Delegation detail-fidelity + PM-loop hardening (#541)

* feat(gateway): delegation detail-fidelity — details survive hand-off, both directions

Details thinned out at every delegation hop: a PM child task mapped to no
parent criterion was legal (coverage only surfaced at submit_up, after the
whole wave ran — a 12-subtask docs tree grew through 8 review rounds that
way, one child titled 'docs page and route wrapper' shipping only the
page), and QA could pass work on a gestalt read (a 4-scene video brief
shipped 3 scenes past every gate because the features existed only in
prose). Three chokepoint gates:

- delegate (down): every child must declare covers_parent_criteria
  resolving against the parent's real acceptance criteria — no mapping or
  an unresolvable ref rejects naming every offending child and the valid
  criteria; the success envelope carries parent_ac_coverage
  {covered, uncovered} so a wave-planning PM sees remaining gaps in the
  same turn. Full coverage stays enforced at submit_up (waves stay legal).
- pass_review (up): mandatory criteria_verified — one {criterion,
  evidence} entry per task AC, matched by the findings ledger's
  id-or-exact-text matcher, evidence soup-checked and capped; rejects
  naming the unverified criteria; entries render deterministically into
  qa_notes as '[AC] <criterion> — verified: <evidence>' lines. The old
  count-only ac_verdicts gate is superseded (arg kept for back-compat).
- video briefs (structured detail at origination): an enumerable feature
  list (release highlights, or input_props.highlights carried onto a
  reject re-author) becomes its own scene acceptance criterion, bounded to
  the AC caps; a re-author without highlights carries the
  feedback-addressed criterion instead.

Extracted findings.py's criterion matcher into shared unmatched_criteria /
uncovered_acceptance_criteria instead of duplicating it; criteria_verified
joins the WAF free-text exclusion set like findings/issues.

* fix(gateway): break the block/unblock wedge — four hardening fixes from the live PM loop

A cell task looped fe-pm/main-pm block/unblock for hours (10 cycles, 43
spawns): a transient GitHub API error resolving CI became an unwaivable
blocker finding whose own fix text said no code change was required, the
submit freshness guard then demanded a commit no finding called for,
escalate_up auto-blocked, and main-pm's correct recovery plan 422'd on
the approach length cap, degrading it to a bare unblock. Four fixes:

- pr_pass CI-unresolvable refusal is now explicitly transient-worded:
  retry pr_pass shortly, do NOT pr_fail over a CI-status lookup error —
  a platform blip is not a code finding
- submit freshness guard grants ONE unchanged-head resubmission per
  head sha when the findings ledger has zero open rows (all addressed
  without code changes) — stamped via the resubmit_unchanged_head
  marker so the same head can never loop a second time
- unblock carries a flip breaker: block_flip_count marker, and at the
  third flip a one-shot CEO notification flags the task as structurally
  wedged (unblock itself still succeeds — the breaker signals, it does
  not wedge recovery)
- i_will_plan's approach cap truncates at 800 chars instead of
  rejecting — an over-detailed plan must never cost the PM its turn

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Co-authored-by: Renn F <rennf93@users.noreply.github.com>
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@@ -320,6 +320,94 @@ async def test_pass_review_succeeds_and_transitions() -> None:
a2a_svc.send.assert_awaited_once()
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_pass_review_rejects_without_criteria_verified_when_acs_present() -> None:
"""A task with real acceptance criteria demands criteria_verified — a
gestalt "looks good" notes string alone is no longer enough."""
qa_id = uuid4()
task_id = uuid4()
t = _qa_owned_task(
task_id, qa_id, acceptance_criteria=["returns 200", "includes timestamp"]
)
task_svc = AsyncMock()
task_svc.get.return_value = t
task_svc.agent_for.return_value = _qa_agent_mock(qa_id)
journal_svc = AsyncMock()
journal_svc.has_learning_for_task.return_value = True
deps = _make_deps(task=task_svc, journal=journal_svc)
c = Choreographer(deps)
notes = "x" * 100
env = await c.pass_review(qa_id, task_id, notes=notes)
body = env.as_dict()
assert body["error"] == "invalid_state", body
assert "returns 200" in body["message"]
assert "includes timestamp" in body["message"]
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_pass_review_renders_criteria_verified_into_notes() -> None:
"""Happy path: every AC matched + evidenced renders '[AC] ...' lines into
the persisted qa_notes and the transition still fires."""
qa_id = uuid4()
task_id = uuid4()
t = _qa_owned_task(
task_id, qa_id, acceptance_criteria=["returns 200", "includes timestamp"]
)
after = MagicMock(
id=task_id,
status="awaiting_documentation",
assigned_to=qa_id,
team="backend",
pr_url="https://x/pr/8",
qa_evidence_inspected=True,
)
task_svc = AsyncMock()
task_svc.get.return_value = t
task_svc.agent_for.return_value = _qa_agent_mock(qa_id)
task_svc.qa_pass.return_value = after
task_svc.documenter_for_team.return_value = MagicMock(id=uuid4())
task_svc.session = MagicMock()
task_svc.session.begin_nested = MagicMock(
return_value=MagicMock(
__aenter__=AsyncMock(return_value=None),
__aexit__=AsyncMock(return_value=False),
)
)
_stub_empty_ledger(task_svc.session)
journal_svc = AsyncMock()
journal_svc.has_learning_for_task.return_value = True
a2a_svc = AsyncMock()
deps = _make_deps(task=task_svc, journal=journal_svc, a2a=a2a_svc)
c = Choreographer(deps)
notes = (
"Reviewed PR carefully. Rendered every scene and checked each frame "
"against the brief before approving."
)
env = await c.pass_review(
qa_id,
task_id,
notes=notes,
criteria_verified=[
{"criterion": "returns 200", "evidence": "test_healthz asserts 200"},
{
"criterion": "includes timestamp",
"evidence": "frame diff shows ts field at README.md line 12",
},
],
)
assert env.error is None, env.as_dict()
assert env.status == "awaiting_documentation"
task_svc.qa_pass.assert_awaited_once()
persisted_notes = task_svc.qa_pass.call_args.args[2]
assert "[AC] returns 200 — verified: test_healthz asserts 200" in persisted_notes
assert (
"[AC] includes timestamp — verified: frame diff shows ts field at "
"README.md line 12" in persisted_notes
)
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_pass_review_not_assigned_returns_not_authorized() -> None:
qa_id = uuid4()