume-lock-wait on --relaunch

The relaunch path reuses the recorded endpoint and never takes the
presentation-order lock, so the flag is inert there. Drop it from the
--relaunch usage line and state where the flag applies.

* no-mistakes(review): Clarify lock-wait docs; simplify bash-3.2-safe spawn_task helper

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed ci-1 (Greptile P2). In tests/fm-backend-herdr-presentation-e2e.test.sh, the failure cleanup `cleanup_all` stopped only `LOCK_CONTENTION_OWNER_PID`. It now also stops `LOCK_REFUSE_HOLDER_PID` and `LOCK_WAIT_HOLDER_PID`, the holders of the two new contention cases, so a `fail` before their explicit `wait` no longer leaves them running. Both new PIDs are initialised empty next to the existing one, and each is cleared right after its successful `wait` so cleanup never touches a finished PID. I changed nothing else. `bash -n` passes. The real Herdr e2e run passed both new cases ("default resumed identity refuses session lock contention" and "--herdr-resume-lock-wait waits out session lock contention instead of refusing"). The full run hit my 550s timeout in a later, unrelated case, after the new cases passed

* fix(bin): let TERM stop a watcher blocked in a pane capture on bash 3.2 (#6762)

* fix(bin): let TERM stop a watcher blocked in a pane capture on bash 3.2

Stock macOS bash 3.2 holds a HUP or TERM until a running command
substitution's child exits, and the watcher read every pane through
$(fm_backend_capture ...). A blocked backend read therefore held the
watcher's stop for as long as the read lasted, and a stopped watcher left
the hung read orphaned. tests/fm-watch-triage.test.sh
test_term_stops_a_watcher_blocked_inside_a_poll failed on /bin/bash 3.2
for this reason while passing on bash 5.

Pane captures now go through watcher_capture, which runs the read as a
waited background process group recorded like a check's, so the stop is
honored at once and watcher_cleanup stops a read still in flight along
with its per-call output file.

* no-mistakes(review): Run drain-ring idle capture in watcher shell, add regression test

* no-mistakes(document): Document watcher TERM handling for blocked checks and captures

* no-mistakes(test): Silence bash 3.2 setpgid race noise from watcher captures

* fix(bin): verify the capture group and scope the stop claim to pane reads

watcher_capture now confirms its background read leads its own process
group, as run_check_capture already does, so watcher_cleanup never relies
on a group that set -m failed to create. The comment and continuity doc
now say only fm_backend_capture pane reads go through watcher_capture;
agent-state and composer-state reads still run inside command
substitutions.

* feat: add per-home worker tool exclusions (#6750)

* feat(spawn): add per-home worker tool exclusions

Add an optional per-home config/crew-exclude-tools file listing tool names to hide from workers, one per line, with blank lines and # comments allowed.
It applies to every ship and scout launch and relaunch in that home, is never inherited by another home, and does not affect secondmate agents.
Pi and pi-signed apply it through --exclude-tools, which also covers MCP tool names.
Any other runtime, and a raw launch command, refuses the launch when the list is non-empty rather than ignoring it.
Malformed entries are refused before provisioning, and before a relaunch stops a running worker.
Exclusions that match no tool in the worker's loaded registry are reported as unverified warnings in its status record instead of refusing the worker.

Closes #6744

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve UTF-8 exclusion paths and verify Pi lifecycle behavior

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify worker tool exclusion documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed ci-1 in bin/fm-exclude-tools-lib.sh: a failed read now returns an error before printing names, so all shared launch and relaunch callers refuse rather than silently dropping exclusions. Added deterministic regression coverage for a file disappearing after readability checks across Pi/pi-signed ship and scout launches. Reproduced the original failure; verified 83 spawn checks, 77 relaunch checks, direct parser/runtime failure cases, full targeted lint, Bash syntax, and git diff --check. Relaunch tests passed with existing fixture-cleanup permission warnings. ci-2 remains unchanged per the user's decision; the outer executor owns the fresh CI run

* feat(bin): defer spawns beyond a declared per-project capacity, opt-in (#5343)

* refactor(bin): share the local Firstmate home walk from the wake library

Teardown's walk over the root home and its registered local secondmate homes
moves into bin/fm-wake-lib.sh as fm_local_firstmate_state_dirs, next to
fm_firstmate_root_home, so a second consumer can count task records across
this machine's homes without a copy. Teardown keeps its exact refusal wording
through a thin wrapper.

* feat(bin): defer spawns beyond a project's declared machine capacity

A project whose machine-local resource only serves a few workers at once had
no way to tell Firstmate so: every queued item was launched, and the surplus
workers spent full-context turns retrying the resource.

config/project-capacity in the root home now declares how many workers each
named project admits at once on this machine. bin/fm-spawn.sh counts the ship
and scout records on the same project origin across the root and its local
secondmate homes, skipping ones whose ready PR is recorded, while holding the
shared project lock through publication. A spawn with every place held exits 75
before any brief render, endpoint, worktree, record, or backlog move, so the
item stays queued; batches report it as deferred. Undeclared projects keep
today's uncapped dispatch, and an unreadable declaration refuses rather than
guessing the limit.

Refs #4237

* no-mistakes(review): Document that capacity matches the clone directory name

* no-mistakes(document): Rewrap stale fm-wake-lib root-home doc comment

* no-mistakes(review): Dedupe local state dirs by identity to avoid double-counting

* no-mistakes(document): Rewrap fm_local_firstmate_state_dirs error doc comment

* no-mistakes(ci): I fixed all four Greptile findings. All 14 tests in tests/fm-project-capacity.test.sh pass, and shellcheck at warning level is clean on the changed files. Each new test failed against the old code and passes now. - **ci-1 (spaced names):** a declaration line must give a name its capacity whenever the name is a valid clone directory name. `fm_project_capacity_lookup` now trims each line, skips blank lines and lines whose first non-blank character is `#`, and takes the last field as the capacity. Everything before that field is the name, so it may contain spaces. The old error cases still refuse: a single field is rejected, and trailing text leaves a last field that is not an integer. The library header and docs/configuration.md now say a name starting with `#` cannot be declared. New test `test_spaced_project_name_is_declared` declares `my heavy project 1` next to an indented comment line and gets a deferral. - **ci-2 (unreadable records):** the holder count must never silently leave out a holder. `fm_project_capacity_occupants` now refuses when a local home's state directory exists but cannot be read or listed, or when a `.meta` file cannot be read. The error names the path, and `fm-spawn.sh` shows it in its existing refusal message. New test `test_unreadable_holders_refuse_admission` covers an unreadable record in the root home and an unreadable state directory in a registered local secondmate home, then checks that the spawn is admitted once both are readable. The test is skipped when run as root. - **ci-3 (Orca lock):** any spawn that can become a holder for a capped project must take that project's lock. The lookup now also reports whether the declaration caps any project at all, and an Orca spawn takes the per-origin lock whenever it does. This covers every capped same-origin clone. It also covers some cases where no same-origin clone is capped, because a spawn cannot find clones under other directory names without searching for them. With no declaration file, Orca still skips the lock. The comments in the library and in the `fm-spawn.sh` header are updated. The Orca test now clones the origin as `project-2`, which has no declaration, and checks that its Orca spawn refuses while the lock is held and publishes no record. - **ci-4 (worktrees):** `assert_nothing_created` now also compares the project's `git worktree list` from before and after a deferred spawn. Both tests that call it take that snapshot first. Files changed: bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh, bin/fm-spawn.sh, docs/configuration.md, tests/fm-project-capacity.test.sh

* fix(bin): declare capacity for a project name that begins with #

A clone directory whose name begins with # was skipped as a comment, so that project stayed uncapped. A line is a declaration when the # is written against the rest of the name and the line ends with a capacity; a # followed by whitespace stays a comment.

* no-mistakes(document): Rewrap project-capacity library header comment

* no-mistakes(ci): Lint 2 fails because this PR's code pushes ShellCheck past its memory cap. ShellCheck ran out of memory analyzing bin/fm-teardown.sh in CI (reason=memory, rc=251, peak about 8.39 GB). On current main the same file passes at about 7.29 GB. **Cause:** the new `fm_local_firstmate_state_dirs` function in bin/fm-wake-lib.sh had a conditional `. fm-secondmate-registry-lib.sh` with a `# shellcheck source=` directive inside the function. ShellCheck followed that source again, inside a function scope, wherever fm-wake-lib.sh is sourced, and bin/fm-teardown.sh is the heaviest root that sources it. Measured locally with `shellcheck --norc --external-sources bin/fm-teardown.sh`: - current main (fd325b1b): 7.29 GB - main merged with this PR: 7.86 GB - the same merge without the in-function source: 7.27 GB **Rule this restores:** this change must not make any lint root heavier than it is on main. That function holds the only new nested source in the change. **Fix:** I removed the in-function source, which no caller needs. Both callers already load the registry library at top level before calling the function: - bin/fm-teardown.sh sources it directly. - bin/fm-spawn.sh, the only user of bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh, gets it through bin/fm-ff-lib.sh. I also documented the requirement in the function's comment and in the "Requires" note in bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh. No behaviour changes. **Verification:** - ShellCheck on head: bin/fm-teardown.sh peaks at 7.12 GB and bin/fm-spawn.sh at 6.68 GB, both with rc=0. bin/fm-wake-lib.sh and bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh lint clean. - tests/fm-project-capacity.test.sh, tests/fm-teardown.test.sh (102 ok) and tests/fm-teardown-endpoint-safety.test.sh all pass. Files changed: bin/fm-wake-lib.sh, bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh

* fix(bin): release the Herdr session lock when reclaim finishes

A concurrent resume in another home waits five seconds for that lock.
Reclaim is the last presentation change on the recovery path, so holding
the lock through the launch tail made the waiter time out. The contributions
arm check also freezes its one-second clock, the same way the budget tests
do, because an unfrozen clock can tick past before the first forge read.

* no-mistakes(review): Keep Herdr session lock through launch handoff after reclaim

* no-mistakes(review): Skip the spawning task's own record in capacity count

* no-mistakes(review): Restore release test comment above its test

* docs: scope PR-ready re-evaluation to a declared project capacity

A ready pull request frees a place only when that project declares capacity, so the always-loaded backlog contract should re-evaluate on that handoff only in that case.

* fix(bin): name the Lavish read message count by the same label as its section (#6785)

fm-procevent-lavish.sh read labels tag=message rows SESSION-ENDING MESSAGE
only when session_ended is true and CAPTAIN MESSAGE otherwise, but the
count line always said session_ending_message_count. Several composer
messages on a still-open board were therefore counted as session-ending.

The count line now follows the same session_ended switch:
session_ending_message_count once the session ended, captain_message_count
otherwise. Message rows stay out of the annotation count, per triage.

Fixes #6743

* fix(herdr): make the presentation lock namespace per OS account (#6780)

The Herdr presentation lock namespace was the fixed machine-global
/tmp/firstmate-herdr-presentation, so on a host where two OS users run
Firstmate on Herdr the first account to create it owned it and every
teardown from the other account was refused with no way to clear it.

Suffix the namespace with the account uid. The owner-uid and mode-700
checks are unchanged, so a foreign-owned or wrong-mode name at this
account's path is still refused and never adopted, chowned, or removed.

Fixes #4716.

* Fix OpenCode arm plugin to decide with the shared supervision predicate (#6809)

The OpenCode session plugin's shouldArm kept its own copy of the need
test that only looked for in-flight task records, while the turn-end
guard decides with fm_supervision_needed in bin/fm-supervision-lib.sh,
which also counts registered process-event sources and trusted custom
checks. With an empty fleet but any registered source or check, the
guard blocked every turn end while the plugin declined to arm - a loop
the guard's own repair line could not resolve because it names the
plugin as the fix.

The plugin now delegates the decision to the shared predicate through
bash, keeping the local away-record decline and the x-mode.env arm
override. OpenCode plugin test fixtures now carry the real predicate
their arming path sources, and the arm suite gains six cases asserting
the plugin's decision against the shared verdict over the same
synthetic state directories.

Co-authored-by: Mia Sun <mia@Bigs-Mac-mini.localdomain>

* fix(bin): resolve a pending reply only from its own task's status line (#6792)

* fix(bin): resolve a pending reply only from its own task's status line

Remote reply ingestion handed every corr= token in a mate's payload to
fm_pending_reply_try_resolve together with that mate's own status log,
so one mate echoing another mate's token resolved the other request.
Honor a status-file override only when it is the record's own
parent_status, and match the corr= token as a whole word.

Fixes #6538

* no-mistakes(document): docs: scope remote reply settlement to the asked mate

* docs(skills): index the six missing agent-only skill triggers (#6784)

agent-skill-trigger-index claims to be the complete agent-only trigger
index but omitted operational-home-layout, session-start-recovery,
validation-supervision, ship-landing, scout-completion, and
away-quiet-supervision. Add each with its own description's trigger,
placed beside the related entries.

The decision-hold-lifecycle redirect stub stays out, per triage.

Fixes #6503

* test: make agent process fixtures compatible with multicall sleep (#6814)

* test: share a rename-safe agent stand-in across liveness suites

On Ubuntu 26.04, `sleep` is the uutils multicall binary, which refuses to
run when invoked through a symlink named after another utility. The Herdr
descendant process-walk tests built their agent-named process as a `pi`
symlink to the host `sleep`, so the process exited at once, its parent shell
was gone before the walk ran, and both cases read `unknown unreadable` and
failed on that host. The suite stops at its first failure, so every later
case went unrun. The Herdr control smoke test's `claude` symlink has the
same construction.

The tmux liveness suite already solved this with a host-compiled spinner and
a survival-checked `sleep` fallback. That builder moves into tests/lib.sh as
fm_agent_standin, and the tmux suite, both Herdr descendant cases, and the
Herdr control smoke test now use it. When no stand-in can survive a foreign
name, a case skips with the reason instead of failing.

tests/fm-test-fixtures.test.sh gains a portable regression with a fake
multicall `sleep`, so it bites on hosts whose own `sleep` is single-purpose.

* no-mistakes(document): Correct Herdr verification fixture reference

* ci: retrigger cancelled shard

* fix(bin): keep the supervision host's successor watcher alive after the Stop hook's group is torn down (#6787)

* fix(bin): keep the supervision host's pass-through successor out of the hook's process group

The successor a main-only pass-through leaves for main shared the Stop hook's
process group, so the harness tearing that group down after the exit-2 rewake
stopped it. The stop published downtime and the next park's first cycle
announced an empty check: rearm-resurface, which woke main again in a loop.
Start that successor in a process group of its own, as the hook's own
handling successor already is.

