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timothyandClaude Opus 5 b9f031f52a fix(776): a signal must not become consent
Round 3, from two independent re-reviews of the round-2 fix commit. The fix for
the lost-output-on-SIGTERM defect introduced a worse one than the defect.

The signal handler ended in `exit "$?"`, and `$?` at signal time is the status of
whatever command was running — normally 0 for a guard still gathering evidence.
Measured on the real guard, `prepush-donewhen.sh` SIGTERMed mid-curl with an
unticked Done-when box:

  uninstrumented   rc=-15  git ABORTS the push
  instrumented     rc=0    git PUSHES to main

That converts a killed guard into consent, in the permissive direction, in the
hook that protects `main`. The handler now flushes, restores the default
disposition and re-raises the signal, so the process dies the way it would have
died. test_output_survives_a_SIGTERM could not see it: it asserts stdout content,
never reads the return code, and drives a capture-mode hook so no exit-code guard
is ever signalled.

Also from this round:

- The flush ran TWICE on the signal path (signal handler, then EXIT trap),
  writing two contradictory exit records for one invocation — a real decision
  then a phantom no-op — so the report mis-histogrammed the very case the trap
  was added for. It is idempotent now.
- `exec 4<&- 2>/dev/null`: the round-1 blocker pattern again, eight lines below
  the comment forbidding it. Rather than fix the third instance and wait for a
  fourth, test_no_exec_in_the_sink_carries_a_STDERR_REDIRECT now enforces it.
- The log write leaked `Operation not permitted` to stderr on an unwritable log,
  because `>> "$file" 2>/dev/null` opens the file BEFORE redirecting stderr. The
  fail-open test used a path that dies at mkdir and never reached this.
- Classification: an unrecognised value is no longer lowercased into a valid
  decision, exit 2 now dominates a printed `allow` (it is the harness's block
  channel, and reporting a permit for a refused call is the one direction this
  log must never be wrong in), and a non-zero exit no longer annotates a real
  decision with an invented `+error`.
- Classification and replay read the same bytes; they disagreed when a hook used
  fd 4, so the harness saw `deny` while the log recorded `no-op`.
- The stderr normaliser rewrote `line N:` globally, collapsing genuinely
  different diagnostics; it is anchored to the script-path prefix now.
- docs 5.4 claimed the two zero rows were "trigger did not fire", justified by
  unit tests that invoke the scripts directly and therefore prove nothing about
  harness dispatch. It now separates what is established from what is not, and
  stops contradicting its own decision record.

Refs: #776

Decisions-Edit: yes
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 18:52:57 +02:00
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docs/ — task-signal map

Purpose: route a fresh contributor/agent to the minimal set of docs for the task at hand, instead of a mandatory front-to-back read. Update this doc in the same PR that adds, removes, or retitles a doc below, or that changes which sections a task signal points to.

Start here, always

  • CLAUDE.md (repo root) — project intro: architecture, layout, dev commands, conventions, Task Completion Protocol.
  • docs/contributing.md — established code patterns (CQRS/MediatR, LanguageExt, the ChicoryTV SPA, EF Core dual-provider migrations, FFmpeg pipeline, analyzers, testing). Read before any non-trivial change.

Task signal → minimal sections

Signal Read
Session startup / "what's next" (no issue named) docs/handoffs/chicorytv-issue-queue.md (standing kickoff — two concurrent tracks: orientation ‖ scripts/select-queue.sh 5)
Named-issue pickup Skip queue selection; go straight to focused retrieval — see "Knowledge retrieval" below, then the issue body
Adding/changing a /api/* endpoint docs/api-conventions.md checklist + docs/endpoint-index.md
Adding a ChicoryTV SPA screen docs/spa-conventions.md
Scheduling / playout engine work docs/domain-model.md + decisions catalog rows keyed sched.* (docs/decisions/README.md)
Concurrency / optimistic-locking work docs/api-conventions.md §7a/b/c + docs/decisions/optimistic-concurrency.md
Auth / security-surface work docs/decisions/api-auth-security.md
CI / release pipeline work docs/ci-cd.md + docs/decisions/release-ci-governance.md
Proposing a new guard / CI check / regression test convention docs/defect-shapes-773.md §4 (detector menu + the classes where no detector is plausible), then the two rules every guard must satisfy: docs/decisions/records/testing/guard-derives-population-from-source.md and …/guard-ships-with-mutation-proof.md
Adding / changing / deleting a guard file docs/guard-inventory.md — every guard's row is machine-checked by scripts/tests/test_guard_inventory.py, so a new guard must acquire a row before the suite goes green
Finding every site that references a symbol (multi-site fix/sweep) docs/local-lsp-tooling.md — which surface answers, and why a delegated agent must be pointed at the csharp-lsp MCP tools rather than the LSP tool
Live local run / Playwright-MCP verification docs/e2e-local.md + scripts/e2e-local.sh
Adding/changing a UI-E2E browser flow docs/e2e-local.md → "UI-E2E harness" + scripts/e2e-ui.sh
What does a test suite cover docs/testing.md
Legacy Blazor route lookup docs/blazor-route-parity.md (historical #91 phase (b) inventory)
"Why do we do X this way" / challenging a convention Catalog-first: docs/decisions/README.md (active rows) → follow the row's link to docs/decisions/records/<area>/<topic>.md for full rationale. docs/decisions/archive/<area>/ only for "what did the rule used to be."

