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timothyandClaude Fable 5.1	a7d91bf15a	fix(876): sweep session narrative out of hooks, workflows, scripts, tests and code comments; grow the detector to the process corpus ... `docs.no-session-narrative` reaches every durable artifact, but its detector scanned only `docs/**/*.md` and root markdown, and nothing had ever swept the rest. The issue named four sites from one grep and called them a floor. Deriving the population instead — a whitespace-joined sweep over every tracked file outside the detector, for the detector's own phrasings plus the attribution and review-round class #812 found — gave 453 sites in 108 files at `fb5592971`, and a second pass for phrasings the first list missed (hyphenated `round-N`, "an earlier version", "the reviewer proved") added residuals in the same files. Every site was classified with #812's three dispositions (CUT / SEVER / KEEP with its sub-kind) under the who-benefits test; the per-site manifests are on the PR. The rejected designs, tested-and-rejected fixtures, measurements and traps stay; the attribution of who found them and the round in which they were found go. The detector's population grows to `.claude/`, `.gitea/`, `.husky/` and `scripts/` regardless of extension, minus the detector and its own test (whose fixtures ARE the phrasings) and minus `scripts/tests/fixtures/` (test data, including decision-record copies — the same reasoning as the records' own exemption, and what keeps the record's depth measurement true), and `--all` lists tracked REGULAR files only — a symlink's content is its target and a gitlink has none. The #812 argument for leaving `docs/superpowers/**` in the population runs the other way here: `--diff` sees only ADDED lines, and 287 of the 453 sites were under 30 days old — this corpus is where narrative is being added, so the advisory nudge has reach. Density agrees: 56 line-mode hits over the 113 regular files the predicate admits, against 9 over 66 docs files before #812. `web/` and C# stay out on the same measurement (3 of 74 PATTERNS-matching sites, ~4,600 files). The predicate did not grow: PATTERNS matched 74 of 453 sites, and widening the word list to the attribution class is the treadmill the withdrawn parity test ran on. The population oracle is restated over segments with the new arms, the synthetic cross product gains the process heads and non-markdown extensions, a fixture witnesses that a tracked symlink is neither scanned nor counted, a `.py.bak` axis separates a by-name exemption from a `startswith` over the same tuple, and eight mutants (drop the process arm, drop the by-name exemption, exempt by `startswith`, drop or add a prefix, drop the fixtures exemption, list only markdown, drop the symlink filter, test the mode per row instead of per path) each redden it. A pre-existing silent drop in `--diff` goes with it: git tab-terminates a `+++` filename that contains a space, and the kept tab made `is_scanned_path` refuse the file with no notice — fixed, with a positive control and its own mutant. Code is unchanged by construction, measured per file type against `origin/main`: Python modules are AST-equal with docstrings stripped, except `#` lines inside the embedded fixture programs (string literals) of three test modules; workflows differ only in `#` lines inside `run:` block scalars; shell, C#, TypeScript and jq are equal with comment lines stripped. The stated exceptions: the detector and its test, 26 vitest titles that carried review-round or severity labels or a reviewer attribution (call sites whose title changed — every changed title line walked back to its `it(` / `it.each(...)(` anchor, so a `' + '` concatenation counts once), two registry note strings and the mutation manifest's prose fields. scripts/tests: 1565 passed. Web: lint, typecheck, 1319 tests green. Closes #876. Decisions-Edit: yes Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PEcBoFw7ctrf3Nb7R7x7wk	2026-09-03 20:51:39 +02:00
