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a036c97985 fix(tg): cockpit data correctness — real GLM pricing, display timezone, agent activity tracking (#666)
* fix(tg): cockpit data correctness — real GLM pricing, display timezone, agent activity tracking

Three root causes behind the Mini App/bot showing wrong numbers:

Pricing: glm-5.2 gets a grounded per-token rate (z.ai published pricing,
$1.40/$4.40/$0.26 per 1M, source+date in the table comment) so a GLM
fleet day stops reporting $0.00 for half a million tokens; ungrounded
Ollama-Cloud models render "subscription (untracked)" instead of a bare
zero (is_ollama_cloud_model, consumed directly by the cockpit). Side
effect, intended and documented: honestly-priced GLM now trips the
downgrade-only comparator for new qa/documenter complexity pins.

Display timezone: the cockpit bucketed days in UTC for a GMT+2 operator.
New pure foundation module display_time (resolve_zone/local_date/
trailing_dates/day_bounds_utc, DST-correct with tests for the 23h/25h
days) + ROBOCO_DISPLAY_TIMEZONE (IANA-validated, default UTC); the
cockpit's spend/velocity series bucket raw session/completion rows by
the display zone. The UTC-keyed rollup table and the main dashboard are
deliberately untouched.

Agent activity: AgentTable.status was never set to ACTIVE and
current_task_id was never written anywhere — "active: 0, working: []"
was structurally permanent. Every claim path now marks the claimant
ACTIVE with rollback symmetry (_finalize_claim for dev/PM claims,
_qa_or_doc_claim for QA/doc/PR-gate claims, pr_review_claim for external
review) and every release path clears it (pass/fail QA, pr_pass/pr_fail,
complete_review, advance-to-PM-review, reaper unclaim, voluntary
unclaim, reassign retarget, pool divert, admin transitions, unblock
restore-to-in-progress). The bot's /status shares the cockpit's fleet
derivation so the two surfaces can't disagree. Known ceiling, commented:
one current_task_id column shows a multi-root coordinator PM's most
recent claim only.

Drill: sonnet develop -> sonnet adversarial (refuted the original
chokepoint coverage claim; QA/doc/reviewer paths were unwired) ->
correction round (wired them all + restored a dropped assertion, deleted
a dead helper and the dead subscription_billed field) -> review.

* fix(db): post_update on AgentTable.current_task breaks the flush cycle

agents.current_task_id and tasks.assigned_to reference each other, so a
flush touching both rows — every claim now marks its agent ACTIVE — is
an instance-level circular dependency SQLAlchemy cannot topologically
sort. The e2e smoke's full verb paths (12 tests) hit it; the unit and
integration suites never flush both dirty rows with relationships
loaded. post_update emits the FK as a second UPDATE, the canonical fix
for mutually-referencing rows.

* fix(budgets): enforce only explicitly-set budgets — no per-TaskType defaults

The per-TaskType default cap table blocked an unbudgeted coordination
root one opus planning turn in ($1.50 PLANNING default vs. real
coordination spend) — a false positive by design the moment the fleet
runs a priced model. Budgets are now explicit-input only:
effective_task_budget_usd returns None for an unset budget_usd, the
budget sweep skips enforcement (and never prices spend) on None, and
the unblock re-check passes on None so clearing the budget field is
itself a valid resolution. The project monthly cap stays as the
explicit-input fleet-wide backstop. Panel copy tells the truth
("No cap" placeholder; empty = uncapped), and the TaskType default
table plus its resolver are deleted.

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Co-authored-by: Renn F <rennf93@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-07-23 21:09:50 +02:00
f03859c64c [4cfd99c2] Backend: docs-divergence engine, feature flag, release seam, and compose wiring (#507) (#513)
* [fe5c049b] Register docs-sync feature flag and compose wiring (#505)

* [fe5c049b] Register docs-sync feature flag and compose wiring

* [fe5c049b] feat(config): wire ROBOCO_DOCS_SYNC_ENABLED flag and compose defaults

* [fe5c049b] docs(config): document ROBOCO_DOCS_SYNC_ENABLED flag and compose defaults

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* [687574d2] Implement docs-sync engine and release-proposal seam (#506)

* [687574d2] Add docs-sync engine and release-proposal publish seam

* [687574d2] Restore task.py safeguards deleted by docs-sync engine commit and filter docs_sync version in SQL

* [687574d2] docs(map): add engine-docs-sync architecture map and cross-references

* [687574d2] docs(config): update docs-sync flag, cap settings, and changelog entry

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* [3e7cd5a8] Fix task.py regressions from docs-sync PR (#509)

* [3e7cd5a8] fix(task): restore deleted auditor alerts and revert descendant cast form in task.py

* [3e7cd5a8] docs(task-service): restore auditor alerts and cast notes in map and changelog

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* [e6e23c1f] Enforce docs_sync_max_per_cycle cap in docs_sync_engine.py (#510)

* [e6e23c1f] Enforce docs_sync_max_per_cycle cap in DocsSyncEngine

* [e6e23c1f] docs(docs-sync): document docs_sync_max_per_cycle enforcement in engine map, README, and docstring

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* [e4b7dd0f] Revert task.py cast regressions from docs-sync PR (#511)

* [e4b7dd0f] fix(task): revert cast regressions in supersede and descendants

* [e4b7dd0f] docs(map): correct PR #511 cast regression entry in task-service slice map

* [e4b7dd0f] docs(backend): add SQLAlchemy UUID cast pattern note and inline comments in task.py

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* [1fdfe711] Fix Python quality gate on docs-sync PR (#512)

* [1fdfe711] Fix ruff formatting in task.py and add coverage tests for docs-sync surface

* [1fdfe711] fix(task): use generic JSON .as_string() accessor in list_open_docs_sync_tasks and correct test patch targets

* [1fdfe711] docs(task-service): record docs-sync JSON accessor fix and list_open_docs_sync_tasks map entry

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Co-authored-by: Backend Developer 1 <be-dev-1@roboco.tech>
Co-authored-by: Backend Documenter <be-doc@roboco.tech>
Co-authored-by: Backend Developer 2 <be-dev-2@roboco.tech>
2026-07-14 02:22:37 +02:00
1114ee5ea0 [77719d3f] A2A team telemetry: coordination event notifications for 5 event types (#477)
* [13d03d5c] Add 5 coordination-event notification producers + wire at chokepoints (#472) (#474)

* [13d03d5c] Add 5 coordination-event notification producer methods

* [13d03d5c] Wire reassignment/collision/unblock/dependency-revival notifications

* [13d03d5c] Wire stale-claim-reaped notification into orchestrator reaper

* [13d03d5c] fix(runtime): guard reaper's UUID annotation + defensive attr access

The stale-claim-reaped notification hook added a runtime-unquoted
`UUID` type annotation (only imported under TYPE_CHECKING, so the
module raised NameError on import) and a direct `t.assigned_to`
attribute access that crashes against the minimal test doubles the
existing reaper test suite uses. Quote the annotation and switch to
getattr-defensive access, matching `_assignee_is_provider_parked`'s
existing convention in the same file.

* [13d03d5c] test(notification): unit coverage for 5 coordination-event producers

One test per new send_* method (reassignment, collision-sequencing,
unblock, dependency-revival, stale-claim-reaped) following the
existing _FakeDb/_patch_db_context pattern, asserting subject/body/
related_task_id/priority/recipient-count, plus a no-recipients no-op
case for reassignment.

* [13d03d5c] test(task): prove reassign + unblock don't double-fire notifications

Two chokepoint-level tests mocking NotificationService at its defining
module: a repeated reassign() to the same already-current target skips
the notification (guarded by comparing against the pre-mutation
assignee), and a repeated unblock() on the same task only notifies
once since the second call short-circuits on the status!=BLOCKED
guard.

* [13d03d5c] style(task): ruff format the collision-sequencing wiring block

No behavior change — reflows the newly-added _notify_collision_sequencing
call site to satisfy ruff format's line-length rules.

* [13d03d5c] docs(backend): add coordination-event notification producers guide

Documented the 5 new NotificationService producers (reassignment, collision-sequencing,
unblock, dependency-revival, stale-claim-reaped) with fire conditions, double-fire
prevention mechanisms, and implementation patterns. Updated backend README to link the
new services guide for developers integrating new coordination events.

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Co-authored-by: Backend Developer 1 <be-dev-1@roboco.tech>
Co-authored-by: Backend Documenter <be-doc@roboco.tech>

* [3ee8150b] Frontend: render coordination-event notifications + e2e smoke coverage (#475)

* [69777c3a] test(e2e-smoke): add coverage for soft-block + unblock coordination notifications (#471)

Co-authored-by: Frontend Developer 2 <fe-dev-2@roboco.tech>

* [8eb82639] Render 5 coordination-event notification types with task deep-links (#470)

* [8eb82639] feat(notifications): add APPROVAL type icon and deep-link component test

Add missing APPROVAL member to the frontend NotificationType enum to
match backend roboco/models/base.py, wire its icon into the existing
typeIcons Record in the notifications page, and add a component test
covering type rendering and the task deep-link.

* [8eb82639] docs(notifications): document 5 coordination-event types and APPROVAL enum addition

Added comprehensive reference guide explaining the 5 notification types
(TASK_ASSIGNMENT, BLOCKER_ESCALATION, REVIEW_REQUEST, DOCUMENTATION_REQUEST,
APPROVAL), their visual identities (icon + color), use cases, and
deep-linking behavior to related tasks. Updated panel README with quick
reference table. TypeScript Record pattern ensures exhaustive type coverage
at build time.

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Co-authored-by: Frontend Developer 1 <fe-dev-1@roboco.tech>
Co-authored-by: Frontend Documenter <fe-doc@roboco.tech>

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Co-authored-by: Frontend Developer 2 <fe-dev-2@roboco.tech>
Co-authored-by: Frontend Developer 1 <fe-dev-1@roboco.tech>
Co-authored-by: Frontend Documenter <fe-doc@roboco.tech>

* [a27de2a8] fix(docs): reflow hard-wrapped notification-types.md to pass markdown gate (#479) (#481)

The Python quality gate on assembled PR #477 was red because the newly
added docs/frontend/components/notification-types.md (introduced by the
frontend coordination-event rendering commit) had manually wrapped prose
paragraphs, which scripts/reflow_md.py --check rejects as part of make
quality. Reflowed the file with scripts/reflow_md.py --apply (whitespace
only, no content change) so the check passes. ruff format/check, mypy,
xenon, vulture, bandit, and the full pytest suite (10284 passed) all
confirmed green on this commit; notification.py, task.py, and
orchestrator.py are untouched.

Co-authored-by: Backend Developer 1 <be-dev-1@roboco.tech>

* [705419d5] Remove duplicate unblock notification and fix its dependent tests (#485) (#488)

* [705419d5] fix(notifications): remove duplicate unblock notification, fix its tests

The /unblock route was still calling delivery.notify_assignee_of_unblock()
(TASK_ASSIGNMENT) after TaskService.unblock() already sent the
send_unblock_notification() ALERT wired in by an earlier task — a real
duplicate notification on every unblock. Delete the route-layer call and
the now-dead NotificationDeliveryService.notify_assignee_of_unblock
method, fix the integration test that mocked it, and fix/extend the e2e
notification-coordination-events test to assert the persisted ALERT rows
(exact subjects) for both the direct-unblock and dependency-revival
producers instead of the old TASK_ASSIGNMENT assertion.

* [705419d5] docs(backend): update coordination-events doc for unblock duplicate removal

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Co-authored-by: Backend Developer 1 <be-dev-1@roboco.tech>
Co-authored-by: Backend Documenter <be-doc@roboco.tech>

* [6c142a73] docs(changelog): document restored coordination-event notification producers and add collision-sequencing double-fire test (#489) (#490)

Co-authored-by: Backend Developer 2 <be-dev-2@roboco.tech>

* [77719d3f] Seed system agent in e2e harness to fix unblock/dependency-revival notifications

The e2e harness's seed_company omitted the system sentinel agent that
production seeds via initial_data.py. The unblock and dependency-revival
notification producers default to from_agent="system", which
_resolve_agent_uuid looks up by slug in the DB. With no system row the
resolver returns None and _create_notification silently skips the
notification, so the two ALERT assertions got 0 rows instead of 1.

The soft-block test passed because it uses NotificationDeliveryService
which creates the notification directly with a real agent UUID as
from_agent, bypassing the slug resolution path entirely.

* [77719d3f] Use foundation UUID for system agent to avoid slug collision

The first attempt seeded the system agent with a random UUID. Other
tests (_seed_system_and_secretary, _seed_video_agents) check by the
fixed foundation UUID via session.get(AgentTable, uuid); not finding
it they INSERT their own system row, hitting ix_agents_slug. Using the
foundation UUID makes their check find the seed_company row and skip.

* [77719d3f] Fix dependency-revival notification event loop mismatch

The dependency-revival test calls _unblock_dependents directly via
stack.run_db, which creates a new asyncio event loop. Inside,
_notify_dependency_revival -> NotificationService._create_notification
opened its own session via get_db_context(), which reuses the singleton
_DbHolder engine — bound to the FastAPI server's event loop. The
asyncpg connection raised 'Future attached to a different loop' and the
exception was silently caught + logged as a warning, so the notification
never persisted and the test saw 0 rows.

Fix: add an optional db_session parameter to _create_notification and
the two send methods. When provided, use the caller's session directly
and skip the internal commit (the caller owns the transaction). The
TaskService's _notify_unblock and _notify_dependency_revival now pass
self.session, keeping the notification in the same event loop + session
as the task transition.

* [77719d3f] Scope system-agent seeding to notification tests only

Seeding the system sentinel in seed_company (commits 3bba7b32/617b7890)
fixed the 0-notification bug but caused 3 i_documented gateway_timeout
failures: every e2e test now paid notification-creation latency for
system-origin notifications that were previously silently skipped,
pushing the already-slow i_documented verb past its 120s timeout.

Move system-agent seeding out of seed_company and into a scoped
_seed_system_agent helper called only by the two coordination-event
tests that exercise send_unblock_notification /
send_dependency_revival_notification (both resolve from_agent='system'
via DB lookup). dev_lifecycle and state_machine tests revert to the
pre-fix behavior (system-origin notifications silently skipped, no extra
latency).

The event-loop fix (commit 7b95d77d: pass db_session=self.session to
_create_notification) is unchanged — dependency_revival still needs it
because stack.run_db creates a new event loop while _DbHolder.engine is
bound to the FastAPI server loop.

* [77719d3f] Fix reassignment notification deadlock + suppressed-notification commit regression

Two fixes in notification.py / task.py:

1. Cross-session self-deadlock in send_reassignment_notification:
   TaskService.reassign() flushes an uncommitted row lock on the task,
   then calls _notify_reassignment -> send_reassignment_notification ->
   _create_notification(db_session=None) which opens a SEPARATE session
   via get_db_context() and INSERTs a notification with related_task_id
   FK -> tasks.id. The FK key-share lock blocks on the request session's
   uncommitted exclusive lock, but the request can't commit until the
   notify returns -> 120s verb hard-cut. Fix: pass db_session=self.session
   so the notification joins the verb's own transaction, same pattern as
   the unblock/dependency-revival fix in 7b95d77d.

2. Suppressed-notification commit regression: the 7b95d77d refactor moved
   await db.commit() out of _create_notification_with_session into
   _create_notification's db_session=None branch, where it ran
   unconditionally — even when _create_notification_with_session returned
   early (suppressed: unresolvable from_agent / no recipients /
   refire-guard / dedup-hit). Fix: _create_notification_with_session now
   returns bool (False at each early return, True after delivery);
   _create_notification commits only when created is True.

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Co-authored-by: Backend Developer 1 <be-dev-1@roboco.tech>
Co-authored-by: Backend Documenter <be-doc@roboco.tech>
Co-authored-by: Frontend Developer 2 <fe-dev-2@roboco.tech>
Co-authored-by: Frontend Developer 1 <fe-dev-1@roboco.tech>
Co-authored-by: Frontend Documenter <fe-doc@roboco.tech>
Co-authored-by: Backend Developer 2 <be-dev-2@roboco.tech>
Co-authored-by: Renn F <rennf93@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-07-13 06:38:15 +02:00
cea3e56628 feat(lifecycle): revision findings ledger — structured failure feedback, persisted and delivered down the chain (#486)
* feat(lifecycle): revision findings ledger — structured QA/PR/PM/CEO failure feedback, persisted and delivered down the chain

Every bounce used to survive only as flattened prose: rounds overwrote each
other in notes_structured, request_changes persisted nothing, two raw
dev_notes appends were silently destroyed by the next handoff note, and the
dev prompt pointed at fields (qa_notes via evidence(), pm_notes) the API
never delivered. Agents re-interpreted and re-discovered every failure
before they could start fixing it.

- task_review_findings (migration 071, append-only): file/line/severity/
  criterion(AC-id-validated)/expected/actual/fix/evidence per finding, with
  origin (qa|pr_gate|pm|ceo), round, and an open->addressed->verified
  lifecycle (waived reserved); new tasks.pm_notes + PmReviewContent give
  request_changes a structured home
- producers: fail_review/pr_fail/request_changes take findings=[...] (prose
  issues shimmed+merged for one release, deprecation-logged); ceo_reject
  validates its reason (no 500), lands an origin=ceo finding, and bumps
  round+audit on branchless coordination roots; guardrails at the verb
  chokepoint (nudge >5, hard reject >10, field caps, traversal-safe file);
  the dev_notes data-loss appends are removed; new task.request_changes +
  task.ceo_reject audit events close rework attribution
- delivery: qa_notes/pr_reviewer_notes/pm_notes carry the deterministic
  [F-id8] rendering; claim briefings, evidence(), the REVISION_REQUIRED
  spawn prompt, PM triage bounced-blocks, and A2A bodies deliver open
  findings; round-N+1 QA and gate reviewers get the full prior ledger;
  panel Findings tab + bounced-xN chip; metrics pm_rejects/ceo_rejects +
  findings counts; vault task notes render a Findings section (fail-open)
- resolution closes for every origin: i_am_done and submit_up/submit_root
  take resolved_findings gated by FINDINGS_ADDRESSED (owner-gated so a
  stale non-owner PM can never mutate the ledger); pass_review/pr_pass/
  complete verify-stamp same-transaction; ceo_approve stamps best-effort
- 24 real-DB integration tests drive the full loop through the real
  choreographer; full suite 12856 green

* docs: revision findings ledger sweep — CLAUDE.md, map, RAG corpus

- CLAUDE.md: new ledger section + corrected request_changes row
- docs/map/review-findings.md (new subsystem map) + surgical updates to
  task-service/pr-gate-review/metrics-observability/vault/panel maps
- docs/rag: producers' findings contract across qa/pr-reviewer/developer/
  cell-pm/main-pm/ceo role docs (the PM docs were missing request_changes
  entirely), verb references, and a new architecture/review-findings.md
  disambiguating ledger findings from convention findings

* test(e2e): resubmit resolves the pr_fail finding per the ledger contract

The scripted pr_fail revision loop resubmitted submit_up without
resolved_findings — correctly rejected now that FINDINGS_ADDRESSED gates
the PM resubmit verbs (green locally, red only in CI since the e2e suite
skips without ROBOCO_E2E_SMOKE=1). The scripted PM now reads the open
ledger row pr_fail persisted (new open_finding_ids arc helper) and
resolves it on resubmit, asserting the open set drains — exercising the
coordinator half of the new contract end to end.

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2026-07-11 22:54:42 +02:00
8f3f4236c0 feat(tasks): sequence is the bar — strict sibling ordering at the claim chokepoint (#452)
* feat(tasks): enforce sibling sequence order at the claim chokepoint

A task with a parent and effective sequence N (COALESCE(sequence, 0))
can no longer be claimed while any sibling with a strictly lower
effective sequence is non-terminal — assignee-blind, independent of and
stricter than dependency_ids, enforced in _validate_claim_preconditions
so both claim paths (gateway verbs and the dispatcher's raw REST claim)
cross it. Ties run parallel; cancelled siblings never block; sequence 0
and parentless tasks are unaffected. Live failure this guards: a PM
delegated revision subtasks sequenced 0..3 with no dependency edges and
seq 2 started alongside seq 0 — sequence was advisory-only.

set_sequence's contract updated accordingly. New e2e smoke case drives
the refusal and the post-completion claim through the real gateway.

* chore(scripts): skip .uv-cache and .claude in the prose scanner

Repo-local tool dirs (private uv cache, agent worktrees) carry vendored
and generated markdown that tripped make reflow-check.

* fix(tasks): wave-derived delegation sequences + claim-gate hardening

Three fixes from the adversarial review of the sequence claim gate:

Delegation no longer stamps a raw per-sibling ordinal (deterministic
merge-order bookkeeping) as sequence — under the strict gate that
serialized ALL delegated work, including fully independent cross-dev and
cross-cell siblings. Sequences are now wave-derived post-wiring
(stamp_wave_sequence: 1 + max same-parent dependency sequence, 0 when
independent), so independent siblings tie and run parallel while
colliding/ordered work ascends. The cross-cell UX wiring restamps
instead of writing relative ux+1 values (a relative write could invert
a collision-derived stamp), and the dispatch merge/lane barriers gain a
created_at tiebreak for wave-tied siblings so shared-branch merge order
stays deterministic. PM-authored sequences are never rewritten.

The guard now also fires on reclaims from needs_revision (a lower-
sequence sibling delegated after the first claim was invisible), and
tasks.parent_task_id gains an index (migration 069) — the guard's
sibling probe ran as a Seq Scan on the hottest verb.

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2026-07-10 22:55:00 +02:00
18998c4a42 Video pipeline fixes: visibility strip, rich briefs, spotlight timing + fps (#369)
* feat(video): pipeline visibility — strip, state-aware queue, render-error capture

Task 1 of the 2026-07-09 video-pipeline review. New CEO-gated GET
/video/pipeline lists every in-flight video item (authoring statuses,
rendering attempt n/max, terminal failures with the error — now stamped
onto the video_draft marker instead of dying as a log line).
source_task_id exposed on both video schemas. Panel: pipeline strip on
the Social page, state-aware queue empty copy, title/script on queue
rows, missing cuts disabled instead of a blank player, notifications
deep-link related_task_id. MAX_VIDEO_RENDER_ATTEMPTS moved to the
markers policy layer (single source of truth).

* feat(video): rich authoring briefs — changelog section, brand voice, kit pointer

Task 2 of the 2026-07-09 video-pipeline review. The release brief is
now a structured block (full CHANGELOG section capped at 4000 chars +
highlights) instead of one LLM-compressed sentence; brand_voice and a
motion/kit design-bar pointer are appended centrally in open_video_task
so release, spotlight, and on-demand paths all inherit them.
suggested_input_props seeded on the video_draft marker; third
acceptance criterion pins the design bar; propose_video docstring
points at the kit.

* fix(video): spotlight video drafts on CEO approval, renderer honors data-fps

Task 4 of the 2026-07-09 video-pipeline review. The companion-video
hook moves from propose_feature_spotlight (HoM authoring time) to
XPostService approve's posted-success branch for x_feature drafts,
mirroring the release-publish seam — a rejected spotlight no longer
burns a ux-dev cycle; wants_video/video_script ride the x_feature_ref
marker. Best-effort: a video-engine failure never breaks the post.
render.js reads data-fps from the composition HTML (clamped 24-60,
fallback 30) instead of hardcoding 30; parseFps covered by node --test.

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2026-07-09 08:31:08 +02:00
47c927c598 feat(gateway): root-owned acceptance criteria via declare_coverage (#357)
The coverage gates had no vocabulary for criteria only the root itself
can satisfy (the supersede PR from feature/main_pm/*, closing the
contributor's PR): once a Main PM declared coverage for the legitimate
cell criteria, the idle gate demanded a cell for the impossible ones
too, so they got pushed into a cell task and the cell PM (correctly)
escalated. declare_coverage now accepts the PM's own task: self-declared
criteria count as claimed for the idle gate and satisfied for the
roll-up (the roll-up actor is their owner by construction), surface as
claimed_by=root in the briefing, and both PM prompts say to never hand
a cell a criterion it cannot satisfy inside its own cell.

Co-authored-by: Renn F <rennf93@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-07-09 03:17:20 +02:00
f48d088c08 fix(gateway): working exits for wedged agents + declare_coverage roll-up unblock (#341)
A live task burned 5+ hours because every exit was locked. unclaim now
works from verifying and needs_revision (service guard + lifecycle edge);
the circuit breaker and the i_am_done push-failure remediate name the
working chain ending in unclaim(); sync_branch(stash=true) clears the
DIRTY_WORKSPACE dead-end (pop-conflict preserves the stash); blocking a
task QA already owns now says to idle instead of listing states; the
orchestrator auto-block logs real errors and skips states where blocking
is meaningless instead of force-blocking them.

declare_coverage (cell/main PM) retroactively stamps parent-AC refs on a
child that implements them -- closing the roll-up deadlock where the
declaring child was cancelled and its re-delegated replacement completed
the work uncredited. Cancelling a ref-declaring child now warns and
surfaces the orphaned criteria.

Co-authored-by: Renn F <rennf93@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-07-08 21:40:22 +02:00
3849c1737e feat(video): switch 0.19.0 renderer Remotion → HyperFrames (HTML-native, Apache-2.0) (#314)
* feat(video): rewrite sidecar render core to HyperFrames (in place)

* feat(video): convert motion compositions from Remotion TSX to HyperFrames HTML

* refactor(video): rename render client to video_renderer_client (renderer-agnostic)

* chore(video): rename remotion-renderer prose in test_video_pipeline docstrings

* chore(video): rename sidecar to video-renderer + add system ffmpeg for HyperFrames

* chore(video): rename stray remotion-renderer refs in sidecar + py docstrings (controller cleanup)

* chore(video): fix stale Remotion API names in Dockerfile comment (controller cleanup)

* docs(video): rewrite video-engine prose for HyperFrames + add map entry + folded prose fixes

* docs(video): add trailing newline to docs/map/video-engine.md (controller cleanup)

* chore(video): drop internal spec refs + minio/test suppressions (folded hygiene)

* fix(video): reclaim outDir on createRenderJob throw + hide empty 4th highlight

Final whole-branch review (Opus) triaged two FIX items from the SDD nits
ledger; the rest ship as-is.

- render.js: a synchronous throw from createRenderJob (post-mkdtemp, not
  awaited) left an empty outDir on disk — the outer catch only reclaimed
  extractDir. Reclaim outDir too when it exists, and correct the stale
  comment that claimed the out dir was never created.
- {vertical,square}.html: the 4th highlights <li> lived in the DOM hidden
  only by JS, so a no-JS / failed-script render would show an empty bullet.
  Start it style="display:none" and reveal on populate, so an unscripted
  render shows nothing instead.

Vitest smoke (release-announcement.test.js) 4/4 green; render.js syntax
checked. Python suite untouched by this fix (JS/HTML only).

* fix(video): type _override_db yield as AsyncSession | None

T7 widened _build_app's db_session param to AsyncSession | None (to drop the
4x # type: ignore[arg-type] on the DB-independent _build_app(None, ...) calls)
but left the inner _override_db fixture typed AsyncIterator[AsyncSession] —
so 'yield db_session' yielded AsyncSession | None into a declared AsyncSession,
and mypy failed at test_video_routes.py:177 ('Incompatible types in yield').

The DB-independent media tests pass db_session=None deliberately: their route
uses a monkeypatched task service and never awaits the session, so yielding
None is safe at runtime. Type the override's yield as AsyncSession | None to
match — no cast, no # type: ignore, no assert, runtime behavior unchanged.
The 3 media tests (3 passed) and the 19 db-gated tests (skipped locally) hold.

* chore(gate): skip .superpowers scratch in markdown prose gate

reflow_md.py walks the filesystem via rglob('*.md') and skips tooling dirs
(.venv, .mypy_cache, .pytest_cache, ...) but not .superpowers/ — the
superpowers SDD workflow's scratch dir (briefs, reports, progress ledger,
all gitignored). A dev running SDD locally would hit a false markdown-prose
gate failure on those transient files. Add .superpowers to SKIP_DIRS,
consistent with the existing tooling-scratch exclusions.

* fix(video): validate composition_id to close path traversal (CodeQL)

compositionId flowed unvalidated from the POST body into path.join
under extractDir/motion/compositions/, so a '../..'-style value could
escape the composition dir (CodeQL: Uncontrolled data used in path
expression). Validate at the trust boundary in server.js
(/^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$/) and add a path.resolve + startsWith containment
check in render.js so it stays safe regardless of caller.

* fix(mcp): send X-Agent-Token + X-Agent-Team from flow/do servers

flow_server._build_headers and do_server._build_headers constructed
only X-Agent-ID/Role/Correlation-ID, omitting X-Agent-Token and
X-Agent-Team (unlike ApiClient._get_agent_headers used by the other
MCP servers). Latent since the gateway refactor — surfaced when
ROBOCO_AGENT_AUTH_REQUIRED=true was armed on the NAS, 401-ing every
flow/do verb with 'Missing X-Agent-Token header'. Add both headers
(mirroring ApiClient) so the HMAC gate passes. Tests assert the
headers are now injected.

* [video-engine] Per-project video_engine_enabled opt-in toggle

Mirrors ci_watch_enabled (migration 048): the global
ROBOCO_VIDEO_ENGINE_ENABLED flag arms the subsystem; the new
projects.video_engine_enabled column (migration 063) opts a repo into
authoring against its motion/ dir. VideoEngine._opted_in_project no-ops
open_video_task at the single chokepoint covering all three trigger
paths (on-release, on-spotlight, CEO on-demand) until the operator
flips it in the panel edit-project dialog. Existing projects stay
opted out (server_default=false).

* fix(auth): send X-Agent-Token + X-Agent-Team from all agent->API call sites

The prior fix (6ed4e139) covered the flow/do MCP servers but missed four
other agent->orchestrator call sites that built the header dict by hand
and omitted X-Agent-Token and/or X-Agent-Team. With ROBOCO_AGENT_AUTH_REQUIRED
armed on the NAS, every one 401s:

- agent_sdk/server.py: the session-end post-mortem flush
  (/api/journals/me/entries), A2A persistence + offline fallback
  (/api/a2a/*), and the stopped-without-transition auto-substitute
  (/api/tasks/auto-substitute) — all sent only X-Agent-ID/Role, so each
  401'd 'Missing X-Agent-Token'. Add a shared _agent_headers() helper
  (mirroring flow_server._build_headers) and route all four through it.
- agent_sdk/secretary_driver.py: _headers() sent the token but not the
  team, so the HMAC gate 401'd with signature mismatch (secretary is
  board-team; token signed with team='board', verified with team='').
  Add the team header.
- mcp/git_readonly.py: the read-only git MCP sent only X-Agent-ID/Role
  — no token, no team — so /api/git/* 401'd once auth was armed. Convert
  the static _HEADERS to a _headers() helper with team + token.
- runtime/orchestrator.py: the cell-PM auto-submit self-API call acted
  as a PM with a hand-built {X-Agent-ID, X-Agent-Role} dict — no token,
  no team — 401ing under auth-required. Add _agent_api_headers(uuid,
  role) mirroring _system_api_headers, and use it.

Tests: _agent_headers round-trip (token + team, team-omitted when None),
_agent_api_headers carries a signed PM token + team.

* [auth] Omit UNSIGNED self-call token in dev mode + video-engine test mypy fix

_agent_api_headers sent the UNSIGNED sentinel when ROBOCO_AGENT_AUTH_SECRET
was unset, but the dev-mode middleware rejects a presented-but-unverifiable
token with 401 signature mismatch (while accepting a missing one). The
cell-PM auto-submit self-call 401'd in every dev run, regressing
test_auto_submit_cuts_the_pm_turn. Attach the token only when a secret is
set. Also fix the FromClause.update mypy error in the per-project
video-engine opt-out test (ORM row load + flush).

* [auth] Omit UNSIGNED agent token at every agent->API call site

The orchestrator injects ROBOCO_AGENT_TOKEN=UNSIGNED when the HMAC secret
is unset at spawn. The API middleware rejects a presented-but-unverifiable
token with 401 'signature mismatch' even in dev mode (auth not required),
so forwarding UNSIGNED turned every flow/do/SDK/secretary/git verb into a
401 — the live pr_reviewer/i_am_idle signature-mismatch loop. Omit the
header when the token is the UNSIGNED sentinel at all five agent-side
header builders; dev accepts a missing token, prod 401s with 'Missing
X-Agent-Token' (the clear respawn-with-secret signal). Add a structlog
diagnostic on the middleware reject path so the next mismatch logs the
exact (id, role, team, token_unsigned, auth_required) inputs.

* [auth] Self-heal stale agent tokens at orchestrator startup

A token is signed once at spawn. If ROBOCO_AGENT_AUTH_SECRET drifts
afterwards (a .env change, a compose recreate that reloads the
orchestrator's env without recreating agent containers, an image
redeploy), the surviving agent keeps sending its old token and the
middleware 401s every verb with 'signature mismatch'. The container
stays alive heartbeating, so the reaper never reclaims it and no fresh
agent spawns: the fleet stalls.

_heal_stale_agent_tokens runs at startup (before _readopt_running_agents)
and kills each running agent container whose baked-in token no longer
verifies against the current secret, so normal dispatch re-spawns it
with a freshly signed token. Inert when the secret is unset (dev):
verify fails for every token without a secret, so the heal would kill
the whole fleet without this gate. Best-effort: a probe failure leaves
the container alone (the reaper still covers it).

* [auth] Sign agent token over the UUID, not the slug (pr_reviewer 401 root cause)

The token was signed over the agent slug (_append_agent_auth_env) while the
MCP servers send X-Agent-ID as the agent UUID (_generate_mcp_config, since
453a7ae2 — gateway v1 parses X-Agent-ID as Annotated[UUID]). The middleware
verified HMAC(uuid:role:team) against a slug-signed token → 'signature
mismatch', token_unsigned=false. Latent for 2 months until 6ed4e139/53391f22
made the MCP servers forward the token.

The c0328971 startup heal missed it: docker exec printenv reads the
container-level ROBOCO_AGENT_ID (the slug), so the heal verified the
slug-signed token against the slug → matched → didn't kill the stale
container, which kept 401ing (its MCP server sends the UUID).

Fix: sign the token over the UUID, set the container ROBOCO_AGENT_ID to the
UUID too (so the SDK server — which inherits container env, not the MCP
manifest env — sends UUID consistently), and resolve the container-env id to
its UUID in _heal_stale_agent_tokens so pre-fix stale containers are evicted
on next restart. Regression test: test_heal_kills_slug_env_container_with_slug_signed_token.

* [scan] gate A2A/notification/stream agent-id deps under cloud auth (C1)

* [scan] omit UNSIGNED agent token from MCP server headers (H1)

* [scan] fail loud when cloud auth and nginx CEO-token are both armed (H2)

* [scan] cache last-known-good auth-probe result in panel proxy (C2)

* [respawn] Tripped breaker self-heals after a cooldown

A DB-durable PM-respawn counter (migration 051 / e2f7097a) wedges forever
once tripped: the only reset was a task status change, which can't happen
while the breaker blocks the spawn. So a deploy that fixes the underlying
loop (auth/prompt/schema) couldn't clear the wedge without manual DELETE
surgery on respawn_tracker — the 2026-07-06 pr-reviewer-1 loop, where the
auth fix cleared the 401 but count=63 survived restart and kept skipping
the dispatcher spawn for an external-PR task.

Freeze last_check at the trip tick and, after pm_respawn_trip_cooldown_seconds
(default 300), let ONE spawn through. A still-wedged task re-trips after the
threshold (bounded re-burn ~3 spawns per window); a fixed one advances and
the status-change path fully resets. Restore re-stamps last_check to now, so
a freshly restored row still trips immediately — durability preserved, which
is why the migration-051 persistence tests still pass.

* [scan] fix test_deps callsites for cloud-auth-gate signature change (C1 followup)

* [scan] per-IP rate limit on /auth/login under cloud auth (L31)

* [scan] Phase 1 auth/security fixes under 0.19.0 CHANGELOG

* [scan] secretary token signs over real team (board) not empty — fixes /api/secretary/* 401 (L31-class)

* [scan] LoginRateLimiter: key off X-Forwarded-For first hop + redis-down fail-open test

nginx is the single entry point; request.client.host is the nginx peer IP,
collapsing every external client into one limiter bucket (self-DoS amp).
Read the downstream client IP from X-Forwarded-For (first hop) / X-Real-IP,
falling back to the peer. Adds coverage for the XFF keying, the redis-down
fail-open branch, and drops a redundant asyncio marker on a sync-TestClient
test.

* [scan] nits: describe login_max_attempts + replace cast with assert in get_current_agent_slug

login_max_attempts was the only bare cloud-auth field; add a Field
description matching the surrounding idiom. Replace cast('str', ctx.slug)
with a runtime assert that fails loud if the cloud-auth ctx invariant
breaks, and drop the now-unused cast import.

* [scan] secretary token: use get_agent_team resolver + complete spawn-shutdown mock team (0dfd45ca followup)

* [scan] require agent HMAC token under cloud_auth (close v1 flow/do header-trust)

* [scan] _require_ceo accepts CEO session cookie under cloud_auth

* [scan] HTTP require_panel_token accepts session cookie under cloud_auth

* [scan] gate /api/settings behind panel token

* [scan] gate unauthenticated /api read routes (agents/a2a-tasks/kanban/usage/rate-limits)

* [scan] hoist deferred test imports to top-level (clear PLC0415)

* [scan] Phase 1b e2e smoke + CHANGELOG

* [scan] add_dependency rejects self-reference + cycle (M18)

* [scan] WorkSessionService.create translates IntegrityError to ConflictError (H10)

* [scan] _qa_or_doc_claim locks the task row FOR UPDATE (M19)

* [scan] docs_complete + mark_pr_created lock the task row FOR UPDATE (H4)

* [scan] gate complete() IN_PROGRESS on leaf/branchless only (H3)

* [scan] _unclaim_from_blocked clears stale pre-block snapshot (H5)

* [scan] admin_set_status terminal guard + skip revision bump under force (M20)

* [scan] cell_pm_complete idempotent pre-check before merge (H7)

* [scan] wrap gateway post-runner side effects in try/except (H6)

* [scan] pass_qa/fail_qa accept AWAITING_QA only (L29)

* [scan] mark_pr_created passes audit_agent_id (L30)

* [scan] phase 2 e2e smoke - one scenario per finding

* [scan] phase 2 quality gate

ruff format + check: green
mypy roboco/: green (357 files)
pytest unit+integration: 6905 passed, 10 pre-existing DB-contamination
  failures (pass in isolation)
e2e smoke: 11 passed, 4 cross-scenario workspace-contamination failures
  (all 6 state-machine scenarios pass individually)

Quality-gate fixes:
- move function-local imports to module top (PLC0415)
- fix M19 regression: submit_for_qa clears active_claimant_id so the
  competing-claimant guard lets the QA claim through
- fix H7 regression: _StubGit gains is_pr_merged_for_task
- fix M19 unit tests: mock session.execute for the FOR UPDATE lock
- e2e H3: notes >= 20 chars; e2e H5: rich i_will_work_on inputs +
  PM unclaims (block reassigns to PM)

* [scan] move active_claimant_id clear into pass_qa/fail_qa + admin_set_status (M19 follow-on)

Phase 2 opus whole-branch review found the M19 follow-on clear lived in
the gateway wrappers (qa_pass/qa_fail) not the transition methods
(pass_qa/fail_qa) themselves. The direct REST routes POST /pass-qa and
POST /fail-qa call the transitions directly, bypassing the wrappers and
leaving the QA's stale active_claimant_id set in AWAITING_DOCUMENTATION
/ NEEDS_REVISION — the competing-claimant guard then rejects the next
legitimate documenter/QA claim. admin_set_status had the same gap for a
non-blocked override into a review/queue state (IN_PROGRESS->AWAITING_QA
left the dev's id, blocking qa_claim).

Root-cause fix: move the clear INTO pass_qa and fail_qa (mirroring
submit_for_qa), add a clear in admin_set_status when
new_status in _REVIEW_QUEUE_STATES and from_status != BLOCKED, and drop
the now-redundant clears + flushes from the qa_pass/qa_fail wrappers.
Every caller is covered; the wrappers keep their actor-mismatch warnings.

Covering tests: test_pass_qa_clears_active_claimant_for_doc_claim
(asserts a subsequent doc_claim succeeds), test_fail_qa_clears_active_claimant,
test_admin_set_status_into_review_queue_clears_active_claimant,
test_admin_set_status_non_review_queue_keeps_active_claimant. Updated
the two wrapper unit tests that asserted the wrapper clears (now the
transition's job).

* [C3] unindex_journal_entry + call from delete_entry

JournalService.delete_entry deleted the DB row but never de-indexed the
RAG chunks, so deleted/private journal content bled forever into RAG
answers and claim-time briefings. Add OptimalService.unindex_journal_entry
mirroring unindex_playbook (vector-store delete_by_source + tracking-row
delete via get_db_context, both idempotent + best-effort), and call it
from delete_entry after the row commit inside a try/except so a de-index
failure never errors the delete.

* [M25] learning_id hashes full content to avoid collision

The memory distiller emits lessons with a fixed 'Problem: …' opening
shape, so two distinct lessons whose first 100 chars match collided on
learning_id = f"lrn-{md5(content[:100])[:12]}". replace_on_reingest then
routed both to the same source URI and the second ingest's replace_chunks
DELETE wiped the first lesson's chunks — silent data loss.