* no-mistakes(review): Give the at-turn successor left for main its own group

* no-mistakes(document): Document own-group successor for turn-start hand-back too

* no-mistakes(ci): I made the change you asked for: both new teardown tests in tests/fm-supervision-host.test.sh now call the existing `stop_home_processes "$home"` just before `pass`. The tests are `test_successor_left_at_the_turn_survives_the_hook_process_group_teardown` and `test_pass_through_successor_survives_the_hook_process_group_teardown`. No production code and no other tests changed. The rule broken was that a test must not leave a home's watcher or arm processes running after it passes. These two were the only cases in the changed area that broke it. The other host+hook tests already stop their home, and `test_successor_close_during_main_turn_is_delivered_at_the_next_turn_end` leaves its watcher behind too, but it is an older test you said not to touch. The only reason anything was left over is that the successor's arm now sits in its own process group, outside the hook's teardown. `stop_home_processes` kills the watcher by the pid in its lock file, which stops it no matter which group it is in. **Checks run:** - I ran just these two tests from a scratch copy of the suite (since deleted). Both pass in about 13 seconds. - After each test, a process listing filtered to that test's home directory came back empty once the processes had about a second to exit after TERM. - `bash -n` on the test file passes. - `shellcheck` is not insta…
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…ons, and fleet fixes (#9)

* fix: refuse a confirming Enter on the Claude background-task exit picker (#6666)

* fix: refuse a confirming Enter on the Claude exit picker

The background-task picker still classifies as pending, so a retried Enter confirms "Exit and stop tasks".
Stop after the Enter that opened it, and raise the existing stale wake with the dialog name.

A non-paused secondmate still skips that wake, so a secondmate parked on the picker still looks idle.
Model-downgrade confirmation, MCP approval, and any other Claude exit confirmation are not covered, because there is no recorded screen for them.

* no-mistakes(review): fix: anchor exit picker match and wake second mates

* fix: refuse a typed submit while the Claude exit picker is open

A pane that already shows the picker must not receive the message or a confirming Enter.
The match requires the recorded heading and footer lines, and it is skipped when no dialog name is being recorded.

* no-mistakes(review): restore watcher to main behaviour, drop dialog wake

* no-mistakes(test): test: align Herdr picker fixtures with the preflight read

* no-mistakes(document): document exit refusal on a recognised dialog

* fix: remove the dialog file when exit runs in a subshell

do_exit is invoked from a command substitution, so the parent cleanup never saw the path it is supposed to delete.

* no-mistakes(review): fix: set the dialog file path after the control lock

* no-mistakes(document): document why the dialog file path follows the lock

* no-mistakes(ci): The exit cleanup in bin/fm-control.sh now deletes the dialog file first and releases the control lock second. The changes are in the worktree and are not committed. Invariant: only the process that holds the control lock for a task may write or delete that task's dialog file ($STATE/<id>.composer-dialog, the file that carries the picker name from the composer read to the Enter checks). The old cleanup released the lock and then deleted the file, so the delete ran outside the lock. Places where this invariant must hold: control_cleanup is the only place that deletes the file, and the single assignment after CONTROL_LOCK_HELD=1 is the only place that names it. do_exit only truncates the file, and it runs while the parent holds the lock. A process that loses the lock never sets the path, so it deletes nothing (earlier fix, unchanged). No sibling site needed a change. Fix: in control_cleanup, the rm of the dialog file moved above the fm_lock_release call, with a two-line comment that gives the reason. No dialog recognition or supervision code changed. Test: added test_exit_removes_the_dialog_file_before_releasing_the_lock in tests/fm-control-relaunch.test.sh. It runs one `fm-control exit` with a recording rm on PATH. The lock release removes paths at or under the control lock with rm, so the recording rm writes whether the dialog file exists at that moment. The test asserts the last record is "absent". It starts no second command. Verification, all run locally: - Before the fix, the new test failed with "the dialog file must be gone when the control lock is released, got: present". - After the fix, tests/fm-control-relaunch.test.sh exits 0 with 75 ok lines and no "not ok" line, including the new test and the existing test that the file is gone after exit and after relaunch. - tests/fm-control.test.sh exits 0 with 44 ok lines. - shellcheck -x on both changed files exits 0 with no output. One thing I noticed and did not change: tests/fm-control-relaunch.test.sh prints 615 "rm: cannot remove ... Permission denied" lines during its temp-directory teardown. The count is the same with my change reverted, so this change does not cause it, and the suite still exits 0. I could not read the Greptile check log (the check run was not found), so I worked from the finding text and the user instructions

* fix: restore timeout watchdog compatibility with macOS Bash 3.2 (#6028)

* fix: support stock macOS Bash in timeout watchdog

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed ci-1 in tests/fm-timeout-lib.test.sh: both startup-owner failure paths now kill the bounded command group before killing the watchdog. Fault injection reproduced both leaks before the fix and confirmed cleanup afterward. Bash 3.2 suite, syntax check, ShellCheck, and diff checks passed; GNU timeout coverage skipped because the binary is unavailable. Production code unchanged

* fix(project-management): use subshell form for Initialize command (#6699)

Wrap the cd command in a subshell to comply with the cd-guard policy
that blocks persistent top-level directory changes in the primary
firstmate checkout. The subshell form (cd projects/<name> && ...) is
accepted by the policy as documented in issue #6502.

Fixes #6502

* feat(bin): add armable daily startup growth check (#6725)

* Add daily startup growth check

* no-mistakes(review): watch printed startup memory, retain growth baselines, drop knobs

* no-mistakes(review): delegate budget verdict, report before publish, pin shim home

* no-mistakes(review): baseline first sightings silently, drop mtime, spare secondmates

* no-mistakes(review): cap the wake line, validate budget verdict fields

* no-mistakes(review): guard record schema, check appends, tighten assertions

* no-mistakes(review): drop arbitrary tracked library, make re-arm idempotent

* no-mistakes(review): correct tracked-set wording, restore shim guards, register artifacts

* no-mistakes(review): exit on signal instead of publishing partial record

* no-mistakes(document): correct startup-growth record removal cost in state registry

* no-mistakes(test): sweep orphaned empty startup-growth temp records on due evaluation

* no-mistakes(document): note watcher need for armed startup growth check

* no-mistakes(ci): Diagnosed "Behavior portable serial 5": the shard failed on tests/fm-contributions.test.sh in test_arm_plumbs_a_configured_budget_into_the_check_shim (inherited mode) with "generated check did not attempt a read" and a missing forge/calls file. Root cause: bin/fm-contributions.sh:379-382 computes DEADLINE=$(date +%s)+BUDGET and then gates each read on DEADLINE-$(date +%s) >= OBSERVATION_RESERVE (= min(BUDGET,15)). At the one-second budget this test uses, that gate demands zero elapsed whole seconds, so a wall-clock second boundary crossing between the two date calls makes the poll loop break before any forge read. The test calls wrap_forge (which installs a fake date reading $FORGE/clock only when that file exists) but never seeded forge/clock, so it ran against the real clock. The repo already documents this exact hazard at tests/fm-contributions.test.sh:675-677 and freezes the clock in every other budget-constrained test: test_budget_exhaustion_keeps_prior_record (both modes), test_genuine_failure_near_deadline_is_unavailable, test_reservation_defers_later_url_when_fifteen_seconds_do_not_remain, test_slow_read_deadline_kill_is_budget_refusal, test_budget_is_cut_down_to_the_watcher_check_bound. test_arm_plumbs was the only omission; its single loop body covers both the configured and inherited modes. The remaining wrap_forge users run the default 20-second budget (5 seconds of slack above the reserve) and are not reachable by this race. Fix (smallest, matching the sibling idiom): added the clock freeze `/bin/date +%s > "$home/forge/clock"` plus a two-line comment inside that test's loop, before the poll. Three added lines in tests/fm-contributions.test.sh; no production code and no other file touched. Verification: reproduced the exact CI failure message by running a scratch copy whose fake date advances one second per read (worst case of the unfrozen clock) - missing forge/calls, "not ok - generated check did not attempt a read". With the fix, the single test passes 10/10 standalone and the full tests/fm-contributions.test.sh passes all 46 assertions with exit 0. tests/fm-startup-growth-check.test.sh still exits 0. bash -n and shellcheck -S warning are clean on the edited file; scratch repro files were removed, leaving only the intended three-line change. Note for the author: this flake is not caused by this branch - tests/fm-contributions.test.sh is untouched by the PR and the race is pre-existing, surfacing only on a loaded runner (the shard's neighbouring assertions show 80+ second gaps). It was fixed because it is genuine nondeterminism with an established in-repo remedy and the check cannot otherwise go green. No work was done on the unselected greptile findings (ci-2..ci-5) or the cancelled "Behavior portable serial 2" check (ci-6)

* no-mistakes(ci): Diagnosed "Behavior portable serial 6": the omitted log section (fetched with gh api) shows the shard failed on tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh in test_hidden_block_geometry_e2e with "Pi Calm hidden-block geometry E2E did not complete the /reload viewport transition" (exit=1, duration_ms=23437; the family line pure-contract-unit count=3 duration_ms=51193 failed=1 matches devin-harness 3203 + calm-pi 23437 + task-delivery 24553). Root cause: tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh:2831 wait_for_geometry_transition detected the /reload by SAMPLING a single intermediate frame - it polled tmux capture-pane for Pi's transient "Reloading keybindings, extensions, skills, prompts, themes, and context files..." box and only accepted the rebuilt transcript afterwards (elif gated on saw_transient). Pi shows that box only while the reload runs and replaces it via dismissReloadBox when done, so on a loaded runner the box can live entirely between two polls; saw_transient then stays 0 forever and the 600-attempt wait times out although the reload fully succeeded. Reproduced locally under CPU oversubscription with CI's Pi 1.0.4: 1 failure in 8 runs, diagnostics proving the mechanism ("DIAG: transition timeout saw_transient=0 attempt=600") while the captured viewport already showed the completed reload status row and the intact collapsed transcript. Not a Pi-version regression: 1.0.4's handleReloadCommand and both banner strings are identical to the installed 0.85.1, and shard 6 of the previous pipeline run (job 112490351105) passed this same script on Pi 1.0.4. Invariant violated: a TUI E2E assertion must key off a durable state the UI retains, never off one intermediate frame polling may miss. Sibling enumeration: the helper was defined once and called once; grep for transient/saw_/two-stage waits across tests/, bin/ and .pi/ found no other one-shot-frame wait - every other wait in the file keys off durable text presence/absence or off continuously repeating animation frames (the working-ship motion checks) where sampling eventually connects; no doc or other test referenced the helper. Fix (smallest, one helper): renamed it wait_for_geometry_reload and made it wait for the durable status row Pi appends once the reload completed and the chat was rebuilt ("Reloaded keybindings, extensions, skills, prompts, themes, and context files", a persistent chat child via showStatus, present in both 0.85.1 and 1.0.4) together with CALM_GEOMETRY_FINAL. That marker is absent before the reload and never appears if the reload throws, so the check is strictly stronger than before (a failed reload now fails the test instead of passing on transient-then-final). One file changed: tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh, 2 hunks, no production code. Verification: deterministic before/after - with polls spaced 0.4s apart (the loaded-runner worst case) the pre-fix helper fails with exactly the CI message and the post-fix helper passes; 12/12 consecutive passes of the isolated test under load with Pi 1.0.4; full file 15/15 ok exit 0 under LANG=C.utf8 (matching the runner locale); bash -n, shellcheck -S warning and bin/fm-lint.sh clean; scratch repro files and the temp Pi 1.0.4 install removed, git status shows only the one intended modification. Notes: (1) the flake is not caused by this branch - that test file is untouched by the PR and the race is pre-existing; fixed because it is genuine nondeterminism and the check cannot otherwise go green. (2) Under far harsher load than CI applies a separate unrelated flake appeared in the same test: Pi's "Warning: tmux extended-keys is off..." row occasionally lands between the collapsed [skill] ahoy row and the final response, making assert_geometry_gap see 5 rows instead of 2. Different cause, never seen in CI, and its plausible remedies would change key delivery for the other TUI tests in the file, so it was left alone rather than growing this fix

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Co-authored-by: Quartermaster <quartermaster@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(bin): reopen the remote-reply continuity decision on a later break (#6708)

* fix: reopen a remote-reply continuity break after repair

A later break for the same route and reason was swallowed after the
operator resolved the first one, because the status line matched for
the life of the log. The continuity ingest now appends again when the
cursor has moved or retirement has reset that episode, and an unchanged
re-read still appends nothing.

status_event_recorded is unchanged. Its other callers are the
pending-reply escalation, which already decides its own episode, the
parent-channel note append, and the remote document transfer note.

* no-mistakes(review): seed continuity episode for already recorded break line

* no-mistakes(document): document when a remote-reply continuity break reopens

* no-mistakes(ci): The adapter now stores the continuity episode record before it appends the `blocked` line, so a failed store appends nothing. The changes are uncommitted in the worktree, in `bin/fm-procevent-remote-reply.sh` and `tests/fm-remote-reply.test.sh`. **Invariant:** a continuity `blocked` line is on the parent status log only when the episode record for that break is already stored. Only the `continuity-broken` branch of `cmd_ingest` appends that line, so the fix is at that one place. **What changed in `cmd_ingest`:** - It decides first whether the break needs a line, then stores the episode record, then appends. - If storing the record fails, it stops with "cannot record continuity episode" and appends nothing. - If the line is already on the log and no episode record exists, it stores the record and does not append. **One addition you did not ask for:** if the append fails after the record is stored, the adapter puts the earlier record back (or deletes the new one when none existed). Without that, the retry would read as the unchanged repeat and append nothing, which is the issue 6701 failure again. **Deviation from your test instruction:** the test does not use `chmod` on the cursor directory. `write_continuity_episode` runs `chmod 700` on that directory before every write, so a read-only directory is made writable again. The test instead makes `mktemp` fail for the episode's temporary file in that directory, the same way the existing receipt-failure test does. **Tests added to `tests/fm-remote-reply.test.sh`:** - Store failure: the second break exits 1, appends no `blocked` line and opens no decision. One retry after storage recovers exits 3 and appends a single line. - Append failure: with the status log read-only, the third break exits 1 and appends nothing. One retry after the log is writable exits 3 and appends a single line. **Verification:** `bash tests/fm-remote-reply.test.sh` ends with "ALL TESTS PASSED" with the fix. Against the script at commit b750c828 the same test file fails at "a continuity break appended its line before its episode was stored". `shellcheck -S warning` reports only an unused loop variable at line 667 of the test file, which this change does not touch. I ran no other test files. The Greptile Review check log could not be retrieved, so I worked from the finding text alone

* fix: record a continuity break's reader position on its status line

A later break at another cursor is then a different line, so the existing
duplicate check appends it and reopens the decision. An unchanged re-read
builds the same line and appends nothing.

* fix: reopen a continuity break after an identical restore

A retirement that puts the same bytes back used to rebuild the recorded line, so the later break stayed closed. The retirement count on that line makes the later break distinct.

* no-mistakes(review): remove continuity match for full-prefix line without retirement count

* no-mistakes(document): clarify what a continuity break status line records

* fix: remove the reply cursor before recording retirement

A stop between those steps must leave the count unchanged, so an unchanged continuity break still builds the same line.

* fix(control): drop busy_gen from the task record when an incarnation is retired (#6733)

* fix(control): drop busy_gen when an incarnation is retired

A deliberate exit removed the busy sidecar and left busy_gen in the task record, so the two records disagreed about whether that incarnation was still observable.