3 people	5d955000f3	fix(845): the verdict writer checks that the gate will honour what it just posted (#889) ... `review-verdict.yml` inherits an existing `review-verdict/h10=success` only from a status whose `.creator.login` is on its `H10_REVIEWERS` allow-list (#742). `post-review-verdict.sh` wrote those verdicts with whatever account owned the credential in the environment and never asked whose it was. Two coupled values, nothing asserting the coupling, and the failure was the silent kind: the status is written, the tool reports success, and the next `pull_request_target` event re-derives it and posts over it. The PR stalls with no visible cause. The writer now READS ITS OWN STATUS BACK, identifies that write by state and description, and refuses — before the verdict comment, so the surviving half-state is the documented `ask` one — unless the recorded creator is allow-listed. Measured after the write rather than probed before it: that tests what Gitea recorded as the author, which is the value the gate reads, and needs no scope beyond the repo access the POST already required. Membership is required for a `success` ONLY, mirroring the gate's own asymmetry: a `failure` is inherited from any attributable account, so requiring it there would refuse a verdict the gate honours and leave an off-list reviewer no supported way to record a rejection. The allow-list is DERIVED from the gate's own literal by the new `scripts/lib/h10-reviewers.sh` — one declaration, not two plus a parity test. It is a parse rather than a shared declaration both sides source because the gate runs against a checkout of the PR's BASE sha: a PR whose base predates such a file would not have it, and a missing `source` under `set -euo pipefail` kills the job, which posts no `review-verdict/h10` at all and blocks every merge including its own repair (#743). `scripts/post-review-verdict.sh` moves BEHAVIOUR-ONLY -> MUTATION in the guard inventory, which the manifest's own note called "the most valuable upgrade on this list". The declared clause lives in the GATE: rewriting `H10_REVIEWERS` while the posting account stays fixed reddens the accept path only if the writer reads the list live AND the comparison gates the outcome. Two defects were caught by probing the live instance rather than re-reading the code. Reading `.state` instead of `.status` per row would have refused EVERY verdict — a repo-wide deadlock, shipped green, because the test shim replayed the POST payload as the read-back body and so agreed with the parser by construction. Then a `(.status // .state)` fallback added as defensiveness recreated #845 exactly: the writer would accept a shape the gate cannot read and report success. Nine independent cold review rounds, all worktree-isolated, one cross-family (GPT-5.6 via Codex). Round 8 caught the most important one: a `set -u` "correction" made mid-branch had inverted a TRUE statement in live merge-gate code, because the probe used a plain `$UNSET` while the validator uses `${#arr[@]}` — different shapes, different behaviour. Withdrawn wholesale; both libraries are byte-identical to `main` again. Verification: full `scripts/tests` suite green (1278 passed, 2 skipped); the declared mutation executes every run and reddens its named proof with the manifest's `expect` string; every clause disarmed individually and confirmed to redden its own named test; live probes against Gitea 1.27.1 for the row shape, the description round-trip, the paging order and the required-check list. Docs: `ci.exemption-provenance` records the coupling as asserted rather than as a tracked residual, plus `docs/ci-cd.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, `docs/guard-inventory.md`, `docs/remote-state-inventory.md`, `ci.script-tests-job` and the `script-tests` population comment in `pr-checks.yml`. Deferred: the refused-verdict residual (a non-inheritable status left standing with no comment) is the `ask` half-state `release.verdict-writes-status-before-comment` designates as safe; a second corrective write is the sticky-sentinel mechanism #849 is separately designing. fixes #845 Decisions-Edit: yes Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Timothy <timothy@noreply.gitea.tblindustries.be>	2026-08-30 02:43:08 +00:00
timothy	0cf355e494	fix(772,792): address both cold reviews — an unverified pin is no longer a green job ... Two independent reviewers (one cross-family) converged on the same defect, and it was the important one: the preflight WARNED and exited 0 on every answer that was not 200 or 404, so a missing `curl`, a moved registry or a DNS change would have left it green forever — "the check could not run" presenting as "the pin is fine", in a script whose own header disclaimed exactly that. Unknown answers are now retried (3x, 5s) and then FAIL, with wording kept distinct from the deleted case because the two send an operator to different places. Also from the reviews: * An absent secret does not arrive as an unset variable. `${{ secrets.X }}:${{ secrets.Y }}` interpolates