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Implements the Firstmate-owned half of LAB-105: a guarded prelaunch coordinator for fresh primary startup pulls. The change validates the committed startup-pull proposal, reserves the target home, fetches and verifies approved candidates without executing fetched code, applies only conflict-free fast-forward updates, and emits evidence before one fresh launch.

This fork-local landing PR uses the exact head from upstream PR kunchenguid#6913. The upstream PR remains open for contribution; its workflows are awaiting upstream maintainer approval. Local review, focused tests, full tests, documentation checks, and no-mistakes stages before CI completed on this exact head. This PR exists so the user-controlled fork can run its own required CI and provide the approved companion artifact needed by the paired dotfiles work.

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  • New Features
    • Fresh primary launches can check for and apply a pinned startup update, with verified handoff details reported in the session.
    • Startup updates are guarded by worktree, ownership, and safety checks; unsafe or unverifiable states prevent the update.
    • Writes to a primary checkout are guarded while a startup reservation is active.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance on the fresh-start update flow, its limitations, and verification.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for startup updates, handoffs, safety checks, and lock concurrency.

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The change adds a prelaunch workflow for eligible fresh primary sessions. It coordinates reservations, local pinned-commit checks and updates, child attachment, session-lock handoff, write guarding, and fresh-session reporting.

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Fresh primary startup pull

Layer / File(s) Summary
Reservation and handoff identity records
bin/fm-session-lock-lib.sh
Adds identity helpers and strict reservation and handoff records. The session-lock free check now treats a dangling .lock symlink as occupied or unverifiable.
Prelaunch scope and reservation admission
bin/fm-prelaunch.sh, bin/fm-supervision-lib.sh
Adds CLI actions, home and harness checks, reservation and child-attachment operations, and strict supervision-inventory snapshots.
Pinned startup check and update
bin/fm-prelaunch.sh, bin/fm-ff-lib.sh
Validates reservation commits and adds pinned startup checks and updates. Startup fast-forwards inspect worktree state with constrained Git settings and reject external filters.
Session-lock handoff and write guard
bin/fm-lock.sh, bin/fm-update.sh, bin/fm-session-start.sh, bin/fm-prelaunch.sh
Validates reservations during lock acquisition, publishes handoff receipts, guards eligible update writes, and reports authenticated handoff details for fresh non-reemit sessions.
Regression coverage and operational documentation
tests/fm-prelaunch.test.sh, tests/fm-session-start.test.sh, tests/fm-watcher-lock.test.sh, bin/fm-test-run.sh, docs/architecture.md, docs/scripts.md, docs/sessionstart-nudge.md, docs/verification/supervision.md
Adds prelaunch, handoff, and concurrency tests; updates test mappings; documents the workflow and its recorded verification scope.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant firstmate-start
  participant fm-prelaunch.sh
  participant Git
  participant fm-lock.sh
  participant fm-session-start.sh
  firstmate-start->>fm-prelaunch.sh: Reserve home and attach child
  fm-prelaunch.sh->>Git: Check or fast-forward to pinned commit
  firstmate-start->>fm-lock.sh: Child requests session lock
  fm-lock.sh->>fm-lock.sh: Validate reservation and publish handoff receipt
  fm-session-start.sh->>fm-session-start.sh: Authenticate receipt and report startup pull
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Suggested reviewers: kunchenguid

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a8932

The startup-pull coordination has no known runtime defect. The one remaining issue is in the tests: if a race test fails, it can leave a background process running and stall the test job. Adding a timeout to those wait loops is a small follow-up, and the change is otherwise mergeable.

