Extract labels_are_a_retired_default and assert the four cases a grep pin
cannot: pre-#144 matches, current default does not, custom --labels does
not, near-miss does not. Addresses the remaining REQUEST_CHANGES on !146.
Refs #144
Plain converge comparing RECORDED to the current default nags every runner
registered with intentional --labels (including drill Leg 3). Match known
past DEFAULT_LABELS strings instead — same intent, no noise. Changelog
split per review.
Refs #144
act-22.04 jobs are uid 0, so "must run as root" is never the next gate after
--version validation. Accept the unattended-token refuse when already root;
keep the non-root arm for GitHub-hosted runners.
Refs #144
Option B (andres ruling): keep act-22.04 for ubuntu-latest so box-class
ci tenants can hold the image; workflows supply tools the slim image
lacks. Opt-in ubuntu-latest-full for operators who need GH parity.
Plain converge warns when recorded labels lag the current default map.
Refs #144
kimi was right that inline_undo_is_sealed matched itself: it grepped the whole
file for a string that appears inside its own body, so it succeeded on every
tree forever. Their suggested anchoring had the identical flaw for the identical
reason — any literal this function searches for necessarily appears in this
function — which I only found by running their probe and watching the pin stay
green while the behavioural test went red.
So it locates the real check by line number and reads only that block. head -1
takes the site at :202, never this body at :3311.
Driven, since a pin nobody has watched fail is not a pin: deleting the :205
wiring now fails exactly this check, and deleting all three seals fails all
three. That is the third vacuous guard I have written on this branch family;
the comment says why the obvious shapes do not work, so the next person does
not rediscover it a fourth time.
Refs #136
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
codex and kimi both drove the same experiment: delete the two wiring lines this
branch adds and the suite stays 786/786 on any host without a real Forgejo
runner. Hermetic today, unpinned tomorrow — and #136's task list names the
guard verbatim: "a check that fails if either group can see host state".
Three checks assert the suite's own helpers keep their seals: undo() passes
RIG_FORGEJO_RUNNER_DIR, cibox_run() passes CIBOX_BIN, and the hand-rolled undo
invocation behind "failed logout is loud" passes it too — that third one being
the site I missed first time round, which is exactly why it earns a check
rather than a comment.
They assert on the test side deliberately: the production knobs are already
covered, and the regression worth catching is a deletion in the suite.
Verified by re-running codex's experiment: with both wiring lines gone, the two
seal checks fail where previously nothing did.
Refs #136
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
codex and kimi are right: the four checks proved the LINES EXIST and nothing
proved they fire only when the unit is active. kimi deleted the state guard and
the suite stayed 790/790 green, so the boundary #133 cares about most — no
misleading liveness note on an absent or inactive unit — was unprotected. #133's
own test plan says driven, not grepped where behaviour can be executed, and this
was the line it crossed.
The note is now a function, which is what makes the boundary executable, and
the suite drives it on active (note present, remedy named), inactive (empty)
and unset (empty). Removing the guard now fails two checks instead of none.
The no-warn and no-network guards stay greps: those properties are source-level
by nature, as kimi noted.
Two things I got wrong on the way, both caught by running it rather than
reading it: the function was defined below its call site (shellcheck SC2218),
and the block reused $WORK, which is rm -rf'd at :3206 long before it — so it
now takes its own scratch dir like the file's other fixtures.
Refs #133
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
ProtectHome=read-only made the whole home read-only and only RUNNER_DIR was
punched back through, so forgejo-runner could not create $HOME/.cache and
disabled its cache server on every install. actions/cache was silently off on
every rig-installed Forgejo runner, evidenced by one error line in the journal
while `status` reported a healthy runner.
Both halves are required, and the obvious one-line version is WORSE than the
bug: a ReadWritePaths entry naming a path that does not exist makes systemd
refuse to start the unit at all — "Failed to set up mount namespacing", three
restart attempts, service down. Measured on a live runner before writing this.
