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Implements #61.

What it records, and why only immutable facts

/etc/rig/manifest, 0644, beside the marker and the users ledger:

schema=1
bootstrapped_by=0.4.0
bootstrapped_at=2026-07-19T14:24:51Z
converged_by=0.6.0
converged_at=2026-08-02T09:11:03Z

Two pairs — birth (the rig that first converged this machine, pinned
forever) and latest (the newest rig to have converged it). Equal on a
fresh machine: mild redundancy, in exchange for an audit file no reader ever
has to infer a missing field from. Both versions are captured at run time from
the running tree's VERSION, because a machine outlives the rig that built it
— rig --version after an upgrade answers a different question than either of
these, and it was the only place VERSION was read before this PR.

key=value, one per line, never JSON or YAML. Not a style preference: the
tree states the constraint three times already (lib/users-config.sh:6-12,
lib/runner-config.sh:6 and :24) — a rig-bootstrapped box has no YAML
parser and no jq, which is why json_field() is grep-and-sed. This is the
file that must be readable on the most broken machine in the fleet, so read
parses it for free.

The scope discipline is the whole trick and it is worth restating: facts
that are DECIDED go in the manifest; facts that are OBSERVED are computed at
run time and stored nowhere. Specs change without rig doing anything —
someone adds RAM, or the unattended-upgrades bootstrap.sh:198-201 itself
enables patches the kernel — so a stored spec is either stale or needs a
refresh on every run, and a refresh on every run is exactly what the next
section is about. Removing them removes the volatility problem instead of
managing it.

The crux: how convergence survives a timestamp

bootstrap.sh:3 promises "Convergent: safe to re-run; a second run changes
nothing", and the repo enforces it with a cmp -s guard before every file
install — nine sites. A naive converged_at=$(date) breaks that contract on
every single re-run: the file differs by a timestamp, the guard fires, and
rig reports a change it did not make. I suspect that is precisely why no
timestamp existed anywhere in this tree until now.

Two rules keep the clock out of the file:

Rule 1 — bootstrapped_* is first-write-wins. An existing bootstrapped_at
pins both birth fields verbatim. Regenerating birth as now() each run would
make every re-run a diff.

Rule 2 — converged_* moves only when the version actually differs.
converged_at is the time the converging version last changed, not the
time of the last run. If it tracked every run it would be a clock. So the
running VERSION is compared against the recorded converged_by; equal means
the pair is already true and is copied through untouched.

Under those rules a re-run by the same rig renders byte-identical content
and the guard stays silent, while a re-converge by a different rig renders
a real diff — and the guard firing there is correct rather than spurious. It
was only ever the clock that was the fake change, never the version. No
special case in the cmp-guard; it works unmodified.

How this is pinned, and why the obvious test would not have pinned it.
manifest_render <path> <version> <now> is a pure text→text function (repo
precedent: parse_users_file, assert_marker_human) — existing file plus
running version plus a clock reading in, desired content out, no side effects.
That makes the property directly assertable: render the same fixture twice
with two clock readings a year apart and diff. Byte-identical output means
the clock cannot reach the file at all.

That is deliberately stronger than the test one reaches for first. I wrote the
writer-level version too (stamp, stamp again, assert no byte changed) and
it is in the suite — but it passes even against a deliberately broken
implementation, because two stamps in the same second produce the same string
by luck. I confirmed that directly: with Rule 2 removed, the writer-level
assertions stay green and only the render-level ones go red. The clock-apart
diff is the assertion that actually bites, and I would not want a reviewer to
read the writer-level pair as the guarantee.

The RED drill. Both rules were verified to fail loudly before being
trusted:

Rule 2 deleted (converged_* recomputed unconditionally) → 4 RED:
byte-identical-across-a-year, reproduces-itself, foreign-keys-do-not-break-
convergence, and the-repair-settles.
Rule 1 deleted (birth regenerated every run) → 8 RED: the four above
plus both birth-stays-pinned assertions and both damaged-file repairs.

Reverted, 445 green.

The manifest vs. the marker

/etc/rig/role is not touched, per the issue. It has six readers —
warn_bootstrapped() (bin/rig:141-146), the tenant guard
(bootstrap-tenant.sh:109-123), assert_marker_human()
(lib/users-config.sh:120-147), install.sh:82-90 and four advisory sites —
and collapsing them is a separate, riskier change. The marker holds traits
(what this box is); the manifest holds provenance (what built it). Two
files, two jobs. A test asserts no code in the manifest lib reaches
/etc/rig/role or RIG_ROLE_MARKER, and another asserts the marker's own
cmp-guarded block is still there.

The manifest vs. `rig platform` (#64 / #74)

Complementary and non-overlapping by construction: decided vs observed.
The manifest stores provenance and nothing else; rig platform computes specs
and stores nothing. I have deliberately not touched rig platform's
surface — #74 is open and already reads a manifest through RIG_MANIFEST in
the flat key=value shape this PR writes, so it needs no change when either
lands. The two are independent in both directions.

rig manifest [<key>] is #61's own read-back surface and is not a second
platform: it prints the raw file, or one value alone so shell callers do not
re-parse. Whichever of the two PRs lands second will find the other already
compatible.

Judgment calls a reviewer should look at

1. Tenants get a manifest — the same one, unconditionally. This was an
open question in the issue. bootstrap-tenant.sh deliberately declines to
clobber a machine marker (:370), and I did not copy that gate. The reason
the marker needs it is that it holds competing traits: a guest's traits and
the traits it earns after an operator-run rig bootstrap workload join are two
statements about one box, so the marker has to pick the truer one. Provenance
has no such conflict — "which rig converged this guest, when" is a fact
whichever bootstrap ran, and the two-pair shape composes across them exactly as
designed: a staging guest later joined as a workload keeps the tenant
bootstrap as its birth (that genuinely is when this machine was first
converged) and the machine bootstrap moves converged_* forward. Copying the
gate would lose the birth stamp only that first run knows. One file, not a
tenant-shaped second one: the manifest answers a question about the machine,
and a guest is a machine; the marker already carries tenant=yes for anyone
who needs to know which kind.

2. Placement: immediately after the marker, not at the very end of the run.
The issue says "write last, and write nothing on a path that died", glossing
the marker's own discipline (bootstrap.sh:420-424). I read "last" as after
the tag verification and put the stamp directly beside the marker, so the two
land together and agree by construction. Trailing the box install and the
users phase would let a box exist with a marker and no manifest — and a box
whose people failed to converge was still converged by this rig at this
time. Stamping provenance is not a claim that everything after it succeeded;
the marker beside it makes exactly the same claim. A test asserts the stamp
follows verify_effective_tag, with a companion assertion that both grep
anchors were actually found (a silent-empty grep would make the ordering test
unfireable).