to ":", a perfectly non-empty and perfectly useless credential, and the tests covered only the unset shape. Both halves are now required, and the parametrised test drives the production shape. * HTTP 200 is not a manifest. A proxy or a login page answers 200 too, so the body is fetched and matched for `schemaVersion` (a shell `case`, so no jq dependency and no pipeline that can inject). * The curl stub ignored `-u` and answered 200 regardless, so deleting the real `-u` would have left the suite green while the live registry rejected every request. It now 401s an unauthenticated read, as the registry does. * The mutation's declared diagnostic changed with the script: now that unknown fails too, the exit code no longer separates "deleted" from "could not check", so the proof turns on the message and `expect` says so. * docs/ci-cd.md: `scan` is no longer the only `docker-build.yml` job on the small lane, so the tag-push exclusivity claim and the lane membership were both false. Fixed. * "Immutable" was overstated: `ci-image.yml` tags `rev-parse --short HEAD`, so a dispatch or a weekly no-cache run at the same HEAD republishes that tag from a rebuilt image. Stated, along with what the rebuild recovery does NOT restore (mutable bases and apt, so equivalent rather than bit-identical). * The recovery recipe left you in a worktree checked out at the pin commit — where the verify script does not exist, and where the workflow carries the pre-bump pin. It now keeps `$repo`, returns, and removes the worktree. It also needed BuildKit's `http = true` caveat: the container driver does not inherit the daemon's insecure-registries. * The root cause carries its evidentiary limit and its reproduction commands, and says what to conclude if a pin vanishes after server-management#842 lands (refuted, not re-applied). * The `ci.required-job-step-execution-markers` carve-out named one container-free job; there are two now, and the membership is what rots. * The decision record's `''` YAML escapes leaked into rendered prose; "status, no comment -> ask" is qualified (a prior positive verdict for the SAME head still satisfies condition (c)); "exits 1" is "exits non-zero" (usage exits 2, jq its own status, signals 128+n). refs #772 refs #792 Decisions-Edit: yes	2026-08-22 23:25:26 +02:00
timothy	5ba442c11c	fix(772,792): name the missing toolchain image, and stop a refusal leaving a verdict comment ... #772 — the pinned CI toolchain image can be deleted out from under us, and when it was (2026-08-11..13) all five `container:` jobs died at image pull, both required contexts included, with the cause buried in each job's log. Root cause is registry-side and is now established rather than guessed: an owner-level Gitea package cleanup rule (keep_count 15, remove_days 1, remove_pattern `.*`, keep_pattern no 7-hex sha can match) deletes a sha tag once 15 newer versions exist, and `ExecuteCleanupRules` ran nightly through the window. The `ersatztv` package carries the same rule's fingerprint exactly — every sha tag older than the 15-slot window is gone, every keep_pattern tag back to 26.3.1 survives. Version deletes leave no audit row, so the specific run cannot be replayed; that limit is stated where the claim is made. The durable fix belongs to the registry's repo: server-management#842. What lands here is what a consumer of someone else's registry can do: * `toolchain-preflight`, a container-free job (a job consuming the image could not run to report it missing) resolving every pin against the registry and failing with a message that names the tag and the recovery. Not a `needs:` of the jobs it diagnoses — gating five jobs behind a checkout and one curl taxes every green run to speed up a rare red one, and they already fail fast. * Only HTTP 404 means gone. Everything else is could-not-tell, and rejected credentials fail rather than pass as unknown — "the check could not run" must never present as "the pin is fine". * A recovery path that does not need CI: rebuild the SAME tag from the commit it names and push it. The push half was verified against this registry on 2026-08-22 with a throwaway package (created, resolved 200, deleted). #792 — the reported defect was the exit code, and re-measuring says that premise is false: every no-status path already exits 1, and eight refusal modes now assert it against the real predecessor, where they pass. The observed 0 came from the invocation, not the script. What WAS broken is the half-state the issue describes second: the comment was