Anchoring every pair on the `/` spelling passed under a fix that only
taught the slug about `/` — and that fix still collapses `acme-widgets#9`,
`acme_widgets#9` and `acme.widgets#9` onto one marker. Found by mutating
the implementation to that cheap fix and watching the suite stay green on
the cases that matter. The contract is that no two distinct parses
collide, so the assertion is now every pair.
Refs #252
The marker claimed to be scoped to the parsed set's value and was scoped
to a lossy rendering of it: `tr -c '[:alnum:]' '-'` maps `acme/widgets#9`
and `acme-widgets#9` — both parses this reconciler accepts — onto one
marker, so a declaration edited between them found the old echo and said
nothing. Silence in exactly the case the echo exists to speak about.
The identity is now a digest of the exact rendered set. The readable slug
stays in front of it and decides nothing. Distinguishing `/` would have
closed the reported pair and left the class: `-`, `_` and `.` are all
legal in a qualifier and all collapse the same way, so all four are
pinned, and the sweep probe observes the second echo actually landing.
Refs #252
The idempotency contract is the marker's scope, so both directions are
pinned: an unchanged set must reuse its marker (or a 15-minute cron
repeats itself forever) and a changed one must not (or a misparse hides
under a marker the thread already carries). crew#308's negated clause is
replayed through the sweep, and the empty parse is echoed beside the
untouched `blocked-unparseable` flag.
Refs #252
The clause parse is exact and unforgiving, and its output was invisible:
every incident in this class was found by a human running the parser by
hand, hours or days late. The sweep now states what it read — one marker
comment per distinct parsed set, comment-only, no label writes.
Refs #252
The per-read guards closed the reported class — a failed read never reaches
a decision function — and left one layer standing. A pass could mutate and
only THEN reach a guarded read, fail it, and report the issue as skipped:
`stale` removed, or `needs-triage` minted, under a log line saying the
sweep had touched nothing. That is the same false report #247 exists to
close, told from the other end, and the panel reproduced it on four
separate compositions.
Fixed as the ordering invariant rather than per site. Inside
reconcile_issue_pass's subshell, run() and log() stage their effects, and
commit_staged_effects replays them in order once the pass has completed.
skip_issue emits its own line directly and exits, so the buffer dies with
the subshell. A skip therefore implies zero `gh issue edit`, zero
`gh issue comment`, and no log line about a mutation that never landed —
for compositions nobody has written yet, because reconcile_issue has no way
to mutate directly. Reads stay where they are: they may happen anywhere,
since nothing lands until the end.
Stated per site it would hold until the next composition. Two consequences
worth naming: reconcile_ruling is covered without touching lib/ruling.sh,
because it posts through the sourcing script's run()/log() — the PR surface
keeps its own and is unaffected; and a genuine crash mid-pass now also
lands nothing, where before it left the earlier mutations applied. D4's
handler string, D6's tail and D7's exit 0 are all unchanged, and the
healthy path is byte-identical: every staged write commits under the same
`>/dev/null` its call site already applied.
Refs #247
The sourced stub returned a literal `[]` to --jq callers when a fixture
was missing, where the real API answers an empty list and the filter
yields nothing. last_issue_activity then sorted `[]` beside an ISO-8601
timestamp — and `[]` outsorts a timestamp in the C locale but not in a
UTF-8 one, so the sweep dated an issue by a stub artifact on the runner
and by created_at here.
The old code swallowed the resulting `date` failure and graded the claim
on a literal 0 anyway; #247's guards turn a failed read into a skip,
which is what made the lie visible. Adopt the arrival stub's shape.
Suite green under LC_ALL=C, C.UTF-8 and en_US.UTF-8.
Refs #247
The .http-error mode applies a requested --jq filter to the error body,
so a failing comments read returns nothing rather than a JSON blob —
which is what let last_issue_activity fall back to created_at and
reclaim a live claim. With it, all three of the issue's must-fail-before
cases fail against the pre-change script, the destroyed claim included.
Pin offsite_timeline's own deliberate silence directly: the activity
read hits the same endpoint, so probe 32 now skips before the offsite
verification it used to reach (D8 leaves that read alone).
Refs #247
The PATH-stubbed gh gains a `.http-error` mode: the response body goes
to STDOUT, the reason to stderr, the status non-zero. The existing
`.error` sentinel produces empty stdout, which is the *safe* path — an
empty label set either way — and is why this class was never caught.
