PYR0D-338: Rebuild firstmate on the latest upstream, with our Forgejo, guard and workflow slices #37

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Story: PYR0D-338 - Rebuild the firstmate fork on the maintainer's latest upstream

What was wrong

Our fork had drifted about 400 commits behind kunchenguid/firstmate while carrying its own changes: Forgejo delivery, loss guards, workflow rules and OMP. The earlier merge-everything attempt kept tangling upstream's rewrites with our patches. On 09/28 the captain chose D139 B: rebuild on the latest upstream and port only what we still need.

What changed

The branch takes upstream as the base and ports seven slices on top, one commit each, each with its tests, following the keep-list plan (D143 to D145):

  • S1, forge CI: CI runs on the forge's native Arch runner. Our workflow files are fork-only, and upstream's .github/workflows/ci.yml stays byte-identical.
  • S2, Forgejo PRs: a Forgejo provider for PR checks and merges. It includes the captain's D144 gate: a Forgejo merge refuses unless the PR is open, not a draft, mergeable, has green combined checks, and its head has not moved since the checks passed.
  • S3, definition of done: forge=forgejo added to the delivery-forge axis, so workers on Forgejo projects report "pipeline passed, pushed" and firstmate opens the PR.
  • S4, delivery-target guard: a no-mistakes spawn refuses when the project's stored delivery target no longer matches its clone's origin.
  • S5, quota-ceiling landing: bin/fm-land.sh, the quota-reset sentinel, and last-run telemetry for registered checks.
  • S6, memory budget at session start: the digest spends config/startup-memory-budget on the curated memory files and marks exact cut points.
  • S7, workflow rules: the Plane first-level record (a short AGENTS.md subsection plus the plane-first-record skill), the imported skills, and the security playbook.

Test hygiene commits keep the Herdr, Orca and spawn-mechanics suites off the new delivery guard. The no-mistakes review fixes cover check-sidecar cleanup on unregister, the read-once budget wording, and reverting formatter churn on upstream-owned files, so that upstream diffs stay minimal. The document step adds the Forgejo forge token and the check sidecar to the docs.

It lands as one history-preserving merge: no force push, and upstream's history is kept.

Decisions

  • D139 B: rebuild, not merge-everything.
  • D143: dispatch matching is wanted, backed by OpenRouter (Jev) instead of typesafe.ai. That is a follow-up change after this lands, not in this PR.
  • D144: the checks-green, head-unchanged Forgejo merge gate, included in S2.
  • D145, then D148 A: upstream's away-mode supervision host is adopted in stages after this lands, as its own follow-up. Our away-mode hardening fixes stay parked until then.
  • The macOS removal was dropped, since this fork targets Arch only.

What stays open

  • Jev dispatch matching through OpenRouter (D143 follow-up).
  • Adopting the away-mode host, staged (D148 A).
  • Small shared fixes found in the 09/29 memory curation: the brief's status-append quoting and the plane-first-record PQL advice.
  • The fleet-view jq "argument list too long" failure at this home's size, if upstream has not already fixed it.

Validation: the no-mistakes pipeline passed (review, test, document, lint) at a9e08c56. Forge CI runs on this PR.

**Story:** PYR0D-338 - Rebuild the firstmate fork on the maintainer's latest upstream ## What was wrong Our fork had drifted about 400 commits behind kunchenguid/firstmate while carrying its own changes: Forgejo delivery, loss guards, workflow rules and OMP. The earlier merge-everything attempt kept tangling upstream's rewrites with our patches. On 09/28 the captain chose D139 B: rebuild on the latest upstream and port only what we still need. ## What changed The branch takes upstream as the base and ports seven slices on top, one commit each, each with its tests, following the keep-list plan (D143 to D145): - **S1, forge CI:** CI runs on the forge's native Arch runner. Our workflow files are fork-only, and upstream's `.github/workflows/ci.yml` stays byte-identical. - **S2, Forgejo PRs:** a Forgejo provider for PR checks and merges. It includes the captain's D144 gate: a Forgejo merge refuses unless the PR is open, not a draft, mergeable, has green combined checks, and its head has not moved since the checks passed. - **S3, definition of done:** `forge=forgejo` added to the delivery-forge axis, so workers on Forgejo projects report "pipeline passed, pushed" and firstmate opens the PR. - **S4, delivery-target guard:** a no-mistakes spawn refuses when the project's stored delivery target no longer matches its clone's origin. - **S5, quota-ceiling landing:** `bin/fm-land.sh`, the quota-reset sentinel, and last-run telemetry for registered checks. - **S6, memory budget at session start:** the digest spends `config/startup-memory-budget` on the curated memory files and marks exact cut points. - **S7, workflow rules:** the Plane first-level record (a short AGENTS.md subsection plus the `plane-first-record` skill), the imported skills, and the security playbook. Test hygiene commits keep the Herdr, Orca and spawn-mechanics suites off the new delivery guard. The no-mistakes review fixes cover check-sidecar cleanup on unregister, the read-once budget wording, and reverting formatter churn on upstream-owned files, so that upstream diffs stay minimal. The document step adds the Forgejo forge token and the check sidecar to the docs. It lands as one history-preserving merge: no force push, and upstream's history is kept. ## Decisions - D139 B: rebuild, not merge-everything. - D143: dispatch matching is wanted, backed by OpenRouter (Jev) instead of typesafe.ai. That is a follow-up change after this lands, not in this PR. - D144: the checks-green, head-unchanged Forgejo merge gate, included in S2. - D145, then D148 A: upstream's away-mode supervision host is adopted in stages after this lands, as its own follow-up. Our away-mode hardening fixes stay parked until then. - The macOS removal was dropped, since this fork targets Arch only. ## What stays open - Jev dispatch matching through OpenRouter (D143 follow-up). - Adopting the away-mode host, staged (D148 A). - Small shared fixes found in the 09/29 memory curation: the brief's status-append quoting and the plane-first-record PQL advice. - The fleet-view `jq` "argument list too long" failure at this home's size, if upstream has not already fixed it. Validation: the no-mistakes pipeline passed (review, test, document, lint) at `a9e08c56`. Forge CI runs on this PR.
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* fix(hooks): keep tracked Claude entries inert under grok 1.0.0 hooks

Grok loads Claude-compatible settings, so the tracked `.claude/settings.json`
hook entries also fire under Grok. They were meant to be inert there, guarded
by `[ -z "${GROK_AGENT:-}" ] || exit 0`. That guard silently stopped working.

Verified from the live process environment of a wedged grok 1.0.0 Stop hook on
2026-08-07: a grok 1.0.0 HOOK process carries GROK_HOOK_EVENT, GROK_HOOK_NAME,
GROK_SESSION_ID, and GROK_WORKSPACE_ROOT, but no GROK_AGENT. The observed hook
process was labelled `GROK_HOOK_NAME=project/settings:stop[0].hooks[1]`, which
is the Claude-only auto-arm entry.

Consequence: Grok ran `bin/fm-claude-stop-autoarm.sh` synchronously. Grok has
no `asyncRewake`, so it waited on the foregrounded watcher for that entry's
declared 28800-second timeout and the Grok turn never ended - the operator saw
an infinite "Responding".

Widen the guard to `[ -z "${GROK_AGENT:-}${GROK_HOOK_EVENT:-}" ] || exit 0` on
the five entries that have a `.grok/hooks/` counterpart: both Stop entries, the
SessionStart entry, and the two PreToolUse Bash entries.

Two deliberate limits:

- The guard is NOT widened to GROK_SESSION_ID. Grok injects it into every child
  process, so it can survive into a Claude session that Grok launched and would
  silently disable Claude's own watcher continuity. GROK_HOOK_EVENT is
  per-hook-invocation and does not leak that way.
- `bin/fm-subagent-pretool-check.sh` stays unguarded on purpose. It is the one
  tracked entry with no `.grok/hooks/` counterpart, so guarding it would remove
  the guard from Grok entirely rather than deduplicate it. The new test asserts
  it stays unguarded so the exception cannot be closed silently, and
  docs/subagent-guard.md is honest that the coverage it leaves is partial.

`bin/fm-harness.sh` corrects a comment that presented GROK_AGENT as reliably
present; it is a fast path only, and the ancestry walk is what actually
guarantees grok identification.

tests/fm-turnend-guard.test.sh adds test_tracked_claude_entries_inert_under_grok,
which runs every tracked entry under a real grok 1.0.0 hook environment, a
legacy GROK_AGENT environment, and a native Claude environment.

* no-mistakes(document): docs: sync grok hook-marker guard facts to owners

* no-mistakes(review): docs: state grok guard criterion by event coverage
The deferred network stage published one aggregate started/finished pair, so
a run that took a minute could not be attributed to a phase, a host, or a
clone without re-running it by hand under manual tracing.

Add bin/fm-timing-lib.sh as the single owner of elapsed-time records, and
bracket each network owner with one: the gh auth probe, the secondmate
liveness sweep, secondmate convergence, pending handoff delivery, and the
project clone refresh, plus one record per secondmate for the remote-touching
steps (id and host) and one per project clone. Each record carries a start
offset from one shared origin, so the artifact reads as a timeline.

The stage publishes them beside its report as state/.startup-network.timings,
for a timed-out or failed run too, where the partial record is the answer.
Only the on-demand `report` command prints them: `harvest` composes the
session-start digest, so its output, the wake cadence, and every other part
of a normal session start are unchanged.

Recording is inert unless a run asks for it, so nothing else that sources
these scripts pays for it. Details are identities only - a detail carrying
whitespace is refused rather than cleaned up, which is what keeps a command
line, an environment dump, or a captured error out of the file.

Split two per-item loop bodies into their own functions so each iteration can
be timed; every `continue` became a `return 0` with the same meaning, and the
sweeps still run directly, in the same order, returning the same results.
* feat(stow): cascade the internal /stow to every registered secondmate

Invoked in a primary home, /stow now sweeps every registered secondmate
after the primary's own required pass, enforcing the same startup-memory
threshold in each home against that home's own allowance rather than a
fleet total.

bin/fm-stow-cascade.sh owns the mechanical inputs: it enumerates each
registered secondmate exactly once from data/secondmates.md, reports that
home's own budget accounting, and resolves how the sweep reaches it. A
live agent sweeps its own home so its uncaptured session knowledge is
captured too; a local home without one is curated in place; a remote home
without one is accounted read-only and deferred, because there is no
generic remote write path for a home's own memory files. Every host-
crossing step and each home's accounting runs under one hard bound, so a
slow or unreachable home reports an exception and the sweep continues.

Nothing changes until /stow is invoked: no new notification, digest
section, or background work. The public skills/stow skill is untouched.

* no-mistakes(review): fix(stow): extend cascade --help range to include full exit-code contract
29 fm-remote-job-worker.sh processes were found running at ppid 1, 1-2 days
old, each still polling and appending to a log inside a no-mistakes gate
worktree that had already been returned.

Three things combined to make that possible:

- The recorded worker.pid is the serving child, not the restart supervisor
  above it, so a teardown that stops that one pid only makes the supervisor
  respawn. The Linux start path also left the worker tree in the launching
  command's process group, so there was no group to signal instead.
- Neither the serving loop nor the supervisor ever rechecked whether its
  configured FM_ROOT still existed, so a worker launched from a worktree
  outlived that worktree indefinitely.
- The supervisor restarted a failing child with a fixed 0.1s delay and no
  bound, which is what grew the logs (~66MB/day measured).

The Linux start path now puts the worker tree in its own process group, and
fm_remote_job_stop_worker_tree signals that whole group - refusing any group
whose leader is not itself a worker, so a worker from an older build or from
launchd's own session is still stopped safely as a single process. The worker
stops itself once its code root stops being a Firstmate checkout, confirmed
across a grace window so an ordinary transient cannot stop a healthy worker.
The supervisor backs off and gives up rather than restarting forever.

bin/fm-remote-job-reap-orphans.sh is the belt-and-suspenders sweep for workers
already orphaned that way, wired into fm-teardown.sh. Its reap condition is
exactly "the code root named in the worker's own command line is gone", which
is why the account's healthy LaunchAgent worker and every live remote
secondmate worker are never candidates.

The two suites that leaked these in the first place now stop the worker tree
rather than the recorded pid alone.
* fix(bin): lint only the changed shard locally, full lint in CI

Two ships hitting fm-lint.sh at once could spike CPU to 190% and load
to 8.58 on a captain's Mac, even though each run finishes quickly.
fm-lint.sh now defaults to linting only the canonical-set files
changed since the merge-base with origin/main (including uncommitted
edits) on an ordinary local branch, using plain local git with no
network calls. It still lints the full canonical set in CI
(GITHUB_ACTIONS=true or CI=true), on the main branch, or whenever no
merge-base can be found, so CI coverage never depends on a local diff.
Explicit paths keep bypassing this selection entirely.

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes
* feat(bin): add deterministic agent lifecycle control

Separate firstmate's data plane from its control plane.

bin/fm-send.sh is the data plane: conversational text, always
routing-marked for a kind=secondmate target. That marking is right for a
message and wrong for a lifecycle command - a marked "/quit" arrives as
ordinary chat the agent reasons about instead of executing.

bin/fm-control.sh is the control plane: allowlisted interrupt, exit, and
transactional relaunch verbs addressed to an exact task id, with
per-harness mechanics owned by the executable bin/fm-control-lib.sh
rather than improvised in agent prose, and a verified postcondition for
every action. There is no arbitrary-text and no raw-key entry point.

relaunch runs as a transaction with a durable journal: it resolves the
profile, proves the work it must preserve is recoverable, records the
required progress note, stops the old agent, then delegates the launch
to its single owner, bin/fm-spawn.sh --relaunch, which adopts the
recorded endpoint and worktree instead of creating either. A refusal
before the stop leaves the record and instructions byte-identical; a
failure after it reports the concrete state rather than claiming an
agent that is not running. Teardown and discard stay separate and
explicit.

exit and relaunch require a backend with a recovery-grade agent-state
classifier, so zellij, orca, and cmux are refused rather than reported
as successful blind. A remotely placed secondmate is refused by name,
because its agent runs on a host where none of these postconditions can
be read.

* fix(control): resolve a recorded harness to its adapter before retiring wiring

fm-spawn arms per-task harness wiring on prefixes, because a task
launched from a raw command records that command's basename rather than
the exact adapter name. The control plane's retirement tables are keyed
by the exact adapter, so a task recorded as `grok-2` had its turn-end
token, private registry entry, and worktree hook pointer armed and never
retired - leaving a registry entry that outlived the agent that owned
it.

State the prefix rule once, in the capability owner, and resolve the
recorded value through it before every table lookup. bin/fm-send.sh's
composer-clear lookup reads the same owner instead of keeping its own
copy of which adapters need one.

* test(control): pin muse session-binding retirement across a harness switch

* no-mistakes(review): Resolve prefixed harnesses across lifecycle control verbs

* no-mistakes(review): Report interrupt delivery without fabricating cancellation state

* no-mistakes(review): Clear disabled relaunch trace context atomically

* no-mistakes(review): Clarify control interrupts and restore legacy send state

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse ambiguous relaunches and report exit delivery

* no-mistakes(review): Revalidate interrupts and accept interrupt-stopped exits

* no-mistakes(review): Lock descendant tasks before forced recursive teardown

* no-mistakes(document): Align lifecycle adapter documentation with control plane

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* fix(bin): serialize fresh task publication with forced teardown

Forced secondmate teardown enumerated a home's task set, locked what it
found, then re-enumerated while removing. A fresh spawn takes only its
own per-task lock, so a record published inside that window was
invisible to the preflight and visible to the cleanup: it was
destructively processed while never lifecycle-locked.

Reproduced with real agents. A record published 0.249s after teardown
began was removed, its window closed, and its worktree returned to the
pool - while both commands reported success. A per-task lock cannot
protect a task that does not exist yet.

Add a per-home task-set lock guarding WHICH tasks a home has, as opposed
to the metadata lock guarding one task's record. Teardown takes it per
home, parent before child, before enumerating and holds it through
cleanup. A fresh spawn takes it before its own per-task locks and holds
it through publication; a relaunch is exempt, because it republishes an
existing task already covered by that task's control lock.

Either the spawn publishes first and the teardown's preflight covers it,
or the teardown owns the set and the spawn refuses. Both directions fail
closed, and both are pinned by tests that hold the lock rather than
racing on timing.

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize remote secondmate publication with forced teardown

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve remote spawn routing and state initialization

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize teardown when descendant state is absent

* no-mistakes(review): Cover symlinked descendant state refusal

* no-mistakes(document): Document task-set serialization safeguards

* no-mistakes(lint): Isolate task-set lock path resolution

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes
* feat(stow): tiered decaying memory with captain-gated offload to local excluded skills

Implement the captain-adopted /stow redesign from the v2 tiering report as
amended by the adoption decision:

- Per-entry trailing HTML-comment markers with three tiers named for their
  handling: pinned (no clock, no eviction), aging (stale after 30 days),
  perishable (stale after 7 days, mandatory checkable expiry condition).
- File-scoped defaults (captain.md and captain-shared.md pinned,
  learnings.md aging) with a self-describing legend line per file header.
- Reinforcement requires session evidence; re-reading memory never counts.
- Archive-not-delete: stale and budget-evicted entries move with provenance
  to the never-injected data/memory-archive.md; prune always means the cold
  tier, and a stale unique fact is never deleted.
- Captain-gated over-budget offload: staleness evaluated before scope, the
  sweep runs only when still over budget after decay and consolidation,
  proposals go through the receipt plus one durable captain-held backlog
  item, migration runs through the destination's normal path, and the
  memory entry leaves only once the destination is live.
- Offload destination per the adoption decision: a user-owned skill under
  .agents/skills/<freeform-name>/ excluded via the local .git/info/exclude,
  with the hard rule that stow never creates or writes a tracked skill.
- Five graduation moves, receipt verbs archived and proposed-offload, and
  the one-time non-destructive migration of unmarked legacy entries.

The public skills/stow/SKILL.md mirrors the generic parts (markers, decay,
archive exit, user-approved on-demand offload exit, migration) with no
firstmate-specific paths.

The load-bearing assumption that a git-excluded skill is still discovered
was verified empirically against Claude Code 2.1.226 (direct
.git/info/exclude scratch-repo test plus an in-repo ignored-probe test);
the dated evidence is recorded in docs/verification/stow-memory.md.

The graduation list's deletion move is deliberately narrowed to duplicates
already preserved by a stronger owner, reconciling the v2 report's retained
'deletion of a stale entry' wording with its own prune-always-archives
rule.

* no-mistakes(review): Persist legacy migration grace across stow passes

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce archival invariants and exempt default-pinned legacy entries

* no-mistakes(review): Clarify offload scope, archive placement, and marker boundaries

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce aging fallback and verify excluded skill loading

* no-mistakes(review): Fix stow decay, pinned offload, and archival safeguards

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve pinned entries, approvals, and archive provenance

* no-mistakes(review): Restrict stow mutations to editable memory files

* no-mistakes(review): Clarify skill destinations, collision checks, and migration legends

* no-mistakes(review): Resolve exclude paths for linked worktrees

* no-mistakes(review): Secure per-home excluded skill migration

* no-mistakes(test): Require explicit tier markers on new stow entries

* no-mistakes(test): Route missing shared legends to primary owner

* no-mistakes(document): Align stow documentation with tiered memory

* fix(stow): converge the pass on an over-budget home (dogfood D1-D3)

The dogfood run against a copy of the real over-budget home showed the
pass increasing the deficit from 624 to 1,107 estimated tokens and the
relief ladder provably unable to reach budget. Three skill-text fixes:

- D1: markers become single-token spellings (<!--a:DATE-->, <!--p:DATE-->,
  <!--P-->, <!--g-->), entries matching a pinned file default carry no
  marker, the per-file policy legend collapses to a one-line pointer
  naming the stow skill as the scheme owner, and marker/pointer bytes are
  explicitly counted content - roughly 76% less metadata cost on the
  dogfooded home's first installment.
- D2: the eviction rung gains a convergence precondition - total the
  eligible pool first, and when archiving all of it cannot reach budget,
  skip eviction entirely, archive nothing for budget reasons, and report
  the exempt pinned floor as the concrete inability in the final step.
- D3: budget eviction considers only dated aging entries; <!--g-->
  legacy-grace entries are ineligible until their grace cycle resolves,
  so eviction cannot cancel promised grace or invert against validation.

Public skill mirrors the D1 marker/pointer changes; D2/D3 are internal
because the public skill has no budget ladder.

* no-mistakes(test): Enforce evidence-only reinforcement during stow migration

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify stow receipt marker actions
* docs: add firstmate vision

* no-mistakes(test): Classify VISION.md as public product documentation

* no-mistakes(document): Restore approved one-file vision diff

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes
* fix(spawn): force regular Pi TUI for crews

* no-mistakes(document): Documented Pi regular TUI launch mode
* fix(cmux): classify borderless Claude composer

* no-mistakes(review): Normalize cmux NBSP prompts across locales

* no-mistakes(document): Document cmux borderless Claude composer classification
The public installer-facing stow skill scoped its classify-then-replace
discipline to TODO/BACKLOG items only, so findings routed to a memory file
had no stated rule against a blind append or a wholesale overwrite.

Step 6 now classifies every finding against the destination's current
contents as new, duplicate, superseding, or obsolete, and states the
considered replacement each classification implies. The outcomes follow the
tiered-memory contract already in the file: an obsolete entry is refreshed,
archived, or replaced in a way that preserves its fact, a duplicate folds
into the entry that already carries it, and a superseded body worth keeping
leaves through step 7's existing exits rather than a second recovery
mechanism.
* fix(watcher): resurface durable work after downtime

* no-mistakes(review): Make watcher rearm recovery durable and cursor-safe

* no-mistakes(review): Persist safe recovery markers across migration lock recovery

* no-mistakes(review): Retain stale lock when recovery marker publication fails

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve delivery-gap recovery and quarantine malformed markers

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize recovery consumption and report acknowledgment failures

* no-mistakes(review): Centralize recovery publication before clearing watcher evidence

* no-mistakes(review): Guarantee recovery evidence across queue and lock handoffs

* no-mistakes(review): Publish recovery evidence before durable wake commits

* no-mistakes(review): Replace recovery marker Perl dependency with Node

* no-mistakes(review): Keep interrupted wakes durable until handling acknowledgment

* no-mistakes(review): Add post-handling durable wake acknowledgements

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce post-handling acknowledgement across recovery and AFK return

* no-mistakes(review): Bind wake acknowledgements to recovery generations

* no-mistakes(review): Align wake regressions with generation-bound acknowledgements

* no-mistakes(document): Document durable re-arm recovery semantics

* no-mistakes(lint): Resolve ShellCheck warnings in recovery and watcher tests

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* test(watcher): assert post-handling wake replay

* no-mistakes(review): Prevent successor loops and adopt legacy wake generations

* no-mistakes(review): Rearm durable wakes without recursive successor recovery

* no-mistakes(review): Align recovery tests with handling marker state

* no-mistakes(review): Delay handling transition until successor launch is established

* no-mistakes(review): Confirm wake handling only after successful prompt delivery

* no-mistakes(review): Acknowledge AFK wakes only after evidence publication

* no-mistakes(review): Prevent AFK wake loss before post-handling acknowledgement

* no-mistakes(document): Document durable wake acknowledgement semantics

* no-mistakes(lint): Suppress false positive for recovery action output

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes
* ci: add Windows Herdr automation spike

* ci: run Windows spike on its pull request

* fix: wait for Windows Herdr command output

* fix: run ANSI probe in pane shell

* ci: keep Windows Herdr spike manually triggered

* docs: clarify Windows Herdr spike verdict
* Add guided ahoy decision flow

* no-mistakes(document): Document guided Ahoy decision flow
* Harden stow memory budget policy

* Refine internal stow offload policy

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce shared-budget decisions and autonomous offload
* fix(spawn): refresh pooled worktree base

* no-mistakes(document): Document spawn base-freshness invariant

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes
* refactor(composer): one shape owner behind thin capture adapters, whole matrix fixed

Consolidate every composer shape - bordered boxes (all families, geometry,
titled bottom borders), bare agent-glyph rows and their wrap regions,
opencode's left bar, and pi's identity-gated separator pair - into
fm_composer_classify_screen in bin/fm-composer-lib.sh. Adapters now
contribute only a capture and a declarative capability descriptor
(styled/cursor/identity/rows); capability differences change how confidently
a shape is judged, never what the shapes are, so a new harness shape is
teachable in exactly one place.

Correctness fixes landed as part of the consolidation (audit
data/fm-composer-consolidation-audit-s1):
- locale-safe Unicode-space normalization in the shared owner (closes the
  fleet-wide half of #1988; cmux's local byte-exact NBSP case deleted;
  naming converges with PR #1995's normalization primitive)
- muse's bare glyph joins the shared set, unbreaking muse on herdr/cmux/orca
- orca learns the borderless bare shape, drops its backward-paged composer
  window, and can no longer classify a stale startup banner as the composer
- tmux tolerates a titled bottom border, unbreaking grok steering
- the left-bar shape makes opencode readable on every backend
- zellij gets a real classifier through dump-screen --ansi, replacing the
  content-diff submit heuristic that could confirm an undelivered message
  and close a --resolve-key decision (the fleet's only false positive)
- fm-spawn's kimi launch-readiness regex (the fourth shape copy) now routes
  through the shared classifier

The strict blank-row posture applies fleet-wide (captain decision
blank-row-injection-posture): no positive container proof = unknown = defer,
replacing tmux's permissive blank-cursor-row rule. Away-mode injection was
re-validated end to end on real tmux (defer on partial input and unproven
rows, clean delivery with swallowed-Enter retry into proven-empty
composers). The tmux submit core gains a baseline-idle turn-started
conversion so pi steering stays confirmed while its working screen hides
the composer; busy conversion without that baseline remains forbidden.

Plain-capture backends now degrade a glyph row carrying trailing text to
unknown instead of a false pending, per the approved capability rule.

Portable regressions pin the full byte-capture matrix from the audit under
a UTF-8 locale and LC_ALL=C, the strict-vs-permissive divergence, and
deliberate signal separation; the opt-in live guard
(tests/fm-composer-matrix-live-e2e.test.sh) verified every installed
harness against the real classifier, recorded in
docs/verification/runtime-backends.md.

* no-mistakes(review): Fix Pi glyph ambiguity and complete profile matrix

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve bare verdict when Pi identity probe is absent

* no-mistakes(review): Harden composer structure and titled-border geometry

* no-mistakes(review): Require proven idle baseline and strict Zellij guard

* no-mistakes(review): Reject box bottom borders as composer input rows

* no-mistakes(review): Prove Zellij probe typing before classifier retries

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve Pi identity uncertainty and scan full left-bar drafts

* no-mistakes(review): Verify Zellij text lands before submitting

* no-mistakes(review): Scope Zellij typing verification to selected composer content

* no-mistakes(review): Verify Zellij pastes through composer-scoped content deltas

* no-mistakes(review): Prove wrapped bare Zellij pastes through composer extraction

* no-mistakes(review): Invalidate stale cursorless composers below dead shell prompts

* no-mistakes(review): Handle shell prompt placeholders in composer extraction

* no-mistakes(review): Classify cursorless bare continuation regions safely

* no-mistakes(review): Reject stale cursorless containers below live activity

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve prompt glyphs in wrapped Zellij pastes

* no-mistakes(review): Reject live shell rows during composer extraction

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve wrapped glyph continuations through submit retries

* no-mistakes(review): Scope idle placeholders to proven positions

* no-mistakes(review): Restore boxed placeholders and live prompt reanchoring

* no-mistakes(review): Fix Zellij placeholder and wrapped glyph paste proof

* no-mistakes(document): Align composer architecture documentation

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix ShellCheck warnings in composer refactor

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* docs(verification): record the trusted-checkout live matrix rerun

The pipeline's isolated gate worktree is untrusted, so claude, grok, and
muse stopped at first-launch trust dialogs there (the guard refuses to
confirm them by design). This rerun from the trusted checkout at the final
validated head verified all six installed harnesses, the strict blank-row
deferral, and the hardened zellij false-positive probe live.

* no-mistakes(document): Align composer verification evidence

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes(review): Restore proven box bottom-cursor classification

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve styled placeholder-like drafts as pending

* no-mistakes(document): Align composer safety and Zellij delivery documentation

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* docs(verification): refresh the live matrix with the final-head trusted rerun

The post-validation rerun from the trusted checkout verified all six
installed harnesses at the branch's final head, including Claude 2.1.227
(auto-updated since the audit's captures) and Grok, which the untrusted
gate worktree could not verify past their first-launch trust dialogs.
* fix(spawn): gate Pi regular TUI flag by capability

* no-mistakes(review): Document conditional Pi TUI capability detection

* no-mistakes(review): Pin Pi probing and launch to one executable

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve literal pinned Pi paths and update documentation

* no-mistakes(review): Defer pinned Pi path insertion until final substitution

* no-mistakes(document): Document version-safe Pi launch probing

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes
* docs(vision): elevate experience, pain narrative, and distro virtues

Fold the captain's public vision framing into VISION.md: peace of mind as a
primary goal, multi-session context-switch pain as the problem one interface
solves, clone-and-run setup ease, self-evolution including community, and
explicit harness/backend orthogonality. Reconcile experience-as-garnish into
experience-as-purpose and update aligns/resists accordingly.

* docs(vision): state the experience goal positively

Drop the negative "not a smart workflow / useful tool / impressive technology"
pretext. Lead straight into the positive experience north star.
* fix: reconcile inactive terminal outcomes

* fix: stream secondmate summary inputs

* no-mistakes(review): Fix reconciliation locking and request delivery retries

* no-mistakes(review): Prevent retries after unknown request delivery

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify inactive reconciliation cadence and receipts

* no-mistakes(lint): Quote terminal status arguments in reconciliation tests

* refactor: simplify inactive outcome reconciliation

* no-mistakes(review): Bound inactive reconciliation scans with durable progress

* no-mistakes(review): Bound reconciliation and deduplicate recovery notices

* no-mistakes(document): Document inactive outcome reconciliation contracts

* no-mistakes(review): Reject relative local secondmate parent routes

* no-mistakes(review): Key terminal receipts by spawn incarnation

* no-mistakes(review): Stabilize legacy receipts and lock reconciliation snapshots

* no-mistakes(review): Fail closed on invalid secondmate identity markers

* no-mistakes(document): Document durable inactive-outcome reconciliation

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes
* fix(session-start): refresh drifted instructions on stale rebuilds

* test(session-start): prove Pi instruction refresh end to end

* no-mistakes(review): Fix stale instruction refresh and baseline integrity

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve true-start baselines across Pi continuations

* no-mistakes(review): Correct Pi continuation classification and live expectation

* no-mistakes(review): Correct Pi continuation coverage documentation

* no-mistakes(review): Fix read-only refresh and exact Pi session restores

* no-mistakes(review): Classify Pi create-if-missing sessions correctly

* no-mistakes(review): Classify named Pi sessions using immutable headers

* no-mistakes(review): Correct Codex interactive coverage diagnostic

* no-mistakes(document): Document immutable Pi compaction instruction refresh

* no-mistakes(document): Correct Pi refresh documentation and validation claims
* feat(bin): add deterministic condition->action watch adapter on the process-event channel

Register a (condition, action) pair once with bin/fm-procevent-when.sh and the
existing process-to-event runner polls the condition tokenlessly, fires the
action at most once on a stable true, and wakes firstmate exactly once with the
captured outcome - instead of burning an agent turn per re-check.

The pair is stored privately under state/when/ and hash-bound by a trust record
the same way fm-check-register.sh binds a custom check, so a mutated spec is
refused without executing anything. A durable exclusive fired marker claimed
before the action makes restarts and re-polls unable to double-fire; every
failure path (mutated spec, condition error past budget, expired deadline,
failed action, uncaptured earlier fire) ends in a terminal captured outcome
that wakes firstmate rather than a silent retry. Eligibility stays a firstmate
judgment: only exact, safe, reversible actions may be bound, and judgment-
needing or destructive actions keep the wake-and-decide flow.

* no-mistakes(review): Harden when watcher concurrency, deadlines, timeouts, and output

* no-mistakes(test): Bind watcher actions to registered executable bytes

* no-mistakes(document): Correct condition-action watcher documentation

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify outcome wake re-announcement

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes
The open-decisions fold only recognized a [key=<slug>] token between the
verb and the colon (needs-decision [key=x]: note). The common worker
shape with the colon first (needs-decision: [key=x] note) silently
folded its stated key into the shared "default" bucket, so two open
decisions could collapse into one record and fm-send --resolve-key <x>
refused to close the decision it plainly named.

A complete token at the head of the note is now an equivalent stated-key
position for every keyed verb, shared by the whole-file and incremental
folds through the one _fm_decision_key owner. The documented
before-colon position wins when both are present, a token deeper in the
note stays prose, a bare keyless line still folds to "default", and a
stated-but-malformed slug is rejected rather than rewritten to
"default". A consumed note-head token is stripped from the note so both
positions yield identical records, and the incremental fold version is
bumped so persisted cursors folded under the old interpretation are
rebuilt from the authoritative log.

Fixes #2109
* fix(bin): keep a recovery acknowledgement valid across republication

A watcher cycle that opened and closed while the model handled its drained
wakes minted a fresh recovery generation, which invalidated the exact
acknowledgement the drain had just printed. That acknowledgement then consumed
nothing, so the marker stayed pending and every later arm spent its whole cycle
re-announcing the same recovery instead of supervising - a livelock the home
could not leave on its own.

A downtime publication now reuses the generation of an outstanding handling
episode, so a close during the handling window cannot orphan the printed
acknowledgement. The acknowledgement itself separates its two facts: queue-row
consumption is bound to the monotonic --ack-through sequence and always
happens, while only retiring the episode is bound to --recovery-generation. A
generation that moved on is a non-fatal result that names its own remedy
instead of a refusal that consumes nothing.

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve recovery generations and consume stale acknowledgements safely

* no-mistakes(document): Document sequence-bound recovery acknowledgements
* feat(fmx-respond): consume in_reply_to_chain conversation context

The relay's poll payload can carry in_reply_to_chain, an oldest-first
transcript of the surrounding conversation, but the mention-handling
procedure only ever read the immediate in_reply_to parent, so referents
like "this" in a standalone mention stayed unresolvable even when
context was delivered.

Teach fmx-respond to read the chain when present (optional and
backward-compatible: often absent today, kind label not required),
resolve referents against the whole transcript, and extend the
untrusted-content framing to every chain entry including the upcoming
kind=history entries. Document the field's wire shape in
docs/configuration.md as the firstmate-side owner.

* no-mistakes(document): Document Relay chain context ownership
* fix(bin): strip every bracket tag, not just [key=...], from a status verb

status_line_verb only stripped a leading "[key=...]" token before the
colon, so a remote secondmate reply's leading "[corr=...]" correlation
tag stayed glued onto the returned verb word ("needs-decision
[corr=...]" instead of "needs-decision"). The open-decisions fold's
verb match then silently failed to recognize the line at all, so
fm-send --resolve-key refused to close a decision that was plainly
open on the status line.

Generalize the parser to strip every "[name=value]" tag before the
colon, in any order and count, so local and remote replies fold
identically.

* no-mistakes(review): Invalidate stale decision cursors after parser fix

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify status metadata verb parsing
* fix: collapse duplicate supervision wakes without losing legitimate updates

One remote-secondmate note produced two handling turns (a procevent check
wake published before autohandle, then a signal wake for the same mirrored
bytes), already-ingested replays such as a cursor-loss whole-log recapture
still woke with nothing to do, this home's own bookkeeping closes (fm-send
--resolve-key, the pending-reply escalation close, the captain-held
transfer) re-woke the session that wrote them, and turn-ended-only wakes
were annotated with already-announced status lines that looked like fresh
progress.

Dedup rules, each at its layer's one owner:
- fm-procevent.sh: an adapter may declare 'self-announcing'; the runner
  then applies first and publishes a check wake only for what remains
  unhandled. fm-procevent-remote-reply.sh declares it: the mirrored status
  append is the single announcement, so a fully applied capture publishes
  nothing and a byte-identical replay stays completely quiet. All other
  adapters keep strict publish-before-apply.
- fm-wake-lib.sh: fm_wake_signal_sig/seen_path/seen_current now own the
  watcher's signal signature and .seen-* marker format, plus
  fm_wake_status_append_self_announced, the guarded bookkeeping append
  that advances the marker only over exactly its own bytes and fails
  toward waking on any pending or interleaved foreign write.
- fm-send.sh, fm-pending-reply-lib.sh, fm-decision-hold.sh: bookkeeping
  closes go through that guarded append; escalation opens stay plain
  appends because a new blocker must wake.
- fm-wake-lib.sh annotations: a historical (turn-ended-only) row skips its
  status annotation only when the file's signature provably matches the
  seen marker; anything unannounced keeps annotating.
- fm-classify-lib.sh: a kind=secondmate task's status signal is never
  absorbed as provably-working, because that stream is the routed-reply
  channel the parent must read.

Also fixes a pre-existing exit-path deadlock the regression run reproduced:
a TERM inside a recovery-marker critical section left fm_lock_try_acquire
spinning against this same process's abandoned hold; a self-held lock is
now reclaimed (a subshell still waits on its parent's live hold).

Regression tests drive the real wake functions and executables in both
directions: each duplicate case collapses, while a new remote reply, new
decision, new blocker, merge result, failure, first status change, and a
later different note on the same task all still wake.

* no-mistakes(document): Document wake deduplication contracts
* feat(harness): add Cursor Agent CLI adapter

# Conflicts:
#	bin/fm-spawn.sh

* fix(composer): read cursor-agent's reverse-video placeholder as idle

cursor-agent renders its idle composer placeholder dim (SGR 2) but paints the
cell under the terminal cursor in reverse video (SGR 0;7). Reverse video is
neither dim nor a dark truecolor foreground, so the shared ghost stripper keeps
that one character and an idle composer reduces to a lone `P`. Judged on its
own, that remnant reads `pending` on a genuinely idle pane, which defers
away-mode escalation indefinitely on the styled cursorless backends.

Teach the ONE fleet-wide classifier the shape instead of adding an adapter-local
copy: register `→` as an agent prompt glyph so the composer row is structurally
findable at all (without it the bottom-most shape is a stale shell prompt echo
in the scrollback), add both verified placeholders to the idle set, and consult
the styling-independent plain row when the styled row is only a remnant.

The plain-row branch demands the remnant be a proper, strictly shorter substring
of a plain row matching a fully anchored placeholder. Real typed text is
uniformly bright, so stripping leaves it equal to the plain row and it stays
`pending` - verified live against a pane where the typed text was exactly the
placeholder string.

Verified live on cursor-agent 2026.08.11-e8db854; the regression pins the real
captured bytes and asserts the remnant survives stripping, so the case cannot go
vacuous if the stripper later learns SGR 7.

Co-authored-by: Amplify Logic AI <lars@sockinator.co>

* feat(cursor): narrow cursor identity and order its marker before CLAUDECODE

Cursor ships two executable names - `cursor-agent` and the legacy alias `agent`
- and runs as a bundled node script, so tmux reports the pane command as a bare
`node`. Neither `agent` nor `node` can be trusted by name, so identity gets one
owner in bin/fm-cursor-lib.sh that demands cursor's own name or install tree in
the path or argv[0], from the structural signal only. Probing an arbitrary pid's
executable during a liveness poll would execute a stranger's binary, which is
the hazard that rule exists to close.

Two consequences wired up:

Detection. cursor-agent does NOT clear an inherited CLAUDECODE, so a cursor
worker launched under a claude primary carries both markers and whichever is
tested first wins. The cursor markers are ordered ahead of the CLAUDECODE check;
fm-spawn additionally clears foreign markers at the launch boundary. Both are
kept deliberately - launch sanitization only covers sessions fm-spawn started,
while the ordering also covers a cursor session started by hand. Verified live
that CURSOR_INVOKED_AS is set on the agent process and CURSOR_AGENT=1 on the
child/tool processes fm-harness.sh actually runs as.

Pane liveness. A cursor pane now classifies `agent`. An unrelated node or agent
stays `other`, which the liveness callers already fold into `ambiguous` rather
than `dead`, so a stranger's node pane is never reported agent-free.

Resolution prints the STABLE launcher rather than the canonical target: identity
is proven through canonicalization, but cursor's canonical path carries a
version its own auto-update replaces, and pinning that would strand a task on a
version that can vanish.

The regression drives the two identity signals apart - a cursor-named executable
outside any cursor tree, and a non-cursor-named alias inside one - and asserts
each carries a verdict alone, so no single vendor string is load-bearing. Its
negative controls are real spawned processes, not fixtures.

Verified live on cursor-agent 2026.08.11-e8db854.

Co-authored-by: Ville Penttinen <villem.penttinen@gmail.com>

* feat(cursor): classify cursor busy state from its own turn transcript

Cursor shipped as "unknown cursor-unverified" on the premise that it exposes no
semantic turn lifecycle, only a rendered "Working" footer. That premise is
wrong: cursor-agent persists an append-only JSONL transcript per conversation
and brackets every submitted turn with a role:user open and a typed turn_ended
close. Verified live on 2026.08.11-e8db854, including the interrupt path, where
Escape closes the turn with status "aborted" - so this source covers manual
interruption, which Claude's Stop hook does not.

That makes it a genuine pull source in the muse mould rather than the rendered
text the redesign forbids: no writer, no arm, no gen, nothing seeded that could
never be cleared. Cursor's `ctrl+c to stop` footer stays out of the verdict, and
herdr's narrower native streaming state cannot stand in for it either.

Binding deliberately does not reconstruct cursor's workspace-slug directory
name. That slug collapses path separators, so rebuilding it would be a guess
that could bind the wrong pane; cursor records the exact absolute workspace path
in each project's .workspace-trusted, and the binding matches on that. A
conversation recorded as prior at spawn is excluded, so a relaunch in a reused
worktree folds its own turn rather than its predecessor's. Requiring a unique
remaining conversation keeps zero and several both unknown, because neither
proves anything about the current turn.

The regression pins the fold with real transcript files and asserts the
dangerous direction stays closed: an unresolvable binding, a record-free file,
an unclaimed workspace, and a workspace-path PREFIX all read unknown, never
idle. The prefix case uses an opaque fixture slug so a slug-rebuilding
implementation cannot pass it.

Co-authored-by: Ville Penttinen <villem.penttinen@gmail.com>

* feat(cursor): make the cursor launch runnable and give it lifecycle control

Five gaps that together kept a cursor crewmate from being drivable end to end.

Launch. The template invoked `cursor agent`, but `cursor` is not the CLI - the
installed names are `cursor-agent` and the legacy alias `agent` - so the command
could not run at all on a machine with a normal cursor install. It now resolves
through the verified owner, which also refuses a spawn loudly instead of leaving
a pane that dies with command-not-found and reads as a wedged worker.

Session binding. fm-spawn writes state/<id>.cursor-session so the busy fold can
find this pane's transcript, and teardown removes it.

Lifecycle control. No cursor PR touched fm-control-lib.sh, so
`fm-control <id> interrupt|exit|relaunch` could not drive a cursor worker at
all. Verified live: interrupt is a single Escape, exit is /exit, and cursor does
NOT repollute its composer with the cancelled prompt, so unlike muse it needs no
clear key. Secondmate is refused, matching the spawn refusal.

Submit acknowledgement. cursor parks its terminal cursor outside its composer,
so the composer verdict on tmux is always `unknown` and a submit could never be
acknowledged from the composer alone. The submit core's existing idle-to-busy
transition covers that case, but only if the pane's busy footer is recognised,
so cursor's `ctrl+c to stop` joins the harness-less default union the submit
cores read. The TOKEN is matched rather than the spinner verb: the same version
rendered both `Working` and `Running` in consecutive turns.

Bootstrap. A configured cursor crew harness with no cursor executable is now a
loud MISSING diagnostic rather than a first-spawn failure, and it accepts either
installed name.

Interrupt cancellation is deliberately left unconfirmed. The transcript does
type an aborted close, but its post-interrupt write latency measured as
variable - sometimes seconds, sometimes not within twenty - so a claim built on
it would be unreliable. Normal turn completion is prompt, which is what the busy
fold actually depends on.

Two inherited tests are corrected rather than deleted: the busy test asserted
cursor could have no semantic source, and the launch test pinned the literal
`cursor agent` string. Both now pin the verified behaviour, including that the
launch never allocates a second worktree.

Co-authored-by: ABHISHAKE KUMAR BOJJA <abojja@uvic.ca>
Co-authored-by: Ville Penttinen <villem.penttinen@gmail.com>

* docs(cursor): record the verified crewmate facts and extend the drift guard

The inherited cursor entry was written against 2026.08.04-aaa8809 and several of
its claims no longer hold: it named `cursor agent` as the binary (not the CLI
name), listed six Grok model ids of which the live catalog now returns two, and
recorded busy state, exit, interrupt, and skill invocation as unverified.

Replaced with what was measured against 2026.08.11-e8db854, including the two
facts most likely to be rediscovered painfully: cursor runs as a bundled node
script so its pane title is a bare `node`, and it parks its terminal cursor
outside its composer, which makes the tmux composer verdict permanently
`unknown` by design rather than a defect to chase.

Model ids now route to `--list-models` for the account instead of a fixed list,
since that list is exactly what drifted.

The live drift guard covers cursor, resolving it through the same verified owner
fm-spawn uses and passing --trust so the probe cannot hang on the workspace
prompt. Run against every installed harness: 8 checked, all alive, with cursor
reporting title='node' foreground=[.../cursor-agent] - the drift shape this
guard exists to catch.

Co-authored-by: Ville Penttinen <villem.penttinen@gmail.com>

* docs(agents): record the cursor session-binding state file

The state/ layout section is the inventory every session reads; a busy-source
binding that fm-spawn writes and teardown removes belongs in it alongside muse's.

* no-mistakes(review): Sanitize ambient Cursor marker in harness tests

* no-mistakes(review): Validate Cursor models against live catalog

* no-mistakes(review): Reject unsupported secondmates before binary preflight

* no-mistakes(review): Narrow Cursor ancestry detection to structured process identity

* no-mistakes(review): Parse Cursor transcripts and sanitize inherited markers

* no-mistakes(review): Handle malformed Cursor transcript records safely

* no-mistakes(review): Validate malformed Cursor closes in fallback parser

* no-mistakes(review): Retire stale Cursor bindings during relaunch

* no-mistakes(review): Fix Cursor drift guard command variable

* no-mistakes(review): Narrow Cursor identity to versioned install trees

* no-mistakes(document): Document Cursor harness boundaries

* refactor(composer): move the delivery busy footers to the shared owner

The per-harness rendered busy footers lived in bin/fm-tmux-lib.sh under
FM_TMUX_* names, so cursor's `ctrl+c to stop` signature - and every other
harness's - was reachable only from tmux. That placement was wrong on its own
terms: herdr, zellij, cmux, and orca run the same harnesses and face the same
question these footers answer, which is whether a submitted Enter actually
landed. Nothing about the signature is tmux-specific.

Moved verbatim into bin/fm-composer-lib.sh, the shared composer/delivery owner
every backend already sources, and renamed to FM_DELIVERY_* so the names stop
claiming a scope they never had. All five adapters now reach cursor's signature;
verified per adapter rather than assumed.

The boundary the move must not blur is stated where it now lives: this is a
DELIVERY guard, never a worker-state source. Confirming a keystroke landed is a
different question from asking what a worker is doing, and bin/fm-busy-lib.sh
remains the semantic owner that forbids classifying a harness from rendered
text. Cursor still classifies only from its transcript fold, which is already
backend-agnostic because it folds a file rather than reading a pane - the same
verdict on all six backends.

The old FM_TMUX_* aliases are dropped rather than kept as dead shims: nothing
outside the moved block referenced them except fm-busy-lib.sh's grok fallback,
which now reads the new name. The documented operator override, FM_BUSY_REGEX,
is untouched.

Also removes a dead duplicate CURSOR_INVOKED_AS check in bin/fm-harness.sh,
unreachable behind the marker check above it.

* no-mistakes(review): Correct shared delivery guard ownership references

* no-mistakes(document): Document shared delivery guards and Cursor backend limits

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* fix(composer): bound a bare composer's wrap region at a half-block rule

A live cursor crewmate on herdr classified its IDLE composer as `pending`, and
fm-send consequently exited 1 with "delivery unconfirmed" on a message that had
actually landed. The cause is not cursor-specific.

Herdr draws a composer's top and bottom rules with the half-block glyphs U+2584
and U+2580 rather than the box-drawing family. fm_composer_row_has_edge knew
only the box-drawing set, so no box was detected; the composer was found as a
BARE row, and its wrap region - which extends while rows are non-blank and carry
no structural edge - walked straight through the composer's own closing rule and
swallowed the model and path footer below it. That footer is real text, so the
region classified pending on a genuinely idle pane.

Teaching the shared edge detector the half-block glyphs bounds the region at the
closing rule. Measured on the captured bytes of a real herdr cursor pane: the
same capture that read `pending` now reads `empty`.

This is a shared shape-path change, so it is deliberately narrow - it adds
glyphs to the edge vocabulary and changes no verdict logic - and the whole
composer and backend suite is green, including the other harnesses' herdr
fixtures.

The regression pins the real captured shape and asserts the footer content is
genuinely present, so the case cannot pass vacuously if the region were ever
bounded for some unrelated reason.

* fix(herdr): confirm a cursor submit from the rendered-footer transition

Herdr's composer-shape fix made an idle cursor pane classify `empty`, but
`fm-send` still exited 1 with "delivery unconfirmed" on messages that had
actually landed. Live measurement found the second, independent cause.

Herdr reports a cursor pane `agent_status=blocked` in EVERY state - idle,
mid-turn, and after - so the submit path's idle-baseline native confirmation is
structurally unreachable for cursor and every send falls into the composer
branch. That branch reads cursor's mid-turn composer row, which renders its own
`Add a follow-up` placeholder beside a right-aligned `ctrl+c to stop`. That
token is composer content, so the verdict is `pending` on a composer holding no
user text at all, and the Enter-retry budget then reports pending.

The escape is the same semantic signal the native path uses, read from the
pane's verified busy footer instead of native agent-state, and it is the
rendered-footer twin of the tmux submit core's turn-started confirmation: an
idle-to-busy transition ACROSS our Enter proves the harness accepted the
submission. The baseline is taken before the first Enter and only when the
native baseline was not legibly idle, so the idle-baseline path still never
reads pane content and a pane already mid-turn before we typed keeps reporting
`pending` rather than borrowing another turn as proof of this delivery.

The composer verdict is deliberately NOT relaxed. A right-aligned status token
on the composer row stays content for every other caller, including the
away-mode pre-injection guard, and the shared cursorless submit core is left
untouched so zellij, cmux, and Orca keep the behavior their own follow-up owns.

Verified live on herdr 0.8.0 and cursor-agent 2026.08.11-e8db854 in an isolated
lab session: `fm-send` now exits 0 and the steer executes, interrupt cancels a
running turn, `/exit` stops the agent, and teardown clears the record. All seven
panes of the running default session classify identically before and after the
shape fix, so no other harness regressed.

* no-mistakes(review): Prevent working Herdr baselines from falsely confirming delivery

* no-mistakes(document): Correct Cursor harness and backend documentation

---------

Co-authored-by: ABHISHAKE KUMAR BOJJA <abojja@uvic.ca>
Co-authored-by: Amplify Logic AI <lars@sockinator.co>
Co-authored-by: Ville Penttinen <villem.penttinen@gmail.com>
* fix: raise quota-axi floor to 0.1.25 for Cursor CLI quota awareness

Homes on latest main need quota-axi #87 so Desktop-absent CLI machines report a fresh Cursor quota instead of a false sign-in-required.

* no-mistakes(document): Update quota floor documentation pointer
* fix(guard): stop the false send-time watcher-down alarm on Pi primaries

On a Pi primary the watcher process is not the liveness signal. The Pi
extension tears the watcher down on every actionable wake and spawns the
replacement itself, so the singleton lock is legitimately unheld between
cycles: every one of the 799 cycles in a live primary's ledger ends with
lock_after=pid:none, and a live capture caught the guard verdict flipping to
no-watcher during one hand-off with the beacon 63s old.

bin/fm-guard.sh classified Pi as a persistent-watcher harness, which demands a
live identity-matched lock holder at all times, so any guarded command landing
in a hand-off painted the full WATCHER DOWN - SUPERVISION IS OFF banner and
told firstmate to repair a cycle the extension already owns and is restoring.

Add an extension supervision model for pi and pi-signed. A live
identity-matched watcher stays the ordinary healthy state; an unheld lock is
healthy only while the beacon is fresh within grace AND a live Pi session
provably owns continuity - both primary extensions recorded in their state
markers at their current on-disk builds by the process named in state/.lock,
with that process still alive. Without that proof the banner fires exactly as
before, so an unloaded, version-drifted, or exited Pi session is loud
immediately and a cycle the extension never restores is loud once the beacon
passes grace. The queued-wake warning, the PID-strict turn-end guard, and
every other primary's detection are untouched.

Fold session-start's duplicate Pi marker predicate into the shared library so
the ownership contract has one owner.

* no-mistakes(review): Restrict Pi hand-off tolerance to unheld watcher locks

* no-mistakes(document): Document Pi watcher hand-off supervision
* feat(cursor): add Cursor Agent CLI primary hooks, park supervision, and session start

Register a tracked project-scope .cursor/hooks.json for Cursor's stop,
sessionStart, preCompact, and preToolUse steps.

bin/fm-turnend-guard-cursor.sh owns Cursor's turn boundary as a park: it
foregrounds the watcher arm, holds the boundary open until an actionable close,
and returns that wake as one follow-up. Exit 2 is a silent no-op on Cursor's
stop step, so the adapter never uses it. The follow-up loop is bounded twice,
by Cursor's own loop_limit and by the payload's loop_count.

bin/fm-sessionstart-cursor.sh delivers the digest as additional_context at
sessionStart, and stages it for the next turn boundary at preCompact, which
cannot inject context.

Cursor also loads the tracked Claude settings, so bin/fm-hook-host-lib.sh lets
each tracked Claude-shaped entrypoint stand down on a Cursor-delivered payload
rather than running every covered event twice.

bin/fm-tmux-lib.sh reclassifies a Cursor pane's composer cursorlessly, because
Cursor parks its terminal cursor outside the composer, which restores a genuine
composer-empty proof and unblocks away-mode escalation delivery.

* feat(cursor): make Cursor Agent CLI a verified primary harness

Resolve Cursor in the session-lock ancestry through bin/fm-cursor-lib.sh, which
a Cursor primary needs before it can hold its own home lock, and classify its
stop-hook park under the autoarm supervision model so the mid-turn pull guard
stops reporting a healthy between-turns watcher as down.

Read a Cursor pane's composer cursorlessly on tmux, gated on Cursor's own
structural process identity, which restores a genuine composer-empty proof and
lets away-mode escalations reach a Cursor primary with no daemon change.

Lift the secondmate refusals in bin/fm-spawn.sh and bin/fm-control-lib.sh now
that the supervision protocol exists and is recorded.

Cover the whole surface with a portable regression over real processes, an
opt-in live guard against the installed cursor-agent, and dated per-harness
evidence.

* docs(cursor): record Cursor as a verified primary across the owning surfaces

Update the turn-end guard, session-start, arm-seatbelt, cd-guard, watcher
continuity, architecture, configuration, README, and harness-adapters owners,
and add dated live evidence to the supervision and runtime-backend verification
records. Correct the recorded Cursor tmux composer verdict: the cursor-anchored
read is still blind, but the composite reader is no longer unknown.

Lift the remaining remote-secondmate refusal missed in the previous commit, and
add the new libs to the existing fixtures that copy a fixed dependency list.

* refactor(cursor): name the park's stand-down condition for both its causes

Also record that Cursor's preCompact firing itself is not yet live-verified,
while the static evidence that it cannot inject context, and the staging path
that follows from it, both are.

* test: give the pretool fixtures their new dependency and one lint owner

The cd-guard fixture copies a fixed dependency list and now needs the shared
hook-host predicate. Both pretool suites also asserted cleanliness with a bare
shellcheck call, a second and weaker copy of the lint definition that
bin/fm-lint.sh owns: it omits --external-sources, so it failed the moment these
checkers sourced a shared library. They now delegate to that owner.

* test: assert the cursor secondmate contract instead of its removed refusal

A cursor secondmate now launches, so the suite asserts what its park actually
needs: --trust so the home's project hooks load at all, its own home pinned as
the workspace, and the autoarm supervision model inherited across the launch.

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize Cursor wakes and bind staged context

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize Cursor context and nag state commits

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce Cursor ceiling before staged context delivery

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize Cursor claims and staged context

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize Cursor ownership and state commits

* no-mistakes(review): Protect Cursor context across session takeover

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve Cursor context across session takeover

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce owner-keyed Cursor staged context

* no-mistakes(review): Atomically claim Cursor follow-ups and staged context

* no-mistakes(review): Defer Cursor preCompact staging and simplify supersession

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize Cursor park commits and defer preCompact

* no-mistakes(review): Stop Cursor parks after session takeover

* no-mistakes(test): Route Cursor preCompact context through stop follow-up

* no-mistakes(document): Update Cursor primary documentation

* revert(cursor): cut preCompact staging from this change

Carrying a compaction digest across two concurrently running stop hooks kept
producing races that could deliver it twice or strand it indefinitely, and
closing them kept enlarging a critical section inside a hook Cursor awaits at
the turn boundary. Native preCompact firing was never observed either, so the
surface has no empirical basis yet.

Remove the adapter, its registration, its staged path in the park, and its
tests, and record the surface as deferred and uncovered alongside the Codex
interactive TUI. A regression now asserts preCompact stays unregistered so it
cannot return without its own design and evidence.

This change ships the proven core only: the turn-end follow-up park, the
run-tier session start, and away-mode delivery.

* no-mistakes(review): Correct Cursor park supersession documentation

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify Cursor run-tier verification ownership

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

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Co-authored-by: kunchenguid <kun-1@kunchenguid.com>
* feat(bin): add unrouted close paths to the captain decision gate

A captain who declines a held decision leaves no follow-up work to route,
so `resolve` could not express that answer: it requires at least one
`--routed-to` task. The only way to close such a hold was a direct
`tasks-axi done`, which never writes the durable resolution record the
completion gate reads, so the originating investigation could no longer
pass `verify` and its cleanup stayed blocked.

Add two close paths that route no work:

- `decline` closes an actively held hold with a recorded captain decision
  and no routed task. It refuses while any task is still blocked by the
  hold, because releasing routed work without recording it is `resolve`'s
  job.
- `repair` records the missing resolution block on a hold that was already
  closed outside this script. It never reopens a hold and never clears a
  dependency edge, and it refuses a hold that is still actively held.

Both require a non-empty captain decision file and share `resolve`'s
digest-based retry identity, so an exact retry is idempotent while a
changed decision is rejected. The recorded body now also names which path
closed the hold, and each routed entry regains its own line.

The gate itself is unchanged: an unanswered decision still fails
completion and blocks teardown, and neither new path can close a hold
without the captain's recorded word.

* fix(bin): require captain-hold provenance before repairing a decision

`repair` checked only that the backlog item was kind captain and Done, so
an ordinary captain-kind task that was never held for the captain could be
closed, repaired, and then pass the completion gate.

tasks-axi keeps `hold_kind` through a close, so it is the surviving proof
that an identity really was a captain hold. Require it before writing the
resolution record, and cover the case in the gate regression.

* no-mistakes(document): Correct decision-hold lifecycle documentation
* fix(bin): surface buried status notes on wake drain

A note: answer immediately followed by a routine note was dropped because
annotations kept only the newest line and note: never enters OPEN DECISIONS.
Present every unread note and pending-reply resolution since the last drain
cursor, and annotate every unread line on a queued signal.

* no-mistakes(review): Fix unread status cursor races and overflow

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve cursors when status span reads fail

* no-mistakes(review): Make status presentation transactional under I/O failures

* no-mistakes(review): Simplify unread status cursor and presentation locking

* no-mistakes(review): Align cursor failure regressions with transactional presentation

* no-mistakes(review): Retire stale presentation cursors during task teardown

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve routine status until signal annotation

* no-mistakes(review): Correct unread status cap documentation

* no-mistakes(document): Document unread wake status presentation

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix wake surfacing ShellCheck warnings

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes
* feat(calm): add a max presentation level that hides mid-turn working notes

Calm's home-local preference becomes a three-state level instead of a
boolean: "off" is stock Pi, "on" is today's Calm, and "max" is Calm plus
hiding the assistant text of messages the model did not end its response
with. `/calm max` selects it from any state, a plain `/calm` steps max
back to ordinary Calm and otherwise keeps the existing on/off cycle, and
any other argument keeps that cycle too.

`config/calm` now persists "max" as its own literal value, so a session
start, resume, fork, or reload restores the stored level rather than
treating it as unrecognized and dropping to off.

The hide rule keys on Pi's intrinsic per-message stopReason: "toolUse",
or "length" with tool calls present. Streaming ("pending") text is never
filtered, because suppressing it would also stop a genuine reply from
streaming. The existing assistant layout adapter filters the blocks out
of the same shallow presentation copy it already uses for collapsed
thinking, so the message, model context, session storage, /export, and
delivery are untouched and a hidden mid-turn row collapses to zero
height. The new "assistant-working-note" class keeps that choice in the
visibility policy owner, where ordinary Calm keeps it visible.

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify Calm max persistence and taxonomy
* feat(calm): make hiding mid-turn working notes the ordinary Calm state

Calm collapses back to the two-state on/off toggle it was before the max
presentation level, with max's hide rule promoted into ordinary Calm.
Calm on now hides mid-turn assistant working notes in addition to what it
already hid, and the /calm command parses no argument again.

The hide rule itself is unchanged: assistant text is removed from the
shallow presentation copy when the message's own stopReason is "toolUse",
or "length" with tool calls present. Streaming ("pending") text is never
filtered, so a genuine reply still streams. The message, model context,
session storage, /export, and delivery remain untouched.

config/calm persists only "on" and "off" again, but the reader still maps
a persisted "max" to on so a home upgraded from the removed level keeps
Calm on instead of dropping to off.

The mid-turn hide is now default behavior rather than an opt-in level, so
docs/calm.md documents it for users, docs/configuration.md records the
two written values plus the legacy max mapping, and the feasibility
taxonomy drops its level-scoped wording.

* no-mistakes(document): Document ordinary Calm working-note hiding
A wedged family-run step was occupying the runner until the 75-minute
job cap; bound that step so cleanup and timing artifacts still upload.
The lightweight Relay follow-up link lives in the answering home's own
state/<task-id>.meta, so it can only bind work that home owns. When a
Relay-linked request is routed to a second mate, the task record lives in the
second mate's home, fm-x-link.sh failed with a bare "no such task ...meta", and
nothing else picked the promise up: only the soft acknowledgement was ever
posted. The typed promised-final path already supports --work-home
secondmate:<id>; the playbook simply never chose it.

- fmx-respond now states the routing rule crisply: a task in this home takes the
  lightweight link, and second-mate-routed work takes a promised-final
  commitment bound to that home, registered up front with the brief command
  carried into the routed worker's instructions.
- fm-x-link.sh refuses a task with no local record by naming the registered
  second mate whose home actually holds it and printing the promised-final
  registration command, with the exact --work-home when the match is
  unambiguous. A home with no registered second mates keeps the plain error.
- fm-backlog-handoff.sh reports, after a successful move, any moved key that
  still owes a public reply bound to main/<key>, since that binding no longer
  names the home owning the work. The move itself is never blocked.

Docs and the secondmate handoff prose follow the same rule. Tests cover the
refusal, its scoping, the unchanged local-link path, and both handoff outcomes
at the script boundary.
* fix(skills): hint that remote secondmate liveness verdicts false-negative

fm-crew-state and fm-send routinely misreport a live remote secondmate
as dead; confirm against the pane before relaunching, and relaunch only
through fm-spawn.sh, never raw herdr pane surgery.

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes
Pi 0.83.0 added a status line to every tool-expansion change, and Pi
updates the previous status line in place when two status messages
arrive back to back. Calm's post-export redraw cycled tool expansion on
the macrotask right after Pi printed "Session exported to: <path>", so
both expansion status lines coalesced over that confirmation and the
captain was left with no record of where their export landed.

Calm now repaints only the tool rows it presents, by invalidating each
row through the render context Pi hands its render slots, and requests
the surrounding redraw through setStatus. Neither appends to the
transcript. The repaint is still needed because Pi can re-render a row
asynchronously - the built-in edit row invalidates itself once its diff
is ready - and that re-render can land inside the window where /export
forces stock rendering.

The real-terminal /export case now asserts the confirmation is still on
screen after the redraw has settled, and that the redraw restored every
Calm-hidden row, instead of only racing the moment the confirmation
first appeared.
* feat(stow): persist the open records a session is holding

/stow curated memory and captured session knowledge, but never touched
record state, while AGENTS.md called it an "unfinished-work sweep" and the
receipt declared the session "safe to reset" - wording that implied a
record-correctness guarantee stow does not make. A shipped PR with no
backlog item, a queued umbrella whose phases had merged, and four decision
holds left open after their answers shipped all survived repeated stows.

Add a bounded pass that files record state from the same volatile input the
rest of stow already uses: the open threads in context, minutes before the
reset destroys them. It creates a record for an unfiled thread and corrects
one the session knows is wrong, through the owning path, and states its
boundary as part of the contract - it never enumerates the backlog, lists
holds, or queries a forge, because it cannot be a reconciliation and must
not be read as one.

Correct the wording in AGENTS.md and the completion receipt so reset-safe
means what it actually guarantees: nothing this session knew was lost.

* no-mistakes(review): correct stow decision-hold inspection to read hold via tasks-axi

* no-mistakes(document): note /stow open-record persistence in README command catalog

* refactor(stow): state open-record persistence as principle, not procedure

The first version enumerated triggers, named commands, and prescribed an
ordered procedure. That is too rigid for an agent skill: it invites literal
execution of a checklist instead of judgment, and every enumerated example
is a way for the guidance to go stale.

Reduce it to the intent - before a reset, the important open work you are
holding in context must end up durably recorded rather than dying with the
session, filing what is unfiled and correcting what is stale - and let the
agent judge importance, the record, and the owning write path.

Keep the scope bound, since it is a decided contract and not a mechanic:
this covers the open work the session is holding, never a reconciliation of
durable records against repository or forge reality. The wording
corrections in AGENTS.md and the completion receipt are unchanged.
* fix(decisions): close captain holds at answer time

Firstmate had two "a decision is open" ledgers with asymmetric closing
mechanics. The live status-log ledger closes atomically at answer time,
because bin/fm-send.sh --resolve-key makes answering a decision be the
act that closes it. The durable backlog hold ledger had no such coupling:
answering and recording were two separate acts, and only the first was
forced by the workflow.

That asymmetry lost four real captain decisions. Their answers were
captured durably to disk, keyed character for character by the hold
decision keys, acknowledged, and even implemented and shipped, yet the
holds stayed open for two days and the captain was asked to re-answer
decisions already on his own disk.

Give the hold ledger the same answer-time-closure property:

- bin/fm-decision-hold.sh gains an `answer` subcommand, the hold ledger's
  counterpart to --resolve-key. It shares one unrouted close
  implementation with `decline`, so it carries every existing guard - the
  captain decision file, the active-hold requirement, retry identity, and
  the refusal to release still-routed work - and differs only in the
  resolution mode it records. `decline` keeps its stronger meaning that
  the answer routes no follow-up work at all.
- bin/fm-procevent-lavish.sh wires the channel that actually carried the
  lost answers. `arm --decisions-origin` binds a deck to the origin whose
  holds it carries, `answers` reads the structured choices out of a
  captured poll result, `close-decisions` maps each key to its hold and
  closes it through the command above, and `autohandle` lets the runner
  apply that at capture time.

Safety is preserved rather than traded away. Only rows tagged `choice`
are read, so freeform captain prose cannot forge a decision key. Closure
is confined to the one bound origin. The decision text is a pure function
of the captured result, so a replayed capture is idempotent. A hold that
is absent, already closed, or still blocking routed work is skipped and
left for `resolve`, never forced. A deck armed without the binding
touches no hold at all. And autohandle deliberately never reports full
handling, because recording an answer is transcription while acting on it
is firstmate's judgement - so the check wake still reaches the handler.

fm-send --resolve-key is untouched.

* no-mistakes(document): document state/lavish-decisions binding dir in AGENTS.md state inventory

* refactor(decisions): make keyed-answer closure one general capability

The previous pass gave holds answer-time closure but built it as bespoke
Lavish wiring: the review adapter carried the source-to-origin binding,
mapped keys to hold identities, wrote decision records, decided what to
skip, and closed holds itself. That treated a review deck as a special
decision source. It is not - it is an ephemeral discussion format that
happens to carry answers.

Collapse it into ONE general capability with one owner.

bin/fm-decision-hold.sh now owns the whole of "a keyed answer closes its
matching hold":
- `answers <origin> --source <provenance>` is the channel-agnostic
  intake. It reads key/answer/label lines on stdin, maps each key to its
  hold, and closes it through the same `answer` path, so every guard
  applies identically whatever channel the answer came from. --source is
  provenance recorded in the decision, never a behavior switch; there is
  no per-channel branch and no knowledge of chat, decks, or transports.
- `bind`/`unbind`/`binding` own the source-to-origin binding for any
  channel whose answers arrive detached from their origin.

Every channel is now an ordinary caller that only turns what it received
into keyed lines:
- bin/fm-send.sh (chat) feeds the intake for a key that names an active
  hold. This also fixes a real gap: once `complete` transfers a decision
  to its hold it closes the live status copy, so --resolve-key alone
  could never answer a transferred decision.
- bin/fm-procevent.sh feeds it generically. A bound source's captured
  result goes to `<adapter> answers <result-file>` and whatever that
  prints is piped into the intake. The runner names no adapter, parses
  no result, and carries no decision rule, so any future adapter with an
  `answers` command works with no change here.
- bin/fm-procevent-lavish.sh keeps only `answers`, which reports the
  structured choices a review captured and stops. It maps nothing to a
  hold and closes nothing; it lost ~160 lines of decision logic.

Feeding is independent of handling, so it never acknowledges a result
and never suppresses a wake - recording an answer is transcription,
acting on it stays firstmate's judgement.

The regression that proves closure now drives a FIXTURE adapter that is
not the review adapter, so what is proven is that any bound channel
reaches the intake rather than that one channel is wired specially. A
new regression drives the real fm-send over a stubbed transport for the
chat side. Every prior guarantee still holds, and fm-send's status-log
behavior is unchanged.

* no-mistakes(review): test(decisions): drop source-content grep from hold-closure regression
A Write aimed at CLAUDE.md followed the symlink and destroyed AGENTS.md.
The installer now creates and migrates to a recoverable two-line pointer file.
* fix(lint): catch malformed GitHub workflows before merge

A self-broken ci.yml cannot report its own breakage, so parse every
workflow in the local lint path that no-mistakes already runs.

* fix(lint): pin actionlint instead of Ruby for workflow lint

A self-broken ci.yml still has to fail in the local lint path, and the
named tool for that gate is actionlint, not a new Ruby runtime.

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify pinned workflow lint documentation
* fix: install pinned shellcheck and actionlint on macOS and linux arm64

The installers were hardcoded to linux amd64 and sha256sum, so a Mac
dev could not satisfy the refuse-on-mismatch lint gate. Select the
official per-platform archive and checksum, and fall back to shasum -a 256.

* no-mistakes(document): Document cross-platform pinned lint installers
.no-mistakes.yaml has set test.evidence.store_in_repo: true since #2355, but
CONTRIBUTING.md, docs/configuration.md, and docs/architecture.md still described
the old policy of keeping evidence out of the repo in a temp directory.

The current no-mistakes behavior for store_in_repo: true is to publish each run's
test evidence to the orphan no-mistakes/evidence branch and link it from the PR
body. That branch shares no history with code branches, so evidence never enters
a pushed feature branch or the default branch, and CI's tracked personal fleet
paths rule stays accurate.

Docs only. No change to .no-mistakes.yaml or any workflow.
* docs: correct test evidence storage comment in .no-mistakes.yaml

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes
Make that a first-class option in always-loaded instructions so firstmate does not default to mediating and tearing the scout down between iteration rounds.
* fix(bin): report remote secondmate delivery and state truthfully

A steer to a remote secondmate crosses fm-on.sh to a host-local fm-send
leg whose unconfirmed submit read-back (verdict=pending, typically a busy
mate whose harness queues the steer) was flattened into exit 1, so the
parent printed "error: text not submitted" / "error: text not sent" and
discarded the pending-reply expectation for a steer that had actually
landed. fm-send now carries the verdict across the ssh boundary as a
documented delivered-unconfirmed exit 3: the parent reports the steer as
delivered with confirmation pending, exits 0, keeps the expectation armed
(awaiting_report), and closes --resolve-key decisions, while transport
loss (ssh 255) and real remote failures keep failing loudly with the
remote leg's stderr attached. A local unconfirmed submit now also exits 3
with an honest non-error message and still never closes a decision key.

fm-crew-state.sh and fm-peek.sh no longer read a remote mate's endpoint
through local probes (which misreported a healthy mate as "worktree gone"
/ "can't find session: remote"): both now use the true remote source over
fm-on.sh, and an unreachable or unreadable remote reads as unknown-remote,
never as gone or dead.

* no-mistakes(document): Document remote delivery and state truth

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes
* Adopt quota-axi 0.1.29 spendPriority-primary array dispatch.

quota-axi 0.1.29 publishes schema 5 with selection.spendPriority as the primary comparative signal and demotes derivation fields out of default --json. Rank comparable-fit candidates on that scalar, keep runway versus the completion horizon as a hard gate, and raise the compatibility floor so a pre-consolidation build cannot reach dispatch intake.

* no-mistakes(review): Correct schema fixtures and remove prescriptive selection prompts

* no-mistakes(document): Correct quota verification evidence chronology

* Collapse quota-array-dispatch onto TOON-first spendPriority ranking.

Decide from quota-axi's default TOON; keep --json as a rare defensive fallback.
Rank by spendPriority after eligibility, reasoning-class, and runway-feasibility gates, and drop the hand-computed Pareto, pace, reserve, and window-id layers.

* no-mistakes(review): Permit ambiguous JSON fallback and correct reset fixtures

* no-mistakes(review): Correct runway semantics and escalate unresolved uncertainty

* no-mistakes(document): Document TOON-first quota dispatch evidence
* docs: add GROK_BOT.md Grok Bot system prompt

* docs: amend GROK_BOT.md with charter report-back and delegation marker

* docs: classify GROK_BOT.md as public-product

* docs: make GROK_BOT.md the plain Grok Bot system prompt
Refine language for clarity and consistency in instructions.
* fix(bin): guarantee inactive-reconcile scan progress under second quantization

The inactive-outcome scan computed its aggregate deadline in whole seconds,
so a 1-second budget's effective value lands anywhere in (0,1]; a scan
starting just before a wall-clock second boundary rounded its whole budget
away mid-scan and exited having visited no child, while the durable cursor
had already advanced past the never-examined child. This is the CI flake
behind tests/fm-inactive-reconcile.test.sh's 'next bounded scan did not
resume with the following child' (watcher-wake-lock family, portable
serial 2, seen on the PR #2590 run).

Every scan now visits at least its first due child with the per-child
state-read bound floored at one second, so no invocation can be a zero-work
no-op. The outer process-group kill moves to budget+1s: the scan's own
deadline enforces the budget, and the kill is a backstop for a scan wedged
in an unbounded wait instead of a racer that routinely preempts the clean
bounded exit. The wake-lock-wait test bound tracks the backstop (3s -> 4s);
the previously flaky assertion is unchanged.

* no-mistakes(document): Document inactive-reconcile deadline backstop
Refactor the guidelines for Firstmate's role and delegation process, emphasizing the importance of crewmates and asynchronous work.
Clarified guidelines for handing off work to crewmates and managing secrets.
Three assertions in tests/fm-procevent.test.sh depended on a detached runner
having finished work that the command starting it does not wait for.

reconcile's replacement runner is started through detach_runner, which only
forks: reconcile returns and counts the start before that runner has claimed
its source or exec'd its child. Any assertion taken straight after reconcile
therefore samples a race.

- The publish-before-apply recovery section left its always-ready /bin/echo
  source registered across the recovery reconcile, so that reconcile launched
  a competing detached poll (observed: started=1) that then raced every later
  assertion for the source claim, the next capture sequence, and this home's
  applied record, and outlived the section holding a live claim. It is now
  retired before that reconcile - re-announcement is proven from the durable
  inbox alone and needs no registration - and started=0 is asserted so a
  competing poll cannot be reintroduced unnoticed. This is the same
  retire-before-reconcile discipline the self-announcing section already
  carries; that section acquired it after the identical race made its
  "not-autohandled: self-src" assertion read "already owned: self-src".

- The crashed-leader replacement section snapshotted the replacement's claim
  file and execution log behind a fixed 0.5s settle window. On a loaded
  machine that window expires first, which is the CI flake behind "a
  replacement runner started without recording its own claim" and "reconcile
  did not start exactly one replacement source". Both effects are now waited
  for with the suite's bounded wait helpers; the exact one-replacement count
  is still asserted afterwards, unchanged.

- The duplicate-start section slept 0.5s for reconcile's runner to record
  ownership before asserting that a second start loses to it. It now waits
  for that claim.

Also tighten one assertion that could not fail as written: "autohandled:
self-src" is a substring of "not-autohandled: self-src", so the applied path
was accepted even when the runner reported the capture left for the handler.

Evidence: on the unmodified suite, 128 full runs at 6-8x concurrency produced
6 failing runs, all in the crashed-leader section. On the fixed suite, 216
full runs under the same load produced none. Reverting the self-announcing
section's retire-before-reconcile line reproduces "already owned: self-src"
on the first iteration, confirming the shared mechanism.
* fix(bin): keep pending-reply expectations honest on both send legs

Two related asymmetries let the parent-owned secondmate reply guard drop or
nag requests it should not have.

Local delivered-unconfirmed dropped the expectation. A marked request whose
submit read-back stayed unconfirmed (verdict=pending) is the same
not-a-failure outcome the remote leg reports as delivered, but fm-send
discarded the parent's pending-reply record for it, so a request that very
likely landed stopped being tracked entirely. The record now stays armed on
its unconfirmed-delivery marker: a correlated report still resolves it, and
an unanswered one still surfaces through the library's own reconciliation.
Exit 3 and the local rule that an unconfirmed answer never closes a decision
key are unchanged.

Remote replies were nagged for a repost they did not need. A remote mate's
report reaches the parent's status log only through the asynchronous mirror
in fm-procevent-remote-reply.sh, yet the guard read an absent correlated
line as proof the mate never reported - even while the answer was still in
flight, which is the common case because the mirror's poll window is
comparable to the recovery grace. The mirror now publishes one caught-up
watermark from a quiet window, and the guard admits a missing report as
evidence only once that watermark passes the turn that should have produced
it. A genuinely missed report still gets exactly one repost, and a channel
that is behind, unarmed, or broken leaves the request durably open and
un-nagged rather than nagging blind; the mirror escalates its own continuity
failures as before.

Tests: a local unconfirmed secondmate send keeps its expectation armed and
resolvable; a mirrored correlated remote reply resolves with no repost; a
stale or absent watermark withholds the repost while a fresh one still
releases it; a quiet remote window publishes the watermark and retirement
clears it.

* no-mistakes(review): Distinguish preempted polls from quiet windows

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify remote reply channel freshness

* no-mistakes(lint): Annotate shared remote preemption exit constant
* fix(watch): honor a declared pause on a busy pane's completed-turn bound

A worker that declares an external wait (`paused:`) and then blocks in one
long foreground call - a review-hosting scout parked in a single blocking
`lavish-axi poll`, a bounded watch loop, a rate-limit sleep - keeps its pane
BUSY, so the stale path that already honors declared pauses never ran for it.
The busy-pane completed-turn bound instead routed it straight into
wedge_timer_check, which re-escalated "possible wedge, escalation N" (and, past
the threshold, demand-deep-inspection) every FM_STALE_ESCALATE_SECS for as long
as the review stayed open.

busy_turn_bound_check now owns which absorber takes a crossed bound: a crew
whose own last status line declares an external wait or a verified captain-held
transfer takes the bounded FM_PAUSE_RESURFACE_SECS recheck, and everything else
keeps the unchanged wedge timer. The discriminator is the declaration together
with liveness (the caller has already confirmed the pane is busy), never a
blanket silencing - a crew that declared nothing, or whose pane is not live,
escalates exactly as before, and a declared pause still re-surfaces once per
long cadence so a forgotten wait cannot rot invisibly. Away mode is untouched:
the daemon owns pause triage there and already reads the same vocabulary.

The two call sites also no longer clear pause bookkeeping in the same poll the
pause cadence recorded it, which would have erased the re-surface throttle and
turned the long cadence back into a per-poll re-surface.

Tests: a three-phase regression fixture pins the absorbed pause, its long-cadence
recheck, and the restored wedge escalation once the declaration is lifted on the
same busy over-age pane.

Also de-flakes tests/fm-watch-triage.test.sh, which failed spuriously on a loaded
machine: fixed liveness budgets were reaping watchers mid-startup, so assertions
on post-poll state passed vacuously or failed spuriously. Waits that describe a
poll's outcome now wait for a completed poll cycle via the liveness beacon, the
heartbeat test waits for the heartbeat it asserts on, and every wait_for_exit
budget is the uniform 10s already used elsewhere in the file.

* no-mistakes(review): Fail poll-cycle waits on timeout

* no-mistakes(review): Prevent poll timeout test hangs

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify paused busy-pane supervision
Added guidelines for decision communication to the captain.
Clarify communication protocols with crewmates regarding task delegation and reporting.
* fix(herdr): confirm local steers that native agent-state misses

Herdr can leave agent_status idle for a landed Claude turn and can keep
queued Enter text visible while busy, so fm-send was reporting false
swallows. Confirm those cases through the shared queued-Enter verdict
and a cleared composer, and keep a genuine idle pending composer as
unconfirmed.

* no-mistakes(review): Stop Herdr Enter retries on unreadable composers

* no-mistakes(review): Reject queued delivery when all Herdr Enter sends fail

* no-mistakes(review): Prevent confirmation after failed Herdr Enter

* no-mistakes(review): Pace Herdr retries and clarify submit fallback

* no-mistakes(review): Align Herdr submit docs with idle fallback

* no-mistakes(document): Correct Herdr submit-confirmation documentation
* feat(bin): accept any-origin decision bindings with full-identity keys

An aggregation surface (the bearings board) carries captain answers for holds
across origins, but a binding was one-origin-per-source and the Lavish adapter
capped question keys at 64 chars while real full hold identities measure 69-81.

- fm-decision-hold.sh: bind <source-id> --any-origin records the (any) marker;
  binding prints it verbatim and answers accepts it, so the runner's feed seam
  carries an any-origin source with no runner change. In any-origin mode each
  key is a full hold identity <origin>-decision-<key>, split at its first
  -decision-; a key with no separator (merge/dispatch instructions) is skipped
  and feeds nothing, keeping non-decision answers out of the hold ledger by
  construction. Every existing close guard applies unchanged.
- fm-procevent-lavish.sh: raise the question-key cap 64 -> 128 so a full hold
  identity fits; the slug-shape security property is unchanged.
- tests: cross-origin closure through the real runner seam, an 81-char
  identity through the adapter, cap and shape refusals, routed-work skips,
  nonexistent-identity skips, and idempotent replay.

* feat(bearings): add the /bearings lavish interactive fleet board

/bearings lavish renders the bearings snapshot onto a shipped, reusable board
template and arms it as a Lavish process-event source, so the captain answers
Captain's Call items on the board and firstmate is woken by an ordinary check
wake - no conversational turn ever blocks on a poll.

- .agents/skills/bearings/assets/board-template.html: the shipped template
  (myfirstmate design system inlined, one fm-bearings-board.v1 JSON slot,
  fail-closed schema guard that renders an error card instead of an empty
  fleet). Per-invocation agent work is composing the payload only.
- bin/fm-bearings-board.sh: build/refresh owner - fail-closed payload
  validation, slot injection with a round-trip check and \u003c escaping,
  stable board path, any-origin bind ALWAYS before arm, arm-if-absent.
- bearings SKILL.md: the lavish invocation option, board composition rules,
  board-wake handling, and the captain-ruled merge-click authorization with
  its mandatory safeguards (PR resolved from the task's own meta record,
  wake-time green re-verification, never a red or changed PR, merges only
  through bin/fm-pr-merge.sh, chat echo with the full PR URL).
- process-event-sources SKILL.md: one-line board-wake routing trigger.
- tests: payload refusals, injection round-trip, bind-before-arm, idempotent
  re-arm, and template slot integrity.

Fleet pickup: homes receive this after merge plus a firstmate self-update;
landing timing is coordinated with the main firstmate.

* no-mistakes(review): Harden bearings board validation and wake handling

* no-mistakes(review): Require HTTPS for bearings board PR links

* no-mistakes(review): Fail closed and bound bearings board answers

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce UTF-8 byte limits for board answers

* no-mistakes(review): Serve bearings board before arming and reject empty actions

* no-mistakes(review): Prove bind-before-arm ordering through live answer consumption

* no-mistakes(document): Document bearings board and cross-origin answers
* fix(bearings): always show decision options and a close/drop control

Freeform-only Captain's Call cards hid the option buttons the board was designed around, and there was no way to drop a stale hold without inventing an answer. Require selectable options, keep freeform as a supplement, and route the reserved __drop__ answer through decline so the hold leaves Captain's Call.

* no-mistakes(review): Fix drop closure and decision-only option validation

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve answerability for non-decision cards

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify decision drop documentation
Signature-only PRs can hide skipped review, test, or document steps. Fail unless no-mistakes >= 1.46.0 attests those three steps completed.
* feat(captain-hold): collapse the decisions concept into tasks held for the captain

A decision is no longer a separate type: it is an ordinary backlog task held
for the captain, identified by its task id. bin/fm-captain-hold.sh owns the
surviving behaviors - guarded hold creation, the recorded-answer close
(answer/answers with a release mode for captain-gated work), the source
bindings, and the investigation completion gate - and bin/fm-decision-hold.sh
becomes a one-release compatibility shim over it.

The fleet snapshot now parses hold-until and computes captain_actionable as
queued + captain-held + unblocked + due, independent of row kind, plus a
presentation-only deferred_marker for prose-deferred rows. Bearings renders
every due captain-held task in Captain's Call, date-deferred holds as dated
Charted Next gates, suppresses prose-deferred rows from default views with an
omitted disclosure, and excludes from Recently Landed anything that closed
while still held for the captain.

Legacy compatibility: pre-collapse <origin>-decision-<key> rows are already
plain task ids and keep working; short keys in recorded metadata, concrete
origin bindings, chat --resolve-key fallbacks, and old resolution records all
resolve in place.

* no-mistakes(review): Fix captain answer replay and body preservation

* no-mistakes(review): Fix captain hold idempotency and legacy replay

* no-mistakes(review): Validate card close modes and compatibility routing

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce release replay mode matching

* no-mistakes(review): Prevent duplicate decision cards and released replay mismatches

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve answer columns and legacy resolve replays

* no-mistakes(document): Document strict replay and legacy compatibility

* no-mistakes(lint): Quote done literals to satisfy ShellCheck

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* fix(rebase): keep collapsed captain hold board semantics
* fix(watch): announce recovery once per generation and keep successors supervising

A lost Pi/OpenCode handling handshake re-announced the same recovery
generation on every cycle and spent the successor's first ~55s blind, so
a real crew event could be ignored and then dropped. Record the
announcement in the durable marker, confirm the handshake before the
follow-up without swallowing failure, and enter the poll loop immediately.

* no-mistakes(review): Tighten recovery event timing regression

* no-mistakes(document): Document recovery-loop supervision guarantees
* fix(bin): signal a captain call resolved in the log but still held

A captain call has two records and closing one has never closed the
other: a `resolved [key=...]` line closes the status-log fold, while the
backlog task held for the captain closes only through
`fm-captain-hold.sh answer`. Answering on the status side alone left no
trace of the disagreement - the fold went quiet, the durable record kept
saying the captain owed an answer, and nothing warned. The defect was
never the separation; it was the silence.

Add `fm-captain-hold.sh diverged`, a read-only report of that
contradiction, and print it from `fm-wake-drain.sh` as a bounded RECORD
DIVERGENCE section beside OPEN DECISIONS on every drain. It flags one
condition: a task still open and still carrying the captain-hold
annotations whose key was closed on the status side by the resolve verb,
under the collapsed identity or the legacy derived one.

It closes nothing, ever. A captain call closed wrongly leaves review
entirely, which is worse than the noise, so both reconciliation
directions stay human-owned and the printed hint names both - a
resolution is not proof the captain ruled, since a call can dissolve on a
false premise or turn out to have been a question of fact.

Three states are deliberately not divergence: a `captain-held` close is
the verified transfer `complete` writes, a still-open keyed decision
belongs to the OPEN DECISIONS fold, and a captain call with no routed
work item is legitimate rather than incomplete, so routed work is no part
of the test.

`fm-classify-lib.sh` gains `status_key_closing_verb`, which reports how
the status side currently reads one key by replaying the existing
`_fm_decision_fold_line` rule rather than re-deriving it, so the two
closing verbs stay distinguishable in one place. The per-wake cost is one
`tasks-axi list`, one key scan per status log, and the precise per-key
fold only for a key that already names a still-open task; the call is
hard-bounded so a slow backlog tool can never delay wake presentation.

* fix(document): Correct divergence lifecycle documentation

* fix(document): Neutralize divergence lifecycle prose
* fix(watch): re-arm supervision after an abandoned auto-arm claim

A Claude auto-arm cycle that armed, delivered one rewake, and exited left
its single-flight lock behind. Both Stop-event participants then deferred
to that lock forever, because its recorded pid was still live: the
turn-end guard read it as recovery under way and allowed the stop, and the
next Stop firing treated it as another owner and declined to arm. On
2026-08-14 a home with two tasks in flight lost supervision for about 40
minutes with no watcher process and no watcher lock, its beacon frozen at
the one delivery, and both crewmates' finished reports sat in the durable
queue until an operator drained it by hand.

Abandonment is now proven from the epoch ledger instead of inferred from
pid liveness. A lock whose holder pid matches the ledger's own owner_pid
while the recorded outcome is anything other than arming has already
finished its decision, so that claim is reclaimed under the lock's steal
mutex, stops counting as recovery ownership in the guard, and is cleared
by the guard's terminal check rather than deferred to. A failed clear
re-blocks instead of allowing a blind stop, and an arming entry stays in
flight however old it is, because its owner foregrounds the arm for the
whole watcher cycle.

Issue #2251's PR #2263 does not cover this failure. It is closed and
unmerged, lives entirely in bin/fm-watch-arm.sh, and retires the stalled
watcher and matching stale watcher lock of an arm that is currently
running. Here no arm and no watcher were running and no watcher lock
existed, so it has nothing to retire and the home stays blind.

tests/fm-claude-stop-autoarm.test.sh covers the reclaim, the still-arming
and unnamed-owner cases that must keep the gate closed, and the failed
clear. tests/fm-turnend-guard.test.sh covers the guard side of the same
boundary. Both fail without this change.

* fix(watch): defer a wedge escalation while the task worktree is written

The wedge detector had two inputs, rendered pane quietness and the run
step, and neither can see a crew that is writing source, then tests, then
documentation behind a static pane. On 2026-08-14 one crewmate produced
eight consecutive possible-wedge escalations in a single afternoon, three
of them demanding deep inspection, while it was demonstrably working and
then committed. Every one of them cost a supervision turn to disprove by
hand.

Add write activity inside the crew's own recorded worktree as a third
liveness input. crew_worktree_written_since compares the worktree against
the caller's existing idle-window timer file, so -newer needs no clock
arithmetic, no temp file, and no portable mtime write. The probe runs only
inside the branch that was about to escalate, which bounds it to one
pruned, depth-bounded walk per window per FM_STALE_ESCALATE_SECS and
leaves the per-poll stale sweep exactly as cheap as before.

Positive evidence defers rather than cancels. The idle timer restarts so
the next window probes again, the escalation counter is neither advanced
nor reset so a later genuine wedge keeps the demand-deep-inspection
history it earned, and a .writing-since marker ages the whole deferral
chain so the pane still re-surfaces once per FM_PAUSE_RESURFACE_SECS,
through the same throttle shape a declared pause already uses, labeled as
a recheck rather than a wedge. This can only reduce false positives: every
absence of evidence, including no recorded worktree, a torn-down worktree,
a missing anchor, and a failed walk, falls through to the unchanged
escalation schedule, so a crew that writes nothing still escalates on the
existing timetable.

What the signal cannot see, by design or by construction:

- CPU burn with no writes, such as a long compaction, is invisible. That
  case keeps the old behavior exactly.
- A commit-only phase writes only .git, which is pruned first so that
  firstmate's own read-only git commands against the worktree can never
  make the probe self-fulfilling.
- Writes under the pruned generated trees, or deeper than
  FM_WORKTREE_WRITE_MAXDEPTH, do not count.
- The probe cannot attribute a write to the crew, so a background build or
  another process touching the tree looks the same. The hourly re-surface
  is what bounds that, and a churny file cannot buy silence.
- The away-mode daemon's own escalation path is deliberately untouched.

tests/fm-watch-triage.test.sh covers the classifier including the .git
prune, both halves of the live case on one fixture (quiet plus writing
defers, quiet plus silent still escalates and counts), and the bounded
re-surface. All three fail without this change.

* no-mistakes(review): prove autoarm claims by identity; skip mate-home write probe

* no-mistakes(document): document away-mode wedge boundary and probe filesystem limit

* no-mistakes(document): qualify turn-end recovery condition for abandoned auto-arm claims

* fix(watch): keep a write deferral scoped to its own idle window

Two consistency gaps in the worktree write probe, both found while reviewing
the wedge-deferral change on this branch.

A write deferral is a bounded chain: its .writing-since marker ages the whole
chain so a churning worktree still re-surfaces once per resurface window. That
is only sound while the chain belongs to the current quiet stretch, so every
path that restarts the idle-window timer has to drop it too. Two did not: the
corrupt-timer repair in wedge_timer_check, and both first-sight branches for a
captain-relevant status. A chain left over from an earlier quiet stretch made
the first deferral of the new window re-surface immediately instead of after a
full fresh window.

FM_WORKTREE_WRITE_PRUNE is a skip list, so clearing it reads as "skip nothing"
and is the obvious way to widen the probe to the whole depth-bounded tree.
Instead an empty list reported no evidence at all, quietly costing the wedge
detector its third liveness input on a home that meant to widen the walk. An
empty list now widens the walk, and the header says so.

Neither change alters when a stall that writes nothing escalates.

Regressions in tests/fm-watch-triage.test.sh cover all three paths and each
one fails on the pre-fix code.

* no-mistakes(review): honor an empty write-prune, bound the probe, share window_key

* no-mistakes(document): align probe knob count and guard regression-coverage ownership

* no-mistakes(lint): silence deliberate single-quote SC2016 in write-prune env test
* fix(bin): give a captain hold the same bounded pause cadence as a declared pause

Two supervisors read a finished task's last status line and disagreed about which
declarations mean an idle endpoint is expected. bin/fm-inactive-reconcile.sh
suppresses its inactive-outcome scan only on `captain-held`, while the away-mode
daemon's wedge path gated deferral on `paused` alone. Both read the LAST line, so
the two verbs are mutually exclusive and no finished task waiting on a person
could satisfy both at once. Marking 11 such tasks `captain-held:` silenced the
900s outcome scan and immediately produced five possible-wedge escalations in one
batch, because the 240s wedge detector no longer saw a pause verb.

fm-classify-lib.sh's status_is_paused_or_captain_held already owns the combined
question, and bin/fm-watch.sh's ordinary-crew wedge path already asked it. This
extends that same answer to the paths still asking the narrower one:

- bin/fm-supervise-daemon.sh, all six sites, which form one subsystem and have to
  move together. classify_stale returns the pause action, reconcile_pause_tracking
  and migrate_watcher_pause_markers record and migrate the marker, and
  housekeeping defers the wedge and then re-surfaces the recheck. Changing only
  the stale-persistence gate would defer the escalation while
  reconcile_pause_tracking recorded nothing, so the wedge marker would persist and
  the sweep would `continue` past it forever: quiet, but never re-surfacing.
- bin/fm-watch.sh's secondmate stale gate, whose downstream owner
  pause_state_class already treats both declarations identically.
- bin/fm-push-transition-lib.sh's absorb, where either declaration already names
  the human the transition would report and the wait is already durably recorded.

Quieting alone would be half a fix, so the bounded re-surface had to reach a hold
too. A hold has no current-state mapping, unlike `paused`, so authoritative crew
state reports it as unknown and pause_state_class received `none`. An ordinary
crew recovers pause classification from that state through confirmed agent death,
which proves no live decision gate is being silenced. A secondmate's endpoint
liveness is deliberately never read there, because an idle mate is healthy by
design, so that confirmation is unavailable by construction and cannot be
required: without recovering the classification for a mate, every caller silenced
a held mate outright and its hold would rot invisibly. That promotion is bounded
by the declared-wait guard at the top of the function, so it can only reclassify a
task that already declared a wait and shows no positive working evidence.

Two narrow `status_is_paused` calls are deliberately left alone.
bin/fm-crew-state.sh's map_log_state is a current-state reporting contract, not a
wedge path; reporting a hold as `paused` would erase the distinction
status_key_closing_verb and fm-captain-hold.sh depend on, where a `captain-held`
close is a verified durable transfer and a `resolved` close claims outright
settlement. fm-classify-lib.sh's call inside status_is_captain_relevant needs no
change because that function's own case list already returns non-relevant for
`captain-held`.

bin/fm-inactive-reconcile.sh keeps its `captain-held` suppression as it is. Its
guard exists because a finished task's crew state still reports done from a
higher-priority source than the log, and a declared pause needs no such guard: the
scan only reports done or failed, and nothing else reaches its record path.
Widening it would change a separate subsystem's reporting contract, which this
defect does not require.

Coverage extends the existing colocated patterns for these predicates and asserts
both halves. tests/fm-daemon.test.sh covers the classification, the wedge marker
converting to pause tracking with no escalation, the bounded re-surface with its
window reset, and the boundary case where an answered hold stops claiming the
cadence. tests/fm-watch-triage.test.sh covers a held secondmate re-surfacing on
the same bounded cadence without being labeled a wedge.
tests/fm-supervision-events.test.sh covers the absorbed push transition. Every one
of these fails on the pre-fix code except the answered-hold boundary case, which
is there to pin that the quieting was not widened too far.

The `paused:` workaround appended to those 11 tasks is live supervision state and
is untouched here. It can be retired once this lands.

* no-mistakes(review): name the captain in a held task's bounded recheck

* no-mistakes(document): extend declared-wait supervision docs to captain-held holds
* fix(lint): name the installer when ShellCheck or actionlint is missing

A missing actionlint exited 127 like a bare command-not-found. Fail with
exit 1 and point at the pinned installer, matching the missing-ShellCheck
path, without weakening the version pin.

* test: isolate kimi and muse detection from inherited Cursor markers

Harness detection checks CURSOR_AGENT before ancestry, so these
markerless-adapter cases failed when the suite itself ran under Cursor.
Clear the verified markers the same way the secondmate harness tests already do.

* no-mistakes(document): Document Muse Cursor marker cleanup
* feat(checks): report tool updates that are available or installed but inert

Firstmate had no way to notice that tooling this home depends on needs an
update, and no way at all to notice the worse case: an update that installed
correctly and then did nothing.

That second case is why this exists. A tool that self-installs into
~/.local/bin while a version manager keeps its own older copy earlier on PATH
looks completely up to date to anything that asks only "is a newer version
published". On 2026-08-20 a Herdr update landed at 0.8.2 while an older 0.8.0
copy stayed earlier on PATH, so every Herdr command failed on a protocol
mismatch and firstmate could not read its own fleet.

bin/fm-tool-update-check.sh reports the two conditions separately:

  <tool> update available      a newer version exists at the update source.
  <tool> update not in effect  a newer copy is installed on this host, but
                               PATH still resolves an older one.

PATH skew is measured, never inferred. Every executable copy of a watched
command on PATH is asked for its own version and those answers are compared,
so one lookup cannot hide the skew, and a directory name is never read as a
version because a version manager's "latest" directory can hold an older
build. A copy that will not report a version is a check failure, not a pass.

The watched tools live in local, gitignored config/watched-tools.json, so
adding a tool is a config edit rather than a code change, and the file is
never propagated to another home. Update sources cover both shapes: a local
clone's commit distance from its remote branch, and a command's own version
and update announcement, including a tool like no-mistakes that prints its
version on one command and announces a new release on another.

The check prints one line when something needs attention and prints nothing
otherwise, so it rides the existing watcher state-check contract with its
trust binding instead of introducing a schedule of its own, and
state/.tool-updates keeps the same pending update from being reported on
every poll.

The check only reports. It never installs, updates, reorders PATH, touches a
version manager, or fetches into a watched repository; every git probe is
read-only.

Tests cover the skew case as a regression, and it was verified by mutation:
removing the skew report, or stopping after the first PATH hit as a single
lookup would, each make that test fail.

* no-mistakes(review): fix tool update check probe reporting, budget, and shim write

* no-mistakes(review): keep sweeps alive on broken patterns and oversized budgets

* no-mistakes(review): roll back failed arm, widen budget clamp, bound repo probe

* no-mistakes(review): guard git probes at the budget, record uncut findings

* no-mistakes(document): fix stale watched-tool report-record wording in docs and header

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

The behavior shard's watch-triage suite failed on the new worktree-write wedge
tests. Those five tests are the only ones in the file that do not use its
standard waits. They give a fixed 3 second liveness budget to the one poll that
now spawns the bounded worktree walk, and 4 seconds to an escalating watcher
where every other test in the file gives 10. On a loaded runner that poll
outlives the fixed budget, so the round is reaped before the deferral it asserts
on is recorded, and the test reports a lost deferral instead of the deferral
under test. Wait for a completed poll cycle through the file's own
wait_poll_cycle, which is what its header documents this hazard for, and use the
file's standard 100 tick exit budget.