* no-mistakes(review): drop GNU-only chmod and unreached sidecar-absent branch

* no-mistakes(review): correct lock comment to name the deadlock

* no-mistakes(ci): The test `test_exit_drops_meta_busy_gen_with_the_sidecar` in tests/fm-control.test.sh now compares the whole task record (the `state/<id>.meta` file), so the Greptile finding is fixed. Invariant: after `exit` retires an incarnation, the task record must equal the record from before `exit` with only the `busy_gen` line removed. This test is the only place in the change that asserts the record survives the rewrite, so it is the only site to fix. The other `busy_gen` tests assert that the line stays, and they do not go through the rewrite. What changed: before `exit`, the test writes the record without its `busy_gen` line to `expected.meta`. After `exit`, the test runs `diff` between that expected copy and the real record, and fails with the diff output if they differ. This one comparison replaces the two earlier checks (no `busy_gen` line left, and the `window` line present), because it covers both. I did not change bin/fm-control.sh or any other file. How I know it works: - I ran `bash tests/fm-control.test.sh`: exit code 0, 45 lines starting with `ok`, no other lines. - I temporarily changed the rewrite in bin/fm-control.sh to also drop the `harness` line. The test then failed with `not ok - exit should drop only busy_gen from the task record:` and the diff `< harness=codex`. The earlier `window`-only check would have passed that rewrite. I restored bin/fm-control.sh afterwards; `git status` shows only tests/fm-control.test.sh modified. - `bash -n` and `shellcheck` on the test file report no new warnings from the edit. The change is not committed; the working tree holds it

* test: cover PID collisions in harness ancestry detection (#6484)

* test(secondmate-harness): scope fake ps -codex label for pid 5252 to the liveness probe

Closes #6456

* no-mistakes(ci): Updated the collision test to log and assert that PID 5252 was queried before selecting 4242. Full fm-secondmate harness suite passes

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Co-authored-by: YifuGu <ironerumi@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix: share Pi Calm's working-ship widget slot (#1854)

* fix(calm): share the standalone Pi Calm working-ship widget slot

Firstmate Calm and the user-global standalone Pi Calm both install an
animated working-ship widget during agent runs. Each claimed its own Pi
widget key, so a session loading both (the main Firstmate home) rendered
two boats. Pi replaces widgets under one key, so claiming the shared
"calm-working-ship" slot keeps dual-install sessions to a single boat
while a Firstmate-only session is unchanged.

Pins the shared slot contract in the working-ship module test so the key
cannot silently diverge again.

* test(calm): pin the shared working-ship widget key in CI, document dual-install

The key-parity assertion inside the Pi fixture only runs where the
@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent package is installed, so CI never
exercised it. Add a source-level twin that needs nothing but the
tracked file, and note in docs/calm.md that the boat shares the
standalone Pi Calm working-row widget slot.

* no-mistakes(review): Add executable dual-install widget replacement coverage

* no-mistakes(review): Guard shared widget cleanup with disposal ownership

* no-mistakes(document): Document shared Calm working-ship slot behavior

* test(calm): read the standalone Calm slot from its own module

The dual-install check registered both boats itself under the shared
slot, so it could only prove that Pi replaces a widget under one key: it
would still pass if the standalone Pi Calm extension installed its boat
under a different key, which is the two-boat regression the check exists
to prevent.

Read the standalone extension's own working-ship module when it is
installed - FM_STANDALONE_CALM_SHIP, else ~/.pi/agent/extensions/calm -
and drive the check with the key that module exports, so a rename on
either side registers two widgets and fails naming both keys. A pinned
shared-slot contract still covers a machine without the extension, and
the run reports which side it used instead of passing silently over an
absent extension.

Verified: the touched Pi Calm suite passes and reads the installed
standalone extension; with a copy of it whose key is renamed to
calm-working-ship-v2 the suite fails naming the drift.

* no-mistakes(review): Gate stock-row restoration by shared-widget ownership

* no-mistakes(review): Removed redundant widget-key source assertions

* no-mistakes(document): Document shared Calm working-ship widget ownership

* feat(bin): add opt-in --herdr-resume-lock-wait to fm-spawn (#6649)

* fix(herdr): make exact-resume presentation-lock wait instead of a bounded timeout

The exact-resume path in bin/fm-spawn.sh used the same 50-attempt-then-
give-up lock acquire as the new-task-create path, but the two paths are
not equivalent on contention: a create has no prior state to strand and
can safely fall back to a flat layout, while a resume is recovering a
specific existing identity that a concurrent recovery may legitimately
be holding the lock for. Giving up there does not degrade gracefully,
it hard-fails the resume outright. The suite's own concurrent
cross-home recoveries test already asserts both concurrent recoveries
succeed with a genuine reclaim, and the file's header comment already
(inaccurately) claimed lock contention falls back to the ordinary flat
layout for both paths alike, so the intended contract was always that
recoveries serialize and both succeed, not that either one refuses
under a short bound.

Give spawn_herdr_presentation_order_lock_acquire a wait mode that uses
this file's own established fm_lock_acquire_wait idiom (already used
for its other fleet-shared locks) instead of the bounded loop, and use
it only at the exact-resume call site. The new-task-create call site
is unchanged and keeps its bounded-then-flat-fallback behavior, which
is already covered by its own passing test. Dead-owner PID-liveness
reclaim inside fm_lock_try_acquire still bounds the wait against a
holder that crashed mid-hold.

Adds a deterministic regression test that holds the shared session
lock from an unrelated process for well past the old bound, then
asserts the resume succeeds with a genuine reclaim and took close to
the full hold duration, so a fix that merely widens the bound rather
than genuinely waiting is still caught. The existing concurrent
cross-home recovery test exercises this under real timing but does not
reliably outlast a fixed bound on its own.

Corrects the header comment's claim that create and resume share one
bounded-then-flat-fallback behavior on lock contention; they no longer
do.

* no-mistakes(document): Document Herdr recovery waiting for presentation lock

* no-mistakes(document): Update stale hard-refusal claim in verification log

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the Greptile finding on tests/fm-backend-herdr-presentation-e2e.test.sh:1389 by bounding the resume lock-wait regression's spawn_task call. Added an optional 4th `deadline_seconds` arg to the `spawn_task` helper (defaults to empty, so all ~20 other existing call sites are unaffected and unwrapped by `timeout`). The lock-wait test now passes `LOCK_WAIT_HOLD_SECONDS + 60` (90s) as the deadline, and a dedicated check for exit code 124 emits a clear "hung for over Xs instead of waiting out a Ys lock hold" diagnostic before falling through to the existing pass/fail assertions, which are unchanged. No product code was touched. Verified with `bash -n`, `shellcheck -x` (no warnings), a standalone reproduction of the timeout/no-timeout/success paths, the project's `bin/fm-lint.sh --fast` on the file (clean), and the full `tests/fm-lint.test.sh` suite (all 46 assertions pass)

* no-mistakes(ci): Replaced the direct `timeout "$deadline_seconds"` call in `spawn_task()` (tests/fm-backend-herdr-presentation-e2e.test.sh) with the repo's portable bounded-execution helper: sourced `bin/fm-timeout-lib.sh` at the top of the file and changed `deadline_cmd=(timeout "$deadline_seconds")` to `deadline_cmd=(fm_run_timed "$deadline_seconds")`. This removes the GNU/BSD `timeout` dependency that would fail with exit 127 on a stock macOS host without coreutils, while preserving identical semantics (exit 124 on bound-hit, command's own exit otherwise), which the existing `[ "$LOCK_WAIT_STATUS" -eq 124 ]` diagnostic check already relies on. Verified: `bash -n` syntax check, `bin/fm-lint.sh --fast` clean, full `tests/fm-lint.test.sh` suite (46/46 pass), and a standalone repro confirming `fm_run_timed` returns 124 on timeout and 0 on success identically to the prior `timeout` call. No other direct `timeout` calls exist in this file or elsewhere in the PR's diff, so no sibling sites remain

* fix(herdr): gate exact-resume lock wait behind --herdr-resume-lock-wait

Keep refuse-by-default on presentation-order lock contention for Herdr
exact resume. Callers that need concurrent recoveries to serialize must
pass --herdr-resume-lock-wait; unbounded blocking on a third-party session
lock is never the default.

Update docs and the real-Herdr e2e suite so the default path asserts the
refusal and the opt-in path asserts the wait.

* no-mistakes(test): Fix e2e test's lost exit status after if/fi with no else branch

* docs(herdr): stop advertising --herdr-resume-lock-wait on --relaunch

The relaunch path reuses the recorded endpoint and never takes the
presentation-order lock, so the flag is inert there. Drop it from the
--relaunch usage line and state where the flag applies.

* no-mistakes(review): Clarify lock-wait docs; simplify bash-3.2-safe spawn_task helper

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed ci-1 (Greptile P2). In tests/fm-backend-herdr-presentation-e2e.test.sh, the failure cleanup `cleanup_all` stopped only `LOCK_CONTENTION_OWNER_PID`. It now also stops `LOCK_REFUSE_HOLDER_PID` and `LOCK_WAIT_HOLDER_PID`, the holders of the two new contention cases, so a `fail` before their explicit `wait` no longer leaves them running. Both new PIDs are initialised empty next to the existing one, and each is cleared right after its successful `wait` so cleanup never touches a finished PID. I changed nothing else. `bash -n` passes. The real Herdr e2e run passed both new cases ("default resumed identity refuses session lock contention" and "--herdr-resume-lock-wait waits out session lock contention instead of refusing"). The full run hit my 550s timeout in a later, unrelated case, after the new cases passed

* fix(bin): let TERM stop a watcher blocked in a pane capture on bash 3.2 (#6762)

* fix(bin): let TERM stop a watcher blocked in a pane capture on bash 3.2

Stock macOS bash 3.2 holds a HUP or TERM until a running command
substitution's child exits, and the watcher read every pane through
$(fm_backend_capture ...). A blocked backend read therefore held the
watcher's stop for as long as the read lasted, and a stopped watcher left
the hung read orphaned. tests/fm-watch-triage.test.sh
test_term_stops_a_watcher_blocked_inside_a_poll failed on /bin/bash 3.2
for this reason while passing on bash 5.

Pane captures now go through watcher_capture, which runs the read as a
waited background process group recorded like a check's, so the stop is
honored at once and watcher_cleanup stops a read still in flight along
with its per-call output file.

* no-mistakes(review): Run drain-ring idle capture in watcher shell, add regression test

* no-mistakes(document): Document watcher TERM handling for blocked checks and captures

* no-mistakes(test): Silence bash 3.2 setpgid race noise from watcher captures

* fix(bin): verify the capture group and scope the stop claim to pane reads

watcher_capture now confirms its background read leads its own process
group, as run_check_capture already does, so watcher_cleanup never relies
on a group that set -m failed to create. The comment and continuity doc
now say only fm_backend_capture pane reads go through watcher_capture;
agent-state and composer-state reads still run inside command
substitutions.

* feat: add per-home worker tool exclusions (#6750)

* feat(spawn): add per-home worker tool exclusions

Add an optional per-home config/crew-exclude-tools file listing tool names to hide from workers, one per line, with blank lines and # comments allowed.
It applies to every ship and scout launch and relaunch in that home, is never inherited by another home, and does not affect secondmate agents.
Pi and pi-signed apply it through --exclude-tools, which also covers MCP tool names.
Any other runtime, and a raw launch command, refuses the launch when the list is non-empty rather than ignoring it.
Malformed entries are refused before provisioning, and before a relaunch stops a running worker.
Exclusions that match no tool in the worker's loaded registry are reported as unverified warnings in its status record instead of refusing the worker.

Closes #6744

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve UTF-8 exclusion paths and verify Pi lifecycle behavior

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify worker tool exclusion documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed ci-1 in bin/fm-exclude-tools-lib.sh: a failed read now returns an error before printing names, so all shared launch and relaunch callers refuse rather than silently dropping exclusions. Added deterministic regression coverage for a file disappearing after readability checks across Pi/pi-signed ship and scout launches. Reproduced the original failure; verified 83 spawn checks, 77 relaunch checks, direct parser/runtime failure cases, full targeted lint, Bash syntax, and git diff --check. Relaunch tests passed with existing fixture-cleanup permission warnings. ci-2 remains unchanged per the user's decision; the outer executor owns the fresh CI run

* feat(bin): defer spawns beyond a declared per-project capacity, opt-in (#5343)

* refactor(bin): share the local Firstmate home walk from the wake library

Teardown's walk over the root home and its registered local secondmate homes
moves into bin/fm-wake-lib.sh as fm_local_firstmate_state_dirs, next to
fm_firstmate_root_home, so a second consumer can count task records across
this machine's homes without a copy. Teardown keeps its exact refusal wording
through a thin wrapper.

* feat(bin): defer spawns beyond a project's declared machine capacity

A project whose machine-local resource only serves a few workers at once had
no way to tell Firstmate so: every queued item was launched, and the surplus
workers spent full-context turns retrying the resource.

config/project-capacity in the root home now declares how many workers each
named project admits at once on this machine. bin/fm-spawn.sh counts the ship
and scout records on the same project origin across the root and its local
secondmate homes, skipping ones whose ready PR is recorded, while holding the
shared project lock through publication. A spawn with every place held exits 75
before any brief render, endpoint, worktree, record, or backlog move, so the
item stays queued; batches report it as deferred. Undeclared projects keep
today's uncapped dispatch, and an unreadable declaration refuses rather than
guessing the limit.

Refs #4237

* no-mistakes(review): Document that capacity matches the clone directory name

* no-mistakes(document): Rewrap stale fm-wake-lib root-home doc comment

* no-mistakes(review): Dedupe local state dirs by identity to avoid double-counting

* no-mistakes(document): Rewrap fm_local_firstmate_state_dirs error doc comment

* no-mistakes(ci): I fixed all four Greptile findings. All 14 tests in tests/fm-project-capacity.test.sh pass, and shellcheck at warning level is clean on the changed files. Each new test failed against the old code and passes now. - **ci-1 (spaced names):** a declaration line must give a name its capacity whenever the name is a valid clone directory name. `fm_project_capacity_lookup` now trims each line, skips blank lines and lines whose first non-blank character is `#`, and takes the last field as the capacity. Everything before that field is the name, so it may contain spaces. The old error cases still refuse: a single field is rejected, and trailing text leaves a last field that is not an integer. The library header and docs/configuration.md now say a name starting with `#` cannot be declared. New test `test_spaced_project_name_is_declared` declares `my heavy project 1` next to an indented comment line and gets a deferral. - **ci-2 (unreadable records):** the holder count must never silently leave out a holder. `fm_project_capacity_occupants` now refuses when a local home's state directory exists but cannot be read or listed, or when a `.meta` file cannot be read. The error names the path, and `fm-spawn.sh` shows it in its existing refusal message. New test `test_unreadable_holders_refuse_admission` covers an unreadable record in the root home and an unreadable state directory in a registered local secondmate home, then checks that the spawn is admitted once both are readable. The test is skipped when run as root. - **ci-3 (Orca lock):** any spawn that can become a holder for a capped project must take that project's lock. The lookup now also reports whether the declaration caps any project at all, and an Orca spawn takes the per-origin lock whenever it does. This covers every capped same-origin clone. It also covers some cases where no same-origin clone is capped, because a spawn cannot find clones under other directory names without searching for them. With no declaration file, Orca still skips the lock. The comments in the library and in the `fm-spawn.sh` header are updated. The Orca test now clones the origin as `project-2`, which has no declaration, and checks that its Orca spawn refuses while the lock is held and publishes no record. - **ci-4 (worktrees):** `assert_nothing_created` now also compares the project's `git worktree list` from before and after a deferred spawn. Both tests that call it take that snapshot first. Files changed: bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh, bin/fm-spawn.sh, docs/configuration.md, tests/fm-project-capacity.test.sh

* fix(bin): declare capacity for a project name that begins with #

A clone directory whose name begins with # was skipped as a comment, so that project stayed uncapped. A line is a declaration when the # is written against the rest of the name and the line ends with a capacity; a # followed by whitespace stays a comment.