Hash the full content (widening the hex slice 12→16) so distinct bodies
get distinct ids and each retains its chunks.

* [H13] reject non-internal local_llm_base_url at config load

* [M28] bulk-insert learning broadcast instead of N+1

* [M27] mark_read/mark_all_read stamp only the unread rows seen at call time

mark_read and mark_all_read used to zero the unread counter FIRST, then run
a bulk UPDATE … WHERE read_at IS NULL that stamped every inbound unread row.
A send_chat_message committing between the counter-zero and the UPDATE
inserted a new read_at NULL row that the UPDATE then stamped as read — the
new message was silently consumed while the counter stayed 0.

Mirrors get_unread_messages (same file): SELECT the unread message IDs at
call time, UPDATE exactly those IDs, then recompute the unread counter from
the DB via the existing _reset_unread_counter helper. A message arriving
mid-call is not in the selected ID set, so the UPDATE skips it and the
recomputed counter keeps it unread.

* [H12] dedup: exact to_agents predicate + purpose discriminator + ack DEL

* [M23] playbook indexed_ok/indexed_at + startup reconcile of unindexed approved

* [M24] RAG indexing dead-letter + janitor reclaim + failed_index_count health

* [L23] institutional_memory_status sentinel distinguishes below-floor/empty/error/disabled

* [L26] sweep_expired_notifications re-escalates stale unacked ack-required

* [phase3] e2e smoke + CHANGELOG for 0.19.0

* [M24] _reindex_journal_entry honors is_private (C1 review fix)

Dead-letter replay mirrors the original journal._schedule_rag_index path:
a private entry is never indexed into the shared JOURNALS corpus, and a
private learning is still recorded into LEARNINGS as non-shareable.
Previously the replay always called index_journal_entry and skipped
record_learning for private learnings, leaking private content on replay
and dropping the legitimate non-shared learning. Three regression tests.

* [H11] clone via git -c http.extraheader, not URL-embedded PAT

* [H11] _sync_read_clone fetch via http.extraheader, not URL-embedded PAT

Sibling site to the clone fix: the conventions read-clone refresh ran
'git fetch --tags <https://TOKEN@host> <branch>', exposing the PAT in the
fetch argv on the orchestrator host. Mirrors the clone site's per-call
'-c http.extraheader=Authorization: Basic …' prefix + bare URL. SSH URLs
and tokenless public repos unchanged.

* [H11] release_executor clone+push via http.extraheader; delete _inject_token_into_url

* [H8] rebase_onto_base gates on clean tree like pull

* [H9] _link_commit_to_task flushes, doesn't commit out-of-band

* [M38] _pr_is_merged returns None on HTTPError; caller assumes merged

* [M39] _cherry_unmerged_entry marker grep anchored to commit-prefix

* [L1] thread actor_agent_id through update_pr_for_task

* [H8] fix rebase test mocks for clean-tree gate

H8 inserted a 'git status --porcelain' dirty-tree gate at the top of
rebase_onto_base (mirroring pull). The 3 rebase control-flow tests mocked
_run_git with a side_effect list matching the OLD call sequence (no
leading status call), so every call shifted by one and the assertions
missed. Prepend a clean-status result to each list so the gate passes
and the fetch/checkout/reset/rebase/diff/abort/push sequence aligns.
Verified: 16 passed (was 3 failed/13 passed post-H8, 16 passed pre-H8).

* [L2] push --force-with-lease instead of bare --force

* [L1] refresh stale workspace-resolution docstrings

pr_target and _workspace_for_branch still documented the actor →
assigned_to → created_by fallback chain that L1 removed from
_resolve_workspace_agent_id. Update both to the post-L1 actor →
assigned_to → None resolver (project.workspace_path as the final
fallback) so a future reader doesn't rely on a fallback that no
longer exists.

* [M37] merge_pr locks the work_session row FOR UPDATE

* [phase4] e2e smoke + CHANGELOG for 0.19.0

* [phase4] fix M37 test flake + document H8 skip

The opus whole-branch review flagged the M37 concurrency tests as
~50% flaky: both asserted caller A wins the FOR UPDATE race, but
which caller wins the lock is non-deterministic. When B won, the
'assert a_row.merged_by == a_merger' branch flipped false even
though the production code (M37) was correct — exactly one merger
recorded, audit trail intact. Assert the invariant instead: both
rows COMPLETED, both report the same merged_by, value in
{a_merger, b_merger}. Applied to both the unit test and the e2e
twin. Also documents the H8 e2e skip in the module docstring (the
report claimed it was documented there but it wasn't) and drops
the internal 'Phase 4' label from the docstring header in favor of
the public '0.19.0' version anchor.

* [H24] wait_for_ci polls through the window on non-success

* [H25,L34] release mutex orphan-sweep on start + shared redis client

* [M1] tiktok _refresh commits rotated tokens in an independent session

* [H25] drop new type:ignore in orphan-sweep test (constraint cleanup)

* [M2] feature-spotlight re-arms when exploration stale past 2x interval with no live HoM spawn

* [M6,M7] mark_seen after meaningful+project; persist since_id cursor in redis

* [M3,M5] reject() guards COMPLETED; edited_body deferred into the single-flight lock

* [M4] bound list_completed_video_tasks + ix_tasks_source_status_created index (migration 066)

* [M8,M9,L9] pass head_sha to CI gate; _run_git 30s timeout; _commits_since split maxsplit 2

* [M10,L35] dedupe dep_update by (git_url, command); fold redundant per-project queries

* [L36] gather ci_watch telemetry sweep instead of sequential iteration

* [L11] document self_heal fingerprint is stable per-signal by design

* [M11] engine-loop liveness watchdog: heartbeat + 2x-interval staleness alert

* [M21] video render loop commits per-task, not one trailing commit

* [M22] _detect_stuck_tasks skips held-CEO-source tasks

* [L6] video_renderer_client._save writes temp + atomic rename

* [phase5] e2e smoke + CHANGELOG for 0.19.0

* [M11] instrument x_mentions + roadmap engine loops with liveness heartbeats

* [phase5] fix-wave: correct e2e M11 unit-test filename + strengthen failed-cycle heartbeat assertion

* [C4] panel WS: shared /ws/system socket + long-tail retry + pong watchdog

* [H15] video-post-queue caption derived per render (mirror x-post-queue)

* [C4-fix] panel WS: discriminating long-tail tests + drop dead freeze block + evict dead shared conn on manual disconnect

Finding 1 (Critical, websocket.test.ts): the two long-tail-retry tests fired onopen between close cycles, which reset reconnectAttempts to 0 each cycle, so they passed under the pre-fix 3-attempt gate. Rewrote both to NEVER fire onopen between closes, so attempts accumulates: test 1 asserts state stays 'reconnecting' past attempt 3 (old gate would flip 'disconnected' terminal); test 2 asserts a new socket is constructed within 30000ms at attempt 7 where uncapped 5000*1.5^7 ~= 85s (old uncapped code would leave the timer unexpired). Verified both FAIL on a reverted old-shape connection.ts and PASS on the fixed code.

Finding 2 (Important, connection.ts): the 'if (raw >= cap) this.reconnectAttempts = exp' block was a no-op (exp was just read from the same field) and the unconditional increment afterwards grew the counter regardless. Deleted the dead block; kept the Math.min cap on the delay. Replaced the misleading ponytail comment with an accurate one: delay is capped, counter grows unbounded but delay is bounded.

Finding 3 (Important, use-websocket.ts): manual disconnect() tore down the shared conn for all subscribers but left the dead (manualClose=true, never reconnects) entry in _sharedSockets, so a later mount hit the reuse branch, attached a subscriber, replayed 'disconnected', and never called connect(). Added a urlRef and _sharedSockets.delete(url) in the manual disconnect callback so a later mount reopens a fresh conn.

* [H16] settings Save wired to settingsApi (persist + read back)

* [H17] tasks page passes status/team/limit to useTasks (server-side filter)

* [H18] useAgents roster re-derives on live-status change (statusEpoch in queryKey)

* [M40] useMetrics reads agent counts from useAgentStatus cache (dedupe poll)

* [H18] tighten useAgents statusEpoch comment (drop spec ref)

* [M40] drop spec ref + tighten useMetrics comment

* [M41] scorecard refetchInterval 60s -> 5min (25 req/min -> 5)

* [M42] feature-flag off-transition confirm + pending-keys Set

* [M43] X/TikTok credentials clear-behind confirm dialog

* [M44] rate-limit syncFromApi merges (keep fresher hitAt) + A2A reconnect invalidation

* [phase6] proxy.ts cookie-check comment + CHANGELOG Fixed entries

* [phase6] drop stale WS pin-attempts comment + fix tasks-page lead-in

* [H21] type DelegateRequest.estimated_complexity as Complexity (reject critical)

* [H22] type SoftBlockRequest.resolver_type as BlockerResolverType (no silent AGENT fallback)

* [H23] serialize TaskTable.documents into TaskResponse (DocRefResponse)

* [L27] delete SubstituteRequest phantom suggested_role/suggested_team fields

* [L14] Envelope.not_found defaults remediate (guide re-fetch + re-issue)

* [L28] delete unused ListResponse generic (dead code; pagination deferred)

* [H19] _delegate_static_guards allow cell_projects roots (cross-cell MegaTask)

* [M13] MegaTask confirm-batch idempotency key from session_id (SETNX guard + result sidecar)

* [M14] strip assigned_to from MegaTask drafts (no board-owned root-subtask deadlock)

* [H20] thin_routes receiver-gate add/add_all/merge (no false block on set/cache.add)

* [M16] tighten noqa code-capture to [A-Z0-9, ]+ (no false block on natural prose)

* [M45] conventions read-clone force-refetch on read (no 30s stale map window)

* [L25] conventions._resolve returns (root, sha); ORM mutated on the event loop

* [M15] open_conventions_pr force-pushes disposable scaffold branch (no silent None)

* [L24] roadmap cycle completion emits status-transition audit

* [Phase7] CHANGELOG: 15 schema/conventions/MegaTask/API fixed (H21-H23,L27,L14,L28,H19,M13,M14,H20,M16,M45,L25,M15,L24)

* [Phase7] lint gate hygiene: shorten docstring (E501), sort imports (I001), hoist AuditLogTable import (PLC0415)

* [H14] Enable the GROK provider row in _apply_grok so routing reaches the GrokCliProvider

* [M31] Route GROK active-token resolution to usage.json so live usage reflects grok agents

* [M32] Pass cache read/write tokens to calculate_cost in the usage sweep so live cost reflects Anthropic cache spend

* [M33] Park Ollama-Cloud rate limits via a marker map so a glm-5.2:cloud 429 parks instead of crash-respawning

* [M34] Sweep orphan agent_spawn_sessions at startup so crashed-run tokens roll into usage/cost summaries

* [L12] Persist revisit_resets (migration 067) so the PM-respawn breaker's revisit counter survives a restart

* [L18] Date-gate the Sonnet-5 promo revert so billing returns to list rates after 2026-08-31

* [L20] Warn when ROBOCO_GROK_RUN_LOG yields no session id instead of silently falling back to a zero-usage env id

* [phase8] CHANGELOG: LLM provider routing, usage capture, billing fixes

* [phase8] Trailing ruff format hygiene (orchestrator marker tuples, token-sweep test signatures)

* [phase8] Fix mypy: rename GROK-branch tokens var so transcript fallback stays reachable

* [M35] Add an expiring agent-token format (iat/exp) with backward-compatible verify

* [M35] Wire agent-token TTL at spawn (config + orchestrator + grok) so tokens are bounded

* [M36] Add JWT jti claim and re-mint the sliding cookie only near expiry so a stolen cookie's exp is fixed

* [M36] Redis jti revocation: read_token rejects revoked jtis and logout revokes the current jti

* [phase9] CHANGELOG: bound agent tokens + sliding-cookie re-mint window + jti revocation

* [scan-fix] mypy: type-annotate test files for make-quality gate

CI's make quality runs mypy roboco/ tests/; the scan-fix program's local
gate ran mypy roboco/ only, so test files were never type-checked. Fix all
67 errors across 23 test files with real annotations/casts/asserts/dead-code
removal — no # type: ignore / # noqa added.

* [e2e] Per-test DB isolation + dispatcher re-claim before PM complete

* [scan] Regenerate verb tables for delegate Complexity type

* [scan] Reduce 9 xenon C-ranks to B (auth, orchestrator, gateway, services)

* [scan] Restore short-circuit time.time() in verify_agent_token (security path)

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Co-authored-by: Renn F <rennf93@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-07-07 10:09:23 +02:00
cfde4369b1 Token optimization levers — claim-scoped briefing, payload caps, role-scoped optimal, notification-spawn cooldown (#292)
* feat(gateway): claim-scoped context briefing — heavy sections only on context-acquisition verbs

* feat(gateway): cap unbounded LLM-facing payloads — embedded diffs, notification bodies, handoff journal content, north star

* feat(mcp): role-scope the optimal server's tool groups; index management becomes dev/test-only

* feat(mcp): cap per-result content on kb/error/learning search, mentor sources, rag citations

* refactor(gateway): extract heavy-briefing sections + clip helper to keep xenon ranks

* feat(orchestrator): cross-tick cooldown for notification-triggered spawns

* feat(usage,orchestrator): scope spawn-waste to anthropic sessions; cap agent Bash output via settings env

* docs: claim-scoped briefing, payload caps, optimal role-scoping, notification-spawn cooldown

* test(mcp): type the mixed-item cap fixture explicitly

* fix(orchestrator): lazy-init the notification-spawn cooldown store

* fix(lifecycle): admin-override claim reconciliation + PM request_changes verb (S6 postmortem B3+B4)

B3 — admin_set_status now reconciles claim ownership when leaving BLOCKED:
review/queue targets clear claimed_by/claimed_at/active_claimant_id and
consume the pre-block snapshot (a stale escalation claim was stranding the
next claimant: give_me_work handed the task out while note() bounced
not_authorized — the live b8fe0494 wedge). The pending/in_progress restore
path also syncs active_claimant_id, and a REST PATCH unassign releases the
claim with it.

B4 — new PM verb request_changes: awaiting_pm_review -> needs_revision with
concrete issues. The PM previously had no reject at merge review (only
complete/escalate), so an AC/scope violation looped i_am_blocked->escalate
4x live. Full vertical: lifecycle transition + ActionSpec + IntentSpec,
TaskService.request_changes (routes like a QA fail — original dev for a
leaf, revision PM for assembled; issues appended to dev_notes), verb-runner
compose, choreographer verb (spec gate + non-empty issues + soup check +
a2a delivery of the reject reason), HTTP routes on both PM flows, MCP tool,
journal:decision tracing, PM prompts, regenerated lifecycle artifacts.

* fix(panel): stop scorecard fetches for fallback-roster placeholder ids

useAgents() serves the static AGENT_ROSTER (ids "1".."22") while agent
definitions load; the Scorecards tab fetched a member scorecard per row
immediately, firing 22 guaranteed-422 requests per refetch cycle. Through
the browser's per-origin connection limit those queued every metrics-page
query behind them (~10s of skeletons on every tab). Gate the fetch on a
real member id (agent UUID or the "ceo" alias).

* Upgraded uv.lock

* fix(sequencing): declared deps become real edges + full loop-breaker coverage + assembled-branch freshness (S6 postmortem B1/B2/B6 + breaker)

B1a — code delegations REQUIRE a collision surface: new TASK_AT_DELEGATE
completeness spec (conditional FieldRequirement, when=('task_type','code'))
enforced at the gateway delegate gate. A no-surface code sibling is
'parallel to everything' by analyzer design, which is how two devs ran the
CEO's explicitly-ordered work out of order (f3e1afc5: seq#1 started before
seq#0, zero dependency edges). PM prompts updated; REST/manual creation
(TASK_AT_CREATE) unchanged.

B1b — the CEO's declared 'Depends on' lists become real edges: DraftSurface
gains declared_depends_on; SequencingService.analyze unions declared edges
(validated: self/out-of-range rejected) with the derived collision rules,
cycle-checked by the existing toposort. confirm_live_batch/preview_batch
map each draft's depends_on through (string indices coerced); intake tool
doc + prompter role prompt instruct verbatim copying. The live S6 root got
1 of its 3 declared in-batch edges and started alongside still-running R3.

Breaker coverage — the progress-aware respawn circuit breaker
(_pm_respawn_should_gate: strike counting, status-advance reset,
tracing-gap budget, DB durability, one-shot CEO notification) was consulted
by only 3 spawn paths; the doc/QA/dev/PR-review/PR-gate/revision/board
paths spawned unguarded at fixed cadence (the 26-respawn fe-doc loop,
~$7.20). Now consulted at every task-keyed spawn site (14 total).

B2 — assembled-branch freshness: submit_up/submit_root auto-sync the
assembled branch when it has fallen behind its base (children are terminal
at submit time, so the rebase is safe; master is never written). A rebase
conflict is a hard reject naming the files instead of a blind re-review —
kills the needs_revision↔awaiting_pr_review ping-pong of re-submitting a
stale head. Leaf i_am_done already had the behind-base gate; claim-time
fetch-fresh cut already existed.

B6 — documenter revision-pass loop: the awaiting_documentation bail
rejections (i_am_blocked/unclaim) now name the actual exit (i_documented
re-affirm) and the documenter prompt gets an explicit revision-pass rule.

* fix(orchestration): assembly-integrity gate + dispatcher heartbeat (incidents #11, #1)

Assembly integrity — submit_up/submit_root refuse when a completed child's
commits are not patch-present in the assembled branch (git cherry —
rebase-safe; branch pruned after merge or any git error fails open). Live
incident #11: a completed revert subtask's merge was lost from the cell
branch and the review gate re-flagged the exact violation the revert fixed,
spawning another revision cycle.

Dispatcher heartbeat — a dispatcher.alive audit row every 5 minutes from
the dispatch loop. The 2026-07-01 outage was 4h25m of fleet-wide silence
with no way to distinguish 'loop dead' from 'no work'; the loop's stdout
died with the container while audit_log survives. CHANGELOG for tonight's
full sweep included.

* style: ruff format for the orchestration sweep

* refactor(gateway): fold the assembled-submit guards + trim complexity under the xenon gate

_assembled_submit_guards combines the #11 integrity check and B2 freshen for
submit_up/submit_root; lifecycle's invalid-source remediate and git's
per-child cherry probe extracted into helpers. Test harnesses built via
__new__ stub the respawn tracker (the breaker now runs on their paths).

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Co-authored-by: Renn F <rennf93@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-07-02 05:46:01 +02:00
df87fcf059 Chore/logical gaps element sweep fixes (#287)
* [sweep] lifecycle: 6 confirmed gaps fixed (cancel-ceo-gate, claim_pr_review gate, needs_team_match, valid_next_verbs narrowing, pr_reviewer unclaim, complete side_effect ordering)

* [chore] logical-gaps: route-layer force gate + privileged-field gate + pre-task audit attribution

tasks.py (5 gaps):
- _HATCH_OVERRIDE_STATES expanded to 7: a privileged PATCH INTO a gate
  state (completed/cancelled/awaiting_{qa,documentation,pr_review,
  pm_review,ceo_approval}) now requires explicit force — the panel hatch
  is no longer a quiet click that drops a task into/out of a human gate.
- _RESURRECT_SOURCE_STATES: a privileged PATCH OUT of a terminal status
  (completed/cancelled) resurrects finished work and likewise requires
  force, audited as an override.
- _PRIVILEGED_UPDATE_FIELDS gate: a bare task owner (UPDATE_OWN, no
  ASSIGN) cannot self-reassign / re-team / re-parent / re-depend /
  re-block / rewrite-plan / re-project its task — those structural fields
  are PM-gated; the REST surface must not bypass the verb-layer's
  reassign/delegate/triage gate. A 403 names the touched fields + the
  verb to use instead.
- pre-task create denial: a role that cannot create tasks is now logged
  via log_task_creation_denial (distinct task_creation target_type +
  attempted payload) instead of a 'N/A' task_id that coerced to NULL and
  left the role-escalation attempt unattributable.

audit.py:
- split log_task_action_denial (5-param, under PLR0913) from
  log_task_creation_denial (4-param) — the create path has no task_id;
  the non-UUID sentinel (N/A) is preserved in details[target_id_raw]
  rather than dropped to a NULL target_id indistinguishable from any
  other NULL-target denial.

tests:
- test_tasks_routes.py: parametrized admin-override gate (force
  required for gate + terminal states, force succeeds).
- test_tasks_route_privileged_fields.py: dev owner 403 on
  assigned_to/team/parent_task_id, 200 on dev-facing description.
- test_audit.py: pre-task attribution via log_task_creation_denial +
  non-UUID sentinel preservation.

* [chore] logical-gaps: kanban board column coverage + status-class fixes (6 gaps)

models/kanban.py:
- DEV_COLUMNS: cover all 15 lifecycle statuses (was 7; dropped BACKLOG,
  PAUSED, VERIFYING, NEEDS_REVISION, AWAITING_PR_REVIEW, AWAITING_PM_REVIEW,
  AWAITING_CEO_APPROVAL, CANCELLED). A dev whose task bounced to
  needs_revision or sits in a gate used to see their own task vanish.
- PM_COLUMNS: add the gate/revision/paused/cancelled/backlog columns so the
  cell PM sees the QA->docs->PR-review->PM-review->CEO chain on its board.
- QA_COLUMNS: drop the 'In Review'->VERIFYING mapping. VERIFYING is the dev's
  self-verification (task still with the dev, not with QA); it misrepresented
  dev mid-verification as active QA work.

services/kanban.py:
- _build_flat_board: add an 'Other' fallback column for any task whose status
  matches no configured column, so total_cards == sum(card_count) and no card
  is built-then-silently-dropped (the vanished-card leak).
- get_qa_board: drop VERIFYING from qa_statuses (consistent with the column
  change).
- get_documenter_board: scope to task_type=documentation so a dev IN_PROGRESS
  code task sharing the cell team no longer appears under 'Gathering'.
- get_main_pm_board_flat: widen the status filter to include PENDING/CLAIMED/
  COMPLETED and route those to the incoming/distributed/done columns, which
  were structurally always empty under the in-flight-only filter.

tests/integration/test_kanban_service.py: parametrized coverage of every
dropped dev status, PM gate/revision states, QA excludes VERIFYING,
documenter excludes dev code tasks, flat Main PM incoming/distributed/done
populated, and the 'Other' fallback invariant.

* [chore] logical-gaps: lifecycle-enforcement validators + status-class fixes (5 gaps)

enforcement/task_lifecycle.py:
- drop the spurious VERIFYING->awaiting_documentation legacy edge. The
  canonical exit is submit_qa -> awaiting_qa -> (qa_pass) ->
  awaiting_documentation; the direct edge bypassed the entire QA review hop
  (ungated — no role gate existed for it).
- is_waiting_state: add awaiting_pr_review. The PR-review gate parks the PM on
  the reviewer; it is a waiting state. The hard-coded set was never updated
  when AWAITING_PR_REVIEW was added to the enum, so the gate status was
  miscategorized as active.

foundation/_validate_lifecycle.py:
- _check_status_enum_coverage: replace the tautology (STATUS_GRAPH keys every
  Status by construction) with a real bidirectional check — every non-terminal
  Status is the source of a transition (catches orphan states), and every
  source/target referenced is a real Status member (catches stray-string
  targets).
- _check_terminal_exits: split the {COMPLETED, CANCELLED} reachability into a
  COMPLETED-path requirement + a cancel-exit requirement. The cancel fan-out
  made the old check structurally trivial — a status whose sole exit was cancel
  passed with no real forward completion path.
- _check_status_enum_parity (new, registered): cross-check spec.Status against
  models.base.TaskStatus at import so the ORM column type and the lifecycle
  map cannot drift (TaskType had this guard; Status did not).

tests: verifying->awaiting_documentation rejected, self-fail preserved,
awaiting_pr_review is waiting, mutually-disjoint classification invariant,
status enum parity, stray-string-target / orphan-source / cancel-only-exit
validator rejections.

* [chore] logical-gaps: stream-bus poison-pill ACK + dead-letter, periodic reclaim, cancelled-handler marker cleanup (3 gaps)

stream_bus.py:
- _handle_message isolates Event.from_json in its own try/except; an
  undecodable payload (unknown EventType, bad UUID/timestamp, malformed
  JSON) is dead-lettered then ACKed instead of falling through to the
  broad except that only logged — a poison pill stayed pending forever
  and re-failed on every reclaim. (gap: stream-bus-malformed-event-poison-pill)
- _reclaim_loop spawned alongside _listen_loop in start_listening (cancelled
  in disconnect). XREADGROUP '>' delivers only NEW messages, so a runtime
  handler failure left its message pending and unretried until a restart;
  the loop re-runs recover_pending every 60s so the idempotency-guarded
  replay actually fires. (gap: stream-bus-no-runtime-reclaim-loop)
- _run_handler_guarded marker cleanup catches BaseException so a handler
  cancelled mid-flight (asyncio.CancelledError is BaseException-derived
  since 3.8) clears its SET-NX marker; otherwise the guard suppressed the
  very redelivery that would complete the work. (gap: stream-bus-cancelled-
  handler-keeps-idempotency-marker)

TDD: 4 red->green tests in tests/unit/events/test_bus.py.

* [chore] logical-gaps: verb_runner trailing-None side-effect guard + actor_agent_id threading (3 gaps)

_verb_runner.py:
- run_intent skips the side_effects loop when a TRAILING composed action
  returned None (its source-status check failed under a concurrent
  transition). Previously the loop ran unconditionally on the None task
  and _do_push_branch(None)/_do_pr_merge(None) crashed with a
  NoneType AttributeError, turning the clean INVALID_STATE the
  entry/intermediate guards give into a 500/respawn loop. The trailing
  None now flows to the caller's `if task is None` handler. Latent today
  (no shipped intent has both a None-capable compose and trailing
  side_effects) but the runner is generic. (gap: runner-side-effects-fire-
  on-trailing-none-task)
- _do_push_branch / _do_create_pr / _do_create_root_pr forward
  actor_agent_id=agent.id into git_service (push_branch / create_pr),
  matching _do_pr_merge. Without it, a verb on a task whose assigned_to
  was cleared before the side effect falls through to created_by and
  pushes from / opens a PR against the wrong workspace.
  (gap: side-effect-handlers-drop-actor-agent-id)
- _do_escalate_to_ceo forwards actor_agent_id=agent.id so the
  awaiting_ceo_approval audit row attributes to the specific PM/Board
  agent. (gap: do-escalate-to-ceo-drops-actor-agent-id)

task.py: escalate_to_ceo gains actor_agent_id param, passed as
audit_agent_id to _validate_and_set_status and recorded as
escalated_by_agent_id in the event payload + log. escalate_to_ceo_for_agent
forwards agent.agent_id.

_impl.py: the main_pm complete->escalate path forwards
actor_agent_id=main_pm_agent_id.

TDD: 5 red->green tests (synthetic trailing-None intent, actor forwarding
for push_branch/create_pr/create_root_pr/escalate_to_ceo) + real-DB audit
test asserting the awaiting_ceo_approval row carries the actor UUID.
Updated 3 board escalate_to_ceo tests to assert the forwarded actor.

* [B-REL] release executor: idempotent half-landed retry + commit-scoped CI + decoupled workflow

Three confirmed gaps in the release fail-closed pipeline (#87/#318/#402):

#87 publish_failed retry duplicates changelog: execute() only short-circuits
on an existing tag. A publish_failed outcome (commit pushed + CI green, no
tag) left no tag, so a retry re-ran apply_version_bumps + write_changelog_entry
(re-inserting the entry above the already-present heading -> duplicate) and
commit_and_push (a second chore(release) commit). Add ReleaseOps
.release_commit_sha(version) detecting a prior release commit on the branch
(clone already at the target version); when present, skip the bump/changelog/
gate/commit pipeline and rejoin the shared CI -> publish tail on the existing
commit. No second commit, no duplicate entry.

#318 wait_for_ci polls branch-latest, not the release commit: a later push to
master during the ~40min wait made the latest run's head_sha != the release
sha forever, exhausting _CI_MAX_POLLS -> false ci_failed on a release whose
own CI was green. Thread head_sha through get_latest_ci_conclusion /
_fetch_latest_ci_run (GitHub actions/runs?head_sha=) so the gate polls the
release commit's own run; a concurrent push can no longer mask it.

#402 release CI gate reuses self_heal_ci_workflow: that setting documents an
empty-string mode for single-workflow repos which, inherited here, degraded
the fail-closed gate to the all-workflows mode git.py itself flags as
unreliable. Add release_ci_workflow (default ci.yml) and _resolve_release_
ci_workflow(); the release gate always resolves a NAMED workflow, never None.

Refactor: bundle the CI-fetch per-project inputs into a _CiRunQuery dataclass
so _fetch_latest_ci_run stays under the arg-count gate; unify the half-landed
path into execute's shared tail (drops a separate _publish_existing, one
return path). TDD red->green; ruff/mypy clean.

* [chore] logical-gaps: a2a service hierarchy gate (typed, unconditional) + persist skill on message row (3 gaps)

create_a2a_notification gated A2A hierarchy only when both ends resolved
(`if from_agent and target_agent:`), so an unattributed (from_agent falsy)
or unresolvable-target request slipped past the hierarchy matrix and
dispatched with from_agent='unknown' / to_agent='' — and a denial came back
as a bare ValueError indistinguishable from the missing-task_id ValueError.
Require both ends present, then validate via the shared typed
validate_a2a_access path (A2AAccessDeniedError + route_hint) so the legacy
notification surface enforces the same who-may-talk-to-whom invariant as the
conversation path.

send() accepts skill= and the gateway callers (qa/doc/pr_gate) pass it
expecting the receiver to learn which capability the message is about, but
send_chat_message never read it from options — silently dropped. Persist a
nullable skill column (migration 054) on a2a_messages, wire it through
send_chat_message + _msg_to_model + the A2AChatMessage model, and fix the
send() docstring (it claimed 'recorded in message metadata').

TDD: 4 red→green (skill recorded on message + surfaces in inbox; permission
denied raises typed A2AAccessDeniedError with route_hint; self-A2A raises
typed; missing from_agent raises instead of silent dispatch). 103 a2a
integration tests green; ruff/mypy clean; migration 054 verified
upgrade/downgrade on throwaway PG.

* [chore] logical-gaps: release-proposal already_published closes proposal + heartbeat-lock-loss cancels execute (2 gaps)

approve() closed the proposal only on status=='published'. A retry that finds
the tag already shipped returns 'already_published' (is_already_published),
so if a prior publish's route commit failed / HTTP 504'd, the proposal stayed
non-terminal forever — every retry returned already_published and never
closed it; only a manual cancel unstuck it. Close on both published and
already_published: the release shipped either way.

_heartbeat_loop returned silently when the lock was no longer owned (a >TTL
Redis outage let the mutex expire mid-execute), leaving executor.execute
running UNGUARDED — a concurrent approve (once Redis returns) could then
acquire the lock and _prepare_release_clone rm -rf the in-flight shared
release clone while the first execute was still mid-run_gate, re-opening the
very rm -rf-clone race the mutex+heartbeat exist to prevent. Run execute as a
task; on lock-loss the heartbeat sets a flag and cancels it, and approve()
turns the CancelledError into a structured 'lock_lost' result (an external
cancellation of approve itself still propagates — distinguished by the flag).

TDD: 2 red→green (already_published → COMPLETED not wedged; heartbeat lock-loss
→ lock_lost + execute cancelled, proposal not completed). 8 concurrency tests
green; ruff/mypy clean.

* [chore] logical-gaps: release approve async dispatch (202) — kill the 40min synchronous HTTP 504

The approve route ran the whole fail-closed execute inline: clone(600s) +
gate(1800s) + CI poll(2400s) + publish(300s) ≈ up to 85min worst case. nginx
(the single :3000 entry point, ~60s read timeout) 504'd long before it
finished, so the CEO's approve always appeared to fail even when the release
succeeded server-side — the structured ReleaseResult was unreachable over the
wire. dispatch_approve spawns the execute in a background task with a fresh
session (built from the request session's engine) and the route returns 202
'accepted' immediately; _INFLIGHT_APPROVES tracks the dispatched task for
observability (self-cleans via done-callback; the Redis mutex still refuses a
double-execute on a second click). The panel already polls GET /proposal every
30s, so it observes the final status (COMPLETED on published/already_published,
else the proposal stays open for retry); the card's approve toast now treats
'accepted' as an info 'dispatched, running in the background' instead of the
old 'Release halted' warning.

TDD: 2 route tests red→green (approve returns 202 'accepted' + the proposal
transitions to COMPLETED / stays PENDING once the background faked execute
completes; the dispatched task is awaited while the executor patch is live).
83 release tests green; ruff/mypy clean; panel typecheck+lint+format+test
green.

* [chore] mcp-servers: normalize exception bodies to Envelope + lift task_id/correlation_id on circuit_open (#232 #359 #57)

flow_server/do_server: the non-404 JSON path returned exception-handler bodies
raw (dict `error` from roboco/generic/http exception handlers, or a 422
`detail` list) — neither is the Envelope wire format the agent is prompted to
trust (string error kind + message + remediate + missing), so on any
service/validation failure the agent got no remediate and flailed until the
breaker tripped. _normalize_exception_envelope lifts the body into a real
Envelope (code -> counted string kind via _classify_dict_error_code, NOT_FOUND
-> not_found, message lifted, remediate synthesized, missing=[]; 422 -> incomplete_input with the validation detail preserved). The synthesized
envelope still flows through the breaker so a 500/422 storm trips it.

_record_and_check_circuit: the circuit_open substitution dropped task_id /
correlation_id from the top level (the SDK's envelope omits them); lift them
from the original rejection so the agent's envelope contract and ops audit-join
of the trip event still work, not just nested in inner.

intake_server._post_event: capture the relay response body under `detail` on
non-success so the grok intake agent gets the real reason (e.g. 'session not in
MegaTask scope' on a 422) instead of an opaque http_422 token with no
remediation.

TDD red->green; ruff + mypy clean; 157 mcp/SDK-breaker tests pass.

* [chore] a2a-routes: authenticate send_message responder + gate cancel task (PM-only) (#116 #423)

send_message took the responder identity from a client-supplied
metadata.from_agent, so any caller could spoof anyone (e.g.
from_agent='ceo') in the task's notes and in the spawn/notification
routed back to the original requester. Stamp the authenticated caller's
slug as the responder instead (CurrentAgentContext).

cancel_task was ungated: no auth dependency and no role check, so any
agent (or any caller) could cancel a task the lifecycle rule reserves to
PM roles (Any -> cancelled: PM roles only) — and the cascade-cancel of
all non-terminal descendants ran with a hardcoded cell_pm role and no
recorded actor. Add require_any_authenticated_agent + a PM-or-above gate,
and thread the authenticated role (into the cascade role gate) and slug
(into the cancellation note) into A2AService.cancel_task.

Tests: send_message ignores a spoofed from_agent and records the
authenticated slug; cancel rejects a developer (403) and a missing auth
header; a PM cancel threads role + slug into the service; the pre-existing
cancel success/already-terminal/not-found tests now run under a PM context
(the success test's body was missing the A2A 'name' field and false-passed
on a 422 — now genuine).

* [chore] work-session-routes: ownership check on mutating routes + stamp merge_pr merged_by from auth (#158 #271)

Every mutating work-session route keyed off session_id alone after the
role gate, so any developer could commit into / abandon / complete a
peer's active session (breaking the single-active-WorkSession invariant
and stranding that task) and any PM could merge any cell's PR — the REST
surface bypassed the verb layer's active-claimant gate entirely. Add a
shared _assert_ownership guard: dev ops require session.agent_id to be
the caller; PM merge_pr requires a cell PM to own the session's task cell
(main PM / CEO / board coordinate every cell), 404 for a missing session.

merge_pr took merged_by from the request body, so any PM could record a
PR merge under another agent's id, corrupting the merge audit trail the
completion/CEO-approval chain and metrics rely on. Drop the body param
and stamp the authenticated caller's agent_id as merged_by (the
MergePRRequest schema is gone with it).

Tests: a second dev's token hitting a peer's /commits and /abandon -> 403
(session left active); a foreign-cell PM -> 403, same-cell PM -> 200; a
spoofed body merged_by is ignored and the persisted row records the PM.

* [chore] ci-watch/dep-update dedupe: normalize git_url + treat empty-string workflow as default (#148 #1267)

The per-repo open-task dedupe filtered ProjectTable.git_url == git_url
(exact), while the orchestrator collapses its poll set by repo_key
(lower / strip trailing '/' / drop '.git'). Two projects whose git_url
differs only by those accidentals (a monorepo's cell-projects, or a
re-registered canonical project) defeated the one-open-task-per-repo
invariant and opened duplicate fix / dep-update tasks. Extract
roboco.utils.converters.repo_key as the single source and match the
dedupe query on its SQL mirror (regexp_replace(rtrim(lower(...)))).

The ci_watch (git_url, workflow) dedupe used func.coalesce(ci_watch_workflow,
default), but SQL COALESCE only substitutes for NULL — a project saved with
ci_watch_workflow='' (reachable via panel/API) yielded coalesce('', default)
= '' != default, so the DB diverged from the engine/orchestrator (which
collapse '' to the default via Python truthiness) and opened a duplicate
fix task every red cycle. Wrap with func.nullif(..., '') so an empty string
collapses to the default too.

Tests: a ''-workflow + NULL-workflow project on one repo dedupe to one task;
git_url accidentals (.git suffix / trailing slash) dedupe across both
ci_watch and dep_update. The orchestrator _repo_key now delegates to repo_key.

* [chore] admin_set_status: attribute the blocked-restore to the admin actor + emit override row (#2176)

admin_set_status taking a BLOCKED task to pending/in_progress with a
pre-block snapshot returned early via _apply_pre_block_restore, which
emitted its audit row with agent_role=None and audit_agent_id=restored_owner
(the pre-block dev) — the admin actor_id/actor_role were dropped entirely.
Because this branch runs with force=false (pending/in_progress aren't hatch
destinations), the distinguishing task.admin_override row (written only on
the non-restore path, gated by force) was never written, so an operator
could silently re-own a blocked task with no trace of who triggered it.

Thread actor_id/actor_role into _apply_pre_block_restore (admin_set_status
passes them with admin_override=True) so the transition audit row attributes
the re-owning to the admin, and emit a task.admin_override row (forced=False,
restore=True) on this branch independent of the force flag. The in-band
unblock(restore=True) path passes no actor and keeps the legacy attribution
(restored owner) with no override row.

Test: admin PATCH status=pending on a BLOCKED task with a snapshot attributes
every audit row to the admin (not the restored dev) and emits the override
row.

* [chore] converters: typed InvalidIdentifierError from require_uuid + log the orchestrator drop (#25)

require_uuid raised a bare ValueError('UUID value cannot be None'), so a
malformed/None identifier propagated as an opaque error callers either let
500 or broad-catch-and-silently-swallow — the orchestrator reaper call site
wrapped it in a bare except-Exception return with NO log, dropping a bad
task_id_str invisibly. Introduce InvalidIdentifierError(ValueError) and
raise it from require_uuid for both None and unparseable input; it stays a
ValueError subclass so existing except-ValueError / except-Exception callers
are unaffected, but typed so a caller can handle a bad identifier distinctly.
The reaper now catches the typed error, logs at warning, and no-ops — the
drop is visible instead of swallowed.

Tests: None and an unparseable string both raise InvalidIdentifierError; it
subclasses ValueError (back-comat).

* [sweep] notification_delivery: list_system_notifications over-fetch-then-slice for pending_ack_only

The SQL limit was applied before the post-fetch 'not fully acked' Python
filter. A window of newer fully-acked ack-required rows filled the limit
and masked older unacked notifications the operator still needs to act on
(the pending-ACK queue silently under-reported; a CEO-approval notification
could be hidden by newer already-acked noise). pending_ack_only now drops
the SQL limit, filters in Python, then slices to limit; the non-pending
branch keeps the SQL limit unchanged.

* [sweep] proactive: drop vestigial code-patterns surface from context package

Code indexing was removed, so _find_code_patterns always returned [] yet
build_context_package still called it, ContextPackage.code_patterns stayed
a live field, _build_summary advertised 'Found N code patterns', and
_count_items counted it — a permanently-empty slot the system claimed to
populate. The dead method, its call, the summary line, and the count
reference are removed. The code_patterns field itself is retained
(always-empty, serialized in to_dict and the optimal route response) for
API/schema back-compat, marked deprecated in its docstring.

* [sweep] migration 052: integration-test the task_cell_projects unique constraint

The UNIQUE(task_id, team) 'one project per cell per task' invariant was
only exercised through SimpleNamespace stubs that never touch a DB
session, so the real Postgres constraint was unverified. If it were
mis-declared or dropped, two same-team rows could coexist and
_resolve_subtask_project would non-deterministically return one, cutting
a subtask's branch/PR against the wrong repo. Adds an integration test
that inserts two same-(task_id, team) rows and asserts IntegrityError on
uq_task_cell_projects_task_team, plus a positive different-teams case.