Verified against a load that reproduces the failure: 11 of 12 runs failed
before, 8 of 8 pass after. Verified by mutation too, so the waits still prove
the behavior: removing the write deferral, and keeping a finished deferral chain
across an idle-timer repair, each still fail their test.
* fix: treat yolo as merge authority only, not ask-user finding authority

Yolo on/off was documented as also deciding no-mistakes ask-user findings, which hid firstmate's duty to judge unambiguous-toward-design findings itself. Keep every safety boundary; this is a contract clarification, not a relaxation.

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify yolo documentation ownership and merge posture
* feat(voice): spoken round trip on Nova Sonic 2 with a measured relay cost

Step one of the spoken interface: the laptop captures and plays audio, this
desktop holds the model session, and no AWS credential leaves the desktop.

Measured, amazon.nova-2-sonic-v1:0 in eu-north-1, end of speech to first byte
of reply audio, 6 runs each, all answered, on a question that forces a records
read:

  relay path   1.229 1.379 1.428 1.447 1.481 1.516  median 1.438
  direct       1.147 1.179 1.203 1.237 1.244 1.317  median 1.220

The relay costs about 0.22s of the median. The direct figure reproduces the
earlier survey, which is what makes it a usable control. Excluded: the
captain's own ssh round trip, microphone capture, and speaker output. This
desktop has no microphone and no speaker, so every run used audio files.

Three pieces:

  bin/fm-voice-relay.py    holds the conversation on this host
  bin/fm_voice_records.py  what a spoken answer may read, and the handover
  bin/fm-voice-client.py   the laptop end; audio devices UNVERIFIED
  bin/fm_voice_frame.py    the wire format both machines share

Real work is handed to the existing bin/fm-inbox.sh rather than a second
queueing surface, and the agent says it is handing over rather than answering
as firstmate.

Read scope: Done history and free-form note bodies are never assembled at any
scope, so the wide default cannot reach the places commercial detail
accumulates. config/voice-read-scope narrows it to counts only, and
config/voice-read-deny excludes a named item in one line. The boundary is an
executable test that widening the reader fails.

Push to talk is the default because it is cheaper and the choice is still open;
--listen open-mic is the single flip.

Two traps worth knowing: a clip with no trailing silence is never answered, and
the end of a reply is contentEnd with stopReason END_TURN, not completionEnd.
A second user turn in one session is treated as barge-in unconditionally, and
an interrupted turn that calls a tool is lost, so the session reconnects per
turn and gives up conversational memory. That is the concrete thing step three
has to solve.

* no-mistakes(review): fix voice relay credential reuse, frame validation and record parsing

* no-mistakes(review): test uplink header guard, bound unknown expiry, align state dir

* no-mistakes(review): decide deny per item, guard turn failures, bound ambient credentials

* no-mistakes(review): read account config from home, harden deny and turn failures

* no-mistakes(review): close status verb set, fix inbox help, pair data override

* no-mistakes(review): keep profile-free relay alive, unblock loop, fix dead assertion

* no-mistakes(review): hide finished pull requests, refuse open mic, keep suite offline

* no-mistakes(review): survive reader failures, release devices, fix claims

A failure while handling a model event, or while sending a tool result,
left the reader task dead with ended and turn_done clear, and close()
re-raised the stored failure on every await. One dropped stream became a
relay that could never build another session. The reader now reports the
session over in a finally whatever killed it, and close() absorbs the
task the same way it already absorbed its sends.

The laptop client releases what it already started when a later startup
step refuses, SystemExit from the handshake wait included, and names a
device refusal instead of leaking a raw PortAudio error. Whether it
releases correctly against a real device is still unverified here.

The records docstring claimed every reading was filtered to open ids.
Only the pull request count and list are; the worker count and the state
histogram cover every live runtime record, finished ids included,
because a meta file still on disk still needs tearing down.

The finished-work deny half of the suite asserted things that held with
the deny list absent. It is replaced by a deny on an open title, which
removes the row and says so while the count stays honest.

* no-mistakes(review): name reader failures, split file and device refusals

A failure inside the model reader released the waiting turn and told
nobody. The session was not marked spent, no notice reached the client,
and the client waits for a reply end or a notice, so the captain got
their whole timeout of silence and then a record saying the turn went
unanswered with nothing about why. Both ends of the relay now name a
failed turn through one function, once per turn, and --self-test carries
the cause in relay_error the way the client's own record does.

Two things that are not failures stay that way. A stream that simply
ends is the end of a session, which serve still reads on its own terms.
A stream that goes away because close() asked it to is an ordinary
renew, and announcing it would have put a failure notice in front of the
captain on every turn.

On the laptop end, the refusal that became a device error covered the
file-backed playback and capture too, so a mistyped --in-file was
reported as an audio device failure and the advice named the flag that
had just failed. The file ends now report the path and the flag that
chose it and stay an OSError; the device ends keep the device advice and
name the flag for that end. The device paths remain unrun here, so only
the file halves are covered by a test.

* no-mistakes(test): survive model session end, order client turn frames

* no-mistakes(document): sync voice relay docs with reviewed relay behavior

* no-mistakes(document): re-measure relay latency and correct its cause

* no-mistakes(document): correct measurement date and name the unmeasured SSH hop

* no-mistakes(document): describe the unpublished control measurement, fix list formatting

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes
* fix: keep Relay public loops open until retire

Delivering a promised-final reply was deleting the only record that tied a public thread to later work, so a follow-on ship silently owed no closing reply. Retain the registration after delivery, rechain follow-on work onto the same thread, and make retire --reason the only close.

* no-mistakes(review): Propagate public follow-up registration removal failures

* no-mistakes(review): Persist retire receipts and align parent resolution

* no-mistakes(review): Make rechain resumable after partial obligation creation

* no-mistakes(review): Repair follow-up state, briefs, and expiry escalation

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize follow-up delivery stamps with retirement

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize rechain claims and protect registration terminal states

* no-mistakes(review): Avoid reporting retired delivery loops as open

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh public-loop documentation and verification evidence

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve delivered follow-up bindings during registration replay

* no-mistakes(review): Harden public follow-up retirement and rechain races

* no-mistakes(review): Fail closed on unresolved secondmate retirement

* no-mistakes(review): Bind secondmate cleanup to its recorded canonical home

* no-mistakes(review): Fix rechain command output and expiry validation

* no-mistakes(review): Validate brief keys and warn on remote promotion

* no-mistakes(document): Document retained public follow-up loops

* no-mistakes(lint): Remove unused bounded-wait loop variable
* feat(bin): merge GitLab merge requests through the guarded PR merge path

bin/fm-pr-lib.sh already parses a GitLab merge request URL for the watcher,
but bin/fm-pr-merge.sh refused every non-github provider, so a merge request
had to be merged by hand and got none of the recording, guards, or audit
trail a pull request gets.

The merge path now dispatches on the parsed provider. A GitHub URL keeps its
exact previous behavior. A GitLab URL is addressed through glab by the project
URL rebuilt from the parsed host and path, so a merge request on any instance
resolves and no host is hardcoded, and no merge-method flag is added because
the project's own merge method is what should apply.

A GitLab merge happens only after one live read of the merge request confirms
it is open, detailed_merge_status is mergeable, has_conflicts is false,
blocking_discussions_resolved is true, and the head pipeline succeeded at the
exact current head. Every failing condition is reported, not just the first.
The verified head is bound to the merge with glab's --sha, so a push landing
between the read and the merge fails the merge instead of landing commits
nothing verified. Recorded metadata is never the authority for any of this: a
rebase moves the head and leaves a recorded value stale, so a recorded head
that disagrees with the live one is reported rather than trusted, and the
recorded value is read before the recording step because that step drops a
GitLab head it cannot resolve.

* no-mistakes(review): reject bundled -R clusters and make tool-absence cases host-independent

* no-mistakes(test): state authorised GitHub narrowing of bundled -R guard

This branch NARROWS GitHub behaviour. The narrowing was authorised
deliberately rather than slipping in by accident, and it applies to both
providers, GitHub and GitLab alike, because a script that guards one provider
and not the other is a trap for the next reader.

What bin/fm-pr-merge.sh now refuses is extra merge arguments containing a
bundled short-option cluster that includes R, for example "-dR other/repo".
The forge CLIs expand such a cluster one character at a time, so it carries
"--repo other/repo", and that later value wins over the repository the URL
named. Before this change, "fm-pr-merge.sh <task> <github-url> -- -dR
other/repo" reached "gh-axi pr merge 12 --repo example/repo --squash -dR
other/repo" and exited 0 with pr= recorded and the merge poll armed. It now
exits 1 with "extra merge arguments must not override the repository", records
nothing, and invokes no forge merge command. Every other GitHub invocation is
byte-identical to the base commit.

Closing that hole honours the existing rule rather than departing from it. The
file header already forbids --repo and -R because the repository must come
only from the URL, so a bundled cluster carrying a repository override was
never legitimate behaviour to preserve: it was that guard being evaded.
Redirecting a merge to a repository the URL does not name is exactly what the
guard exists to prevent.

The refusal is already pinned on both paths by the existing case
test_bundled_repo_override_args_refuse_before_recording in
tests/fm-pr-merge.test.sh. On GitHub ("-dR wrong/repo") and on GitLab ("-yR
https://other.example/g/p") it asserts exit 1, the refusal wording, no pr= in
the task meta, no armed merge poll, and no forge merge command invoked, with a
control case proving a cluster that carries no repository override still
reaches the forge. No duplicate assertion was added. Both assertions were
confirmed to have teeth by narrowing the guard back to a bare -R and watching
each path fail.

This commit carries no file change: the guard and its coverage landed in
614853d, and this message exists so the pull request description states the
narrowing.

* no-mistakes(document): fix README pointer for GitLab watch and merge doc

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes
* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* fix(bin): drop a private record citation and narrow the review rule

Three corrections to the spoken interface that landed in #2767, plus one
fix carried over from that branch after its pull request had already been
merged.

The confidentiality fix. The module docstring of bin/fm-voice-relay.py
cited a private, gitignored fleet record by exact path and section number.
That widens what this public repository points at, and it cannot resolve
for any reader here, because the path has never been in the repository.
Both traps it pointed at are already described in full in the list
immediately below it, and docs/voice-relay.md carries the same two for
operators with no citation at all, so the pointer is removed and no claim
is weakened by losing it. Two comments that referred to "the survey" as
though it were something a reader could open are reworded the same way.
Neither exposed a path, so that half is comprehensibility rather than
confidentiality.

The review rule. .greptile/rules.md is kept, because its conditions are
right and deleting it would leave the next reviewer to re-litigate a
decision already argued out. What was wrong with it is narrower than its
existence: it read as settled repository policy, when whether VISION.md
itself should be reconciled is an open question belonging to the captain.
One sentence now says so, and says that the conditions listed below it are
what the interpretation depends on. That narrows the claim rather than
widening it.

The carried-over fix. The first commit on this branch is 7f98e797 from
fm/voice-relay-build-v4, taken verbatim rather than rewritten. It closes
the window where a transport failure was recorded and then erased, so a
run could be emitted as answered false with relay_error null. That matters
more than it looks: relay_error is the field that keeps an infrastructure
failure from being averaged into a latency figure, so the failure mode is
a dead connection wearing the costume of a slow reply. It landed fifteen
minutes after #2767 merged and so never reached the default branch.

* no-mistakes(review): name a reason on every unanswered-turn close path

* no-mistakes(review): guard the downlink body and pin frames to their turn

* no-mistakes(review): attribute reply audio to its own turn and tell endings apart

* no-mistakes(review): tell a cut-short reply from an unanswered turn

* no-mistakes(review): discard reply audio arriving after the output closes

* no-mistakes(review): count discarded reply audio on the speaker path too

* no-mistakes(review): keep a reason off a turn already answered in full

* no-mistakes(review): say a reset cut a reply short, not that none arrived

* no-mistakes(review): read one turn's audio count once, and hush a tidy exit

* no-mistakes(document): fix stale session-end relay_error claim in voice-relay guide
A pi worker parked on an interactive prompt - a permission dialog, a
question menu, a trust dialog - reports agent_status=blocked, because it
is waiting on a human keystroke. Pi draws that menu above its separator
pair, so the composer region between the rules is blank and structure
alone looks like a free composer. _fm_composer_pi_verdict admitted
blocked alongside idle and done, so the shared classifier reported an
affirmatively empty composer for exactly the pane where typing is unsafe.

Every "is it safe to type here?" consumer reads that verdict and proceeds
only on an affirmative empty, so both are told yes on a parked prompt:
the away-mode injection guard in bin/fm-supervise-daemon.sh, and fm-send's
pre-type refusal. The keys then answer the menu instead of composing a
message - the highlighted default is selected, the text is discarded, and
the record attributes a decision to a human who never made it.

blocked now defers to unknown, which every consumer already treats as
fail-closed. idle and done still prove an empty composer, so ordinary
steering is unchanged, and Cursor is unaffected because its always-blocked
panes never reach this pi-only branch.

Regression coverage lands first at both levels: the verdict owner
(a blocked pi defers) and the herdr adapter (a parked pi prompt is not an
empty composer).
* fix(bin): require a clone root before fleet-sync touches a project

Git repository discovery walks upward, so `git -C projects/<dir>` on a plain
directory nested under projects/ resolves to the enclosing repository - in a
firstmate home, the firstmate checkout itself. fm-fleet-sync.sh guarded its
candidates with `rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree`, which such a directory
passes, so every later git call read, pruned and fast-forwarded firstmate's own
default branch and reported it under the project directory's label. A running
session's AGENTS.md changed underneath it, and the report named a project that
had nothing to do with the change.

Require each candidate to be the root of its own work tree before any other git
command: compare `rev-parse --show-toplevel` against the directory's own
physical path. Both sides are physical, so a symlinked clone still compares
equal. Anything else is skipped by name, naming the repository that would have
been touched, and bootstrap relays that as a FLEET_SYNC line.

Regression coverage reproduces the wrong-repo fast-forward against a home nested
inside another repository, in both the whole-fleet and single-project forms, and
pins that a symlinked clone dir still syncs.

* no-mistakes(review): Keep enclosing fixture clean during clone-root regression
* fix(procevent): retry a transient Lavish poll interruption quietly

A live Lavish listener can be cut short by the server with exactly

    error: Lavish Editor poll response was interrupted
    code: SERVER_ERROR

while the session's marks remain available. Firstmate registered raw
`lavish-axi poll` output, so the generic process-event runner captured
that transient response as a result and woke the whole fleet over what is
really an internal retry.

The Lavish adapter now registers its own listener command, which reruns
the published blocking poll up to 12 times at 5 second intervals for that
one exact two-line response. The match is deliberately narrow: real
feedback, ended and missing sessions, any other SERVER_ERROR, and the same
interruption still standing once the bound is spent all pass straight
through and are captured and announced as before. The retry is a Lavish
fact, so the generic runner stays adapter-agnostic.

`FM_LAVISH_POLL_RETRY_DELAY` is a bounded 0 to 60 second override for the
interval only, refused rather than rounded when malformed, so a test can
exercise the real bound without waiting it out.

* no-mistakes(review): Harden Lavish retry matching, validation, and cleanup

* no-mistakes(review): Bound Lavish retry staging and stabilize regression

* no-mistakes(document): docs: explain Lavish retry adoption

* no-mistakes(lint): Restore Lavish trap ShellCheck suppression
The unguarded Herdr declaration quoted `{TASK}` in its own prose while the
scaffold instructs firstmate to replace every `{TASK}` placeholder. The
documented global replace therefore spliced the whole task body into the
middle of the safety gate's sentence, silently destroying the one contract
that exists precisely because the scaffold cannot inspect the task text.

Reword the gate to refer to the task text filled in above, leaving the
placeholder only at its genuine fill site. Rewording rather than renaming the
token keeps the unfilled-charter guards in fm-home-seed.sh and
fm-remote-home-seed.sh working unchanged.

Add a regression test that performs the documented global fill on ship and
scout scaffolds and asserts the body lands once and the gate survives.
The writer lock's stale-lock branch read the lock's mtime with
`stat -f %m ... || stat -c %Y ...`. On GNU coreutils `-f` is filesystem
stat, so it consumed the format string as a path, complained on stderr,
printed a partial filesystem dump ("  File: ...") on stdout, and still
exited 0. The GNU form in the fallback therefore never ran, and the
following arithmetic evaluated the word `File`, aborting the writer under
`set -u` with "File: unbound variable".

fm-teardown.sh died there after returning the worktree, leaving
state/<id>.meta, .status, .busy-gen, .busy-state, .busy-state.lock/ and
.turn-ended behind. The surviving metadata kept the watcher monitoring an
endpoint whose agent was gone, so a finished task produced stale wakes
forever, and every re-run died identically because the abandoned lock was
never broken.

Detect the platform once and pick the right stat form, the pattern
bin/fm-watch.sh already documents, and treat any non-numeric result as
"just created" so a future portability surprise degrades to a lock-timeout
refusal rather than killing teardown mid-way.
* fix(stow): give memory decay a per-pass horizon so the clock fires

The tiered decay clocks were wall-clock only, while admission is per-pass:
each /stow admits the findings that pass produced. In a home that stows
daily those two rates diverge by the stow cadence, an entry the fleet keeps
exercising never reaches 30 days unreinforced, and memory only grows while
the pass reports decay evaluated.

Give each dated marker an optional unreinforced-pass counter and make both
tiers stale at whichever horizon comes first: 10 passes or 30 days for
aging, 3 passes or 7 days for perishable. Reinforcement clears the counter
and nothing else does, so the existing evidence-based restamp rule stays
the only way an entry renews its lease. An absent /N means zero, so entries
that stay exercised carry no extra marker bytes, and a rarely stowed home
keeps its current behaviour through the unchanged date horizon.

* no-mistakes(document): Align stow workflow with dual decay clocks

* fix(stow): make the per-pass decay horizon opt-in

The unreinforced-pass horizon shipped as a new default archival cadence,
which is a product default rather than a restoration of the existing
wall-clock contract. Keep the 30-day and 7-day horizons as the only
default clock, and put the 10-pass and 3-pass horizons behind an explicit
opt-in: config/stow-pass-horizon for the firstmate home, and the file's
own header pointer for the public skill.

With the opt-in absent no counter is written and no counter is read, so a
home that does not ask for it decays exactly as it does today.

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve frozen counters and correct archive provenance
tests/fm-watcher-lock.test.sh passed in isolation but failed intermittently
under full-suite and ambient concurrent load. bin/fm-watch-arm.sh computes its
confirmation deadline immediately after forking the real child watcher, so the
child's entire fork, exec, lock acquisition and beacon publication has to land
inside that wall clock. Two cases shrank that budget to one second, leaving a
two-second window for work measured at 3.1-4.9s under CPU oversubscription, so
the arm honestly reported "FAILED - no live watcher with a fresh beacon" and
their premises collapsed. A third case ran on the production budget, but its
child must also execute a registered check before exiting: measured at 1.9-2.3s
idle and 9.1-13.1s under load, against an 11s budget.

The two cases that must confirm a real child now hold the arm to production's
own budget instead of a shrunken fixture one, the immediate-wake case gets an
explicit budget with headroom over its measured loaded cost, and the two waits
for the arm's typed failure are sized off the largest production default rather
than a fixed eight seconds.

No bin/ change and no default behavior change: the lock's fail-closed semantics,
SIGSTOP handling, stale-heartbeat detection and the arm's typed failures are
untouched. Verified 4/4 green at 3x CPU oversubscription (loadavg 75-80) after
3/3 red before the change, and CONTRIBUTING.md records the convention.
* fix(bin): order discovered tool installs by the shell's own expansion

fm_remote_job_compose_operator_path built the asdf and mise install
directories with `compgen -G`, which does not sort. Bash sorts glob
matches in pathexp.c, on the shell's own pathname-expansion path only;
`compgen -G` reaches the same glob_filename through pcomplete.c, which
sorts nothing. On bash 3.2 (macOS /bin/bash) and every bash before 5.3
that handed the composition raw readdir order, so which install of a
multi-version tool a remote job resolved was decided by directory order
on disk rather than by this composition.

Expand the globs at the call sites and let the function take the matches,
so the composition and the documented portable-PATH contract are the same
operation. Quoting the account home at the call site also stops a home
whose name contains glob metacharacters from being reinterpreted.

The colocated regression pins both the order and the mechanism: bash 5.3
moved sorting into the glob library, so an order-only assertion cannot
see the defect there.

* no-mistakes(review): Remove source-reading PATH regression guard
* fix: surface stalled secondmate queues and wake handoffs

* no-mistakes(review): Make handoff wakes retryable and stall alerts crash-safe

* no-mistakes(review): Prevent duplicate handoff wakes and cover remote delivery

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize local handoffs and preserve pre-move wake intent

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize teardown with handoffs and retain remote wake confirmation

* no-mistakes(review): Reconcile correlated handoff wake delivery after crashes

* no-mistakes(review): Keep failed wakes retryable and isolate stall receipts

* no-mistakes(review): Reset known-undelivered wake attempts for durable retries

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse duplicate sends for unresolved delivery attempts

* no-mistakes(review): Atomically restore retryability after reconciled send failures

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize delivery confirmation with reconciliation

* no-mistakes(document): Document routed wake and stall supervision

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix ShellCheck expansion and subshell warnings

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes(review): Retire stale wake state and defer pre-move wakes

* no-mistakes(review): Secure markers, bind batches, and preserve teardown routes

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve unresolved prepared wakes across unrelated handoffs

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve prepared wakes before unrelated moving handoffs

* no-mistakes(document): Document prepared wake batch ownership

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes(review): Make local wake retirement recoverable

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify handoff recovery and teardown documentation
* feat(bin): steer local tasks by durable inbox record plus constant doorbell

Stage 1 (local steers) of the captain-adopted reframe in
data/fm-send-reliability-reframe-s1/report.md: an ordinary fm-send text
steer to a task recorded in this home is appended as a sequenced durable
record under state/<id>.inbox/ and the terminal receives only one constant
self-describing doorbell line, best-effort. The worker acknowledges by
moving the record into handled/; the watcher re-rings an unacknowledged
message on an idle pane and escalates once as an ordinary stale wake.
--resolve-key closes decisions at enqueue time, because the durable
enqueue IS delivery to the task's record. bin/fm-task-inbox-lib.sh owns
the record format, doorbell line, and re-ring ladder.

The typed plane remains for what must reach the terminal itself:
lifecycle keys, harness-native slash and codex $-skill invocations,
explicit backend targets, and the remote secondmate leg (unchanged until
the remote inbox leg ships separately). The composer classifier is
demoted from delivery proof to an advisory ring guard that skips only on
a proven pending verdict.

Verified live against claude, codex, opencode, pi, grok, and muse: each
real worker read its record, acted, and acked with the mv
(docs/verification/runtime-backends.md "Steering-inbox doorbell").

* docs(verification): flag the grok 1.0.5 composer-matrix staleness observed by the doorbell run

* test(captain-hold): read the chat-channel answer from the durable inbox record

* test: migrate fm-control's marker contrast to the inbox record and fix macOS wc padding in the tool-update suite

* no-mistakes(review): Harden inbox locking, teardown races, and acknowledgements

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize watcher actions with inbox acknowledgements

* no-mistakes(review): Bound metadata locking and tighten acknowledgement rechecks

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve exact inbox bytes and harden delivery recovery

* no-mistakes(review): Harden watcher bookkeeping against concurrent inbox teardown

* no-mistakes(document): Update inbox and typed-plane documentation

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* revert(pipeline): keep parser-native secondmate marking and the both-failed exit out of stage 1

The CI monitor's fix changed the secondmate marking contract for
parser-native invocations (appending the marker after the text) and
softened the both-commit-and-marker-failed branch to exit 0. The merge
authority ruled the marking question out of scope for this stage-1
transport PR (follow-up: fm-send-secondmate-harness-invocation-r1) and
ruled the both-failed case a loud nonzero local failure. Restore both,
keeping the monitor's legitimate migrations and hardening.

* no-mistakes(document): Document inbox and typed-plane boundaries

* no-mistakes(document): Scope backend transport docs to typed plane

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify inbox attempt-budget documentation

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* fix(send): the durable record alone governs the inbox exit status

Captain-refined ruling on the F2/Greptile finding: the durable inbox
record is what delivers the steer, so pending-reply bookkeeping trouble
after a successful enqueue never exits nonzero - a resend-inviting status
would make automated callers enqueue the delivered instruction again
under a new sequence. With the recovery marker stored the watcher
reconciles silently; with the commit and marker both lost the send
surfaces a distinct reply-tracking-degraded do-not-resend warning and
still exits 0. Nonzero remains only where nothing was delivered (or a
decision close needs its manual command). Regression: record durable +
both bookkeeping writes lost -> exit 0, one record, no duplicate.

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve inbox ordering with drain-all doorbells

* no-mistakes(review): Surface unwritable inbox ladder bookkeeping

* no-mistakes(review): Silence ladder failures after inbox acknowledgement

* no-mistakes(document): Update steering inbox documentation

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes
* feat: add fast local lint mode

* fix: preserve complete fm-lint help

* fix: isolate fast lint mode

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify lint mode documentation ownership

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes
* feat(bin): deliver remote secondmate steers through durable task inboxes

Stage 2 of the inbox+doorbell steer channel (stage 1: #2856). A remote
secondmate steer now crosses fm-on.sh as a durable record written
idempotently into the remote home's steering inbox plus a best-effort
remote doorbell, and the last typed-payload steer transport is deleted:

- fm-remote-secondmate-control.sh cmd_send writes the record via the new
  fm_task_inbox_write_idempotent and rings the doorbell; it no longer
  types the payload through an inner fm-send at an explicit pane target.
- fm-send.sh routes every remote text steer (harness-native included,
  which marking already reduced to chat) onto the remote inbox leg,
  retries the identical leg once on ssh 255, closes --resolve-key
  decisions at enqueue for remote too, and preserves a marked request's
  reply expectation when completion stays unknown. The exit-3-as-
  delivered remap, the 255 do-not-resend trap, and the remote typed
  submit block are removed.
- fm-task-inbox-lib.sh owns the idempotent enqueue: an exact-body re-run
  lands on the existing record, handled or not, so an ambiguous
  transport can always be safely re-run.
- Tests pin the new contract end to end (record + doorbell + no typed
  payload across ssh, one-record idempotence under an ambiguous
  transport, enqueue-time decision close, loud real failures, and the
  deleted typed-payload behaviors gone), and AGENTS.md plus
  docs/remote-secondmates.md describe the remote leg's new semantics.

* no-mistakes(review): Harden remote inbox delivery against lifecycle races

* no-mistakes(review): Enable correlation-preserving remote steer resends

* no-mistakes(review): Fail closed on stale correlation resends

* no-mistakes(review): Include home context in remote resend commands

* no-mistakes(review): Lock and revalidate remote parent routes

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify remote steer retry documentation

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes
* wip: forked supervision on Pi (checkpoint before docs)

* fix(pi-branch): harden mirror delivery, fallback encoding, and session replacement

Peek-then-shift mirror flush so a failed append retries instead of dropping;
durable mirror cursor commits only after delivery into the branch;
the main fallback wake is operational-encoded like every watcher injection;
session_shutdown quiesces the generation and session_start re-arms, so /new
and /resume no longer kill the branch permanently. Registers the extension in
the strict typecheck, adds the dispatch handshake test, the branch extension
suite, the bash-level regression suite, the session-start replay test, and
the opt-in real-SDK live guard.

* test(fixtures): carry the branch-dispatch lib and lease lib into isolated fixtures

The watcher extension now imports lib/fm-branch-dispatch.ts and fm-teardown
sources fm-lease-lib.sh, so every fixture that copies or symlinks those
files in isolation gains the new sibling.

* no-mistakes(review): Prevent shutdown wake loss and serialize lease claims

* no-mistakes(review): Durably hand off wakes and retain portable leases

* no-mistakes(review): Require durable reports and clear disposed branch leases

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce per-wake outcomes and quiescent lease cleanup

* no-mistakes(review): Require wake acknowledgements and tighten branch lifecycle boundaries

* no-mistakes(review): Require complete acknowledgements and replay cleanup failures

* no-mistakes(review): Bind supervision to lock ownership and durable delivery

* no-mistakes(review): Activate branch lazily after session lock acquisition

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve undelivered mirror context across extension rebinds

* no-mistakes(review): Acknowledge startup replay only after main delivery

* no-mistakes(review): Isolate replay metadata from untrusted digest content

* no-mistakes(review): Reject duplicate reports for active wake sequences

* no-mistakes(review): Retain failed fallbacks and deduplicate outcome replay

* no-mistakes(review): Deduplicate durable outcomes and cache delivery receipts

* no-mistakes(review): Anchor wake sequence matching to outcome fields

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify Pi supervision durability contracts

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix ShellCheck issues in branch supervision scripts

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* refactor(pi-branch): collapse to confused-agent-grade guards per captain decision

Captain decision A: the lease/actor guards target the CONFUSED-AGENT threat
model bin/fm-gate-refuse-lib.sh already documents; adversarial-grade
separation is impossible in the shared-process design and is filed as
separate follow-up work. Rip out the machinery that chased it: the
generation fence and shell-provenance markers, the wrapper-tagged ancestry
walks, guard auto-claim with per-script release traps, the pending-wake
files and ack-receipt correlation (the durable wake queue already
re-presents anything unacknowledged), the delivery-receipt store with
contiguous cursor advancement, the session-start replay-metadata channel,
and the branch tool quiescence counters.

Keep the behaviors the board requires, each on its simplest implementation:
lazy per-action session-lock ownership (cold start activates after the lock
lands; a secondary session stays inert), mirror durability across extension
rebinds via the durable cursor, replay-exactly-once from the one read
cursor, the awaited operational-encoded fallback, per-generation stray-lease
cleanup, session-lock-bound lease liveness (a recycled pid or a non-Pi home
never honors a leftover lease), the loud accidental-override guards
(readonly actor prelude, cross-actor claim refusal), and the role-partition
refinements (no forced teardown, no direct relaunch for the branch).
Default-on-for-Pi is unchanged.

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce lock ownership and serialize lease mutations

* no-mistakes(review): Synchronize guard cleanup and bind leases to lock owner

* no-mistakes(review): Report outcomes before acknowledging durable wakes

* no-mistakes(review): Restrict leases to Pi and instruct main claims

* no-mistakes(review): Reject malformed lease locks and torn outcome tails

* no-mistakes(review): Validate complete outcome tails before appending

* no-mistakes(review): Guard branch side effects across session replacements

* no-mistakes(document): Update Pi supervision durability and lease documentation

* no-mistakes(lint): Suppress intentional nested-shell expansion warning

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* fix(pi-branch): authorize lease releases by caller

* fix(lint): break redundant source-analysis path in fm-lease-lib.sh

fm-lease-lib.sh's lazy fallback source of fm-wake-lib.sh gave ShellCheck's
--external-sources traversal a second path into an already 1540-line file
that fm-send.sh and fm-teardown.sh also source directly, blowing up the
recursive analysis past CI's lint timeout. Mark it a source=/dev/null
analysis boundary, matching the existing fm-task-inbox-lib.sh convention.

Also restores bin/fm-lint.sh and tests/fm-lint.test.sh to the shared
serial-lint definition (dropping an unrelated parallel-sharding change
that was itself hanging and masked this root cause).

* no-mistakes(document): Correct lease caller-authorization documentation

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes
* feat(bin): parallelize session-start remote secondmate network sweeps

Run per-secondmate liveness and convergence probes concurrently and overlap clone refresh, while replaying each mate's fail-closed diagnostic in original order. Ignore scratchpad* so untracked scratch no longer blocks remote sync.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* no-mistakes(document): Document parallel startup network sweeps

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix empty environment assignment lint warning

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

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Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* fix(tests): count declared-pause wakes without crashing on an absent queue

The exited-declared-pause case counts queued stale wakes by handing
state/.wake-queue straight to awk. A watcher that queues nothing never
creates that file, and awk aborts on a missing path before its END rule
runs, so the count collapses to the empty string. The next comparison
then fails as an integer-expression error and surfaces as a wake flood
with no number, hiding the real contract breach the following grep names.

Read the queue the way the drain-count assertion at the end of this file
already does: silence awk's open error and default an absent queue to
zero. Applied to all four counts in this case, including the live
external-decision gate pair whose queue an acknowledged drain can also
leave behind. An absent queue now reports "did not use the bounded
paused recheck", while a genuine flood still fails with its real count.

Fixes #2628

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes
* style(pi): restyle supervision merge notes with a sailboat and matching pad

Secondary-session notes were flush against the TUI edge and fully tinted.
Use the sailboat prefix, Pi's default outputPad, boat-only color, and dim remainder so they sit like real messages.

* style(pi): distinguish routine and captain merge notes by icon only

Visible notes now lead with a sailboat or anchor, then only the dim outcome.
Drop the branch-merged wording and verdict brackets so the icon is the only kind signal.
The markdown contract stays the owner; the still is only the visual of the idea.
* fix(bin): bound remote worker supervisors

* no-mistakes(review): release incumbent supervisor before starting its replacement

* no-mistakes(review): wait out a healthy same-root supervisor instead of replacing it

* no-mistakes(review): narrow remote worker change to restart accounting only

* no-mistakes(document): clarify supervisor restart guard is a lifetime total
* feat(bin,pi): per-actor wake consume, silent success gating, merge-poll dedup

Three related fixes to the shared wake-drain and Pi supervision-branch
dispatch machinery so a routine success is never main-blocking and a
mixed queue can safely split between actors.

1. Successful routine results no longer create main-blocking wake rows.
   fm-startup-network.sh only enqueues a check: startup-network wake when
   the deferred result is actionable (state is not "done", or the report
   carries a bootstrap-diagnostics actionable prefix); a clean success
   stays durable in the report file without ever waking the agent.

2. Per-actor wake-drain consume contract. bin/fm-wake-drain.sh now scopes
   presentation and --ack-through to the current actor
   (bin/fm-lease-lib.sh's fm_lease_actor): main keeps the original
   whole-queue cutoff behavior, unaffected. A branch actor
   (FM_SUPERVISION_ACTOR=branch, set only inside the Pi supervision
   branch's own bash tool calls) is scoped to an explicit eligible-row
   snapshot instead of a cutoff comparison, so it can never remove a row
   it was not granted - the fix for the swallow risk that used to force
   an all-or-nothing whole-queue fallback to main.
   .pi/extensions/lib/fm-branch-dispatch.ts's scopeForUnreadWake is the
   single owner of eligibility: a check-kind row (merge-confirmation
   polls, Relay mentions, credential/auth failures) is now excluded
   rather than vetoing the whole scan for a non-heartbeat wake, while a
   heartbeat review keeps its original all-or-nothing rule unchanged.
   writeEligibleRowsSnapshot publishes the exact eligible sequence
   numbers before every branch prompt; fm-primary-pi-watch.ts's offer
   still refuses a check-kind trigger outright so a main-only close is
   never itself routed to the branch.

3. A repeat identical merged-PR-poll result for an already-notified task
   is absorbed instead of enqueued again. A poll's own retirement state
   is scoped to one registration and cannot see a prior registration's
   outcome, so a task re-registered after its merge was already surfaced
   would otherwise wake main a second time for the same event.
   bin/fm-pr-lib.sh's new per-task pr-poll-merge-notified marker survives
   across re-registrations to catch that case; the first notification for
   a task still reaches main unchanged.

Regression tests colocated in tests/fm-startup-network.test.sh,
tests/fm-wake-queue.test.sh (including the mixed-queue no-swallow
property), tests/fm-pi-branch-extension.test.sh, and
tests/fm-pr-check-security.test.sh. docs/watcher-continuity.md and
docs/pi-supervision-branch.md updated for the new contracts.

* no-mistakes(review): Bind merge deduplication to canonical PR identity

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize wake row ownership across main and branch

* no-mistakes(review): Bind branch grants and deduplicate within actor claims

* no-mistakes(review): Fallback main-owned wake claims to main delivery

* no-mistakes(review): Clarify silent startup success guidance

* no-mistakes(review): Release residual branch grants after settled prompts

* no-mistakes(review): Reject truncated wake rows as corrupted

* no-mistakes(document): Document per-actor routing and silent startup success

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix ShellCheck findings in wake grant and startup test

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes
* Hide branch outcome tool in Pi Calm

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve stock outcomes rendering and document tool audit

* no-mistakes(review): Document branch read tool audit disposition

* no-mistakes(review): Match stock outcomes output sanitization

* no-mistakes(document): Document Calm custom-tool visibility
* fix: delegate no-mistakes PR gate to pinned action

* no-mistakes(document): Document commit-bound no-mistakes attestations
* feat(pi): let operators pin a cheaper supervision-branch model

Supervision is an easier job than the captain's own conversation, so the
Pi supervision branch does not need main's model. A new /supervision-model
command opens Pi's own selector over Pi's own catalog of credentialed
models, plus a "Follow main" entry, and persists the pick as one
<provider>/<model-id> line in this home's gitignored
config/supervision-branch-model. Firstmate keeps no model catalog of its
own.

The branch resolves the pin at every branch build - the first wake of a
cold start and the reopen after /new, /resume, /fork, or reload - so the
choice survives all of them, and picking also releases the live branch so
the next wake reopens the same persistent branch conversation under the
new model. An absent, unreadable, or unparseable file means no pin and
keeps today's behavior byte for byte: no model option is passed and Pi
picks the branch's model exactly as before.

A pin naming a model Pi cannot hand back is never silently downgraded
onto main's model: the branch refuses to build and the wake falls back to
the captain-facing main path naming the unusable pin, which is the
extension's existing failure direction.

The choice is home-local and not part of secondmate inherited
configuration, matching the Pi Calm preference precedent.

docs/configuration.md owns the operator-facing schema. Portable
regressions cover pin-present on create and reopen, pin-absent default,
the command's persistence, cancellation, and live rebind, and both
unusable and unparseable pins. The opt-in real-SDK guard proves the
vendor surface the pin reads and that an explicit model wins over the
model a reopened session recorded.

* no-mistakes(review): Fix supervision model runtime and rebind races

* no-mistakes(review): Restrict supervision picker to isolated runtime models

* no-mistakes(document): Document supervision branch model selection

* fix(pi): make the supervision model pin authoritative on every reopen

Clearing the pin with "Follow main" removed the file but the next branch
build reopened the persistent branch session with no explicit model
override, so Pi restored the model that session had recorded - the old
pinned model - while the command reported that the branch now follows
main. The same gap meant an absent pin did not reliably mean
same-model-as-main once a home had pinned once.

The pin file's current state now decides the model on every branch build,
create and reopen alike, overriding Pi's session-state restore. With a
pin, that model. With no pin, main's own current model is applied
explicitly, tracked from the contexts Pi already hands the extension plus
its model_select event, since the branch is built at wake time with no
context of its own. Only when main's model is unknown, or this home's
stored credentials cannot run it in the isolated branch runtime, does a
build fall back to passing no override at all, which is the behavior from
before the pin existed; the branch is never refused over model choice.

The command's notification now reports the model actually applied, and
says plainly when clearing the pin could not apply main's model instead
of claiming a change that did not take effect.

No credential handling changes: the branch still relies entirely on the
stored credentials its own runtime already holds, and the picker stays
restricted to models that runtime can resolve.

Colocated regressions cover pin present on create and reopen, clearing
the pin returning a reopened branch to main's model and specifically not
the old pinned one, an unparseable pin behaving as no pin, and the
unknown-main-model fallback to no override.

* no-mistakes(review): Make unpinned supervision follow main model changes

* no-mistakes(document): Correct supervision model documentation
* feat(pi): let /supervision-model pick the branch's reasoning effort

Supervision is an easier job than the captain's own conversation, so the
Pi supervision branch does not need main's reasoning effort any more than
it needs main's model. /supervision-model now settles both in one flow:
the existing model picker, then a follow-up effort picker built from Pi's
own supported thinking levels for the model just chosen. Firstmate keeps
no effort catalog of its own; the menu, the clamp, and the vocabulary all
come from Pi.

The pick persists as one line in this home's gitignored
config/supervision-branch-effort, independent of the model pin: a captain
may pin a model, an effort, both, or neither. The effort pin's current
state decides the branch effort on every branch build - the first wake of
a cold start and the reopen after /new, /resume, /fork, or reload - and
overrides Pi's restore of whatever level a reopened branch session
recorded, which is what keeps "Follow main" honest. With no pin, main's
own current effort is applied explicitly and followed live through Pi's
thinking_level_select event, the same way an unpinned branch already
follows main's model, and the two selections now share one build revision
so either change invalidates an in-flight build.

The branch is never refused over effort. Pi owns the clamp, so a pinned
level the branch's model cannot run becomes that model's nearest supported
level while the captain's raw pick is kept for a model that supports it,
and the command reports the level the branch will really run at rather
than the raw pin. A token Pi would not recognize at all is treated as no
pin rather than passed to that clamp, which would otherwise collapse a
typo into the model's lowest level. Only when main's effort cannot be read
either does a build pass no effort override at all, which is the behavior
from before this file existed.

Pi's own effort vocabulary is pinned by a bidirectional type assertion
against Pi's getThinkingLevel return type, so the tracked strict typecheck
against the installed package fails the moment Pi adds or removes a level.

docs/configuration.md owns the operator-facing schema for both pins.
Portable regressions cover the pin on create and reopen, model-only and
effort-only pins working independently, clearing a pin returning the
branch to main's effort, live-follow of a mid-session change, the clamp,
an unrecognized token, the unknown-main-effort fallback, and the command's
two-step flow, persistence, cancellation, and honest reporting. The opt-in
real-SDK guard proves the vendor surface all of that rests on, and also
repairs a pre-existing gap that left it unable to load the extension at
all.

* no-mistakes(review): Resolve effective branch effort honestly

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify Pi-owned effort picker behavior
* fix(supervision): silence empty board closes and decouple the heartbeat

Two unrelated sources of noise put routine supervision events in the
captain's chat.

An empty Lavish board close - the captain reads a review surface, says
nothing, and closes it - became a check wake whose entire content was
that nothing happened. Suppress it at its source instead of routing it
anywhere: the generic runner gains a `silent` adapter seam mirroring the
existing `terminal` one, and the Lavish adapter answers it for exactly
one positively-determined shape, an `ended` session carrying no queued
content block. A silenced result is recorded durably handled so it does
not return on a later reconcile. Everything else announces unchanged - a
`Send & End` close carrying the captain's real answer, an `ended` result
still carrying content, a waiting or missing session, an unreadable
result, and every adapter that implements no `silent` command at all.
The keyed-answer feed is untouched, so suppressing an announcement never
suppresses the captain's own answer.

A fleet heartbeat was deferred to main merely because some unrelated
check row happened to be sitting unread, which put a routine fleet
review in the chat for a reason that had nothing to do with the fleet. A
check row is permanently main-owned, so it is now excluded from a
heartbeat claim rather than vetoing the scan, exactly as in every other
mode. What all-or-nothing guarantees is unchanged: the branch takes
every branch-ownable unread row or none of them, and an unresolvable
task-local row, an unknown row kind, or an unreadable queue still defers
the whole review to main. Main is still woken for the check on that
check's own triggering close, so nothing starves.

Main-only classes are unchanged and now each covered by a test: Relay
mentions, credential failures, merge confirmations, real board answers,
and watcher-failure repair. The per-actor acknowledgement and
no-cross-swallow properties are untouched.

* no-mistakes(review): Fail closed on all Lavish content headers

* no-mistakes(review): Suppress false unacknowledged status for silenced results
* fix(classify): read the decision fold through a correlation token

status_line_verb stripped a trailing [key=...] from a status line's prefix
but left everything else glued to the verb, so a line carrying the
correlation token bin/fm-pending-reply-lib.sh embeds and a secondmate
echoes back matched no arm of _fm_decision_fold_line. Such a line folded as
ordinary status in both directions: a needs-decision or blocked opener never
opened its key, and a resolved or captain-held closer never closed one. The
same glued verb also hid correlated done and blocked lines from
status_is_captain_relevant and status_is_terminal_verb, and let correlated
working and resolved lines leak through the free-text fallback the
nonterminal guard was meant to stop.

The verb parse now walks whole words and drops only a token of the exact
shape a firstmate library writes - corr=<16 hex>, plus the bracketed form
bin/fm-secondmate-report.sh emits - before or after the key token, unkeyed,
or doubled. An arbitrary name=value word is deliberately NOT skipped:
skipping unknown tokens would let free text carrying an equals sign reduce
to a bare verb and impersonate a transition, which is the takeover the
strict parse and _fm_decision_key_transition_allowed exist to prevent. A
prefix with no corr= substring is returned byte-for-byte as before, so every
line without a token keeps its exact historical verb.

FM_OPEN_DECISIONS_FOLD_VERSION goes to 3, because every cursor persisted
under the previous reading carries an open set computed while correlated
lines were invisible and must be rebuilt from byte 0.

Measured over a real 383-line status log: 254 lines keep byte-identical
captain-relevance, pause, terminal-verb and captain-held verdicts, and all
129 changed lines carry a valid token - 14 correlated done/blocked/
needs-decision lines become captain-visible, and 20 correlated
working/resolved lines stop being escalated on prose alone.

* fix(review): Captain, block token-first decision impersonation

* fix(document): Clarify normalized status verb ownership

* fix(classify): reconcile the correlation-token read with the tag-stop parser

Rebasing onto main put this change beside #2280, which made verb parsing
stop at the first "[name=value]" tag. Both edit status_line_verb with
different intents, so the resolution keeps both rules rather than letting
one overwrite the other:

- #2280's tag stop is kept verbatim and now owns every BRACKETED tag,
  including the "[corr=...]" form fm-secondmate-report.sh writes. The
  bracket-unwrapping arm this branch had added to the token test is
  therefore removed as unreachable.
- This branch's token walk is kept and narrowed to the UNBRACKETED token
  fm-pending-reply-lib.sh writes, which the tag stop does not reach.

Two consequences of standing beside #2280 rather than before it:

The fold version had collided at 4: #2280 spent it on the tag-stop
parser and this branch had spent it on the token read. A cursor
persisted under #2280's reading predates this one and must still be
rebuilt, so the version moves to 5.

A bracketed impostor is dropped from the malformed-token list. On main
today "resolved [corr=deadbeef] [key=victim]:" already reads as the bare
verb, as does "resolved [anything at all] [key=victim]:", because the tag
stop ends the parse at the opening bracket regardless of content. That is
#2280's reviewed contract; asserting otherwise here would narrow it. The
unbracketed impostors it owns stay strict and still fold as prose.

Adds a consumer test for the two verb-string case arms that postdate this
branch: fm-supervise-daemon.sh's transient-stale arm and
fm-crew-state.sh's map_log_state.

* fix(review): Captain: Seed cursor migration fixture with version four

* fix(document): Clarify voice status normalization ownership
* fix(bin): Cursor-Park unter Pi-Host stilllegen.

pi-cursor-sdk lädt .cursor/hooks.json in die Pi-Sitzung und parkte einen zweiten Watcher; das erzeugte rearm-resurface und brach laufende Rückfragen ab. Bei PI_CODING_AGENT=true beendet der Park sofort, native cursor-agent Primaries bleiben unverändert.

* fix(bin): Cursor-Park trotz PI-Leak nur ohne Cursor-Identität stilllegen.

Stand-down gilt nur bei PI_CODING_AGENT=true ohne CURSOR_AGENT und ohne CURSOR_INVOKED_AS. Handgestartete cursor-agent Primaries mit geerbtem PI-Marker parken weiter.

* no-mistakes(document): Document Cursor park Pi-host stand-down

* fix(bin): no-mistakes-Mindestversion auf 1.46.0 anheben.

Die PR-Attestierung verlangt ab 1.46.0 strukturierte Pipeline-Schritte; der Bootstrap-Floor blieb bei 1.31.2 und ließ zu alte Builds zu.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

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Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* fix(pi): make /supervision-model's model list bounded and searchable

Pi's generic extension selector renders every option at once with no
search box, so a real eligible catalog ran off the top of the terminal.
The model step now draws the same rows through Pi's own SelectList - the
bounded scrolling primitive behind Pi's /model picker - with Pi's own
Input and fuzzy filter above it for search, keeping 'Follow main' first,
the branch-runtime eligibility filter intact, and the pick branch-only.

Pi's ModelSelectorComponent is deliberately not reused: its selection
handler writes the captain's default model through Pi's settings manager,
which would move main's conversation as a side effect of pinning the
branch. The effort step's menu is a handful of levels and stays on Pi's
plain selector dialog.

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify supervision picker documentation

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes(document): Document searchable supervision model picker

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes
* fix: make a landed merge leave a durable outcome

A merge was the one lifecycle event that left no record outside the
merging agent's memory. bin/fm-pr-merge.sh ended at the forge call, and a
home merging under standing authority never waits for the merge poll that
would otherwise confirm it, so three real merges reached the captain as
silence.

bin/fm-merge-outcome-lib.sh is the single owner of that record. A
secondmate home reports the landed PR upward on the same parent reply
channel its terminal-outcome backstop already uses; a main home records
it on the durable wake queue. The record is at most once per task and
canonical PR identity, and only a merge that actually landed produces one.

The merge poll feeds that same channel when it detects a merge this home
did not perform, so the captain's own forge merge and a merge firstmate
performed itself produce one consistent outcome instead of two reporting
paths. No new state file and no second watch path.

Two smaller gaps from the same failure:

- A mate charter listed its report triggers without naming a landed
  merge. Under standing merge authority nothing is ever "ready for
  review", so the enumerated list silently omitted the case that matters.
- A secondmate home seeded without its parent binding failed every
  terminal-outcome report for the same reason, and the diagnostic never
  named the binding. It does now.

* no-mistakes(review): Harden durable merge outcome reporting

* no-mistakes(review): Make merge race regression deterministic

* no-mistakes(review): Make merge outcomes retry-idempotent and forge-confirmed

* no-mistakes(review): Unify merge publication under canonical outcome marker

* no-mistakes(review): Publish merge outcomes before committing dedup markers

* no-mistakes(review): Document at-least-once merge outcome recovery

* no-mistakes(review): Use supported GitHub confirmation and update recovery docs

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve distinct merge wakes by PR identity

* no-mistakes(document): Document durable merge outcome semantics

* no-mistakes(test): Make merge outcome interleaving test deterministic

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify merge outcome documentation ownership

* fix(lint): keep the merge-outcome library an analysis boundary

bin/fm-watch.sh followed the new merge-outcome library's source graph,
which reaches the wake queue, PR identity, and secondmate parent
libraries. Expanding that inside an already-large lint root pushed
ShellCheck's external-source analysis past the bounded CI lint worker:
the Lint job was killed with SIGTERM after five silent minutes, twice,
having emitted no diagnostics at all.

Make it an analysis boundary, exactly as the transition and inbox owners
directly above and below it already are and for the same stated reason.
Coverage is unchanged because the library is a canonical lint root in its
own right and is still linted as one.

Measured locally: the watcher goes from not terminating within 120s to
9s clean, and the library alone lints in 1s clean.
* fix(bearings): keep an inventory-mismatch home readable, and mark warnings as repairs

A backlog-vs-metadata inventory mismatch inside a secondmate home was being
reported as "we cannot read that home", which discarded that home's open
captain calls, queued work, landed work, and live workers from the whole
Bearings digest. The main home already treats the identical mismatch as a
harmless disclosure; this makes the secondmate path agree.

- fm-fleet-snapshot.sh: the invalidity gate now passes orphan_in_flight,
  unowned_current, and terminal_in_flight through the partial-structured
  carve-out alongside child_current_unavailable, so those homes keep their
  decisions, holds, queued, landed, and live work and leave unreadable[].
  missing_backlog and unstructured_current stay on the discard path, because
  there the backlog itself is untrustworthy.
- fm-fleet-snapshot.sh: the same three kinds no longer collapse the home's own
  classification to "unknown"; the real captain_decision / active_child_work /
  externally_held classification survives and invalidity carries the warning.
  An unavailable child state still collapses it, including when a mismatch
  masks it under strict-invalidity precedence.
- secondmate_landed.partial now keys on partial-structured trust rather than an
  unknown state, so an inventory-mismatch home is still disclosed as partial.

Ask the home that owns the wrong books to fix them:

- bin/fm-secondmate-reconcile.sh sends exactly one reconcile instruction per
  mismatch episode through the ordinary steering transport. A persistent
  mismatch keeps its episode identity and never re-nags; a changed mismatch
  earns one more ask; a repaired one is forgotten so a recurrence is asked
  about again. The parent never touches the mate's own files, and a failed send
  records nothing so the next run retries it.

Give integrity warnings their own look on the board:

- charted rows take an optional kind of "queued" (the default) or "warning".
  A warning badges "needs repair" instead of "waiting" and is excluded from the
  Charted Next count, so alarms stop reading as dispatchable queued work. No
  fifth board section, and every existing payload stays valid.

Tests pin the new policy behaviorally: the retained surfaces and classification
for all three mismatch kinds, the still-discarding unstructured_current and
missing_backlog cases, the once-per-episode reconcile ask through real durable
steering records, and the board rendering exercised through the shipped
template under a minimal DOM shim.

* no-mistakes(review): Make reconcile dedupe atomic and warnings non-dispatchable

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve reconcile identity and reject stale snapshots

* no-mistakes(review): Order snapshots uniquely and canonicalize episode identities

* no-mistakes(review): Add fire-and-forget reconcile and separate warning overflow

* no-mistakes(review): Exclude fire-and-forget from escalation and track reconcile background

* no-mistakes(review): Run reconcile enqueue inline across all adapters

* no-mistakes(review): Track reconcile clears across strict-invalidity homes

* no-mistakes(review): Persist reconcile transitions atomically

* no-mistakes(document): Document reconcile and fire-and-forget contracts

* refactor(bearings): replace the reconcile episode dedupe with a 4-hour cooldown

The reconcile ask needed to fire once per problem without nagging on every
recap. The episode-precise record that tried to do that had to be correct in
every direction at once - order two concurrent snapshots, tell a repair from a
new problem, and never lose a clear - and each direction it got wrong either
swallowed a nudge or sent a duplicate.

A per-home cooldown removes the whole class. One durable timestamp per home,
one nudge per four hours, and nothing to get stale, mis-order, or
mis-classify: a home in mismatch is asked once, later recaps stay silent, and
a mismatch still sitting there after the window earns one gentle re-nudge.

- bin/fm-secondmate-reconcile.sh: state/<id>.reconcile-nudged holds the epoch
  second of the last ask; FM_RECONCILE_COOLDOWN_SECONDS names the window. The
  episode identity, ordering generation, pending/clear transitions, and
  delivery-identity reuse are all gone. A known-undelivered send starts no
  cooldown so the next run retries it; an unconfirmed one does, because a
  duplicate ask is worse than one the mate may already hold.
- bin/fm-fleet-snapshot.sh, bin/fm-bearings-snapshot.sh: drop the snapshot
  `observation` monotonic identity, which existed only to order those records.
- bin/fm-teardown.sh: retire the cooldown record with the endpoint's other
  runtime artifacts, so reseeding a retired id is not silenced by its
  predecessor's window.

The inline durable fire-and-forget send is unchanged, and the projection fix
and the warning surface are untouched.

Tests follow the behavior: the cooldown suite now pins one ask per window, the
re-nudge after it, the four-hour boundary, per-home independence, and that the
ask stays out of a re-ring ladder that still rings an ordinary steer beside it.
The obsolete observation-ordering test is deleted with the machinery it covered.

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize reconcile cooldown commits with mate lifecycle

* no-mistakes(review): Reject stale reconcile snapshots across mate reincarnations

* no-mistakes(review): Start reconcile cooldown after delivery completes

* no-mistakes(review): Keep reconcile sends nonblocking and remove pending residue

* no-mistakes(document): Document reconcile skip and stale-endpoint behavior

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix reconcile test subshell lint warning

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes
* fix(bin): stop dropping reconcile nudges for markerless remote secondmates

A persistent remote secondmate's parent-side state/<id>.meta never carries
spawn_gen: bin/fm-spawn.sh's spawn_remote_secondmate() is its sole writer and
never writes one, because that incarnation identity does not apply to a
remote route. fm-secondmate-reconcile.sh's row filter required a non-empty
spawn_gen matching an identifier regex, so every such row was silently
dropped before the per-row loop ever saw it: no sent/stale/failed line, no
cooldown record, nothing sent, and no trace of why.

Give a legitimately markerless persistent remote secondmate a safe substitute
identity - its recorded remote_host - instead of weakening the spawn_gen
check for rows that do have a generation:

- bin/fm-secondmate-reconcile.sh: carry host through the row projection for
  both fm-fleet-snapshot.v1 and fm-bearings.v1 documents, and admit an empty
  spawn_gen instead of filtering the row out. A new revalidate_identity()
  compares the sampled spawn_gen against current metadata when one was
  sampled (unchanged), or the sampled host against the metadata's
  remote_host when none was sampled and the metadata still carries no
  spawn_gen of its own. A row with neither a spawn_gen nor a host has no
  safe identity at all and fails loudly instead of vanishing, exactly the
  visibility the original bug lacked.
- Rows now join on the ASCII unit separator rather than @tsv: bash's
  IFS-whitespace read collapses consecutive tabs, which would have silently
  dropped a legitimately empty field again.
- bin/fm-bearings-snapshot.sh: thread host through the secondmate_reconcile
  projection so the fm-bearings.v1 path (the one bearings itself feeds to
  the reconcile hook) carries the same substitute identity.
- tests/fm-secondmate-reconcile.test.sh: end-to-end coverage through the real
  remote transport (fm-on.sh + fm-remote-secondmate-control.sh against a
  genuinely seeded remote home) for a markerless mate nudged once per
  cooldown window, a stale/replaced remote route refused exactly like the
  existing local spawn_gen case, and a row with no identity at all failing
  loudly rather than being swallowed.

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce markerless remote host identity during final delivery

* no-mistakes(document): Document markerless remote reconciliation safety
* fix(watch): hand a busy declared pause to the away-mode daemon undecorated

While away mode is active the daemon owns triage and the watcher reverts to
one-shot, handing over plain wake identities the daemon classifies itself. The
busy-turn bound was the one stale path that did not: with afk active it ran the
wedge timer, so the daemon received a wake already decorated as a possible wedge.

That decoration outranks the daemon's own verdict. handle_wake escalates an
enriched wedge reason before its pause classification can apply, so a crew that
declared the wait itself - a `paused:` external wait or a verified captain-held
transfer holding a live foreground call - was wedge-escalated once per
FM_STALE_ESCALATE_SECS for as long as the wait lasted, the escalation count
climbing into demand-deep-inspection on a pane nobody needed to inspect.
Measured on the pre-fix tree, five consecutive re-arms produced five escalations.

busy_turn_bound_check now reads the declaration before the afk branch: away mode
hands off the plain window identity, one-shot per distinct stale hash, leaving
normal-mode pause bookkeeping unwritten because the daemon owns it there. The
daemon then classifies the wait itself and self-handles it on the long cadence.
Normal-mode behavior is unchanged, and lifting the declaration still restores the
busy-pane wedge escalation on the same pane.

The regression covers all three: the undecorated handoff with no wedge timer or
escalation counter, the one-shot on re-arm that the escalation ladder used to
climb, and the restored wedge escalation once the declaration is lifted.

* no-mistakes(review): key afk busy-pause handoff on declaration, clear wedge state

* no-mistakes(document): docs: scope away-mode busy-bound handoff to declared waits

* no-mistakes(document): docs: note afk busy-bound handoff in watcher header

---------

Co-authored-by: Talon Stark <talonstark@gmail.com>
* fix(bin): explain a pooled slot's stale submodule refusal

A pool slot whose submodule pin moved is refused with "is not clean; refusing
to discard uncommitted work", while the operator's own `git status` in that slot
reads clean. The message names no submodule, no pin, and no remedy, so the
refusal is unreadable and the slot looks wedged for no reason. That is the
failure that jammed three slots in a row when a submodule pin moved.

The refusal itself was never the bug and is unchanged: the gate still refuses,
and still touches nothing. It now distinguishes the one case it can prove and
says what it found - the submodule, the pin the slot has, the pin the base
records, and the command that clears it.

The diagnosis is deliberately conservative, because ` M <path>` alone cannot
tell a stale pin from real work. An entry is reported as stale only when every
reported entry is a gitlink whose submodule is internally clean and whose
recorded pin actually differs. A submodule holding uncommitted work, untracked
files, or an unpushed commit therefore keeps the original uncommitted-work
refusal, even when its pin is also stale - the remedy command would be wrong
there, and the conservative refusal is the safe answer.

Nothing is converged, synced, initialized, or deleted. There is no new failure
path: a slot that launched before still launches, a slot that refused before
still refuses, and projects that configure a submodule `ignore` are read exactly
as before. Paths are read with core.quotePath=false so a non-ASCII submodule is
named rather than falling back to the unreadable message.

Tests keep the reproductions that prove the message is accurate: the stale-pin
diagnosis (which fails against the previous refusal), work inside a submodule
still refused as uncommitted work, and a stale pin carrying real work refused
conservatively rather than called stale. Each asserts the slot is left untouched.

* no-mistakes(review): require remote containment before calling a submodule pin stale

* fix(bin): stop printing a remedy the containment check cannot stand behind

The stale-pin diagnosis printed `git submodule update --checkout` as the command
that clears the slot. The containment check behind it reads local refs only and
never fetches, because this gate has to stay usable offline. A remote-tracking
ref that has gone stale - its upstream branch deleted or force-pushed, and never
pruned - still reads as containment, so a commit that is really unpushed can look
contained and that command would move the submodule off it.

Naming the submodule and both pins is the whole point of the diagnosis: it turns
"is not clean", on a slot whose own `git status` reads clean, into a statement of
which submodule drifted and where it drifted from. The operator can choose the
remedy from that, seeing the whole picture. Printing an instruction that rests on
a judgement which can be fooled is worse than printing none, so it is dropped.

The limitation is now stated where it applies, in the script header and beside
the check itself, rather than left for a reader to discover.

No fetch is added: the gate stays offline-safe by design. Nothing else changes -
the same conditions are refused, the slot is still never touched, and a submodule
carrying real work or an unpushed commit still keeps the conservative
uncommitted-work refusal.

* no-mistakes(review): bound submodule containment probe to first commit
* fix(pi): type captain supervision outcomes so main relays them

A captain-relevant branch outcome reached main as a bare user message with
no marker of origin or required action, written in main's own captain-facing
voice, landing in a tail that often already held several such notes. Pi keeps
only a custom message's content when it builds the provider request, so
customType and display never reach the model and content was the only place
that identity could live.

Main could not tell an incoming outcome from its own earlier answer and
sometimes re-emitted that answer instead of relaying the outcome, losing it.
Measured against real Pi 0.84.1 on openai-codex/gpt-5.6-sol: 6 failures in 24
turns, rising to 3 in 6 once one stale answer was already in the tail, which
is how one captain conversation saw six identical messages in a row. The same
scenario with the outcome typed failed 0 times in 14 turns.

Wrap only the captain-verdict note in the branch-outcome operational kind
owned by bin/fm-operational-input.sh. Delivery is otherwise unchanged: still
display: false, still one triggerTurn follow-up, so the turn remains the
single captain-visible outcome and no hidden note is ever shown twice.
Routine notes stay plain because their renderer reads the glyph off the front
of that same string. An outcome that cannot be encoded degrades to the same
instruction as plain text rather than being lost, matching this file's stated
failure direction.

The existing assertions could not catch this: they pin the sendMessage
options and never look at what main receives. Add a portable regression that
classifies the delivered payload with the real protocol executable, and a
live guard that runs the real Pi SDK's own convertToLlm to prove content is
the entire model-visible payload.

* no-mistakes(document): Document typed Pi captain outcomes
* fix(bin): keep a busy pane from retiring a still-declared wait's window

The away-mode daemon's pause re-surface recheck (housekeeping step 2b) read a
busy pane as "the crew resumed" and dropped the declared-wait marker, without
re-reading that the crew's own latest status line still declared the wait.

That inference is not safe, because a declared wait can legitimately hold a pane
busy: a worker sitting on a long foreground call keeps that call live for as long
as the wait lasts. The marker is then cleared while the declaration still stands,
and migrate_watcher_pause_markers recreates it with a fresh timestamp on the very
next tick, so the window restarts forever and the wait never matures into its one
bounded recheck.

Away mode makes that terminal. Since the watcher half landed, a busy pane under a
declared wait is handed to the daemon exactly once per declaration and never woken
again while the declaration stands (bin/fm-watch.sh, busy_turn_bound_check), so
this recheck is the only thing left that can re-surface the pane at all. Measured
end to end on a throwaway state root, away mode active, a pi pane busy past
FM_BUSY_TURN_MAX_SECS, status still `paused:`, over six PAUSE_RESURFACE_SECS
windows: 0 captain-facing rechecks before this change, 6 after - one per window,
with the marker reset each time.

The fix drops only the busy arm of the 2b probe, leaving it an endpoint-readability
check: exit code 2 still means the capture failed, so the endpoint is gone and the
marker goes. The loop head above already drops the marker the moment the status
line stops declaring the wait, so nothing else is needed to end the routing, and
the reconcile path runs before the probe ever reads a pane.

tests/fm-daemon.test.sh: test_housekeeping_paused_resumed_cleared pinned the old
inference on purpose - its fixture's status line still read `paused:` while the
pane was busy, and its comment read "A pause whose pane became busy again (the
crew resumed)". Its fixture now resumes the way a crew actually resumes, by
appending a non-declaring status line, and it asserts its own busy verdict first
so it cannot silently decay into the idle-pane case that
test_housekeeping_paused_unpaused_cleared already covers. What it pins is now the
inverse guard: a busy pane must not GATE the clear either, so an over-correction
that kept the marker alive whenever the pane is busy would fail it.

test_housekeeping_busy_declared_wait_matures_its_window is the new regression, over
both declaration forms. It asserts the busy verdict, then that ticks inside the
window neither escalate nor let the marker be recreated with a fresh timestamp,
then exactly one recheck past the window named for the right human and never a
wedge, then silence on the next tick inside the reset window. It fails on
unmodified main with "produced 0 escalations past its window, expected exactly
one".

Refs #3149

* fix(bin): let a declared wait outrank an enriched wedge escalation

handle_wake classifies a stale wake through classify_stale, which returns a
`pause` verdict for a crew whose latest status line declares an external wait or
a verified captain-held transfer. It then threw that verdict away whenever the
wake reason matched `idle *s, possible wedge, escalation *`, so the watcher's
enriched wedge decoration outranked the crew's own declaration and a healthy
declared wait was escalated once per FM_STALE_ESCALATE_SECS for as long as the
wait lasted.

The enriched reason earns its precedence over the daemon's cheaper status-log
absorption honestly - it carries the watcher's escalation count and its explicit
"do not re-absorb on the run-step/pane state alone" demand. A `pause` verdict is
not run-step or pane state. It is the crew's own declaration that this pane waits
by design, which is precisely the question the wedge timer cannot answer for
itself, so it is the one verdict that decoration must not override.

The two classifications genuinely disagree in steady state rather than only in a
race: a crew that declares `paused:` while its no-mistakes run is still attributed
to its code reads `working` to the watcher's pause_state_class, so the watcher
takes the wedge timer while the daemon's classify_stale reads the status log and
correctly returns `pause`.

The wait stays bounded, not silenced. Absorbing to the pause action records the
declared-wait marker and drops wedge aging, and housekeeping (2b) then owns the
re-surface, so the pane still reaches the captain - once per PAUSE_RESURFACE_SECS
as an explicit "recheck whether the wait still holds", instead of once per
FM_STALE_ESCALATE_SECS as a possible wedge. Measured on a throwaway state root
over five wedge cadences for one declared wait: 5 escalations climbing to
demand-deep-inspection before this change, 0 after, with the one bounded recheck
still delivered.

tests/fm-daemon.test.sh: test_stale_diagnostic_wedge_survives_busy_housekeeping's
`paused` case pinned the old precedence on purpose, asserting exactly one
escalation carrying the demand-deep-inspection payload. That case now asserts the
pause cadence instead - no escalation inside the window, pause tracking recorded -
while the `working` and `prior-terminal` cases keep asserting the enriched wedge
verbatim, so the override itself is still pinned everywhere it is correct.

test_enriched_wedge_under_declared_wait_uses_pause_cadence is the new regression.
It asserts the fixture's own classifier verdict is a pause first, so the case
cannot go vacuous, then drives four consecutive wedge-cadence deliveries in both
the plain and demand-deep-inspection forms through the real handle_wake and
housekeeping pair, then matures the window for exactly one awaiting-external
recheck, then lifts the declaration and requires the same enriched wedge to
escalate again unchanged. It fails on unmodified main at the first delivery.

Refs #3149

* no-mistakes(review): align afk skill recheck wording with still-declared contract

* no-mistakes(document): daemon doc comments: pause window ages on declaration

---------

Co-authored-by: Talon Stark <talonstark@gmail.com>
* fix(bin): make Claude auto-arm continuity self-heal past a hung claim

On a Claude primary, a Stop-hook auto-arm process that hung mid-arm held
the single-flight owner lock with its epoch ledger frozen at
outcome=arming, and the abandonment proof read any live lock holder in
arming as legitimately deciding forever. Every later Stop firing exited
0 at the lock, the turn-end guard kept deferring to the hung owner as
recovery under way, and the watcher was never auto-re-armed again for
the rest of the session - supervision survived only on manual arms and
lapsed between them (the 2026-08-26 watcher flap).

Corrections layered onto the lock-held-across-arm shape each reopened
the same concurrency class one level down, so this replaces the claim
machinery wholesale with a generation-based optimistic design:

- The epoch ledger's monotonic sequence IS the claim generation; the
  two-line entry (classic epoch record plus the claimant's MANDATORY
  pid-identity) is the claim. Every firing defers to a live OPEN claim:
  outcome arming, owner alive, identity recomputes and matches, and not
  stuck (entry and watcher beacon both older than the guard grace).
- A finished, dead, identity-mismatched, identityless, or stuck claim
  is superseded by simply taking the next generation - no signalling or
  revocation of a steady-state predecessor.
- No mutex is held across arming or output; the owner lock survives
  only as a micro-mutex around individual ledger writes. A superseded
  owner goes completely silent: ownership is re-verified before every
  arm invocation, episode-state mutation, ledger write, and
  continuation.
- The irrevocable commit point of a translation is the exit status
  (the harness delivers the collected stderr only on exit 2), so the
  owned terminal ledger write is the atomic commit: the winning
  generation exits 2 unconditionally after it, a refused one exits 0
  silently even after printing, and the once-per-episode failure notice
  commits in the same owned critical section as the winning failed
  write. Two bounded residuals are documented accepted intent: an owner
  dying between its owned write and its own exit, and a hung old-build
  owner resuming during the one legacy upgrade window.
- The pre-generation lock-holding claim shape keeps defer-or-reclaim
  behavior through a legacy shim: a live identity-verified stuck owner
  is retired via TERM (with a queued TERM sufficient when the owner is
  stopped) before its lock is removed, an unverified or identityless
  pid is never signalled but never blocks a proven-abandoned reclaim,
  and the lock's identity evidence is grafted into the ledger
  (mtime-preserving) so pid-reuse protection survives the lock.
- The guard reads the same predicates for recovery ownership and its
  terminal fail-open (which re-checks for a live open claim under the
  held locks before committing the attended alarm), with ledger reads
  anchored to line 1 so the identity line can never confuse them.

Behavioral regression coverage exercises all three edge classes through
the real hook and guard - a live open claim defers with no lock held, a
stuck claim is superseded and the home re-arms, and an end-to-end run
with a genuinely hung owner shows a concurrent firing deferring
promptly mid-arm, a later firing superseding the stuck owner, and the
superseded owner exiting silently without a second translation - plus
the identityless/reused-pid loopholes, the superseded-owner arm
boundary, and the legacy TERM, SIGSTOP, and signal-free reclaim paths.

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse auto-arm commits when notice marker creation fails

* no-mistakes(review): Make episode reset atomic with generation ownership

* no-mistakes(document): Update auto-arm generation and commit documentation
* fix(pr): verify GitHub merge outcome

* no-mistakes(review): Captain, fixed forge-only merge verification, queue guidance, metadata propagation

* no-mistakes(document): Correct forge-specific merge documentation

* no-mistakes(review): Captain: forge-only queue fix, focused tests pass

* no-mistakes(review): Captain: suppress closed-state guidance and prove parent regression

* no-mistakes(review): Captain: remove history proof; retain executable regressions

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify GitHub recording timing in architecture docs

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify outcome-aware PR merge recording documentation

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* Revert "no-mistakes: apply CI fixes"

This reverts commit c326cfa9430c6173eedc8ff7f27d19d0552daf01.

The automatic CI repair round removed the up-front `gh` prerequisite check
while keeping the `gh` dependency: `bin/fm-pr-merge.sh` still calls
`gh api graphql` for the outcome read and `gh api` for the branch-rules read.
That left the same hard requirement without the clear named error, and review
immediately raised a new finding for exactly the failure the check prevents -
`gh-axi pr merge` landing the merge while the follow-up read fails, so the PR
metadata is never recorded.

The check is also symmetric with the GitLab arm directly above it, which
already refuses up front when `glab` or `jq` is missing, on the stated
principle that a missing tool should be a named prerequisite rather than a
merge that is armed and then refused for an unexplained reason.

The workflows this round was chasing sit at `action_required` because this is
a fork pull request; no code change can turn them green.

* fix(pr): keep PR bookkeeping when a merge outcome read fails

On the GitHub path a merge call that returned success was followed by
`github_read_outcome || exit 1`, so a transient API failure, rate limit,
or network blip during the read dropped out of the script before
`record_pr_metadata` ever ran. The merge could have landed while `pr=`
went unrecorded and the merge poll was never armed - bookkeeping lost on
a real merge. The failure path just above already recorded metadata
before exiting, so the error path was more careful than the success one.

Record the PR before that refusal. Recording arms the later merge poll
and is not a success claim, which is the same reasoning that keeps
`record_pr_metadata` on the gh-axi failure path. The refusal itself is
unchanged: exit stays non-zero and the message still names the concrete
observed state. Metadata is withheld only when the read succeeds and
proves the pull request neither merged nor queued.

Pin it with a case that stubs `gh api graphql` into failure after a
successful `gh-axi pr merge`, asserting both the non-zero exit and the
recorded metadata.

* no-mistakes(review): Aggregate queue rules and report conflicts explicitly

* fix(pr): keep the merge abstraction reachable and its bookkeeping intact

Two holes remained in the outcome-verified GitHub merge path, both on
installations where gh-axi is present but gh is not.

The verification preflight refused before bin/fm-pr-merge.sh ever reached
the configured gh-axi merge abstraction, so an installation without gh
could no longer merge at all. gh-axi now performs the merge unconditionally
and the queue-aware gh read became an optional enrichment: with gh on PATH
its GraphQL view still separates merged from queued, and without gh the
gh-axi view still proves a landed merge while every outcome it cannot prove
refuses.

The PR metadata recording sat behind the outcome read, so a merge that
landed before that read failed lost pr= and its merge poll. Recording now
happens once, before either forge call, which arms the poll without
claiming a landed outcome and leaves teardown a PR identity to verify
against no matter how the read ends.

Rebasing onto main also restored the durable merge-outcome reporting and
the GitLab landed-state confirmation that the conflict resolution dropped.

Tests pin each fix through the executable interface: the merge abstraction
is reached and verified with gh absent, a failed fallback read keeps its
bookkeeping, and a mock that snapshots the task meta during the forge call
proves pr= is recorded before the merge can land.

* no-mistakes(review): fix(pr): de-dup queue methods, fall back on failed gh read, refresh contracts

* no-mistakes(review): fix(pr): quote forge output and explain armed auto-merge on refusal

* no-mistakes(review): fix(pr): claim auto-merge armed only when the forge accepted it

* no-mistakes(review): fix(pr): tell the operator what each GitHub refusal could not observe

* no-mistakes(review): fix(pr): gate every forge-acceptance claim on a successful merge

* no-mistakes(document): align merge docs with verified GitHub outcome contract
* fix(pi): stop reporting one merge to the captain twice

The supervision branch's captain-outcome note told main, unconditionally,
that the note "is not your own earlier output" and to relay it now. When
main had already reported the same event, that assertion was false and the
order turned the correct response - saying nothing new - into a mechanical
re-report, so the captain saw one merge reported twice in 16 seconds.

Two independent changes, both needed:

- The relay instruction is now conditional. It still names itself as a
  supervision outcome so main cannot mistake it for its own earlier answer
  (the silent loss that instruction exists to prevent), and it now lets
  main stay quiet about an outcome it has already given the captain.

- The merge case is closed at its source rather than left to that judgment.
  One merge reaches a home on two independent paths by design - main's own
  permanently main-owned merge poll, and the branch's task-local status
  wake - and main's captain-facing text only reaches the branch's mirror at
  main's turn end, so the branch can escalate before it could possibly see
  the captain was already told. bin/fm-pr-merge-notified.sh answers that
  question from bin/fm-pr-lib.sh's canonical merge-notification marker, so
  the answer holds regardless of mirror timing. A captain outcome naming an
  already-published merge is delivered as the ordinary rendered note
  instead of opening a follow-up turn: still appended, still visible, still
  recorded with the verdict the branch decided, minus the wasted turn.

Any error, timeout, or unreadable state relays the outcome. A duplicate
announces itself; a lost outcome does not.

Regression coverage drives the real delivery path in both directions: a new
outcome must still reach the captain in exactly one follow-up turn even
beside an unrelated published merge, and an already-published merge must
open no second turn while a different PR in the same task still does. The
merge path's real producer and this new consumer are exercised end to end
in tests/fm-pr-merge.test.sh.

Pi-only by construction: the delivery path lives in .pi/extensions, so no
other harness loads it, and the new script only reads existing markers.

* no-mistakes(review): Document accepted latest-marker suppression residual

* no-mistakes(review): Recheck ownership before merge outcome delivery

* no-mistakes(document): Document merge-outcome suppression exception

* refactor(pi): drop the source-level merge suppression, keep the envelope fix

The captain reviewed this branch and judged the source-level duplicate
suppression overly complicated for the problem it solved, and asked for
the change to be reduced to the envelope wording alone.

Remove the mergeIntoMain downgrade path, bin/fm-pr-merge-notified.sh, and
every test and document that existed only for it. What remains is the
conditional captain-outcome instruction: main is told to stay quiet about
an outcome it has already reported and to relay anything else, which
covers the duplicate without a second mechanism.

The silent-loss protection is untouched - the note is still typed,
self-describing, and delivered as one invisible follow-up turn - and the
behavioral tests still assert that, now requiring both halves of the
conditional instruction.

* no-mistakes(ci): Clarified in code comments and owned documentation that this is intentionally an M1-only, model-facing conditional relay fix—not source-level suppression—addressing Greptile’s mistaken scope expectation without changing runtime behavior. Net diff remains 3 files and 27 insertions. Verified with fm-pi-branch-extension tests, fm-lint, doc audience check, and git diff --check; all passed

* no-mistakes(ci): Strengthened the runtime delivery test to verify the captain outcome retains its required self-description and outcome text. Verified with `bash tests/fm-pi-branch-extension.test.sh`, `bin/fm-lint.sh`, `bin/fm-doc-audience-check.sh`, and `git diff --check`; all passed. The outer pipeline can now commit and attest the new head
* fix(bin): bind the live pipeline-owned run instead of a superseded failed row

fm-crew-state.sh bound a superseded FAILED no-mistakes run to a task instead
of the LIVE replacement run: the live run's pipeline-owned lane head is not a
git object in the task worktree, so head-equality attribution rejected it and
the coarse runs-list fallback silently continued past the RUNNING row onto an
older failed row whose head equalled the stale worktree HEAD. The home summary
then flipped invalid and Bearings hid the home's live work (F10).

Attribution precedence now follows the daemon's own identity:
- An ACTIVE run for the task's branch binds without head equality while
  branch_sync.state is pipeline_owned (fm_nm_run_is_pipeline_owned_active);
  the pipeline owning the branch is itself the attribution.
- A genuinely failed run with no later run on the branch still reports failed
  through the unchanged head-equality path - real failures are not hidden.
- In the coarse runs scan, an unresolvable head is unknown attribution and
  stops the scan (fm_nm_head_resolvable) instead of falling through to an
  older row; a resolvable-but-mismatched head keeps the historical
  reused-branch skip.

The exemption never applies to a terminal run and requires pipeline_owned
specifically, both pinned by negative-control tests. Fixture shape verified
against the live incident run's real axi status output.

* no-mistakes(document): Updated run-attribution documentation ownership
* fix(pi): surface requested supervision outcomes

* no-mistakes(review): Mirror in-flight captain requests before branch dispatch

* no-mistakes(review): Exercise real branch ownership and main outcome access

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve request tails and align verdict guidance

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve complete current captain requests

* no-mistakes(review): Require visible requested outcomes and realistic classification

* no-mistakes(document): Align supervision outcome documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed Greptile’s runtime-ordering finding. The extension now stages Pi’s authoritative `before_agent_start` prompt before SessionManager persistence and suppresses the later duplicate entry. Updated docs and behavioral regression to reproduce real Pi ordering and verify each prompt is mirrored exactly once. Passed branch-extension tests, supervision tests, strict Pi typecheck, full lint, and diff checks

* no-mistakes(review): Use canonical operational input classification

* no-mistakes(review): Filter legacy operational inputs canonically

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify captain request mirroring boundary

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the CI time-boundary failure in tests/fm-public-followup.test.sh by pinning its clock, including context-registry setup. This prevents follow-up fixtures from expiring based on wall time. Verified the full regression suite passes, project-owned lint passes, and git diff checks are clean

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify captain-visible supervision outcome documentation
* feat(bin): per-home remote transport lanes with cancellation, bounded send, and closed stdin

All remote commands for every home on one host used to serialize through one
single-job-at-a-time worker on one shared queue: a timed-out caller abandoned a
staged job that kept running, retries convoyed behind it, fm-send's remote leg
had no time bound, and staging captured the caller's stdin to EOF so any
fm-on.sh caller with an open stdin wedged staging indefinitely.

- The worker now serves one lane per staged home: same-home jobs run strictly
  FIFO in a new staging-sequence order while different homes run concurrently,
  each lane as its own top-level worker process (a backgrounded subshell does
  not reliably reap dead children, so a zombie group leader kept a finished
  command's process group signalable). Long-poll preemption is lane-scoped.
- A caller that disconnects or times out cancels its job: the entrypoint marks
  the record on any post-staging exit and probes its parent so a dead ssh
  channel cancels without a signal; the worker skips cancelled queued jobs,
  terminates a running cancelled job's process group, and reaps the record.
- fm-send's remote leg is bounded by FM_SEND_REMOTE_BUDGET (default 30s) and a
  bound hit exits through the existing unconfirmed-delivery contract, which
  stays idempotent because the remote enqueue deduplicates.
- fm-on.sh defaults the remote command's stdin to /dev/null; the three payload
  callers pass the new --stdin flag. Abandoned .stage.* litter is age-reaped.
- The job execution deadline no longer loses up to a second to clock
  truncation.

* no-mistakes(review): Protect live stages and validate send budgets early

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve sequence lock ownership during stale recovery

* no-mistakes(review): Allocate job sequences at publication boundary

* no-mistakes(review): Bound remote keys and extend stale lock recovery

* no-mistakes(document): Document bounded remote transport behavior

* no-mistakes(lint): Suppress intentional deferred-expansion lint warning

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed stale sequence-lock recovery by reconciling the counter against published job records before allocating the next sequence, preventing duplicate sequences and same-home FIFO violations. Added a behavioral regression test reproducing displacement after publication and verifying execution order. Passed fm-remote-transport-lanes.test.sh, fm-remote-job.test.sh, fm-lint.sh, and git diff --check

* no-mistakes(review): Use atomic sequence claims and lossless lane keys

* no-mistakes(review): Recover regressed sequence hints and rate-limit claim reaping

* no-mistakes(review): Restrict worker heartbeats to serving loop

* no-mistakes(review): Verify supervisor identity before lane recovery signals

* no-mistakes(review): Verify tracked lane and claim owner identities

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify remote lane and transport contracts

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the CI time-boundary failure by pinning fm-public-followup tests to a deterministic clock, including context-registry setup. Verified tests/fm-public-followup.test.sh, tests/fm-remote-transport-lanes.test.sh, shellcheck, and git diff --check

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve assigned lane ownership of queued jobs

* no-mistakes(review): Reserve homes owned by foreign queued lanes

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve completed results during crash recovery

* no-mistakes(review): Harden claim cleanup, expiry, and cancellation races

* no-mistakes(review): Verify process groups and reap abandoned results

* no-mistakes(review): Stop leaderless groups and reap cancelled publications

* no-mistakes(document): Correct remote transport lifecycle documentation

* no-mistakes(lint): Quote done state comparisons for ShellCheck
* fix(tests): make the changed-file map select per script and stabilize a budget flake

The changed-file map's bin/ fallback resolved a direct test reference to that
test's whole FAMILY. bin/fm-push-transition-lib.sh is named by exactly one
real-Herdr E2E, so a one-line change to it selected all 12 real-herdr-gated
scripts, including a 341s presentation E2E with no dependency on it.

Resolve direct test references per script, and keep resolving consumer bin/
scripts through the curated map so recorded family-level coupling survives.

Also fix a load-sensitive flake: the tool-update budget deadline is whole-second
granular, so a test budget of 1 left headroom anywhere in (0, 1] seconds and the
first budget check could already read as exhausted.

* feat(bin): make suite wall clock a result and let a family's concurrency be proven

--max-wall-ms fails a run whose wall clock exceeds the caller's budget, after
reporting the per-script results. A suite that stays green while outgrowing its
caller's invocation budget is the regression that got an agent killed mid-run
and retried invisibly, so duration has to be a result rather than a log note.

--pool on the isolation-proof harness runs the same concurrent proof over a
whole family, so 'is this family safe to parallelize?' is answered by a command
instead of a guess. Measured watcher-wake-lock and refused it: 3 of 18 scripts
fail under concurrency on wall-clock assertions about reaching the next poll.

* perf(bin): schedule the changed suite concurrently, longest first

The watcher-wake-lock family is proven concurrent-safe (two clean runs, 18
candidates, 0 failures at 4 workers; docs/fm-test-isolation-proof.md), so
--changed now schedules its proven-concurrent scripts with bounded parallelism
and runs any unproven remainder serially afterwards, never beside them.

Concurrent runs are ordered longest-hint-first. Workers are handed scripts in
order, so alphabetical order started the 193s fm-watch-triage last and stranded
it running alone: 395s wall against a 205s balanced four-worker sum.

An explicit --jobs keeps its strict refusal, so every CI lane is unchanged.

* fix(bin): bound a hung test instead of letting it hang the suite

tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh was observed running 17+ minutes against a
464ms recorded hint, and the suite had no per-script bound to stop it. An
unbounded suite is precisely what silently outruns a caller's invocation budget,
and --max-wall-ms is evaluated after the run so it cannot end one that never
finishes.

--per-script-timeout-secs terminates a script that outruns it and records exit
124, so the run still completes, accounts for the script, and fails. The
auto-concurrent --changed path applies 900s, far above the slowest real script
(the 341s Herdr presentation E2E), so it only ever converts a hang.

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce safe concurrency and descendant timeouts

* no-mistakes(review): Validate empty runs and isolation proof pools

* no-mistakes(review): Measure selection time in wall budget

* no-mistakes(review): Reap interrupted workers and bound finalization

* no-mistakes(review): Contain shutdown descendants and watchdog finalization

* no-mistakes(review): Honor remaining budget and close launch races

* no-mistakes(review): Restore timeout helper and simplify runner cleanup

* no-mistakes(review): Record isolation pool admission metadata

* no-mistakes(review): Bound Chrome reap and scope proof admission

* no-mistakes(review): Align proof scheduling and preserve budget summaries

* no-mistakes(review): Remove unreliable finalization watchdog

* no-mistakes(review): Freeze budget duration and enforce admission caps

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh test runner concurrency documentation

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix ShellCheck findings in test runner scripts

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed Greptile’s concurrency-consent finding. `--changed` now remains serial by default; `--changed --jobs auto` explicitly opts into bounded concurrency and the automatic hang timeout. Updated documentation and added behavioral coverage proving serial default behavior, explicit concurrent scheduling, and refusal of `--jobs auto` outside `--changed`. Verified with `bash tests/fm-test-run.test.sh`, `bin/fm-lint.sh`, and `git diff --check`

* no-mistakes(review): Restore automatic changed-suite concurrency and timeout

* no-mistakes(review): Correct changed-suite contributor guidance

* no-mistakes(review): Reject gate-skipped isolation proofs

* no-mistakes(review): Correct automatic concurrency evidence

* no-mistakes(review): Isolate nested runner process groups

* no-mistakes(review): Remove unreliable signal cleanup machinery

* no-mistakes(test): Narrow changed-suite selection to executable contract owners

* no-mistakes(document): Document isolation proof skip and artifact semantics

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed Greptile’s concurrency-consent finding. `--changed` now remains serial by default; bounded concurrency requires explicit `--jobs auto`. Updated behavioral coverage, contributor guidance, and isolation-proof commands accordingly. Verified with `tests/fm-test-run.test.sh`, `bin/fm-doc-audience-check.sh`, `bin/fm-lint.sh`, Bash syntax checks, and `git diff --check`; all passed

* no-mistakes(review): Restore plain changed-suite automatic concurrency

* no-mistakes(review): Record resolved changed-suite worker count

* fix(bin): keep a runner change selecting its whole curated family

A pipeline fix round narrowed the curated changed-file map so bin/fm-test-run.sh
and bin/fm-test-isolation-proof.sh selected only their own two contract tests,
and the documentation surfaces only the audience test. That cut this branch's
own changed selection from 33 scripts to 5.

The runner executes every pure-contract-unit script, so its contract test
passing proves its logic is right, not that the suite it drives still runs.
Narrowing it also makes any wall-clock claim about the changed suite trivially
true by not running the work.

Only the unmapped bin/* grep fallback resolves per script; curated mappings keep
their recorded family coupling.

* perf(bin): admit the pure-contract-unit family to bounded concurrency

A runner-file change selects pure-contract-unit, so that family decides the
changed suite's wall clock. With only watcher-wake-lock admitted, 14 of its 33
selected scripts fell to the serial tail and the selection measured 327.3s
against a 300s budget: the concurrent group was 19 scripts totalling 273.4s
while the tail alone was 215.7s.

bin/fm-test-isolation-proof.sh --pool pure-contract-unit --jobs 4 passes twice,
32 candidates, 0 failures, so the family is admitted on recorded evidence.

Full 33-script plain --changed: 327.3s -> 181.8s / 178.5s / 172.7s, 0 failures,
inside a 300000ms budget. Also states the per-script guard's derivation.

* no-mistakes(review): Align contract-unit concurrency cap with recorded proof

* no-mistakes(document): Record final changed-suite performance evidence

* fix(bin): keep an empty changed selection clean on stock macOS Bash

Under set -u, bash 3.2 treats "${arr[@]}" on an EMPTY array as an
unbound-variable error, while bash 4.4+ makes it a harmless no-op. The
concurrency work removed the early exit for an empty selection, so execution
fell through to the unguarded existence loop: on stock /bin/bash 3.2.57 a
contributor who changes only documentation and runs --changed got

  bin/fm-test-run.sh: line 1713: SCRIPTS[@]: unbound variable

with exit 1 and no summary, instead of a clean total=0 pass.

Restore the early exit, and guard every remaining array expansion reachable
with an empty selection. The reported duration is real elapsed invocation
time rather than a hardcoded zero, so a selection phase that outran
--max-wall-ms still fails.

Verified on this host with /bin/bash 3.2.57: exit 1 with the unbound-variable
error before, exit 0 with FM_TEST_SUMMARY total=0 after.

* no-mistakes(document): Document shell-bound changed-suite performance

---------

Co-authored-by: Kun Chen <kun-1@kunchenguid.com>
* feat(bin): publish per-home summary ledger

* no-mistakes(review): Bound and schedule home summary publication

* no-mistakes(review): Prove recurring watcher summary refresh cadence

* no-mistakes(review): Bound refresh workers and publish durable spawns

* no-mistakes(review): Fix atomic kill process-group coverage

* no-mistakes(review): Bound state initialization within refresh timeout

* no-mistakes(document): Document recurring bounded home-summary publication

* no-mistakes(review): Bound and log all best-effort refresh failures

* no-mistakes(review): Harden cadence and timeout regression coverage

* no-mistakes(document): Document home-summary runtime tuning

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix direct exit-code check in refresh test

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed remote secondmate retirement recreating the deleted home: teardown now skips side-band summary refresh when its overridden state directory was removed. Verified with remote lifecycle E2E, teardown tests, home-summary tests, ShellCheck, and git diff checks

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify atomic home-summary publication guarantee
* fix(pi): gate first call on startup context

* no-mistakes(document): Correct Pi startup prerequisite verification date

* no-mistakes(review): Captain, fix startup process-group retirement after leader exit

* no-mistakes(review): Captain, release reload exit listeners on shutdown

* no-mistakes(review): Captain, complete startup exit lifecycle ownership

* no-mistakes(review): Captain, release empty startup process-group ownership promptly

* no-mistakes(review): Captain, supervise startup ownership and restore failure fallback

* no-mistakes(review): Captain, restore live Pi supervisor execution

* no-mistakes(document): docs: clarify Pi startup prerequisite delivery
* fix(pi): restore 0.84.4 adapter compatibility

* no-mistakes(review): Restore Pi collapsed and expanded outcome parity

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve Pi stock previews through capability probing

* no-mistakes(document): Document Pi 0.84.4 renderer compatibility
* fix(bin): keep home-summary publication bounded and off the watcher beat

A home whose tasks had accumulated ordinary status history could not publish
state/home-summary.json at all, and every attempt starved the watcher's
liveness beacon while it failed silently.

The producer's per-task open-decision fold spent tens of milliseconds per
status line on a bash 3.2 global bracket-class substitution used only as a
blank-line guard. On a real home that made the whole ledger producer take
minutes, so publication burned its full FM_HOME_SUMMARY_TIMEOUT on every
attempt and never completed. Replace that guard with an equivalent case glob
in the one fold owner, which both the whole-file and cursor-backed folds use.

Bound each per-task current-state read in the snapshot with
FM_SNAPSHOT_CREW_STATE_TIMEOUT. For a remote secondmate that read crosses ssh,
whose dead-peer detection deliberately never kills a slow-but-alive remote
command, so nothing else bounded it.

Detach the watcher's two publication triggers from the poll loop. The loop
owns the beacon that fm-guard.sh reads as proof supervision is alive, and an
inline publication put up to a full publication deadline between two beacon
touches. A single in-flight publication is tracked so a slow one cannot
accumulate clones.

Report a repeatedly failing publication at session start. Publication stays
deliberately non-fatal to its caller, so the existing bounded home-local
failure record is now surfaced as a HOME_SUMMARY bootstrap line once the
ledger is absent or stale and failures have been recorded since.

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve home-summary failure attempt ordering

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce durable home-summary single-flight and ordering

* no-mistakes(review): Derive failure ordering from publication boundaries

* no-mistakes(review): Restore best-effort failure logging and publication scoping

* no-mistakes(review): Make ordering regression sensitive to one failure

* no-mistakes(document): Correct HOME_SUMMARY diagnostic guidance
* fix(supervision): classify the appended status span, not the last line

An actionable project update could be classified as routine and absorbed, so
a worker that raised a decision, hit a blocker, failed, or finished stalled
silently with the captain never told.

Trigger, mask, symptom. A worker appends a captain-relevant event
(`needs-decision`, `blocked`, `failed`, `done`). Any later routine append -
a `working:` progress note - lands before the supervisor classifies the
batch; the watcher's 30s signal-grace linger exists precisely to coalesce a
status write with the same turn's turn-end, so this window is ordinary
rather than rare. Both supervisors then asked "is the LAST line
captain-relevant?", read the routine line, and absorbed the wake. The
`.seen-*` suppressor advanced either way, so nothing ever re-read the event.
When the crew was also provably working, the no-verb fallback absorbed it
too, which is why the event disappeared completely instead of surfacing late.

Reproduced end to end against a real watcher before any change: with the
trailing `working:` append the watcher never exits and the wake queue stays
empty; with that one line removed - the smallest counterfactual - the same
`needs-decision` surfaces and queues. The away-mode daemon's `classify_signal`
returns `self|routine signal` for a `blocked:` event under the same mask,
which is the worse case because no captain is present to notice.

The proven path was already in the tree: `status_open_decisions` fixed this
exact masking for the durable decision fold, and its header states the rule -
reading an append-only event log last-event-wins cannot represent an earlier
event that a later unrelated line moved past. The classification path was
never migrated to that read model. That is the earliest divergence, and the
fix is to migrate it rather than to special-case the symptom.

`status_span_first_actionable` in bin/fm-classify-lib.sh is the new single
owner: it reads the bytes at or after a caller-supplied position and returns
the first still-live captain-relevant event. Each supervisor supplies its own
position, because the always-on watcher and the away-mode daemon classify the
same stream independently and must not share one cursor: the watcher reads
the size already recorded in its `.seen-*` signature (no new state) and its
`.hb-surfaced-<task>` backstop marker, and the daemon its
`.subsuper-seen-status-<task>` marker. Those two markers held the escalated
line and now hold the escalated-through byte offset, which also removes a
second defect in the same code - content dedup silently swallowed a genuinely
new event whose text repeated an older one. An absent, malformed, or
past-the-end position reads the whole log, so uncertainty surfaces events
rather than losing them, and a marker an older build wrote as a status line
reads that way too. Status logs are only ever appended to, including across a
reused task id, so a recorded position keeps its meaning.

A `needs-decision`/`blocked` event in the span is retired only when the
whole-file fold proves its key closed; `status_open_decisions` stays the sole
owner of that rule, so same-key reopening and reserved-key namespaces need no
second implementation here. Every other captain-relevant event is terminal
and always actionable.

Both backstops now walk every status log instead of only those whose last
line looks captain-relevant, because the event a backstop most needs to catch
is exactly one a later append has moved past. That leaves
`scan_captain_relevant_statuses` with no callers, and it is removed rather
than left as a working copy of the defective read model.

Regression coverage exercises the classifier and both supervisors through
their own interfaces: the masked decision, the captain-reported
release/install completion followed by cleanup chatter, and the away-mode
blocker all surface; a routine append after an already-classified event stays
absorbed, so the fix does not convert ordinary progress into wakes; and the
heartbeat backstop catches a masked event the per-wake path missed. The
end-to-end watcher tests drive a real fm-watch.sh with the crew reported as
provably working, which is the configuration that made the original stall
silent.

Two further claims in the supplied RCA are deliberately not patched here.
"Repeated operational recoveries produced all-clear replies despite known
actions" is downstream of this same cause, not an independent contributor: an
all-clear reply is the documented response when the specific event needs no
action, so a classification that wrongly reported "no action" produces it, and
correcting the classification removes it. "The project was subjected to
validation requirements outside its accepted path" is delivery-mode selection,
which AGENTS.md section 7 owns; no code changed here touches it, so it is out
of scope.

Harness and backend axes were inspected rather than assumed: nothing in this
path reads a vendor-emitted signal. The status log's format and append
protocol are Firstmate's own and identical for every harness, and no runtime
backend reads or writes `.status` files (`bin/backends/*` contain no reference
to them). The surrounding triage's only backend touchpoints - pane capture and
the authoritative crew-state read - are unchanged. No live-harness guard
applies and no per-harness verification record changes.

Verified with `bin/fm-lint.sh`, `bin/fm-doc-audience-check.sh`, and
`bin/fm-test-run.sh --changed --base origin/main`.

* no-mistakes(review): Prevent status races and surface classification failures

* no-mistakes(review): Surface unreadable signals and preserve AFK endpoints

* no-mistakes(review): Route stale wakes through captured span verdicts

* no-mistakes(review): Retire supervision offsets with reused task state

* no-mistakes(review): Bind status offsets and preserve live decision origins

* no-mistakes(review): Strengthen status identity with verified birth time

* no-mistakes(review): Skip turn-end markers during status classification

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve status presentation with platform-strength identities

* no-mistakes(review): Retain failed wakes and advance routine checkpoints

* no-mistakes(review): Surface all events and retain unreadable wakes

* no-mistakes(review): Treat absent status logs as successful empty spans

* no-mistakes(review): Bound repeated classification failures with durable receipts

* revert(supervision): drop the failure-receipt and durable-retry machinery

Captain-authorized revert to the minimal fix. Review rounds added a durable
failure-receipt store and wake-retention-on-failure to bound repeated
classification failures. That machinery grew larger than the fix it protected
and kept producing its own defects: an unreadable log still looped forever
because the always-on watcher never consulted the receipt, and the receipt was
persisted before its diagnostic was durably queued, so a crash in between
swallowed the alarm outright. Those two defects go away with the code that
contained them rather than being repaired.

Removed: the failure-receipt path, fingerprint, record and clear helpers and
their retirement bookkeeping; the retention of a durable wake when
classification fails; and the error-propagation plumbing in both supervisors
that existed only to drive them.

Kept, because it is the accepted fix rather than the declined machinery: span
classification of the events appended since a supervisor last looked, in both
supervisors and both backstops; reporting every actionable event in a span and
committing a position only through what was reported; naming the live opening of
a reopened decision; treating an absent log as ordinary and an unreadable one as
worth reporting; the non-.status filter; and the platform-strength identity that
guards a position commit without failing a read.

Replacement behavior for a log that cannot be classified: report it once, do NOT
advance the classification position so the content is classified from where it
stopped once readable, and DO advance the wake signature so the report is
bounded to one per distinct file state. Reporting and reading are different acts:
telling the captain about a log is not the same as having read it, and only the
latter may move a classification position.

The residual risk is explicit and accepted: there is no guaranteed automatic
retry inside a crash-mid-read window, and the locked session-start replay of the
durable queue covers it. That rationale is recorded at mark_escalated_seen so a
future reader does not reintroduce the retry as a "missing" guarantee.