* no-mistakes(document): Rewrap project-capacity library header comment

* no-mistakes(ci): Lint 2 fails because this PR's code pushes ShellCheck past its memory cap. ShellCheck ran out of memory analyzing bin/fm-teardown.sh in CI (reason=memory, rc=251, peak about 8.39 GB). On current main the same file passes at about 7.29 GB. **Cause:** the new `fm_local_firstmate_state_dirs` function in bin/fm-wake-lib.sh had a conditional `. fm-secondmate-registry-lib.sh` with a `# shellcheck source=` directive inside the function. ShellCheck followed that source again, inside a function scope, wherever fm-wake-lib.sh is sourced, and bin/fm-teardown.sh is the heaviest root that sources it. Measured locally with `shellcheck --norc --external-sources bin/fm-teardown.sh`: - current main (fd325b1b): 7.29 GB - main merged with this PR: 7.86 GB - the same merge without the in-function source: 7.27 GB **Rule this restores:** this change must not make any lint root heavier than it is on main. That function holds the only new nested source in the change. **Fix:** I removed the in-function source, which no caller needs. Both callers already load the registry library at top level before calling the function: - bin/fm-teardown.sh sources it directly. - bin/fm-spawn.sh, the only user of bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh, gets it through bin/fm-ff-lib.sh. I also documented the requirement in the function's comment and in the "Requires" note in bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh. No behaviour changes. **Verification:** - ShellCheck on head: bin/fm-teardown.sh peaks at 7.12 GB and bin/fm-spawn.sh at 6.68 GB, both with rc=0. bin/fm-wake-lib.sh and bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh lint clean. - tests/fm-project-capacity.test.sh, tests/fm-teardown.test.sh (102 ok) and tests/fm-teardown-endpoint-safety.test.sh all pass. Files changed: bin/fm-wake-lib.sh, bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh

* fix(bin): release the Herdr session lock when reclaim finishes

A concurrent resume in another home waits five seconds for that lock.
Reclaim is the last presentation change on the recovery path, so holding
the lock through the launch tail made the waiter time out. The contributions
arm check also freezes its one-second clock, the same way the budget tests
do, because an unfrozen clock can tick past before the first forge read.

* no-mistakes(review): Keep Herdr session lock through launch handoff after reclaim

* no-mistakes(review): Skip the spawning task's own record in capacity count

* no-mistakes(review): Restore release test comment above its test

* docs: scope PR-ready re-evaluation to a declared project capacity

A ready pull request frees a place only when that project declares capacity, so the always-loaded backlog contract should re-evaluate on that handoff only in that case.

* fix(bin): name the Lavish read message count by the same label as its section (#6785)

fm-procevent-lavish.sh read labels tag=message rows SESSION-ENDING MESSAGE
only when session_ended is true and CAPTAIN MESSAGE otherwise, but the
count line always said session_ending_message_count. Several composer
messages on a still-open board were therefore counted as session-ending.

The count line now follows the same session_ended switch:
session_ending_message_count once the session ended, captain_message_count
otherwise. Message rows stay out of the annotation count, per triage.

Fixes #6743

* fix(herdr): make the presentation lock namespace per OS account (#6780)

The Herdr presentation lock namespace was the fixed machine-global
/tmp/firstmate-herdr-presentation, so on a host where two OS users run
Firstmate on Herdr the first account to create it owned it and every
teardown from the other account was refused with no way to clear it.

Suffix the namespace with the account uid. The owner-uid and mode-700
checks are unchanged, so a foreign-owned or wrong-mode name at this
account's path is still refused and never adopted, chowned, or removed.

Fixes #4716.

* Fix OpenCode arm plugin to decide with the shared supervision predicate (#6809)

The OpenCode session plugin's shouldArm kept its own copy of the need
test that only looked for in-flight task records, while the turn-end
guard decides with fm_supervision_needed in bin/fm-supervision-lib.sh,
which also counts registered process-event sources and trusted custom
checks. With an empty fleet but any registered source or check, the
guard blocked every turn end while the plugin declined to arm - a loop
the guard's own repair line could not resolve because it names the
plugin as the fix.

The plugin now delegates the decision to the shared predicate through
bash, keeping the local away-record decline and the x-mode.env arm
override. OpenCode plugin test fixtures now carry the real predicate
their arming path sources, and the arm suite gains six cases asserting
the plugin's decision against the shared verdict over the same
synthetic state directories.

Co-authored-by: Mia Sun <mia@Bigs-Mac-mini.localdomain>

* fix(bin): resolve a pending reply only from its own task's status line (#6792)

* fix(bin): resolve a pending reply only from its own task's status line

Remote reply ingestion handed every corr= token in a mate's payload to
fm_pending_reply_try_resolve together with that mate's own status log,
so one mate echoing another mate's token resolved the other request.
Honor a status-file override only when it is the record's own
parent_status, and match the corr= token as a whole word.

Fixes #6538

* no-mistakes(document): docs: scope remote reply settlement to the asked mate

* docs(skills): index the six missing agent-only skill triggers (#6784)

agent-skill-trigger-index claims to be the complete agent-only trigger
index but omitted operational-home-layout, session-start-recovery,
validation-supervision, ship-landing, scout-completion, and
away-quiet-supervision. Add each with its own description's trigger,
placed beside the related entries.

The decision-hold-lifecycle redirect stub stays out, per triage.

Fixes #6503

* test: make agent process fixtures compatible with multicall sleep (#6814)

* test: share a rename-safe agent stand-in across liveness suites

On Ubuntu 26.04, `sleep` is the uutils multicall binary, which refuses to
run when invoked through a symlink named after another utility. The Herdr
descendant process-walk tests built their agent-named process as a `pi`
symlink to the host `sleep`, so the process exited at once, its parent shell
was gone before the walk ran, and both cases read `unknown unreadable` and
failed on that host. The suite stops at its first failure, so every later
case went unrun. The Herdr control smoke test's `claude` symlink has the
same construction.

The tmux liveness suite already solved this with a host-compiled spinner and
a survival-checked `sleep` fallback. That builder moves into tests/lib.sh as
fm_agent_standin, and the tmux suite, both Herdr descendant cases, and the
Herdr control smoke test now use it. When no stand-in can survive a foreign
name, a case skips with the reason instead of failing.

tests/fm-test-fixtures.test.sh gains a portable regression with a fake
multicall `sleep`, so it bites on hosts whose own `sleep` is single-purpose.

* no-mistakes(document): Correct Herdr verification fixture reference

* ci: retrigger cancelled shard

* fix(bin): keep the supervision host's successor watcher alive after the Stop hook's group is torn down (#6787)

* fix(bin): keep the supervision host's pass-through successor out of the hook's process group

The successor a main-only pass-through leaves for main shared the Stop hook's
process group, so the harness tearing that group down after the exit-2 rewake
stopped it. The stop published downtime and the next park's first cycle
announced an empty check: rearm-resurface, which woke main again in a loop.
Start that successor in a process group of its own, as the hook's own
handling successor already is.

* no-mistakes(review): Give the at-turn successor left for main its own group

* no-mistakes(document): Document own-group successor for turn-start hand-back too

* no-mistakes(ci): I made the change you asked for: both new teardown tests in tests/fm-supervision-host.test.sh now call the existing `stop_home_processes "$home"` just before `pass`. The tests are `test_successor_left_at_the_turn_survives_the_hook_process_group_teardown` and `test_pass_through_successor_survives_the_hook_process_group_teardown`. No production code and no other tests changed. The rule broken was that a test must not leave a home's watcher or arm processes running after it passes. These two were the only cases in the changed area that broke it. The other host+hook tests already stop their home, and `test_successor_close_during_main_turn_is_delivered_at_the_next_turn_end` leaves its watcher behind too, but it is an older test you said not to touch. The only reason anything was left over is that the successor's arm now sits in its own process group, outside the hook's teardown. `stop_home_processes` kills the watcher by the pid in its lock file, which stops it no matter which group it is in. **Checks run:** - I ran just these two tests from a scratch copy of the suite (since deleted). Both pass in about 13 seconds. - After each test, a process listing filtered to that test's home directory came back empty once the processes had about a second to exit after TERM. - `bash -n` on the test file passes. - `shellcheck` is not installed here, so I did not lint the file. - I did not run the full serial-2 suite locally. Whether it now finishes under its 30-minute limit will only show on the next CI run

* test: make tmux Claude readiness checks independent of permission footers (#6823)

* test: use idle composer readiness for Claude tmux guards

* no-mistakes(test): Fix attended supervision test expectations and isolate worker state

* no-mistakes(document): Correct live guard coverage and readiness documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Captain, fixed SC2100 by quoting the cursor-agent assignment in tests/fm-host-mirror-live-e2e.test.sh. Reproduced the failure before editing; pinned ShellCheck lint on both PR test files, bash syntax checks, and git diff --check now pass

* test: preserve attended successor close assertions

* no-mistakes(test): Fix attended live test watcher takeover expectations

* no-mistakes(document): Correct stale attended guard documentation

* Revert "no-mistakes(document): Correct stale attended guard documentation"

This reverts commit 8e59d89e17f48afc6e5a72d6d23fdca156a0f856.

* Revert "no-mistakes(test): Fix attended live test watcher takeover expectations"

This reverts commit c0b851054917fcbe957469eb0b1bc2c2075fcc51.

* test(herdr): accept safe exit refusals and clean lab once (#6818)

* test: stabilize watcher lock race fixtures (#6887)

* test: order stale watcher-lock fixture races explicitly

* no-mistakes(review): Removed duplicate stale-steal reap call

* fix(bin): keep herdr composer probes observable-only without autostarting server (#6920)

* fix(bin): keep herdr composer probes observable-only without autostarting server

- Refuse bare pane identifiers lacking session prefix in fm_backend_herdr_parse_target
- Add fm_backend_herdr_target_observable to passively verify server liveness without autostarting
- Route visible viewport captures through fm_backend_herdr_target_observable
- Detach stdin with </dev/null on background server launch in fm_backend_herdr_server_ensure
- Add unit and regression tests in tests/fm-backend-herdr.test.sh

* fix(bin): drop parse_target colon restriction to preserve existing fixtures

Revert the fm_backend_herdr_parse_target colon check so that single-colon
session targets like sess:p1 in secondmate liveness and other fixtures parse
properly. The probe path remains observable-only via fm_backend_herdr_target_observable.

* fix(tests): clear inherited Git repository location in fixture helper (#6956)

* test: clear inherited Git repository location in fixture helper

An absolute GIT_DIR inherited from the caller (a linked-worktree hook
exports one) overrides the discovery that git -C implies, so fixture
setup moved the caller's branches and registered fixture worktrees in
it. tests/git-config-helpers.sh now unsets GIT_DIR, GIT_WORK_TREE,
GIT_INDEX_FILE and GIT_COMMON_DIR alongside the config isolation.

Fixes #6953

* no-mistakes(document): Document fixture Git location isolation in CONTRIBUTING

* fix: avoid argument-size failures in fleet contribution snapshots (#6830)

* fix(bin): stage contribution-input JSON via temp files

The contribution-input branch passed the whole canonical backlog document to
jq as a single --argjson argv argument. A large fleet's backlog JSON exceeds
Linux MAX_ARG_STRLEN (128 KiB), so jq fails with E2BIG (Argument list too
long) and the contribution-input snapshot emits empty output, breaking the
bearings contribution path.

Write both the backlog and task documents to a temp directory and hand them
to jq with --slurpfile, matching how the full snapshot path already stages
the same pair. Output is unchanged for any backlog that fits in argv.

* no-mistakes(document): Correct contribution cleanup trap comment

* fix(bin): arm the busy contract on secondmate launches (#5342)

* fix(bin): arm the busy contract on secondmate launches

A tmux-backed secondmate's active-turn gate can only see a busy verdict from the parent home's record, and those launches never armed it.

* no-mistakes(review): Reopen secondmate busy on blocked Claude Stop; drop muse guard

* no-mistakes(review): Make Claude secondmate Stop guard the sole Stop-state writer

* no-mistakes(review): Record live rewake UserPromptSubmit evidence and add regression

* docs: record Claude secondmate Stop guard as busy writer

* no-mistakes(review): Keep Stop idle hook for older secondmate guards

* no-mistakes(document): Correct stale omp secondmate -e rationale in supervision verification

* no-mistakes(document): Fix skill-relative turnend-guard link in Claude harness reference

* no-mistakes(ci): Root cause: in shard 9, the pure-contract-unit family ran two scripts, tests/fm-rovo-harness.test.sh (14712 ms) and tests/fm-omp-harness.test.sh (10335 ms). Those two durations add up exactly to the failing family's 25047 ms. The failing one was tests/fm-omp-harness.test.sh. Its test_secondmate_launch_relies_on_discovery still asserted the old contract: that an omp secondmate launch names no -e and gets no state/<id>.omp-ext.ts. This PR (issue #4268) deliberately changed that. bin/fm-spawn.sh now arms the busy contract for omp secondmates, so their launch names `-e state/<id>.omp-ext.ts` and writes that extension. The primary extensions are still left to auto-discovery. The harness reference docs were updated to match, but the test was not. The fix is test-only and touches just tests/fm-omp-harness.test.sh. The test now asserts that the secondmate launch names exactly one -e and that it points at the parent-home state/sm.omp-ext.ts. Because only one -e is allowed, the tracked .omp/extensions files are not named a second time, which would load them twice. The test also asserts that the extension file exists, and the header comment for contract 3 was updated. The posture overlay, --cwd, marker, and supervision-model assertions are unchanged. Verification: the host's load average was about 140 on 8 cores, and the full script timed out locally after 590 s having finished only its first 2 tests. So I ran the one affected test function on its own through the real fm-spawn path, and it passed (`ok - fm-spawn: a real omp secondmate launch loads only the busy -e and auto-discovers its primary extensions`). The remaining omp tests were not re-run locally. shellcheck on the file reports only existing info-level notices. The change is left uncommitted for the outer executor

* test: keep the secondmate busy stall gate visible after main's liveness probe

The merged watcher treats a window-name inventory miss as a missing endpoint and exits a later checkpoint on the previous quiet run's recovery wake. The fake pane now answers both list-windows formats, and each observation starts without a leftover downtime marker, so a busy mate still defers the stall and an idle mate still surfaces it.

