docs(memory): record the write-gate deadlock and the two stores behind it - #984
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In @.serena/memories/workflow/landing-loop.md:
- Around line 241-242: Revise the deadlock rule in the guidance around the red
verify condition so it applies only when the plan is terminal and the failed
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| **A red `verify` at HEAD with the marker set is a genuine deadlock, and the exit | ||
| is to move HEAD, not to route around the gate.** Measured 2026-09-18: a landed |
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Limit the deadlock rule to gated verification failures.
A pending or in_progress plan can make verify red while batten record plan remains reachable. Recording the plan as deleted is the documented exit because deleted is terminal. Therefore, a red verify at HEAD with unlanded-nudged set is not always a deadlock requiring git reset --soft.
Qualify the rule for cases where the plan is terminal and the verification failure requires a mediated write that the gate blocks. This prevents an unnecessary history reset and force push.
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In @.serena/memories/workflow/landing-loop.md around lines 241 - 242, Revise the
deadlock rule in the guidance around the red verify condition so it applies only
when the plan is terminal and the failed verification requires a mediated write
blocked by the gate. Preserve the documented path for pending or in_progress
plans: keep batten record plan reachable and allow recording the plan as deleted
instead of requiring git reset --soft or a force push.
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In `@crates/batten/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 18417-18435: Update apply_admissions so the HEAD^2 fallback runs
only when the checkout is explicitly identified as a forge-generated
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| //MUTANT-SUITE crates/batten/tests/it/admission.rs | ||
| //MUTANT merge-parent-arm-removed|s@^ if admitted.is_none() {$@ if false {@|a_spent_block_on_a_merge_refs_second_parent_admits | ||
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Restrict HEAD^2 admission to forge-generated pull-request merge refs. apply_admissions is on the shared check/enforce path and has no ref or event check before reading HEAD^2. The merge_ref_over fixture creates an ordinary local git merge --no-ff commit, puts the block only on its second parent, and runs check; the finding is then admitted. This accepts a parent’s admission for a different HEAD, violating the one-finding-at-one-HEAD contract and allowing the matching finding to be suppressed on ordinary merge commits. Do not read HEAD^2 unless the checkout is explicitly identified as a forge-generated pull-request merge ref.
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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
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In `@crates/batten/src/lib.rs` around lines 18417 - 18435, Update apply_admissions
so the HEAD^2 fallback runs only when the checkout is explicitly identified as a
forge-generated pull-request merge ref; otherwise skip the merged_head_message
and admission::admitted_by_block lookup for the second parent. Preserve the
existing admission behavior for eligible pull-request merge refs and the normal
HEAD path.
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…d it Three mechanics cost this session a lap each and none was written down. `plan cover partial` is tree-scoped, so an in-flight plan entry reds every `batten-check`, so `verify` writes no receipt, so `turn mint ahead` refuses every write. `deleted` via `batten record plan` is the gate's own free exit and stays reachable while the write gate holds. A red `verify` at HEAD with the marker set is a real deadlock rather than a gate to argue with: the fix for the red needs a write, and the write needs a receipt only that fix can earn. Push first, then `git reset --soft` to a commit that already carries a green `verify.<sha>`, and land the fix in that window. The leased push back must name the sha it replaces. `refusal::first_sighting` keys its store under `$GIT_DIR`, so a fixture without its own repository shares the enclosing one's sighting history and a cold state root controls nothing — the escape that produced three wrong diagnoses, none reproduced before it was reported and one filed as an Urgent row. The habit that would have caught all three is recorded with them: a control must control the thing the code actually reads. Refs: CLOUD-1832 Admits: 52dffcba4f7ef088b67580831adfff9ebfd9bdf9f8250e013e925cd31ee0f4b8 Admits-rule: diff ship early Admits-verdict: diff ship early Admits-subject: 1 Admits-anchor: finding:16d69d6efc2185c0f225a253dc19dc0f9328129fcb11b39debac4e2e717015f9 Admits-epoch: 029db61c16cce0154ee41d197dfe84232cb86df4038b28763326eb0a822be5f2 Admits-author: alec@wenzowski.com Admits-prev: 47a19db059f65de2feac7b648ed213b79ff615846ce848f7040efcad469c7685 Admits-answer-lost: The three traps exist only in one session's chat and die with this container. Each already cost a wasted lap; the first was escalated to a human as an override request because the rule was not written down, and the third produced three wrong diagnoses, one filed as an Urgent row that then needed a correction. Not landing it means the next session pays them again. Admits-answer-precondition: The prose IS the deliverable: this commit's only content is `.serena/memories/workflow/landing-loop.md`, recording three landing-loop traps this session paid a lap each for — the plan-store deadlock, the HEAD-keyed receipt window, and the $GIT_DIR-keyed sightings store. There is no code change it describes, so there is nothing for it to ride. Admits-answer-rejected-route: task run first — let the next change to these files carry the prose. It does not apply because nothing scheduled touches `.serena/memories/workflow/landing-loop.md`; the memory is read on demand and a change to it is always prose-only by construction, so waiting is waiting for a code change that will never come. PR #955 is the precedent: the same shape, landed as its own PR.