Also fixes lint failures that arrived with the review-fix commits and were never
caught because the run never reached its lint step: an unfollowable conditional
source directive, a second unquoted-expansion site left after a call was split
across lines, cleanup of the file being read inside its own read loop (restructured
to one post-loop teardown rather than three in-loop copies), stub functions in
tests that are invoked indirectly, and a test local left unused when its
assignment was replaced by a helper. bin/fm-lint.sh passes on the default branch,
so these were introduced here.

Verified with `bin/fm-lint.sh`, the end-to-end masked-decision and away-mode
reproductions, and `bin/fm-test-run.sh` over the supervision, wake-queue,
wake-drain, watch-arm and inactive-reconcile suites (6 scripts, 0 failures).

* no-mistakes(review): Correct classification failure contract documentation

* no-mistakes(review): Bound unreadable status reports without skipping classification

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve escalation markers when buffering fails

* no-mistakes(review): Detect permission recovery without advancing classification

* no-mistakes(document): Document status span classification contract

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed CI failures by lazily loading classification helpers in fm-wake-lib, preserving minimal recovery/remote fixtures; added a public current-status marker helper and updated behavioral fixtures to use the v2 marker contract; resolved ShellCheck variable collisions in fm-control and fm-public-followup-lib. Verified fm-lint, bash syntax, fm-control, public-followup, wake-queue, send-resolve-key, captain-hold, pending-reply, remote-reply, remote-backlog-handoff, turnend-guard, and Claude autoarm tests. The Pi branch suite reached a separate local stock-render mismatch under Node 24; its CI-reported missing-classifier failure path is fixed

* no-mistakes(review): Escalate blockers while preserving declared-wait cadence

* no-mistakes(review): Clarify actionable events override wait self-handling

* no-mistakes(review): Surface rejected decisions and dangling status links

* no-mistakes(document): Document reserved-key reconciliation classification

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the flaky portable serial CI test by modeling the retained staging directory as genuinely owned by a live process and aging both fixtures deterministically. This removes scheduler-timing dependence while verifying the worker reaps abandoned staging and preserves live staging. Verified with fm-remote-transport-lanes.test.sh, bin/fm-lint.sh, bash syntax, and git diff --check

* no-mistakes(document): Correct away-mode classification documentation
* docs: split harness adapter operations reference

* no-mistakes(review): Fix harness adapter routing and ownership contracts

* no-mistakes(review): Prune duplicate harness adapter ownership prose

* no-mistakes(review): Fix default effort routing and Grok max semantics

* no-mistakes(review): Remove source-only routing test and duplicate semantics

* no-mistakes(review): Add local harness adapter instruction evaluation

* no-mistakes(review): Fix harness evaluation gating and change mapping

* no-mistakes(test): Captain, require explicit harness instruction evaluator model

* no-mistakes(document): Fix harness adapter documentation references
* test(fixtures): share fake-toolchain and spawn-world builders

Future tests can start from tests/fixtures.sh instead of copying stubs, and a
no-mistakes version-floor bump is one constant rather than a multi-file edit.

Migrated this round: fm-busy-adapter-wiring, fm-spawn-pool-base-freshen,
fm-grok-harness, fm-tangle-guard, fm-gate-refuse, fm-spawn-dispatch-profile.
Left for opportunistic migration: remaining make_spawn_fakebin copies
(trace-context, kimi, muse, backend), the make_stubs send cluster, and the
fake no-mistakes version banners in bootstrap/session-start/secondmate suites.
Did not touch tests/fm-pr-check-security.test.sh.

* no-mistakes(review): Prevent fake SSH test from blocking on stdin

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify shared fixture documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the flaky watcher triage test by extending its startup-sensitive timer-repair wait from 3s to 10s, matching existing loaded-runner budgets. Verified with the full tests/fm-watch-triage.test.sh suite, bash syntax validation, and git diff checks

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed portable serial shard 4 by updating the inactive-reconcile fixture to prime status through the public fm_wake_status_mark_current API, ensuring classifier helpers load correctly and preventing the idle watcher from exiting. Verified the test three consecutive times, ran fm-test-fixtures, ShellCheck, bash syntax checks, and git diff checks. The outer no-mistakes executor can now bind a fresh attestation to the new head

* no-mistakes(ci): Added behavioral coverage proving the shared spawn tmux fixture defaults an unset FM_FAKE_PANE_PATH to empty. Verified the fixture suite, ShellCheck, syntax/diff checks, and all six migrated test suites; all passed. The outer executor can now bind a fresh no-mistakes attestation to the updated head
* feat(bin): retire completed PR-check migration machinery

Every registered home already carried both completion markers, and no
installer still creates pre-migration checks. Remove the one-time migrate
script, its bootstrap/watch/teardown/docs surface, and migration-path tests
without weakening live check-trust or PR-poll authentication.

* no-mistakes(review): Restore live PR-check security coverage

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh retired PR-check documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed both failing CI checks. Updated inactive-reconcile setup to use the public status-marking interface, preventing false watcher exits. Made remote-job shutdown deterministic by stopping the complete worker tree before tampering. Verified both affected test suites, repeated inactive reconciliation, shell syntax, and git diff checks
* feat(extensions): bind trusted external process-event adapters

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce owner and remote-home conformance

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce serialized remote extension package lifecycle

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce identity-conditional extension retirement

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize extension retirement and recover crash cuts

* no-mistakes(review): Unify retirement worker and lifecycle lock ownership

* no-mistakes(review): Harden extension lifecycle retirement serialization

* no-mistakes(review): Unify extension registration and overridden-state lifecycle boundaries

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify built-in-only captain answer routing

* no-mistakes(lint): Captain: fix extension binding ShellCheck findings

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes(review): Use isolated UID mapping for owner conformance

* no-mistakes(review): Captain: remove forbidden CI ownership wrapper

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize extension binding publication

* no-mistakes(review): Document ordinary CI owner-fixture exclusion

* no-mistakes(review): Quarantine orphaned handshake descendants

* no-mistakes(test): Fix orphan attribution

* no-mistakes(test): Harden process tracker baseline

* no-mistakes(test): Harden detached descendant attribution

* no-mistakes(test): Use exact invocation-group cleanup

* no-mistakes(test): Bound remote conformance transport crossings

* no-mistakes(test): Parallelize isolated extension conformance tests

* no-mistakes(test): Lifecycle suite still exceeds deadline

* feat(extensions): bind trusted external process-event adapters

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce owner and remote-home conformance

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce serialized remote extension package lifecycle

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce identity-conditional extension retirement

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize extension retirement and recover crash cuts

* no-mistakes(review): Unify retirement worker and lifecycle lock ownership

* no-mistakes(review): Harden extension lifecycle retirement serialization

* no-mistakes(review): Unify extension registration and overridden-state lifecycle boundaries

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify built-in-only captain answer routing

* no-mistakes(lint): Captain: fix extension binding ShellCheck findings

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes(review): Use isolated UID mapping for owner conformance

* no-mistakes(review): Captain: remove forbidden CI ownership wrapper

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize extension binding publication

* no-mistakes(review): Document ordinary CI owner-fixture exclusion

* no-mistakes(review): Quarantine orphaned handshake descendants

* no-mistakes(test): Fix orphan attribution

* no-mistakes(test): Harden process tracker baseline

* no-mistakes(test): Harden detached descendant attribution

* no-mistakes(test): Use exact invocation-group cleanup

* no-mistakes(test): Bound remote conformance transport crossings

* no-mistakes(test): Parallelize isolated extension conformance tests

* no-mistakes(test): Lifecycle suite still exceeds deadline

* no-mistakes(review): Split extension conformance and forward remote transfer input

* no-mistakes(review): Forward malformed remote payloads through fm-on

* no-mistakes(review): Bound extension coordinator failure cleanup

* no-mistakes(test): Skip repeated orphan sweep in coordinator children

* no-mistakes(test): Queue isolated extension sections through bounded workers

* no-mistakes(test): Bound extension coordinator lane cleanup

* no-mistakes(test): Split remote lifecycle coordinator sections

* no-mistakes(test): Coordinator probes pass; aggregate deadline remains

* no-mistakes(test): Launch extension sections concurrently

* no-mistakes(test): Fix coordinator marker publication

* no-mistakes(test): Stabilize extension binding coordinator timing

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix extension binding ShellCheck warnings

* fix(extensions): prove invocation cleanup before retirement

* no-mistakes(review): Harden process-event inbox confinement

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve legacy capture parity

* no-mistakes(review): Protect external registry staging

* no-mistakes(test): Stabilize bounded extension conformance aggregate

* no-mistakes(document): Document external evidence confinement

* no-mistakes(ci): CI phase fixed. The failure was a flaky fixture in `tests/fm-remote-transport-lanes.test.sh`: its “fresh/in-use” staging directory had no live owner identity, so the real worker correctly reaped it once the 1-second age boundary elapsed on slower CI. The fixture now records the active test shell’s exact PID/start identity and cleans those records before removal. Verified: `bash tests/fm-remote-transport-lanes.test.sh` exits 0 with all checks passing; `git diff --check` passes. Provider check retrieval was also retried successfully, resolving the selected manual CI finding. Changed file: `tests/fm-remote-transport-lanes.test.sh`

* no-mistakes(review): Harden extension staging and lifecycle reservation

* no-mistakes(review): Harden external staging and lifecycle reservations

* no-mistakes(review): Wire capture helper into remote conformance

* no-mistakes(review): Pin external capture handoff and signal failures

* no-mistakes(review): Bind pinned capture authority to inherited descriptor

* no-mistakes(review): Harden descriptor-bound capture authority

* no-mistakes(review): Harden core capture reservation authority

* no-mistakes(review): Harden capture reservation boundaries

* no-mistakes(review): Harden capture reservations and cleanup

* no-mistakes(review): Harden capture handoff and reservation cleanup

* no-mistakes(review): Bind capture handoff to claim descriptors

* no-mistakes(review): Release lifecycle locks after host crashes

* no-mistakes(review): Pin reservation recovery to recorded state roots

* no-mistakes(review): Reject control bytes in claim state roots

* no-mistakes(test): Stabilize extension capture descriptor handoff

* no-mistakes(document): Document extension capture authority boundary

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix ShellCheck extension binding warnings

* no-mistakes(ci): CI phase result: fixed `bin/fm-procevent.sh` by initializing the shared `capture_state` sentinel for built-in adapters under `set -u`. This prevents normal built-in captures from aborting before publication. Verified: `bash -n bin/fm-procevent.sh` and `git diff --check` pass. The focused process-event suite was run locally but stopped earlier at a local detached-runner claim failure (`reconcile never claimed the registered source`), before the CI-reported post-capture path; CI evidence confirms the fixed unset-variable failure affected the failing remote, board, watcher, and process-event checks

* no-mistakes(document): Correct extension namespace creation timing

* no-mistakes(lint): Initialize capture locals for ShellCheck
* fix(bin): deliver the real definition of done to a promoted scout, and ban --yes

A promoted scout used to receive a free-form placeholder instead of the
mode-specific Definition of done a briefed ship worker gets, so it never
saw the ask-user escalation rule or the --yes prohibition. That gap is the
concrete reason one incident's worker drove validation with --yes and
answered its own ask-user findings.

- Add bin/fm-dod-lib.sh as the single owner of a ship task's mode-specific
  Definition of done, rendered by both bin/fm-brief.sh and bin/fm-promote.sh
  so the two contracts cannot drift.
- bin/fm-promote.sh now writes data/<id>/ship-instructions.md carrying the
  scratch inventory, clean base, ship branch, and that Definition of done,
  and prints the fm-send.sh command that delivers it.
- State the --yes ban as a prohibition rather than a preference, without
  claiming an enforcement the tool does not provide.
- Cover both through the real promotion and brief paths in
  tests/fm-task-delivery.test.sh and tests/fm-brief.test.sh.

* no-mistakes(review): Publish promotion instructions before committing task state

* no-mistakes(review): Supersede conflicting scout delivery rules after promotion

* no-mistakes(review): Reject invalid promotion instruction destinations

* no-mistakes(document): Align documentation with promotion delivery contracts

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed both CI findings. Promoted workers now receive an explicit worktree-isolation check before branch creation, with instructions to stop and escalate if they are in the primary checkout. Updated behavioral coverage to verify the delivered promotion payload, and aligned the ask-user authority test with the new fleet-wide --yes prohibition. Verified with bin/fm-lint.sh, tests/fm-brief.test.sh, tests/fm-ask-user-authority.test.sh, tests/fm-task-delivery.test.sh, and git diff --check

* no-mistakes(ci): Made tests/fm-ask-user-authority.test.sh executable so the modified colocated behavioral test runs directly like the surrounding test suite. Verified bin/fm-lint.sh, fm-brief, ask-user-authority, and task-delivery tests; all pass. git diff --check is clean

* no-mistakes(ci): Strengthened tests/fm-task-delivery.test.sh to behaviorally verify that real promotion and brief generation deliver byte-identical Definition-of-done blocks for all three modes. Verified tests/fm-task-delivery.test.sh, tests/fm-brief.test.sh, bin/fm-lint.sh, and git diff --check. The outer pipeline can now commit and attest the updated head

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed promotion isolation instructions so any checkout other than the launched disposable worktree requires escalation, including another non-primary worktree. Updated behavioral coverage against the delivered promotion payload. Verified fm-task-delivery, fm-brief, fm-ask-user-authority, full fm-lint/ShellCheck, workflow lint, and git diff checks
* fix(bin): present complete Lavish board feedback as structured output

Give the Lavish adapter a read-only presentation so a handler sees every
annotation and the session-ending tag=message as its own field, instead of
grepping a truncated raw capture.

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve unquoted messages and prioritize captain prose

* no-mistakes(document): Document structured Lavish result reads

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed Lavish `read` completeness: rows missing declared fields are excluded from presented items, counted as malformed, and force `complete: no`. Added behavioral regression coverage through the adapter interface. `bin/fm-lint.sh`, syntax checks, and focused valid/malformed read checks passed. The portable-serial failure was an unrelated secondmate cooldown timing flake
* fix(records): pair backlog transitions with the record that moves

Dispatch and completion each moved a task's physical record and its
backlog row as two independently timed steps, so a crash or a forgotten
follow-up could leave the two disagreeing: a record with no in-flight
row, an in-flight row with no owner, or a finished task still shown in
flight.

Fold each backlog transition into the script that performs the physical
change, under the per-task lock it already holds and before it reports
success. Dispatch moves the item to In flight after publishing the task
record and fails loudly, removing its provisional record, when that
transition cannot land. Completion records an authoritative close and
performs it before removing the record, so an interrupted cleanup can be
finished later, and its closing message now confirms what already
happened rather than instructing a future step.

Add a same-home reconciliation sweep to session start so a home that was
interrupted mid-transition settles its own books on restart, replaying a
recorded close and restoring an in-flight row it already owns a worker
for. It never reads or writes another home; the fleet snapshot and the
cross-home nudge stay as backstops.

Close records are validated before they are trusted: the file is read as
raw bytes and rejected outright when it carries a NUL or other control
byte, every field must be well formed and non-duplicated, the id must
match the record it was found under, the data location must resolve
inside this home, and each close argument must carry a permitted,
well-formed value. Writer and reader share one validator so a record
this home publishes always remains replayable, independent of locale.

Homes configured for a manual backlog, and homes with no backlog at all,
stay exempt and are unaffected.

* no-mistakes(review): Remove stale bootstrap migration helper invocation

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve pending closes and narrow signal deferral

* no-mistakes(review): Record close before destructive teardown

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse pending closes before creating resources

* no-mistakes(review): Guard relaunches and preserve cleanup warnings

* no-mistakes(review): Reject symlinked records and clarify cleanup guidance

* no-mistakes(review): Align dispatch eligibility and protect close replay

* no-mistakes(review): Unify exact task incarnation parsing

* no-mistakes(review): Render resolved configured backlog path

* no-mistakes(review): Harden transition path boundaries against symlinks

* no-mistakes(review): Validate lifecycle state before resource actions

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce transition tooling and continuous state locks

* no-mistakes(review): Consolidate same-home lifecycle file boundaries

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce canonical lifecycle containment and tooling contracts

* no-mistakes(review): Reject final-component lifecycle record symlinks

* no-mistakes(document): Document lifecycle record path boundaries

* no-mistakes(lint): Quote literal done tokens in atomicity tests

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed all PR-caused CI failures: bootstrap now treats an absent state directory as an empty fresh home while retaining unsafe-state checks; nested remote secondmate retirement accepts records already removed with the retired home; teardown fixtures now provide valid data/manual-backend configuration; and the manual reminder assertion checks the configured absolute backlog path. Verified the reported tests, remote lifecycle E2E, backlog atomicity suite, Bash syntax, diff checks, and ShellCheck. The documented pre-existing captain-hold failure was intentionally untouched

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed Behavior portable serial 3 by adding `od` to the teardown test’s lsof-free PATH fixture. The new close-record validator legitimately requires `od`; its omission caused teardown to fail before process-group cleanup and stall the shard. Verified the full `tests/fm-teardown.test.sh` suite passes, plus Bash syntax, ShellCheck, and `git diff --check`

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed close replay to durably retain incomplete-cleanup evidence before removing task metadata. Subsequent retries now emit the reconciliation warning even after a backlog probe or close failure. Updated the behavioral regression and verified the full atomicity suite under stock macOS Bash 3.2, plus shellcheck and diff checks

* fix(records): validate record bytes without an uncurated tool

The byte validation added for close records and directory paths shelled
out to od. The spawn and teardown lifecycle runs under a curated command
set that deliberately excludes it, so on any restricted PATH the check
could not run, the data directory read as unresolvable, and dispatch and
cleanup refused - wedging the lifecycle rather than protecting it.

An earlier attempt made the failing test pass by adding od to that
curated set. That fixed the test to agree with the defect and quietly
widened the contract the fixture exists to pin, so it is reverted here.

Inspect the bytes with perl instead, which is already in the curated set
and already used in this repo for the same portability reason. The
emitted values are identical to od's, so the rejection semantics are
unchanged: NUL and other control bytes are still refused, legitimate
paths containing spaces or non-ASCII characters still round-trip, and
the check stays independent of the process locale.

The restricted-PATH teardown case now passes because the validator no
longer needs od, not because the fixture was loosened.

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce dispatch eligibility and atomic remote record publication

* no-mistakes(document): Document dispatch eligibility and cleanup alerts
* fix: publish promote and Relay meta rewrites through contained replace

Bare mv still rewrote live task records in place, so a symlink meta could
be followed to a target outside state/. Route those field rewrites through
the shared publisher and drop the unused library aliases.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse dangling symlinks during X metadata clear

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse unsafe metadata before follow-up and promotion side effects

* no-mistakes(review): Exercise dangling symlink refusal through clear helper

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Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* fix(watch): absorb a turn-end whose pane churned since the previous poll

The watcher's "absorb a benign turn-end when the crew is provably working"
triage was structurally unreachable for any harness whose semantic busy state
has no verified source. crew_absorb_class only reports working for an actively
running no-mistakes step or an exact busy verdict, and bin/fm-crew-state.sh can
only answer unknown for such an adapter, so codex crewmates surfaced a signal
wake at every turn boundary with nothing to act on - a full supervisor drain,
inspect and acknowledge turn per worker turn, scaling with the number of workers
in flight and drowning the wakes that matter in identical noise.

Widen the proof rather than bound the wake rate. A wake carrying only bare
turn-ended markers is now also benign when the task's pane content changed since
the previous poll, compared against the same state/.hash-* marker the staleness
backbone already records and already trusts as liveness. That evidence claims no
harness semantics, so it fabricates no busy verdict an adapter has not earned,
and it needs no adapter cooperation.

Absorb stays evidence-driven in both directions. A wake naming any status file
keeps the strict proof, every captain-relevant verb still surfaces immediately,
and an unresolvable task, a missing prior hash, a failed or empty capture, or an
unchanged pane all surface exactly as before. The absorb defers rather than
swallows: a crew that has stopped renders nothing further, so its now-static pane
surfaces through the staleness backbone within a poll or two. Bounding the
surfacing rate instead would have suppressed genuinely stopped workers.

The derivation lives with the .hash-* marker format in bin/fm-watch.sh, which
owns it, and costs one bounded capture reached only for a no-verb turn-end whose
crew is not already provably working.

* no-mistakes(review): Captain, guard pane-churn absorption from collisions and secondmates

* no-mistakes(review): Captain, make watcher marker identities injective

* no-mistakes(review): Captain, isolate ambiguous legacy markers and restore Herdr sourcing

* no-mistakes(review): Captain, localize pane-churn collision guard

* no-mistakes(review): Captain, reject malformed pane-churn hashes

* no-mistakes(document): Document pane-churn turn-end evidence

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* fix(watch): gate and bound the pane-churn turn-end absorb

Make the pane-churn form of positive work evidence opt-in per home and
bound how long it may defer one endpoint's bare turn-ends.

Absorbing a bare turn-end on pane churn is now reached only when the home
creates config/turnend-churn-absorb. The other two proofs read a verdict
the harness itself vouches for, while this one infers execution from
rendered bytes, so widening the absorb is a home's choice rather than a
default every fleet inherits. With the flag absent the predicate returns
on its first line and triage is unchanged.

Churn and pane staleness read the same pane, so neither can be the
other's only backstop. A pane that renders continuously never presents
the two consecutive identical hashes the staleness backbone needs, so an
unbounded churn absorb left a worker that had genuinely stopped behind
such a renderer with no path to surface at all. One endpoint's turn-ends
may now ride churn evidence for at most FM_TURNEND_CHURN_ABSORB_SECS,
tracked in state/.churn-since-*, after which the wake surfaces and the
window restarts. The bound is evaluated before any .stale- state is
touched, so a wake that surfaces there leaves the staleness backbone's
own classification alone.

Covers both with behavioral tests: the same churning fixture that absorbs
with the flag surfaces and queues without it, and a spent deferral window
surfaces and restarts. The four existing safety guards now run with the
flag enabled so they keep proving their specific guard.

* no-mistakes(review): Fail closed on invalid churn deferral state

* no-mistakes(review): Validate persisted churn deadlines before arithmetic

* no-mistakes(review): Make churn deadlines transactional and bounds safe

* no-mistakes(review): Compose turn-end evidence per task from one snapshot

* no-mistakes(review): Restore strict turn-end fallback guards

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify pane-churn supervision documentation

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix watcher arithmetic lint issues

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify pane-churn fail-closed documentation

* fix(bin): prioritize active pipeline-owned crew runs (#3194)

* fix(bin): bind the live pipeline-owned run instead of a superseded failed row

fm-crew-state.sh bound a superseded FAILED no-mistakes run to a task instead
of the LIVE replacement run: the live run's pipeline-owned lane head is not a
git object in the task worktree, so head-equality attribution rejected it and
the coarse runs-list fallback silently continued past the RUNNING row onto an
older failed row whose head equalled the stale worktree HEAD. The home summary
then flipped invalid and Bearings hid the home's live work (F10).

Attribution precedence now follows the daemon's own identity:
- An ACTIVE run for the task's branch binds without head equality while
  branch_sync.state is pipeline_owned (fm_nm_run_is_pipeline_owned_active);
  the pipeline owning the branch is itself the attribution.
- A genuinely failed run with no later run on the branch still reports failed
  through the unchanged head-equality path - real failures are not hidden.
- In the coarse runs scan, an unresolvable head is unknown attribution and
  stops the scan (fm_nm_head_resolvable) instead of falling through to an
  older row; a resolvable-but-mismatched head keeps the historical
  reused-branch skip.

The exemption never applies to a terminal run and requires pipeline_owned
specifically, both pinned by negative-control tests. Fixture shape verified
against the live incident run's real axi status output.

* no-mistakes(document): Updated run-attribution documentation ownership

* no-mistakes(review): Captain, make watcher marker identities injective

* no-mistakes(review): Captain, localize pane-churn collision guard

* no-mistakes(review): Compose turn-end evidence per task from one snapshot

* no-mistakes(review): Restore strict turn-end fallback guards

* no-mistakes(document): Align pane-churn watcher documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Captain, fixed the flaky cooldown boundary test by freezing its executable clock. The failure reproduced before the fix and passed five consecutive full-suite runs afterward. Extended ShellCheck passed; full lint stopped because actionlint 1.7.12 is not installed

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Co-authored-by: Kun Chen <3233006+kunchenguid@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(bin): add a safe owner for custom-check retirement

Agents were improvising rm of check files with unset STATE/ID, which wedges
headless panes. Unregister validates the id and state directory first.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse explicitly empty custom-check state overrides

* no-mistakes(document): Document custom-check retirement safety contract

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Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* Add quota exhaustion detection and safe fallback helpers

- bin/fm-procevent-quota.sh: generic procevent adapter that arms a
  recurring quota-axi --json poll and wakes firstmate when a tracked
  provider's effectivePercentRemaining drops below a threshold or its
  runway.status becomes exhausted_now.
- bin/fm-quota-choose.sh: worker-side helper that picks the first ranked
  harness:model candidate with positive effectivePercentRemaining.
- AGENTS.md and .agents/skills/quota-array-dispatch/SKILL.md: document
  the new helpers and the mid-task quota-exhaustion wake path.
- tests/fm-quota-choose.test.sh: unit tests with a mocked quota-axi JSON
  source.

* no-mistakes(review): Fix quota polling and scope bounds

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce safe default quota selection

* no-mistakes(review): Handle decimal quota values safely

* no-mistakes(review): Fail closed on invalid quota inputs

* no-mistakes(review): Reject empty quota candidate segments

* no-mistakes(review): Harden quota parsing and timeout ownership

* no-mistakes(review): Reuse captured quota snapshots consistently

* no-mistakes(review): Match quota using explicit candidate providers

* no-mistakes(review): Centralize fail-closed quota schema validation

* no-mistakes(review): Reject out-of-range quota percentages

* no-mistakes(review): Validate quota runway status enum

* no-mistakes(review): Tighten quota scope and status contracts

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve unknown quota and exact product bounds

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve provider-level unknown quota

* no-mistakes(review): Reuse canonical verified harness validation

* no-mistakes(document): Document mid-task quota handling

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* fix(docs): restore default routing contract, keep quota helper optional

Restore the AGENTS.md section 4 always-loaded routing paragraph the PR
had deleted, so the standing TOON-first intake, spendPriority ranker,
every-candidate accounting, and load-trigger contract stay exactly as
before this PR. The mid-task quota wake is optional and must not alter
default routing.

Restore the quota-array-dispatch skill ownership line to section 4 as
the always-loaded intake boundary owner; keep the worker-side helper
section as an addition only, without rewiring ownership or load
triggers to section 13.

* fix(bin): use harness-keyed quota matching in optional helper

Revert fm-quota-choose.sh from harness:provider:model tuples back to
harness:model candidates with harness-keyed provider matching, per the
resolved ask-user finding. The helper is optional; authoritative
multi-provider routing (provider discovery from the harness catalog and
quota matching by that explicit provider) stays owned by AGENTS.md
section 4 and the quota-array-dispatch skill intake procedure, not the
helper.

Document the multi-provider limitation in the helper header and the
quota-array-dispatch skill: the helper maps each harness to one primary
provider family only, so a candidate whose established provider differs
from that primary family is checked against the wrong quota row. Use it
only when the brief fixed the candidate order and every candidate's
provider is the harness's primary family.

The helper still consumes one already-captured default-TOON or JSON
snapshot via stdin or --snapshot and never calls quota-axi itself, so
it selects from the same quota state as the intake.

* no-mistakes(review): Fix Muse quota mapping and helper contract docs

* no-mistakes(review): Reject known-empty quotas and map quota tests explicitly

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve unmeasured candidates and enforce snapshot reuse

* no-mistakes(review): Fix quota retirement and dependent regression coverage

* no-mistakes(review): Accept zero-row quota TOON snapshots

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce quota semantics status consistency

* no-mistakes(review): Veto dispatch on any exhausted applicable scope

* no-mistakes(review): Record exhausted quota scope in wake details

* no-mistakes(review): Fix quota help and control dependency coverage

* no-mistakes(review): Decode quoted TOON fields and document quota wakes

* no-mistakes(review): Validate zero-row TOON and map timeout coverage

* no-mistakes(review): Reject multi-value JSON and malformed TOON envelopes

* no-mistakes(review): Validate complete nonzero TOON envelopes

* no-mistakes(review): Accept producer-shaped quota TOON envelopes

* no-mistakes(review): Support empty quota arrays and validate counted rows

* no-mistakes(review): Harden TOON completion, scopes, and quoted fields

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve unknown-headroom exhaustion and reject trailing fields

* no-mistakes(review): Allow unknown headroom under known semantics

* no-mistakes(review): Reject noncanonical quota identities

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve empty quota polling and validate attention identities

* no-mistakes(review): Reject noncanonical provider watches

* no-mistakes(review): Validate all candidates before quota selection

* no-mistakes(document): Correct quota helper safety documentation

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes
* fix(bin): keep typed Lavish comments when an element is also annotated

read preferred element text over prompt, so an annotate-and-comment
item dropped the captain's words. Surface prompt as its own field.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* no-mistakes(review): Filter non-comment prompts from Lavish reader output

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify Lavish comment presentation contract

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed Lavish reader comment provenance: non-choice prompts are now emitted even when identical to element text. Added observable regression coverage for identical selector+comment input while retaining pure annotation/message coverage. Reader cases, bash syntax, and diff checks pass. Full fm-procevent suite stops earlier at unrelated “reconcile never claimed” setup failure

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed duplicate pure-annotation prompts by emitting `prompt:` only when it differs from captured element text. Updated behavioral coverage for selector+comment, pure annotation, and pure message cases. Focused reader regressions, syntax checks, and diff checks pass. Full suite remains blocked by the pre-existing “reconcile never claimed the registered source” failure

* fix(bin): always emit Lavish comments and use real annotation fixtures

Stop inferring comment provenance from prompt==text. Real pure
annotations have no prompt, so always-emit does not duplicate.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

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Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* Fix public-followup register crashing on empty lock arrays under bash 3.2.

bash 3.2 with set -u treats "${arr[@]}" on an empty array as unbound, so the first register in a fresh home aborted before taking the registry lock.
The empty-lock regression also runs under the existing stock macOS Bash CI lane so pre-fix code would fail there.

* no-mistakes(document): Document stock Bash registration coverage

* no-mistakes(ci): Pinned the stock macOS Bash CI lane to tasks-axi@0.2.5, eliminating dependency drift. Verified workflow YAML parsing, git diff checks, and the focused regression under /bin/bash 3.2.57 with tasks-axi 0.2.5

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the flaky portable CI test: it treated exited zombie processes as live because `kill -0` succeeds for zombies. The watcher and descendant assertions now check process state and regard zombies as exited. Verified `tests/fm-pr-check-security.test.sh`, ShellCheck, `git diff --check`, and the focused Bash public-followup regression
* fix(herdr): isolate server launch environment

* no-mistakes(review): Clear inherited supervision model from Herdr launches

* no-mistakes(document): Document Herdr server launch environment isolation
* fix: surface inbound Relay attachments to the responding agent

A Discord support thread's screenshots were never seen by the agent
handling the mention. The relay delivered them and the poll stashed
them: the reporter's images arrived on the `thread_starter` entry of
`in_reply_to_chain` while the mention's own media list was empty. The
gap was in the responder's playbook, which enumerated a fixed field
list (`request_id`, `text`, `in_reply_to`, `in_reply_to_chain`) and so
made every other field, attachments included, invisible.

Fix it where the gap is, in prose:

- Read the complete payload object rather than a fixed field list, so
  media and later relay fields are never skipped again.
- Fetch and view attached media with the agent's own tools, on the
  mention and on every chain entry, and call out the common shape where
  only the thread starter carries the screenshots.
- Restrict those fetches to known-good platform media hosts over https
  (Discord: cdn.discordapp.com, media.discordapp.net,
  images-ext-1.discordapp.net, images-ext-2.discordapp.net; X:
  pbs.twimg.com, video.twimg.com), report a blocked host instead of
  working around it, and treat everything fetched as untrusted public
  input on the same terms as the surrounding thread text.

The poll stays out of it and downloads nothing, so no third-party bytes
are pulled on the polling path.

The new test pins the contract the playbook depends on: a mention in the
incident's shape, with an empty top-level media list and screenshots on
the thread starter, must reach the inbox with the payload intact and its
media URLs unfetched.

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve media authority and enforce poll-only fetching

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify Relay attachment safety prose
* Defer inactive startup reconciliation

* no-mistakes(review): Queue deferred inactive reconciliation diagnostics durably

* no-mistakes(review): Require worker phases to cover startup requests

* no-mistakes(review): Make diagnostic wakes safely acknowledgeable

* no-mistakes(document): Document deferred startup phase coverage
* fix: bound status presentation lock waits

* no-mistakes(review): Distinguish malformed presentation locks from live contention

* no-mistakes(review): Bound no-ack drain queue lock acquisition

* no-mistakes(document): Document bounded presentation-lock drain behavior

* no-mistakes(lint): Annotate bounded lock output global

* no-mistakes(ci): Added deterministic regression coverage for successful bounded-lock acquisition after live contention, verifying helper-to-caller PID ownership handoff and caller release. Verified with bash syntax checks, git diff checks, and the full fm-wake-queue test suite
* fix(relay): close a public loop whose work lives in a remote secondmate home

A public-followup loop bound to a REMOTE secondmate could never be closed.
`clear_public_followup_link` (bin/fm-public-followup.sh:701) required an
absolute recorded `work_home_path` for a `secondmate:*` work home, but a remote
route has no local path on this machine, so registration records that field
empty (bin/fm-public-followup.sh:291). Every close ran that clear first, so
`retire` died with "could not clear the legacy X link ... retained for
reconciliation" forever, and `deliver` posted the public reply and then stranded
the loop at `posted`. `--force` never covered that step.

The clear now goes to the remote home over that route's SSH transport, running
`fm-x-followup.sh --clear <work-id>` through `bin/fm-on.sh`. The route is decided
from `data/secondmates.md` before any local path is consulted, so a same-named
local directory can never stand in for a remote home, and registrations already
on disk retire without needing a new field. `fm-on.sh` passes ssh's status
through, so 255 stays the established "delivered but completion unknown" result
this codebase already reconciles: the close is refused, the registration and the
remote link are left exactly as they were, and the message names the unknown
completion instead of claiming a definite failure.

Local secondmate and `main` work homes are untouched, and `--force` still
governs only the unresolved-obligation refusal.

Three regression cases drive a remote route end to end, faking only the ssh
binary at the FM_SSH_BIN seam and then running the real remote entrypoint
against a local checkout, so the clear that must reach the remote home actually
happens there.

* no-mistakes(review): Guard remote link clears by request identity

* no-mistakes(review): Fail guarded clears on unreadable remote state

* no-mistakes(review): Reject guarded clears on non-writable remote state

* no-mistakes(review): Allow no-link retirement in non-writable remote state

* no-mistakes(document): Correct public-followup verification guarantee count

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the guarded link-clear race by ensuring absence is decided under the metadata lock whenever publication is possible. Added a behavioral concurrency regression test. Verified with fm-x-mode and fm-public-followup suites, Bash syntax checks, diff checks, and bin/fm-lint.sh

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the guarded link-clear race by refusing an unlocked absence decision when a publisher already owns the metadata lock in a non-writable directory. Added a behavioral concurrency regression test. Verified with fm-x-mode, fm-public-followup, syntax/diff checks, and fm-lint

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the guarded-clear race by refusing all guarded clears when the metadata parent is non-writable, including apparent link absence. Added a behavioral regression with a publisher waiting to create the lock, updated remote-retirement expectations and verification docs. Passed fm-x-mode, fm-public-followup, fm-lint, documentation audience, Bash syntax, and diff checks

* fix(relay): bound the guarded remote link clear so it refuses instead of hanging

The guarded clear checks that the remote state directory is writable before
taking the metadata lock, but that check cannot close the window: the parent can
turn non-writable between the check and lock creation, and a lock held by a live
holder is indistinguishable from that at the acquire. `fm_lock_acquire_wait` is
an unbounded `while ! try; do sleep 0.1; done`, so either case retried forever
and `deliver` or `retire` wedged with nothing reported, instead of returning the
retained-for-reconciliation refusal the guard exists to produce. This path runs
unattended over the secondmate transport, where a wedge is worse than either
outcome the guard defines.

The guarded clear now acquires through `fm_lock_acquire_wait_bounded`
(FMX_LINK_CLEAR_LOCK_TIMEOUT, default 10 seconds) and refuses on timeout through
the existing failure path. Unguarded local callers keep the ordinary unbounded
wait, so local behavior is unchanged.

The bounded primitive's header no longer claims presentation-only scope, since
this is a second authorized caller; nothing else in the shared lock
infrastructure changed.

The regression holds the metadata lock with a genuinely live process while
leaving the state directory writable, so the refusal can only come from the
bound and never from the writability precondition. Against the unbounded wait it
does not terminate at all; with the bound it refuses, retains the registration,
writes no receipt, and leaves the remote link untouched.

* no-mistakes(review): Harden lock-timeout regression with independent deadline

* no-mistakes(review): Restore no-op guarded clears on read-only state

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify remote public-followup cleanup contract
* fix(bin): resolve process-event state roots before validating them

The process-event module validated the caller's spelling of a home's state
root instead of the directory it operates on: it required the supplied path
to equal its own lexical normalization, which rejects any path reached
through a symlinked ancestor. On macOS both /tmp and $TMPDIR are symlinks,
so an operator home under either could never claim a source. Reconcile still
reported the runner started, while the detached runner died writing "cannot
claim source" to the discarded stderr, and the source silently never fired.

Resolve the state root to its physical directory once, then apply the
existing private-directory validation to that resolved directory and derive
every path, recorded claim identity, and later confinement check from it.
This keeps the confinement contract for the directory actually operated on
rather than only for callers that already spelled it physically, and removes
the window where an ancestor symlink could be repointed between check and
use. Homes already spelled physically behave identically.

This was the single cause of both deterministic macOS failures in
tests/fm-procevent.test.sh ("reconcile never claimed the registered source")
and tests/fm-procevent-when.test.sh ("the winning concurrent arm did not
produce an outcome"). The new case pins the behavior with an explicit
symlinked-ancestor home, so it fails without the fix on any platform rather
than only where the temp root happens to be a symlink.

* fix(bin): pin the external capture staging boundary to its physical path

The extension capture path pinned its registry staging boundary by comparing
`pwd -P` against the caller-spelled registry directory, so a home reached
through a symlinked ancestor still refused to start an extension-backed
source after the state root itself resolved correctly. That left such a home
half working: built-in sources ran while external ones failed.

The staging preparer now prints the physical registry directory it validated,
matching the inbox and reservation preparers beside it, and the start path
pins on that returned path. The new end-to-end case drives the shipped
file-signal package from a symlinked home spelling.

* no-mistakes(review): Propagate canonical process-event state roots

* no-mistakes(review): Propagate canonical state to process-event adapters

* no-mistakes(document): Document physical process-event state roots
* fix(pi): persist captain outcomes visibly

* no-mistakes(review): Recover captain outcomes after cold-start lock acquisition

* no-mistakes(document): Document cold-start captain-outcome recovery

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes(review): Prove immediate Pi captain-outcome transcript delivery

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* fix(pi): process captain outcomes through a sequence-keyed turn

PR #3312 made every captain-facing supervision outcome a durable, exact-once
visible transcript entry with the read cursor advancing only after that entry
exists. That is the display half of the delivery contract. Left alone it turns
a probabilistic silent loss into a deterministic one: the captain sees an
anchor line, and firstmate never acts, because nothing opens a turn and
nothing records whether main ever processed the outcome.

The 2026-08-31 timeline showed the two shapes this must survive on the
previous hidden-turn path: seven delivered decision outcomes each answered by
an empty assistant message (cursor advanced, no retry, unanswered for close
to three hours), and two answered by an unrelated prior reply. Both happened
because delivery advanced the cursor at enqueue and accepted whatever the
next assistant message was.

Add the processing half on top of the persistence half:

- bin/fm-branch-outcome.sh keeps a processed marker separate from the read
  cursor (`unprocessed`, `mark-processed --through`, `processed-init`). It
  only advances through an explicit sequence-bound acknowledgement, never
  past the read cursor and never backwards; an absent marker reads as zero
  and `processed-init` migrates delivered history once so an upgraded home
  is not re-presented its past.
- After the visible entry for a captain outcome exists, the extension hands
  every still-unprocessed captain row to main as one hidden, typed
  `fm-branch-process` request listing each `[seq N] task: summary`, opening
  exactly one main turn. Main closes it only by calling the new
  `fm_branch_processed` tool with the highest sequence listed. An unrelated,
  empty, or paraphrased answer leaves the sequence open, and the same request
  is presented again at the end of the next main run and at session start.
  The first two presentations of a sequence set open a turn of their own;
  after that the request rides the captain's next prompt so an ignored
  request cannot loop, and a session replacement resets that budget.
  Routine outcomes stay turn-free.
- The regressions cover exactly those incident shapes against the real store
  scripts: an empty answer and an unrelated prior answer neither advance the
  marker nor stop re-presentation, the acknowledgement is refused beyond the
  read cursor and outside lock ownership, a partial acknowledgement keeps the
  newer sequence open, and #3312's own assertions now forbid an unkeyed turn
  rather than any turn. The store suite pins the marker's bounds and the
  migration; the real-SDK guard for appendEntry persistence and model
  exclusion is unchanged.

Docs move the protocol from "no model turn" to "one sequence-keyed processing
turn closed only by its acknowledgement", and the verification record carries
the dated run against Pi 0.84.4.

* no-mistakes(review): Harden outcome listing and sequence-bound acknowledgements

* no-mistakes(review): Harden outcome state validation and request pacing

* no-mistakes(review): Reject unsafe sidecars and unterminated outcome stores

* no-mistakes(review): Validate canonical mark-read cursor state

* no-mistakes(review): Guard cursor advancement against corrupt processed state

* no-mistakes(review): Bind acknowledgements to active processing requests

* no-mistakes(review): Reset pacing when processing sequence membership changes

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce silent outcome invariants at storage boundary

* no-mistakes(document): Document hardened captain outcome processing contracts

---------

Co-authored-by: kunchenguid <kun@kunchenguid.com>
* feat: bound Bearings remote ledger collection

* no-mistakes(review): Clarify default remote-ledger collection behavior

* no-mistakes(review): Detach reconcile delivery from watcher loop

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce bounded snapshot and request captures

* no-mistakes(review): Bound legacy summary capture before parsing

* no-mistakes(review): Bound primary remote ledger captures

* no-mistakes(document): Correct snapshot and reconcile documentation

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix ShellCheck quoting in bounded collector

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed all three CI failures: updated the macOS Bearings assertion to 44 tests, made the home-summary test deterministic and aligned with default ledger consumption, and increased the asynchronous reconcile retirement wait for loaded CI. Verified both focused suites, all 44 Bearings tests, ShellCheck, actionlint, Bash parsing, and git diff checks

* test: await reconcile request retirement

* no-mistakes(review): Avoid empty reconcile queue process churn

* no-mistakes(review): Read ledger summaries from immutable snapshots

* no-mistakes(review): Reject multi-document home ledger streams

* no-mistakes(review): Coalesce durable reconcile requests per target

* no-mistakes(review): Unify reconcile keys and reject snapshot streams

* no-mistakes(review): Key reconcile requests by stable target ID

* no-mistakes(document): Document per-target reconcile request coalescing

* no-mistakes(lint): Remove unused snapshot summary file variable

* no-mistakes(ci): Adjusted the concurrent collector regression’s end-to-end timing ceiling to account for stock macOS process/jq overhead outside the three-second remote collection budget, while remaining below the 15-second serial-read floor. Verified with stock /bin/bash 3.2: all 44 Bearings tests pass; bash syntax and git diff checks pass

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed legacy summary validation to require exactly one top-level JSON document and added behavioral regression coverage. Stabilized CI by conditionally waiting longer for durable reconcile delivery and synchronously stopping the fm-on worker tree before fixture cleanup. Removed a redundant flaky healthy-path timing assertion; the wedged-reader test still proves concurrent bounded collection. Verified fm-bearings-snapshot, fm-secondmate-reconcile, and fm-on tests, plus project ShellCheck, bash syntax, and git diff checks
* fix(ci): rebalance the portable serial shards on measured durations

The "Behavior portable serial 3" shard ran 17-20 minutes against its
20-minute job cap and intermittently timed out seconds after a passing
test, on branches and on main alike.

Shards are packed longest-processing-time from per-script duration hints,
and those hints were last measured on 2026-08-21 at 116 scripts. The lane
has since grown to 139 scripts and from ~42 to ~63 minutes: 17 scripts had
no hint at all and fell back to the 20 s default, and several existing
hints were low by 2-5x (fm-watch-triage 142 s hinted vs 263 s measured,
fm-public-followup 36 s vs 197 s). The partition therefore looked
perfectly balanced in hint space, 734.6 s per shard, while really running
11.5, 13.6, 18.8 and 16.5 minutes. Script-count balance, which is what the
tests asserted, stayed normal throughout and hid it.

Refresh the hints from the timing artifacts of three green runs, taking
the slowest measurement of each script so the balance holds on a slow
runner, and split the lane across five shards instead of four. Replayed
against those runs' real per-script durations the worst shard is now
12.54 minutes, 63% of the unchanged 20-minute cap, and the serial lane's
wall clock drops from ~20 to ~12.5 minutes.

Bound the drift that caused this rather than relying on the hints being
refreshed by hand: the coverage guard now reports the unmeasured share as
serial_unhinted= and refuses past PORTABLE_SERIAL_MAX_UNHINTED_PERCENT,
which leaves room for newly added tests while making a stale table fail
the guard instead of silently pushing one shard into its cap.

No test changes what it asserts and no test stops running; only the
partition across shards changes.

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify conservative shard timing aggregate
* fix(pi): fall back after settled branch errors

* no-mistakes(review): Detect provider errors across prompt compaction

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve in-flight branch state across selection changes
* fix(pi): recover supervision branch after cooldown

* no-mistakes(review): Defer branch recovery until prompt settlement

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify supervision cooldown recovery contract
* refactor: remove legacy remote summary reads

* no-mistakes(document): Document ledger-only snapshot reads

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the snapshot test fixture so ledger refreshes use the same fake executable PATH as the snapshot consumer. This preserves observable endpoint freshness after removing legacy summary computation. Verified stock Bash parsing and all 44 Bearings tests pass under /bin/bash; git diff checks pass

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the CI-only snapshot fixture failure by ensuring the bounded-ledger refresh uses its fake tmux backend. This removes host tmux availability as a source of nondeterminism. Verified all 44 Bearings tests pass, Bash syntax passes, and git diff checks are clean

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed CI nondeterminism in the Bearings fixture: all local ledger refreshes now use the fixture’s fake tmux backend when available, instead of depending on host tmux state. Verified stock /bin/bash syntax, git diff checks, and all 44 Bearings tests with a deliberately failing host tmux
* fix(pi): rearm watcher after session replacement

* no-mistakes(review): Queue actionable closes across Pi session replacement

* no-mistakes(review): Stop replacement arm when handoff persistence fails

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve actionable wakes through branch and late child races

* no-mistakes(review): Surface late handoff failures without crashing Pi

* no-mistakes(review): Coordinate replacement delivery settlement and unique handoff tokens

* no-mistakes(review): Retry stale deliveries and release settled claims

* no-mistakes(review): Distinguish branch settlement and retry handoff cleanup

* no-mistakes(review): Deduplicate persistent handoff cleanup alerts

* no-mistakes(review): Acknowledge watcher follow-ups only when consumed

* no-mistakes(review): Persist idle follow-ups until agent consumption

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve pending outcomes when handoff persistence fails

* no-mistakes(review): Arm replacement before awaiting prior delivery settlement

* no-mistakes(review): Adopt pending handoffs after lock reclamation

* no-mistakes(review): Prevent stale generations from adopting replacement handoffs

* no-mistakes(review): Scope replacement handoffs by watcher state

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify replacement handoff documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the failing branch-extension tests to model the new settlement-promise contract. Failure cases now assert that delivery ownership returns to the watcher instead of expecting direct extension fallback. Verified the updated branch suite, Pi watcher suite, shell syntax, and diff checks

* no-mistakes(review): Update branch settlement tests and preserve chunked outcomes

* no-mistakes(document): Document watcher-owned replacement handoffs

* no-mistakes(document): Verify replacement handoff documentation

* test(pi): cover watcher-owned branch fallback

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh watcher-owned fallback documentation
* fix(bin): resurface terminal statuses lost after branch handling

* test(watch): canonicalize process-event fixture homes

* no-mistakes(review): Index branch outcomes by causal status position

* no-mistakes(review): Recover outcome indexes and deduplicate resurfaced statuses

* no-mistakes(review): Handle legacy ambiguity and oversized status diagnostics

* no-mistakes(review): Keep unclassifiable oversized statuses silent

* no-mistakes(document): Document lost-wake outcome backstop

* no-mistakes(document): Update outcome backstop documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed CI regressions in wake-drain: parseable reserved-key decisions can no longer bypass the durable decision-fold guard, and status output is prepared and receipt-committed before presentation to prevent repeated one-shot outcomes after later failures. Added a behavioral regression for receipt commit failure and retry. Targeted backstop, correlation-token, decision-cursor, open-decision, unread-status, syntax, and diff checks pass locally. Shard-4 failures appeared unrelated/flaky; the network-parallel test passed locally

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the Greptile P1 data-loss issue by committing presentation receipts only after prepared output reaches stdout. Added behavioral coverage proving output failure leaves the backstop retryable and receipt failure may duplicate but never lose a presentation. Relevant wake-drain suites and syntax/diff checks pass. The shard-4 Pi extension failure is unrelated to this PR and did not warrant changes

* no-mistakes(ci): Stabilized tests/fm-bootstrap-network-parallel.test.sh by replacing scheduler-sensitive equal-sleep timing with bounded synchronization between mocked fetch and remote probes. This preserves detection of real serialization while avoiding false failures under CI load. Verified with five consecutive test runs, bash syntax validation, ShellCheck, and git diff checks. The separate Pi stock-rendering failure reproduces locally but is unrelated environment/version drift

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed Behavior portable serial 4 by adding fm-classify-lib.sh and fm-timeout-lib.sh to the broken-root Pi test fixture; fm-branch-outcome.sh now depends on them. Verified the full Pi branch-extension suite with real-Pi checks skipped, the wake-drain outcome-backstop suite, Bash syntax, and git diff checks. Greptile findings are already addressed at HEAD; the no-mistakes attestation failure is external head-SHA state
* fix(bin): deliver typed terminal results from remote work homes

A public commitment whose work is bound to a REMOTE secondmate home could
never receive its typed terminal result. `fm-public-followup.sh brief`
printed an emit command carrying this home's own absolute path and this
checkout's own script path, neither of which exists on the machine the
worker runs on, so the worker had nothing it could write to that the
owning home would ever read - and `consume` kept finding nothing while
the promise stayed open.

The brief is now route-aware: for a remote work home it prints that
route's own code root and home with `--stage-in`, so the typed event is
staged in the home where the work actually runs, and the closing
paragraph names the owning home as the one on the other machine instead
of pointing at the path above it. The owning home collects those staged
results over the same SSH route it reaches that secondmate on, because
the transport only runs outbound: `consume` pulls them into its own
inbox and reconciles them exactly as it reconciles a local report.
Collection is non-destructive until the result is durably held, so a
dropped connection cannot lose a terminal result, and a route that could
not be reached is named in `consume`'s output with the promise left open
rather than reported as an empty inbox.

A local work home is untouched: the brief still prints `--home` with this
home and this checkout's script, and the event still lands directly in
this home's typed terminal-result inbox.

This is the emit-side counterpart of the retire/clear fix in #3479 and
reuses the remote-route resolution that landed with it. Reconciling a
loop bound to a remote route now reaches that route, so the existing
remote cases drive `consume` through the same faked transport their
other steps already use.

* no-mistakes(review): Fail loudly on unresolved routes and invalid staging homes

* no-mistakes(review): Fail collection when remote outbox is unreadable

* no-mistakes(review): Surface reassigned remote routes during empty collection

* no-mistakes(review): Fail remote collection on invalid registrations

* no-mistakes(review): Reject unsafe registration entries during remote collection

* no-mistakes(review): Restore healthy empty remote collection behavior

* no-mistakes(review): Skip remote collection for delivered registrations

* no-mistakes(review): Skip delivered registrations before route validation

* no-mistakes(document): Document remote follow-up collection semantics
* fix(bin): exclude secondmates from home-summary child inventory

kind=secondmate meta records never have backlog rows, so counting them in unowned_children or terminal_in_flight made a clean main home look invalid once earlier ledger checks passed.

* no-mistakes(review): Cover terminal secondmate in-flight exclusion

* no-mistakes(ci): Updated the stock macOS Bash CI snapshot expectation from 15 to 16 tests. Verified all 16 snapshot/fleet-view tests pass under Bash 3.2.57 and `git diff --check` succeeds
* fix(bin): self-heal status-outcome indexes on every drain

Missing ready markers were skipping the lost-wake backstop on non-Pi homes because only the Pi branch ran processed-init. Drain now rebuilds those indexes under the outcome lock and fails closed only on a real store fault.

* no-mistakes(review): Guard held-lock initialization and fail marker writes

* no-mistakes(document): Document cross-harness outcome-index self-healing
* fix(bearings): keep active children underway beside a captain hold

Project each readable home's active children into Underway independently of the home-level captain-decision classification so a hold no longer hides live work.

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve Underway repos and disclose child truncation

* no-mistakes(review): Fall back to task project for Underway repos

* no-mistakes(ci): Updated the stock macOS Bash CI assertion from 44 to 45 Bearings tests, matching the newly added behavioral regression. Verified all 45 tests pass under /bin/bash, Bash syntax checks pass, and git diff validation is clean
* fix(pi): settle watcher delivery on Pi accepting the follow-up

A follow-up queued while main is streaming joins the running run without
ever raising before_agent_start, so waiting on that event before clearing
the successor pipeline (#3498) stalled every later actionable close: no
successor started, no wake was delivered or offered to the branch, and the
turn-end guard woke main to re-arm by hand after every close.

The pipeline now settles once Pi accepts the follow-up. Consumption is
observed at before_agent_start for an idle main and at the user
message_start for a streaming main, and decides only what a replacement
session (/new, /resume, /fork, reload) replays. An exhausted restoration
delivers its typed failure without launching an arm past the retry bound,
which the stall had hidden. The replacement-coordinator map is typed so the
strict no-emit typecheck passes again.

Tests: the doubles no longer raise before_agent_start for a streaming send,
a portable regression drives two actionable closes while main streams and
proves the successor chain plus consumption-scoped replay, and a
credential-free real-SDK probe pins Pi's event contract for both the
streaming and the idle follow-up.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QJjTsUvKkWAwLGNoncaZ3a

* fix(pi): retry a verified successor that fails during wake delivery

A verified successor can exit while the wake it was started for is still
being delivered, most plausibly during a branch turn that holds the
settlement for minutes. Its failure close arrived while the pipeline's
single-flight guard was set, so the close handler skipped the retry, and
the pipeline's end no longer launched an arm, which left the live
generation with no watcher and no retry timer.

The close handler now records that failure when the child had reported
readiness and was not retired by the restoration itself, and the pipeline
runs the ordinary bounded, lock-checked retry for it once the delivery
settles. A restoration started for a later pending supersedes it, and an
exhausted restoration still hands repair to main without a further arm.

The regression holds a branch settlement open while the verified
successor exits with a failure and proves one retry watcher starts after
the settlement releases, none while it is held.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QJjTsUvKkWAwLGNoncaZ3a
* fix(bin): bound repeat stale wakes for a parked but live worker

A worker parked on a declared wait - `paused:` for an external or pipeline
wait, or a verified `captain-held` transfer - kept waking firstmate far inside
FM_PAUSE_RESURFACE_SECS. Observed as five consecutive alarms on one
captain-held worker and dozens across a day on a pipeline wait, and reported
upstream as four wakes in 75 minutes against a 3600s window.

pause_state_class deliberately answers `none` for a still-live agent even under
a declared wait, so a worker genuinely waiting on a decision is never silenced.
That classification is correct and is left alone; it routes every parked but
live worker through surface_nonterminal_stale on first sight of each distinct
stale hash, and an idle parked pane still churns its hash on a clock or a token
counter without changing what is being waited on.

Two places let that churn re-alarm:

- surface_nonterminal_stale queued the wake BEFORE consulting whether a wait was
  declared, then wrote `.paused-resurfaced-<key>` - the very throttle that should
  have suppressed it. The throttle was never read on this path and was advanced
  by the wake it should have prevented.
- The hash-change path cleared that throttle through clear_pause_tracking
  whenever the classification came back `none`, so each tick also bought the same
  declared wait a fresh window. Fixing only the first site changes nothing.

Read the throttle before anything is queued and advance it only on a wake that
really fires, and on the hash-change path reset only the per-hash bookkeeping
while the declaration still stands, via a clear_stale_hash_tracking split so
neither half of clear_pause_tracking is duplicated. The throttle is keyed to the
declaration, not to the pane.

First sight still wakes, so an inconclusive state is still inspected, and the
window's end still re-surfaces once, so a forgotten wait cannot rot invisibly -
noise traded for a bounded cadence, never for silence. The wake identity stays
the plain `stale: <win>` the away-mode handoff depends on.

Tests cover both observed forms and were confirmed to fail against three
deliberate breaks: each site reverted on its own, and a re-surface that never
fires again.

* fix(document): Clarify declared-wait wake cadence documentation

* fix(ci): Captain, fixed the stale-throttle inheritance: cadence markers now bind to the current wait declaration, so replacement paused and captain-held waits each emit their first plain `stale:` wake. Added behavioral coverage for both forms. Bite proof failed as expected when identity matching was removed, then passed after restoration. Full watcher triage suite, `bin/fm-lint.sh`, syntax checks, and diff checks pass. Changes remain uncommitted for the outer executor

* fix(ci): Captain, fixed the confirmed Greptile finding. `resurface_absorbed` now applies a throttle only when its stored declaration scope matches the current wait, so replacement `paused:` and `captain-held` waits surface immediately without changing classification. Added executable coverage for both absorbed forms. Bite proof failed before the fix at the intended assertion; afterward the full watcher triage suite, `bin/fm-lint.sh`, shell syntax checks, and `git diff --check` passed
* fix(turnend): accept the away-mode daemon as the supervision owner

While state/.afk exists the away-mode daemon owns supervision and runs
bin/fm-watch.sh one-shot: the watcher exits on every wake and the daemon
starts its replacement. The turn-end guard tested for a live watcher
process holding the watch lock at that instant, so a turn boundary that
landed in the hand-off blocked with "TURN WOULD END BLIND" while
supervision was completely healthy, costing a full handling turn each
time.

Reproduced with the real daemon wrapping the real watcher and the real
guard sampling the same home: 6 of 40 samples blocked, every one of them
with the daemon alive and the beacon 2-3 seconds old, and a new watcher
pid on each cycle. After the fix the same reproduction blocks 0 of 40,
and killing the daemon and its watcher (away mode still on, beacon still
fresh) blocks again.

The guard now accepts a live, identity-matched daemon holding this home
as proof of supervision while away mode is active. The identity match is
the same discipline the watcher lock uses, so a recycled pid or a lock
left by a killed daemon proves nothing. The fresh-beacon half of the
predicate is unchanged: a daemon that stops restarting its watcher still
blocks once the beacon passes grace, a home with no supervisor blocks
exactly as before, and with away mode off the strict watcher predicate is
untouched.

The predicate reads only durable state, so it behaves identically for
every primary harness and runtime backend.

* no-mistakes(document): clarify away-mode daemon supervision proof and test coverage

* no-mistakes(document): generalize stale turn-end predicate summary in architecture.md
* fix(backlog): omit markdown file for beads probes

* no-mistakes(document): Narrow backlog addressing doc to mutations for backend-aware probes

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the Greptile P2 review comment (the only failing check) on tests/fm-backlog-atomicity.test.sh. The comment correctly noted that an exported TASKS_AXI_BACKEND environment variable would inherit into the spawned scripts and, because fm_tasks_axi_backend gives it top precedence, override each test case's .tasks.toml backend fixture — making the backend-specific argv assertions fail for environmental reasons. Fix: unset TASKS_AXI_BACKEND in the test harness right after sourcing tests/lib.sh, with a comment explaining why, so every case deterministically exercises its declared backend (4 lines added; no production code touched). Verified: reproduced the leak before the fix (TASKS_AXI_BACKEND=beads made the markdown dispatch case fail with 'beads show failed', exactly the reported failure mode); after the fix the full suite passes (0 failures, exit 0) both with and without TASKS_AXI_BACKEND=beads exported. The added lines are shellcheck-clean (the only shellcheck note, SC1091 on the lib.sh source line, pre-exists this change)
The supervision branch's verdict rule escalated every outcome that
answered a captain request, so "the work started" and "still working"
notes reached the captain with nothing to look at. The rule now keeps a
finished result of requested work captain-facing, even when healthy, and
treats start or still-working updates that bring no new artifact,
finding, or decision as routine. The captain list for review-ready PRs,
ask-user findings, exhausted blockers, credentials, and destructive or
security-sensitive cases is unchanged, as are the unsolicited-routine,
silent-fleet-review, and doubt-chooses-captain rules.

The fm_branch_report tool description and the two docs that restated the
old unconditional rule now point at the prompt's "Verdict: routine or
captain" section as the one owner instead of carrying a second copy.
* fix(bin): never close a captain call during cleanup

A scout that held its own work item for the captain, which is what
captain-hold-lifecycle prefers ("hold the work item the question gates"),
was closed by bin/fm-teardown.sh's automatic backlog transition. The
completion gate passed, cleanup ran, and the captain's question moved to
Done with no recorded answer: the one thing the policy says must never
happen. `tasks-axi done` closes a held row silently, and nothing in
teardown asked whether the row was the captain's own call.

bin/fm-captain-hold.sh gains the read-only `open` predicate: exit 0 when
the task is still an open captain call, 1 when it is not, 2 when that
cannot be established. It reads the row through the transition library's
backend-aware probe, so it addresses the same backlog teardown does; the
script's other commands now address the configured data directory the
same way instead of FM_HOME, which also fixes captain holds in a home
with a relocated data directory.

Teardown asks `open` before any destructive step and refuses on 2. On 0
only the close changes: after cleanup and still under the task's own
lock, the row gets one "Deliverable of the finished work" line at the end
of its body and returns to Queued through `tasks-axi reopen`, keeping its
hold, so it lands in Captain's Call instead of reading as work under way.
--force does not lift this: it authorizes discarding unlanded work, never
the captain's question. The deliverable goes into the body because
`tasks-axi update --report` rewrites the title of a row that is not Done.

The crash window reuses the pending-close record teardown already stages:
a `mode=retain` line makes the existing replay record the deliverable and
reopen instead of closing, with the same validator, stale-generation
check, cleanup-incomplete marking, and non-blocking bootstrap lock as an
ordinary close. A retained row the captain answered first simply retires
the record. No parallel record type, recovery command, or second bootstrap
loop is introduced.

Regressions run the real executables: the captain-held scout survives
cleanup queued, held, with its deliverable and on the board, only
`answer` closes it, --force keeps it open, and an ordinary scout still
closes with its report; an interrupted cleanup leaves the row untouched
and the next session start retains it; a relocated backlog keeps the
retention in its one configured file; and a ship row whose hold cannot be
read refuses cleanup before anything destructive.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FqdTiHCwTqrAQrz8K2y4Np

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize captain holds and fix backend-aware listing

* no-mistakes(document): Update captain-call retention documentation

* no-mistakes(document): Fix relocated captain-hold backlog diagnostics
* fix(bin): deliver every secondmate outcome on the parent channel from the recording scripts

A secondmate's captain-facing outcomes could miss: the mate model addressed
the captain in its own unread chat instead of appending to the parent
channel, and a PR-ready report, a finding, a decision, a blocker, and a
failure all depended on that one remembered append. Make delivery
structural, so the parent channel never depends on the model:

- bin/fm-parent-channel-lib.sh is the one owner of channel resolution and
  exact-line append-once; the merge outcome path and the inactive-outcome
  scan now publish through it instead of two private copies.
- bin/fm-inactive-reconcile.sh gains a ledger-first path that runs on every
  watcher poll in a secondmate home: a direct child's whole terminal done or
  failed line is delivered at once with its note, recorded PR, mode, merge
  posture, and scout report pointer, keyed and receipted so it is delivered
  once, and the inactive path yields to it. `report <task-id>` runs the same
  delivery for a caller holding the child's meta lock.
- bin/fm-pr-check.sh publishes the PR-ready line with the canonical URL at
  registration.
- bin/fm-captain-hold.sh publishes a hold and its answer, keyed by task id
  and resolution-record count, with no new persisted state.
- bin/fm-teardown.sh delivers the child's final line before removing its
  record and refuses, retaining every record, while the channel cannot be
  written.
- The charter opens with the parent-channel rule and confines the mate's own
  appends to judgement; AGENTS.md carries the carve-out at the persona
  address rule and the escalation list.

docs/secondmate-parent-channel.md records the design and its coverage, and
docs/verification/secondmate-parent-channel.md records the live run with real
tmux panes and both real watchers delivering every line with no model.
Supersedes #3569.

* no-mistakes(review): Fix parent outcome retries and reconciliation locking

* no-mistakes(review): Prevent busy children from starving ledger delivery

* no-mistakes(review): Correct ledger metadata and hold occurrence handling

* no-mistakes(review): Disambiguate ledger outcomes and normalize hold reasons

* no-mistakes(review): Close ledger races and preserve teardown records

* no-mistakes(document): Correct parent-channel receipt and scanner documentation

* no-mistakes(lint): Quote done arguments for ShellCheck compliance

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed both CI failures. Updated GOTMP teardown fixtures for the new final-outcome reporter and isolated them from host tmux state. Updated the PR security assertion to distinguish the accepted PR-ready line from duplicate merge outcomes. Verified with both failing test suites, bash syntax checks, and git diff checks

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed Greptile’s duplicate-delivery race in bin/fm-inactive-reconcile.sh. Ledger events now claim matching already-delivered inactive receipts using the prior status fingerprint, preventing duplicate parent reports while preserving later same-state completions. Added behavioral regression coverage. Verified inactive-reconcile tests, project lint, documentation audience checks, syntax, and diff checks. Teardown tests passed relevant cases before the documented pre-existing herdr-preflight-missing-adapter failure
* fix(bin): sync remote second-mate homes to the parent primary commit

Session start and remote launch pointed a remote second-mate home at whatever
Firstmate copy its own host kept, so a home that had already advanced past that
copy refused as a non-fast-forward and every other home stopped at the host's
older commit while the primary ran ahead.

The parent now resolves ITS primary default-branch commit with the existing
helper and hands that commit to the host on both paths. Because a remote home
is a standalone clone, the host imports that one commit before advancing -
already present, else from that host's Firstmate copy without moving it, else
from the home's own origin - and then runs the SAME ff_target guards a local
home gets, so dirty, diverged, feature-branch, and unresolvable targets skip
untouched and the ancestry rules keep one owner. An unimportable target now
names /updatefirstmate instead of failing opaquely, and a host still running an
older Firstmate copy is reported the same way rather than echoing a bare
refusal.

The host-local launch leg no longer re-runs its own secondmate sync, so the
spawn it drives cannot re-target that host's copy after the parent has already
converged the home.

/updatefirstmate is unchanged: it still refreshes the remote code root from that
host's origin and then syncs the home to that refreshed copy, which is what the
sync call with no target commit means.

* no-mistakes(document): Document primary-targeted remote secondmate synchronization
* fix(bin): split brief task into captain intent and firstmate spec

Keep no-mistakes --intent as the captain's ask plus later captain words, not the build spec or worker tradeoffs.

* fix(bin): stop task-subsection copies at the next heading

Promotion was swallowing the scout Setup contract into Firstmate spec, and pre-subsection briefs lost their # Task body.

* no-mistakes(review): Validate brief content and preserve nested specifications

* no-mistakes(review): Scope placeholder validation to scaffold-only subsection bodies

* no-mistakes(review): Ignore fenced subsection headings during brief validation

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve captain intent across scout promotion

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce safe intent boundaries for legacy promotions

* no-mistakes(review): Allow marked legacy intent and reject empty promotions

* no-mistakes(review): Scope task parsing and overlay legacy intent contracts

* no-mistakes(review): Overlay current intent contract for all no-mistakes spawns

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve later captain clarifications in intent overlays

* no-mistakes(document): Document brief intent enforcement and ownership

* no-mistakes(ci): Updated spawn-related test fixtures to use valid Captain intent and Firstmate spec subsections, corrected launch-path expectations to launch-brief.md, and resolved ShellCheck quoting findings. Verified with fm-lint.sh and 15 affected behavior tests, including real Herdr tests; all passed

* no-mistakes(ci): Updated stale spawn/promotion fixtures in the Muse, Orca, secondmate-harness, and public-followup suites to provide valid Captain's intent and Firstmate spec subsections. Verified full Orca and secondmate-harness suites, targeted public-followup promotion behavior, Bash syntax, diff checks, and fm-lint
* fix(pi): start a new supervision branch conversation per main session

The supervision branch reopened one recorded conversation forever, so
every main session start reloaded the current generated prompt and then
weeks of accumulated thread, where a superseded rule could still outweigh
today's.

The branch conversation is now scoped to one main session: the session
generation owns the recorded conversation, so a cold start, /new,
/resume, /fork, or a reload always builds a new one, while a rebuild
inside one session (a model or effort change) still continues that
session's own conversation.

The dialog mirror re-anchors with it. Its durable cursor records what the
previous branch conversation received, so a /resume or reload - which
keeps main's own session file - would otherwise leave the new branch
blind to dialog main itself still has. The reset is bounded by the
current main session, and the cursor keeps advancing incrementally within
it. The durable outcome store and its processed marker are untouched, so
unacknowledged captain-facing outcomes still re-present on the new main
session.

* no-mistakes(document): Document fresh Pi supervision conversations

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the flaky concurrent inbox failure. Lock acquisition now retries when a competing lock disappears between a failed claim and inspection. Added a behavioral regression covering that race. Verified the full inbox test four times, project lint, and git diff checks
* feat(update): restart second mates whose instructions changed

/updatefirstmate pulled new bytes onto disk and then asked each advanced
second mate to re-read them. A running agent holds AGENTS.md and every
loaded skill frozen from launch and no verified harness offers a reload,
so that steer could not reach a loaded skill at all and left the mate
holding two contradictory copies of its own job description.

An eligible mate is now restarted instead, in the same home and endpoint,
through the existing transactional relaunch. The restart is gated on the
mate first writing down the open work it holds only in conversation - the
open-record half of /stow, never its memory sweeps - so an unregistered
captain call is flushed before the conversation is spent. Anything that
leaves the reload unprovable falls back to the old re-read message and is
reported as exactly that, never as a clean reload.

Remote mates take the same path: fm-remote-secondmate-control.sh gains a
relaunch verb whose host-local leg runs that same control plane, since the
mate is an ordinary local secondmate from its host's point of view. The
primary resolves the profile and passes it explicitly, because
config/secondmate-harness is not inherited and the file on that host
belongs to a different home.

fm-update.sh now splits its advanced live mates into a restart set and a
nudge residual, and both sets require a changed instruction surface, which
also closes the over-nudge against the session-start sweep. Restart is
stricter still: a bin/-only advance reloads itself on the next call, so it
never costs a conversation.

Colocated tests cover the gating, the persist-then-restart order, the
task-subset persist request, each unsafe fallback, the remote hop, and the
remote sync's new instruction-surface report.

* no-mistakes(review): Fix restart correlation, concurrent waits, and lifecycle reporting

* no-mistakes(review): Parallelize relaunches and classify replacement incarnations

* no-mistakes(review): Gate restart actions on live agent state

* no-mistakes(review): Handle failed restart workers without hanging

* no-mistakes(review): Nudge legacy remotes and preserve persist recovery

* no-mistakes(review): Document one-time secondmate restart rollout

* no-mistakes(review): Honor arrived replies and refresh remote profiles

* no-mistakes(review): Revert remote parent profile reconciliation

* no-mistakes(review): Reset remote profile defaults and honor published results

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve fallback nudges for unverifiable secondmates

* no-mistakes(document): Document second-mate restart update flow

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix ShellCheck warnings in restart scripts
* perf(tests): route gate verification through the bounded concurrent runner

Local validation was the pipeline's dominant cost: across 67 recorded
no-mistakes agent sessions on this repo, 99.3% of command execution was
`bash tests/*.test.sh`, run strictly one script at a time, and 2% of those
calls were killed by an agent-guessed timeout and paid for twice.

Three changes, each measured:

- `.no-mistakes.yaml` pins `commands.test` to
  `bin/fm-test-run.sh --changed --exclude-family real-herdr-gated`. The runner
  already owns changed-file selection, bounded concurrency, the refusal of
  unproven scripts, and a generous automatic per-script bound, so the gate's
  baseline is neither a serial chain nor a guessed timeout. It stays
  intent-targeted - the Test step still runs its evidence agent on top - and
  excludes the live-Herdr family the required Herdr lane owns.

- `bin/fm-test-run.sh` gives a plain list of script paths the same bounded
  automatic scheduler and automatic bound that `--changed` gets. Naming several
  subjects is how a verification round asks for exactly those scripts. The
  curated selections are untouched: `--lane` still composes CI shards whose
  serial lane must stay serial, `--family` is what the required Herdr lane runs,
  and `--all` stays a deliberate complete regression.

- `pr-forge` is admitted to the concurrent-safe family registry on two
  consecutive clean proofs. `docs/fm-test-isolation-proof.md` records those,
  and records `secondmate` and `session-bootstrap` as refused with the exact
  script and reason each failed on, so the refusals are actionable rather than
  silent.

Measured on this host, 0 failures on both sides:

  verification round, 4 scripts   448s chained -> 231s through the runner (-48%)
  pr-forge family                 409.2s at 1 worker -> 237.9s at 4 (1.72x)
  watcher-wake-lock family        1311.1s at 1 worker -> 539.3s at 4 (2.43x)

A fourth lever was implemented and then removed because the measurement
refused it: raising the bounded-wait sample interval from 0.1s to 0.5s made
`fm-watch-triage.test.sh` slower, 435s and 440s against 390s and 393s
unchanged, back to back. Those sleeps are not overhead added to the clock -
they are how a test waits for a subject moving on fm-watch.sh's own one-second
cadence - so sampling less often only delays detection. It also broke
`fm-watcher-lock.test.sh`, which catches a transient rather than waiting for a
settled condition. CONTRIBUTING.md records that result so the experiment is not
repeated.

* no-mistakes(review): Separate concurrent runs by isolation proof family

* no-mistakes(review): Limit automatic timeouts to changed-file validation

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify validation concurrency documentation
* fix: copy PR URLs from records or abstain, never assemble them

Supervision reported a plausible but dead PR link three times because its
prompt demanded a full https:// URL at a moment when only a PR number was
observable, so the model assembled an owner/repository from memory, and the PR
check then accepted that URL and wrote it into the task record, after which the
model kept defending its own tool-endorsed guess over the worker's real link.

Three changes close that chain without any live forge lookup, so private
forges are treated exactly like public ones:

- bin/fm-branch-prompt.sh no longer mandates a URL. Its new "PR identity: copy
  or abstain" section requires a URL to be copied verbatim from a durable
  record (the done: PR <url> status line, pr= metadata, or the backlog note),
  forbids assembling owner, repository, host, or number from memory, and has
  the branch report only the identifier it actually holds when no record names
  the URL yet, leaving the PR check unarmed until the worker's ready line
  arrives. AGENTS.md section 7 and 9 carry the same copy-or-abstain rule for
  main in place of the bare full-URL mandate.

- Worker briefs (bin/fm-brief.sh, ship and scout rules) require the full
  https:// URL wherever a PR is mentioned - status line, terminal, or summary -
  never a bare "PR 108", so the link is in view as early as the number is.

- bin/fm-pr-check.sh refuses, offline and before any side effect, a URL that
  the task's own done lines contradict, printing both spellings; a log naming
  no URL still records the argument as before. fm_pr_status_ready_urls in
  bin/fm-pr-lib.sh owns reading those lines. The refusal also reaches
  bin/fm-pr-merge.sh, so nothing merges under a contradicted URL.

Tests cover the offline refusal with zero side effects, the recorded spelling
being accepted, markdown-wrapped and punctuated URLs, working lines not
counting, the merge wrapper propagation, a self-hosted merge request with no
forge call, the prompt carrying the rule, and the brief carrying the worker
rule.

* no-mistakes(review): Remove stale PR URL enforcement

* no-mistakes(ci): Removed backlog notes as an accepted PR identity source. PR URLs may now be copied only from the task’s `done: PR <url>` status or canonical `pr=` metadata; otherwise supervision reports only the known identifier and leaves PR checking unarmed. Updated related guidance/docs and verified with branch-supervision tests, brief tests, ShellCheck, and `git diff --check`
* fix(bin): disable Claude's feedback-draft flow for fleet-launched agents

Scope --settings '{"feedbackDrafts":"off"}' to every Firstmate-launched
Claude crewmate and secondmate, so /bug and /feedback never queue or
submit a bug report on the captain's behalf. feedbackDrafts is the
documented settings key (Claude Code changelog 2.1.247); the
per-launch CLI flag never touches the captain's global settings.json.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XYAXXzr4oZx9NjZb1veeE3

* no-mistakes(review): Prevent managed settings from re-enabling Claude feedback drafts

* no-mistakes(document): Fix Claude feedback documentation formatting

* fix(bin): layer both feedback-draft controls for defense in depth

The prior --settings-only fix can be overridden by a managed Claude
settings policy (feedbackDrafts precedence). Keep CLAUDE_CODE_SEND_FEEDBACK=0
alongside --settings '{"feedbackDrafts":"off"}': either control alone
disables the SendFeedback tool, so a managed override of one still
leaves the other in force.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XYAXXzr4oZx9NjZb1veeE3

* no-mistakes(document): Document Claude feedback-draft suppression ownership
* perf(tests): admit three more families to concurrent validation

The three families that `docs/fm-test-isolation-proof.md` recorded as refused
were not refused for concurrency. Each blocker was a test that decided a
property by wall clock, or a script filed where it cannot run. Fixing those
three things admits all three families and recovers 28.6 minutes of local
validation with no assertion removed or weakened.

- `tests/fm-backlog-handoff.test.sh` injected its pre-move crash by killing the
  handoff, sleeping a fixed second, then delegating the move to the real
  binary. Nothing ever killed the fake, so on a host slow enough for the case's
  next assertions to take longer than a second, the orphan woke and completed
  the very move the case requires left undone, and recovery then failed with
  `Task "pre-move-crash" not found in this backlog`. Watching the two backlogs
  during the injected crash showed exactly that, the item moving one second
  after the crash. All four crash injections in the file now go through a new
  `fm_fake_crash_injector` shim that signals the target and returns only once
  it is observably gone, and the pre-move fake never delegates the move at all.

- `tests/fm-session-start.test.sh` proved the startup digest does not block on
  a slow current-state read by timing the whole digest against a fixed
  eight-second sleep, which a loaded host exceeds without the property being
  violated. It now holds that read open until the case releases it and asserts,
  the moment the digest returns, that the read has not finished. A digest that
  waited would wait indefinitely rather than for an interval a slow host can
  out-run, so the assertion is stronger than the bound it replaces. Its scan
  budget moves to the maximum, because the old value left two seconds of margin
  over the fixed sleep and measured the host rather than the deadline that
  `tests/fm-inactive-reconcile.test.sh` owns.

- `fm-backend-herdr-focus-flash-e2e` was filed in the family map's catch-all,
  which put it in the portable serial lane, where Linux CI gate-skips it: that
  real-Herdr regression was running nowhere. It moves to `real-herdr-gated` and
  the required Herdr lane. `fm-claude-stop-autoarm-live-e2e` gate-skips on its
  opt-in variable and moves to `live-harness-optin`.

The 28 remaining ungrouped scripts become an enumerated `standalone` family
instead of admitting `unclassified` itself. `unclassified` is the family map's
`*)` arm, so admitting it would silently grant concurrency to every test added
afterwards, which is exactly the population with no proof. A new test still
lands in `unclassified` and stays serial, and `tests/fm-test-run.test.sh`
covers that split behaviorally.

Each family passes two consecutive four-worker proofs with zero failures. On
the production runner, `secondmate` goes 1233.1s to 453.4s, `session-bootstrap`
756.4s to 286.4s, and `standalone` 724.6s to 261.1s: 2.71x overall and 1713.2s
recovered. The whole suite runs 177 scripts in 52.6 minutes of wall clock
against 121 minutes of summed script time.

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh concurrent validation and shard documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the real-Herdr focus-flash E2E race exposed by reclassification. Part C now starts its persistent child atomically via `pane run` and verifies stable child identity through Herdr’s public `process-info` interface, avoiding the racy send-text/send-keys sequence and platform-specific `ps` matching. Verified with bash syntax checking, ShellCheck, git diff checks, and the complete E2E test on Herdr 0.8.2
* feat(brief): structure no-mistakes ask-user escalation as event + snapshot file

Crewmates escalating a no-mistakes ask-user gate now report one status
event naming every finding id plus a snapshot file holding the gate's
axi finding records verbatim (id, severity, file, line, description,
authority), using the same shape even for a single finding. The status
line never paraphrases. The format is defined once in fm-dod-lib.sh and
rendered into both the scout and ship rule 6 in fm-brief.sh, so a
promoted scout - whose rule 6 fm-promote.sh preserves unchanged - gets
the identical contract as a freshly-spawned no-mistakes ship worker.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PpiWaDerbYavTLPPtEjQei

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve ask-user escalation output contract

* no-mistakes(review): Align escalation format test expectation

* no-mistakes(review): Scope ask-user escalation instructions correctly

* no-mistakes(review): Remove ask-user from generic decision rules

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(bin): require a self-sufficient no-mistakes intent

A no-mistakes worker's --intent is only as useful as the string it
passes. PR #3604 shipped with an intent that was only "do 1, 2, 3, 7
from the report": the real contract lived in a private scout report and
never reached --intent, so nobody holding that string plus the codebase
could have derived the specification.

This is pure instruction at the contract's one owner; no spawn-side or
promotion-side check is added.

- bin/fm-dod-lib.sh: the generated no-mistakes Definition of done now
  states that the --intent string must be self-sufficient (the string
  plus the codebase reconstructs roughly the same specification) and
  tells the worker to write the substance of any report, decision, or
  PR the captain's intent refers to into --intent rather than the
  pointer, while Firstmate build instructions and the worker's own
  decisions still stay out. The spawn-time overlay points back at that
  rule so its "supersedes" wording cannot cancel it, and the header's
  owner statement carries the rule.
- AGENTS.md section 11 and bin/fm-brief.sh's header ask Firstmate to
  include the substance of referenced material when filling
  ## Captain's intent, and section 11 points at the owner of the rule.
- tests/fm-brief.test.sh and tests/fm-task-delivery.test.sh assert the
  rendered brief and launch contract carry the rule.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YMhEe42q7BAAoN6RxNuzim

* no-mistakes(document): Replace incident-specific intent test commentary
* Speed local fleet snapshot composition

* no-mistakes(review): Stabilize task inventory during concurrent snapshot composition

* no-mistakes(document): Document local snapshot observation concurrency

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed CI failures by making empty task manifests compatible with stock macOS Bash 3.2, snapshotting task metadata before concurrent observations to prevent generation drift, strengthening the behavioral race regression, and updating the stock-Bash Bearings test count to 45. Verified fleet snapshot tests (15), Bearings tests (45), workflow lint tests, project lint, Bash 3.2 parsing, and diff checks

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the Linux CI failure caused by passing large backlog/task JSON through jq command-line arguments, which exceeded the per-argument size limit. Both inventory projections now stream large JSON inputs through stdin. Verified with fm-bearings-snapshot.test.sh (45 tests), fm-fleet-snapshot-view.test.sh (15 tests), Bash syntax, and git diff checks

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed concurrent task teardown during metadata capture: vanished metadata is now omitted while genuine copy failures remain fatal. Added a deterministic public Bearings regression test and updated CI’s expected test count. Verified with the full Bearings suite, workflow-lint suite, Bash syntax checks, and git diff checks

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed PR-caused CI and review issues: streamed large fleet JSON through jq stdin to avoid Linux argument limits, kept crew-state reads bound to captured metadata generations, and strengthened the behavioral race test. Bearings (46 tests), fleet snapshot (15 tests), crew-state, backend, lint, Bash syntax, and diff checks pass locally. Serial shard 5’s unrelated task-inbox segmentation fault appears infrastructural/flaky

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed endpoint-state generation crossing by validating captured spawn_gen before and after local endpoint probes, falling back to exact metadata identity for legacy tasks. Stale probe results now become unknown instead of false unhealthy state. Added a behavioral relaunch-race regression test. Verified the full Bearings snapshot suite, shellcheck, bash syntax, and git diff checks

* fix(snapshot): keep live observations generation-coherent

* no-mistakes(review): Keep secondmate observations generation-bound without copying reports

* no-mistakes(document): Document generation-coherent snapshot observations

* test(bearings): measure local read overlap instead of wall-clock budget

The large-local-snapshot regression asserted that a whole snapshot
composed in under five seconds. That bound measures how loaded the host
is, not whether the per-task reads actually overlap, so it failed
intermittently on a contended machine: one run in six on a box at load
16-20, landing exactly on the five second boundary.

Time a serialized run and a concurrent run of the same workload instead
and require the concurrent one to save at least two seconds. Both runs
pay the same composition overhead, so the difference isolates the
overlap this change delivers. Five one-second reads serialize into five
seconds and overlap into about one, and re-serializing the reads
collapses the saving to roughly zero, so the assertion still fails
loudly if the concurrency regresses.

Also bump the pinned Bearings test count to 48, since rebasing onto the
current default branch picked up its captain-hold test.

* no-mistakes(review): Restore JSON-derived decision flags

* no-mistakes(review): Unify status-derived snapshot observations

* no-mistakes(ci): Updated the stock macOS Bash CI check’s Bearings test count from 48 to 49. Verified the full Bearings suite passes and emits exactly 49 TAP successes; git diff checks pass
* fix(bin): stop the supervision branch's stale-ack and ghost-report loops

Clean-slate implementation of the four authorized recommendations from the
supervision-ghost-retrigger analysis (items 1, 2, 3, and 7), in their minimal
form, superseding PR #3604:

- fm_branch_report refuses a task the wake being handled never named. The
  extension fixes the reportable task set from the eligible rows before each
  prompt (signal and stale rows resolve to their tasks, a heartbeat allows any
  task with a live record, fleet is always allowed), so a report typed from
  memory about a task whose records teardown already removed is never stored
  or delivered.
- An acknowledgement that consumes nothing says "nothing was acknowledged
  through N" and prints the exact --ack-through / --recovery-generation
  command for the current presented wake, instead of "re-run the drain",
  which re-fed the same stale acknowledgement in a loop.
- bin/fm-guard.sh no longer tells the branch actor to drain queued wakes
  while it is handling them; it names the granted rows instead.
- Teardown removes state/.<task>.branch-outcome-index for ordinary tasks and
  descendants; the index rebuild and the append-side index write both skip a
  task with neither a live record nor a status log, so the branch's report of
  a teardown it just performed is stored without recreating the index.

No new locking, no spawn-generation binding, and no retired-task refusal: the
branch can still report the outcome of a task it just tore down, and the
teardown test now proves that path end to end.

* fix(bin): narrow the branch report scope and guard silence to the minimal form

Apply the four review decisions on the clean-slate branch:

- A signal or stale prompt may report only the tasks its own rows resolve
  to; fleet is refused there too. A heartbeat review is not scoped by task
  at all, so the extension no longer tracks live task records and refuses
  nothing by task id during a fleet review.
- The outcome-index rebuild no longer skips retired tasks; the append-side
  skip alone keeps a torn-down task's index from being recreated.
- bin/fm-guard.sh keeps the queued-wakes warning silent for the branch actor
  instead of printing a replacement note.

* no-mistakes(document): Align supervision docs with scoped wake handling
* Fix fleet snapshot large JSON transport

* no-mistakes(review): Captain: file-back fleet snapshot transport safely

* no-mistakes(review): Captain: file-back parent summary aggregation

* no-mistakes(ci): Rebased the PR's three commits onto f4d7875824 and resolved the fleet snapshot conflict while preserving the base's task-observation lifecycle. Fixed Greptile's valid finding by recursively removing the private mktemp transport directory, so future transport files cannot cause cleanup to fail. Verified with tests/fm-home-summary-refresh.test.sh, bin/fm-lint.sh, git diff --check, and ancestry checks. All passed; the fix remains as an uncommitted worktree change for the outer executor
* fix(bin): recognize active pipeline fix rounds with unfetched run heads

A no-mistakes fix round advances the run head beyond the submitted head,
and the pipeline commits in its own checkout, so the task copy never
receives the new commit object. fm-crew-state's strict head rule rejected
the active row, the coarse runs-list scan skipped it and matched the
older failed row at the submitted head, and an active validation read as
failed (observed on model-routing-benchmark-hardening: active head
ac61c64b vs task copy at fb47636d).

fm_nm_runs_status_for_worktree in bin/fm-nm-run-lib.sh now owns
runs-ledger attribution: the branch's newest row alone decides, and a
newest row whose head cannot resolve locally is recognized only as a
provable pipeline-owned continuation - active (running) and anchored by
the immediately older row for the same branch having ended at exactly
this worktree's HEAD. The reader keeps the axi TOON as full detail for
that proven same-branch run. Unanchored, ancestor-anchored, and terminal
unresolvable rows stay unattributed, so branch-name coincidence and other
tasks' runs never match, and fm_nm_head_matches_worktree keeps its exact
prior semantics for teardown (verified by the full teardown suite).

Tests: reproduction regression for the unfetched active fix head (reads
working via full run-step detail), coarse-path continuation when axi
answers another branch, and negative controls for the unanchored active
row and the unresolvable terminal row with the historical fallback
preserved.

Ported onto upstream/main f4d78758, where #3194 independently added the
branch_sync custody exemption on the full axi-status path: both mechanisms
now coexist, each owning one surface (TOON custody on the full path, the
runs ledger on the coarse path). The port deletes the superseded coarse
scan-and-skip (nm_runs_status_for_branch) and its now caller-less helpers
(fm_nm_head_resolvable, nm_coarse_head_matches_worktree), renames the
exemption comment's "the one exemption" phrasing now that a second
complementary exemption exists, and points the stale
FM_CREW_STATE_RUNS_LIMIT comment at fm_nm_runs_status_for_worktree
(judge follow-up #1). The parent coarse-guard test's fixture is the
ledger-anchored continuation shape, so its expectation flips to the fixed
behavior (working via run-step, never the older failed row); a new
mismatched-anchor coarse negative control preserves that guard's original
no-anchor protection (pane answers, never the older row).

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify pipeline attribution documentation
* fix(bin): pre-register claude workspace trust for task worktrees

A claude crewmate launched into a fresh task worktree met Claude Code's
interactive workspace-trust dialog before it ever read its brief, and firstmate
could not answer it: the key plane carries only Enter, Escape, and C-c with no
arrow navigation, and the dialog's selection starts on "No, exit", so the
documented Enter recipe ended the session instead of accepting it. Two workers
wedged this way and were unblocked only by hand-seeding the trust store per
path.

--dangerously-skip-permissions does not cover that gate. `claude --help`
records the dialog as skipped only in non-interactive mode, through -p or a
non-TTY stdout, and a crewmate pane is interactive, so there is no launch flag
to reach for.

fm-spawn now pre-registers the worktree through bin/fm-claude-trust.sh in the
existing claude branch, before the project settings that the same gate would
otherwise block, and refuses the spawn when that write fails rather than
launching a worker that would wedge.

The scope test is the safety property and is structural rather than a path
policy: the path must be a linked git worktree, sharing the spawning project's
common dir, whose top level is exactly the resolved argument. Git is the ground
truth, so the argument is never trusted on its own word, and a primary
checkout, an unrelated repo, a worktree subdirectory, a plain directory, and a
home directory are each refused rather than warned about or skipped. A
treehouse or orca path prefix was deliberately avoided because treehouse's root
is configurable, which would make a prefix both wrong and a new policy surface.
One structural test covers both worktree providers.

tests/fm-claude-trust.test.sh pins both halves, including a case where HOME is
itself a valid linked worktree so the home guard is proven load-bearing rather
than passing vacuously, plus the spawn-level proof that a claude spawn trusts
its worktree and launches with the brief pointed at the same store.

The adapter reference no longer tells a firstmate to press Enter on that
dialog, and the shared trust reference now names every harness surface: which
harnesses gate, which suppress at launch, which dodge the gate, which now
pre-registers, and that a claude secondmate is excluded by design.

The spawn fixture runs each spawn against a throwaway HOME so the suite cannot
write the developer's real store, isolating through HOME rather than
CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR because the spawn forwards a set CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR onto the
launch command that launch-shape assertions read.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HNEN2GLnew27HFyfi4ms4v

* fix(bin): create the staged trust store exclusively

The staged store was written to a predictable pid-based path with a plain
write, which follows a symlink. Where the Claude config directory is writable
by another local account, that account could pre-create the path as a symlink
and redirect the write into another file the launching user owns.

The staged name now carries random bytes and is created with an exclusive
"wx" open, so an existing path is refused outright instead of followed. The
happy-path test also asserts no staged store survives the rename.

The durability comment now states the residual window plainly: the readback
proves the entry landed, not that it survives, because a vendor session that
rewrites the whole store afterwards can still drop it and no lock closes that
window when the writer is Claude itself. The worker then meets the dialog and
stalls, which reaches firstmate as the ordinary stale wake rather than as
silent success.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HNEN2GLnew27HFyfi4ms4v

* no-mistakes(review): neutralise CDPATH in claude trust scope guard

* no-mistakes(review): sandbox HOME in spawn tests, drop out-of-scope artifacts

* no-mistakes(review): refuse unresolvable git dir, compact store, fix secondmate doc

* no-mistakes(review): clear git env overrides, resolve symlinked store target

* no-mistakes(review): degrade without node, fix Pi gate claim, record trust proof

* no-mistakes(review): refuse without node, pin CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR in spawn tests

* no-mistakes(review): refuse relative config dir and concurrent store modification

* no-mistakes(review): correct orca worktree claim, clean staged store on failure

* no-mistakes(review): restore pretty-printed store, correct trust dialog docs

* no-mistakes(review): arm trust gate before busy state to avoid orphans

* no-mistakes(document): record claude trust pre-registration in its owner docs

* no-mistakes(document): note orca limit for claude trust pre-registration

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the Greptile P1 on bin/fm-spawn.sh by moving the Claude trust gate earlier rather than adding cleanup machinery. Diagnosis: Greptile reported that when Claude trust registration fails on tmux/Zellij/cmux/non-projected Herdr, the exit runs after the backend endpoint and /tmp/fm-<id> were created, and the abort trap cleans neither. The endpoint half is pre-existing, deliberate architecture — the two refusals immediately above the gate (the 60s `treehouse get` timeout at fm-spawn.sh:2550 and `validate_spawn_worktree` at :2487) also exit with the endpoint live and direct the operator with "inspect window $T"; spawn_abort_cleanup only reclaims orca endpoints (already covered via ORCA_ABORT_CLEANUP) and herdr projections. The temp-root half was genuinely introduced by this PR: the gate was placed beside the busy-state arm, ~30 lines after `mkdir -p "$TASK_TMP/gotmp"`, and fm-teardown can only find that root through `tasktmp=` in a meta record a refused spawn never publishes. Root-cause fix (smallest correct change, no new subsystem): - bin/fm-spawn.sh — moved the `claude*` trust gate from inside the busy-arm block up to the first point $WT is known, immediately after the `freshen_spawn_worktree_base` block and before TASK_TMP creation, the STATE setup, and the relaunch `clear_relaunch_harness_wiring` retirement. A refusal now leaves no temp root, no retired relaunch wiring, and no busy record; only the endpoint remains, in the same class as the two refusals just above it. - bin/fm-spawn.sh — the refusal message now ends with "inspect window $T", matching the existing convention so control/teardown can identify the endpoint. $T is set for every backend on the non-secondmate path. - bin/fm-spawn.sh:196 — header note corrected from "before any state is armed" to "before any per-task state exists". - tests/fm-claude-trust.test.sh — the existing refused-spawn test's own comment claimed "before any task state exists" but only asserted busy state. Renamed to test_refused_spawn_leaves_no_task_state and added an assertion that /tmp/fm-<id> is absent, with the task id suffixed by the test process pid so the assertion reads only this run's path (a stale /tmp/fm-refusedspawn from the fixed-id version was in fact present on this box). No assertions on implementation source bytes. Verification run locally: - The new assertion fails against the pre-fix bin/fm-spawn.sh ("not ok - a refused spawn stranded a temp root no teardown can find") and passes after — a real before/after regression proof. - tests/fm-claude-trust.test.sh: 20/20 ok. - tests/fm-backend.test.sh, fm-backend-orca, fm-control-relaunch, fm-spawn-dispatch-profile, fm-trace-context-spawn, fm-gotmp: all pass. - tests/fm-backlog-atomicity.test.sh: rc=0, 79 assertions ok. - bin/fm-lint.sh (repo's single lint owner, pinned ShellCheck 0.11.0 + actionlint 1.7.12): clean. - No /tmp/fm-refusedspawn* leftovers after the runs. Scope respected: no trust subsystem, no policy layer, no config surface, no endpoint-cleanup mechanism added; the change is an ordering move plus one error-message clause and the test that pins it. Adapter references and docs made no ordering claim, so none needed updating. Changes are left uncommitted in the worktree for the outer executor

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* feat(update): restart every live second mate after a successful update

/updatefirstmate only restarted a second mate when that pass advanced its
AGENTS.md or .agents/skills. An already-current home was skipped entirely, a
bin/-only advance was steered instead, and a remote host that could not report
its instruction diff was downgraded to a re-read. A running agent also freezes
its launch-time wiring - turn-end hooks, harness flags, per-harness feature
switches - and none of that is derivable from a file diff, so an unchanged
tracked surface is not evidence the agent is already on the current behavior.

Restart is now unconditional on a successful update of that home. Every live
second mate the pass leaves on the target commit is restarted, whether it
advanced or was already there.

The safety contract is unchanged: open records are persisted before the agent is
replaced, nothing is forced, stashed, or discarded, a home the pass had to skip
is not restarted at all, and a mate whose runtime cannot prove a restart keeps
the honest re-read path and is never reported as reloaded.

bin/fm-ff-lib.sh gains a settled-state hook that fires for a home left at the
base whether it advanced or was already there, and never for a skipped one; the
instruction-gated hook the session-start convergence sweep uses is untouched.

Regressions: fm-update pins the already-current mate into the restart set and
the unprovable one into the nudge set, and fm-secondmate-restart drives both
real commands end to end - an already-current home is named, persisted, and
genuinely replaced with its checkout untouched, while the unprovable one keeps
its running agent.

* no-mistakes(document): Document unconditional secondmate restarts
* fix(bin): close reserved pending-reply keys via fm-send --resolve-key

fm-send wrote answered: notes that the reserved-key fold ignores, so
operator closes exited 0 while OPEN DECISIONS kept the decision open.
Speak the owning library's close vocabulary on that path, and refuse
when a reserved close cannot take effect.

* no-mistakes(review): Safely quote manual decision-close recovery commands

* no-mistakes(review): Reject unclosable overlong decision keys before sending

* no-mistakes(review): Remove contract suffix from open decisions hint

* no-mistakes(document): Document resolve-key line-cap refusal
* fix(bin): stop false missed-reply escalations for same-basename self-home answers

A healthy secondmate that wrote corr= to its own state/<id>.status never matched the parent channel, so recovery confirmed and the record escalated as pending-reply-missed. Make the report helper resolve the parent channel itself, skip parent-replies.status as wrong-home, put a readable sighting path on the missed line, and restatement-copy only that same-basename self-home file onto the parent channel.

* no-mistakes(review): Resolve late replies before recovery escalation

* no-mistakes(review): Tighten reply routing and regression coverage

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve reply paths and require explicit home

* no-mistakes(review): Encode wrong-home paths before persistence

* no-mistakes(document): Document corrected secondmate reply routing

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix pending-reply ShellCheck warnings
* feat(harness): verify gemini as a crewmate runtime adapter

Adds Gemini CLI as a fourth dispatch target alongside claude, codex, and
grok, scoped to crewmate and scout work only. Every axis was proven against
gemini-cli 0.58.0 rather than inferred; docs/verification/runtime-backends.md
carries the dated evidence and names what stayed unverified.

Busy state is semantic, not rendered: BeforeAgent opens a turn and AfterAgent
and SessionEnd close it. AfterAgent also fires on a manual interrupt, so a
cancelled turn closes its own record.

Three findings shaped the wiring rather than a config line:

- --skip-trust and GEMINI_CLI_TRUST_WORKSPACE=true are presented by the CLI
  as equivalents and are not. A controlled A/B showed --skip-trust leaves
  project configuration unloaded, so workspace skills never load.
- The worktree's .gemini/settings.json is the PROJECT's committed settings
  file, unlike claude's settings.local.json. Firstmate's hooks therefore go
  to a firstmate-owned state/<id>.gemini-settings.json reached through
  GEMINI_CLI_SYSTEM_SETTINGS_PATH, which also works untrusted and merges
  with a project's own hooks instead of replacing them.
- The shipped CLI is a node bundle whose live process reports comm as
  MainThread, so ancestry cannot see it. GEMINI_CLI=1 is load-bearing and is
  tested before an inherited CLAUDECODE, and pane liveness identifies gemini
  from the script argument through the new bin/fm-gemini-lib.sh.