* no-mistakes(review): Align fm-spawn secondmate comments with omp -e and devin refusal

* no-mistakes(document): Document secondmate busy extensions in configuration reference

* no-mistakes(test): Make live busy-contract guard clean up read-only lab dirs

* fix(bin): pass Claude secondmate busy hooks through --settings

Rewriting a persistent mate home's settings.local.json drops the captain's saved permissions. The hooks now live in a parent-state file Claude Code loads for that session only.

* no-mistakes(review): skip busy arm for raw secondmate launch commands

* no-mistakes(review): retire earlier busy arm on raw secondmate respawn

* no-mistakes(review): retire Stop pointer on relaunch, load --settings in live guard

* no-mistakes(document): Document secondmate Claude settings file and raw-launch exception

* no-mistakes(ci): The check "Behavior portable serial 9" failed because of this PR, and I fixed it with a test-only change; `tests/fm-spawn-dispatch-profile.test.sh` now passes locally in full. Cause: the one failing test was "claude secondmate launch settings JSON does not disable Claude attribution" in `tests/fm-spawn-dispatch-profile.test.sh`. This PR makes a claude secondmate launch pass `--settings` as a file path (`state/<id>.claude-settings.json`) instead of inline JSON. The test helper `claude_settings_json_arg` handed that path string to jq as if it were JSON, so jq reported a parse error. The product behavior is correct: the file does carry `feedbackDrafts` and the attribution-off policy. Invariant: a test that checks the Claude launch settings must read the settings Claude would load, whichever form `--settings` takes (inline JSON or a file path). The only place this must hold is `claude_settings_json_arg`, the single reader of the `--settings` value in the tests. Its two callers, `assert_attribution_policy` and `assert_attribution_policy_absent`, both go through it. Fix: `claude_settings_json_arg` now prints the value when it starts with `{` and prints the file contents otherwise. No product code changed. Verification: I ran `bash tests/fm-spawn-dispatch-profile.test.sh` in the worktree. It ended with "all fm-spawn-dispatch-profile tests passed", including the previously failing secondmate case and the crewmate and keep-ai-trailers cases that use the inline form. I did not run the other tests of shard 9; they passed in the CI run and this change touches only this test file. The change is uncommitted in the worktree (one file modified)

* test: guard fleet snapshot contribution input against argument-size failures (#7036)

The large-backlog regression already proved the json and secondmate
home-summary modes stay within exec limits. It now also runs the
contribution-input mode on the same 1200-record backlog, which is the
path #6830 moved off argv. With that fix reverted the test fails with
the field error jq Argument list too long at the contribution-input call.

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* feat(bin): record no-mistakes pipeline spend per task at teardown, opt-in (#5354)

* feat(bin): record each task's no-mistakes pipeline spend at cleanup

no-mistakes keeps every pipeline agent invocation's token usage only in its
local agent_invocations records, and cold pipeline agents (review, test,
document) leave no session log, so a task's review-loop cost never reached
Firstmate's records and could not be attributed after cleanup.

bin/fm-pipeline-spend.sh attributes a task's runs by the repository
no-mistakes resolves for the task copy, the task branch, and the branch's
creation (a relaunch mints a new spawn_gen while the branch keeps
validating), then sums every invocation, failed and cancelled included.
Token fields use no-mistakes' per-round deltas so resumed review rounds are
not counted twice, and unrecorded values stay unknown rather than zero.
show prints the record read-only; record appends it once per task
incarnation to data/pipeline-spend.jsonl. Teardown records it for every
ship task it cleans up, before deleting the branch and the task record.

fm_nm_state_db becomes the one owner of where no-mistakes' state database
lives, shared with the capped run-inventory reader.

* no-mistakes(review): Drop spend show command and timeout override

* style(bin): rewrap fm-pipeline-spend header comment

* Make pipeline spend recording opt-in

* feat(bin): record each task's no-mistakes pipeline spend at cleanup

no-mistakes keeps every pipeline agent invocation's token usage only in its
local agent_invocations records, and cold pipeline agents (review, test,
document) leave no session log, so a task's review-loop cost never reached
Firstmate's records and could not be attributed after cleanup.

bin/fm-pipeline-spend.sh attributes a task's runs by the repository
no-mistakes resolves for the task copy, the task branch, and the branch's
creation (a relaunch mints a new spawn_gen while the branch keeps
validating), then sums every invocation, failed and cancelled included.
Token fields use no-mistakes' per-round deltas so resumed review rounds are
not counted twice, and unrecorded values stay unknown rather than zero.
show prints the record read-only; record appends it once per task
incarnation to data/pipeline-spend.jsonl. Teardown records it for every
ship task it cleans up, before deleting the branch and the task record.

fm_nm_state_db becomes the one owner of where no-mistakes' state database
lives, shared with the capped run-inventory reader.

* no-mistakes(review): Drop spend show command and timeout override

* style(bin): rewrap fm-pipeline-spend header comment

* Make pipeline spend recording opt-in

* no-mistakes(document): Note pipeline-spend opt-in gate in teardown comments

* no-mistakes(ci): I fixed all three Greptile findings following your decision. Both test suites pass: tests/fm-teardown.test.sh (105 ok, exit 0) and tests/fm-pipeline-spend.test.sh (8 ok). I didn't run either new test against the old code, so the claim that they fail before the fix is from reading the code, not a run. Nothing was committed or pushed. **ci-1 / ci-2 (bin/fm-teardown.sh):** The rule is that every owned ship task in a home that has opted in gets a durable spend record before its task record is deleted. The `[ -d "$WT" ]` check skipped the recorder when the worktree folder was already gone, so no record was written. I removed that check and kept the other conditions: the task must be a ship task, teardown must own its worktree, and `config/pipeline-spend` must exist. `bin/fm-pipeline-spend.sh` already writes an unavailable-source line when the worktree is missing. The new test `test_teardown_records_unavailable_spend_for_a_gone_worktree` in tests/fm-teardown.test.sh sets up an owned ship task whose worktree is missing, with recording turned on. It checks that teardown succeeds, writes a line with `source=="unavailable"`, `total==null` and a reason saying the task copy is gone, and still removes the task record. Under the old check no ledger would have been written. **ci-3 (bin/fm-nm-run-lib.sh):** When `NM_HOME` and `HOME` were both unset, `fm_nm_state_db` fell back to `${HOME:-}/.no-mistakes`, which resolves to `/.no-mistakes`. It now uses `root=~/.no-mistakes`. Bash expands `~` to the account's home directory even when `HOME` is unset, which matches the previous Python `Path.home()` lookup. The new test `test_state_db_without_nm_home_or_home_uses_the_account_home` in tests/fm-pipeline-spend.test.sh runs the function with both variables unset and compares the result to the home directory from the system's password database. The old code would have returned `/.no-mistakes/state.sqlite`. shellcheck reports nothing new on the changed files. I added one `disable=SC2016` comment in the new test, where the single-quoted `$1` is meant to expand in the child shell

* feat(bin): start tasks from a named base branch (#6442)

* feat(bin): start tasks from a named base branch

Spawns always reset a task's pooled copy to origin's default branch,
so work that belongs on a feature, integration, or release branch
started from the wrong code and opened its PR against the default.

fm-brief.sh --base-branch records the base in the brief, fm-spawn.sh
resets the copy to origin/<base> and records base_branch= in task
meta, and the worker targets its PR at that branch. Review diffs,
the cleanup content check, and scout promotion read the recorded
base. local-only and Gerrit deliveries refuse a named base.

* no-mistakes(review): Anchor brief base-branch parse on scaffold Setup line

* no-mistakes(review): Require explicit --base-branch on spawn, matching brief lines

* no-mistakes(document): Note base-branch reset in fm-spawn freshness header

* no-mistakes(ci): I fixed all four Greptile findings the way you specified. The affected suites pass locally: fm-brief, fm-dod-lib, fm-spawn-pool-base-freshen, fm-review-diff, fm-teardown and fm-task-delivery. shellcheck on the changed files reports only info-level notes, no warnings or errors. I didn't revert the code to watch each new test fail before the fix. - **ci-1 (brief text blocked or redirected spawns):** In bin/fm-dod-lib.sh, `fm_brief_base_branches` now only accepts a `Base branch: <value>` line that comes directly after the base-variant Setup sentence fm-brief.sh writes. Any other `Base branch:` line is ignored. `--base-branch` is still the only authority, and the existing checks in fm-spawn.sh are unchanged. With the flag, the spawn is refused unless a matching pair exists and no pair names a different branch. Without the flag, it is refused only if such a pair exists. The header comment in fm-spawn.sh is updated to match. - The `brief_with_base` test helper now writes the real two-line pair. - The decoy refusal case now uses a full decoy pair in the captain's intent. - New test `test_prose_base_branch_line_is_ignored`: a brief with no base whose intent quotes `Base branch: release/1.2` spawns normally with no `base_branch=` recorded. A spawn with `--base-branch feature/hub` whose intent names release/1.2 starts from `origin/feature/hub` and records it. - **ci-2 (scout base not checked against the forge):** fm-spawn.sh now looks up the project's registered forge with `bin/fm-project-mode.sh --forge`, like the ship path does, before `fm_base_branch_valid` runs. Previously it passed `none`. New test `test_scout_base_branch_refused_on_gerrit_forge`: a scout with a base on a forge=gerrit project is refused at spawn and no meta file is written. - **ci-3 (base not shell-quoted in worker commands):** `fm_dod_block` now quotes the base with `printf %q` in the `--base` and `--base-branch` arguments, and the branch name in the prose stays readable. The test in fm-brief.test.sh uses the base `release/$HOTFIX` and checks that both direct-PR and no-mistakes briefs render `release/\$HOTFIX` in the commands. - **ci-4 (ambiguous PR sentence):** The direct-PR sentence now reads "open a PR with `gh-axi` that is ready for review, not a draft, against the base branch `X` (`--base X`), not the repository default." A brief with no base renders exactly as before. The existing assertion in fm-brief.test.sh is updated

* no-mistakes(ci): Both real failures on PR 6442 (run 37064756768) come from CI tooling and a Pi version bump, not from the base-branch feature. Fixes for both already exist on upstream main, so I applied those two commits to the working tree with `git cherry-pick --no-commit`. Nothing is committed or pushed, and no feature file changed. - **Lint 2:** ShellCheck ran out of memory on `bin/fm-teardown.sh` (rss about 8 GB, exit 251, "shellcheck: out of memory"). The rule that broke is that the lint gate must finish on any valid shell root without exceeding the runner's memory ceiling. Upstream commit d719ef3 (#6443) fixes this in `bin/fm-lint.sh`: a root that hits the memory ceiling is retried without `--external-sources`. It also updates `tests/fm-lint.test.sh` and `docs/fm-test-portable-shards.md`. - **Behavior portable serial 6:** `tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh` failed with "grep disappeared from /export calm.html HTML while calm mode was on". Pi 1.0.1 renamed its HTML export renderer lookup, and upstream commit fede619 (#6530) updates the test to accept the new name. This change is test-only. Both commits applied cleanly. The four touched files are `bin/fm-lint.sh`, `docs/fm-test-portable-shards.md`, `tests/fm-lint.test.sh` and `tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh`. None of them is in the feature diff, so the feature contract is unchanged. **Local checks:** - `tests/fm-lint.test.sh` passes. - `bin/fm-lint.sh` on `bin/fm-teardown.sh`, `bin/fm-spawn.sh` and `bin/fm-dod-lib.sh` exits 0 with full ShellCheck analysis. - `tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh` exits 0 with 7 ok and 0 not ok. One case skipped because the Pi package isn't installed locally, so the Pi 1.0.1 export path that failed in CI couldn't be reproduced here. CI needs to confirm it. - I didn't reproduce the 8 GB OOM locally. The PR has to be updated through the pipeline with a normal push: no force push, no replacement PR, no merge

* fix(bin): name the Firstmate skill file as a fallback in the worker role (#6647)

* fix(bin): point project workers at the Firstmate skill file

The Skill tool cannot resolve a Firstmate skill from another project's worktree, so the launch role names the readable skill file instead.

* no-mistakes(review): fix(bin): name Firstmate skill file as fallback only

* feat(bin): retire a contribution whose forge object is permanently gone (#6655)

* feat(bin): retire a contribution whose forge object is permanently gone

Add fm-contributions.sh retire <task> <url> <captain|fleet> <reason>,
which records actor, reason and time on the saved record and removes
that task/url pair from known, poll rotation and coverage even while a
backlog link remains. Repeating a retire keeps the first provenance;
an unrecorded pair, unknown actor, empty reason or unacknowledged
pending signal is refused.

* no-mistakes(review): Keep retirement per task when settling final owners

* no-mistakes(ci): Made the three Greptile fixes the captain chose. ci-1, retirement needs the captain's word: `retire` now accepts only the actor `captain`. Any other actor is refused, including `fleet`. I removed `fleet` from the usage line, the script header (`bin/fm-contributions.sh`), the check in `bin/fm-contributions.sh` and the retired-record validation in `bin/fm-contributions.jq`, which now requires `.actor == "captain"`. The script header now says a retirement always records the captain's word, because the script cannot verify who runs it and the authority to retire is the captain's. The Bearings skill line in `.agents/skills/bearings/SKILL.md` now says `retire` records the captain's word. In the tests, a `fleet` retire is now a refusal case and must leave the record unretired. Every other retire call in the tests uses `captain`. The PR description has not been changed yet: the ruling asks for the same captain's-word statement there, and that belongs to the PR phase. ci-2, blank reasons: the reason check is now `[ -n "${5//[[:space:]]/}" ]`, so a reason made only of spaces or tabs is refused. I added a refusal test that passes a space-tab-space reason. The header also lists a blank reason among the refusals. ci-3, the gone-object test: the test forge wrapper has a new `not-found` fault that returns HTTP 404 for every `api repos/o/r/...` read. The happy-path test `test_retire_ends_observation_of_a_gone_contribution` now uses it in place of the 502 `down` fault, so it models a permanently gone repository rather than an outage. Verification: `bash tests/fm-contributions.test.sh` passed with exit 0. The last lines of its output include the three retire tests passing and no failures. `shellcheck` flagged only SC2034 (`FM_WAKE_QUEUE` unused) and SC1091 (an unfollowed source of `bin/fm-path-lib.sh`), neither on a line this round changed

* test: extend remote-reply whole-log recapture waits (#6639)

* test: give the remote-reply whole-log recapture a longer wait

* no-mistakes(review): Extend both recapture waits and simplify retry handling

* fix(bin): reopen a pending-reply escalation after its resolve (#6654)

* fix(bin): reopen a pending-reply escalation after its resolve

A retry of an open decision still appends nothing. A later same-kind escalation after a resolved line for that key appends again, so the next loss is visible.