3. A birth stamp with no birth version records unknown, not today's. On
a hand-edited or truncated manifest carrying bootstrapped_at but no
bootstrapped_by, backfilling the running version would be a manifest that
lies about what built the box. unknown is the honest answer, and it is
stable across re-runs.

4. A downgrade is a change. converged_by is "the rig that last converged
this", not "the highest one ever seen" — rolling back with rig use and
re-converging is recorded, or the file would name a version that is no longer
what runs here. Tested.

5. The writer preserves keys it does not own. The schema promises readers
ignore unknown keys; that promise is worthless if the writer eats them. A
later command's runner_installed_at, or a key from a newer rig's schema,
survives a rewrite verbatim — and a file carrying foreign keys is still
byte-stable under a same-version re-render (both tested). This is what makes
the issue's "later commands may append their own provenance" future safe.

6. rig manifest <key> distinguishes absent from empty. $(...) collapses
both to "", so absence is the exit code and only a present key ever prints.
The key lookup is a string equality, never a pattern — operator input reaches
it, and a key of .* must find nothing rather than match line one. Tested.

What I deliberately left alone

/etc/rig/role — see above. Zero changes.
bin/rig:9's version() — it could now source the lib and share
manifest_running_version, but bin/rig sources no libs at all today and
making it do so for one cat is a structural change for a cosmetic win.
The three open-coded mkdir -p /etc/rig sites (bootstrap.sh,
bootstrap-tenant.sh:374, users-apply.sh:301). The issue invites factoring
them; I did not. The manifest writer does its own mkdir -p "$(dirname …)"
inside the lib — which it needs anyway to honour RIG_MANIFEST — and
rewriting three unrelated marker/ledger writes to route through a new helper
is churn in files this PR otherwise does not touch, on paths that guard root
SSH policy. Happy to do it as a follow-up if a reviewer prefers it.
rig platform — #74's surface, untouched.
Appending runner_installed_at / coolify_installed_at / box_version.
The issue sketches them; this PR ships only the bootstrap pair and makes the
file forward-compatible with them. The never a credential rule
(runner-install.sh:190's existing law for .rig-labels) is restated at the
top of the writer, where the next command that appends a line will read it —
and asserted by a test, since that comment is the only thing standing between
a 0644 audit file and a secret.

Checks

shellcheck -x over CI's exact file list (shopt -s globstar; bin/* **/*.sh)
— clean, including the two new files.
bash test/cli.sh — 445 passed, 0 failed (400 on main, so 45 new
assertions).
bash test/release.sh — 68 passed, 0 failed.
CHANGELOG.md entry under ## Unreleased, per CONTRIBUTING step 8. No other
heading disturbed.
README documents the new file and the command, and the bootstrap section now
says the manifest lands beside the marker.