…ere CI looks CLOUD-1674 put the `Admits:` block in the commit message so a runner could honour an admission the spending host's store knows nothing about, ending "exit 0 here, exit 2 in CI, one commit". On the surface it was written for, it never fired. `apply_admissions` reads the block from HEAD, on the premise that HEAD is the commit carrying the admitted change. On a `pull_request` run it is not: `actions/checkout` checks out the pull request's merge ref, which this repository's own workflow already records at `.github/workflows/ci.yml:252` for another gate that had to be taught the same thing. The runner's HEAD is therefore a commit the forge synthesised, whose message is `Merge <head> into <base>` and which structurally cannot carry a block. Measured on this branch, one prose-only commit carrying a spent `diff ship early` admission: local `batten-check` printed `admitted 1 diff ship early 52dffcba...` and exited 0; CI's `batten-check` on the identical sha printed `1 diff ship early` and exited 2. `refs/pull/984/merge` resolves to `Merge ce35d7b into 128ca4b`, with no `Admits` line. The epoch is not the cause — `config epoch`, `--config-from HEAD` and `--config-from origin/main` all answer the value the block binds. `HEAD^2` and not a range walk, which `admitted_by_block`'s own doc rejects for a reason that still holds: a walk would let an old block admit a later finding sharing its fingerprint. A merge's second parent is one commit, and on a forge-minted merge ref it is exactly the branch head `land` replays. The anti-vacuity arm is the load-bearing one: a merge whose second parent carries no block must still refuse, or "look one commit further" has become "stop asking". Shown able to fail — with the new arm mutated to `if false`, `a_spent_block_on_a_merge_refs_second_parent_admits` reds and the empty-block case stays green. Closes CLOUD-1854 Refs: CLOUD-1674
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`land`'s stop names two ways off a speculative tree, and `mem:workflow/landing-loop` repeated both without saying that one of them does not work. The reset is refused whenever the replay rewrote the borrowed commits — which on a speculative lap is always, since the rewritten copies exist in no other clone and `history-drop` reads the reset as discarding work. Measured 2026-09-19 on a tree carrying 41 commits borrowed from another branch: the reset refused, a `history drop unpushed` admission requested, answered and spent twice — once against the commit sha, once against the subject the refusal line itself prints — and the reset refused unchanged after each. `git rebase --onto origin/main <borrowed>` went through on the first try. The commit the guard was protecting had a patch-id identical to one already pushed, so it was protecting a duplicate. Why the spend did not apply is not established here, and the memory does not guess: CLOUD-1871 carries the measurement and names the read that settles it. Refs: CLOUD-1871 Admits: a81404ef2c2acf8a58f310350c94b43d08687ab7e7ed829312e2394931d81184 Admits-rule: diff ship early Admits-verdict: diff ship early Admits-subject: 1 Admits-anchor: finding:16d69d6efc2185c0f225a253dc19dc0f9328129fcb11b39debac4e2e717015f9 Admits-epoch: 62d706090f665d9f1d2ff1ae59b8ff2cdb153dd2263ba5f5220bf2ad3f987116 Admits-author: alec@wenzowski.com Admits-prev: 52dffcba4f7ef088b67580831adfff9ebfd9bdf9f8250e013e925cd31ee0f4b8 Admits-answer-lost: The memory keeps telling the next session to take a route that does not work, and the working one (`git rebase --onto origin/main <borrowed>`) stays undocumented. This session paid a full landing loop discovering it, and CLOUD-1871 — filed for the underlying gap — is a pointer nobody reads at the moment they need it, because the memory is what a session on a speculative tree actually opens. Admits-answer-precondition: The prose IS the deliverable: this commit's only content is `.serena/memories/workflow/landing-loop.md`, correcting a remedy the memory itself prescribes and that the guard refuses — `git reset --hard origin/<branch>` off a speculative lap, measured refused on 2026-09-19 with two spent admissions that did not open it. There is no code change it describes, so there is nothing for it to ride. Admits-answer-rejected-route: task run first — let the next change to these files carry the prose. It does not apply because nothing scheduled touches `.serena/memories/workflow/landing-loop.md`; a change to a memory is prose-only by construction, so waiting is waiting for a code change that will never come. PR #955 and this session's own #984 are the precedent: the same shape, landed as their own PRs.
