fix: classify captain holds from structured state by kunchenguid · Pull Request #3508 · kunchenguid/firstmate

kunchenguid · 2026-09-02T07:42:53Z

Intent

Fix a Bearings board bug in the firstmate repo: captain holds were rendering wrongly on the board, showing roughly 28 live "Captain's Call" entries that were mostly old parked items rather than decisions actually waiting on the captain.

The board decided where each captain hold belonged using several independent filter expressions, two of which matched natural-language text in the hold reason or body. That produced a recurring class of defects. Holds fell through every expression and vanished from the board entirely - a hold whose deferral date had arrived, a hold blocked by unresolved work, a hold on an actively working task, and remote holds restored from a pre-change cache. Separately, live decisions were silently suppressed because their wording happened to contain a marker word: a hold reasoned "non-deferred release choice" matched DEFERRED and disappeared from Captain's Call, even though the wording means the opposite.

Replace all of that with one total classifier that assigns every captain hold exactly one bucket, using structured fields only - hold_kind, state, hold_until, unresolved_blocker_ids, and the machine-written hold-set timestamp. The buckets are blocked when any blocker is unresolved, else dated while hold_until is still in the future, else aged when an undated hold is at least FM_SNAPSHOT_UNDATED_HOLD_AGE_DAYS old (default 14, measured from the hold-set timestamp so a fresh hold on an old task does not age, with legacy unstamped holds falling back to the task since date), else live. Being exhaustive and mutually exclusive is the point: no hold can fall through them all and none can match two, which is what ends both the disappearing-hold and the misclassification defects.

captain_actionable is exactly the live bucket. A live hold is a default Captain's Call entry. Blocked, dated and aged holds leave the default Captain's Call, render as Charted Next gates stating why - the blocking work, the until date, or the floored age - and are counted in the omitted[] disclosure. --all-decisions reveals every captain hold and drops its gate, so a hold is shown once and never twice. Remote secondmate summaries cached under the pre-change schema are refreshed or reported unavailable rather than fed through the projection with missing fields.

No hold reason or body prose is matched anywhere in the projection. Wording must never hide, reveal, or reclassify a decision. A hold that is superseded or no longer required is closed through the hold lifecycle rather than lingering as an open hold flagged by a keyword, so the parked-style and SUPERSEDED keyword matching is deliberately deleted rather than reimplemented. Re-holding with --until remains the durable way to defer a captain call.

Accepted documented limits, deliberately not fixed: a remote or secondmate hold retains the producing home age and aging decision rather than being recomputed against the parent threshold, and a rare concurrent answer-close and re-hold race can leave a re-held task without its age basis.

Scope note: tests/fm-herdr-lab.test.sh is deliberately identical to main. Earlier stabilization reworked it while chasing a flake that only appears under heavy local load, and asserted that a SIGSTOP-blocked process is gone after a timed-out provision, which is false on Linux because a stopped process does not die from SIGTERM. Keep main's version and do not reintroduce that process-liveness assertion.

Do not merge the pull request.

What Changed

Classify captain holds as blocked, dated, aged, or live using structured fields and durable hold-set timestamps, removing prose-based matching.
Show live holds in Captain's Call and non-live holds as explained Charted Next gates; --all-decisions reveals all available holds without duplicate gates.
Reject pre-classifier secondmate summaries and expand lifecycle, snapshot, and Bearings regression coverage and documentation.

Risk Assessment

✅ Low: The structured classifier, lifecycle timestamping, remote-schema boundary, projections, and behavioral regressions are internally consistent with the stated intent and prior authorized decisions.

Testing

The successful changed-test baseline was supplemented with focused Bearings, fleet-classifier, and hold-lifecycle tests plus an end-to-end CLI board fixture; structured buckets, prose-independent live classification, hold-set aging, omitted disclosure, and --all-decisions reveal behavior all worked as intended, with a reviewer-visible transcript captured and temporary worktree data removed.