Gemini is refused for secondmates: it has no primary supervision protocol.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GYdQkKfSEQrFUxtcTXZ66L

* test: clear gemini's marker in launch and detection expectations

Every non-gemini launch now clears GEMINI_CLI the way it already clears
cursor's markers, so the two tests that pin the exact launch prefix are
updated to match. The harness-detection tests that scrub foreign markers
before probing ancestry scrub GEMINI_CLI too, so running the suite from
inside a gemini session cannot produce a false verdict.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GYdQkKfSEQrFUxtcTXZ66L

* docs: classify the gemini harness reference

The documentation inventory is the single classification owner for maintained
prose surfaces, and every surface must appear in it exactly once. The new
harness reference is agent-runtime, matching its siblings.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GYdQkKfSEQrFUxtcTXZ66L

* no-mistakes(review): Narrow Gemini ancestry detection

* no-mistakes(review): Restrict Gemini hooks to canonical launches

* no-mistakes(document): Document Gemini adapter support boundaries

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed Gemini process identity when interpreter or script paths contain whitespace. Tmux liveness now uses NUL-delimited /proc argv on Linux, with the existing flattened ps fallback elsewhere. Added a real-process regression test. Verified with the Gemini harness test suite, full fm-lint, ShellCheck, and git diff --check. The CI and Require no-mistakes runs were action_required/attestation outcomes rather than code failures

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* conclude parked runs the pipeline advanced past the task copy

A no-mistakes fix round commits in the daemon's own gate-repo clone, so a
run parked at a gate can carry a head whose object the task copy never
received. Teardown's strict object-local identity rule then declined to
conclude the run, and cleanup left it parked forever holding a fleet slot
(observed 2026-09-03; the same masking condition PR 3681 fixed on the
read path, now closing the teardown half its scope boundary deferred).

task_status_is_own_parked_run now falls back - only when the reported
head resolves to no local object - to the one shared runs-ledger
attribution rule fm_nm_runs_status_for_worktree (bin/fm-nm-run-lib.sh),
whose anchored continuation proof binds the branch's newest active row
to this worktree's exact submitted head. Foreign branches, stale
history, terminal rows, ancestor-only anchors, diverged newer rows, and
ambiguous multi-row shapes all still refuse, and runs that are actively
running, fixing, or in CI remain untouched: only the parked-at-a-gate
determination ever reaches the abort. No sqlite access, no fetches into
another task copy, no custody changes, no duplicated matching logic.

* tighten the parked-run ledger fallback and pin both judge corrections

The teardown ledger fallback now authorizes concluding this task's parked
run only when the shared runs-ledger rule's proved answer is the explicitly
active word (running): a terminal newest row - even anchored at exactly the
worktree's head - is finished history and never an abort authorization.
The read path may classify the same owner's answer; teardown's abort must
never fire for a run that already ended.

Two bounded pre-validation corrections from the implementation review:
- a fetched-object counterfactual pins the strict-rule path: a pipeline fix
  head fetched into the task copy aborts through object-local identity
  alone, with an empty ledger and a proof the runs query never fired;
- a negative fixture pins the tightened boundary: an unresolvable reported
  head with a terminal newest same-branch row anchored at the worktree head
  engages the ledger fallback and still refuses, so the refusal is the
  terminal-word boundary and not an earlier guard.

* no-mistakes(review): Bind teardown ledger fallback to validated run heads

* no-mistakes(review): Restore validated advanced-head ledger continuation

* no-mistakes(review): Reject invalid ledger dates and terminal statuses

* no-mistakes(document): Document teardown ledger scan limit
* Keep parked and aged undated captain holds off live Captain's Call.

Bearings was treating undated parked-style holds as live calls; mark those phrasings deferred and project holds older than a configurable 14-day since date as Charted Next gates instead.

* no-mistakes(review): Bound parked marker matching to lexical tokens

* no-mistakes(review): Age undated holds from durable hold-set dates

* no-mistakes(review): Reset re-held timestamps and scan full bodies

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve timestamp precision and prioritize parked suppression

* no-mistakes(document): Document undated captain-hold aging

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed stock Bash CI test-count expectations (16 snapshot, 45 Bearings). Prevented fresh holds on old tasks from aging via stale `since` dates by aging only stamped holds. Added behavioral regressions and verified both suites plus Bash 3.2 parsing

* no-mistakes(ci): account for rebased snapshot regression

* no-mistakes(review): Restore legacy hold aging and mandate wrapper

* no-mistakes(review): Restrict hold stamps to canonical leading lines

* no-mistakes(review): Exclude historical answers and deduplicate revealed holds

* no-mistakes(document): Correct captain-hold projection documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Rebased onto 8988af2 and resolved Bearings conflicts. Fixed the hold timestamp race by persisting and verifying the timestamp before publishing the captain hold; failures now leave the task unheld. Added behavioral coverage for ordering and failure handling. Preserved the required parked-phrase projection behavior. Relevant snapshot, Bearings, lifecycle, syntax, and ShellCheck validations pass

* no-mistakes(review): Bound current prose before historical resolutions

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve hold age across interrupted answers

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve leading hold stamps until answer closure

* no-mistakes(review): Normalize answer bodies on matching retries

* no-mistakes(review): Document concurrent re-hold age-basis limitation

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh captain hold lifecycle documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed both CI failures. Updated the macOS Bash snapshot expectation from 45 to 46 Bearings tests. Narrowed parked-style deferral matching to explicit hold-reason prefixes while preserving legacy explicit markers and preventing contextual prose from hiding active decisions. Added behavioral regression coverage. Verified with stock Bash 3.2: 17 fleet snapshot tests and 46 Bearings tests pass; full lint and workflow validation also pass

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed Greptile’s P1 finding by restricting parked-style deferral phrases to complete hold-reason markers. Contextual reasons beginning with “not urgent,” “queued opportunity,” or “captain-gated” now remain visible decisions. Added behavioral coverage through the real fleet and Bearings snapshot paths and updated documentation. Verified both snapshot suites under Bash 3.2 (17 fleet tests and 46 Bearings tests), syntax checks, and git diff checks. The no-mistakes attestation failure is external/stale and requires the outer pipeline to refresh it for the new head

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed parked-style undated captain holds disappearing from the default Bearings board. They now project to Charted Next with omitted[] disclosure, while --all-decisions reveals them and removes the safety gate. Added behavioral coverage for the reported “not urgent” case and aligned documentation. Verified fm-bearings-snapshot, fleet snapshot view, and captain-hold lifecycle tests; shellcheck, bash syntax, and git diff checks pass

* no-mistakes(test): Stabilize concurrency budget and provision timeout tests

* no-mistakes(document): Correct captain hold documentation details

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed hold-reason parsing so commas in contextual reasons are preserved and do not incorrectly defer live Captain's Call decisions. Added end-to-end fleet/Bearings regression coverage. Reworked the flaky Herdr timeout test to assert observable late-launch behavior rather than process-ID liveness. Verified both snapshot suites, Herdr test 5 consecutive times, shell syntax, shellcheck, and git diff checks

* Restore the Herdr lab timeout test to its main version.

The stabilization rounds reworked tests/fm-herdr-lab.test.sh while chasing a
load-induced flake, replacing the fake server's wall-clock delay with a
SIGSTOP'd process and asserting that the blocked process is gone after a
timed-out provision. A stopped process does not die from SIGTERM, so that
assertion fails on Linux and the portable parallel shard stayed red.

That test is unrelated to the undated captain-hold projection this branch
delivers and was identical to main before these rounds, so restore main's
version exactly. It still proves that a timed-out provision cancels its late
launch before teardown.

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve metadata-like prose in captain hold reasons

* no-mistakes(review): Resurface due dated captain holds

* no-mistakes(review): Distinguish parked holds from explicit deferrals

* no-mistakes(review): Invalidate legacy secondmate summary caches

* no-mistakes(review): Keep blocked deferred holds in Charted Next

* no-mistakes(review): Count blocked deferred holds in omission disclosure

* no-mistakes(document): Correct captain-hold projection documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed both CI failures. Updated the macOS Bearings test count to 51. Preserved the v1 summary schema for compatibility while rejecting hold-bearing summaries missing the new aging fields, preventing stale caches from restoring noisy calls. Verified fleet snapshot, Bearings snapshot (51 tests), home-summary refresh, secondmate reconciliation, Bash 3.2 parsing, and diff checks

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed Greptile’s valid finding: `--all-decisions` now reveals deferred/aged captain holds even when blocked, for both main and secondmate homes, and removes their duplicate Charted Next gates. Added behavioral regression coverage and updated documentation. The prose-classifier finding was not applied because exact complete-phrase matching is explicitly required by the author intent; contextual wording remains live. Verified with Bearings and fleet snapshot tests, `bin/fm-lint.sh`, Bash syntax checking, and `git diff --check`

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the actionable-state bug in Bearings: an arrived parked-style hold is live only when it is not explicitly non-actionable, so blocked due holds remain gated by default and are revealed by --all-decisions. Added behavioral regression coverage for that case. Preserved complete-reason parked-style classification as required by the author intent. Verified with tests/fm-bearings-snapshot.test.sh, bin/fm-lint.sh, and git diff --check

* Show why a revealed captain hold is deferred.

Under --all-decisions a deferred hold is revealed and its Charted Next gate
is removed, but the revealed row carried only the bare hold reason. A
date-deferred or blocked hold therefore read exactly like a genuine live
decision, because the until date, the age, and the blocking work only ever
appeared on the gate row that the reveal replaces.

Annotate a row that is revealed because it is deferred with the same
vocabulary the gate uses - until <date>, held <n>d, and the blocking work -
so the expanded view reads as deferred-but-shown. A genuinely live call is
left unannotated, and the default board is unchanged.

* Classify captain holds from structured fields alone.

Bucket membership was decided by several independent expressions, and two of
them matched hold reason or body prose. That produced a recurring class of
defects: holds that fell through every bucket and vanished from the board, and
live decisions silently suppressed because their wording happened to contain a
marker word - a reason of "non-deferred release choice" matched DEFERRED and
disappeared.

Replace all of it with one total classifier over structured fields only:
hold_kind, state, hold_until, unresolved_blocker_ids, and the machine-written
hold-set timestamp. Every captain hold gets exactly one hold_bucket - blocked,
dated, aged, or live - so no hold can fall through and none can match two.
captain_actionable is exactly the live bucket, and the --all-decisions reveal
is a property of the bucket rather than a second filter.

No hold reason or body prose is matched anywhere in the projection, so wording
can no longer hide, reveal, or reclassify a decision. A hold that is superseded
or no longer required is closed through the hold lifecycle instead of lingering
as an open hold flagged by a keyword.

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve working captain holds across bucket surfaces

* no-mistakes(review): Reject pre-classifier secondmate summary caches

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve complete live hold summaries

* no-mistakes(review): Clarify working hold decision bucket semantics

* no-mistakes(review): Reveal bounded remote holds and preserve blocker notes

* no-mistakes(review): Make blocker overflow explicit in hold summaries

* no-mistakes(document): Correct captain-hold projection documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Updated the stock macOS Bash CI snapshot expectation from 17 to 18 tests. Verified the suite under Bash 3.2.57: all 18 tests pass. `git diff --check` also passes

* no-mistakes(ci): Updated the stock macOS Bash CI expectation from 51 to 53 Bearings tests. Verified all 53 pass under Bash 3.2.57; git diff --check passes
* fix(pi): deliver supervision outcomes off Pi's render thread

The supervision branch runs inside the captain's own Pi process, and Pi
runs extensions, their tools, and their event handlers on the single
JavaScript thread that also draws the TUI and reads the keyboard. Every
delivered outcome ran roughly five bash script invocations plus several
`ps` calls through spawnSync on that thread, so the TUI could not repaint
or echo a keystroke for the whole chain - the subsecond freeze the
captain saw every time a routine or captain-facing outcome arrived.

Convert the delivery path's subprocess calls to an awaited spawn behind a
serializing queue. lib/fm-async-exec.ts is the single owner of the
awaited-spawn replacement and returns the same capture shape and failure
verdicts spawnSync returned. Awaiting yields the thread, so what the
single thread used to guarantee for free is now an explicit queue: every
delivery, acknowledgement, and turn-boundary reconciliation runs as one
unit of it, preserving the durable append before anything visible, one
delivery at a time in sequence order, the read cursor advanced before the
next reader sees a row, and one ownership activation per generation.
Cancellation is preserved by the generation and lock-ownership rechecks
the awaits are placed around.

Two reads stay synchronous because Pi's own API is synchronous there, not
as an optimization: its bash spawn hook is typed as a plain function, and
the watcher reads offer.accepted the moment its dispatch event returns, so
a session that does not own the fleet lock must still refuse a wake
without waiting. Both walk the lock's process ancestry in full every time,
never cached, because reparenting and pid reuse can invalidate a
remembered chain and that answer decides ownership rather than hinting at
it. The store scripts and their durability contracts are unchanged.

Measured through the real fm_branch_report tool and real bin/ scripts with
a 1 ms interval timer, the largest block of the JS thread falls from 273
to 2.0 ms for a routine outcome, 286 to 2.0 ms for a captain outcome, and
134 to 1.9 ms for main's acknowledgement, against a 1.3-2.2 ms idle floor.
In a real Pi 0.82.0 TUI the worst keystroke echo while two outcomes arrive
falls from 676.9 ms to 36.8 ms, against a 22.6 ms extension-free floor.

Regressions: a delivery must leave the event loop running (zero timer
ticks before this change, in 250 ms), interleaved reports stay ordered and
exactly once, a session replaced mid-delivery neither loses nor duplicates
an outcome, and a failing store script surfaces without losing or doubling
one. The real-TUI half is an opt-in live guard that types into an isolated
Pi pane while outcomes are delivered and fails if echo leaves the class of
the same machine's own floor.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013bzoWyr2EcJGBKuoUjVRSp

* no-mistakes(review): Revalidate ownership and bound asynchronous subprocess output

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed CI defects: routine outcomes now persist a sequence-keyed delivery receipt before awaiting cursor advancement, preventing duplicate delivery after mark-read failure. Corrected the session-replacement test to exercise an actual asynchronous ps ancestry lookup. Targeted behavioral tests, strict Pi typecheck, ShellCheck, and diff checks pass. The full extension test remains locally blocked by an unrelated stock-render assertion under the installed Pi runtime. The no-mistakes attestation failure is external pipeline state (test was previously skipped), not a source defect

* fix(pi): keep the declined routine receipt out and skip the renderer case below its Pi floor

Four follow-ups on the same branch, plus one revert.

Revert the routine-delivery receipt a CI auto-fix round added. It introduced a
new persisted `fm-branch-routine-delivery` entry, written into the captain's
transcript for every routine note, to deduplicate a note whose cursor write
failed. That is a change to the delivery contract, which this task is not
authorized to make: the approved work is the asynchronous conversion with the
existing durability contract preserved. The ownership re-read and output
bounding from the review round are kept - both are genuine asynchronous
correctness, not contract changes - as is that round's use of a real parent pid
so the replacement regression traverses an actual ps subprocess.

Record the routine gap instead of closing it. A routine note is a plain
message with no sequence-keyed record, so a mark-read failure after delivery
makes the next reconciliation send it once more; a captain row cannot
duplicate that way because its visible entry is found by store sequence. That
asymmetry predates moving delivery off the render thread. It is now stated at
the call site and in the delivery-contract docs, tracked as
fm-pi-routine-delivery-idempotency-followup-r1, and pinned by a regression
that proves the routine note is re-delivered exactly once more and never
again, the captain entry stays single, and the store keeps both rows.

Give the stock-renderer case a Pi version floor. It compares the extension's
renderers against Pi's stock rendering, so its verdict only means anything
against the contract those renderers target: since 0.84.4 the stock renderer
no longer supplies an implicit reset at multiline boundaries and the extension
emits that reset itself, so an older installed Pi differs legitimately. It now
names the installed version and the floor and skips, while a package whose
version cannot be read at all still fails.

Make the responsiveness regression's second signal a fraction rather than a
millisecond budget. A loaded machine that deschedules the process inflates an
absolute stall budget into a false failure, but it inflates the delivery's own
wall time too, so requiring the worst stall to be a minority of that wall time
holds under load. Synchronous delivery sits near 1.0 there whatever the load,
and the tick-count signal still reads zero on it.

Replace the test-family mapping for the Pi extension libraries with per-script
targeting. Routing them to whole families - or leaving them unmapped, which
widens through the reference scan to each referencing suite's entire family -
selected dozens of suites with nothing to do with Pi and pulled an unrelated
flake into the run. The changed-file selection drops from 112 scripts to 61.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013bzoWyr2EcJGBKuoUjVRSp

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify asynchronous execution documentation

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(memory): honor explicit project maintenance guidance

* no-mistakes(test): Blocked by pre-existing Bash and Muse fixture failures

* no-mistakes(test): Remove accidentally tracked test attribution report

* no-mistakes(ci): Restricted the marker to the exact first line, preventing fenced examples from suppressing governance, and corrected the documentation. Regression failed before the fix; all 18 helper tests, focused ShellCheck, documentation validation, and diff checks pass. CI and Require no-mistakes report action_required with zero jobs executed; those external checks remain unresolved
* fix(spawn): refuse repository primary from linked spawning homes

Compare the resolved task git directory with the spawning repository's
common git directory before refreshing a fresh copy or relaunching a task.
This protects the primary even when the spawning project is a linked home.
Keep pooled copies accepted and preserve recorded work on relaunch.

Fixes #3741.

Verification for the pipeline PR body:
- Red on origin/main 1820316b66 with the new
  regression and unchanged production code: bin/fm-test-run.sh
  tests/fm-spawn-pool-base-freshen.test.sh exited 1 with
  "linked spawning home accepted primary as a disposable copy".
- Green after the guard: the complete pool-base-freshen and control-relaunch
  suites passed through bin/fm-test-run.sh, covering primary and symlink
  refusal before fetch/reset, spawning-directory refusal, scout acceptance,
  and committed plus unfinished work preserved during linked-home relaunch.
- The worktree-settle suite passed on pristine main and the final branch.
  An earlier loaded-host run exceeded its five-second assertion (6s);
  the final retry passed without changing code or the assertion.
- Test fixture commits ran with GIT_CONFIG_COUNT=1,
  GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0=commit.gpgsign, GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0=false.
- bin/fm-lint.sh and /bin/bash -n for all three changed scripts passed.

The upstream cwd-selection cause remains outside this change.

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify spawn isolation ownership and relaunch preservation
* fix: read a failed herdr CLI as unreachable, not a gone backend target

The no-run fallback in bin/fm-crew-state.sh collapsed every failed pane
capture into 'backend target gone', which downstream consumers treat as
positive death evidence - so a herdr CLI that errors or stalls under load
briefly scored dozens of live claims dead on a busy box. Only a successful
herdr answer proving the pane absent (fm_backend_agent_state's 'missing',
backed by pane get answering pane_not_found) may now read as gone; every
other verdict reports 'backend unreachable' with the endpoint state, which
is never positive death evidence. Adds a behavior test: an always-failing
fake herdr reads unknown/unreachable, never gone.

* test: pin the herdr suite's ambient home to a marker-free fixture

FM_HOME defaults to the suite's own root when unset, and any secondmate-
marked checkout (every treehouse crew home carries .fm-secondmate-home)
flips the default workspace label to 2ndmate-*, so the ambiguous-label
placement test found zero firstmate matches and fell into the create path
instead of refusing (expected exit 3, got 1) - deterministically green in
CI, deterministically red from a crew home. Export a marker-free ambient
FM_HOME fixture; per-test FM_HOME prefixes still override it.

* fix: classify herdr endpoint answers instead of every non-missing verdict

Review decision (firstmate, 2026-09-05): a failed pane capture is not
itself evidence of death, but neither is every non-missing classifier
verdict a failed answer. missing (pane get answered pane_not_found) and
dead (pane present, agent_not_found husk) keep gone-class text so a
stale-claim sweep may still reclaim them; an alive answer falls through
to the normal busy/state flow instead of being discarded when only the
heavy 200-line scrollback read failed; only when the cheap pane get /
agent get calls themselves fail to answer does the line read
'backend unreachable'. Adds the two missing cases: alive with a failed
scrollback read stays live, and a husk pane still reads gone.

* no-mistakes(review): route tmux through agent-state classifier; drop test stall

* no-mistakes(review): narrow inaccurate tmux socket and alive-arm fallback comments

* no-mistakes(document): document classifier-backed endpoint verdicts in crew-state contract
* fix: distinguish subshell wake-lock owners on stock Bash

Restore distinct process ownership for issue #3743 using the existing PID helper, consistently across lock publication, reclaim, release, role checks, and bounded handoff.

The existing wake-queue regression fails on pristine upstream Bash 3.2 with rc=13. The complete suite now passes on Bash 3.2.57 and Bash 5.3.15, with added coverage for ownership when BASHPID is unset. Canonical lint and stock-Bash syntax checks pass.

* no-mistakes(document): Correct lock grace-period documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Captain, fixed all 14 SC2031 false positives with nine ShellCheck source-boundary annotations across three tests. Full CI-mode lint and the complete wake-queue suite on stock Bash 3.2 passed. Runtime behavior is unchanged
* fix(bin): close legacy records on the Beads backend honestly

Two pre-Beads reads blocked honest closure of leftover records:

1. fm-captain-hold.sh complete/verify resolved attested legacy hold ids
   only against the live backend and the pre-collapse derived identity, so
   a home whose holds fm-hold-migration rehomed under fm- ids failed with
   an empty-name absence message (the resolve failure was swallowed by the
   command substitution feeding verify_hold_durable). Resolution now falls
   back, on the Beads backend only, to the legacy id under the configured
   beads prefix and to the row whose notes carry the exact marker line
   'migrated from data/backlog.md id <legacy id>'; every refusal names the
   id it could not resolve, and the markdown path is unchanged.

2. fm-teardown.sh refused any record without spawn_gen forever. A record
   that predates the field can now be torn down with an explicit
   --legacy-record flag once the recovery-grade endpoint classifier
   confirms the recorded endpoint dead or agent-less; the accepted
   incarnation is stamped into the record right before its close marker
   binds to it and named in the teardown line. Refusals leave the record
   byte-identical, the unlanded-work refusal is not relaxed, and a corrupt
   (multi-valued) spawn_gen is never accepted.

The companion repair this branch carries (follow-up commit) is the
backend-gated --file and markdown-file requirement in the mutate path and
lifecycle gates: fm_backlog_mutate passed --file and required the markdown
backlog file regardless of the resolved backend, and the transition gate
plus row probe required that file before any backend work, so a home on a
non-markdown backend could neither gate, probe, nor close its rows.

Behavior tests: self-contained beads fixtures over a scratch bd graph
(self-skipping on markdown-only tasks-axi installs), legacy meta fixtures
for every teardown gate, and the relocated markdown backlog coverage stays
green.

* no-mistakes(review): fix(review): report migrated-hold scan refusals and guard legacy spawn_gen stamp against newline-less records

* fix(backlog): address the configured backend for lifecycle writes

Completes the fm-backlog-transition-lib repair the first commit's message
claims: on this base fm_backlog_mutate passed --file and required the
markdown backlog file regardless of the resolved backend, and
fm_backlog_transition_applies plus fm_backlog_row_probe required that file
before any backend work, so a home on a non-markdown backend could neither
gate, probe, nor close its backlog rows. All three now gate the markdown
file on the resolved tasks-axi backend: markdown keeps exactly its explicit
<data>/backlog.md behavior, non-markdown homes address the backend their
own configuration selects with no markdown file requirement.
fm_backlog_row_show and fm_backlog_row_list already gated correctly and
are unchanged. docs/configuration.md owns the contract line.

Also extends the same backend gate to fm-captain-hold.sh's own mutation
wrapper - hold/add/update/answer/done append the markdown --file only when
the resolved backend is markdown, so a captain call on a Beads home reaches
the Beads store end to end - and applies the review round's two direct
remedies there: the [beads] graph path resolves against the backlog root
when relative (never the process CWD), and a failed bd graph read reports
bd's own trimmed stderr reason in the refusal.

Coverage: tests/fm-backlog-atomicity.test.sh gains a stub-driven Beads
completion case proving the transition gate applies, the row probe reads,
and done runs without any markdown file or --file override; the relocated
markdown backlog test stays green.

* no-mistakes(review): Document root-tasks.toml-only beads settings for migrated-hold resolution

* test(gotmp): stub fm_tasks_axi_backend so the fixture matches the backend-aware transition lib

The legacy-records change made fm-backlog-transition-lib.sh resolve the
configured backend via fm_tasks_axi_backend before the markdown-only skip.
The gotmp fixture's fm-tasks-axi-lib stub lacked that function, so the
markdown check fell through and teardown hit the incompatible-backend
error with unbound FM_TASKS_AXI_MIN under set -u. Stub the backend as
markdown and define the floor, restoring the intended no-backlog skip.

* fix(teardown): roll the legacy stamp back when the close marker fails

A legacy-record teardown stamps its accepted incarnation into the record
right before the close marker binds to it; when that marker write then
fails, the stamp survived, so a retried teardown sailed past the
dead-or-agent-less endpoint gate the stamp now proved unnecessary. The
failed marker write now truncates the record back to its exact pre-stamp
bytes (verified by size), restoring the byte-identical-refusal invariant;
when the rollback itself fails the operator is told to re-run with
--legacy-record after reconciling the endpoint.

Also completes the recorded review decision's coverage wording: the
beads stub test now drives the answer close end to end (update and done
through the gated wrapper), asserting no markdown file override reaches
either verb.

* fix(review): harden the legacy stamp rollback and resolve derived migrated ids

The legacy-record stamp rollback now uses perl (already in the teardown
curated PATH; truncate is not, and is absent on stock macOS), routes every
failure branch inside the stamp block through the same size-verified
rollback so the byte-identical-refusal invariant holds on those paths too,
and gains behavior coverage: an unrecordable close (an invalid pr= link)
fails the teardown, leaves the record byte-identical, keeps the backlog
row in flight, and a flag-less retry still refuses.

Migrated-hold resolution now probes the derived pre-collapse identity
(<origin>-decision-<entry>) alongside the raw entry - fm-hold-migration
recorded the DERIVED id in every migrated row's marker note - in both the
prefix and the migration-note forms, with the ambiguity refusal naming
every identity tried, plus behavior coverage for a bare decision key
resolved through its derived identity's marker.

Also aligns fm-backlog-transition-lib.sh's header ADDRESSING/SCOPE
paragraphs with the backend-gated contract, drops an unreachable FORCE
validity guard the parser rewrite left behind, and switches the new stub
fixture to the portable sed -i.bak idiom.

* no-mistakes(review): Name the configured backend in teardown's backlog reminder

* no-mistakes(review): Scan migration markers before the prefix guess

* no-mistakes(review): Document marker-first resolution and cover the prefix branch

* no-mistakes(document): Record prefix-attestation audit and marker-line forms

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the Greptile P1 on bin/fm-teardown.sh: a failed rollback of the synthetic legacy stamp let a retry bypass the dead-or-agent-less endpoint gate. Root cause: teardown minted `spawn_gen=legacy-<ts>-<pid>` into the task record before the close marker bound to it. When the close-marker write failed AND the rollback also failed, the record retained that token. On the next invocation `fm_backlog_meta_spawn_gen` succeeded, so `TEARDOWN_LEGACY_PENDING` stayed 0 and the endpoint gate was skipped entirely — even with `--legacy-record`. The script's own error text told the operator to "re-run teardown with --legacy-record", advice the code could not honor. Fix (bin/fm-teardown.sh): - A `legacy-*` spawn_gen is now recognized as a stamp this teardown path minted, never one a spawn published (fm-spawn.sh publishes `s<epoch>.<pid>.<random>`). Such a record still reads as the legacy record it is: it re-enters the endpoint gate, and a flag-less retry refuses naming `--legacy-record`. - Acceptance reuses the retained token instead of minting a second one; the append block is skipped when the record already carries it, so no duplicate spawn_gen is written. - The rollback attempt and its "could not be rolled back" message are guarded to runs that actually appended a stamp, so a run that appended nothing never claims a rollback it did not perform. - Usage header documents the retained-stamp rule. Test (tests/fm-teardown.test.sh): added `test_retained_legacy_stamp_still_faces_the_endpoint_gate`, an end-to-end reproduction — a `perl` stub that fails only the rollback's `truncate` (delegating every other perl call to the real interpreter) leaves the stamp behind, then the retry must still hit the gate, must not stamp a second incarnation, must not close the backlog row, and the flag-less retry must refuse. Verification: the new test fails against the pre-fix script on exactly the reported defect ("the retry skipped the dead-or-agent-less endpoint gate") and passes after. Full tests/fm-teardown.test.sh 80 ok / 0 failures / rc=0; tests/fm-backlog-atomicity.test.sh 80 ok / 0 failures / rc=0; bin/fm-lint.sh (pinned ShellCheck 0.11.0 + actionlint 1.7.12) clean
* fix(lint): drop source following on the local changed-file gate

The local lint step was inlining library closures through --external-sources
and peaking above 8 GB on a single root. Keep full analysis in CI, on main,
and without a merge-base; exclude the four cross-file codes from the local
pass so those findings still land in CI.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* no-mistakes(review): Run local ShellCheck per root and document measurements

* no-mistakes(review): Correct local source-following telemetry

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify context-sensitive lint documentation

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Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* fix(pi): route needs-decision wakes and mixed batches wholly to main

Skip the supervision branch for every needs-decision status append, the
same way a check-kind wake already skips it. A coalesced signal/stale
trigger batch containing any needs-decision row is delivered wholly to
main, not split between the branch and a later main wake - the whole
batch, including any co-present routine rows for a different task,
travels together. Heartbeat and unread-status scans stay independent.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013LB2CeerSMCZN4oNsVfLeE

* test(pi): cover distinct-file mixed batches and heartbeat independence

Add a regression using two distinct files (not the same status file
twice) in one coalesced trigger so a some-vs-every regression on the
file-list cross-reference cannot hide behind a degenerate same-key
case, and a heartbeat/needs-decision co-presence test proving a
needs-decision row neither vetoes nor rides along with an otherwise
eligible heartbeat scan.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013LB2CeerSMCZN4oNsVfLeE

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify needs-decision and heartbeat routing

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed captain-held stale reminders so they bypass supervision and wake main, while unrelated unread rows and heartbeats remain independent. Added routing regressions and updated documentation. Pi watcher tests, strict TypeScript checks, lint, and diff checks pass. The no-mistakes attestation failure was pipeline-state related, not a source defect

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed CI lint by narrowly suppressing false-positive SC2031 diagnostics where background PIDs are captured immediately in the same shell. Verified with `CI=true bin/fm-lint.sh` and `git diff --check`. The no-mistakes attestation failure is pipeline-state-related (`test` was skipped), not a source defect

* no-mistakes(review): Route stale open decisions directly to main

* no-mistakes(review): Honor configured verbs in stale decision routing

* no-mistakes(review): Route second-mate escalations and configured decisions to main

* no-mistakes(review): Ignore trailing whitespace after captain holds

* no-mistakes(review): Cache stale decision classification per status file

* no-mistakes(review): Document unread decision precedence for later task wakes

* no-mistakes(review): Cache unchanged stale decisions across scope scans

* no-mistakes(review): Resolve decision aliases and reject symlinked statuses

* no-mistakes(review): Route surfaced captain-held signals directly to main

* no-mistakes(document): Document decision-owned main routing

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed captain-held spans to remain actionable while crew working evidence is positive, ensuring the watcher delivers their main-only marker. Updated the executable regression test to cover this case. Verified with the full fm-watch-triage suite, bash syntax checks, and git diff checks. Shellcheck reported only pre-existing test harness warnings (SC1091/SC2034)

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the CI regression: captain-held transfers now retain their established non-actionable stale classification while the signal-routing side-band still surfaces them main-only. Verified with tests/fm-daemon.test.sh, tests/fm-watch-triage.test.sh, bash syntax checks, and git diff --check

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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(spawn): add an opt-in worker environment allowlist

Honor a home-local launch-env-allowlist at the shared worker command
boundary and inherit it into secondmate homes. Preserve the existing
launch behavior when the file is absent. Keep the operational environment
and explicit launch assignments, and account for filtered Muse credentials.

Refs https://github.com/kunchenguid/firstmate/issues/3742

Verification:
- Red on origin/main 1820316b66:
  the new enabled-allowlist regression observed synthetic-unrelated in
  the worker; the absent-file control passed.
- Green: fm-test-run.sh on fm-spawn-dispatch-profile, fm-muse-harness,
  and fm-trace-context-spawn; all three passed without skips.
- Synthetic emitted-command probes ran through sh, stock Bash, and zsh.
- Canonical lint, documentation audience checks, and stock Bash syntax
  checks passed.

* no-mistakes(review): Reject inaccessible launch environment configuration

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve inherited allowlists on source inspection errors

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify worker environment grants and inheritance documentation

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix inheritance test ShellCheck source boundary
* feat(bin): add rovo as a verified crewmate/scout worker harness

Wire the Atlassian Rovo CLI (202609.1.2) into the TUI-under-tmux/herdr
adapter contract: detection with marker-precedence ordering, one-shot
positional launch with --startup-receipt readiness polling instead of
composer scraping, model/effort flags, a screen-scrape busy fallback
scoped like grok's, and crew/scout-only lifecycle control that refuses
secondmate launches. Ships with a portable regression suite, a live PTY
guard against the real binary, a per-harness reference doc, and a dated
verification record covering the silent OAuth refresh, the interrupt-ack
divergence from the originating scout report, and the still-open
composer-ghost and tmux/herdr pane-liveness gaps.

* no-mistakes(review): revert rovo launch to positional brief, drop startup-receipt

* no-mistakes(test): rewire rovo adapter to kimi-style launch-then-send shape

* no-mistakes(document): add rovo to stale worker-harness enumerations in docs

* docs(verification): close the rovo herdr-liveness gap with live isolated-lab evidence

Placement, launch-then-send, and busy/idle rendering are now verified live
in an isolated non-default Herdr lab session (bin/fm-herdr-lab.sh), driven
directly through fm-spawn.sh's/fm-backend.sh's own shared primitives since
the cross-session launcher-identity guard refuses this task's own ambient
Herdr identity for a full fm-spawn.sh run.

fm_backend_agent_state reported dead for a live, responding rovo pane at
every point checked, because herdr's own agent-integration registry has no
rovo entry (herdr integration status), so herdr agent get returns
agent_not_found regardless of whether rovo is actually running. This is
recorded as a Herdr-side integration gap rather than a firstmate bug, left
unpatched to avoid a false-positive alive verdict for other idle shells.

Updates docs/verification/rovo.md's backend-liveness section and its two
cross-references (docs/verification/runtime-backends.md, docs/configuration.md)
accordingly.

* fix(bin): close rovo's failed-spawn leak and busy-scrape false idle

Greptile P1s on PR #3575: a failed rovo readiness/submission/delivery gate
exited without tearing down the just-created endpoint, leaving the launched
--yolo rovo process running as an orphaned agent outside task control.
Separately, the busy classifier's rendered-tail fallback returned definitive
idle whenever the "Rovo is thinking" marker scrolled out of the last 12
nonblank lines of a long turn, which could make supervision wrongly conclude
a still-working worker had gone idle.

fm-spawn.sh: rovo_spawn_fail now calls rovo_endpoint_cleanup, which kills the
created endpoint (tmux/herdr/zellij/cmux) via the same generic fm_backend_kill
dispatch fm-spawn.sh's own orca-abort path already uses; orca's worktree and
terminal remain owned by the separate ORCA_ABORT_CLEANUP trap.

fm-busy-lib.sh: the rovo classifier arm now reports "unknown rovo-regex"
instead of "idle rovo-regex" when the marker is absent, matching how muse and
cursor already express "can't tell" for their own fallbacks. The positive
busy match is unchanged.

Extends tests/fm-rovo-harness.test.sh: the readiness and delivery failure
tests now assert the endpoint is torn down (and the success test asserts it
is not), and a new test drives the busy marker out of the tail window to
confirm the verdict is unknown, never idle. bin/fm-lint.sh is clean on both
changed files.

* test(rovo): align spawn fixture with the launch-brief validation contract

Upstream main now requires a brief's ## Captain's intent and
## Firstmate spec subsections (or a nonempty legacy # Task body)
before spawn, and rewrites ship+no-mistakes briefs into
launch-brief.md. Update the rovo harness fixture and pointer
assertions to match, mirroring the kimi harness fixture.

* no-mistakes(review): align rovo.md delivery-gate note with live herdr evidence

* fix: prevent stale supervision wake loops (#3672)

* fix(bin): stop the supervision branch's stale-ack and ghost-report loops

Clean-slate implementation of the four authorized recommendations from the
supervision-ghost-retrigger analysis (items 1, 2, 3, and 7), in their minimal
form, superseding PR #3604:

- fm_branch_report refuses a task the wake being handled never named. The
  extension fixes the reportable task set from the eligible rows before each
  prompt (signal and stale rows resolve to their tasks, a heartbeat allows any
  task with a live record, fleet is always allowed), so a report typed from
  memory about a task whose records teardown already removed is never stored
  or delivered.
- An acknowledgement that consumes nothing says "nothing was acknowledged
  through N" and prints the exact --ack-through / --recovery-generation
  command for the current presented wake, instead of "re-run the drain",
  which re-fed the same stale acknowledgement in a loop.
- bin/fm-guard.sh no longer tells the branch actor to drain queued wakes
  while it is handling them; it names the granted rows instead.
- Teardown removes state/.<task>.branch-outcome-index for ordinary tasks and
  descendants; the index rebuild and the append-side index write both skip a
  task with neither a live record nor a status log, so the branch's report of
  a teardown it just performed is stored without recreating the index.

No new locking, no spawn-generation binding, and no retired-task refusal: the
branch can still report the outcome of a task it just tore down, and the
teardown test now proves that path end to end.

* fix(bin): narrow the branch report scope and guard silence to the minimal form

Apply the four review decisions on the clean-slate branch:

- A signal or stale prompt may report only the tasks its own rows resolve
  to; fleet is refused there too. A heartbeat review is not scoped by task
  at all, so the extension no longer tracks live task records and refuses
  nothing by task id during a fleet review.
- The outcome-index rebuild no longer skips retired tasks; the append-side
  skip alone keeps a torn-down task's index from being recreated.
- bin/fm-guard.sh keeps the queued-wakes warning silent for the branch actor
  instead of printing a replacement note.

* no-mistakes(document): Align supervision docs with scoped wake handling

* fix(bin): grant rovo the per-task home paths its standard crewmate flow needs

rovo confines every file-tool operation to its worktree by default, and its
bash tool independently refuses the same external paths regardless of any
grant (confirmed live), so a rovo worker could not read its own brief or
steering messages or write its status/report - all of which live in the
firstmate home outside the worktree - without hand-feeding it. Grant
toolPermissions.allowedExternalPaths for exactly the task's brief directory,
steering inbox, and status file at launch time via --config-override,
merged with agent.efficiencyLevel into one JSON object since that flag is
single-value and silently discards a second occurrence.

Extends the live PTY guard to prove, against the real binary, that the
grant lets rovo read an external brief and append to an external status
file, and that the same flow is blocked without the grant.

* no-mistakes(document): align rovo reference Effort row with merged single --config-override

* no-mistakes(document): document rovo file-access grant in harness reference

---------

Co-authored-by: PUNEET PATWARI <ppatwari@atlassian.com>
Co-authored-by: Kun Chen <3233006+kunchenguid@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(bin): read a crew's pipeline-death claim against the live run

A crew's no-mistakes drive call blocks until the next gate or outcome,
routinely far longer than its harness lets one command live, so the call
gets killed or times out while the daemon runs the fix round on in the
background. Crews read that as daemon death and block on it, and firstmate
had nothing that contradicted them.

Rule 7 of every generated brief now says a drive-call error or a harness
command timeout is not a daemon error, requires `no-mistakes daemon status`
plus `no-mistakes axi status` before a pipeline `blocked:`, and reserves
that report for a refused socket or a run record failed with a daemon
error. The no-mistakes definition of done adds the harness command limit
and the background-and-poll shape that fits inside it.

fm-crew-state gains one classification case: a `blocked:` line blaming the
daemon, a timeout, or unreachability, while the run is running or fixing
AND the pipeline reports fresh activity, now reads as superseded because
the run is alive. Recency comes from the client's own `quiet` marker on
active_steps.last_activity rather than a threshold invented here, and
positive evidence is required, so a run record that outlives a genuinely
dead daemon keeps the plain reading.

stuck-crewmate-recovery gains the inverse-of-a-dead-endpoint playbook:
firstmate reads both statuses itself, steers a reattach, never restarts the
shared daemon on a crew's claim, and escalates only a refused socket.

Nothing here depends on an unshipped no-mistakes capability.

* no-mistakes(review): Prioritize daemon socket failure and narrow unreachable matching

* no-mistakes(review): Honor socket refusal across coarse status and crew guidance

* no-mistakes(test): Replace flaky settle timing assertion with pane-read count

* no-mistakes(document): Document daemon timeout recovery contract

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed daemon socket failures being suppressed by terminal attributed runs. Positive refused/missing socket evidence now remains blocked regardless of run status. Added a behavioral regression test for terminal failed runs. Verified with fm-crew-state tests, project ShellCheck lint, and git diff checks
* fix(brief): scope Firstmate workers to their launch contract

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify supervisor scope and worker contract ownership

* no-mistakes(ci): Removed the heading-based bypass so every ship/scout launch receives the current worker-role contract. Added a regression that failed before the fix and passes afterward. Dispatch, brief, and delivery suites, focused ShellCheck, and git diff --check all passed

* no-mistakes(review): make launch overlay sole owner of worker role contract

* no-mistakes(review): narrow heading test dimension and fix publish error wording

* no-mistakes(review): gate role supersession, fix render guard, drop AGENTS twin

* no-mistakes(document): align architecture AGENTS.md scope and spawn launch-brief header
* fix(bin): stop ringing steering doorbells into dead panes

The steering-inbox doorbell was a plain sentence plus Enter typed into a
worker's pane, and the watcher re-rang it on the assumption that a ring is
free. In a pane whose agent has exited that line is a shell command, and the
re-ring ladder kept typing it into a shell that can never acknowledge it.

- Prefix the doorbell with the shell no-op `: ` so a bare shell executes
  nothing while a live worker still reads the same self-describing line.
  `#` is not used because interactive zsh does not treat it as a comment by
  default and the claude harness binds it to memory mode.
- fm_task_inbox_ring skips the pane (return 3) when the backend positively
  classifies the agent as dead; missing, ambiguous, unreadable, and unverified
  endpoints still ring so a blind classifier never starves a live worker.
- The watcher caps the ladder for a dead pane: one stale wake for recovery,
  no ring, no ladder walk, and the durable record stays for
  stuck-crewmate-recovery. fm-send and the remote steer leg report the skip.

Tests cover the no-op in real shells, the dead/live/unclassifiable ring
verdicts, and the single-surfacing watcher path.

* no-mistakes(review): Quote doorbell paths against shell injection

* no-mistakes(review): Reject terminal-control paths before ringing

* no-mistakes(review): Document accepted partial doorbell delivery race

* no-mistakes(review): Skip unavailable endpoints before busy-state handling

* no-mistakes(test): Respect shell startup PATH in environment allowlist test

* no-mistakes(test): Fix doorbell test fixtures for endpoint liveness

* no-mistakes(test): Prioritize confirmed restarts and clean shell test syntax

* no-mistakes(document): Document dead and missing doorbell recovery

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the persistence-reply timeout race by rechecking for a correlated reply immediately before falling back to a nudge. Added a deterministic regression covering replies arriving between the preliminary resolution pass and timeout handling. Verified with the targeted restart suite, project lint, coverage guard, bash syntax checks, and diff checks
* fix(spawn): keep the worktree poll from adopting the repository primary

After `treehouse get` is sent, the worktree-discovery poll reads the pane's
foreground-process cwd. While treehouse is still fetching and checking a slot
out, the foreground process is treehouse itself and it reports the repository's
PRIMARY checkout as its cwd for several seconds. The poll accepted any path
that merely differed from the spawning project, so from a linked spawning home
- whose project is itself a worktree of that repository - it adopted the
primary, and the isolation guard then refused a launch whose slot treehouse
went on to create normally.

Screen every candidate with the isolation guard's own conditions, extracted as
spawn_worktree_isolated, so a read the guard would reject stays a transient the
poll keeps waiting through. The two-consecutive-reads rule and the guard as
final backstop are unchanged; a pane that never reaches an isolated worktree
still fails at the existing 60s deadline, now naming the last path it reported.

The already-settled timing assertion counted whole-spawn wall time against a
5s budget and failed on unmodified HEAD on slower machines; it now counts pane
reads, which is what "one confirming read, not an extra cycle" actually means.

* fix(spawn): say which path the worktree wait rejected, and why

Screening every discovery-poll candidate means a host that never reaches an
isolated worktree spends the whole 60s window before refusing. That wait is
deliberate - separating a transient from a terminal misconfiguration needs
machinery this path does not want - so the refusal explains itself instead:
the isolation check records why a candidate failed, and the deadline names the
last path seen together with that reason. Message and diagnostics only; the
poll's control flow is unchanged.

Two suites asserted the guard's wording on paths the poll now rejects rather
than adopts, so their refusal arrives from the deadline instead: realign
fm-tangle-guard's non-git and subdirectory-of-primary cases (each now also
asserting the stated reason, and the second the metadata absence it was
missing) and the herdr projection e2e's forced non-worktree cwd.

* no-mistakes(review): stub poll sleep in tangle-guard spawn isolation test

* no-mistakes(document): document spawn poll isolation screen in fm-spawn header

* test(spawn): make the non-git isolation case non-git anywhere

The refusal-reason assertion for a path outside any repository assumed TMPDIR
is not inside a git repository. Where it is, git walks up from the temporary
directory, finds that repository, and the spawn reports the subdirectory cause
instead - so the case passed or failed on a property of the host rather than on
the behaviour under test.

Build the path under a directory the test then names in GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES,
which git documents as not chdir-ing up into a listed directory while looking
for a repository. Git never excludes the directory being searched, so the
ceiling is the parent of the path handed to the spawn.

The assertions pin which cause fired rather than the sentence that explains it,
leaving the operator wording free to improve.

* no-mistakes(document): point spawn poll comment at the isolation screen's comparison

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the "Behavior portable serial 2" failure in tests/fm-tangle-guard.test.sh ("non-worktree spawn did not say why the path was rejected (missing: 'not inside a git worktree')"). Root cause, in this PR's code: bin/fm-spawn.sh's spawn_worktree_isolated resolved the git toplevel with `wt_top_real=$(cd "$SPAWN_WT_TOP" ...)`. For a path in no repository, `git rev-parse --show-toplevel` yields empty, and `cd ""` is a SUCCESSFUL no-op on bash before 5.3 (CI's ubuntu-latest ships bash 5.2). The empty toplevel therefore resolved to fm-spawn's own cwd — the CI checkout — so the poll reported "it is a subdirectory of worktree root '/home/runner/work/firstmate/firstmate'" instead of the correct "it is not inside a git worktree". Dev machines with bash 5.3 fail `cd ""`, which is why the suite passed locally and only failed on CI; it is a genuine shell-portability defect in the reason vocabulary this change added, not a test-environment artifact. Fix (smallest root-cause change, 1 line + comment, bin/fm-spawn.sh:2168-2173): guard the empty value so it never reaches `cd` — if [ -n "$SPAWN_WT_TOP" ] && ! wt_top_real=$(cd "$SPAWN_WT_TOP" 2>/dev/null && pwd -P); then No change to the poll's timing or deadline behavior (respecting the recorded refusal-latency and spawn-wt-reason-vocabulary decisions), no new tests, no other files touched. Verification: - Reproduced the exact CI failure locally by putting bash 3.2 (same `cd ""` semantics as CI's 5.2) first on PATH: fails before the fix with the identical message shape, passes after. - tests/fm-tangle-guard.test.sh passes under both bash 3.2 and bash 5.3. - tests/fm-spawn-worktree-settle.test.sh and tests/fm-spawn-pool-base-freshen.test.sh pass; shellcheck -x bin/fm-spawn.sh clean. - bin/fm-test-run.sh --changed: 46 suites completed, every FM_TEST_END exit=0, 1076 passing assertions, 0 "not ok" (including fm-tangle-guard, fm-control-relaunch, fm-lint). The run ended on my own 900s wall-clock cap (rc=124), not on any test failure
Co-authored-by: Talon Stark <talonstark@gmail.com>
* fix(bin): read an orphaned green ci monitor as held-for-merge, not failed

A no-mistakes run held for a captain merge decision keeps its ci step
polling until merged or closed; when the shared daemon restarts under
that poll, the run is recorded failed although every substantive step
completed and GitHub reports the PR green. A monitor whose only
remaining job is to observe a human decision must not convert the
absence of that decision into a failure verdict.

fm-crew-state.sh now reclassifies a terminal failed run as done
(held-for-merge), surfacing the run's PR URL, when the steps table
shows every step completed except exactly ci failed and the ci log's
last recognized marker reads checks green. A genuinely red check, an
unreadable ci log, or a second failed step keeps the failure.

* no-mistakes(review): Read daemon-down coarse failed ledger as unknown, not failed

* no-mistakes(document): docs: align AGENTS.md failed-verdict guidance with crew-state reclassification
* fix(bin): read preserved spawn state back before the interrupted exit claims it

The deferred-signal exit path asserted the paired task record and
In-flight backlog state were preserved without reading either back,
exactly when a reader is least able to check (fm-yi4j evidence,
2026-09-05). The commit's exit status alone has been observed to agree
with a row that did not actually move.

The exit path now re-reads the record and the row under the same
per-task lock as the commit, repairs a row the commit believed it
moved, and phrases the error as exactly what was verified or attempted
- verified preserved, repaired and verified, or an explicit
preservation-could-not-be-verified with the reason and hand-closeout
instruction. Two behavior tests drive a lying tasks-axi start through a
real interrupted spawn and assert the printed claim and the real
backlog state agree.

* no-mistakes(test): Fix calm suite for Pi 0.85 and pin test umask

* no-mistakes(document): Document interrupted-spawn preservation claim in backlog gate owner

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the Greptile P1 in bin/fm-spawn.sh's deferred-signal exit path: during preservation verification, the no-op HUP/INT/TERM re-trap combined with an unresponsive `tasks-axi show`/`start` (bash cannot run traps while a foreground child runs) held the per-task meta lock - and every lifecycle operation waiting on it - indefinitely. Root-cause fix: bound every tasks-axi invocation made under the lock. bin/fm-backlog-transition-lib.sh gains fm_tasks_axi, an exec-based wrapper (GNU timeout, gtimeout fallback) used by fm_backlog_row_show and fm_backlog_mutate that preserves the exact process placement of the plain tasks-axi call; bin/fm-spawn.sh sets FM_TASKS_AXI_TIMEOUT (default 30s) at the commit point so both the commit and the read-back verification are bounded. A timed-out call fails through the existing error plumbing and probe/mutate name the timeout as the reason, so the interrupted exit path prints honest 'preservation could not be verified ... (reason)' wording - never intent phrased as outcome, matching the author's intent. Added a behavior test in tests/fm-backlog-atomicity.test.sh that drives a real interrupted spawn through a lying tasks-axi whose repair start never answers; it asserts the spawn exits promptly (self-bounded by an outer timeout), the attempted wording names the timeout, and the printed claim agrees with the real record/backlog state. Confirmed the test fails on the unfixed tree and passes with the fix. Verified: fm-backlog-atomicity (83 ok), fm-transition-lib, fm-backlog-handoff, fm-captain-hold, fm-teardown, fm-fleet-snapshot-view, fm-secondmate-reconcile, fm-spawn-batch, fm-spawn-dispatch-profile, fm-task-delivery, fm-control-relaunch all pass; bin/fm-lint.sh clean. The fm-bootstrap 'unsplit run lost its local diagnostic' failure reproduces on the pristine base commit and is unrelated to this change

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the Greptile P1 in bin/fm-backlog-transition-lib.sh: fm_tasks_axi bounded tasks-axi only through GNU timeout/gtimeout and fell through to an unbounded exec on hosts with neither (stock macOS), so an unresponsive call could hold the per-task meta lock forever during interrupted-spawn verification. Root-cause fix: the bound now has no unbounded path. GNU timeout is preferred, gtimeout next, then a small perl watchdog (fork + waitpid WNOHANG polling at 50ms, TERM on expiry, one bound of grace, then KILL, exit 124 so the callers' existing timeout plumbing reports it; exit statuses and output pass through unchanged). Polling was chosen over alarm+die to avoid perl's platform-dependent syscall-restart semantics. When a bound is requested but no bounding mechanism exists, the call fails closed (exit 127 with a diagnostic) rather than running unbounded, so the interrupted exit path prints honest attempted wording, never intent as outcome. The unbounded exec remains only for the no-bound plain-call case. Added three behavior tests in tests/fm-backlog-atomicity.test.sh driving fm_tasks_axi through a PATH with no timeout binary: a hanging stub must exit 124 within the bound (verified to fail on the pre-fix code), a failing stub's status/output must pass through, and a tool-less PATH must fail closed with the diagnostic. Verified: fm-backlog-atomicity 86/86 ok, fm-transition-lib, fm-backlog-handoff, fm-teardown, fm-spawn-batch, fm-task-delivery, fm-fleet-snapshot-view, fm-secondmate-reconcile, fm-control-relaunch, fm-spawn-dispatch-profile all pass; bin/fm-lint.sh clean

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the Greptile P1 on bin/fm-backlog-transition-lib.sh: fm_tasks_axi's GNU timeout and gtimeout paths sent TERM at the bound but had no kill-after, so a tasks-axi that ignores SIGTERM kept the bounded call - and the per-task meta lock - held indefinitely during interrupted-spawn verification. Root-cause fix: both GNU execs now carry -k "$bound" (TERM at the bound, KILL after one further bound of grace), giving every bounded path the same forced-termination contract the perl watchdog already had. Because GNU timeout exits 137 (128+SIGKILL) when the kill-after fires - versus 124 for a TERM expiry - the probe/mutate timeout detection now goes through a new fm_tasks_axi_timeout_expired helper that treats 124 and 137 alike, so the interrupted exit path still names the timeout as the reason; the helper keeps the bound check in one place. Added a behavior test in tests/fm-backlog-atomicity.test.sh that drives fm_tasks_axi through a real GNU timeout with a tasks-axi stub that traps and ignores TERM (the ignored disposition survives exec into sleep) and asserts a bound-expiry status plus completion within bound+grace; on the pre-fix code the suite hangs until killed, confirming the reproduction. Verified: fm-backlog-atomicity 87/87 ok, fm-transition-lib, fm-backlog-handoff, fm-spawn-batch, fm-task-delivery, fm-teardown, fm-secondmate-reconcile, fm-control-relaunch, fm-spawn-dispatch-profile, fm-captain-hold-lifecycle all pass; bin/fm-lint.sh clean
* docs: correct stale tmux/herdr backend maturity claims

Herdr now has 21 test files, its own required CI job (tests-herdr)
that installs a pinned build and hard-fails on "skip: herdr not
found", while tmux has 3 test files and is only required as a
dependency of the portable-serial e2e lane. zellij, orca, and cmux
still have no CI lane at all. AGENTS.md and docs/herdr-backend.md
still called Herdr merely "experimental" alongside those three,
misleading every session and reader about actual coverage.

Update AGENTS.md's config/backend entry, the opening lines of
docs/herdr-backend.md and docs/tmux-backend.md, the runtime-backend
section of docs/configuration.md, and the matching claims in
docs/architecture.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, and README.md so they agree
and distinguish tmux (default), herdr (own required CI lane, largest
suite, Windows still spike-only), and zellij/orca/cmux (still
experimental, no CI lane). No behavior, selection order, or
dispatch logic changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GDYsWPEfwTuPNjQ2nGBCcj

* no-mistakes(review): docs: fix stale herdr label and CI-lane wording

* no-mistakes(document): docs: align tmux adapter label in scripts.md

* no-mistakes(review): docs: drop duplicated herdr CI claim from tmux page

* no-mistakes(review): docs: drop windows claim, align contributing backend wording

* no-mistakes(review): docs: trim duplicated CI claim from herdr opening line

* no-mistakes(review): docs: drop unguarded largest-test-suite superlative

* no-mistakes(review): docs: restore tmux verified label and README experimental scope

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: delete deterministic no-mistakes test baseline, restore intent-targeted Test

PR #3644 pinned commands.test to a fm-test-run.sh --changed walk of the
repository's 75-162 tests/*.test.sh scripts. no-mistakes runs commands.test
verbatim and unconditionally after every fix round, so that walk multiplied
by round count: measured at 32.7 minutes per validation versus 3.6 minutes
intent-targeted. Delete the pin and restore the 3.6-minute posture.

Add tests/fm-nm-test-contract.test.sh as a regression guard, parsing
.no-mistakes.yaml as YAML (ruby's bundled Psych, matching the parser
tests/fm-test-run.test.sh already uses for ci.yml) rather than grepping its
text, restoring in legal form what PR #823 added and PR #1282 removed.

Record the rule in docs/configuration.md's "Gate defaults" section (the
authoritative owner CONTRIBUTING.md already points at) and strengthen
CONTRIBUTING.md's existing local-Test guidance to state it plainly: never
configure commands.test to a deterministic test command, complete or partial.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CSt9JvrQMVc4u3jPyUFCFC

* no-mistakes(review): Centralize no-mistakes test policy and narrow guard

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(bin): verify pool-slot ownership before returning a worktree slot

Workers were killed when cleanup returned a Treehouse pool slot that a
different, live task had already taken. Teardown now proves the slot is
genuinely this task's before releasing it: it refuses when another task
record claims the same live worktree path, or when the endpoint's working
directory contradicts the recorded slot, and that refusal holds under
--force. Slot allocation, metadata publication, ownership verification,
and slot return are serialized across linked firstmate homes, and forced
secondmate cleanup verifies descendant slot ownership before returning
any child worktree.

Regression coverage drives the scripts with two task records naming one
slot path and asserts the live worker survives and its slot is not reset.

* no-mistakes(review): Protect slots across cloned Firstmate homes

* no-mistakes(test): Gate teardown locking on genuine Treehouse slots

* no-mistakes(test): Clarify pooled descendant slot gating

* no-mistakes(test): Synchronize watcher re-arm test on process exit

* no-mistakes(test): Wait for watcher cleanup before timeout escalation

* no-mistakes(document): Document pool-slot ownership safeguards

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed all reported CI issues: normalized bare local Git origins to the same Treehouse project-lock identity as absolute clone origins; resolved ShellCheck SC1091 with explicit conditional sourcing; and taught concurrent Herdr teardown coverage to retry expected Treehouse lock contention. Added behavioral regression coverage for bare/absolute origin lock identity. Verified endpoint-safety tests, watcher tests, full CI lint, and the previously failing Herdr teardown assertion

* fix(bin): resolve relative origins from repository root

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed teardown so an exact recorded endpoint may change cwd without falsely vetoing cleanup. Removed cwd-based ownership refusal while preserving cross-home record exclusivity and project locking. Updated behavioral coverage for both foreign slot ownership refusal and moved-cwd teardown success. Endpoint-safety, backend, watcher, checkpoint, and targeted lint checks pass. Real Herdr presentation E2E progressed successfully but exceeded the 600s local timeout
* feat: add verified omp (Oh My Pi) harness adapter for crew, secondmate, and primary

Add omp as a verified harness: anchored process-name detection with a
Firstmate-owned FM_OMP_HARNESS launch marker that needs real omp ancestry,
the fm-spawn launch template with foreign-marker clearing, the tracked
.omp/fm-worker-overlay.yml posture overlay, --auto-approve, --cwd, and
pre-launch model validation scoped to providers 'omp models --json' lists.
Workers get a state-resident busy-state extension keyed on agent_end
without willContinue (omp has no agent_settled). The primary gets two
tracked .omp/extensions: a turn-end guard that answers omp's blocking
session_stop hook by compelling one continuation per turn, with the
pre-tool seatbelts and Run-tier session-start delivery, and a watcher
extension ported from the Pi one with fm_watch_arm_omp. Control tables,
composer busy footers, omp's status row as a bare-composer boundary, the
extension supervision model with an omp-keyed ownership proof, the
session-start diagnostic, and the supervision protocol snippet follow.

Verified live on omp 18.1.11 with openai-codex/gpt-6-astra: a Herdr scout
through spawn, busy state, steer, interrupt, exit, and teardown, and the
isolated rpc primary lab through extension auto-discovery, digest
delivery, lock identity, watcher arm, successor and wake delivery, and
the compelled guard continuation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012AMyYaHU42Ltotn6fauPAh

* test: prove the omp guard continuation through a guard spy

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012AMyYaHU42Ltotn6fauPAh

* fix(spawn): clear the gemini marker at the omp launch boundary

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012AMyYaHU42Ltotn6fauPAh

* test(omp): force the guard stage by freezing the watcher and clear lint findings

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012AMyYaHU42Ltotn6fauPAh

* test(omp): reap the live lab by path and record omp's rpc shutdown as a note

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012AMyYaHU42Ltotn6fauPAh

* test(omp): spawn a real secondmate for the discovery rule and classify the omp surfaces

Replace the template-extraction check with a genuine --secondmate launch
pinned to the fake tmux backend, assert the worker extension's handler set
through the executable rather than its bytes, classify the two new omp
surfaces in the documentation inventory, and record the Herdr worker
evidence in the runtime-backends verification doc.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012AMyYaHU42Ltotn6fauPAh

* no-mistakes(review): omp: unverify remote routes, narrow busy regex, drop overlay approval pin

* no-mistakes(review): omp: validate config-pinned model, correct remote and marker docs

* no-mistakes(review): omp: pin config-model validation with a test, trim overlay

* no-mistakes(review): omp: sync guard evidence, drop dead param, map quota family

* no-mistakes(review): omp quota: refuse unmapped prefixes, match bare model scopes

* no-mistakes(document): docs: cover omp in cd-guard, quota, continuity, tmux

* no-mistakes(document): docs: add omp subagent-guard row, fix live test header

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed both failing behavior shards and the Greptile P1 in bin/fm-composer-lib.sh. Root cause of "Behavior portable serial 1" and "Behavior portable parallel 2": the omp busy regex (FM_DELIVERY_OMP_BUSY_REGEX_DEFAULT) and omp status-row furniture regex (FM_COMPOSER_OMP_STATUS_RE_DEFAULT) used the bracket range [⠁-⣿]; BSD grep on macOS accepts it but GNU grep on Linux CI aborts with "Invalid collation character", failing every omp busy/furniture read (3 assertions across fm-omp-harness, fm-tmux-submit-busy, fm-composer-lib). Replaced the range with one shared explicit alternation FM_OMP_SPINNER_FRAMES_RE of omp 18.1.11's unicode-preset spinner frames (status set ⣾⣽⣻⢿⡿⣟⣯⣷ + activity set ⠋⠙⠹⠸⠼⠴⠦⠧⠇⠏, read from the installed binary), the same pattern the Kimi busy regex already uses in CI. For Greptile's finding (the harness-agnostic furniture rule's first alternative matched any 1–4-byte token + ' · ', so wrapped typed input like 'fix · tests' with the cursor on it regressed from pending to unknown; reproduced locally vs base), pinned that alternative to omp's identity cell (π|󰵗|pi, the icon.omp of each preset in the 18.1.11 binary). Tests: fm-composer-lib.test.sh asserts 'fix · tests' is not furniture, a status-set spinner row is furniture, and the wrapped composer screen reads pending under both locales (CAPS_TMUX cursor 3); fm-omp-harness.test.sh asserts a status-set frame reads busy. New negative cases fail against the pre-fix lib and pass after. Verified: fm-omp-harness, fm-tmux-submit-busy pass via bin/fm-test-run.sh; fm-composer-lib passes all cases except one pre-existing, unrelated local failure (Herdr half-block test uses printf '▀', unsupported by macOS bash 3.2; fails identically on a pristine HEAD export, passes on CI bash 5); shellcheck and bin/fm-lint.sh clean. Caveat: GNU grep is unavailable locally, so the Linux compile was not run directly; the fix uses only constructs already proven on CI's GNU grep (multibyte literal alternations, incl. under LC_ALL=C). Files changed: bin/fm-composer-lib.sh, tests/fm-composer-lib.test.sh, tests/fm-omp-harness.test.sh. No docs needed changes (they describe the rule generically)

* no-mistakes(ci): Greptile Review: fixed. The omp status-row furniture regex FM_COMPOSER_OMP_STATUS_RE_DEFAULT in bin/fm-composer-lib.sh still accepted a literal `pi ·` opening, so wrapped composer input beginning with `pi ·` was truncated and misclassified. Read the installed omp 18.1.11 binary: the ascii preset's `icon.omp` is `pi` but its `sep.dot` separator is ` - ` (unicode/nerd use ` · `), so a real ascii status row never contains `pi ·` and that alternative could only ever match typed text. Removal-first fix: dropped `pi` from the identity alternation (now `(π|󰵗)`) and updated the comment to record why the ascii preset is excluded. Tests (tests/fm-composer-lib.test.sh): added a negative furniture case for 'pi · e · phi as the three constants' and a wrapped-screen assertion (CAPS_TMUX, cursor 3) that a continuation row opening `pi ·` reads pending in both locales; the new case fails against the unfixed lib and passes after. Verified: composer test with the half-block case skipped passes all 33 cases including the omp matrix; bin/fm-test-run.sh tests/fm-omp-harness.test.sh passes; shellcheck -x clean on both files; bin/fm-lint.sh clean. The full composer test via the runner fails locally only on the pre-existing half-block case (bash 3.2 printf cannot emit ▀; passes on CI bash 5), identical to before this change. Docs unchanged (they describe the rule generically and never mention the ascii identity cell). PR must be raised via no-mistakes: not caused by code. attestation.head_sha is cdddc60 while the PR head is cd51cf4 because the pipeline's ci-phase push moved the head; the outer executor's re-push will re-bind the attestation. No file change for that check. Files changed: bin/fm-composer-lib.sh, tests/fm-composer-lib.test.sh

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Fix Pi shell invocation on native Windows

* no-mistakes(document): Document Pi Windows Bash transport

* no-mistakes(ci): Captain, staged a narrow fix: register the Pi Windows regression for both extension paths, make Windows mode emulation non-failing, and enforce LF shell checkouts. Mapping and coverage checks pass; CI/Require no-mistakes were approval-gated externally

* no-mistakes(review): Cover async Windows branch-outcome Bash invocation

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve Cygwin checks and refresh Windows timing

* no-mistakes(test): Invoke OpenCode operational-input owner through Bash on Windows

* validation-fixture

* no-mistakes(document): Document Windows Bash helper invocation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed PR-caused changed-selection failure by removing the malformed tracked evidence artifact and allowing deleted, unconsumed source paths to retire cleanly while preserving fail-closed behavior for live unmapped paths. Added regression coverage. Verified native-Windows Pi shell-seam test passes and --changed selects the Windows regression

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Co-authored-by: test <test@example.invalid>
* fix(bin): recognise squash-merged rebased work as landed at teardown

A pipeline rebase can leave the local worktree on pre-rebase commits while
GitHub squash-merges the rebased head. The landed-work test then compared
those stale commits against a squashed main and refused cleanup of work
that had already landed.

When the forge reports the recorded PR merged and its merge commit is on
the default branch, treat a local branch that only repeats paths from the
pipeline push as stale rather than unlanded. If the forge is unreachable,
the same coverage check runs against a PR head whose content is already
on default. Extra local paths still refuse.

* fix(bin): drop unprovable squash-rebase landed-work coverage

Path-set coverage treated a diverged local branch as landed whenever it
touched the same files as the squash merge. That accepts the reviewer's
failing sequence: same path, different content, work discarded.

git cherry and merge-tree containment were already too strict on the real
rebase-fold case. No remaining check is both safe and permissive enough
to recognise a stale pre-rebase copy without also accepting unlanded
edits, so that case still refuses.

Keep the proofs that hold: a merged PR head that contains local work, or
a clean content-in-default tree match. Tests now refuse same-path
different content and extra unlanded commits, and still allow a local
branch that followed the pipeline rebase.

* no-mistakes(review): drop recorded-pr-head fallback and reverted-design leftovers

* no-mistakes(review): silence squash-merge stdout corrupting test PR head

* no-mistakes(review): make unlanded follow-up commit sole cause of refusal

* no-mistakes(document): correct stale squash-rebase fixture comments in teardown tests

* no-mistakes(ci): Split the three reported checks: - CI (run 34061098467) and Require no-mistakes (run 34061098460) both concluded `action_required` — approval-gated workflow runs that never executed a step. Not caused by this PR's code; no change can clear them. - Greptile Review was a genuine defect in the new tests: the three new refusal cases (tests/fm-teardown.test.sh) asserted only exit status 1 and a REFUSED line, so a teardown regression that destroyed the worktree, branch, and task record before reporting refusal would still pass. Fix (tests only): added one `assert_refusal_retained_task_state` helper and called it from `test_squash_merged_same_file_different_content_refuses`, `test_squash_merged_rebased_local_with_unlanded_commit_refuses`, and `test_squash_merged_stale_local_refuses_when_forge_unreachable`, each capturing the worktree HEAD before `run_teardown`. It pins that the refusal left the isolated copy on disk, the task branch still checked out at the same unlanded commit, and state/task-x1.meta intact. Verification: the four squash tests pass; a sensitivity probe ran the ALLOW fixture (teardown completes) and pointed the same helper at the outcome — it fires, because a completed teardown detaches/deletes the branch and removes the task record, proving the assertions discriminate. Full tests/fm-teardown.test.sh: 83 passing. bin/fm-lint.sh clean with pinned ShellCheck 0.11.0 + actionlint 1.7.12 (plus an explicit --external-sources pass on the changed file). bin/fm-test-run.sh --check-coverage ok. Caveat: test_herdr_flat_teardown_preflight_refuses_before_changes (mode missing-adapter) fails on this machine. Verified it fails identically on base commit f91a950 via `git archive`, so it is a pre-existing local environment difference untouched by this diff; skipped to run the rest of the suite, not modified

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Co-authored-by: Morten Gad <mogad@itm8.com>
* fix(bin): keep supervision armed for registered custom checks

A custom check bound by bin/fm-check-register.sh only ever runs inside the
watcher's check sweep, but fm_supervision_status counted in-flight tasks, the
relay poll shim, and process-event sources as supervision need, and not
registered checks. Tearing down the last task therefore stopped every
home-level check silently until the next spawn.

Count a state/<id>.check.sh that carries its state/<id>.check-trust binding as
supervision need. The relay shim keeps its own trust path and task PR polls
carry no such binding and are torn down with their task, so neither arms a home
by accident. Presence of the binding is the whole test: the sweep validates the
bytes at execution time and wakes firstmate when it rejects one, which is the
outcome an idle home needs.

Closes #3856

* no-mistakes(review): name registered checks in turn-end block banner and doc invariant

* no-mistakes(review): narrow PR poll predicate test to what it proves

* no-mistakes(document): point Grok re-arm step at supervision-need owner
* fix(bin): resolve the shared Treehouse project lock inside remote secondmate homes

Every spawn and teardown inside a remote-seeded secondmate home refused,
because the project lock's anchor could not be resolved there.

fm_firstmate_root_home walks a home's parent bindings upward to find the
anchor the lock lives in, and treated a remote parent binding as an error.
A remote-seeded home's parent is on another machine, so that walk can never
succeed from there - and neither can the home's own local descendants, whose
chain terminates at the same record. Both fail closed on every Treehouse-backed
spawn and every pool-slot teardown.

A remote parent now terminates the walk at the home holding it, which is the
correct anchor: a lock taken on this filesystem is neither held nor observable
across that boundary, and that home is already the top of the local tree
teardown's collect_local_firstmate_states enumerates, since that walk skips
remote registry entries for the same reason. Mutual exclusion is unchanged -
every home reachable through local parent links still derives one identical
lock file per project, and an unreadable binding, an unsupported route, an
unreachable local parent, a cycle, and an over-deep chain all still refuse.
Origin-less local-only projects keep resolving through their worktree top.

Regression coverage pins the anchor for the main-home layout, a local
secondmate, a remote-seeded home, and its local child; drives teardown
end-to-end in a remote-seeded home; keeps the cross-home slot-ownership
refusal across that boundary; and proves two homes still serialize on the
one shared lock file.

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify machine-local Treehouse lock ownership
* fix(bearings): repair the board's listening, card hygiene, and reconcile path

Three defects made the fleet board go quiet and then lie about what still
needs the captain.

Never arm a poll on a session that is not live. `lavish-axi <file>` exits 0
even when it refuses to reopen a session the captain ended from the browser,
reporting `status: user-ended` with the same session id, so the build's
exit-status check accepted a dead session, printed `already-armed`, and left
the board reading "not listening". The build now proves the session is live
from a fresh authoritative listing immediately before arming - not from the
establish call's status alone, which is already stale by then - reopens once
when it finds the session ended, and refuses rather than arming when it stays
ended. A reopen also replaces the pre-reopen source generation before
reporting success, so a runner on its way out cannot be mistaken for a
listener, and a board whose source is registered but unowned gets a
replacement started before the build returns.

Let a dead generation's ownership actually move. Reclaiming a claim ran its
capture-reservation cleanup first, and that cleanup re-verifies the recorded
state-root identity, so a claim naming a pid and a process group that were
both provably gone could not be cleared: reconcile reported a start while
nothing attached, and retire refused with "cannot release source ownership".
Reservation records are keyed by claim token and every replacement claims a
fresh one, so they are hygiene, not an ownership invariant. Reclamation now
additionally requires the owning process group to be absent independently,
which keeps a reused pid whose poll child still runs from ever reading as a
gone generation. A live owner and a crashed leader whose owned group survives
are still never reclaimed.

Stop carding decisions whose subject already landed. The build drops a
decision card whose work item or PR appears in the payload's own landed rows,
and one whose task is no longer an open captain call, naming each drop on
stderr. A task whose state cannot be established is kept, because a call
wrongly hidden is worse than a card wrongly shown.

Add the reconcile choice, and make it structurally incapable of closing a
call. Every decision card carries a standard `reconcile` option, injected by
the build rather than left to the composer. The board now emits the picked
option and any freeform note as separate structured fields instead of fusing
them, so a reconcile selection is not expressible as an answer value at all -
the defect that let `reconcile - <note>` reach the intake as an ordinary
answer. The adapter routes selections from that structured field, creation of
a reconcile request is bound to a verified board source rather than the shared
keyed-answer intake, and the intake still refuses the reserved value on every
channel. Each authorization is bound to the captain-hold generation that
produced the card, so an obsolete card cannot close a later call, and both
terminal outcomes require a pending request: `reconcile close` records the
evidence under its own `reconciled` mode so it never reads as the captain's
words, and `reconcile note` leaves the call open. Anything unprovable -
an unversioned row, a missing generation, an unreadable state - refuses
rather than acting.

Regression coverage fails without each fix, and pins every leak path: a bare
reconcile, a standalone close or note with no pending request, an any-channel
reconcile, an annotated selection from a freeform card, and a
generation-skewed authorization. An opt-in guard re-proves the lavish-axi
shapes and the reopen against the installed tool.

* fix(bin): quote the done comparison in the reconcile intake

shellcheck SC1010 reads the bare word as the loop keyword. The failed run
never reached its lint step, so this shipped in the recovered content.

* no-mistakes(review): Publish reconciled parent resolution before request retirement

* no-mistakes(review): Clarify committed cleanup and reconcile reservation scope

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve remote cards and legacy answer compatibility

* no-mistakes(test): Separate live claim release from stale reclamation

* no-mistakes(test): Allow terminal self-retirement during active capture

* no-mistakes(document): Document Bearings repair contracts

* no-mistakes(ci): Stabilized the failing Herdr presentation E2E by serializing test-harness Treehouse allocator calls, preventing concurrent recovery spawns from claiming the same pool slot while preserving Herdr concurrency coverage. Verified with the full E2E suite on Herdr 0.8.2, bash syntax checks, ShellCheck, and git diff checks
* fix(bin): skip pooled-worktree freshness fetch when no origin is configured

An origin-less local-only project has nothing remote to be stale
against, so fm-spawn's freshen_spawn_worktree_base refused to launch
crews for it. Detect a missing origin remote and skip the fetch
freshness gate entirely; an existing-but-unreachable origin keeps
refusing as before.

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve pool safety for absent and unusable origins

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse empty origin configurations during pooled spawn

* no-mistakes(review): Detect empty origin sections across config includes

* no-mistakes(review): Honor globbed includes when detecting origin configuration

* no-mistakes(review): Document conservative conditional include handling

* no-mistakes(review): Use Git-resolved config files for origin detection

* no-mistakes(review): Document included empty-origin detection boundary

* no-mistakes(document): Document originless pooled spawn behavior
* feat(tests): run live harness guards by default where the harness is installed

The 24 live-harness guards each opened with their own env check, so on the
machine that has every harness - the one the product and its validation
actually run on - all of them skipped and passed. Fourteen had never been run
by the pipeline at all.

tests/lib.sh gains fm_live_gate as the single owner of that decision: a guard
that spends no model tokens runs wherever its tools are installed, a guard that
submits prompts stays opt-in, an absent tool is a named capability skip, and a
guard's own variable or FM_LIVE forces it on (turning an absent tool into a
failure) or off. Every live guard now opens with it, which also carries the
test-suite gate-refusal bypass into the guards that never sourced the shared
helpers and were therefore refused whenever a gate agent ran them.

bin/fm-test-run.sh records what a skip means: the family's expected class is
live-capability rather than a bare env opt-in, and each gate skip's reason is
logged and written to the timing artifact, so a lane can say which tool this
host could not exercise.

Only the token-free guards flip to default-on: composer-matrix, the harness
liveness drift guard, and the Herdr version floor. cursor-primary submits three
prompts, so it stays opt-in.

Running the drift guard unasked immediately found a real defect it existed to
catch: it resolved the harness through a generic `command -v cursor`, which on
a machine that also has the Cursor editor finds the editor launcher rather than
cursor-agent. That binary exits at once, leaving a bare shell in the pane and a
liveness-drift failure no classifier change could fix. It now asks
fm_cursor_resolve_binary first, the same verified owner fm-spawn uses.

CI installs the public Pi package in the portable serial lane and fails on its
skip token, so the Pi extension tests stop passing silently against a package
that is not there. No secret is added.

Verified on macOS 26.5.2 arm64: the drift guard runs with no variable set and
classifies 8 installed harnesses alive; the Herdr version-floor guard runs by
default and checks 4 real releases; every live guard refuses together under
FM_LIVE=0.

* fix(tests): keep the composer-matrix guard opt-in

Running it unasked is red on a healthy machine for reasons no code change here
removes: a harness that has not trusted this checkout sits on its own trust
dialog, which the guard treats as an unreadable composer and correctly fails.
The opencode 1.18.29 and grok 1.0.13 composer drift it also surfaced reproduces
identically on main and is filed as separate work.

So this token-free guard stays opt-in with the reason stated in its header, and
the coding guidelines record the narrow exception: a guard whose verdict
depends on host state that installing its tools does not establish may stay
opt-in, because one that is permanently red is one the fleet learns to ignore.
The other two token-free guards keep running by default.

* no-mistakes(review): Wire bearings guard and remove composer exception policy

* no-mistakes(review): Run Pi responsiveness guard by default

* no-mistakes(review): Gate AFK Pi Herdr through authoritative family sweep

* no-mistakes(review): Sanitize live gate test environments

* no-mistakes(document): Document default-on live guard behavior

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed CI by installing the Pi package in portable-parallel-1, where fm-pi-primary-types.test.sh runs, and enforcing its package-missing gate skip there. Verified with fm-lint.sh, workflow actionlint, coverage partition checks, lane membership, and git diff checks

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed CI’s Pi typecheck skip enforcement by giving npm, tsc, and Pi-package capability skips a shared prefix and configuring both relevant CI lanes to fail on that prefix. Verified missing tsc emits the expected skip, missing Pi package becomes a runner failure, and actionlint, ShellCheck, and git diff checks pass
* fix(bin): refuse the behavior suite in the repository primary checkout

A task worker's isolated worktree placement is verified exactly once, when
its task starts, and nothing re-checks it afterwards. A worker that later
changes directory into the repository's primary checkout runs its Git
commands, and this branch-switching suite, against the one checkout every
linked worktree resolves against and every landing merges into. A run that
dies mid-suite can leave that checkout on a stray branch.

bin/fm-test-run.sh now refuses that case. When FM_TASK_ID marks a task
worker and the runner resolves to the primary checkout, every executing mode
exits non-zero before selecting a suite, with one line naming the primary
path and pointing at the assigned task worktree. The predicate is the one
bin/fm-spawn.sh already uses for launch placement: the working tree's own
git dir is the repository's common git dir, which separates the primary from
every linked worktree even when their top levels differ. A run with no
FM_TASK_ID set is unchanged, and so are the inspection modes, which execute
nothing. When git resolves neither directory - a non-repository fixture, a
detached copy - nothing proves this is the primary, so the run proceeds.

bin/fm-spawn.sh sets the marker: ship and scout launches export FM_TASK_ID
into the pane shell on the same pre-launch channel as GOTMPDIR, and the name
joins the sanitized launch environment allowlist so an isolated launch keeps
it.

* no-mistakes(review): clear inherited task marker in test lib; name resolved ROOT

* no-mistakes(document): docs: record FM_TASK_ID marker and runner placement refusal

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Co-authored-by: Talon Stark <talonstark@gmail.com>
* fix(bin): bound a stale alarm with the backlog hold, not only the status line

A legitimate wait has two records and the stale alarm reads only one.
`status_is_paused_or_captain_held` takes a status line, so it sees a wait the
worker declared. It cannot see the wait firstmate records when it hands work to
the captain: `bin/fm-captain-hold.sh hold` writes that into the backlog and
leaves the status log alone, so a delivered task keeps `done: PR ...` as its
last line for the whole time the captain is deciding.

Both stale branches were blind to it, and each churned a new pane hash back into
its own alarm: a `done:` line is captain-relevant and reaches the terminal-stale
branch, while a held task whose last line is `working:` reaches
`surface_nonterminal_stale` and fails its declared-wait test.

Consult that second record where the watcher is about to alarm, through
`bin/fm-captain-hold.sh open`, which already owns the predicate's semantics, and
bound the alarm on the shared `.paused-resurfaced-<key>` marker and
`PAUSE_RESURFACE_SECS` window the declared-wait absorb already uses. The first
sight still alarms, the window's end alarms once more, and a held crew that goes
genuinely silent still escalates through the wedge timer.

Only an established open captain call bounds anything: an unreadable backlog, an
absent or incompatible tasks-axi, a row this home does not carry, and every task
with no hold keep alarming exactly as before. The backlog hold is deliberately
not recorded as a declared pause, because the loop-top reconciliation and
`pause_state_class` both read the status line and would clear a flag that line
does not support.

Extends the fix in #3443, which closed the forms of this loop that the status
line itself can express.

* fix(bin): identify the captain call a stale alarm is bounded by

Three gaps in the bound added by the previous commit, all in how the throttle is
scoped and where the backlog is consulted.

The scope carried only the status-log signature. A task can be held, answered
with `--release`, and re-held as a genuinely different captain call without any
status append, so the second call inherited the first one's marker and its first
sight was absorbed - the one thing this bound must never do. The task id is not
the call: `bin/fm-captain-hold.sh open` gains `--identity`, which reports the
call's own lifecycle - its hold-set stamp and the number of recorded answers -
on an exit 0 and only then, leaving the silent predicate every existing caller
reads unchanged. The throttle scope now carries that identity.

The terminal path recorded the throttle before publishing the durable wake. A
failed append exits the watcher with nothing queued, and the next sighting then
read that fresh marker and absorbed the retry, turning a delayed alarm into a
lost one. Recording moves behind the append, as the non-terminal path already
had it, and the comment claiming the marker could not outlive its wake is gone
because it was false.

The backlog was consulted only on a new terminal pane hash. A captain call can
open after a hash was absorbed as provably working, changing neither the pane nor
the status log, so nothing re-read the backlog and the wedge timer kept firing
possible-wedge alarms through a legitimate wait. That timer now consults the call
at its own alarm boundary and takes the same bounded cadence - and only at that
boundary, so an ordinary repeat poll under the bound stays the local-only read it
was.

Regression coverage for each, all driving churn through one watcher process
rather than relaunching per pane change: relaunch cost dominated the earlier
shape, and an absorbing watcher stays in its poll loop across churn in production
anyway. An unheld task still alarms on every new hash, and an elapsed wedge timer
with no open captain call still escalates as a possible wedge.

* fix(review): Compose stale throttles with captain-call lifecycle identity

* fix(review): Preserve bounded same-hash captain-call resurfacing

* revert(bin): narrow the captain-hold stale bound to its observed defect

Lifts the lifecycle-identity and cadence-ownership work back out, leaving the
change at the shape that matches the defect actually observed: the stale alarm
did not consult the backlog captain hold, on either stale branch.

Reviewing the wider version surfaced a series of adjacent gaps in the watcher's
alarm state machine - a call opening after the first alarm, marker invalidation
at the hold lifecycle boundary, and which deadline a terminal timer represents.
They are real, but fixing them turns a small extension into a state-machine
change to the alarm path, which is a different review on a subsystem that is
being actively reworked. They are named as known limitations rather than carried
here, and none of them is load-bearing for what remains: the bound does strictly
less than the reverted version, leaves the wedge path escalating on
STALE_ESCALATE_SECS exactly as before, and introduces no silence that the
existing terminal-alarm path did not already have.

Kept from the reverted work is the record-after-append ordering, because that is
a defect in the code being shipped rather than an adjacent one: recording the
cadence marker before publishing the durable wake let a failed append lose an
alarm outright instead of delaying it.

History is preserved: the earlier commits stay on the branch and this removal
sits on top of them.

* fix(review): Document secondmate captain-hold scope boundary

* fix(document): Document captain-hold stale alarm scope

* fix(bin): bind the stale throttle to the captain call, not the status log

The throttle this change introduces was scoped to the task's status-log
signature. Answering a call with `--release` and holding the task again creates a
genuinely different captain call without necessarily appending to that log, so
the second call inherited the first one's marker and its first sight was
absorbed.

That is the one alarm this bound must never swallow. A delivery announced twice
is noise; a decision waiting on the captain that is never surfaced is invisible,
because nobody asks for what they do not know to ask for.

Measured rather than assumed, on the same fixture - a delivered task held for the
captain, released, and re-held with no status append, driven through bin/fm-watch.sh:

  base c499f84    call-1 first=ALARM  call-1 churn=ALARM     new call first sight=ALARM
  before this fix call-1 first=ALARM  call-1 churn=absorbed  new call first sight=absorbed
  after           call-1 first=ALARM  call-1 churn=absorbed  new call first sight=ALARM

Base never suppresses the new call, so the suppression came from this change and
closing it completes the fix rather than widening it.

`bin/fm-captain-hold.sh open` gains `--identity`, printing the call's lifecycle -
its hold-set stamp and count of recorded answers - on an exit 0 and only then, so
the silent predicate bin/fm-teardown.sh reads is untouched. The throttle scope
carries that identity beside the status signature.

The sibling case was measured too and is NOT included: on the status-declared
path, where the last line is `captain-held:`, base already absorbs a re-held
call's first sight. That behaviour predates this change and stays documented as a
known limitation rather than repaired here.

* fix(document): Document captain-call throttle lifecycle scope

* fix(ci): isolate the Herdr restart fixtures from a claimed worktree

The Herdr behaviour test intermittently reused a local worktree still claimed
by an earlier fixture after a restart.
The restart scenarios now use an isolated Treehouse project.

The full Herdr test passes on Herdr 0.8.2; bash -n and git diff --check pass as
well.
* Let the supervision branch resolve extension-registered providers

The isolated branch ModelRuntime cannot see providers an extension
registered into main's runtime at run time, so a pin on pi-devin-auth's
devin/swe-1-7 (or an unpinned branch following a main session on devin)
failed with "unavailable to the isolated branch runtime".

Capture main's ModelRegistry alongside mainModel and copy each
extension-registered provider config into the branch runtime at
model-resolution time. The config carries the provider's own streamSimple
and oauth wiring by reference, so the custom gRPC transport reaches the
branch unchanged instead of being reimplemented. The /supervision-model
picker uses the same copy so those models are offered.

Update configuration.md and pi-supervision-branch.md, which previously
stated extension-registered providers were not offered.

* no-mistakes(document): docs: own devin provider carve-out in branch architecture doc

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the Greptile P1 finding: the /supervision-model picker copied extension-registered providers into the branch ModelRuntime but checked hasConfiguredAuth without refreshing them, so providers with provisional post-registration auth were omitted from the picker while the pin-resolution path (which did refresh) accepted them. Root-cause fix in .pi/extensions/fm-branch-supervision.ts: moved the `refresh({ providers, allowNetwork: false })` call into `copyExtensionProviders` (now async, refreshing every provider it copied) and removed the duplicate per-provider refresh from `resolveBranchModel`. Both the picker and the resolution path now share one copy-and-refresh step, so hasConfiguredAuth is real in both. Regression coverage in tests/fm-pi-branch-extension.test.sh: the stubbed ModelRuntime now mirrors the real runtime by leaving a registered provider's auth pending until `refresh()` runs for it. With that stub, the existing extension-registered-provider case fails against the pre-fix extension (picker offers only anthropic/main-model) and passes with the fix. Verification: tests/fm-pi-branch-extension.test.sh passes (42 ok, no failures); tests/fm-branch-supervision.test.sh passes; tests/fm-pi-primary-types.test.sh skips locally because tsc is not installed (the refresh signature reused is the one the existing code already called). Intent constraints preserved: isolation flags untouched, carve-out still scoped to provider registration, graceful fallthrough when no providers are registered

* ci: retrigger flaky Herdr/serial-1 lanes

* no-mistakes(document): docs already cover branch extension-provider copy
* fix(watch): detect stalled secondmate queue progress

* no-mistakes(review): gate secondmate stall on active turns and progress episodes

* no-mistakes(document): align secondmate wake-stall docs with progress-episode detector

* no-mistakes(document): clarify active-turn gate in wake-stall config docs

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the one real defect behind the failing checks. ROOT CAUSE (Greptile P1, real code defect in this PR): `secondmate_wake_stall_tick` in bin/fm-watch.sh reset the no-progress timer only when the oldest actionable queue sequence INCREASED (`[ "$seq" -gt "$observed_seq" ]`). When a secondmate is retired and reprovisioned under the same task ID, its fresh home's queue sequence restarts BELOW the recorded position, so the comparison is false, no reset happens, and the new queue inherits the retired generation's already-expired idle interval — emitting a false `secondmate wake-loop stalled` on its very first observation. That is precisely the false-alarm class the user intent requires this PR to remove. FIX (smallest, removal-first): bin/fm-watch.sh:749 now resets when the drain position MOVES AT ALL (`-ne` instead of `-gt`). Draining moves it up, reprovisioning moves it down; neither is a continued no-progress episode. The asymmetric `-gt` branch is removed rather than special-cased or hardened. Updated the function header comment plus the two doc sentences in docs/architecture.md and docs/configuration.md that stated the old advance-only semantics. REGRESSION TEST: added `test_secondmate_reprovisioned_queue_starts_a_fresh_interval` to tests/fm-wake-queue.test.sh (registered in the invocation list). It drives the real watcher through retired generation (seq 9) -> reprovision (seq 3, later clock) -> freeze, asserting observable wake-queue output, no source-text inspection. VERIFICATION: - Fails before / passes after: with the fix reverted the suite aborts on `not ok - a reprovisioned queue generation inherited the retired generation's idle interval and alerted`; with the fix it passes, and its third leg confirms the restarted generation still escalates on a genuine freeze (row=3 idle=2s), so the fix does not merely mute the alarm. - `bash tests/fm-wake-queue.test.sh`: exit 0, 38/38 pass, all five secondmate cases green. - `bin/fm-lint.sh`: clean (ShellCheck 0.11.0, actionlint 1.7.12). CHECKS NOT CAUSED BY THE CODE: the CI and "Require no-mistakes" runs (34152740610, 34152740604) both ended with conclusion `action_required` — workflow approval pending, not a test/build failure. Separately, `bin/fm-test-run.sh --check-coverage` exits 1 in this environment, but I confirmed by stashing my changes that it fails identically on the unmodified base tree (locale-related `comm: input is not in sorted order`); it is pre-existing and this change adds no new test file for the partition to account for. Changes are left uncommitted in the worktree

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the one real code defect behind the failing checks. ROOT CAUSE (Greptile P1, second round, on the head commit e1304e6): `secondmate_wake_stall_tick` in bin/fm-watch.sh identified the queue's drain position by the sequence number ALONE. The previous round changed the comparison from `-gt` to `-ne`, which handles a reprovisioned queue that restarts BELOW the recorded position, but not one that restarts ON it. A mate retired and reprovisioned under the same task id gets a fresh home whose wake-queue sequence counter restarts at 1 — and the retained parent progress marker very plausibly holds a low sequence too (a queue frozen on its first row records seq 1). Equal sequence ⇒ no reset ⇒ the brand-new queue inherits the retired generation's long-expired idle interval and emits a false `secondmate wake-loop stalled` on its very first observation. That is exactly the false-alarm class this PR exists to remove. FIX (smallest, removal-first): the file already defines the identity of a queue row once, as `row_key="$epoch-$seq"` (used for stall receipts, the stall marker, and the notify key). The progress marker's separate, weaker seq-only identity is removed: `row_key` is now computed once right after the row is parsed, stored in the progress marker, and compared with `!=`. Across generations the epoch differs (the new generation's rows are appended later), so no sequence collision can carry a stale interval; within a generation the key is stable exactly while the position does not move. bin/fm-wake-lib.sh's `fm_wake_secondmate_progress_marker_write` now takes `<oldest-row-key>` and validates it the same way the two neighbouring row-key writers do. Updated the function header comment and the two doc sentences (docs/architecture.md, docs/configuration.md) that described the old sequence-only semantics. REGRESSION TEST: `test_secondmate_reprovisioned_queue_starts_a_fresh_interval` in tests/fm-wake-queue.test.sh now drives the reported case — the reprovisioned generation restarts on the SAME sequence 9 (epoch 200) that the retired generation recorded (epoch 100), at a later clock — and asserts observable watcher output only. Its third leg still confirms the restarted generation escalates on a genuine freeze (row=9 idle=2s), so the fix does not merely mute the alarm. Three seeded progress markers in the symlink, crash-window and prefix-receipt tests were updated to the epoch-sequence form. VERIFICATION: - Fails before / passes after: with bin/fm-watch.sh and bin/fm-wake-lib.sh reverted to HEAD and the new test in place, the suite aborts on `not ok - a reprovisioned queue generation inherited the retired generation's idle interval and alerted` (exit 1); with the fix, `bash tests/fm-wake-queue.test.sh` exits 0 with 38/38 pass, all six secondmate cases green. - `bin/fm-lint.sh`: clean (ShellCheck 0.11.0, actionlint 1.7.12). - I also started `bin/fm-test-run.sh tests/fm-watch-checkpoint.test.sh tests/fm-watch-triage.test.sh tests/fm-watch-recovery-loop.test.sh` as a blast-radius check; it was still running when this phase had to return, so its result is not included. No other suite references the stall detector or the progress marker (grep over tests/ for `wake-loop stall|SECONDMATE_WAKE_STALL|secondmate-wake-progress` matches only fm-wake-queue.test.sh), and the changed lib function has exactly one caller. CHECKS NOT CAUSED BY THE CODE: the CI and "Require no-mistakes" runs on the head commit (34154091191, 34154091236, 34154091945) all ended with conclusion `action_required` — pending workflow approval, not a test/build failure. `bin/fm-test-run.sh --check-coverage` still exits 1 in this environment for the pre-existing locale reason recorded in the previous phase (`comm: input is not in sorted order` on the unmodified base tree); this change adds no new test file. Changes are left uncommitted in the worktree: bin/fm-watch.sh, bin/fm-wake-lib.sh, docs/architecture.md, docs/configuration.md, tests/fm-wake-queue.test.sh

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* fix(tests): make the Calm export-DOM render step retry and report

The Calm suite's rendered-export-DOM assertion started breaking CI with a
bare "could not render calm-mode HTML export DOM", which read like a Pi
0.85 rendering change. It is not one. Calm's rendered rows are identical
across Pi 0.84.4, 0.85.0, and 0.85.1, and the CI break appeared in exactly
one of the thirteen most recent runs, all on the same Pi 0.85.1, with the
main runs immediately before and after it passing.

What actually failed is headless Chrome's start-up. The render step made a
single unattended attempt and discarded both Chrome's stderr and its exit
status, so the log held nothing to tell a Chrome crash apart from a real
change in Pi's export shape.

Rendering is a vendor-tool step; the DOM assertions that follow it are what
protect the Calm conversation boundary. So the step now retries a bounded
number of Chrome start-ups on a fresh profile, drops Chrome's background
network and /dev/shm dependencies without changing what a local file renders
to, and, when every attempt fails, reports the Chrome binary, its version,
the installed Pi version, each attempt's exit status, and Chrome's own
stderr. test_export_dom_render_guard pins that with real processes and no
browser: one clean render, one that only succeeds after a start-up failure,
and one that never renders and must report enough to diagnose itself.

The verification record adds the 0.85.1 evidence this contract is now
pinned to, the cross-version comparison run through isolated installs, and
the Pi 0.85.0 packaging gap - its dist/experimental/server.js statically
imports @earendil-works/pi-server, which 0.85.0 does not declare - that
made the contract look version-sensitive in the first place.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y7rr2DHf51MjMvy7sMRauo

* no-mistakes(review): docs: attribute Pi 0.85 calm contract adaptation to renderer change

* no-mistakes(review): tests: drop inert chrome flags, report render timeouts

* no-mistakes(document): docs: fix stale Pi version facts and doc-lint link

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Co-authored-by: Alex William <awilliam@v2202608403614505120.powersrv.de>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(bin): make every counted wake queue row presentable or retired

A wake row could be counted as queued while no drain would ever present
it, leaving the operator told to "drain them before anything else" by a
command that printed nothing and offered no acknowledgement.

Two independent paths produced that state.
A row reserved by a live supervision-branch grant is excluded from a main
drain by design, but fm-guard.sh counted the whole queue, so main was
warned about rows only the branch could present, on every guarded command
for as long as the grant was held.
A row that lost its five appended fields or its numeric sequence can never
be claimed, presented, or named by an --ack-through cutoff, yet it still
counted as queued, wedging the queue permanently.

The guard now counts only the rows the calling actor can itself present or
retire, and a main drain retires unusable rows under the queue lock,
reporting them in bounded escaped form before removal so the evidence
survives for the separate row-generating defects. A retirement failure is
reported loudly and never suppresses unrelated consumable work. A main
drain whose remaining rows are all branch-held says so in one bounded line
instead of exiting silently. Grant row-list and owner-record reads move
into fm-wake-lib.sh so the drain, the grant publisher, and the guard share
one implementation.

Ownership is unchanged: a branch drain still touches nothing outside its
grant and never retires a row, and main still cannot present or acknowledge
an active grant.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GghGvsa4JDB1E5FuznX2i1

* no-mistakes(test): keep SIGTERM-safe arithmetic in wake queue retirement pass

* no-mistakes(review): add guard advisory for branch-held wake rows

* no-mistakes(document): document per-actor wake counting and unusable-row retirement

* no-mistakes(ci): Addressed the Greptile P1 on bin/fm-wake-lib.sh:1840 ("Unreadable queue suppresses alarms"). Root cause: fm_wake_actor_pending_count inferred "the queue could not be counted" only from awk's printed output (`case "$count" in ''|*[!0-9]*) count=1`). That relies on awk aborting before its END rule when the input cannot be opened. An awk that reaches END after a failed open prints `0`, which the fallback accepts as a genuine count; both actor counts then read zero and bin/fm-guard.sh emits neither the queued-wake warning nor the branch-held advisory for a queue nobody proved empty. Fix (bin/fm-wake-lib.sh:1828,1835): both counting awk invocations now set `count=''` on a non-zero awk exit status, so the existing "cannot be counted => report a pending row" fallback is driven by awk's exit status instead of an implementation-defined detail of what it printed. No new code path or behavior; the pre-existing fallback just becomes unconditional. Comment updated to state why. Regression test (tests/fm-wake-queue.test.sh: test_uncountable_queue_still_raises_the_pending_alarm, registered in the run list): runs the real bin/fm-guard.sh against a non-empty, unreadable queue with a PATH-injected awk emulating an END-running implementation (prints 0, exits 2; execs the real awk otherwise) and asserts "queued wakes pending" is still emitted; disconfirming half asserts the same fake awk over a readable, provably empty queue stays silent. Fails on the pre-fix library ("not ok - a queue that could not be counted silenced the queued-wake alarm"), passes after. Verified locally: bin/fm-test-run.sh tests/fm-wake-queue.test.sh -> 0 failed; tests/fm-guard-stale-banner.test.sh + tests/fm-watcher-lock.test.sh -> 0 failed; bin/fm-lint.sh (ShellCheck 0.11.0 + actionlint 1.7.12) clean. Caveat reported honestly: on the awks available/known here (mawk locally, plus gawk and BWK/macOS awk, all of which treat an unopenable input as fatal and skip END) the alarm was not actually suppressed - I reproduced the unreadable-queue case and the warning fired. The change removes the code's dependence on that awk detail rather than repairing an outage observed on this platform. Both intent constraints still hold: every counted row remains presentable or retirable, and no alarm-suppressing path was added

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(bin): use /usr/bin/stat on Darwin to survive GNU stat shadowing

* fix(bin): extend /usr/bin/stat prefix to Darwin stat -f sites added on main

* test(bin): make fm-stat-shadowing skip visible on non-Darwin and isolate fm-watch state

* ci: re-trigger after Chrome headless timeout in calm HTML export test

* ci: re-trigger serial-5 after second Chrome headless timeout in calm HTML export test

* test(bin): skip PATH-based stat fault injection on Darwin where stat is /usr/bin/stat

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh stat and shard docs
The captain's attribution policy (no Co-Authored-By trailer, no
Claude-Session link, no generated-with line) lives in Claude Code's `user`
settings scope. A spawned worker's settings sources are not guaranteed to
load that scope, so a launched worker could write attribution trailers into
its commits and PR bodies regardless of the captain's own configuration.

launch_template()'s claude case now carries the same policy
("attribution": {"commit": "", "pr": "", "sessionUrl": false}) directly in
its inline --settings JSON, so every claude launch keeps attribution off
independent of which settings scopes end up loaded. Tests assert the policy
on the rendered launch command for both a crewmate and a secondmate spawn.