Closes #61

Implements #61. ## What it records, and why only immutable facts `/etc/rig/manifest`, `0644`, beside the marker and the users ledger: ``` schema=1 bootstrapped_by=0.4.0 bootstrapped_at=2026-07-19T14:24:51Z converged_by=0.6.0 converged_at=2026-08-02T09:11:03Z ``` Two pairs — **birth** (the rig that *first* converged this machine, pinned forever) and **latest** (the newest rig to have converged it). Equal on a fresh machine: mild redundancy, in exchange for an audit file no reader ever has to infer a missing field from. Both versions are captured at run time from the running tree's `VERSION`, because a machine outlives the rig that built it — `rig --version` after an upgrade answers a different question than either of these, and it was the only place `VERSION` was read before this PR. `key=value`, one per line, never JSON or YAML. Not a style preference: the tree states the constraint three times already (`lib/users-config.sh:6-12`, `lib/runner-config.sh:6` and `:24`) — a rig-bootstrapped box has no YAML parser and no `jq`, which is why `json_field()` is grep-and-sed. This is the file that must be readable on the most broken machine in the fleet, so `read` parses it for free. The scope discipline is the whole trick and it is worth restating: **facts that are DECIDED go in the manifest; facts that are OBSERVED are computed at run time and stored nowhere.** Specs change without rig doing anything — someone adds RAM, or the unattended-upgrades `bootstrap.sh:198-201` itself enables patches the kernel — so a stored spec is either stale or needs a refresh on every run, and a refresh on every run is exactly what the next section is about. Removing them removes the volatility problem instead of managing it. ## The crux: how convergence survives a timestamp `bootstrap.sh:3` promises *"Convergent: safe to re-run; a second run changes nothing"*, and the repo enforces it with a `cmp -s` guard before every file install — nine sites. A naive `converged_at=$(date)` breaks that contract on **every single re-run**: the file differs by a timestamp, the guard fires, and rig reports a change it did not make. I suspect that is precisely why no timestamp existed anywhere in this tree until now. Two rules keep the clock out of the file: **Rule 1 — `bootstrapped_*` is first-write-wins.** An existing `bootstrapped_at` pins both birth fields verbatim. Regenerating birth as `now()` each run would make every re-run a diff. **Rule 2 — `converged_*` moves only when the version actually differs.** `converged_at` is *the time the converging version last changed*, **not** the time of the last run. If it tracked every run it would be a clock. So the running `VERSION` is compared against the recorded `converged_by`; equal means the pair is already true and is copied through untouched. Under those rules a re-run by the **same** rig renders byte-identical content and the guard stays silent, while a re-converge by a **different** rig renders a real diff — and the guard firing *there* is correct rather than spurious. It was only ever the clock that was the fake change, never the version. No special case in the cmp-guard; it works unmodified. **How this is pinned, and why the obvious test would not have pinned it.** `manifest_render <path> <version> <now>` is a pure text→text function (repo precedent: `parse_users_file`, `assert_marker_human`) — existing file plus running version plus a clock reading in, desired content out, no side effects. That makes the property directly assertable: render the same fixture twice with two clock readings **a year apart** and diff. Byte-identical output means the clock cannot reach the file at all. That is deliberately stronger than the test one reaches for first. I wrote the writer-level version too (`stamp`, `stamp` again, assert no byte changed) and it is in the suite — but it passes *even against a deliberately broken implementation*, because two stamps in the same second produce the same string by luck. I confirmed that directly: with Rule 2 removed, the writer-level assertions stay green and only the render-level ones go red. The clock-apart diff is the assertion that actually bites, and I would not want a reviewer to read the writer-level pair as the guarantee. **The RED drill.** Both rules were verified to fail loudly before being trusted: - Rule 2 deleted (`converged_*` recomputed unconditionally) → **4 RED**: byte-identical-across-a-year, reproduces-itself, foreign-keys-do-not-break- convergence, and the-repair-settles. - Rule 1 deleted (birth regenerated every run) → **8 RED**: the four above plus both birth-stays-pinned assertions and both damaged-file repairs. Reverted, 445 green. ## The manifest vs. the marker `/etc/rig/role` is **not touched**, per the issue. It has six readers — `warn_bootstrapped()` (`bin/rig:141-146`), the tenant guard (`bootstrap-tenant.sh:109-123`), `assert_marker_human()` (`lib/users-config.sh:120-147`), `install.sh:82-90` and four advisory sites — and collapsing them is a separate, riskier change. The marker holds **traits** (what this box is); the manifest holds **provenance** (what built it). Two files, two jobs. A test asserts no *code* in the manifest lib reaches `/etc/rig/role` or `RIG_ROLE_MARKER`, and another asserts the marker's own cmp-guarded block is still there. ## The manifest vs. `rig platform` (#64 / #74) Complementary and non-overlapping by construction: **decided** vs **observed**. The manifest stores provenance and nothing else; `rig platform` computes specs and stores nothing. I have deliberately **not** touched `rig platform`'s surface — #74 is open and already reads a manifest through `RIG_MANIFEST` in the flat `key=value` shape this PR writes, so it needs no change when either lands. The two are independent in both directions. `rig manifest [<key>]` is #61's own read-back surface and is not a second `platform`: it prints the raw file, or one value alone so shell callers do not re-parse. Whichever of the two PRs lands second will find the other already compatible. ## Judgment calls a reviewer should look at **1. Tenants get a manifest — the same one, unconditionally.** This was an open question in the issue. `bootstrap-tenant.sh` deliberately declines to clobber a machine marker (`:370`), and I did *not* copy that gate. The reason the marker needs it is that it holds competing **traits**: a guest's traits and the traits it earns after an operator-run `rig bootstrap workload` join are two statements about one box, so the marker has to pick the truer one. Provenance has no such conflict — "which rig converged this guest, when" is a fact whichever bootstrap ran, and the two-pair shape composes across them exactly as designed: a staging guest later joined as a workload keeps the **tenant** bootstrap as its birth (that genuinely is when this machine was first converged) and the machine bootstrap moves `converged_*` forward. Copying the gate would lose the birth stamp only that first run knows. One file, not a tenant-shaped second one: the manifest answers a question about the *machine*, and a guest is a machine; the marker already carries `tenant=yes` for anyone who needs to know which kind. **2. Placement: immediately after the marker, not at the very end of the run.** The issue says "write last, and write nothing on a path that died", glossing the marker's own discipline (`bootstrap.sh:420-424`). I read "last" as *after the tag verification* and put the stamp directly beside the marker, so the two land together and agree by construction. Trailing the box install and the users phase would let a box exist with a marker and no manifest — and a box whose people failed to converge was still converged **by this rig at this time**. Stamping provenance is not a claim that everything after it succeeded; the marker beside it makes exactly the same claim. A test asserts the stamp follows `verify_effective_tag`, with a companion assertion that both grep anchors were actually found (a silent-empty grep would make the ordering test unfireable). **3. A birth stamp with no birth version records `unknown`, not today's.** On a hand-edited or truncated manifest carrying `bootstrapped_at` but no `bootstrapped_by`, backfilling the running version would be a manifest that lies about what built the box. `unknown` is the honest answer, and it is stable across re-runs. **4. A downgrade is a change.** `converged_by` is "the rig that last converged this", not "the highest one ever seen" — rolling back with `rig use` and re-converging is recorded, or the file would name a version that is no longer what runs here. Tested. **5. The writer preserves keys it does not own.** The schema promises readers ignore unknown keys; that promise is worthless if the *writer* eats them. A later command's `runner_installed_at`, or a key from a newer rig's schema, survives a rewrite verbatim — and a file carrying foreign keys is still byte-stable under a same-version re-render (both tested). This is what makes the issue's "later commands may append their own provenance" future safe. **6. `rig manifest <key>` distinguishes absent from empty.** `$(...)` collapses both to `""`, so absence is the *exit code* and only a present key ever prints. The key lookup is a string equality, never a pattern — operator input reaches it, and a key of `.*` must find nothing rather than match line one. Tested. ## What I deliberately left alone - **`/etc/rig/role`** — see above. Zero changes. - **`bin/rig:9`'s `version()`** — it could now source the lib and share `manifest_running_version`, but `bin/rig` sources no libs at all today and making it do so for one `cat` is a structural change for a cosmetic win. - **The three open-coded `mkdir -p /etc/rig` sites** (`bootstrap.sh`, `bootstrap-tenant.sh:374`, `users-apply.sh:301`). The issue invites factoring them; I did not. The manifest writer does its own `mkdir -p "$(dirname …)"` inside the lib — which it needs anyway to honour `RIG_MANIFEST` — and rewriting three unrelated marker/ledger writes to route through a new helper is churn in files this PR otherwise does not touch, on paths that guard root SSH policy. Happy to do it as a follow-up if a reviewer prefers it. - **`rig platform`** — #74's surface, untouched. - **Appending `runner_installed_at` / `coolify_installed_at` / `box_version`.** The issue sketches them; this PR ships only the bootstrap pair and makes the file forward-compatible with them. The `never a credential` rule (`runner-install.sh:190`'s existing law for `.rig-labels`) is restated at the top of the writer, where the next command that appends a line will read it — and asserted by a test, since that comment is the only thing standing between a 0644 audit file and a secret. ## Checks - `shellcheck -x` over CI's exact file list (`shopt -s globstar; bin/* **/*.sh`) — clean, including the two new files. - `bash test/cli.sh` — **445 passed, 0 failed** (400 on main, so **45 new assertions**). - `bash test/release.sh` — 68 passed, 0 failed. - `CHANGELOG.md` entry under `## Unreleased`, per CONTRIBUTING step 8. No other heading disturbed. - README documents the new file and the command, and the bootstrap section now says the manifest lands beside the marker. Closes #61

danmt (Migrated from github.com) reviewed 2026-07-20 10:06:15 +00:00

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Verdict: Approve — I agree with this as-is.

Tip 66cf47f ships a clean provenance file without breaking bootstrap's convergence contract.

What holds

Decided vs observed. Only birth/latest version pairs; specs stay with rig platform. key=value 0644 matches the rest of the tree's no-jq constraint.
Clock stays out of the file. Rule 1 first-write-wins birth; Rule 2 moves converged_* only on version change. Pure manifest_render + year-apart clock pin is the assertion that actually bites (writer-level same-second would pass a broken impl).
Tenants get a manifest unconditionally — right call: provenance has no trait conflict, and skipping would lose the only birth stamp the tenant run knows.
Writer preserves foreign keys; absent-vs-empty key lookup is exit-code vs print; placement after tag verify inherits the marker's discipline; /etc/rig/role untouched.

45 new assertions, CI green. No blockers.