So the directory is created at install, owned by the runner user like
RUNNER_DIR beside it, and the unit lists it. ProtectHome stays read-only: the
runner supervises job containers on this box's docker socket, and the cache is
not a reason to widen that.
Verified live from scratch: directory removed, unit removed, converge, then
zero cache-server errors and the two cache listeners bound.
Closes#135
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
13 checks failed on any box with a Forgejo runner installed — which is
exactly a box that has been drilled or used as a ci-box. Unmodified main,
773/13 on this machine.
Seven bootstrap --undo checks fell through to the real host scan. The
production code already ships the escape hatch and documents it —
bootstrap-undo.sh:33, "RIG_FORGEJO_RUNNER_DIR mirrors RIG_RUNNER_DIR above so
tests can point this at a fixture" — and the suite simply never set it. One
check rebuilt its env by hand instead of using undo(), so it needed the same
variable a second time.
Six ci-box checks drove the real template installer, which correctly exits 0
when /usr/local/bin/forgejo-runner already exists. CIBOX_BIN is a test-only
override in the same spirit; the production default is untouched and remains
the only path the mechanism uses.
Neither guard is disarmed: driven for real, undo still refuses while a runner
exists, and the template installer still does nothing when the binary is
present. Removing either override brings its failures straight back (7 and 6).
Closes#136
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
status reports `systemctl is-active` as the service line, and that is the
strongest health signal it has — the command reads only on-disk config, by
contract. But a poller can go quiet while the process stays up: measured
2026-07-30 while probing for #129, a daemon logged "[poller] launched" and
never fetched a job dispatched four minutes later, while a daemon started
fresh claimed that same queued task in one second. Both times it read as a
label-mapping bug on the forge, which is the wrong place to look.
Says so where an operator already looks when nothing is obviously wrong, and
names the remedy. log, not warn: an idle-but-healthy runner is silent in
exactly the same way a stalled one is, so there is no signal separating them
and a warning on every run would be crying wolf.
No network call and no token read — the header contract, and test/cli.sh's
existing guard, both stand.
Refs #133
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
claude REQUEST_CHANGES on 1c9a245: the all-candidates-fail path still
interpolated multi-line BOX_MANUAL into one warn, orphaning the or: line
and leaving try: non-pasteable on the default host.
- box_manual_emit log|warn prints one recovery line at a time
- single-candidate hosts (GitHub) get a bare pasteable command (no try:)
- multi-candidate keeps try:/or: prefixes
- never ${BOX_MANUAL} inside a log/warn string
- cli.sh asserts the emission invariant
codex REQUEST_CHANGES on !114 / #125: multi-candidate recovery was
rendered as `curl A | bash; if that 404s: curl B | bash`, which
`bash -n` rejects (exit 2). Operators on RIG_SKIP_BOX_INSTALL / no-curl
/ all-candidates-failed paths were handed non-executable recovery.
- box_manual_cmd / box_manual_text: one pasteable command per candidate
- display as separate `try:` / `or:` lines (newlines, no prose join)
- post-probe rewrite still collapses to the URL that worked
- execution tests: both Forgejo URLs visible; each command passes bash -n
Claude re-review on c7d56d3:
- Group the installer-fn extracts in test/release.sh (SC2129).
- BOX_MANUAL on multi-candidate hosts lists every URL so BOX_REF=main
never hands the operator only a 404ing /raw/tag/ form.
- Execute box_install_urls under the harness (tag-before-branch order).
- Cover Forgejo's no-release 404 path in resolve_latest_tag.
Address codex REQUEST_CHANGES + claude's live Forgejo measurements:
- ref_candidate_urls is host-only: same refs/tags then refs/heads on every
forge (Forgejo serves both paths; bare /archive/<ref> no longer special).
- bootstrap box raw fetch tries /raw/tag/ then /raw/branch/ and never
guesses kind from spelling; download is separate from execute.