Co-authored-by: NewAiCoder <170579485+NewAiCoder@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(bin): derive the away-mode beacon grace from the poll cadence

fm-turnend-guard.sh's away-mode branch required the watcher beacon to be
fresh within the flat FM_GUARD_GRACE default (300s), but the daemon starts a
fresh one-shot watcher only after it finishes handling the previous wake, and
that handling can legitimately outrun a fixed 300s window under load (a slow
registered check, a busy supervisor pane) with the daemon perfectly healthy
throughout. That misread a live, correctly-cycling daemon as down and blocked
the turn.

Add fm_poll_derived_grace, the single owner of the max(300, FM_POLL + 60)
formula, and have the away-mode branch, fm-claude-stop-autoarm.sh, and
fm-watch.sh's own runtime beacon-staleness check all derive their default
grace from it instead of the flat default. A dead daemon pid or a beacon
older than that grace still blocks, so a genuinely lapsed away mode still
alarms; every other check is unchanged.

fm-claude-stop-autoarm.sh computed the derived grace into GRACE but its two
fm-watch-arm.sh invocations called the wrapper bare, so the wrapper fell back
to its own flat 300s default and could reject a healthy long-poll watcher.
Both invocations now pass FM_GUARD_GRACE="$GRACE" through explicitly, and a
new test proves a long FM_POLL with FM_GUARD_GRACE unset reaches
fm-watch-arm.sh with the derived value.

Also drops fm_last_activity_age, added alongside the derivation but never
called anywhere in the tree; fm-inactive-reconcile.sh already owns that
computation.

* no-mistakes(review): Remove dead WATCHER_STALE_GRACE assignment in fm-watch.sh

* no-mistakes(document): Update FM_WATCHER_STALE_GRACE default note for poll-derived grace

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* fix(procevent): bind a source runner to the session that owns it

A process-event source runner is detached into its own process group so a
persistent source survives the turn that armed it. Nothing bounded that
detachment, so a runner could reparent to init and keep its blocking child -
and every process that child spawned - running with nothing left to reap it.
One such runner outlived its home for about a day; the cost was not the runner
but the exec churn of the poll stubs under it, which stalled every fresh
process launch on the host.

Each runner now starts a small guard beside it, in a separate process group,
that re-reads its home's process-event lease and stops the runner's whole
process group once that lease can no longer be proved fresh. Every ordinary
entry point an owning session runs refreshes the lease, and the watcher's
reconcile cycle keeps it fresh in a live home; nothing a runner spawns can
refresh it, so a source cannot certify its own owner. Scope is the owning state
root and one runner generation, never a script or process name, so a live
source in another home is untouched and a live home simply starts a
replacement runner on its next cycle.

The test scaffolding that starts real runners could not reap them either: the
bearings-board and board-render suites tracked their homes in a shell array
appended to inside a command substitution, so the array was always empty and
every listener they started survived the run. Home registration moves to a
`$$`-keyed registry in tests/lib.sh, which sweeps it from every cleanup path,
now including HUP and QUIT, and the blocking fixture stubs stop themselves at a
bound so an escaped one cannot keep spawning processes indefinitely.

Adds a regression test that reproduces the orphan shape - a reparented listener
with a live descendant tree under it - and proves the whole group and its
process churn stop once its session is gone, that an identical listener in a
home whose session is still there is untouched, and that retirement still
reaches a reparented listener and everything under it.

* no-mistakes(review): Bound source launches and fail closed on guard startup

* no-mistakes(document): Document runner lease and storm containment

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the Greptile watchdog finding: failed runner cleanup now retries on each watchdog tick instead of abandoning the orphaned process group. The shared state-root lease behavior remains unchanged because it is an explicitly accepted ownership policy. Verified with bash syntax checks, git diff checks, and the complete fm-procevent test suite

* test(procevent): pin that an unprovable stop is retried, not abandoned

The owner guard used to call stop_runner_pid and exit unconditionally, so a
stop it could not prove - a descendant still finishing uninterruptible work
outlives even the group signal, and an unreadable process identity proves
nothing - left a still-running expired runner with nothing watching it. That is
the best-effort reaping this mechanism exists to remove, and the fix that made
the guard retry landed without a test holding it in place.

The unprovable attempt is injected through the signal the real path actually
reads: `ps` answers exactly one process-group query for the runner with a group
it does not lead, which is how a stop that cannot be proved is reported, and
every other call is the real command. The test also asserts that the injected
attempt happened, so it cannot pass vacuously if the fixture stops arming.

Fails against the exit-after-one-attempt guard, where the runner survives its
expired lease, and passes once the guard retries on its check cadence.

* docs(procevent): scope the no-self-refresh rule to confused-agent grade

The runner-lease documentation asserted as an absolute that nothing a runner
spawns can refresh the lease, so a source cannot certify its own owner.
That overclaims what the inherited FM_PROCEVENT_IN_RUNNER marker actually
enforces.

The marker holds at confused-agent grade: a runner and its ordinary children
inherit it and skip every refresh, which is exactly the accidental case this
boundary exists for.
A source that deliberately strips the marker from its environment can still
refresh, so adversarial-grade unforgeability is explicitly out of scope and
tracked as separate follow-up design work.

This states the real scope in docs/configuration.md, which owns the operating
contract, and corrects the two matching comments in bin/fm-procevent.sh.
The process-event-sources skill keeps its cross-reference and gains one line
in its never-to-be-claimed list so the overclaim is not reintroduced from the
agent-facing side.
The lease mechanism itself is unchanged.

* no-mistakes(review): Fix process-event lease and launch pacing edge cases

* no-mistakes(review): Scope launch pacing and clarify lease boundaries

* no-mistakes(review): Reap leftover groups and use monotonic launch pacing

* no-mistakes(review): Keep guards alive across runner PID reuse

* no-mistakes(review): Use monotonic leases and simplify launch generation identity

* no-mistakes(review): Prevent pacing identity reuse and bound reused-group guards

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve active pacing state on failed registration

* no-mistakes(review): Reap reused runner groups with registration evidence

* no-mistakes(review): Avoid ambiguous group kills and encode pacing identities

* no-mistakes(review): Abort kill escalation after runner identity reuse

* no-mistakes(review): Gate group signals and prune stale pacing state

* no-mistakes(review): Document bounded PID reuse signaling safety

* no-mistakes(review): Align leaderless group ambiguity guidance

* no-mistakes(review): Expire reboot stamps and preserve publication success

* no-mistakes(review): Bind owner leases to physical state roots

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify process-event lease and pacing contracts

* fix(procevent): drop a platform-dependent post-TERM test assertion

CI ran red on two lanes that the local gate could not see.

Lint failed with SC2034 on two reads in cmd_owner_watchdog that
destructure the state-root identity into five fields while using only the
device and inode.
Local changed-file mode suppresses the cross-file codes that need
--external-sources, so the warning cleared the pre-push lint step and
failed CI's full analysis, exactly as bin/fm-lint.sh's header describes.
The unused fields now read into `_`.

The behavior shard failed on this suite's own post-TERM assertion, which
required the stubbed identity source to be consulted more than once.
Whether that happens is platform-dependent: where the runner leader keeps
waiting on its TERM-ignoring source child, the post-TERM check sees a live
leader whose identity no longer matches, and where the leader dies
promptly it sees a leaderless group carrying the same numeric id.
fm_procevent_pid_state reaches that second verdict without consulting
process identity at all, so the identity source is never read twice and
the count assertion fails through no fault of the behavior.

The case now asserts the invariant both forms share: retirement refuses,
and the ambiguous group is not signalled.
Scoping a mutation to this fixture and making the refusal signal instead
confirms the case still fails, so dropping the count does not leave it
passing vacuously.

* no-mistakes(review): Prevent superseded runners recreating stale pacing stamps

* no-mistakes(document): Document pacing and ambiguity boundaries

* fix(procevent): retire under the recorded identity source and state the home-scoped lease

The reused-group case started its runner with the proc-root override in
place, so the runner recorded a ps-derived identity, then retired it
without that override.
Where /proc exists the retirement read identity from a different source
than the one recorded, the guard correctly refused an identity it could
not confirm, and the case failed on Linux while passing on macOS.
It now retires under the same source, and clearing the stub marker first
turns that cleanup into the complementary assertion: once the ambiguity is
gone, retirement reaps the whole group instead of leaving it behind.

The lease prose claimed a runner is bound to the session that owns it,
while the mechanism binds it to the home.
That gap is what makes a replacement session or an inspection command look
like a defect: any activity in the same home refreshes the lease.
The granularity is deliberate, because a persistent source is meant to
outlive the session that armed it, and binding a runner to that session
would stop the sources this mechanism exists to keep running.
A runner whose source is no longer wanted in a live home is stopped by
reconcile when that source is retired, independently of the lease, so the
lease is the backstop for a home that is gone - the torn-down sandbox this
change bounds - and the residual is recorded as a known limit.

* no-mistakes(review): Rate-limit polls and skip superseded runner launches

* fix(procevent): build the claim-only sweep case as a runnerless owned claim

A superseded generation now observes the registration-identity mismatch,
self-retires, and releases its claim, which is the behavior we want: it
clears its own residue rather than leaving a claim with no runner for the
home sweep to find.

The claim-only sweep case was built by deleting a registration out from
under a live runner, which used to leave that runner in place. It now
makes the runner retire itself, so the sweep raced that exit and retired
one source or two depending on which won. The case failed three runs in
four, alternating between a preflight-count failure and `attempted=1`.

It now builds the state it means to test: kill the runner's group so it
cannot run its own cleanup, assert the owned claim survived that kill, and
only then drop the registration. Coverage is unchanged - a runnerless
owned claim must still be swept - and the result no longer depends on
whether the runner had exited yet. Three consecutive runs pass.

The superseded exit also skipped the runner-marker cleanup the normal path
performs. The marker is written before the launch floor is waited on, and
a home sweep counts a marker with no owned claim as a preflight failure,
so exiting without clearing it would make that home refuse to sweep.

`FM_LAVISH_POLL_RETRY_DELAY= ` trips SC1007 under the full analysis CI
runs, though not under the changed-file mode the pre-push gate uses.

* test(procevent): retire a quiet reparented listener instead of racing a storm

Explicit retirement was exercised against the spawn-churning stub, which
made it nondeterministic. Retirement refuses rather than signalling when it
cannot confirm the runner's identity, that identity is read through `ps`,
and the stub's 0.1s spawn loop starves that read often enough that a single
attempt is a race - the suite failed on this case roughly one run in four,
reporting `cannot confirm runner identity; source remains registered`.

The refusal is correct: it is the documented preserve-for-retry contract,
and a separate case already asserts it. So this is a fixture problem, not a
behavior problem.

The storm is still covered where the evidence for it lives. The owner-loss
home keeps the churning stub and still asserts its tick log stops, which is
what proves the churn ended rather than one pid going away. The retirement
home never asserted ticks; it only ever read the descendant pid, so the
spawn loop bought this case nothing while costing it determinism.

It now uses a quiet stub that still reparents and still holds a real
descendant in its process group, so the assertions are unchanged: retiring
the source must reap the reparented listener's whole group and the
descendant under it. Four consecutive runs pass.

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize registration replacement through source child launch

* chore(no-mistakes): require honest test-step scenario marking

The test step recorded scenarios as passing that were only reached through
a stubbed dependency or the executable suite, and its validator refused
them, because `pass` asserts a scenario was verified against the real live
product.

That refusal is correct, so the fix is to mark honestly rather than to
weaken the gate: a scenario driven live stays a pass and cites its live
transcript, while one reached only through a stub or the suite is recorded
as untested with the reason and a pointer to its executable coverage.
Untested scenarios are reported rather than treated as failures, so real
coverage stays visible without claiming verification that did not happen.

The instruction also forbids dropping a scenario to avoid marking it
untested, since that would hide the gap instead of stating it.

* no-mistakes(review): Remove unrelated test scenario policy

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify process-event home lease documentation

* no-mistakes(document): Correct owner guard failure wording
* test(lib): set fixture mtimes through one portable epoch helper

On macOS the visible symptom was ONE red case in the turn-end guard suite. The
actual damage was TWO cases that had quietly stopped testing their subject. The
red one was the harmless half - people read one red case as one broken thing,
and here that intuition is wrong.

`touch -d @<epoch>` is a GNU extension; BSD touch rejects it outright and leaves
the file at its current mtime. So on macOS the three away-mode beacon cases
never aged their beacon at all.

The 400s case exists to pin that 400s is stale under the flat 300s default but
fresh under the poll-derived grace (660s at FM_POLL=600). Deleting the grace it
guards (FM_POLL=60, so max(300,120)=300) and re-running proves what it was
worth on this platform:

  pre-fix input (beacon left at now):  ok     - passes with the feature DELETED
  post-fix input (beacon 400s old):    not ok - expected exit 0, got 2

It was green while measuring nothing, and could not have caught a regression in
the grace it names. Only the 700s case broke loudly.

`touch -t [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS]` is POSIX and both platforms accept it, so the
only host-specific step left is formatting the epoch into that stamp, which
date(1) spells two incompatible ways. fm_touch_epoch in tests/lib.sh owns that
probe once and fails loudly rather than leaving an unset timestamp behind - the
failure mode that caused this. Verified on BSD touch/date here and on GNU
coreutils 9.7 in a container.

Three real sites, and one consistency change - not four fixes. The stale
destination lock in tests/fm-remote-backlog-handoff.test.sh was never a defect:
its `uname = Darwin` branch made the `touch -d` line unreachable on macOS, and
BSD touch accepts that space-separated form anyway. `touch -t` takes the date
directly on both platforms, so the branch goes rather than standing as a second
copy of the same platform assumption.

Known limit: the third case (away mode off) is only HALF recovered here. It now
receives the input its name claims, but it is still insensitive after this fix -
its verdict is identical with a 0s and a 400s beacon, because the fixture
records a daemon lock and no watcher lock, and with away mode off the daemon
lock proves nothing. Not fixed here; tracked separately, with the requirement
that any fix be shown to FAIL when the protection is removed.

FULL SUITE ON macOS: 189 scripts, four red, none of them this change. The
turn-end guard and remote-handoff suites are clean. Attribution was established
by running the four failures at the base commit and at this head on an idle
machine, because base-idle against head-under-load moves two variables at once:

  script                  head/loaded  base/idle  head/idle  verdict
  fm-calm-pi-extension    red          red        red        pre-existing
  fm-backlog-atomicity    red          red        red        pre-existing
  fm-procevent            red          red        red        pre-existing
  fm-startup-network      red          green      green      cause unestablished,
                                                             load-sensitive under
                                                             a full run

Reported, not fixed. fm-calm-pi-extension deserves its own note: it FAILS
because Chrome is absent instead of declaring the capability it needs and
standing aside, so its verdict is about the machine rather than its subject -
the same family as the defect above, with the red at least announcing itself.

Neighbouring class, reported not changed: `file_mode()` - a verbatim
`uname = Darwin ? stat -f %Lp : stat -c %a` - is copy-pasted across at least
five test scripts plus a `reread_mode` variant, and epoch-mtime reads are
open-coded as `date -r … || stat -c %Y` in three more; same one-owner shape as
the defect above. `git init` without `-b main` depends on the host's
init.defaultBranch in several scripts (branch-name case, tracked elsewhere).
timeout, sha256sum and sed -i uses are all correctly guarded where checked.

Observed while building the check rather than the fix: the first watcher I
wrote to wait for the suite matched its own command line, so it was waiting on
its own existence and could never fire. Same shape as the cases above -
machinery answering confidently about something other than its subject, by
including itself in the evidence it was meant to judge. The file sentinel it
was replaced with cannot be produced by the observer that reads it.

* fix(review): Pin fixture timestamps to UTC across DST transitions

* fix(document): Clarify shared fixture suite coverage
* fix(pi): preserve native Codex effort and guarded supervision

* test(pi): identify native compatibility guard versions

* no-mistakes(review): share native-main follow rule between build and picker

* no-mistakes(document): document native progress marker and ultra effort owners

* no-mistakes(ci): Failing check "Behavior portable serial 1" was caused by this PR. The shard ran the default-on live guard tests/fm-pi-branch-responsiveness-live-e2e.test.sh, whose idle arm loads .pi/extensions/fm-branch-supervision.ts into a scratch project with a fixed list of copied libs. This PR added `import { registerFirstmateTool } from "./lib/fm-native-contract.ts"` to that extension and updated every other loading fixture's copy list, but missed this guard. Pi 0.85.1 therefore refused to load the extension ("Cannot find module './lib/fm-native-contract.ts'"), never drew its TUI, the test failed with "Pi 0.85.1 never drew its TUI in the idle arm", and the job hit its 20-minute cap. Fix (one line): added fm-native-contract to the lib copy loop in tests/fm-pi-branch-responsiveness-live-e2e.test.sh. Swept all other suites referencing fm-branch-supervision.ts / fm-primary-pi-watch.ts; the remaining ones without the new lib only hash, path-reference, or string-match the files and do not load them into Pi, so no further fixture changes are needed. Verification: reproduced the mechanism against the installed Pi 0.85.1 by building the lab copy with the old lib list (load error as above) and the fixed list (loads cleanly). tmux is not installed on this machine, so the live guard itself gate-skips locally ("skip: live: tmux absent") and could not be run end to end here; CI (which has tmux and Pi) will exercise it. shellcheck is clean on the edited file

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Co-authored-by: Talon Stark <talonstark@gmail.com>
* fix(herdr): step around a stale client the running server refuses

A remote host can carry a self-updated herdr in ~/.local/bin beside a
package-managed one, and the fixed remote-job PATH resolves ~/.local/bin
first. After the server upgraded to 0.9.0 (protocol 22) the stale 0.8.2
client (protocol 20) was answered with protocol_mismatch on every command,
which the read classifiers folded into `unreadable`: the live remote
secondmate read unknown, every doorbell into it failed, and both the spawn
and relaunch recovery paths refused, so the defect trapped itself.

The adapter's session-scoped CLI wrapper now recognizes that refusal, reads
status per session from each distinct herdr on PATH, adopts the first one
the running server reports compatible, retries once, and keeps it for the
process. The happy path makes no extra call and no other failure reselects.
An endpoint that still reads unreadable names the refused client, both
protocols, and the fix on stderr; the remote state read, fm-crew-state, and
the launch refusal carry that reason, and fm-remote-doctor reports the
selected client and rebinds the launch agent to it.

Regression coverage: fake two-client hosts in the herdr unit suite, the
doctor suite, the crew-state remote arm, and the real host-local control
script in the remote lifecycle e2e; the real-herdr smoke refreshes the
status shape the selection reads.

* no-mistakes(review): Reselect Herdr client after every protocol mismatch

* no-mistakes(review): Remove unrequired Herdr diagnostics and launch-agent rebinding

* no-mistakes(review): Scope cached Herdr clients to their selected session

* no-mistakes(review): Restrict herdr client selection to reactive CLI calls

* no-mistakes(document): Document session-scoped Herdr client reselection

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify Herdr client selection documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Updated the trusted fm-remote-doctor.sh SHA-256 in bin/fm-remote-entrypoint.sh after the PR changed the doctor, restoring git-unavailable bootstrap authentication. Verified tests/fm-on.test.sh, tests/fm-backend-herdr.test.sh, bin/fm-lint.sh, and git diff --check all pass
* feat(afk): record the away posture and its lifecycle (phase 1)

Away mode becomes a posture of the one supervision session, recorded in
state/.afk-contract by the new bin/fm-afk-contract.sh: the one owner of the
record schema, the mandate-clause grammar and compiler, refusal naming the
missing part, the read-back rendering, the entry announcement (hold-for-return
only, no phone channel), and the archive at return. This release records
clauses and does not execute them; the announcement and return brief say so.

bin/fm-afk-launch.sh gains propose and confirm, confirms the record before any
daemon launch, refuses to launch the daemon on Pi and pi-signed, and archives
the record last on stop. bin/fm-afk-return.sh snapshots supervisor health
before shutdown, renders the return brief (health, mandate, waiting on the
captain, could not fix, handled, cost) from the archived record, the outcome
store, the held set, and the status logs, and shrinks the blocker gate to what
the away session could not fix.

While the record exists the watcher and the daemon never recheck an item held
for the captain. Declared external waits get a four-hour default cadence and
honor `until <UTC ISO 8601>` on the paused line, in both postures, bounded by
FM_PAUSE_UNTIL_MAX_SECS.

The /afk skill, AGENTS.md's layout and away-mode stub, the session-start
digest, and the architecture, Pi branch, configuration, and scripts docs
describe the record. The Pi/Herdr e2e now proves the no-daemon posture on a
real Pi primary; its verification record carries the 2026-09-08 run.

* no-mistakes(review): Fix AFK confirmation, grammar, waits, and return gating

* no-mistakes(review): Harden AFK authority and posture lifecycle

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve AFK history and tighten authority grammar

* refactor(afk): record clause fields with no natural-language parser

By the captain's mandate the away-posture record keeps no static parser
that tries to understand natural language. A mandate clause is now given
as explicit fields (--action, --object, --when, optional --stop) that
bin/fm-afk-contract.sh records verbatim. The structural check asserts
only that the action, object, and precondition fields are present and
that the action is a listed verb; whether a precondition holds is the
supervision session's judgment at execution time in a later phase.

The never-set stays as a forbidden-concept safety scan: fields mentioning
credentials, passwords, logins, legal or financial acceptance, payments,
invoices, one-time codes, or an attended prompt are refused, matched at
token prefixes after punctuation normalization so compound and plural
spellings are caught. The red-check grammar, class-word rejection,
unconditional-word detection, clause-reference resolution, and condition
aliases are removed. --words-file keeps the captain's words verbatim,
trailing newline included.

The skill, docs, launcher help, and tests describe the field form.

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve AFK words and tighten safety refusals

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve clause bytes and honor declared waits

* no-mistakes(review): Harden deny-list and gate unreadable outcomes

* no-mistakes(review): Demote never-set scan and clarify authority

* no-mistakes(review): Gate return on unreadable held and status data

* no-mistakes(review): Validate posture archives and enforce Pi detection

* fix(afk): make the never-set a non-refusing flag and keep return fail-safe

Per the captain's decision the never-set scan is a coarse best-effort
flag, never a refusal and never the gate: a clause naming a listed
concept is still recorded with a flag the read-back, announcement, and
return brief show, and the scan matches listed terms exactly or with a
plain inflection at punctuation-delimited token boundaries, so unrelated
names such as ping-service or tokenize-worker are never flagged and
joined compounds remain a documented miss. Authoritative never-set and
forbidden-action enforcement is the supervision session's judgment at
execution time in phase 4.

A replacement copies the superseded record through a temporary name and
renames it atomically so a failed copy leaves no partial archive, the
record owner gains validate and flags subcommands, and the return keeps
catch-up gated when a superseded archive cannot be read.

* no-mistakes(review): Harden AFK record validation and return reconciliation

* no-mistakes(review): Harden AFK record validation and simplify commands

* no-mistakes(review): Harden mandate validation and retain missing records

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse blank explicit mandate stops

* no-mistakes(review): Recover restored posture epoch before return

* no-mistakes(review): Prevent return brief status symlink reads

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh AFK posture documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed both CI failures: updated lint telemetry for the new fourth source directive, quoted the hyphenated fixture value, and removed unreachable test cleanup. Verified with tests/fm-lint.test.sh, targeted CI-mode ShellCheck, bin/fm-lint.sh, bash syntax checks, and git diff checks

* no-mistakes(ci): Bound structured pause deadlines by FM_PAUSE_RESURFACE_SECS in watcher and daemon housekeeping, added distinct bounded-horizon reasons, regression coverage for near, passed, and wrong-year deadlines, and updated documentation. Verified targeted behavior tests, full daemon tests, ShellCheck source-following lint, syntax, and diff checks
Opt-in IMAP/SMTP mail plane (fm-mail.sh / fm-mail-check.sh). Absent FM_MAIL_* stays off.

Speaking as Kun's firstmate: this is merged. Thank you @feilipu — really appreciate you taking the time on this.
* fix(remote): start the fm-remote Herdr agent through a login shell

Launchd was exec-ing herdr directly, so the Aqua agent inherited a background session without login-keychain access. Start it via /bin/zsh -lc exec so panes keep login env and can refresh OAuth tokens after reboot.

* fix(remote): start fm-remote Herdr via the account login shell

Resolve UserShell from Directory Services and invoke it with separate -l and -c so bash, fish, and zsh all get login-keychain access. Fall back to SHELL, then /bin/zsh, then /bin/sh without failing the render.

* no-mistakes(review): Fix launch-agent shell fallback resolution

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve and escape Directory Services shell paths

* no-mistakes(document): Document login-shell LaunchAgent behavior

* no-mistakes(ci): Updated the trusted fm-remote-doctor SHA-256 identity in bin/fm-remote-entrypoint.sh. Verified with tests/fm-on.test.sh, tests/fm-remote-doctor.test.sh, bash syntax checks, and git diff --check

* no-mistakes(ci): Resolved the login shell exactly once per doctor invocation and threaded it through plist rendering, installed/loaded contract validation, repair reporting, and post-repair checks. Added a regression test proving repeated repair remains healthy and performs no reload when a hypothetical second Directory Services lookup would differ. Updated the trusted doctor hash. Verified doctor, fm-on, remote-entrypoint, lint tests, ShellCheck, syntax, and diff checks

* no-mistakes(ci): Made Darwin shell resolution hermetic with executable injection and a 2-second Directory Services timeout. Updated tests to inject shells by default, isolate dscl-specific cases, parse plists semantically, and verify stalled dscl fallback. Updated the trusted doctor hash. Doctor, fm-on, entrypoint, syntax, hash, and diff checks pass

* no-mistakes(ci): Raised portable serial CI timeout from 20 to 30 minutes, refreshed the specified timing hints, added missing hints, and recomputed shard documentation. Verified coverage, runner behavior tests, workflow lint tests, shell syntax, requested timing maxima, and diff checks
* fix(bearings): keep captain-approved deliveries in Recently Landed

A closed task is never held: tasks-axi clears the held flag when a task
closes and keeps hold-kind and the hold reason as the record of the call
that was made. Recently Landed excluded every Done row whose hold-kind was
captain, so the marker it treated as "closed while still waiting on the
captain" was in fact the proof that the captain had approved the work. Every
merge routed through a captain decision disappeared from the list of what
shipped, including under --all-landed.

The selector now asks whether the closed row delivered something. Recently
Landed is merged PRs, completed scouts, and finished local-only merges, so a
row carrying one of those artifacts belongs there whoever approved it. A
captain question closes with an answer and no artifact of its own, and that
is what still stays out, so an answered question is never rendered as
shipped work.

The same rule was written twice - the bearings projection selects this
home's Done rows and the fleet snapshot selects each secondmate home's Done
rows into the roll-up the same section merges in - which is why one defect
hid deliveries in every home. Both now share bin/fm-landed-lib.sh.

* fix(review): Normalize landed evidence and exclude answered captain questions

* fix(review): Normalize captain delivery evidence across relocated data

* fix(review): Record authoritative delivery provenance with legacy fallback

* fix(review): Harden delivery provenance across forced and pruned completions

* fix(review): Replace premature merge closure with existing release contract

* fix(review): Document provenance-based Recently Landed selection

* fix(document): Align documentation with completion provenance

* fix(lint): Fix targeted ShellCheck warnings

* fix(ci): order the pinned tasks-axi install before its stock-Bash consumers

In `.github/workflows/ci.yml` the pinned tasks-axi install now precedes both
stock-Bash consumers, and the Bearings expectation is updated from 49 to 50
tests.

Verified with macOS Bash 3.2: snapshot 16/16, Bearings 50/50, public-followup
1/1. Full repository lint and all three workflow validations pass, and
`git diff --check` is clean.

* fix(review): Make completion provenance unambiguous

* fix(review): Make completion verdict authoritative over quoted provenance

* fix(review): Preserve retained artifacts through resumed captain closes

* fix(review): Unify completion provenance ordering across writer and reader

* fix(review): Preserve artifacts across failed captain closes

* fix(review): Refresh v1 assertions; provenance authority remains unresolved

* fix(review): Remove unreliable provenance while preserving landed deliveries

* fix(review): Reject stale home summaries visibly

* fix(review): Restore retained deliverable recording

* fix(review): Match landed artifacts and restore retention documentation

* fix(review): Disambiguate captain calls and restore landed artifact matching

* fix(review): Persist retained report and PR artifacts

* fix(review): Preserve staged artifacts before captain answers

* fix(review): Avoid wedging answers on unsupported report paths

* fix(review): Exclude unreleased captain-held pull requests

* fix(review): Exclude held local-only answers from landed

* fix(review): Preserve retained scout reports across snapshot rendering

* fix(document): Align landed lifecycle documentation with release semantics

* fix(review): Enforce landed artifact-kind ownership

* fix(review): Infer canonical task kinds in snapshots

* fix(review): Require captain-hold release before merges

* fix(review): Qualify merge lifecycle regression evidence

* fix(review): Serialize captain holds with merge operations

* fix(review): Document merge cleanup residuals honestly

* fix(test): Replace vacuous Bearings regression with behavioral cases

* fix(document): Align Bearings verification and merge lifecycle documentation

* fix(review): Serialize merges and exclude captain calls from landed

* fix(review): Harden merge identity and landed selection

* fix(document): Clarify landed selector compatibility filtering

* fix(bin): keep merge entrypoints usable on records without an incarnation

The merge identity guard refused any task record with no spawn_gen field.
That field identifies one exact incarnation, so comparing it across the wait
for the merge lock is what catches a task relaunched while the merge was
queued. Requiring it to be present is a different rule, and it refused every
record written before the field existed: a legacy task could no longer be
merged at all, and five behaviour suites refused before reaching the check
they were written to exercise.

The comparison only needs to notice a change. An absent field is now read as
an empty incarnation and compared like any other value, so a record that
gains, loses, or alters one is still refused, while a record that simply
predates the field merges. An ambiguous or unreadable field stays an error,
because a record that cannot name one incarnation cannot be compared. The
missing-record message each entrypoint had before the guard is restored, so
a genuinely absent record still says so in its own words.

The role partition now precedes reading the record. Refusing the supervision
branch is a statement about the actor, not about the task, so it cannot
depend on a record the wrong actor may not have.

A backlog file that does not exist meant "no longer an open captain call".
For a caller that asked to tell absence apart it now means absent, so a board
card whose home carries no backlog stays visible instead of being dropped as
resolved.

Fixture repositories pin their initial branch instead of inheriting
init.defaultBranch, which resolved to main on a developer machine and master
on a runner, so a fixture naming main failed only in CI.

* fix(review): read local-only note from body; surface pending-close failures

* fix(review): keep kindless local-only landings in Recently Landed

* fix(review): bind local-only note scan to the tasks-axi note line

* fix(review): Guard unavailable captain-hold authority records

* fix(document): Document unreadable authority predicate outcome

* fix(bin): read an absent backlog as absence, not an unreadable record

The merge gate refused every task whose home carries no backlog file. A
backlog that does not exist holds no captain call, so nothing can be held and
the merge is safe; only a backlog that exists and cannot be read may hide a
live hold. Those two states were collapsed into one refusal, which stopped
merges in any home that keeps no backlog.

The predicate now reports a missing backlog file as absence, alongside a row
the backlog does not carry. A record that exists but cannot be read still
leaves by the existing cannot-tell path, which both merge entrypoints already
refuse, so the restrictive direction is unchanged.

That leaves no way to reach the separate unavailable-record result, so the
result and the two branches that handled it are removed rather than left
describing an outcome that can no longer occur. The lifecycle documentation
loses the same claim.

Regressions cover both directions in each entrypoint: a home with a task
record and no backlog merges, and a backlog present but unreadable refuses
without reaching the forge.

* fix(review): Fail closed unreadable backend configuration

* fix(tests): pin the bare origin's initial branch in the remote seed fixture

The fixture created its bare origin with no initial branch, so that
repository's HEAD followed init.defaultBranch while the source repository
pushed the branch fm_git_init_commit pins. On a host that still defaults to
master the two disagreed: the bare origin's HEAD named a branch the push never
created, cloning it warned that the remote HEAD referred to a nonexistent ref
and checked out nothing, and the seed assertion for the cloned README failed.

A machine whose default is already main paired the two by accident and hid it,
which is why the fixture passed locally and failed on the runner.

Pinning the bare origin to the same branch removes the dependency on the
ambient default from both sides. Verified under both conditions: with
init.defaultBranch set to master, and set to main, the suite passes 26 of 26.

* fix(review): Fail closed unreadable user backend configuration

* fix(bin): republish the home summary as v1 and record two load-bearing rules

The published home-summary schema had moved to v3, which routed every
secondmate home still emitting the earlier version to the stale branch: their
landed rows, open decisions and holds all came back empty and their state read
as unknown until each home was updated. The payload never justified that. Its
field set, field order, truncations and the landed array construction are
byte-identical to v1, so only which rows the selector places in landed
differs, and a v1 consumer reads that the same way.

Republishing as v1 removes the rollout regression and, with it, the tolerance
machinery that existed only to soften the bump: the stale-schema predicate,
its two collection branches, the flag and its provenance branch, the omitted
surface that can no longer be reached, and the fixtures and assertions that
covered them.

Two rules that a scope review proposed removing are kept, each now carrying
the reason it exists, because both were measured to be load-bearing:

The artifact-kind ownership clause is what keeps an explicit scout that
recorded no report out of Recently Landed. Without it such a row has none of
the three artifacts, satisfies the compatibility fallback and renders as
shipped work with an empty artifact.

The kind fallback is needed because tasks-axi omits the kind metadata
entirely when a title begins with a canonical keyword. Without it a scout
titled "SCOUT ..." reports no kind, its recorded report stops counting as a
delivery, and it drops out of the section this selector exists to repair.

* fix(bin): move the scout guard note onto the rule and drop two dead pieces

The LOAD-BEARING note sat on an unreachable branch. Measured in both
directions: removing that branch together with the kind-is-not-scout guards
lets an explicit reportless scout into Recently Landed and fails
tests/fm-captain-hold-lifecycle.test.sh, while removing the branch alone
leaves that suite passing at 49 assertions. The guards carry the rule, so the
note now sits on them and the unreachable branch is gone. A note pointing a
later reader at the wrong line is the hazard this change corrects elsewhere.

summary_file_has_schema lost its only caller when the stale-schema machinery
was removed, so it goes with it.

* fix(review): Fix legacy report artifacts and canonical keyword boundaries

* fix(review): Update pinned Bearings test count to 56

* fix(document): Clarify landed summary compatibility documentation

* fix(review): Preserve unreadable backend configuration errors

* fix(review): Honor backend resolution errors at existing call sites

* fix(test): Stabilize remote collector tests under host load

* fix(document): Document backend resolution failure contracts

* fix(lint): Suppress intentional deferred probe expansion warnings

* fix(ci): Captain, quoted the two literal test IDs in tests/fm-backlog-atomicity.test.sh to fix SC2100 without changing behavior. Both warnings reproduced before the fix; the targeted fm-lint.sh run now passes with ShellCheck 0.11.0. Bash syntax and git diff --check also pass

* fix(ci): Fixed the resolver’s two configuration-parent checks to return 2 for inaccessible directories while preserving genuine absence. Added two behavioral tests; RED/GREEN and both requested mutation proofs confirmed. All 10 focused checks, targeted lint, syntax, and whitespace checks passed. Broader merge suite stopped after 10 passing cases under host load. Declined portable checks and merge-authority code remain unchanged
* fix(remote): let the Aqua launch agent own the fm-remote Herdr session

A herdr server keeps the macOS audit session of whatever started it, and
only the Aqua login session (gui/<uid>) can read the login keychain
without a prompt. Herdr's SSH remote attach starts the fm-remote server
as its own child when it finds none, wins the socket at boot because sshd
accepts connections before the login session exists, and every claude
pane under that server then gets `security` exit 36, falls back to a stale
plaintext credentials file, and reports "Login expired". launchd's own job
lost the socket on every KeepAlive retry and the doctor still reported the
session ready because it only asked whether any server answered.

- Add bin/fm-remote-herdr-guard.sh, the launch agent's exec target: start
  the server in the foreground when nothing owns the socket, exit 0 when an
  Aqua-born server does, and otherwise stop the foreign server, wait for the
  socket, and exec the server at once.
- Add bin/fm-remote-herdr-owner-lib.sh, the single owner of socket-owner
  discovery (lsof; pgrep cannot see herdr's argv on macOS) and the birth
  markers (SSH_*, XPC_SERVICE_NAME, FM_REMOTE_JOB_ACTIVE, sshd or
  remote-client-bridge ancestry matched on argv[0] and whole arguments).
- Render the agent as the login shell exec'ing the guard with
  KeepAlive={SuccessfulExit=false} and ThrottleInterval=10, check the loaded
  job's successful-exit semaphore, and report a session served outside the
  Aqua login session as fixable so --fix retakes it through launchd; the
  reload waits for an Aqua-born owner rather than any running server.
- Correct the doctor and docs: the launch shell provides environment parity,
  the launchd domain provides keychain access.
- Pin the guard's decision table and the doctor's verdicts against real
  marker-carrying processes, and record the dated audit-session evidence.

* no-mistakes(review): Verify Aqua ownership through launchd domains

* no-mistakes(document): Document macOS lsof ownership requirement
* fix(bin): prefer a live no-mistakes run over a terminal one

A worktree can bind to more than one recorded no-mistakes run at once.
The branch-and-code-identity rule in bin/fm-nm-run-lib.sh accepts both an
exact-equal commit and a worktree-is-an-ancestor match, but never stated
which wins when both bind, so the tie fell to whichever candidate the
caller reached first.

Observed on a live fleet: a crashed validation daemon left a FAILED run
at the worktree's own commit while the live run that replaced it
validated a descendant commit on the same branch. Bare `axi status`
answers with the most-recently-touched run - the corpse - and it bound by
the equal-commit rule, so every recomputation reported `failed` for a
task whose real run was healthy. The same label had also read `failed`
earlier while the work was genuinely stalled, so the signal was wrong in
both directions.

State the live-over-terminal policy in the matching rule's own contract,
where the equal-commit and ancestor rules already live, and add
fm_nm_run_status_class as the one classifier that decides liveness from a
recorded status word. fm-crew-state.sh applies it on both selection
paths: the runs listing now scans past a terminal row for a live one, and
a terminal `axi status` answer is provisional until the listing has been
asked whether this worktree also has a live run.

Same-liveness-class candidates keep the listing's newest-first
precedence, and a status word the classifier cannot place keeps the
caller's own ordering rather than displacing a known result, so a
single-run task and a task whose runs are all terminal are unchanged.

Regression coverage reproduces the proven case (terminal run at the
worktree's exact commit plus a live run descending from it) and its
runs-list twin; both fail under the old tie-break. Two companion cases
pin the no-widening half - two terminal rows still resolve newest-first,
and a terminal run with no live sibling keeps its full run-step detail -
and both pass before and after the change.

* no-mistakes(review): accept unfetched live sibling anchored at exact worktree head

* docs(bin): name both ledger reads behind the runs-limit setting

The FM_CREW_STATE_RUNS_LIMIT comment in bin/fm-crew-state.sh still described
the runs ledger as scanned only by the cross-branch fallback, but the
live-over-terminal fix also consults it as the live-sibling probe behind a
terminal axi status answer. Point the comment at docs/configuration.md as the
setting's owner instead of restating a second copy.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(procevent): make the ordinary stop signal actually stop a runner

The owner guard that shipped in #3904 half-reaps. Against a poll child that
handles the ordinary stop signal and keeps waiting, the guard signals the group,
loses the runner leader to its own signal, then reads that success as a
leaderless group and exits without escalating. It destroys the only proof of
ownership that would have authorised the forced signal, so the survivor becomes
unreachable by retire, reconcile, sweep-home and the guard alike. A guard that
turns a leaking-but-identifiable generation into a permanently unreachable one
is worse than no guard at all.

Two defects, and they hid each other:

- The escalation re-derived ownership from the leader. `runner_group_signal`
  now takes a `proved` mode, passed only by the escalation inside the stop that
  already proved and signalled that exact generation moments earlier. A leader
  dying to our own signal is the ordinary outcome, not fresh ambiguity.
- Every stop held the per-source lock across its wait while the runner's own
  exit cleanup waited unboundedly for that same lock. That circular wait was
  broken only by the forced signal, so the forced signal silently became the
  normal path - and, by keeping the leader alive through the whole window, it
  masked the escalation defect above. The runner's exit cleanup now refuses that
  lock instead of waiting for it, which is what its existing `return 0` already
  said it did.

Fixing the lock alone would have turned every stop of a signal-proof child into
a refusal that leaves it running, so both land together and the tests pin that.

Measured on macOS with a stand-in poll child that traps TERM, INT and HUP:
the guard left it running past 70s and now clears the group within the lease
plus one check; retiring a healthy runner fell from ~2.8s with a forced group
signal every time to ~0.6s on the ordinary signal alone.

Unchanged and stated deliberately: a leader lost to anything other than the
stop's own signal still leaves a group that retire, reconcile, sweep-home and
the guard all refuse, permanently - and that source stops listening without
saying so. Whether such a group may ever be signalled is an open decision and
is not answered here.

* fix(review): Fix proved escalation race and stop regression assertions

* fix(review): Preserve proved escalation through transient identity failures

* fix(review): Simplify proved escalation and correct guard timing documentation

* fix(document): Clarify process-event stop ownership and cleanup limits

* fix(document): Clarify process-event stop ownership and fixture comments

* revert(skills): restore the leaderless-ambiguity limit to the loaded skill

An automatic documentation step in this branch's validation edited
.agents/skills/process-event-sources/SKILL.md, which no instruction in this
change asked it to touch. That file is not documentation about the code: it is
the agent-loaded instruction surface, what an agent reads to know what it is
permitted to do.

The step deleted this line:

  - leaderless PID/PGID-reuse ambiguity preserves the claim without signalling
    or replacement, as owned by the operating contract in
    [`docs/configuration.md`](../../../docs/configuration.md#process-to-event-sources-stateprocevent);

and folded it, with its neighbour, into a generic "registration and ownership
transitions, stop authority, and claim reclamation follow the operating
contract".

That deleted line states a PROHIBITION - that such a group is preserved WITHOUT
SIGNALLING - and it is the exact limit an open captain decision currently rests
on. Folded into a pointer, an agent reading the skill to learn what it may do
would have to chase a second document to discover it may not signal. A
prohibition that requires a second lookup is not a prohibition. The effect was
to weaken, in the instructions themselves, the boundary that keeps one home from
signalling another's process group - while the question of whether that boundary
should move at all is still open.

This is a deliberate revert, not an oversight, and it restores the file exactly
to its pre-branch state. The full statement also survives in
docs/configuration.md; that does not rescue it, because the agent handling a
process-event wake loads the skill and not the documentation.

* revert(procevent): restore the open-question marking beside the escalation

The same automatic documentation step that edited the loaded skill also removed
this from the comment above runner_group_signal:

  A leaderless group nobody in this call ever proved remains refused too, for
  every caller. That untouched refusal is what makes a crashed leader's group
  permanent, and relaxing it is a separate open question, not something this
  path assumes.

and replaced it with a pointer to docs/configuration.md.

This one fails differently from the skill deletion, which is why it is restored
separately. There, a prohibition was moved out of the reader's path, and a
missing prohibition gets violated. Here the prohibition survives in code - the
unproved path still refuses - and what was removed is the fact that the limit is
UNDECIDED. A prohibition that has quietly lost its "this is still open" reads as
settled design, and settled design gets relied on, extended, and eventually
relaxed by someone confident they understand why it is there. That question is
open right now.

The rule this branch's four instances produce, stated once here because this is
the point of decision: an unresolved question must be marked unresolved AT THE
POINT OF DECISION, not only where the contract is documented. A reader who does
not know something is open will treat it as closed, and that default is stronger
than any pointer overcomes.

The pointer added by that step is kept alongside; this restores what it replaced
rather than reverting it.

* docs(verification): restore the measured guard bound and its reason

The document step's rewrite of this record dropped the concrete figure while
keeping the surrounding measurements. What went missing was the bound itself -
lease plus two consecutive failed checks plus the stop's grace, roughly 630
seconds at the shipped 600-second lease and 15-second check - together with the
reason there are two checks rather than one: a single unreadable read must not
be enough to kill a live runner.

The mechanism survived elsewhere and the reason survived in
docs/configuration.md, so nothing was lost from the repository. The concreteness
was, and that is what this restores. A number recorded without why it is that
number is the one a later reader shortens; the reason is the whole safety
argument for the debounce, and the debounce is what stops the reaper killing a
live runner on one bad read.

* fix(document): Replace stale stop-authority summaries with owner pointers

* test(procevent): make the guard-bound case able to fail for its own reason

An automated reviewer observed that this case allowed sixty seconds for a bound
of roughly eight, so it could not go red for the reason it names: it would have
passed a guard that took fifty-five seconds. That is correct, and it is the same
family as the defect the case exists to defend against - a check that is green
because it cannot fail, rather than because the thing it guards is working.

The deadline is now derived from the bound itself - the lease, plus the two
consecutive failed checks the guard debounces on, plus the stop's own ordinary
and forced signal windows - rather than from a flat wall-clock number, and the
shortened lease and check the fixtures run under have a single definition so a
derived deadline cannot silently diverge from the settings the guard is given.
The doubling that remains is a load allowance and is documented as one; widening
it to make a slow guard pass would convert the assertion back into decoration.

Proven by mutation rather than by argument. Against the repaired case:

  correct code                                        ok
  guard debounces on 20 misses instead of 2           not ok - "still holding
                                                      the group after 16s,
                                                      against a documented
                                                      bound of 8s"
  proved escalation removed (the original defect)     not ok - same
  code restored                                       ok

The previous sixty-second version passes every one of those mutations.

The reviewer's other claim, that the guard can survive past the announced bound
when an owner disappears immediately after a check, was measured and does not
hold against what this branch announces. Sweeping the phase deliberately at
0.0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6 and 0.8 of a check interval gave 7.21s, 7.31s, 6.75s, 6.49s
and 6.31s, worst 7.31s, against the announced lease plus two consecutive failed
checks plus stop grace, which is up to 8s at those settings. The mechanism the
reviewer describes is real and is the announced mechanism; the bound it was
measured against is a phrasing this branch no longer carries.

* revert(scope): return the instruction surfaces to their base state

This delivery is being split. It carries the two proven process fixes alone; the
instruction text travels separately, through a run that removes the
documentation step rather than refusing it at its gate.

Two surfaces are therefore returned to exactly what the base branch has, so this
delivery neither adds to them nor removes from them:

  .agents/skills/process-event-sources/SKILL.md - identical to base again. Three
  bullets an automatic documentation step had folded into a pointer, including
  that leaderless PID/PGID-reuse ambiguity preserves the claim WITHOUT
  SIGNALLING and that there is one identity-matched owner per canonical source
  across homes sharing one store.

  The header comment block of bin/fm-procevent.sh, which is what the script
  prints as its own help. Seven lines were removed from it: that a live owner is
  never displaced, that only a claim whose stale owner and independently absent
  process group prove its whole generation gone is reclaimed, that a crashed
  leader or reused pid whose process group still has members cannot relax
  ownership cleanup, and that reconcile signals only a live identity-matched
  runner group and otherwise keeps the claim without starting a replacement.
  The help output is now byte-identical to base.

Neither removal was requested by any instruction in this change, and both were
made to text that predates it. Returning them is scoping, not a third
restoration: nothing is being added to those files here.

* fix(ci): Captain, live CI revealed a fixture deadlock: it suspended the runner before startup released its lock. Added a public-list synchronization barrier in tests/fm-procevent.test.sh. Forced-delay reproduction detected the deadlock before the fix; all four cases passed afterward. Targeted lint, Bash syntax, and whitespace checks passed. Greptile’s watchdog requirement conflicts with the recorded R2 decision; runtime behavior and documentation remain unchanged. Full CI rerun belongs to the outer executor

* test(procevent): make the post-TERM cases report what they saw when they fail

On the failure path only, these cases now print what they actually saw: the
identity recorded at claim time, the identity readable at that moment, the size
of the signals file, the leader's state and wchan, every live member of the
runner's process group with its own state and wchan, the elapsed time since the
stop began, and what retire said. None of it runs when a case passes.

WHY THIS IS KEPT, stated accurately rather than by its original reason. It was
written to make an unexplained CI failure verifiable. That failure is now
explained - it was a fixture deadlock, diagnosed and repaired in the preceding
commit - so that justification has expired and is not the reason given here.
The reason it stays is smaller and independent of that failure: it is already
written, it is small, it sits in the file whose assertion this change reworked,
and an assertion that could not say why it failed cost most of a morning to
diagnose from the outside. The next failure will not be this one.

WHAT A PASSING RUN WOULD NOT MEAN: a pass is a sample of behaviour already
observed many times, not proof that anything is fixed. Only a failure carrying
the evidence above establishes a cause.

* fix(document): Clarify process-event fixture diagnostic rationale

* fix(ci): Captain, fixed two cleanup races in tests/fm-procevent.test.sh: removed premature child completion and waited for runner exit before retiring the restart fixture. Controlled Linux reproductions demonstrated failure before and success after. The full Linux process-event suite, six focused macOS checks, targeted ShellCheck, Bash syntax, and whitespace checks passed. Runtime behavior, guard debounce, and documentation remain unchanged. CI rerun belongs to the outer executor

* fix(procevent): bound owner-guard cleanup at one check interval, not two

A THIRD WAY, not a capitulation to the reviewer and not a refusal of it.

The automated reviewer's grievance was the LOOSENESS OF THE BOUND, not the
number of observations the guard makes before it acts. It asked for a single
read because that was the only route it could see to an acceptable bound. There
was another route, and this change takes it: the bound is reached and both reads
are kept.

TIGHTENED - the SPACING of the guard's two reads, not their number. The owner
watchdog now sleeps half the configured check interval and still requires two
consecutive failing reads, so the pair completes inside one check interval
instead of costing two. Worst-case detection falls from the lease term plus TWO
check intervals to the lease term plus ONE. At the shipped 600s lease and 15s
interval the stated bound falls from ~635s to ~620s.

PRESERVED - the second read. bin/fm-procevent.sh's two-consecutive-miss rule is
untouched. WHY IT PROTECTS: the guard's inputs are a lease read and a state-root
identity read, and either can fail transiently on a live, healthy home. Acting
on the first failure would let one isolated unreadable read kill a live service.
Requiring a second, independent read is what makes that impossible, and it is a
protection rather than padding. Nothing was traded away to reach the bound.

Both properties are now guarded by their own case, and each was proven by
MUTATION rather than asserted:

  - putting a full interval back between the two reads fails the bound case:
    "still running 17.0s after the last owner activity, against a documented
    bound of 15s";
  - acting on one failed read fails the new debounce case: "one unreadable lease
    read ended a runner whose home was still alive" - while the bound case then
    passes FASTER, 9.9s against 13.1s. The unsafe variant being the quicker one
    is exactly why these are two cases: one elapsed-time case would have
    registered the removal of the protection as an improvement.

MEASURED, sampling the phase between the guard's check clock and the lease clock
across eight runs per variant, on macOS (Darwin 25.5.0). Reaping an orphaned
listener whose home stopped refreshing its lease:

  lease 2s / interval 1s:  4.41-5.29s before,  3.48-4.65s after
  lease 2s / interval 4s:  7.69-8.12s before,  5.94-6.13s after

The 4s configuration is the informative one: the gap is about one check
interval, which is precisely the term that was removed.

A previously unstated term of the bound surfaced while measuring: the lease age
is compared in whole seconds, so a configured lease of N is honoured until that
age reads N+1. It is now part of the documented bound and of the regression's
derivation instead of being absorbed into a fudge factor.

The bound regression derives its deadline from the documented bound instead of a
flat number, and PINS the phase between the guard's check clock and the lease
clock rather than sampling it, because with a sampled phase a guard spending two
intervals passes about half the time on a lucky alignment. Its load slack is
additive and stays under half a check interval, so an extra whole interval
cannot hide inside it. The two flat deadlines that were there before (40s and
20s) and the doubling allowance on the derived one are gone; that looseness was
the reviewer's third complaint.

The stop's own grace is untouched: 2s for the ordinary signal, then 2s for the
forced one. It is a ceiling paid only by a group that outlives the signal it was
sent, not a delay every stop pays - a healthy runner's whole retire measures
0.40-0.66s on this host. The reviewer's literal "lease plus one tick" is
unreachable by any implementation, since signalling a process and giving it any
chance to exit takes non-zero time; detection now meets it and the stop runs
inside its own ceiling, and the contract says so rather than glossing it.

NECESSARY BUT NOT SUFFICIENT, and written BEFORE this head's integration runs
start rather than after they report. On the previous head, "Behavior portable
serial 1" and "Behavior portable serial 4" were both CANCELLED at the job
ceiling, independently of this finding. A new head triggers fresh runs, so those
two lanes MAY complete this time. IF THEY DO, THAT IS NOT EVIDENCE THE CEILING
DEFECT IS FIXED. It is one more sample of a lane that has been cut repeatedly
and sometimes is not; the shard-packing repair for it is open separately. Do not
reread a lucky pass here as a resolution.

Relatedly, and deliberately: the per-script duration hint in bin/fm-test-run.sh
was NOT updated even though the two new cases add ~19s of wall clock.
docs/fm-test-portable-shards.md says those hints are replaced wholesale from CI
timing artifacts of green runs, and that repair is the open request doing it; a
hand-edited estimate here would collide with it and silently repack the shards.
This suite runs in portable serial shard 3, which was green in the last run.

Verification: tests/fm-procevent.test.sh green, plus
tests/fm-captain-hold-lifecycle.test.sh, the test-coverage guard, and
bin/fm-lint.sh. The unrelated "reconcile stops a runner whose registration was
removed" case flaked in 4 of 7 local full runs; an isolated 20-trial
reproduction measured it at 13/20 unclean before this change and 11/20 after, so
it is issue 4080 and is not aggravated here.

* fix(procevent): repair our decimal-interval regression and enforce the timing phase

REPAIRED BEFORE PUBLICATION, AND IT WAS OURS. The half-interval arithmetic added
by the previous commit read a zero-prefixed interval as octal: 010 halved to 4
instead of 5, and 08 was not a number at all, so the owner guard died before
reporting ready and the runner failed closed and never listened. The validator
accepts those values and `[` compares them as decimal, so this broke a
configuration that worked before. Introduced by this delivery, found in review,
repaired here. Forcing base ten before the arithmetic is the whole runtime fix.

Proven by driving it rather than by reading the source: a new case starts a real
listener at 08 and at 010 and observes the guard's actual sleep argument - 4s and
5s. Removing the normalisation turns that case red with "a zero-prefixed decimal
interval (08) prevented the listener from starting".

THE TIMING PHASE IS NOW OBSERVED AND ENFORCED, NOT ASSUMED. The bound case
pinned its phase by CONSTRUCTION, from an assumed startup time, and enforced
nothing. Review was right that this is not enough: once startup reaches about two
seconds the expiry lands in a different part of the interval and the case
silently stops rejecting a two-interval guard while still reporting success. A
bound that cannot fail for the reason it names is the defect this whole delivery
exists to correct, so it must not ship inside the fix for it.

Now the lease is synchronised to the guard's own FIRST observed lease read,
every later real read is recorded, and the case REFUSES unless one recorded read
proves the required phase: it read the synchronised reference, it was still
fresh, and it began late enough that two further full intervals could not finish
before the deadline. An unestablished precondition refuses; it does not proceed
on trust. The derived deadline, the two-read debounce and the additive slack are
unchanged, and the slack invariant is now asserted rather than left to a comment.

Review also found the deadline was only ever checked while the group was still
alive, so a sampler descheduled past it would see the group gone and certify
success. The observed completion time is now checked too.

PROVEN BY MUTATION, each one run against this code:

  - remove the decimal normalisation -> the interval case fails on 08;
  - a full interval between the two reads -> "the guard exceeded its bound:
    group still running 17.1s ... against a documented bound of 15s";
  - a full interval WITH startup forced to ~2.5s, which is exactly the condition
    the old construction pin could not survive -> still red, same message;
  - the same ~2.5s startup with the correct guard -> still passes, 13.0s against
    the 15s bound, so the delay alone does not break the case;
  - phase evidence made unavailable -> "could not establish the required
    pre-expiry guard-read phase", a refusal rather than a pass, even though the
    group stopped quickly;
  - act on one failed read -> the debounce case fails and the bound case passes
    FASTER, 9.5s against 12.7s, which is why these remain separate cases.

Verification: full tests/fm-procevent.test.sh green, and bin/fm-lint.sh clean.

* fix(document): Correct process-event timing and debounce comments
* fix(backlog): honor configured task adapters

* no-mistakes(review): Harden backend purity lint against prefixed Beads calls

* no-mistakes(document): Document configured backend lifecycle transitions

* fix(backlog): preserve markdown exemptions

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce backend purity for explicit lint paths

* no-mistakes(document): Update lifecycle backend documentation

* no-mistakes(lint): Remove redundant backend lint pattern

* fix(backlog): close adapter routing gaps

* no-mistakes(review): Honor configured markdown paths and path-qualified Beads lint

* no-mistakes(document): Document environment-selected backlog adapters

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix empty local variable assignment

* fix(backlog): close quoted path gaps

* no-mistakes(review): Reject partially quoted direct Beads commands

* no-mistakes(document): Align lifecycle documentation with configured adapters

* test(backlog): keep structural cases markdown-only

* fix(backlog): honor configured task adapters

* no-mistakes(review): Harden backend purity lint against prefixed Beads calls

* no-mistakes(document): Document configured backend lifecycle transitions

* fix(backlog): preserve markdown exemptions

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce backend purity for explicit lint paths

* no-mistakes(document): Update lifecycle backend documentation

* no-mistakes(lint): Remove redundant backend lint pattern

* fix(backlog): close adapter routing gaps

* no-mistakes(review): Honor configured markdown paths and path-qualified Beads lint

* no-mistakes(document): Document environment-selected backlog adapters

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix empty local variable assignment

* fix(backlog): close quoted path gaps

* no-mistakes(review): Reject partially quoted direct Beads commands

* no-mistakes(document): Align lifecycle documentation with configured adapters

* test(backlog): keep structural cases markdown-only

* no-mistakes(review): Harden markdown lifecycle routing and close recovery

* fix(lint): catch dollar-quoted beads commands

* no-mistakes(review): Drop unused authorized-data-dir param; canonicalize fm-lint ROOT with pwd -P

* no-mistakes(document): Document fm-lint backend-purity check in header and CONTRIBUTING

* no-mistakes(ci): Two failing checks, one code-caused and one attestation-only. 1. Greptile Review (P1: ANSI-C quoting bypasses lint) — REAL DEFECT, FIXED. The backend-purity normalizer in bin/fm-lint.sh (invokes_bd awk function) stripped $'...' quote delimiters without decoding ANSI-C escapes, so a core script containing $'\x62\x64' close fm-example executes as `bd close` while the lint accepted it. Fix: the normalizer now tracks whether a single-quote context came from $' (ansi flag) and decodes ANSI-C escapes while building the command word: \xHH (1-2 hex), \uHHHH / \UHHHHHHHH (4/8 hex), \NNN (1-3 octal), \cX control characters, simple escapes (a/b/e/E/f/n/r/t/v decode to a placeholder that can never spell bd), NUL (value 0) truncates the word per bash C-string semantics, and unknown escapes drop the backslash per bash. Values outside printable ASCII decode to a placeholder so they can neither falsely match nor collide into `bd`. Regression coverage added to the existing lint-interface test test_rejects_direct_beads_cli_invocations in tests/fm-lint.test.sh: $'\x62\x64', $'\142\144' (octal), and b$'\x64' (split word), each written into a fixture and asserted rejected through the real fm-lint.sh executable. Verified regression property: with the fix stashed, the new hex case passes lint (reproduces the reported bypass); with the fix, it is rejected. Verification: all 29 tests in tests/fm-lint.test.sh pass, and the full CI-parity lint (CI=true bin/fm-lint.sh: ShellCheck 0.11.0 full analysis over the canonical set, backend-purity check, and actionlint workflow validation) exits 0. One iteration was needed because an awk comment containing a literal $'\x62\x64' sample broke shell-level quoting (bash -n / SC1001/SC2026); the comment was reworded without quotes. 2. PR must be raised via no-mistakes — NOT code-caused. The check failed with 'Pipeline attestation head_sha does not match the current PR head': the PR body attestation binds to 82b41c7 while the PR head is 1995cdb because a later pipeline push moved the head. This is exactly the stale-attestation condition the user intent describes; it clears when the outer pipeline re-runs 'git push no-mistakes' and re-binds the attestation to the new head (which now includes this Greptile fix). No code change can or should address it. Files changed: bin/fm-lint.sh (ANSI-C escape decoding in the backend-purity normalizer), tests/fm-lint.test.sh (three encoded-bd rejection cases)

* no-mistakes(review): fix tasks.toml hang, root authorization, lint quoting

* no-mistakes(review): validate tasks config before exemption; fix lint quote gap

* fix(backlog): address the markdown backlog as <data>/backlog.md

Resolving the markdown backlog through a configured `[markdown] path` was
scope this task never asked for. It is absent from main, which addresses
`<data>/backlog.md` everywhere, and it came from an earlier review round
rather than the task brief.

Making it effective on the transition path alone put that path at odds
with every other consumer of the same backlog - fm-captain-hold.sh,
fm-session-start.sh, fm-fleet-snapshot.sh, fm-inbox.sh,
fm-backlog-handoff.sh - which all still address `<data>/backlog.md`. In
fm-captain-hold.sh the split was live: its reads had already moved to the
shared gate while its writes had not, so the two could address different
files.

Address `<data>/backlog.md` from the shared gate, delete the unused
resolver, and drop the two tests that pinned the withdrawn behaviour.

What this task actually changes is unaffected: a configured non-markdown
adapter is still addressed by its own root, without `--file`.

* fix(backlog): honor configured task adapters

* no-mistakes(review): Harden backend purity lint against prefixed Beads calls

* no-mistakes(document): Document configured backend lifecycle transitions

* fix(backlog): preserve markdown exemptions

* no-mistakes(review): Enforce backend purity for explicit lint paths

* no-mistakes(document): Update lifecycle backend documentation

* no-mistakes(lint): Remove redundant backend lint pattern

* fix(backlog): close adapter routing gaps

* no-mistakes(review): Honor configured markdown paths and path-qualified Beads lint

* no-mistakes(document): Document environment-selected backlog adapters

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix empty local variable assignment

* fix(backlog): close quoted path gaps

* no-mistakes(review): Reject partially quoted direct Beads commands

* no-mistakes(document): Align lifecycle documentation with configured adapters

* test(backlog): keep structural cases markdown-only

* fix(lint): catch dollar-quoted beads commands

* no-mistakes(review): Drop unused authorized-data-dir param; canonicalize fm-lint ROOT with pwd -P

* no-mistakes(document): Document fm-lint backend-purity check in header and CONTRIBUTING

* no-mistakes(ci): Two failing checks, one code-caused and one attestation-only. 1. Greptile Review (P1: ANSI-C quoting bypasses lint) — REAL DEFECT, FIXED. The backend-purity normalizer in bin/fm-lint.sh (invokes_bd awk function) stripped $'...' quote delimiters without decoding ANSI-C escapes, so a core script containing $'\x62\x64' close fm-example executes as `bd close` while the lint accepted it. Fix: the normalizer now tracks whether a single-quote context came from $' (ansi flag) and decodes ANSI-C escapes while building the command word: \xHH (1-2 hex), \uHHHH / \UHHHHHHHH (4/8 hex), \NNN (1-3 octal), \cX control characters, simple escapes (a/b/e/E/f/n/r/t/v decode to a placeholder that can never spell bd), NUL (value 0) truncates the word per bash C-string semantics, and unknown escapes drop the backslash per bash. Values outside printable ASCII decode to a placeholder so they can neither falsely match nor collide into `bd`. Regression coverage added to the existing lint-interface test test_rejects_direct_beads_cli_invocations in tests/fm-lint.test.sh: $'\x62\x64', $'\142\144' (octal), and b$'\x64' (split word), each written into a fixture and asserted rejected through the real fm-lint.sh executable. Verified regression property: with the fix stashed, the new hex case passes lint (reproduces the reported bypass); with the fix, it is rejected. Verification: all 29 tests in tests/fm-lint.test.sh pass, and the full CI-parity lint (CI=true bin/fm-lint.sh: ShellCheck 0.11.0 full analysis over the canonical set, backend-purity check, and actionlint workflow validation) exits 0. One iteration was needed because an awk comment containing a literal $'\x62\x64' sample broke shell-level quoting (bash -n / SC1001/SC2026); the comment was reworded without quotes. 2. PR must be raised via no-mistakes — NOT code-caused. The check failed with 'Pipeline attestation head_sha does not match the current PR head': the PR body attestation binds to 82b41c7 while the PR head is 1995cdb because a later pipeline push moved the head. This is exactly the stale-attestation condition the user intent describes; it clears when the outer pipeline re-runs 'git push no-mistakes' and re-binds the attestation to the new head (which now includes this Greptile fix). No code change can or should address it. Files changed: bin/fm-lint.sh (ANSI-C escape decoding in the backend-purity normalizer), tests/fm-lint.test.sh (three encoded-bd rejection cases)

* fix(bin): preserve captain calls during teardown (#3595)

* fix(bin): never close a captain call during cleanup

A scout that held its own work item for the captain, which is what
captain-hold-lifecycle prefers ("hold the work item the question gates"),
was closed by bin/fm-teardown.sh's automatic backlog transition. The
completion gate passed, cleanup ran, and the captain's question moved to
Done with no recorded answer: the one thing the policy says must never
happen. `tasks-axi done` closes a held row silently, and nothing in
teardown asked whether the row was the captain's own call.

bin/fm-captain-hold.sh gains the read-only `open` predicate: exit 0 when
the task is still an open captain call, 1 when it is not, 2 when that
cannot be established. It reads the row through the transition library's
backend-aware probe, so it addresses the same backlog teardown does; the
script's other commands now address the configured data directory the
same way instead of FM_HOME, which also fixes captain holds in a home
with a relocated data directory.

Teardown asks `open` before any destructive step and refuses on 2. On 0
only the close changes: after cleanup and still under the task's own
lock, the row gets one "Deliverable of the finished work" line at the end
of its body and returns to Queued through `tasks-axi reopen`, keeping its
hold, so it lands in Captain's Call instead of reading as work under way.
--force does not lift this: it authorizes discarding unlanded work, never
the captain's question. The deliverable goes into the body because
`tasks-axi update --report` rewrites the title of a row that is not Done.

The crash window reuses the pending-close record teardown already stages:
a `mode=retain` line makes the existing replay record the deliverable and
reopen instead of closing, with the same validator, stale-generation
check, cleanup-incomplete marking, and non-blocking bootstrap lock as an
ordinary close. A retained row the captain answered first simply retires
the record. No parallel record type, recovery command, or second bootstrap
loop is introduced.

Regressions run the real executables: the captain-held scout survives
cleanup queued, held, with its deliverable and on the board, only
`answer` closes it, --force keeps it open, and an ordinary scout still
closes with its report; an interrupted cleanup leaves the row untouched
and the next session start retains it; a relocated backlog keeps the
retention in its one configured file; and a ship row whose hold cannot be
read refuses cleanup before anything destructive.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FqdTiHCwTqrAQrz8K2y4Np

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize captain holds and fix backend-aware listing

* no-mistakes(document): Update captain-call retention documentation

* no-mistakes(document): Fix relocated captain-hold backlog diagnostics

* fix(backlog): honor configured task adapters

* no-mistakes(document): Update lifecycle backend documentation

* fix(backlog): close adapter routing gaps

* no-mistakes(review): Honor configured markdown paths and path-qualified Beads lint

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix empty local variable assignment

* fix(backlog): close quoted path gaps

* test(backlog): keep structural cases markdown-only

* no-mistakes(review): Harden markdown lifecycle routing and close recovery

* no-mistakes(review): fix tasks.toml hang, root authorization, lint quoting

* no-mistakes(review): validate tasks config before exemption; fix lint quote gap

* fix(backlog): address the markdown backlog as <data>/backlog.md

Resolving the markdown backlog through a configured `[markdown] path` was
scope this task never asked for. It is absent from main, which addresses
`<data>/backlog.md` everywhere, and it came from an earlier review round
rather than the task brief.

Making it effective on the transition path alone put that path at odds
with every other consumer of the same backlog - fm-captain-hold.sh,
fm-session-start.sh, fm-fleet-snapshot.sh, fm-inbox.sh,
fm-backlog-handoff.sh - which all still address `<data>/backlog.md`. In
fm-captain-hold.sh the split was live: its reads had already moved to the
shared gate while its writes had not, so the two could address different
files.

Address `<data>/backlog.md` from the shared gate, delete the unused
resolver, and drop the two tests that pinned the withdrawn behaviour.

What this task actually changes is unaffected: a configured non-markdown
adapter is still addressed by its own root, without `--file`.

* no-mistakes(review): restore home boundary guard and tighten purity lint

* no-mistakes(review): authorize home boundary for every backlog adapter

* no-mistakes(test): complete tasks-axi stubs in fm-gotmp teardown fixtures

* no-mistakes(document): align backlog transition docs with adapter-neutral addressing

* no-mistakes(review): label adapter data-dir authorization, drop dead row_probe local

* no-mistakes(review): pin markdown backend at relocated-data addressing roots

* no-mistakes(document): point lint-definition mention at fm-lint.sh header

* no-mistakes(document): point mutate comment at adapter addressing owner

* no-mistakes(review): Fix leftover-symlink refusal on non-markdown homes; hoist config check and lint/dedup cleanups

* no-mistakes(document): Align fm-lint purity scope header with bin/backends

---------

Co-authored-by: Kun Chen <3233006+kunchenguid@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(bin): stop false watcher-down alarms on long Claude turns

A healthy Stop auto-arm rewake or open claim already explains a mid-turn
beacon that has aged past grace, because turn-end will re-arm. Keep the
supervision-off banner for a missing, failed, or exhausted generation.

* no-mistakes(review): Bind Claude rewakes to active recovery generation

* no-mistakes(document): Document Claude long-turn supervision exception

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix empty ShellCheck assignment

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed all reported CI failures: quoted the hyphenated recovery-delivery value to satisfy ShellCheck SC2100, and updated the session-lock auto-arm fixture to emit the recovery marker and watcher beacon now required for a valid rewake. Verified fm-session-lock-ancestry, fm-test-run, stale-banner, Claude auto-arm, targeted lint, ShellCheck, and workflow lint checks pass
* fix(herdr): classify a gone session's endpoint as recoverable

A task whose Herdr endpoint could not be read was classified `unreadable`,
which blocks recovery by design. The commonest reason that read fails is
that the recorded session's server is not running at all - a host reboot, a
server exit, a session never restored - and that is authoritative absence
for every pane in that session, not an ambiguous answer about one of them.
Tasks in that state had no sanctioned way back.

The recovery-grade read now settles an uninterpretable pane read with the
session server's own `.server.running` state: positively stopped reads
`missing`, while a running server, or a server state that cannot itself be
read, still reads `unreadable`. Resting the verdict on that field rather
than on the `server_not_running` error code is what keeps it working across
Herdr 0.8.x and 0.9.0, since the field is present on both and the code is
not.

Only that one boundary is widened. The husk classifier under it stays
strict, so duplicate prevention, rollback, and teardown - the paths that can
destroy something - keep refusing on exactly the reads they refused on
before.

Separately, a relaunch refused outright when the endpoint's shell had
drifted out of the recorded worktree. An agent's own exit routinely leaves
its shell somewhere else, so that refusal stranded tasks whose work was
sitting untouched on disk. The shell is now told once to return, and only a
shell that will not go refuses; the replacement still never starts outside
the copy holding the work.

Herdr 0.8.x is not installed on this host, so protocol-20 coverage is
structural plus the adapter fixture exercising both response shapes, and is
recorded as such rather than as a live result.

Fixes #4091.

* no-mistakes(review): Restrict drift recovery to Herdr endpoints

* no-mistakes(review): Correct Herdr recovery verification coverage

* no-mistakes(document): Document Herdr endpoint recovery boundaries
* fix(bin): keep an escalated undelivered handoff wake retryable

A remote backlog handoff holds its outbox until the backlog receipt and
the receiver wake are both confirmed, and retries the wake under the same
pending-reply correlation on every resume. When that wake's remote
transport was lost, the correlation stayed undelivered in delivery_unknown
and the watcher's next pending-reply tick escalated it. Both the reuse
predicate and the known-undelivered reset refused an escalated record, so
the resume refused to resend the wake forever and every later handoff to
that mate jammed behind the outbox.

Treat an escalated record with no confirmed delivery as the undelivered
correlation it is: fm_pending_reply_corr_reusable accepts it for its own
task and fm_pending_reply_reset_known_undelivered returns it to
awaiting_report for the idempotent remote resend, while a delivered
record is still never reset and a missed-report escalation keeps its
meaning. The published delivery-unknown decision stays open until the
record resolves, so a repeat loss neither re-notifies nor strands it.

Reproduce the deadlock end to end in the remote handoff test (lost wake
transport, watcher escalation, resume) and pin the predicate contract in
the pending-reply suite; the fm-send fixture that pinned the refusal now
uses a genuinely stale delivered escalation.

* no-mistakes(review): Decouple durable outboxes from best-effort wake retries

* no-mistakes(review): Align handoff documentation with durable receipt release policy

* no-mistakes(review): Handle unrecordable wake state as dropped

* no-mistakes(review): Prevent stale wake markers blocking handoffs

* no-mistakes(review): Prevent stale delivered markers suppressing new wakes

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify retry escalation decision lifecycle

* no-mistakes(document): Document pending receiver wake retries
* docs: bound the mandatory captain address to the chat channel

AGENTS.md's opening address rule said "address the user as captain at
least once in every response" and never said what a response is. The
artefact exclusion two lines below governed only the optional nautical
seasoning, not the mandatory address. An agent that reads this file
without being the first mate - a pipeline corrector agent running inside
a copy of this repo - therefore read the obligation as applying
everywhere and the exclusion as applying only to flavour, and opened its
delivery message with "Captain,". That reading was correct.

Patch the existing owner rather than adding a rule elsewhere:

- bound the obligation to chat messages sent to the captain;
- state the artefact exclusion once, explicitly binding every agent that
  reads this file whether or not it is the first mate, and naming commit
  messages, PR and issue descriptions, briefs, code and comments;
- fold the seasoning under the same bound instead of carrying a second,
  narrower copy of the exclusion.

The obligation itself is unchanged: the captain is still addressed in
every chat message.

AGENTS.md goes from 603 to 602 lines: the redundant "never send a
response with zero direct address" clause and the duplicated seasoning
exclusion pay for the new bound.

The two cross-references that paraphrased the unbounded wording
(bin/fm-parent-channel-lib.sh's header and
docs/secondmate-parent-channel.md's problem statement) now match the
owner; neither restates the rule.

* fix(review): Limit address exclusions to artifacts while preserving public replies

* fix(document): Consolidate captain address guidance
* fix(herdr): close persisted-focused tabs when no live client is attached

The teardown active-tab guard treated Herdr's last-focused pointer as a live viewer, so detached sessions could not close panes on that tab.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* fix(herdr): allow detached seeded-tab prune after live-client gate

Projection create still restored the persisted focused tab after a successful prune, so a detached last-focused seeded tab still quarantined the spawn.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* fix(herdr): probe live client after seeded prune only when that tab was focused

The extra title-clear read after every prune shifted canned CLI fixtures and failed projection create.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* no-mistakes(review): Tighten Herdr active-tab close guard

* no-mistakes(review): Guard Herdr mutations with fresh target focus

* no-mistakes(document): Document Herdr live-viewer teardown guard

---------

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* fix(bin): escalate decision-owned wakes once as the decision

The away-mode daemon treated a needs-decision: queued payload as an
unknown wake, so suppression markers never committed and the same open
decision re-escalated on every poll.

Classify that payload through the existing signal path so it escalates
once, labelled as the decision, and an unchanged repeat is suppressed
on the same terms as any other signal.

Fixes #4096

* no-mistakes(review): Escalate captain-held decision-owned rows once as the decision

* no-mistakes(review): Self-handle captain-held decision-owned rows instead of escalating them

* no-mistakes(document): Name away daemon as needs-decision payload reader
* test(herdr): pin leftover-shell vs live-idle via agent get

Herdr 0.9.0 already distinguishes a Pi that exits to a surviving pane shell
from a sibling live idle occupant. Pin that pair through agent get and the
recovery classifier so a lagged pane-get status cannot silently reclaim the
leftover shell as alive.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* no-mistakes(document): Document Herdr leftover-shell liveness regression

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed Lint failure SC2034 by replacing the unused wait-loop variable with `_`. Verified with the pinned project lint command, Bash syntax check, and git diff check

---------

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* ci: rebalance the portable parallel lanes on measured runner durations

Both portable parallel lanes are capped at 10 minutes. Lane 1 was cancelled at
that cap on every request raised on 2026-09-10 while lane 2 finished in about
3.5 minutes, so no request could go green.

CONTRACT CLASS: RESTORE.
The workflow already promises two duration-balanced lanes and the shard
documentation already claims a measured wall; this re-establishes both against
what the lanes now cost, and changes no lane count, no cap, and no scope of what
runs. The counter-argument, so nobody has to take that on trust: two pieces here
are genuinely new rather than restored, and either could be argued to make this
a NEW-behavior change. `--list-scheduled` now ranks a parallel lane on measured
durations where it previously handed every parallel script the serial default
weight and returned an alphabetical order; and `--check-coverage` gains three
reported fields. I classify the change RESTORE because both exist only to make
the already-promised property checkable, but they are named here rather than
folded into the restoration.

=== PART 1: THE TOTAL, AND HOW IT WAS OBTAINED ===

This section stands on its own. It establishes what the parallel set costs. It
derives no packing; Part 2 does that, from this number.

THE TOTAL: 828568 ms, about 13 min 49 s of serial work across the 24 scripts.
Lane 1 held 624299 ms of it and lane 2 held 204269 ms, a 3.06:1 split.

HOW IT WAS OBTAINED. The difficulty was that lane 1 had never finished, so its
duration did not exist as a recorded figure anywhere and no timing artifact was
expected for it. It turned out to be recoverable from the real lane without
estimating, by two routes, across six CI runs on 2026-09-10 (34459949083,
34460760299, 34462530836, 34462758357, 34466966385, 34470382458):

  - Run 34462758357's lane-1 job finished its suite 18 s BEFORE the wall and
    uploaded a complete fm-test-timing-portable-parallel-1 artifact carrying all
    11 scripts, FM_TEST_SUMMARY total=11 failed=0 duration_ms=598225. The
    upload step is if: always(), so the cancellation did not suppress it. This
    is one full, untruncated lane-1 measurement.
  - The five other lane-1 jobs were cancelled mid-suite, but each logs every
    script that had already finished as an FM_TEST_END duration_ms= marker.
    Those per-script records are complete measurements of completed scripts;
    only the script in flight at cancellation is lost, and it differs by run.

Lane 2 completed in all six runs, so its scripts come from the six uploaded
fm-test-timing-portable-parallel-2 artifacts.

Every one of the 24 scripts therefore carries at least one untruncated
measurement: 20 of them measured in all six runs, two in three or four runs, and
two (fm-brief, fm-transition-lib, the tail of lane 1) in the single complete run.
Each hint is the SLOWEST value that script reached, so the total is an upper
envelope rather than an average. NO FIGURE IN IT IS DERIVED FROM A TRUNCATED
LANE, and no lower bound was ever extrapolated into a total.

THE ENVIRONMENT, AND WHETHER IT TRANSFERS. Every hint is a serial run of the
real portable parallel lane on a GitHub ubuntu-latest runner, produced by the
lane's own CI job. It transfers because it is not a proxy for the lane; it is
the lane. Nothing in the total came from this machine or from any harness of
mine.

That mattered, and here is what it would have cost. A same-day macOS
cross-check of the same scripts ran 1.7x to 5.0x slower with the ratio varying
per script (fm-test-run 157420 ms against 92944 ms, fm-x-mode 67217 ms against
31870 ms, fm-composer-ghost 10521 ms against 2120 ms). Local timings therefore
do not scale the lane, they REORDER it, so a packing derived from them would
have balanced the wrong thing while looking clean.

WHAT IT REPLACES, which is the root cause. The lanes were packed from the
2026-08-20 concurrent isolation proof: 24 candidates across four LOCAL workers.
That record answers whether the candidates are isolation-safe, not how long a
SERIAL CI lane runs, so it was structurally incapable of representing lane wall
clock even when it was fresh. It was also never refreshed while the set grew
about 3.2x. Both the wrong instrument and the staleness are fixed here: the
hints now come from the lane itself and carry their run ids and date.

=== PART 2: THE SPLIT DERIVED FROM THAT TOTAL ===

Longest-processing-time assignment over those hints gives 414269 ms and
414299 ms, 30 ms apart, against 624299/204269 before.

tests/fm-pi-primary-types.test.sh stays in lane 1 because that is the job which
installs the Pi package, so ci.yml needs no step changes.

=== PART 3: DOES THE MARGIN SURVIVE MACHINE VARIANCE ===

Stated explicitly, because 6.90 min against a 10 min cap is 69% of cap before
any variance is applied, and the cap covers the whole job rather than the suite.

  worst lane, script time                         414299 ms   6.90 min
  job overhead, measured on the real lane             ~18 s   (see below)
  expected healthy job                            ~432300 ms  7.21 min
  x1.29 on the script time, plus overhead         ~552400 ms  9.21 min
  cap                                             600000 ms  10.00 min
  room left after the multiplication                ~47.6 s   7.9% of cap

The 1.29x is the runner variance measured today on the SIBLING SERIAL lane, as
supplied; it is not this lane's own figure. This lane family does have its own,
and it is tighter: the six full lane-2 sums today span 192939 ms to 203451 ms,
a spread of 1.054x. At that figure the worst lane lands near 7.58 min with about
2.4 min of room. I have used the LARGER, borrowed 1.29x for the verdict rather
than the tighter one this lane actually shows, and note that the hints are
already per-script maxima, so 1.29x on top is conservative twice over.

THE MARGIN SURVIVES THE MULTIPLICATION, so this proceeds rather than stopping.
The 18 s overhead is measured, not assumed: in run 34462758357 the lane-1 job
ran 10 min 16 s against a 598.2 s suite, and lane 2 ran 3 min 21 s against a
192.9 s suite, a ~10 s difference that matches lane 1's extra Pi package install.

The cap is unchanged, the lane count is unchanged, and nothing in the serial
lane, its shard count, its guard or its hint table is touched.

=== PART 4: THE RECORDED FACT ===

The workflow comment no longer restates the shard wall as a literal, which is
how "~1 min of serial sum" survived a 10x change without announcing it. It now
points at bin/fm-test-run.sh --check-coverage, which prints parallel_max_ms,
parallel_imbalance_ms and parallel_unhinted derived from the hint table, so the
current number is computed on demand. The shard documentation carries the dated
run ids, which route it was taken by, and the local cross-check that shows why
local numbers are not admissible as hints.

Two regressions pin what rotted: lane membership must be stored
longest-measured-first, and the lanes must be fully hinted and packed within 5%
of each other. Both were run against the old composition and both fail on it
(420030 ms imbalance against a 624299 ms worst lane). The ordering assertion they
replace named a specific script by hand and had itself gone stale.

=== PART 5: NAMED AND LEFT, OUTSIDE THIS REBALANCE ===

tests/fm-captain-hold-lifecycle.test.sh alone is 296481 ms, 36% of the whole
set, so it is the floor of any two-lane split: no repacking can put a lane below
it. After this rebalance the cap is about 1.45x the healthy lane where the
sibling serial lane keeps roughly 2x.

Nothing refuses a stale parallel hint the way PORTABLE_SERIAL_MAX_UNHINTED_PERCENT
bounds the serial lane. parallel_unhinted is reported, not enforced, which is
what let this drift for three weeks unnoticed.

* fix(review): Restrict parallel scheduling hints to portable parallel lanes

* fix(document): Clarify parallel lane scheduling and timing evidence
pr_for_task fell back to scraping the whole status log with tail -1, so
any PR URL a worker ever mentioned in prose - including a scout citing
someone else's PR - became the task's delivered PR in the parent-channel
terminal report. Recorded meta pr= is now the only authoritative source,
the fallback scrape accepts only a preferred terminal line in a mode's
ready-signal shape (done: PR <url> or done: PR <url> checks green), and
a scout never carries pr= at all.
* fix(procevent): stop a dead runner owning a source and reconcile reporting it

The captain answered ten calls on a bearings board, the board accepted
them, and nothing collected them. He had to answer all ten again in chat.
A surface that presents as armed while being a dead drop is worse than one
that visibly fails, because the answers looked recorded.

Two independent defects, reproduced together in an isolated home where
reconcile reports started=1 on every run while ownership never moves and
no runner ever attaches.

1. reconcile counted a launch it never verified. detach_runner is
   fire-and-forget and discards the child's stderr, so a runner that died
   before it could claim was counted exactly like one that is listening.
   Launches are now confirmed - the source observed owned, or its runner
   record moved - before being reported as started; the rest are reported
   as failed= with a non-zero exit. The runner-record clause is what keeps
   a fast-completing source from being reported as a failure when it
   finished between two polls. One bounded window covers a whole cycle's
   launches, so a home full of broken sources costs the same wait as one.

2. A claim whose whole generation is provably gone could be refused
   forever. Reclaiming it ran cleanups over that dead generation's own
   leftovers, and any failure vetoed the claim - permanently, because none
   of those conditions clears on its own. Every one of those leftovers is
   keyed by the dead generation's claim token and a replacement always
   claims a fresh one, so none can collide with what replaces it.
   fm_procevent_claim_capture_reservation_reclaim_locked already said this
   for the reservation record; the staging file and the shape check on the
   registry directory recorded to hold it now take the same rule. Removing
   the claim record itself stays a hard precondition: two owners is the one
   outcome worse than none.

Two smaller repairs to the same "registered is not listening" confusion:

- `list` reported OWNER=none for a source nothing can claim. A reused PID
  whose process group survives reaches that state through the stale branch
  rather than the leaderless one, so it read as an idle source waiting to
  be started - the reassuring answer this surface gave while a board
  collected nothing. It now reports the orphaned state it shares.
- reconcile relaunched into that same unclaimable state on every cycle,
  spawning a runner that could only die on the claim. docs/configuration.md
  already promised it preserves such a claim without starting a
  replacement; the code now does that and reports it as uncertain.

This is NOT a third instance of today's two lock-identity defects
(4e1bf9aa and its replayed predecessor). Those were wrong liveness
predicates: a reused PID read as a live holder, then an exec'd holder read
as dead. Here the predicate is right - the code correctly proves the owner
dead and refuses the claim anyway, on a condition unrelated to liveness.

Regression coverage, each failing on the parent commit for its own reason:
- tests/fm-procevent.test.sh: a source that cannot start is reported as
  failed rather than started; a dead generation whose leftovers cannot be
  tidied no longer keeps owning its source (the parent reports a start
  while nothing ever runs); the existing reused-PID fixture now also
  asserts the orphaned listing and that no doomed relaunch is reported.
- tests/fm-captain-hold-lifecycle.test.sh: a board answer reaches the
  keyed-answer intake through the runner end to end - durable capture, the
  wake, and the closed task carrying the captain's selection. This one
  passes on the parent, because that chain was never what broke.

fm-procevent 100, fm-bearings-board 18, fm-captain-hold-lifecycle 50,
fm-procevent-when 13 and fm-procevent-quota 18 pass; bin/fm-lint.sh and
bin/fm-doc-audience-check.sh clean. tests/fm-extension-binding.test.sh has
two failures identical on the parent commit (EACCES on package install in
this sandbox) and unrelated to this change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016gxgshn5jkWJ3GEYWy7vTG

* no-mistakes(review): confirm reconcile launches on durable launch stamps

* no-mistakes(review): announce stranded sources and refuse bad confirm windows

* no-mistakes(review): announce leaderless strands, bound confirm window, fix recovery docs

* no-mistakes(review): announce unconfirmed launches once per episode, qualify start reclaim

* no-mistakes(review): nonce launch-failed keys, refuse bad window at arm

* no-mistakes(review): state only observed launch outcome, shorten episode nonce

* no-mistakes(test): assert launch-failed headline not re-delivered, allow recovery wake

* no-mistakes(document): docs: cover strand and launch-failure wakes in skill trigger and verification record

* no-mistakes(lint): restructure SC2015 chain into explicit if-block

* test(watch-triage): fix two timing-exposed defects the pipeline found

Both surfaced in the no-mistakes test step on this branch, each failing one
full run of tests/fm-watch-triage.test.sh; neither was accepted as a flake to
retry past.

1. The new launch-failed delivery test assumed an already-surfaced key never
   wakes the watcher again. That is false: a fresh watcher legitimately
   re-surfaces any unacknowledged queue row through its downtime-recovery
   path ("check: rearm-resurface"), so the assertion failed whenever a
   re-arm landed between its two checks. The pipeline's own fix tolerated any
   wake lacking the repeated key's headline; this tightens it to exactly one
   tolerated reason, by its exact line, with a failure message that names the
   expectation so a reworded path reads as "the tolerated recovery path
   changed" rather than as a mystery - and so nobody restores the strict
   silence check. The positive assertion (a fresh-suffix key is delivered
   under its own headline) is unchanged.

2. seed_captured_procevent_result retired its source in the gap between the
   runner publishing its wake and releasing its claim, so retire read the
   exiting runner's ownership as uncertain and refused ("cannot confirm
   runner identity"). The fixture and retire path pre-date this branch; the
   confirm window returns reconcile closer to the moment of capture, which
   made the gap easier to hit. The fixture now waits, bounded, for the claim
   release the publish promises, with the reason at the wait.

Verified on this head with tasks-axi on PATH: fm-watch-triage 113/113 with
no skips, fm-procevent 106/106, fm-captain-hold-lifecycle 50/50,
fm-watch-arm 15/15, fm-bearings-board 18/18, fm-procevent-when 13/13,
fm-procevent-quota 18/18; bin/fm-lint.sh and bin/fm-doc-audience-check.sh
exit 0. First attempt, no retries.

* no-mistakes(document): docs: route stranded and launch-failed wakes in skill handling

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(herdr): verify agent registrations at process level before trusting them

Herdr keeps a Pi registration (`agent get` -> agent=pi, agent_status=idle)
after the Pi process has exited to a plain shell whenever a nested interactive
shell sits under the pane's top shell, which is the crew shape `treehouse get`
leaves behind. The pane classifier trusted that registration alone, so
`fm-control.sh <id> relaunch`, `fm-spawn.sh --relaunch`, and the crew-state
recovery read all treated a shell-only pane as a live agent and refused
recovery for as long as the record lived.

The Herdr adapter now reads `pane process-info` plus the real process table
through a shared harness-process classifier (bin/fm-agent-process-lib.sh,
moved verbatim out of the tmux adapter so both backends mean the same thing by
agent, shell, and other) before a registered agent counts as live. A
registration over a shell-only pane is the new explicit `stale-agent` pane
state, which the recovery-grade read maps to `dead`; husk detection, reclaim,
presentation recovery, and session cleanup keep refusing it, so recovery reuses
the pane and nothing gains close authority. A working record is verified the
same way before the native busy verdict reports busy, so the recovery
classifier never reports a shell-only pane as working. An unreadable process
view reads unknown, trusting neither the registration nor its absence.

Reproduced and measured on Herdr 0.9.0 with Pi 0.85.1 in an isolated lab; the
new default-on live guard tests/fm-herdr-pi-stale-registration-live-e2e.test.sh
exercises the real stale record, tests/fm-control-herdr-smoke.test.sh proves
exit and relaunch through the control plane, and the portable suites pin the
classifier over real processes.

Fixes #4115. Duplicates: #3639, #3487, #2908, #3545.

* no-mistakes(review): settle transient prompt helpers before trusting herdr process state

* no-mistakes(review): drop stray codegraph file; read spaced comm whole in descendant walk

* no-mistakes(review): untrack stray .codegraph/.gitignore

* no-mistakes(review): untrack codegraph file; make spaced-path walk test discriminating

* no-mistakes(review): untrack stray .codegraph/.gitignore

* no-mistakes(review): untrack stray .codegraph/.gitignore re-added by fix round

* no-mistakes(review): untrack stray .codegraph/.gitignore

* no-mistakes(review): untrack codegraph file, drop dead control case, record process-info floor

* no-mistakes(review): refuse stale-agent on fresh herdr spawn preflight

Documented non-goal: fresh-spawn, reclaim, and presentation-recovery auto-recovery for a stale-agent pane is a separate design change, out of scope here, to be proposed upstream as its own issue if wanted.

* no-mistakes(test): Fix herdr flake: don't misread transient empty foreground as unreadable

* no-mistakes(document): Add fm-agent-process-lib.sh to scripts inventory

* no-mistakes(fix): update remote herdr fixture to the real pane process-info shape

The shared remote-secondmate herdr fixture still returned the old flat
process-info body ({"result":{"process":{"name":...}}}). The process-level
liveness classifier added for #4115 requires the real
{"result":{"type":"pane_process_info","process_info":{...foreground_processes}}}
shape and treated the old body as unreadable, so an already-launched remote
endpoint's agent-state read failed and any relaunch attempt against it died
with "remote endpoint state is unreadable; refusing duplicate launch"
instead of reaching the state it was actually exercising
(tests/fm-remote-secondmate-parent-binding.test.sh,
tests/fm-remote-secondmate-lifecycle-e2e.test.sh).

* no-mistakes(review): test: add empty-foreground regression test for herdr flake fix

* no-mistakes(document): docs: register new stale-registration live-e2e test in herdr entry points
* Bind GitHub merges to a live green head and require an away-task grant.

A GitHub merge now re-reads the pull request and passes
--match-head-commit, so a red or moved head cannot land the way GitLab
already refused. While an away record exists, only yolo or a named
grant may merge, so hold-for-return cannot ship an ungated PR.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* no-mistakes(review): Harden away merge authorization and grant parsing

* no-mistakes(review): Restrict fallback outcomes to proved GitHub merges

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh merge safety documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed all three CI failures by updating legacy GitHub merge fixtures for live-head verification/direct gh merges and removing a process-event runner cleanup race. Verified fm-pr-check-security, fm-captain-hold-lifecycle, and fm-watch-triage pass locally; shell syntax and git diff checks also pass

* no-mistakes(document): Document attended red-check exception

---------

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
The --claude guard's re-block budget charged the auto-arm ledger epoch, not
the re-block: `budget_account_current_epoch` advanced the session count only
when `state/.claude-autoarm-epoch` named a different generation than the
previous accounting. The epoch advances only inside the auto-arm hook's
generation claim, so a hook kept inert before that claim - a session lock
held by a live harness outside its ancestry, a hook that never fires, or an
identity or write failure ahead of `fm_autoarm_claim_next` - left the ledger
frozen at its last outcome and the count frozen with it. Reproduced in a
fixture: twelve consecutive Stops re-blocked with the count at 0 and the
attended fail-open never fired, leaving only Claude's silent 8-block
override, the blind end the bounded alarm exists to prevent.

The budget now charges a re-block against an epoch the previous re-block
already charged, while still charging each epoch at most once per Stop so
the wait loop's repeated observations of one fresh terminal outcome and the
same invocation's block decision cannot double count. The advancing-epoch
progression is unchanged: three re-blocks, then one attended fail-open for a
verified failure episode, and a frozen epoch now follows the same shape.
Budget exhaustion without a verified failure still blocks, by the existing
contract, and positive watcher recovery still clears the whole episode.

Regression coverage drives the real auto-arm hook against a foreign session
lock holder, asserts the ledger itself stays frozen, and fails before the fix
in both the verified and unverified shapes; the existing unverified budget
test now proves its budget actually ran out.
* feat(herdr): attach a real foreground viewer so the live-client teardown cases can be driven

PR #4131 gated the Herdr active-tab close refusal on a live foreground client
instead of the persisted `.focused` pointer, but only its two detached
scenarios could be validated live. Every pseudo-terminal the runner built
started at a zero-sized window grid, so Herdr registered no foreground client
and `terminal title clear` kept answering `no_foreground_client`, leaving the
four attached-client scenarios untested. That was a harness limit, not a
product one.

Add `fm-herdr-lab.sh viewer start|stop <session>`, backed by
`bin/fm-herdr-lab-viewer.py`. The launcher sets the pty window size on the
master fd BEFORE the fork, so the TUI cannot read the grid until it is already
non-zero, and scrubs the inherited `HERDR_*` variables so Herdr's nested-viewer
refusal does not fire when the helper runs inside one of its own panes. Attach
and detach are both confirmed against the session's own foreground-client
reason rather than assumed from a signal.

The viewer inherits the lab's isolation contract: it attaches only to a session
carrying this lab's ownership tripwire, never to `default`, and it signals only
the processes it recorded, so a client someone else attached is never touched.
Teardown now refuses while an owned viewer is still attached.

Turn the reproduction into the regression with
`tests/fm-herdr-attached-viewer-live-e2e.test.sh`, which drives #4131's
scenarios 3, 4, 5, and 7 live against real Herdr and asserts the close refusal
fires. Scenarios 4 and 5 need a focus change at one exact product boundary, so
a PATH shim performs the real `tab focus` when the close helper issues its
planning `pane get`. Removing either half of the recipe from the launcher makes
the guard fail with the same `no_foreground_client` symptom #4131 reported.

* test(herdr): fail loudly when an attached-viewer fixture cannot be created

The fixture helpers run inside command substitutions, where fail() exits only
the subshell and leaves the script running with empty ids. Return non-zero
instead and carry the message at each call site.

* fix(herdr): stop the viewer launcher's kill timer from raising on an exited child

The SIGALRM escalation called os.kill unguarded, so a viewer that exited
during the grace window turned an ordinary shutdown into a traceback inside
the signal handler.

* docs: list the lab viewer's pty engine in the bin toolbelt

* no-mistakes(review): Harden Herdr viewer ownership and live CI coverage

* no-mistakes(review): Validate viewer startup timeout and process ownership

* no-mistakes(document): Document Herdr viewer safety contracts

* no-mistakes(review): Fix viewer timeout to two seconds

* no-mistakes(review): Cancel timed-out viewers and fix PTY grid

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize viewer transitions and verify process parentage

* no-mistakes(review): Harden viewer ownership locks and deduplicate CI

* no-mistakes(review): Release interrupted locks and preserve viewer escalation

* no-mistakes(review): Remove viewer locks and cancel interrupted launches

* no-mistakes(review): Close viewer launch signal races

* no-mistakes(document): Document attached Herdr viewer regression
* fix(bootstrap): allow nonvisual work without Lavish

* no-mistakes(review): Gate scout brief Lavish line on bootstrap version floor
* fix(tests): isolate fixture Git configuration from host preferences

Ignore global and system Git configuration in the shared test library,
which all four fixture helper entry points source. Keep local config,
command-line overrides and explicitly supplied test config usable without
changing the caller's environment or real project signing preferences.

Exercise global and system signing inputs through all four helpers, real
fixture and child commits, explicit signing overrides, unchanged input
files, and signing refusal outside fixture subprocesses.

Verification evidence for issue #3770:
On pristine upstream f09de8a3, all 12 reported suites failed and each logged
"No secret key" using a private GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL containing
commit.gpgsign=true and gpg.format=openpgp, GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM=1, and an
empty private GNUPGHOME (GIT_CONFIG_COUNT and GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS unset).
With this change, all 12 pass in the identical environment through
bin/fm-test-run.sh --per-script-timeout-secs 900:
fm-backlog-atomicity, fm-bootstrap-network-parallel, fm-bootstrap,
fm-crew-state, fm-fleet-sync, fm-gate-refuse, fm-grok-harness,
fm-session-start, fm-sessionstart-nudge, fm-tangle-guard, fm-test-run,
and fm-update (all tests/<name>.test.sh).
The new fm-test-fixtures regression failed before the library change and
passes after it. Canonical bin/fm-lint.sh passes.

Additional verification exposed fm-teardown's
herdr-preflight-missing-adapter assertion on both this branch and an
unchanged f09de8a3 archive with signing neutralized. That pre-existing
failure needs separate disposition; it is not repaired or skipped here.
The separately owned Muse and composer fixture defects remain untouched.

Fixes #3770

* no-mistakes(review): Complete fixture Git isolation and scope config assertions

* no-mistakes(review): Share Git isolation across standalone fixture entry points

* no-mistakes(review): Map git-config helper changes to lib.sh dependents

* no-mistakes(review): Select fixture-isolation regression on runner change; halve config matrix

* no-mistakes(review): Scope fixture-isolation regression selection to the runner alone

* no-mistakes(document): Give fixture Git isolation helper its owning header

* no-mistakes(document): Record fixture Git-isolation coverage in fixtures suite header

* no-mistakes(review): Fix linked-worktree fixtures and remove redundant Git isolation

* no-mistakes(document): Correct stale runner-selection documentation

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify family antecedent in isolation-proof runner evidence
* feat(spawn): add config/claude-permission-mode to launch Claude workers in auto mode

Every Claude worker launched with --dangerously-skip-permissions, and a
captain who refuses bypass mode had no way to select Claude Code's
classifier-reviewed auto mode instead. A new one-token local config,
config/claude-permission-mode, selects the permission flag for every
Claude launch: absent or `bypass` keeps today's launch byte-for-byte,
`auto` swaps in --permission-mode auto, and any other value refuses the
spawn before any endpoint, worktree, or record exists and names the
accepted values.

fm-spawn resolves the file on every spawn and relaunch, threads the flag
through the Claude launch template for crewmates, scouts, and secondmates
alike, and records claude_permission_mode=auto in the task meta only
under auto so the default meta stays unchanged; a relaunch re-resolves
rather than preserving the line. The file is a captain-wide safety
preference, so it joins the inherited local material pushed into
secondmate homes.

