@andres ruled option A (#5631): one standing never-archived repo. This is the
runbook half.
The distinction the document exists to make: a drill is disposable by design
and ends with the builder archiving it. This venue is the opposite — it exists
so that runner-only facts can be measured on demand, and archiving it defeats
the purpose. That is not hypothetical: all three drill repos were archived
correctly, by the rule, and each then had to be un-archived or replaced. The
request came three times in two days across #192 and #198 and never became
anything.
What the runbook pins, all of it measured rather than asserted:
* a probe MUST run as an Actions job under ${{ github.token }} — the same
DELETE answers 500 there and 204 under a PAT, so a probe run any other way
produces a confident wrong answer;
* probe results are written into the forge, not left in a job log, because
logs age out and #192's run 701 survived only because it wrote into an
issue;
* no probe touches ceremony's own board — the venue exists so the live board
is not the fixture;
* the three probes it already owes (#192's live label lift, #205's dispatch
measurement, a 0.6.0 consumer exercise after #198).
STANDING THE REPO UP IS THE OPERATOR'S STEP, and this is the part I could not
do rather than the part I chose not to. Measured today with this identity:
POST /api/v1/orgs/heavy-duty/repos -> 403 not allowed in organization
POST /api/v1/user/repos -> 201 personal namespace only
Same shape as the drill delete: a deliberate boundary, not a misconfiguration.
The runbook says so, says not to retry it, and says not to work around it by
using a personal namespace where the org's runner and secrets do not reach.
test/run.sh 22/22, shellcheck 0.10.0, actionlint, self-ref all clean.
Refs #202
The section is re-assembled: main's merge base now carries two fragments
(188.md and 191.md), so 0.4.1 publishes with the door port it actually
ships, and neither fragment survives its own release.
drills/0.4.1.md takes main's two-run record, with run 1's disclosures
restored — the scratch repo it used, its candidate ref, and the ~8 minutes
it spent public to read job logs. A later success does not retire a
disclosed deviation.
Codex (!194#1588) is right on the text: #191's criterion is a drill that
runs all six probes with 1 and 5 passing, not two probes passing and four
recorded. Probe 2 (mislabeled ordinary PR) and probe 4 (a re-run of the
completed ceremony) were run on the same consumer, un-archived for them and
archived again after.
Probe 4 diverges in mechanism because Forgejo 8.0.3 has no run-rerun API:
the ceremony was re-run by reproducing its input rather than replaying the
run. The record says so, and says which assert refused.
#191's last acceptance criterion was a live drill against the MERGED tree,
not the candidate. Run against `fda5657`:
probe 1 merge door one release 0.4.1, changelog body, main re-armed
to 0.4.2-dev, both assets uploaded
probe 3 no label refused, nothing created
probe 5 tag door 0.5.0 published, main VERSION untouched
probe 6 bad tag refused, nothing created
The fixture carried an artifact hook this time, dropping `drill asset.tgz`
and `a&b.tgz`. Both survived under those exact names — the encoding fix
proven end to end, in the place it would have failed: after the tag exists,
mid-publish.
The record keeps run 1 (the failure at 9a229ee) beside run 2, because the
failure is why #191 exists and a record that quietly replaced it would be
the kind of tidy history this repo refuses.
Refs #191
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The drill ran and FAILED, and the record says so. Merge door: lib/facts.sh
reads the release label with `gh api`, the runner image has no gh, the fact
comes back "no", and decide fail-closes on a wrong fact — reproduced twice.
Tag door: clears every gate the merge door fails, then dies at
`gh release create`.
Release count in the scratch repo at the end: 0. Every refusal created
nothing, which is the property the drill exists to check.
drill-recorded wants a record, not a passing result — this is the honest
one, and it says 0.4.1 cannot publish from this instance until facts.sh and
the publish call sites are ported off gh.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both 0.2.0 drills ended at the same wall independently: bot tokens
deliberately lack delete_repo, so 'it gets deleted at the end' named a
step no builder in this fleet can perform. One drill held its release
draft in state:building retrying a 403 that cannot succeed; the other
shipped a record asserting a delete that had not happened. Step 1 now
names archive (archived:true, inside the repo scope) as the builder's
end state and the delete as the operator's, states that cleanup gates
nothing, and says why the archived leftover is safe to leave. The
record now states the disposal its author actually observed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bootstrap arms with a preamble plus changelog.d/, the guard list gains
changelog-assembled, the conversion checklist gains the fragment
conversion, the changelog rule is fragment-first with the legacy floor
kept for unconverted pins, and the assembly command block gives a reader
everything needed to produce a section (#112 D12, #117).
drills/0.1.0.md — six probes plus (g), run on the disposable scratch repo
against the candidate SHA, every refusal checked for droppings; the pin
deviation (fork ref, CEREMONY_SELF_REF -> candidate SHA in both carriers)
recorded under its own heading per triage's ruling on #11. drills/README.md
gains the first-release caveat that ruling asked for: the first drill can
never take the pure pinned consumer path, and must not fix that by putting
a tag-shaped branch in the canonical ref namespace.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
VERSION at 0.1.0-dev, the armed CHANGELOG.md, drills/README.md (what a
drill means here), the self-callers (self-release.yml, self-labels.yml —
local uses:, the one form consumers must never copy), .github/labeler.yml
for the scope job, and the three self-guards in CI. labels.yml gains the
self-consumption bypass (release.yml's twin) so the label bootstrap can run
before any release tag exists; action-exercise's armed/drill-recorded
scratch steps move to self-guards per their own eviction note.
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