Evidence: Default and expanded Bearings boards demonstrating structured captain-hold buckets

Source: Default and expanded Bearings boards demonstrating structured captain-hold buckets

=== Default Bearings board ===
schema: fm-bearings.v1
home: .tmp-test-evidence/home
generated: "2026-07-11T18:00:00Z"
prs: "not_requested (run: /bearings include PRs)"
in_flight: []
secondmates: []
secondmate_reconcile: []
decisions_open[2]{id,key,verb,summary,owner}:
  live-wording,live-wording,captain-hold,"Release decision: non-deferred release choice",(main)
  fresh-rehold,fresh-rehold,captain-hold,"Fresh hold on old task: choose again",(main)
landed: []
gates[3]{id,title,blocked_by,reason,owner}:
  blocked-call,Dependency choice,blocker-one,"blocked-by blocker-one: choose fallback",(main)
  dated-call,Later rollout decision,"-","until 2026-08-01: choose rollout",(main)
  aged-call,Old undated decision,"-","held 40d: choose route",(main)
reports: []
recorded_prs: []
omitted[7]{surface,reveal}:
  backlog item bodies,"--fields bodies"
  task paths,"--fields paths"
  watch/steer actions,"--fields actions"
  healthy endpoint detail,"--fields endpoints"
  full scout-report inventory,"--all-reports"
  "captain holds bucketed blocked, dated, or aged: 3","--all-decisions"
  live PR discovery + checks,"--include-prs"

=== Bearings board with --all-decisions ===
schema: fm-bearings.v1
home: .tmp-test-evidence/home
generated: "2026-07-11T18:00:00Z"
prs: "not_requested (run: /bearings include PRs)"
in_flight: []
secondmates: []
secondmate_reconcile: []
decisions_open[5]{id,key,verb,summary,owner}:
  live-wording,live-wording,captain-hold,"Release decision: non-deferred release choice",(main)
  blocked-call,blocked-call,captain-hold,"Dependency choice: blocked-by blocker-one: choose fallback",(main)
  dated-call,dated-call,captain-hold,"Later rollout decision: until 2026-08-01: choose rollout",(main)
  aged-call,aged-call,captain-hold,"Old undated decision: held 40d: choose route",(main)
  fresh-rehold,fresh-rehold,captain-hold,"Fresh hold on old task: choose again",(main)
landed: []
gates: []
reports: []
recorded_prs: []
omitted[6]{surface,reveal}:
  backlog item bodies,"--fields bodies"
  task paths,"--fields paths"
  watch/steer actions,"--fields actions"
  healthy endpoint detail,"--fields endpoints"
  full scout-report inventory,"--all-reports"
  live PR discovery + checks,"--include-prs"

Pipeline

Updates from git push no-mistakes

✅ **intent** - passed

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✅ **Rebase** - passed

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🔧 **Review** - 5 issues found → auto-fixed (6) ✅