**Verdict: Approve** — I agree with this as-is. Tip `66cf47f` ships a clean provenance file without breaking bootstrap's convergence contract. ### What holds - **Decided vs observed.** Only birth/latest version pairs; specs stay with `rig platform`. key=value 0644 matches the rest of the tree's no-jq constraint. - **Clock stays out of the file.** Rule 1 first-write-wins birth; Rule 2 moves `converged_*` only on version change. Pure `manifest_render` + year-apart clock pin is the assertion that actually bites (writer-level same-second would pass a broken impl). - **Tenants get a manifest unconditionally** — right call: provenance has no trait conflict, and skipping would lose the only birth stamp the tenant run knows. - **Writer preserves foreign keys**; absent-vs-empty key lookup is exit-code vs print; placement after tag verify inherits the marker's discipline; `/etc/rig/role` untouched. 45 new assertions, CI green. No blockers.

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Verdict: I have feedback.

Blocking: manifest_value, manifest_has, and manifest_foreign use bare while ... read loops, so they never process a populated final line when the file lacks a trailing newline. On the repair path this can reset owned provenance (for example, an unterminated bootstrapped_at= is treated as absent), and manifest_stamp can silently delete an unterminated unknown/future key despite the stated preservation contract. Please process a non-empty partial EOF record (the same read || [ -n ... ] shape used elsewhere) and add coverage for owned and foreign final lines without a newline.

Verdict: I have feedback. Blocking: `manifest_value`, `manifest_has`, and `manifest_foreign` use bare `while ... read` loops, so they never process a populated final line when the file lacks a trailing newline. On the repair path this can reset owned provenance (for example, an unterminated `bootstrapped_at=` is treated as absent), and `manifest_stamp` can silently delete an unterminated unknown/future key despite the stated preservation contract. Please process a non-empty partial EOF record (the same `read || [ -n ... ]` shape used elsewhere) and add coverage for owned and foreign final lines without a newline.

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🔧 Reviewed — I agree with most; feedback below.

The design is right where it was hardest: decided-vs-observed keeps the volatility problem from existing, Rule 1/Rule 2 keep the clock out of the file so the cmp-guard works unmodified, and the pure manifest_render with the year-apart clock diff is the assertion that actually bites — the PR body's own demonstration that the writer-level pair passes a broken implementation is the honest version of that story. The unconditional tenant manifest and the unknown-not-backfill call are both correct.

I concur with codex's blocker, independently verified: manifest_value, manifest_has, and manifest_foreign (commands/lib/manifest.sh:53, :70, :84) all use bare while … read loops, so a populated final line with no trailing newline is never processed. On the repair path that resets pinned birth provenance (an unterminated bootstrapped_at=… reads as absent, so Rule 1 regenerates the field it exists to pin), and manifest_stamp silently eats an unterminated foreign key — the exact preservation contract judgment-call 5 promises. The fix idiom is already in this repo, in the same directory: parse_users_file at commands/lib/users-config.sh:49 uses while IFS= read -r line || [ -n "$line" ] (and heavy-duty/cast#122 just landed the same shape for the same reason). Three one-clause edits plus the two no-trailing-newline fixtures (owned key, foreign key) codex asked for. A nice side effect: manifest_render then also normalizes such a file — the rewritten copy gets its newline back — so the repair path repairs this too.

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🔧 **Reviewed — I agree with most; feedback below.** The design is right where it was hardest: decided-vs-observed keeps the volatility problem from existing, Rule 1/Rule 2 keep the clock out of the file so the cmp-guard works unmodified, and the pure `manifest_render` with the year-apart clock diff is the assertion that actually bites — the PR body's own demonstration that the writer-level pair passes a broken implementation is the honest version of that story. The unconditional tenant manifest and the `unknown`-not-backfill call are both correct. - **I concur with codex's blocker, independently verified:** `manifest_value`, `manifest_has`, and `manifest_foreign` (`commands/lib/manifest.sh:53`, `:70`, `:84`) all use bare `while … read` loops, so a populated final line with no trailing newline is never processed. On the repair path that resets pinned birth provenance (an unterminated `bootstrapped_at=…` reads as absent, so Rule 1 regenerates the field it exists to pin), and `manifest_stamp` silently eats an unterminated foreign key — the exact preservation contract judgment-call 5 promises. The fix idiom is already in this repo, in the same directory: `parse_users_file` at `commands/lib/users-config.sh:49` uses `while IFS= read -r line || [ -n "$line" ]` (and heavy-duty/cast#122 just landed the same shape for the same reason). Three one-clause edits plus the two no-trailing-newline fixtures (owned key, foreign key) codex asked for. A nice side effect: `manifest_render` then also *normalizes* such a file — the rewritten copy gets its newline back — so the repair path repairs this too. — _automated review by `claude-bot-andresmgsl` · heavy-duty-review-bot_

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Round answered in c266863. One blocker, raised independently by two reviewers, and it was real — fixed. Details per reviewer below, but the short version: the bug was worse than the report, because it reached the convergence property this PR is entirely about.

The defect, as measured

manifest_value, manifest_has and manifest_foreign each read with a bare while read, which stops at EOF without ever handing over a populated partial line. So an unterminated final line read as absent — and absent is exactly the input both rules key off, which makes the file's last line the one least able to survive the miss.

Three concrete failures against the unfixed reader, in descending order of cost:

1. Rule 1 loses the birth stamp. A file truncated mid-write ends at bootstrapped_at, so the unreadable line is the birth stamp itself:

$ printf 'schema=1\nbootstrapped_by=0.4.0\nbootstrapped_at=2026-07-19T14:24:51Z' > mf
$ manifest_render mf 0.4.0 2027-12-31T00:00:00Z
bootstrapped_at=2027-12-31T00:00:00Z      # born 2026, reborn today

That is the one field that can never be reconstructed, and no later run undoes it.

2. Rule 2 lets the clock back in — the crux property, broken by a missing byte. A complete five-key file whose last line has no newline reads converged_at as empty, so the "one-time" repair re-fires on every run:

$ printf 'schema=1\n...\nconverged_at=2026-07-19T14:24:51Z' > mf   # no trailing \n
$ manifest_render mf 0.4.0 2027-12-31T00:00:00Z
converged_at=2027-12-31T00:00:00Z          # version unchanged, stamp moved

The render stopped being a function of (existing file, running version). This is worth stating plainly because the PR body argues hard for exactly that purity: the property held for every file the writer itself produced, and failed for a hand-edited one. codex and claude both diagnosed it as a reset of pinned provenance; it is also a convergence break, which is the more expensive half.

3. manifest_foreign ate an unterminated foreign line outright, so the writer dropped a later command's provenance — the exact preservation contract judgment-call 5 promises.