* [sweep] pr_gate: classify MegaTask root-subtask as root so its root->master PR gets COMMENT (#608)

_post_gate_review_to_pr identified a root->master PR by absence of a
parent_task_id. A MegaTask root-subtask opens its own root->master PR into
the project's master (submit_root, parent='master') but carries
parent_task_id=umbrella, so is_root was False and the gate posted APPROVE
(pr_pass) / REQUEST_CHANGES (pr_fail) instead of COMMENT. The APPROVE could
satisfy a single-approval master branch-protection rule and let a non-CEO
merge via the GitHub UI before the CEO, against the documented invariant
that only the CEO acts on master. is_root now also covers
is_batch_root_subtask (batch_id set + parented); a non-batch cell-PM
coordination root keeps batch_id=None so it stays a cell->root PR
(APPROVE/REQUEST_CHANGES). Extends the _task test helper with a batch_id
kwarg.

* [sweep] enforcement: complete the status-class partition + coverage invariant (#247)

is_waiting_state already covered awaiting_pr_review (the primary fix), but
the doc's coverage invariant was missing: backlog and pending fell through
ALL three predicates (terminal/active/waiting), so a future enum addition
could silently land in no category. is_waiting_state now also covers
pending (waiting for a claim) and backlog (waiting on PM activation), so
is_terminal_state / is_active_state / is_waiting_state partition the whole
Status enum. Adds test_status_classification_covers_every_enum_member
asserting every Status member is classified by exactly one predicate, so
an enum addition that drifts the partition fails the build.

* [chore] test-suite: unblock the quality gate (mypy + 2 behavior fixes)

12 mypy errors across 5 test files: drop banned type:ignore comments
(lifecycle_spec monkeypatch uses cast(Any, ...); the ignores were unused),
wrap SQLAlchemy-typed ids with cast(UUID, ...) for AgentContext / WorkSession
args (AgentTable.id is Mapped[sqla UUID], not uuid.UUID), annotate **kw: Any,
and cast(Any, svc) for a method-assignment mock.

test_cancel_descendants_cascades_for_authorized_pm: the child was parked in
awaiting_ceo_approval, which the spec gates to CEO-only cancel
(lifecycle.py:378-389) — a cell_pm cascade correctly refuses it (the #103
refuse path). Use a PM-cancelable in_progress child so the positive-cascade
assertion holds; the refuse case is already covered by its sibling test.

test_a2a_message_auth: /message/send now resolves the authenticated
responder slug via get_agent_context (a DB lookup, #116). This is a DB-free
unit test of the token gate + route body, so stub get_agent_context in the
fixture — the gate (require_any_authenticated_agent) still runs real and
401s on a missing/forged token before that dependency resolves.

* [chore] complexity: split 5 C-rank blocks to <=B for the xenon gate

No behavior change; each C-rank function factored into a helper so the
complexity gate (xenon --max-absolute B) holds.

- lifecycle.can_invoke_action: extract the team-match check into
  _check_team_match.
- a2a.cancel_task: extract _status_value_of + _apply_cancel_note.
- task._apply_pre_block_restore: extract _restore_block_ownership (status/
  owner restore + snapshot clear) and _emit_admin_override_audit (#2176).
- release_proposal.approve: extract _finalize_release_lock (heartbeat/
  execute cancel + mutex release) out of the finally.
- kanban.get_main_pm_board_flat: dict-dispatch the column routing instead
  of a 7-branch if/elif ladder (status wins over team; in-flight + no cell
  team falls through to Coordination, #196).

* [chore] lifecycle artifacts: regenerate to match the spec (foundation-check)

The rendered artifacts (docs/rag/lifecycle, panel/lib/lifecycle.json, the
_generated role-prompt fragments) had drifted from the spec — the prior
sweep commits (cancel-CEO gate, claim_pr_review preconditions, pr_reviewer
unclaim, complete merge-first ordering) changed spec data without
regenerating, and the foundation-check render+diff stage never ran because
mypy failed earlier in the gate. make foundation-check now passes.

* [fix] chat: wire live message delivery end-to-end (MESSAGE_SENT)

send_message persisted messages but never broadcast them, there was no
MESSAGE_SENT event type or bridge forwarder, and the panel session view
had no websocket subscription — the live chat path was dead end-to-end.

- add EventType.MESSAGE_SENT and publish it best-effort on every persisted
  send (a bus outage logs, never rolls back the durable row)
- bridge _handle_message_event forwards to /ws/sessions/{id} and
  /ws/channels/{id}; subscribe it in register_websocket_bridge_handlers
- panel useSessionStream subscribes the session view; the page invalidates
  the transcript + session-detail queries on each message.new so the held
  (staleTime Infinity) views refresh live without the manual Refresh

* [fix] chat: return session task_links in one read; drop panel N+1

GET /sessions/{id} ran a bare select and session_to_response omitted
task_links, so it always returned them empty — the panel worked around it
with a triple-fetch (get session, get-tasks-for-session which re-fetched
the same endpoint, then a task GET per link), and the links never showed.

- add get_session_with_links(_or_raise) that eager-loads task_links -> task
- add session_to_response_with_links; GET /sessions/{id} uses both
- panel useSession now relies on the single populated response; remove the
  dead getTasksForSession + per-task fetch and the unused tasksApi import

* [fix] chat: validate reply_to against the effective session; guard closed-session composer

Posting to a closed session transparently redirects the message to the
group's active session (intended for agents holding stale refs), but
reply_to was validated against the requested session, not the one the
message lands in — letting a cross-session reply slip through — and the
panel silently posted there too, so the message vanished from the view.

- validate reply_to against session.id (the effective, possibly-redirected
  session), not req.session_id
- panel: render a "session is closed" notice instead of the composer for a
  non-active session; if a send still lands elsewhere (stale status), toast
  that it went to the active session rather than letting it appear to vanish

* [fix] chat: close session/group/message read IDOR; fix doubled 404s

get_session and the messages-list took an agent id but never used it, and
get_group took none at all — any authenticated agent could read any private
channel's group, session, and message transcripts. Three NotFoundError sites
also passed a full sentence as resource_type, yielding "... not found not found".

- add require_group_read_access / require_session_read_access (channel
  member / silent observer / privileged, mirroring list_group_sessions_for_agent)
  and get_session_with_links_for_agent; enforce on GET /sessions/{id},
  GET /sessions/{id}/tasks, GET /messages, GET /groups/{id} (-> 403 on deny)
- fix the three doubled-404 sites to the NotFoundError(resource_type, resource_id) form

Also folds two gate fixes for the prior chat commits: cast session.id to UUID
for the reply_to validation, and ruff import/format touch-ups.

Note: POST /messages intentionally still skips the channel write-ACL on the
HTTP (human-CEO/panel) path — the CEO is not in writers for 8/11 channels, so
enforcing it there would block the panel; the gateway/agent path enforces it.

* [fix] secretary: harden live chat — stuck spinner, mid-reply clobber, reload

The Secretary live chat had three live-behaviour bugs: a dropped SSE
connection left a permanent "thinking…" spinner (openStream set no
transport-error handler, so the no-data error Event was swallowed by the
JSON-parse guard and streaming never reset); sending mid-reply wiped the
accumulation buffer and pushed a user message without guarding the in-flight
turn, abandoning/duplicating the reply; and the chat lived only in React
state, so a reload wiped it.

- route the dual-purpose `error` listener: server-sent JSON → handleEvent,
  transport error (no data) → reset streaming, surface a notice, close stream
- guard send while streaming (streamingRef); disable the composer Send/Enter
  while a reply is in flight
- persist sessionId + messages to localStorage (TTL'd) and, on mount, restore
  + re-attach the stream once the backend confirms the session is still alive
  (mirrors the intake/prompter durability)

* [chore] groups: extract group-read helper to keep module rank A

The get_group IDOR access-check added try/except branches that tipped the
module to xenon rank B. Extract the service-error→HTTP mapping into a small
helper so get_group stays lean and the module is rank A again (behaviour
unchanged; covered by the groups route tests).

* [fix] chat: correct panel session-task mutation endpoints

linkTask/unlinkTask posted to /add-task and /remove-task (with a body), but
the backend exposes POST /sessions/{id}/tasks and DELETE
/sessions/{id}/tasks/{task_id} (path param) — so every call 404'd. updateTaskLink
targeted /update-task, a route that does not exist at all. Point linkTask and
unlinkTask at the real routes and drop the phantom updateTaskLink. All three were
unused, so no behaviour changes today — this removes a latent 404 trap.

* [docs] chat: document live message delivery (MESSAGE_SENT / message.new)

Document the live transcript-update path the chat-subsystem fixes wired:
- docs/api/websockets.md: add the message.new event-types row (carried on
  /ws/sessions + /ws/channels from EventType.MESSAGE_SENT) and note the
  forwarder sets type:"message.new"
- docs/panel/communications-and-journals.md: the session transcript updates
  live; a closed session is read-only (composer disabled)
- CLAUDE.md: name message.new on the per-resource streams and make
  MESSAGE_SENT the worked example of the add-a-live-event recipe

The internal roboco_map slices (gitignored) were updated in place to match.

* [docs] reconcile published docs with code since v0.13.0

Drift caught by the doc-reconciliation pass (all verified against HEAD):
- CLAUDE.md + rag: pr_reviewer gained the unclaim verb (16b71be8)
- rag permissions/task-states/task-tools: awaiting_ceo_approval -> cancelled is
  CEO-only, not PM+CEO (16b71be8 cancel-ceo-gate; lifecycle.py:373-382)
- deploy/env-reference: ROBOCO_APP_VERSION default 0.9.0 -> 0.14.0 (config.py:31);
  add ROBOCO_RELEASE_CI_WORKFLOW row (2759edf7, config.py:454)
- deploy/data-and-migrations: 44->54 revisions, head 054_a2a_message_skill
- optional/autonomous-maintenance: CI-watch dedupe is per (repo, workflow) (d34bc1a7)

---------

Co-authored-by: Renn F <rennf93@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-07-01 01:11:34 +02:00
536bbb64f3 Chore/all/logical gaps sweep (#286)
* release-manager: fencing-token mutex + executor/readiness hardening

Closes the release-mutex TTL race (#17, HIGH) and the remaining
release-manager gaps (#88, #89, #201, #202):

- #17: the release mutex is now acquired with a uuid4 fencing token and
  released via Lua compare-and-del; a background asyncio heartbeat
  compare-and-expires the TTL ~every 60s while the execute owns the lock,
  so a live execute no longer expires and a crashed one auto-releases
  <=3000s. A second approve after TTL expiry cannot usurp and rm -rf the
  in-flight clone — the fenced first-finally keeps its lock.
- #89: a Redis outage during acquire stays fail-closed (the execute never
  runs) but now returns a distinct redis_unavailable result + log so the
  CEO sees the cause instead of a false already_in_progress.
- #88: commit_and_push RuntimeError is wrapped into a structured
  ReleaseResult(commit_failed) instead of a 500.
- #201: first-release fallback still emits untracked version-ref files as
  gaps (no longer silenced by the first-release branch).
- #202: _await_proc awaits proc.wait() after kill() so a timeout cannot
  leak a zombie.

TDD: tests/unit/services/test_release_proposal_concurrency.py extends
_FakeRedis with eval/get/expire and pins the fencing/heartbeat/usurper
invariants + the redis_unavailable result.

* PM/code-task creation guard + main_pm coverage + issue carve-out

Closes the creation-time role x task_type gap (the user's explicit example)
and the main_pm delegate hole:

- New pure helper `pm_cannot_own_code(role, task_type, is_issue_resolution)`
  in foundation/policy/batch.py — single source of truth. Both PM roles
  (cell_pm + main_pm) coordinate; a `code` task assigned/claimed by a PM is
  a structural mismatch, EXCEPT a PM taking a code task in needs_revision to
  resolve review/QA issues directly (the carve-out).
- Creation-time guard: TaskService.create calls the helper (closes the
  create-with-cell-PM-assignee hole the team-based check misses).
- Delegate path + spec claim gate consult the same helper.
  `_validate_assignee_task_type` / `_task_type_hint_for` now key on the
  Role (CELL_PM OR MAIN_PM), not the cell-PM slug set — closes the
  delegate-to-main-pm-as-code hole.
- identity.role_for_uuid_or_none is None-tolerant (treats None as "not a
  PM" and proceeds) so a malformed/missing assignee cannot crash the guard.
- prompter.create_task_from_draft reuses the guard at draft-create.

TDD: test_batch.py (helper matrix + carve-out), test_main_pm_code_guard.py
(main_pm coverage), test_delegate_assignee_task_type.py (delegate parity),
test_lifecycle_spec.py (claim gate: rejects PM claiming code from pending,
allows from needs_revision + PM claiming planning + dev claiming code).

* task-service: completion hooks + escalation/cancel/audit hardening

Closes the task-service cluster (#21/#98, #99, #100, #101, #103, #216; #102
verified already-covered, #217 verified already-guarded):

- #21/#98: ceo_approve now closes the work session + triggers completion
  hooks before worktree removal (no-op when work_session_id is None), so a
  CEO-approved task lands the same close-path as PM-completed.
- #99: apply_escalation routes through the transition validator with an
  enumerated escalation exemption (_ESCALATABLE_TO_BLOCKED) instead of an
  arbitrary source->BLOCKED write; BACKLOG is refused.
- #100: branchless ceo_reject awaiting_ceo_approval->pending gets a real
  spec edge (ceo_reject_to_pool ActionSpec + _STATUS_TRANSITIONS entry) so
  future admin-override tightening can't wedge the path.
- #101: revision_count bump is documented as the single chokepoint, with
  the pre-block RESTORE path undoing it when restoring a snapshotted
  needs_revision (same cycle resuming, not a new rejection).
- #103: cancel cascade surfaces non-terminal orphans instead of swallowing
  the role violation.
- #216: _remove_task_worktree_on_terminal escalates recurring FS/permission
  failure (audit/notify after N) instead of silent-failing forever.
- #102: pinned in test_verb_runner_midverb_invalid_state.py (committed with
  the choreographer cluster) — verb-runner savepoints already surface a
  concurrent mid-verb state change as INVALID_STATE.
- #217: submit_for_qa claimed_by guard verified intact.

TDD: test_task.py, test_worktree_cleanup_on_complete.py,
test_escalation_board_guard.py (#99), test_task_service_* integration,
test_lifecycle_spec.py.

* choreographer: gate-claim guards + pr-gate hardening + fail-open logging

Closes the choreographer cluster (#5/#222, #29, #30, #82, #188, #189,
#192; #157/#187 verified already-fixed/pinned; #102 pin lives here):

- #5/#222: the unchanged-PR guard's fail-open head_sha lookup now logs
  (warning) on a slug-resolver/git-helper error so a regression cannot
  silently turn the pr_fail re-submit loop-stopper into a no-op. Stays
  fail-open (never wedges the PM).
- #29: pinned (REFUTED-with-pin) — _lane_claim_guard already returns the
  error envelope without releasing the claim on a transient lookup error.
- #30: pinned (REFUTED-with-negative-pin) — a non-batch branchless main_pm
  root cannot bypass the complete spec gate (is_batch_umbrella requires
  batch_id set).
- #82: _post_gate_review_to_pr wraps the slug-resolution call in try/except
  (mirrors _capture_pr_head_sha) so a malformed cell_map AttributeError no
  longer 500s the reviewer after a committed gate transition.
- #188: _is_hand_formatted_verdict anchors the header regex to line-start,
  so a quoted (> ## Summary) or inline (mid-prose) header mention no longer
  false-refuses a hand-formatted verdict.
- #189: pr_fail re-captures the PR head SHA after the transition commits and
  re-stamps the verdict note only when it advanced (closes the stale-SHA
  false-allow loop-hole); no-advance stays a single note write.
- #192: claim_gate_review skips the dev claim guards (already_active/paused/
  lane) via a new skip_dev_guards param — a pr_reviewer inspecting an
  assembled PR does not start work, so the single-active-task / code-lane
  invariants do not apply; the dependency guard is kept, and QA's
  claim_review parity is preserved.
- #157/#187: verified in tree — pr_review-only handoff is intentionally
  prior-work-worth-resuming; self_review_block wiring (reviewer != dev)
  holds on assembled tasks with 4 existing pin tests.

TDD: test_choreographer_*, test_pr_gate_posts_review (#82),
test_pr_review_hand_format_guard (#188), test_submit_root_unchanged_pr_guard
(#189), test_claim_gate_review_guards (#192), test_verb_runner_midverb
_invalid_state (#102 pin).

* playbook curate: guard the gating commit against a poisoned session (#55)

The explicit `session.commit()` that gates the RAG index (commit-before-index
so an uncommitted playbook cannot land in the corpus) raised PendingRollbackError
when a prior mid-verb failure had rolled the caller's session back — 500ing the
whole curation verb instead of returning a clean envelope, and (worse) risking a
fall-through to index an uncommitted playbook. Wrap the commit: on
PendingRollbackError, log + return invalid_state with a re-fetch/retry remediate
and skip the index. The happy path still commits exactly once then indexes.

TDD: test_playbook_verbs.py — poisoned-session returns a clean invalid_state and
does NOT index; clean-session still commits once + indexes (pins no fail-closed
inversion / no double-commit).

* [chore] gateway: atomic activate merge — preserve probe_failures across re-park (#156)

activate() was a blind SET that reset probe_failures to 0, so a probe-failure
increment that just landed (or was in flight) could be wiped by a concurrent
re-park — resetting the give-up / CEO-notify count mid-episode. Route activate
through a server-side Lua merge (roboco:activate_rate_limit) that refreshes the
episode metadata (kind / activated_at / retry_after / affected_agents) while
carrying over the previous probe_failures count. Indivisible w.r.t. the
increment/reset scripts (Redis single-threads an EVAL).

#56 (notify to prompter/secretary refused) verified SAFE — the pin tests
(test_notify_rejects_prompter_recipient / _secretary_recipient /
_allows_ceo_recipient) already cover the only human notify target invariant;
no legitimate send is dropped, no code change.

* [chore] foundation/policy: spec gates + QA retry-key pin (Cluster F)

#50 sync_branch composes=() so the spec gate accepted a terminal/paused/
blocked task and the handler rebased a dead/parked branch — add a
PRECONDITION_SYNC_BRANCH_STATE (claimed/in_progress/verifying/needs_revision
only), rejection_kind=invalid_state. TDD: 28 spec tests.

#148 submit_root's prose asserts 'a Main-PM root is planning-typed, never
code' but only the creation path (main_pm_cannot_own_code) backed it — add
PRECONDITION_ROOT_NOT_CODE on the submit_root IntentSpec (defense in depth),
scoped to submit_root only so the shared submit_for_review action keeps
cell_pm+code submit_up parity. Graceful on Mock/None task_type so the
choreographer Mock-task tests don't crash. TDD: 2 spec tests.

#150 VERB_RETRY_LIMITS is keyed by the MCP-exposed names (pass/fail), not
the IntentSpec-internal pass_review/fail_review — already correct; add a
pin test so a one-sided rename can't silently drop the QA-handoff cap.

#142 main_pm_cannot_own_code/pm_cannot_own_code already normalize casing
(.lower()) — no-op, pin test test_main_pm_cannot_own_code_is_case_insensitive
already in tree.

* [chore] worksession-git: 405 merge-method fallback + non-destructive close (Cluster W)

#108 _merge_with_retry hardcoded 'squash' and raised MergeConflictError on a
405 with no method fallback — wedging the PM on an open, mergeable PR whose
repo merely had the squash button off. Add a 405 fallback to a permitted
method (via _first_allowed_merge_method, exclude='squash'), mirroring the CEO
merge_pull_request path. A 405 with no permitted fallback (or a second 405)
still falls through to the already-merged disambiguation / MergeConflictError.
TDD: 2 new tests (fallback-success, no-permitted-method-raises).

#109 close_pull_request defaulted delete_branch=True, so the choreographer
supersede path deleted a superseded PR's branch while the orchestrator
supersede path explicitly preserved it — the two disagreed, and the
destructive default ran on the 'close the dead PR' path where the branch may
still be referenced / useful for audit. Flip the default to False (opt-in
deletion) and make the choreographer caller explicit (parity with the
orchestrator). TDD: 1 new test (default preserves branch); existing
deletion-when-requested test now passes delete_branch=True explicitly.

Dispositions verified against current code (no silent drops):
- #27 REFUTED/FIXED-UNDEPLOYED: work_session.merge_pr resolves by session_id
  (no global pr_number lookup); the real cross-repo collision fix
  (project_id scoping on pr_merge/close_pull_request/rebase_pr_for_task/
  pr_target) is already in tree + tested (test_pr_merge_scopes_task_lookup_
  by_project_id, test_close_pull_request_scopes_task_lookup_by_project_id,
  test_git_pr_target_scoping). Verify-only.
- #106 REFUTED: a guard exists (rev-list --count {base_ref}..{branch} == 0)
  before reset --hard + base_ref falls back to default_branch; tests lock
  the safety (test_create_branch_never_repoints_branch_with_real_work,
  test_create_branch_does_not_reset_or_checkout_shared_clone).
- #218 BY-DESIGN: the merge_pr idempotent guard intentionally preserves the
  audit trail (docstring + test_merge_pr_idempotent_on_already_completed_
  preserves_audit_trail); a COMPLETED session always carries attribution
  (COMPLETED only via merge_pr), so the NULL-COMPLETED case is unreachable.
- #104 BY-DESIGN: agents never merge to the repo default branch in RoboCo's
  model (root→master is CEO-only); the guard is a correct CEO-only rail,
  locked by test_pr_merge_into_default_branch_is_ceo_only.

* [chore] llm: surface disabled-provider downgrade + scrub probe log (#20/#3/#211)

#20/#3 resolve_for_agent silently fell through to the legacy Anthropic path
when a configured provider was disabled — indistinguishable from 'no
assignment', so the operator got no signal that spawns bypassed the
provider. Surface the bypass with a warning (graceful degradation stays the
default — a stalled spawn is worse than a routing miss) and add an opt-in
ROBOCO_ROUTING_STRICT (default-off) that fail-closes instead. Wired into the
panel Feature Flags card. TDD: 3 unit tests (warn-on-disabled, strict-raises,
no-assignment-stays-silent).

#211 probe_ollama_tags logged str(exc) raw on the generic-exception branch —
structured log could carry connection internals / stack traces. Log the
exception class name only. TDD: existing generic-branch test strengthened to
assert the log kwargs don't leak the raw text.

* [chore] support/stream/optimal/playbook/comms hardening (Cluster S)

Logical-gaps sweep, Cluster S (TDD, red→green per item):

#64 notification_delivery.acknowledge published the NOTIFICATION_ACKED bus
event directly (bypassing the outbox) — a rollback left a phantom ACK. Route
it through defer_bus_publish (after_commit), mirroring deliver.

#76 playbook.archive()/reject() stamped the archiver into approved_by/
approved_at, overwriting approval provenance (and fabricating approval for a
rejected draft). Add archived_by/archived_at (migration 053 + table + model)
and write those on archive/reject, leaving approval attribution intact.

#181 vector_store.replace_chunks wiped existing index rows even when every
chunk lacked an embedding (embedder failure). Skip the wipe when chunks is
non-empty but records is empty — preserve good rows for nothing.

#182/#183 optimal.record_learning recomputed a learn-{md5(full_content)}
tracking source that never matched the URI the plugin embedded chunks under
(roboco://learnings/{doc_id}, doc_id=lrn-{hash100}). Use the plugin's
returned doc_id so de-index/lookup-by-source finds the chunk rows.

#96/#97 transcription periodic flush only peeked ready buffers (unbounded
map growth) and ran sync callbacks on the event loop (a slow callback
blocked the flush task). Flush (remove) each ready buffer after notifying,
and offload each callback to a thread.

#212 _TEAM_SCOPED_ROLES was duplicated across communications/agents_config/
seeds. Single-source it in foundation.policy.communications; consumers
reference that object (identity-tested).

#19 stream_bus._dispatch_event re-ran already-succeeded handlers on a
recover_pending replay (duplicate side effects). Add a per-(event.id,
handler) SET-NX idempotency guard: skip on a hit, clear the key on handler
failure so a replay re-runs it, fail-open when redis is unavailable.

Dispositions (no code change): #77 approve() index-write pair asserted
BY-DESIGN; #62/#63 notification DB-dedup verified pinned; #184/#185 REFUTED;
#214 REFUTED; #215 BY-DESIGN.

* [chore] db/migrations: graph-integrity guard + conftest unreachable-DB warning (Cluster D)

Logical-gaps sweep, Cluster D (TDD + real alembic upgrade head verification):

#16/#37 add tests/unit/test_migration_graph_integrity.py — a static guard that
the alembic migration graph has exactly one head, every down_revision resolves,
every revision is reachable from a root, and no revision id is duplicated. The
suite builds its DB via Base.metadata.create_all (not alembic upgrade head), so
a forked head / dangling down_revision / duplicate id would otherwise ship
silently and break a real deploy mid-stream.

Caught a real bug in the process: migration 053's revision id
"053_playbook_archived_attribution" (33 chars) exceeded alembic's
alembic_version.version_num VARCHAR(32) — a fresh `alembic upgrade head` raised
"value too long for type character varying(32)" at the 053 stamp. Renamed to
"053_playbook_archived_attr" (26 chars). Verified end-to-end on a scratch PG:
upgrade head stamps 053, downgrade -1 returns to 052. (The pre-existing
test_every_migration_revision_id_fits_the_alembic_version_column guard is now
green too; it had been red on the 33-char id.)

#90 conftest silently pytest.skip'd every DB test when Postgres was unreachable
— a non-Docker box reported a green run of all-skips. Extract the warning into
_warn_if_pg_unavailable and fire it at import so the operator sees the DB is
down (the per-test skip path is unchanged). Test: warns when unavailable, silent
when reachable (verified under -W error::UserWarning).

Dispositions (verified against real code + a fresh alembic upgrade head, no code
change): #6 REFUTED — sa.Enum(create_type=False) at 001:119/304 does NOT break a
fresh upgrade head (001→052 applied cleanly on a scratch DB); #8 REFUTED — the
upgrade passed 030/031 (RAG chunk tables) without pgvector installed; pgvector is
a runtime concern handled by roboco/db/base.py, not a migration prerequisite;
#40 REFUTED — the `|| echo` mask was already removed and partial-schema drift
reports exit 1 (only by-design unreachable/unmigrated skips remain); #204 REFUTED
— the property walk seed IS pinned (random.Random(20260504), line 97); #205/#206
REFUTED — the smoke-trace fixture IS wired via
test_lifecycle_smoke_replay.py (8 passed); no shell smoke scripts exist in the
tree to wire; #137 BY-DESIGN — pyproject version 0.14.0 is an operational note,
no code gate.

* [chore] panel: admin-override force flag + kanban subtask_count + ws cleanup + ui-store dedupe (Cluster P)

#13: kanban admin-override into a hatch state (completed / awaiting_qa /
awaiting_pm_review) now requires an explicit force=true from the panel and
emits a dedicated task.admin_override audit row server-side; non-hatch
overrides need no force. Backend gate in tasks route + admin_set_status;
panel kanban-board sends force for hatch targets; TaskUpdate carries force.

#198: kanban service threads the real subtask_count (one grouped query) into
dev + priority-swimlane + main-pm-flat boards instead of a hardcoded 0.

#79: useWebSocket cleanup clears messages/lastMessage/state on unmount or
endpoint change so a dep-change (navigating to another stream) can't leak the
prior subscription's stale snapshot as live.

#186: disambiguate the duplicate ui-store modules -- the session/scroll store
in lib/stores renamed to useScrollRestorationStore / scroll-restoration-store
(barrel + 2 consumers updated); the sidebar/theme useUIStore in @/store is now
the sole useUIStore.

#12: verified already in-tree (release-proposal-card surfaces non-404 errors
with retry; getProposal maps only 404->null). #80 by-design (handleTransportError
already resets isSending on a no-payload SSE drop). #81 docs (streamUrl docstring
records that live-intake SSE auth is session-id-based bearer-style).

Backend: ruff+mypy clean, 278 tests green. Panel: lint+typecheck clean, 159 tests.

* orchestrator: park/reaper/readopt/a2a hardening + self-heal/ci-watch dedupe (Cluster O)

Closes the orchestrator-side logical gaps from the sweep:

- #75 a2a human-only drop surfaced: _dispatch_a2a_work logs the skip
  ("a2a request targets a human-only role; left as a notification for the
  human (not spawned)") instead of silently dropping the target — the
  CEO/secretary/prompter still see the notification; only the spawn is
  suppressed. (orchestrator.py)
- #72 readopt liveness: _readopt_running_agents requires a non-stale live
  claim (via _agent_holds_live_claim) and skips a zombie container so a
  reaped-but-restart-readopted agent isn't double-counted as active.
- #74 shutdown drain: stop() calls _flush_respawn_tracker so the durable
  respawn counter write-throughs aren't lost on a clean stop.
- #71 resolve_wait active-guard + deferred liveness: a rate_limit_lifted
  WaitingRecord is only confirmed-live after a _confirm_resume_liveness
  probe (deferred deletion _resume_confirm_delay=30.0), and an
  already-active agent short-circuits the repark. Scoped to
  rate_limit_lifted records (the only ones at risk of a false lift).
- #73 stuck-Claude kill: _maybe_kill_stuck_claude + _claude_stuck_kill_ttl
  (config.claude_stuck_kill_seconds) — a live container whose heartbeat is
  stale past the grace AND whose gateway probe is broken is killed+evicted,
  not protected forever by the reaper's live-skip.
- #230 verified FIXED-UNDEPLOYED: _gateway_broken_past_grace already
  requires N consecutive false-broken probes (not one flaky streak); no
  change, test added to pin the N-consecutive invariant.
- #43 self-heal per-observation dedupe: a fingerprint collapses repeat
  CEO notifications for the same CI regression.
- #44 ci_watch dedupe by (git_url, workflow): a monorepo's multiple
  workflows each get their own fix task (was collapsed by git_url alone).
- #49 identity.role_for_slug_or_none None-hardening: a stale/malformed
  slug resolves to None and the human-only skip falls through to the safe
  "not spawnable" path instead of crashing.
- #193 strategy engine: notify the CEO on a persistent assess failure
  instead of failing silently in the background loop.

TDD: test_no_spawn_human_roles (a2a skip surfaced), test_orchestrator_
shutdown_drain (#74), test_provider_overload_break (#71), test_readopt_
running_agents (#72), test_resolve_wait_repark (#71), test_stale_claim_
reaper (#73/#230), test_strategy_engine_loop (#193, new),
test_self_heal_engine (#43), test_ci_watch_engine (#44), test_identity
(#49). All red->green.

* chore: make-quality green — xenon complexity refactors + mypy test fixes + lifecycle regen

No behavior changes. Brings the tree to a fully green `make quality` (the
base branch never passed the xenon B-rank gate on several blocks; the
lifecycle artifacts had drifted from the committed ceo_reject_to_pool edge).

Xenon B-rank refactors (extract a helper; preserve semantics exactly):
- api/routes/tasks.py: _apply_forced_status_override + _StatusOverride
  dataclass bundle (update_task override block).
- services/task.py: _enforce_no_pm_code_on_create (create guards) +
  _escalation_diverts_to_pool (collapses the two board/advisory +
  main_pm+code divert branches into one predicate).
- services/prompter.py: _coerce_pm_code_to_planning (create_task_from_draft).
- services/notification.py: _duplicate_unacked_exists (_create_notification
  purpose-based dedup query + ACK_REQUIRED_BY_TYPE gate).
- services/sequencing.py: _same_assignee_lane_edges (the undeclared-surface
  same-assignee lane fallback at the tail of dev_task_collision_edges).
- gateway/choreographer/_impl.py: _pm_task_type_error static helper
  (_validate_assignee_task_type compound PM guard).
- gateway/choreographer/pr_gate.py: _gate_review_event_verdict +
  _gate_review_body static helpers (_post_gate_review_to_pr).

mypy test fixes (no type:ignore — banned; use typing.cast with quoted
strings per TC006):
- test_task_update_completeness: TaskUpdate(acceptance_criteria=None).
- test_bus: cast("Redis", _FakeRedis()); Redis import under TYPE_CHECKING.
- test_pr_merge_concurrency: capture AsyncMocks into locals before asserting.
- test_notification_delivery_phantom: cast("UUID", to_agents[0]).

Lifecycle artifact regen (owed from Cluster T #100 — the
awaiting_ceo_approval -> pending `ceo_reject_to_pool` edge was added to the
spec in 3d633084 without regenerating the derived artifacts the
foundation-check gate diffs against): docs/rag/lifecycle/intent-verbs.md,
docs/rag/lifecycle/status-transitions.md, panel/lib/lifecycle.json.

services/kanban.py: ruff format only (collapses the _load_subtask_counts
signature that drifted unformatted from Cluster P).

* [chore] logical-gaps sweep — Cluster I (intake/product/pitch)

#57/#58 prompter: preserve a top-level product_id with a 1-cell map
(prompter.py create_task_from_draft — top-level target wins over a
redundant 1-cell map instead of dropping product_id); reject — not
silently skip — a malformed project_id in the_work cell entries
(prompter.py _draft_cell_map raises ValidationError).

#59/#159 prompter: create_task_from_draft now operates on a copy
(_copy_draft) so _validate_and_coerce_draft / _clean_list never mutate
the caller's draft dict.

#160 prompter: _resolve_owning_team consults product/board routing
before forcing MAIN_PM on a multi-cell map (product root stays Board,
product+assignee-is-board stays Board).

#83/#84 github_provisioning: create_repo is idempotent by GitHub name
— a 422 "name already exists" (orphaned repo from a rolled-back prior
approval) is fetched and reused instead of erroring; pitch re-approval
now reuses the orphaned repo end-to-end.

#196 kanban: flat main-PM board has a "coordination" column for
non-cell teams (MAIN_PM/Board) instead of dropping their cards.

#197 project update: an explicit null in the PATCH body now clears the
stored field, distinct from an absent field (leave unchanged).
ProjectService.update drops exclude_none so explicit-None applies; the
PATCH route uses ProjectUpdate.model_validate(data.model_dump(
exclude_unset=True)) to preserve the request's unset-tracking (the old
field-by-field construction marked every field set and defeated the
distinction — nulling NOT-NULL git_url).

TDD: prompter 47, github_provisioning+pitch 16, kanban+project 67,
project routes 37 — all green; ruff + mypy clean.

* [chore] logical-gaps sweep — Cluster M (mcp-servers)

#60 flow_server/do_server: the circuit-breaker substitution no longer
erases the fixable rejection — the original envelope (kind/message/
remediate) is nested as inner on a copy of the SDK's circuit_open
envelope (the SDK dict is not mutated in place). The agent still sees
WHY the verb failed, not just that the breaker tripped.

#61 flow_server/do_server: a 404 carrying a *descriptive* detail
(not FastAPI's bare default {"detail":"Not Found"}) is now a
real resource not_found, surfaced as not_found so the agent
re-fetches state — instead of a misleading "server-side wiring gap"
invalid_state. The bare default and unparseable 404s still synthesize
the wiring-gap envelope; a 404 with a real Envelope (error field)
is still surfaced as-is.

#161 flow_server/do_server: dict error.code classification now uses
an exact-code map (authoritative for the codes the handlers emit) with
a substring fallback for unknown codes. Fixes the real regression:
AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED carries no AUTHORIZED/DENIED/PERMISSION
substring, so the old substring-only rule dropped it to invalid_state
instead of not_authorized — an auth storm attributed as a state storm.
The fallback also adds AUTH so future AUTH-prefixed codes classify.

#162 flow_server/do_server: _register_tools gains a
ROBOCO_ALLOW_FULL_TOOLSET env override (default-off) so a missing
manifest falls back to the full tool set instead of raising — a
dev/test escape hatch. Production fail-loud behaviour is unchanged.

#163 intake_server: propose_batch accepts name as well as
title (intake drafts in the wild have used both), normalizing a
name-only draft onto a copy as title (caller's dict never mutated),
and reports the dropped count + reason in the return instead of
silently vanishing malformed drafts. The empty-batch hint now names
name as an alternative.

TDD: 123 mcp_servers tests green (14 new + 2 updated); ruff + mypy clean.

* [chore] Cluster N — conventions/docs logical-gaps sweep

#33: _create_new_doc/_update_existing_doc now resolve via
_resolve_contained_path (the RAG-returned update path was not containment-
checked — an escaping source could write/overwrite outside the docs dir).
#34: _commit_doc_to_repo returns committed/skipped/failed instead of
swallowing all exceptions; surfaced on DocRef.commit_status, the write
response, and the docs MCP guidance so a failed repo commit is fail-loud.
#35: write_doc only updates the similar doc when its filename matches — a
different filename creates a new file instead of collapsing onto the
similar doc's path (the dedup-overwrite defect codified by the old tests).
#129: a custom rule scoped to a language the validator never reports (a
typo) is surfaced as a warn finding on .roboco/conventions.yml via the
runner's once-per-run validation; #32 (tsx->typescript dialect) stays
BY-DESIGN.
#130: _cache_put only swallows a UNIQUE violation (23505) as a concurrent
duplicate; a non-unique IntegrityError (FK/NOT NULL/check) is log-errored
and re-raised instead of being silently misattributed.
#132: health re-reads the live file status (a cached degraded row hid an
in-place repair at a stale head key); get_map skips cached degraded rows
and stops caching degraded so a repaired file re-derives. #134 BY-DESIGN.
#133: _DB_METHODS gains stream/stream_scalars (SQLAlchemy 2.0 streaming
constructs are data access too — a route calling them is not thin).
#199: regenerate_verb_tables._annot_str strips Annotated[...] metadata
(BeforeValidator) before rendering; regenerated verbs.md + per-role
prompts so the BeforeValidator(func=...) repr (with a memory address) no
longer leaks into agent-facing prompt text.

TDD: 206 conventions/docs tests green (incl. 5 new files / appended
cases); ruff + mypy clean.

* [chore] Cluster 16 — cross-cutting hygiene logical-gaps sweep

Disposition + fix the 10 cross-cutting-hygiene gaps, TDD. make quality green
(ruff, mypy 944 files, pytest, xenon, vulture, foundation-check, enum-parity).

FIX:
- #24 /ws/system now gated by _require_panel_token (matches every sibling
  /ws/* stream); rejects a missing token in strict mode and a forged token
  even in dev. (roboco/api/websocket.py)
- #25 two drifted _require_ceo implementations (orchestrator router vs release
  handler) unified on a single require_ceo_role helper in deps — same 403,
  same role set, accepts Role/AgentRole/"ceo". (roboco/api/deps.py,
  routes/orchestrator.py, routes/release.py)
- #11 a spawn session for a delivery role (developer/qa/documenter) with no
  task_id now logs an unattributed-usage warning via is_unattributed_delivery_spawn.
  (roboco/runtime/orchestrator.py)
- #65 pricing returns a structured CostResult(cost_usd, unpriced, is_anthropic)
  so an unpriced Anthropic model (real spend we'd undercount) is flagged
  instead of silently $0; calculate_cost stays a thin float wrapper.
  (roboco/billing/pricing.py, billing/__init__.py)
- #67 blocker-metrics "blocked since" reads the task.blocked audit transition
  (indexed on target_id/event_type/timestamp), not updated_at — which
  over-counted when a blocked task was touched for a non-blocking reason.
  Falls back to updated_at/created_at only with no audit row.
  (roboco/services/metrics.py)
- #94 grok refresh_if_stale uses double-checked locking (_refresh_lock +
  _recheck_or_refresh) so two concurrent callers don't both POST the
  single-use refresh grant and burn the credential. (grok_auth.py)

DOCS (fix the doc, behavior already correct/pinned by tests):
- #66 get_summary docstring corrected — it sums raw agent_spawn_sessions rows
  (sub-day precise); daily_usage_rollups/get_today_summary can diverge for
  "today" until the sweeper catches up. (roboco/services/usage.py)
- #68 DashboardStorage is a documented in-memory stub; added a test pinning
  that auditor flags are lost on storage reset (persisting = a migration +
  service refactor, out of scope as a half-implementation).
  (tests/integration/test_dashboard_service.py)

BY-DESIGN (no code change, with file:line evidence):
- #28 dashboard reads are open to the authenticated operator (dashboard.py:36
  documents this); mutating auditor routes already gate via
  _require_auditor_or_ceo. Role-gating reads would break the panel (no
  X-Agent-ID on dashboard reads) and CEO-token-gating the router would block
  the Auditor (auditor token != CEO token). nginx is the prod boundary.

REFUTED (narrowing would reintroduce a documented hang):
- #93 the ~/.grok directory mount (vs a single auth.json file) is load-bearing
  — a single-file bind mount pins the inode so the atomic tmp.replace refresh
  doesn't propagate to running containers (they hang at grok's login prompt).
  Already documented in grok.py:161 and locked by
  test_intake_grok_mounts_subscription_auth_when_present.

Incidental gate-greening (mypy errors a stale .mypy_cache had hidden in
earlier-cluster test files; xenon refactors for the new B-threshold):
- tests/unit/test_regenerate_verb_tables.py: type the dynamic-module loader.
- tests/unit/services/test_prompter.py: annotate the draft dict as dict[str,Any].
- tests/unit/services/test_conventions_cache_put.py: _FakeOrig is a real Exception
  (IntegrityError's orig arg requires BaseException).
- metrics._blocked_since_map extracted from get_blocker_metrics (complexity).
- intake_server._normalize_batch_drafts extracted from propose_batch (complexity).

* Docs update

* [bug] spawn: self-heal vanished clone + branch ref before worktree ensure (be-dev-1 fatal loop)

A vanished clone_root (disk loss / /data/workspaces wipe / manual cleanup)
fatal-looped the resume path: _ensure_worktree_before_spawn ran
`git -C <missing>` and released the claim, but the reaper-style release
preserves assigned_to + branch_name so the next dispatch is a RESUME
(create_branch never re-runs to re-clone) and the same missing clone failed
every ~30s.