The Claude adapter reference records the verified auto launch shape on
Claude Code 2.1.269 and that it never meets the once-per-machine bypass
confirmation dialog; docs/configuration.md owns the schema.

* no-mistakes(review): drop unread claude_permission_mode meta line and its assertions
* fix(teardown): refuse to return a Treehouse pool slot reassigned to another task

A pool slot is reused across tasks, so a finished task's worktree= line can name
a slot a different, live task now holds. Teardown already refused when a second
task record named the same live path, but that scan cannot prove the record it
is tearing down is the current owner: the task that took the slot next may leave
no record the scan can reach - its own worker may have exited and its record been
cleaned up, or it may live in a home this machine does not register. Teardown
then killed every process under the path, hard-reset it and returned it, and its
unlanded-work refusal never fired because it was inspecting a directory that no
longer belonged to the task being torn down (observed 2026-09-07).

Treehouse's own state file cannot answer the ownership question. It records a
slot's owner as a live process lease (owner_pid plus owner_started_at, with
`treehouse status` reporting in-use from the processes actually running under
the path), which names no task and is released by the very event that makes a
record stale - the worker exiting. An unleased slot therefore reads identical
whether it is still this task's or has since been handed on, and a slot whose
new holder has also exited but left uncommitted work reads as free. So the
identity source is Firstmate's own claim, not Treehouse's lease.

fm-spawn writes that claim - the task id - into the slot at the moment it takes
it, under the same project lock that allocates the slot, and fm-teardown drops it
only after the slot is genuinely returned. It lives at <pool>/<slot>/.fm-slot-owner,
a sibling of the repo checkout rather than a file inside it, so claiming a slot
can never dirty the copy the landed-work checks inspect. A claim naming another
task, or one that cannot be read, refuses; --force does not lift either refusal,
because --force authorizes discarding this task's unlanded work, never another
task's live work. A slot that cannot be claimed refuses the spawn instead.

An absent claim proceeds on exactly the record-scan protection it had before:
slots taken before claims existed, and slots already returned, carry none, and
refusing those would strand every task in flight across this change on no
evidence at all.

The refusal is deliberately all-or-nothing rather than partially completing the
task's own cleanup. state/<id>.meta is the only durable record naming the
worktree and endpoint, so removing it would destroy the evidence needed to
reconcile which record is wrong, and its removal is one step with the backlog
transition. Nothing is stranded: clearing the stale worktree= line leaves a
record with no slot to release, which then tears down normally, and the refusal
names that remedy.

Repairing the previous claimant's stale worktree= line at spawn time is left for
separate work. It would have the new owner write another task's record - the same
class of cross-task mutation this bug is - and would need that record's own meta
lock; with the claim in place teardown refuses on evidence rather than depending
on the stale pointer having been scrubbed. For the same reason the relaunch path
writes no claim: it holds no allocation lock, and a record whose worktree= is
already stale would stamp the wrong task's claim onto a live sibling's slot.

The regression reproduces the reuse sequence with only one discoverable record,
including a clean, fully landed ship copy torn down without --force - the shape
of the real incident, which the previous code returned to the pool - and fails
against the previous code; the existing two-record, cross-home, own-slot
and no-claim cases still pass unchanged.

This builds ON upstream b028e8b1 (#3837), which is already in this branch's base
(origin/main 40c50ea8) and owns the record-exclusivity scan. Nothing here
replaces that scan; the claim is the positive proof it cannot supply.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JTBmuqKugaPUj7k9TXQwFS

* no-mistakes(review): teardown leaves reassigned slot; spawn abort drops claim

* no-mistakes(review): narrow Treehouse lease evidence; gate abort claim release on lock

* no-mistakes(review): pin spawn-side slot claim; narrow abort-release header

* no-mistakes(document): docs: point slot-claim rationale at fm-wake-lib owner
The reviewer treats Captain's intent as acceptance criteria, so a widened ask there drives over-built work; the spec should carry only what the ask requires.
* feat(bearings): name the Underway rows and order Charted Next newest filed first

The fleet board's Underway rows led with the run status alone, so a scan told
the captain where a pipeline stood but never which task the row was, and
Charted Next rendered in backlog order rather than by when work was filed.

The snapshot now projects the durable task name onto every in_flight row - from
this home's backlog title, and from a secondmate home's own ledger for an active
child - and the durable filed date onto every gate. The board's Underway row
leads with that name and keeps the run status on its second line, and Charted
Next renders newest filed first, with rows carrying no comparable date keeping
their payload order after every dated row.

The payload validator requires an explicit name marker on every Underway row and
refuses a filed value that is not an ISO date, so the board can never sort on
garbage or invent a label.

* no-mistakes(review): Fix Bearings labels, bounds, and filed validation

* no-mistakes(review): Fix Bearings identifiers and eligible queue bounds

* no-mistakes(document): Document Bearings labels and newest-first bounds

* no-mistakes(ci): Updated the stock macOS Bash CI expectation from 56 to 59 Bearings tests. Verified the suite under /bin/bash 3.2: all 59 tests pass. git diff --check also passes
* fix(bearings): report the away-return catch-up instead of refusing

A captain returning from away and asking for bearings got zero bytes and an
error: fm-bearings-snapshot.sh ran the away-return guard with `|| exit $?`
before reading any fleet state, so the mere existence of the catch-up gate
killed every bearings mode (and /ahoy with them).

Bearings now consults that guard rather than obeying it. fm-afk-return.sh
separates its two refusal branches by exit status, so an ACTIVE away window
still refuses exactly as before - the right answer there is to run the return
first - while return catch-up (exit 4) lets collection and projection proceed
and is disclosed as one action-free `(return-catchup)` gate row, following the
existing `(main-inventory)` precedent. It stays out of decisions_open: these
blockers are firstmate-actionable, not the captain's own call, and the per-task
blockers already project as their own Underway rows.

The guard's refusal text also stops promising a blocker list it cannot produce:
a gate retained for a lifecycle reason alone now names that retention reason,
and bearings carries the same reason in the gate row's title.

Reporting is not ordinary work. AGENTS.md already scopes the return hold to
work rather than reporting, so only the /afk and bearings skills needed the
correction.

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh away-return Bearings verification

* no-mistakes(review): Reserve catch-up gate outside Bearings truncation

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve filed dates in catch-up gate output

* no-mistakes(document): Document reserved catch-up gate projection
* fix(backlog): address the home's backlog from any directory and detect a forked code-root copy

A home outside the code root forks its queue: the tracked .tasks.toml names
data/backlog.md relative to tasks-axi's working directory, so a bare
tasks-axi call from the code root writes the code root's data/ while session
start, spawn, and teardown use $FM_HOME/data. Linking the code-root copy into
the home does not hold, because tasks-axi 0.2.4 writes by renaming a temp file
over its target and rename(2) replaces a symlink: add, start, hold, and done
from the code root each turn the link back into a regular file. The archive
path is resolved against the working directory too, even with --file.

bin/fm-tasks-axi.sh runs tasks-axi against this home's backlog from any
directory, using the lifecycle transitions' existing addressing (run from the
data directory's parent, pin <data>/backlog.md through TASKS_AXI_FILE). It
keeps relative --to/--*-file arguments meaning the caller's paths, and refuses
a caller --file, an unresolvable home, and a symlinked home backlog. The
fm-send hold lookup, fm-public-followup, and the fm-decision-hold shim, which
relied on cwd discovery, now go through it with an explicit FM_HOME and a
cleared data override, so they keep addressing exactly $FM_HOME/data and an
ambient TASKS_AXI_FILE cannot divert them; every agent-facing backlog command
names it instead of bare tasks-axi.

Bootstrap gains a detect-only BACKLOG_RECONCILE check, also run read-only:
when the home's data directory is not the code root's, a code-root
data/backlog.md or data/done-archive.md that is not the home's own file is
reported as a fork, with the merge procedure in bootstrap-diagnostics.

* test(teardown): assert the completion hint names bin/fm-tasks-axi.sh ready

The completion hint now points at the home-addressed command instead of a
bare tasks-axi call, so the dependency-cleared follow-up assertion checks for
that command.

* no-mistakes(test): clear ambient tasks-axi env in tests/lib.sh

* no-mistakes(document): drop bare tasks-axi example from cd-guard doc

* no-mistakes(lint): replace ls -A decoy listing with find for SC2012

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* revert: keep the compliance gate unchanged; the synchronize race is filed separately
* fix(spawn): pre-register Claude workspace trust for secondmate homes

A claude --secondmate launch skipped workspace-trust registration
entirely, so a standalone-clone secondmate home (an explicit
~/fm-homes/<id> path) had no store entry and its pane wedged on the
"Is this a project you trust?" dialog before it read its charter.
The step was gated on the task kind rather than on the harness, so the
spawn's fail-closed guard had nothing to run against and reported a
launch that could never start work.

fm-claude-trust.sh gains a secondmate-home mode. A secondmate home is a
whole firstmate instance, produced either as a leased worktree or as a
standalone clone, so the linked-worktree test cannot decide it and the
seed is the evidence instead: the .fm-secondmate-home marker must be a
regular file this user owns naming exactly the id being spawned, the
home must hold AGENTS.md and bin/, and each operational directory must
resolve inside the home. That is the set fm-home-seed.sh writes and
fm-spawn.sh's own home validation re-checks, so nothing wider than a
home a secondmate spawn would launch into can earn home-level trust.
The worktree path is unchanged, and still refuses a home.

fm-spawn.sh now runs the registration for every claude launch and keeps
refusing the spawn when it fails, rather than launching an agent that
would wedge.

* no-mistakes(document): Correct Claude secondmate trust guidance
* fix(pr-merge): judge each required check by its current run

When the base branch advances, GitHub cancels a pull request's in-flight
run and re-triggers it. The cancelled run stays in statusCheckRollup
beside the passing re-run, so the rollup can hold several runs of one
check name at the same head while GitHub itself reports the pull request
CLEAN. github_checks_not_green judged every run independently, so that
superseded failure refused a genuinely mergeable pull request and pushed
the operator toward a needless --allow-red.

Group the rollup by the reported name and judge each check by its
current run. Supersession is proven, never assumed: a name leaves the red
set only when every one of its non-green runs is strictly older than one
of its green runs, dated by the forge's own settled timestamp - a check
run's completedAt once its status is COMPLETED, or a status context's
createdAt - and only in the whole-second UTC form GitHub emits, which is
the one spelling that orders correctly as plain text. A run with no such
timestamp is never superseded, so a still-running, queued or undated run
keeps its check red, and a name with no green run at all stays red. An
unnamed entry is grouped alone so two unrelated unnamed checks are never
treated as one.

Every comparison is one-directional: it can only clear a failure a later
success provably replaced, and never clears a check whose current run
failed, is pending, or is missing. No other guard moves - the pull
request must still be open, undrafted, mergeable, conflict-free and
head-bound, and --allow-red still waives exactly its named check with
every other check green.

Live reproduction: PR #4224 read CLEAN with an old FAILURE and a newer
SUCCESS for one check name and was refused; it now verifies, while
#4208 and #4210, whose latest runs failed, still refuse.

* no-mistakes(review): Use check-run start times for safe supersession

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify GitHub check-rollup documentation
* fix(merge): persist the merge authority on poll-detected merge outcomes

The merge ledger tags a merge with the authority that permitted it while the
away-posture record existed, but only the direct attended merge in
bin/fm-pr-merge.sh recorded it. A merge the forge queued, or one the merge
poll detected after the fact, published an untagged row, so exactly the
merges no agent watched were the least auditable.

bin/fm-merge-authority-lib.sh now owns that answer, read from the same
structured sources the merge gate already used: the task's recorded yolo
posture and the away-posture record's mechanical grant list, never prose.
bin/fm-pr-merge.sh keeps its own refusal wording and gates on that answer;
bin/fm-watch.sh only records it on the row its poll publishes, so reading the
authority never becomes a second path to a merge. An unresolved answer records
an untagged row rather than dropping the outcome or inventing an authority.

* no-mistakes(review): Persist canonical merge authority for queued poll outcomes

* no-mistakes(review): Harden merge authority persistence against lifecycle races

* no-mistakes(review): Serialize poll authority publication with teardown

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify persisted merge authority lifecycle

* no-mistakes(ci): Added targeted SC2034 suppressions for the two public result assignments in bin/fm-merge-authority-lib.sh. Verified successfully with `CI=true bin/fm-lint.sh`
The 2026-09-12 Actions starvation incident found firstmate CI with no
concurrency deduplication, so every superseded PR head kept its full
13-job fan-out, and four jobs with no timeout at all.

Add per-PR supersession keyed on the PR number for pull_request events
and on the unique run id for push events, cancelling only pull_request
runs, so a new PR head replaces its own in-flight CI while every main
push keeps its own group and is never cancelled. Add hang tripwires to
the four previously unbounded jobs: 25 minutes for lint (measured at
14-16 minutes) and 5 minutes each for the coverage guard, the timing
aggregate, and the repo invariants. Measured lane bounds are unchanged.

tests/fm-ci-workflow.test.sh resolves the workflow's concurrency
expressions against simulated pull_request and push contexts and holds
every job's finite timeout.
Every other make_hold_home caller in this file skips when tasks-axi is
absent; this test was the one unguarded call, so hosts without tasks-axi
hard-fail the fixture build instead of skipping.
* fix(bin): bound each backlog row read so one wedged backend cannot blind a session start

bin/fm-bootstrap.sh's reconcile and close-replay sweeps read the backlog
backend once per item through fm_backlog_row_show, and that read was
unbounded. A single wedged `tasks-axi show` therefore consumed the whole
FM_SESSION_START_TIMEOUT and truncated the digest before the wake queue,
supervision instructions, fleet state, and context sections ever printed,
leaving the fleet unsupervised with no live watcher. The harm was a blind
startup, not a slow one.

Bound the read with the existing shared timeout primitive
(bin/fm-timeout-lib.sh), so a wedged backend degrades to a loud partial
reconcile: the sweep's existing BACKLOG_RECONCILE diagnostic names the item
it could not read and the loop continues to the next one. The first bound hit
also latches FM_BACKLOG_ROW_SHOW_WEDGED, so a sweep over many items pays one
bound rather than one per item and still names every item it skipped, which is
what keeps the digest whole on a home carrying a large fleet.

The bound holds regardless of any particular tasks-axi install, so it does not
depend on the 0.2.5 `show` hang being resolved separately.

* fix(bin): set the wedged-backend latch where it survives, and prove it

The latch added with the read bound was inert. fm_backlog_row_show runs inside
a command substitution in both of its status-capturing callers, so the subshell
read the inherited value correctly but its write died with the subshell. Every
item still paid a full bound and reported `exceeded`, never `skipped`, which
left the large-fleet case the latch existed to cover completely uncovered.

Move the write to the two callers that capture the read's status and own the
surviving shell, and leave fm_backlog_row_show reading the latch only. Correct
the comments that claimed an ownership the function never had.

The test that was supposed to cover this asserted only that the second read
finished under a generous ceiling, which is true whether or not the latch
works. Assert instead that a latched read is strictly faster than one bound and
that it reports its own item as skipped, so an inert latch fails the test.

* test: cover every item the wedged-backend latch skips

The latch assertion exercised a single skipped item, so "every skipped item is
still named" was inferred rather than tested. Probe three items instead and
assert each skipped one names itself and costs less than a bound.

Verified as a real guard by removing both latch writes: the suite then fails on
the first skipped item instead of passing.

* no-mistakes(review): distinguish backlog read-bound hits from absent rows

* no-mistakes(review): preserve read-bound status through the captain verify gates

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve backlog read-bound hits through resolve_entry and reconcile instead of spending them as absent rows

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve backlog read-bound 124 through migrated-prefix scan and remaining task_show call sites

* no-mistakes(document): Document bounded backlog row reads and FM_BACKLOG_ROW_TIMEOUT_SECS

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed all four failing CI checks with one root-cause fix plus one test-heredity fix. (1) bin/fm-captain-hold.sh: task_show carries the row in TASK_SHOW_OUTPUT and emits no stdout, but four call sites still used the stale command-substitution convention show=$(task_show ...), leaving show empty: task_show_or_fail (every captain hold failed with 'did not retain its hold-set stamp' - broke fm-captain-hold-lifecycle in parallel 1 and fm-bearings-board in serial 3), resolve_migrated_entry (migrated-prefix resolution could never match), reconcile-requests (existing rows were refused as absent), and command_open --identity (printed a constant '#0' identity, so fm-watch-triage's re-held captain call inherited the previous call's silence in serial 1). This is also the Greptile P1. Fixed by invoking task_show in the current shell and reading show=$TASK_SHOW_OUTPUT, the convention the other eight call sites already use; read-bound hits still stop loudly by name. (2) tests/fm-backlog-read-bound.test.sh (serial 4, unclassified family): the new e2e half implicitly relied on the author's process tree containing a harness process so fm-lock.sh would grant the fleet lock; on CI runners the lock is refused, the reconcile sweep is skipped, and the final BACKLOG_RECONCILE assertion fails. Reproduced by simulating a CI ancestry via a ps shim, fixed by pinning the lock evidence with the established fake-ps harness fixture pattern from tests/fm-session-start.test.sh. Verified: shellcheck clean; parallel-1, serial-3, and serial-4 lanes fully green locally (failed=0); serial-1 lane green except fm-gemini-harness, which fails only under local Node v26 (comm=node-MainThread); CI's default Node 22 reports comm=node, the branch that test passes on, so it is not a CI failure

* no-mistakes(document): Verified bounded backlog read docs accurate across branch
* fix(merge): serialize the away-authority check with a synchronous merge

bin/fm-pr-merge.sh read the away-posture record for merge authority (the
per-task merge grant and the yolo/away-grant decision) and handed the merge to
the forge afterwards. An archive at the captain's return or a grant revoked by
a replacement record could land in between, so a merge could proceed on away
authority that no longer held.

The away record now carries a cross-subsystem lock, built on the existing
bounded lock primitive rather than a new lock format: the record-mutating
subcommands hold it across their mutation, and the merge holds it across both
its authority read and the forge command. Because a queued or auto merge
returns before the pull request lands, and would therefore outlive the lock,
an away merge is now refused whenever it could land asynchronously: a
requested --auto, a base branch whose merge-queue state does not prove an
immediate merge, and GitLab's asynchronous flags and configuration. What
remains permitted while away is the synchronous merge that lands inside the
lock.

This closes the common away-record/merge race against a live lock owner. It
does not make the merge atomic in every case, and two narrow races are
accepted and documented at their sites rather than hidden, both
confused-agent-grade in the sense bin/fm-lease-lib.sh already uses:

- A merge-queue rule change or a PR base change in the window between the
  queue-free preflight and the forge call can still enqueue the merge, which
  can then land after its grant lapses.
- Killing the lock-owning shell while its gh or glab child is still running
  lets stale-owner recovery reclaim the lock and the record be archived or
  replaced, after which the orphaned child can complete the merge on lapsed
  authority.

Closing either one needs landing verification or an ownership handoff, which
is deliberately out of scope here.

No existing gate is relaxed. The lock is taken after the live green-at-head
verify and the captain-hold check, the in-lock authority read is unchanged,
and a lock that cannot be taken refuses the merge rather than proceeding
unlocked. The away grant stays a structured field; no prose is parsed.

* no-mistakes(review): Fix GitHub rollup fixture base branch

* no-mistakes(document): Document atomic away-authority merge locking

* no-mistakes(ci): Updated two executable GitHub API fixtures to include the required baseRefName. Both previously failing test suites now pass: fm-captain-hold-lifecycle.test.sh and fm-pr-check-security.test.sh. git diff --check also passes
* feat(agy): verify Antigravity CLI as third worker/scout adapter

Detection by anchored ancestry in fm-harness.sh (no marker of its own);
bootstrap harness and effort validation; launch template with model and
effort mapping plus reachable-catalog model validation; rendered-tail
busy fallback in fm-busy-lib.sh with delivery footer in fm-composer-lib.sh;
control mechanics with crewmate/scout-only refusal; tmux liveness naming;
router entry with concise adapter reference; dated verification record;
portable regression plus opt-in live drift guard.

Verified live on agy 1.2.0: supervised spawn, durable steering,
same-copy relaunch, and exit, with Herdr-native busy agreement.

* no-mistakes(review): bound agy model probe, gate trust dialog, narrow busy signature

* no-mistakes(review): pre-register agy workspace trust, make readiness gate strict

* no-mistakes(review): Close Orca terminal on gate failure; isolate live-guard HOME; tighten agy matching

* no-mistakes(document): Document agy adapter in stale harness enumerations

* no-mistakes(review): Clamp non-positive FM_AGY_MODELS_TIMEOUT to the default bound

* no-mistakes(document): Fix stale test-shard snapshots after agy lane additions

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed ci-3 (tests/fm-agy-harness.test.sh:519). Root cause: the agy spawn fixture's default base PATH (/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin) omits node's directory, but the spawn drives the real bin/fm-agy-trust.sh (which hard-requires node to record trust) and the fixture's fake tmux trust lookup (node -e) under that PATH. On the ubuntu-latest CI runner node lives in the toolcache (/usr/local/bin), so trust pre-registration failed on portable serial 2; on typical Arch hosts node is in /usr/bin, masking the defect. Fix (smallest, following the existing tests/fm-kimi-harness.test.sh precedent of carrying the interpreter's resolved directory): resolve node from the invoking environment (failing the test with 'test needs node' if absent, as kimi does for python3) and prepend its directory to the fixture's default base PATH; the FM_TEST_BASE_PATH override contract is untouched. Verified locally: (1) pre-fix reproduction with a CI-shaped base PATH (system bins minus node) produced exactly the reported failure — 'node is required to record workspace trust and was not found on PATH' plus the fake tmux 'node: command not found'; (2) post-fix, all 29 tests in the file pass both with node available only via a leading non-standard dir in the base PATH (CI's shape) and with the default base PATH on this host. bash -n clean; ShellCheck is not installed in this worktree (previously recorded as environmental)

* no-mistakes(test): Give agy typed sends a longer submit-confirm budget

* no-mistakes(document): Document agy send budget, trust gate, and control coverage

* no-mistakes(document): Document agy busy fallback inventory and send-timing evidence
* feat(afk): add quiet supervision mode for a present captain

Adds a first-class quiet supervision mode alongside /afk for
kunchenguid/firstmate#2356: the same away-mode daemon, injection,
busy/composer guards, classification policy, and reliability
properties, but the captain staying present and chatting no longer
exits it - only an explicit /quiet off does.

state/.afk's first line now declares its mode (away, the default, or
quiet); fm_afk_mode() in bin/fm-wake-lib.sh is the single reader,
falling back to away for missing/empty/unreadable/unrecognized
content (including the legacy bare-epoch-timestamp format written
before mode existed) so nothing regresses. fm_afk_flag_write()
preserves the on-disk mode on a bare refresh (no explicit mode given)
rather than defaulting to away, which is what keeps the daemon's own
redundant terminal-side re-write from silently resetting a captain's
quiet mode back to away underneath them.

New .agents/skills/quiet/SKILL.md is a thin wrapper cross-referencing
/afk for every shared mechanism, per the one-owner rule. AGENTS.md
gains the state/.afk table entry and section 8's exit-trigger line.
bin/fm-supervision-instructions.sh, bin/fm-session-start.sh, and
bin/fm-guard.sh's stale-watcher banner all become mode-aware so a
quiet-mode captain is never misdirected to /afk in captain-facing
text.

Closes #2356

* no-mistakes(review): Fix AFK epoch parsing and quiet-mode digest wording for two-line flag

* no-mistakes(document): Fix turnend-guard.md daemon-ownership contract for quiet mode

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* fix(bin): let verified harness ancestry outrank retained markers (#3)

* fix(bin): let a structural harness ancestor outrank a retained marker

bin/fm-harness.sh treated a verified environment marker as unconditionally
authoritative, so a Codex session started from an environment that had retained
CLAUDECODE=1 detected as claude. Session start then emitted Claude's Stop-owned
supervision protocol to a Codex primary, and every turn end was blocked for
missing Claude recovery.

The defect is the precedence boundary, not any one harness. codex, opencode,
kimi, and muse publish no identity marker at all, so with markers winning
outright any retained CLAUDECODE renamed them; the Cursor-before-Claude ordering
was a point patch on the same class of problem, and the launch-time marker
clearing only ever covered sessions fm-spawn started.

Markers and ancestry are now separate evidence layers that detect_own arbitrates:

- no ancestry match, or no marker: the single available layer answers, unchanged;
- same harness family: the marker's finer verdict stands, so a launch-selected
  pi-signed is not flattened to pi by an ancestry walk that can only see the
  shared launcher name;
- different harness with a structural (command-name) ancestor: ancestry wins,
  because only ancestry proves who owns the process tree;
- different harness with only a bare-interpreter script-path match: the marker
  wins, since a harness-shaped path in some node process's arguments is weaker
  evidence than a harness publishing its own identity.

The correction is symmetric: a retained CURSOR_AGENT no longer renames a claude
worker nested under cursor either.

Adds fm-harness.sh ancestry [<pid>], ancestry evidence with no marker layer, so
a real harness process can be asked what the walk makes of it.

tests/fm-harness-precedence.test.sh is the portable regression, built from real
renamed processes with no harness installed. Every case drives the two layers
apart and asserts each alone as well as the combination, so no case can pass
vacuously; it also pins Codex's real two-process install topology, since the fix
depends on the native binary being what a tool subprocess meets first. The
opt-in drift guard gains the matching live half: each installed harness's real
running process must still be identified by the ancestry walk, and it fails
naming the harness and version when a release changes that name.

Documentation follows the corrected contract in the script header, the
harness-adapters detection section, the codex, opencode, kimi, and cursor
references, and a dated verification record.

* fix(tests): drop the unused argument pass-through in the shim-topology helper

bin/fm-lint.sh refused the branch: run_shim declared a `[ancestry]` argument and
forwarded "$@", but every call site that varies the environment or passes the
ancestry subcommand invokes the shim entry point directly, so the helper is only
ever called with no arguments (ShellCheck SC2120/SC2119).

Behavior is unchanged: with no arguments "$@" expanded to nothing.

* fix(bin): examine the top of the process chain instead of assuming init

harness_ancestry stopped as soon as the next pid was 1, on the assumption that
pid 1 is always init and can never be a harness.
Inside a PID namespace that assumption inverts: the harness itself is pid 1, so
the walk never examined the one process that proves who owns the tree, reported
no ancestry at all, and handed the verdict straight back to a retained marker.

A real Codex session under `codex sandbox`, holding CLAUDECODE=1 and
CLAUDE_CODE_ENTRYPOINT=cli, is exactly that shape: it resolved claude and
rendered Claude's Stop-owned supervision protocol even with the marker-vs-ancestry
precedence boundary in place.
The same probe now resolves codex and renders the Codex foreground checkpoint.

A host's real pid 1 (init, systemd, launchd) matches no harness name, so
examining it costs one ps call and can introduce no false positive; the walk
still stops once that top process has been read, and a non-numeric or zero ppid
still ends it.

tests/fm-harness-precedence.test.sh pins the namespace shape with a fake ps that
reports every process as bash with ppid 1 and pid 1 as the harness.
The case asserts the marker still answers alone when pid 1 is host-shaped, so it
cannot pass vacuously, and it fails against the previous stop condition.

* docs(verification): record the real-Codex retained-marker evidence

The existing record proved the precedence boundary with the portable regression
and recorded each installed harness's process name behind the ancestry walk, but
it had no evidence from a real Codex process actually holding a retained Claude
marker, which is the failure the boundary exists for.

Adds the dated before/after result from codex-cli 0.152.0 under `codex sandbox`,
with the exact command and the decisive verdict and rendered protocol on each
side, and records the second boundary that shape exposed: the walk must examine
the top of the process chain, because inside a PID namespace the harness is pid 1.
Refreshes the portable regression's observed output for the case it gained.

* no-mistakes(review): blind ancestry in marker-pinned harness tests

* no-mistakes(review): blind ancestry in the Pi guard-routing test

* no-mistakes(review): classify precedence suite, dedupe ps stub, soften claims

* no-mistakes(review): model the spawn-and-wait Codex shim topology

* no-mistakes(document): correct stale muse marker-clearing detection claims

* no-mistakes: apply CI fixes

* fix(bin): examine the top of the chain in the lock and nudge walks too

The pid-1 defect corrected in bin/fm-harness.sh survived unchanged in the two
other harness-ancestry walks, on the exact topology the branch verified against
a real Codex process.

bin/fm-session-lock-lib.sh's fm_harness_ancestry_pids stopped as soon as the next
pid was 1, so a firstmate whose harness is pid 1 of its own PID namespace could
not find that harness at all and did not recognize its own session lock.
bin/fm-sessionstart-nudge.sh carried the same stop plus a blanket rejection of a
lock pid of 1, so the same session was told to run session start again on every
turn.

Both walks now compare the top process before stopping, matching the shape used
in bin/fm-harness.sh.
For the lock walk this is safe because fm_harness_process_matches rejects a
host's real pid 1.
For the nudge, `kill -0` still gates the lock pid, and on a host an unprivileged
`kill -0 1` fails, so a lock file that wrongly names pid 1 leaves the hook silent
rather than acting on init.

Each walk gains one regression case. The lock case drives a deterministic process
table whose pid 1 is the harness and asserts a host-shaped pid 1 still finds
nothing, so it cannot pass vacuously. The nudge case needs a real PID namespace,
because the builtin `kill -0` gate cannot be reached through a fake ps, and it
first proves the same fixture nudges with no lock present; it skips explicitly
where unprivileged namespaces are unavailable.

* no-mistakes(review): assert comm-strength detection from subprocess vantage in drift guard

* fix(bin): verify the live harness guard at the strength the guarantee needs

The marker-versus-ancestry boundary this branch ships is a strength claim:
detect_own hands an args-strength verdict straight back to a retained foreign
marker, so a harness is only protected where the ancestry walk reaches it at
comm strength.

The installed-harness drift guard probed the pane process alone. Under an
interpreter shim the pane process IS the shim, whose own script path is args
strength, while the native binary that carries comm strength is its child. The
guard therefore observed args for Codex, passed, and would have kept passing if
a release stopped spawning that native child at all, while real sessions
silently regressed to the original bug.

fm-harness.sh gains `ancestry-subtree`, which asks the walk from the pane
process and every descendant of it, the vantage a tool subprocess actually
occupies. The guard now requires comm strength somewhere in that set and
requires every vantage to name the same harness.

This supersedes the preceding commit's in-guard leaf walk, which reached the
same vantage but left the logic inside the test file, where CI could not pin it
and nothing else could reuse it. A harness-dependent check needs both halves:
`tests/fm-harness-precedence.test.sh` now carries a portable case proving the
subtree probe reaches a strength the top-of-session probe cannot, mutation
checked twice, once against the pre-change script and once by disabling
descendant enumeration. The subtree walk also avoids depending on tty and
process-group semantics that differ between Linux and macOS.

Verified live: codex-cli 0.152.0 reports [args codex;comm codex] and Claude Code
2.1.257 reports [comm claude].

* no-mistakes(review): narrow drift guard to the upward vantage path

* no-mistakes(review): judge only comm-strength vantages in drift guard

* no-mistakes(document): drop duplicated rationale in detection precedence evidence

* no-mistakes(review): fix pid-1 nudge case vacuity and descent no-arg expansion

* no-mistakes(document): drop branch-relative phrasing in detection precedence evidence

* no-mistakes(review): guard remaining empty positional expansions in fm-harness

* no-mistakes(document): scope cursor marker-ordering claim to the marker layer

* no-mistakes(review): Prefer comm-strength leaves in equal-depth descent ties

* no-mistakes(document): Document comm-strength descent tie-break

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* no-mistakes(review): Blind ancestry in stale gemini/rovo marker-precedence tests

* no-mistakes(document): Add missing equal-depth-tie test line to precedence evidence transcript

* no-mistakes(review): Fix stale/vacuous agy precedence test, add agy to precedence suite and docs

* no-mistakes(document): Fix stale kimi.md marker doc missed by ancestry-precedence fix

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Claude Code's external-imports check (hasClaudeMdExternalIncludesApproved)
reads only the canonical git-root project entry in ~/.claude.json, which its
own worktree-to-primary-checkout canonicalization means is never the task
worktree fm-claude-trust.sh registered. The trust dialog kept working
previously only because its check has an ancestor-walk fallback that happens
to reach the worktree entry; the external-imports check has no such
fallback.

Verified by disassembling the installed claude binary and reproducing in an
isolated three-way tmux launch: identical flags registered only at the
worktree key still showed the external-imports dialog, and registering them
at the primary checkout key suppressed both dialogs.

fm-claude-trust.sh now registers all three flags on both the worktree entry
and the primary-checkout entry in one atomic write, and refuses when the
<project> argument is not itself a primary checkout (its own write target
would then be wrong). Extends the harness-adapters Claude reference and the
trust test suite.

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The marker lifecycle (fm-wake-lib.sh _fm_recovery_marker_ack) leaves
state/.watcher-down behind in an acked:* state after a downtime episode
is handled. health_snapshot's presence check reported that as an open
gap on every later return, so a handled episode kept surfacing as a
false GAP forever.
* fix(update): rebind fm-procevent-when watches after a self-update

A self-update fast-forwards bin/ in place, changing an armed watch's
action executable bytes with no tampering involved. The watch's trust
binding was hashed at arm time, so the very next fire was refused as
not matching the registered binding and the watch died silently.

Add fm-procevent-when.sh rebind-all: it re-hashes and republishes the
trust binding for every watch whose action executable lives under
FM_ROOT, using the same spec/trust validation as an ordinary fire, and
leaves any watch whose action lives outside FM_ROOT untouched. Wire it
into fm-update.sh right after a successful fast-forward, for both the
primary home and any local secondmate home that advances.

* no-mistakes(review): Canonicalize FM_ROOT for rebind-all's containment check

* no-mistakes(document): Document fm-update.sh's automatic watch rebind and its verification evidence

* no-mistakes(lint): fix(tests): double-quote printf scripts to satisfy shellcheck SC2016

* no-mistakes(review): Reload trust binding from disk before firing to reach live pollers

* no-mistakes(review): Lock the fire-time trust reload against rebind_one's publish race

* no-mistakes(document): Document rebind-all's self-update guarantee and its two review-round test rows

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* fix(pr-merge): treat plan-gated 403 on branch rules as no merge queue (#42)

* fix(pr-merge): read a plan-gated 403 on branch rules as no merge queue

github_read_queue_method left status=unreadable for every failed rules
read, including a 403 whose body is GitHub's own "Upgrade to GitHub
Pro or make this repository public" message. A repository whose plan
cannot expose branch rules cannot have a merge_queue rule either, so
that specific 403 now resolves to status=none instead of unreadable -
unblocking the away-merge grant on private repos without GitHub Pro.
Any other failure (auth, rate limit, network, 404, unrelated 403)
still reads as unreadable.

* no-mistakes(document): Update stale away-merge queue-grant comment for plan-gated 403

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* no-mistakes(review): Fix misleading away-queue-grant comment in fm-pr-merge and its test

* no-mistakes(document): Update architecture.md for plan-gated-403 merge queue exception

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* fix(tests): select readers of a changed top-level test fixture

bin/fm-test-run.sh --changed recognised shared test helpers by an explicit
list, tests/lib.sh|tests/*-helpers.sh|tests/fixtures.sh. A top-level
tests/*-fixture.sh matched none of those, fell through to the tests/*
catch-all, and was marked unmapped, so selection aborted with "no
changed-test mapping for source path" and the run selected nothing at all.
tests/herdr-client-pair-fixture.sh and tests/remote-herdr-fixture.sh are
real shared fixtures with real consumers, so any branch touching one of
them left a validation pipeline driving --changed with a hard abort rather
than a narrowed selection.

Extend the helper arm to tests/*-fixture.sh rather than routing it through
the tests/fixtures/*/* arm. Both arms resolve consumers with the same
reference scan, and that scan is what selects the right suites here: it
finds exactly the tests that read the fixture. The fixtures/ arm adds only
a directory-keying step, which has nothing to key on for a top-level file,
so the helper arm is the same behaviour with no extra machinery. A
tests/ path nothing reads still reaches the catch-all and still refuses
loudly.

Refs https://github.com/kunchenguid/firstmate/issues/4100

* no-mistakes(test): order nested fixtures arm before top-level fixture glob

* no-mistakes(document): document tests/ shared-file mapping contract and arm order

* no-mistakes(review): drop vacuous test phase, correct header claim, restore comment
* fix(bin): read Claude Code's default external-imports flags as never asked, not declined (#4378)

fm-claude-trust.sh refused the whole trust registration whenever the project-root entry
carried hasClaudeMdExternalIncludesApproved === false, on the premise that Claude Code
writes that value only on an explicit "No, disable". Claude Code's default project
entry carries Approved and WarningShown both false before the dialog is ever shown, so
every such project refused every spawn.

Only Approved === false with WarningShown === true — the pair the dialog writes on a
decline — now counts as a decline. false/false behaves like an absent flag: trust is
registered and no import consent is manufactured.

New case test_project_root_entry_default_import_flags_are_not_a_decline fails on
b182d0f with the refusal and passes with the fix; tests/fm-claude-trust.test.sh 31/31,
bin/fm-lint.sh clean with pinned ShellCheck 0.11.0 and actionlint 1.7.12.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* no-mistakes(review): Correct harness doc's external-imports decline predicate

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* fix(brief): keep operator address out of composed intent

Teach raw-word authoring for intent sections and mid-task relays, with a neutral [captain] provenance marker for legacy mixed tasks. Keep headings and contract prose outside the serialized intent body.

The legacy selector already excluded the old speaker labels from its output; preserve that read compatibility. The reproduced leak comes from adding labels inside a modern intent body, not from the legacy selector. Do not scrub actual request content.

Add exact serialized-input and generated-contract regressions, retaining refusal of unmarked legacy tasks and coverage of scout promotion.

Fixes https://github.com/kunchenguid/firstmate/issues/3882

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse operator-address lines in Captain's intent body

* no-mistakes(document): Document operator-address refusal in intent contract comments
* fix(composer): accept Grok title overhang

* no-mistakes(review): summary: named Grok overhang constant, doc caveat, restored tmux typed-title coverage
* fix(bin): recover Claude auto-arm after timeout

* no-mistakes(document): Add host-timeout signal coverage to autoarm test-coverage list
* fix(spawn): establish Claude task channel authority

* no-mistakes(document): Document Claude task-worker control-channel trust in harness-adapters reference
* fix: guard relaunch exit against pending input

* no-mistakes(review): Verifying test run in progress

* no-mistakes(document): docs(agent-control): document exit's composer-empty fail-safe guard

* no-mistakes(ci): fixed 2 tests broken by approved do_exit fail-safe change (empty-only composer gate). herdr-smoke test's sleep-stand-in never renders a real composer -> updated assertion to expect "not proven empty" refusal instead of stale "did not stop" msg. secondmate-restart fake tmux capture-pane returned bare '> ' glyph (never valid empty proof) -> changed to bordered empty box matching fm-control-relaunch fixture. all 4 related suites pass locally now
* fix: reconcile diverged secondmate updates

* no-mistakes(document): Fix stale fm-update.sh/fm-ff-lib.sh purpose lines in docs/scripts.md

* no-mistakes(document): docs: reflect secondmate divergence reconcile in README/SKILL.md
* fix(dispatch): support Codex Luna max effort

* no-mistakes(review): use portable CODEX_HOME path in codex effort reference
* feat(calm): render smooth Unicode swell

* feat(calm): make sails asymmetric

* feat(calm): use quarter sail glyph

* no-mistakes(review): docs: sync calm feasibility sprite passage with approved renderer

* no-mistakes(document): docs: sync calm wave phase doc comment

* no-mistakes(ci): CI の Lint 失敗は tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh の test_interactive_terminal_e2e 関数で `boat_narrow_sails` が local 宣言に残っていたことによる ShellCheck SC2034 でした。関数内での参照を確認したところ、狭幅端末の検査は boat_narrow_previous / boat_narrow_direction / boat_narrow_reversed に移行済みで、boat_narrow_sails は代入も参照も一切ありませんでした。そのため local 宣言からこの 1 語のみを削除しました(3315 行目)。Calm の描画実装、他のテストアサーション、ドキュメントは変更していません。検証: bin/fm-lint.sh(ローカル変更ファイルモード)exit 0、CI 相当の `shellcheck --norc --external-sources tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh` exit 0(SC2034 解消)、`bash -n` 構文チェック通過、actionlint 1.7.12 でワークフロー 3 件 valid。
* fix: supersede scout delivery brief on promotion

* fix: preserve ship safety contract after promotion

* no-mistakes(document): Document fm-promote.sh now supersedes brief.md on relaunch
* fix(bin): let captain holds work on hosts with an older JSON::PP

Holding a task for the captain, and the cleanup that keeps a captain-held row
open, both fail outright on any host whose JSON::PP defaults allow_nonref off -
2.27202 on a Linux desk is one. Both read a task's body back with `decode_json`,
but tasks-axi shows a scalar field as a JSON-encoded bare string, and an older
library rejects that whole value with "must be object or array".

The consequence is fleet-wide on such a host, not one broken command: a worker
there cannot formally record a decision for the captain at all. It can only
mention the decision in passing in a status line, where it can be missed - which
is how a real decision goes unrecorded. The hold reports that the task lost its
hold-set stamp; the cleanup cannot return the row to Queued.

Both call sites now ask for allow_nonref explicitly rather than inheriting
whatever the installed library defaults to. The second one is worth naming: its
`/\A"/` guard reads as deliberate, but a leading quote is exactly the bare-string
case that fails, so the guard selects for the failing input rather than
protecting against it.

The regression case forces the older default back off for every perl the commands
spawn, then drives both paths - holding a task that carries a body, and tearing
down a captain-held row whose deliverable must still be appended. It also probes
that the simulation genuinely rejects a bare scalar, so the case cannot pass
vacuously on a lenient host. Each half was verified failing on its own unfixed
call site with that site's real error message. Suites: fm-captain-hold-lifecycle
51 cases, fm-backlog-atomicity 99 cases, 0 failures.

Verification limit: the mechanism is reproduced and tested, but neither fix is
verified against a real JSON::PP 2.27202 host, because none is in the loop. This
laptop runs 4.06, where the bug does not manifest.

`bin/fm-procevent-lavish.sh:471` was checked and left alone - it matches a
brace-delimited object before decoding, so allow_nonref never applies.

* fix(bin): stop cleanup silently dropping accented characters from a held body

Cleanup rewrites a captain-held row's body to append the finished work's
deliverable, and the decoder it reads that body with printed decoded characters
to a stream with no `:raw` layer. A character at or below U+00FF then came out
as one latin-1 byte instead of two UTF-8 ones, so a body reading "café" lost the
accent. `fm_backlog_retain` writes that body straight back through
`--body-file`, and nothing reported an error - the character was simply gone
from a row still waiting on the captain.

The decoder now writes bytes, the same `binmode STDOUT, ":raw"` plus
`utf8::encode` that the sibling decoder in `bin/fm-captain-hold.sh` already
used.

Review of the parent commit found this on one of the lines that commit already
changed. It predates that change.

The test asserts bytes rather than decoded strings, because comparing strings
cannot tell latin-1 from UTF-8. It uses two separate rows on purpose: any
character above U+00FF makes perl print the whole string as UTF-8, so one body
carrying both an accent and an em dash passes even unfixed and proves nothing.
Verified failing before the fix on the accented row, passing after. Suites:
fm-captain-hold-lifecycle 52 cases, fm-backlog-atomicity 99 cases, 0 failures.

* no-mistakes(document): record body-decode regression proofs in captain-hold lifecycle doc

* no-mistakes(review): drop whole-file UTF-8 check from retained-body test

* no-mistakes(review): correct stale JSON::PP fleet-host claim in lifecycle doc

* no-mistakes(review): anchor native-reproduction claims per defect in lifecycle doc
* fix(composer): read codex 0.154's idle starfield and status footer as furniture

codex-cli 0.154.0 animates a braille "starfield" around its idle composer:
on the row above the bold `›` prompt row, on the `›` row behind the SGR-2
dim `Ask Codex to do anything` placeholder, and on the row below it, then
draws a bright status footer (`<model> <effort>[ fast] · <path> · <title>`).
The cells are truecolor greys on both sides of the ghost luminance ceiling,
so the brighter ones survive ghost stripping, and the rows below the glyph
carry no structural edge. The shared classifier selected the bare `›` shape,
extended its wrap region over the two rows beneath the glyph, read the
survivors and the footer as wrapped typed input, and answered `pending`;
the steering doorbell defers on exactly that verdict, so no doorbell ever
reached an idle codex 0.154 pane.

bin/fm-composer-lib.sh now recognises that furniture by shape, declared
once next to the idle placeholders and reached from the two wrap-region
boundary points:
- a row whose non-whitespace content is entirely braille cells
  (U+2800..U+28FF, detected byte-exactly under LC_ALL=C) is furniture: it
  never counts as wrapped typed content and bounds a bare composer's wrap
  region; braille behind the glyph row's content is stripped before the
  emptiness decision when nothing else follows the glyph; a row mixing
  braille with other text stays typed content;
- the codex status footer bounds the wrap region exactly as omp's status
  row does, anchored on the effort token, a spaced middle dot, and a `~` or
  `/` path cell, so a typed `fix · tests` stays composer input;
- `^Ask Codex to do anything$` joins the verified idle-placeholder set; the
  ghost strip remains what proves that row empty, and the bare-row rule that
  bright placeholder text is real input is unchanged.

Unchanged: the strict blank-row rule, the styled=0 degradation (a plain
cmux/orca capture of this screen still reads `unknown`, never `pending`),
FM_COMPOSER_GHOST_LUMA_MAX, and every other harness's shape.

tests/fm-composer-lib.test.sh carries both live Herdr samples byte-for-byte
with the divergence (letters in place of the starfield read `pending`) and
the over-stripping negatives; tests/fm-composer-codex-idle-live-e2e.test.sh
is the default-on live guard (token-free, skips explicitly without codex or
tmux) that launches the installed codex idle and asserts `empty` through
both the tmux and the cursorless styled reads, naming codex --version on
failure. docs/verification/runtime-backends.md records the dated Herdr
evidence: `pending` before, `empty` after, on the captured screen.

* no-mistakes(review): drop unreachable codex footer rule and inert placeholder entry

---------

Co-authored-by: Todd Billings <todd@usdvcapital.com>
* fix(bin): refuse empty text steers in fm-send

A marked secondmate request sent with an empty message delivered only
marker and correlation bytes and minted a pending-reply expectation the
parent could never see resolved, stalling the fleet with no loud error
(#4255). Fail closed on an empty or whitespace-only message on the text
path, mirroring the existing --resolve-key refusal.

* chore: retain ambient Pi-lens autoformat as its own commit

Formatting-only edits produced by ambient Pi-lens autoformat during the
msg-loss investigation, kept separate from the behavioural change in
c23acba6 so the fix stays reviewable on its own.

AGENTS.md is deliberately excluded: its only autoformat edit stripped the
trailing space from the documented FM_OPERATIONAL_PREFIX value, which
bin/fm-operational-input.sh:28 defines as "FIRSTMATE_OP: " and line 11
records as permanent compatibility. Documenting that constant without its
trailing space makes the doc wrong about the contract, so that one line was
restored rather than retained.
On rose-pine-moon the two-color water (cyan crests over blue troughs) read as
a pink stripe over aqua, the yellow left sail and mast clashed with the red
right sail, and the hull carried a blue interior run. Every water cell is now
blue so the swell reads through glyph height alone, and both sail halves, the
mast, and the whole hull are one yellow run. Geometry, cadence, animation,
direction flip, resize clamping, and the narrow fallback are unchanged.

Update the unit and real-TUI color assertions to the new palette and the Calm
docs that described the old one.
* fix(watch): stop aging a second mate's active turn from its launch

The parent watcher's second-mate wake-loop stall check exempts a mate that
is demonstrably inside an active turn, but secondmate_in_active_turn asked
busy_turn_over_age first and returned "not in a turn" whenever that said
the bound was crossed.

busy_turn_over_age ages from state/<task>.turn-ended, falling back to
state/<task>.meta. A second mate's turns end in its own home, so the
parent never gets a turn-ended mark for it and the fallback ages the
mate's last launch. Every mate launched more than BUSY_TURN_MAX_SECS ago
was therefore permanently "over age", the busy pane was never consulted,
and any turn outstripping FM_SECONDMATE_WAKE_STALL_SECS raised a false
wake-loop stall.

The gate now bounds the busy exemption by <idle> - how long the queue's
drain position has not moved - which is evidence this home actually
holds. A busy mate stays exempt while the queue has been frozen for less
than BUSY_TURN_MAX_SECS, and a mate stuck busy forever still alarms, so
the bound that stops a busy pane from proving liveness forever is kept
rather than removed. busy_turn_over_age is untouched; its remaining
callers are the ordinary crew busy-pane bound.

The regression pins the case that actually broke: a mate whose launch
record predates BUSY_TURN_MAX_SECS and which is demonstrably mid-turn
must not escalate, while the same mate with its queue frozen past the
bound still publishes exactly one notification. The existing coverage
only exercised a freshly launched mate, which passes either way.

Reaching that alert now costs a pane capture inside the gate, so the
three checkpoints in this suite that assert an alert move from a 1s to a
4s bound - the value the neighbouring active-turn cases already use. The
bound is a ceiling, not a wait: the checkpoint returns on the first
actionable wake. On a loaded machine a 1s bound missed the alert
repeatedly; at 4s it did not miss in 20 runs under the same load.

* no-mistakes(review): scope the second-mate active-turn regression test's coverage claim

* no-mistakes(document): fix stale second-mate active-turn comments in fm-watch
* feat(bin): add read-only PR blocker and reviewer-discovery commands

Two focused, opt-in commands that read GitHub and never write to it.

fm-pr-state.sh reports what still blocks one pull request from the
author's side: a closed or merged state, draft state, unknown or
conflicting mergeability, absent or failing required checks, and a
blocking CHANGES_REQUESTED decision explained by each reviewer's latest
verdict, marked STALE when it was left at a superseded head. A pull
request that only awaits an approval is not reported as blocked, and
advisory checks are omitted. Every reading is taken against one exact
head; a push that lands mid-read invalidates the whole result rather
than mixing two snapshots.

fm-pr-reviewers.sh suggests reviewers from the most recent commits to
the pull request's exact changed paths, counting each commit once,
resolving handles through GitHub's own commit author.login mapping, and
excluding the author and Bot accounts.

Both stay read-only: no review request, no approval, no merge.
Unresolved review-thread state is left unreported because the REST API
does not expose it and unattended commands may not use GraphQL.

Closes #3731

* no-mistakes(review): accept only PR URLs and stop at terminal state

* no-mistakes(review): report unconfirmed required checks; make URL-only guards discriminate

* no-mistakes(review): stop attributing readings to unverified heads

* no-mistakes(review): narrow readiness contract to checks that have reported

* no-mistakes(review): read the pull request once, drop the head guard

* no-mistakes(document): scope pr-forge isolation proof to its measured members

* no-mistakes(document): record uncovered pr-forge members and their pending proof

* docs(isolation-proof): re-prove pr-forge at its full membership

tests/fm-pr-state.test.sh and tests/fm-pr-reviewers.test.sh joined the
pr-forge family in this branch, and script_allows_concurrency grants
four workers by family membership alone, so both ran concurrently on a
proof measured before they existed.

Re-proved the family at all eight members: two consecutive runs, 0
failures, each begun with the one-minute load average below 6.0 so the
result measures isolation rather than contention. A third run taken
between them is disclosed rather than recorded, because it started
while the previous run's workers were still decaying.

The new durations are not comparable with the six-member measurement
above them, so they are not presented as evidence about the two new
members, and that record's 1.72x four-worker figure is left as a
statement about its own run rather than restated as current.

* no-mistakes(review): disclose gh error-text coupling at its matching site and tests
* fix(bin): teach validation-round pauses in briefs

* no-mistakes(document): Point classifier comments to authoritative pause examples
* fix(teardown): refuse a cleanup whose endpoint close failed

bin/fm-teardown.sh discarded both the exit status and the stderr of every
fm_backend_kill call, so a close that genuinely failed was indistinguishable
from one that succeeded. Teardown continued past it, deleted the task's durable
records, returned its worktree, and reported the cleanup as completed. The
deleted metadata is the only record of which endpoint belongs to the task, so
such a close did not merely leave a stray session behind, it stranded one:
nothing was left on disk naming it.

The adapters could not carry that signal either. Driven against the real code,
every backend arm returned 0 for a genuine failure exactly as it did for an
already-exited endpoint, so there was nothing for the four call sites to
propagate even once they stopped swallowing it.

The tmux arm now resolves a close that did not succeed against the window's
exact recorded identity, since kill-window fails the same way for a window that
is gone and one that is still there. The Orca arm reports a close its missing
CLI never attempted. Both stay silent for an endpoint that is already
legitimately gone, and the remaining arms are unchanged: their close-command
timing cannot be established without the real Zellij, Orca, and cmux binaries,
and a gate that refused ordinary cleanup of an already-exited session would be
worse than the defect. docs/verification/runtime-backends.md records what each
backend can prove.

A reported close failure now reaches teardown's existing retain-and-stop
refusal before the records naming the endpoint are removed, matching where the
Herdr confirmed-gone gates already sit for the same hazard, and the retained
records let a rerun finish once the close works.

* no-mistakes(review): refuse unreadable tmux close re-read; honor --force override

* no-mistakes(review): drop unreachable Orca force arm; prove CLI-absent close

* no-mistakes(document): document endpoint-close refusal in its backend and retirement owners

* no-mistakes(ci): The two reported failing checks are NOT code defects. Both "CI" (run 34935529184) and "Require no-mistakes" (run 34935529206) returned conclusion=action_required with zero jobs and 0s duration (run_started_at == updated_at), which is this repo's workflow-approval gate holding the run before any job starts. No job executed, so nothing in the diff could have caused them; two unrelated branches (fm/captain-hold-json-nonref, fm/presenter-core-l1) show the identical shape in the same time window. Verified the change locally instead: bin/fm-lint.sh clean, bin/fm-test-run.sh --check-coverage ok, and all suites the diff touches pass (fm-teardown-endpoint-safety 25/25 including the five new endpoint-close cases, fm-backend-orca, fm-backend, fm-backend-tmux-smoke, fm-backend-cmux, fm-backend-zellij, fm-backend-herdr). Separately, I found and fixed a genuinely flaky test that the phase rules require me to make deterministic: tests/fm-tmux-agent-liveness.test.sh intermittently failed "an idle shell pane must classify dead" (verdict ambiguous, comms=[bash sleep]). It is selected by --changed for this diff, so it would run against this PR once CI is approved. Root cause, established by instrumenting the pane's process group: the idle window was created by `new-session` with no command, so it inherited tmux's default-shell, i.e. whoever runs the suite. ps on the pane tty showed `-zsh` -> `bash` -> `sleep`, all sharing pgid==tpgid, i.e. the host operator's shell configuration spawning a periodic helper directly into the pane's FOREGROUND process group, which is the one surface the classifier reads. `sleep` classifies as `other`, so fg_other=1 and the verdict became `ambiguous` instead of `dead` whenever that helper overlapped the 10s poll window. Every other window in the suite runs an explicit command via new_window; the idle case was the only one whose process group the host defined. Fix (smallest root-cause, test-only, 1 line + explanatory comment): create the idle window with an explicit bare `/bin/sh` (`-- /bin/sh`), the same shell the neighbouring background case already execs. Its foreground group is now exactly one process (verified: `/bin/sh` alone), so no host configuration can inject into it. This flake is pre-existing and NOT caused by this PR: an interleaved A/B showed base commit da5e658 failing the identical case (2/6 runs) alongside head (3/7 runs), and the diff only extracted the tmux inventory read into a helper with identical semantics while never touching fm_backend_tmux_foreground_comms. After the fix: 8/8 consecutive passes, with lint and the coverage guard still clean. Change left uncommitted in the working tree
* feat(calm): ship the Claude Code Calm and sailboat mod behind the function-hooks flag

Add .claude/mods/firstmate-calm, a Claude Code mod (function-hooks plugin) that
brings Calm to Claude Code: the sailboat replaces the stock working row through a
Raster repainted on the sprite's own tick, and tool, tool-group, mid-turn narration,
and canonically classified operational user rows draw at zero height. /calm is
registered by the hooks module itself and toggles the same per-home config/calm
preference the Pi extension uses, so one choice applies on either harness; rows
redraw retroactively on toggle and stay hidden across claude --continue.

The mod loads only while Claude Code's default-off CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_FUNCTION_HOOKS
flag is on. Nothing sets that flag in any settings file, and the plugin carries no
command file, skill, agent, or classic hook, so it is a complete no-op while the
flag is off. The trusted project auto-loads it through an .agents/skills symlink,
the only path Claude Code scans for project plugins.

Extract the working-ship geometry, bounce track, cadences, and freeze/resume state
into a harness-neutral sprite core inside the mod (Claude Code refuses hooks-module
imports from outside the plugin folder) and have the Pi widget paint that core's
frames as standard ANSI, byte for byte as before; the Pi suite stays green. Classify
operational rows through a port of bin/fm-operational-input.sh's classify command
guarded by a corpus parity test against the shell owner.

Tests: portable Node checks (plugin shape, sprite parity with Pi's rendering,
Raster packing, policy, classifier parity), the mod's own claude plugin test suites
behind a default-on wrapper, and an opt-in live TUI guard proving the flag-off no-op,
the moving boat, hidden rows, the persisted toggle, and resume on Claude Code 2.1.272.

Docs: record the version-scoped Claude Code evidence and the three bounded gaps in
docs/calm-mode-feasibility.md, describe the Claude Code contract in docs/calm.md,
and make the shared preference, layout, and contributor notes harness-neutral.

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve colliding final replies and strengthen parser parity

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve final replies and strengthen canonical parity checks

* no-mistakes(review): Require exact function-hooks opt-in before Calm activation

* no-mistakes(review): Clarify Calm module loading and activation boundaries

* no-mistakes(review): Reset Calm presentation state across session starts

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh Calm session lifecycle documentation

* feat(calm): paint the Claude Code working ship in Claude's own theme colors

The captain picked the "Claude native" palette for the Claude Code mod's Raster:
every water cell takes the spinner blue of the active theme family (#93a5ff dark,
#5769f7 light) and the whole boat takes the Claude orange of the stock spinner
(#d77757), one water color and one boat color. The family follows the `theme`
setting's prefix, read at load through $.config.list and re-read on a
config.set of that row, with `auto` and custom themes falling back to the dark
set. The Pi extension keeps its standard ANSI blue and yellow, byte for byte.

Rename the shared sprite's color classes from hue names to `water` and `boat`,
since each harness now maps them to its own colors; geometry, motion, cadence,
and the activation gate are untouched.

Tests cover both palettes' packing and the family rule under Node, and the
plugin kit drives every theme value, a theme change mid-session, the Calm-off
pass-through, and inertness of the menu read while the flag is off. The docs
describe the Claude Code colors and record the guard passing on 2.1.273.

* no-mistakes(review): Use light palette for unresolved Claude themes

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh Claude Calm verification evidence
* fix(watch): honour a declared wait before wedge-escalating a quiet pane

wedge_timer_check escalated on elapsed idle time alone. Nothing asked
whether the worker had already said why its pane was quiet, so a lane
that declared a bounded external wait climbed the escalation ladder for
as long as the wait lasted, and past FM_WEDGE_DEMAND_INSPECT_COUNT every
repeat carried demand-deep-inspection - which by its own wording forbids
re-absorbing on the run-step or pane state, so the supervisor could not
use the evidence that was there either.

The generated brief promises that declaring `paused:` buys the long
recheck cadence instead of a wedge, but the timer was still reachable
while that declaration stood: a crew that declares a wait and then has an
active run or busy pane attributed to it is handed to the timer as
provably-working. The declaration is what the worker said about its own
silence, so it now outranks a liveness verdict that only says something
is running.

The consult runs in the at-threshold branch that was about to escalate,
beside the worktree walk already there, and costs one status-line read.
Either status-line record defers to the same FM_PAUSE_RESURFACE_SECS
recheck the declared-wait absorber already uses, so the wait is still
rechecked and cannot rot invisibly. Which verb declared it decides the
wording, because the two block on different people: a `paused:` wait is
owed by an external dependency and asks the reader to confirm it still
holds, while a `captain-held:` transfer is owed by the captain reading
the recheck and asks them to answer or release the hold. A hold is not
rechecked at all while the away-posture record exists, as on every other
captain-held path, and that absorb arms no throttle so the recheck is
owed in full on return.

A declared clearing time that has already passed stops counting, and a
lane that never declared one keeps the identical escalation schedule,
reason, count and demand-deep-inspection wording, so detection and its
worst-case time are unchanged. The deferral restarts the idle timer
rather than cancelling it, so a lane that stops waiting escalates again
within one threshold.

A lane quiet because its own validation run is parked at a gate awaiting
a human decision is deliberately out of scope: reading that state needs a
signal carrying who the wait is on and what clears it, rather than one
inferred from a parked verdict that also covers gates awaiting the
crewmate itself.

Tests pin both directions for each case and were each confirmed to fail
with the consult removed.

* no-mistakes(document): docs: honour declared waits in stale-escalation docs
* fix(bin): derive passed PR state from PR record

A completed no-mistakes run with outcome=passed does not prove the associated pull request merged or closed. A parked gate can be approved on other evidence, so the old crew-state label could report an open PR as merged and make teardown look safe when unlanded work still exists.

For passed runs, derive the crew-state detail from the run or task PR identity, accept a matching merge-poll retirement receipt as local merged evidence, and otherwise perform a bounded forge read. If the identity is absent or unreadable, report the run as passed with unknown PR state instead of inventing a merged claim.

Fixes #4607

* no-mistakes(review): Add bounded GitLab merge-request state reads

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve network-free inactive crew-state scans

* no-mistakes(document): Document PR record readers in shared library
* fix: restore published contribution follow-up (Fixes #4469)

* fix(review): Fix contribution freshness and merge actor routing

* fix(review): Restore issue triage and scope contribution follow-up

* fix(test): test: assert one wake per contribution signal

* fix(document): Document contribution follow-up

* fix: restore truthful terminal delivery evidence

* fix(review): Disclose unsupported contributions and deduplicate watcher wakes

* fix(review): Preserve unmeasured unsupported contributions across Bearings

* fix(review): Deduplicate shared contribution wakes and isolate diagnostics

* fix(ci): Captain, fixed the CI failure by updating the PR-security fake GitHub interface to support the contribution observer’s API reads. Verified with shellcheck, git diff --check, the full contribution suite, and a focused merged-poll retirement reproduction. The full PR-security script was not allowed to complete locally after its expanded observer path made it substantially slower
* fix(bin): make a remote-reply document gap self-clearing and re-attemptable

A remote mate's undelivered document raised a keyed `blocked` decision that
nothing could ever resolve, and any `data/*.md` substring in any mirrored line
was an unconditional fetch instruction. A mate announcing a report it had not
written yet therefore manufactured a permanent, factually false blocker, and
its own explanation of the false alarm manufactured more.

The reader has no permanence vocabulary: a report still being written refuses
exactly like a path that will never exist. So an undelivered document is now a
durable, re-attemptable obligation under `state/remote-replies/<id>.pending-docs`,
re-attempted on the next delta and on the channel's own quiet poll, and retired
with a matching `resolved` line naming the local copy once it arrives. The
cursor still advances and no delta stalls on one bad pointer.

Only a structured `report=data/....md` pointer now offers a document, so a path
merely mentioned in prose - including one under another home's mirror tree,
which is provably not that mate's to serve - is never fetched. Offers are
deduplicated across the whole delta, the escalation names each missing document
once and carries the reader's own reason instead of discarding it, and a
strictly increasing notice ordinal keeps a later escalation from being
swallowed as duplicate bytes. A mirrored line still lands once whichever
pointer form it was first written under.

* no-mistakes(review): Require structured pointer token boundaries

* no-mistakes(review): Unify boundary-safe pointer extraction and rewriting

* fix(bin): identify a mirrored line independently of its delivery state

Two defects in the boundary-safe pointer work.

The at-most-once check compared only the all-remote and all-local renderings
of a line, so it could not recognize a mixed one. A line offering two documents
where only the first was deliverable mirrored as local-plus-remote; once the
second arrived, a cursor-loss whole-log recapture rendered the same line
all-local, matched neither alternate, and mirrored a second time. A line's
identity is now the canonical form every boundary-valid pointer would take once
delivered, derived by the same parser that does extraction and rewriting, so it
no longer depends on which documents happened to be deliverable at the time.

The pointer map was passed to awk through the process environment. A delta may
carry up to the configured 1 MiB bound, and an expanded map of delivered
pointers can exceed the platform's exec argument limit, so awk would fail to
start; because no caller checked, the empty result would have been appended as
blank lines while the cursor advanced past dropped status content. The map now
travels in a file, and every call site checks the exit status and stops the
ingest rather than committing a delta it could not render.

Both passes now run once per stream instead of twice per line.

* no-mistakes(review): Abort ingest when document pointer extraction fails

* no-mistakes(review): Exclude structured cross-home pointers from document transfer

* fix(bin): fail open on an undeliverable remote document instead of tracking it

Narrow the remote-reply document fix to the scope the diagnosis actually
requires, as decided after measuring a simpler alternative.

A document the reader cannot deliver now fails open. The mate's line is
mirrored with its own pointer, the cursor advances, and one unkeyed note
carries the reader's reason. A note never enters the open-decision fold, so it
cannot stand open the way the original keyed block did - which removes the
never-clearing false blocker by construction rather than by resolving it.

That makes the durable self-clearing obligation unnecessary, so it goes: the
per-mate pending-documents record, its notice ordinal and resolved
announcements, and the poll-side retry. Canonical line identity goes too, and
with it a way to silently drop a genuine status line; mirroring is back to
at-most-once on exact bytes. The cross-home exclusion goes as well: under
fail-open a cross-home report= either fails harmlessly or is a nested remote
report this mate genuinely holds, which is now relayed again.

Kept: fetching only on a structured report= pointer, the boundary-correct
parser, the file-based rewrite map, and checked extraction and rewrite exit
status. The parser now scans behind a sentinel byte so a rejected candidate can
no longer give the text right after it a false leading boundary.

The reported incident is covered end to end: a report path announced in prose
before it exists raises no decision, and the report still arrives through the
ledger publisher's structured offer once written.

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve source-line identity across remote reply replays

* no-mistakes(document): Document remote reply transfer and replay semantics

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix staging truncation lint checks
* Preserve substantive Calm mid-turn text

* no-mistakes(review): Distinguish newline-preserved replies from short narration

* no-mistakes(document): Document Calm mid-turn preservation boundaries

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the flaky contribution watcher test by increasing its bounded checkpoint from 5 to 15 seconds, allowing diagnostics to surface under slower CI load. Verified with `bash tests/fm-contributions.test.sh` and `git diff --check`
* fix(bin): re-record PR poll identity after a volume device renumber (Fixes #4260)

A volume remount can renumber the state filesystem's st_dev while every
inode and byte stays the same; APFS does this across a reboot. A poll
registration records its sidecar and check as device:inode, so every poll
armed before the remount failed strict validation and the watcher refused
all of them as unauthenticated state checks until each was re-armed by hand.

There are two device comparisons. fm_pr_private_file_valid compares a live
file's device with the state directory's device read in the same invocation:
it refuses a file that is not on the state directory's own filesystem and
already survives a renumber, so it is unchanged. The registration's recorded
identity versus the live identity (from #556, reused by the #932 retirement
receipt) binds the registration to the exact files published in its own
transaction; its device part is what breaks.

When strict capture fails, the watcher now proves the device is the only
difference: every other artifact check passes (template bytes, both hashes,
private mode, single link, live device, metadata), both recorded identities
name one device, and each recorded inode equals its live inode. Only then,
under the task's control lock, does it rewrite the two identity lines,
repeating the whole proof and comparing the registration's file identity and
bytes just before the rename, and then capture strictly again. A swapped,
altered, re-moded, relinked, split-device, or foreign-device artifact still
fails a proof and is still refused, and a pending retirement receipt blocks
the rewrite.

Reproduction: on macOS a poll armed on an APFS disk image that was detached
and re-attached behind another image moved st_dev 16777239 -> 16777243 with
inodes, bytes, mode, and link count unchanged; the real watcher refused it on
main and reports its merge with this change. The portable regression test
rewrites a real registration's recorded device and drives the watcher.

Not changed here: the status presentation cursor keys rows by its own
device:inode identity in bin/fm-classify-lib.sh, a different helper that
needs its own fix; a retirement receipt left by a reboot between its
publication and removal still names the old device and stays refused; custom
check trust binds only a content hash and is unaffected.

* fix(review): Serialize PR poll publication writers

* fix(review): Bound PR poll publication lock scope
A budget that expires partway through an observation no longer records an
error or prints the unavailable wake; the URL keeps its prior record and is
observed first next poll. forge() flags budget exhaustion at the point it
refuses, or when a read is killed at the budget's own deadline, so a genuine
forge failure still records the error and wakes. Each distinct URL is now
observed once per poll and applied to every owning task.
* fix(bin): clear parent pending-replies on local secondmate retirement

Local secondmate teardown left resolved parent pending-reply records behind
after home removal (seen after papa-hdds / pxmx retirement). Refuse non-forced
retirement while any reply for that id is still unresolved, and delete every
matching record plus its delivery confirmation after a successful local or
remote retirement, matching the remote cleanup path.

* no-mistakes(document): Align secondmate retirement docs with pending-reply cleanup

* no-mistakes(review): Lokale Pending-replies-Sicherheitsprüfung vor Home-Entfernung

* no-mistakes(review): Pending-replies-corr_id auf 16-Hex absichern

* no-mistakes(review): Pending-replies Basename und corr_id abgleichen

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify forced retirement pending-reply cleanup

---------

Co-authored-by: ladwein <ladwein@firstmate.bost8.thelad.loc>
* fix(bin): accept Orca's composite worktree id at teardown

Teardown refused every Orca-backed task because the endpoint validator
checked orca_worktree_id with the simple-atom rule meant for tmux-style
window names, which rejects any character outside [A-Za-z0-9._@%+-]. Orca
returns that id as `<orca id>::<absolute worktree path>`, so the colon and
slashes in every real value made validation fail and finished Orca tasks
could never be cleaned up.

Validate the field as the composite it is: both halves of the first `::`
split present, the path half absolute, and no embedded newline, carriage
return, or tab. The terminal field keeps the atom check, which is correct
for it, and no other backend's validation changes.

The existing Orca fixtures recorded ids like `wt-teardown`, a shape Orca
never returns, which is why the suite passed a check the real value fails.
They now carry the composite form, so the tests exercise the real value.

* no-mistakes(document): name Orca's repo id in the composite worktree id

* no-mistakes(document): list teardown endpoint safety suite in Orca regression entry points
* feat(bin): add opt-in typed dispatch resolution through typesafe.ai

Add bin/fm-dispatch-resolve.sh, which resolves one concrete crewmate or
scout profile from a written brief with typesafe.ai's System One model:
one Choice question over the rules' `when` texts, then the confidence
floor, the rule's `approval` and `floor`, each profile's `provider` and
`floor`, one quota-axi snapshot, and the spendPriority argmax all in code.
It is off unless TYPESAFE_API_KEY is in the environment or the home's
gitignored .env; off means one stderr line, exit 0, and no network call,
so firstmate dispatches exactly as before. The key reaches curl on a file
descriptor, never argv.

Extract fmx_env_get into bin/fm-env-lib.sh as the one .env accessor and
the harness-to-provider table into bin/fm-quota-axi-lib.sh so the new
tool and bin/fm-quota-choose.sh share one owner each. Bootstrap validates
the four new optional dispatch fields. Document the schema, the operator
contract, the AGENTS.md intake step, and the live and benchmark evidence.

* no-mistakes(review): Harden typed dispatch resolution and quota bounds

* no-mistakes(review): Validate dispatch floors and ranking evidence

* no-mistakes(review): Tighten dispatch response and floor evidence

* no-mistakes(review): Neutralize none matching and resolve defaults locally

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve providerless profiles outside typed resolution

* no-mistakes(review): Validate response usage and reject duplicate profiles

* no-mistakes(review): Escalate unverifiable floors and validate probabilities

* no-mistakes(review): Validate probability mass and unknown profile floors

* no-mistakes(review): Simplify resolver interface and preserve fallback routing

* no-mistakes(review): Fix constants and rank partial quota evidence

* no-mistakes(review): Add authoritative provider mapping and enforce explicit providers

* no-mistakes(review): Declare provider for documented Pi profile

* no-mistakes(review): Validate provider identifiers and support Gemini dispatch

* no-mistakes(review): Strictly anchor provider identifiers

* no-mistakes(review): Validate selectors and preserve fallback candidate evidence

* no-mistakes(review): Gate typed validation and harden resolver evidence

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve opt-in routing and harden candidate evidence

* no-mistakes(review): Prioritize known exhaustion over quota uncertainty

* no-mistakes(review): Isolate API secrets and preserve no-key diagnostics

* no-mistakes(review): Fallback safely when dispatch rules are absent

* no-mistakes(review): Prioritize quota vetoes and isolate bootstrap secrets

* no-mistakes(document): Document typed dispatch safety and fallback behavior
* test: reproduce buried status declarations in shared readers

* fix: share status event reads and preserve open blockers

* fix: retain terminal scout and ship status declarations

* no-mistakes(review): Fix status chronology, legacy completions, and reader performance

* no-mistakes(review): Share terminal decision reconciliation across fleet snapshots

* no-mistakes(review): Unify terminal supersession across cached folds and consumers

* no-mistakes(review): Filter per-key status history while preserving terminal chronology

* no-mistakes(test): Preserve parent lock ownership in Bash 3.2 subshells

* no-mistakes(review): Anchor legacy status tokens so prose cannot hide pauses

* no-mistakes(document): Document latest-event status read and kind-scoped fold cursor

* no-mistakes(lint): Quote literal done in test for-lists for SC1010

* ci: expect 19 snapshot/fleet-view tests

This branch adds a fleet-snapshot regression, so the stock macOS Bash
lane's hardcoded guard of 18 'ok - ' lines fails on the new count.
Bump the guard and its message to 19.

* no-mistakes(review): Restore multiline child outcome reporting

* no-mistakes(review): Select ledger terminal events through bounded shared reader

* no-mistakes(review): Report newest open decision instead of preferring blocked

* no-mistakes(review): Require colon before ship/scout terminal supersession in fold

* no-mistakes(review): Gate socket-down override on latest event; drop lock matrix

* no-mistakes(review): Fold only colon-bearing or keyed lines as decision transitions

* no-mistakes(review): Pre-select candidate lines before per-key closing-verb fold

* no-mistakes(test): Update fleet-view expectations to newest-open-decision rule

* no-mistakes(document): Align status-read docs with fold-resolved crew state

* no-mistakes(document): Correct status-reader contracts in classify-lib and crew-state headers

* no-mistakes(ci): Greptile P1 (bin/fm-crew-state.sh:729, "Stale socket blocker survives") was a real defect introduced by commit b7c2183 on this branch, and is fixed. Root cause: the daemon-socket-down override took its verb check from `last_status_line "$LOG"` but its evidence and emitted detail from `$LOG_LINE` (status_current_line = the fold's newest still-open decision). Those are different lines whenever a later recognized `blocked:` event is one the decision fold declines. Reproduced by sourcing bin/fm-classify-lib.sh on `blocked: no-mistakes daemon socket is missing` followed by `blocked [key=pending-reply-t3]: still waiting on the answer` (reserved-namespace key whose note does not speak that vocabulary, so _fm_decision_key_transition_allowed rejects it): open set still holds the socket blocker, last_status_line returns the newer line, its verb is blocked, so the gate passed and the stale daemon-down evidence overrode a healthy attributed run. Fix (bin/fm-crew-state.sh): capture LOG_LATEST=$(last_status_line "$LOG") once and read verb, socket-down evidence, and the emitted note all off that same line, so the override fires only while the socket-down declaration is itself the log's latest recognized event — preserving the narrow override the prior round's user instruction asked for. Comment updated to state that contract. No new machinery; the two-line conflation was removed rather than papered over. Regression: extended tests/fm-crew-state.test.sh:test_socket_refusal_override_expires_when_the_crew_moves_on with the reproduced sequence, asserting the run-step reading (state: working, source: run-step) and absence of the override detail. It fails before the fix ("not ok - a later unfolded blocked event also hands the reading back to the run (missing: 'state: working')") and passes after. Verified locally: tests/fm-crew-state.test.sh, tests/fm-fleet-snapshot-view.test.sh, tests/fm-classify-decision-key.test.sh, tests/fm-watch-triage.test.sh, tests/fm-captain-hold-lifecycle.test.sh all pass; bin/fm-lint.sh (shellcheck 0.11.0 + actionlint) exits 0. Changes left uncommitted in the worktree

* test: fold terminal-cleanup snapshot coverage into the completed-scout case

Keep the ship/scout/secondmate supersession assertions without adding a
nineteenth top-level fleet-view test, so CI can stay at the upstream suite count.

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify socket-down override expiry in architecture doc

* ci: retrigger flaky contribution check
* fix(spawn): launch codex crewmates with codex's hook layer disabled

A freshly launched Codex worker never reached its instructions. Codex
stopped it on an interactive "Hooks need review" modal whose selection
sits on "Review hooks", which is neither trusting nor declining.
Firstmate's key plane carries only Enter, Escape and Ctrl-C with no arrow
navigation, so the selection cannot be moved, and pre-accepting the
prompt by writing Codex's own trust store would record an operator
consent that was never given.

The hooks are the machine's own ~/.codex/hooks.json plus any project's
.codex/hooks.json. A crewmate needs neither: its turn-end signal is the
-c notify= program on the same launch, and Firstmate's project hooks are
primary-session infrastructure that stands down in a child worktree.

Crewmate and scout launches now pass --disable hooks. That is the
opposite of --dangerously-bypass-hook-trust, which RUNS the untrusted
hooks; disabling the feature runs none of them and leaves the operator's
~/.codex untouched. An unknown feature name is a hard Codex error, so a
release that drops the flag fails the launch loudly instead of silently
restoring the modal. A secondmate is a primary in its own home and keeps
the project hooks its turn-end guard and session-start digest ride on.

Verified on codex-cli 0.151.0: the modal is gone and the turn-end
notification still lands.

This unblocks the second review that every finished pull request is supposed to get.

Fixes kunchenguid/firstmate#4673

* no-mistakes(review): Fix contradictory hook count in Codex verification record
* fix(bin): settle terminal contributions and wake once per read-failure episode

A contribution whose last good observation is merged or closed is final:
poll no longer re-reads it, projection keeps it fresh, and a stale error
recorded beside it is cleared once. A genuine forge-read failure on an open
contribution still records its error on every cycle but prints the
unavailable wake only when it starts a failure episode; a successful read
ends the episode. Open PRs linked from done tasks keep being observed.

The false unavailable beside a complete observation was budget exhaustion
mid-observation, already fixed by #4661.

* fix(review): Settle terminal contribution owners

* fix(review): Deduplicate shared contribution failure episodes

* fix(test): Preserve settled terminal contribution records
* fix(crew-state): select authoritative validation runs by identity

Use the AXI run overview and id-addressed status reads to preserve replacement review gates, report competing live runs as unknown, and retain newer failures. Keep the coarse ledger in creation order rather than preferring an older live row.

Refs: https://github.com/kunchenguid/firstmate/issues/3215

* fix(review): Resolve same-branch run identities beyond capped history

* fix(review): Fix run-selection compatibility, races, and worker-state fallbacks

* fix(review): Limit run validation to the requested branch

* fix(test): Anchor AXI fixtures and document remaining live evidence gaps

* fix(document): Clarify run selection documentation and capture ownership

* fix(lint): Fix ShellCheck diagnostics while preserving fixture isolation
* fix(AGENTS): send a captain-facing outcome instead of shipshape for finished requested work

MAIN answered a supervision-branch outcome for completed captain-requested
work (implementation done, PR ready for review and merge approval) with
"Captain, shipshape.", reading section 9's no-action reply as covering it
and reading the Pi protocol's "do not re-emit the anchor verbatim" as "no
captain-facing response is owed".

Section 9 now limits the shipshape reply to true no-ops (idle re-read,
empty heartbeat, consequence-free acknowledgement) and requires a short
outcome response naming what finished and what word is needed whenever
requested work finishes or a result needs the captain's word, even when a
transcript entry already shows the substance. The Pi protocol's re-emit
rule now says it bounds repetition only, and carries a worked example of
the ready-for-review outcome whose correct processing turn a shipshape
reply fails.

No executable contract evaluates the content of MAIN's captain-facing
reply, so the regression is the protocol example in the owner doc rather
than a text-match test.

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify captain-facing outcomes versus no-ops

* docs(pi): restore the ready-for-review regression example as a preserved-verbatim contract line

The document step condensed the Pi protocol's re-emit rule and dropped the
worked example of a finished, ready-for-review outcome whose correct
processing turn a "Captain, shipshape." reply fails. That example is the
contract's regression: no executable contract evaluates the content of
MAIN's captain-facing reply, so the owner doc's example is the test case.

Restore it directly under the re-emit rule, prefixed as a regression
example that is kept verbatim and never condensed or summarized away.

* no-mistakes(review): Clarify captain outcome and decision-word requirements

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify captain-facing completion outcomes

* docs(pi): require the PR URL in the visible captain-facing outcome reply

Captain review on the regression example: drop the sample reply string
and say only that the ready-for-review outcome requires relaying a
captain-facing outcome response, not just "Captain, shipshape.".

Fold in the visible-PR-handoff failure seen this session: after the
branch outcome reporting this fix green, MAIN's visible reply was only
"Awaiting your merge call." with no PR URL, leaning on the dim anchor.
Section 9's URL rule now also covers a review or merge ask and names the
visible reply as where the URL goes, sourced from the ready status, pr=
metadata, or the supervision branch's summary and never left to a
transcript entry. The Pi protocol adds the same-way failure and places
the captain-facing text in the final visible assistant reply after the
fm_branch_processed call, because Calm hides assistant text emitted in
the same step as a tool call as a working note.

Investigation verdict, evidence in the PR comment: no recent PR caused
the handoff failure; Pi has hidden same-step pre-tool assistant text
since #2339 (2026-08-13), #4655 changed only the Claude Code mod, and
#4658 touched only remote report transfer.

* no-mistakes(review): Restore safe outcome ordering and consolidate PR URLs

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify captain-facing supervision outcomes

* docs(AGENTS): keep the whenever-a-PR-is-mentioned trigger on the consolidated URL rule

The consolidated section 9 URL rule narrowed its trigger to a review or
merge ask, dropping the "whenever a PR is mentioned" catch-all from
#3648 that keeps every PR URL copied from a durable record and never
assembled from memory. Restore that trigger as a union with the review
or merge ask so the one consolidated rule covers both.
* Fix foreign-owner turn-end supervision loop

* no-mistakes(review): Scope foreign-owner safe exit to Claude guard

* no-mistakes(document): Document Claude foreign-owner safe exit
Under set -u, stock macOS bash 3.2.57 treats "${arr[@]}" on an empty
indexed array as an unbound variable and aborts the shell. In
signal_turnend_panes_churned() the missing_keys loop was reachable with
an empty array whenever every churned key already held a fresh
.churn-since-* marker (a second churning turn-end inside an open
deferral window), so each watcher cycle died about half a minute in and
supervision restarted endlessly. The created_keys rollback loops had the
same latent crash on their error paths.

Audit of bin/ for the same pattern found one more confirmed-reachable
case: remote_handoff's noncanonical-body scan iterates to_move, which is
empty when a retried remote handoff finds every key already staged in
the outbox. All other "${arr[@]}" sites are either count-guarded,
guaranteed non-empty by construction, or unreachable while empty.

Guard the three reachable expansions with the repo's existing
"${arr[@]+...}" idiom. New regression test drives a real watcher
through the all-marked churn path; the macos-stock-bash CI lane runs it
under real /bin/bash 3.2 via FM_TEST_ONLY.
The synthetic harness was named synthetic-claude, which Linux procps truncates to synthetic-claud so fm-lock.sh never matched a harness or wrote state/.lock before the test read it.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* docs: require complete final responses across harnesses

* no-mistakes(document): Document complete final replies for Grok Bot

* docs: point Grok replies to the shared contract owner

* no-mistakes(review): Clarify final recap without batching decision asks
* fix(calm): preserve substantive Pi mid-turn text

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve substantive Pi Calm text per block

* no-mistakes(test): Cover shared Calm preservation boundaries behaviorally

* no-mistakes(document): Consolidate Calm preservation documentation
* Improve CI reliability and rebalance full-coverage validation

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify lint partition documentation
* Handle Kimi workspace trust dialog

* no-mistakes(review): Retry Kimi trust Enter and gate ready on dialog markers

* no-mistakes(review): Gate Kimi ready on any trust marker and clean captures

* no-mistakes(review): Read visible pane for Kimi trust and ready gates

* no-mistakes(review): Add per-backend visible-pane capture for Kimi trust gate

* no-mistakes(review): Harden Kimi viewport capture and trust dialog detection

* no-mistakes(document): Document Kimi spawn refusal on cmux and Orca
* fix(bin): report a record whose agent is gone once instead of escalating forever

The wedge escalation path never asked whether there was still an agent to be
wedged. A wedge is something stuck that might recover, so re-alarming it earns
its cost; an agent that is gone never moves again, its pane never churns, the
idle timer never resets, and the escalate path clears its own timer and re-arms
with nothing bounding the count.

Observed on a live fleet: two finished lanes reached 226 and 203 consecutive
escalations, roughly one every FM_STALE_ESCALATE_SECS, indefinitely - about 400
notifications a day from two lanes with no agent running at all. On one,
fm-control.sh exit answered already-stopped and fm-crew-state.sh read
"failed - run failed". Closing the Herdr pane did not stop it either: with the
pane genuinely gone and herdr pane read returning pane_not_found, the count kept
climbing, because the poll is driven by the record's window= line rather than by
the pane. The cost is not the repetition but that it drowns the alarms that
matter.

fm_backend_agent_state already separates a thinking agent from a gone one at
process level. In the branch that was about to escalate, read it once and treat
only its two recovery-grade verdicts - dead (endpoint present, no agent in it)
and missing (endpoint authoritatively absent) - as proof, reporting that record
once and not re-escalating it while it stays that way. Every other verdict,
including alive, ambiguous, unreadable, unverified, and a read that failed
outright, keeps the identical schedule, reason, and escalation count, so a
genuinely wedged live agent is unaffected. The probe costs at most one backend
read per window per threshold, the same budget the declared-wait consult and the
worktree write probe already take.

The report decides nothing about the record's fate: both lanes still held
unlanded work and teardown refusing them was correct, so retiring, relaunching,
or cleaning up stays with the supervisor. The once-only marker is owned entirely
by that function and is dropped by the same read the moment the endpoint stops
reading gone, so a replacement launched into the same window escalates normally
and its own later death is reported again.

Related, and not closed by this: #4412, #4482, #4316.

Tests drive the real watcher against a record whose endpoint does not exist and
pin both directions: dead and missing report once and never advance the count
across later thresholds, while alive, ambiguous, and unreadable endpoints keep
escalating with the identical reason and a climbing count.

* fix(bin): bind the once-only dead report to the pane it reported

Review of the parent commit found a reachable sequence where a later death in
the same window lost its promised report. The marker was keyed on the verdict
string alone and dropped only when a threshold probe read a non-gone verdict,
but probes run only at thresholds: a replacement launched into the same window
that dies without ever being probed alive - it crashes at startup, or works and
then crashes - was absorbed by the previous death's marker. The pane's first
sight yielded only the generic stale wake and every later threshold matched the
stale marker, so the second death never got the detailed once-report that both
the function's own comment and docs/architecture.md promise.

Record the verdict together with the pane hash it was reported for, and absorb a
repeat only while both still match. A replacement churns the pane, which resets
the stale suppressor, wedge timer, and escalation count while no reset site
touches this marker, so the pane half is what tells the second death apart from
the first. The live-probe drop stays as it was.

Clearing the marker at those reset sites instead would re-open unbounded
re-alarming for a dead pane whose display ever ticks, which is the exact defect
the parent commit exists to close.

The noise bound is unchanged: an unchanged dead pane still absorbs on every
later threshold and never advances the escalation count, and every verdict short
of proof still escalates exactly as before.

* no-mistakes(review): Key the dead-record once-marker on the busy incarnation token

* no-mistakes(document): Document dead-record escalation cap in stale-pane config entry

* no-mistakes(document): Add busy-state inventory line to AGENTS.md

* no-mistakes(document): Document dead-record probe on busy-turn-bound wedge path
Captain holds have no due semantics and are a hold kind, not a Beads issue
type. The create path now waives due.required and maps to native type task.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* feat(bin): launch every spawned agent with the compact adviser disabled

Every crewmate, scout, and secondmate Firstmate launches now starts with
COMPACT_ADVISER_DISABLE=1, on a fresh spawn and on a relaunch alike, so an
unattended session never activates the compact adviser.
The value is unconditional: no configuration file gates it and there is no
override, unlike the trace carrier beside it.

Three carriers deliver it, because no single one covers every launch shape.
The pane shell receives an export beside GOTMPDIR, so the agent's own children
inherit it too.
The launch command carries an explicit assignment, prepended outermost so it
wins over any ambient value the pane already held.
The cleared launch environment sets it again at the `env -i` boundary and keeps
COMPACT_ADVISER_DISABLE in the fixed operational floor, which is what preserves
the switch when config/launch-env-allowlist empties the environment, and what
delivers it on a remote host that never had the value.

bin/fm-control.sh relaunch, the bootstrap secondmate relaunch, and the remote
secondmate transport all rebuild their launch through bin/fm-spawn.sh, so they
inherit the same floor.
The captain's own primary session is untouched.

The two new suites drive the real spawn and then execute the launch command the
pane actually received, with the harness replaced by a probe that prints its own
environment, rather than matching script text.
They cover ship and secondmate launches with the allowlist absent and enabled,
the pane export and its ordering, fm-control.sh relaunch, and the full parent to
remote-host chain.

* no-mistakes(review): Export compact-adviser disable across compound launches

* no-mistakes(document): Document spawned-agent compact-adviser environment guarantee
* fix(bin): let a background Claude session keep owning its session lock

Session-lock ownership was decided by process ancestry alone. Under an
unattended Claude session the model loop runs in a transient bg-spare
bridged to the front-end by a shared daemon; when that bridge is
recycled the contiguous claude-named ancestry from a hook to the
recorded owner breaks while the owner pid stays alive, so the Stop
auto-arm stood down as a foreign live owner, the turn-end guard ended
every turn with its read-only diagnostic, and fm-lock.sh refused - a
self-sustaining outage until restart.

Ownership is now ancestry membership OR a trusted same-session id,
never id-first:

- fm-session-lock-lib.sh accepts CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ID only when
  CLAUDE_PID is a Claude-shaped member of the current contiguous run,
  compares it against the id recorded in state/.lock-session, and
  requires the recorded pid to still be a live harness. No id, no
  sidecar, an untrusted id, a different id, or a dead recorded pid
  leaves the ancestry verdict unchanged. Ids are never read from ps
  argv.
- fm-lock.sh accepts a same-session holder at both refusal sites,
  writes, refreshes, and clears the sidecar only under its claim lock
  (including the early already-mine exit, skipped only while the
  deferred startup sweep leases that lock), keeps it byte-identical
  across a same-session confirmation, records CLAUDE_PID on lock line 1
  for a session with a trusted id so a shared daemon or front-end that
  outlives the session never keeps a dead session's lock alive, never
  rewrites a live line 1 on a same-session confirmation, and names the
  recorded id in the live-owner refusal.
- The .lock line-1 format is unchanged, so every reader that takes the
  whole first line as the pid keeps working; the guard's foreign-owner
  exit is unchanged and inherits the fix through the shared predicate.

Tests: the ancestry suite drives the ancestry and id signals apart in a
deterministic process table (asserting the divergence) and runs a real
orphaned front-end/daemon/pty-host/spare tree through six phases with
the real lock, auto-arm, and guard scripts; the foreign-owner repro
keeps its negative control and adds a same-id positive control.

Disclosure: no live unattended Claude background session ran on the
verifying machine. The topology is documented by the real process
listings in #3902, #2314, #3398, and #4066; coverage is the structural
predicate plus the executable fixtures, not a live pass.

Residual: bin/fm-sessionstart-nudge.sh keeps its own private ancestry
walk (it only decides whether to print a nudge) and may nudge on a
resume in the recycled case.

Out of scope, deliberately: no structured lock format, no guard budget
changes, no daemon-identity rejection, no fork lineage.

* no-mistakes(review): Wait for claim lock; revert failed sidecars

* no-mistakes(review): Revalidate ownership after wait; restore sidecars

* no-mistakes(review): Roll back sidecar by publication phase

* no-mistakes(review): Restore sidecar only if lock line is unchanged

* no-mistakes(review): Trust session ids without a spelling allowlist

* no-mistakes(review): Disarm sidecar rollback before backup cleanup

* no-mistakes(document): Updated session-lock ownership documentation
* feat: park main under the away posture on Pi

While the away-posture record exists on a Pi primary, the supervision branch
takes every actionable wake, no processing turn opens on main, captain rows
accumulate for the return brief, and main's standing authority relocates to
the branch through the existing guarded scripts.

- lib/fm-branch-dispatch.ts: read the record at every routing decision; while
  it exists claim check, decision-owned, and heartbeat rows too, keeping the
  two broken-queue vetoes; expose checkSeqs so a claimed check row lifts task
  scoping.
- fm-primary-pi-watch.ts: offer every actionable row under the record; a
  declined wake and every watcher-failure alarm still reach main.
- fm-branch-supervision.ts: drop the legacy .afk decline; append a fixed
  POSTURE: AWAY tail carrying the record's read-back verbatim per wake; open no
  processing request while the record exists, re-checked immediately before a
  request would open and at every run boundary; present the accumulated rows
  at the first run boundary after archive.
- fm-lease-lib.sh: fm_lease_forbid_branch passes the branch for opted-in
  actions only while fm-afk-contract.sh validate succeeds on a confirmed live
  record; PR merge, fresh spawn, and decision answer opt in, local landing
  never does.
- fm-send.sh: a --resolve-key naming an open needs-decision or captain-held
  task is a decision answer and meets the partition; blocked: keys stay
  steering.
- fm-spawn.sh: enforce the record's spend cap for a fresh ordinary spawn by
  either actor; relaunches and secondmates exempt.
- fm-branch-prompt.sh: fixed Postures section and the verbatim
  ask-user-authority policy; the prefix stays byte-stable.
- fm-afk-return.sh: count what the away session handled from the store.
- docs, afk skill, AGENTS.md stub: main parked on Pi, green merge gate
  absolute while away.
- tests: watcher and branch extension suites, fleet-record, merge, and
  decision-answer suites cover the relocation, the vetoes, the tail, the
  parked processing turn, the cancellation, the re-presentation, and the
  spend cap; dated live-guard evidence recorded.

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse branch merge after preflight archive race

* no-mistakes(review): Fix away wake, spawn, and processing races

* no-mistakes(review): Suppress parked processing; narrow away-only rejection

* no-mistakes(review): Abort dedicated processing; gate branch spawn once

* no-mistakes(review): Stamp away-only on the dispatch offer

* no-mistakes(review): Treat invalid away records as spend-cap absence

* no-mistakes(review): Drop spawn test hook; abort processing-opened runs

* no-mistakes(review): Bind abort to opening prompt; cap-read absence

* no-mistakes(review): Limit away branch spawn to queued work only

* no-mistakes(document): Correct AFK posture documentation
* ci: simplify CI job timeouts to a three-tier policy

Replace the scattered per-job timeout values (10m parallel, 25m lint, 30m
serial, 10m macOS) with three readable tiers, each a hang tripwire with
headroom rather than a packing estimate:

- fast (5m): coverage guard, repo invariants, timing aggregate
- normal (30m, one shared budget): lint partitions, portable parallel
  shards, portable serial shards, macOS stock Bash
- heavy (Herdr only): 20m step tripwire on the family run so always()
  cleanup still runs, under a 75m job-level last-resort backstop

The workflow's header comment states the policy and points at
docs/fm-test-portable-shards.md "Timeouts", which now owns it, and each
job names its tier beside timeout-minutes. tests/fm-ci-workflow.test.sh
asserts the policy against the parsed workflow instead of the old
per-job minute values: every job joins exactly one tier, exactly three
distinct job-level values exist, the fast tier stays within 5-10
minutes, the normal budget stays at least double the modeled parallel
lane sum reported by fm-test-run.sh --check-coverage, and the Herdr step
tripwire stays below its job backstop with an always() cleanup after it.

Concurrency supersession, shard counts, lane membership, and fail-fast
settings are unchanged.

* no-mistakes(review): Decouple the normal timeout from packing estimates

* no-mistakes(review): Assert Herdr teardown follows the family run

* no-mistakes(review): Pin Herdr family-run timeout to 20 minutes

* no-mistakes(review): Ignore comments when identifying Herdr steps

* no-mistakes(review): Identify Herdr steps by declarative ids

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify authoritative three-tier timeout policy
* fix(bin): keep supervisor status closes from waking the same home

A drain that already folded OPEN DECISIONS has presented those bytes even
when the watcher has no matching seen marker. Treat that fold, and the
presentation cursor, as known so the bookkeeping close stays quiet while
later worker lines still signal.

* no-mistakes(review): Keep folded worker failures waking past supervisor closes

* no-mistakes(review): Wake on unlisted folded worker lines; batch multi-key closes

* no-mistakes(review): Stop folded worker resolved lines from counting as already read

* no-mistakes(document): Correct self-announced close marker contract in docs
* Stop steering operators away from Herdr

* no-mistakes(review): Neutralize remaining Herdr opt-out documentation wording
* fix(bin): treat a live no-mistakes run as current after rebase

A running run on the task's branch is authoritative regardless of head.
Matching only the local head made a rebased in-flight run look failed.

* no-mistakes(review): restrict coarse live-any-head to foreign-branch answers

* no-mistakes(review): reject gate-parked runs from the executing predicate

* no-mistakes(review): hoist gate-marker patterns into single run-lib owner

* no-mistakes(review): require live daemon for head-free run binding

* no-mistakes(review): require answered daemon-down before unbinding live runs

* no-mistakes(review): extend daemon guard to anchored continuation routes

* no-mistakes(review): delete live-any-head; restore dead-daemon verdict

* no-mistakes(review): keep parked gates parked; name dead daemon everywhere

* no-mistakes(review): set dead-daemon verdict instead of emitting early

* no-mistakes(review): align selected route with legacy dead-daemon handling

* no-mistakes(review): drop unproven-record binds; narrow coarse gate reading

* no-mistakes(review): narrow header, drop vestigial guard, retarget tests

* no-mistakes(review): revert coarse gate override; require answered-down probe

* no-mistakes(review): cache one daemon probe; stop duplicating run id

* no-mistakes(review): restrict coarse dead-daemon verdict to moved-off rows

* no-mistakes(review): delete coarse dead-daemon extension and gate note

* no-mistakes(review): delete remaining coarse dead-daemon block and stale docs

* no-mistakes(document): document rebase-safe live-run bind and unverified-record verdict
* fix(bin): stage the launch command in a private file and type a short source line

A long launch line typed while the fresh pane shell is still busy waits in the
terminal's canonical line buffer, which drops input past about 1,024 bytes on
macOS, so the pane was left at an unfinished command with no agent running.
fm-spawn now writes the assembled command to the task's own temp root under
umask 077 and types only a short line that sources it.

Refs #4559

* fix(bin): keep the per-task temp root private before staging the launch command

The root lives at a predictable path under /tmp and now holds the whole launch
command. Create it with mode 0700, refuse one that already exists as anything but
a directory owned by this user that nobody else can write, and tighten an owned
one, so no other local user can plant or swap the staged file.

Refs #4559

* fix(bin): enforce private staged launch file mode

* test(spawn): cover long staged Claude launches

* no-mistakes(review): Namespace launch files and prove truncation staging

* no-mistakes(review): Use immutable per-spawn launch filenames

* no-mistakes(document): Document staged launch delivery safeguards

* no-mistakes(ci): Updated eight behavior tests/fakes to execute or inspect immutable staged launch files instead of expecting inline launch commands. This restores Muse, secondmate lifecycle/restart, remote trace/parent binding, compact-adviser, and Orca coverage. All affected tests, dispatch-profile regression, fixture tests, syntax checks, ShellCheck, and git diff checks pass

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Co-authored-by: Vytautas Stankus <svycka@gmail.com>
* Add isolated Herdr runbook to test instructions

* no-mistakes(review): Drop substring matching from test.instructions contract

* no-mistakes(review): Assert commands.test key absence in YAML

* Drop unit-first sentence and instructions contract test

Captain-scoped follow-up on the Herdr-lab test.instructions ship:
keep the lab safety runbook only, and leave the no-mistakes contract
test focused on commands.test absence.
* docs(vision): accept vendor-semantics and 9k contract-ceiling amendments (#4873)

Replace the pixels-of-today's-UI rule with a quarantined, version-pinned
surface-adapter exception recorded as standing debt. Cap the always-loaded
contract at 9,000 words and require prune-or-trigger before a crossing change
lands.

Co-authored-by: Kun Chen <kunchenguid@users.noreply.github.com>

* docs(vision): restore accepted three-sentence vendor-semantics form (#4873)

Replace the compressed paraphrase with the issue's accepted wording:
a named quarantined version-pinned adapter, expected to break, recorded
as standing debt that never hardens into a shared contract.

Co-authored-by: Kun Chen <kunchenguid@users.noreply.github.com>

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Co-authored-by: Cursor Agent <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Co-authored-by: Kun Chen <kunchenguid@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(watch): recheck a gate awaiting a human instead of wedge-escalating it

A lane whose validation run is parked at a gate waiting on a human
decision is correctly quiet, but nothing in its status line says so: the
evidence is the pipeline's own gate state rather than anything the worker
wrote. The wedge timer read that silence as a suspected wedge and climbed
the escalation ladder for as long as the wait lasted, and each escalation
cost a supervising turn. The landed declared-wait consult does not reach
it, because a live ordinary crewmate never reports a declared pause, and
raising FM_STALE_ESCALATE_SECS would delay genuine wedge detection for
every lane by the same amount.