The fix

Three one-clause edits, using the idiom already in this directory — lib/users-config.sh:49 reads || [ -n "$line" ] for the same reason (and, as claude noted, heavy-duty/cast#122 just landed the same shape):

while IFS='=' read -r k v || [ -n "$k" ]; do      # manifest_value
while IFS='=' read -r k _ || [ -n "$k" ]; do      # manifest_has
while IFS=  read -r line || [ -n "$line" ]; do    # manifest_foreign

Per reviewer

codex-bot-andresmgsl — CHANGES_REQUESTED

Bare while read drops the final unterminated record in all three readers — fixed, as above. Your causal chain is right on both counts: bootstrapped_at= unterminated is treated as absent and Rule 1 regenerates it, and manifest_stamp silently deletes an unterminated foreign key.
"add coverage for owned and foreign final lines without a newline" — done, both, plus the clock-purity assertion and the presence check. 7 tests, listed below.

claude-bot-andresmgsl — CHANGES_REQUESTED

Concurring blocker, independently verified (manifest.sh:53, :70, :84) — fixed. The parse_users_file pointer was the right one and is what the fix uses.
"a nice side effect: manifest_render then also normalizes such a file — the rewritten copy gets its newline back" — confirmed, and pinned as a test. Worth flagging how that test is written, because the obvious form of it is worthless: a plain "does the output end in \n" check stays green on the unfixed reader, since a file with its tail eaten is newline-terminated too. So the assertion is the source, plus the newline it was missing, and nothing else:
```
adds_only_the_newline() { diff <(cat "$1"; printf '\n') "$2"; }
```
That version does bite (RED below). I mention it because it is the same failure mode as the writer-level-vs-renderer-level test in the PR body — a test that passes for a reason unrelated to what it claims.

grok-bot-andresmgsl — APPROVED

Nothing to answer; noting only that the approval's summary of the design is accurate and none of it changed. The fix is confined to how the three readers reach EOF — the rules, the purity of manifest_render, the key set, placement, and the five judgment calls are all untouched.

Evidence

Every new test observed RED against the unfixed reader (git stash on commands/lib/manifest.sh alone, tests unchanged):

FAIL: manifest: an unterminated final line does not let the clock back in — exit 1, wanted 0
FAIL: manifest: an unterminated converged_at is read, not re-stamped — output missing 'converged_at=2020-01-01T00:00:00Z'
FAIL: manifest: an unterminated birth stamp stays pinned, not reborn today — output missing 'bootstrapped_at=2020-01-01T00:00:00Z'
FAIL: manifest: an unterminated FOREIGN final line is not eaten by the rewrite — output missing 'runner_installed_at=2026-07-19T16:10:00Z'
FAIL: manifest: the rewrite adds the missing final newline and changes nothing else — exit 1, wanted 0
FAIL: manifest: an unterminated final key is PRESENT, not absent — exit 1, wanted 0
446 passed, 6 failed

(An earlier draft of the normalization pair passed under the broken reader; that is why it now reads adds_only_the_newline. The seventh test, "the normalized file then settles", is a settle-check on the repaired file rather than a regression guard.)

Restored:

452 passed, 0 failed          # test/cli.sh — 445 before this commit, +7
68 passed, 0 failed           # test/release.sh
shellcheck -x, 24 files       # CI's exact list: bin/* **/*.sh (globstar) — clean

CHANGELOG untouched: this fixes an unreleased feature whose entry the same PR adds, so there is no shipped behavior to record a change against.

Round answered in `c266863`. One blocker, raised independently by two reviewers, and it was real — fixed. Details per reviewer below, but the short version: the bug was worse than the report, because it reached the convergence property this PR is entirely about. ## The defect, as measured `manifest_value`, `manifest_has` and `manifest_foreign` each read with a bare `while read`, which stops at EOF without ever handing over a populated partial line. So an unterminated final line read as **absent** — and absent is exactly the input both rules key off, which makes the file's last line the one least able to survive the miss. Three concrete failures against the unfixed reader, in descending order of cost: **1. Rule 1 loses the birth stamp.** A file truncated mid-write ends *at* `bootstrapped_at`, so the unreadable line is the birth stamp itself: ``` $ printf 'schema=1\nbootstrapped_by=0.4.0\nbootstrapped_at=2026-07-19T14:24:51Z' > mf $ manifest_render mf 0.4.0 2027-12-31T00:00:00Z bootstrapped_at=2027-12-31T00:00:00Z # born 2026, reborn today ``` That is the one field that can never be reconstructed, and no later run undoes it. **2. Rule 2 lets the clock back in — the crux property, broken by a missing byte.** A complete five-key file whose last line has no newline reads `converged_at` as empty, so the "one-time" repair re-fires on *every* run: ``` $ printf 'schema=1\n...\nconverged_at=2026-07-19T14:24:51Z' > mf # no trailing \n $ manifest_render mf 0.4.0 2027-12-31T00:00:00Z converged_at=2027-12-31T00:00:00Z # version unchanged, stamp moved ``` The render stopped being a function of (existing file, running version). This is worth stating plainly because the PR body argues hard for exactly that purity: the property held for every file the writer itself produced, and failed for a hand-edited one. codex and claude both diagnosed it as a reset of pinned provenance; it is also a convergence break, which is the more expensive half. **3. `manifest_foreign` ate an unterminated foreign line** outright, so the writer dropped a later command's provenance — the exact preservation contract judgment-call 5 promises. ## The fix Three one-clause edits, using the idiom already in this directory — `lib/users-config.sh:49` reads `|| [ -n "$line" ]` for the same reason (and, as claude noted, heavy-duty/cast#122 just landed the same shape): ```sh while IFS='=' read -r k v || [ -n "$k" ]; do # manifest_value while IFS='=' read -r k _ || [ -n "$k" ]; do # manifest_has while IFS= read -r line || [ -n "$line" ]; do # manifest_foreign ``` ## Per reviewer ### codex-bot-andresmgsl — CHANGES_REQUESTED - **Bare `while read` drops the final unterminated record in all three readers** — **fixed**, as above. Your causal chain is right on both counts: `bootstrapped_at=` unterminated is treated as absent and Rule 1 regenerates it, and `manifest_stamp` silently deletes an unterminated foreign key. - **"add coverage for owned and foreign final lines without a newline"** — **done**, both, plus the clock-purity assertion and the presence check. 7 tests, listed below. ### claude-bot-andresmgsl — CHANGES_REQUESTED - **Concurring blocker, independently verified** (`manifest.sh:53`, `:70`, `:84`) — **fixed**. The `parse_users_file` pointer was the right one and is what the fix uses. - **"a nice side effect: `manifest_render` then also normalizes such a file — the rewritten copy gets its newline back"** — **confirmed, and pinned as a test.** Worth flagging how that test is written, because the obvious form of it is worthless: a plain "does the output end in `\n`" check stays **green on the unfixed reader**, since a file with its tail eaten is newline-terminated too. So the assertion is *the source, plus the newline it was missing, and nothing else*: ```sh adds_only_the_newline() { diff <(cat "$1"; printf '\n') "$2"; } ``` That version does bite (RED below). I mention it because it is the same failure mode as the writer-level-vs-renderer-level test in the PR body — a test that passes for a reason unrelated to what it claims. ### grok-bot-andresmgsl — APPROVED Nothing to answer; noting only that the approval's summary of the design is accurate and none of it changed. The fix is confined to how the three readers reach EOF — the rules, the purity of `manifest_render`, the key set, placement, and the five judgment calls are all untouched. ## Evidence Every new test observed RED against the unfixed reader (`git stash` on `commands/lib/manifest.sh` alone, tests unchanged): ``` FAIL: manifest: an unterminated final line does not let the clock back in — exit 1, wanted 0 FAIL: manifest: an unterminated converged_at is read, not re-stamped — output missing 'converged_at=2020-01-01T00:00:00Z' FAIL: manifest: an unterminated birth stamp stays pinned, not reborn today — output missing 'bootstrapped_at=2020-01-01T00:00:00Z' FAIL: manifest: an unterminated FOREIGN final line is not eaten by the rewrite — output missing 'runner_installed_at=2026-07-19T16:10:00Z' FAIL: manifest: the rewrite adds the missing final newline and changes nothing else — exit 1, wanted 0 FAIL: manifest: an unterminated final key is PRESENT, not absent — exit 1, wanted 0 446 passed, 6 failed ``` (An earlier draft of the normalization pair passed under the broken reader; that is why it now reads `adds_only_the_newline`. The seventh test, "the normalized file then settles", is a settle-check on the repaired file rather than a regression guard.) Restored: ``` 452 passed, 0 failed # test/cli.sh — 445 before this commit, +7 68 passed, 0 failed # test/release.sh shellcheck -x, 24 files # CI's exact list: bin/* **/*.sh (globstar) — clean ``` CHANGELOG untouched: this fixes an unreleased feature whose entry the same PR adds, so there is no shipped behavior to record a change against.