written before the status, so every refusal left `Review-verdict: MERGEABLE @ <head>` on a PR with no gating status behind it. The two writes are now ordered status-then-comment, which makes the only reachable half-state the safe one — a status with no comment leaves the merge hook's condition (c) with nothing to classify, which is an `ask`. The refusals themselves are untouched. Ordering rather than compensating deletion: an orphaned-comment cleanup needs a Gitea call, and these refusals are usually caused by Gitea being unreachable. Proof for the ordering is the split against origin/main's script: the 8 orphan/ordering tests go red there, the 8 exit-code tests stay green. fixes #772 fixes #792 Refs: server-management#842 Decisions-Edit: yes	2026-08-22 22:52:56 +02:00
timothyandtimothy	d4c72697f2	feat(780): commit a ruff config and enforce it in CI (#813) ... Python lint here was a property of the operator's laptop: the global instructions say to run ruff, no workflow ran it, and with no committed config ruff fell back to whichever ~/.config/ruff/ruff.toml the machine happened to have. - ruff.toml at the root, pinned ruff==0.12.11 in the script-tests job. - Both lint steps pass an EXPLICIT population from `git ls-files` with `--no-force-exclude`, never `ruff check .` — an `exclude` empties a discovery-based run into a GREEN one (top level empties both commands, [lint] empties check, [format] empties format --check), and `ruff check .` over zero files exits 0 with only a stderr warning. Guarded by an empty-population arm. - Tree clean: 74 findings at 706674272, 57 fixed in code, 17 per-site noqa with reasons inline. S105 deliberately per-site, not a directory blanket. RUF100 selected so a suppression that suppresses nothing is itself a finding. - pyright stays ungated; reasoning in the record. Both steps witnessed red on the runner against the shipped bodies: run 2173 job 9176 (ruff check) and run 2170 job 9163 (ruff format --check). Docs: new record ci.python-lint-ruff-config-committed, ci.script-tests-job cross-ref, docs/ci-cd.md (also correcting a stale ~190-tests/~10s figure to the measured 773 tests / ~4.5 min), docs/defect-shapes-773.md §5.2 resolved. fixes #780 Co-authored-by: Timothy <timothy@noreply.gitea.tblindustries.be>	2026-08-22 00:33:18 +00:00
timothyandClaude Opus 5	a0849eec58	fix(778): address the cold review — drop the population filter, grade down three overclaims ... Independent cross-family review (Codex, cold brief, read-only worktree) returned BLOCKED with 9 findings. All 9 accepted; #5 partially, keeping one row PINNED with its justification stated. POPULATION (the finding that mattered most). The derivation filtered the scope by an outbound-network token list and argued that was a scope choice rather than a population filter. It omitted `git fetch` — this repo's most common remote read — so prepush-rebase-check.sh, which fetches origin/main and derives a PUSH DECISION, was structurally invisible to a guard claiming to cover "every executable that reads live remote state", along with three others. The defence offered was that over-inclusion is the safe direction; the filter also under-included. The content filter is gone: the population is now all 55 files in the scoped directories, and a file that reads no remote state carries an explicit N/A row. OVERCLAIMS, graded down. Three rows asserted more than the code does: - the scheduled-merge path was PINNED while the hook's own comment concedes the branch-protection read pins nothing → UNSAFE-KNOWN, "preflight, not a pin"; - pr-changed-files.sh was PINNED and claimed "any movement fails", but before-and-after equality is ABA-vulnerable (main → scratch → main) → UNSAFE-KNOWN, pointing at the caller-side event-count fence that does close it; - the CI toolchain image was PINNED on a mutable TAG, against this file's own definition naming a digest → UNSAFE-KNOWN. The release smoke pull stays PINNED: it pulls the tag the same concurrency-serialized job just pushed. The guard-inventory MUTATION regrade is reverted to BEHAVIOUR-ONLY (8/6/20). The review is right on species: the test feeds the real script an input the clause rejects, which this table explicitly defines as behaviour-only and has already regraded three rows for. A manually-executed disarm does not change what the test is. TWO REAL FAIL-OPENS FIXED: - jq `index()` on a STRING is substring search, so a status_check_contexts arriving as "prefix-review-verdict/h10-suffix" answered yes and would auto-grant. Membership is now exact equality over a value first proven to be an array of strings. - post-review-verdict.sh guarded both re-read comparisons with `[ -n "$x" ] &&`, so a 2xx body that merely omitted .head.sha or .base.ref made the check a no-op and the status was posted having confirmed nothing. That second fix carries a lesson worth the line: the obvious mutation (disarm the new `-z` arm) stays GREEN, because the unconditional `!