- BOX_HOST defaults through RIG_HOST; comments narrow the zero-GitHub claim
(box@0.9.0 installer still hardcodes GitHub for its archive).
- SC2016 suppressions on the new grep assertions; tests updated.
install.sh resolves releases and archive URLs through RIG_HOST (default
GitHub), using Forgejo's single /archive/<ref>.tar.gz form and the same
/releases/latest redirect grammar. Bootstrap's box fetch gets BOX_HOST
with forge-aware raw-file URLs. Refusal hints and coolify Documentation=
stop pointing only at GitHub.
Closes#111
The six ceremony actions in ci.yml are step `uses:` references, and a bare
step reference resolves through FORGEJO__actions__DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL — which
this forge points at code.forgejo.org, where heavy-duty/ceremony does not
exist. Measured with a registered runner on the instance: `git clone
https://code.forgejo.org/heavy-duty/ceremony` -> 404, so every guard fails the
moment rig's own CI runs on the forge. Those six become absolute.
The two reusable-workflow callers do NOT move, and this is the correction to
the original "make all eight absolute" ruling. A reusable `uses:` never
consults DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL; it resolves against the runner's own instance,
so both callers already fetch ceremony from this forge and expand. Absolutising
release.yml's would actively break CI: ceremony's docs-sync reads rig's pin out
of that one line with a grep anchored to the bare spelling, so the prefix makes
the pin invisible and docs-sync exits 1 with "no pin line ... found none".
actions/checkout@v4 stays bare in all three places — the mirror serves it, and
that is exactly what DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL is for. The pin stays @0.3.0
throughout; no .ceremony/ edit, no pin bump.
test/cli.sh pins all three shapes, including the docs-sync grep verbatim, so
ceremony's parser and rig's caller cannot drift apart silently.
Refs #112
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Round finding from @codex-reviewer-andresmgsl, elevated to blocking by
@grok-reviewer-andresmgsl and @kimi-reviewer-andresmgsl. Unanimous, and right.
creds.md called the registration token "short-lived" and said it was "consumed
at registration". Both are GitHub's facts, copied across the forge boundary
with the rest of the sibling's shape. Forgejo's primary source, read rather
than inferred:
models/actions/runner_token.go — ActionRunnerToken has NO expiry field. Only
IsActive, Created, Updated. NewRunnerToken flips IsActive false on prior
tokens at the same scope and only there, so a token dies when somebody mints
its replacement, never on a clock.
routers/api/actions/runner/runner.go — Register reads the token, refuses it
when !IsActive ("please use the latest one"), and returns WITHOUT setting
IsActive = false. Registration does not spend it. One token registers as many
runners as it is shown to.
So it is long-lived and reusable — the precise opposite of the adjective, and
GitHub's really does expire in about an hour, which is why runner-install.sh is
correct to use it.
This is not a wording nit because of where the wording lives. creds.md is
spliced into the ci-box's own CONTEXT.md: it is the paragraph an agent INSIDE
the box reads about its own credentials. Telling that reader the token
self-expires is telling it a leaked one stops mattering on its own, while it is
still registering runners.
Pinned, not merely fixed, per codex's ask — the phrase arrived by copying from
the GitHub sibling, so the same copy can bring it back. Four rows: absence from
both files, and presence of the true claim, so the pin cannot be satisfied by
deleting the sentence instead of correcting it. The first draft of the CIBOX
pin was a phrase match and passed against the exact text it was written to
catch — the old wording wrapped across two comment lines. It is a plain absence
check now, and the file explains the ban without spelling the word.
Mutation-checked: all four go red against the old wording, green after.