- workspace.py: ensure_worktree_self_heal re-attaches a present worktree +
  symlinks the shared .venv; on a missing local branch ref it fetches from
  origin (create_branch pushes at claim time, so pushed work survives) and
  re-creates the ref, falling back to -b origin/HEAD only when the branch
  was never pushed. _fetch_branch_ref is the token-aware fetch helper.
- orchestrator.py: _ensure_worktree_before_spawn health-checks the clone
  and re-clones via ensure_workspace BEFORE the worktree self-heal. Fatal
  git-state (WorkspaceError) still releases the claim + aborts; transient
  failures abort without releasing (a fresh claim wouldn't help and
  re-cloning is destructive).

TDD: 21 new + 61 related worktree/git/cancel/cleanup tests green; ruff +
mypy clean.

---------

Co-authored-by: Renn F <rennf93@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-06-30 08:08:35 +02:00
15effce014 Chore: 141 Gaps fill-in (#283)
* Updated uv.lock

* Bunch of fixes we need to verify first..

* feat(megatask): per-cell project map root-subtasks (multi-project, multi-cell)

A MegaTask root-subtask can now target an ad-hoc per-cell project map — a
third targeting shape that mirrors the existing product fan-out root. In
RoboCo a project is per-cell (ProjectTable.assigned_cell); a monorepo is N
per-cell projects sharing one git_url. So 'multi-cell' IS 'multi-project',
and a task may mix per-cell projects across products or include OSS-library
projects not in any product.

Storage: migration 052 adds task_cell_projects (mirrors product_projects;
unique per (task, team)). TaskTable gains a cascade-delete cell_projects
relationship; TaskCreateRequest / TaskCreate / Task response carry the map.

Policy: batch.is_branchless_coordination + is_valid_batch_shape gain a
has_cell_projects param — a root-subtask targets exactly one of project /
product / cell-map; the umbrella still targets none. TaskService passes
has_cell_projects at every predicate call site and persists the rows in
create(). _ensure_branch_for_task cuts feature/main_pm/{root} per distinct
project in the map (via _distinct_projects_for_task); _require_target_or_umbrella
and _validate_batch_membership accept the map shape.

Fan-out: every distinct_project_ids site (task.py branch creation, routes
_project_for_complete + _resolve_project_for_merge, orchestrator
_ambient_projects_for_task, pr_review._project_slug_for, git._project_for_task)
generalizes to first-distinct-project-of-map-or-product. Choreographer
_resolve_subtask_project resolves a delegated subtask's cell from the parent's
cell map. The product-scoped _slugs_for_product intake helper is unchanged.

Intake: prompter._draft_cell_map extracts the per-cell map from the_work[].
_validate_batch_scope counts distinct projects across all drafts' cells
(>=2 min stays; one 2-cell draft satisfies it). create_task_from_draft
persists cell_projects for >=2-cell drafts (project_id/product_id None),
collapses a 1-cell map to the single-project shape, and leaves single-cell
top-level project_id drafts unchanged. _resolve_owning_team routes a
multi-cell map to Main PM (coordination root, like a product root — a cell
PM can't delegate cross-cell). propose_draft/propose_batch tool descriptions
declare the per-cell project_id (both Claude SDK + grok runtimes).

The umbrella stays branchless / pure-coordination / submit_root-rejected;
the CEO-escalation pr_number gate is not widened (the map root is
is_umbrella=False, mirroring a product root, so submit_root supplies it).
Single-cell root-subtasks and everything below them are byte-for-byte
unchanged. Un-run MegaTask waves (multi-cell drafts) become runnable.

* [feature] Panel per-cell project picker + pnpm format infra

MegaTask root-subtasks can fan out across cells (be+fe, fe+uxui). Since a
RoboCo project is per-cell (ProjectTable.assigned_cell), a monorepo is N
per-cell projects sharing one git_url — so multi-cell IS multi-project. The
batch-review card now shows one project Select per the_work entry, scoped to
that cell's repos, instead of one Select bound to a single top-level
project_id. confirmBatch validates each cell's project is in scope and the
batch still spans >=2 distinct projects.

- prompter.ts: CellWork gains optional project_id (the per-cell picker seam).
- batch-review-card.tsx: per-cell Selects (one per the_work entry), scoped to
  the cell's projects; legacy single-cell drafts keep the one-Select path.
- use-prompter.ts: updateBatchDraftProject edits per-cell (entryIndex);  confirmBatch validates every cell; batchFromEvent parses per-cell map.

Also adds the missing pnpm format infrastructure (the panel had no formatter
at all): prettier devDep + .prettierrc.json (default-style config: 80-col,
double-quote, semi, trailing-comma-all) + .prettierignore, plus format /
format:check scripts. Only the 3 changed files above were reformatted; the
~222 pre-existing non-compliant files are left untouched (a wholesale reformat
is a separate explicit decision, not bundled into this feature).

* [fix] MegaTask verification: migration 052 enum + async cell-map read

Two real bugs surfaced running the full gate against a containerized
Postgres (and the orchestrator boot log):

1. Migration 052 crashed a real orchestrator boot with
   'type "team" already exists'. The generic sa.Enum(create_type=False)
   does NOT set the postgres enum's create_type attribute, so op.create_table
   (checkfirst=False) emitted a redundant CREATE TYPE against the pre-existing
   team enum. Switched to postgresql.ENUM(create_type=False) — the postgres-
   native enum whose create_type _check_for_name_in_memos actually reads, so
   the CREATE TYPE is suppressed. Verified: 051->052 upgrade against a DB where
   the team enum pre-existed (the exact path that crashed) now succeeds;
   downgrade 052->051 drops the table and preserves the shared enum; fresh
   upgrade head clean. (Migration 016 has the same latent sa.Enum pattern but
   never re-runs in prod, so it's noted, not touched here.)

2. _ensure_branch_for_task read task.cell_projects (lazy=selectin to-many)
   directly, tripping MissingGreenlet on a freshly-created/unqueried task —
   which then poisoned the async session (PendingRollbackError). Replaced with
   _task_has_cell_map: peeks InstanceState.unloaded (no IO) and reads the
   already-loaded map, falling back to an awaited count query only when the
   relationship is genuinely unloaded. Non-ORM stubs route to the plain
   attribute. Fixes 2 integration tests; the 6 cell-map unit tests still pass.

Also: typed the self stub as Any in test_choreographer_subtask_project
(mypy tests/ wants Choreographer, not SimpleNamespace) — the codebase idiom.

Gate: ruff format/check clean; mypy roboco/ + tests/ clean; full pytest
10371 passed / 388 skipped against containerized pgvector:pg16; vulture clean.
Pre-existing xenon C-rank on reassign (from prior commit 19a474d3, not this
feature) still blocks make quality — surfaced separately.

* [refactor] Extract reassign board-advisory diversion helper (C→B complexity)

`reassign` in roboco/services/task.py hit xenon absolute complexity 11 (a
C-rank block), failing `make quality`'s --max-absolute B gate. The C-rank
originated in 19a474d3 (pre-existing, not this feature branch's work).

Extract the board/advisory → cell-task diversion into
`_maybe_divert_board_advisory_reassign` (complexity 4, A). reassign drops to
9 (B); behavior is byte-for-byte preserved — the helper runs the same
guard + pool diversion + log, returning the diverted task or None so the
caller falls through to the normal handoff. Whole-repo xenon exits 0; the 159
reassign / board-guard tests pass.

Unblocks `make quality` on feature/metrics-granularity.

* [fix] migration 016: postgresql.ENUM(create_type=False) for reused team enum

016_add_products_and_task_product_id used `sa.Enum(..., create_type=False)`
for the reused Postgres "team" enum — the same latent defect that crashed
052 on a real orchestrator boot. On the generic `sa.Enum` the
`create_type` kwarg is silently dropped, so `_check_for_name_in_memos`
never sees it and `op.create_table` (checkfirst=False) emits a redundant
`CREATE TYPE team` that fails with "type 'team' already exists" against a
DB where the enum pre-exists.

Switch to the postgres-native `postgresql.ENUM(..., create_type=False)` —
its `create_type` is a real attribute the guard reads, so the CREATE TYPE
is suppressed (and DROP TYPE on downgrade too). The member list is inert
under create_type=False (it never creates/alters the type), so it stays at
016's original six, reflecting the enum as it stood then, not the
later-widened set.

This never crashed in prod because 016 is never re-run (alembic_version is
past it), but it's the same defect class. Verified on the real boot path:
upgrade to 015 in process A (team enum created by 001), then `upgrade head`
in a fresh process B — 016 applied clean, no DuplicateObjectError; downgrade
016->015 clean, shared team enum preserved.

See project_migration_enum_create_type_gotcha.

* [chore] panel: prettier reformat across the codebase

Apply `pnpm format` (prettier 3.8.5, 80-col / double-quote / semi /
trailing-comma-all) to the 223 pre-existing panel files that predated the
prettier infra added in cb5365a4. Pure formatting — no semantic changes:
multi-line arrays/objects collapsed where they fit, trailing newlines added
(.prettierrc.json), import grouping unchanged.

Verified: `pnpm format:check` clean, `pnpm lint` clean, `pnpm typecheck`
clean, `pnpm test` 113/113 pass (7 files).

* Bunch of runtime fixes for MegaTask and other issues

* Fix different project same PR number collision problem

Fix (two layers):
1. Root cause — pr_merge and rebase_pr_for_task now take a required project_id and scope the lookup where(pr_number == X AND project_id == Y). Required so no caller can forget — the bug class can't recur. All 4 call sites updated (choreographer cell_pm_complete, the rebase-retry, the superseded close_pull_request now passes project_id, and _verb_runner._do_pr_merge).
2. Crash guard — _finalize_cell_complete None-checks the complete() return and returns a clean invalid_state envelope (with a remediate hint) instead of dereffing None → 500 → respawn loop.

* Fix: Make main_pm + task_type=code impossible

* Fix Main PM needs revision can't re delegate

* [chore] Bump local LLM glm-5→glm-5.2 + swap Ollama fleet defaults off minimax

- llm_catalog: OLLAMA_DEFAULT_MODEL minimax-m3:cloud → kimi-k2.7-code:cloud;
  role defaults kimi-k2.6→kimi-k2.7-code, developer minimax→kimi, product_owner/
  ceo kimi→glm-5.2, documenter glm→kimi; GLM 5.1→5.2 comment fix.
- config + .env.example + docker-compose{.yml,.yaml,.registry.yml} + docs +
  memory_distiller + optimal_brain: glm-5:cloud → glm-5.2:cloud.
- panel ai-routing-card: typed SelfHostedModel/boolean annotations; drop the
  stale "Minimax M3 default" string (default is now catalog-driven).
- tests: glm-5:cloud → glm-5.2:cloud in pricing + rate-limit-retry fixtures.

* [fix] submit_root: hard unchanged-PR gate stops the pr_fail re-submit loop

The 2026-06-27 infinite pr_fail loop: a Main-PM root (PR #139) was pr_fail'd,
routed to needs_revision, and re-submitted byte-identical → awaiting_pr_review
→ pr_fail again, forever. The prior hint/a2a steer was ignored by the weak
coordinator model — hints don't stop a model that won't read them. A HARD gate
refuses the re-submit when the assembled root PR's head SHA is unchanged since
the last pr_fail (no new cell work → identical diff); a different SHA ⇒ the
branch advanced ⇒ allow. Every ambiguous case fails open (no prior fail, no
recorded SHA, no pr_number, unresolvable slug, git error, closed PR) — only the
exact-unchanged case is hard-blocked.

- content/models: PrReviewContent.head_sha (optional; JSON col → no migration).
- git: get_pr_head_sha (GitHub pulls API; None on any failure → fail-open).
- pr_gate: pr_fail captures head_sha into the verdict record; pr_pass does not.
- _impl: submit_root runs _submit_root_unchanged_pr_guard after _submit_up_guard;
  _current_root_pr_head_sha resolves slug + current SHA (fail-open).
- pr_review: extract module-level resolve_task_project_slug, shared by the mixin
  and the gate helper (_LegacyChoreographer reaches it via cast to the
  ChoreographerHelpers typed view — it doesn't inherit the helpers mixin).
- tests: test_submit_root_unchanged_pr_guard (11 — refuse/allow/6 fail-open/3
  capture-side, mypy-clean via cc:Any spy idiom, zero type:ignore) +
  test_pr_gate_notifies_pm capture-path stub.

* [chore] mypy tests/: clear all 15 pre-existing type errors so make quality can go green

The branch tip had 15 mypy tests/ errors in files this bundle did not author,
which blocked CI's make quality mypy step (mypy roboco/ tests/) regardless of
the bundle's own commits. Pre-existing is still existing — fix every one:

- test_schemas_v1_flow.py (8): the StrList coercion tests intentionally pass
  SDK-nested list-of-strings input ([[['...']]], {'item':{'$text':'...'}}, int,
  dict). Annotate those literals as list[Any] locals so mypy accepts the
  coerce-able shape; the StrList BeforeValidator still flattens to list[str] at
  runtime. No type:ignore.
- test_pr_gate_records_verdict.py (3): notes_structured is dict|None; narrow
  with 'assert t.notes_structured is not None' before indexing (the existing
  pattern at line 90).
- test_pr_review_hand_format_guard.py (1 site, 2 errors): the _verb_runner()
  spy assertion — use the cc: Any = c alias idiom so assert_not_awaited
  resolves; drops the now-unused type:ignore[union-attr].
- test_pr_gate_notifies_pm.py (1): drop the unused type:ignore[method-assign]
  on the a2a.send reassignment.
- test_content_models.py (1): narrow coerced with isinstance(coerced,
  PrReviewContent) before reading .issues (the base _Content lacks the field).

Gates: rm -rf .mypy_cache && mypy roboco/ tests/ = Success (855 files);
ruff check + format clean; 5 affected suites = 40 passed.

* [fix] fail_qa routes needs_revision back to the dev, never the pool

A dev task in needs_revision must go back to the developer, never the
pool. The pool path let a cell PM re-claim the revision (PMs can claim
needs_revision) — the live 2026-06-27 'needs revision on a dev task sent to
the cell PM' bug.

fail_qa's original_developer marker is the fast path, but it is
unreliable in practice (live observation: never persisted), so the
unassign else-branch was the load-bearing path and it dropped the task
into the pool. Add a work-session fallback (_resolve_revision_dev) that
resolves the developer who actually worked the task — the most recent
work session whose agent is a developer, the QA's own session excluded
— and reassigns to that dev instead of unassigning. Only unassign when
no developer ever touched the task. Self-heals the marker so a
subsequent re-fail takes the fast path and the QA-review index
attributes the work correctly.

* [feature] delegate carries dev-task collision surface (sequencing S1)

The cell/main PM's delegate verb now carries the dev-task collision
surface (intends_to_touch / adds_migration / touches_shared) and an
explicit depends_on override through DelegateRequest -> DelegateInputs
-> _create_subtask_from_inputs -> create_subtask, and create_subtask
forwards sequence / dependency_ids / batch_id / surfaces into the
prepared TaskCreateRequest instead of dropping them (the base create
already persists them at task.py:878-884).

This is the plumbing for the multi-level sequencing model edge kind 3
(dev-task collision DAG). Previously a dev task delegated with a
collision surface or an explicit dependency lost it before persistence
— dependency_ids was always [], so the only dev-task ordering was the
weak assignee-keyed spawn barrier (the live 2026-06-27 out-of-order
break: 40842957 started before 9b3682b8's PR merged). Phase S2 runs
SequencingService over the surfaced siblings and wires the DAG via
add_dependency.

* [feature] wire dev-task collision DAG at cell-PM delegation (sequencing S2)

Pure dev_task_collision_edges in sequencing.py turns a parent's surfaced
siblings into (depends_on_id, task_id) pairs via SequencingService. TaskService.
wire_sibling_collision_dag wires them through add_dependency (idempotent). The
choreographer calls it after each dev-task delegate so the sibling collision DAG
is built incrementally as the cell PM decomposes — file-overlap serializes,
migration chains, shared-last; stable (priority, sequence) ordering keeps edges
from flipping into reverse cycles on re-runs.

* [feature] wire cell-task wave chain + by-osmosis edge (sequencing S3)

Kind 2 (cell-task wave chain): a new cell-task under root-subtask UT_n
depends on every cell-task under every root-subtask in UT_n.dependency_ids
(the kind-1 wave-chain edges), so its branch carries the previous wave's
merged cell work. Re-derived from the root-subtask's deps, not the cell-task's
own dependency_ids (which also carry UX/product-fanout edges the by-osmosis
edge must not pick up). A root may fan to several cell-tasks (different cells),
so the previous wave's cell-task is a SET.

Kind 4 (by-osmosis): the first dev task (sequence 0) under a cell-task depends
on each predecessor cell-task's tail (max-sequence) dev task, so the new wave's
first branch carries the previous wave's fully-merged tail. Subsequent dev
tasks inherit the tail via kind 3 or the merged base.

Both wired from _create_subtask_from_inputs, dispatched on parent.team
(MAIN_PM -> kind 2; cell team -> kind 4). Pure helpers
(cell_task_wave_chain_depends_on, by_osmosis_tail_dev_tasks) unit-tested in
test_sequencing.py; TaskService methods integration-tested. Idempotent +
best-effort throughout (add_dependency dedupes; missing predecessors are
no-ops). Also fixes a latent mypy-tests gap (estimated_complexity required on
direct TaskCreateRequest calls in the S2 tests).

* [feature] sync_branch dev verb — gate-level branch rebase (Phase B1)

Raw shell git is denied to agents (Bash(git:*) base deny), so a developer
whose branch fell behind its base had no gate-level rebase — only the
CEO/PM-only /rebase HTTP route. sync_branch is the dev verb that wraps the
rebase through the gate (traced + evidenced), so the 'everything goes through
the gates' invariant holds.

- lifecycle: IntentSpec sync_branch (dev-only, ownership-gated, composes=(),
  git-only — no DB transition); _next_hint_synced helper.
- GitService.sync_task_branch: rebase task.branch_name onto its resolved base
  via rebase_onto_base (fetch + rebase + force-with-lease push).
- Choreographer.sync_branch + _sync_branch_preflight_rejection: not_found /
  unknown-role / spec-gate / no-branch / protected-base guards, then the git
  op; conflicts abort (no force-push) and steer to resolve-by-hand; git failure
  steers to i_am_blocked.
- HTTP route /api/v1/flow/developer/sync_branch + SyncBranchRequest schema.
- MCP tool sync_branch(task_id) + _TOOLS registration (manifest auto-propagates
  via intents_for_role(Role.DEVELOPER)).

Tests: intent spec (5), choreographer handler (8: happy/conflicts/not_found/
not_authorized/no-branch/protected-base/git-failure/audit), route (1), MCP (1).
ruff + mypy roboco/ tests/ clean; unit suite green (DB-fixture errors env-only).

* [feature] i_am_done behind-base submit gate (Phase B2)

A sibling's PR merging into the parent branch while a dev worked leaves the
dev's branch behind its base — the assembled PR then can't merge cleanly and
the sibling's changes go missing (the 2026-06-27 out-of-order dev-task break).
The behind-base gate refuses i_am_done in that state and steers the dev to
sync_branch (the Phase B1 gate-level rebase verb).

- GitService.is_behind_base: rev-list --left-right --count across
  origin/{base}...origin/{head} → (behind, ahead); fetch-first so origin
  reflects the pushed head. Raises on git failure (consistent with
  rebase_onto_base); malformed stdout degrades to (0,0).
- Choreographer._behind_base_gate: wired into _i_am_done_gate after
  _ensure_branch_pushed. behind>0 → invalid_state remediate→sync_branch.
  Fail-open on git/base-resolution error (flaky fetch can't strand a task at
  the submit gate — the merge layer has its own behind checks). Skipped for
  branchless roots and protected bases (master/main/-prefixed).

Tests: gate (6: refuse+steer/up-to-date/branchless/protected/fail-open-base/
fail-open-git), is_behind_base (6: parse/up-to-date/malformed/argv-form/
requires-branch/missing-project). ruff + mypy roboco/ tests/ clean; unit green.

* [docs] sync_branch prompt + behind-base guidance (Phase B3)

Update every behind-base/rebase guidance surface to reflect the B1
sync_branch dev verb + B2 i_am_done behind-base gate: devs now self-rebase
through the gate instead of escalating a plain behind-base condition; PMs
still escalate cell/root integration branches (they have no rebase verb).

- developer.md: sync_branch in the verb table; 'When your branch is behind
  its base' rewritten — call sync_branch, do NOT i_am_blocked a plain
  behind-base; conflicts → resolve by hand, commit, sync_branch again.
- cell_pm.md: delegate signature gains intends_to_touch/adds_migration/
  touches_shared/depends_on + a 'Collision surface' section (fill it on every
  code subtask so sibling dev tasks that touch the same files sequence into a
  conflict-free order — the 2026-06-27 out-of-order break fix); behind-base
  section steers devs to sync_branch, PMs escalate only the integration branch.
- main_pm.md: behind-base section — dev leaf = dev's sync_branch; cell/root
  integration branch = escalate_up.
- RAG git-errors.md / blocked-tools.md: devs sync_branch, PMs escalate.
- docs/troubleshooting/common-issues.md: leaf self-rebases; integration branch
  still escalates to operator.
- CLAUDE.md verb surface: developer gains sync_branch.
- agents/prompts/_generated/*: regenerated via scripts/regenerate_verb_tables.py
  — adds sync_branch to the dev table AND catches the generated tables up to
  the S1/S2 delegate sequencing params + meltdown-fix note top-level params
  (the derived files had drifted stale vs the already-committed schemas).

Docs/prompts only — no code. ruff + mypy roboco/ tests/ clean.

* [chore] orchestrator: refuse to spawn human-only roles (CEO/prompter/secretary)

A live 2026-06-27 incident saw a CEO agent container spawned. Root cause:
_dispatch_a2a_work iterates every A2A/notification target and spawns it
with no human-role filter, and _is_agent_active('ceo') is always false
(the CEO is never a container), so the 'skip if active' check could never
protect the CEO. Any CEO-addressed notification (board handoff, escalation)
launched a CEO container — the system acting as the human CEO: a trust
violation. The CEO is the human operator; intake (prompter) and secretary
are human-driven chats launched through their own dedicated guarded paths
(_spawn_intake_container / _spawn_secretary_container), never spawn_agent.

Fix: a single chokepoint guard at the top of spawn_agent refuses
Role.CEO / PROMPTER / SECRETARY (raises AgentReadinessError + logs). This
structurally covers every dispatcher present and future, since they all go
through spawn_agent. Plus a defense-in-depth skip in _dispatch_a2a_work so
a human-role target never even calls in (avoids error-log spam; the
notification stays for the human to read in the panel).

Safe: the dedicated human-spawn paths do not route through spawn_agent.
Regression tests: spawn_agent refuses ceo/intake-1/secretary-1, does NOT
refuse a real agent; _dispatch_a2a_work skips CEO/intake/secretary targets
and still spawns real-agent + mixed-target cases.

* [chore] orchestrator: skip human-only assignees in claimed/pm-review dispatchers

Defense-in-depth for the spawn_agent human-role chokepoint (d31d6719).
The chokepoint structurally guarantees no CEO/prompter/secretary container
can ever spawn — every dispatcher goes through spawn_agent. But two
dispatchers resolve an arbitrary assigned_to and spawn it with only a
None/unknown-role filter, so a human-assigned task would reach the
chokepoint and RAISE: caught by the per-dispatcher try/except, but it
aborts that dispatcher's whole tick (stalling other respawns behind the
mis-assigned task) and error-logs every cycle. The other dispatchers are
already safe by whitelist/hardcoded slug (blocker_resolver_slug returns
None for non-PM/non-BOARD; escalation/approval use whitelists; marketing
and audit hardcode their non-human slug).

- _claimed_task_needs_agent: return None for a CEO/prompter/secretary
  assignee — no container to respawn, and do NOT release a human-owned
  task to pending (that would re-route it to a PM). Leave it for the human.
- _dispatch_pm_review_work (assigned branch): skip a human-only assignee
  so a CEO-assigned awaiting_pm_review task neither spawns nor aborts the
  dispatcher's tick.

Audited all target-iterating dispatchers; only these two lacked a filter.
Regression tests cover both skips.

* [F002] retype board-routed MegaTask root-subtasks code->planning on activation

_activate_batch_root_subtasks flipped a held root-subtask to team=MAIN_PM
but left task_type=code (intake only coerces main_pm-team drafts, so a
board-routed code root reached activation still code-typed). The
main_pm+code combo re-introduces the 2026-06-27 meltdown. Mirror
approve_and_start's own retype via main_pm_cannot_own_code so the
activated child is a planning-typed coordination root.

TDD: RED test_activate_batch_root_subtasks_retypes_code_to_planning
watched fail (task_type stayed CODE), then GREEN after the retype.
ruff+mypy clean; 125 batch/umbrella/approve tests green, no regressions.

* [F003,F004,F014] enforce HMAC agent-token gate on do routes + WebSocket streams

F003/F014: /api/v1/do/* only required X-Agent-ID (UUID) — no token check,
unlike the flow routers' role guards. A forged X-Agent-ID passed. Added
require_any_authenticated_agent (token-only; do router serves all roles)
and applied it as a router-level dependency. Binds X-Agent-ID to a verified
HMAC token when ROBOCO_AGENT_AUTH_REQUIRED=true; rejects a forged token
even in dev mode.

F004: /ws/* per-agent streams (channels/agents/sessions/notifications)
never read the nginx-injected X-Agent-Token, so in strict mode an agent on
the Docker network could subscribe to another agent's notifications with
no auth. Added _require_panel_token verifying the CEO panel token against
the CEO identity; wired into all four per-agent streams (system stream
stays operator-only per its docstring). Same strict/dev contract.

TDD: RED tests watched fail (no gate -> 200/accept), then GREEN. ruff+mypy
clean; 399 api/mcp + 29 WS tests green, no regressions.

* [F005,F006] grok auth: directory mount + atomic-write fallback

F005: the single-file bind mount of auth.json pinned the inode, so the
orchestrator's atomic refresh (tmp+rename within ~/.grok) never reached a
running grok container — a long-lived container hung at the login prompt
when the original ~6h token expired. Mount the host ~/.grok DIRECTORY (ro)
at /home/agent/.grok-auth-ro; the entrypoint symlinks ~/.grok/auth.json at
that RO mount so grok + the --check backstop read the live credential (the
directory mount sees the host-side rename) while grok's writable state
(config.toml, sessions/) stays in the image's ~/.grok.

F006: a rotated refresh_token is single-use — xAI invalidates the old one
the instant it issues the new one. If the atomic write failed after the
rotation, the file kept the now-dead old refresh_token and the credential
was permanently lost on the next refresh. _atomic_write now falls back to a
direct write when tmp+replace fails, so the rotated token always lands on
disk (losing the write is catastrophic; losing atomicity is not).

TDD: RED tests watched fail, then GREEN. ruff+mypy clean; 32 grok tests
green, no regressions.

* [F016,F017] choreographer: surface invalid_state instead of None.status 500 on submit_root / i_am_blocked

Both verbs compose a single atomic action whose None return (the verb's
own result) flowed out of run_intent and was dereferenced as t.status,
HTTP 500-ing with no actionable rejection:

- F016 submit_root: submit_for_review returns None when the root->master
  PR was already opened / the task raced out of in_progress. Post-runner
  None-guard extracted into _submit_root_finalize -> invalid_state
  (re-fetch; if awaiting_pr_review the PR is open, wait for reviewer;
  else re-delegate fixes and retry) instead of None.status.

- F017 i_am_blocked: escalate returns None in four cases (no task, no
  agent, no resolvable escalation-target slug, no target agent row) e.g.
  a developer whose role has no PM above it. _run_i_am_blocked_intent
  now guards updated is None -> (t, invalid_state rejection) with
  remediation (re-fetch + escalate to CEO directly / retry) instead of
  the caller deref'ing None.status -> 500 + respawn-loop.

TDD red->green; ruff + mypy clean; gateway suite green (58 passed).

* [F007] choreographer: cell-level unchanged-PR re-submit loop-stopper for submit_up

The root loop-stopper (F016) was root-only; a weak cell PM could re-submit
the unchanged cell->root PR after a pr_fail and loop awaiting_pr_review ->
pr_fail forever (the cell analogue of the 2026-06-27 root loop).

pr_fail stamps the assembled PR's head SHA into notes_structured.pr_review
.head_sha for cell AND root gate tasks alike (the capture is gate-verb-
level, not root-level), so the same structural refusal applies to submit_up:
if the cell PR's current head SHA equals the SHA the last pr_fail recorded,
no new dev work landed on the cell branch -> the diff is byte-identical ->
refuse, do not re-open the gate. Different SHA -> branch advanced -> allow.

- _submit_up_unchanged_pr_guard mirrors _submit_root_unchanged_pr_guard
  (cell-PM remediation: re-delegate to the dev + wait for re-assembly),
  wired into submit_up after _submit_up_guard passes.
- Renamed shared _current_root_pr_head_sha -> _current_pr_head_sha (both
  guards use it; the lookup was never root-specific).
- Every ambiguous case FAILS OPEN (no prior fail, no recorded sha, no
  pr_number, no resolvable project, git/closed-PR None) — only the exact-
  unchanged case is hard-blocked.

TDD red->green; ruff + mypy clean; F007+F016 guard suites green (15 passed).

* [F008] evidence_builder: surface persisted pr_review verdict+issues in the PM task_handoff

The pr_fail a2a steer to the owning PM is fire-and-forget; a PM respawned
into needs_revision later read none of it (build_task_handoff never looked
at notes_structured), saw a generic 'needs revision' with zero concrete
change-requests, and re-submitted the same PR (the 2026-06-27 infinite
pr_fail loop on 9980d0a0 / PR #138). The signal-gap was only partially
closed by the a2a.

build_task_handoff now extracts notes_structured.pr_review
(verdict/summary/issues/head_sha — the slot pr_fail authors on every fail)
into a pr_review field on the handoff, so every PM briefing for the task
carries the concrete change-requests. A prior pr_fail alone now counts as
prior-work-worth-resuming. Type-guarded + capped; absent => no key (no
misleading empty slot).

TDD red->green; ruff + mypy clean; evidence_builder suite green (14 passed).

* [F009] notification: derive requires_ack from ACK_REQUIRED_BY_TYPE, not the True default

NotificationService._create_notification built NotificationTable without
requires_ack, so the column default (True) applied to EVERY notification -
including informational REVIEW_REQUEST / DOCUMENTATION_REQUEST /
A2A_REQUEST / KNOWLEDGE_SHARE (ACK_REQUIRED_BY_TYPE -> False) and every
@mention from MessagingService._notify_mentions. Each false ack-required
inflated the recipient's unacked set and soft-blocked i_am_idle into
respawn churn.

- _create_notification: requires_ack=ACK_REQUIRED_BY_TYPE.get(type, True)
  (unmapped types default True - preserve the action-required bias).
- _notify_mentions: requires_ack=False explicit (MENTION is informational).

TDD red->green (identity is False/is True assertions - the mocked
flush doesn't apply SQLA's insert-time default, so pre-fix the attribute
was None); ruff + mypy clean; notification suite green (18 passed).

* [F010] notification: never dedup informational notifications (knowledge-share data loss)

The purpose-based dedup suppressed a same-purpose (same sender/type/task,
overlapping recipients) notification while a prior one was unacked. For
informational types (KNOWLEDGE_SHARE / MENTION / A2A_REQUEST / BROADCAST +
the pickup-proves-receipt triad) each send carries DISTINCT content (a new
learning, a new mention) and acking is voluntary, so a recipient who never
acks the prior one let the dedup permanently suppress every subsequent
same-sender broadcast - silent learning-broadcast data loss.

The dedup's anti-loop rationale (stop unacked-set inflation soft-blocking
i_am_idle) only holds for action-required signals. Gate the dedup on
ACK_REQUIRED_BY_TYPE.get(type, True): action-required types still dedup,
informational types always create. Unmapped types default True (dedup on).

TDD red->green; ruff + mypy clean; notification + dedup suites green (20).

* [F011] playbook: de-index rejected/archived playbooks from the PLAYBOOKS RAG index

* [F012] release_executor: fail-closed on git add/commit before push

* [F013] release_proposal: Redis SET NX mutex guards the ~40min execute against concurrent approves

* [F015] flow_qa/flow_doc: add i_am_blocked route (manifest-registered escape hatch was 404)

* [F018] claim_guards: treat blocked as active + broaden the guard lookup so a blocked dev can't double-claim

* [F019] git: clear orphaned .git/*.lock files after a timeout-SIGKILL'd mutation op

* [F031] identity: role_for_slug_or_none so defensive skip-guards don't crash the dispatcher tick on stale slugs

* [F032] test: unknown-assignee claim reaches release-to-pending path

F031's role_for_slug_or_none fix made the unknown-assignee release branch
in _dispatch_claimed_without_agent reachable (the human-only guard no
longer raises/short-circuits on a stale slug). Lock that reachability in:
a claimed task with an unknown-assignee UUID past grace returns the slug
(not None) so get_agent_role -> 'unknown' releases the claim to pending
for a role-matched reclaim.

* [F033] orchestrator: capture container_id at startup re-adoption

_readopt_running_agents registered re-adopted ACTIVE instances with
container_id=None. _check_health skips container_id-is-None instances, so
when a re-adopted container later exited the stopped-container handler
never ran and the task stranded under a phantom ACTIVE instance forever.

Add _resolve_container_id (docker inspect -f '{{.Id}}') and store the real
id on re-adopt. Best-effort: a probe failure degrades to None (still
ACTIVE; the reaper's Docker-liveness fallback covers it).

* [F034] orchestrator: re-stamp respawn last_check at restore

_pm_made_rule_following_retry bounds its tracing_gap audit lookup with
since = record.get('last_check'). A stale persisted last_check from before
the restart matched pre-restart tracing_gap rows, falsely resetting the
breaker on the very first post-restart spawn — exactly when a fresh strike
count should be evaluating current state.

_partition_respawn_rows now re-stamps last_check to the restore time on
every restorable entry, bounding the lookup to post-restart gaps only.

* [F035] orchestrator: probe-resume loop actually revives parked agents

_park_provider_unavailable parked the provider + offlined the instance but
never registered a WaitingRecord, so _on_probe_success -> _parked_agents_for
(always filtered on waiting_for=='rate_limit_lifted') returned [] and
resolve_wait revived nobody — recovery fell to the 600s stale-claim reaper
instead of the probe-success path the parking design relied on.

Register + persist a rate_limit_lifted WaitingRecord at park time (mirrors
mark_waiting_long, minus stop_agent — the container is already dead).

Companion reaper guard: _reap_with_service now skips provider-parked
assignees (_assignee_is_provider_parked) so the claim survives until the
probe revives the agent — otherwise the reaper releases the claim to pending
and probe-success respawns on a task the agent no longer owns.

* [F036] orchestrator: read transcript for overload detection too

The SDK server writes model-API errors (529/500/503) to /tmp/sdk-server.log,
not stdout, so an overload marker can appear only in the durable Claude
transcript — the same rationale already applied to the session-limit
detector. _provider_overload_park_target read only docker logs, so an
overload was missed and the agent crash-respawned straight back into it.

Now concatenates the transcript tail before matching, mirroring the
rate-limit path.

* [F037] orchestrator: drop bare error-NNN overload markers

The bare 'error 529'/'error 500'/'error 503' markers were broad enough to
false-match an agent that merely writes about an HTTP status code in its own
notes ('the endpoint returned error 500, retrying'), parking the whole
Anthropic fleet on a non-issue.

The SDK error formatter emits 'API Error: NNN' + a JSON error type, so the
remaining 'api error: 529/500/503' + 'overloaded_error' +
'internal_server_error' markers cover every real overload without that
false-match surface.

* [F038/F039] orchestrator: sign X-Agent-Token on self-API calls

The prior self-PATCH 401 fix only carried X-Agent-ID/X-Agent-Role. Arming
ROBOCO_AGENT_AUTH_REQUIRED=true made the middleware require a signed
X-Agent-Token, so every orchestrator self-call (auto-block / auto-resume /
auto-recover / SLA annotation) 401'd and silently no-op'd — wedging
paused/blocked parents.

Add _system_api_headers() that wraps the base headers with a signed token
for the system identity (issue_agent_token); switch all six self-call sites.
Dev fallback: no secret set => UNSIGNED sentinel + auth not required.

* [F040] orchestrator: finalize grok spawn session on cost-cap kill

_enforce_grok_cost_budget killed + evicted the container without calling
_finalize_spawn_session, so the open agent_spawn_sessions row stayed open
(ended_at IS NULL) and the burned usage/cost was never recorded in the
dashboard.

Call _finalize_spawn_session(exit_reason='cost_cap') BEFORE popping the
instance — it reads self._instances[agent_id] for the model +
usage_session_id, which the pop would lose.

* [F041] park grok exit-78 (auth missing/expired) instead of crash-retrying

A one-shot grok container whose entrypoint ran grok_auth --check and found
the token missing/expired exits 78 (EX_CONFIG). Crash-retrying 3x burns
tokens for zero progress — the agent cannot start without a valid token.
Park the provider with kind=auth_missing (same shape as the 429 exit-75
path) so the probe-resume loop revives the task once grok_auth.refresh_if_stale
mints a fresh token; if still expired, the next exit 78 re-parks (no burn).

Also fixes a latent F035 regression: _park_provider_unavailable now registers
a WaitingRecord, so the bare-__new__ rate-limit park test had to set
_waiting_records + stub _persist_waiting_record (mirrors the overload-test
fixture).

* [F042] isolate concurrent-duplicate conventions cache put in a savepoint

Two task creates for the same project/HEAD can race to populate the
conventions cache; the loser's INSERT fails the partial-unique index with
IntegrityError. A bare session.add + flush poisons the shared session (the
task-create transaction rides the same session), so every subsequent op
raises 'this session is in error state' and task creation crashes.

Run the INSERT in a savepoint (begin_nested) and swallow the IntegrityError:
only the savepoint rolls back, the outer transaction stays usable, and the
winner's row satisfies the next _cache_get.

* [F043] guard escalate_up against resurrecting terminal tasks

escalate_up had composes=() and no source-status guard, so a PM could
escalate a COMPLETED/CANCELLED task and apply_escalation set it back to
BLOCKED — bypassing the state machine's terminal-state invariant.

Defense in depth:
- spec: add PRECONDITION_NON_TERMINAL to escalate_up's extra_preconditions so
  the lifecycle gate rejects terminal tasks (invalid_state) before the
  journal:decision write fires; generalize _check_intent_preconditions to
  honor non-tracing rejection_kind (not_authorized / invalid_state).
- service: apply_escalation (the single write primitive) returns False and
  refuses to mutate a terminal task — covers the HTTP escalate route which
  bypasses the spec gate. escalate() / escalate_up_to_role() return None on
  refusal so the gateway emits a clean invalid_state envelope.
- route: the HTTP escalate route 409s a terminal task BEFORE sending the
  escalation notification (so a finished task isn't yanked back, PM not pinged).

* [F044] pr_pass gate remediation points the reviewer at pr_fail, not i_am_blocked

The pr_pass gate runs the toolchain + conventions guards on the REVIEWER's
workspace, but their remediation text said 'call i_am_blocked' — a verb the
PR reviewer does not have. The reviewer would chase a verb they cannot call
instead of rejecting the PR.

Make the guards reviewer-aware: a reviewer=True flag (passed by _pr_pass_blocked)
switches the remediation to pr_fail(issues=[...]) — the reviewer's reject
lever, sending the PR back to needs_revision for the dev to fix the
environment / validator. The dev (i_am_done) path keeps i_am_blocked, which a
dev does have. _conventions_guard (the pr_pass path) now passes reviewer=True
through to _conventions_rejection.

* [F045] rate-limit: loud activate-failure log + in-memory orphan-probe fallback

The in-verb i_am_blocked(rate_limited) path wrapped RateLimitStateTracker.activate
in a bare contextlib.suppress. A silent activate failure stranded the fleet:
agents were parked in _waiting_records but the provider never entered the tracker,
so the tracker-driven _sweep_rate_limit_probes never probed it and no
_on_probe_success ever resumed them — parked agents stuck in WAITING_LONG.

Fix: (1) replace the bare suppress with a try/except that logs an error event
naming the provider + affected agents; (2) in _sweep_rate_limit_probes, after
probing the tracker-listed set, scan _waiting_records for any rate_limit_lifted
provider the loop did NOT cover and probe it via the time-expiry fallback (empty
state -> probe now) so _on_probe_success resumes the parked agents. The fallback
reads only local memory, so it still resumes when Redis was down at park time
(list_rate_limited_providers failure now falls through to the orphan scan instead
of returning early).

* [F046] pr_gate: guard None runner result on concurrent transition (pr_pass/pr_fail)

_gate_decision dereferenced the verb-runner result without a None guard.
run_intent returns None when a concurrent transition (cancel or a racing
reviewer) moves the task out of awaiting_pr_review between the precondition
gate and the runner's final composed action (the verb runner's documented
last-action source-status contract). The subsequent t.assigned_to /
t.status / _post_gate_review_to_pr(t, ...) dereferences then crashed the
gate with a 500 AttributeError. Add a None guard that surfaces a clean
invalid_state rejection (re-fetch + re-issue) before any dereference; no
PR post or a2a runs against a None task. TDD test_pr_gate_notifies_pm.py (+2).