claude-bot-andresmgsl (Migrated from github.com) approved these changes 2026-07-20 11:38:29 +00:00

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✅ Approved — I agree with all of this, no concerns.

The blocker from 66cf47f is resolved at c266863: all three readers (manifest_value, manifest_has, manifest_foreign) now carry the || [ -n … ] clause, matching parse_users_file's idiom in the same directory. The test work is better than the fix required: the six assertions were observed RED against the unfixed reader, the fixtures hit both rules at their weakest point (the unterminated line is the birth stamp / is converged_at), and adds_only_the_newline is the honest form of the normalization pin — the plain does-it-end-in-newline check would have stayed green on a reader that ate the tail, and catching that before shipping it is the same discipline as the PR body's writer-level-vs-render-level story. Nothing outstanding; the rules, the pure renderer, and the five judgment calls are untouched by the fix, as claimed.

— automated review by claude-bot-andresmgsl · heavy-duty-review-bot

✅ **Approved — I agree with all of this, no concerns.** The blocker from `66cf47f` is resolved at `c266863`: all three readers (`manifest_value`, `manifest_has`, `manifest_foreign`) now carry the `|| [ -n … ]` clause, matching `parse_users_file`'s idiom in the same directory. The test work is better than the fix required: the six assertions were observed RED against the unfixed reader, the fixtures hit both rules at their weakest point (the unterminated line *is* the birth stamp / *is* `converged_at`), and `adds_only_the_newline` is the honest form of the normalization pin — the plain does-it-end-in-newline check would have stayed green on a reader that ate the tail, and catching that before shipping it is the same discipline as the PR body's writer-level-vs-render-level story. Nothing outstanding; the rules, the pure renderer, and the five judgment calls are untouched by the fix, as claimed. — _automated review by `claude-bot-andresmgsl` · heavy-duty-review-bot_

codex-bot-andresmgsl (Migrated from github.com) approved these changes 2026-07-20 11:45:47 +00:00

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Verdict: I agree with everything and have no additional feedback.\n\nThe head-current fix at c266863 resolves the prior blocker in all three readers with the repository’s partial-EOF idiom. The new tests cover unterminated owned and foreign tail records, preserve the birth stamp, keep the clock out of same-version renders, normalize only the missing newline, and confirm the repaired file settles. Current checks are green.

Verdict: I agree with everything and have no additional feedback.\n\nThe head-current fix at `c266863` resolves the prior blocker in all three readers with the repository’s partial-EOF idiom. The new tests cover unterminated owned and foreign tail records, preserve the birth stamp, keep the clock out of same-version renders, normalize only the missing newline, and confirm the repaired file settles. Current checks are green.

dan-claude-bot commented

2026-07-20 12:49:23 +00:00

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Rebased onto main after #74 merged, and re-requesting all three bots.

On the state:addressing label — it was right, not a glitch. @grok-bot-andresmgsl's approval was bound to 66cf47f, the previous head; @claude-bot-andresmgsl and @codex-bot-andresmgsl approved c266863. The reconciler counts only head-current verdicts and treats a stale one as "the author owes a re-request" — which is exactly what state:addressing means. Two head-current approvals out of three is not a passed round.

This rebase had real code conflicts, not just the changelog cascade — worth reading rather than trusting:

commands/bootstrap.sh — #79 renamed the box-install section header (host-class only → host=yes only) in the same hunk this PR inserts the provenance block into. Kept the provenance block and main's header wording; asserted afterwards that no host-class only survives.
commands/bootstrap-tenant.sh — #80 renamed the harden_sshd comment to say staging-box tenant, while this PR adds the lib/manifest.sh source line two lines below. Kept main's rename and added the source line; asserted both are present.
CHANGELOG.md — this PR's /etc/rig/manifest entry (#61) is an Added entry, and #74 merged another one (rig platform, #64). Placed beside it under ### Added rather than appended after ### Fixed, so the section order (Added → Changed → Fixed) holds.

Neither code conflict was a semantic clash — the provenance stamp and the role/root-door rename are independent — but both landed in hunks the rename had touched, which is why they needed reading rather than a mechanical resolution.

markers across all commits   clean
bash test/cli.sh             553 passed, 0 failed
bash test/release.sh          68 passed, 0 failed
shellcheck -x                 clean (CI globstar block)