Self-review of the whole head after the panel converged. One real defect,
reproduced verbatim before it was touched.
runner_version_of is a pipeline, and every forgejo-runner-* command runs under
set -euo pipefail. When the binary exits non-zero the pipeline fails, and
`PRESENT_VER="$(runner_version_of "$BIN")"` is an ASSIGNMENT — so install died
at that line, exit 1, printing nothing at all. The lib documented the opposite
("empty when it cannot answer"), and the refusal written for exactly this case
twenty lines later — "the download landed but cannot run" — was unreachable
code that could never have fired.
The shape is not hypothetical. `[ -x ]` yes, runnable no is what a truncated or
wrong-arch download leaves behind, and a ci-box's template preinstalls the
binary at mint — so the silent death sat on the one path this command family
exists to serve.
json_field, two files away, already carries `|| true` with this reasoning
written above it: "callers run under set -e with pipefail, where a grep that
matches nothing would otherwise kill the script with no message". The same
guard, for the same reason, at both sites: the lib reader and install's own
read of --version.
The test could not have caught it. vparse drove the lib through `bash -c` with
NO shell options, and its "bad" stub exits 0 — it proved garbage-in-empty-out
in a permissive shell, which is not where the function is used. vparse now runs
under set -euo pipefail, and a stub that exits non-zero is a third row.
Mutation-checked: that row exits 1 against the unpatched lib and 0 against the
fixed one. Install's site is grep-pinned, since reaching it for real needs root
and a downloaded binary.
748 passed (was 746), release 31, drill 43, shellcheck clean.
Net-new review findings from grok and kimi on !110. Their items 1-3 were
codex's, already fixed in 1933b07; these are the ones only they raised.
grok #4 — the two downloaders would drift. docs/templates/ci-box/install.sh
and the download block in forgejo-runner-install.sh were near-copies, and grok
named the exact consequence with the exact evidence: fail-open survived in BOTH
while a grep for "checksum mismatch" passed against both, because the string it
looked for sat right beside the branch it could not see. The whole policy —
fetch, unreadable, mismatch — is now fetch_and_verify_sha256, byte-identical in
both files and diffed by test/cli.sh. They cannot share a lib: the command
sources commands/lib/, and the template is a registry definition that runs
standalone inside a mint with rig's tree nowhere in reach, which is the same
situation valid_version faces between bin/rig and install.sh. Mutation-checked
by drifting one copy's message and confirming the diff goes red.
kimi #2 — the labeler could not see this family. scope:runner matched
commands/runner-*.sh only, so forgejo-runner-*.sh and the staged ci-box
definition scored no scope at all. Globs extended and the label's description
now says either forge rather than GitHub.
kimi #4 — remove stranded a unit whose user was gone. The missing-user check
exited 0 before the unit was ever looked at, so a deleted account with a
leftover forgejo-runner.service reported "nothing to remove" while the
absence-assert that never ran implied the opposite. The unit is now checked
independently. Auditing that fix surfaced a hazard kimi did not mention: with
the user gone RUNNER_DIR is "", and the later unguarded "$RUNNER_DIR/.rig-labels"
would have expanded to "/.rig-labels" — an rm at the filesystem root, as root.
Every RUNNER_DIR path is now gated, and a test pins that none is unguarded.
kimi #1 — the README handed out a config that breaks rig's own gates.
DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL is a single fallback and rig's workflows need two origins;
measured: code.forgejo.org serves actions/checkout (200) but not
heavy-duty/ceremony (404), which lives on the Forgejo instance. With the value
the README recommended, all eight ceremony references fail to resolve. The
section now states the conflict with the counts, says which references would
break, and explicitly does NOT pick a side — that is an infra decision, and
rig's CI running on Forgejo is not something rig forgejo-runner depends on.
Asked the maintainer for direction.
746/31/43 pass, shellcheck clean, labeler.yml parses.
forgejo#109
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three defects from review !110, all the same family — a stated contract the
code did not keep.