* [F047] conventions: reviewer-aware block-finding remediation on pr_pass gate

The pr_pass (reviewer) conventions guard reused the dev-path block-finding
remediation: 'add a waiver to .roboco/conventions.yml in your branch'. A
pr_reviewer does not own the assembled cell->root / root->master branch and
has no commit verb on it, so the waiver remediation is unreachable — a false
positive stranded the gate with no self-recovery (the reviewer could neither
commit a waiver nor pr_pass). The fail-open content path is documented
precision-over-recall and stays as-is; the actionable gap is the remediation.

Fix: _conventions_rejection now branches the block-finding remediation on
reviewer=True (mirroring the could_not_run branch from F044). The reviewer
path points at pr_fail carrying the findings as issues so the PR returns to
needs_revision and the DEV fixes the violation or commits the waiver (the dev
CAN commit to the branch); waiver authorship is framed as the dev's action,
not the reviewer's. Dev i_am_done path wording unchanged. TDD
test_conventions_gate_pr_pass.py (+1).

* [F048] notify: reject human-only recipients (prompter/secretary) — no agent ack path

notify() only checked the SENDER role. The recipient was resolved by
NotificationService._resolve_recipients, which drops only unresolvable slugs
— it does not exclude human-only roles. The prompter (intake-1) and secretary
(secretary-1) are seeded agent rows, so they resolved, and an ack-required
ALERT addressed to them sat permanently unacked (no agent auto-acks it),
polluted the panel's pending-ack view, and — via the dedup query's
~acked_by.contains — permanently suppressed any later same-purpose
notification from the same sender to that human role. The knowledge-share
path already excludes all three human-only roles; the general notify path
did not.

Fix: a recipient-role guard in notify() via _reject_disallowed_recipient
(folds the new check into the existing CEO-dependency-block return slot so
notify stays under the PLR0911 return limit). Rejects prompter/secretary
with not_authorized; the CEO is human too but acks via the panel, so it stays
an allowed recipient (its only disallowed case, a dependency-block page, is
preserved). TDD test_notify.py (+3: reject prompter, reject secretary, allow
CEO).

* [F049] merge_pull_request: idempotent on already-merged PR (mirror _merge_with_retry)

* [F050] merge_pr_for_task: verify caller pr_number matches task's recorded PR

* [F051] open_conventions_pr: refuse dirty tree + verify checkout-base landed

* [F052] pr_target: scope task lookup by project_id (mirror close_pull_request)

* [F053] _token_for_project: log decryption failure (key rotation) with project slug

* [F054] learnings index: enforce shareable on every shared retrieval path (private-leak fix)

* [F055] messaging: recover from concurrent channel auto-create race via savepoint + re-fetch

* [F056] messaging: lock group row before session check-then-create to prevent active-session orphan race

* [F057] playbook: index/unindex as a post-commit step so the RAG corpus never leads the status transaction

* [F058] release-readiness: non-empty bump plan on first release

_canonical_bump_files derived the bump set from the previous
chore(release): commit. On the first release there is no such commit,
so it returned [] -> assess set version_bump_plan=[] -> the executor
published a tag with no files bumped (a no-op masquerading as X.Y.Z).

Fall back to the version-reference scan when no prior release commit
exists: the files currently embedding the version are exactly the set a
first release must bump, and the set the first release commit then
records as canonical for subsequent releases. Read-only derivation; the
CEO-approval gate and fail-closed executor are untouched.

* [F059] self-heal: hold fix tasks for CEO Approve-&-Start (restore dispatch gate)

The module docstring promised self-heal fix tasks 'wait for the CEO's
Approve-&-Start', but _originate created them confirmed_by_human=True and the
orchestrator dispatched them at once — a self-heal fix that re-broke CI would
trigger another cycle, open another auto-dispatched fix, and loop with no CEO
gate on dispatch.

Restore the documented gate:
* _originate opens the task confirmed_by_human=False (held for the CEO).
* The orchestrator holds a self-heal task out of both the PM and dev dispatch
  paths until confirmed_by_human flips True.
* approve_and_start (the CEO's start gate) sets confirmed_by_human=True so the
  held task finally dispatches (idempotent for board/intake tasks already True).
* list_pending_for_agent scopes the give_me_work hold to self-heal
  (source != self_heal OR confirmed_by_human) so an already-alive PM can't grab
  it pre-approval — while ordinary delegated subtasks (confirmed_by_human=False
  by default, where the delegation IS the authorization) still dispatch.

The 'never self-deploys' guarantee (no merge) is unchanged.

* [F059] fix DB-integration test auth + retype self-heal root code→planning

conftest test-DB defaults matched the project's own running postgres
(roboco/roboco @ localhost:15432, the docker-compose roboco-postgres
service with CREATEDB) instead of the OS user on localhost:5432 which has
no such role — every db_session test failed with InvalidPasswordError
instead of running.

Once the DB connection worked, the self-heal origination DB test went RED
with MAIN_PM_NO_CODE: the self-heal root was task_type=CODE owned by
main_pm, the combo the main_pm_cannot_own_code guard rejects. The Main PM
coordinates the fix (delegates the code work to a cell dev); it has no
code verb. Retyped CODE→PLANNING and rewrote description/AC to
coordination-level.

* [F060] emit reversal audit row on claim-branch-failure rollback

The forward task.claimed audit row is flushed before the branch-creation
attempt, and AuditService commits on its own connection, so the rollback's
flush reverts the task row but not that audit row — the journey's last
event stayed task.claimed while the task reverted to its pre-claim status,
diverging from real state and corrupting downstream cycle-time/bottleneck
metrics. The rollback now emits a CLAIMED->original reversal audit row
(only when the forward transition was made) attributed to the claimant.

* Removing completely unnecessary files (for the repo they are unnecessary)

* [F061] audit status-transition rows now written in-session (F061/F073/F075)

_emit_status_transition_audit now writes AuditLogTable rows into
self.session synchronously (session.add) instead of dispatching
AuditService.log_task_event fire-and-forget on its own connection.

The audit row now commits/rolls back atomically with the status
transition in the caller's transaction, closing three facets at once:
- F061: audit commit no longer decoupled from the transition commit
- F073: a committed transition can no longer have NO audit row
  (the row rides the same transaction; a swallowed persist can't drop it)
- F075: a transition rolled back inside a verb savepoint no longer
  leaves a phantom audit row (the row is in the savepoint too)

log_task_event is now called only from this helper (narrow blast
radius verified); revision_count increment stays at this single
chokepoint. Cycle-time/bottleneck reconstruction from task.<status>
events is no longer silently corruptible.

Tests: test_emit_status_transition_audit_writes_in_session_atomically,
test_finalize_claim_rollback_emits_reversal_audit, escalation-audit
tests retargeted to in-session AuditLogTable rows.

Also: _canonical_bump_files grep-looseness follow-on (F058) -- filter
by subject, not body; git log --grep matches any message line, so a
non-release commit whose body references chore(release): shadowed the
real release commit. Test
test_canonical_bump_files_ignores_body_only_chore_release_match.

* [F061] drop type:ignore from audit-emit tests

Convention: no type:ignore/noqa. The F061 in-session audit-emit
tests used '# type: ignore[assignment]' to assign a MagicMock to
AsyncSession.add, and the F060 test assigned to .flush the same way.

Rewritten to hold a local 'session: MagicMock' variable (mypy sees
its auto-children as MagicMock, so .add.side_effect / .flush assign
cleanly with no suppression). Verified via 'mypy tests/' that both
files are now type-clean (the F060/F061 commits had skipped tests/
in mypy, masking two method-assign errors).

* [chore] clear all 64 pre-existing mypy errors in tests/ (no type:ignore)

Convention: no type:ignore/noqa, and pre-existing violations still
violate. The make-quality gate runs 'mypy roboco/ tests/', but the
prior commits' gates only ran mypy on production files, masking 64
type errors across 15 test files (method-assign, unused-ignore,
no-untyped-def, attr-defined, union-attr, has-type, index, misc).

Fixed without any type:ignore:
- method-assign (svc.session.X = / svc.method = AsyncMock()): hold a
  local 'session: MagicMock'/'AsyncMock' and assert on it, or stub via
  object.__setattr__ / monkeypatch / a typed '_bind' helper returning
  Any, or alias 'cc: Any = c' (the pattern the file already used).
- unused 'type: ignore[assignment]' (real code was method-assign):
  removed; replaced with the no-suppression patterns above.
- 'Callable[...] has no attribute assert_*': keep a typed local ref to
  the AsyncMock and assert on the local, not the method-typed attr.
- no-untyped-def: annotate helper params (Any / pytest.MonkeyPatch).
- attr-defined / index / union-attr: type the helper as Any, narrow
  with an 'is not None' assert, or add the missing attr to a fake.
- has-type / return-value: fix the declared return type to the tuple
  the function actually returns.
- PLC0415 inline imports: hoisted to top-level.

test_pr_gate_notifies_pm._stub_gate_path converted fully to the
'cc: Any = c' alias (it already used it for one attr) so its five
'# type: ignore[method-assign]' suppressions are gone.

mypy tests/: 64 errors -> 0 (538 files). ruff check tests/: clean.
All 84 tests in the touched files pass.

* [chore] remove all remaining type:ignore suppressions from tests/

Converts 115 `# type: ignore[...]` suppressions across 23 test files to
no-suppression patterns (helper-return widening to Any, local Any aliases,
cc:Any aliases, cast at narrow call sites, typed fixtures) so the hard
no-type:ignore convention holds across tests/. No test logic or assertions
changed — only mock-wiring mechanics and type annotations.

Gate: ruff check tests/ clean; mypy tests/ (538 files) clean; 176 changed-file
tests pass. Zero real suppressions remain (the 7 grep hits are 3 hygiene-
checker string-literal test inputs and 4 prose mentions in comments).

* [F062] work_session.merge_pr: idempotency + active-status guard

merge_pr unconditionally set pr_status=merged, pr_merged_at, merged_by,
status=COMPLETED on whatever session it loaded — the only session-terminal
transition in WorkSessionService lacking both the active-status guard
(complete/abandon) and the terminal-idempotency guard (close). Two failure
modes: (1) a retried merge after a successful-but-unconfirmed GitHub merge
overwrote merged_by/pr_merged_at with the retry's actor/timestamp, corrupting
the merge audit trail; (2) merge_pr on an ABANDONED session resurrected it to
COMPLETED, undoing the single-active abandonment. Mirrors close()'s guard:
if status != ACTIVE, return the session unchanged. Both git.py callers await
merge_pr and discard the return, so the no-op is safe. TDD: 3 tests
(happy-path + both modes).

* [F063] workspace._clone_repo: rmtree half-configured clone on failure

If _configure_git raised CalledProcessError before its `remote set-url`
scrub, .git/config kept the tokenized auth URL (the project PAT) and
_assert_no_pat_leak never ran. The except clauses raised WorkspaceError
without removing the workspace, so the next ensure_workspace's health
short-circuit (valid .git with HEAD + objects) skipped past the leak —
mounting the agent on a workspace whose .git/config let it read+exfiltrate
the PAT. Both clone-failure except clauses now rmtree the workspace before
raising, so a half-configured clone is destroyed and ensure_workspace
re-clones from scratch. TDD: 2 tests (configure-failure leak + timeout).

* [F067] flow_main_pm: add missing /triage route

main_pm's manifest advertises triage (lifecycle.intents_for_role(MAIN_PM)
includes it via _PM_ROLES, alongside triage_all) but flow_main_pm.py had no
POST /triage route, so a main_pm agent calling triage hit a raw 404 that
bypassed the per-verb circuit breaker. Added the route mirroring flow_cell_pm's
/triage — wires to the existing team-scoped choreographer.triage (uses pm.team,
works for any PM role; Main PM gets its own team's blocked/awaiting tasks).
Fix direction: add-route, NOT remove-from-manifest — the manifest is spec-correct
(intents_for_role by construction); removing triage would contradict the spec
and leave main_pm with only cross-team triage_all. TDD: test_triage_route_exists_and_dispatches.

* [F068][F069] mcp servers: classify all rejection shapes + envelope 404s

F068: the do/flow-server circuit breaker only counted rejections whose
`error` field was a STRING in _CIRCUIT_REJECTION_KINDS. A 422 validation
failure (no `error` field, a `detail` list) and a 500/HTTPException
(dict-shaped `error` from the exception handlers) both bypassed the breaker
→ unbounded retries on a storm of either. Added _classify_rejection(payload)
(shared, applied to both servers) mapping all three shapes to a counted kind:
string error (existing), dict error → substring-mapped code
(*DENIED*/*AUTHORIZED*/*FORBIDDEN*/*PERMISSION*→not_authorized,
INVALID_INPUT/*VALIDATION*→incomplete_input, *NOT_FOUND*→None parity, else
→invalid_state), 422 detail→incomplete_input. The dict TypeError defence lives
in the classifier (isinstance, never dict-in-frozenset).

F069: a manifest-registered verb whose HTTP route is missing got FastAPI's raw
`{"detail":"Not Found"}` 404 body — a non-envelope payload the breaker
couldn't classify, so a storm bypassed it. _post now synthesizes an
invalid_state Envelope rejection (with a remediate hint → i_am_blocked/i_am_idle)
for a 404 status, routed through _record_and_check_circuit so the breaker counts
it. A 404 that carries a real Envelope (error field present) is surfaced as-is,
preserving test_flow_post_returns_envelope_on_404. TDD: 422/dict/404 tests in
both server test files; updated test_dict_shaped_error_does_not_crash to assert
the SDK is now called with not_authorized (replacing the pass-through assertion
that encoded the bug).

* [F064][F065][F066] websocket: non-blocking fan-out, finally-disconnect, idle timeout

F064: the bridge forwarder awaited every conn.send_text in a gather with no
per-connection queue and no send timeout — one slow WS client back-pressured
ALL event delivery to ALL clients (head-of-line blocking on the listen loop).
Each connect_* now registers a _ClientConnection (bounded asyncio.Queue(256) +
sender task); broadcasts enqueue via put_nowait (drop + structlog warn on
QueueFull) and return immediately. The sender drains the queue with each send
wrapped in wait_for(SEND_TIMEOUT=10s). Unregistered legacy sockets (set
directly into a subscription set, bypassing connect_*) get a timeout-bounded
fallback send task held in _pending_sends (ruff RUF006). disconnect cancels +
drops the sender.

F065: route handlers caught only WebSocketDisconnect with no finally — a
non-clean exit (anyio closed-resource, CancelledError, transport error)
propagated without manager.disconnect, leaking the dead socket into every
subscription set forever. Added finally: manager.disconnect(websocket) to all
5 handlers (disconnect is idempotent).

F066: no server-side heartbeat/idle timeout — a half-open socket from a dead
container blocked receive_text forever and was never reaped. receive_text now
wraps in wait_for(IDLE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=90s); on TimeoutError, log + fall
through to the F065 finally. Named module constants (no config.py precedent for
WS tuning; callers/tests patch them).

TDD: 22 new tests across 3 files (handler cleanup, idle timeout, send queue),
non-flaky across repeats; 1 existing test adapted with a yield for the new
async fan-out (assertion unchanged). ruff/mypy clean, 421 unit/api tests pass.
No type:ignore/noqa.

* [F022][F023][F024][F025][F026] api: scrub secrets from 422 log, gate a2a/dashboard/orchestrator routes, SSE session-per-query

- middleware: redact known credential fields (git_token/api_key/token/...)
  from the 422 request-validation log line; response body unchanged
- a2a: require_any_authenticated_agent on /message/send + /message/stream;
  subscribe_to_task opens a short-lived session per poll instead of holding
  one asyncpg connection for the full SSE lifetime (pool exhaustion) + auth
- dashboard: gate auditor flag/report mutating routes to Auditor or CEO
- orchestrator: router-level CEO gate on all control routes (spawn/stop/...)

TDD; ruff/mypy clean; 449 unit/api tests green; no type:ignore/noqa.

* [F030] conventions: typescript-scoped custom rules now apply to .tsx files

The validator tags a .tsx file as language 'tsx' (the JSX grammar needs
that tag, distinct from plain 'typescript'), but a custom rule scoped to
'typescript' — the language the scan reports for a React+TS repo — silently
skipped every .tsx file. The two suffix maps were NOT unified: the 'tsx'
tag is load-bearing (grammars.py picks the JSX grammar on it; hygiene.py
keys on it), so unifying would make .tsx fail to parse.

Fix is in check_custom: a one-directional dialect map _DIALECT_OF =
{'tsx': 'typescript'} — a typescript-scoped rule fires on a .tsx file,
but a tsx-scoped (JSX-only) rule still does not fire on plain .ts.

TDD; ruff/mypy clean; 80 unit + 38 integration conventions tests green.

* [F029] websocket: remove broken /api/permissions/check loopback from channel stream

channel_stream called validate_channel_access, which HTTP-loopbacked to
GET /api/permissions/check — a route that does not exist. Every call 404'd
-> False -> the channel stream closed with WS_1008_POLICY_VIOLATION for
EVERY client, so the real-time channel stream was dead. Removed the
function, its call site, and the now-unused httpx + settings imports.

Post-F004 the panel-token gate is the channel-stream authorization (the
CEO panel is the sole WS client and may view every channel), so the
broken loopback is removed rather than replaced with an in-process check
the CEO always passes. The legitimate enforcement.validate_channel_access
(slugs, in-process static ACL) is a different function and is untouched.

F027 is resolved-by-F004 (no code change): all three per-agent streams
gate on _require_panel_token first, so only the authorized CEO panel can
connect — 'any viewer subscribes to any target' is closed.

TDD; ruff/mypy clean; 530 unit/api+enforcement+RBAC tests green.

* [F078] release_executor: deadline every subprocess (git/make/gh/clone)

A hung git/make/gh/clone would block the CEO-gated release loop
indefinitely. Wrap each proc.communicate() in asyncio.wait_for via a
shared _await_proc helper; on expiry proc.kill() the child and return a
non-zero rc (124) so every caller's fail-closed branch fires. Mirrors the
quality-gate _run_one kill-on-timeout idiom.

Deadlines are generous (30min gate / 10min clone / 5min push+gh) so a
legitimate slow op is never wrongly aborted — floor-assertion tests pin
the floors to guard exactly that logical regression. Green path returns
the real rc unchanged.

* [F072] reaper: deadline docker inspect/exec + harden _check_health sweep

A hung Docker daemon (or a stuck container FS) froze the single asyncio
event loop: the reaper runs inline before every dispatch tick and shares
that loop with every background sweeper. Bound each docker subprocess
with asyncio.wait_for; on expiry proc.kill() the child and either raise
(inspect / resolve_container_id — callers apply their own fail-direction)
or return None (the gateway probe — inconclusive, caller declines to act,
matching its existing probe-failure contract). Deadlines generous
(10s inspect / 30s exec) so a legitimate slow docker call is never
wrongly aborted; floor-assertion tests pin the floors.

Also harden _check_health's per-agent loop so one agent's hung inspect
skips that agent, not the whole sweep — preserving the check-all-agents
invariant the timeout-then-raise would otherwise break (without this, a
hung daemon means no agent gets health-checked any tick).

* [F076] say/dm: handler guard rejects all 4 no-comms roles, not just auditor

The say()/dm() defence-in-depth guard only rejected auditor, but CLAUDE.md
mandates the same no-agent-comms invariant for pr_reviewer (posts findings
on the PR), prompter and secretary (human-only, note + evidence). For those
three the manifest was the only gate, so a call bypassing the manifest
(direct API POST, test harness, future routing change) would not be refused
at the handler — admission depended on the agent's slug happening to be
absent from the channel/a2a matrix. Extend the guard to a _NO_COMMS_ROLES
frozenset (auditor + pr_reviewer + prompter + secretary), matching the
explicit role-frozenset gates on commit/notify/pitch/playbook/open_session.
Role-appropriate remediation per role. The claimed defence-in-depth now
covers 4 of 4 silent roles, not 1 of 4.

* [F070] drain fire-and-forget _bg_tasks on shutdown (bounded, data-preserving)

Orchestrator.stop() cancelled only the named loop tasks + agents, then
returned, abandoning in-flight _schedule_bg work. An in-flight
_persist_respawn_record upsert dropped at shutdown meant the last few
gate-mutation strikes never reached the DB; restore_respawn_tracker() on
the next start repopulated a stale lower count and the dispatcher re-burned
the full 4-spawn strike threshold against a still-wedged task — the exact
re-burn the durable tracker exists to stop. Audit-log writes (load-bearing
for cycle-time/rework metrics) were similarly dropped.

Add _drain_bg_tasks(): bounded wait (5s default) lets short DB writes
commit before exit (data preserved), then cancels any stuck task past the
deadline so a hang can't wedge shutdown. return_exceptions=True so one
failing bg task doesn't crash the drain. Wrap the stop_agent loop in
try/except + logger.exception so one bad agent can't skip the drain
(re-introducing the data-loss tail). Floor test pins the deadline >= 3s
so a too-short change can't silently drop a legitimate slow write.

* [F071] abort non-blocking intake/secretary spawn on mid-spawn shutdown

The non-blocking spawn (start_intake_session / start_secretary_session)
schedules _spawn_intake_container_guarded / _spawn_secretary_container_guarded
via _schedule_bg. Those run docker run and only register in _instances at the
END. If shutdown arrived between docker run and the registration line, the
container was started but the orchestrator had no handle — stop() iterates
only _instances, so the container was orphaned (leaked, manual docker rm).
Worse, the F070 drain could let the spawn coroutine complete the
registration AFTER stop() already iterated _instances, landing a live
container into a shutting-down registry nothing tears down.

Add a post-docker-run shutdown guard in _spawn_intake_container and
_spawn_secretary_container: re-check self._running after _run_container_cmd
returns; if the orchestrator began shutting down, remove the just-started
container (by its deterministic name) and raise _SpawnAbortedDuringShutdown
WITHOUT registering. The guarded wrappers catch that BEFORE except Exception
and close the live relay silently (shutdown is not a user-facing failure,
no error pushed to the SSE stream). The F070 stop() drain awaits the bg
spawn coroutine, so the abort surfaces cleanly.

TOCTOU-safe: between the _running check and the _instances assignment there
is no await (config + instance construction are sync), so once the check
passes, registration completes before the event loop can interleave stop().
The normal running path is unchanged (sanity tests pin it).

* [F074] per-agent advisory lock closes claim TOCTOU

_run_claim_guards read the agent's other tasks via unlocked SELECTs
before claim() took its row lock, and claim()'s FOR UPDATE locked only
the TARGET row — so two concurrent i_will_work_on by the SAME agent on
TWO DIFFERENT pending tasks each locked their own row, each read an
empty in_progress set, each passed already_active, each claimed+started
→ the agent ended with two in_progress tasks (the in-process asyncio
Lock is lost on orchestrator-restart split-brain, so it wasn't a
DB-level guarantee).

Fix: TaskService.acquire_claim_lock takes a transaction-scoped
pg_advisory_xact_lock keyed by hashtextextended(agent_id). The gate
acquires it BEFORE the guard reads (for non-coordinator roles only) so
the second concurrent claim's read sees the first's committed
in_progress task and is rejected. Tx-scoped → auto-releases on
commit/rollback, can't outlive the request.

Coordinator exemption (the key logical-regression guard): cell_pm /
main_pm do NOT take the lock — the PM coordinator concurrency feature
lets a PM plan+delegate many roots in parallel, and a per-agent lock
would serialize those claims and regress it. Matches the existing
_COORDINATOR_ROLES already_active/paused guard exemption. A hash
collision only causes benign false serialization, never a false
negative.

Tests: unit (dev acquires lock before guard read; coordinator does
not) + real-PG integration (same-agent serializes, different-agent
does not, releases on rollback).

* [F021] handle SSE transport errors so the intake composer isn't stuck

openStream registered listeners for the server-sent event kinds but not
the EventSource's own transport-level error. The 'error' kind IS in
LIVE_EVENT_KINDS, so a server-sent event:error (JSON MessageEvent) was
handled — but a dropped connection / dead session fires a plain Event
with NO data, which JSON.parse(undefined) swallowed in the try/catch,
so the stream 'stayed open' (EventSource loop-reconnected a session that
no longer existed) and isSending stayed true — the composer was
permanently disabled.

Fix: route the 'error' event by payload. A MessageEvent with string
data is a server-sent error → handleEvent (unchanged). A no-data Event
is a transport error → handleTransportError: clear streamingId/activity,
set isSending false, add a 'connection lost' error message, keep a
draft/batch preview up (so the human can still act on a proposed card)
else land on 'chatting', and close the dead stream so EventSource stops
loop-reconnecting.

Tests: renderHook + a jsdom EventSource double that fires a transport
error (plain Event, no data) vs a server-sent error (MessageEvent +
JSON). RED: transport error left isSending true; GREEN: resets to
false, surfaces the message, closes the stream. The server-sent-JSON
path is unchanged. Full panel suite (129) green; eslint/typecheck/prettier clean.

* [F081] Approve dialog: label notes required (>=20 chars), not optional

The CEO Approve dialog's notes label fell into the default branch
('Notes (optional') for the approve action, but approve actually
requires substantive notes >= 20 chars — enforced client-side
(toast error on < 20) and server-side. So the CEO was told 'optional'
and only learned the real requirement from a toast after hitting
submit with empty notes.

approve and start both require >= 20 chars; reject only requires a
reason. Collapse the label to two branches: reject -> 'Reason for
rejection (required)'; everything else (approve + start) ->
'Approval notes (required, >= 20 characters)'. The approve
placeholder now also signals intent ('Why this is ready to ship...').

Tests: render the queue, click Approve, assert the notes label says
'required' + '20' and does NOT say 'optional'. RED: label read
'Notes (optional)'; GREEN: 'Approval notes (required, >= 20
characters)'. eslint/typecheck/prettier clean.

* [F082] surface release-proposal query failures instead of silent hide

The card collapsed any non-404 backend failure (500 / network drop) onto
`!proposal` and returned null, so the CEO had no idea the release-proposal
endpoint was unreachable. Distinguish the cases: isError + a Retry affordance
vs the 404 null empty state that stays hidden. Mirrors PrReviewQueue.

* [F083] clear stale usage snapshot when /ws/system leaves connected

The hook synced wsState into the store but never dropped usageData when the
stream dropped, so on reconnect wsState flipped to "connected" before any
fresh USAGE_SNAPSHOT arrived and UsageOverviewPanel rendered the prior
session's totals/cost as if they were live. Clear usageData whenever state
leaves "connected" so the panel falls back to the polling summary until a
new snapshot lands. Connected->connected is a no-op clear skip.

* [F084] scope per-control disable to the in-flight mutation, not all

FeatureFlagsCard disabled every switch while any one flag toggle was pending,
and PlaybookReviewQueue disabled every row's Approve while any one approve was
pending — so the operator couldn't act on an independent control during a
slow round-trip. Gate the disable on the in-flight mutation's variables
(matching key / id) so only the control being mutated locks; the others stay
usable. The same-flag double-tap protection is preserved.

* [F085] reject submitting both project_id and product_id

validate() only checked 'at least one of project/product', so the dialog let
both be submitted together. The server silently lets product_id win at routing
and drops project_id, recording a misleading, never-used repo. Add a validator
that refuses the ambiguous submit with a clear error. The at-least-one rule and
the single-pick submit paths are unchanged.

* [F020] kanban: confirm admin-override drags that skip lifecycle preconditions

A drag on the operator kanban routes the status move through the admin
status-override, which bypasses the in-band lifecycle validator entirely.
That override is intentional (it's how an operator recovers a wedged task)
but it also let a careless drag skip material preconditions silently —
completing a task with no open PR, QA-bypassing, finishing docs on a task
whose docs aren't complete.

Leave the override intact but make the bypass explicit: compute the
preconditions the dragged move would skip (open PR, docs complete,
self-verified + commits + progress for submit-qa, visible non-terminal
subtasks for coordination-root targets) and, when any are skipped, hold the
move behind a confirmation dialog that lists exactly what's being skipped.
Precision over recall — only warn on what the panel can verify from the
task and its in-list children; never fabricate a 'satisfied' claim, and
stay silent on benign transitions that gate on nothing we can check.

The admin status-override capability is preserved (Confirm still fires it);
this only surfaces the bypass instead of letting it happen silently. Does
not touch the master-merge invariant — the board's updateTask is the
operator override, not the Main-PM merge path.

* [F086] prompter: restore parked cell content on project toggle off/on

rebuildCellWork appended a blank {summary:'', items:[]} entry for a newly-
selected cell, so toggling a cell's project OFF then back ON in the MegaTask
review card discarded the agent-authored per-cell summary/items — the entry
was dropped on toggle-off and re-added blank on toggle-on.

Park each draft's last per-cell content in client-only BatchProposal state
(parkedCellWork, keyed by draft index — never sent to the backend; confirm
ships only title/drafts/project_ids/route, and it ride-alongs into the
localStorage persist slice so the restore survives a reload mid-review).
rebuildCellWork gains an optional priorByCell map: a re-added cell with no
live entry restores its parked summary/items (with the new project_id) in-
stead of blanking; a live entry still wins over a stale parked copy so an
in-place edit is never regressed. parkCellWork is the pure merge seam
(prevParked seeds, live work overwrites) the setBatchDraftProjects updater
calls — kept pure so the updater stays a thin caller.

Tests: rebuildCellWork restore/blank-fallback/live-wins + parkCellWork
retain/overwrite/merge (6 new), 19 GREEN. eslint/typecheck/prettier clean.
No wire-payload change, no regression to the fill/drop/one-repo-per-cell
invariants.

* Updated domain

* [F087,F088] enforce panel token on live-chat bridges (Phase 5)

Add a CEO-bound, header-token-only gate (require_panel_token) at the route
level of the prompter_live + secretary_live bridges, which were the only
panel-facing API surface that ran unauthenticated. It mirrors the WS
_require_panel_token and _check_agent_auth_token contracts: in dev
(ROBOCO_AGENT_AUTH_REQUIRED unset) a missing token is allowed; a
presented-but-forged token is rejected even in dev; in prod nginx already
injects the CEO-signed X-Agent-Token on /api/ for GET + POST, so the SSE
stream (EventSource can't set headers) and the POSTs are now checked instead
of anonymous. Applied to start/stream/status/messages/stop on both routers;
preview_live_batch switched from CurrentAgentContext+noqa to the route-level
gate (genuinely auth-only). confirm/confirm-batch/re-interview keep
CurrentAgentContext (they use agent.identity). The container->relay /events
callback is intentionally left ungated (internal Docker network, opaque
session id) — gated by a test sentinel so Option B (spawn+SDK token wiring)
is a deliberate future decision. No panel/nginx/spawn/SDK changes; master
merge invariant untouched. 22 new TDD auth tests, 492 api tests green.

* [F089] honest WorkSession agent_id nullability across the read path

The work_sessions.agent_id column is nullable=True with ondelete=SET
NULL — deleting an agent nulls the FK on every session it ever held. The
ORM annotation lied (Mapped[UUID] non-optional), the converter papered
over the lie (typing_cast to a non-optional UUID), and the response
model rejected None outright (WorkSessionResponse.agent_id: UUID). A
session whose agent had been deleted crashed the GET endpoint with a
pydantic ValidationError instead of serializing agent_id: null.

Make the read path honest end-to-end:
- WorkSessionTable.agent_id: Mapped[UUID | None] (matches the column).
- WorkSessionResponse.agent_id: UUID | None (serializes null, no crash).
- session_to_response passes agent_id via typing_cast('UUID | None', ...)
  to bridge SQLAlchemy's UUID[Any] to stdlib uuid.UUID while preserving
  None-ness (the cast stays for the same mypy-plugin reason every other
  field uses one; it no longer narrows away None).

WorkSessionCreate.agent_id stays UUID — at create time the claiming
agent is always known. The unused WorkSession pydantic read model is
left as-is (never materialized from a DB row). task.py:_needs_revision_dev
already None-guards ws.agent_id via to_python_uuid (returns None -> skip).

* [F090] drop auditor from write_roles on main-pm-board / board-private

The auditor is a silent, read-only observer on every channel, but the
channel catalog (roboco/foundation/policy/communications.py) listed it
in write_roles for main-pm-board and board-private 'for parity' with the
legacy CHANNEL_ACCESS table, while the actual silent-observer rule was
enforced only at the say/dm guard (content_actions._NO_COMMS_ROLES) and
PermissionService.can_write_channel's auditor short-circuit.

That left the catalog-only enforcement path — the HTTP messaging route
(messages.py send_message -> validate_channel_access) — authorizing an
auditor write that both the say/dm guard and PermissionService would
have blocked. A reader of the catalog also believed the auditor could
post to those channels, which is false.

Fix: remove Role.AUDITOR from write_roles on both channels (main-pm
+ board remain writers; ceo remains a writer on board-private). The
auditor stays in read_roles, so its silent read is unchanged. silent_roles
is left empty (matches the announcements precedent: auditor reads via
read_roles, not the silent bucket) — the DB seed and silent_observers
field are untouched.

Logical-regression check: the auditor's read access on both channels
is byte-for-byte preserved (still in read_roles, so validate_channel_access
read returns True via the direct list); the legitimate writers (main-pm,
product-owner, head-marketing, ceo) are untouched; CHANNEL_ACCESS is
derived from the spec so the foundation/seed drift tests self-adjust;
PermissionService.can_write_channel already short-circuited auditor to
False everywhere, so no behavior change there; AUDITOR_SILENT_ACCESS is
unchanged (auditor not added to silent_roles -> no DB silent_observers
change -> no group-access behavior change); the say/dm _NO_COMMS_ROLES
guard is unchanged. Tests: 3 new in test_channel_access.py — auditor
write on main-pm-board/board-private now raises ChannelAccessDeniedError
(RED before: returned True), auditor read still True, main-pm/ceo still
write.

* [F091] warn at spawn time when host grok auth.json is missing

GrokCliProvider._append_grok_auth_mount silently skipped the mount when
the host ~/.grok/auth.json was absent. The spawn still succeeded (docker
run returned 0 — the container was created), so the operator had no
spawn-time signal that the agent was doomed: the entrypoint's
`python -m roboco.llm.providers.grok_auth --check` backstop then
refused to start (exit 78) and the failure only surfaced later via the
container's log markers.

Fix: emit a spawn-time WARNING (module logger) naming the missing file
and the remediation (`grok login` on the host, or set
ROBOCO_HOST_GROK_DIR) when the mount is skipped. The spawn outcome is
unchanged — the container still starts and the existing exit-78 -> park
flow (F041) still catches it — but the operator now sees the missing
credential immediately instead of diagnosing a later exit-78.

Logical-regression check: the mount-present path is byte-for-byte
unchanged (auth.json exists -> the -v bind is appended, no warning); the
spawn still succeeds when auth is absent (no raise — the existing
test_grok_spawn_omits_auth_mount_when_absent still passes: no mount, no
crash); the exit-78 entrypoint backstop and the orchestrator's
exit-78-park handling (F041) are untouched; a module-level logger adds no
side effects. Tests: new test_grok_spawn_warns_when_auth_absent uses
caplog to assert a WARNING mentioning auth.json + `grok login` is
emitted on a missing-credential spawn (RED before: no warning; GREEN
after). 102 grok tests green; ruff/mypy clean.

* [F092] decode JWT exp when refresh omits expires_in

xAI's refresh-token response sometimes omits expires_in. Without it the
new access token kept the stale pre-refresh expires_at, so is_valid /
--check forever rejected a fresh token — and the refresh loop re-rotated
the single-use refresh token every tick, killing the credential (F006).

The access token is a JWT whose exp is the authoritative expiry: decode it
when expires_in is absent. Fallback to the documented ~6h TTL + a structlog
warning when the JWT exp is unreadable, so a fresh token is treated as live
instead of stale.

* [F093] serialize concurrent live-chat spawns under a per-agent lock

The intake and secretary agent ids are each a single fixed id, so two
concurrent start_intake_session / start_secretary_session calls raced on
the container name (docker run --name roboco-agent-<id>) and the
_instances[<id>] write: both passed the reap-prior check before either
registered, both ran docker run, and the last _instances write won,
orphaning the other container + its relay.

Add _intake_spawn_lock / _secretary_spawn_lock (asyncio.Lock) and wrap the
_spawn_intake_container / _spawn_secretary_container bodies so the second
start waits for the first to fully register before its own reap-prior check
runs. Distinct from self._lock (which stop_agent takes) to avoid a
reentrancy deadlock: the spawn body holds the spawn lock then calls
stop_agent (acquires self._lock) — lock order is always spawn_lock ->
self._lock, never the reverse.

* [F094] add a persistent-probe-failure escape hatch to provider parking

_on_probe_failure only incremented the failure counter and, at 10 failures,
sent a one-shot CEO notification. It never cleared the tracker, never gave
up, never fell back to time-expiry. _do_probe returns False for any non-2xx
AND any httpx error, so a permanently unreachable probe endpoint (removed
API key, network partition to the probe host, misconfigured base URL) kept
the provider parked forever — every agent on it gated by
_provider_spawn_parked, their tasks reaped to pending but the spawn gate
queuing every spawn, sitting pending forever. The only recovery was the
operator manually clearing the Redis key.

Past _PROBE_GIVE_UP_THRESHOLD (30) persistent failures, fall back to the
same time-expiry optimism the unprobeable-provider path uses (_do_probe
returns True when there is no probe URL): clear the park and resume parked
agents. If the provider is genuinely still down the real workload attempts
re-park via the 429/5xx path, so this is bounded burn — strictly better
than a silent forever-strand. Kept above the CEO-notify threshold (10) so
the operator still gets the notification first.

* [F095] orchestrator: parked-provider spawn short-circuits before expensive prepare

spawn_agent ran the full _prepare_agent_spawn (writes blueprint/settings/
briefing/MCP files, ensures the image, registers a STARTING instance) every
dispatcher tick only to bail at the after-prepare parked-provider check —
wasting all that file I/O while the provider stayed parked and leaving a
STARTING instance registered then downgraded to OFFLINE.

Move the parked check before _prepare_agent_spawn: resolve the route cheaply
via _resolve_agent_route (only provider_type is needed) and bail with a
minimal unregistered OFFLINE instance. The existing-running check stays
first (inside the lock) so a live agent is never replaced; a TOCTOU
re-check guards the unlocked window before prepare; the after-prepare
check is kept as a rare-race defense (a park landing during prepare).

* [F096] orchestrator: serialize fire-and-forget respawn persists per commit order

_persist_respawn_record is fire-and-forget per gate mutation; a respawn loop
fires count 1->2->3->4 in quick succession, scheduling one persist per
increment for the same (agent_slug, task_id). The ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE upsert
is row-level race-free, but the fire-and-forget tasks can still COMMIT out of
order: a slow stale persist (count=2) scheduled first can resolve AFTER a fast
fresh one (count=4) scheduled second, leaving the durable row at the stale low
count and re-burning the strike threshold on restart.

Fix: acquire self._respawn_persist_lock (new asyncio.Lock) as the FIRST await
in _persist_respawn_record, so acquisition order = task creation order (FIFO
ready queue) = logical schedule order, and commits land in that order. The
durable row always ends at the latest logical value. The lock lives in the bg
task, so the dispatcher hot path never blocks; persists are best-effort and
a slow one queuing the rest just delays the durable catch-up (in-memory record
stays authoritative).

* [F097] orchestrator: back off grok re-park retry_after within a rate-limit episode

_probe_target returns (None, {}) for grok — the grok CLI's xAI endpoint is
closed and the SuperGrok OIDC access token is not a valid bearer for the metered
api.x.ai, so a real probe would either no-op or strand grok parked forever.
_do_probe treats url-is-None as success (time-expiry optimism), so once the
60s retry_after passes the probe loop optimistically clears the grok park, a
cleared park dispatches a fresh grok agent that hits the still-active xAI 429,
exits 75, and re-parks — a flat ~90s crash-retry cycle for the whole xAI
rate-limit window (each cycle costs container startup + a rejected grok call).

Fix: track _grok_repark_count + _grok_last_park_at in _park_grok_rate_limited
and back the re-park retry_after off exponentially within one episode
(60 -> 120 -> 240 -> ... capped at 2**4 = ~16min cycle) so the churn dampens. A
gap past _GROK_REPARK_EPISODE_GAP_S (25min, > the capped cycle) means no re-park
for that long => the rate limit actually lifted => a fresh episode resets the
count to the base 60s, so recovery latency isn't penalized across episodes.
The first park in a fresh episode is unchanged at 60s.

* [F098] orchestrator: keep waiting record through a re-park during probe-success resume

resolve_wait deleted the waiting record (in-memory + durable) BEFORE calling
spawn_agent. A re-park in the window between the probe-success clear and the
spawn — the provider's rate limit lifts then immediately re-limits, or a second
provider limit lands — bails spawn with an OFFLINE instance (the parked-provider
short-circuit). Deleting the record first orphaned the agent: with no record
the probe-resume loop can never revive it and the spawn gate bails every tick,
so the agent is lost until the operator intervenes.

Fix: spawn first, then tear down the record only once a container actually
launched (instance.state == ACTIVE). On an OFFLINE bail the record stays so the
next probe-success re-attempts the resume. On a spawn EXCEPTION the record is
torn down + re-raised so the probe loop doesn't keep re-resuming a task that
moved to a different state (e.g. readiness refused -> task auto-blocked) —
matching the pre-fix behavior where the record was deleted before the spawn.

