make quality runs 'mypy roboco/ tests/'; the new PM-needs_revision claim test passed a SimpleNamespace where _get_valid_claim_statuses expects AgentTable | None, failing the type gate. The helper only reads agent.role, so cast the lightweight stand-in to AgentTable (no DB row, no type: ignore).
The lifecycle spec (CLAIM_RULES) grants CELL_PM/MAIN_PM claim of NEEDS_REVISION so a rejected coordination root (pr_fail / qa_fail / ceo_reject) can be re-claimed via i_will_plan and re-delegated. The runtime mapping _ROLE_CLAIM_STATUSES omitted it for PMs, so the spec gate allowed i_will_plan on a needs_revision root while the composed claim() rejected it -> returned None -> INVALID_STATE: the PM could neither plan nor idle its own rejected root and respawn-looped (observed live on cell root 0e49e04e, ~143 INVALID_STATE rejections across 11 PM sessions; the tail of the 2026-06-24/25 run).
Add NEEDS_REVISION to the cell_pm/main_pm runtime claim statuses, and a parity test locking _ROLE_CLAIM_STATUSES to lifecycle.CLAIM_RULES so the two can't drift again.
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