Rebased onto `main` after #74 merged, and re-requesting all three bots. **On the `state:addressing` label — it was right, not a glitch.** @grok-bot-andresmgsl's approval was bound to `66cf47f`, the previous head; @claude-bot-andresmgsl and @codex-bot-andresmgsl approved `c266863`. The reconciler counts only head-current verdicts and treats a stale one as "the author owes a re-request" — which is exactly what `state:addressing` means. Two head-current approvals out of three is not a passed round. **This rebase had real code conflicts, not just the changelog cascade** — worth reading rather than trusting: - `commands/bootstrap.sh` — #79 renamed the box-install section header (`host-class only` → `host=yes only`) in the same hunk this PR inserts the provenance block into. Kept the provenance block and main's header wording; asserted afterwards that no `host-class only` survives. - `commands/bootstrap-tenant.sh` — #80 renamed the `harden_sshd` comment to say `staging-box tenant`, while this PR adds the `lib/manifest.sh` source line two lines below. Kept main's rename and added the source line; asserted both are present. - `CHANGELOG.md` — this PR's `/etc/rig/manifest` entry (#61) is an **Added** entry, and #74 merged another one (`rig platform`, #64). Placed beside it under `### Added` rather than appended after `### Fixed`, so the section order (`Added → Changed → Fixed`) holds. Neither code conflict was a semantic clash — the provenance stamp and the role/root-door rename are independent — but both landed in hunks the rename had touched, which is why they needed reading rather than a mechanical resolution. ``` markers across all commits clean bash test/cli.sh 553 passed, 0 failed bash test/release.sh 68 passed, 0 failed shellcheck -x clean (CI globstar block) ```

grok-bot-andresmgsl (Migrated from github.com) approved these changes 2026-07-20 12:53:53 +00:00

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Verdict: Approve — I agree with this as-is at d2e03ce.

Re-review after the explicit re-request + rebase onto main (post-#74). Head moved from my prior approve at 66cf47f → d2e03ce (partial-EOF fix + rebase).

What holds

Decided vs observed — only birth/latest version pairs in /etc/rig/manifest; specs stay with rig platform. key=value 0644 matches the tree's no-jq constraint.
Clock stays out of the file — Rule 1 first-write-wins birth; Rule 2 moves converged_* only on version change. Pure manifest_render + year-apart clock pin is the assertion that actually bites.
Partial-EOF fix at d2e03ce — all three readers (manifest_value, manifest_has, manifest_foreign) use || [ -n … ], matching parse_users_file. Tests pin the expensive failures: unterminated birth reborn, clock re-entering via unreadable converged_at, foreign tail eaten, and adds_only_the_newline (not a weak ends-in-\n check).
Tenants get a manifest unconditionally — provenance has no trait conflict; skipping would lose the only birth stamp the tenant run knows.
Writer preserves foreign keys; absent-vs-empty key lookup is exit-code vs print; placement after tag verify inherits the marker's discipline; /etc/rig/role untouched.
Rebase — provenance block + main's host=yes / staging-box wording compose cleanly; CHANGELOG entry under ### Added beside rig platform.

CI green (check, db-integration, reconcile, scope). No blockers.

**Verdict: Approve** — I agree with this as-is at `d2e03ce`. Re-review after the explicit re-request + rebase onto main (post-#74). Head moved from my prior approve at `66cf47f` → `d2e03ce` (partial-EOF fix + rebase). ### What holds - **Decided vs observed** — only birth/latest version pairs in `/etc/rig/manifest`; specs stay with `rig platform`. key=value 0644 matches the tree's no-jq constraint. - **Clock stays out of the file** — Rule 1 first-write-wins birth; Rule 2 moves `converged_*` only on version change. Pure `manifest_render` + year-apart clock pin is the assertion that actually bites. - **Partial-EOF fix at `d2e03ce`** — all three readers (`manifest_value`, `manifest_has`, `manifest_foreign`) use `|| [ -n … ]`, matching `parse_users_file`. Tests pin the expensive failures: unterminated birth reborn, clock re-entering via unreadable `converged_at`, foreign tail eaten, and `adds_only_the_newline` (not a weak ends-in-`\n` check). - **Tenants get a manifest unconditionally** — provenance has no trait conflict; skipping would lose the only birth stamp the tenant run knows. - **Writer preserves foreign keys**; absent-vs-empty key lookup is exit-code vs print; placement after tag verify inherits the marker's discipline; `/etc/rig/role` untouched. - **Rebase** — provenance block + main's `host=yes` / `staging-box` wording compose cleanly; CHANGELOG entry under `### Added` beside `rig platform`. CI green (check, db-integration, reconcile, scope). No blockers.

claude-bot-andresmgsl (Migrated from github.com) approved these changes 2026-07-20 12:54:42 +00:00

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✅ Approved — I agree with all of this, no concerns.

Re-approving at d2e03ce after the rebase onto main (my prior approval was bound to c266863). The two commits are the same logical content I approved — the feature plus the partial-EOF reader fix, with all three readers (manifest_value, manifest_has, manifest_foreign) still carrying the || [ -n … ] clause — and I verified each of the three flagged conflict resolutions in the current diff rather than trusting the summary:

commands/bootstrap.sh — the box-install header reads host=yes only (main's #79 wording; no host-class only survives) with the provenance block intact directly after the marker.
commands/bootstrap-tenant.sh — main's harden_sshd (the staging-box tenant) comment and the new lib/manifest.sh source line are both present.
CHANGELOG.md — the #61 entry sits under ### Added ahead of ### Changed, so the section order holds.

CI is green on the new head (check, db-integration, reconcile, scope). Nothing in the rebase changes the rules, the pure renderer, or the judgment calls, and rig platform (#74, now on main) is untouched by this diff as designed.

— automated review by claude-bot-andresmgsl · heavy-duty-review-bot

✅ **Approved — I agree with all of this, no concerns.** Re-approving at `d2e03ce` after the rebase onto main (my prior approval was bound to `c266863`). The two commits are the same logical content I approved — the feature plus the partial-EOF reader fix, with all three readers (`manifest_value`, `manifest_has`, `manifest_foreign`) still carrying the `|| [ -n … ]` clause — and I verified each of the three flagged conflict resolutions in the current diff rather than trusting the summary: - `commands/bootstrap.sh` — the box-install header reads `host=yes only` (main's #79 wording; no `host-class only` survives) with the provenance block intact directly after the marker. - `commands/bootstrap-tenant.sh` — main's `harden_sshd (the staging-box tenant)` comment and the new `lib/manifest.sh` source line are both present. - `CHANGELOG.md` — the #61 entry sits under `### Added` ahead of `### Changed`, so the section order holds. CI is green on the new head (check, db-integration, reconcile, scope). Nothing in the rebase changes the rules, the pure renderer, or the judgment calls, and `rig platform` (#74, now on main) is untouched by this diff as designed. — _automated review by `claude-bot-andresmgsl` · heavy-duty-review-bot_

codex-bot-andresmgsl (Migrated from github.com) approved these changes 2026-07-20 12:59:44 +00:00

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Verdict: I agree with everything and have no additional feedback. The renewed review at d2e03ce preserves the prior partial-EOF fix across all three manifest readers, and the rebase conflict resolutions retain the provenance paths alongside the current main-branch wording and changelog structure. All current checks pass.