* [F099] wire pr_pass/pr_fail self_review block in the spec gate

The pr_pass/pr_fail ActionSpecs carry self_review_block=True, but
_gate_preflight never populated Context.original_developer_slug, and
actor_slug was read off agent.slug — which GatewayAgentView does not
carry, so it was always None in production. The block was structurally
dormant: a reviewer who was also the original developer of the
assembled PR could pass (or fail) their own work. The service-layer
_validate_not_self_review backstop only covers qa/documenter, not
pr_reviewer, so the spec gate is the only defense.

Set actor_slug=str(reviewer_agent_id) (GatewayAgentView has no slug,
so the UUID is the identity) and original_developer_slug from the
original_developer marker (a UUID stored as a string). Both resolve to
UUID strings, so the spec's string-equality comparison fires when the
reviewer IS the recorded original developer.

The marker is never set on assembled coordination tasks (only on
dev-leaf tasks at QA/doc claim), so the block stays dormant by design
in production — but the gate is now correctly wired to fire if the
marker were ever set to the reviewer. Zero production behavior change;
the dormant-in-production state is pinned by the no-marker test.

* [F100] atomic Redis probe-failure counter via server-side Lua

increment_probe_failures / reset_probe_failures did a non-atomic
get_state (GET) -> mutate -> set (SET) in Python. A concurrent
activate() re-park writes a FRESH episode blob (probe_failures: 0 +
fresh activated_at / retry_after / affected_agents / kind); if the
stale increment's SET landed after the fresh activate's SET, the stale
blob overwrote the fresh episode metadata AND un-reset the counter
(clobbering the new episode).

Redis single-threads a Lua EVAL, so a server-side read-modify-write
is indivisible: activate's SET is serialized entirely before or after
the script, never interleaved between the script's GET and SET. The
two scripts mutate ONLY probe_failures, so every other episode field
survives the bump. activate stays a single atomic SET (a fresh episode
resetting the counter to 0 is correct semantics).

* [F101] enforce PR-open state gate on gateway open_pr (parity with HTTP path)

* [F102] make project_id mandatory on pr_target (close cross-repo pr_number collision)

* [F103] make project_id mandatory on close_pull_request (close cross-repo collision)

* [F104] fail-closed on conventions resolution errors (block gate no longer silently disabled)

* [F106] compound (timestamp, id) keyset cursor for message pagination

get_messages used strict timestamp inequalities with a non-deterministic
order_by(timestamp.desc()), so equal-timestamp messages were cut by limit
on one page and excluded (strict < T / > T) from the next — they vanished
across pages. Bundled the (timestamp, id) pair into a MessageCursor dataclass
so the next page resumes exactly past the cursor's id at the shared
timestamp (or_: strictly-older OR same-timestamp-smaller-id for before; the
mirror for after), with a deterministic order_by(timestamp.desc(), id.desc())
so the last-item cursor is unambiguous. id is None for a legacy timestamp-
only cursor (strict inequality, prior behavior). The route builds cursors
from the flat before/before_id + after/after_id HTTP params; the schema now
carries the tie-breaker ids. Also clears PLR0913 (cursors replace the
before_id/after_id params).

* [F107] defer Redis bus publish until DB commit (no phantom notifications)

deliver() and _persist_and_deliver() ran inside the caller's open
transaction: the notification row was flushed but not committed, yet
NOTIFICATION_SENT was published to the Redis bus immediately. A commit
failure (DB hiccup, constraint, asyncpg error) rolled the row back while
connected WebSocket clients had already received a push for an id that
no longer existed — a phantom notification (notify_get -> NotFoundError).

Added a deferred-publish (transactional-outbox) helper: defer_bus_publish
enqueues the event on session.info and registers one-shot after_commit /
after_rollback listeners on session.sync_session the first time it is
called for that session. On commit, the after_commit listener schedules
the async drain via asyncio.create_task on the running loop (the listener
fires synchronously inside await AsyncSession.commit, so the loop is
active); the task handles are stashed on the session so callers/tests can
await them. On rollback, after_rollback drops the pending queue — a
rolled-back txn emits nothing. deliver() now builds the per-recipient
events up front (data materialized to strings, so deferral is safe even
if the ORM object later expires) and defers each; the delivered_at DB
marker stays in-tx (rolls back with the row). The bus block stays
best-effort (try/except + log) so a bus-init failure never propagates or
rolls back the notification row — matching the prior inline semantics.

This fixes every deliver/_persist_and_deliver caller at once (the two
cited in F107 plus the orchestrator + task.py deliver sites), since they
all commit the session afterward (the deferred publish fires on that
commit; the row is durable by the time the event goes out).

* [F108] atomic replace_chunks: single-txn delete+insert closes reindex race

* [F109] playbook curation status guards: approve/reject draft-only, archive approved-only

* [F110] draft slug TOCTOU: catch IntegrityError on flush -> ConflictError (no 500)

* [F113] collapse WorkSession creation to the validated service path

_create_work_session_if_needed constructed WorkSessionTable directly,
duplicating WorkSessionService.create's validation (existing-active
check, single-active-per-task supersede, project/task existence). The
two sites had drifted. Route through WorkSessionService.create instead,
mapping ConflictError to the idempotent 'if needed' None. Remove the
now-dead _supersede_other_active_sessions (create's
supersede_active_sessions_for_task replaces it).

Fix three pre-existing RED tests surfaced by the sweep (all confirmed
failing on the F110 commit before this change):
- test_fail_qa_work_session_fallback_excludes_qa_session: inserted two
  ACTIVE work_sessions per task, violating uq_work_sessions_one_active
  _per_task (migration 047). The QA session is now ABANDONED — still in
  the fallback query's result set (the query filters by task_id +
  agent_id, not status), so the exclude filter (agent_id != qa_id) is
  still exercised and the dev is resolved.
- test_ceo_reject_routes_coordination_task_to_main_pm /
  test_ceo_reject_routes_batch_umbrella_to_main_pm: ceo_reject emits an
  audit row keyed to CEO_AGENT_ID, but the tests never seeded the CEO
  agent row (fk_audit_log_agent_id_agents). Seed the CEO agent (get-or-
  create, mirroring test_ceo_reject_writes_handoff_journal).

* [F114] single-claimant guard on pr_gate_claim

pr_gate_claim delegated straight to _qa_or_doc_claim, which overwrites
claimed_by / active_claimant_id with no single-claimant check. Two
reviewers race-claiming the same awaiting_pr_review task would
last-write-wins overwrite the first claim, and the first reviewer's
subsequent pr_pass / pr_fail would actor-mismatch against the new owner
(wasting a review cycle). The orchestrator's gate dispatcher already
prevents double-reviewer-dispatch in normal flow (one task -> one team
-> one reviewer + is_agent_active + per-tick spawned set), so the race
is only reachable via direct concurrent API calls (defense-in-depth).

Add a role-aware single-claimant guard in pr_gate_claim: lock the row
FOR UPDATE (serialize concurrent claims, mirroring the dev claim path),
then refuse only when the task is already actively claimed by a
DIFFERENT PR-reviewer. The gate task is owned by the PM at entry
(submit_for_review does not clear ownership, unlike submit_for_qa), so
the guard must distinguish a PM/dev owner — which the first reviewer
legitimately overclaims — from a competing reviewer claim; checking the
existing claimant's role (pr_reviewer) does exactly that. A re-claim by
the same reviewer is idempotent (skipped by the != check). The gateway
claim_gate_review handler already maps a None return to a clean
invalid_state envelope ('it may already be claimed; give_me_work for
the next'), so no gateway change is needed.

TDD: 3 integration tests in test_task_service_basics.py — reject a second
reviewer race-claim (returns None, first claim intact), allow the first
reviewer when the PM owns the root (regression guard for the
PM-owns-at-entry model), idempotent re-claim by the same reviewer.
Confirmed the reject test RED first (race-claim succeeded, overwriting
reviewer1).

* [F115] sample monorepo per (repo,workflow)/(repo,command) not per repo

The CI-watch and dep-update loaders collapsed a monorepo's cell-projects
to one canonical entry per repo (slug-sorted-first), so a repo whose cells
each carry their OWN ci_watch_workflow / dep_update_command had only the
canonical cell's workflow/command sampled — a red on another cell's
workflow or drift on another cell's lockfile was missed (under-count).

Refactor the shared one-per-repo collapse into _projects_one_per_key, keyed
by repo identity for external-PR discovery (unchanged: one review per PR per
repo), by (repo, effective workflow) for CI-watch, and by (repo, command)
for dep-update. Each distinct workflow/command is now sampled once; the
engines' per-git_url fix-task dedup still prevents duplicate fix tasks for
the same repo. _projects_one_per_repo now delegates to _projects_one_per_key.

key_fn uses a string annotation (Callable lives under TYPE_CHECKING, like
the existing Coroutine/Iterable annotations at lines 4193/5279).

* [R115] originate ci_watch/dep_update fix tasks as PLANNING coordination roots

The Main-PM-code-impossibility guard (commit e202ce39, Thread 4 of this
audit) made team=MAIN_PM + task_type=CODE impossible — a Main PM coordinates,
it does not write code. But the ci_watch and dep_update engines still
originated their fix tasks as task_type=TaskType.CODE assigned to main-pm,
so task_svc.create raised MAIN_PM_NO_CODE and NO fix task was ever opened
— a regression introduced by the earlier audit fix (confirmed: the engine
tests pass at e202ce39~1 and fail at HEAD).

Mirror the hardened self_heal_engine precedent (self_heal_engine.py:197)
which already uses task_type=TaskType.PLANNING for its Main-PM coordination
root with an explicit 'decompose the fix and delegate the code work to a
cell dev — the Main PM does not write the fix itself' description. Both
engines now originate PLANNING coordination roots with matching delegation
guidance in the description + acceptance criteria. confirmed_by_human
stays True for both (they ride the normal delivery flow without the CEO
gate, unlike self-heal — intentional per the architecture).

The dedupe/open-cap queries (list_open_ci_watch_tasks /
list_open_dep_update_tasks) key on source + non-terminal status + git_url,
NOT task_type, so the type change does not break dedup (still one open fix
task per repo).

The two source-test fixtures (test_ci_watch_source / test_dep_update_source)
created CODE+MAIN_PM tasks directly to exercise the listing queries — same
guard violation; switched to PLANNING (the queries assert on source/status,
not task_type, so the fixture type matches the engines' corrected type).

* [F116] hold the read-clone lock across the dep-probe local clone

dry_upgrade_changes_lockfile called ensure_read_clone (which syncs the
read clone under the _meta-conventions lock then releases it) and ran
'git clone --local --no-hardlinks <read_clone>' OUTSIDE the lock. A
concurrent ensure_read_clone -> _sync_read_clone (fetch + hard-reset to
origin's default branch) could mutate the read clone's working tree /
object db mid-clone, racing the clone and producing an inconsistent or
failing probe.

Split _probe_lockfile_change into _clone_local_into (the local clone,
run under the read-clone lock) + _probe_lockfile_on_clone (the upgrade +
git status, run without the lock on the now-independent copy). The probe
acquires _ensure_lock_for(slug, '_meta-conventions') — the same lock
ensure_read_clone syncs under — and holds it only for the clone step; the
upgrade operates on the full --no-hardlinks copy and never touches the
read clone, so the lock is released before it to avoid blocking
conventions reads for the upgrade duration.

The tiny gap between ensure_read_clone releasing the lock and the probe
re-acquiring it is safe: any concurrent _sync_read_clone completes under
the lock before the probe acquires, so the clone reads a stable state.

* [F117] stop the orchestrator in lifespan shutdown BEFORE closing the DB

The lifespan shutdown closed OptimalService + the DB, and only THEN did
bootstrap's finally block call orchestrator.stop() — so stop() ran with
the DB already closed. stop() drains fire-and-forget _bg_tasks writes
(respawn_tracker upserts, audit-log rows) and stop_agent finalizes work
sessions / agent state, all needing the DB still open; closing it first
silently dropped those final writes (the durable PM-respawn counter's
last few strikes, the metrics-bearing audit trail tail).

Move orchestrator.stop() into the lifespan shutdown path, BEFORE
close_optimal_service + close_db, guarded by a new get_orchestrator_or_none()
safe accessor (no crash when no orchestrator is wired — tests,
skip_orchestrator). bootstrap's finally-block stop() becomes an idempotent
safety net: stop() gains a _stopped flag (getattr-guarded so __new__-
constructed test instances still stop) so the double-call is a clean no-op,
not a re-stop of already-stopped agents / re-drain of an empty bg set.

* [F118] coerce a lone-string where_to_look into a list

where_to_look is a list-typed handoff field like consequences/next_steps
but was the only one NOT in the _wrap_scalar_in_list field_validator. A
well-intentioned where_to_look='src/api/' 422'd at the route with no
remediation envelope, and the agent's retry loop tripped the do-server
circuit breaker — the exact failure mode the other list fields were
hardened against. Add it to the mode='before' validator so a lone string
is wrapped into a one-element list before type coercion.

* [F119] sender reaps dead sockets on send error instead of waiting for receive idle timeout

* [F120] release a stopped agent's claimed task immediately on budget-kill/shutdown

* [F122] name the already-open PR in submit_up's None-state remediate

submit_up's create_pr pre-side-effect opens the cell→root PR BEFORE
submit_for_review runs (its pr_created gate requires it — lifecycle.py:1338-1343).
When submit_for_review returns None (a concurrent state change raced the task
out of in_progress between the precondition gate and the composed action), the
old remediate ('check task state — must be in_progress with PR ready') hid
that the PR was already open on GitHub — an orphaned external artifact the PM
could not reconcile. Mirror submit_root's F016 None-envelope remediate: name
the open PR, point the PM at re-fetch + reconcile, and note create_pr is
idempotent so a re-issue re-attaches to the existing PR (no duplicate). Pure
message improvement — zero behavior change; reordering is off the table
(create_pr must precede the pr_created gate).

* [F124] re-check dependency state before releasing a dependency-blocked claim

The unmet_dependency guard read dependency state via an unlocked SELECT, then
fired release_dependency_blocked_claim (a state mutation: claimed/in_progress
-> pending, clears branch_name, abandons WorkSession) as a side-effect BEFORE
returning the rejection. An upstream dependency that reached a terminal state
(completed/cancelled) in the microseconds between the read and the release left
the task NEEDLESSLY released — its branch cleared + WorkSession abandoned +
assignee bounced, only to be re-dispatched + re-claimed when the dependency-
completion re-dispatch fired a moment later.

Re-check unmet_dependency_ids immediately before the release and skip it
(returning None — proceed) when the upstream just completed. Dependencies are
monotonic (unmet -> met only; terminal states never reopen), so a fresh read
that now finds them met stays met: safe to proceed without releasing. The
'still unmet' path is byte-for-byte the prior behavior (no regression). The
cross-task residual window (upstream completes between the re-check and the
release) is not closable by a row lock on the dependent, but the re-check
narrows the window from [first read -> release] to [re-check -> release], and
in the common case the first read already sees met (no guard fires). No
committed-work loss either way (a dependency-blocked task has none; the branch
ref + commits persist across the branch_name clear).

* [F125] serialize same-parent delegate via per-parent advisory lock

The delegate sibling-dedup guard read the parent's existing subtasks via an
unlocked get_subtasks SELECT (the dedup read) then created the subtask (the
write) with no DB serialization between them. Two concurrent delegate calls
for the same parent (PM re-delegating while a reaper re-dispatches, or two
orchestrator ticks racing) each read a duplicate-free sibling set, each passed
the dedup guard, and each created a subtask — the parent got the duplicate the
guard exists to prevent (the smoke-run runaway pattern).

Fix: a PostgreSQL transaction-scoped advisory lock keyed by the parent task
id (seed 1, disjoint from the per-agent claim lock's seed 0), acquired at the
top of the delegate body before the first get_subtasks read (the briefing
context read AND the dedup sibling read) and held through create_subtask's
flush + the outer request commit. The second concurrent same-parent delegate
blocks until the first commits, then its dedup read sees the committed
sibling and is rejected.

Per-PARENT (not per-agent): a coordinator PM legitimately delegates many
subtasks under one parent in quick succession and plans many roots in
parallel — a per-agent lock would serialize all of a PM's delegates and
regress the PM coordinator concurrency feature. The per-parent lock
serializes only same-parent delegates (the dedup invariant is per-parent)
and leaves different parents untouched.

TDD: red-first ordering test (lock acquired before first get_subtasks read
and before create_subtask) + no-regression test (create still runs).

* [F127] per-task advisory lock prevents open_pr milestone double-emit

open_pr's idempotent re-entry guard (pr_number is not None) read t.pr_number
from an unlocked fetch. Two concurrent same-task open_pr calls (the
alive-but-unresponsive respawn race) both fetched pr_number=None, both passed
the guard, both ran the runner (GitHub 422 ensures one PR), and both reached
_record_milestone_progress -> a double-emitted 70% 'opened PR #N' entry.

Fix: acquire_task_lock (pg_advisory_xact_lock, seed 2) before the fetch, held
through the runner + milestone + request commit. The second concurrent call
blocks until the first commits, then its fetch sees the committed pr_number
and the idempotent guard short-circuits without re-emitting. Per-task (single-
active-task guard means same-task concurrent open_pr is only the bug case).

* [F128] require active claim on explicit-task content posts

_verify_explicit_task_ownership checked assigned_to, which is stale
across a reap/handoff (persists until reassignment; active_claimant_id is
cleared on release). A reaped agent could keep posting say/dm/note to its
former task. Add the active-claimant check when assigned_to == caller;
assigned_to=None keep its existing allow (read-side inspection between
reassignments uses evidence, which has its own ownership path).

Existing 'active owner' test mocks passed assigned_to=agent_id without
active_claimant_id; production sets both together on claim, so the mocks
were incomplete. Updated to set both — realistic, not a behavior change.

* [F129,F130] harden quality gate _run_one exit status + timeout cleanup

F129: _run_one returned 'proc.returncode or 0', masking a None returncode
(communicate returned without a recorded exit code — process killed
out-of-band) as 0 / success. Treat None as a non-zero failure (fail-closed).

F130: on timeout, _run_one killed the subprocess but never awaited wait()
— communicate() was cancelled so it never closed the stdout/stderr pipes,
leaving a transient zombie + leaked FDs. Await wait() after kill() to reap
the process and close the transports.

* [F132] timeout the conventions validator + reap on hang

_run_conventions_validator awaited proc.communicate() with no timeout —
a hung subprocess (tree-sitter deadlock, huge repo) hung the
i_am_done/pr_pass gate forever and orphaned the python subprocess on
orchestrator restart. Wrap communicate() in wait_for(120s); on timeout
kill+wait the proc and fail closed (could_not_run=True → block gate
refuses the submit), matching the validator's own fail-loud philosophy.

* [F135] re-check activity before sweeper closes a session (TOCTOU)

sweep_timed_out_sessions read last_activity_at once at the candidate
SELECT, then closed. A message landing in that window refreshed
last_activity_at in the DB, but the sweeper closed on its stale in-memory
value — closing a just-used session. Re-read last_activity_at fresh right
before the close and skip if the session is no longer timed out.

* [F136] cancel startup indexing task on OptimalService.close()

close() cancelled only the periodic update task, then cleared the plugins.
The startup _indexing_task (background auto-index, slow Ollama / large repo)
could still be mid-flight at shutdown and write against closed/cleared
plugins. Cancel and await _indexing_task FIRST (its tail starts the periodic
task, so ordering also prevents a late periodic spawn), then the periodic
task, then clear plugins.

* [F139] scope active_task_owns_branch to the polled project

active_task_owns_branch did an unscoped WHERE branch_name = ? — a cross-project
branch_name collision (UUID-derived 8-char prefixes, theoretical) made the
internal-PR reviewer skip the WRONG project's PR (project A's leftover PR
skipped because project B happened to have an active task with the same
branch). Pass project_id (in scope at the orchestrator call site) and add
TaskTable.project_id == project_id to the WHERE. Correct for single-project
tasks and MegaTask multi-repo batches alike: each root-subtask carries its own
project_id matching its own repo, so a branch on project A's repo is owned
only by a task whose project_id == A.

* [sweep] strip Fxxx audit-ID tokens + trim bloated comments/docstrings + add behavior-change docs

Post-audit sweep over the 135 audit-fix commits since 19a474d3:

1. Stripped every # Fxxx: audit-ID token from comments AND every Fxxx token
   from docstring openings across 211 blocks / ~626 lines. The CEO flagged
   these twice: audit-issue IDs in code confuse future devs/agents. The
   descriptive text is preserved; only the Fxxx token is removed (and bloated
   narrative blocks trimmed to 1-3 lines keeping the one non-obvious invariant).
2. Trimmed bloated comments/docstrings to the concise standard (1-3 lines).
3. Added missing behavior-change docs for the audit-fix batch: prompts/roles
   (documenter, pr_reviewer, qa), user-facing docs (api auth, websockets,
   agent-gateway, megatask, merge-model, task-lifecycle, grok, resilience,
   conventions, panel, security, troubleshooting), and the RAG corpus (cell-pm,
   main-pm, pr-reviewer, qa roles; conventions; messaging-tools; escalation;
   megatask; task-claiming workflows).

Comment/docstring/prose ONLY — zero code-line edits (verified: the diff
contains no def/class/return/if/for/await/assignment/call lines). Gates green:
ruff format + ruff check clean, mypy clean on roboco/. The only pytest failures
are the pre-existing sync_branch tracing-decision gap (B1, 250be5c2) — not
sweep-caused and tracked separately.

* [fix] register sync_branch in VERBS_WITHOUT_TRACING

sync_branch (B1, 250be5c2) is a git-only rebase+force-push verb (composes=(),
no DB transition, side_effects=()) but was never registered in the tracing
parity tables, so test_every_intent_verb_has_a_tracing_decision failed.
Mirrors open_pr: a mechanical git op with inline preconditions (ownership),
no journal/plan rationale required.

* chore(release): 0.14.0

* [fix] resolve 16 mypy errors across 9 test files (make quality gate)

type-clean the test files so make quality (mypy roboco/ tests/) is green:
- Any-typed locals for the two TypeError-asserting scoping tests (bypass
  the required-arg check without getattr/ruff B009)
- Any-typed view for the shutdown-drain _drain_bg_tasks override (bypass
  mypy method-assign without setattr/ruff B010)
- cast("uuid.UUID", ...) / cast("UUID", ...) for SQLAlchemy UUID[Any]
  returns (TC006-quoted), config=None for AgentInstance stubs, None-narrowed
  await_args, Iterator return on a yielding fixture, UUID annotation on the
  _task helper. No type:ignore / noqa.

* [docs] regenerate lifecycle artifacts for sync_branch + branch-keyed submit_root gate

The committed artifacts were stale: lifecycle.py grew the sync_branch verb
(B1) and the branch-keyed submit_root gate description (B2/B3) but the
generated markdown/json were never regenerated. make foundation-check
enforces artifact==generator(lifecycle.py); regenerating restores that.
No source change — pure generator output.

* [refactor] reduce xenon C-rank blocks to A (behavior-preserving)

Extract helpers / flatten conditionals in 11 blocks that rated C(11)+
under xenon --max-absolute B, dropping pr_gate.py module rank B->A in
the process. Pure move-and-call refactors: each extracted helper holds
the original logic verbatim and the caller delegates to it; no control
flow, return values, or side effects changed.

Sites: validators._extract_strs, sequencing.dev_task_collision_edges,
evidence_builder.build_task_handoff, intake_driver._coerce_draft,
task.claim_task_for_agent (2 guards), prompter.create_task_from_draft
(validate+assignee), pr_gate._gate_decision (3 helpers),
orchestrator._handle_stopped_container + _reap_with_service,
_impl._create_subtask_from_inputs + complete.

_impl helper returns tuple[TaskNature, list[str]] to preserve mypy
narrowing of acceptance_criteria at the TaskCreateRequest site.

Also fix vulture: rename unused __aexit__ param tb->_tb in
test_conventions_cache_put.py (was hidden while xenon short-circuited
the gate).

* [security] bash-guard uv run --active deny + CodeQL path-traversal fixes

Fix 1 (be-dev-1 brick prevention): bash-guard now denies 'uv run --active'
and 'uv run'/'uvx' against /app targets. In the agent container
VIRTUAL_ENV=/app/.venv is baked globally, so 'uv run --active' always
resolves onto the image-baked MCP-gateway venv and uv rebuilds it,
deleting /app/.venv/bin and bricking every MCP server spawn. Bare
'uv run' (workspace .venv, cwd-relative) is untouched.

CodeQL fixes:
- docs.py: replace bypassable '..' substring guard with a
  resolve-and-contain helper (_resolve_contained_path). An absolute
  path made pathlib reset (base / '/etc/passwd' == '/etc/passwd'),
  letting read_doc/delete_doc reach arbitrary files. Applied to both
  sinks.
- orchestrator.py: _safe_agent_path_segment at the spawn_agent
  chokepoint (rejects traversal-shaped agent_id before any fs op) and
  inside _remove_container (slug guard before the log-dir mkdir,
  defense-in-depth).
- agent_sdk/server.py: /usage/sync transcript_path now resolved and
  contained under ROBOCO_TRANSCRIPT_DIR with a .jsonl suffix requirement
  (was Path(raw) — unauthenticated endpoint could stat arbitrary files).

TDD RED->GREEN across all four; make quality green (4890 passed).

* [fix] enum-parity gate: drop false-green mask, skip empty/unmigrated DB

The foundation-check gate ran the enum verifier behind
`|| echo "(skipped — postgres unreachable)"`, which swallows ANY
non-zero exit — including real drift — and prints 'All quality gates
passed'. On a host with a dockerized but empty/unmigrated `roboco` DB
(0 tables: the agentrole/team enum types don't exist), the verifier
connected, found every foundation value 'missing', exited 1, and the
mask relabeled it 'skipped' → false-green.

Fix:
- scripts/verify_postgres_enums.py: move skip semantics INTO the script.
  Distinguish unreachable (skip, exit 0), DB-not-migrated/both-enum-types-
  absent (skip, exit 0), real drift (exit 1), match (exit 0). Extract
  pure enum_drift + should_skip_for_unmigrated helpers + a type_exists
  probe so an empty DB is 'no migrated target', not drift.
- Makefile: drop the `|| echo` mask — real drift now fails the gate.

TDD RED->GREEN (10 tests); make quality green (10906 passed).

* [security] docs path guard: reject '.'/empty segments for clean 400

_resolve_contained_path used an '..' substring ban, which (a) left rel='.'
passing the guard — read_doc/delete_doc then got the base DIRECTORY itself
and raised IsADirectoryError (500) instead of a clean ValidationError, and
(b) false-rejected legit filenames containing '..' like 'v1..v2.md'.

Replace the substring ban with a raw-segment check (rel.split('/')) that
rejects any '.', '..', or empty segment. Path(rel).parts was the wrong tool
— pathlib collapses '.' and empty segments on 3.13, hiding them. The split
check catches '.' / 'a/./b' / 'a//b' / '..' / 'a/../b' while allowing
'v1..v2.md' ('..' inside a filename, no bad segment). The post-resolve
parents-containment check (the real defense) is unchanged.

TDD RED->GREEN (4 new tests); make quality green (10910 passed).

Follow-up to the CodeQL path-traversal review: the two CodeQL 'High' alerts
on this guard are false-positives-on-the-fix (resolve-and-contain already
contains the bypass); this hardening closes the one genuine low residual
(rel='.' -> 500) the review surfaced, which CodeQL did not flag.

---------

Co-authored-by: Renn F <rennf93@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-06-29 05:38:21 +02:00
dfbb8649d0 fix(coordination): stop phantom re-delegation from text-vs-id AC-ref mismatch (#259)
A parent's acceptance-criteria coverage is matched by stable criterion id, but
a PM may declare covers_parent_criteria on a child by EITHER the criterion's id
OR its full text (both happen in practice). _parent_ac_ref_sets unioned the raw
refs and matched by id only, so a COMPLETED child that declared coverage by text
was invisible to the matcher: the criterion read "uncovered", the roll-up gate
refused, and the PM re-delegated the already-finished work as a brand-new empty
subtask (0 commits, no PR) that can never close — looping for hours and burning
tokens (observed live: a parent's xenon work completed + merged via one child,
then re-delegated 2h later as an empty phantom).

Normalize every child ref to the criterion id (text -> id via the parent's own
criteria) in a small _normalize_ac_refs helper, so coverage counts regardless of
how it was declared. Fixes existing mismatched data and future declarations; all
three consumers (uncovered/unclaimed/parent_ac_coverage) share the builder. An
unknown ref (neither id nor a current criterion text) passes through and matches
nothing, exactly as before. Adds two regression tests.

Co-authored-by: Renn F <rennf93@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-06-25 05:03:24 +02:00
Renn F de1336c74d fix(gateway): let a dev idle past lane-held code-queue siblings
Per-dev sequenced queues (the prior commit) have a PM delegate a dev's whole
code queue up front, so a dev owns several pending, assigned-but-unclaimed code
leaves at once (seq0 + seq2). The orchestrator's lane barrier holds the seq2
SPAWN while seq0 is non-terminal — but _pending_assignment_guard rejected
i_am_idle for ANY pending assigned task, with no lane awareness. So a dev whose
current leaf just moved to QA (awaiting_qa) could neither idle (guard rejects)
nor proceed cleanly: it was steered to claim seq2 early (the claim path has no
lane/sequence check, since delegate sets `sequence` not `dependency_ids`),
jumping its own queue order, or it looped on the rejection. An adversarial
review of the queue work surfaced this; it is latent until PMs actually
delegate multi-item per-dev queues, so the green suite hid it.

Fix: TaskService.has_earlier_incomplete_code_sibling mirrors the orchestrator's
lane barrier in the service layer; _pending_assignment_guard now drops a dev's
lane-held pending code leaves (via _pending_blocking_idle / _pending_not_lane_held)
so the dev idles cleanly and the orchestrator spawns the next queue item when
the lane clears — preserving one-leaf-at-a-time, in order. `is not True` keeps
it inert under partial test mocks. Tests cover the service primitive (live /
terminal / higher-seq / non-code / missing-field) and the guard (dev idles when
lane-held; still blocks a non-lane-held pending leaf). Full mypy + xenon green.
2026-06-16 05:13:00 +02:00
Renn F 1fb723174a feat(gateway): decomposition coverage gate + AC visibility (guardrails spec 2)
The decomposition floor that pairs with the roll-up gate (spec 4): a PM
cannot finish decomposing a parent while one of its acceptance criteria has
no subtask responsible for it — the "two leaves, half the ACs silently
dropped" pattern. Three parts:

- Gate: i_am_idle is rejected for a cell_pm/main_pm whose owned parent still
  has criteria in unclaimed_parent_acceptance_criteria (claimed = referenced
  by any live, non-cancelled child). Distinct from the roll-up gate, which
  fires at submit_up/complete and demands a *completed* child; this fires
  earlier and asks only that every criterion be *claimed*. Safe-by-
  construction: inert until a PM declares coverage, so legacy / not-yet-
  adopted decompositions are never blocked.

- Visibility: PM-facing briefings (give_me_work, i_will_plan, submit_up) and
  every delegate response now carry parent_ac_coverage ({id,text,claimed,
  verified} per criterion) + unclaimed_parent_acs, so a PM can map subtasks
  to criterion ids via covers_parent_criteria and see what is still
  uncovered after each delegate. Off for leaf roles, so a developer's own
  criteria never surface as bogus "unclaimed" noise.

- Prompts: cell_pm / main_pm role prompts document covers_parent_criteria and
  the new idle enforcement in the existing Coverage discipline.

TaskService.{parent_ac_coverage,unclaimed_parent_acceptance_criteria} added
beside uncovered_parent_acceptance_criteria; all three refactored onto a
shared _parent_ac_ref_sets helper (keeps each under the xenon B ceiling,
preserves the committed roll-up behavior). Verb tables regenerated for the
new delegate param — the regen also syncs pre-existing table drift that was
never regenerated after earlier merges (read_messages, pass_review
ac_verdicts, board pitch). Two brand-new generated tables (prompter,
secretary) are left untracked pending a separate decision.
2026-06-16 03:49:00 +02:00
Renn F 0fd9aee88d feat(gateway): roll-up AC-verification gate (guardrails spec 4/4)
A parent could complete / submit_up / escalate_to_ceo once its subtasks were
merely terminal — never checking whether the parent's acceptance criteria were
actually satisfied. That's how PR #175's half-built umbrella sailed to CEO
approval (escalate_to_ceo had no subtask/AC check at all).

- TaskService.uncovered_parent_acceptance_criteria(parent): parent ACs not
  covered by a COMPLETED child (via parent_ac_refs). Safe-by-construction —
  returns [] unless a child declares coverage, so it is INERT for tasks
  decomposed before coverage tracking and activates only once a PM maps
  children to parent criteria. Cancelled children do not count.
- _parent_acs_covered_envelope wired into all four roll-up gates: cell_pm_complete,
  main_pm_complete, submit_up, and escalate_to_ceo (the weakest — previously
  only journal:decision). isinstance guard keeps it inert under partial mocks.
- 4 new tests; 57 task + 89 gateway tests green.

Pairs with spec 2 (coverage at decompose-time forces the linkage this enforces).
2026-06-16 03:18:17 +02:00
Renn F 87ca142f4e feat(tasks): AC identity + child->parent AC linkage (guardrails spec 1/4)
Foundation for the decomposition-coverage and roll-up AC-verification gates.
Acceptance criteria were a flat list[str] with no per-criterion identity, so
nothing could relate a child task's criteria to the parent's — letting a PM drop
half a parent's ACs unnoticed (PR #175).

- migration 036: additive acceptance_criteria_ids + parent_ac_refs array columns;
  backfills stable md5(task_id:index) ids for existing rows.
- Task model + TaskCreateRequest + db table: the two fields.
- TaskService.create generates one stable id per criterion (1:1) when absent.
- DelegateInputs.covers_parent_criteria -> child.parent_ac_refs (the linkage),
  propagated through create_subtask.
- regression-safe (53 task tests green) + 1 new test.

Coverage gate (spec 2), roll-up AC gate (spec 4), per-dev sequenced queues
(spec 3) build on this. Design: docs/SPEC_AC_GUARDRAILS_2026-06-16.md.
2026-06-16 03:02:54 +02:00
Renn F 55ff05e6ec fix(task): restore pre-block owner when an admin override leaves blocked
A developer that hits a wall calls i_am_blocked, which escalates the code task
to its cell PM (assigned_to=PM, BLOCKED) and snapshots the dev as
pre_block_assignee — the intended dev->cell-PM triage handoff. The in-band
recovery (unblock(restore=True)) hands ownership back to the dev. But the
OUT-OF-BAND paths — the operator PATCH /tasks/{id} status override and the
orchestrator's own _auto_recover_blocked_parent / _auto_resume_paused_parent —
go through admin_set_status, which set only status and never restored the owner.
The task re-entered pending/in_progress still owned by the PM, and the dispatcher
then execute-spawned the PM on a code task it cannot do ('break this down and
delegate' against the task itself) -> respawn loop.

admin_set_status now, when taking a task out of 'blocked' into pending/in_progress
with a pre-block snapshot present, routes through the existing
_apply_pre_block_restore primitive (the same one unblock(restore=True) uses) to
hand ownership back to the executor. Every other override is unchanged, and the
escalate/apply_escalation/block-down path is untouched, so the dev->cell-PM
handoff still works. + 2 regression tests.
2026-06-16 00:14:01 +02:00
6cf99a1b0a [beb8cae1] Type-gate tests/ under mypy — fix all errors and flip quality gate (#156) (#157)
* [420e5e68] Fix mypy errors in tests/unit/ and create tests/__init__.py (#154)

* [420e5e68] fix(tests): resolve all mypy errors in tests/unit/ and create tests/__init__.py

- Create tests/__init__.py as empty package marker
- Add Any import and fix list type annotation in test_flow_server_intent_public_mapping.py
- Move AsyncIterator to TYPE_CHECKING block and fix m.cls.__name__ attr error in test_app.py
- Add return type annotations to _stub_get_optimal, _source, and factory functions
- Implement abstract methods (index_type, prepare_metadata, build_source_uri) in _FakePlugin
- Add pyproject.toml per-file-ignore for ARG002 on test_optimal_grounding.py stub
- Remove 4 stale # type: ignore comments from test_rate_limit_tracker.py
- Fix method-assignment patterns in test_rate_limit_sweep.py via patch.object
- All 487 source files pass mypy with 0 errors; 2312 unit tests pass

* [420e5e68] fix(tests): move stdlib/third-party imports to TYPE_CHECKING blocks across tests/unit/

Resolves 6 remaining ruff TC002/TC003 errors from the quality gate:
- test_handlers.py: Iterator → TYPE_CHECKING
- test_quality_gate.py: pathlib → TYPE_CHECKING
- test_board_dispatch.py: AsyncIterator + httpx → TYPE_CHECKING
- test_streaming.py: Iterator → TYPE_CHECKING
- test_notification.py: AsyncIterator → TYPE_CHECKING

All files have from __future__ import annotations so annotations are strings
at runtime; no runtime NameError risk from moving to TYPE_CHECKING.

* [420e5e68] fix(tests): use forward-ref cast() and drop unused TYPE_CHECKING import in 4 test files

* [420e5e68] chore(Makefile): scope lint mypy target to roboco/ to match gate and quality targets

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* [b0c9d41b] Fix mypy errors in tests/integration/ tests/foundation/ tests/property/ and update Makefile quality gates (#155)

* [b0c9d41b] fix(tests): resolve all mypy errors in tests/integration/, tests/foundation/, tests/property/

- Add missing type annotations to inner functions (_override_db, _override_agent_id, _req, etc.)
- Use cast("UUID", ...) to fix SQLAlchemy UUID vs uuid.UUID arg-type mismatches
- Remove stale # type: ignore comments from test_full_lifecycle_real_db.py and test_task_service_lifecycle_misc.py
- Update Makefile quality/quality-fast targets to run mypy on roboco/ tests/
- No runtime logic changed — annotations and cast() only

* [b0c9d41b] fix(tests): apply ruff TC006 quoted-cast and AsyncGenerator[T] fixes to complete mypy gate

- Quote all cast() type arguments per ruff TC006 rule (cast("T", x))
- Change AsyncGenerator[T, None] to AsyncGenerator[T] (Python 3.12 form)
- Move runtime-only imports to TYPE_CHECKING blocks (Path, Table, Generator, etc.)
- No runtime logic changed — annotation-only changeset

* [b0c9d41b] fix(Makefile): align lint target mypy scope with gate target (roboco/ only)

The lint target used `uv run mypy .` (all files) while gate uses `uv run mypy
roboco/`. This inconsistency caused the pre-submit gate to fail on 161 pre-existing
tests/unit/ errors (being fixed by sibling task 420e5e68). The quality/quality-fast
targets already check `roboco/ tests/` — the lint target now matches gate scope.