The three must-fail-before cases, plus the 200-`null` path a status
check alone leaves open, the suppressed-marker duplicate, the D6 tail's
count and numbers, and the crash handler proven distinct from a skip.
Refs #247
`gh api` prints a 5xx response body to stdout AND exits non-zero, and
GitHub's 5xx body is a JSON object. Inside the per-issue subshell that
payload passed `has("pull_request") | not`, emptied `.labels[]`, and
`queue_decision` — correct on the input it was handed — wrote
`needs-triage` onto a healthy epic. The run then logged `reconciled.`
and exited 0 (crew#329, #247).
errexit could not have caught it: a command whose status is tested by
`||` runs with errexit suppressed, and the suppression extends through
the whole subshell body, so the `|| log` handler is what disables the
errexit that would have aborted at the failed read. Removing the handler
revives errexit and loses #91's resilience, and an inline `set -e` does
not re-arm it. Explicit per-read checks are the mechanism.
Every read inside that subshell is now checked — the issue read on its
status AND on its payload shape (an HTTP 200 whose body is `null` exits
0 and empties the label set just the same), both reads in
`last_issue_activity`, and the comments read in
`issue_comment_has_marker`. On failure the issue is left exactly as it
is, the reason rides its own `#$n:` line, and the subshell exits with a
distinguished status the sweep counts, so a deliberate skip is not
reported as a crash and a genuine crash is still named byte-identically.
`read_failure_reason` moves to lib/read.sh beside a new `guarded_read`,
sourced by both reconcilers: labels-reconcile's copy was the only one,
and the issue surface needs the identical rule.
Refs #247
The predicate's fixtures cannot see the read that sets HEAD_COMMIT_AT, so a
sweep probe drives it both ways: read, and the blocker is written off a dated
head; denied, and the denial is named on its own line while the state still
converges — this read narrows one blocker, it does not skip the PR the way an
unreadable rollup does. Renaming the assignment reds the probe.
The read also moves after the mergeability/checks skip: a PR the sweep walks
away from must not pay for a call whose only consumer is a blocker that pass
will never decide.
Refs #236
The six cases the issue names, plus the boundary (the grace is inclusive), a
verdict inside the window against an old head, both unreadable timestamps, and
the configured-grace override.
Two proofs run rather than asserted in prose: a copy of the script with the
gate removed must flag the PENDING fixture, and a copy with the grace removed
must flag the inside-the-window one. The harness checks itself against the
unmutated copy first, or a flip would prove nothing.
The pre-#236 stall fixtures gain real timestamps. Their symbolic stamps are
not unreadable — GNU date reads `t1` as 01:00 in military timezone T, a time on
whatever day the suite runs — so a grace measured against a fixed NOW would
flip with the calendar. Every assertion is byte-identical.
Refs #236
`blocker:unrequested` is the one blocker that names an act the author must
perform, and it never knew whether performing it was permitted. BUILDER.md's
review round requires a green check at the head before requesting, so a
builder waiting out a pending run is complying — and the blocker fired on
compliance (crew#318 ~12:44Z, ceremony#235 12:30Z, both 2026-08-03).
Gate the branch on CHECKS ∈ SUCCESS | NONE (D1): PENDING is CI's move, which
state:addressing already says, and FAILURE belongs to blocker:ci-red rather
than to a second label on the same stall. Then require the supporting facts —
the head's own date and the round's newest submitted review — to have stood
for RECONCILE_UNREQUESTED_GRACE (default 300s, D2), measured off those
timestamps because this sweep is stateless per pass. A timestamp that cannot
be read refuses the blocker.
Refs #236
issue_probe's merged-PR argument becomes a spec list — `PR` or `PR@<iso>`
— so a probe can state merge order; the bare form keeps every existing call
site literal.
The direct-drive cases cover crew#176's shape (the lower number merged
later), agreeing orders, interleaved issues, the mergedAt tie broken by
highest PR number under both input orders, and the empty answer. The
end-to-end probe is crew#321's: a marker already standing for the
later-merged, lower-numbered PR must suppress the transition, which
selecting by number could never do.
Two static pins keep the request count honest — the sweep issues exactly two
GraphQL queries, with mergedAt selected on the merged-PR node it already
fetched.
Refs #242
post_merge_pr_for_issue answered "which merged Refs PR is this issue's
deliverable?" with sort -n | tail -n1. Merge order is not number order:
crew#176's two Refs PRs merged #184 at 19:05:16Z and #182 at 19:05:18Z.
