The preflight half of #188, landed first so it stands alone: the forge is
decided once, before any sweep, and a client that cannot speak it exits
non-zero with a named reason.
Measured against forgejo.heavyduty.builders at 84bb1a4 — two of the three
actions reported SUCCESS having read nothing:
labels-scope exit 0 "no .github/labeler.yml" (the file is HTTP 200)
labels-reconcile exit 0 "reconciled." (zero PRs enumerated)
issueflow-reconcile exit 1 "unexpected end of JSON input"
labels-reconcile's blind-sweep warning (#96) could not fire: it counts
unreadable PRs against a list `gh pr list` never produced, and a process
substitution's failure does not trip set -e, so total stayed 0. Installing
gh makes it worse, silencing the one loud failure.
Detection is measured, not inferred from docs: a real forgejo-runner v6.3.1
job (probe task 278) shows Forgejo populating the whole GITHUB_* namespace,
so GITHUB_ACTIONS proves nothing. GITHUB_API_URL's shape, GITEA_ACTIONS and
GITHUB_SERVER_URL do. The same probe shows the runner image carries neither
gh nor stoke, which is what makes the forgejo backend REST.
Tests declare CEREMONY_FORGE at the forge boundary rather than stubbing gh
and staying silent about the forge — the boundary move term 5 asks for.
Refs #188
During the ceremony#111 freeze, rig#126/#128 carried blocked beside
state:needs-human — the round had finished, but the hold said the merge
must not happen, and rig#126 was merged seven minutes after the
reconciler wrote the green label. decide_state() only joined the two
axes through blockers(), which emits branch facts; the hand-set blocked
label was never consulted.
blocked becomes the second exclusion on state:needs-human, exactly
parallel to needs-ruling: round says needs-human + has_label blocked ->
state:addressing. Deliberately not a blockers() emission — BLOCKERS is
machine-owned and the converge loop would strip the live hold on the
next tick, the same trap #51 names for needs-ruling.
Ruling record: discussion 122, armed default A fired 2026-07-25T09:00Z.
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checks_state discards a CANCELLED entry only when its context group holds
at least one non-cancelled sibling — before the sort, so the duplicate the
repo-global reconcile queue evicted (after it had already attached a check
to the head) cannot outvote the success that did its work (#136a17e497,
#1334002924). An all-cancelled context never reported at all and still
classifies FAILURE; {FAILURE older, CANCELLED newest} keeps its red.
The fixture that pinned the opposite rule imagined a cancelled run
replacing a success; it never saw one that replaced nothing. Rewritten
with its reason, plus the recorded a17e497 shape, the all-cancelled
groups, and the cancelled-over-FAILURE case.
Closes#139
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bare X.Y.Z at the head where the base says otherwise, no release label,
not a draft: the sweep emits one :⚠️: per pass naming both
versions. A warning only — release is declared intent and the reconciler
never guesses intent (LABELS.md). Version read via the API, both
backends, jq not node; unreadable reads nag nobody. Plus the yq test
contract in CI and fixture tests for the guard matrix.
Part of #130.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The unit block now feeds blind_sweep_warning a sampled reason and asserts
the new lead plus two must-fail guards: the disproven 'grant checks: read
and statuses: read' diagnosis stated as fact goes red, and so does any
drift in the counted line's whole-line shape (exactly the blind PRs match,
no more, no less — a reason line that matched would double-count, a folded
reason would undercount). read_failure_reason is covered pure: D4 wording
for empty stderr, multi-line collapse to one line, 400 chars truncated to
300 plus ellipsis within the 304-byte bound, 300 passing through whole.
blind_main_probe's gh pr view stub now fails with a denial on stderr, the
way real gh fails.
Part of #101.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CI's shellcheck gate treats info findings as red. The gh() stubs paired
with bootstrap_labels are reached only through run's "$@", which
shellcheck cannot trace (the older probes stub reconcile_pr, which calls
gh directly), so they carry reasoned SC2317 directives; the LABELS.md
doctrine parse carries SC2016 for its literal backticks. Probes now live
in named functions, matching the house *_probe() pattern.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Registry-vs-LABELS.md identity, happy path, missing label, one-name 403,
DRY_RUN narration, and the executed-subprocess dispatch (#91's lesson: a
sourced probe cannot see set -e). Cron and pull_request_target delete
nothing. Verified red without the guard: the unguarded dispatch dies on
the FIRST absent label, one delete of six attempted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pure decisions (shape presence, rung boundaries, Default: parse for wording
only), sweep probes for every AC path (malformed-once, conforming silence,
rungs despite activity, cron progression, missed-moment skip, re-flag
episode, unreadable comment list, malformed+rung same pass), and the
existing nudge fixtures updated to conforming escalations with pre-seeded
rung markers so each probe observes one behavior alone.
Part of #73.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Real 'gh api --jq .[].created_at' on an empty collection emits no lines;
the stub printed a literal '[]', which under byte-wise collation sorts
after ISO-8601 timestamps and poisoned the PR-surface probe's
last_activity. Route the synthesized empty array through the same jq
projection as a present fixture, and pin the test's collation so the
verdict cannot flip with the runner's ambient locale.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Issue side: invariant-1 composition, the reclaim clock stopping under a
pending ruling (with a flag-free reclaim control), the stale heal, label
churn invisible to the activity clock, the surface-level nudge reset, and
no edit anywhere naming the flag. PR side: the wired nudge riding the
stale sweep's activity computation, one nudge across two sweeps, #51's
stale skip intact.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