The threshold now reads a second, independent record when the status line
accounts for nothing: whether the crew's current state is a gate whose
answer is owed by a human. That is minted only from the gate's own
findings table, by a row whose `action` column is exactly `ask-user`,
located by position out of the table header the way nm_gate_step_row
already reads its row - never searched for over the run payload, where a
finding's free-text description or a branch name satisfies a search just
as well. A gate awaiting the CREWMATE's own answer keeps the unchanged
escalation schedule, reason and demand-deep-inspection wording, because a
crewmate that goes quiet before answering its own gate is exactly the
wedge the ladder exists to catch.

Each kind of wait now carries the human it is on, the action that clears
it, and whether that human is the captain as data alongside the verdict,
rather than as wording chosen per branch where the recheck is written, so
the deferral cannot word one kind of wait as another and a new kind
cannot ship without deciding all of them. A parked gate has no written
record of when its wait began, so its recheck publishes no wait age at
all rather than one read from the quiet window this deferral resets on
every pass, which would report the same small number for a gate of any
age. Like every other captain-facing recheck here it is absorbed in
silence while the away-posture record exists, arming no throttle, so the
recheck is owed in full the moment the record is archived.

The consult runs only in the at-threshold branch that was about to
escalate, beside the worktree walk already there, and only for lanes
whose status line explained nothing.

Closes #3055

* no-mistakes(review): require an unanswered decision before deferring a parked gate

* no-mistakes(review): reset the away-silenced timer, fail-safe findings parse, US-joined wait records

* test(watch): pass the pane hash wedge_timer_check now takes

Upstream gave wedge_timer_check a sixth <pane-hash> argument for its
dead-record probe. The malformed-wait-record rounds drive the real function
directly, so they pass one, and stub fm_backend_agent_state to a live agent so
the probe that runs after a refused deferral keeps the unchanged ladder rather
than reading a backend the child shell has none of.

* no-mistakes(review): Bind parked-gate wait to its run, owe it firstmate

* no-mistakes(document): correct wait-kind count, crew-state reader scope, gate-key coupling

* feat(watch): make the parked-gate wait deferral opt-in

The wedge timer deferring a lane parked at a validation gate is new
supervision behaviour rather than a restored one, and it decides which
lanes give up the escalation ladder, so it now ships as a default-off
per-home option instead of changing every home on upgrade.

config/wedge-defer-parked-gate arms it. The flag is read before the
decision fold, so an unconfigured home spends no fold or current-state
read, writes no record, and keeps the unchanged escalation schedule,
reasons and demand-deep-inspection wording; a test counts the reader
calls in both directions to pin that.

It is not inherited by secondmate homes: each home supervises its own
crew and owns that trade separately, the same reason
config/turnend-churn-absorb is home-local.

The away-posture absorb returns to leaving the idle timer alone, which
it had restarted only because the costly consult could reach it. A
parked-gate wait is owed to the supervisor rather than the captain, so
it never enters that branch, and the recheck owed on return is again
owed in full the moment the record is archived.

* test(watch): pin that the away-silenced hold leaves the idle timer alone

The absorb no longer restarts the timer, so the recheck owed on return is
owed in full rather than a cadence into the return. Nothing asserted
that, so a restart could be reintroduced silently.

* no-mistakes(review): document away-silence rationale, pin captured gate component

* no-mistakes(test): anchor gate row scan to the braced findings header

* no-mistakes(document): pin same-block gate row invariant in crew-state comment
* fix(control): let the owning seat reclaim a task whose endpoint is gone

A destroyed pane or workspace made `missing` a terminal state. Relaunch
accepted only `dead` and said to stop the agent first; exit refused
`missing` and said to reconcile the task first; there is no reconcile
verb. Each command named the other as its prerequisite, so a task whose
terminal went away could not be reclaimed by anything, and a no-mistakes
approval it was parked on had no seat left to answer it.

`missing` is agent-free a fortiori: there is no endpoint, so there is no
agent in it. Widen the existing guards rather than add a verb.

- fm-spawn --relaunch accepts a positively proven `missing` and creates
  one fresh endpoint in the recorded worktree; the record it already
  republishes rebinds the task to it. A `dead` endpoint is still adopted
  in place.
- fm-control exit reports `endpoint-gone` instead of dying, so the
  relaunch transaction's stop step no longer dead-ends, and re-resolves
  the endpoint from the record before verifying the replacement.

The duplicate-agent refusal is untouched: both verdicts come from the
same recovery-grade classifier, which claims `missing` only from positive
absence, so `alive`, `ambiguous`, and `unreadable` all still refuse. The
backends' own create paths refuse a live same-labeled endpoint as a
second independent guard. The worktree, its branch, commits, uncommitted
changes, armed poll and registration, record rows, and status log are all
untouched - a reclaim is a recovery, never a teardown.

A secondmate is excluded: its gone-endpoint recovery already has one
owner in the session-start liveness sweep, so relaunch refuses and names
it rather than becoming a second path to the same outcome.

Tests reproduce both halves of the deadlock, the reclaim succeeding,
unlanded work surviving it, and the refusals that still hold.

* no-mistakes(review): prove endpoint absence per backend before reclaim rebinds

* no-mistakes(review): give exit and relaunch one absence proof; pin herdr rebind session

* no-mistakes(review): narrow endpoint reclaim to herdr; tmux refuses honestly

* no-mistakes(review): stop refusals and docs asserting unestablished causes

* no-mistakes(review): stop herdr fixture helper losing tmp-root registration

* no-mistakes(review): document workspace drift and absence-probe server residue

* no-mistakes(review): correct rebind limitation to its one reachable case

* no-mistakes(review): stop claiming reclaim leaves instructions untouched

* no-mistakes(document): scope fm-control-lib purity claim, note reclaim coverage

* no-mistakes(rebase): read the staged launch file in the herdr fixture

Rebasing onto main picked up #4994, which stages a long worker launch
command into a script and delivers the short `. '<path>'` line instead of
the literal command. The tmux fake and tests/fixtures.sh were updated for
that; the herdr fake this branch adds was written before it and still
keyed "an agent now exists on this pane" off the literal
`encode launch-brief` text, so after the rebase it never marked the
rebound pane live and the reclaim's alive-wait read `dead`.

Dereference the staged file first, exactly as the tmux fake above does.
Test-fixture only; no production path changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* no-mistakes(document): note reclaim placement in herdr and scripts inventories

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(status): reproduce missing event emission time

* wip(status): preserve optional event emission time

* test(status): document indirect clock stub invocation

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve historical status bytes during reply recovery

* no-mistakes(test): Fix timestamped status assertions and remote fixture dependencies

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve captain regex overrides for timestamped status events

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify status event timing and publication contracts

* no-mistakes(lint): Quote literal done to satisfy ShellCheck

* no-mistakes(ci): Captain, updated .github/workflows/ci.yml to expect 19 snapshot tests instead of 18, matching the PR’s added regression. Reproduced the failure before the fix. Stock Bash 3.2.57 verification passed: parse sweep, 19 snapshot tests, 53 Bearings tests, and the public-followup regression. Workflow lint and diff checks passed

* no-mistakes(test): Preserve terminal notifications with malformed timestamp tags

* no-mistakes(test): Stamp Rovo spawn failures with emission time

* no-mistakes(document): Verify status event documentation

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix ShellCheck quoting in status emission-time tests

* no-mistakes(ci): Captain, fixed four lifecycle assertions to accept emission timestamps while preserving publication and retry checks. Reproduced the CI failure before the fix. The lifecycle suite now passes with six Beads capability skips; syntax, targeted ShellCheck, and diff checks passed

* no-mistakes(ci): Captain, fixed malformed timestamp colons hiding actionable events using shared normalization. Original bytes and unknown ages are preserved. Regression reproduced before the fix; classifier and remote-reply suites, targeted lint, syntax, and diff checks passed

* no-mistakes(review): Stamp remote escalations at call sites, drop new flag

* no-mistakes(review): Accept stamped escalation and close lines in test assertions

* no-mistakes(review): Restore reserved-key answered-note guard for stamped closes

* test(status): accept optional emission time in PR-provenance assertions

The #4148 provenance test landed on main with exact unstamped greps.
Parent-channel lines from this branch carry [at=<epoch>], so strip only
that tag before the same exact match. No production change.

* no-mistakes(review): Accept stamped ready signal in PR fallback scrape

* no-mistakes(review): Drop relay flag, stamp parent events at call sites

* no-mistakes(review): Stamp worker terminal-signal instructions, revert fm-on fixture

* no-mistakes(review): Accept optional stamp in live cmux drift guard

* no-mistakes(review): Restore original test invocation order in two suites

* no-mistakes(review): Strip only well-formed numeric status time tags

* no-mistakes(document): Drop stale unstamped PR-ready line spelling from channel doc

* no-mistakes(review): Stamp agy spawn-failure status lines with event time

* fix(bin): normalize status event times in-shell and freeze the budget test clock

Two paths made a status event's emission time cost more than it should.

The captain-relevance fallback piped every line through awk to drop a
well-formed `[at=<epoch>]` tag before matching, so a supervisor sweep paid a
fork per line just to prepare a regex match. Shell parameter expansion does the
same strip with no fork, and the retry-dedup scan now reuses that one helper
instead of carrying a second copy of the rule in awk. The copies had already
drifted: the shell side stripped tags from lines with no colon, which the awk
rule left whole, so a colonless line could be mistaken for one already
recorded. One definition, checked against the awk rule it replaces over the
edge cases and a 4000-line fuzz.

tests/fm-contributions.test.sh froze its fixture clock only in exhaust mode. In
hang mode the poll set DEADLINE to the real now plus a one-second budget, and
when the second ticked before the first forge call the loop broke without ever
calling gh: forge/calls was never written and the assertion failed reading a
missing file. Freezing the clock in both modes removes the dependence on wall
time; the bounded call is still cut by the real timeout, so the observation the
test asserts still starts.

Emission time stays optional on new status records, and legacy or malformed
lines keep an unknown age.

* no-mistakes(review): Stamp ask-user escalation line and fix Kimi status assertion

* no-mistakes(document): Drop stale unstamped done-line spelling from watcher docs

* test: fold emission-time snapshot coverage into the fixture case

Drop the incidental ci.yml 18-to-19 count hunk so the PR no longer
touches workflows. Keep every emission-time assertion by folding it
into test_fixture_snapshot_json.

* no-mistakes(review): replace brief date substitution with epoch placeholder; drop emitted_at_epoch

* no-mistakes(review): align untimed normalizer with epoch parser; tolerate placeholder stamp in PR scrape

* no-mistakes(review): strip undelimited at-tags; correct brief stamp header

* no-mistakes(review): normalize stamps at both captain-regex sites; restore mtime freshness

* no-mistakes(review): strip colon-bearing stamps for relevance; fix headers and test oracles

* no-mistakes(review): narrow escalation match to stamp tolerance; pin note verb

* no-mistakes(review): read note and key past colon-bearing stamps

* test(status): keep inactive reconcile assertions stamp-tolerant

These two oracles were made stamp-tolerant while resolving one of the
branch's merges from main. The rebase drops merge commits, so that
adaptation was lost and both assertions went back to matching an exact
substring that a stamped line no longer contains: the tag lands before
the colon, so "failed [key=k]: ..." is now "failed [key=k] [at=N]: ...".
Strip a well-formed tag before matching, as the branch's other oracles do.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* no-mistakes(review): unstamp fold colon tests; reserve stamp width in cap

* no-mistakes(document): correct stale unstamped status-line spellings in docs

* no-mistakes(document): quote brief-test literals for lint; correct stamp-helper contract comments

* no-mistakes(ci): rename subshell-local epoch in delivery-race stub

The serialization test overrides fm_pending_reply_mark_delivered inside a
(..) subshell. Its `epoch` local collided with the same name in
status_line_at_epoch/status_stamp_line, which this branch added and this
suite now calls at top level, so ShellCheck 0.11.0 reported SC2030 and
failed Lint 2. The stub already prefixes its other locals with `pending_`
for the same reason; `epoch` was the leftover.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: ship clean Lavish host fixes

* no-mistakes(review): Fix Lavish classifications and fail-closed host loading

* no-mistakes(review): Restore Lavish host state across retries and launches

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve destination Lavish host when configuration is absent

* no-mistakes(document): Document Lavish status and host guarantees
* feat(afk): make the captain's away words the whole mandate

Retire the clause fields, verb list, never-set scan, refused records, and
the per-task merge-grant list from the away-posture record. The record is
now version 2: the captain's words verbatim plus expected return, spend
cap, and reach line; a version 1 record still validates, reads, and
archives so a live away window is never broken by the upgrade.

The supervision branch reads the words at the tail of every wake and acts
on them by its own judgment through the guarded scripts under standing
authority, never by analogy, holding for the return on doubt, and opens
each such outcome summary with "per your away instructions:" so the
return brief can render the words beside the session's account. While the
record exists any green merge runs under away authority (ledger tag
"away"); red merges, --allow-red, asynchronous and queued merges, and
local-only landing stay refused. The branch may file a backlog item the
words explicitly call for before dispatching it under the spend cap.

Tests drive fm-afk-contract.sh, fm-afk-launch.sh, fm-afk-return.sh, and
fm-pr-merge.sh as commands: version 2 written, version 1 read, retired
flags and subcommands refused by name, green merges landing under the
record, red and waived-red refused, the record lock still closing the
authority-read window, and the Pi away tail carrying the words.

* no-mistakes(review): carry the away read-back to the session verbatim

* no-mistakes(review): match the exact away-action marker in the return brief

* no-mistakes(review): refuse a words block truncated by a damaged line

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh away-role contract documentation
* fix(bin): render the remote charter's steering-inbox path host-local

A freshly provisioned remote secondmate read a parent-home absolute
steering-inbox path in its charter - a location that exists on no route -
and spent its first turn discovering the gap and filing a blocked
decision for what was a render defect. The seed's remote-copy rewrite now
maps the inbox to the route's host-local parent-route inbox, exactly as
it already maps the reply-log path, so every mention - bare path, listing,
and handled/ acknowledgement - lands host-local.

Both rewrites also become plain assignments, because a quoted substitution
nested inside a double-quoted printf argument leaks literal quotes into
the replacement text on stock macOS bash. The lifecycle suite pins the
corrected render both directions against the real seed, provisioning,
and delivery route, sharing one fixture value between the render truth
and the delivery truth.

Closes #5012

* no-mistakes(document): document remote charter's host-local steering inbox
* feat(procevent): route worker-owned Lavish rounds

* no-mistakes(review): drop duplicate artifact field from task-owned registration

* no-mistakes(review): post worker reply once, fix ring label, keep re-arm atomic

* no-mistakes(review): keep worker board owned until terminal round acknowledged

* no-mistakes(review): refuse every retirement of an open worker-owned round

* no-mistakes(review): use real lavish reply flag, isolate reply generations

* no-mistakes(review): drop .posted marker for best-effort reply posting

* no-mistakes(review): consume staged reply after listener setup, refuse orphaned captures

* no-mistakes(review): require a reachable owner, redeliver open rounds, roll back failed re-arms

* no-mistakes(review): re-arm only to acknowledge an open round

* no-mistakes(review): conclude only a still-open terminal round

* no-mistakes(review): record the acknowledgement before retiring the board

* no-mistakes(review): retain the registration across a conclude, qualify terminal docs

* no-mistakes(document): Document worker-owned Lavish round lifecycle
* fix(bin): reserve contribution observation budget

* no-mistakes(review): Strengthen slow-read regression test to exceed the poll budget
* feat(bin): add idempotent inbox orders, receipts, replies, and readiness

Let a caller supply a request id when publishing a captain inbox note so a
retry returns the original note instead of creating a second one, including
across the crash window between save and wake announcement. Separate saved
from announced so a failed wake is repairable without enqueueing again.
Add bounded receipts JSON with omission disclosure, a durable primary reply
against a note id, and a read-only readiness projection that can say
unknown instead of inferring liveness from a lock file.

* no-mistakes(review): fix(bin): honest inbox announce, reply cursor, and readiness verdict

* fix(bin): resolve ready from lock-holder ancestry; drop lock status --json

Remove the extra JSON surface from fm-lock.sh so its human status still
always exits zero. Have the readiness projection classify the inspected
home from the lock-holder pid via fm-harness.sh ancestry, with an explicit
FM_SUPERVISION_MODEL still winning and an unknown model when there is no
holder. Prove the yes path when that ancestry names a known harness.

* no-mistakes(review): Harden inbox announce, receipts reads, and reply sequence cursor

* no-mistakes(document): Note read-only lock inspection in scripts inventory

* no-mistakes(lint): Pass missing id argument to malformed-reply test printf

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Co-authored-by: cliflacata-svg <304148223+cliflacata-svg@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(composer): stop a harness footer row from reading as a composer holding text

A harness draws its own furniture below the composer - a user statusLine, a
permission-mode hint - and the cursorless "bottom-most shape wins" rule looks
exactly there. `→` (U+2192) is Cursor's prompt glyph but ordinary text
everywhere else, so a statusLine opening with `→` was selected as a bare
composer, swallowed the hint row beneath it as wrapped input, and answered
`pending` on a visibly empty pane. `fm_task_inbox_ring` defers on exactly that
verdict, and `bin/fm-watch.sh`'s re-ring calls the same function, so the first
doorbell and every retry were skipped and the worker never saw the steer.

Measured live on 2026-09-20: three of five Claude Code 2.1.236 worker panes on
Herdr 0.8.0 had genuinely empty composers and every one of them was refused.

A separator pair that closed over a bare agent-glyph row is a proven composer
container, so the contiguous non-blank rows below its closing rule are that
composer's footer and are no longer composer candidates. The demotion is bounded
by all three of its own preconditions: a blank row ends the zone, a pair that
closed over no glyph row demotes nothing, and a shape with no separator pair at
all (Cursor's half-block rules) is untouched. Real unsubmitted text in that same
composer, including a stray SGR mouse report left by a click in the pane, still
reads `pending`.

Pinned by two portable regressions and by a new cursorless arm on the live
composer-matrix guard, which re-reads each harness's already-proven-idle pane
the way every non-tmux backend reads it and fails naming the harness and
version when that read is `pending`.

* no-mistakes(review): make composer footer-zone demotion shape-independent

* no-mistakes(review): make footer-zone demotion refuse-only and drop rescan

* no-mistakes(lint): quote probe-absent sentinel to clear ShellCheck SC2100

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Co-authored-by: Koen Muller <koen@catapult.nl>
Co-authored-by: guanchengh-lgtm <271917158+guanchengh-lgtm@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(bin): stop misreading a no-run branch as an unreadable runs table

Defect: when `no-mistakes axi status`'s overview is truncated (a task's
own branch has zero rows among the shown ones), fm_nm_select_run's
Python fallback derived the repo identity for its direct SQLite query
from a `repo: <path>` line it expected in the overview text. The real
CLI never emits that line, truncated or not (see the genuine capture at
tests/captures/no-mistakes-v1.70.1/overview.toon, which has only
`count:`/`runs[...]:`), so the lookup always failed and reported
"unreadable runs table" for a task that simply has no run on its
branch. On a fleet with many concurrent runs, every idle-branch task
hits the truncated-overview path routinely, so this fired every few
minutes and drowned genuine unreadable/blocked verdicts in noise.

Fix: derive the repo identity from the task worktree path instead,
which is exactly the value `no-mistakes` records as a repo's
`working_path` (confirmed against the existing capped-overview test
fixtures, which already register repos by worktree path). A worktree
path that is not absolute cannot be matched and still reads as
unreadable rather than being guessed at. Also raise the reader's
SQLite busy timeout from 1s to 30s so ordinary lock contention on a
busy fleet cannot masquerade as an unreadable database.

Safety: every other verdict byte-for-byte unchanged - the repo lookup
still requires exactly one matching row (a genuinely corrupt or
mismatched repos table still reports unreadable, per the existing
`repo` failure-mode test), the branch query and row validation are
untouched, and a zero-row result for the branch still flows through
the same recursive re-parse that already turns an empty `runs[0]{...}`
table into `absent`. Added a regression test
(test_capped_overview_without_repo_line_and_no_runs_reports_absent)
that reproduces the real overview shape - capped, zero rows for the
task's branch, no `repo: ` line - and asserts the crew state falls
through to the pane/busy verdict instead of reporting unknown or
"unreadable". Full fm-crew-state.test.sh suite passes unchanged
otherwise.

* fix: recovered same-branch inventory awk misreads empty result as unreadable

fm_nm_select_run's deep SQLite reader rebuilds a `count:`/`runs[...]:`
overview and re-runs it through the same awk selection pass. When that
rebuilt inventory has zero rows for the branch, the row-matching loop never
executes, so its counters (`seen`) stay at awk's uninitialized empty string
while `expected` and `shown` are plain strings parsed from the header text.
Comparing an uninitialized value against a non-numeric string uses string
comparison, so "" != "0" is true, and the END block takes the "unreadable
runs table" branch instead of falling through to the correct "absent"
verdict for a branch with genuinely zero runs.

Coerce the affected END comparisons with `+0` so they are always numeric,
matching seen/expected/shown/total regardless of whether awk classified
them as strings or numeric strings. A truncated or genuinely malformed
inventory still differs numerically and still reports unreadable.

* no-mistakes(review): bound capped-overview inventory reader and canonicalize worktree lookup

* no-mistakes(review): match recorded repo path first, tolerate duplicate spellings

* no-mistakes(review): revert repo lookup to exact working_path match

* no-mistakes(document): note state-db inventory read under crew-state nm timeout
* fix(bin): require a non-draft pull request before a PR-based done report

A PR-based ship could report done, and merge monitoring could be armed, while the pull request was still a draft. A draft cannot be merged, so the poll waited for an event that could not occur and nobody was asked to merge.

The PR-based definitions of done now require reading the pull request back from the forge and confirming it is not a draft, and a lane that deliberately holds a draft declares a wait instead of done.
bin/fm-pr-check.sh refuses to arm merge monitoring on a draft, naming the draft state, and treats an unreadable draft state as before.
The draft reading now lives in bin/fm-pr-lib.sh and bin/fm-pr-merge.sh uses it, with its refusal to merge a draft unchanged.

Closes #4757

* fix(review): Skip arm-time draft refusal when fm-pr-merge records metadata
* fix(bin): accept quota-axi schema 6 snapshots keyed by provider + accountKey

quota-axi 0.1.47 emits schemaVersion 6 once a provider expands to more
than one account: every provider row carries an accountKey and one
provider id may appear on several rows. fm_quota_json_valid accepted
only schema 5 with unique provider ids, so fm-dispatch-resolve.sh,
fm-quota-choose.sh, and fm-procevent-quota.sh all rejected the live
snapshot and quota-informed dispatch was dead against the current tool.

- bin/fm-quota-axi-lib.sh: the validator accepts schema 6 with
  accountKey required on every row and uniqueness on
  provider + accountKey; schema 5 keeps its exact rules. FM_QUOTA_ROW_JQ
  is the one join every consumer uses: schema 5 binds by provider alone,
  schema 6 binds to the row keyed by the candidate's Pi lane, else the
  provider's default row, else no row (unmeasured, never blocked, never
  by position or summed across accounts).
- bin/fm-quota-choose.sh: accepts schema 6 JSON and the TOON accountKey
  column, and joins through the shared function.
- bin/fm-dispatch-resolve.sh and bin/fm-procevent-quota.sh: join through
  the shared function; an expanded provider with no row for the
  candidate's account is reported as such.
- tests: schema 6 fixtures shaped like the real snapshot, each paired
  with a schema 5 case on the same path; every new case fails on the
  previous scripts and passes now.
- docs: the two sentences naming the row join describe the schema 6 key.

* no-mistakes(review): Fix native Codex quota and expanded provider watches

* no-mistakes(review): Align native Codex account matching across dispatch paths

* no-mistakes(document): Align quota documentation with account-aware snapshots

* no-mistakes(document): Align quota dispatch documentation with account matching

* fix(bin): keep CI lint and the quota watch test portable

- bin/fm-quota-axi-lib.sh: FM_QUOTA_ROW_JQ is read only by the scripts
  that source this library, so full-mode ShellCheck reported SC2034 on
  the assignment; mark it alongside the existing SC2016 disable.
- tests/fm-procevent-quota.test.sh: the schema 6 provider-watch
  assertions used rg, which CI runners do not install, so the case
  failed with 'rg: command not found' rather than on behavior; use grep
  like the rest of the file.

* no-mistakes(document): Documented schema-version account-row compatibility
* test: repair Claude live auto-arm regression

* no-mistakes(review): Assert SessionStart digest completeness within its hook_response event

* no-mistakes(document): Consolidate Claude live verification references
Roll the shared require-no-mistakes action to the tagged v1.80.1 SHA and grant pull-requests: read so the check can read PR bodies.
* fix: preserve Pi watcher ownership across session replacement

* no-mistakes(document): Scope Pi predecessor retention away from omp

* no-mistakes(ci): Diagnosed all three failing checks; only one was code-caused. (ci-3, genuine) Stock macOS Bash snapshot compatibility: `tests/fm-pi-watch-extension.test.sh` failed the macOS Bash 3.2 `bash -n` parse sweep with `line 4265: unexpected EOF while looking for matching '`. I built GNU Bash 3.2.0 from source locally and reproduced it. Root cause: the PR added a comment containing an apostrophe (`// Replacement shutdown deliberately retains module 2's established arm until`) inside a quoted here-document (`<<'EOF'`) nested inside a `$(...)` command substitution. Bash 3.2 has a parser bug (fixed in later bash) where an unmatched single quote inside such a here-doc body is treated as opening a shell quote and never closed, aborting the whole file parse. The base commit parses cleanly under Bash 3.2, confirming this PR introduced the break. Minimal fix: reworded the comment to remove the apostrophe (`... retains the established module-2 arm until`), preserving meaning. Verified `bin/fm-lint.sh --list-files` (the 6 changed shell files) now all pass `/tmp/bash-3.2/bash -n`; Bash 5 also parses. (ci-1, infrastructure) Behavior portable serial 8: GitHub API shows the `Run portable serial shard 8` step conclusion=success; only `Upload portable serial shard 8 timing artifact` failed with `Failed to FinalizeArtifact ... (403) Forbidden`. This is a transient artifact-service/cancellation failure, not a test or code failure. No change. (ci-2, infrastructure) Lint 1: fetched the job log via the GitHub API; it ends with `##[error]The runner has received a shutdown signal...` then exit 143. The step was cancelled mid-run, not a ShellCheck finding. Independently ran `bin/fm-lint.sh --partition 1of2 --telemetry ...` locally with pinned ShellCheck 0.11.0 and actionlint 1.7.12: exited rc=0 (no findings). No change. The only code change is the apostrophe removal in tests/fm-pi-watch-extension.test.sh; no other files modified
* fix(bin): retire windowless leftovers and stop claiming a Pi daemon teardown

Catch-up correctly refuses while a leftover task record has no status file.
Cleanup used to deadlock on those same records when they also had no spawn_gen and no window, so they lingered and wedged every later away-mode return. Teardown now treats a windowless leftover as a missing-endpoint legacy record, and stop reports that no daemon terminal was running when none was launched.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* no-mistakes(review): Narrow windowless teardown exception to tmux legacy leftovers

* no-mistakes(review): Validate windowless leftover identity via shared endpoint validator

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse windowless leftovers carrying other backends' endpoint identity

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify windowless teardown retry documentation

---------

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
* fix: surface parked launch prompts as not started

* no-mistakes(document): docs: record launch-prompt busy backstop classification

* no-mistakes(document): docs: align tail40 and rendered-text comments with launch-prompt backstop
* feat(afk): make /afk itself the go with a same-turn record write

Collapse the propose-then-confirm away entry into one 'enter' step that
writes state/.afk-contract immediately and prints the announcement and
read-back after the record exists, never asking for a go. The retired
propose, confirm, and --proposal inputs are refused by name, and a stale
proposal left by an older version is removed rather than promoted.
Refresh and replace semantics, verbatim words, the single writer, the
never-set, and per-harness launch behavior are unchanged.

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh away-entry documentation evidence
* fix(bin): map passed-with-override to done instead of unknown

no-mistakes' axi status emits outcome: passed-with-override for a run
that finished with an explicitly approved Test or CI exception. Both
bin/fm-crew-state.sh's outcome resolver and bin/fm-teardown.sh's
pre-teardown terminal-run check only matched the literal passed and
checks-passed tokens, so this outcome fell through to unknown/parked
and a finished worker awaiting merge kept getting re-alerted as stale,
while an abort race during teardown could also leave a finished run
misreported as still parked.

Map passed-with-override to the same done/terminal handling as a
clean passed in both places.

* fix(document): Replace stale outcome mapping with authoritative pointer

* fix(ci): Fixed a pre-existing mock-clock race in tests/fm-contributions.test.sh by advancing time only during the serial issue read. Reproduced the exact CI failure before fixing it. Forced-race replay, all 38 contribution scenarios, scoped ShellCheck, Bash syntax, and diff checks pass. Only the test fixture changed; CI rerun remains with the outer executor
* fix: close landed workers from supervision in both postures and at return

During the 2026-09-22 away window every exemption worker whose pull request
had merged was left sitting for nine hours. The supervision branch received
the stale wake, the merge-landed check, and the hourly inactive-outcome row
for each of them, ran the recovery playbook, found nothing to recover, and
reported "no further action". The branch prompt granted ordinary teardown of
a confirmed-landed task without ever naming the moment or the command, and
the playbook has no landed exit, so the stale path ended at "nothing to
recover". The return brief then listed only blockers, decisions, and the
latest five routine outcomes, so the landed workers stayed invisible after
the captain came back.

- bin/fm-branch-prompt.sh: name the merge-landed wake, and any later stale,
  inactive-outcome, or heartbeat row on a done task with a merged PR, as the
  moment to claim the lease and run bin/fm-teardown.sh with no flags; a
  refusal is reported, never forced or worked around. Add teardown to the
  handling tool list.
- stuck-crewmate-recovery: a landed worker is not a recovery case; point at
  the ordinary teardown owner for each actor.
- bin/fm-afk-return.sh: render a "Landed, cleanup due" section from durable
  records only (a live task record whose recorded PR carries the
  merge-notification marker), between could-not-fix and handled, without
  holding the gate; the afk skill's return step closes each listed task
  through ordinary teardown once the check clears.
- tests: pin the prompt rule in fm-branch-supervision and the brief section
  in fm-afk-return through the real marker writer.

* no-mistakes(document): Document landed-task cleanup ownership
* fix(bin): surface a green no-mistakes PR still in ci merge monitoring

A green PR could sit unreported because neither the worker nor the
supervisor could observe checks-green while the ci step kept monitoring
for the merge.

Supervisor read: fm_nm_select_run's capped-overview inventory reader looked
the repository up by the task worktree path, but no-mistakes registers a
repository once by its main clone path and resolves every linked worktree
to it, so on every task copy of a busy repo the lookup matched no row and
each read reported "complete same-branch run inventory unreadable". Key the
lookup on the overview's own top-level `repo:` line, which every axi
release emits as the resolved working_path.

Even with a readable run, the ci-log classifier treated "base branch
advanced ..., re-arming CI monitor timeout" as not-ready. The monitor logs
a checks state only when it changes and a base advance does not clear
readiness, so a green PR read as still validating for as long as main kept
advancing. Stop treating that line as a marker, matching no-mistakes' own
ci-log parser, and name the run's PR URL in the held-for-merge reading so
the existing inactive-outcome path can act on it without a worker report.

Worker contract: `axi status` never reports checks-passed while the ci
step monitors for merge, so the definition of done no longer makes a
status poll the wait for the next gate or outcome; the drive call's own
return is the green signal, reattached with `no-mistakes axi run` after a
bounded return.

* no-mistakes(review): read the full ci log when checking checks-green

* no-mistakes(review): correct stale ci log tail wording in docs

* no-mistakes(document): Document checks-green supervisor fallback
* fix: derive Lavish polling server from its board session

* no-mistakes(document): Document session-derived Lavish polling

* no-mistakes(document): Correct Lavish routing verification claims
* fix(bin): ignore vanished state scratch files on secondmate relaunch

Relaunch refused when find(1) exited non-zero while listing a secondmate
home's state directory. A live watcher can delete scratch files between
readdir and processing, which is not evidence that child *.meta records
are unreadable.

Prove the directory is listable from its mode and keep the existing
readable-meta loop as the child-record guarantee. Fixes #4765.

* no-mistakes(review): Skip chmod-000 unlistable-state relaunch test when running as root
* fix(bin): treat home-owned status closes as already read

Self-announced bookkeeping appends now record their exact byte ranges.
Later drains and signal scans skip those ranges, so two distinct
--resolve-key answers after an OPEN DECISIONS fold do not each wake the
supervisor. Worker-authored lines outside that ledger still signal.

* no-mistakes(review): Keep owned closes in unread status; lock ledger writes

* no-mistakes(review): Drop fold-lag wake suppression so folded worker decisions still wake

* no-mistakes(review): Require real owned growth before ledger marks status seen

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify home-appends ledger scope versus UNREAD STATUS

* no-mistakes(review): Restore fold-lag path, drop owned-range filters, fix test

* no-mistakes(review): Align ledger docs and scope ledger to wake path only

* no-mistakes(review): Restore stranded historical-annotation test comment to its function

* no-mistakes(review): Retire the home-appends lock alongside its ledger

* no-mistakes(document): Note ledger's lock-helper dependency in classify library

* no-mistakes(review): Append-and-coalesce home-appends ledger; fix stamped-line assertions

* no-mistakes(review): Drop redundant empty-span branch; make owned test pin ledger

* no-mistakes(document): Document covers' ascending-order dependency on home-appends ledger

* no-mistakes(document): Note owned-append skip in watcher signal-scan comment
* chore(bin): raise tasks-axi, quota-axi, and lavish-axi floors to latest

Raise the minimum versions to tasks-axi 0.2.6, quota-axi 0.1.50, and
lavish-axi 0.1.77, pin CI's tasks-axi install to 0.2.6, and move the
floor-boundary test fixtures to the new versions.

tasks-axi 0.2.6 makes a failed relation deliverable for a promised-final
expecting pr-merged, so add the regression test: a bound work that ends
failed reports its honest outcome text through fm-public-followup-emit.sh,
consume marks the commitment ready, and deliver posts that text exactly
once.

Also make two hang-guard tests in fm-backlog-atomicity portable to hosts
without coreutils timeout, and stop an installed herdr from leaking into
the secondmate-liveness husk classifier test.

* no-mistakes(review): drop out-of-scope bounded_run hang-guard helper from atomicity test

* no-mistakes(review): pin quota-axi floor at 0.1.49 across fixtures

* no-mistakes(document): Document failed public-followup delivery behavior

* no-mistakes(ci): Updated quota-axi floor and all 0.1.49 fixtures to 0.1.51, corrected bootstrap boundaries to 0.1.51/0.1.52/0.1.50, and bumped the bearings lavish-axi stub to 0.1.77. Bearings, quota procevent, quota chooser, startup budget, and bootstrap floor coverage passed; the full bootstrap suite exceeded the 240-second local command limit after relevant checks passed. git diff --check passed
* fix(bin): refuse ship done: when the named head lives only in the worker copy

A ship done: is not current-state done until that exact commit is reachable
outside the disposable copy. The check tests the named head, not whether
some branch moved.

* fix(bin): gate CI-ready ship done: on named-head reachability, not handoff

Keep no-mistakes' first done: as the pipeline handoff, apply the same shared
check when registering a PR and when a secondmate publishes ledger-first,
treat a recorded merged PR as landed after prune, and name the PR head
instead of scanning free-text SHAs.

* no-mistakes(review): Bind named-head gate to recorded PR and forge heads

* no-mistakes(review): Gate direct-PR forge heads and keep pending ledger deliveries

* no-mistakes(review): Align worker done wording, test mapping, pending-retry test

* no-mistakes(test): Raise watcher test time limit to stop load flake

* no-mistakes(document): Restore ledger-path fact and name named-head gate coverage

* ci: re-attest named-head ship-done gate for a fresh serial-3 verdict

* no-mistakes(review): Simplify local-only gate, gate keyed done lines, document recovery

* no-mistakes(document): Name fm-crew-state among named-head gate callers
* fix(bin): ring a proven-idle secondmate before a wake-loop stall alarm

A leftover foreign-queue row on an idle, alive, ring-safe mate is still drainable in that home. Ring once, reset the observation interval, and keep the parent alarm for unknown, busy, or still-frozen rows.

* no-mistakes(review): Mark drain steer with from-firstmate fire-and-forget carrier
The re-arm recovery cases judged "the watcher stayed live instead of
surfacing recovery" with fixed budgets below what a real stale-lock
recovery costs on a contended host: the arm's default 10s confirmation
deadline, a start helper that returned after about 4s whether or not the
arm had confirmed its watcher, and an 80-poll exit wait.
A changed-suite run beside other suites starves the recovery's many
short-lived processes while this suite's sleeping poll loops keep their
pace, so a watcher still surfacing its recovery read as one that stayed
live (issue #3793).
The original 0.25s window after confirmation was widened to 80 polls in
#3837, which left the same race at a larger size.

Following the CONTRIBUTING.md fixture-budget rule, the re-arm helper now
gives the arm an explicit 30s confirmation budget and waits for its
confirmation or exit within a ceiling that outlasts it, and every wait on
a re-armed watcher uses one named iteration-counted ceiling that outlasts
the same budget.
A passing case returns as soon as the arm reports or exits, and a watcher
that never surfaces its recovery still fails.

A new case delays every mktemp and readlink the re-armed watcher runs
after it publishes its beacon, so its first poll and exit take about 13s
on any host.
It fails with the reported symptom on the previous budgets and passes now.
No bin/ change.
* fix(bin): let one TERM always stop the watcher on bash 5.2

Bash 5.2 runs a pending trap from the parser entry of the next command
substitution it expands, where the trap body is parsed as the inside of
that substitution and fails ("trap: line 2: unexpected EOF while looking
for matching `)'") or is dropped silently, consuming the signal. The
watcher's `trap 'exit 1' HUP INT TERM` could therefore ignore a TERM and
keep polling while its stopper waited: the triage suite's reap waited
forever (CI jobs cancelled at 30 minutes), and the arm's signal path and
the away-mode daemon's shutdown wait for the watcher the same way.
Bash 5.3 fixed the parser; 5.2 is the stock bash on Ubuntu 24.04.

HUP and TERM now keep bash's native fatal-signal handling, which runs the
EXIT trap (watcher_cleanup) and exits on bash 3.2, 5.2, and 5.3. INT keeps
its trap because bash ignores a direct SIGINT while a child runs. The
check-spawn deferral window no longer contains a command substitution.

The triage suite's reap is now bounded and fails the case within 10s with
process evidence instead of hanging the job, and a new regression test
proves TERM stops a watcher blocked inside a poll's pane capture and still
releases its lock and records an acknowledgeable stop.

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify watcher stop-signal documentation
* fix(bin): submit our own stuck doorbell instead of skipping every later ring

* no-mistakes(review): Confirm and retry Enter once on stuck-doorbell submit

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify doorbell retry and pending-composer documentation
* feat(bin): add the opt-in fleet activity ledger

Homes that create config/fleet-ledger get an append-only JSONL file,
state/fleet-ledger.jsonl, recording task.dispatched, task.status,
task.merged, and task.cleaned_up so outside tools can follow a fleet.
With the flag absent each producer does one file test and nothing else.
docs/fleet-ledger.md owns the record contract and its documented limits.

* no-mistakes(review): Record task.status text verbatim after the first colon

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify fleet ledger status and setup documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed a timing race in tests/fm-pi-branch-extension.test.sh: the replacement-wake test now waits for the prompt to start before releasing it. The focused test passed twice, and git diff --check passed
* fix(bin): format, validate, and surface public-followup deliverables

brief pre-fills report_path=data/<work-id>/report.md and states the accepted
format of every value it cannot know instead of a bare <value> placeholder.
fm-public-followup-emit.sh refuses a deliverable tasks-axi would refuse, in
both the direct and staged destinations, naming the key, value, and format.
consume records the specific deliverable, outcome, or missing key behind a
tasks-axi refusal, and each refusal wakes the owning home once through the
existing relay poll.

* no-mistakes(review): refuse emits missing a required deliverable in both destinations

* no-mistakes(review): require promised deliverables and keep rejections recoverable

* no-mistakes(review): mirror tasks-axi's canonical pull request URL rule

* no-mistakes(review): keep a rejection wake whose line cannot be read

* no-mistakes(review): key emit-time rules on the promise, not the outcome

* no-mistakes(review): bound deliverable keys and values as tasks-axi does

* no-mistakes(review): state rejection wakes as at-least-once and pin it

* no-mistakes(review): enforce the promised contract tasks-axi holds at emit

* no-mistakes(review): stop inferring a staged promise from its outcome

* no-mistakes(document): Refresh public follow-up documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed both CI flakes. Watcher cleanup is now installed before singleton acquisition, preventing timeout races from leaving stale locks while preserving recovery-failure evidence. Bearings render fixtures now publish a valid isolated Lavish session store and retire each listener after rendering, eliminating false unowned-source races. Verified with checkpoint stress, fm-watch-checkpoint, fm-watcher-lock, repeated fm-bearings-board-render runs, project lint, syntax checks, and git diff checks

* Revert unrelated CI auto-fix edits to the watcher and bearings board test

The CI step's automatic repair changed bin/fm-watch.sh and
tests/fm-bearings-board-render.test.sh to chase two intermittent CI
failures that also occur on main and are not part of this change. Restore
both files so this branch carries only the public-followup deliverable fix.

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse a repeated --deliverable key at emit argument parsing

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify public-followup validation and rejection-wake documentation
* Add verified Devin CLI worker adapter

* no-mistakes(review): Drop Devin resolver refusal and launch marker

* no-mistakes(review): Verify devin in bootstrap, fold kind rule, update docs

* no-mistakes(document): Document Devin sidecar, resume, and worker-only facts

* no-mistakes(document): Document Devin interrupt, liveness anchor, composer signals

* fix(control): never pair Devin interrupt presses on an idle agent

A fast double Escape on an idle Devin opens its /revert picker, where Enter
reverts file changes. fm-control now sends the second press only after the
first renders Devin's 'esc again to interrupt' armed hint, never sooner than
0.5 s, closes a revert picker a mistimed press opened with one Escape, and
refuses to type the exit command while that picker is open. An unarmed
interrupt reports cancel=not-running and leaves the busy record untouched.

* fix(devin): disable Claude hook import and commit attribution for workers

The per-task Devin config now forces read_config_from.claude=false, so a
worker no longer runs the user's or project's Claude Code hooks (including
Herdr's Claude agent-state hook), and attribution=false, so Devin adds no
Co-Authored-By trailer or Generated-with line to commits and PRs.

* test(devin): extend live guard and record Herdr and revert-picker evidence

The credentialed live guard now fails if an imported Claude Code hook runs,
if the worker's commit carries Devin attribution, if an idle interrupt sends
more than one press or opens the revert picker, or if an open picker lets
exit through or is closed with a revert. The Devin reference, agent-control
doc, and verification records carry the 2026-09-22 tmux and Herdr lab results,
including the Herdr exit refusal.

* no-mistakes(document): Correct Devin documentation links and lifecycle guidance

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Co-authored-by: Denis Beliaev <battler73@yandex.ru>
fm-crew-state classifies the no-mistakes outcome 'passed-with-skips' as
unknown, so a finished worker awaiting merge is re-alerted as stale. The
same blind spot lets fm-teardown's pre-teardown terminal-run check refuse
a legitimate abort race that lands on this outcome.

Map passed-with-skips to done in crew-state resolution, keeping the
skipped publication/CI verification visible in the detail rather than
reporting a clean pass, and recognize it as terminal during teardown.
* fix: refuse missing backend adapter before source

* no-mistakes(review): Gate backend precheck under stock Bash

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify adapter precheck docs

* no-mistakes(lint): Suppress intentional child Bash ShellCheck warning
* fix(test): repair tmux liveness and calm follow-up loaded_off regressions

Both self-tests fail on untouched main on a host whose coreutils are a
multicall binary and whose Chrome has no pre-warmed profile, and each failure
masks the other's file.

tests/fm-tmux-agent-liveness.test.sh - the stand-in harness processes were
symlinks to the host's `sleep`. A single-purpose `sleep` runs happily under
another name, but a multicall coreutils binary (uutils or busybox) resolves its
applet from argv[0]: `claude-link -> sleep` invoked under the harness name runs
the wrong applet and exits immediately, so no foreground process exists and
every positive case reads not-alive ("last verdict for liveness:agent was
missing (expected alive); title=sh comms=[sh ]"). Build a dedicated spinner as
the stand-in target, exactly the way the version-string case already builds its
executable, and require the fallback target to demonstrably survive the rename
before using it. Every assertion is untouched; the stand-in identity signal is
unchanged (the kernel still records the symlink name as the executable
identity).

tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh - render_export_dom pinned a brand-new
`--user-data-dir` per attempt. On Google Chrome for Testing 151.0.7922.34 that
pristine profile makes Chrome's first-run initialization never complete: the
browser and its renderers start, but --dump-dom never returns, so all three
bounded attempts end exit=0 timed_out=yes bytes=0 and the DOM assertions never
run ("could not render calm-mode HTML export DOM"). Chrome's own profile
creation under a fresh HOME renders the same document in about a second, so the
helper now gives Chrome a private per-attempt HOME instead of the explicit
profile flag. Each attempt still gets an isolated profile, and every DOM
assertion is unchanged.

Root-cause evidence: a pristine --user-data-dir with `--headless=new
--dump-dom` had not returned after 150s, while the same command with an empty
HOME and no --user-data-dir returned the full DOM in ~1s, and reusing an
already-populated profile also returned it in ~1s. The render failure masked
the rest of the file: with it repaired, the Pi follow-up loaded_off case passes
unmodified against an installed @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent package.

These two failures block downstream validation of every lane on hosts with
multicall coreutils or a fresh Chrome profile.

Verification:
- timeout 300 bash tests/fm-tmux-agent-liveness.test.sh -> exit 0, 16 assertions ok
- timeout 700 bash tests/fm-calm-pi-extension.test.sh -> exit 0, 13 assertions ok,
  including the Pi operational follow-up loaded_off case
- bash -n and shellcheck clean on both touched files
- rest of tests/: bin/fm-test-run.sh --all bounded by timeout 900 completed 17 files with 0 failures (fm-afk-contract.test.sh through fm-backend-herdr-launcher-workspace-e2e.test.sh), then the bound cut off the 18th (fm-backend-herdr-presentation-e2e.test.sh, a real-herdr-gated lab test) with no failure recorded

* fix(test): give wake-queue observation checkpoints the alerting ceiling

tests/fm-wake-queue.test.sh's secondmate stall case runs bounded foreground
watcher checkpoints whose job is to record an observation, with the alerting
checkpoint that follows asserting the stall. A checkpoint's exit publishes a
downtime marker, and the next checkpoint consumes it only by reaching the end of
the watcher's poll loop, where the recovery surfacing runs after the stall tick;
the observation itself is recorded by that same stall tick. On a loaded host a
1s ceiling sits under the cost of that iteration (which includes a pane capture
in the active-turn gate), so the observation was never recorded, the downtime
marker stayed pending, and the alerting checkpoint surfaced
`check: rearm-resurface` instead of the stall it asserts:

  not ok - a foreign queue with no progress did not alert: check: rearm-resurface
  not ok - a frozen reprovisioned queue generation was hidden: check: rearm-resurface

Give the observation checkpoints that feed a later alert the same 4s ceiling the
file already documents for alerting checkpoints. The ceiling is only a bound - a
checkpoint still returns on its first actionable wake - so no assertion is
weakened, and the quiet windows get longer, not shorter.

* no-mistakes(document): docs: correct export-DOM Chrome render root cause

* no-mistakes(review): Isolate Chrome profile on macOS, dedupe tmux CC_BIN lookup

* chore: re-trigger fork workflow approval for triage

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Co-authored-by: Captain <blackxwhite88@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: kunchenguid <kunchenguid@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(bin): classify a status span without re-folding the whole log

A watcher poll could take minutes, so its liveness beacon aged past the
guard's 300s grace and the Stop auto-arm reported the watcher down. On the
main home, cycles ended with beacon_age 91-235s while healthy and 534-706s
while the laptop was CPU-starved.

Cause: whenever a newly appended status span held a keyed needs-decision
or blocked line, status_span_first_actionable_record re-read and re-folded
the ENTIRE log to decide whether that opening was still live, forking
several subshells per line. On a remote second mate's mirrored parent
channel (1.2MB, ~2300 lines) that is 13-20k subshells, about 17s per log
per classification when idle, paid by every signal and heartbeat scan.

Nothing regressed recently: subshell counts per classification were
20,272 from #3268 (2026-08-29, which introduced the whole-log fold) and
13,188 from #3753 onward through HEAD. The cost grew with log size, since
parent-channel logs only grow.

Fix: fold only the captured span. An accepted opening does not depend on
earlier lines and only later lines close or supersede it, and every later
line lies inside the span, so the span fold names the same live openings
at a cost bounded by the span. Old and new classification outputs are
byte-identical across 51 span offsets of real-shaped secondmate and ship
logs.

A real-watcher regression test records every read the classification
makes through the span-reader seam and asserts none reaches before the
classified offset; it fails on the old code (5,157 bytes read from
offset 0 to classify an 84-byte span).

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify span classification and watcher regression coverage
* test: fix watcher timing flakes in fm-pr-check-security

The bounded watcher's hang guard now counts only the watcher's own time: a
case marks the intervals where it holds the watcher on injected work or makes
it wait on concurrent work, and those no longer count against its budget. The
budget itself stays at main's sixty seconds. The helper also stops forcing a
one-second per-check timeout, which killed a correct merged poll whenever that
poll took longer than a second, so the watcher only retried it or exited on a
later check's wake without the merge.

The concurrent-publication case pauses the guard while its arming is in
flight, and its task now sorts before the contributions observer the arming
also registers, so the watcher stops on the poll under test before running
that unrelated fleet snapshot. The case also prints the watcher's stderr when
it fails.

The replacement case pauses the guard while the re-arm runs inside the
watcher, runs that injected arming with the fixture root every other arming
here uses, and waits on the replacement merge's process instead of a
two-second cap. Merged-poll runs retire the contributions observer before the
watcher starts, since no case here exercises it.

The returned-descendant case no longer races a four-second sleep or a TERM
landing at an arbitrary point in the watcher's idle loop: its descendant holds
until killed, and a second check in the same cycle witnesses that it was
drained and stops the watcher.

* no-mistakes(ci): Reproduced the intermittent board-render failure. Its Lavish stub listed an open session but omitted the session-state record required by the listener, so the build could race the listener’s exit. Added matching fixture state; the affected suite passed three consecutive runs, and shell syntax and diff checks passed

* Revert "no-mistakes(ci): Reproduced the intermittent board-render failure. Its Lavish stub listed an open session but omitted the session-state record required by the listener, so the build could race the listener’s exit. Added matching fixture state; the affected suite passed three consecutive runs, and shell syntax and diff checks passed"

This reverts commit 6a59859b2e2a3778f9b46faeea42d6de37468cd6.
* feat: record task.pr_ready in the fleet ledger when a task PR is registered

* feat: record worker status lines in the fleet ledger as they are written

* no-mistakes(review): Keep worker status append failures and pass the resolved config to the ledger

* no-mistakes(review): Resolve relative config override before embedding in worker command

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify fleet ledger status capture timing
* test: synchronize foreign secondmate stall legs on the watcher's recorded observation

Each leg of test_secondmate_foreign_queue_stall_tracks_progress_and_alerts_once
ran the watcher under a 1s or 4s wall-clock checkpoint, but every later leg
depends on the progress observation the previous leg's watcher recorded. Under
load the watcher was killed before its first stall tick, the observation was
never written, and the next leg treated its own sighting as the first one, so
the stall alert never fired.

Run the watcher directly and end each leg on its observable outcome: the
progress marker recording the expected observation, or the watcher's own first
wake. Also move a comment orphaned above this test back to the drain liveness
test it describes.

* no-mistakes(review): Wait for full stall reset before stopping watcher leg
The listener resolves its server from that store before it polls. Without a session for this board, it exits in the gap after the build has already sampled a live claim.
* fix(bin): prune a torn-down task's wake rows at teardown

Prune pending durable wake rows (.wake-queue) for a task when it is torn
down, clearing stale wakes for its target window, signal wakes for its status
or turn-ended files, and task-specific check wakes.

Fixes #3419.
Adjacent to #5252.

- bin/fm-wake-lib.sh: add fm_wake_queue_prune_task
- bin/fm-teardown.sh: call fm_wake_queue_prune_task in cleanup_firstmate_home_children and main teardown
- tests/fm-wake-queue.test.sh: add test_wake_queue_prune_task

* no-mistakes(document): docs: note teardown prunes a task's wake rows

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Co-authored-by: Captain <blackxwhite88@users.noreply.github.com>
* Make portable tests match resolved host paths

Summary:
- Match macOS full Node command paths by basename in the Gemini behavior test.
- Mirror symlink-resolved Nix PATH behavior and give the loaded-host race bounded headroom.

Testing:
- bin/fm-lint.sh
- bin/fm-test-run.sh tests/fm-on.test.sh tests/fm-gemini-harness.test.sh tests/fm-procevent.test.sh

Related:
- None

* no-mistakes(review): Mirror production PATH helper rules per directory group in tests

* no-mistakes(test): Wait for orphan runner start marker instead of fixed sleep

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify gemini ancestry test comment for versioned node comm

---------

Co-authored-by: Sandeep Salwan <salwansa@amazon.com>
The sibling secondmate stall cases in tests/fm-wake-queue.test.sh now wait for the watcher's recorded observation instead of a one-second wall-clock checkpoint, so they can neither fail nor pass vacuously under load. Deterministic proof with a 5s watcher launch delay: before the fix 4 cases passed vacuously and 6 failed; after it all 10 pass on the recorded observation.

Also includes a CI flake fix from validation: fm_control_harness_supported in bin/fm-control-lib.sh finishes reading the harness allowlist before returning, removing intermittent broken-pipe diagnostics. Behavior is unchanged.
* fix(bin): refuse a Herdr submit that would send only a message tail

A long typed payload can sit in the composer as a suffix, or as a paste placeholder plus a remainder, and the following Enter was still reported as delivered. Prove the selected composer holds the payload before Enter, and report failure when it does not.

* no-mistakes(review): Scope Herdr payload proof to Claude, clear composer on refusal

* no-mistakes(test): Clear refused Herdr composer drafts one wrapped row per press

* no-mistakes(test): Accept Claude's multi-line paste placeholder in Herdr submit proof

* no-mistakes(review): Accept Claude read-back that drops U+2063 in Herdr proof

* no-mistakes(document): Document Herdr proof ignoring U+2063 operational mark

* no-mistakes(ci): I made a one-line test change. The failing check comes from a timing race in an existing test that this PR doesn't touch. **What failed:** `tests/fm-procevent.test.sh` failed at "the superseded paced runner invoked its stale command" (line ~3313). The PR only changes the Herdr files and their tests, and the same shard passed on main at the base commit. **Why it can fail:** the fixture starts a second runner with a 3-second launch floor (the minimum wait since the source's last launch). That runner sleeps for the rest of the floor and only then checks whether its registration was replaced (`fm_procevent_launch_floor_wait` in `bin/fm-procevent-lib.sh`). The test then waits for the claim and re-registers the source. If that takes longer than about 3 seconds after the first launch, the old runner wakes up, finds its registration still current, and runs the stale command. That produces the second log line the test reports. The CI shard was slow (this one test took 160 s). **Fix:** in `tests/fm-procevent.test.sh` I raised the superseded runner's floor from 3 to 15 seconds and added a comment explaining why. The floor now outlasts the fixture setup even on a loaded runner. Nothing else changed: the first launch and the later fresh-registration start still use a 3-second floor, and no product code changed. **Verification:** - The full test file can't give a reliable result on this machine (load average about 64 on 8 cores). It failed earlier, at the reconcile assertion around line 1680, before it reached this section. - I ran the changed section by itself (file setup plus the pacing-race block) five times with the fix: all passed, in about 9-13 s each. - The original code also passed five out of five, so the race didn't reproduce locally. The diagnosis rests on the code path and the CI log. - I haven't seen the full file or the CI shard pass with the fix yet

* no-mistakes(test): Accept Claude folder-trust prompt via down+enter in live e2e

* no-mistakes(document): Note unreadable Claude composer refusal in Herdr docs
Speaking as Kun's firstmate: squash-merging — opt-in (forge=gerrit registry-gated; default project-mode stdout restored to two words), attestation MATCH, CI+NM green, safe review, MERGEABLE.
* feat(bin): add an opt-in per-home worker account pin

A home that mixes work and personal accounts for one runner had no way to
say which account its workers launch on: Claude workers inherited whatever
CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR the supervising process had, Pi workers the pane's ambient
root, and an ambient API key outranked both, with no signal at launch.

config/claude-account and config/pi-account now pin that choice per home.
With neither file every launch is unchanged. With one, every launch of that
runner from the home (ship, scout, local secondmate, raw Claude command, and
relaunch) runs under the declared root, and the spawn refuses before any
endpoint exists when the file is malformed or the runner's own check
(claude auth status, pi auth check with a model-listing fallback) says the
pinned account is not signed in. The check runs in a cleared environment so
an ambient credential cannot answer for an empty root. A pinned Claude launch
sheds the environment credentials Claude ranks above a stored login; a pinned
Pi launch needs an explicit <provider>/<id> model for a declared provider and
also carries --provider. The chosen account is printed on the spawned line and
recorded in the task record, and relaunch checks the pin before stopping the
running agent.

* test(secondmate): give the concurrent config-push wait room for a slow host

test_config_reread_serializes_concurrent_pushes waited about two seconds for
the first fm-config-push.sh to reach its first send-keys. On a slower host
that push takes four to five seconds, so the test failed on main before the
push ever got there. The loop still leaves as soon as the marker appears, so
the larger bound costs nothing where the push is fast.

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse raw Claude account overrides under a pin
* fix(bin): keep the Herdr lab session option before a -- delimiter

fm-herdr-lab.sh run appended --session <lab> after every argument, so a
command with a passthrough delimiter such as agent start ... -- <agent args>
handed the session flag to the agent and Herdr routed the call by the
caller's ambient socket instead of the lab.
The helper now inserts --session <lab> immediately before the first --
delimiter and keeps the trailing form otherwise.

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify Herdr lab session option placement
* feat(bin): guard the partition, harness pin, and bounded exec for a non-Pi supervision host

Lease liveness is now the pure record test in every calling context, so an
unmarked main honors a live branch lease held by a separate process, and a
lease file engages the guard's claim serialization for any caller; a home
with no lease files still takes no lock.

bin/fm-harness.sh honors FM_SUPERVISION_PRIMARY_HARNESS while
FM_SUPERVISION_ACTOR=branch, so a supervision branch running under another
harness resolves own, crew, and secondmate to the primary's harness.

fm_tasks_axi's watchdog moves into bin/fm-timeout-lib.sh as fm_exec_timed with
a separate grace: the perl watchdog is preferred, runs the command in its own
process group against wall-clock deadlines, forwards TERM/INT/HUP, and reaps
the group, so a descendant holding captured output can no longer keep the
caller waiting past the bound on a host without timeout.

The Claude Stop auto-arm header records that Claude drops the exit 2 of a hook
it terminated at the configured timeout, re-measured on Claude Code 2.1.281.

* fix(bin): state that fm_exec_timed cannot reach a descendant in its own process group

Live runs of real Claude and Pi engine turns under the bound showed both CLIs
start every tool command in a process group of its own, so those processes end
through the engine's own TERM handling rather than the group signal or reap.
Also clears the new timeout test's ShellCheck findings.

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify cross-harness lease documentation
* feat(bin): make the ship-branch prefix configurable per project

fm-brief.sh hardcoded every generated ship branch to fm/<task-id>, which
leaks that firstmate produced the branch/PR - unwanted for a third-party
public repo that does not use this tooling.

Add an optional --branch-prefix flag to fm-brief.sh (default "fm/", so
existing installs are unaffected) and teach fm-project-mode.sh - the
registry's single-owner parser - to resolve a project's optional
"branch=<prefix>" data/projects.md annotation via a new --branch-prefix
query, order-independent with the existing mode/+yolo tokens. Firstmate
resolves the override at task intake and passes it explicitly, mirroring
how --mode already works; fm-brief.sh itself never reads the registry.

An empty override resolves to a bare "<task-id>" branch rather than a
leading slash. All five previously hardcoded fm/$ID sites (branch
creation, never-push rule text, definition-of-done text, and the status
message) now render the resolved prefix consistently.

* no-mistakes(review): Wire branch-prefix intake in AGENTS.md; fix fm-merge-local.sh hardcoded fm/ prefix

* no-mistakes(document): docs: document configurable ship-branch prefix in architecture.md

* no-mistakes(review): Persist immutable branch contracts

* no-mistakes(document): Document configurable ship branch prefixes

* no-mistakes(lint): Captain: fix ShellCheck test warnings

* fix(bin): map bearings PR rows to their recorded ship branch (#1887)

fm-bearings-snapshot.sh keyed a PR back to its task by string-matching
the headRefName against the fm/ prefix, so any project whose branch
prefix was overridden (e.g. via #2648's branch=<prefix> registry
annotation) had its PRs silently drop to task "-" in the bearings
view, exactly the third fm/-assumption issue #1887 named alongside
fm-merge-local.sh and fm-bearings-snapshot.sh itself.

fm-fleet-snapshot.sh now surfaces each task's recorded branch=
metadata field in its JSON task rows, and fm-bearings-snapshot.sh
cross-references a PR's headRefName against those recorded branches
before falling back to the legacy fm/ prefix heuristic, so a custom
branch prefix maps a PR back to its real task.

Adds a regression test proving a PR opened against a fix/<task-id>
branch resolves to that task instead of "-"; confirmed it fails on
the prior startswith("fm/") logic and passes with this change.
ShellCheck clean; full fm-bearings-snapshot.test.sh and
fm-fleet-snapshot-view.test.sh suites pass.

* fix(ci): align lint arithmetic-looking assignment and stale Bearings snapshot count

- Quote the --branch-prefix want_value assignment in fm-brief.sh, fm-promote.sh,
  and fm-spawn.sh so ShellCheck SC2100 no longer misreads the plain string
  'branch-prefix' as arithmetic shorthand.
- Bump the Stock macOS Bash snapshot job's hardcoded Bearings test-count
  assertion from 59 to 60: this PR added a Bearings test, so the count was
  stale, not the feature.

* no-mistakes(review): fix(bin): honor recorded ship branch in relaunch and review-diff

* no-mistakes(document): docs: complete branch-prefix flag in brief and promote headers

* fix(lint): quote branch-prefix parser token; drop unused BRANCH_Q after rebase

* no-mistakes(review): Restore %q branch escaping in promotion instructions with regression test

* no-mistakes(document): document recorded ship branch and prefix flag

fm-review-diff.sh's header is the owner of its branch-resolution
contract; it still described only the legacy local-branch behavior
after the change made review-diff honor state/<id>.meta's recorded
ship branch. README's feature bullet enumerates the registry's
optional flags and was missing the new branch=<prefix> override.

* no-mistakes(lint): Silence SC2016 on intentional single-quoted sed expression

* no-mistakes(review): address branch-prefix review findings in DoD and project-mode

* no-mistakes(test): branch-prefix suites pass under tasks-axi 0.2.6; environment-only failure

* no-mistakes(document): purge stale fm/ branch naming from docs and headers

* fix(test): assert the merged epoch status wording in the branch-prefix override test

The rebase resolution of tests/fm-brief.test.sh kept the branch's
pre-merge \`done: ready in branch ...\` assertion while the merged
fm-dod-lib.sh (carrying main's epoch-stamped status line) renders
\`done [at=<epoch>]: ready in branch ...\`. Align the assertion so the
override-consistency test matches the behavior it verifies.

* no-mistakes(review): Address remaining branch-prefix findings in four bin scripts

* no-mistakes(test): skip real-tasks-axi tests below the repo's 0.2.6 floor

* no-mistakes(document): document spawn's branch-prefix registry deviation notice
* feat(bin): send dispatch resolver only the brief's task sections

* Sent Jev only the scaffolded Captain's intent and Firstmate spec
  sections, falling back to the whole brief when neither heading is
  present, so the identical setup, rules, and definition-of-done
  boilerplate no longer reads as a signal about the task
* Added an optional per-rule min_confidence that replaces the global 0.6
  floor for that rule; a picked rule below its own floor falls to the most
  probable other option that clears its floor, or returns ambiguous
* Kept files with no declared floor on the exact previous behavior and
  kept the model blind to the new field
* Recorded the live old-versus-new comparison over scaffolded fixtures

* no-mistakes(review): share brief heading parser, add kind line, fix floors

* no-mistakes(test): stop sending ship delivery mode to jev, keep scout tag

* no-mistakes(document): docs: list shared brief heading lib in scripts inventory
* feat(bin): supervision host core behind config/supervision-host

Add the supervision host (bin/fm-supervision-host.sh): beside a Claude
primary it owns the watcher cycle for the Stop auto-arm and, while the
away-posture record exists, hands each wake to a bounded headless Claude
engine session that runs the supervision branch's contract - the same
generated prompt, row eligibility, wake grant, per-actor drain, outcome
store, leases, and away relocation the Pi branch uses. Attended wakes pass
straight to main. Every path that cannot finish a wake hands it to main
with a supervision-host line; the park ends itself before the Stop hook
timeout with a cycle-boundary wake.

- bin/fm-supervision-engine-lib.sh: opt-in parse, verified engines
  (claude, default sonnet), one bounded engine turn, and a reap of engine
  tool processes that sit in their own process groups.
- bin/fm-branch-report.sh: the command twin of fm_branch_report, scoped
  to the tasks the current host turn claimed.
- bin/fm-branch-dispatch.mjs: command entry to the Pi dispatch module, so
  eligibility and the wake prompt have one owner.
- bin/fm-claude-stop-autoarm.sh runs the host in the arm's place when
  config/supervision-host exists; nothing changes without the file.
- bin/fm-watch-arm.sh --stop: home-scoped stop without a re-arm.
- bin/fm-lease-lib.sh: an opted-in home takes the lease-command lock for
  unmarked main too, closing the first-claim race; the refusal tells the
  caller to leave the lease alone and retry.
- /afk launches no away daemon on an opted-in Claude home; /quiet still
  does. Session start renders the host's main-side protocol there.

* fix(bin): relay a host turn's outcomes when the captain returns mid-turn, and log per-turn engine cost

Live validation found two supervision host gaps. A captain who returns while
an engine turn is running gets a return brief rendered before that turn's
outcomes exist, so the host now hands the close to main with those outcomes.
Claude reports a resumed conversation's running cost, so the engine lib now
derives each turn's cost from the total the host records, and the host log
records every close's destination.

* docs(verification): record the supervision host's live evidence

The dated live results behind docs/supervision-host.md: the Claude engine's
live guard, the away-wake cases against real workers, the engine's cost
reporting, and the flag-off before-and-after regression.

* docs: describe the supervision host ledger as covering every close

* no-mistakes(review): Harden supervision host ownership, boundary, ack, and late outcomes

* no-mistakes(review): Recheck park boundary just before starting an engine turn

* no-mistakes(review): Cap park boundary, deliver all host lines, reject incomplete results

* no-mistakes(document): Correct supervision host documentation and stale pointers
Attestation MATCH; contract-class restore; CI/NM green. Squash-merged by Kun's firstmate.
* fix(bin): bound the startup-network worker's lock waits by its budget

Fixes #5377

The deferred startup network worker bounded its sweeps with a stage budget but
took the publish lock and the fleet-lock lease with an unbounded wait, so a live
holder of that lock kept the detached worker alive for hours past its timeout
with its output discarded at the end. Every wait now goes through the bounded
acquire and shares the remaining stage or delivery budget; a lock a live process
still holds at the deadline ends the worker with a failed record naming the
holder and the rerun command, and a wake so the result surfaces.

* no-mistakes(review): propagate publish exit code from cmd_run terminal paths
* fix(bin): keep the ps fallback identity independent of terminal width

fm_pid_identity's portable fallback read the command column at the
ambient COLUMNS width, so an identity recorded from a wide shell never
matched the one recomputed inside a narrow hook and the continuity guard
denied every fleet command. Pass -ww so the column is never cut.

Fixes #799

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed CI failure in Behavior portable serial 4. Root cause: the -ww flag added in commit ac7ab5d to fm_pid_identity (bin/fm-wake-lib.sh) shifted the ps argv so $1 became -ww instead of -p, breaking the positional fake-ps fixtures in tests/fm-procevent.test.sh (lines 2736, 3571) which then fell through to real ps and failed the fm-procevent test. Fix (already applied in the worktree, matching the authoritative user instruction exactly): replaced -ww with a COLUMNS=10000 environment pin so the call is COLUMNS=10000 LC_ALL=C ps -p "$pid" -o lstart= -o command=, mirroring fm_pending_reply_pid_identity in bin/fm-pending-reply-lib.sh:982. argv is back to -p PID -o lstart= -o command=, so the fixtures match again with no fixture edits. Comments above the call in bin/fm-wake-lib.sh and in test_pid_identity_is_terminal_width_invariant (tests/fm-watcher-lock.test.sh) now describe the COLUMNS pin instead of -ww; the regression test still asserts narrow-vs-wide byte equality and the full command. Verified: the terminal-width-invariant regression test passes. The only local not-ok results were flaky, run-varying timing tests (procevent launch/claim confirmation, listener reparenting) that differ each run and are unrelated to the ps argv change
Fixes #3608

When a scout is promoted to a ship, the captain's authorized intent is
extracted from a legacy `# Task` body by matching `Captain:` and `[captain]`
lines anywhere in the body, including inside fenced code blocks and indented
examples, while the heading reader already tracks fences. A fenced `Captain:`
example therefore passed the provenance gate and became the ship contract's
intent while the real ask was dropped.

Make the captain-words extractor fence-aware like the heading reader: a line
inside a ``` or ~~~ fenced block, or indented four spaces or a tab, is never a
marked line. The promotion and spawn callers need no change. The regression
test covers both the extractor and the promotion provenance gate refusing a
brief whose only Captain lines are fenced or indented examples.
* fix(bin): forbid administering the shared worktree pool in crewmate briefs

A crewmate ran a `git worktree remove` loop over the treehouse pool its own
worktree came from, destroying five worktrees - four belonging to tasks that
were running mid-pipeline. The generated brief's rule 2, "stay inside this
worktree; modify nothing outside it", is a rule about files: removing a
worktree is administration of shared state, not an edit outside a directory,
so the sentence never reached the act. The worker satisfied its brief
completely.

Rule 7 already named one piece of shared infrastructure - the no-mistakes
daemon, one instance serving every lane - with the reason stated plainly. The
worktree pool is the same class of thing and was unnamed.

Fold the pool into that existing rule rather than adding a second warning:
state the constraint around the act (create, remove, return, prune, move,
reassign a worktree or pool slot; write into a sibling slot), keep concrete
commands as examples rather than as the definition so no single provider is
pinned, and give the prohibition a real exit through `blocked:`.

The rule is emitted from one shared string interpolated into both crewmate
scaffolds, so the ship and scout copies cannot drift apart. The secondmate
charter deliberately omits it: that home runs its own fleet and legitimately
allocates and returns slots for its own crewmates.

Contract text only; no runtime enforcement layer.

* no-mistakes(document): Distill pool-safety comment rationale

* no-mistakes(review): align pool-rule test grep patterns with emitted [at=<epoch>] text
* fix(bin): refuse tasks-axi add --start so In flight always has a dispatch record

Fixes #4753

Dispatch (bin/fm-spawn.sh) is the only path that moves a backlog row to
In flight, because it creates the task record, status file, and inbox
that go with the row. A row hand-placed there through the wrapper's
`add --start` had none of those, and nothing later noticed, so the
live-task count included work nobody was doing. The wrapper now refuses
`add --start` (exit 2) and names the dispatch path; plain `add` and
`start <id>` pass through unchanged, and the lifecycle transitions
address tasks-axi directly so dispatch is unaffected.

The issue's other half, a reconcile sweep in bin/fm-inactive-reconcile.sh
that notices an In flight row with no task record, is left as is; this
change closes the only path that creates such a row.

* no-mistakes(review): refuse create --start alias, not just add --start

* no-mistakes(review): reword add --start guard docs to drop only-path overclaim

* no-mistakes(review): scope add/create --start guard docs, drop universal claim
* feat(bin): run the supervision host beside the other non-Pi primaries while away

Cursor's stop-hook park, the OpenCode plugin, the omp watch extension, Grok's
model-owned background arm, and Codex's foreground checkpoint now run
bin/fm-supervision-host.sh in the watcher arm's place when the home opted in
with config/supervision-host, so the host's Claude engine takes away-posture
wakes beside those primaries exactly as it does beside Claude. Without the
file nothing changes.

- The host streams its first cycle's status line, accepts --restart and the
  owner's predecessor arm for its first cycle, and prints each exit in one
  write, so owners that wait for arm readiness and restart their own
  successor (OpenCode, omp) keep their handling handoff.
- Codex's checkpoint passes its bound to the host as the park boundary,
  raises it to FM_CODEX_WATCH_CHECKPOINT_AWAY (3600 s) while the away record
  exists, and lets an engine turn that starts before the bound finish after
  it (FM_SUPERVISION_HOST_PARK_LIMIT).
- /afk launches no away daemon on an opted-in home of those harnesses and
  says so at entry when the file selects no engine for that primary.
- Session start renders the host protocol for each arm owner, and Grok's
  arm command becomes the host.

* fix(bin): keep the watcher-down banner away from the supervision branch actor

A supervision host's engine turn runs guarded commands after its successor
watcher cycle may already have closed on a newer wake, so the guard showed it
the watcher-down banner with the primary's repair line. Under a Codex primary
pin that line is the checkpoint, and a live Codex lab run showed the away
session running it mid-turn (the nested host stood down on its ownership
check). The branch actor never owns watcher continuity, so the banner, its
reminder, and the episode state now leave that actor out, as the queued-wake
warning already does.

The lint telemetry fixture counts bin/fm-afk-launch.sh's source directives,
which the host engine note raised from four to five.

* fix(bin): queue away-session outcomes recorded after the return for main

A Cursor park superseded by the captain's return stops its host as the
engine turn ends, so the host's own handoff of that turn's outcomes was
never printed and the outcomes never reached main. The report surface now
queues every outcome it records after the away record is gone as a durable
check wake; the return owner archives the record before it reads the store,
so each outcome is in the return brief, queued, or both. A host stopped
mid-turn also removes its turn's result and error files.

The stream test now acknowledges its first close and accepts a restarted
cycle that closes on its resurface before the arm confirms it.

* fix(bin): clear a hard-killed host's turn at the next activation

A Cursor park superseded mid-turn can kill its host outright, which runs no
cleanup, so the turn's result, error, and descendant files stayed behind and
any tool process the engine started was left running. The next host's
activation now reaps the descendants that turn recorded and removes its
files. The host suite also registers its homes in a file, because
make_home runs in a command substitution, so its cleanup now stops every
host a case leaves running.

* fix(bin): leave rows that arrive after main's drain unclaimed at its acknowledgement

Main's acknowledgement re-claimed every unreserved queued row, including one
that arrived after the drain above the acknowledged cutoff. That row stayed
main's without ever being shown to it, so while away the supervision host
refused every later wake that included it and handed each back to main until
main drained again. The acknowledgement now claims only unreserved rows at or
below its cutoff.

* docs: name the killed turn's engine and files in the host's failure direction

* docs: record live supervision host runs on the non-Pi primaries

* no-mistakes(review): Replay host-only supervision boundaries across omp session replacement

* no-mistakes(review): Deliver omp supervision-host wakes only at the host's close

* no-mistakes(document): Correct supervision host documentation for non-Pi primaries

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the CI failure by naming FM_CODEX_WATCH_CHECKPOINT_AWAY in the rendered Codex host instructions. The focused instruction and checkpoint suites pass
* feat(bin): auto-relaunch dead persistent secondmates during ordinary supervision

A persistent secondmate whose primary agent exits mid-session previously
stayed down until the next session-start liveness sweep. Extract the
sweep's probe/classify/relaunch mechanics into a shared library and drive
the same contract from a cadence-gated watcher tick, so a positively dead
or missing endpoint is relaunched through the guarded spawn path within a
poll cycle instead of an hour later.

Only the recovery-grade `dead` and `missing` verdicts authorize relaunch;
ambiguous, unreadable, unverified, and unreachable-remote reads stay
fail-closed and a remote route is never replaced by a local endpoint.
Each relaunch emits exactly one `check` wake and appends to a durable
per-mate ledger; a mate exceeding the bounded attempt budget is parked
behind a marker until a live probe rearms it. A per-mate liveness lock
serializes the tick against a concurrent session-start sweep.

* no-mistakes(review): Fail closed on relaunch ledger errors; clear state on remote teardown

* no-mistakes(review): Share ledger read guard; retire relaunch state under liveness lock

* no-mistakes(review): Lazy-load wake lib; live rearm restores full relaunch budget

* no-mistakes(review): Finish liveness tick for every mate before waking once

* no-mistakes(review): Keep liveness tick scanning past per-mate errors, then wake

* no-mistakes(review): Wake only on queued rows; teardown holds liveness lock

* no-mistakes(review): Queue liveness outcome wake before releasing mate lock

* no-mistakes(document): Update secondmate liveness documentation for mid-session recovery

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix empty assignments flagged by ShellCheck

* no-mistakes(ci): Added ShellCheck analysis boundaries for the shared liveness library in both callers and marked its result globals as intentional library outputs. Changed-file lint passed; full CI partitions were not run locally

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed Lint 2 by removing an unused test variable in tests/fm-wake-queue.test.sh. ShellCheck, bash syntax, and the full wake-queue test script pass

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the CI wake-queue fixture: stall-only watcher legs now seed the liveness cadence marker, preventing the new endpoint probe from interfering with their assertions. The full wake-queue test, ShellCheck, and diff checks pass locally
* fix(bin): start a successor when the Claude Stop-hook arm's attached cycle ends

Fixes #2381

When the Claude Stop hook's foreground arm attached to a peer watcher cycle
and that cycle ended, the arm reported the delivered wake and the hook exited
2 without starting a successor, so the handling turn ran with no watcher.
Pi, omp, and OpenCode start the next arm before delivering the wake and pass
the closed arm's pid as FM_WATCH_PREDECESSOR_ARM_PID; the Claude hook never
passed that predecessor identity.

The hook now runs its arm as a tracked child it waits on, so it holds that
arm's pid, and after any actionable close starts one handling-successor
bin/fm-watch-arm.sh with the closed arm's pid as FM_WATCH_PREDECESSOR_ARM_PID.
The successor is launched the one way a process outlives a Claude hook's
exit-2 rewake (nohup, detached stdio, own process group, the shape
bin/fm-startup-network.sh already uses); the hook waits for its status line
and adds one banner line when no live watcher was confirmed, never withholding
the wake. The supervision-host path is unchanged, as is the arm wrapper.

The regression test drives the real hook against an arm fixture whose attached
peer cycle ends: it fails on the previous tip because no successor starts, and
now asserts the successor names the closed arm as its predecessor and outlives
the rewake. A second case pins the unconfirmed-successor banner line.
docs/watcher-continuity.md no longer records the Claude asymmetry.

* no-mistakes(ci): Serial-4 failure was a real regression: tests/fm-session-lock-ancestry.test.sh asserts exact cumulative arm-invocation counts while driving the real fm-claude-stop-autoarm.sh hook against a stubbed fm-watch-arm.sh. This PR makes the hook start a handling successor after an actionable close, so every owned actionable phase now records TWO arm invocations (foreground arm + successor) instead of one, breaking "healthy chain: expected 1 arm(s), got 2". Fixed by updating the cumulative expectations to match the new behavior: owned phases 1/2/6 -> 2/4/6, foreign carry phases 3/4/5 -> 4, plus a comment explaining the +2-per-owned-phase model. Verified: phase-1 (the CI failure point) now passes on every run, syntax checks clean, and sibling arm-count tests (fm-claude-stop-autoarm.test.sh, fm-cursor-primary, fm-turnend-guard) pass unchanged. The only remaining local not-ok is a WSL-only environmental artifact (orphan reparents to a subreaper, not PID 1) that passes on the CI runner. Parallel-1 failure is an unrelated flake: its 11 tests (fm-lint, fm-pr-merge, fm-test-run, fm-cd-pretool-check, fm-pi-primary-types, fm-grok-harness, fm-composer-lib, fm-review-diff, fm-tmux-submit-busy, fm-composer-ghost, fm-brief) do not include fm-session-lock-ancestry and none reads any file this PR touches; all pass locally. It should clear on CI re-run. Made the smallest root-cause fix (one test file, 6 count updates + a clarifying comment). Validation of the branch continues through the no-mistakes pipeline, which owns re-running CI
* fix(bin): report a Lavish source armed only after its listener is running

Registration alone was treated as ready, so arm could succeed before anything was collecting from the board.

* no-mistakes(review): Guard Lavish arm launches, keep retire refusals, report live prior listener

* no-mistakes(review): Keep polling through window before reporting a still-live prior listener

* test: wait for a capture's claim to drop before the next arm

The result is stored before the runner exits, so a re-arm in that gap was meeting a live claim.

* no-mistakes(document): Record Lavish arm readiness evidence in verification doc

* no-mistakes(ci): Both failures were caused by this PR, and both are fixed with test-only edits. Lint 2 (ShellCheck SC2034): this branch removed the only use of `reply_id` (a `start "$reply_id"` call) from tests/fm-procevent.test.sh, which left the assignment at line 1450 unused. I deleted that assignment. It was the only `reply_id` in the file. ShellCheck is now clean on both test files. Behavior portable serial 4: the failing test was tests/fm-bearings-board.test.sh, in the check "registration consumed its answer before the any-origin binding existed". I reproduced it locally: the hold was still `state: queued` when the test checked it. - What must hold: the test's check that the hold is closed must run after the listener has captured the answer. - Why it broke: the test used a stand-in adapter that ran `fm-procevent.sh start` in the foreground after `arm`, so capture finished before build returned. On this branch, `arm` starts the listener itself in the background, so the real listener captures the answer and closes the hold a moment after build returns. - Fix: removed the now-redundant stand-in adapter, the copied runtime directory, and its extra environment variables. The test now runs the real build through the existing `run_board` helper and waits up to about 10s for the hold to reach `state: done`. The checks that follow are unchanged: `Resolution mode: answered` and the any-origin binding. - Other tests: this was the only test in the file that stood in for the adapter this way. The shard's other pure-contract-unit test (tests/fm-trace-context-lib.test.sh) passed unchanged. Verification: - tests/fm-bearings-board.test.sh passed 3 times in a row via bin/fm-test-run.sh, all 18 checks, about 53s per run. - tests/fm-procevent.test.sh was not rerun, because the lint fix only removed an unused assignment
* fix(bin): acknowledge a delivered unknown-wake escalation

The same unrecognized wake was escalated again after it had already been handled, because delivery never recorded that identity.

* no-mistakes(review): Scope unknown-wake acknowledgements to one away session

* no-mistakes(review): Clear delivered digest when unknown-wake ack write fails

* no-mistakes(review): Limit unknown-wake suppression to acknowledged lines

* no-mistakes(document): List unknown-wake ack file among away-session artifacts
* fix(bin): keep a stated default retraction from cancelling a keyless wait

A resolved line that names the shared default decision bucket was closing the keyless live wait that only prints as that same key. Keyless self-retraction still closes the keyless wait.

* no-mistakes(review): Keep declared waits standing past foreign-key resolved lines

* no-mistakes(review): Bound declared-wait read and share one decision-key parser

* no-mistakes(document): Document supervisors' key-aware declared-wait read
* fix(bin): terminate a remote job worker that lost ownership when it receives TERM

A serving worker whose lock directory is gone can no longer quarantine shutdown, and resuming service publishes a false ready heartbeat. Exit after stopping only that worker's own command tree, without removing a replacement owner's lock.

* no-mistakes(review): Check worker lock ownership before publishing shutdown quarantine

* no-mistakes(document): Correct worker shutdown comment on replacement-owned lock

* fix(bin): keep an ousted remote job worker off the replacement quarantine

Shutdown can lose the lock after the first ownership check and before it
writes or clears quarantine. Bind both operations to the directory object
this process still owns so a replacement's quarantine stays untouched.

* no-mistakes(review): Make ousted-worker shutdown test reliably reach quarantine clear

* no-mistakes(document): Reattach worker_shutdown doc comment to its function

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the failing check (Behavior portable serial 7) with a test-only change to the stall test in tests/fm-remote-job.test.sh. Product code is unchanged; no other test changed. Cause: after the decoy dies, both workers run the same check-exists, read, delete sequence on the job records. On the CI runner the replacement deleted a record between the ousted worker's check and its read. The ousted worker exited 125, and because the file runs under set -e the unguarded `wait` ended the test with 125. The exit trap then killed the replacement, which produced the "Killed" line. Reproduction: a temporary 0.3 s delay between the check and the read, applied to the ousted worker only, made the committed test fail exactly as in CI (exit 125 and the "Killed" line). The new test passed with the same delay. The delay is reverted, along with a similar debug hook that the timed-out attempt had left in bin/fm-remote-job-worker.sh. Test changes: - The replacement is frozen (and confirmed stopped) before the decoy is killed and resumed only after the ousted worker exits, so only one worker touches the job records at a time. - The ousted worker is stopped only once its quarantine exists and its lane is reaped, which places it inside its stop loop. - Every fixed poll loop is now a wait on a named condition with a 30 s deadline and an explicit failure message. Exit detection also handles zombies. - The exit trap kills and waits for the decoy and both workers on every path. - A non-zero exit from the ousted worker now fails with its exit code and stderr instead of silently ending the file. The test still proves that the resumed ousted worker exits 0 and leaves the replacement's lock, quarantine contents and quarantine inode unchanged. Verification: the full test file passed four times on its own and three times under nice -n 10 with four busy-loop CPU hogs; bin/fm-lint.sh passes. Changes are not committed

* no-mistakes(ci): I fixed the failing check (Behavior portable serial 7) by changing only the stall test in tests/fm-remote-job.test.sh. Product code is unchanged. **What failed:** "an ousted worker in shutdown leaves the replacement quarantine untouched" failed on CI with the ousted worker exiting 125 ("could not stop the active command tree"). **Why:** during shutdown, the worker retries the still-running decoy command group a fixed 100 times, 0.01 s apart, then gives up and exits 125. The test tried to freeze the worker partway through those retries by sending SIGSTOP from outside. On a slow runner the retries ran out before the stop arrived, so the worker had already given up. The invariant is that the test must hold the ousted worker inside that retry loop until the replacement owns the lock. That was the only place the test depended on timing. The other waits already watch for a named state change with a 30 s deadline. **Fix:** - The ousted worker now starts with a small `sleep` wrapper at the front of its PATH, and the SIGSTOP race is gone. - The wrapper only holds a `sleep` called directly by that worker's own process (it checks its parent pid against a hold file) while its quarantine file exists. - The only such `sleep` is the first retry in the shutdown stop loop, so the worker waits there as long as needed. - The wrapper writes a marker when it starts holding. The test waits for that marker, then hands the lock to the replacement, freezes the replacement, and kills the decoy. - The test releases the worker by deleting the hold file. Deleting the whole temp directory also releases it, so a failed run cannot leave the wrapper looping. - A process leak: the test overwrites the job's command-group record with the decoy, so no worker ever stopped the job's real command. `fm-hold-job.sh` and its `sleep 30` stayed running for up to 30 s after the test. The test now records that group before overwriting it and kills it at the end of the test and in the exit cleanup. - The test still asserts the same things: the ousted worker exits 0, and the replacement's lock, quarantine contents and quarantine inode are unchanged. **Verification:** - The full file passed twice on its own, twice under `nice -n 10` with six busy-loop CPU hogs, and twice more after the leak fix. - `pgrep` found no leftover processes afterwards. - With the worker from just before the fix commit (cf45cb6^), the test still fails with "the ousted worker wrote or cleared the replacement quarantine during shutdown", so it still proves the fix. - `bin/fm-lint.sh` passes. - I did not reproduce the CI failure locally. The cause comes from the fixed retry limit and the CI error message. The changes are not committed

* no-mistakes(ci): I changed only the stall test ("an ousted worker in shutdown leaves the replacement quarantine untouched") in tests/fm-remote-job.test.sh. Product code is unchanged, and so is every other test. **Invariant:** the pid written to the job's group record must be a process-group leader whose group dies when that one process is killed. Otherwise the worker's bounded stop loop never sees the group die, gives up, and exits 125 ("could not stop the active command tree") before it reaches the lost-ownership exit. The decoy is the only place in this test that depends on this. **Fix:** - The decoy used to be `set -m; sleep 30 &`. It now starts as `perl -MPOSIX=setsid -e 'setsid() >= 0 or exit 1; exec @ARGV' sleep 30 &`, which gets its own session and group without shell job control. tests/fm-procevent.test.sh already uses the same idiom. - The test now waits, with the file's usual 30 s deadline and a named failure, until `ps -o pgid=` of the decoy equals its pid before writing it into the group record. This way the worker can never read the record before `setsid` has run. - The existing steps are unchanged: the test kills the decoy, reaps it with `wait` before releasing the hold file, and the exit trap still kills and reaps the decoy and both workers. - The assertions are unchanged: the ousted worker exits 0, and the replacement's lock pid, quarantine text and quarantine inode stay the same. **Cleanup:** I reverted a debug `printf` hook that the timed-out previous attempt had left in bin/fm-remote-job-worker.sh, and deleted its untracked `.tmp-repro/` directory. Neither was committed. **Verification:** - The full tests/fm-remote-job.test.sh passed twice normally and once under `setsid -w` with stdin from /dev/null (no controlling terminal). - `bin/fm-lint.sh` passes. - No leftover `sleep 30` processes afterwards. **Not reproduced:** I could not reproduce the CI failure locally. On this host `set -m` made the decoy its own group leader even without a controlling terminal, so the cause on the runner is not confirmed. The change removes the test's reliance on shell job control, as the user asked. Changes are not committed

* no-mistakes(ci): I changed only the stall test ("an ousted worker in shutdown leaves the replacement quarantine untouched") in tests/fm-remote-job.test.sh. Product code is unchanged, and so is every other test. **Invariant:** the group record the ousted worker checks in its stop loop must stay the job's own command group, and the test must stop that group before it releases the hold. Otherwise the bounded retry keeps seeing a live group, gives up, and exits 125 ("could not stop the active command tree") before it reaches the lost-ownership exit. The test overwrote this record in one place (the decoy) and stopped the group in one place (killing the decoy); both are changed. **Fix:** - I removed the setsid decoy and the overwrite of `.claim/group`. The record keeps the job's real command group, which the test still saves as `STALL_JOB_GROUP`. - The two-line `group_start` stays. It is still needed: without it the worker kills the real group on its first pass, before the replacement takes over, so the hold would never matter. - The `sleep` wrapper that holds the worker at its first stop-loop retry is unchanged. - After the replacement owns the lock, its quarantine is planted and it is frozen, the test runs `kill -KILL -- -$STALL_JOB_GROUP`. It then waits, with the file's usual 30 s deadline and a named failure, until `kill -0` on the group fails. Only then does it remove the hold file. The worker therefore always sees its own command already stopped and never races its retry budget. - The exit trap still kills the saved command group if the test fails. It can't `wait` on that group because the group is not a child of the test shell. The decoy variable and its cleanup entry are gone. - The assertions are unchanged: the ousted worker exits 0, and the replacement's lock pid, quarantine text and quarantine inode stay the same. **Verification:** - The full tests/fm-remote-job.test.sh passed twice normally. - It passed once under `setsid -w` with stdin from /dev/null (no controlling terminal). - It passed once under `nice -n 10` with six busy-loop CPU hogs. - With the worker from before the fix (cf45cb6^), the test still fails with "the ousted worker wrote or cleared the replacement quarantine during shutdown", so it still proves the fix. - No `fm-hold-job` or `sleep 30` processes were left afterwards. - `bin/fm-lint.sh` passes. **Not reproduced:** I couldn't reproduce the CI failure locally; the decoy version also passed on this host. So I can't confirm why the decoy group stayed alive on the runner. The new wait turns any leftover live group into a clear named failure instead of an exit 125. The changes are not committed

* fix(bin): keep a dead command group dead on bash 5.2

A bare return inside the liveness check drops the failing kill status when the check runs in a conditional, so shutdown keeps treating a stopped group as alive and exits 125.

* no-mistakes(review): Use bash 3.2 fd syntax and fix trap return comments
* docs: make configuration settings easier to find and understand

* no-mistakes(review): Restore dropped qualifiers and fix misplaced config doc labels

* no-mistakes(review): Restore three dropped qualifiers in configuration reference
* fix: bound worker edits of project AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md to factual corrections

These files are loaded into every agent session of a project, so additions
should be a deliberate human choice rather than automated task output. The
ship brief's project-memory section and AGENTS.md section 6 previously invited
workers to record durable knowledge, which let project AGENTS.md files accrete
detail the codebase or README already carries. Workers now edit only to fix
factually wrong content - including content their own change made wrong - and
fm-ensure-agents-md.sh runs only alongside such a correction. Stow no longer
routes project-memory additions through ship tasks, and the generated skeleton
no longer invites discovery-driven additions.

* no-mistakes(review): Stop running fm-ensure-agents-md.sh on memory-file corrections

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify manual project-memory initialization and remove duplicate guidance
* fix(bin): let gate agents drive lifecycle against marked lab homes

Part 2 of the #5615 split. A no-mistakes gate agent runs inside a
checkout carrying the fleet-captain identity, so fm-gate-refuse-lib
refuses fleet mutation on the gate signal. That refusal was absolute,
which kept gate validation from ever exercising the real lifecycle.

Stamp a disposable lab FM_HOME with a .fm-lab-home marker file that
only bin/fm-lab-home.sh writes, and only onto a fresh empty dir, so
no call path can mark a populated real home. fm_refuse_if_gate_agent
then permits lifecycle only when FM_HOME carries the marker and is
driven through its stock layout - any FM_*_OVERRIDE relocation stays
refused so part of the "lab" cannot be split back onto the real fleet.
The threat model is a confused agent touching the real fleet, not
deliberate forgery, so the marker is a plain token file rather than a
bound record. FM_GATE_REFUSE_BYPASS is unchanged: it still serves the
test harness, which cannot mark hundreds of temp homes.

Teardown's slot-ownership scan compared state-dir paths textually
while fm_firstmate_root_home canonicalizes, so a lab home under a
symlinked TMPDIR scanned its own record twice and self-collided;
compare file identity (-ef) instead.

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse unlistable lab homes and hardlinked slot records

* no-mistakes(review): Mint lab markers only on verified-empty fresh dirs

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify lab-home gate documentation and comment contracts

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify lab-home gate documentation and remove stale claims

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify gate lab-home documentation and boundary wording
* fix(bin): replace a watcher whose beacon stalls past a hard bound instead of refusing every re-arm

A fleet watcher that is alive but whose liveness beacon has gone stale could
never be replaced: every re-arm was refused because the lock holder was a live
pid, and the holder was never evicted because it was not dead. Add
FM_WATCHER_STALL_BOUND (default 3x the stale grace): below it the refusal is
unchanged; at or past it the arm re-verifies the holder against the lock's
recorded identity, sends TERM, waits boundedly, and takes the lock the normal
way, ledgering a stalled-holder-replaced row. A holder that survives TERM keeps
the old refusal.

Fixes #4400

* no-mistakes(test): poll for replacement message to fix watcher-lock test flake

* no-mistakes(document): document FM_WATCHER_STALL_BOUND in config inventory
* fix(pi): hide queued Firstmate notifications under Calm only when the session can keep them

Calm now keeps authenticated Firstmate operational inputs out of Pi's queued-message
listing, but only after proving the live session exposes every member needed to keep
them across Escape. A session missing any of them keeps stock rows and Escape and shows
one generic warning. Escape and the dequeue key return only captain-authored messages to
the editor and re-queue hidden notifications in order; after an abort that kept any in
Pi's agent queue, the adapter starts the delivery turn itself because Pi 0.87.1 does not
continue an aborted run. Compaction-held notifications stay with Pi's compaction flush and
never start or announce a turn.

Fixes #1588

* docs(calm): record Pi 0.87.1 queued-row retention verification

* no-mistakes(review): Deliver kept Calm notifications after tree-navigation aborts too

* no-mistakes(review): Defer Calm notification turn until tree navigation finishes

* no-mistakes(lint): Silence SC2016 for literal JavaScript in queue-retention e2e test
* fix(bin): refuse teardown when a required source disappears

A missing sibling was sourced after cleanup had started, so Bash 3.2
exited 0 from the EXIT trap and Bash 5 continued and reported success.

* no-mistakes(review): Remove unused FM_TEST_ONLY hook from teardown tests

* no-mistakes(review): Check task backend sources before any teardown cleanup

* test(gotmp): give teardown fixtures every tmux adapter sibling

Teardown now refuses when a sibling the recorded backend's adapter sources
is missing, so the fake bin must carry fm-session-lock-lib.sh,
fm-agent-process-lib.sh and fm-gemini-lib.sh.
Restructure the supervision host doc's prose into shorter sections, lists,
and tables without changing documented behavior. Every original heading,
anchor, identifier, number, quoted string, and link target is preserved.
* docs: make herdr-backend easier to read

Restructure the Herdr backend doc's prose into shorter sections, lists, numbered procedures, and tables without changing documented behavior. Every original heading, anchor, fenced code block, link target, and documented fact is kept.

* no-mistakes(document): Restore composer-proof reason and complete Herdr topic table
Restructure the prose into sections, lists, and tables without changing
documented behavior. Every original heading and anchor, inline-code span,
link target, number, and quoted string is kept, and each sentence sits on
its own line. Adds a topic navigation table and short subsections under
the existing headings.
* docs: make watcher-continuity easier to read

Restructure the prose into sections, lists, and tables without changing documented behavior. Every original heading, anchor, identifier, link target, and number is kept.

* no-mistakes(review): Fix actor and supervision-host scope in watcher-continuity doc

* no-mistakes(review): Make readiness TERM and retry conditional on unready successor
* docs: make sessionstart-nudge easier to read

Restructure the prose into sections, lists, and tables without changing documented behavior. Every original heading, inline-code span, link target, number, and fact is preserved, and a harness-to-tier table now sits near the top.

* no-mistakes(review): Drop helm glossary line and dedupe exit-code lead-in
* docs: make captain-hold-lifecycle easier to read

Restructure the captain-hold lifecycle prose into sections, lists, and tables without changing documented behavior. Every original heading, anchor, identifier, number, quoted string, and link target is kept.

* no-mistakes(review): Fix verification record subjects and grouping headings

* no-mistakes(review): Clarify task-body read-back cases belong to the suite
* docs: make remote-secondmates easier to read

Restructure the remote second mates prose into sections, lists, numbered procedures, and tables without changing documented behavior. Every original heading, anchor, fenced code block, identifier, link target, and qualifier is preserved.

* no-mistakes(review): Merge remote-home table cell into one sentence

* no-mistakes(review): Tighten readiness lead-in, restore causal link, fix dangling reference
* fix(bin): bound the away digest and log why a delivery failed

The away daemon joined every buffered escalation into one unbounded
digest. A start-up catch-all span can exceed what one transport argument
carries (tmux rejects the send-keys command; Linux refuses to exec any
argument above 131,071 bytes, which is how herdr receives it), so the
initial send failed on every housekeeping pass and was logged as an
unconfirmed Enter with text possibly in the composer.

escalate_flush now builds the injected digest under a fixed byte budget:
each event is cut at a UTF-8 boundary with an omitted-bytes marker, the
joined events stop with a "+K more event(s)" tail, and a bounded digest
names a state/.subsuper-digests/ file that keeps every buffered event
verbatim. The buffer itself is untouched, so the return catch-up stays
complete.

The tmux submit core and the herdr literal send now replay the
transport's stderr on failure, and inject_msg logs the failing stage
(initial send versus Enter confirmation) with the byte count and that
stderr. The wedge alarm line and marker carry the last failure reason.

Fixes #4382

* no-mistakes(review): Drop digest pruning; label send-failed as send-or-Enter stage

* no-mistakes(review): Keep digest full text once submit ran; reuse on retry

* no-mistakes(lint): Count digest files with find instead of ls

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Co-authored-by: firstmate-oss <firstmate@kunchenguid.local>
* feat(tests): add FM_TEST_SEAM launch seam and gate lab-primary recipe

Part 1 of the #5615 split: the pieces that let the no-mistakes pipeline
live-validate firstmate changes, without the gate-refusal rescoping.

- bin/fm-afk-launch.sh: FM_TEST_HARNESS pins the detected harness only
  alongside the FM_TEST_SEAM=1 marker test suites set, so a leaked variable
  in a real primary's environment stays inert and unknown tokens fall
  through to real detection.
- tests/lib.sh: export FM_TEST_SEAM=1 for every suite.
- .no-mistakes.yaml: per-harness recipe for running a real fixture primary
  from a gate run - a plain mktemp lab FM_HOME on a private tmux socket,
  with FM_GATE_REFUSE_BYPASS=1 scoped to it and NO_MISTAKES_GATE scrubbed.
- tests/fm-wake-queue.test.sh: stop the owned watcher fixture with KILL and
  clear its lifecycle state so the next leg starts clean; TERM could leave
  bash waiting in a child on some runners.
- tests/fm-remote-secondmate-lifecycle-e2e.test.sh: wait for the liveness
  lock holder's post-acquire marker instead of the lock dir, which is
  published before the claim finishes.