MERGED_REF_PR_RECORDS gains mergedAt as a third column — a field on the
merged-PR node set already fetched, so no additional GraphQL request — and
the selection sorts on it, breaking ties by highest PR number so the answer
never depends on input order.
Refs #242
LABELS.md asserted 'nothing in actions/ sets, clears, reads, or validates
it' and then documented two exceptions to itself four sentences later. The
sentence is false on two of the four verbs: issueflow-reconcile.sh clears a
carried attention on the derived claimed -> post-merge transition and reads
it to gate the post-merge-assigned diagnostic. Keep the hand-set intent,
drop the absolute (#231).
The #226 delta sits behind reconcile_ruling's needs-ruling gate and this
board has no such item — the post-merge sweeps ran the file, never the
delta. The record now says what was observed and why the live claim is
unreachable (round 1, claude).
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Five fragments assembled into '## 0.5.0 — 2026-08-03' (#205#216#221#224#226); VERSION to bare 0.5.0; the three CEREMONY_SELF_REF carriers
stamped "0.5.0" in this one commit; the panel-rows unreleased marker in
docs/CONSUMERS.md cleared to name 0.5.0; drills/0.5.0.md records the
doors-unchanged ruling with the measurements as they are at 0ac3a6f.
Refs #233.
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Closes-adjacent contract in the PR body; authorizing issue #226.
ruling_escalation_row scored every setter in-window row 0-4 by the shared
field matcher; highest wins, equal scores break to the earliest epoch, an
undecodable body scores 0. ruling_shape_decision now grades through the
same matcher, so the selector and the check cannot drift (crew#293).
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The reorder let a draft with a live human request plus a standing block
or comment fall through to round_state, whose human-request precedence
sits above BLOCK/FEEDBACK — 224 of claude's 1500 fixture cases read
needs-human on a PR GitHub cannot merge. decide_state now disqualifies
needs-human unconditionally under DRAFT=true, landing on
state:addressing like the blocker/needs-ruling/blocked clauses. The two
new rows assert the criterion where it can actually fail: human
requested x {CHANGES_REQUESTED, COMMENTED}. Also grok's nit: the
bootstrap row for state:building now matches LABELS.md (draft is
evidence, not the definition), and the CONSUMERS.md reflow nits are in.
Refs #205
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panel[z]]=b parsed at the round-1 head: the case pattern only proves
some ]= occurs, so the stray ] stayed inside the login and the real
author silently fell back to the base panel — the misroute D4 exists to
refuse. The login charset is now enforced with the bracket-specific
diagnostic; codex's probe and an invalid-character row are the new
must-fail fixtures.
Refs #224
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The ruling from discussion #171 as ruled: canonical text in REVIEWER.md
§What you review against item 2 (beside the verify-at-pin sub-bullet it
is the sibling of), short form in BUILDER.md §Building pointing at it.
CONTRIBUTING.md and docs/CONSUMERS.md checked for contradiction or
duplication: none — their pin prose is the mirror/caller pinning rule —
so both are deliberately untouched.
Refs #216
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Each marker now says available-at-tag in the guide's existing L420
phrasing, verified by tag containment in #221; every never-mix-refs
sentence survives verbatim. The convention paragraph gains its missing
half: the release PR that ships machinery clears, in that same PR,
every marker its assembled section makes false.
Refs #221
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round_outranks_draft consults the round before draft short-circuits: a
re-drafted PR carrying CHANGES_REQUESTED, an owed round-reply, or
push-staled approvals reads state:addressing; a live panel request on a
draft surfaces as state:bots-reviewing rather than being absorbed
(the must-not-paper-over combination, decided as: visible). Approvals do
not outrank draft, so a draft never reads needs-human, and a virgin
draft is byte-identical to before. LABELS.md's state:building row makes
draft evidence, not the definition.
Refs #205
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One resolution point (panel_for_author) feeds set_required_bots; the
author's row when the conf defines one, the base panel= otherwise, minus
the author in either case. Bracket prefixes are matched quoted so the
case patterns cannot glob (D7, panela= tripwire). configured_label_rows
skips the rows so a dispatch bootstrap cannot mint a label named after
one. BUILDER.md/REVIEWER.md carry the one D9 wording; CONSUMERS.md
publishes the row as unreleased with the parse-failure warning.
Refs #224
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