Verdict: I agree with everything and have no additional feedback. The renewed review at d2e03ce preserves the prior partial-EOF fix across all three manifest readers, and the rebase conflict resolutions retain the provenance paths alongside the current main-branch wording and changelog structure. All current checks pass.

dan-claude-bot commented

2026-07-20 13:04:38 +00:00

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Post-mortem

Round passed — three head-current approvals at d2e03ce, CI green, CLEAN. Handing to @danmt. This PR took an unusually long path to get here, and three things in it are worth writing down rather than forgetting.

1. A stale approval made a failed round look passed

After the partial-EOF fix landed at c266863, @claude-bot-andresmgsl and @codex-bot-andresmgsl re-approved — but @grok-bot-andresmgsl was never re-requested, so its approval stayed bound to 66cf47f. Two head-current approvals out of three. The board read state:addressing and that looked like a label bug; it was not. The reconciler counts only head-current verdicts and treats a stale one as the author owes a re-request, which is exactly what that label means.

The failure mode is the dangerous direction: the PR appears reviewed while one reviewer has never seen the code at that head. GitHub keeps approvals alive across pushes, so nothing surfaces it except the label — and the label was disbelieved.

The rule this earns: re-request every reviewer after every push, not just the ones who did not approve. CONTRIBUTING says "re-request the bots that didn't approve", which is right within a round but reads as permission to leave an approver alone after a push. A push invalidates approvals just as thoroughly as a request-changes does.

2. The rebase conflicts were positional, not semantic — and that is exactly why they needed reading

Three conflicts, none a real disagreement:

commands/bootstrap.sh — #79 renamed the box-install header (host-class only → host=yes only) in the same hunk this PR inserts the provenance block into.
commands/bootstrap-tenant.sh — #80 renamed the harden_sshd comment two lines above where this PR adds its lib/manifest.sh source.
CHANGELOG.md — this PR's #61 entry is an Added entry, and #74 had merged another one.

Provenance stamping and the role/root-door rename are completely independent features. They collided purely because they touched adjacent lines. A mechanical "take theirs" on the first would have silently reverted #79's rename; "take ours" would have dropped the provenance block. Both directions produce a green suite — which is what makes this class worth slowing down for.

3. The changelog cascade is a structural problem, now filed

Nearly every rebase in this batch hit CHANGELOG.md, and none of those conflicts were about content. Filed as #86 (siblings heavy-duty/box#135, heavy-duty/cast#126): seed ## Unreleased with all three headings and let the -dev bump write them, so PRs only ever append under an existing heading. It fixes the disjoint-section collisions — including the ordering trap where a new ### Added had to be hoisted to keep Added → Changed → Fixed — and explicitly does not fix same-section ones.

What a merger should know

The substance was already sound before any of the above; the delay was process, not defects. The one real code finding in the whole history was the partial-EOF reader bug, caught in round one and fixed across all three readers (manifest_value, manifest_has, manifest_foreign) with the same || [ -n … ] clause parse_users_file already uses.

bash test/cli.sh       553 passed, 0 failed
bash test/release.sh    68 passed, 0 failed
shellcheck -x           clean (CI globstar block)
markers in commits      none

/etc/rig/role is untouched — provenance is a second file with a second job, and the marker keeps its six readers.

## Post-mortem Round passed — three head-current approvals at `d2e03ce`, CI green, `CLEAN`. Handing to @danmt. This PR took an unusually long path to get here, and three things in it are worth writing down rather than forgetting. ### 1. A stale approval made a *failed* round look passed After the partial-EOF fix landed at `c266863`, @claude-bot-andresmgsl and @codex-bot-andresmgsl re-approved — but @grok-bot-andresmgsl was never re-requested, so its approval stayed bound to `66cf47f`. Two head-current approvals out of three. The board read `state:addressing` and that looked like a label bug; it was not. The reconciler counts only head-current verdicts and treats a stale one as *the author owes a re-request*, which is exactly what that label means. The failure mode is the dangerous direction: the PR **appears** reviewed while one reviewer has never seen the code at that head. GitHub keeps approvals alive across pushes, so nothing surfaces it except the label — and the label was disbelieved. **The rule this earns: re-request every reviewer after every push, not just the ones who did not approve.** CONTRIBUTING says "re-request the bots that didn't approve", which is right within a round but reads as permission to leave an approver alone after a push. A push invalidates approvals just as thoroughly as a request-changes does. ### 2. The rebase conflicts were positional, not semantic — and that is exactly why they needed reading Three conflicts, none a real disagreement: - `commands/bootstrap.sh` — #79 renamed the box-install header (`host-class only` → `host=yes only`) in the *same hunk* this PR inserts the provenance block into. - `commands/bootstrap-tenant.sh` — #80 renamed the `harden_sshd` comment two lines above where this PR adds its `lib/manifest.sh` source. - `CHANGELOG.md` — this PR's `#61` entry is an **Added** entry, and #74 had merged another one. Provenance stamping and the role/root-door rename are completely independent features. They collided purely because they touched adjacent lines. A mechanical "take theirs" on the first would have silently reverted #79's rename; "take ours" would have dropped the provenance block. Both directions produce a green suite — which is what makes this class worth slowing down for. ### 3. The changelog cascade is a structural problem, now filed Nearly every rebase in this batch hit `CHANGELOG.md`, and none of those conflicts were about content. Filed as #86 (siblings heavy-duty/box#135, heavy-duty/cast#126): seed `## Unreleased` with all three headings and let the `-dev` bump write them, so PRs only ever append under an existing heading. It fixes the disjoint-section collisions — including the ordering trap where a new `### Added` had to be *hoisted* to keep `Added → Changed → Fixed` — and explicitly does not fix same-section ones. ### What a merger should know The substance was already sound before any of the above; the delay was process, not defects. The one real code finding in the whole history was the **partial-EOF reader bug**, caught in round one and fixed across all three readers (`manifest_value`, `manifest_has`, `manifest_foreign`) with the same `|| [ -n … ]` clause `parse_users_file` already uses. ``` bash test/cli.sh 553 passed, 0 failed bash test/release.sh 68 passed, 0 failed shellcheck -x clean (CI globstar block) markers in commits none ``` `/etc/rig/role` is untouched — provenance is a second file with a second job, and the marker keeps its six readers.

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feat: /etc/rig/manifest — which rig converged this machine, and when #84

What it records, and why only immutable facts

The crux: how convergence survives a timestamp

The manifest vs. the marker

The manifest vs. rig platform (#64 / #74)

Judgment calls a reviewer should look at

What I deliberately left alone

Checks

What holds

The defect, as measured

The fix

Per reviewer

codex-bot-andresmgsl — CHANGES_REQUESTED

claude-bot-andresmgsl — CHANGES_REQUESTED

grok-bot-andresmgsl — APPROVED

Evidence

What holds

Post-mortem

1. A stale approval made a failed round look passed

2. The rebase conflicts were positional, not semantic — and that is exactly why they needed reading

3. The changelog cascade is a structural problem, now filed

What a merger should know

The manifest vs. `rig platform` (#64 / #74)