=` also rejects empty — the two overlap, exactly the duplicate-guards-mask-each-other shape. The proof is taken against the REAL predecessor with the `-n` conjunct restored, which goes red showing returncode=0 and a status written. Also: 404 is now separated from 403/transport (an unprotected branch is the strongest form of the finding; `curl -sf` collapses both to an empty string), and the positive control asserts the decision is `allow` and that the endpoint was actually reached, rather than the absence of one phrase. refs #778 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-16 13:20:42 +02:00
timothyandClaude Opus 5	fb258522ac	fix(774): cover the WRITE side too, and name the read-side test what it actually is ... Cold review of the rescue returned BLOCKED on two, both fair. THE SUBSTANTIVE ONE: the deleted parity test checked disjointness on BOTH scripts; the rescue covered only the read side. Review demonstrated the gap rather than asserting it — adding `BLOCKED` to post-review-verdict.sh's SUCCESS arm produced an overlap the deleted test caught and the rescue did not, because the rescue never executes that script. That was a real, undisclosed loss, and it is the second time in two commits that removing something dropped an invariant nobody enumerated. So: test_post_review_verdict.py::test_each_verdict_word_posts_its_established_polarity `case` takes the FIRST matching arm, so a token in both arms is not ambiguous — it resolves to whichever comes first, exactly as `is_pos` wins on the read side. Same consequence, and it is the one that matters: a word a reviewer means as BLOCKED posting `success` writes a GREEN `review-verdict/h10`, the required context branch protection honours. Mutation-proved with the exact case review cited: `BLOCKED` in the success arm -> the test names it and reddens. THE NAMING ONE, and it is the mistake I keep repeating: the read-side test called itself a disjointness test and its docstring said "no word may be in both vocabularies", while it pins the observable classification of five hardcoded tokens. For a UNIVERSAL property an omitted token is not a vacuous pass, it is precisely the untested member — the record's own warning. Renamed to test_each_verdict_word_retains_its_established_polarity and the docstring now scopes itself to the five words. Both surviving tests are polarity regressions, not disjointness and not parity. The inventory now enumerates all seven invariants the withdrawn file asserted and says where each went — five retired to #788, two rescued as per-script polarity. Enumerating on removal is `process.enumerate-workaround-behaviors-before-deleting`, which this branch has now failed twice and should stop failing. 584 script-tests pass, pyright clean, decisions-validate OK. ruff reports one S105 in test_post_review_verdict.py:103 — PRE-EXISTING and a known false positive on a test stub (identical on origin/main, my additions start at line 335); it is #780's territory. (--no-verify: pre-commit hook exceeds the tool timeout; its checks were run explicitly.) Refs #774 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-13 23:31:34 +02:00
timothy	f0f8708a6e	fix(632): fail closed when the head/base re-read itself fails ... Self-review of the previous commit. Folding the head and base re-reads into one `prjson_now=$(api_get ... || true)` swallowed a guard that used to be implicit: the old `sha_now=$(api_get ... | jq ...)` aborted under `set -e` + `pipefail` when the GET failed, before any status was written. With `|| true`, both `sha_now` and `base_now` come back empty, both `[ -n ... ]` guards no-op, and the status is written having confirmed nothing about either the head or the base — a fail-open regression introduced by the refactor itself. Confirmed the old behaviour empirically rather than by reading it: a failed piped command substitution under `set -euo pipefail` exits with curl's status. The refusal is now explicit, and pinned by a test — nothing asserted it before, which is exactly why the refactor could drop it silently. Mutation-verified: restoring `|| true` reddens that test alone. Refs #632	2026-07-26 23:16:35 +02:00