--version was swallowed on the path this command exists for. The download
block skipped on mere presence, copying runner-install.sh's shape without its
justification: actions/runner SELF-UPDATES, so freezing it would only make
GitHub refuse its jobs. forgejo-runner does not self-update, so nothing else
ever moves the version — and a ci-box's template preinstalls the binary at
mint, which meant the documented deterministic-pin lever could never fire on a
ci-box. It now converges toward the pin, downward included, because a pin is
an instruction and not a floor; absent a pin an existing binary is left alone,
since chasing latest would make a re-run an unrequested upgrade. The decision
moved to runner_download_decision in the lib as a pure function: the first
attempt at a test here grepped for a log string and survived the logic being
disabled, which is exactly the weak test the review warned about. The binary
is now renamed into place rather than written over — the converge path runs
while the daemon is live, and in-place is ETXTBSY.
.rig-labels outlived the registration it described. The write had escaped the
registration branch, where runner-install.sh correctly keeps its copy, so a
plain re-run stamped this invocation's labels over a registration made with
different ones and status then reported confidently wrong labels while Forgejo
still held the originals. Scoped again, and an EXPLICIT --labels on a re-run
now warns that Forgejo owns labels from registration time rather than letting
the request evaporate silently.
The checksum gate failed open. A missing .sha256 warned and installed anyway,
contradicting both the README and the template's own comment about unverified
root downloads. The original reasoning — do not let an upstream layout change
break installs — reasons about the wrong failure: a layout change breaks the
BINARY url too, so "binary yes, checksum no" is the shape of an interfered
fetch, which is precisely what the checksum exists to catch. Both paths refuse
now, with no bypass flag; if upstream really moves its assets that is a rig PR
editing the URL, not an operator improvising past a security gate.
Tests: the checksum paths are now DRIVEN against a stub curl through the real
template install.sh — matching, missing, mismatched and empty — instead of
grepped, and all three fixes were mutation-checked by reverting each and
confirming the suite goes red.
739/31/43 pass, shellcheck clean.
forgejo#109
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
rig's CI story was GitHub-shaped end to end. This makes it work against a
self-hosted Forgejo, in three pieces.
The registry fetch becomes forge-aware. templates_resolve hardcoded three
github.com archive URLs; RIG_TEMPLATES_HOST now selects the grammar, because
the forges genuinely differ — GitHub serves refs/tags, refs/heads and bare
paths, Forgejo serves exactly one, and emitting the other two there would mean
two guaranteed 404s per fetch and a failure message listing URLs that never
could have worked. Measured against forgejo.heavyduty.builders, not inferred.
The default stays GitHub, so every existing caller is unchanged. install.sh's
snapshot reads the same variable through a byte-identical copy of the builder,
diffed by the tests: a snapshot cached from a forge converge would never fetch
from is worse than no snapshot, and the pin-in-the-name staleness guard cannot
catch a wrong-ORIGIN snapshot, only an old one.
ci-box is a tenant, not a machine role. The topology is a fleet machine
hosting boxes, one of which runs CI — a '-box' guest by rig's own family rule.
That also deletes the docker-in-docker layer the usual setup needs:
bootstrap-tenant.sh already installs Docker and adds the tenant user to the
group, and the isolation a privileged dind sidecar buys is already paid for by
a box that is network-isolated, inbound-less and disposable. rig runner
install refuses Docker for good reason — it converges a MACHINE, where the
blast radius is the machine. Here it is a guest that gets thrown away.
rig forgejo-runner is a new family beside rig runner, which is untouched.
Forgejo registers against an INSTANCE and the token carries the scope, so
there is no --repo to converge toward and nothing to compare; folding that
into one command would make every guard bimodal to share a flag name while the
contract underneath differs. assert_runner_instance asks the same
trust-boundary question about the axis Forgejo actually has. There is no
repoint and no --local, and both absences are explained where an operator
arriving from the GitHub sibling will hit them.
Forgejo's .runner holds the runner's own long-lived token, unlike GitHub's, so
it is installed 0600 and the mode is re-asserted on every converge — a mode
that drifted leaks the secret silently, since nothing fails and the runner
keeps working. status reports it and never prints the token.
