Two advisory flags on the issue-flow sweep, the mechanical backstop for
#288's collision rule and #292's window rule. Both are prose today, and
both failed silently on the same morning: #284 was minted `ready` into a
file another issue held claimed with a PR in flight, and six `ready`
non-members raced an emptying gate. #262 measured the pattern — the same
class of rule, once in a guard, produced zero misses.
Comments only (D1): no label write, no state change, no new label. The
sweep never guesses intent; it states the board fact and triage resolves.
The collision key is the title's em-dash prefix NORMALIZED, because the
2026-08-04 miss spelled one deliverable two ways — `actions/issueflow-reconcile`
against bare `issueflow-reconcile` — so exact-prefix matching would have
missed the pair it was written for. One leading path segment comes off,
then every extension; a `+`-joined title matches on any segment.
The flag asks for a CHAIN, not a fan (#288 D3): within one key each issue
names the newest open carrier below it, so the declaration it asks for
releases exactly one successor per close.
A standing window is a release issue whose gate still holds an OPEN member.
The board read IS the open set, so membership decides openness with no
extra call, and an all-closed gate is the emptied gate the release's own
blocked -> ready promotion answers — which is why a `ready` release leaves
the flag dormant instead of flagging the whole board.
Dedup is the declaration echo's, extracted into state_marker /
state_echo_needed and scoped per family (D4): the marker is keyed to the
offending state's value and compared against that family's last word on
the thread, so a state that changes always speaks.
Fixtures replay the 2026-08-04 morning board whole and the post-ruling
board beside it: the first draws exactly four collision flags and six
window flags and writes not one label; the second draws none.
Closes#293.
Both checks ride the existing sweep walk and write nothing but comments
(#293 D1). The board read now answers the whole payload, because both
decisions are over the WHOLE board — every open issue's labels and title,
and every open release issue's body — and a second pagination for the same
rows would be a second board free to disagree with this one mid-sweep.
Fixtures still owed.
lib/attention.sh had #267 D4's premise exactly — both reconcilers source
it, nothing release-side does — and [scope:release-flow] alone was a
wrong answer of the class that decision exists to correct. The sweep
workflow pair joins beside its trigger pair (detached in #209), the
shared-lib tests take scope:labels alone (a test inherits no lib/**
glob), and D4's seven enumerated rows land one each. No catch-all, by
decision: both directories span all four scopes. Each of the 13 new map
rows is protected by its own assertion — deleted alone, each reds
exactly its case.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add the mint-time membership call, the sink/source/subset invariants, and the release note while the contradictory successor-count criterion awaits triage clarification.\n\nCloses #292.
The state-machine fixtures bound BOT1/BOT2/BOT3 to REQUIRED_BOTS by index off
the shipped .github/labels.conf, so three fixtures silently required a
four-member panel=. Shrinking it to three left the third slot unbound and
set -u aborted the file before assertion 1: 217 assertions became 0, on main
and on every branch cut from it.
The fixtures now write their own conf, in test/labels.test.sh's shape, at all
three load sites (top of file, the #205 re-drafted-round block, and the
mutant_blockers subshell). One live-file case survives as a property — the
shipped conf parses and recuses each member from its own panel — with no
index and no expected size, and a copy whose panel= names nobody proves it
still has teeth.
Refs #304
Claiming a needs-ruling issue dated it through the assigned timeline
event, silencing the 7-day escalation nudge at exactly the moment a
builder started working through it. The ruling block now reads
last_issue_comment_activity (D1); the reclaim clock keeps the assignment
(D2) because there the assignment IS the claim; post-merge hands its
evidence read to the ruling block instead of reading again (D6, D7); the
claimed branch reads both clocks at its top, before anything it posts.
LABELS.md and lib/ruling.sh now say what each surface's clock reads
(D4, D5). The #257-era order compositions move to the comments read —
the timeline is no longer an input the issue clocks take, and its
unreadability no longer holds unrelated writes hostage; that narrowing
is pinned rather than implied.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
The D3 guard loop passed the action path and its test path to derives in
one call. derive_labels emits scope:guards when either matches, so any one
of the six rows could be deleted with the case still green — three
assertions standing in for six rows. Split into one assertion per path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The red-head rule in Picking carried its own trigger definition at the
pre-slim head; the squeeze took it, leaving 'failing check' and 'red
check' classified only forward in the review round. At an all-cancelled
head that let parked shape 2 read satisfied on its face, parking a claim
the rule says is never parked (#163, #276).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