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- Around line 413-458: Bound the stop-file polling loops in both launchers
within test_race_dead_owner_pid_reuse_and_ancestry and in the ancestry owner
fixture so they cannot run indefinitely; follow the existing parent-death
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  • bin/fm-ff-lib.sh
  • bin/fm-lock.sh
  • bin/fm-prelaunch.sh
  • bin/fm-session-lock-lib.sh
  • bin/fm-session-start.sh
  • bin/fm-supervision-lib.sh
  • bin/fm-test-run.sh
  • bin/fm-update.sh
  • docs/architecture.md
  • docs/scripts.md
  • docs/sessionstart-nudge.md
  • docs/verification/supervision.md
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  • tests/fm-session-start.test.sh
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Comment on lines +413 to +458
test_race_dead_owner_pid_reuse_and_ancestry() {
local home result_a result_b ready_a ready_b stop_a stop_b successes
home=$(new_home ownership)
result_a="$TMP_ROOT/race-a"
result_b="$TMP_ROOT/race-b"
ready_a="$TMP_ROOT/ready-a"
ready_b="$TMP_ROOT/ready-b"
stop_a="$TMP_ROOT/stop-a"
stop_b="$TMP_ROOT/stop-b"
bash -c '
pre=$1; home=$2; token=$3; result=$4; ready=$5; stop=$6
rc=0
bash "$pre" reserve --home "$home" --owner-pid "$$" --token "$token" >"$result.out" 2>"$result.err" || rc=$?
printf "%s\n" "$rc" > "$result"
: > "$ready"
if [ "$rc" -eq 0 ]; then
while [ ! -e "$stop" ]; do sleep 0.02; done
bash "$pre" release --home "$home" --owner-pid "$$" --token "$token" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
fi
' _ "$PRELAUNCH" "$home" "$TOKEN_A" "$result_a" "$ready_a" "$stop_a" &
pid_a=$!
bash -c '
pre=$1; home=$2; token=$3; result=$4; ready=$5; stop=$6
rc=0
bash "$pre" reserve --home "$home" --owner-pid "$$" --token "$token" >"$result.out" 2>"$result.err" || rc=$?
printf "%s\n" "$rc" > "$result"
: > "$ready"
if [ "$rc" -eq 0 ]; then
while [ ! -e "$stop" ]; do sleep 0.02; done
bash "$pre" release --home "$home" --owner-pid "$$" --token "$token" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
fi
' _ "$PRELAUNCH" "$home" "$TOKEN_B" "$result_b" "$ready_b" "$stop_b" &
pid_b=$!
for _ in $(seq 1 250); do
[ -e "$ready_a" ] && [ -e "$ready_b" ] && break
sleep 0.02
done
[ -e "$ready_a" ] && [ -e "$ready_b" ] || fail "racing launchers did not settle"
successes=0
[ "$(cat "$result_a")" -ne 0 ] || successes=$((successes + 1))
[ "$(cat "$result_b")" -ne 0 ] || successes=$((successes + 1))
[ "$successes" -eq 1 ] || fail "racing launchers produced $successes owners"
: > "$stop_a"
: > "$stop_b"
wait "$pid_a" || true
wait "$pid_b" || true

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clean up the racing launchers when a racing assertion fails.

fail exits right away. Suppose the settle check on line 450 or the owner count on line 454 fails. The background launchers pid_a and pid_b then keep polling for stop_a and stop_b with no timeout. The losing launcher exits, but the winner loops forever. A failing run therefore leaves an orphaned process. That process can stall the bounded runner or the CI job.

The same problem affects the ancestry owner on lines 482–492. The parent-death child on lines 179–206 has a timeout of 500 iterations, so it does not have this problem.

Add a bound to the wait loops, as the parent-death fixture already does.

Proposed fix
-      while [ ! -e "$stop" ]; do sleep 0.02; done
+      n=0
+      while [ ! -e "$stop" ] && [ "$n" -lt 1500 ]; do sleep 0.02; n=$((n + 1)); done

Make this change in both racing launchers and in the ancestry owner.

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Review comment at @tests/fm-prelaunch.test.sh around lines 413 - 458:
Bound the stop-file polling loops in both launchers within
test_race_dead_owner_pid_reuse_and_ancestry and in the ancestry owner fixture so
they cannot run indefinitely; follow the existing parent-death fixture’s
bounded-wait pattern.

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