* no-mistakes(ci): Both Greptile findings are fixed in the working tree; the four directly affected test suites pass, and a wider run of related suites had not finished when I returned this result. Invariant: a line already in the status file is recorded, and only a caller with its own evidence of a new episode may append it again. It must hold for every caller of status_event_recorded: the continuity break and the other call in bin/fm-procevent-remote-reply.sh, fm_parent_channel_append_once, and the pending-reply escalation. Changes: - bin/fm-classify-lib.sh: status_event_recorded is back to the idempotent retry check. It returns at the first matching line, and a later resolved line no longer makes that line look new. This fixes ci-1 for every caller and restores the early exit for ci-2, with no separate scan optimization. - bin/fm-pending-reply-lib.sh: _fm_pending_reply_maybe_escalate_locked now owns the reopen. It appends a new blocked line when the record already has an escalated_epoch (it escalated before and was reset) and the keyed decision is no longer open. Otherwise it uses status_event_recorded, so a retry or a resend that leaves the decision open appends nothing. - Comments on status_event_recorded and the pending-reply header describe this scope. Tests: - tests/fm-pending-reply.test.sh: the regression for escalate, operator resolve, second escalate is unchanged and passes. - tests/fm-remote-reply.test.sh: new regression drives the real reader. After an operator resolve of remote-reply-continuity-ios, a repeated handle and ingest of the same break appends nothing and leaves the decision closed. I placed it beside the existing continuity-break test, not in the pending-reply file, because only that file has the reader harness. - tests/fm-classify-corr-token.test.sh and tests/fm-classify-decision-key.test.sh: the cases that expected a blocked line to append again after a resolve now assert it stays recorded. Verification: - fm-classify-decision-key, fm-classify-corr-token, fm-pending-reply and fm-remote-reply test suites all exit 0 with the fix. - With the two bin files reverted to the commit under review, the new continuity regression and the updated parent-publisher case both fail, so they reproduce ci-1. - shellcheck -x on the changed files reports nothing. - Not finished: a background run of every other suite that mentions the parent channel or pending replies had produced no output, pass or fail, when I returned. One known gap: the escalation writes escalated_epoch before phase. If the process dies between those two writes and an operator resolves the key before the next tick, that tick appends a blocked line for the same episode. I left it, because closing it needs new state. Issue 4755 and other escalation behavior are untouched. Nothing is committed

* fix: refuse a confirming Enter on the Claude background-task exit picker (#6666)

* fix: refuse a confirming Enter on the Claude exit picker

The background-task picker still classifies as pending, so a retried Enter confirms "Exit and stop tasks".
Stop after the Enter that opened it, and raise the existing stale wake with the dialog name.

A non-paused secondmate still skips that wake, so a secondmate parked on the picker still looks idle.
Model-downgrade confirmation, MCP approval, and any other Claude exit confirmation are not covered, because there is no recorded screen for them.

* no-mistakes(review): fix: anchor exit picker match and wake second mates

* fix: refuse a typed submit while the Claude exit picker is open

A pane that already shows the picker must not receive the message or a confirming Enter.
The match requires the recorded heading and footer lines, and it is skipped when no dialog name is being recorded.

* no-mistakes(review): restore watcher to main behaviour, drop dialog wake

* no-mistakes(test): test: align Herdr picker fixtures with the preflight read

* no-mistakes(document): document exit refusal on a recognised dialog

* fix: remove the dialog file when exit runs in a subshell

do_exit is invoked from a command substitution, so the parent cleanup never saw the path it is supposed to delete.

* no-mistakes(review): fix: set the dialog file path after the control lock

* no-mistakes(document): document why the dialog file path follows the lock

* no-mistakes(ci): The exit cleanup in bin/fm-control.sh now deletes the dialog file first and releases the control lock second. The changes are in the worktree and are not committed. Invariant: only the process that holds the control lock for a task may write or delete that task's dialog file ($STATE/<id>.composer-dialog, the file that carries the picker name from the composer read to the Enter checks). The old cleanup released the lock and then deleted the file, so the delete ran outside the lock. Places where this invariant must hold: control_cleanup is the only place that deletes the file, and the single assignment after CONTROL_LOCK_HELD=1 is the only place that names it. do_exit only truncates the file, and it runs while the parent holds the lock. A process that loses the lock never sets the path, so it deletes nothing (earlier fix, unchanged). No sibling site needed a change. Fix: in control_cleanup, the rm of the dialog file moved above the fm_lock_release call, with a two-line comment that gives the reason. No dialog recognition or supervision code changed. Test: added test_exit_removes_the_dialog_file_before_releasing_the_lock in tests/fm-control-relaunch.test.sh. It runs one `fm-control exit` with a recording rm on PATH. The lock release removes paths at or under the control lock with rm, so the recording rm writes whether the dialog file exists at that moment. The test asserts the last record is "absent". It starts no second command. Verification, all run locally: - Before the fix, the new test failed with "the dialog file must be gone when the control lock is released, got: present". - After the fix, tests/fm-control-relaunch.test.sh exits 0 with 75 ok lines and no "not ok" line, including the new test and the existing test that the file is gone after exit and after relaunch. - tests/fm-control.test.sh exits 0 with 44 ok lines. - shellcheck -x on both changed files exits 0 with no output. One thing I noticed and did not change: tests/fm-control-relaunch.test.sh prints 615 "rm: cannot remove ... Permission denied" lines during its temp-directory teardown. The count is the same with my change reverted, so this change does not cause it, and the suite still exits 0. I could not read the Greptile check log (the check run was not found), so I worked from the finding text and the user instructions

* fix: restore timeout watchdog compatibility with macOS Bash 3.2 (#6028)

* fix: support stock macOS Bash in timeout watchdog

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed ci-1 in tests/fm-timeout-lib.test.sh: both startup-owner failure paths now kill the bounded command group before killing the watchdog. Fault injection reproduced both leaks before the fix and confirmed cleanup afterward. Bash 3.2 suite, syntax check, ShellCheck, and diff checks passed; GNU timeout coverage skipped because the binary is unavailable. Production code unchanged

* fix(project-management): use subshell form for Initialize command (#6699)

Wrap the cd command in a subshell to comply with the cd-guard policy
that blocks persistent top-level directory changes in the primary
firstmate checkout. The subshell form (cd projects/<name> && ...) is
accepted by the policy as documented in issue #6502.

Fixes #6502

* feat(bin): add armable daily startup growth check (#6725)

* Add daily startup growth check

* no-mistakes(review): watch printed startup memory, retain growth baselines, drop knobs

* no-mistakes(review): delegate budget verdict, report before publish, pin shim home

* no-mistakes(review): baseline first sightings silently, drop mtime, spare secondmates

* no-mistakes(review): cap the wake line, validate budget verdict fields

* no-mistakes(review): guard record schema, check appends, tighten assertions

* no-mistakes(review): drop arbitrary tracked library, make re-arm idempotent

* no-mistakes(review): correct tracked-set wording, restore shim guards, register artifacts

* no-mistakes(review): exit on signal instead of publishing partial record

* no-mistakes(document): correct startup-growth record removal cost in state registry

* no-mistakes(test): sweep orphaned empty startup-growth temp records on due evaluation

* no-mistakes(document): note watcher need for armed startup growth check

* no-mistakes(ci): Diagnosed "Behavior portable serial 5": the shard failed on tests/fm-contributions.test.sh in test_arm_plumbs_a_configured_budget_into_the_check_shim (inherited mode) with "generated check did not attempt a read" and a missing forge/calls file. Root cause: bin/fm-contributions.sh:379-382 computes DEADLINE=$(date +%s)+BUDGET and then gates each read on DEADLINE-$(date +%s) >= OBSERVATION_RESERVE (= min(BUDGET,15)). At the one-second budget this test uses, that gate demands zero elapsed whole seconds, so a wall-clock second boundary crossing between the two date calls makes the poll loop break before any forge read. The test calls wrap_forge (which installs a fake date reading $FORGE/clock only when that file exists) but never seeded forge/clock, so it ran against the real clock. The repo already documents this exact hazard at tests/fm-contributions.test.sh:675-677 and freezes the clock in every other budget-constrained test: test_budget_exhaustion_keeps_prior_record (both modes), test_genuine_failure_near_deadline_is_unavailable, test_reservation_defers_later_url_when_fifteen_seconds_do_not_remain, test_slow_read_deadline_kill_is_budget_refusal, test_budget_is_cut_down_to_the_watcher_check_bound. test_arm_plumbs was the only omission; its single loop body covers both the configured and inherited modes. The remaining wrap_forge users run the default 20-second budget (5 seconds of slack above the reserve) and are not reachable by this race. Fix (smallest, matching the sibling idiom): added the clock freeze `/bin/date +%s > "$home/forge/clock"` plus a two-line comment inside that test's loop, before the poll. Three added lines in tests/fm-contributions.test.sh; no production code and no other file touched. Verification: reproduced the exact CI failure message by running a scratch copy whose fake date advances one second per read (worst case of the unfrozen clock) - missing forge/calls, "not ok - generated check did not attempt a read". With the fix, the single test passes 10/10 standalone and the full tests/fm-contributions.test.sh passes all 46 assertions with exit 0. tests/fm-startup-growth-check.test.sh still exits 0. bash -n and shellcheck -S warning are clean on the edited file; scratch repro files were removed, leaving only the intended three-line change. Note for the author: this flake is not caused by this branch - tests/fm-contributions.test.sh is untouched by the PR and the race is pre-existing, surfacing only on a loaded runner (the shard's neighbouring assertions show 80+ second gaps). It was fixed because it is genuine nondeterminism with an established in-repo remedy and the check cannot otherwise go green. No work was done on the unselected greptile findings (ci-2..ci-5) or the cancelled "Behavior portable serial 2" check (ci-6)

* no-mistakes(ci): Diagnosed "Behavior portable serial 6": the omitted log section (fetched with gh api) shows the shard failed on tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh in test_hidden_block_geometry_e2e with "Pi Calm hidden-block geometry E2E did not complete the /reload viewport transition" (exit=1, duration_ms=23437; the family line pure-contract-unit count=3 duration_ms=51193 failed=1 matches devin-harness 3203 + calm-pi 23437 + task-delivery 24553). Root cause: tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh:2831 wait_for_geometry_transition detected the /reload by SAMPLING a single intermediate frame - it polled tmux capture-pane for Pi's transient "Reloading keybindings, extensions, skills, prompts, themes, and context files..." box and only accepted the rebuilt transcript afterwards (elif gated on saw_transient). Pi shows that box only while the reload runs and replaces it via dismissReloadBox when done, so on a loaded runner the box can live entirely between two polls; saw_transient then stays 0 forever and the 600-attempt wait times out although the reload fully succeeded. Reproduced locally under CPU oversubscription with CI's Pi 1.0.4: 1 failure in 8 runs, diagnostics proving the mechanism ("DIAG: transition timeout saw_transient=0 attempt=600") while the captured viewport already showed the completed reload status row and the intact collapsed transcript. Not a Pi-version regression: 1.0.4's handleReloadCommand and both banner strings are identical to the installed 0.85.1, and shard 6 of the previous pipeline run (job 112490351105) passed this same script on Pi 1.0.4. Invariant violated: a TUI E2E assertion must key off a durable state the UI retains, never off one intermediate frame polling may miss. Sibling enumeration: the helper was defined once and called once; grep for transient/saw_/two-stage waits across tests/, bin/ and .pi/ found no other one-shot-frame wait - every other wait in the file keys off durable text presence/absence or off continuously repeating animation frames (the working-ship motion checks) where sampling eventually connects; no doc or other test referenced the helper. Fix (smallest, one helper): renamed it wait_for_geometry_reload and made it wait for the durable status row Pi appends once the reload completed and the chat was rebuilt ("Reloaded keybindings, extensions, skills, prompts, themes, and context files", a persistent chat child via showStatus, present in both 0.85.1 and 1.0.4) together with CALM_GEOMETRY_FINAL. That marker is absent before the reload and never appears if the reload throws, so the check is strictly stronger than before (a failed reload now fails the test instead of passing on transient-then-final). One file changed: tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh, 2 hunks, no production code. Verification: deterministic before/after - with polls spaced 0.4s apart (the loaded-runner worst case) the pre-fix helper fails with exactly the CI message and the post-fix helper passes; 12/12 consecutive passes of the isolated test under load with Pi 1.0.4; full file 15/15 ok exit 0 under LANG=C.utf8 (matching the runner locale); bash -n, shellcheck -S warning and bin/fm-lint.sh clean; scratch repro files and the temp Pi 1.0.4 install removed, git status shows only the one intended modification. Notes: (1) the flake is not caused by this branch - that test file is untouched by the PR and the race is pre-existing; fixed because it is genuine nondeterminism and the check cannot otherwise go green. (2) Under far harsher load than CI applies a separate unrelated flake appeared in the same test: Pi's "Warning: tmux extended-keys is off..." row occasionally lands between the collapsed [skill] ahoy row and the final response, making assert_geometry_gap see 5 rows instead of 2. Different cause, never seen in CI, and its plausible remedies would change key delivery for the other TUI tests in the file, so it was left alone rather than growing this fix

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Co-authored-by: Quartermaster <quartermaster@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(bin): reopen the remote-reply continuity decision on a later break (#6708)

* fix: reopen a remote-reply continuity break after repair

A later break for the same route and reason was swallowed after the
operator resolved the first one, because the status line matched for
the life of the log. The continuity ingest now appends again when the
cursor has moved or retirement has reset that episode, and an unchanged
re-read still appends nothing.

status_event_recorded is unchanged. Its other callers are the
pending-reply escalation, which already decides its own episode, the
parent-channel note append, and the remote document transfer note.

* no-mistakes(review): seed continuity episode for already recorded break line

* no-mistakes(document): document when a remote-reply continuity break reopens

* no-mistakes(ci): The adapter now stores the continuity episode record before it appends the `blocked` line, so a failed store appends nothing. The changes are uncommitted in the worktree, in `bin/fm-procevent-remote-reply.sh` and `tests/fm-remote-reply.test.sh`. **Invariant:** a continuity `blocked` line is on the parent status log only when the episode record for that break is already stored. Only the `continuity-broken` branch of `cmd_ingest` appends that line, so the fix is at that one place. **What changed in `cmd_ingest`:** - It decides first whether the break needs a line, then stores the episode record, then appends. - If storing the record fails, it stops with "cannot record continuity episode" and appends nothing. - If the line is already on the log and no episode record exists, it stores the record and does not append. **One addition you did not ask for:** if the append fails after the record is stored, the adapter puts the earlier record back (or deletes the new one when none existed). Without that, the retry would read as the unchanged repeat and append nothing, which is the issue 6701 failure again. **Deviation from your test instruction:** the test does not use `chmod` on the cursor directory. `write_continuity_episode` runs `chmod 700` on that directory before every write, so a read-only directory is made writable again. The test instead makes `mktemp` fail for the episode's temporary file in that directory, the same way the existing receipt-failure test does. **Tests added to `tests/fm-remote-reply.test.sh`:** - Store failure: the second break exits 1, appends no `blocked` line and opens no decision. One retry after storage recovers exits 3 and appends a single line. - Append failure: with the status log read-only, the third break exits 1 and appends nothing. One retry after the log is writable exits 3 and appends a single line. **Verification:** `bash tests/fm-remote-reply.test.sh` ends with "ALL TESTS PASSED" with the fix. Against the script at commit b750c828 the same test file fails at "a continuity break appended its line before its episode was stored". `shellcheck -S warning` reports only an unused loop variable at line 667 of the test file, which this change does not touch. I ran no other test files. The Greptile Review check log could not be retrieved, so I worked from the finding text alone

* fix: record a continuity break's reader position on its status line

A later break at another cursor is then a different line, so the existing
duplicate check appends it and reopens the decision. An unchanged re-read
builds the same line and appends nothing.