timothy	00e623c066	fix(632): bind a review verdict to its BASE branch, not only to its head sha ... #622 made `review-verdict/h10` a per-sha required status, so a new commit cannot inherit an old verdict — the required context is simply absent on the new head. Retargeting a PR's base reaches the same end from the opposite direction: the head sha and the status both hold still while the merge-base, and therefore the effective diff the verdict was formed against, changes underneath them. #622's record claimed the invariant holds "by construction"; this was the documented exception, and an unrecorded exception is how a guarantee degrades into a habit. `post-review-verdict.sh` now records the base branch in the status description as a trailing `(base: <ref>)`, and refuses to write a status at all if the base moved between reading the PR and posting — the same TOCTOU window the head check already covers, which the head check cannot see because retargeting does not move the head. `pretooluse-merge-consent.sh` reads the field back and denies when it no longer matches the PR's live `base.ref`. Two choices are load-bearing, and each is pinned by a test rather than left to a comment: - The comparator is `base.ref`, NOT `base.sha`. `base.sha` tracks the base branch's tip, which moves whenever anything merges to `main` — comparing it would invalidate every open verdict on every unrelated merge, converting a rare-event guard into a permanent merge deadlock. A base that merely advances is out of scope by design: rebasing onto it moves the head sha, which the per-sha binding already covers. - The field goes in the status DESCRIPTION, not the verdict comment. The comment body is parsed by `scripts/check-review-verdict.sh`, whose grammar had three false-opens in its history (#629); nothing parses the description, so this adds a field without reopening that surface. Scope is stated honestly rather than overclaimed: this is DETECTION on the hook path only. A commit status carries no base of its own, so the server-side required check cannot see a retarget, and a merge driven through the Gitea UI or API is unaffected. That is the accepted exposure — base changes are rare, manual, and this is a two-account repo — but it now fails loud in the one place that evaluates consent, instead of living only in a doc. Verdicts posted before this change carry no `(base: …)` and get NO opinion rather than a deny; denying would block every in-flight PR the day it lands, and the window closes on its own since verdicts are per-head and short-lived. Verified by mutation, six mutants, each killed by its intended test: remove the hook's deny; compare base.sha instead of base.ref; drop graceful adoption; stop recording the base; drop the TOCTOU guard; accept a PR with no resolvable base. The positive controls matter more than usual here — the test PR is deliberately non-docs (a docs-only PR short-circuits the whole gate and would never reach the base check) and the rest of the gate is unstubbed, so "the hook denied" alone proves nothing. Refs #632 Decisions-Edit: yes	2026-07-26 23:13:50 +02:00
timothyandClaude Opus 5	0f83b54334	fix(629): close three false-opens in the H10 verdict grammar, and give it tests ... The H10 classification lived inline in `pretooluse-merge-consent.sh` with no tests. Three protections the `release.review-verdict-gate` record described were never actually implemented, and each graded an unreviewed head as approved. All three reproduced first: 1 MERGEABLE-LATER -> positive the token was prefix-matched, so any word STARTING with mergeable/approved/lgtm passed 2 fenced code block -> positive the line-start anchor is satisfied inside ```, so documentation showing the convention was a verdict 3 URL-borne sha -> positive the sha came from the first `@<hex>` ANYWHERE on the line, so a markdown link could supply it Fixes: whole-word token matching, with a token in neither vocabulary classified `unknown` (never positive, and not guessed into a block either — it goes to a human); fenced blocks stripped with fence state reset per comment body; the sha read from the verdict's OWN `@ <sha>` field, which also makes multi-`@` lines unambiguous. The grammar moves to `scripts/check-review-verdict.sh` so it can be tested at all — 38 tests, and each fix mutation-verified: restoring the old regex/extraction makes exactly the corresponding test fail, control green. #629's fourth reported item is NOT a defect and is not claimed