`land`'s stop names two ways off a speculative tree, and `mem:workflow/landing-loop` repeated both without saying that one of them does not work. The reset is refused whenever the replay rewrote the borrowed commits — which on a speculative lap is always, since the rewritten copies exist in no other clone and `history-drop` reads the reset as discarding work. Measured 2026-09-19 on a tree carrying 41 commits borrowed from another branch: the reset refused, a `history drop unpushed` admission requested, answered and spent twice — once against the commit sha, once against the subject the refusal line itself prints — and the reset refused unchanged after each. `git rebase --onto origin/main <borrowed>` went through on the first try. The commit the guard was protecting had a patch-id identical to one already pushed, so it was protecting a duplicate. Why the spend did not apply is not established here, and the memory does not guess: CLOUD-1871 carries the measurement and names the read that settles it. Refs: CLOUD-1871 Admits: a81404ef2c2acf8a58f310350c94b43d08687ab7e7ed829312e2394931d81184 Admits-rule: diff ship early Admits-verdict: diff ship early Admits-subject: 1 Admits-anchor: finding:16d69d6efc2185c0f225a253dc19dc0f9328129fcb11b39debac4e2e717015f9 Admits-epoch: 62d706090f665d9f1d2ff1ae59b8ff2cdb153dd2263ba5f5220bf2ad3f987116 Admits-author: alec@wenzowski.com Admits-prev: 52dffcba4f7ef088b67580831adfff9ebfd9bdf9f8250e013e925cd31ee0f4b8 Admits-answer-lost: The memory keeps telling the next session to take a route that does not work, and the working one (`git rebase --onto origin/main <borrowed>`) stays undocumented. This session paid a full landing loop discovering it, and CLOUD-1871 — filed for the underlying gap — is a pointer nobody reads at the moment they need it, because the memory is what a session on a speculative tree actually opens. Admits-answer-precondition: The prose IS the deliverable: this commit's only content is `.serena/memories/workflow/landing-loop.md`, correcting a remedy the memory itself prescribes and that the guard refuses — `git reset --hard origin/<branch>` off a speculative lap, measured refused on 2026-09-19 with two spent admissions that did not open it. There is no code change it describes, so there is nothing for it to ride. Admits-answer-rejected-route: task run first — let the next change to these files carry the prose. It does not apply because nothing scheduled touches `.serena/memories/workflow/landing-loop.md`; a change to a memory is prose-only by construction, so waiting is waiting for a code change that will never come. PR #955 and this session's own #984 are the precedent: the same shape, landed as their own PRs.
Two commits: a memory, and the defect that memory's own landing uncovered.
ce35d7b9— the memorymem:workflow/landing-loopgains two sections recording three traps this session paid a lap each for.plan cover partialis tree-scoped, so an in-flight plan entry reds everybatten-check, soverifywrites no receipt, soturn mint aheadrefuses every write — withdeletedviabatten record planas the gate's own free exit, reachable while the write gate holds. A redverifyat HEAD with the marker set is a genuine deadlock (the fix for the red needs a write; the write needs a receipt only that fix can earn); the exit is to push, thengit reset --softto a commit that already carries a greenverify.<sha>.refusal::first_sightingkeys its store under$GIT_DIR, so a fixture without its own repository shares the enclosing one's history and a cold state root controls nothing.162ffdba— anAdmits:block ridesHEAD^2, where CI looksThat commit is prose-only, so
diff ship earlyrefused it — correctly. The override was requested, answered and spent, and the block went into the commit message, which is CLOUD-1674's whole mechanism for "exit 0 here, exit 2 in CI, one commit". It passed locally and failed in CI on the identical sha.apply_admissionsreads the block from HEAD, on the premise that HEAD is the commit carrying the admitted change. On apull_requestrun it is not: a forge checking the pull request out by its merge ref hands the runner a commit it synthesised — parents(base, head), messageMerge <head> into <base>— which structurally cannot carry a block.refs/pull/984/mergeresolved toMerge ce35d7b9 into 128ca4b2, with noAdmitsline. The epoch is not the cause:config epoch,--config-from HEADand--config-from origin/mainall answer the value the block binds.The fix reads
HEAD^2when HEAD's own message admits nothing and HEAD is a merge. Not a range walk —admitted_by_block's doc rejects one for a reason that still holds (an old block admitting a later finding that shares its fingerprint), and a merge's second parent is one commit: exactly the branch headlandreplays.Two cases in
crates/batten/tests/it/admission.rs. The anti-vacuity one is load-bearing: a merge whose second parent carries no block must still refuse, or "look one commit further" has become "stop asking". Shown able to fail — with the new arm mutated toif false,a_spent_block_on_a_merge_refs_second_parent_admitsreds and the empty-block case stays green.The first draft of that comment cited the consumer workflow path it was measured on;
no_artifact_name_reaches_the_corerefused it, correctly, and the comment now names the mechanism rather than a consumer's file (non-negotiable rule 1).Rows
Closes CLOUD-1854
CLOUD-1674 is the row this extends — its block mechanism is right and was simply never reached on the surface it was written for, so the row is served here, not completed.
DO-NOT-CLOSE CLOUD-1674
CLOUD-1832 was closed by #978, which landed the fix these traps were met while making.
DO-NOT-CLOSE CLOUD-1832
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