* fix: reopen a continuity break after an identical restore

A retirement that puts the same bytes back used to rebuild the recorded line, so the later break stayed closed. The retirement count on that line makes the later break distinct.

* no-mistakes(review): remove continuity match for full-prefix line without retirement count

* no-mistakes(document): clarify what a continuity break status line records

* fix: remove the reply cursor before recording retirement

A stop between those steps must leave the count unchanged, so an unchanged continuity break still builds the same line.

* fix(control): drop busy_gen from the task record when an incarnation is retired (#6733)

* fix(control): drop busy_gen when an incarnation is retired

A deliberate exit removed the busy sidecar and left busy_gen in the task record, so the two records disagreed about whether that incarnation was still observable.

* no-mistakes(review): drop GNU-only chmod and unreached sidecar-absent branch

* no-mistakes(review): correct lock comment to name the deadlock

* no-mistakes(ci): The test `test_exit_drops_meta_busy_gen_with_the_sidecar` in tests/fm-control.test.sh now compares the whole task record (the `state/<id>.meta` file), so the Greptile finding is fixed. Invariant: after `exit` retires an incarnation, the task record must equal the record from before `exit` with only the `busy_gen` line removed. This test is the only place in the change that asserts the record survives the rewrite, so it is the only site to fix. The other `busy_gen` tests assert that the line stays, and they do not go through the rewrite. What changed: before `exit`, the test writes the record without its `busy_gen` line to `expected.meta`. After `exit`, the test runs `diff` between that expected copy and the real record, and fails with the diff output if they differ. This one comparison replaces the two earlier checks (no `busy_gen` line left, and the `window` line present), because it covers both. I did not change bin/fm-control.sh or any other file. How I know it works: - I ran `bash tests/fm-control.test.sh`: exit code 0, 45 lines starting with `ok`, no other lines. - I temporarily changed the rewrite in bin/fm-control.sh to also drop the `harness` line. The test then failed with `not ok - exit should drop only busy_gen from the task record:` and the diff `< harness=codex`. The earlier `window`-only check would have passed that rewrite. I restored bin/fm-control.sh afterwards; `git status` shows only tests/fm-control.test.sh modified. - `bash -n` and `shellcheck` on the test file report no new warnings from the edit. The change is not committed; the working tree holds it

* test: cover PID collisions in harness ancestry detection (#6484)

* test(secondmate-harness): scope fake ps -codex label for pid 5252 to the liveness probe

Closes #6456

* no-mistakes(ci): Updated the collision test to log and assert that PID 5252 was queried before selecting 4242. Full fm-secondmate harness suite passes

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Co-authored-by: YifuGu <ironerumi@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix: share Pi Calm's working-ship widget slot (#1854)

* fix(calm): share the standalone Pi Calm working-ship widget slot

Firstmate Calm and the user-global standalone Pi Calm both install an
animated working-ship widget during agent runs. Each claimed its own Pi
widget key, so a session loading both (the main Firstmate home) rendered
two boats. Pi replaces widgets under one key, so claiming the shared
"calm-working-ship" slot keeps dual-install sessions to a single boat
while a Firstmate-only session is unchanged.

Pins the shared slot contract in the working-ship module test so the key
cannot silently diverge again.

* test(calm): pin the shared working-ship widget key in CI, document dual-install

The key-parity assertion inside the Pi fixture only runs where the
@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent package is installed, so CI never
exercised it. Add a source-level twin that needs nothing but the
tracked file, and note in docs/calm.md that the boat shares the
standalone Pi Calm working-row widget slot.

* no-mistakes(review): Add executable dual-install widget replacement coverage

* no-mistakes(review): Guard shared widget cleanup with disposal ownership

* no-mistakes(document): Document shared Calm working-ship slot behavior

* test(calm): read the standalone Calm slot from its own module

The dual-install check registered both boats itself under the shared
slot, so it could only prove that Pi replaces a widget under one key: it
would still pass if the standalone Pi Calm extension installed its boat
under a different key, which is the two-boat regression the check exists
to prevent.

Read the standalone extension's own working-ship module when it is
installed - FM_STANDALONE_CALM_SHIP, else ~/.pi/agent/extensions/calm -
and drive the check with the key that module exports, so a rename on
either side registers two widgets and fails naming both keys. A pinned
shared-slot contract still covers a machine without the extension, and
the run reports which side it used instead of passing silently over an
absent extension.

Verified: the touched Pi Calm suite passes and reads the installed
standalone extension; with a copy of it whose key is renamed to
calm-working-ship-v2 the suite fails naming the drift.

* no-mistakes(review): Gate stock-row restoration by shared-widget ownership

* no-mistakes(review): Removed redundant widget-key source assertions

* no-mistakes(document): Document shared Calm working-ship widget ownership

* feat(bin): add opt-in --herdr-resume-lock-wait to fm-spawn (#6649)

* fix(herdr): make exact-resume presentation-lock wait instead of a bounded timeout

The exact-resume path in bin/fm-spawn.sh used the same 50-attempt-then-
give-up lock acquire as the new-task-create path, but the two paths are
not equivalent on contention: a create has no prior state to strand and
can safely fall back to a flat layout, while a resume is recovering a
specific existing identity that a concurrent recovery may legitimately
be holding the lock for. Giving up there does not degrade gracefully,
it hard-fails the resume outright. The suite's own concurrent
cross-home recoveries test already asserts both concurrent recoveries
succeed with a genuine reclaim, and the file's header comment already
(inaccurately) claimed lock contention falls back to the ordinary flat
layout for both paths alike, so the intended contract was always that
recoveries serialize and both succeed, not that either one refuses
under a short bound.

Give spawn_herdr_presentation_order_lock_acquire a wait mode that uses
this file's own established fm_lock_acquire_wait idiom (already used
for its other fleet-shared locks) instead of the bounded loop, and use
it only at the exact-resume call site. The new-task-create call site
is unchanged and keeps its bounded-then-flat-fallback behavior, which
is already covered by its own passing test. Dead-owner PID-liveness
reclaim inside fm_lock_try_acquire still bounds the wait against a
holder that crashed mid-hold.

Adds a deterministic regression test that holds the shared session
lock from an unrelated process for well past the old bound, then
asserts the resume succeeds with a genuine reclaim and took close to
the full hold duration, so a fix that merely widens the bound rather
than genuinely waiting is still caught. The existing concurrent
cross-home recovery test exercises this under real timing but does not
reliably outlast a fixed bound on its own.

Corrects the header comment's claim that create and resume share one
bounded-then-flat-fallback behavior on lock contention; they no longer
do.

* no-mistakes(document): Document Herdr recovery waiting for presentation lock

* no-mistakes(document): Update stale hard-refusal claim in verification log

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the Greptile finding on tests/fm-backend-herdr-presentation-e2e.test.sh:1389 by bounding the resume lock-wait regression's spawn_task call. Added an optional 4th `deadline_seconds` arg to the `spawn_task` helper (defaults to empty, so all ~20 other existing call sites are unaffected and unwrapped by `timeout`). The lock-wait test now passes `LOCK_WAIT_HOLD_SECONDS + 60` (90s) as the deadline, and a dedicated check for exit code 124 emits a clear "hung for over Xs instead of waiting out a Ys lock hold" diagnostic before falling through to the existing pass/fail assertions, which are unchanged. No product code was touched. Verified with `bash -n`, `shellcheck -x` (no warnings), a standalone reproduction of the timeout/no-timeout/success paths, the project's `bin/fm-lint.sh --fast` on the file (clean), and the full `tests/fm-lint.test.sh` suite (all 46 assertions pass)

* no-mistakes(ci): Replaced the direct `timeout "$deadline_seconds"` call in `spawn_task()` (tests/fm-backend-herdr-presentation-e2e.test.sh) with the repo's portable bounded-execution helper: sourced `bin/fm-timeout-lib.sh` at the top of the file and changed `deadline_cmd=(timeout "$deadline_seconds")` to `deadline_cmd=(fm_run_timed "$deadline_seconds")`. This removes the GNU/BSD `timeout` dependency that would fail with exit 127 on a stock macOS host without coreutils, while preserving identical semantics (exit 124 on bound-hit, command's own exit otherwise), which the existing `[ "$LOCK_WAIT_STATUS" -eq 124 ]` diagnostic check already relies on. Verified: `bash -n` syntax check, `bin/fm-lint.sh --fast` clean, full `tests/fm-lint.test.sh` suite (46/46 pass), and a standalone repro confirming `fm_run_timed` returns 124 on timeout and 0 on success identically to the prior `timeout` call. No other direct `timeout` calls exist in this file or elsewhere in the PR's diff, so no sibling sites remain

* fix(herdr): gate exact-resume lock wait behind --herdr-resume-lock-wait

Keep refuse-by-default on presentation-order lock contention for Herdr
exact resume. Callers that need concurrent recoveries to serialize must
pass --herdr-resume-lock-wait; unbounded blocking on a third-party session
lock is never the default.

Update docs and the real-Herdr e2e suite so the default path asserts the
refusal and the opt-in path asserts the wait.

* no-mistakes(test): Fix e2e test's lost exit status after if/fi with no else branch

* docs(herdr): stop advertising --herdr-resume-lock-wait on --relaunch

The relaunch path reuses the recorded endpoint and never takes the
presentation-order lock, so the flag is inert there. Drop it from the
--relaunch usage line and state where the flag applies.

* no-mistakes(review): Clarify lock-wait docs; simplify bash-3.2-safe spawn_task helper

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed ci-1 (Greptile P2). In tests/fm-backend-herdr-presentation-e2e.test.sh, the failure cleanup `cleanup_all` stopped only `LOCK_CONTENTION_OWNER_PID`. It now also stops `LOCK_REFUSE_HOLDER_PID` and `LOCK_WAIT_HOLDER_PID`, the holders of the two new contention cases, so a `fail` before their explicit `wait` no longer leaves them running. Both new PIDs are initialised empty next to the existing one, and each is cleared right after its successful `wait` so cleanup never touches a finished PID. I changed nothing else. `bash -n` passes. The real Herdr e2e run passed both new cases ("default resumed identity refuses session lock contention" and "--herdr-resume-lock-wait waits out session lock contention instead of refusing"). The full run hit my 550s timeout in a later, unrelated case, after the new cases passed

* fix(bin): let TERM stop a watcher blocked in a pane capture on bash 3.2 (#6762)

* fix(bin): let TERM stop a watcher blocked in a pane capture on bash 3.2

Stock macOS bash 3.2 holds a HUP or TERM until a running command
substitution's child exits, and the watcher read every pane through
$(fm_backend_capture ...). A blocked backend read therefore held the
watcher's stop for as long as the read lasted, and a stopped watcher left
the hung read orphaned. tests/fm-watch-triage.test.sh
test_term_stops_a_watcher_blocked_inside_a_poll failed on /bin/bash 3.2
for this reason while passing on bash 5.

Pane captures now go through watcher_capture, which runs the read as a
waited background process group recorded like a check's, so the stop is
honored at once and watcher_cleanup stops a read still in flight along
with its per-call output file.

* no-mistakes(review): Run drain-ring idle capture in watcher shell, add regression test

* no-mistakes(document): Document watcher TERM handling for blocked checks and captures

* no-mistakes(test): Silence bash 3.2 setpgid race noise from watcher captures

* fix(bin): verify the capture group and scope the stop claim to pane reads

watcher_capture now confirms its background read leads its own process
group, as run_check_capture already does, so watcher_cleanup never relies
on a group that set -m failed to create. The comment and continuity doc
now say only fm_backend_capture pane reads go through watcher_capture;
agent-state and composer-state reads still run inside command
substitutions.

* feat: add per-home worker tool exclusions (#6750)

* feat(spawn): add per-home worker tool exclusions

Add an optional per-home config/crew-exclude-tools file listing tool names to hide from workers, one per line, with blank lines and # comments allowed.
It applies to every ship and scout launch and relaunch in that home, is never inherited by another home, and does not affect secondmate agents.
Pi and pi-signed apply it through --exclude-tools, which also covers MCP tool names.
Any other runtime, and a raw launch command, refuses the launch when the list is non-empty rather than ignoring it.
Malformed entries are refused before provisioning, and before a relaunch stops a running worker.
Exclusions that match no tool in the worker's loaded registry are reported as unverified warnings in its status record instead of refusing the worker.

Closes #6744

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve UTF-8 exclusion paths and verify Pi lifecycle behavior

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify worker tool exclusion documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed ci-1 in bin/fm-exclude-tools-lib.sh: a failed read now returns an error before printing names, so all shared launch and relaunch callers refuse rather than silently dropping exclusions. Added deterministic regression coverage for a file disappearing after readability checks across Pi/pi-signed ship and scout launches. Reproduced the original failure; verified 83 spawn checks, 77 relaunch checks, direct parser/runtime failure cases, full targeted lint, Bash syntax, and git diff --check. Relaunch tests passed with existing fixture-cleanup permission warnings. ci-2 remains unchanged per the user's decision; the outer executor owns the fresh CI run

* feat(bin): defer spawns beyond a declared per-project capacity, opt-in (#5343)

* refactor(bin): share the local Firstmate home walk from the wake library

Teardown's walk over the root home and its registered local secondmate homes
moves into bin/fm-wake-lib.sh as fm_local_firstmate_state_dirs, next to
fm_firstmate_root_home, so a second consumer can count task records across
this machine's homes without a copy. Teardown keeps its exact refusal wording
through a thin wrapper.

* feat(bin): defer spawns beyond a project's declared machine capacity

A project whose machine-local resource only serves a few workers at once had
no way to tell Firstmate so: every queued item was launched, and the surplus
workers spent full-context turns retrying the resource.

config/project-capacity in the root home now declares how many workers each
named project admits at once on this machine. bin/fm-spawn.sh counts the ship
and scout records on the same project origin across the root and its local
secondmate homes, skipping ones whose ready PR is recorded, while holding the
shared project lock through publication. A spawn with every place held exits 75
before any brief render, endpoint, worktree, record, or backlog move, so the
item stays queued; batches report it as deferred. Undeclared projects keep
today's uncapped dispatch, and an unreadable declaration refuses rather than
guessing the limit.