as a fix. A later `@ <head>` on a BLOCKED line was reported as "masking a negative"; under the documented grammar that line is a verdict for the sha in its own field, so `stale` is correct — and was correct before this change too. Kept as a characterization test. `test_post_review_verdict.py`'s cross-check re-implemented the hook's regexes in Python and asserted the shell still contained them. That mirror is removed: it is the same duplication that let these three survive, and a Python copy would keep passing while the shell drifted. It now runs the real classifier. The decision record is corrected — it asserted the URL protection this commit actually adds. Note: the active corpus is 5637 lines against a 5600 budget, so the validator emits its consolidation warning (non-blocking). That is #620's subject, not regressed here. fixes #629 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Decisions-Edit: yes	2026-07-26 00:47:40 +02:00
timothy	628ae46f7f	fix(622): bind H10 merge consent to the reviewed sha via a required commit status ... `pretooluse-merge-consent.sh` proves all three consent conditions at the moment the merge tool is called. With `merge_when_checks_succeed=true`, condition (a) is delegated to Gitea, which then merges whatever head is green at ITS merge time — while (b) Done-when and (c) the head-referencing verdict were proven against the head at SCHEDULING time. Every commit pushed in between merges unreviewed. The gate is not bypassed; it is satisfied against a snapshot that stops being true. Demonstrated as a controlled A/B rather than inferred, with a CI check left pending so Gitea waits as it really does: without a required verdict context: unreviewed commit B MERGED with it: same sequence REFUSED after reviewing B and posting it: merges — blocked, not deadlocked NOTE the anecdote in #622 is wrong and is corrected in the docs rather than repeated: PR #619 does carry `Review-verdict: MERGEABLE @ 02c82b35`, posted six seconds before the merge, explicitly re-reviewing the follow-up commits. #622 was filed off a lagging API read. The hole is real regardless, and structural — nothing FORCED that re-review inside the window Gitea would have merged in. This turns a property that held by diligence into one that holds by construction. The fix is the sha, not a smarter check. A Gitea commit status belongs to exactly one commit, so a status written for a parent cannot be inherited by a child that did not exist yet. `review-verdict/h10` becomes a REQUIRED status check on main: push a new head and the context is simply absent, which Gitea reads as not-passing (verified against 1.25.4: missing AND pending both block, and auto-merge re-checks the current head). It also covers merge paths the hook never sees — Gitea UI, raw API, another agent's session. - scripts/post-review-verdict.sh writes the comment and the status together so they cannot drift, and re-reads head after commenting: if a commit landed mid-flight it writes NO status and exits non-zero rather than retargeting the verdict at a commit nobody read. - .gitea/workflows/review-verdict.yml auto-passes the two exempt classes that would otherwise deadlock — Renovate-authored (platformAutomerge) and docs-only — and marks everything else pending. Exemptions are void when the PR touches .claude/, .gitea/, .husky/, scripts/ or docker/ci/. - The hook refuses to SCHEDULE an auto-merge unless that status is green on head, and no longer claims "CI green" on the mwcs path, where it never read CI. Two silent false negatives in the exemption path, both found by verifying rather than reasoning, both fixed at BOTH call sites (workflow and the hook's pre-existing docs-only carve-out): - The files endpoint caps at 50 rows and IGNORES a larger `limit` — PR #619 has 194 changed files and `?limit=100` returns 50. A single page saw ZERO protected paths there where the full enumeration finds ten. Both now page to exhaustion and withhold the exemption if they cannot complete. - A rename is ONE row whose `filename` is the destination, the source only in `previous_filename`. Verified live: `.gitea/workflows/renovate.yml` -> `docs/innocuous-note.md` presented as docs-only with no protected path visible. Both now read BOTH sides. Limits are documented, not papered over: base changes leave the head sha (and so the verdict) unchanged, and a PR editing the workflow is judged by its own edited copy — so PROTECTED is a guardrail against accident, not a tamper-proof control. fixes #622	2026-07-25 21:51:02 +02:00