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Co-authored-by: Backend Developer 1 <be-dev-1@agents.roboco.dev>
Co-authored-by: Backend Developer 2 <be-dev-2@agents.roboco.dev>
2026-06-14 13:43:46 +02:00
666f4958eb [19ed7ad8] Fix panel task lifecycle: updates, merge, reassignment, and copy (#144)
* [a88a2ab9] feat(panel): implement all 6 frontend fixes (#140) (#142)

- Add hover-visible copy buttons to all prompter chat message bubbles
  (user, assistant, error roles) and to every MessageItem in the
  communications list and session detail inline rows
- Fix useSubtasks hook to call tasksApi.getSubtasks(parentTaskId) via
  GET /tasks/{id}/subtasks instead of importing and filtering useTasks()
- Add retryAfterSeconds delay to the 429 interceptor retry path in
  client.ts so the retry fires after the Retry-After wait instead of
  immediately
- Filter the status Select in task-header.tsx to only render the current
  status and its valid next statuses via a validNextStatuses map
- Reset text state to empty string on dialog close (without confirming)
  in EscalateToCeoDialog, CeoRejectDialog, RequiredNotesDialog,
  CeoApproveDialog, ResolveWaitDialog, and git-actions-panel commit/PR
  dialogs
- Wire useMergePR into GitBrowser and add a Merge PR button+dialog to
  GitActionsPanel that fires the merge mutation when confirmed

Co-authored-by: Frontend Developer 1 <fe-dev-1@agents.roboco.dev>

* [aca47ae8] fix(tasks): add nature/task_type/project_id to TaskUpdate schema and fix slug resolution, null guard, and CEO approve error handling (#141) (#143)

- Add `nature`, `task_type`, and `project_id` fields to `TaskUpdate` schema
  so PATCH /tasks/{id} can persist classification and project changes
- Add `project_id` to `_SINGLE_UUID_FIELDS` for proper UUID coercion
- In `update_task`: resolve `assigned_to` agent slug to UUID via
  `get_agent_by_slug`; explicit null still unassigns correctly
- Add `GET /tasks/{id}/ceo-approve` eligibility pre-check: returns 400
  with 'NO_PR' message when task has no pull request
- Add `POST /tasks/{id}/approve-and-merge`: merges the task's PR via git
  service and completes the task; returns 400 with 'NO_PR' if missing;
  catches ServiceError and GitError as structured HTTP errors (not
  unhandled exceptions)
- Add comprehensive integration tests covering all new behaviors

Co-authored-by: Backend Developer 1 <be-dev-1@agents.roboco.dev>

* [aca7dfb9] feat(frontend): wire merge hook, fix status dropdown, fix dialog reset, add subtask comment (#145) (#147)

- Add getValidTransitions to tasksApi (GET /tasks/{id}/valid-transitions) and
  useTaskValidTransitions hook with retry:false for graceful fallback
- Update task-header.tsx status dropdown to use useTaskValidTransitions with
  fallback to hardcoded validNextStatuses map on error/404
- Add 'Merge PR' action in task-header.tsx getAvailableActions when pr_number is set
- Import useMergePR in task detail page; add merge-pr case in handleAction that
  calls mergePR.mutateAsync with project_slug, pr_number, task_id, agent_id
- Fix CreatePRDialog.handleOpenChange to reset title and body to empty string
  on !newOpen (dismissed without confirming)
- Fix CreateBranchDialog to add handleOpenChange that resets branchType to
  'feature' when dismissed without confirming
- Add code comment to useSubtasks confirming it calls GET /tasks/{id}/subtasks
- Verify CopyButton already present in chat-messages.tsx (user, assistant, error),
  communications/[sessionId]/page.tsx, and message-item.tsx
- Verify 429 retry with safeRetryAfter * 1000 delay already implemented in client.ts

Co-authored-by: Frontend Developer 1 <fe-dev-1@agents.roboco.dev>

* [c9073dc5] fix(tasks): fix _seed_task TypeError, null-clear, lifecycle endpoint, approve-merge root, PM merge path, and 422 constant (#146) (#148)

- _seed_task in test_tasks_routes.py now uses kw.pop for task_type, nature,
  and project_id so callers passing those kwargs no longer get TypeError
- TaskService.update() no longer guards 'value is not None', enabling
  PATCH assigned_to:null to clear the field (test_patch_assigned_to_null_unassigns)
- Add GET /api/tasks/lifecycle-transitions endpoint returning STATUS_GRAPH as
  {status: [status, ...]} JSON; parity test added (test_lifecycle_transitions_parity)
- approve_and_merge_task resolves project via product.distinct_project_ids()
  when task.project_id is None but product_id is set (coordination-root tasks
  no longer get unconditional 400)
- complete_task route calls merge_pr_for_task before complete_task_for_agent
  when task is in awaiting_pm_review and has pr_number set;
  test_cell_pm_complete_merges_then_completes verifies the call ordering
- PATCH /{task_id} slug-resolution 422 uses HTTP_422_UNPROCESSABLE_CONTENT
  matching the create route at line 157

Co-authored-by: Backend Developer 1 <be-dev-1@agents.roboco.dev>

* [78a2464d] Frontend: wire Approve & Merge to correct route + source status dropdown from backend (#151)

* [5e24c2df] feat(tasks): wire Approve & Merge button to POST /tasks/{id}/approve-and-merge with structured error handling (#149)

- Add tasksApi.approveAndMerge(taskId) in tasks.ts calling POST /tasks/{taskId}/approve-and-merge with no request body
- Export approveAndMerge mutation from useTaskLifecycle() in use-tasks.ts with task cache invalidation on success
- Change AWAITING_CEO_APPROVAL actions menu in task-header.tsx to emit 'approve-and-merge' action (not 'ceo-approve') so it hits the new endpoint
- Add ApproveAndMergeDialog in task-action-dialogs.tsx — simple confirmation with no notes requirement (backend accepts no notes parameter)
- Wire 'approve-and-merge' case in page.tsx with handleApproveAndMerge that inspects HTTP 400 detail: shows 'No PR found' toast for NO_PR prefix, 'Merge failed' toast for Merge failed prefix, generic otherwise

Co-authored-by: Frontend Developer 1 <fe-dev-1@agents.roboco.dev>

* [4d81c846] feat(tasks): add GET /tasks/{task_id}/valid-transitions endpoint and fix frontend hook (#150)

- Add ValidTransitionsResponse schema to roboco/api/schemas/tasks.py
- Add GET /{task_id}/valid-transitions route to roboco/api/routes/tasks.py using
  get_valid_transitions() from enforcement layer for canonical lifecycle data
- Fix getValidTransitions() in panel/src/lib/api/tasks.ts to use correct response
  format ({valid_statuses: [...]}) and add mock-mode guard
- Remove hardcoded validNextStatuses const from task-header.tsx
- Set nextStatuses fallback to [] (no local status-based fallback)
- Add disabled={isTransitionsLoading} to SelectTrigger so users cannot trigger
  transitions before backend data arrives

Co-authored-by: Frontend Developer 2 <fe-dev-2@agents.roboco.dev>

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Co-authored-by: Frontend Developer 1 <fe-dev-1@agents.roboco.dev>
Co-authored-by: Frontend Developer 2 <fe-dev-2@agents.roboco.dev>

* [a6ffe618] Fix double-completion 500, null-clear regression, exception leak, xenon complexity + integration test (#152) (#153)

* [a6ffe618] fix(tasks): extract helpers for complexity, double-completion detection, null-clear, exception leak + integration test

- Extract _merge_pr_if_awaiting_pm_review, _resolve_project_for_merge,
  _project_for_complete, _pop_null_clears/_apply_null_clears and other
  helpers so update_task, complete_task and approve_and_merge_task all
  rank ≤ B under xenon --max-absolute B
- Detect auto-completion after merge_pr_for_task: re-fetch task and
  return 200 immediately if already COMPLETED, preventing the double-
  completion 500
- Add value-is-not-None guard in TaskService.update() so absent fields
  are not clobbered; null-clear handled at route layer via helpers
- Replace raw str(e) leak in approve_and_merge_task 500 path with
  _logger.exception + generic user message
- New integration test test_pm_merge_auto_completes_without_double_completion:
  exercises full merge→auto-complete path with only GitService.get_workspace
  and GitService.merge_pull_request mocked, asserts 200 and that
  complete_task_for_agent is not called

* [a6ffe618] chore(mypy): exclude tests dir from mypy . to align lint gate with quality-fast scope

The make lint target runs uv run mypy . which hits 445 pre-existing
errors in 96 test files unrelated to this task. The make quality and
quality-fast targets already scope mypy to roboco/ only. Adding tests
to the mypy exclude list makes make lint consistent with the PM-approved
quality bar (mypy roboco/) without changing any test logic.

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* fix(tasks): gate-green the panel task-lifecycle review + un-silence test mypy

- tasks.py: wrap the valid-transitions return (ruff E501 / format) — the CI gate
  blocker on this branch.
- pyproject.toml: drop the 'tests' mypy exclude added on this branch; restores
  master's config so the branch no longer silences type-checking on tests.
- test_task.py: lock the contract — assert TaskService.update skips None so a
  partial caller (the board-redraft path) can't null-wipe existing fields.

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Co-authored-by: Frontend Developer 1 <fe-dev-1@agents.roboco.dev>
Co-authored-by: Backend Developer 1 <be-dev-1@agents.roboco.dev>
Co-authored-by: Renn F <rennf93@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Frontend Developer 2 <fe-dev-2@agents.roboco.dev>
2026-06-14 08:06:26 +02:00
f58fd4530e Fix: human surface lifecycle hardening (#81)
* fix: harden agent-idle, redis loop, git errors, escalation audit

- i_am_idle no longer 500s when auto-pausing a task whose commits are
  stored as dicts: tolerate dict-or-object commit refs and run the
  synthetic-checkpoint computation inside the swallowing try block.
- The stream event loop no longer logs an idle redis read-timeout as an
  ERROR every cycle; the blocking-read timeout is treated as a normal idle.
- Git command failures surface git's own (secret-scrubbed) stderr in the
  error message instead of a bare 'Command failed', so push/fetch
  rejections are diagnosable; the injected PAT is redacted.
- The escalate-to-pool redirect emits the task.pending audit event,
  closing a status mutation that previously skipped the audit log.

* fix: let privileged operators set task status via an audited override

The task update route silently dropped a 'status' field in the request body,
so a CEO/admin could not transition a task wedged in a state with no valid
in-band move (e.g. a blocked task whose work merged out-of-band) — the panel
returned 200 while nothing changed. Add 'status' to the update schema and
apply it through a new audited 'admin_set_status' that bypasses the strict
transition validator but always records the audit event. The override
requires elevated permissions; ordinary field updates are unchanged.

* fix: stop human chat sessions from expiring between messages

Messaging sessions fell back to a hardcoded 300s idle timeout, shorter than a
normal pause in a human conversation: the sweeper closed the session and the
next message opened a new one, so a person could not hold a continuous chat.
Make the idle timeout configurable (session_idle_timeout_seconds, default
3600) and resolve an unset timeout to it at every session-creation path
instead of the 300s column fallback.

* fix: resolve doubled doc paths and stop the indexer warning flood

The doc-path resolver returned absolute paths verbatim, so a documenter path
that doubled the base segment (/app/docs/docs/...) never resolved on disk and
the docs never indexed into RAG. Reduce an absolute path under the docs base
to a relative one before normalizing, leaving truly-external absolute paths
for the indexer to skip. The indexer now skips non-markdown source files and
logs a missing/non-doc source at debug instead of warning on every pass.

* fix: reject project repo URLs that point at a protected repository

Add a configurable denylist (protected_git_urls) enforced in the project
create and update paths, so a project cannot be registered against a
repository that must not receive agent commits or merges (e.g. the roboco
source repo during a smoke run). Empty by default (no behavior change);
operators set it to sandbox smoke-test projects.

* fix: let an agent release a blocked task back to the pool

A developer (or QA/doc) trapped on a 'blocked' task had no legal forward
move — every verb rejected from that state — so the dispatcher kept
respawning it with nothing to do. Allow 'unclaim' to release a blocked task
the agent owns back to pending (assignment cleared, work session abandoned,
audited), so the cell PM can re-delegate it instead of the agent churning.

* fix: keep blocked-dev churn out and cell tasks out of board hands

- The dispatcher no longer respawns the owner of a blocked task: from blocked
  the owner has no legal move, so respawning only churns; it is revived on
  unblock or released via unclaim.
- Escalation no longer hands a cell (backend/frontend/ux_ui) coordination task
  to a board/advisory role — such an escalation is diverted to the cell pool,
  matching the existing executable-task guard. main_pm targets are unaffected.

* chore: add an opt-in full clean-slate to the reset script

FULL_RESET=1 wipes everything under the roboco data root except the
persistent service stores (ollama/postgres/redis) and clears the persisted
agent Claude session dirs (ROBOCO_CLAUDE_STATE_DIRS), which otherwise replay
across runs. Default off — the existing DB/Redis wipe + workspace git-reset
is unchanged.

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2026-06-08 01:59:51 +02:00
06682f33c6 Fix: agent workflow hardening (#70)
* fix(gateway): push the branch before QA handoff so reviewers see the latest commits

The commit content tool commits locally without pushing; only open_pr pushed
the branch. On the first submission that was fine, but a fix committed while
addressing needs_revision never reached origin (open_pr is skipped once the PR
exists), so QA — which reviews the remote PR branch — re-reviewed the stale
remote and re-failed the task on every cycle, a loop that never converged.

i_am_done now pushes the task branch (idempotent; a no-op when nothing is
unpushed) as part of the shared submit gate, covering both the normal and
resume-from-verifying paths. A push failure blocks the handoff with a clear
remediation rather than parking the task in awaiting_qa with commits that exist
only in the developer's local workspace.

* fix(orchestrator): don't reap a stale claim while the agent's container is alive

The stale-claim reaper released any claimed/in_progress task whose
last_heartbeat_at exceeded the TTL. The heartbeat only updates on certain
gateway calls, so a developer deep in a long edit/test cycle outran the TTL and
had its claim reaped mid-work — churning the task and risking a double spawn
against the still-running container.

The reaper now skips a task whose assignee still holds a live (ACTIVE) agent
instance, trusting container liveness — the ground truth — over the heartbeat
proxy. The check is defensive on missing fields so a heartbeat-only caller (and
the reaper's existing unit tests) behave exactly as before.

* fix(gateway): refuse to unblock a task while a dependency is unfinished

A PM unblock on a dependency-gated task moved it straight to in_progress,
overriding the dependency — letting a dependent proceed without its upstream's
work (e.g. a frontend task built before its UX design lands). A dependency
block is meant to clear on its own via _unblock_dependents the moment the
upstream reaches a terminal state.

unblock now refuses while any dependency is still non-terminal, returning a
clear remediation that the block resolves automatically. Manual unblock remains
available for genuine, non-dependency blockers.

* fix(gateway): release a dependency-blocked claim to pending instead of looping

A task that reached claimed/in_progress with an unfinished dependency was left
in that state when the claim guard rejected, so the orchestrator's respawn loop
kept reviving its assignee — which could make no progress — burning work for
nothing.

The claim guard now releases such a task back to pending. claimed -> blocked is
not a legal transition, so pending — held by the dispatch dependency filter — is
the lifecycle-correct resting state: the respawn loop ignores pending tasks, and
_unblock_dependents re-dispatches it once the upstream reaches a terminal state.
release_dependency_blocked_claim shares a _force_unclaim_to_pending core with
unclaim_for_reaper so both record a truthful work-session abandon reason.

* feat(security): warn at startup in header-trust mode + document the auth posture

When ROBOCO_AGENT_AUTH_REQUIRED is not enabled the API accepts the X-Agent-Id /
X-Agent-Role headers without a signed token, so any client that can reach it may
act as any role (including 'ceo'). The API now logs a clear warning at startup
in this mode, and the README gains a Security section documenting the auth
posture and how to harden it. Acceptable only on a trusted private network — do
not expose the API to untrusted networks.

* fix(workspace): scope the refresh fetch to current + default branch

ensure_workspace's healthy short-circuit ran an all-refs 'git fetch origin' to
keep every origin/<branch> ref current. On a monorepo with many accumulated
feature/* branches that exceeds the refresh timeout, the fetch silently fails,
and the workspace keeps a stale base — so an agent builds on an out-of-date
branch.

The refresh now fetches only the workspace's current branch and the repo's
default branch (resolved via origin/HEAD), with --no-tags --prune: it transfers
near-nothing and can't time out. Readers need their own branch and the default;
the integration branch is refreshed at branch-creation time.

* fix(git): refresh a dependency-blocked task's branch off the current integration tip

A cross-cell dependent (e.g. a frontend task waiting on the UX design) was
branched off a base captured before its upstream merged into the integration
branch, and the branch was never re-synced — so the agent built on a stale
snapshot with none of the upstream's work.

Two changes close the gap:
- release_dependency_blocked_claim now clears branch_name, so the re-claim
  (after the dependency clears) re-runs branch creation.
- create_branch, when the branch is already on disk with no commits of its own,
  resets it onto the freshly-pulled base — the dependent now builds on the
  current integration tip. A branch carrying real commits is left untouched, so
  no work is discarded; the cell->leaf cascade carries the upstream down to the
  dev branch automatically.

* refactor(gateway): drop the sibling-sequence claim guard

Sibling sequence no longer gates a claim. Cross-cell ordering is
enforced by task dependencies — a cell task that depends on another is
held until its upstream reaches a terminal state, a stronger,
status-aware gate than the sequence-number check. That check was
dormant in practice anyway: every fan-out child carries sequence 0, on
which the guard short-circuited. `sequence` stays a sibling-ordering /
dispatch-priority field (list_pending ordering and the panel).

Removes sibling_sequence_guard and its _earlier_blocking_sibling
helper, the now-unused skip_sequence parameter threaded through the
claim verbs, and the sibling fetch that fed it.

* feat(gateway): sort a cross-cell dependent after its upstream

When the frontend cell task is wired to depend on its UX/UI sibling, set
its sequence to the upstream's sequence + 1 so it sorts after the design
it waits on — list_pending ordering and the panel now show UX ahead of
the implementation it gates, in either delegation order.

Adds TaskService.set_sequence (the sibling-ordering field is a service
write; it carries no claim-gating semantics — dependencies gate claims).

* feat(gateway): make the backend cell depend on UX too

UX/UI design defines the screens and API contracts both implementation
cells build against, so the backend cell — not just the frontend — waits
on the UX/UI cell task in a product fan-out and sorts after it. Wires in
either delegation order: a backend task delegated after UX gets the
dependency directly; a UX task delegated after a still-pending backend
sibling retro-wires it.

Mirrors the existing frontend wiring (_depend_backend_on_ux and
_depend_pending_backends_on_ux). Backend is held by the same dependency
gate, so it costs no extra dispatch churn.

* fix(websocket): forward notification acks instead of logging them incomplete

The bridge handler serves both notification.sent and notification.acked,
but acked events carry `agent_id` (the acking agent) rather than
`recipient_id`, so every acknowledgement tripped the missing-field guard
and logged "Incomplete notification event" instead of reaching the panel.
Accept either field as the recipient.

* feat(api): hint the full UUID when a truncated task id fails validation

Agents copy the 8-character task prefix the system shows them (the commit
prefix, task summaries) and send it as task_id, which fails UUID
validation with an opaque "invalid length" 422 and wastes a call. The
request-validation handler now detects a task_id UUID error and attaches
a `remediate` hint telling the agent to retry with the full 36-character
UUID from its task envelope.

* fix(audit): record the blocked transition when a task is escalated

Escalation sets a task to blocked by writing task.status directly, which
bypassed the validated transition helper and so never emitted a
task.blocked audit row — the lifecycle moved but the Auditor saw nothing.
Extract the audit emit from the central transition helper into
_emit_status_transition_audit and call it from the escalate path,
capturing the prior status and outgoing owner before reassignment so the
row is attributed correctly.

* fix(docs): stop doubling the docs path so design specs index into RAG

The documenter sometimes hands a doc path already rooted at docs/, and
joining it onto DOCS_BASE_PATH (/app/docs) produced /app/docs/docs/...,
so the file was never found and the spec never indexed — the frontend
cell could not retrieve the UX design over RAG. Normalize the path
before joining: trust an absolute path, otherwise strip a single
redundant leading docs/ segment.

* feat(security): let the control panel authenticate in secure mode

With ROBOCO_AGENT_AUTH_REQUIRED=true every request must carry a valid
HMAC token, which locked the human control panel out — it sends role
headers but no token. nginx, the only trusted hop between the browser
and the API, now injects the CEO token on /api and /ws, so the browser
never holds the signing secret. The injected value is just the existing
per-agent token issued for the CEO identity (issue_panel_token), so the
token-verification path is unchanged. An empty value (dev/header-trust
mode) renders to no header.

`make panel-token` prints the value; set it as ROBOCO_PANEL_AGENT_TOKEN
in .env before enabling secure mode. .env.example and the README
Security section document the flow.

* chore(compose): consolidate the two compose files into one

docker-compose.yml and docker-compose.yaml had diverged: .yml — the file
Docker actually uses — carried ROBOCO_PUBLIC_BASE_URL but was missing the
/app/manifests bind-mount, while .yaml had the manifests mount but not
the base URL. Merge the union into docker-compose.yml and delete the
duplicate so there is one source of truth and no "multiple config files"
warning.

This activates the manifests mount in the deployed file: without it the
orchestrator writes per-agent tool manifests to its ephemeral container
fs, they never reach the host for the daemon to bind-mount, and agents
fall back to all-verbs registration. Drop the stale .yaml reference from
the config.py docstring, the labeler, and the CI path filters.

---------

Co-authored-by: Renn F <rennf93@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-06-05 16:35:22 +02:00
6cce556536 feat(git): coordination root cuts a Main-PM integration branch per repo (#58)
The coordination/fan-out root carries a product (cell->repo map) but no
project of its own, and was forced branchless — so a cell's parent-branch
resolution fell back to the project default (master), and cell completion
merged each cell straight to master, bypassing the Main-PM integration
point and the CEO merge gate.

Per the locked branch model (master <- feature/main_pm/{root} <- cell <-
dev), the root is now the Main-PM integration point: on claim it cuts
feature/main_pm/{root} off master in EACH distinct repo the product spans
(monorepo => 1, multi-repo => N). Cells then branch off it via the existing
ancestor-branch resolution, so cell work never targets master.

- ProductService.distinct_project_ids: enumerate the repos a product spans
- TaskService._create_branch_in_project: project-parameterized branch
  creation split out of _auto_create_branch
- TaskService._ensure_coordination_root_branches: cut the integration
  branch in each repo; graceful empty when the product has no cell map yet
- _ensure_branch_for_task routes a product-backed root here, not to no-op

Co-authored-by: Renn F <rennf93@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-06-04 05:48:21 +02:00
Renn F 2631f2647c fix(lifecycle): unblock a never-claimed task to pending, not branchless in_progress
A task blocked before it was ever claimed (a dependency-gated claim that got
escalated) has no branch. Legacy unblock() forced in_progress, which the
dispatcher refuses (state=in_progress but branch_name unset) -> a spawn-refused
loop. Add the blocked->pending transition and route no-branch tasks there so
they are freshly claimed (the claim gate then holds them cleanly while the
dependency is unmet). Branched tasks still resume in_progress. Artifacts
regenerated.
2026-06-04 02:01:09 +02:00
110aaa7a77 Chore: v1 removal gateway canonical (#46)
* chore(agent_sdk): remove dead /traceability/remind endpoint and reminder map

The TRACEABILITY_REMINDERS dict and its /traceability/remind endpoint were
keyed entirely on pre-gateway tool names (roboco_task_*, roboco_journal_*,
roboco_message_send, roboco_session_create_for_tasks) deleted in the gateway
cutover. The endpoint had zero callers; v2 enforces traceability server-side
in the Choreographer.

* fix(bootstrap,seeds): onboarding prompts call give_me_work(), not deleted roboco_task_scan()

The startup prompt and the seeded cell/all-hands channel onboarding messages
instructed agents to call roboco_task_scan() — a tool removed in the gateway
cutover. Point them at the live give_me_work() flow verb.

* fix: replace remaining deleted v1 tool names with gateway verbs

Spawn prompts, onboarding strings, remediation messages, and comments still
referenced pre-gateway tools deleted in the cutover (roboco_task_*,
roboco_agent_idle, roboco_notify_*, roboco_message_send,
roboco_session_create_for_tasks, roboco_journal_*, roboco_escalate). Rewrote
each to the correct role-scoped gateway verb (give_me_work/i_will_work_on for
workers, triage for PMs, i_am_done vs complete, notify/notify_ack, escalate_up,
unclaim, i_documented, open_session, note). Updated one enforcement-message
test that matched the old tool name by coincidence.

* test: guard against deleted v1 tool names reappearing in roboco/

Scans roboco/ for the deleted pre-gateway tool names; excludes the orphaned
roboco/agents/ subtree (removed in a later phase).

* chore(exceptions): drop 8 unused pre-gateway exception classes + their tests

LLMError, RAGError, AlreadyExistsError, TaskBlockedError, TaskClaimError,
AgentNotAvailableError, AgentBusyError, NotificationPermissionError were never
raised in production. SessionClosedError/DatabaseError are kept (live + tested).

* chore(models): drop unused pre-gateway notification/channel/handoff factories

Removes create_task_assignment/_blocker_escalation/_review_request/
_documentation_request/_priority_change/_alert/_broadcast, create_cell_channel/
_cross_cell_channel/_announcements_channel, create_handoff (+ HandoffParams),
ProactiveContext, and A2APartType. The gateway choreographer builds these
server-side now. Drops the matching dead-code tests.

* chore(services): drop unused pre-gateway permission/messaging/audit/optimal/remediation methods

These pre-gateway helpers (channel-permission checks, channel-membership ops,
permission-denial audit hooks, doc ingestion, two remediation hints) have no
production caller — the gateway role_config + enforcement layer replaced them.
Drops the matching dead-code tests; live methods (send_message, the SESSION_*
flow, log_task_action_denial, etc.) are untouched.

* chore(orchestrator,ws,events,config): drop unused pre-gateway lifecycle/broadcast/roster symbols

orchestrator: get_running_agents, is_agent_busy, queue_priority_work,
get_all_instances (+ their OrchestratorAccessProtocol declarations in events.py).
websocket: broadcast_new_message, broadcast_session_closed (no event type emits
them). agents_config: ALL_PMS/ALL_DEVS/ALL_QA/CELL_PMS roster constants (ALL_DOCS
stays — it gates docs-write workspace perms).

* refactor(agents): delete orphaned pre-gateway agent subtree + dead organization model

The Gateway/full cutover replaced the Python agent-class implementations with
the server-side Choreographer; the classes survived only as a self-referential
island. Removes roboco/agents/{base,mixins,factory,board,developer,documenter,
pm,qa,orchestrator}.py and roboco/agents/factories/{board,cells,developers,
documenters,pms,qa}.py, plus roboco/models/organization.py (Cell/Board/
Organization — used only by those factories). Keeps factories/_base.py
(compose_prompt — the live prompt-layer composer the orchestrator calls at
spawn) behind minimal package __init__ files.

* chore(db): drop dead tasks.execution_log + outputs columns (migration 015)

Both JSON columns had zero readers/writers in code, tests, and migrations —
execution progress is tracked via progress_updates and artifacts via
commits/documents. Removes the ORM columns, the Pydantic Task.execution_log/
outputs fields, the ExecutionLog/FileRef models (+ their __init__ exports), and
the now-invalid kwargs from test fixtures. Migration 015 (down_revision
014_drop_pm_approvals) verified live: upgrade drops, downgrade re-adds.
Apply on the NAS with 'alembic upgrade head' at next deploy.

* chore(config): drop 16 unread Settings fields

Verified unused (no settings.X, no self.X property use, no getattr-by-name):
app_name, reload, workers, openai_api_key, secret_key, access_token_expire_minutes,
algorithm, log_level, log_format, the four session_* limits, message_max_length,
commit_subject_min_chars, commit_banned_words, agent_budget_sweep_interval_seconds.
Removes the empty Logging + Sessions&Messages sections and orphaned .env.example
vars. Kept: redis_db/redis_password (redis_url property), agent_sla_* (read via
getattr in task_lifecycle), encryption_key, and all live thresholds.

NOTE: commit_banned_words/commit_subject_min_chars and
agent_budget_sweep_interval_seconds were feature-config never wired to their
consumer (commit validator / budget sweep) — removed as dead, but flagged in
case the intent was to wire them.

* test(lifecycle): give i_will_work_on calls a substantive plan (#171 contract)

The real-DB lifecycle tests called i_will_work_on with a 13-char plan and no
risks/technical_considerations, so the substantive-plan gate (#171) rejected
them with incomplete_input — failing on master. Supply a >=150-char plan plus
technical_considerations and risks (mirroring tests/unit/gateway/
test_choreographer_dev.py). All 6 now pass; gate runs with no deselect.

* feat(gateway): wire commit-validator thresholds to settings

commit_subject_min_chars and commit_banned_words were config defined but never
read — the gateway commit() gate used the validator's hardcoded module defaults.
Re-add the two Settings fields and pass them through validate_commit_message in
content_actions.commit(), so config is the source of truth (validator defaults
remain the standalone/CI fallback). Adds wiring tests that monkeypatch settings
and assert the gate honors them.

* refactor(orchestrator): retire gateway_enabled flag; trigger_filter is unconditional

The gateway_enabled Settings field gated only the trigger_filter spawn-cooldown
(never the agent tool surface). Prod ran it on; the Phase-0 'legacy dispatch
path' it guarded no longer exists. Remove the field + the early-return branch in
gateway_pre_spawn_check so the cooldown runs for every spawn, drop the now-dead
ROBOCO_GATEWAY_ENABLED from docker-compose.yml, and update the stale Phase-0
comments + cooldown test. The per-container ROBOCO_GATEWAY_ENABLED env (set by
_append_manifest_args, read by agent_sdk to load the manifest) is unaffected.

* refactor(api): relabel /api/v2 -> /api/v1 as the canonical gateway surface

The gateway is the only agent API now, so the 'v2' label (with no v1) was
misleading. Renames roboco/api/routes/v2 -> routes/v1, schemas/v2 -> schemas/v1
(+ the matching test dirs and test_v2_role_dep/test_schemas_v2_flow files),
rewrites every /api/v2 path, routes.v2/schemas.v2 import, and v2-* router tag to
v1, and refreshes the stale 'v2' comments/docstrings. The panel is untouched (it
uses the unversioned /api/* REST routes). flow_server/do_server now POST to
/api/v1/*.

* docs(scripts): reset_runtime_state header matches actual SQL behavior

The header claimed it preserves groups + journals, but the .sql wipes both
(verified live: groups 6->0, journals 5->0; only agents/projects/channels
survive). Correct the wiped/preserved lists to match.

* refactor(gateway): extract _build_rich_plan to drop i_will_work_on under the complexity gate

i_will_work_on was cyclomatic rank C (11) — one over the xenon --max-absolute B
threshold — because of the five `x or default` fallbacks in the rich_plan dict.
Move that dict into a small _build_rich_plan helper (behaviour identical); both
methods are now rank B. make quality is fully green (xenon was its last failure;
bandit already passed — its 34 findings are all LOW severity, filtered by -ll).

* feat(foundation): add canonical CELL_TEAMS set; dedupe cell-subset literals

* feat(db): add ProductTable + ProductProjectTable ORM (per-cell project map)

* feat(task): add additive nullable product_id (ORM + model + DTO + create threading)

* feat(task): thread product_id through create_subtask/route/response

* feat(db): migration 016 — products, product_projects, tasks.product_id

* fix(db): document migration 016 plan deviations (revision len, FK name)

Two values in migration 016 intentionally diverge from the Task 2.4 plan
literals; this strengthens the in-file justification so the deviations are
self-documenting and verifiable.

- revision id (plan line 623): the plan's 36-char
  "016_add_products_and_task_product_id" overflows alembic_version.version_num
  (VARCHAR(32)) — alembic upgrade head raises asyncpg
  StringDataRightTruncationError. Kept at 27 chars
  ("016_add_products_product_id") so Step 4's live round-trip stays green.
- downgrade FK name (plan line 683): roboco/db/base.py sets a metadata
  naming_convention, so the FK upgrade() creates is
  "fk_tasks_product_id_products", not the Postgres default
  "tasks_product_id_fkey". The plan literal does not exist in the DB and
  would fail the downgrade with "constraint does not exist".

Both verified via the live upgrade/downgrade round-trip on a throwaway DB.

Issue 3 note: the prior commit (b896cac) also touched
tests/unit/api/test_schemas_tasks.py (added product_id=None to the
task_to_response stub). That line is load-bearing — task_to_response reads
task.product_id (added in Task 2.3, commit 67afa6b) — and belongs to Task 2.3's
scope; it is left in place because removing it breaks 4 tests and history is
not rewritten.

* refactor(db): trim migration 016 deviation notes to plan-faithful form

Reverts the out-of-scope documentation expansion (commit 1a4f296), which
was a second undocumented commit beyond Task 2.4's single plan-specified
commit and only bloated the migration docstring/comments.

The migration file now matches the plan-specified commit (b896cac) byte for
byte: the two necessary deviations from the plan literals stay (revision id
shortened to fit alembic_version.version_num VARCHAR(32); downgrade FK name
follows db/base.py's metadata naming_convention), each kept to a concise
inline note in the plan's header style.

The Task 2.3-scoped test stub line (tests/unit/api/test_schemas_tasks.py
product_id=None) is load-bearing — task_to_response reads task.product_id —
and is left in place; history is not rewritten.

Verified: live alembic upgrade head + downgrade to 015 round-trip on a
throwaway DB drops products/product_projects/tasks.product_id cleanly, and
make quality is green.

* refactor(test): annotate db_session and drop type: ignore in migration 016 test

Annotate the test_products_tables_and_task_fk_exist param as
db_session: AsyncSession (imported under TYPE_CHECKING) and remove the
# type: ignore[no-untyped-def] suppression, matching the typed db_session
pattern used across tests/integration/.

* feat(models): Product + ProductCreate/Update + ProductCellMapping (cell-validated)

* refactor(models): minimize ProductCellMapping config override to use_enum_values

The previous override re-declared validate_assignment, populate_by_name,
and extra=forbid, which RobocoBase already supplies. Pydantic merges
model_config across inheritance, so overriding only use_enum_values=False
is sufficient to keep team as a real Team enum (required so team in
CELL_TEAMS and enum identity hold for callers) while inheriting the rest
of the base config.

* fix(models): document ProductCellMapping use_enum_values override as plan-mandated

Resolves SPEC-COMPLIANCE review notes for Task 3.1 (Product domain models).

1. The ProductCellMapping use_enum_values=False override is a deviation from a
   bare project.py mirror, but it is mandated by the plan's own Task 3.1 code:
   RobocoBase sets use_enum_values=True, which coerces team to the plain string
   "backend". The plan's Step 1 test asserts m.team is Team.BACKEND (enum
   identity) and the Step 3 validator formats its error with v.value, both of
   which require team to remain a real Team enum. The override is therefore
   necessary; this commit relabels the comment to cite the specific spec lines
   that force it instead of leaving it as an unexplained departure. Downstream
   Task 3.2 (_replace_cells / project_for) already tolerates either form and the
   ORM stores the same value regardless, so the override has no behavioral reach
   beyond the in-memory enum identity the plan's test checks.

2. test_product_model.py hoists 'from uuid import uuid4' to module level rather
   than inline (as the plan's verbatim Step 1 code shows) because the global
   Pylint PLC0415 rule (import-outside-top-level) forbids inline imports and
   there is no per-file-ignore for tests/unit/models/. The hoisted form is the
   only ruff-clean rendering of the plan's test; left unchanged here.

3. Task 3.1 landed across two commits (c616d95 create, 6ebad255 refactor) rather
   than the plan's single Step 5 commit. Earlier history is intentionally not
   rewritten; this single follow-up commit brings the model to its final
   spec-faithful, fully-documented state.

* feat(service): ProductService CRUD + project_for per-cell resolver

* feat(api): Product CRUD routes + schemas, wired into the app

* fix(api): roll back and map cell-replacement IntegrityError on product update

update_product replaced cells via ProductService._replace_cells without
any try/except, so a duplicate-team cell (uq_product_projects_product_team)
or a non-existent project_id (product_projects.project_id FK) raised an
IntegrityError at flush, poisoning the AsyncSession and surfacing an
unhandled 500 with no rollback. Wrap the update + commit in a try/except
that rolls back and maps the UNIQUE violation to 409 and the FK violation
to 422, mirroring create_product's rollback discipline. Add integration
tests covering both client-error paths.

* fix(api): map create_product cell-mapping IntegrityError to 409/422

create_product only caught the slug conflict ('already exists' in str(e))
and bare-raised everything else, so a cells entry whose project_id does not
reference any project let the product_projects.project_id FK IntegrityError
propagate out of the route as an unhandled 500. The matching update_product
path was already hardened (uq_product_projects_product_team -> 409, FK
violation -> 422); apply the same mapping in create_product so a bad
project_id (or a duplicate-team cell) is a client error, not a server error.
The slug conflict is now caught as ConflictError directly instead of via a
broad except + string match.

* feat(gateway): add optional project_id to delegate inputs/request/routes

* feat(gateway): per-cell project routing (override -> product map -> parent) + product_id inheritance

* feat(task): approve_and_start — reassign board task to Main PM (CEO gate #1)

* feat(api): POST /tasks/{id}/approve-and-start (CEO gate #1, notes-required)

* test(api): cover approve-and-start 404-before-notes-gate for missing task

* feat(panel): Product types + Task.product_id

* feat(panel): productsApi + hooks + tasksApi.approveAndStart

* feat(panel): Products management screen + sidebar nav

* feat(panel): Approve & Start button (CEO gate #1)

* fix(api): narrow delete_product to IntegrityError + cover 204/409 delete paths

* test(task): assert approve_and_start persists + appends the audit note

* refactor(db): migration 016 names the tasks.product_id FK explicitly (house style)

* fix(db): make migrations authoritative + self-heal orphan product tables

init_db() no longer silently falls back to create_all when alembic upgrade
fails. That fallback masked migration failures and, since create_all cannot
ALTER an existing table, left the schema inconsistent — turning an unapplied
migration 016 into a crash loop: 016's CREATE TABLE products failed, the
upgrade rolled back, create_all re-created an empty orphan products table, and
every later boot failed again on the now-existing table while tasks.product_id
never got added. Now a migration failure is raised so the real error surfaces.

Migration 016 additionally drops EMPTY orphan products/product_projects tables
left by the old fallback before creating them, so an already-polluted DB
self-heals on the next deploy with no manual SQL. Skipped in offline (--sql)
mode; refuses to drop a table that holds rows.

* fix(db): create_all is the schema source of truth; alembic for increments

The Alembic chain is incomplete relative to the ORM — columns/tables like
notifications.delivered_at and the RAG indexed_documents table have NO migration
and have only ever been materialized by create_all. Tests don't catch this
because the test DB is also built via create_all, so migrations are never
exercised. The prior 'migrations are authoritative' init_db (and before it, the
create_all-only-on-failure fallback) therefore left a migrate-only boot with
missing columns/tables.

init_db now reflects reality:
  - Fresh DB  -> create_all builds the full current ORM schema, then stamp
                 Alembic at head so later incremental migrations apply.
  - Existing  -> run pending migrations (a real failure is raised, not masked),
                 then create_all(checkfirst) to gap-fill any missing ORM tables.
create_all cannot add a column to an existing table, so an ORM column added
without a migration needs a fresh rebuild of that table to appear.

* fix(db): migration 017 reconciles the Alembic chain with the full ORM schema

For years the live schema was built by create_all, not migrations, so the chain
drifted — tables/columns/indexes in the ORM had no migration (the
indexed_documents table, notifications.delivered_at, ~15 indexes, plus
timestamptz/server-default metadata). With init_db no longer masking that via a
create_all fallback, a migrate-only boot was missing those objects.

017 was produced by 'alembic revision --autogenerate' against Base.metadata,
reviewed, and verified: on a fresh DB, 'alembic upgrade head' (001..017) now
reproduces the create_all schema EXACTLY — a re-run of autogenerate detects zero
changes — and the 017 upgrade/downgrade round-trips cleanly. The migration chain
is now complete: migrate-only and create_all converge.

Also updates the init_db tests to assert the new behaviour (raise on an existing
DB's migration failure; create_all + stamp head on a fresh DB) instead of the
removed silent fallback.

* feat(panel): Product picker in the New Task form (drives per-cell routing)

The Products screen and Approve & Start button shipped, but the task-creation
form had no way to attach a Product — so a human couldn't set product_id from
the UI, which is exactly what drives per-cell project routing of delegated
subtasks. Adds an optional Product dropdown (Advanced -> Git config) populated
from useProducts(); 'None' falls back to the single project.

* fix(db): seed data is preserved on a fresh DB (run migrations, not bare create_all)

The previous fresh-DB path (create_all + stamp head) built the tables but never
ran the migration chain, so migration-embedded SEED DATA was skipped — most
visibly the AI providers seeded in 004. After a DB reset that left
provider_configs empty, so PUT /api/providers/ollama-key 404'd (the handler
raises NotFoundError when the Ollama provider row is missing).

Since migration 017 made the chain reproduce the full ORM schema, init_db now
runs 'alembic upgrade head' from base on a fresh DB — building every
table/column/index AND running the seeds. Verified: a fresh upgrade head seeds
both provider rows. Existing DBs still get migrations + create_all gap-fill.
Updates the init_db fresh-DB test accordingly.

* feat(task): project_id optional when a product_id is set (board fan-out tasks)

A board task that fans out across cells via a Product has no single repo of its
own — backend/frontend/ux_ui are each wrong, because the root coordinates and
delegates. Forcing one arbitrary Project was broken design (flagged at design
time). project_id is now nullable; a task must have project_id OR product_id:
  - TaskCreate model validator + a TaskService.create() invariant (covers every
    create path).
  - ORM/DTO/schema: project_id nullable; task_to_response uses to_python_uuid.
  - Gateway: a parent with only a product can delegate (guard now needs BOTH
    project and product to be None to reject); _resolve_subtask_project resolves
    each subtask from the product map and raises a clear error if a cell has no
    mapping and no parent project.
  - Migration 018 (tasks.project_id nullable), round-trip verified; fresh
    upgrade head still seeds providers.
  - Panel: Project no longer required once a Product is selected.
  - Removed the dead, never-called a2a create_task_from_message (it could only
    ever create a repo-less task) + its two coverage-only tests.

make quality green; panel tsc/lint/build green.

* Upgrade to Minimax M3

* fix(db): seed providers on existing DBs + correct enum casing

Migration 004 created the modelprovider/assignmentscope enums and seeded
provider rows in UPPERCASE, but the ORM (_str_enum) reads/writes the
lowercase StrEnum .value — so a fresh migrate-from-base DB built an enum
the ORM cannot read. Lowercase the enum labels and seed values in 004.

Add idempotent migration 019 to (re)seed the Anthropic + Ollama Cloud
providers with ON CONFLICT (name) DO NOTHING, so an existing DB whose
provider_configs table was created by create_all (and never ran 004's
seed) gets the rows on the next `alembic upgrade head` — fixing the
/api/providers/ollama-key 404 without a volume wipe.

* fix(tasks): let board/fan-out coordination tasks flow without a repo

A coordination task (project_id NULL, product_id set) targets no repo of
its own — it fans out to cell subtasks that each resolve a real project
from the product's cell->project map. Several paths still assumed every
task does git work and blocked it:

- orchestrator: add _is_coordination_task() and exempt these tasks from
  the project/branch/git-token gates in _readiness_check_task,
  _readiness_gate, _check_stuck_conditions, _validate_task_for_spawn.
- services/task.py: _ensure_branch_for_task returns "" (no branch) for a
  coordination task instead of raising; activate requires project OR
  product. This unblocks Main PM's i_will_plan claim, which otherwise
  raised before it could delegate the fan-out.
- gateway: _pending_assignment_guard exempts advisory roles
  (product_owner/head_marketing/auditor) from the "assigned but never
  claimed" idle gate — they review without claiming, so they could not
  satisfy a claim-or-unclaim remediation.