Refs #4237

* no-mistakes(review): Document that capacity matches the clone directory name

* no-mistakes(document): Rewrap stale fm-wake-lib root-home doc comment

* no-mistakes(review): Dedupe local state dirs by identity to avoid double-counting

* no-mistakes(document): Rewrap fm_local_firstmate_state_dirs error doc comment

* no-mistakes(ci): I fixed all four Greptile findings. All 14 tests in tests/fm-project-capacity.test.sh pass, and shellcheck at warning level is clean on the changed files. Each new test failed against the old code and passes now. - **ci-1 (spaced names):** a declaration line must give a name its capacity whenever the name is a valid clone directory name. `fm_project_capacity_lookup` now trims each line, skips blank lines and lines whose first non-blank character is `#`, and takes the last field as the capacity. Everything before that field is the name, so it may contain spaces. The old error cases still refuse: a single field is rejected, and trailing text leaves a last field that is not an integer. The library header and docs/configuration.md now say a name starting with `#` cannot be declared. New test `test_spaced_project_name_is_declared` declares `my heavy project 1` next to an indented comment line and gets a deferral. - **ci-2 (unreadable records):** the holder count must never silently leave out a holder. `fm_project_capacity_occupants` now refuses when a local home's state directory exists but cannot be read or listed, or when a `.meta` file cannot be read. The error names the path, and `fm-spawn.sh` shows it in its existing refusal message. New test `test_unreadable_holders_refuse_admission` covers an unreadable record in the root home and an unreadable state directory in a registered local secondmate home, then checks that the spawn is admitted once both are readable. The test is skipped when run as root. - **ci-3 (Orca lock):** any spawn that can become a holder for a capped project must take that project's lock. The lookup now also reports whether the declaration caps any project at all, and an Orca spawn takes the per-origin lock whenever it does. This covers every capped same-origin clone. It also covers some cases where no same-origin clone is capped, because a spawn cannot find clones under other directory names without searching for them. With no declaration file, Orca still skips the lock. The comments in the library and in the `fm-spawn.sh` header are updated. The Orca test now clones the origin as `project-2`, which has no declaration, and checks that its Orca spawn refuses while the lock is held and publishes no record. - **ci-4 (worktrees):** `assert_nothing_created` now also compares the project's `git worktree list` from before and after a deferred spawn. Both tests that call it take that snapshot first. Files changed: bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh, bin/fm-spawn.sh, docs/configuration.md, tests/fm-project-capacity.test.sh

* fix(bin): declare capacity for a project name that begins with #

A clone directory whose name begins with # was skipped as a comment, so that project stayed uncapped. A line is a declaration when the # is written against the rest of the name and the line ends with a capacity; a # followed by whitespace stays a comment.

* no-mistakes(document): Rewrap project-capacity library header comment

* no-mistakes(ci): Lint 2 fails because this PR's code pushes ShellCheck past its memory cap. ShellCheck ran out of memory analyzing bin/fm-teardown.sh in CI (reason=memory, rc=251, peak about 8.39 GB). On current main the same file passes at about 7.29 GB. **Cause:** the new `fm_local_firstmate_state_dirs` function in bin/fm-wake-lib.sh had a conditional `. fm-secondmate-registry-lib.sh` with a `# shellcheck source=` directive inside the function. ShellCheck followed that source again, inside a function scope, wherever fm-wake-lib.sh is sourced, and bin/fm-teardown.sh is the heaviest root that sources it. Measured locally with `shellcheck --norc --external-sources bin/fm-teardown.sh`: - current main (fd325b1b): 7.29 GB - main merged with this PR: 7.86 GB - the same merge without the in-function source: 7.27 GB **Rule this restores:** this change must not make any lint root heavier than it is on main. That function holds the only new nested source in the change. **Fix:** I removed the in-function source, which no caller needs. Both callers already load the registry library at top level before calling the function: - bin/fm-teardown.sh sources it directly. - bin/fm-spawn.sh, the only user of bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh, gets it through bin/fm-ff-lib.sh. I also documented the requirement in the function's comment and in the "Requires" note in bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh. No behaviour changes. **Verification:** - ShellCheck on head: bin/fm-teardown.sh peaks at 7.12 GB and bin/fm-spawn.sh at 6.68 GB, both with rc=0. bin/fm-wake-lib.sh and bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh lint clean. - tests/fm-project-capacity.test.sh, tests/fm-teardown.test.sh (102 ok) and tests/fm-teardown-endpoint-safety.test.sh all pass. Files changed: bin/fm-wake-lib.sh, bin/fm-project-capacity-lib.sh

* fix(bin): release the Herdr session lock when reclaim finishes

A concurrent resume in another home waits five seconds for that lock.
Reclaim is the last presentation change on the recovery path, so holding
the lock through the launch tail made the waiter time out. The contributions
arm check also freezes its one-second clock, the same way the budget tests
do, because an unfrozen clock can tick past before the first forge read.

* no-mistakes(review): Keep Herdr session lock through launch handoff after reclaim

* no-mistakes(review): Skip the spawning task's own record in capacity count

* no-mistakes(review): Restore release test comment above its test

* docs: scope PR-ready re-evaluation to a declared project capacity

A ready pull request frees a place only when that project declares capacity, so the always-loaded backlog contract should re-evaluate on that handoff only in that case.

* fix(bin): name the Lavish read message count by the same label as its section (#6785)

fm-procevent-lavish.sh read labels tag=message rows SESSION-ENDING MESSAGE
only when session_ended is true and CAPTAIN MESSAGE otherwise, but the
count line always said session_ending_message_count. Several composer
messages on a still-open board were therefore counted as session-ending.

The count line now follows the same session_ended switch:
session_ending_message_count once the session ended, captain_message_count
otherwise. Message rows stay out of the annotation count, per triage.

Fixes #6743

* fix(herdr): make the presentation lock namespace per OS account (#6780)

The Herdr presentation lock namespace was the fixed machine-global
/tmp/firstmate-herdr-presentation, so on a host where two OS users run
Firstmate on Herdr the first account to create it owned it and every
teardown from the other account was refused with no way to clear it.

Suffix the namespace with the account uid. The owner-uid and mode-700
checks are unchanged, so a foreign-owned or wrong-mode name at this
account's path is still refused and never adopted, chowned, or removed.

Fixes #4716.

* Fix OpenCode arm plugin to decide with the shared supervision predicate (#6809)

The OpenCode session plugin's shouldArm kept its own copy of the need
test that only looked for in-flight task records, while the turn-end
guard decides with fm_supervision_needed in bin/fm-supervision-lib.sh,
which also counts registered process-event sources and trusted custom
checks. With an empty fleet but any registered source or check, the
guard blocked every turn end while the plugin declined to arm - a loop
the guard's own repair line could not resolve because it names the
plugin as the fix.

The plugin now delegates the decision to the shared predicate through
bash, keeping the local away-record decline and the x-mode.env arm
override. OpenCode plugin test fixtures now carry the real predicate
their arming path sources, and the arm suite gains six cases asserting
the plugin's decision against the shared verdict over the same
synthetic state directories.

Co-authored-by: Mia Sun <mia@Bigs-Mac-mini.localdomain>

* fix(bin): resolve a pending reply only from its own task's status line (#6792)

* fix(bin): resolve a pending reply only from its own task's status line

Remote reply ingestion handed every corr= token in a mate's payload to
fm_pending_reply_try_resolve together with that mate's own status log,
so one mate echoing another mate's token resolved the other request.
Honor a status-file override only when it is the record's own
parent_status, and match the corr= token as a whole word.

Fixes #6538

* no-mistakes(document): docs: scope remote reply settlement to the asked mate

* docs(skills): index the six missing agent-only skill triggers (#6784)

agent-skill-trigger-index claims to be the complete agent-only trigger
index but omitted operational-home-layout, session-start-recovery,
validation-supervision, ship-landing, scout-completion, and
away-quiet-supervision. Add each with its own description's trigger,
placed beside the related entries.

The decision-hold-lifecycle redirect stub stays out, per triage.

Fixes #6503

* test: make agent process fixtures compatible with multicall sleep (#6814)

* test: share a rename-safe agent stand-in across liveness suites

On Ubuntu 26.04, `sleep` is the uutils multicall binary, which refuses to
run when invoked through a symlink named after another utility. The Herdr
descendant process-walk tests built their agent-named process as a `pi`
symlink to the host `sleep`, so the process exited at once, its parent shell
was gone before the walk ran, and both cases read `unknown unreadable` and
failed on that host. The suite stops at its first failure, so every later
case went unrun. The Herdr control smoke test's `claude` symlink has the
same construction.

The tmux liveness suite already solved this with a host-compiled spinner and
a survival-checked `sleep` fallback. That builder moves into tests/lib.sh as
fm_agent_standin, and the tmux suite, both Herdr descendant cases, and the
Herdr control smoke test now use it. When no stand-in can survive a foreign
name, a case skips with the reason instead of failing.

tests/fm-test-fixtures.test.sh gains a portable regression with a fake
multicall `sleep`, so it bites on hosts whose own `sleep` is single-purpose.

* no-mistakes(document): Correct Herdr verification fixture reference

* ci: retrigger cancelled shard

* fix(bin): keep the supervision host's successor watcher alive after the Stop hook's group is torn down (#6787)

* fix(bin): keep the supervision host's pass-through successor out of the hook's process group

The successor a main-only pass-through leaves for main shared the Stop hook's
process group, so the harness tearing that group down after the exit-2 rewake
stopped it. The stop published downtime and the next park's first cycle
announced an empty check: rearm-resurface, which woke main again in a loop.
Start that successor in a process group of its own, as the hook's own
handling successor already is.

* no-mistakes(review): Give the at-turn successor left for main its own group

* no-mistakes(document): Document own-group successor for turn-start hand-back too

* no-mistakes(ci): I made the change you asked for: both new teardown tests in tests/fm-supervision-host.test.sh now call the existing `stop_home_processes "$home"` just before `pass`. The tests are `test_successor_left_at_the_turn_survives_the_hook_process_group_teardown` and `test_pass_through_successor_survives_the_hook_process_group_teardown`. No production code and no other tests changed. The rule broken was that a test must not leave a home's watcher or arm processes running after it passes. These two were the only cases in the changed area that broke it. The other host+hook tests already stop their home, and `test_successor_close_during_main_turn_is_delivered_at_the_next_turn_end` leaves its watcher behind too, but it is an older test you said not to touch. The only reason anything was left over is that the successor's arm now sits in its own process group, outside the hook's teardown. `stop_home_processes` kills the watcher by the pid in its lock file, which stops it no matter which group it is in. **Checks run:** - I ran just these two tests from a scratch copy of the suite (since deleted). Both pass in about 13 seconds. - After each test, a process listing filtered to that test's home directory came back empty once the processes had about a second to exit after TERM. - `bash -n` on the test file passes. - `shellcheck` is not installed here, so I did not lint the file. - I did not run the full serial-2 suite locally. Whether it now finishes under its 30-minute limit will only show on the next CI run

* test: make tmux Claude readiness checks independent of permission footers (#6823)

* test: use idle composer readiness for Claude tmux guards

* no-mistakes(test): Fix attended supervision test expectations and isolate worker state

* no-mistakes(document): Correct live guard coverage and readiness documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Captain, fixed SC2100 by quoting the cursor-agent assignment in tests/fm-host-mirror-live-e2e.test.sh. Reproduced the failure before editing; pinned ShellCheck lint on both PR test files, bash syntax checks, and git diff --check now pass

* test: preserve attended successor close assertions

* no-mistakes(test): Fix attended live test watcher takeover expectations

* no-mistakes(document): Correct stale attended guard documentation

* Revert "no-mistakes(document): Correct stale attended guard documentation"

This reverts commit 8e59d89e17f48afc6e5a72d6d23fdca156a0f856.

* Revert "no-mistakes(test): Fix attended live test watcher takeover expectations"

This reverts commit c0b851054917fcbe957469eb0b1bc2c2075fcc51.

* test(herdr): accept safe exit refusals and clean lab once (#6818)

* test: stabilize watcher lock race fixtures (#6887)

* test: order stale watcher-lock fixture races explicitly

* no-mistakes(review): Removed duplicate stale-steal reap call

* fix(bin): keep herdr composer probes observable-only without autostarting server (#6920)

* fix(bin): keep herdr composer probes observable-only without autostarting server

- Refuse bare pane identifiers lacking session prefix in fm_backend_herdr_parse_target
- Add fm_backend_herdr_target_observable to passively verify server liveness without autostarting
- Route visible viewport captures through fm_backend_herdr_target_observable
- Detach stdin with </dev/null on background server launch in fm_backend_herdr_server_ensure
- Add unit and regression tests in tests/fm-backend-herdr.test.sh

* fix(bin): drop parse_target colon restriction to preserve existing fixtures

Revert the fm_backend_herdr_parse_target colon check so that single-colon
session targets like sess:p1 in secondmate liveness and other fixtures parse
properly. The probe path remains observable-only via fm_backend_herdr_target_observable.

* fix(tests): clear inherited Git repository location in fixture helper (#6956)

* test: clear inherited Git repository location in fixture helper

An absolute GIT_DIR inherited from the caller (a linked-worktree hook
exports one) overrides the discovery that git -C implies, so fixture
setup moved the caller's branches and registered fixture worktrees in
it. tests/git-config-helpers.sh now unsets GIT_DIR, GIT_WORK_TREE,
GIT_INDEX_FILE and GIT_COMMON_DIR alongside the config isolation.

Fixes #6953

* no-mistakes(document): Document fixture Git location isolation in CONTRIBUTING

* fix: avoid argument-size failures in fleet contribution snapshots (#6830)

* fix(bin): stage contribution-input JSON via temp files

The contribution-input branch passed the whole canonical backlog document to
jq as a single --argjson argv argument. A large fleet's backlog JSON exceeds
Linux MAX_ARG_STRLEN (128 KiB), so jq fails with E2BIG (Argument list too
long) and the contribution-input snapshot emits empty output, breaking the
bearings contribution path.

Write both the backlog and task documents to a temp directory and hand them
to jq with --slurpfile, matching how the full snapshot path already stages
the same pair. Output is unchanged for any backlog that fits in argv.

* no-mistakes(document): Correct contribution cleanup trap comment

* fix(bin): arm the busy contract on secondmate launches (#5342)

* fix(bin): arm the busy contract on secondmate launches

A tmux-backed secondmate's active-turn gate can only see a busy verdict from the parent home's record, and those launches never armed it.

* no-mistakes(review): Reopen secondmate busy on blocked Claude Stop; drop muse guard

* no-mistakes(review): Make Claude secondmate Stop guard the sole Stop-state writer

* no-mistakes(review): Record live rewake UserPromptSubmit evidence and add regression

* docs: record Claude secondmate Stop guard as busy writer

* no-mistakes(review): Keep Stop idle hook f…
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