Both downloads verify the published .sha256 before installing: this binary
lands as root and is executed by a systemd unit.
bootstrap --undo learns the guard for the same hazard on the other forge, and
it matters more here — Forgejo has no deregistration endpoint, so the ghost it
would strand has to be deleted by hand.
Known prerequisite, documented rather than assumed: the fetch is
unauthenticated by contract, and a Forgejo with REQUIRE_SIGNIN_VIEW=true
answers 404 for repos it reports as public. Hosting a registry there needs
FORGEJO__service__REQUIRE_SIGNIN_VIEW=false. The refusal names that case,
because it is indistinguishable from a wrong ref.
forgejo#109
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The service converge+assert block becomes converge_cron(), behavior-
identical, so test/cli.sh can lift it verbatim (the drop_incus precedent)
and drive it: the already-enabled/active re-run is a no-op, a disabled
stopped unit converges, and an unrecoverably masked or start-dead unit
dies nonzero naming cron and #162 — proven by execution, not only by
structural pins. The converge logs now state the probe fact instead of
claiming an unverified success (panel nit).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Agent tenants exist to run the cron-driven duty engine, and the engine's
installer runs unprivileged — it can detect a missing cron but never
apt-get it. Install cron with the shared toolbelt, then assert the
effective state, not the package: crontab on PATH AND cron.service
enabled and active, converging (unmask/enable/start) best-effort first.
A masked daemon with the binary present is exactly the silent-inert box
the issue reports, so the service asserts are the authority and either
failing dies naming cron.
staging-box stays exempt with the rest of the agent-assert block: no
agent, no duty engine. Machine roles (bootstrap.sh) are deliberately
not widened — the issue names tenants as the demonstrated gap.
Closes#162
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
json_string_array took the first "Tags" array anywhere in the document,
justified by Self-before-Peer field order. An untagged Self omits the key
entirely (Go omitempty), so the match fell through into Peer and returned
a peer's tag — false-refusing every login join and false-verifying
untagged authkey joins on any tailnet with a tagged node. Extract Self by
brace counting (Location nests an object, so slicing to the next key
would truncate) and read the array inside it.
Refs #160
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The suite drives the whole new surface without a network: the family-suffix
dispatch and hard cut, the marker guards firing with the registry
unreachable, the unknown-role refusal listing the resolved source, every
malformed-definition refusal named by key, DIR-vs-REF identity through a
stubbed curl (tags-first precedence pinned), the renderer's box#80 guard,
the one-line pin, and template-lint's whole gate.
Both fixture digests are computed outside the implementation, so a refactor
that changes the prefix, the hash or the slicing renames the whole fleet and
fails here. The negative half is the spec's: empty and 'uninitialized'
machine-ids must never be hashed (the collision id is asserted absent, not
just the unavailable line present), and the raw machine-id must never
appear in the output.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The fourth agent tenant, through the one parameterized mechanism
(lib/tenant-config.sh + bootstrap-tenant.sh) — never a fifth
hand-maintained copy. The official installer (code.kimi.com/install.sh)
is uv-managed and lands kimi in ~/.local/bin, run as the tenant user
(grok's lesson: a root-owned install under a 0700 home is a CLI that
exists and cannot run); no node, uv brings its own Python. The context
file lands at ~/.kimi/AGENTS.md — the <dotdir>/AGENTS.md convention —
with an honest note that kimi documents only project-level AGENTS.md
today.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`sshd -t` folds two questions into one exit code — is the merged config
parseable, and is the privilege-separation directory there. Both call
sites ran it as `sshd -t 2>/dev/null` and read any non-zero exit as the
first question's answer, discarding the line that named the second.