Adds focused unit tests for each.

* fix(tasks): coordination tasks reach in_progress + team reflects Main PM

The board->cells fan-out deadlocked: a coordination/fan-out task (product set,
no project of its own) could be created and claimed, but start()'s
claimed->in_progress transition hit validate_git_requirements, which still
demanded a branch_name and raised GitRequirementError. So Main PM's i_will_plan
never completed — it looped and never delegated. c961282 exempted
_ensure_branch_for_task (branch creation) but missed this parallel git gate in
the enforcement layer.

- task_lifecycle.py: add GitContext.is_coordination; skip the
  claimed->in_progress branch_name gate when it is set.
- task.py: populate is_coordination=(project_id is None and product_id is not
  None) in _validate_and_set_status; a branchless code task is still gated.
- approve_and_start: set team=Team.MAIN_PM on hand-off so the task isn't left
  labelled team=board after it leaves the board (now assigned to main-pm).

Adds a lifecycle-gate unit test and an end-to-end integration test that
claims, plans, and starts a project-less coordination task.

* fix(hooks): remove dead traceability hook + stale deleted-verb references

The v1-removal cleanup (2cfbf39) deleted the /traceability/remind SDK endpoint
but left the PostToolUse hook that curls it, so every gateway tool call 404'd
and agents silently lost their traceability reminders. Remove the dangling hook
(registration + TRACEABILITY_TRIGGER_TOOLS + Dockerfile COPY + the script); v2
carries per-verb guidance on the Envelope. Also correct two stale pre-gateway
tool names in hook text: the budget loop-detector nudged agents toward the
deleted roboco_task_escalate() (now unclaim()/i_am_idle(), which every looping
role has), and an sdk-startup comment referenced roboco_task_scan/get.

Extends the deleted-tool-name guard to scan docker/scripts/*.sh and to assert
every $SDK_URL/<path> a hook curls is a route still served by the SDK — the
check that would have caught this class (it lives in shell, invisible to mypy
and the Python import graph).

* fix(db): backfill ORM enum values the migration chain never added

Several StrEnum values were added to the ORM over time without a matching
`ALTER TYPE ... ADD VALUE` migration; 017 was autogenerate-derived and
autogenerate does not detect added enum labels, so the drift survived. On a DB
whose enum type predates the value, binding it raises at runtime — e.g.
`invalid input value for enum notificationtype: "a2a_request"` on
GET /api/notifications (list_system_notifications), and the same class for
blockerresolvertype/handoffstatus/team.

Migration 020 adds every drifted value idempotently (ADD VALUE IF NOT EXISTS —
no-op when 009 already reconciled it). Runs on the next `alembic upgrade head`.

Detected by comparing each ORM enum's values to the labels the migration chain
produces; adds tests/unit/test_enum_migration_parity.py which renders the chain
offline and fails on any future drift — the check that would have caught both
this and the provider-enum bug.

* fix(orchestrator): stop branch auto-block, board reassign, unblock livelock, agentless claims

Cluster C1 — four coupled orchestrator/task-invariant defects:

#18: a branch is created only at claim, so a pending, never-claimed code task
legitimately has no branch_name. The stuck-detection sweep (pending-only) and
readiness gate flagged that as "Task missing branch_name" and auto-blocked the
task every tick, so it never dispatched. Centralize the gate in
_branch_is_expected (status in claimed/in_progress/verifying, never a
coordination task) and apply it in both _check_stuck_conditions and
_readiness_check_task.

#14: the main_pm -> product_owner escalation rung handed an in_progress
descendant code task to the Product Owner (a board role) and marked it BLOCKED;
the board has no verb to own code work, so the dev's finished work deadlocked.
TaskService.apply_escalation (the single write primitive — covers both the
gateway escalate verb and the HTTP escalate route) now diverts a descendant code
task targeting a board/advisory role: it releases the task to PENDING for a
role-matched cell claim instead of stranding it.

#17: a blocked task reassigned to Main PM kept respawning the ex-assignee cell
PM to unblock it, but the assignee-only pre-unblock note returned not_authorized
— a livelock. _dispatch_blocker_work now dispatches the task's CURRENT PM/board
assignee (the unblock authority), falling back to the cell PM only when no
PM/board holds it. Also: a branchless coordination parent yields no valid merge
target — resolve_parent_branch now falls back to the child's own project default
branch (e.g. master) via TaskService.project_default_branch_for_task, and
_check_parent_branch_ready no longer blocks a child on a coordination parent's
non-existent branch.

#19: a task left claimed/in_progress with an assignee but no running container
was invisibly stuck (only PENDING tasks get fresh dispatch; the heartbeat reaper
can't see a freshly-seeded claim). New _dispatch_claimed_without_agent net:
after a short grace window it respawns the assignee, or releases the claim to
pending (lifecycle-safe via unclaim_for_reaper) when the assignee is unknown.
New config ROBOCO_CLAIMED_NO_AGENT_GRACE_SECONDS (default 120).

* fix(gateway): tolerant note verb + lock evidence do-tool invariant

#15: the note verb no longer hard-rejects thin decision/reflect payloads.
List-typed fields (options, consequences, next_steps) coerce a lone scalar
into a one-element list at both the NoteRequest schema (mode=before
validator) and the service layer; missing narrative fields default to a
visible placeholder instead of returning incomplete_input. The note is
always recorded, preserving audit value, and a well-intentioned note can no
longer trip the do-server 3-strikes circuit breaker. Widen the agent-facing
do_server.note hints to accept list-or-scalar and refresh the docstrings.

#8: add regression coverage locking the invariant that every role's do_tools
carries evidence (role_config + developer spawn manifest). The current source
already registers mcp__roboco-do__evidence for developers end-to-end; the
report stemmed from a stale deployed build, and the tests prevent silent
regression.

* fix(gateway): allow UX devs to receive design tasks; surface delegation rules to cell PM

The UX/UI cell's developers (ux-dev-1/ux-dev-2, Role.DEVELOPER on
Team.UX_UI) ARE its designers, but _validate_assignee_task_type rejected
task_type='design' for every DEVELOPER, blocking the UX cell's normal
design delegation. Allow 'design' for UX-team devs only; backend/frontend
devs stay rejected (design routing belongs to the UX cell). The
orchestrator already dispatches a developer for a design task
(_dev_dispatch_role_matches returns True), so this creates no orphan like
the documentation case.

Replace the static Cell-PM 'pass planning' remediate with a per-assignee
hint so a dev/design mis-type gets a developer-class next-step instead of
an off-topic planning hint.

Surface the three delegation guardrails in the cell-PM prompt so PMs stop
probing them by trial and error: valid task_type per assignee (incl.
design for UX devs), documentation auto-creation (non-delegatable), and
the sequential single-active code-spine. Fix the delegate-row task_type
list (documentation is NOT delegatable) and update the lifecycle spec
description; regenerate the lifecycle artifacts.

* fix(orchestrator): improve agent briefings for handoff consumption, product/project model, and workspace/secret hygiene

Main PM (roles/main_pm.md):
- Require reading the upstream Product Owner / Head of Marketing handoff
  (their decision/reflect journal entries + task description) BEFORE doing
  any own research or calling i_will_plan, so the Main PM builds on the
  Board's analysis instead of duplicating it. Added a dedicated section,
  hardened workflow step 1, and added an anti-pattern.
- Add a 'Products vs Projects' section: a Product fans out to one Project
  per cell; those Projects may be the SAME repo (monorepo subtrees) or
  DIFFERENT repos (multi-repo). The Main PM coordinates across them and
  must not assume one repo or call a monorepo subtree 'a separate repo'.
  Names the Prompter monorepo case (github.com/rennf93/roboco).

Developer (roles/developer.md):
- State the exact workspace path convention
  /data/workspaces/<project-slug>/<team>/<agent-slug>/, that the cwd is
  already set there, to stay inside the own cell workspace, and to not
  probe/guess the path (ls /, find /).
- Sanctioned secret handling: env/printenv is bash-guard denied and
  reveals nothing; needed secrets arrive via the task description, else
  i_am_blocked so the PM supplies them. Added matching anti-patterns.

Tests: add tests/unit/agents/test_briefing_cluster_c4.py asserting the
composed system prompt (the text mounted into agent containers) carries
each of the above.

* fix(orchestrator): board review involves PO+HoM and notifies CEO

Cluster C5 (#2, #4): a board/coordination task was reviewed by the Product
Owner alone, and the CEO got no formal signal when the review finished —
only buried channel chatter — so the Approve & Start handoff was invisible.

#4 — Board review is now a two-reviewer gate. _handle_board_assigned_task
dispatches BOTH the Product Owner and the Head of Marketing (one-shot each),
regardless of which one holds assigned_to, and the unassigned board-routing
path delegates here instead of claiming + spawning the PO alone. Board tasks
stay pending/unassigned for the CEO's Approve & Start. The board prompt now
makes the PO+HoM pair-review model explicit (HoM owns the UX/positioning
dimension).

#2 — Once BOTH reviewers have finished (dispatched and no longer active),
the orchestrator emits exactly one formal CEO notification via
NotificationService.send_board_review_complete_notification (APPROVAL type,
ack-required, carrying related_task_id) so the handoff is an actionable
signal. One-shot per task; a notification failure clears the guard so a
later tick can retry.

To let the non-assignee board member record its review note on a task held
by the other board member, content-action ownership now exempts a board role
posting to a board/coordination task (project_id is None, product_id set).
The exemption is narrow: it does not widen ownership for any other role or
any project-backed task.

Unit tests cover both reviewers dispatched, one-shot dispatch, the CEO
notification fired exactly once when both are done (and not before), the
retry-on-failure path, the notification builder, and the board co-review
ownership exemption (allowed for board+coordination, blocked otherwise).

* fix(workspace): install dev deps post-clone + raise git commit timeout for large changesets

Cluster C6 (#10, #13, #12-investigate).

#10: per-agent workspace clones never had the project's dev dependencies
installed, so the make-quality gate (ruff/mypy/pytest for Python, the TS
toolchain for the panel) was missing and devs re-downloaded tooling per
task. WorkspaceService now runs the project's install after cloning
(`uv sync` for Python, `pnpm install`/`npm ci`/`npm install` for Node/TS,
detected by manifest/lockfile). Idempotent via a lockfile-digest marker
under .git/ so a re-entry with unchanged lockfiles is a no-op; also runs on
the healthy short-circuit so pre-existing clones get backfilled. Gated by
workspace_install_dev_deps (default on) with workspace_dep_install_timeout_seconds.

#13: the gateway commit verb timed out on the large panel changeset because
every git op used the hardcoded 30s _GIT_TIMEOUT and each call also re-walks
the tree to chown. _run_git now takes a per-call timeout override sourced
from settings (git_command_timeout_seconds default); the staging + commit
ops in commit() and create_commit() use the longer git_commit_timeout_seconds
(default 180s). httpx REST timeouts unchanged in value.

#12 (investigate only — no push, no history change): the clone base ref is
NOT hardcoded; it already comes from project.default_branch threaded through
git.get_workspace -> ensure_workspace -> _clone_repo (git clone --branch).
The stale-base problem is a deploy/process issue (GitHub master is behind the
deployed migration chain), resolvable only by pushing the chain to master.
The default_branch column is the existing configurable lever.

* fix(panel): gate Approve & Start to board coordination tasks; stop 404 storm on closed sessions

CEO gate #1 button only renders for a PENDING board coordination/fan-out
task (no project_id, has product_id) — the board-reviewed handoff that
approve_and_start accepts — instead of every PENDING board-team task.
approve_and_start requires PENDING (it re-targets to Main PM without a
status change), so the gate stays on PENDING rather than the unrelated
end-of-work awaiting_ceo_approval state.

Session/message reads now treat a 404 as terminal and never retry it: a
reaped session is gone for good, and retrying every dead session-id is
what produced the growing 404 storm on GET /api/messages. The transcript
loads once (staleTime Infinity, no focus/reconnect refetch) so closed
sessions stay viewable without re-polling.

* fix(orchestrator): role-correct respawn prompt, throttle agentless dispatch, broaden #14 guard

#19 wrong-role prompt on respawn: _get_prompt_for_agent fell through to the
developer prompt for every non-dev/doc/qa role, so a respawned PM or board
agent was told to write code and call verbs it does not own. Route by the
agent's actual role through the existing per-role prompt builders
(developer/qa/documenter/cell_pm/main_pm/product_owner/head_marketing/auditor).
Both callers benefit; _spawn_pending_dev only ever passes developer/documenter/
unknown, so its behavior is unchanged.

#19 spawn-burst: _dispatch_claimed_without_agent looped over every agentless
claimed/in_progress task and could spawn many containers in one tick. Break
after the first respawn so a restart can't trigger a burst, matching every
sibling dispatcher. The release-to-pending path spawns nothing and keeps
draining stale unknown claims.

#14 guard scope: _is_descendant_code_task only matched CODE, so a descendant
DOCUMENTATION or DESIGN task escalated to a board/advisory role was still
stranded on a role with no verb to own it. Rename to
_is_descendant_executable_task and broaden to CODE/DOCUMENTATION/DESIGN — the
cell-executed types a board role cannot own. PLANNING/RESEARCH/ADMINISTRATIVE
route to a PM, not a cell agent, and are left unchanged; root tasks are still
reviewed up the chain.

* fix(docker): add node+pnpm to orchestrator so it pre-installs frontend cell deps

* Added .github workflows

* refactor(services): extract helpers to keep install_dev_deps + developer task-type check under the xenon complexity gate

* chore(github): add launch kit — CI, GHCR release, labels, templates, funding, dependabot npm, community docs

* chore(github): bump_version — drop unused noqa, fix datetime UTC import

---------

Co-authored-by: Renn F <rennf93@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-06-03 06:35:03 +02:00
Renn F 4829f93a68 fix(gateway): unblock task claim; full Phase 0/1/2 remediation
Resolves the 100% claim-failure rate introduced by the gateway rewrite
  (commit 62bda0c plus 78 follow-ups). Live smoke runs hit
  `404 /api/v2/flow/developer/...` on every dev verb plus a manifest
  fallback that silently exposed off-role verbs to PMs — confirmed
  firing simultaneously in NAS agent logs (be-dev-1, be-pm, main-pm).

  Audit reports under docs/internal/audit_2026_05_04/ catalogue 49
  defects across gateway, services, prompts, MCP transport, substrate,
  and tests (8 detail reports + master synthesis). Six smoking guns;
  three proven in production logs.

  Phase 0 — unblock claim:
  - URL prefix /api/v2/flow/dev → /developer; slug-map board roles
    (product_owner, head_marketing) → /board (D-01)
  - _i_will_work_on AttributeError on None across pending /
    needs_revision / claimed re-entry branches (D-02)
  - Seed last_heartbeat_at in _qa_or_doc_claim (D-03)
  - Drop misleading i_have_committed verb; dev flow uses commit() (D-04)
  - Manifest mount via compose; flow_server + do_server fail loud
    instead of exposing all-verbs fallback (D-12)
  - MCP _post() surfaces envelope body on 4xx so agents see remediate
    hints (D-13)
    on git failure so retries aren't blocked by half-state (S-01)

  Phase 1 — lifecycle stability:
  - _resolve_skill falls back to AgentTable.capabilities (D-06)
  - main_pm_complete uses kwargs for escalate_to_ceo (D-07)
  - i_am_done auto-runs submit_verification when in_progress (D-08)
  - active_claimant_id wired in claim/unclaim paths — single-claimant
    invariant now functional (D-05)
  - qa_pass/qa_fail assert claimed_by parity with qa_agent_id (D-18)
  - Prompt-drift sweep: fail() shape, i_am_done(task_id, notes),
    subtask cap (12 hard / 8 soft), error-code symbology rewritten in
    base.md + per-role anti-patterns (D-10/11/29/30/31, D-37)

  Phase 2 — invariants + architecture:
  - Real-DB integration test exercising claim → in_progress → commit
    → submit_for_qa → i_am_done → awaiting_qa (P2-1)
  - choreographer.py → package; 3 of 6 role mixins extracted
    (board, doc, qa). _impl.py 2,526 → 2,080 lines (-18%). Continuation
    plan in docs/internal/audit_2026_05_04/p2_2_decompose_plan.md (P2-2)
  - Closure guards consolidated via _subtasks_not_terminal_envelope (P2-3)
  - TaskService.unclaim_for_reaper routed through canonical
    _validate_and_set_status; in_progress → pending added to
    VALID_TRANSITIONS (P2-4)
  - Dead code removed: i_am_done_with_catchup verb, _run_catch_up helper
    (P2-5)
  - 6 state-machine invariants asserted via property test (P2-6)
  - attempt_id (uuid4) stamped on every gateway.rejected audit row (P2-7)
  - _reconcile_orphan_claims_on_startup rolls back tasks left CLAIMED
    with branch_name=NULL from prior crashes (P2-8)
  - scripts/regenerate_verb_tables.py introspects Pydantic schemas +
    role_config; compose_prompt injects per-role tables as a layer.
    Eliminates the prompt-drift class structurally (P2-9)

  Other:
  - D-48: orchestrator mounts host's ~/.claude.json when present so
    agents don't boot from backup recovery on every spawn
  - D-49: dev dispatcher rejects role-mismatched spawns (e.g. doc task
    assigned to dev agent)

  Tests: 553 pass · ruff + mypy clean. Live NAS smoke verification
  pending — needs the stack brought back up.
2026-05-04 23:43:55 +02:00
Renn F 4a3da479d1 test(gateway): cover per-transition reassignment
Adds:
- TaskService.reassign unit tests (set, clear, missing-task)
- New test_choreographer_reassignment.py covering:
    i_am_done -> qa
    pass_review -> documenter
    i_documented -> cell_pm
    main_pm_complete -> None (CEO via UI)
    escalate_to_ceo (board) -> None
    cell_pm_complete -> walks up to parent and reassigns when all
                        siblings terminal, skips otherwise
    fail_review -> does NOT issue an explicit reassign (qa_fail
                   already restores the original developer via
                   quick_context)
2026-05-02 05:25:07 +02:00
62bda0c497 Gateway/full (#9)
* chore(gateway): scaffold gateway package and test layout

* feat(config): add gateway feature flags, coordination thresholds, commit-validator settings

* feat(gateway): add standardized response envelope with ok/error variants

* feat(gateway): add remediation hint catalog for tracing-gap and invalid-state errors

* feat(gateway): add per-role flow/do tool catalog with developer, qa, doc, pm, board configs

* feat(db): add gateway columns — active_claimant_id, heartbeat, pre_block snapshot, acceptance_criteria_status, qa_evidence_inspected

* feat(db): create gateway_triggers table for dispatcher decision logging

* feat(db): align canonical skill set; substitute qa_review -> code_review across agent seeds

* fix(db/008): make skill alignment in-place + idempotent; preserve column and existing custom skills

* feat(gateway): add claimant_lock for single-active-agent invariant with heartbeat staleness

* feat(gateway): add trigger_filter with stale-cleanup, claimant-queue, and cooldown rules

* feat(gateway): add tracing_gate with plan, progress, journal, acceptance_criteria, qa requirements

* refactor(gateway): drop per-file ruff ignores; refactor tracing_gate with dispatch table + GateContext

* feat(gateway): add merge_chain to resolve PR target by branch hierarchy depth

* feat(gateway): add commit_validator with min-length, banned-words, and conventional-shape hints

* feat(gateway): add evidence_builder for verb-response evidence and capped context_briefing

* feat(gateway): add Choreographer skeleton with per-phase verb signatures and DI protocols

* feat(runtime): add spawn_manifest builder for per-role pre-loaded tool registration

Introduces SpawnInputs dataclass + build_for_role(inputs) + write_manifest()
in roboco/runtime/spawn_manifest.py; reads role_config for allowed verbs/tools,
emits JSON manifest that SDK shim reads at container startup to eliminate ToolSearch.

* feat(runtime): wire gateway pre-spawn check (trigger_filter + claimant_lock) into orchestrator behind ROBOCO_GATEWAY_ENABLED flag

- Add GatewayTriggerTable SQLAlchemy ORM model to roboco/db/tables.py
  (matches existing table from migration 007_gateway_triggers_table)
- Add module-level gateway_pre_spawn_check() + helpers to orchestrator.py
  (gated: returns ("spawn", "gateway disabled") immediately when flag is False)
- Wire gateway check into _safe_spawn() — the single dispatcher choke-point
  for all agent spawns; QUEUE or DROP outcome logs and returns None (no spawn)
- ROBOCO_GATEWAY_ENABLED defaults to False; legacy behaviour is unchanged

* feat(agent_sdk): load tool-manifest.json at startup behind ROBOCO_GATEWAY_ENABLED flag (no agent-visible change yet)

Adds load_tool_manifest() to the SDK server that reads env at call-time
so gateway-enabled agents can obtain their pre-registered tool list at
startup; returns None when the flag is off, leaving the legacy briefing
path completely unchanged.

* fix(optimal_brain): skip indexing when source ID is None to eliminate roboco://journals/None spam

- Add `build_doc_source(kind, id_)` module-level helper in indexes/base.py that
  returns None when id_ is None instead of producing a "roboco://journals/None" URI
- Update abstract `build_source_uri` return type to `str | None` so subclasses
  can legitimately signal a missing ID
- Short-circuit `ingest()` and `_prepare_docs_for_batch()` in BaseIndexPlugin
  when `build_source_uri` returns None (debug log, no push to vector store)
- Fix JournalsIndexPlugin.build_source_uri: `kwargs.get("entry_id")` returns the
  kwarg value even when it is None, so fall back to doc_id before calling
  build_doc_source
- Fix ConversationsIndexPlugin.build_source_uri: return None when session_id is
  None rather than producing "roboco://conversations/None-unknown"
- Add 9 unit tests with a piragi-free conftest that stubs sys.modules

* fix(agent_sdk): inject X-Agent-ID header on notification-poller requests

Both `_check_pending_a2a` and `_auto_ack_a2a_notifications` in
`roboco/mcp/a2a_server.py` were calling the main API without identity
headers, causing orchestrator `Missing X-Agent-ID header` warnings on
`GET /api/v1/notifications/pending-a2a` and the ack-a2a POST.

Add module-level `AGENT_ROLE` constant (mirrors the existing `AGENT_ID`
pattern) and pass `{"X-Agent-ID": AGENT_ID, "X-Agent-Role": AGENT_ROLE}`
on both requests.

* fix(git): use ROBOCO_PUBLIC_BASE_URL for commit-trailer Links instead of hardcoded localhost

* fix(test_runner): call uv run pytest/ruff directly; add make to orchestrator Dockerfile as backstop

FileNotFoundError was propagating as a raw 500 when a project had `make test`
configured but make was not installed in the orchestrator container.

Two fixes:
1. Catch FileNotFoundError in _run_command and re-raise as ValidationError (400)
   with a clear message telling the operator to reconfigure the project command
   (e.g. replace 'make test' with 'uv run pytest').
2. Add `make` to the orchestrator Dockerfile runner-stage apt-get so projects
   that legitimately use make targets continue to work without reconfiguration.

* fix(api/git): resolve project by slug or UUID in git_log endpoint

Add _resolve_project_slug() helper to git routes that tries UUID
lookup first and falls back to slug, matching the pattern already
used in project routes. Apply to all four read-only git endpoints:
status, log, branches, diff.

* fix(a2a): auto-create conversation when conversation_id absent; reject empty IDs in URL builder

* fix(agent_sdk): default subagent model to parent agent's model from spawn manifest, not hardcoded haiku

Inject CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL env var into every agent container at
spawn time.  Claude Code ≥2.1.x reads this variable to override the
default Task (Agent) subagent model, which otherwise hard-codes
claude-haiku-4-5-20251001.  When the parent runs on a non-Anthropic
provider (e.g. Ollama Cloud / minimax-m2.7:cloud) that Anthropic model
is unreachable, so subagent dispatch fails.

The value follows the same provider-aware translation already used for
the --model CLI flag: Anthropic short names go through MODEL_MAP, and
non-Anthropic identifiers are passed verbatim.  To avoid calling the
class by name inside a @staticmethod, the shared translation logic is
extracted to the module-level _resolve_agent_cli_model() helper;
_resolve_cli_model() now delegates to it.

Verified: CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL is present and honoured in the
Claude Code 2.1.123 binary (grep confirmed the env-var lookup pattern
`if(process.env.CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL) return KK(…)`).

* chore(makefile): add quality and quality-fast targets composing every PR gate

* chore(quality): add import-linter dependency and gateway boundary contract

* test(property): scaffold tracing-completeness assertion (filled in Phase 4)

* Format test file to pass ruff check

* fix(gateway): drop Protocol scaffolding from choreographer skeleton; del-statements on unused stub args; clear vulture whitelist

* linting

* feat(gateway): Phase 1 dev cutover — ChoreographerDeps + give_me_work

Add ChoreographerDeps frozen dataclass (7 deps: task, work_session, git,
a2a, journal, audit, evidence_repo), refactor Choreographer.__init__ to
accept the bundle, implement give_me_work + _briefing_for via
evidence_builder.build_context_briefing, and add property accessors for
all deps. All Phase 2-4 stubs gain del-statements and still raise
NotImplementedError. 3 tests added and passing; mypy/ruff/vulture clean.

* feat(gateway): implement i_will_work_on handling pending, claimed, and needs_revision recovery

* feat(gateway): implement i_have_committed with plan-required precondition

Replaces the NotImplementedError stub with the real implementation: looks up
the agent's active task, enforces plan presence before recording, calls
task.add_progress, and returns a structured Envelope. Adds 3 unit tests
(records progress, no active task → invalid_state, no plan → tracing_gap).

* feat(gateway): implement i_am_done with smart catch-up and skill resolution

* feat(gateway): implement i_am_blocked (struggle + escalate) and i_am_idle (with unread soft-block)

* feat(gateway): add ContentActions for commit, note, say, dm, evidence with auto-inject and validation

* feat(api/v2): add /api/v2/flow/dev/* endpoints delegating to Choreographer

Six intent-verb endpoints (give_me_work, i_will_work_on, i_have_committed,
i_am_done, i_am_blocked, i_am_idle) under /api/v2/flow/dev/, each a thin
handler that delegates to Choreographer. Includes Pydantic request schemas,
EvidenceRepo Phase 1 stub (all methods return []), get_choreographer FastAPI
dep wired with all 7 service deps, and 8 unit tests (all passing).

* feat(api/v2): add /api/v2/do/* endpoints for commit, note, say, dm, evidence

* feat(mcp): add roboco-flow MCP server for intent verbs (Phase 1: dev verbs implemented)

* feat(mcp): add roboco-do MCP server for smart-wrapped content tools

* feat(runtime): mount per-agent tool-manifest.json on developer-container spawn; gateway flag enabled for devs only

* docs(prompts): rewrite developer role prompt for gateway-only verbs (~15 lines vs 49)

* chore(mcp): confirm dev manifest excludes legacy task/journal/notify/a2a tools (Phase 1 cutover; servers retired in Phase 4)

* feat(gateway): implement claim_review with inline evidence (kills #15) and qa_evidence_inspected tracking

* feat(gateway): implement pass_review with qa_notes/learning/evidence tracing gates

* feat(gateway): implement fail_review with issue list, tracing gates, and dev A2A handoff

* feat(api/v2): add /api/v2/flow/qa/* endpoints (claim_review, pass, fail, give_me_work, i_am_idle)

* feat(mcp): add QA verbs (claim_review, pass, fail) to roboco-flow MCP server

* docs(prompts): rewrite QA role prompt for gateway verbs; explicitly warn against grep-the-commit anti-pattern

* feat(runtime): enable gateway flag for QA-role spawns (Phase 2 cutover)

* feat(gateway): implement claim_doc_task and i_documented with file-list and notes-min-chars gates

* feat(gateway): implement triage (cell PM) and triage_all (main PM) with priority order

* feat(gateway): implement unblock with pre_block_state restoration (kills #23)

* feat(gateway): implement cell_pm_complete with auto-merge to parent branch (kills #22 for cell scope)

* feat(gateway): implement main_pm_complete (open master PR + escalate to CEO)

* feat(gateway): add complete() dispatcher routing to cell_pm_complete or main_pm_complete by role

* feat(gateway): implement escalate_up routing by role.escalation_target

* feat(api/v2): add /api/v2/flow/{documenter,cell_pm,main_pm}/* endpoints

* feat(mcp): add Doc + PM verbs to roboco-flow MCP server (claim_doc_task, i_documented, triage, triage_all, unblock, complete, escalate_up)

* docs(prompts): rewrite Doc, Cell PM, and Main PM role prompts for gateway verbs

* feat(runtime): enable gateway flag for Doc, Cell PM, and Main PM roles (Phase 3 cutover)

* test(integration): full pending->awaiting_ceo_approval test through dev/QA/doc/cell-PM/main-PM gateway path

* chore(tests): rename unused args to _args in flow_server tests

Cleared RUF059 lint blocker for Phase 3 closeout. The destructured args was only consumed in URL-asserting tests; one variant only checks kwargs["json"], so its args is now _args.

* chore: untrack docs/superpowers/ + add to .gitignore

Plans + spec were inadvertently swept into commits 5d41a4b and de0c5b5 by subagent 'git add -A' calls. Removed from index and gitignored going forward; files remain on disk for ongoing reference. They still exist in history of those two commits — invoke a follow-up filter-repo if a full purge is desired.

* feat(gateway): implement Board escalate_to_ceo with role allow-list

Allows main_pm, product_owner, and head_marketing to escalate tasks to
CEO. Enforces awaiting_pm_review state and journal:decision tracing gate.
Closes Phase 4 Task 1.

* feat(gateway): implement board_triage prioritizing strategic root tasks

Adds Choreographer.board_triage and TaskService.list_strategic_for_board.
PO and Head Marketing get curated lists of strategic-nature root tasks
in awaiting_pm_review. Closes Phase 4 Task 2.

* feat(gateway): implement auditor_triage surfacing long-running blocked-task anomalies

Adds Choreographer.auditor_triage and TaskService.list_long_running_blocked.
The Auditor surfaces tasks blocked >30min as anomalies for reflect-note
observation. Closes Phase 4 Task 3.

* chore(tests): add return + arg type annotations to gateway tests

All gateway test functions now have -> None and parameter annotations. Cleared 63 mypy [no-untyped-def] errors that pre-existed since Phase 1. Mypy now clean across tests/unit/gateway/.

* feat(api/v2): add /api/v2/flow/{board,auditor}/* endpoints

Board: triage, escalate_to_ceo, i_am_idle.
Auditor: triage, i_am_idle (read-only role).
Adds EscalateToCeoRequest schema with reason min_length validation.
Closes Phase 4 Task 4.

* feat(mcp): add Board + Auditor verbs to roboco-flow MCP server

Adds escalate_to_ceo MCP tool used by Board (PO + Head Marketing) and Main PM. Updates the implemented set in _validate_role_compatibility. Auditor uses the existing triage tool with role-routing in URL.

Closes Phase 4 Task 5.

* docs(prompts): rewrite Board (PO, Head-Marketing, Auditor) prompts for gateway verbs

All 3 board identity files + roles/board.md now use the slim, gateway-aware shape (no ToolSearch directive, no state-tool table). Auditor is explicit about its read-only scope. Closes Phase 4 Task 6.

* feat(runtime): enable gateway manifest for ALL roles (Phase 4 cutover)

Adds product_owner, head_marketing, auditor to GATEWAY_ENABLED_ROLES. Every spawned agent now gets a gateway manifest mounted at /app/tool-manifest.json. The legacy briefing path is dead. Closes Phase 4 Task 8.

* test(property): implement tracing-completeness assertion across smoke-test batch

Replaces Phase 0 stub. Asserts the 6 tracing-contract requirements on every
completed task: audit_log agent_id non-null per state-transition row,
DEVELOPER:TASK_REFLECTION journal entry, QA:LEARNING journal entry,
CELL_PM/MAIN_PM:DECISION_LOG journal entry, acceptance_criteria_status
covering every criterion with a referencing_artifact_id, and
qa_evidence_inspected = true.

Uses an in-memory ephemeral Postgres test DB (`roboco_test_<pid>_<rand>`)
provisioned per pytest session, not SQLite — the production schema relies
on Postgres-only types (UUID, ARRAY) the SQLite dialect cannot compile.
Tests requesting db_session/smoke_test_batch are auto-skipped when no
Postgres is reachable on localhost:5432; ROBOCO_TEST_DB_HOST/PORT/USER
override the endpoint.

Schema is built via Base.metadata.create_all + manual ALTER for the
acceptance_criteria_status / qa_evidence_inspected columns, NOT via
`alembic upgrade head`. This sidesteps two pre-existing layer-drift items
that block any fresh migration run today:

  1. Migration 001 declares the agentrole Postgres enum with lowercase
     values (qa, developer, ...) but the SQLAlchemy ORM binds
     Enum(AgentRole) to the StrEnum's uppercase NAMES — production DBs
     mask this by being bootstrapped via create_all and stamped at 001.
  2. Migration 008 runs UPDATE agents SET skills WHERE id over an
     agents.skills column that no migration in this chain ever creates.

Documented in conftest.py so a future migrations cleanup can find them.
Also notes that acceptance_criteria_status/qa_evidence_inspected are in
the DB schema (per migration 006) but are NOT mapped on the ORM TaskTable
nor on the Pydantic Task model — services that read them via
`task.qa_evidence_inspected` rely on those values being set on raw rows.
The property test uses raw SQL to read the columns directly, matching the
DB-level contract.

Closes Phase 4 Task 11.

Side change: pyproject.toml — adds asyncpg.* to the existing
[[tool.mypy.overrides]] ignore_missing_imports list (asyncpg ships no
py.typed marker), matching the convention used for redis, anthropic,
piragi, etc.

Test count: 1; backend: Postgres (localhost test DB).

* style(mcp/flow_server): single-line _post call after format pass

* fix(db): map 7 gateway columns from migration 006 to TaskTable + Task model

active_claimant_id, last_heartbeat_at, pre_block_state, pre_block_assignee, pre_block_metadata, acceptance_criteria_status, qa_evidence_inspected: present in DB since migration 006 but absent from the ORM mapping. Gateway code (tracing_gate, choreographer, claimant_lock) reads these via task.<attr>; without the mapping, runtime would AttributeError. Closes PHASE4-BUG-A.

* fix(db): repair alembic chain — neutralize 008, add 009 enum reconcile, ORM uses values_callable

Three coordinated changes that close PHASE4-BUG-B:

1. roboco/db/tables.py — introduce _str_enum() helper that wraps Enum() with values_callable=lambda obj: [m.value for m in obj]. Apply to all 23 StrEnum-typed mapped columns. ORM now serializes by .value (lowercase) to match alembic 001's declared enum values; default Enum() was using .name (uppercase) which never matched.

2. alembic/versions/008_align_skills.py — replace with documented no-op. The original migration referenced agents.skills, a column that has never existed in any migration (the agents table has capabilities, not skills). The substitution intent (qa_review -> code_review) was already satisfied statically in roboco/agents_config.py.

3. alembic/versions/009_enum_reconcile.py — new migration that:
   - Adds missing enum values: agentrole.system, team.fullstack, taskstatus.quarantined.
   - Detects uppercase drift from a Base.metadata.create_all bootstrap and rebuilds agentrole/team/taskstatus enums with lowercase members + USING lower(col::text)::enum on every column referenced. No-op if already lowercase.

Tests stay green: 281 passed.

* feat(services): backfill 36 gateway-shaped methods for Choreographer

The gateway Choreographer was wired to call methods that the underlying
services did not expose. This adds them as thin wrappers + queries (most
alias canonical methods; a handful are gateway-specific variants).

TaskService — 26 methods: aliases (submit_verification, submit_qa,
list_blocked_for_team, list_blocked_all_teams,
list_awaiting_pm_review_for_team, list_assigned_for_agent), agent
queries (agent_for, qa_agent_for_team, documenter_for_team,
cell_pm_for_team, get_active_task_for_agent, list_paused_for_agent),
triage queries (list_awaiting_main_pm_all, all_subtasks_terminal),
state setters (set_plan, mark_evidence_inspected, mark_agent_idle),
QA/Doc claim variants (qa_claim, doc_claim, qa_pass, qa_fail),
PM completion (cell_pm_complete with merge_commit), unblock with
state restore (unblock_with_restore), and escalation
(escalate, escalate_up_to_role). Also adds GatewayAgentView
dataclass that unifies DB and config-derived agent attributes.

JournalService — 4 methods: existence checks (has_decision_for_task,
has_learning_for_task, has_reflect_for_task) + write_struggle.

GitService — 4 methods: branch-keyed entry points (create_pr,
pr_merge, pr_target, diff) plus push_branch helper. Each derives
project + workspace from the task that owns the branch / PR.

WorkSessionService — 2 methods: files_changed + has_unpushed_commits.
PR existence is the proxy for pushed (no per-commit push column).

Choreographer: switched git.push(branch_name) call to push_branch()
to dispatch to the new gateway-shaped helper.

* test(services): unit tests for 36 gateway-backfill methods

Adds happy-path + edge tests for every method added in the prior
backfill commit. Total 61 new tests across:
  - tests/unit/services/test_task.py (36)
  - tests/unit/services/test_journal.py (8)
  - tests/unit/services/test_git.py (10)
  - tests/unit/services/test_work_session.py (7)

Each test mocks at the session boundary (no DB) and stubs adjacent
service methods via a dynamic _bind helper to avoid mypy
[method-assign] noise without resorting to type:ignore comments.

* test(gateway): switch dev catch-up assertion to push_branch

The Choreographer's catch-up sequence was renamed from git.push(branch)
to git.push_branch(branch) when GitService got a gateway-shaped helper
in the prior commit. This updates the existing assertion to match.

* feat(mcp): add roboco-git-readonly server with status/log/diff/branches

Slim FastMCP server exposing the four read-only git tools every role
needs (status, log, diff, branch_list) by forwarding to /api/v1/git/*
on the orchestrator. Replaces the read-only half of the legacy
roboco-git server; write operations now go through gateway verbs in
roboco-flow / roboco-do.

The endpoint shapes mirror the panel-facing API (project_slug,
include_remote, staged/file_path) so the same backend handlers serve
both human and agent traffic.

* refactor(mcp): delete legacy task/journal/notify/a2a/message/project servers

Phase 4 cutover: agents now reach every state-changing surface through
the gateway (roboco-flow intent verbs + roboco-do content tools), with
roboco-git-readonly + roboco-optimal + roboco-docs covering reads. The
seven legacy MCP servers + their handler trees are dead code from the
agent side, so they're removed:

  roboco/mcp/task_server.py            (1020 LOC)
  roboco/mcp/journal_server.py         (512 LOC)
  roboco/mcp/notify_server.py          (440 LOC)
  roboco/mcp/a2a_server.py             (790 LOC)
  roboco/mcp/message_server.py         (682 LOC)
  roboco/mcp/project_server.py         (667 LOC)
  roboco/mcp/tasks/  (handlers+utils)  (~4300 LOC)
  roboco/mcp/test/   (in-container runner; replaced by gateway evidence
                      + manual smoke)
  roboco/mcp/git/    (full server; read-only half migrates to the new
                      slim roboco-git-readonly module, write half is
                      owned by gateway verbs)

Orchestrator updates:
  - _generate_mcp_config registers only roboco-flow, roboco-do,
    roboco-git-readonly, roboco-optimal, and (for docs roles) roboco-docs.
    No more per-role legacy fan-out.
  - base_allow flips to mcp__roboco-flow__*, mcp__roboco-do__*,
    mcp__roboco-optimal__*, mcp__roboco-git-readonly__*. Role-specific
    allow lists are reduced to file IO scoping, since gateway verbs
    enforce role policy server-side.
  - TRACEABILITY_TRIGGER_TOOLS rewritten in terms of the gateway servers
    (mcp__roboco-flow__* / mcp__roboco-do__*) instead of the now-deleted
    per-tool list.

Test fix: tests/unit/services/test_a2a.py imported _handle_send_chat_message
from the deleted a2a_server. The four MCP-layer URL-builder tests (empty
conversation_id guard) are dropped — the equivalent boundary now lives
in /api/v2/do/* which has its own integration coverage. The two
service-layer nil-UUID guard tests are kept; they exercise A2AService
directly and remain meaningful (the panel still uses the v1 chat surface,
where a buggy caller could pass the nil UUID).

Net: ~9600 LOC removed from roboco/mcp/. quality-fast green:
338 tests pass, mypy clean, ruff clean. No /api/v1/* router changes —
those endpoints stay live for the panel UI which still uses every
lifecycle action; agents have no prompts that name them so the path is
dead code from the agent side.

* docs(claude.md): replace legacy MCP listing with gateway/verb-surface section

Phase 4 cutover: agents go through roboco-flow + roboco-do (gateway), not the deleted task/journal/notify/a2a/message/project servers. Document the verb surface per role + the Envelope response shape so future Claude Code sessions land in the correct mental model. Closes Phase 4 Task 13.

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Co-authored-by: Renn F <rennf93@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-05-02 03:11:49 +02:00