🚨 bin/fm-bearings-snapshot.sh:487 - This contradicts the required invariant that blocked, dated, and aged holds “render as Charted Next gates.” A captain-held in-flight task whose child still reports working and whose bucket is blocked, dated, or aged is excluded from decisions_open, then the preceding state filter excludes it from gates; it therefore still vanishes from the default board. Bucketed captain holds must bypass the working-state gate filter, while --all-decisions should continue removing their gate.
🚨 bin/fm-fleet-snapshot.sh:945 - This contradicts the requirement that a live hold is a default Captain's Call entry and specifically leaves the actively-working-task failure reachable for secondmates. $queued_all excludes an in-flight held row when its child state is working; consequently even a hold_bucket == "live" row never reaches decisions_open or queued, and the parent can show it only as Underway—even under --all-decisions. Preserve every bucketed captain hold in the secondmate decision/queued surfaces independently of active-child projection.
🚨 bin/fm-fleet-snapshot.sh:1063 - The intent requires “--all-decisions reveals every captain hold,” but secondmate summaries permanently slice queued and decisions_open. For example, the 21st deferred captain hold with the default queued bound is absent from both exported arrays, so the parent cannot render its gate or reveal it with --all-decisions. The newly added documentation explicitly acknowledges this additional limitation, but the authoritative intent accepts only the producer-age and answer/re-hold race limits. Meeting the invariant requires an authorized decision about widening or bypassing the cross-home bounds.
⚠️ .agents/skills/bearings/SKILL.md:45 - The changed operational skill still instructs agents that parked-style reasons and explicit deferred/superseded/not-required prose control placement and that --all-decisions reveals presentation hints. This directly contradicts “No hold reason or body prose is matched anywhere in the projection” and the new structured-only buckets. Remove the prose-classifier instructions and describe blocked/dated/aged/live bucket behavior instead; the script header contains the same stale claims.
⚠️ bin/fm-fleet-snapshot.sh:376 - Simplification: current_prose_lines, resolution_leader, and hold_stamp_line were introduced to prepare body prose for the now-deleted keyword classifier, but remain as a separate filtering path that changes the --fields bodies excerpt. No current intent requirement needs a special “current prose” representation once classification is structured-only. Remove these helpers and restore the direct bounded body excerpt unless this extra user-visible filtering is intentionally retained.

🔧 Fix: Preserve working captain holds across bucket surfaces
1 error still open:

🚨 bin/fm-fleet-snapshot.sh:1315 - Intent requires pre-change remote summaries to be “refreshed or reported unavailable,” but the v1 compatibility path validates new fields only on captain-hold rows. A pre-change cache produced while the original bug omitted a captain hold from both decisions_open and queued has no row to validate, so both all(...) checks pass and the stale v1 summary is accepted, preserving the disappearing hold. Remove the unrequired v1 compatibility path and enforce a summary-level schema/version boundary for the new classifier.

🔧 Fix: Reject pre-classifier secondmate summary caches
1 warning still open:

⚠️ bin/fm-bearings-snapshot.sh:348 - Simplification: hold_summary applies the new 46/42 title/reason split to live holds even though only deferred holds need space reserved for an annotation. A live hold with a 60-character title and short reason previously retained its complete sub-90-character summary, but now silently loses title text. This contradicts the prior requirement that the default board remain unchanged. Preserve the original whole-summary truncation when hold_note is null, and reserve space only for blocked, dated, or aged annotations.

🔧 Fix: Preserve complete live hold summaries
1 error still open:

🚨 bin/fm-bearings-snapshot.sh:442 - The required invariant says each hold is “shown once and never twice,” but a captain-held in-flight task whose child reports working is still added to in_flight_all at lines 423-432, then its bucket adds the same task to Captain's Call here when live or to Charted Next at lines 472-479 when blocked, dated, or aged. The secondmate path similarly exports it through both active_children and the hold surfaces. Thus the intended working-hold sequence now renders the same task in Underway and its hold bucket. Exclude bucketed captain holds from the corresponding main and secondmate Underway projections so each hold appears only in its assigned bucket.

🔧 Fix: Clarify working hold decision bucket semantics
2 errors still open:

🚨 bin/fm-bearings-snapshot.sh:455 - The requirement says --all-decisions reveals every captain hold available within the remote-summary bound, but the queued-summary path accepts only deferred buckets. If a producing home exports one live hold in decisions_open and two in queued (for example, FM_SNAPSHOT_SECONDMATE_DECISIONS=1 and the default queued bound), the second live hold is present in the bounded summary yet is neither revealed nor gated under --all-decisions. Include all queued captain holds during expansion and deduplicate those already supplied by decisions_open.
🚨 bin/fm-bearings-snapshot.sh:351 - The required blocked-by <work> explanation does not always survive the 90-character summary bound: the entire note plus reason receives only 42 characters. A short title with one 40-character blocker ID would fit within 90 characters, but this branch truncates the blocker identifier, and --all-decisions simultaneously removes the gate containing the complete blocked_by field. Reserve space for the complete note before allocating remaining space to title/reason.