Bootstrap aborted with "sshd rejects the merged config", a verdict sshd
never reached, and sent the operator to audit /etc/ssh files that were
never broken. /run is a tmpfs and /run/sshd is ssh.service's
RuntimeDirectory, so it is legitimately absent under socket activation
on a box whose SSH door is serving connections normally.
Classification is now a pure, sourceable sshd_privsep_gap: the status is
the verdict, the text only classifies a failure, so a passing sshd -t is
never diverted. sshd_config_ok repairs the gap with an idempotent
install -d and retests once. A genuine parse refusal still refuses and
the rollback is untouched.
Refusals now carry sshd's own stderr. users-close-root had the identical
three lines and now reaches the shared judgement through lib/sshd.sh
instead of keeping a second copy of it.
Fixes#92
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
manifest_value, manifest_has and manifest_foreign each read the file with a
bare `while read`, which stops at EOF without ever handing over a populated
partial line. An unterminated final line therefore read as ABSENT — and
absent is exactly the input both convergence rules key off, so the file's
last line was the one least able to survive the miss.
Three failures, in descending order of how much they cost:
- A file truncated mid-write ends AT bootstrapped_at, so the unreadable line
is the birth stamp itself. Rule 1 saw no at-stamp and regenerated the pair
as now() — overwriting the one field that can never be reconstructed. A
fixture born 2020-01-01 came back stamped with the current clock.
- A whole file whose last line is converged_at read as empty, so Rule 2's
one-time repair re-fired on EVERY run: the render stopped being a function
of (existing file, running version) and the clock reached the file after
all. This is the crux property of the feature, broken by a missing byte.
- manifest_foreign dropped an unterminated foreign line entirely, so the
writer ate a later command's provenance — the exact preservation contract
the function exists to keep.
The idiom is the repo's own: lib/users-config.sh:49 reads
`|| [ -n "$line" ]` for the same reason.
Reading the line correctly also repairs the file, since the rewritten copy
is newline-terminated — asserted as "the source plus the newline it was
missing, and nothing else", because a plain ends-in-newline check stays
green on an implementation that drops the final line.
7 tests, each observed RED against the unfixed reader.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A rig-managed machine recorded nothing about its own provenance. The entire
durable output of a bootstrap run was one line in /etc/rig/role, and that line
says what the box IS, never what built it. VERSION was read in exactly one
place (bin/rig:9, for --version) and reports the currently INSTALLED tree, not
the one that ran; there was no timestamp anywhere in the codebase.
bootstrap now stamps a second file beside the marker: schema=1, a birth pair
(bootstrapped_by/_at, pinned forever) and a latest pair (converged_by/_at).
key=value, one per line, 0644 — the one file that must stay readable on the
most broken machine in the fleet, where there is no YAML parser and no jq.
`rig manifest [<key>]` reads it back.
Only DECIDED facts go in, which is what keeps bootstrap.sh:3's convergence
contract intact: bootstrapped_* is first-write-wins, and converged_* updates
only when the version actually differs — it is the time the converging version
last changed, not the time of the last run. The renderer is pure, so a re-run
by the same rig is byte-identical no matter where the clock is, and the
cmp-guard stays silent. OBSERVED facts (cores, RAM, disk, kernel) stay out:
they go stale on their own and belong to `rig platform` (#64).
/etc/rig/role is untouched.
Closes#61
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous commit's test and README described a freshly bootstrapped
machine as lacking converged_* and rendering 'not recorded'. That pins the
wrong contract: #61 states plainly that "on a fresh machine both pairs are
written with equal values", and rule 2 only suppresses converged_* churn on
a later same-version re-run.
So two identical lines mean bootstrapped-and-never-re-converged, and a
manifest missing the pair is partial or hand-edited rather than fresh --
no writer produces it. The graceful degradation stays for that case, still
without backfilling from birth, which would invent a convergence that never
happened.
The reader itself was already correct; this fixes the fixture and the prose
that claimed otherwise.
Found in review of #74.
Refs #64