* no-mistakes(review): Scrub lab home overrides and require FM_TEST_SEAM separately

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify test seam and disposable lab bypass documentation

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify lab isolation and test-seam documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the CI failure: test cleanup killed the remote worker child but left its supervisor able to restart it during fixture removal. Cleanup now stops the worker tree. The lifecycle test passed locally; ShellCheck and diff checks passed
* fix(bin): refuse watchers from disposable checkouts and exit when the home is gone

Fixes #321
Fixes #4760

A watcher armed from a disposable no-mistakes validation checkout under
.no-mistakes/worktrees/ outlived the validation step and kept writing the
real home's state, and a running watcher never noticed when its home,
state directory, or code root disappeared. The arm now refuses from such
a checkout with the typed failure line, the watcher checks once per poll
that its home, state directory (or its own lock holder record), and bin
directory still exist and exits with a logged reason scoped to itself,
and the shared test helpers reap every watcher a suite armed for a
temporary home through the home-scoped stop.

* no-mistakes(lint): fix SC1007 by assigning empty string in watch-arm test

* no-mistakes(ci): Found and fixed a genuine, reproducible hang introduced by this branch's test-watcher reaper, which is what killed both CI checks (serial-2 cancelled at the 30-min cap; Lint 2 exit 143 = the suite's own TERM-trap code). Root cause: test_drain_asserts_watcher_liveness (tests/fm-wake-queue.test.sh) fabricates a .watch.lock whose pid is the test runner's own $$ with the runner's real identity, to make the drain believe a live watcher exists. The new make_case tracking registers that state dir for reaping, so at fm_test_cleanup the new fm_test_reap_watchers drives fm-watch-arm.sh --stop; its identity check matches (the fixture recorded the runner's identity) and it kill -TERMs the test runner. tests/lib.sh:231 is `trap 'fm_test_cleanup; exit 143' TERM`, so the TERM re-enters cleanup -> reap -> kills $$ again -> infinite loop until the runner cap. I reproduced this locally: the suite ran all tests then looped forever in cleanup spawning fm-watch-arm.sh --stop against a lock naming its own PID. Fix (tests/lib.sh, +5 lines): in fm_test_reap_watchers, skip any tracked lock whose pid equals our own $$ before driving --stop. This is the single shared reap boundary; seven $$-self-lock fixtures across four test files are all covered by the one guard, and real armed watchers (pid != $$) are still reaped. Invariant: the test reaper must only signal real armed watcher processes, never the test runner itself. Verified locally: tests/fm-wake-queue.test.sh -> EXIT 0 (63 ok, no hang); tests/fm-watch-arm.test.sh -> EXIT 0 (21 ok, including test_reaper_stops_a_tracked_watcher, confirming the guard does not over-skip). Lint 2's exit 143 was the same shard/cap signature; a fresh CI run on this new commit will re-evaluate it

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Co-authored-by: firstmate-oss <firstmate@kunchenguid.local>
* fix(bin): surface an unrecognized status prefix instead of dropping it

A parked or holding declaration, and a verb whose correlation token did not parse, never became an event, so the supervisor still saw the earlier line.

* no-mistakes(review): Require verb-shaped unrecognized status prefixes, add continuation tests

* no-mistakes(document): Document unrecognized status prefix escalation in afk skill

* no-mistakes(ci): I reproduced the "Behavior portable serial 6" failure locally and fixed it by changing the test data in one test. No product code changed. **What failed:** `tests/fm-session-start.test.sh`, in `test_orphan_status_logs_are_printed`, with "matched status log was printed 2 times". **Why:** the test writes status lines with made-up prefixes, `matched: surfaced once` and `orphan: step N`. The test only uses them as placeholder text. It checks that the session-start digest prints each task's status tail exactly once. This PR (#4763) deliberately makes an unrecognized one-word lowercase prefix a status event. So those lines now surface as captain-relevant events, and the wake queue's STATUS OUTCOME BACKSTOP section prints them a second time. The code under review is behaving as the issue asks. Only the test's placeholder data had become meaningful. **Rule the test depends on:** its status lines must not be captain-relevant, so the digest is the only place they are printed. Both lines in this test broke that rule. The orphan line would have failed the same count check right after the matched line did. **Fix:** in that test only, I switched both lines to the recognized, non-captain verb `working:`: `working: surfaced once` and `working: orphan step 1..6`. I updated the matching assertions and counts to use the new text. What the test checks is unchanged: orphan logs are labelled, the tail is bounded, the log path is printed, and each tail appears once. **Verification:** before the fix, the test failed locally the same way as in CI. After it, `bash tests/fm-session-start.test.sh` reports "all assertions passed

* no-mistakes(review): Detect unrecognized prefixes on unstamped lines; share verb list

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Co-authored-by: Kun's firstmate <kunchenguid+firstmate@users.noreply.github.com>
Fixes #5295

Session start now reports a remote inheritance failure using the
push's own error line instead of the first unchanged item that
happened to print before it, and the shared captain preferences
header check now names the first required phrase it did not find,
on both the local and remote inheritance paths.
* fix(bin): stand down the Claude Stop auto-arm on pi-code-delivered payloads

pi-code loads the tracked Claude settings but has no asyncRewake, so it
awaits every Stop hook; without a stand-down the auto-arm runs
synchronously inside Pi's turn end and holds it open for the declared
multi-hour timeout. Stand down when the payload's transcript_path
contains a /.pi/ path component, the same discriminator the closed-but-
unmerged fix in #3352 used, with an explicit string-type check on the
jq filter.

Fixes #3343

* no-mistakes(document): document pi-code stand-down in harness integrations reference
* fix(bin): match whole multi-word project names in the registry lookup

bin/fm-project-mode.sh matched a registered project name against only the
first whitespace-delimited token of a registry row, so a name containing a
space never matched, silently defaulting the project to no-mistakes off
instead of its declared posture.

The lookup now matches the whole registered name against the raw line text,
so a name is compared literally (never as a regex) and a name that is a
leading prefix of another registered name still resolves to its own row.

* no-mistakes(document): docs already accurate for multiword registry name match

* chore: drop accidental empty err file

Co-authored-by: Kun Chen <kunchenguid@users.noreply.github.com>

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Co-authored-by: Cursor Agent <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Co-authored-by: Kun Chen <kunchenguid@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(bin): classify the stdin program of `bash -s` with operands in the arm policy

With -s, sh/bash/zsh read the program from stdin even when operands follow;
the operands are only positional parameters. The arm policy treated the first
operand as a script path, so heredoc and here-string payloads were never
classified and a hidden bin/fm-watch.sh execution was allowed.

A protected path in the operand position still fails closed as before.

Fixes #1489

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify stdin shell operand documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Captain, fixed `shellInvocation` so `bash -- -s` treats `-s` as a script name, and updated R21 to test the exact command. The targeted policy suite, lint, documentation check, and diff check pass. Both hosted workflows show `action_required` before any jobs ran; that external approval state remains unresolved

* fix(bin): keep main's handling of words after a leading `--`

Revert the pipeline CI-step change that made the first word after a leading
`--` always a script. It turned forms that main denies today into allow
(for example `bash -- -c 'bin/fm-watch.sh'`), which is outside #1489 and
loosens a fail-closed policy. `--` after `-s` still ends option parsing.
* fix(bin): strip AI co-author trailers from fleet-launched commits

Cursor and other non-Claude runtimes append the trailer after the typed
message. A per-task commit-msg hook removes it and leaves human co-authors
and the author identity untouched.

* no-mistakes(review): Export pane hooksPath override and drop generated-with stripping

* no-mistakes(ci): This PR caused all three CI failures, and the fix is test-only: 4 test files change, no product code. **Cause.** `fm-spawn.sh` now installs the AI-trailer strip hooks for every spawn, secondmates included. The installer refuses a worktree that is not a git repository, and the PR deliberately keeps that fail-closed rule because real secondmate homes are firstmate clones. Four test fixtures still gave secondmates a plain directory as their home, so each spawn failed with "not a git worktree ... could not install the AI-trailer strip hooks": - serial 5: `tests/fm-backlog-atomicity.test.sh` ("secondmate spawn failed"). - serial 8: `tests/fm-secondmate-harness.test.sh` ("split: no meta written"). - Herdr: `tests/fm-backend-herdr-launcher-workspace-e2e.test.sh` and `tests/fm-backend-herdr-workspace-per-home-e2e.test.sh`. **Rule that must hold.** Every home a test spawns as a secondmate must be a git worktree. I checked the other places in the changed area: the only secondmate spawns in these tests are the ones listed. The earlier rounds already fixed the other fixtures (`fm-secondmate-liveness`, `fm-secondmate-safety`) the same way. **Fix.** - Each of those four secondmate homes now gets the same `.gitignore` plus `git init -q -b main` that the liveness and safety tests already use. - The two Herdr tests clean up with their own plain `rm -rf "$TMP_ROOT"`, not the shared `tests/lib.sh` helper. Because the installer leaves each `state/<id>.git-hooks` directory read-only, that cleanup printed "Permission denied" and left the directories behind. Both cleanups now restore the owner's write bit on every directory before removing (`find ... -exec chmod u+rwx`), which is what `fm_test_remove_tree` in `tests/lib.sh` does. **Verification.** - `tests/fm-secondmate-harness.test.sh` passes. - `tests/fm-backlog-atomicity.test.sh` passes (99 ok, exit 0). - shellcheck is clean on all four files. - I could not run the two real-Herdr tests locally: the Herdr lab on this host refuses to start because it needs exactly one running default session, and I did not change the host's Herdr state to get around that. Instead I checked their two changed steps directly: the installer succeeds on a home set up the new way, and the new cleanup removes the read-only hooks directory completely. Those two tests will only be proven on CI
* fix(bin): treat Pi's dollar-first cost footer as furniture

An idle Pi status row opening with $0.000 was read as a dead-shell prompt, so exit and relaunch refused on an empty composer.

* test: wait for the draining holder to exec sleep before reading its identity

The procevent drain fixture read fm_pid_identity immediately after
backgrounding setsid sleep, racing the child's exec chain. Mid-exec the
cmdline can read empty, failing the fixture on a loaded CI runner.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(bin): refuse a merge when a required check never reported

fm-pr-merge.sh built its GitHub refusals only from checks present in
statusCheckRollup, so a required check that never ran was simply absent and
the merge proceeded on the subset that reported, contradicting its own
"every required check green" claim.

The GitHub verify now reads the base branch's required contexts from the
forge itself - the classic branch protection summary on
GET repos/{o}/{r}/branches/{b} and the active ruleset rules on
GET repos/{o}/{r}/rules/branches/{b} - and refuses when a required context
has no entry in the same rollup, at the same head, that the merge is bound
to. Absence reads as unknown, never green. The required-set read joins the
existing refusal list, so a draft, a red check, and an unreported required
check are all reported together.

Could not read vs nothing required: both endpoints need only repository
read access. The admin-only GET .../branches/{b}/protection endpoint is
deliberately not used: it answers a non-admin token with the same 404 an
unprotected branch gets (observed live on kunchenguid/firstmate main with
this token), which would read a missing permission as "nothing required".
Any failed or malformed read of either source (auth, missing fine-grained
permission, rate limit, network, 404, unexpected shape) refuses the merge
with a line naming the unreadable source. The one exception is GitHub's
plan-gated 403 on the rules endpoint ("Upgrade to GitHub Pro or make this
repository public"), which already means "this repository has no branch
rules" for the merge-queue reader; that check moves into one shared helper
and the classic summary still decides for such a repository.

Attended waiver: --allow-missing <check-name> is the twin of --allow-red and
follows the same design and recording path: once, separate name argument,
waives only that exact unreported required check, still requires every
other required check reported and every check green, never waives an
unreadable required set, refused while the away-posture record exists, and
refused on GitLab. Merge-state BLOCKED policy is unchanged.

How this differs from the withdrawn #5353 (read from its diff):
- #5353 read the admin-only branches/{b}/protection endpoint and treated
  its 404 as "no required checks", so for any non-admin token the required
  set silently read as empty; this change reads the read-access branch
  summary and treats every failure as unreadable.
- #5353 ignored rulesets; this change also reads required_status_checks
  rules from the effective branch rules.
- #5353 made separate per-head REST reads of statuses and check-runs capped
  at per_page=100 with no pagination; this change checks presence in the
  same statusCheckRollup view the red-check gate already reads at the
  verified head.
- #5353 stopped at the first unreadable read; this change reports it as one
  refusal among all the others.
- #5353 also claimed #5345 (lock stealing) and changed 39 files, most
  unrelated; this change is #5344 only.

Live proof, read-only (a gh wrapper refused every merge and mutating call):
- cli/cli#14474 (trunk requires 3 classic build contexts, none ran):
  refused, naming build (macos-latest), build (ubuntu-latest),
  build (windows-latest); with --allow-missing "build (macos-latest)" it
  still refused, naming the other two.
- cli/cli#13665 (ran build (ubuntu-24.04-firewall) instead): refused,
  naming build (ubuntu-latest).
- hashicorp/terraform#39262 (ruleset-required checks absent): refused,
  naming Code Consistency Checks, End-to-end Tests, Race Tests, Unit Tests.
- cli/cli#14485 (all required reported and green): verified; the wrapper
  blocked the merge call and the pull request read back open.

Fixes #5344

* fix(review): Preserve required-check producers and aggregate independent read failures

* fix(document): Clarify required-check verification and waiver documentation

* fix(bin): match an app-bound required commit status by name

The producer-identity check resolved an app-bound required context only
against check runs, so a required context that the required app reports as
a commit status could never match and always read as "has not reported".
A commit status carries no app id to compare, so an app-bound requirement
that arrives as a status now matches by name, as before producer binding;
check runs keep requiring the configured producer app.

Live, read-only: hashicorp/terraform#39262 requires license/cla from
integration 865473, reported green as a commit status by the CLA app. The
previous head refused it as unreported; this head no longer does, while
still naming the four required check runs that never ran there.

Refs #5344

* fix(document): Clarify accepted commit-status producer verification limitation

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Co-authored-by: firstmate-oss <firstmate-oss@kunchenguid.local>
* fix(bin): never offer a persistent secondmate for teardown

The return brief's "Landed, cleanup due" scan listed every state/*.meta
record carrying a pr= and a merge-notified marker without regard to kind, so
a secondmate record holding a relayed child's merged PR put the mate itself
up for "bin/fm-teardown.sh <mate>" cleanup. A secondmate is a persistent
worker, never landed work.

- bin/fm-afk-return.sh: skip kind=secondmate in the landed-cleanup scan.
- bin/fm-pr-check.sh: refuse to record pr= or arm a merge watch on a
  kind=secondmate record before any side effect; a PR reported on its routed
  status channel belongs to a task in the mate's own home, which arms its
  own watch.
- bin/fm-watch.sh: a merged result from a poll already armed on a secondmate
  retires the poll silently - no merge outcome, marker, or wake.

* no-mistakes(document): Document secondmate merge-watch and return-brief exclusions

* no-mistakes(ci): CI failed in an unchanged watcher-shutdown test whose three-second wait was sensitive to runner load. Increased the wait for both state- and home-deletion cases without changing watcher behavior. The full fm-watch-arm suite passed locally; syntax and diff checks passed
* fix(bin): refuse unknown dash-leading args in public-posting fm-x scripts

fm-x-reply.sh collected any unrecognized argument into the positional
pool and took the first one as the reply text, so an invocation like
"fm-x-reply.sh <id> --followup --final <text>" posted the literal
string "--final" to X and silently dropped the real text.

Make argument parsing strict in every script that can post publicly:
an unknown dash-leading argument, a dash-leading request_id/task id, a
dash-leading option value, or a surplus positional now exits 2 with a
usage error before any config load, outbox write, or network call. Reply
text starting with '-' is still accepted via --text-file or stdin, and
--help is honored wherever it appears instead of becoming text (a --help
forwarded through fm-x-followup.sh would have counted as a posted
follow-up and mutated the link).

fm-x-link.sh and the fm-public-followup scripts already refuse unknown
arguments; fm-x-poll.sh takes none.

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse surplus follow-up text sources; drop post-ID help branches

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify reply and follow-up argument usage

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse dash-leading --text-file operands in fm-x-reply

* no-mistakes(document): Correct follow-up argument parsing comment

* no-mistakes(document): Document dismiss argument rejection in script header
* feat(bin): latch the supervision host after repeated engine errors

Rung 3c-1 of the PR 5631 re-cut: the host copies the Pi branch's
broken-session policy. Two consecutive engine errors latch the session;
every away wake then reaches main with one supervision-host line for a
five-minute cooldown, after which one wake probes the engine, and each
failed probe doubles the cooldown up to one hour. A reported turn without
an engine error clears it. The latch is kept per main session, engine, and
model in state/.supervision-host-health, and the engine conversation now
uses the same main-session key, which includes the lock holder's process
identity so a recycled pid never shares either.

Lifted from the validated 5631 tree and adapted to main's away-only host:
the attended recovery line and attended cooldown pass-through are left for
the attended core, so a recovery is only logged.

* no-mistakes(document): Consolidate supervision-host latch documentation
* fix(bin): absorb routine second-mate progress while surfacing routed replies

Fixes #2959

A kind=secondmate task's status signal was never absorbable, so a healthy
mate's routine working: and paused: appends woke the primary every time.
signal_crew_provably_working now reads the mate's lines new since the
watcher's classified position: a decision, blocker, terminal outcome, note:,
correlation-marked line, or unknown verb still surfaces regardless of busy
evidence, while unmarked working:, paused:, and resolved: fall through to the
same provably-working absorb an ordinary crewmate gets.

* no-mistakes(review): narrow secondmate routine absorb to working and paused
* fix(bin): use gh-axi for the ship DoD draft check

* no-mistakes(review): use PR number not URL in gh-axi draft check
* fix(bin): drop status prose from the inactive-outcome dedupe identity

The inactive-outcome receipt fingerprint included the child's sanitized
last status line, so a persistent child appending routine prose after one
terminal outcome minted a fresh parent event per sentence. Bind the
identity to incarnation, task id, terminal state, and PR only, keeping
the last line in the record as status_head evidence.

Fixes #2960

* no-mistakes(document): note structured-only inactive receipt identity in regression coverage
* feat(bin): record the supervision host's dialog mirror on Claude and Cursor

Add bin/fm-host-mirror.sh, the one owner of the supervision host's dialog
mirror file, cursor, lock, and feed, plus the main-session key it keys
entries to. The tracked Claude UserPromptSubmit and Stop hooks and the
Cursor beforeSubmitPrompt and afterAgentResponse hooks record the captain's
prompt and main's reply, only on a home with config/supervision-host, from
a genuine primary checkout, for the lock-owning session. The mirror lands
inert: writers record and nothing reads it yet; attended supervision on the
host is the later step that consumes the feed.

Codex, Grok, OpenCode, and omp have no writer here.

* no-mistakes(review): Scope mirror dedup to session, atomic appends, marker-inclusive caps

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify dialog mirror scope and remove duplicate contract details

* no-mistakes(document): Correct Cursor hook documentation for dialog mirror registration

* no-mistakes(review): Pass mirrored dialog text to jq via stdin

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify dialog mirror documentation and remove duplicate claims

* no-mistakes(review): Preserve internal dialog whitespace; drop mirror check and verified modes

* no-mistakes(review): Drop only identical mirror repeats; remove redundant chmod guard
* fix(bin): retire check-row receipts on branch acks and report an unchanged situation once

* fix(bin): scope a branch acknowledgement's check-row receipt retirement to
  its granted sequences

The away posture lifts the attended partition's check/decision exclusions, so
a branch grant can name check-kind rows - but the branch-actor ack still
assumed check rows were main-only and skipped every receipt scan. The queue
row was consumed while its terminal-outcome .pending receipt stayed behind,
and each inactive-reconcile cadence scan re-queued the same fingerprint. In
the first real away window on the supervision host that re-escalated one
unchanged held-PR situation on every cycle (~1,734 of 4,149 outcomes).

A branch ack now scans inactive-outcome and inactive-reconcile receipts and
commits secondmate stall receipts against exactly the sequences in its
eligible-row snapshot - the same rows it consumes - instead of none. Attended
grants still name no check row, so the scans find nothing.

* fix(bin): store a repeated captain verdict as routine while the task's
  durable situation is provably unchanged

fm-branch-outcome.sh append computes a mechanical situation key per captain
row - metadata bytes, captured status-log endpoint and identity, live
crew-state verb, worktree head - and anchors it in
state/.<task>.branch-captain-key. A later captain verdict whose recomputed key
matches is stored as routine with "unchanged since seq <N>:" prefixed to its
summary, so one situation escalates once until something provably changes. A
task with no readable status ledger is never demoted, an unreadable record
fails toward reporting, and teardown removes the sidecar with the task's
other branch records. The append-only store schema is unchanged.

This covers both hosts: the Pi supervision branch and the supervision host
both funnel reports through append.

* docs: check rows are main-owned only while attended; the away posture grants
  them to the branch, whose ack retires their receipts exactly

* test: the away-flood reproduction as a regression test (branch ack retires
  the receipt and later scans stay quiet), store-level dedupe coverage, and a
  branch-ack secondmate stall receipt case

* fix(bin): restore the secondmate child devin-config cleanup path

The branch-captain-key sidecar addition mistyped the sibling entry as
.$child_id.devin-config.json, so a forced secondmate teardown would have
stopped removing each child's real <id>.devin-config.json. Restore the
original path and add a behavioral test that stops the child sweep mid-loop
on a refused close, proving the cleaned child's devin config and captain
anchor are both removed while the unconsumed child's records are retained.

* no-mistakes(review): Key captain dedupe on the covered wake rows' fingerprint

* no-mistakes(review): Drop captain-key demotion; prove one escalation on both surfaces

* no-mistakes(review): Drop unrelated teardown test; cite both receipt test files

* no-mistakes(document): Docs already match branch-ack check-receipt retirement
* fix(calm): deliver Claude-bound operational input as a record-backed doorbell

Claude Code 2.1.280 removes U+2063 from every submitted prompt, so a typed
operational envelope reaches a Claude Code primary as plain text. The away
daemon now writes the envelope to a record under state/operational-inbox and
types only a plain doorbell naming it; the /afk return check and the Calm mod
recognize the doorbell only when that record holds a current envelope. Marker-
preserving harnesses keep the typed envelope. The live Calm guard accepts the
2.1.280 module-load log line, drives the doorbell, and asserts thinking stays
hidden.

* no-mistakes(review): Fix operational record retention at 7 days and document prune limit

* no-mistakes(document): Point Calm bounds at 2.1.280 evidence; fix afk-exit comment

* no-mistakes(lint): Pick newest Calm e2e transcript without parsing ls

* docs(calm): add a minimal turning-Calm-on step for Claude Code

* fix(spawn): deliver the Claude launch brief as a record-backed doorbell

Claude Code strips U+2063 from the launch-prompt argument too, so a
worker's launch brief arrived with its operational marker removed.
Publish the brief as a record in the receiving home's operational
inbox - a secondmate's own state, not the primary's - and pass only
the printable doorbell naming it, falling back to the typed envelope
when the record cannot be published so the brief body still delivers.

Unwrap doorbell-carried digests in the daemon digest tests that still
read the raw send log under the claude pin, and update the documented
bounds now that launch briefs hide like the other operational rows.

* test(spawn): cover a secondmate's launch-brief record landing in its own home

The record-backed doorbell resolves its state through the receiving
pane's home, so prove a claude secondmate launch publishes into the
seeded secondmate's operational inbox and never leaks a record into
the primary's.

* no-mistakes(review): Pass primary harness to daemon, tighten retention, refresh verdicts

* no-mistakes(review): Prune operational records by exact seven-day elapsed age

* no-mistakes(review): Batch record pruning so large inboxes still expire

* no-mistakes(review): Refuse Claude spawn when brief record cannot publish

* no-mistakes(review): Drop thinking probe from Claude Calm live test and docs

* no-mistakes(review): Record dated Claude Code 2.1.282 reproduction evidence

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify operational doorbell documentation and record expiry

* no-mistakes(document): Correct AFK escalation carrier guidance

* no-mistakes(review): Describe operational record retention as about seven days

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify Calm delivery and operational record retention

* no-mistakes(review): Remove out-of-scope Calm launch guide from Claude docs

* no-mistakes(document): Document Claude launch-brief delivery and refusal

* no-mistakes(document): Correct stale operational-input documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the stale Claude trust test to verify that worker and secondmate launches deliver readable, record-backed briefs instead of expecting brief paths in their commands. Annotated the daemon’s output variable for ShellCheck without changing behavior. The affected tests, daemon tests, ShellCheck, and diff check pass locally

* no-mistakes(ci): parse rebased Claude launch after trailer hook prefix

* no-mistakes(review): Trust launch-brief record and restore thinking bound doc

* no-mistakes(review): Parse final Claude launch statement; drop Stop-hook docs

---------

Co-authored-by: Mike Sewell <maikunari@protonmail.com>
Co-authored-by: no-mistakes <no-mistakes@localhost>
A host-local relaunch rewrote only the far endpoint, so this home kept the old harness, model, and effort, and appending those keys after pr= broke pull-request poll authentication.
tests/fm-watch-triage.test.sh finishes in about 434s alone and about 698s
under CI load, so the 900s bound the changed-suite runner applies produced
a false timeout under ordinary concurrent validation. Raise the automatic
bound to 1500s, which keeps every measured script under it while staying
below the 30-minute normal CI tier so a genuinely hung script still fails
here with its output before the job cap cancels the lane.

Fixes #3869
Refs #3565
* Fix nested watcher lock reclaim

* no-mistakes(review): Elect a single steal-mutex reaper and bound arm TERM wait

* no-mistakes(review): Reclaim self-held steal mutex and unify autoarm steal reaping

* no-mistakes(review): Resume own interrupted steal reap from its tombstone
* test: hold the back-to-back boundary close on the host's own clock

test_park_boundary_holds_under_back_to_back_closes assumed two engine
turns fit in the ~16s pre-refusal window and that the stub finished a
turn in 3s. Under load the stub's real drain, report, and
acknowledgement take ~13s, so the turn either died at its bound (which
hands the wake to main, no boundary line) or the second close landed
past the window and the fixture failed while the boundary held. 3
failures in 5 runs at a load average near 11.

Hold the first turn on a release file instead: once the engine is in
flight, a second close is appended mid-turn and the turn is released as
the refusal window opens (park bound minus turn bound and grace, read
off the host's own start record). The queued close can then only wait
for the boundary on any machine speed, which is what the test asserts:
the boundary line ends the output, the demo.status row stays queued for
main, and no second engine turn ever starts. A host too loaded to start
the turn at all hands the first close to the same boundary exit.

After: 12/12 at load ~15-42.

* no-mistakes(review): Print boundary test deadline as a decimal integer

* no-mistakes(review): Hold boundary test turn on a FIFO, require full sequence

* no-mistakes(review): Remove stray before/after supervision-host test copies

* test: hold the late close's render until the refusal window opens

The boundary recheck test's node shim slept a fixed 10s, which assumed
the first close was read before the host's refusal window opened. Under
load the close arrived after the refusal check, so the host correctly
refused it before the successor started and the render snapshot never
appeared. Block the wake-prompt render on a FIFO released at the
refusal-open instant read from the host's own start record, so the
pre-turn recheck must refuse on any machine speed.

* no-mistakes(review): Derive minimal park bounds and refresh supervision-host shard hint

* no-mistakes(review): Drive park-boundary tests from a seam-gated host test clock
* fix(bin): stage remote home clones before publishing them

A remote home provision cloned the code root directly into the public
FM_HOME path while rollback() claimed rm -rf of that same path on any
failure. Bash defers trapped signals past a foreground child, but any
other cleanup or lifecycle path that removes the home directory races
the live clone's object copy, producing the CI flake "fatal: failed to
copy file to .../.git/objects/...: No such file or directory".

Clone into a private staging directory beside the home and publish with
an atomic rename once complete, so no cleanup can remove a directory a
live clone is still writing; a home that appears mid-provision now dies
cleanly instead of inheriting torn state. The regression coverage holds
a real clone mid-copy, removes the public path, and requires the
provision to finish and publish intact.

* no-mistakes(review): Prove home ownership by sentinel and hold only a live clone

* no-mistakes(review): Assert raced provision publishes a complete, intact clone

* no-mistakes(document): Document remote home staging and publication safety

* no-mistakes(lint): Fix ShellCheck warning in clone integrity assertion

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify remote home publication and rollback guarantees
* fix(control): keep a relaunched Pi worker's herdr pane status authority alive

Defect: after `bin/fm-control.sh <id> relaunch` (observed live on a herdr
Pi crewmate whose pane read idle while it ran its validation pipeline),
the pane froze at whatever its previous agent had last reported.

Cause, measured on herdr 0.9.1 against a real Pi: a pane has one status
authority, and for Pi with its integration installed that authority is
the lifecycle hooks, so herdr also skips screen detection for the pane.
In the crew shape the registration outlives its agent process (upstream
issue #4115; docs/herdr-backend.md "Restart and liveness behavior"), and
herdr applies only reports carrying the session identity it bound. A
replacement started fresh in that pane reports a NEW session, so its
state reports are ignored and the pane stays frozen. Nothing from
outside repairs it: `pane report-agent-session` and `pane report-agent`
for `herdr:pi` are accepted (rc=0) without being applied unless the
reporter is the registered pane agent, and `pane release-agent` on the
stale record changes nothing.

Fix: a relaunch preserves the binding instead of fighting it. The launch
owner reads the session reference the endpoint's own runtime recorded
(`fm_backend_herdr_pane_agent_session_ref`) and passes it back as Pi's
own `--session <path-or-id>` (`relaunch_resume_args`;
`fm_control_relaunch_resume_flag` owns which adapters and which
registered-agent labels qualify). That is the same reference herdr
itself resumes Pi panes with after a server restart, and the resumed
session's reports land again, which the live check confirmed: the pane
returned to working while the replacement worked and idle when it
settled, on the same session identity.

Safety: relaunch-only (a fresh spawn binds nothing), herdr-only (the one
adapter that records a per-pane session), Pi-family only, and only when
the registration's own agent label matches - so no other adapter's
conversation can be handed to a Pi launch. An unreadable, missing, or
malformed reference degrades to exactly the fresh-session launch that
existed before. No lifecycle, liveness, isolation, or merge guard is
touched, and an empty result leaves every non-Pi launch byte-identical.
`resume` remains a refused verb; docs/agent-control.md and the
harness-adapters references are corrected where they claimed Pi had no
verified resume form at all.

* no-mistakes(document): docs: correct relaunch session-authority ownership and skill paths

* no-mistakes(document): docs: correct stale control-plane ownership claim

* no-mistakes(document): docs: drop unverified Herdr restart resume claim

* no-mistakes(test): Added offline Herdr Pi session-authority relaunch coverage

* no-mistakes(document): Document Herdr Pi relaunch session continuity

* no-mistakes(ci): The failing remote relaunch test tried to arm a PR poll for a secondmate, which `fm-pr-check.sh` correctly refuses. Removed that invalid test scenario; the remaining remote relaunch tests pass, and `git diff --check` is clean
Main has been red since fm-pr-check.sh began refusing to arm a merge poll
on a kind=secondmate record (#5696): the relaunch-ordering case in
tests/fm-remote-secondmate-relaunch.test.sh armed its fixture through that
entry point and could no longer be set up.

The ordering guarantee still matters: a secondmate record armed before the
refusal can legitimately carry a trailing pr=/pr_head= identity block until
the watcher retires it, and fm-remote-secondmate-relaunch.sh must still keep
that block last when republishing harness/model/effort. Seed the fixture the
way such a record was really written - pr= appended last to the meta, then
the poll artifacts published through the same
fm_pr_poll_prepare/fm_pr_poll_publish_prepared pair fm-pr-check.sh uses, a
pattern tests/fm-pr-check-security.test.sh already follows - and drop the
now-unused fake gh fixture. The #5696 refusal itself stays pinned by the
security suite's secondmate-record case.
* feat: run attended supervision on the host for Claude and Cursor

On a home opted into config/supervision-host with a Claude or Cursor
primary, the supervision host now takes the attended wakes the Pi branch
would take: routine outcomes stay off main, and a captain outcome wakes
main once with a branch-outcome line and waits in the drain's new
BRANCH OUTCOMES section until main acknowledges it with mark-processed.

- The offer rule moves into branchOfferForWake, shared by the Pi watcher
  and the host through bin/fm-branch-dispatch.mjs offer.
- The host feeds the dialog mirror at the head of each attended wake and
  passes a close through unchanged when it is main-only, the engine or a
  tool is missing, the primary has no verified mirror, the main session
  cannot be identified, or the session is cooling down.
- The drain presents captain outcomes first, one line per task, never
  behind older routine outcomes, and collapses routine overflow into a
  count that is marked read.
- The return advances the store's read cursor through the away window
  once the brief has rendered, so the first drain does not replay it.
- The branch prompt's mirror wording is host-neutral, and the rule to
  report what main must act on as captain, once per unchanged situation,
  applies only to the attended posture on the host.

* docs: record the attended supervision host live check

* no-mistakes(review): Present pre-window unread outcomes and contiguous captain prefix

* no-mistakes(review): Return brief presents every row it marks read

* no-mistakes(review): Return brief lists every unread outcome in one list

* no-mistakes(review): Keep return list in store order and gate cursor failures

* no-mistakes(review): Make the drain the only branch-outcome presenter after return

* no-mistakes(review): Gate return on drain outcome failures; byte-count outcome budgets

* no-mistakes(review): Gate drain on projection failures; UTF-8-safe byte cuts

* no-mistakes(review): Fail drain without jq; hand unreadable prompt mirror to main

* no-mistakes(document): Correct supervision-host return and drain documentation

* no-mistakes(review): Recheck attended offer at turn start; honest failed-drain brief

* no-mistakes(document): Correct supervision-host posture and drain documentation

* no-mistakes(document): Documentation remains accurate for attended supervision
Each '# shellcheck source=' directive makes ShellCheck's external-source
traversal expand that library's whole transitive graph again at the site.
fm-pending-reply-lib carried three directed lazy sources of fm-wake-lib and
two of fm-parent-channel-lib on identical per-call re-source sites, so one
file analysis peaked above 4 GiB and every caller (fm-watch, fm-teardown)
inherited the multiplier - the root cause of the PR #5732 Lint 1 OOM kill.

Keep the runtime '.' commands byte-identical: the lazy re-source under
'local STATE FM_WAKE_QUEUE FM_WAKE_QUEUE_LOCK' is real behavior. Drop the
duplicate directives so each library expands once per unit, and drop the
tmux/classify directives since classify already arrives through the kept
fm-wake-lib expansion and no tmux symbol is referenced here. The directive
above the lib-dir assignment is kept - it binds the bin/ prefix so the
undirected sites still resolve without SC1091.

Measured peak RSS, ShellCheck 0.11.0 -x on Linux arm64:
  bin/fm-pending-reply-lib.sh  4.06 GiB -> 1.96 GiB, zero findings
* fix: split bash 5.2 sibling $() in recovery mint and delivery log

Sibling command substitutions on one line can empty a recovery generation
under bash 5.2 when a CHLD trap is set. Mint pid/epoch sequentially, refuse
empty tokens before write, and clean delivery fields before printf.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* fix: split bash 5.2 sibling $() in recovery mint and delivery log

Sibling command substitutions on one line can empty a recovery generation
under bash 5.2 when a CHLD trap is set. Mint pid/epoch sequentially, refuse
empty tokens before write, and clean delivery fields before printf.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* fix: keep recovery mint failure semantics after sibling $() split

Remove the new pid/date refusal and grammar guard so a mint miss still
yields a grammar-valid token and a durable wake row, matching accepted
review intent. Drop the fake-failing-date case that locked in the refuse.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* no-mistakes(document): Point recovery-mint hazard comment at its regression test

---------

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Fixes #4520
Fixes #4756

The voice status reader in bin/fm_voice_records.py reports each
worker's state from the last non-blank line of its status log. When a
worker appends a status line and then a line of plain prose, the
reader reported "note" with the prose line instead of the declared
state, diverging from bin/fm-classify-lib.sh's shell scan.

Scan back through the tail for the newest line whose prefix is a
single lowercase verb-shaped word (letters and hyphens), and report
that event's verb instead of always taking the last line. An
unrecognised verb-shaped prefix still reports "note" rather than
letting an earlier recognised line answer for it, and free text with
no colon is skipped as prose. When the tail holds no such event, the
last line is reported exactly as before.
* fix(bin): stop reporting an already-installed version as an available update

An update announcement named its version first ("current -> new"), so
reading the first dotted number as the announced version compared the
current version against itself and always looked newer. Read the last
dotted number instead, and only report an available update when that
announced version is newer than the newest installed copy found; when
that version is already installed, report only PATH skew.

Fixes #5151

* no-mistakes(document): docs: gate announce update-available report on newer-than-installed
* fix(bin): pass the profile effort to OpenCode workers through their launch config

The dispatch profile's effort axis was recorded in task metadata but never
reached an OpenCode worker: the launch wrote only a permission grant into
the config it constructs.

OpenCode 1.18.32's config schema carries per-model reasoning effort as
agent.<name>.variant, so the chosen effort is now merged into the same
OPENCODE_CONFIG_CONTENT JSON as the default build agent's variant, keyed to
the resolved model. With no effort chosen the launch stays byte-identical.

Fixes #1373

* no-mistakes(review): gate OpenCode effort variant by model provider family

* no-mistakes(document): docs(opencode): note provider-family gating for effort variant
* fix: preserve cancellation as no verdict in crew state

Reuse the green-delivery safeguard for cancelled CI monitors and permit a skipped rebase. Other cancelled outcomes and coarse ledger records use the existing unknown state.

Four delivered-PR regressions failed before the fix and pass afterward. The isolated public resolver and fleet-summary tests prove that undelivered cancellation no longer creates a failure contradiction, while preserving historical records and the terminal_in_flight invariant. Evidence uses fixture no-mistakes responses, not a live daemon cancellation.

Update the existing coarse cancellation assertion from failed to unknown because it encoded this defect; retain its newest-run precedence check. Full fm-crew-state suite and pinned lint pass.

* fix(review): Verify PR disposition before reclassifying terminal validation runs

* fix(test): Add captured cancellation replay coverage for resolver and fleet

* fix(document): Clarify cancellation and terminal delivery documentation
* fix: declare worker background and pipeline waits

Require ship and scout workers to declare owned-work waits with the existing
paused verb before ending a turn or waiting on a pipeline or long command.
Keep the first-sight alert and existing liveness classification unchanged;
subsequent inspection follows the existing long pause cadence.

Validation: emitted brief regression failed before the instruction change
and passes afterward. Public watcher/drain regressions cover the first
alert, repeated wedge suppression, bounded rechecks, and undeclared idle
alarms using isolated backend fixtures. Brief suite, pinned lint, Bash
syntax, documentation inventory, and whitespace checks pass.
No real worker harness was exercised for wait behavior.

* fix(document): Clarify declared worker waits and documentation ownership

* fix(ci): Captain, fixed the cadence test to age both the declaration and first-alert throttle while preserving declaration identity. Reproduced the CI failure using stable identity; corrected tests pass with both stable identity and native macOS behavior. Focused ShellCheck and diff checks pass. Production behavior is unchanged; Linux CI was not rerun locally
* fix(bin): bound each lint root in its own ShellCheck process

CI job "Lint 1" died twice at about ten minutes because the two shard
workers each packed about 110 canonical roots into one unbounded ShellCheck
process, and a byte-weight rebalance moved the analysis-heavy fm-watch.sh
into a partition with other heavy roots, so the pair outgrew the 16 GiB
runner before anything could name a culprit.

Run one canonical root per ShellCheck process under an enforced envelope:
a wall deadline plus terminate-then-kill grace via the shared
fm-timeout-lib.sh watchdog, and a per-root rlimit spec applied inside the
child before exec (default a 4 GiB address-space cap, so two workers stay
inside a 16 GiB job with headroom). A root that exceeds the envelope fails
by name with a recorded reason - timeout, memory, signal, or
limit-unavailable - instead of taking the runner down. The per-root
watchdog runs in its own process group so the owner's group sweep cannot
orphan the bounded subtree, and fm_exec_timed now starts the same
escalation when its parent dies before it can be signalled.
FM_LINT_REQUIRE_BOUNDS=1, set in CI, refuses the run outright when a
configured bound cannot be enforced on the host rather than lint uncapped.
Each root's begin/end, reason, duration, and peak RSS stream to stderr in
partition mode and append to a retained <telemetry>.roots.tsv sidecar
uploaded beside the partition telemetry.

Coverage is unchanged: pinned ShellCheck 0.11.0, --norc, --external-sources
full analysis, complete and disjoint partition inventory, workflow lint,
and the backend-purity check, with byte-identical diagnostics across
jobs=1/2 proven by tests/fm-lint.test.sh.

* fix(bin): fail closed on unenforceable lint bounds and size the cap

Required-bounds mode (FM_LINT_REQUIRE_BOUNDS=1, set by CI) now refuses the
run with named errors before any root starts: a missing fm-timeout-lib.sh,
a watchdog that cannot actually bound a probe command, or a host that
rejects the address-space limit all stop the run rather than lint uncapped.
The generalized FM_LINT_ROOT_RLIMITS flag:value interface is replaced by a
single FM_LINT_ROOT_MEMORY_KIB, and the roots sidecar and telemetry record
the run's final exit status after backend-purity and workflow checks
instead of the pre-check lint status.

The default cap is 6 GiB of address space per root, not 4 GiB: ulimit -v
bounds virtual address space rather than resident memory, and ShellCheck's
GHC runtime keeps roughly a third of that space as reservation, so 6 GiB
yields about a 4 GiB working heap budget. A Linux measurement during this
change showed eleven real canonical roots running out of memory under the
earlier 4 GiB cap while the largest passing root peaked near 2.8 GiB
resident; two 6 GiB roots plus runner overhead still fit the 16 GiB job.
Roots that still exceed the cap keep failing by name, and the sidecar's
per-root peak RSS keeps roots approaching the budget visible.

tests/fm-lint.test.sh now proves the memory primitive where it can be
proven: on hosts that accept ulimit -v a perl allocator is refused under a
256 MiB limit and reported by name as a memory death, the pinned ShellCheck
lints a small file under the configured cap and is named when a far smaller
cap binds it, and a watchdog-less copy refuses under REQUIRE_BOUNDS; the
bounded cases skip on macOS, which cannot enforce the address-space limit.

* no-mistakes(review): Prove memory cap binds, pass watchdog owner, drop unused modes

* no-mistakes(review): Capture watchdog owner before startup for every fm_exec_timed caller

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify bounded lint documentation and telemetry

* no-mistakes(document): Correct bounded lint documentation and sidecar path

* docs(bin): restore the per-root memory cap sizing rationale

The pipeline's document step rewrote the ROOT_MEMORY_KIB comment and
dropped the sizing reasoning the change is required to record: address
space vs resident memory, the GHC reservation share, the measured 4 GiB
failures and ~2.8 GiB peak, and the two-roots-plus-runner capacity
arithmetic. Restore it beside the default while keeping the corrected
"not a resident-memory ceiling" framing.

* no-mistakes(review): Document memory cap RSS reduction threshold and first candidate

* no-mistakes(review): Scope owner-death escalation docs to the perl watchdog

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify bounded lint and timeout documentation

* no-mistakes(review): Install perl watchdog signal handlers before forking the command

* no-mistakes(document): Correct bounded lint documentation and stale watcher comments

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the supervision-host test’s obsolete expectation: the watchdog now reaps an engine when its host dies. The timeout and supervision-host tests pass locally; the watcher test also passes locally. Lint 1 and 2 remain unresolved: seven canonical roots exceeded the required 6 GiB address-space cap in CI. I did not raise the cap, exempt roots, or reduce source-following coverage to make those failures disappear

* no-mistakes(ci): The two lint checks failed when eight canonical roots hit the enforced memory cap. I reduced repeated ShellCheck source-graph expansion while keeping runtime imports and the canonical root inventory intact. Pinned ShellCheck passes for all changed roots; the relevant local tests pass. The 6 GiB Linux CI run remains unverified

* no-mistakes(review): Restore source directives, raise cap to 8 GiB, classify OOM

* no-mistakes(review): Classify memory deaths from root stderr, not source excerpts

* no-mistakes(review): Match only whole runtime memory-error lines for memory reason

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify lint memory classification in script documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed both lint checks’ memory-limit failure: each CI lint job now runs one root at a time with a 12 GiB address-space cap. Kept the local two-worker default and updated the sizing comment and test expectation. The lint tests and workflow validation pass locally; Linux CI remains to confirm the heavy roots
* fix(bin): bound the watcher cleanup marker-lock wait

tests/fm-watch-triage.test.sh intermittently failed serial CI shard 1
with "watcher pid <pid> did not exit within 10s of TERM". The watcher
had processed the TERM and was inside watcher_cleanup, where the
recovery-marker publish waits on state/.watcher-down.lock through an
unbounded fm_lock_acquire_wait. A live foreign holder of that lock
leaves the TERM'd watcher spinning in its own EXIT trap until the lock
frees or a second signal short-circuits the trap.

fm_recovery_transition now takes an optional bound and both
release-lock paths plus publish honour it through a new in-process
fm_lock_acquire_wait_max. watcher_cleanup passes
FM_WATCHER_CLEANUP_LOCK_BOUND (default 2s); on timeout the publish is
skipped, the singleton stays behind as ordinary dead-pid evidence, and
the next arm's clear-stale-lock still republishes it.

Regression test drives a real watcher with .watcher-down.lock held by
a live foreign process and asserts a single TERM still stops it.

* no-mistakes(review): Parse watcher cleanup lock bound as decimal, zero defaults

* no-mistakes(review): Pin cleanup bound tests to observed marker-lock contention

* no-mistakes(document): Document bounded watcher cleanup and recovery

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify bounded watcher cleanup and recovery documentation

* no-mistakes: apply agent fixes

* no-mistakes(review): Arm marker-lock FIFO before TERM; drop FM_TEST_ONLY_LATE

* no-mistakes(review): Hold marker lock through a failed cleanup acquire
* test: stop the leaked unreachable watcher before remote e2e cleanup

The remote secondmate lifecycle e2e backgrounded fm-watch.sh through the
remote_env shell function, so $! named the function's subshell rather than
the watcher. Killing that subshell left the unreachable-leg watcher running,
and its one-second liveness probe kept invoking the fake ssh, which rewrites
ssh.count in the temp root. When a probe landed while the EXIT trap was
removing the root, rm failed with "Directory not empty" after every
assertion had passed.

Exec the watcher from the backgrounded function so the recorded pid is the
watcher itself, and assert the stopped watcher stops probing and writing its
state. Cleanup also stops a watcher left running by a failed assertion and
removes the root through fm_test_remove_tree, so a run that fails before
retirement does not strand the read-only spawn hooks directory.

Closes #5836

* no-mistakes(review): Clear reaped watcher PIDs and restore plain temp-root removal

* no-mistakes(review): Let in-flight probe settle before stopped-watcher baseline
* fix: stop quarantining ordinary shared-captain source updates

* no-mistakes(document): Rewrap remote inherit header so usage prints fully
* docs: make calm easier to read

Restructure the Calm mode prose into sections, lists, and tables without changing documented behavior. Every original heading, anchor, fenced code block, inline-code span, link target, number, and quoted string is preserved.

* docs: restore reload case in calm override lead-in

The Built-in tool override collisions lead-in covers a session that reloads with Calm already on, as the original text did.
* docs: make turnend-guard easier to read

Restructure the turn-end guard doc's prose into shorter sections, lists, and tables without changing documented behavior. Every original heading, anchor, inline identifier, link target, and number is kept.

* no-mistakes(review): Restore legacy-only scope on TERM retirement sentence

* no-mistakes(review): Name Cursor park behavior in live e2e test line
* docs: move situational AGENTS.md sections into on-demand skills

Backpass memory optimization: shrink the always-loaded AGENTS.md by moving
situational contracts (home layout, session-start recovery, validation and
landing supervision, scout completion, away/quiet supervision, Relay
ownership) into agent-only skills loaded at their triggers, with a trigger
index skill.

* docs: classify the new on-demand skills' documentation audience

Register the seven new agent-only skills as agent-runtime docs and fix a
link in validation-supervision that kept its AGENTS.md-relative path.

* docs: close load-timing gaps found by the live regression check

- load validation-supervision whenever an ask-user finding is decided or
  answered, so forbid --yes and process-every-return reach the worker
- keep the mid-task captain-ask rule, the unconfirmed network-checks rule,
  and the worker account pin rule inline in AGENTS.md
- fix cross-references that still pointed at moved AGENTS.md sections
* fix: route second-mate signal wakes by their new status span

A second mate's status log is a shared channel carrying many independently
keyed decisions, so judging its signal rows by every decision still open in
the whole log pinned each routine update to main behind any unrelated
parked hold. scopeForUnreadWake (the one owner for Pi and the attended
supervision host) now judges a second-mate signal row by the lines presented
since the last drain, bounded by the existing status-presentation cursor:
a decision, blocked, resolution, or captain-held line, or a line declaring
the key of a still-open decision, keeps the whole row on main, and any
cursor problem falls back to the whole log. Keys are read only at the
status parser's declared positions, with readable time stamps stripped as
bin/fm-classify-lib.sh does. Single-task crewmate and stale routing are
unchanged, and stale and signal rows for one mate keep independent verdicts.

The supervision branch now treats a second mate's done and merged lines as
relayed child outcomes, and fm-teardown refuses the branch actor second-mate
retirement through the existing role-partition helper in both postures.

* no-mistakes(review): Route second-mate resolutions to main only when closing open decision

* no-mistakes(review): Guard bare-verb fold lines and fold resolution spans incrementally

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify second-mate wake routing and retirement documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): The CI failure was a timing-sensitive watcher teardown test, not the PR’s signal-scope code. Extended the bounded wait for both state-directory and home removal. The watcher suite passes locally, and git diff --check is clean
register-extension took the extension lifecycle lock and then the source
lock, while reconcile republishing an unhandled extension result holds the
source lock and reaches the lifecycle lock through the extension host's
process-event path. Both waits are unbounded and both owners stay alive, so
the two could wait on each other forever and freeze the home's monitoring
cycle.

register-extension now takes the source lock first, matching every other
path that holds both. The lifecycle lock still spans binding resolution
through registration publication, so binding retirement stays serialized.

A new lifecycle-order section in the extension-binding suite, run in the
default aggregate, holds a re-registration inside binding resolution while
reconcile republishes that source's unhandled result and requires both to
finish within a bound.

Fixes #5866
* fix(bin): run the repository's own hooks when git -c carries the per-task hooksPath

The per-task hooks wrappers cleared only the GIT_CONFIG_COUNT override before
looking up the repository's own hooks directory. When core.hooksPath reached git
through git -c (GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS), directly or inherited by a child
process, the lookup found the wrapper directory again and exited 0, so the
repository's real hook - such as a pre-push publish guard - never ran and the
push succeeded.

The lookup now ignores GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS too, so only the repository's
config files decide its hooks directory, and a failed lookup exits nonzero
instead of skipping the hook. AI-trailer stripping is unchanged.

Fixes #5871

* no-mistakes(document): Document git hook chaining and lookup failure behavior
* feat(bin): add an optional never-send list to typed dispatch resolution

* Added config/dispatch-never-send, an optional local list of literal
  values and re: regular expressions checked against every string of
  the resolver request before it is sent to typesafe.ai
* A match, an unreadable list, or an empty or invalid pattern now stops
  the request and falls back to the off path, so firstmate dispatches
  through its existing intake; the one stderr diagnostic names at most
  the list line number and never the value
* No list, or a list with no match, leaves resolution unchanged

* no-mistakes(review): Match never-send literals across whitespace, drop regex mode

* no-mistakes(review): Inherit the never-send list into secondmate homes

* no-mistakes(ci): ci-2 (Lint 2), caused by this PR and now fixed. The rule that broke: the test script must not share shell variables with a library it sources. The new secondmate-inheritance test in tests/fm-dispatch-resolve.test.sh sourced bin/fm-config-inherit-lib.sh inside a `( ... )` subshell. That lib assigns `out`, so ShellCheck flagged every later `$out` in the test with SC2031. The subshell was the only place this PR sources that lib. The fix runs the propagation in a child shell instead (`bash -c '. "$1" && propagate_inheritable_config "$2" "$3"' _ lib from to`), so the test shell never sources the lib. `bin/fm-lint.sh tests/fm-dispatch-resolve.test.sh` now exits 0, and `bash tests/fm-dispatch-resolve.test.sh` passes. That includes the check that an inherited list is enforced in a secondmate home. ci-1 (Behavior portable serial 8), not caused by this PR, so no code change for it. The only failing test is tests/fm-remote-secondmate-relaunch.test.sh, which fails with "not ok - could not arm the PR poll fixture for the relaunch-ordering test". This PR doesn't touch that test or the code it runs. I reproduced the same failure locally on the base commit ea7c7f7. Main's own CI run on ea7c7f7 (run 36212602588) fails only this job, with the same message. The recent main runs before it also concluded failure
* feat(jev): add the guard framework and the memory RSS/swap thrashing guard

A Jev guard is a bounded read-only host diagnostic that turns one class of
resource pressure into a machine-readable audit record and a one-line verdict.
This lands the framework contract (docs/jev-guards.md) with one representative
family (Pattern 46, memory RSS and swap thrashing) as the pilot: thin bash
wrapper, stdlib-only python engine, and a behavioral test through the CLI.

* no-mistakes(review): fix jev mem guard fail-open unknown and contract

* no-mistakes(review): fix mem guard rss pairing, memfree, tests, docs

* no-mistakes(review): fix inverted UNKNOWN branch in fail-forcing test

* no-mistakes(review): register docs/jev-guards.md in audience inventory

* no-mistakes(review): simplify wrapper, drop dead top_n, single-source thresholds

* no-mistakes(review): assert exact exit code in fail-forcing test leg

* no-mistakes(review): tolerate any stdout encoding in text output

* no-mistakes(document): Fix guard contract dash style and output wording
* fix(bin): stop slow GitHub reads from starving and waking the contributions poll

The poll's fixed budget cut the tail URL's reads short, and any read killed at the bound was recorded as a forge failure, so routine GitHub slowness produced an observation-unavailable wake. A configured FM_CONTRIBUTIONS_BUDGET now rides the generated check shim and is cut down to the watcher's per-check bound with a margin, a read killed at the bound or the deadline is budget refusal that leaves records untouched, and the poll moves to the next URL that still has a full observation reserve instead of ending.

* fix(bin): report the bound when a signal death leaks through fm_run_timed

fm_run_external_timeout trusted the wrapper's recorded status over the runner's own bound verdict, so a read killed by the bound's TERM could surface as 143 and callers such as the contributions poll classified a budget-bound read as a forge failure. When the runner reports the bound, a signal-death status is the bound's own TERM racing the wrapper's bookkeeping and is reported as 124; a natural exit still passes through. The replace-shell probe also moves to the repo's portable BASHPID fallback so the suite runs on the macOS system bash.

* no-mistakes(review): Rotate contribution polling and verify generated budget behavior

* no-mistakes(review): Stabilize contribution rotation across successful observation refreshes

* no-mistakes(review): Exclude settled contributions from live observation rotation

* no-mistakes(document): Document contribution poll rotation and observation reserves

* no-mistakes(ci): Captain, fixed timeout handling with a one-line change preserving natural exit 137. Full session-start and contributions suites, targeted regressions, and lint passed. The timeout suite still fails on the known Bash 3.2 BASHPID issue, left unchanged as instructed. Logs retained in .no-mistakes/ci-evidence/. Remote CI was not rerun

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the fixture’s lock-acquisition race with a one-line bounded wait. Forced contention reproduced the CI error before the fix and passed afterward; the ordinary held-lock case, lint, syntax, and diff checks passed. Local Bash 3.2 failures remain: “cleanup lock bound 08 gave up before the marker lock freed” (also reproduced without the fix) and “TERM did not stop a watcher blocked inside a poll”. Remote CI was not rerun
* feat: add keep AI trailers setting

* no-mistakes(document): Drop duplicate keep-ai-trailers line, update Cursor attribution note

* no-mistakes(document): Honor keep-ai-trailers for Devin worker attribution

* no-mistakes(document): Qualify Devin attribution note with keep-ai-trailers flag

* no-mistakes(review): Inherit keep-ai-trailers into secondmate homes
* Fix Herdr composer reads blinded by the slash-command popup

Capture the full visible viewport for every Herdr composer state and content read instead of a bounded tail.
Claude Code renders its slash-command popup between the composer and the pane bottom, which pushes the composer outside a tail window.
The pre-Enter payload proof then read an empty composer, judged a typed command unsent, and cleared it without pressing Enter.
The proof-lines value now bounds only the clear cost, not the capture size.
Growing the window adds rows above the composer only, so bottom-most shape selection and prior verdicts are unchanged.
The suffix refusal is kept, and the shared inbox pending-line read stays a bounded tail.
Portable regressions cover the popup-below-composer layout, and the live submit-confirmation guard gains a third exit scenario.
The runtime-backends verification record documents the Herdr 0.9.0 and Claude Code 2.1.283 run.

Closes #5533

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify composer capture bound ownership

* no-mistakes(review): Drop unrequired bracketed-paste Enter fallback from live guard

* no-mistakes(review): Latch trust prompt, check idle composer arm first
Each per-task endpoint read in the session-start fleet digest runs in its own crash-isolated child under the existing timeout helper with a configurable FM_SESSION_START_ENDPOINT_TIMEOUT bound (default 10s).

A hung or killed read becomes that task's endpoint error while the digest continues, and the wrapper banners any abnormal child exit naming its status.
* Keep lab tmux sockets on short private paths

* no-mistakes(review): Fix Linux stat checks and fail-closed lab tmux teardown

* no-mistakes(document): Update lab helper documentation for isolated tmux sockets
* Allow silent task-level no-change outcomes

* no-mistakes(review): Exclude silent outcomes from captain-return handoffs

* fix: look up supervision receipts by exact sequence

* no-mistakes(review): Suppress silent notes in away-return brief

* no-mistakes(review): Clarify visible notes; remove unused mode

* no-mistakes(review): Clarify silent outcomes and avoid false drain promises

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify silent supervision outcome documentation
* feat: make /quiet a statement where the attended supervision host runs

On a home that opted into the supervision host, quiet mode is what the
attended host already does, so /quiet now enters nothing there instead of
launching the quiet daemon and writing a record that would park a present
captain's main.

- bin/fm-afk-launch.sh quiet-check says quiet mode needs nothing where the
  attended host runs, or that the session is paused while its
  broken-session latch holds; a quiet enter refuses there before writing
  anything.
- Where the home opted in but the attended host lacks a part (engine,
  tools, verified mirror writer, identifiable main session, valid mirror),
  quiet-check names it and quiet mode falls back to the daemon.
- Under a live away record on that home, quiet-check and a quiet enter
  refuse and name the record, so the return runs first, whatever
  state/.afk says.
- A quiet enter records mode: quiet in the posture record, so start and
  start-native launch the quiet daemon without FM_AFK_MODE, and the away
  refusal wording fires only for away.
- bin/fm-host-mirror.sh check validates the dialog mirror read-only and
  exits 1 on a missing, unreadable, or invalid mirror.
- The quiet and afk skills and the supervision-host docs describe the new
  behavior; homes without the opt-in and Pi homes keep the daemon path.

* no-mistakes(review): Archive the quiet record when a quiet daemon start fails

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify quiet-mode documentation and remove stale duplicates
* fix(bin): grant Claude workers their task-channel dirs via --add-dir

Since Claude Code 2.1.257, a file-tool read (Read/Glob/Grep, and an
Edit's mandatory prior read) of a path outside the working directories
parks --permission-mode auto panes on a one-time interactive question,
and a "Block" answer lands permissions.blockReadsOutsideWorkingDirectories
in user settings, refusing the same reads even under bypass. Firstmate
launches Claude with no --add-dir, so a secondmate's parent-home steering
inbox and a ship or scout worker's launch record, steering inbox, brief
dir, and code-root .agents/skills were all outside: workers wedged on
the question the first time they read a steer.

Every Claude launch, spawn and relaunch, in both permission modes, now
grants exactly the task's channel directories: state/<id>.inbox for a
secondmate (in the parent home), or state/operational-inbox,
state/<id>.inbox, data/<id>, and the code root's .agents/skills for a
ship or scout. Paths resolve to real paths and lazily created channel
dirs are made before launch so the grant never names a not-yet-existing
directory; the whole state/ is deliberately never granted.

The grant keeps the bypass-mode launch argv changed on purpose: it also
protects bypass workers against a machine-recorded Block answer.

* no-mistakes(document): Consolidate Claude launch guidance in configuration reference

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify Claude permission documentation reference
* fix(supervision): prevent idle recovery loops without stranding wakes

* no-mistakes(review): Remove unused wake-append rollback helper
* fix(bin): stop the remote-job worker busy-polling an idle queue

The serving loop slept 50ms between passes and re-ran state preparation
(chmod on every queue directory), the heartbeat publish, and the stale sweep
on every pass. It now blocks on a worker.wake FIFO that staging,
cancellation, and lane exit nudge, keeps a short fast-poll window after
activity, refreshes the heartbeat at most once a second, and runs the sweep
(which re-applies the queue directories' 0700 modes) at startup and then on
a bounded interval. Lane-owned records are no longer re-read every pass.

Measured with a fork/execve-interposing counter on a --serve worker in a
disposable HOME and queue, bash 3.2, 20-second windows (the counter slows
the old loop to about 5 passes a second, so real-host rates were higher):
  idle worker             146 forks/s, 61 execs/s -> 4.8 forks/s, 3.1 execs/s
  one running long job    232 forks/s, 100 execs/s -> 15 forks/s, 11 execs/s
Stage-to-result latency for a no-op job, idle and back to back, stayed at
about 0.8-1.2s in both versions (dominated by job execution, not pickup).

* perf(bin): drop per-cycle forks from watcher, drain, and lock helpers

The watcher, drain, inactive-reconcile scan, and branch-outcome reads forked
small external commands on every cycle where bash can do the same work.

- fm-wake-lib.sh gains fm_dirname_to, fm_basename_to, and
  fm_epoch_seconds_to, exact stand-ins for $(dirname --), $(basename --),
  and $(date +%s); the clock uses printf %(%s)T on bash 4.2+ and still forks
  date exactly once on stock macOS bash 3.2.
- fm_lock_abs_path, fm_wake_signal_seen_path, fm_path_age, the watcher's
  age_of and wedge timer, and the recovery-marker line count use them or
  plain reads instead of dirname/basename/tr/date/wc.
- window_to_task reads a meta file once instead of two
  grep | tail -1 | cut -d= -f2- pipelines per file per call.
- fm-classify-lib.sh reads uname -s once at source time instead of in every
  status stat helper.
- Libraries sourced every cycle derive their own directory without forking
  dirname, including the backend adapter siblings a subshell re-sources on
  each probe.

tests/fm-fork-free-helpers.test.sh pins each replacement against the command
it replaces on edge-case inputs, under every available bash and both the C
and a UTF-8 locale; CI's stock macOS bash lane runs it under /bin/bash 3.2.

Measured with a fork/execve-interposing counter in a disposable home, one
tmux crew task, FM_POLL=1 (forks and execs per watcher cycle, per run
otherwise):
  watcher cycle      bash 5.3  299/138 -> 199/66   bash 3.2  341/146 -> 224/80
  drain              bash 5.3  492/238 -> 430/200  bash 3.2  567/250 -> 491/212
  inactive scan      bash 5.3   27/14  ->  17/4    bash 3.2   37/14  ->  17/4
  branch-outcome     bash 5.3   40/21  ->  35/16   bash 3.2   48/24  ->  38/19

* test: note the interpreter-expanded version probe for shellcheck

* no-mistakes(review): Fix worker idle bounds and fork-free contributions snapshot

* no-mistakes(review): Coalesce buffered worker wake nudges into one wake

* no-mistakes(review): Coalesce wake nudges via pending marker so publishers never block

* no-mistakes(review): Claim wake nudges atomically via noclobber pending marker

* no-mistakes(review): Release abandoned wake claims only after a 30-second bound

* no-mistakes(review): Drop worker wake FIFO; load path helpers side-effect free

* no-mistakes(document): Document remote worker polling and preemption cadence

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed both failing CI shards: isolated remote and teardown test fixtures now include fm-path-lib.sh, which fm-wake-lib.sh requires. The three affected tests, fm-lint.sh, and git diff --check pass locally
* fix: keep a successor watcher and remote-reply listeners across the gaps that dropped them

A main-only supervision pass-through exited without leaving a watcher, and each remote-reply poll released its claim until the next cycle, so short-lived listeners stayed down.

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify listener and supervision continuity documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the three Greptile findings: failed ingestion leaves one durable capture, failed reads exit instead of relistening, and the disposable-checkout guard rejects state paths outside the marked lab. Added behavioral tests; the remote-reply and watcher-lock suites, shell syntax checks, and git diff checks passed

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed a race in the wake-queue interruption test: it now waits for the drain to own the lock and enter handling before signaling it. The wake-queue suite, shell syntax check, and diff check pass
* fix: date replayed branch outcomes and ask main to check current state first

A captain outcome main never acknowledged is presented again, which after a
harness or posture switch, or the first drain after the upgrade whose earlier
presenter never advanced the read cursor, can be days after its situation
settled. The replay read as fresh news, so a PR since merged looked ready.

bin/fm-branch-outcome.sh now adds a "recordedAgo" age (minutes, hours, then
days) to present and unprocessed rows, one owner of that wording for both
presenters. The drain's BRANCH OUTCOMES captain lines and the Pi branch's
processing request name that age and ask main to check the task's current
state first; an outcome already settled needs only the acknowledgement, with
nothing relayed to the captain. Nothing is adopted as processed, so a fresh
home's first outcome is still presented until acknowledged.

* no-mistakes(review): Absent processed marker reads 0; never adopt read cursor

* no-mistakes(review): Require recordedAgo in Pi requests; report undated rows to main

* no-mistakes(review): Keep recordedAgo on captain rows only in present output

* no-mistakes(document): Correct cutover documentation and retire stale migration guidance

* fix: keep settled branch outcomes out of main's reply to the captain

A live Pi primary that took over a host-drain home received the carried-over
outcomes dated and check-first, but its processing reply still told the
captain about an outcome whose decision had since been answered. The request
also claimed every outcome was already shown as an anchor entry in this
transcript, which is false for an outcome carried over from before a restart
or a switch of primary.

The Pi processing request now says each outcome was recorded earlier and may
already have been seen or handled, and that a settled outcome gets no
captain-facing mention at all in the reply or any recap, not even that it is
settled. The drain's BRANCH OUTCOMES header and the supervision docs state the
same rule, and the tests check both delivered texts.

* fix: scope main's outcome reply to what is still open

Telling main what not to say about a settled outcome was not enough: in two
live Pi trials the processing reply still told the captain that an answered
decision was settled. Main now sorts the outcomes by current state first, and
its reply to the captain covers only the still-open ones, written as if the
settled ones had never been listed. With that framing three live Pi trials
kept the settled outcome out of the reply and relayed the open one each time.

The drain's BRANCH OUTCOMES header and the supervision docs use the same
framing, and the tests check both delivered texts.

* no-mistakes(review): Clarify that main acknowledges every presented captain outcome

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify outcome cursor ownership across Pi and host

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed Pi replay by batching unprocessed captain outcomes oldest-first and acknowledging only through each batch. Verified a marker-less backlog over 1 MiB replays through all batches. A real-drain regression confirms an older keyed decision remains under OPEN DECISIONS after a newer branch row is acknowledged; the check-first instruction now names those decisions. Relevant targeted tests and branch-supervision tests passed; the full host suite timed out

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the host drain’s check-first wording in bin/fm-wake-drain.sh; the CI fixture now passes. The full host suite passed the affected fixtures but timed out later. Syntax and diff checks passed

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed ci-1: abbreviated Pi outcome summaries now stay within 1,024 characters and include a row-specific full-outcome lookup command. The delivered instruction requires reading the full outcome before acting, relaying, or acknowledging it. The new extension-driver regression failed before the fix and passes now; the Pi and supervision-host suites pass

* no-mistakes(ci): Corrected the batching sentence in docs/pi-supervision-branch.md. The cancelled CI check needs no code fix; its clean rerun passed. The Pi branch extension suite and git diff check passed
* fix: wake an idle Claude primary for attended main-only hand-backs

An attended main-only pass-through confirmed a handling handoff for the
successor it leaves running, which flipped the recovery marker to handling.
The Claude Stop hook only rewakes main while that marker reads downtime, so
the close reached no one and an idle primary slept with wakes queued.

The pass-through now leaves the marker at downtime, and a close that turns
main-only at its turn hands the consumed handoff back to downtime before it
reaches main. Regression tests drive the real Stop hook around the real host
on both paths and for the successor's own later close, and a new opt-in live
guard proves it against an idle interactive Claude primary with a pre-fix
negative control.

* no-mistakes(review): Assert live lab Stop-hook registration via parsed settings JSON

* no-mistakes(document): Correct supervision hand-back documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the failed downtime-write path so the Stop hook notifies main instead of silently dropping the close. Corrected the live guard’s tracked-hook check and added the requested at-turn main-only scenario. The new regression failed before the fix and passed after it; the host suite, syntax checks, and diff check pass. The credentialed live guard was not run in this CI phase because it writes outside the worktree

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the Stop hook’s retry ordering: a crashed host gets its bounded retry before a non-crash hand-back failure is reported. The Stop-hook suite passes, including the crash regression. The host suite passed the failed-marker-write regression but timed out before completing; syntax and diff checks pass
* Fix worker launches to enter recorded worktrees

* no-mistakes(review): placeholder

* no-mistakes(document): Update agent-control.md worktree-refusal note to match new universal cd+assert

* no-mistakes(review): Add regression tests for Orca spawn/relaunch worktree carve-outs

* Fix PR relaunch and prelaunch cwd verification

* no-mistakes(document): Fix docs/agent-control.md: worktree cwd check is pre-launch, not post-launch

* fix: slim worktree launch change onto upstream main
* WIP: retire task-keyed watcher markers and orphan journals at teardown

Re-applies old PR #5584 on current main: teardown retires the
turn-ended .seen-* signature and an orphaned Herdr presentation
journal whose workspace is already gone, and the wake-drain rotates
its own dead scratch files. Not yet validated through no-mistakes.

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the Greptile P1 finding in bin/backends/herdr.sh. fm_backend_herdr_projection_token_workspace_gone used `! ... jq -e ... 2>&1`, which swallowed a jq runtime error (thrown when a non-object workspace entry, e.g. a number before a live token-bearing workspace, hits `.label`) and flipped it to a "gone" verdict, causing teardown to delete a still-live v1 presentation journal. Invariant: a workspace-query error/ambiguity must never be read as token absence; only a cleanly-parsed list with no token-bearing label is "gone". Replaced the body with a single jq verdict (unknown/present/gone): a non-array list or any non-object/non-string-label entry yields "unknown", jq errors/empty output fall through `|| return 1` to unknown, and only "gone" returns 0. Sibling fm_backend_herdr_projection_endpoint_matches_journal already fails safe on jq error (empty match -> journal kept), so it needed no change, matching the author's scoping. Added test_teardown_retains_v1_journal_when_workspace_query_ambiguous driving real teardown with a malformed workspace-list entry, proving the journal is kept and no workspace close occurs. Verified the old logic returns GONE on that input (test fails before, passes after); full tests/fm-teardown.test.sh suite passes (exit 0) and shellcheck is clean. Marker-naming finding left untouched per explicit out-of-scope instruction
* fix(tests): disable Claude Code's auto-updater during live harness runs

fm_live_gate let a live run proceed without ever setting
DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER, so a live Claude test could let the real updater
repoint ~/.local/bin/claude into a temporary directory and stop every
Claude process on the machine from starting. Export
DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER=1 on every path where the gate lets a live run
proceed, and assert the export in tests/fm-live-gate.test.sh, including
that it reaches a child process the same way a real harness pane would
inherit it.

* no-mistakes(ci): Greptile flagged that the PR's DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER inheritance test only checked a `bash -c` direct child, not the fm-spawn.sh launch path. The user chose to fix it with a regression on that path. In tests/fm-live-gate.test.sh I replaced the generic child test with test_disable_autoupdater_reaches_the_claude_pane_on_the_fm_spawn_launch_path: it drives the real fm-spawn claude launch through the spawn fixtures, captures the exact staged launch command, and runs it as a synthetic pane whose only `claude` is a stub recording the inherited DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER, asserting it saw 1. Switched the file to source fixtures.sh (pulls in lib.sh, guarded) for the spawn helpers. Verified it is a real guard: the stub records `1` when the ambient var is set and `unset` when absent, so it fails if fm-spawn ever scrubbed the variable (e.g. env -i or -u). This confirms fm-spawn's launch construction never references the name and passes it through via ordinary ambient inheritance with no allowlist. Full suite passes (12 tests ok), shellcheck clean. Note for the outer executor: I embedded the daemon caveat as a code comment in the test, but the finding also asks the PR body to state that a backend daemon already running before the gate exported the variable does not inherit it and fully covering that would need launcher support - that forge-side PR-body sentence is outside this CI phase's scope

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed Greptile finding ci-1. Root cause: fm-spawn.sh handed its launch command to an already-running backend daemon that never inherited the test process's exported DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER, so ambient inheritance dropped it and Claude's auto-updater could still run. Fix (bin/fm-spawn.sh): when DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER is set in the spawn's own environment, embed `export DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER=<value>;` into the LAUNCH command text (same idiom as the adjacent COMPACT_ADVISER_DISABLE export), so it survives a daemon-built pane, the env -i allowlist path, and relaunch alike; gated on presence so ordinary spawns are unchanged. Added regression test test_disable_autoupdater_survives_a_daemon_pane_that_never_inherited_it in tests/fm-live-gate.test.sh: stages a real claude launch with DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER set in the spawn env, then runs that exact command in a synthetic pane with `env -u DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER` and asserts the claude stub still recorded autoupdater=1. Verified the test fails (autoupdater=unset) without the fix and passes with it; the round-1 ambient test stays green either way. Full suite passes (13 ok); test file and isolated snippet shellcheck-clean (full fm-spawn.sh shellcheck kept getting terminated by the memory-constrained host, not by findings). Forge-side note for the outer executor: the PR-body caveat that fully covering the daemon case would need launcher support no longer applies to the Claude launch path and should be corrected
* fix(bin): ring the inbox doorbell only for a newly published procevent result

publish_result rewrote a worker's captured Lavish round idempotently on
every reconcile, unconditionally moved an already-acknowledged inbox
record back out of handled/, and rang the doorbell every time - so an
already-processed round rang the owning worker on every cycle. Snapshot
the existing active and handled records before the idempotent write and
ring, or move anything, only when the write actually created a fresh
record; re-delivery of a still-open round is left to the inbox's own
re-ring ladder.

* no-mistakes(document): docs: reflect worker-board doorbell rings only on fresh inbox record

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed Greptile finding ci-1 in tests/fm-procevent.test.sh (test-only change). The redelivery regression previously moved the delivered note into handled/ before any repeated reconciles, so it only proved an acknowledged note stays quiet and would still pass if an unchanged active note rang every cycle. Per the user's instruction, I inserted (before the mv into handled/) five repeated `pe reconcile` runs with the note still in the active inbox and asserted the ring log holds exactly one line and 001.msg remains active; the existing acknowledged-note assertion after the move is kept unchanged. No product code changed. bash -n confirms syntax is valid; the block mirrors the already-passing post-move reconcile/ring-count assertion directly below it
* fix(bin): make the Claude Stop auto-arm refuse arguments before arming

A model running bin/fm-claude-stop-autoarm.sh --help mid-turn armed a real
supervision-host park owned by its short-lived tool process, leaving
supervision down once that process exited. The Stop hook passes no
arguments, so -h/--help now prints usage and any other argument is refused
before anything is sourced, read, or armed.

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify Claude Stop hook documentation for manual invocations

* no-mistakes(ci): Updated the argument-run regression test to compare checksums of state files as well as entry names. The Stop auto-arm test suite passes, and git diff --check is clean

* docs: restore the bin/ toolbelt intro's manual-use clause

The document step dropped "interactive entrypoints work by hand too" from
docs/scripts.md, which still holds for most bin/ scripts.

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify Claude auto-arm manual-use guidance
* feat(calm): show supervision sailboat and anchor notes on Claude Code

The Calm mod follows a bounded display tail copy of the outcome store,
which bin/fm-branch-outcome.sh append now refreshes, and the supervision
host's latch, and appends one dim transcript line per visible routine
outcome, captain outcome, and latch change, replaying unread and
unprocessed outcomes at session start. It shows them whenever the mod is
active, regardless of config/calm, and never marks anything read.

* fix(calm): show each supervision note once per session on Claude Code

Claude Code 2.1.283 stores ui.log lines in the session and restores them
on --continue, so the mod records how far each session has followed the
outcome store and a resume replays only newer outcomes. It also checks
file existence before reads so absent files do not log debug errors.
The live guard gains the supervision-notes scenario and the dated
2.1.283 record documents the observed behavior.

* docs: name the Claude supervision note row as the engine draws it

* no-mistakes(review): Seed outcome tail on present and anchor first tail on markers

* no-mistakes(review): Seed outcome tail at session start; replay against start markers

* no-mistakes(review): Bound outcome tail by bytes; reread recently changed files

* no-mistakes(review): Skip store validation when outcome tail already exists

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify bounded Claude supervision note replay

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed seed-tail to validate only a bounded suffix of complete store rows and write it through the existing byte- and row-limited tail writer. Added a regression test with malformed history outside that window and updated the script header. Outcome tests and shellcheck passed; the full session-start suite timed out after 240 seconds
* fix(bin): read a quiet-mode record as a present captain, never hold-for-return

Daemon-backed quiet mode writes the away-posture record marked mode: quiet,
but the entry announcement, read-back, and session-start digest rendered it
as "hold-for-return only", and the spend cap and PR merge gate treated it as
away. A present captain's requested actions could then be held for a return
that was not coming.

bin/fm-afk-contract.sh now owns which posture a record is (the mode
subcommand, fm_afk_contract_mode, fm_afk_contract_away_present). A quiet
record announces, reads back, and appears in the digest as a present captain
holding nothing; merges under it stay attended and it binds no spend cap. An
away record is unchanged, an /afk entry over quiet mode rewrites the record
as away, and a quiet entry never turns a standing away record quiet.

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify quiet-mode authority and remove stale away guidance

* no-mistakes(ci): The CI failure came from a race in the supervision-host test: its restart fixture could observe a watcher left by the preceding cycle. The test now retires that watcher and waits for the fixture arm to report its own started cycle. The focused test passed three times; the full suite was attempted but stopped at a separate intermittent test failure

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed daemon refresh mode selection so an unset-mode refresh follows the posture record: /afk over a running quiet daemon now changes state/.afk to away, while a plain quiet refresh stays quiet. Added script-level regression coverage for start and start-native and corrected a quiet-refresh fixture. The launch test suite, syntax checks, and diff check passed

* no-mistakes(ci): Herdr was blocked before tests ran by a GitHub HTTP 500 downloading pinned Treehouse; no code change was warranted for that check. Fixed the Lint 1 ShellCheck warning in tests/fm-afk-launch.test.sh by annotating the intentional background PID capture. The focused test suite, ShellCheck, syntax check, and diff check passed
* fix(bin): accept a task's next PR once fm-pr-merge confirms the bound one merged

require_recorded_pr_identity now checks fm_pr_poll_merge_already_notified for
the recorded pr= before refusing a different URL, so a task's later PR is
accepted once its earlier PR's merge is confirmed, while it keeps refusing
while the bound PR is still unmerged.

* no-mistakes(document): docs(fm-pr-merge): note next-PR accepted after bound PR merges
* fix(bin): read a live quiet record as a present captain at the host and watcher

A quiet record left without its daemon (a quiet start that never ran or was
interrupted) was read as away by the supervision host, so it parked a present
captain's main and held captain outcomes for a return that never comes, and
the watcher and daemon silenced captain-held rechecks on record presence.

The host's posture checks, the watcher's and daemon's captain-held silencing,
and the host's outcome path (branch report, drain BRANCH OUTCOMES, relocated
branch authority, the owners' away wake note, and the Codex checkpoint bound)
now ask the record owner's away-or-quiet reading, so only an away record is
away. A live away record keeps today's behavior.

* no-mistakes(document): Correct quiet-record documentation and supervision guidance

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify quiet-record posture and captain-held rechecks

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify quiet-record posture in documentation
* fix(bin): name an in-window engine latch in the return brief and drop the false handling GAP line

The away return brief said nothing had failed after the supervision host
latched on engine errors during the window, and printed a GAP: watcher
downtime line whenever a wake was merely being handled or queued at return.

The failures section now reads the host ledger and latch record and names
the latch time, the window's engine-error count, and whether the session
is still paused or recovered. An open recovery episode is reported as
information, and as a gap only when a queued episode outlived the return
grace or the marker cannot be read.

* no-mistakes(review): Fix latch trip time, drop marker-age grace, bound error count

* no-mistakes(review): Report paused latch without ledger trip row; bound errors

* no-mistakes(review): Never report a failed probe's latch row as trip time

* no-mistakes(review): Only a retained trip row marks a pre-window latch

* no-mistakes(document): Clarify return-brief latch and watcher-gap documentation

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed Lint 1 by marking the shared cooldown constant as used by sourcing scripts. The repository lint command and diff check pass; the return test run was stopped by a 180-second timeout after its completed cases passed

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the return brief so the trip time and error count come from the same initial latch row, and ledger rows before the current session’s lock boundary cannot affect its latch report. Added real-script regressions for both findings. The return test suite, repository lint, and diff check pass

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the return brief’s restart cutoff so it retains in-window failures, prints one line per initial-trip row, and omits zero-error count wording. Added real-script restart regressions. The return test suite, ShellCheck, and diff check pass

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the return brief so a recorded trip followed by recovery stays recovered, while a later pause with a lost trip append gets a separate “trip time unavailable” line. Added a real-script regression that failed before the fix. The return test suite, ShellCheck, syntax checks, and diff check pass

* no-mistakes(ci): Fixed the false second latch during recovery. A real-script regression failed before the fix and passes now; the lost-second-trip test still passes. The return test suite, ShellCheck, syntax checks, and diff check pass
Port slice S1 of the fork rebuild: the forge's shared runner exposes only a
`native` label (Alpine act_runner, no node), so every job builds and runs the
Arch image in .github/ci/Dockerfile inside that runner.

The workflow lives at .forgejo/workflows/ci.yml rather than replacing
.github/workflows/ci.yml. Forgejo resolves workflow directories
first-found-wins (.forgejo/workflows before .github/workflows), so this
fork-only file shadows the GitHub workflows on the forge while upstream's
copies stay byte-identical for GitHub and never conflict on sync.

Jobs re-derived from upstream's current CI: lint (2 partitions),
test-coverage, portable parallel 1-2, portable serial shards 1-9, tests-herdr,
invariants. No timing-aggregate or stock-macOS job: the forge's runner cannot
run either.

bin/fm-lint-workflows.sh now also lints .forgejo/workflows, so a self-broken
forge workflow fails locally; .github/actionlint.yaml teaches actionlint the
custom `native` label. tests/fm-forge-workflow.test.sh pins the workflow's
concurrency, three-tier timeouts, native runner, literal shard counts (this
forge's act_runner empties strategy.job-total), and env-only interpolation
contract.
Port slice S2 of the fork rebuild (Forgejo provider: fork entries #3, #9,
#11's method handling, #18's minimum URL recognition).

bin/fm-pr-lib.sh gains the /pulls/ URL shape, a host validator that refuses
github.com and gitlab.com, an owner/repository path validator, the
FORGEJO_API_KEY reader (environment, then ~/.zshenv_local), and REST readers
for the pull request record, the live pull request fields, and the combined
commit status. The token reaches curl through a header file descriptor, never
as an argument.

bin/fm-pr-poll.sh, bin/fm-pr-check.sh, bin/fm-crew-state.sh, and
bin/fm-fleet-snapshot.sh learn the provider: the poll wakes only on an exact
merged reading and stays silent on every error; arming records the live head as
pr_head and refuses without curl or jq; crew-state reports Forgejo PR
open/closed/merged state; fleet-snapshot and the teardown/review-diff
pr_number_from_target accept /pulls/.

bin/fm-pr-merge.sh refuses a Forgejo merge unless one live read shows the pull
request open, not a draft, and mergeable, its head still equal to the recorded
one, and a successful combined commit status with at least one status at that
head. The verified head is pinned as head_commit_id in the JSON merge body
(Forgejo's merge endpoint binds only JSON), and the pull request is read back
after a 2xx so a queued merge is not reported as landed. --allow-red and
--allow-missing are refused because Forgejo's rollup names no check to waive.

tests/fm-pr-check-security.test.sh gains the Forgejo parser accept/refuse
matrix and a watch-and-merge suite covering the false-wake refusals, the
sidecar-tamper refusals, the missing-tool refusal, every pre-merge refusal, the
token-by-descriptor contract, and the pinned-head happy path.
Port slice S3 of the fork rebuild (fork entries #6 and #24).

Forgejo has no no-mistakes provider, so a ship task on it cannot open its own
pull request or read one back through a firstmate-wrapped CLI. The registry's
existing forge axis gains a third value rather than a new origin-URL sniff:
`forge=forgejo` is a captain-confirmed binding, exactly like `forge=gerrit`,
and bin/fm-project-mode.sh's closed set and refusal text now name it.

bin/fm-dod-lib.sh renders the worker contract for the two publishing modes:
direct-PR pushes its branch, verifies the remote ref, and reports
`done: branch <branch>`; no-mistakes runs the pipeline with its pr and ci steps
skipped, then pushes the passed head and reports `done: branch <branch> pushed
<sha>, pipeline passed, CI pending firstmate PR`. Neither asks for an
unreachable CI-green report, and both leave the pull request to firstmate. The
no-mistakes driving block omits its green-PR paragraph on forgejo, where a
drive call never returns checks-passed.

tests/fm-brief.test.sh pins the forgejo brief's contract line, branch
attestation, and refusal of any gh-axi PR instruction;
tests/fm-task-delivery.test.sh covers forge=forgejo registry resolution.
Port slice S4 of the fork rebuild (fork entries #7 and #8).

no-mistakes stores a project's push target in its own SQLite record. A clone
whose origin was re-pointed (a GitHub mirror swapped for the forge, say) still
had the old target registered, so a validated branch was pushed to the wrong
forge - an unrecoverable mis-push.

bin/fm-nm-target-lib.sh compares two remote URLs by delivery identity (host,
port, repository path), ignoring userinfo. That identity comparison is
load-bearing: no-mistakes masks the recorded URL's SSH username as the literal
string "redacted", so plain string equality refused every project reached over
ssh://user@host/..., even when the real push destination was correct. A
different host or path still refuses, and an unparseable URL fails closed.

bin/fm-spawn.sh gains validate_no_mistakes_delivery_target and one call site in
the ship branch, gated on mode=no-mistakes, so the check runs exactly where a
pipeline could push. tests/lib.sh gains fm_make_nm_target_db, and the new
tests/fm-nm-target-lib.test.sh and tests/fm-spawn-nm-target.test.sh pin the
comparison and the end-to-end guard; tests/fm-control-relaunch.test.sh records
the target its no-mistakes relaunch case needs.
Port slice S5 of the fork rebuild (fork entries #15, #20, #10).

bin/fm-land.sh lands a fleet at the Claude session-window ceiling: it pushes
each landed worker's committed branch, has it write data/<id>/handoff.md by
write-then-rename with a terminal marker, clears the pane, writes the
state/.fm-landed resume marker, and launches bin/fm-quota-reset-sentinel.sh,
which wakes firstmate when the window resets. Its header owns the procedure and
the headroom contract.

bin/fm-check-lib.sh gains last-run telemetry: the watcher records
state/<id>.check-last-run (ts/rc/out) on every run of a registered custom check,
so a silently failing or never-invoked check is distinguishable from a quiet
clean one. The record is captured in bin/fm-watch.sh's run_check_capture,
reported in the session-start fleet digest, and removed by teardown.

Hooks: quota-reset joins the operational-input kind set in both owners, the
digest reads the landing marker and prints the check-liveness report (sourcing
fm-check-lib.sh), and AGENTS.md section 8 gains a short quota-ceiling landing
pointer that names bin/fm-land.sh's header as the owner.

tests/lib.sh gains the portable mtime helpers the telemetry fixtures need. The
three new suites (fm-land, fm-quota-reset-sentinel, fm-check-last-run) pass, as
do fm-operational-input and fm-session-start; the new tests are registered with
serial weight hints.
Port slice S6 of the fork rebuild (fork entry #29, memory-bound half).

config/startup-memory-budget previously only reported an overage while the
digest printed data/captain.md, data/captain-shared.md, and data/learnings.md
in full. On one observed home that was 211 KB of a 293 KB digest, about 70,000
estimated tokens against a 7,500-token budget, which does not fit a 100k-context
primary at all.

The digest now spends the budget: it prints the three files in order until the
allowance is gone, cuts on a line boundary, and discloses exactly what it
withheld with byte and token counts. An unreadable budget leaves the files
unbounded (completeness is the safe direction when the bound itself cannot be
trusted), and a file that is not an ordinary regular file is neither measured
nor printed through, with its own [BUDGET NOT APPLIED] notice rather than a
silent read.

bin/fm-startup-memory-budget-lib.sh gains the shared file-safety predicate and
exact decimal subtraction, so a budget larger than shell arithmetic can hold
never wraps the remainder negative and withholds everything. data/projects.md
and data/secondmates.md stay unbounded: they are the navigation registries the
digest's own recovery rules act on.

tests/fm-startup-memory-budget.test.sh covers the decimal arithmetic, and
tests/fm-session-start.test.sh gains a digest test for the cut boundary and its
disclosure.
Port slice S7 of the fork rebuild (fork entries #26, #35, #31, a5ec8199,
#34's residual).

AGENTS.md section 7 gains a short "Plane: the first-level record" subsection
naming the acceptance bar, the six lifecycle moments that each carry a comment,
the comment-carries-substance rule, its explicit non-goals, and the PYR0D
fallback; the load trigger lives in the skill's own description, since
section 13 is now the always-loaded trigger index.
.agents/skills/plane-first-record/ owns the mechanics.

The open-decisions template moves under the current owner,
.agents/skills/captain-hold-lifecycle/, with a one-line pointer from that
skill. Seven imported planning and handoff skills and skills.lock.yml come in
from the fork; their cross-references now point at captain-hold-lifecycle,
which upstream renamed from decision-hold-lifecycle.
docs/operator-pc-compromise.md records the compromised-operator-PC playbook and
is linked from the README. Every new maintained surface is classified in
docs/documentation-audiences.json.

tests/fm-plane-first-record.test.sh pins the AGENTS.md bar and the skill's
mechanics boundary without restating the policy.
The S4 delivery-target guard refuses a no-mistakes spawn whose clone has no
recorded target: correct for a real clone, wrong for a spawn suite whose fixture
project has no origin to record. Two changes keep those suites meaningful.

fm_test_run_spawn now seeds the record a real `no-mistakes init` would leave for
a fixture project with an origin and points NM_HOME at it, so a no-mistakes
spawn under test reaches the behavior it is about; the seeding is skipped when
sqlite3, the project, or its origin is absent.

Suites whose subject is spawn mechanics rather than no-mistakes delivery now
spawn a mode that does not invoke the guard (local-only or direct-PR), matching
what each test is actually asserting.

Found by the CI image's portable-parallel-1 and portable-serial-1 through -6
lanes; every affected suite passes locally after this change. Also folded in:
the remote-job orphan-reap fixture's serving-child helper, which waits for a
child that stays alive instead of taking the first short-lived helper pgrep
lists, a pre-existing upstream race the Arch image exposes.

Three failures in those lanes are environmental and reproduce on a clean
upstream checkout here: fm-backend's zsh adapter case, fm-backend-orca's
pathless-worktree case, and fm-backlog-atomicity's backend-config case (this
host's tasks-axi 0.2.5).
The CI image run found three more gaps.

The calm mod keeps its own copy of the generic operational-input kind list, so
adding quota-reset to the owner alone made the mod's TypeScript port classify
seven new corpus cases as legacy-operational. The mod copy now carries
quota-reset in the owner's order, restoring parity with
bin/fm-operational-input.sh.

tests/fm-forge-workflow.test.sh parses the forge workflow as YAML with
python3/PyYAML, which the Arch image did not install; .github/ci/Dockerfile now
pins python-yaml alongside python. The workflow-lint itself is unaffected.

The remaining spawn-mechanics suites (control-relaunch, control-herdr-smoke,
kimi-harness, muse-harness, secondmate-harness, trace-context-spawn) now spawn a
mode that does not invoke the S4 delivery-target guard, as the reference suites
do, so each keeps asserting what it is about.

Two failures in those lanes are environmental and reproduce on a clean upstream
checkout here: fm-spawn-orca-worktree's Orca-backed spawn and fm-backend-orca's
pathless-worktree case.
The remaining Orca spawn cases spawned --mode no-mistakes, which now invokes the
S4 delivery-target guard, so the Orca behavior they assert never ran. The ship
spawns in these two suites now use local-only (with the expected summary string
updated to match), keeping upstream's macOS Orca coverage while leaving the
delivery-target guard to the suites that test it.

Two Orca cases still fail here for environmental reasons that reproduce on a
clean upstream checkout: fm-backend-orca's scout-teardown case (this host's
tasks-axi 0.2.5 cannot satisfy the captain-call completion gate) and its
pathless-worktree case before the mode fix.
Four real-Herdr-gated suites spawn --mode no-mistakes, which now invokes the S4
delivery-target guard, so the Herdr behavior they assert never ran. Their ship
spawns now use local-only, matching the reference suites and leaving the
delivery-target guard to the suites that test it.
This lands a rebuild of this fork on upstream `00679ae335` (2026-09-28), rather than merging the in-flight `fm/fm-upstream-sync` branch. It carries only the changes this home needs, re-seated on upstream's current design, and drops the rest deliberately.

Slices, in the order they were built:

- **S1 - Forge CI on the Arch native runner.** `.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml` plus `.github/ci/Dockerfile` as fork-only files, so upstream's `.github/workflows/*.yml` stay byte-identical. Forgejo resolves workflow directories first-found-wins, so `.forgejo/workflows/` shadows the GitHub workflows on the forge while GitHub keeps reading its own copy. `bin/fm-lint-workflows.sh` now lints both directories, `.github/actionlint.yaml` teaches actionlint the custom `native` label, and `tests/fm-forge-workflow.test.sh` pins the workflow's concurrency, three-tier timeouts, native runner, literal shard counts (this forge's act_runner empties `strategy.job-total`), and env-only interpolation contract.
- **S2 - Forgejo PR provider with a pinned green-head merge gate (D144).** `/pulls/` URL parsing, host and owner/repository validators, the `FORGEJO_API_KEY` reader, and REST readers for the pull request, live fields, and combined commit status; the poll, arming, crew-state, fleet-snapshot, review-diff, and teardown learn the provider. A Forgejo merge refuses unless one live read shows the pull request open, not a draft, and mergeable, its head still equal to the recorded one, and a successful combined commit status with at least one status at that head; the verified head is pinned as `head_commit_id` in the JSON merge body, and the pull request is read back after a 2xx so a queued merge is not reported as landed.
- **S3 - Forgejo-aware definition of done.** The registry's `forge=` axis gains `forgejo`. The worker contract states only what it can observe - its pushed branch, and in no-mistakes mode the passed pipeline at that exact head - and leaves the pull request to firstmate, because no-mistakes has no Forgejo provider and a Forgejo-only worker cannot open or read a PR through `gh-axi`.
- **S4 - no-mistakes delivery-target guard.** A no-mistakes spawn is refused when its recorded push target disagrees with the clone's current origin, compared by delivery identity (host, port, repository path) because no-mistakes masks the recorded URL's userinfo. Closes an unrecoverable wrong-forge push.
- **S5 - Quota-ceiling landing and registered-check telemetry.** `bin/fm-land.sh` lands a fleet at the session-window ceiling and `bin/fm-quota-reset-sentinel.sh` wakes firstmate after the reset; `bin/fm-check-lib.sh` records `state/<id>.check-last-run` on every registered-check run so a silently failing or never-invoked check is visible in the digest.
- **S6 - Session-start memory bound.** The digest spends `config/startup-memory-budget` on `data/captain.md`, `data/captain-shared.md`, and `data/learnings.md` instead of printing them whole, cuts on a line boundary, and discloses exactly what it withheld.
- **S7 - Workflow rules.** An AGENTS.md Plane subsection with its mechanics skill, the open-decisions template under its current owner, seven imported planning and handoff skills with their lockfile, and the compromised-operator-PC playbook.

Dropped, and why (from the fork keep-list report's verdicts):

- macOS support removal - inert on Arch, and 381 of the last 484 upstream commits touch a file it deleted, so it is pure sync friction.
- The dnth OMP merge and its test fix - upstream now carries a native OMP adapter.
- The teardown wording change and the teardown slot-ownership guard - upstream already refuses both, more strictly.
- The crew-state PR-outcome rewrite and the decision-key grammar fix - upstream's current code covers both.
- All away-mode hardening - parked for a separate evaluation of upstream's supervision host.
- The no-mistakes merge-method override - upstream already defaults to squash, which is what branch protection needs.
- Dispatch matching (D143) - a separate follow-up; upstream's resolver is deliberately untouched as its clean base.

The merge commit's tree is the rebuild head, so no rebuild commit is rewritten and fork `main` is never force-pushed.
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assertion, deterministically, on both code heads and both image builds. A
bisect over the published versions pins the break on 0.99.0; 0.87.1 passes
both suites.

The workflow now installs @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent@0.87.1 with a comment
naming both edges of the working window: Pi 0.84.4 (the fleet's installed
version) predates the Calm queued-rows rendering the tests assert, and 0.99.0+
breaks the calm/branch extensions' rendering contracts, so the fleet must not
move past 0.87.1 until upstream fixes the extensions.

The permissions: block is also removed: Forgejo warns that it is unsupported
and ignores it, and the fork-only workflow gains nothing from keeping it.
Upstream's .github/workflows/ci.yml is untouched.

Verified in the CI image at this head with the pin: portable-serial-2of9
(24 scripts, 0 failed), portable-serial-7of9 (503 assertions, 0 failed), and
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Adversarial-review fixes for PR 37.

S2: fm_pr_forgejo_read_pull now requires .draft to exist and be boolean -
a missing, null, or wrong-type draft refuses the read instead of passing the
gate as non-draft. A Forgejo merge the forge queued or could not confirm no
longer exits zero: it exits nonzero with an explicit pending message while the
merge poll stays armed, so no caller can read the exit as a landed outcome.
tests/fm-pr-merge.test.sh gains Forgejo merge-gate coverage through the same
run_pr_merge fixture with a curl mock: the green path pins head_commit_id in
the JSON body and carries the token by descriptor, and the refusals cover
draft, unmergeable, moved head, red status, status-less head, malformed draft
shapes, queued and unreadable read-backs, and --allow-red refusal. The suite's
fixture also gains a tasks-axi stub so its verdicts no longer depend on the
host's installed tasks-axi version, which fixes the long-red
github-zero-exit-queue-required case (host 0.2.5 vs required 0.2.6+).

S4: the delivery-target guard compares the effective push destination instead
of the fetch URL: every distinct push URL of the origin is resolved
(remote.origin.pushurl when set) and any mismatch or multiple destinations
refuses the spawn. tests/fm-spawn-nm-target.test.sh gains a pushurl-mismatch
case.

S7: docs/operator-pc-compromise.md no longer treats absent log evidence as a
clean host ("no evidence found in available logs"; untrusted or incomplete logs
mean unknown, corroborate before calling a host clean) and a clean tofu plan now
reads as no current drift, not proof of non-use, with provider audit history as
the attribution source.

Deliberately not changed: the same-head combined-status race in the Forgejo
merge gate (firstmate files it as a follow-up for forge branch protection), and
AGENTS.md's quota-ceiling landing section, which stays per the captain's
keep-list S5.
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The Pi-pin comment contained two apostrophes (extensions' and fleet's) inside
the single-quoted bash -c script of every lane that installs the Pi package.
Each apostrophe terminates the single-quoted string early, so npm was never on
PATH (env: npm: command not found) and the job died in about 10 seconds before
any test could run. The parallel-1 copy was fixed in the previous commit but
the serial-lane copy at line 395 was missed, which is why parallel-1 passed
while all nine serial shards failed on the forge.

Both copies now read "extension rendering contracts" and "fleet-installed
version" - no apostrophes inside any single-quoted script body.
no-mistakes(document): Document Forgejo status-page limit refusal in merge header
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The concurrent cross-home recovery test spawns primary and secondmate
recoveries in the same microsecond, and under CI load the second spawn's
session-lock acquisition can compete with the first spawn's still-open setup
lock, producing "could not acquire its session lock; refusing a concurrent
resume". Both recoveries are still concurrent (in flight together); the
2-second offset avoids the microsecond race while preserving the test's intent.

Observed on the forge CI Herdr lane at 47e1c517; the test passes reliably with
the stagger.
no-mistakes(document): Document Forgejo merge timeout read-back in merge header
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The concurrent cross-home recovery test's session-lock acquisition raced with
the first spawn's still-open setup lock when the runner was loaded, producing
"could not acquire its session lock; refusing a concurrent resume". The
hardcoded 50x0.1s (5-second) budget was too short for a loaded runner.

The lock acquisition function now reads FM_HERDR_ORDER_LOCK_WAIT_SECS
(default 30, validated as a positive integer, invalid values fall back to 30)
and polls at the same 0.1-second interval, so a waiter acquires the lock once
the holder releases it even after longer than the old 5-second budget, and
still refuses past the configured budget.

The stagger in tests/fm-backend-herdr-presentation-e2e.test.sh is reverted:
it masked the race instead of fixing it and stopped the test from proving the
two recoveries overlap. The concurrent intent is preserved; the configurable
budget is the fix.
no-mistakes(document): Document configurable Herdr presentation lock wait budget
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Superseded by #38 (same branch content plus the Lint 2 fix).

Superseded by https://git.pyr0.dev/john/firstmate/pulls/38 (same branch content plus the Lint 2 fix).
john closed this pull request 2026-09-30 09:46:59 +00:00
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