🔧 Fix: Reveal bounded remote holds and preserve blocker notes
1 error still open:

🚨 bin/fm-bearings-snapshot.sh:358 - --all-decisions removes the Charted Next gate, but fit(90) truncates the only remaining blocker note when its complete value exceeds 90 characters. A supported hold with two unresolved 40-character blocker IDs produces a note longer than 90 characters and silently loses part of the second ID. This conflicts with the authorized requirements that the complete blocked-by identity survive and that output remain within 90 characters; those constraints cannot both hold for multiple or longer blockers, so the desired output contract needs user resolution.

🔧 Fix: Make blocker overflow explicit in hold summaries
✅ Re-checked - no issues remain.

✅ **Test** - passed

✅ No issues found.

bin/fm-test-run.sh --changed --exclude-family real-herdr-gated
Baseline: bin/fm-test-run.sh --changed --exclude-family real-herdr-gated
bin/fm-test-run.sh tests/fm-bearings-snapshot.test.sh
bin/fm-test-run.sh tests/fm-captain-hold-lifecycle.test.sh
bin/fm-test-run.sh tests/fm-fleet-snapshot-view.test.sh
Manual end-to-end fixture through bin/fm-bearings-snapshot.sh in default and --all-decisions modes, with semantic jq -e checks of live, blocked, dated, aged, freshly re-held, disclosure, reveal, and gate-removal behavior
git diff --quiet a5c64a0b6791b7643024436af9f737059d15cef2 -- tests/fm-herdr-lab.test.sh

✅ **Document** - passed

✅ No issues found.

✅ **Lint** - passed

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✅ **Push** - passed

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greptile-apps · 2026-09-02T07:46:24Z

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge because no blocking failure remains in the reviewed captain-hold classification and projection paths.

No blocking failure remains.

_{Reviews (17): Last reviewed commit: "no-mistakes(ci): Updated the stock macOS..." | Re-trigger Greptile}

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.

…ed suppression

…shot, 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

…led holds

…est 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

…w 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`

…ed 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

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.

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.

…faces

… notes

… from 17 to 18 tests. Verified the suite under Bash 3.2.57: all 18 tests pass. `git diff --check` also passes

…to 53 Bearings tests. Verified all 53 pass under Bash 3.2.57; git diff --check passes

* 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

…g handling (#6) * feat: restart second mates after instruction updates (#3614) * 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: accelerate local validation with bounded concurrency (#3644) * 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 durable records (#3648) * 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 feedback drafts for fleet launches (#3661) * 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 * feat(tests): run three more validation families concurrently (#3662) * 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: structure no-mistakes ask-user escalations (#3670) * 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 self-sufficient no-mistakes intent (#3671) * 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 * fix: accelerate local Bearings snapshot composition (#3499) * 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: 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): avoid fleet snapshot argument limits (#3677) * 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 f4d7875824ecc5e274b4bb896f10c1e1f207b7e4 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): attribute active runs with unfetched pipeline heads (#3681) * 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 at spawn time (#3663) * 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. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> 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. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> 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 --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: restart every live second mate after updates (#3690) * 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 pending-reply decisions via resolve-key (#3696) * 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): prevent false missed-reply escalations (#3697) * 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: add verified Gemini crewmate runtime (#3695) * 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. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> 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 --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(teardown): conclude parked runs advanced past task copy (#3704) * 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 * fix: classify captain holds from structured state (#3508) * 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): keep supervision outcome delivery responsive (#3767) * 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 --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: avoid duplicate AGENTS.md governance for marked projects (#3763) * 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: protect primary checkout when spawning from linked homes (#3783) * 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 1820316b66ac2c68e244dd04a02512859ee8c1f4 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(bin): stop reading an unanswered backend probe as a dead endpoint (#3785) * 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(bin): preserve subshell lock ownership on Bash 3.2 (#3789) * 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): resolve captain holds and legacy teardowns on non-markdown backends (#3782) * 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 …

* 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