Knowledge retrieval (MemPalace + catalog + Gitea)

These four rules are the seam agreed with server-management#642 (the Gitea→MemPalace exporter). They apply whether the question comes up via MemPalace, a grep, or a stale comment:

  1. Current conventions/decisions → catalog-first. Start at docs/decisions/README.md; discover via the ErsatzTV-Decisions wing (active) / ErsatzTV-Decisions-Archive (superseded/retired). Resolve by topic/key, never by chasing a file path.
  2. Issue history → evidence, not authority. The Gitea-ErsatzTV wing is historical narrative that may be stale; it never overrides current Markdown.
  3. The breadcrumb rule (the crux behavior change). A file path named inside a historical issue comment (e.g. "grep docs/decisions.md 2026-07-17", "see …") is a breadcrumb, not a live pointer. Find the current rule via the catalog / active wing by concept; do not treat the named path as current. (Why it's safe: still-current → in the active wing, breadcrumb resolves; superseded → the active wing returns the successor and a literal follow lands on a record that announces its own status: superseded; retired → the active wing returns nothing, which is itself the signal. The validator-enforced move-to-archive/ is what prevents the catastrophic "superseded rule read as current" case.)
  4. Fallback when MemPalace is stale/down: docs/decisions/README.md catalog, then rg '^`key: <dotted.key>`' docs/decisions/. MemPalace is never authority nor sole fallback.

MemPalace is candidate discovery only — every passage is verified against its cited Markdown/Gitea source before use. Never derive live queue state from MemPalace, #237, or historical comments; queue state is live Gitea state, retrieved via scripts/select-queue.sh (see docs/handoffs/chicorytv-issue-queue.md). Full retrieval contract (altitude/precedence, staleness bounds, what's mined per issue): docs/handoffs/chicorytv-issue-queue.md → "Knowledge retrieval".

Also present in docs/

  • docs/domain-model.md — what the app IS: entity glossary, channel→playout→schedule/block concept map, where each concept is edited in the SPA.
  • docs/api-conventions.md — checklist for adding/changing a /api/* endpoint (controllers, DTOs, error mapping, auth, OpenAPI regen, tests).
  • docs/spa-conventions.md — playbook for adding a screen to the ChicoryTV React SPA.
  • docs/e2e-local.md (+ scripts/e2e-local.sh) — how to run a live local instance for manual or Playwright-MCP verification.
  • docs/local-lsp-tooling.md — the code-intelligence surfaces (the LSP tool's three servers and the csharp-lsp MCP server): how each is configured, which one a subagent can actually reach, the traps (a cold server answers the first query with a confidently partial result), and scripts/check-local-lsp.sh to verify the preconditions. Read before briefing an agent to find every site referencing a symbol.
  • docs/testing.md — testing map: what each *.Tests project / web suite covers, golden-file nets, the timezone-independence rule, how to run subsets, the per-PR verification gate.
  • docs/blazor-route-parity.md — historical record of the completed #91 phase (b) cutover: the Blazor Server UI is removed and every legacy route now 302-redirects to its SPA equivalent (or falls through to the catch-all → /app). Read it for the full legacy→SPA route inventory.
  • docs/decisions/records/<area>/<topic>.md — one active decision record per file, YAML frontmatter (key/title/status/since/supersedes/superseded-by, plus optional stale-after/sources — ersatztv#603), rationale prose in the body. The filename is the key, so one-active-record-per-key is a filesystem property (ersatztv#610). docs/decisions.md and the topic files remain as the lifecycle-schema narrative plus a "Records formerly in this file" index, which is what keeps older date-based pointers resolvable. Generated active view: docs/decisions/README.md (catalog / task router) — start there. Superseded/retired records live in docs/decisions/archive/ and are read only for history, never for "what is the current rule."
  • docs/ci-cd.md — build/test/release pipeline, versioning, dependency management.
  • docs/rest-api.md — REST API design doc for ersatztv#2 (goals, conventions, per-slice plan). Largely superseded day-to-day by docs/api-conventions.md; read this for the original rationale.
  • docs/mcp.md — the ErsatzTV.Mcp stdio JSON-RPC MCP server (#58): how it wraps /api/v1 as read + cautious-write tools, its config/env vars, auth, security posture, and the tool catalog.
  • docs/channels.md — Channel entity field reference.
  • docs/m3u-xmltv.md — M3U/XMLTV generation overview (ChannelPlaylist, GetChannelGuideHandler).
  • docs/fork-strategy.md — divergence policy vs upstream ErsatzTV.
  • docs/design-sync.md — Claude Design ↔ repo screen workflow (#92).
  • docs/endpoint-index.md — generated REST endpoint index (method/path/operationId/summary per OpenAPI tag). Do not edit by hand; regenerated by scripts/generate-endpoint-index.py / scripts/update-openapi.sh.
  • docs/handoffs/chicorytv-issue-queue.md — static session kickoff prompt + workflow lore. Queue state is live Gitea state, retrieved each session via scripts/select-queue.sh — see that file's standing kickoff for the two concurrent tracks (orientation ‖ selection). ersatztv#237 is a closed, archival historical tracker (superseded by startup.parallel-orientation in docs/decisions.md) — not a live pointer.
  • docs/defect-shapes-773.md — root-cause analysis of the recurring defect shapes across the whole closed-issue corpus (#773): the measured class ranking, the four families they consolidate into, the cheapest mechanical detector per class, the classes where no detector is plausible, and an audit of which configured hooks/MCP servers/LSPs are actually invoked. Read it before proposing a new guard or CI check — §4 is the detector menu, and it argues against enumerating cases one incident at a time.
  • docs/guard-inventory.md — every executable guard file, what it blocks, whether it is a GUARD or TOOLING, and whether it ships a mutation proof (MUTATION / BEHAVIOUR-ONLY / NONE) with a file::function ref. The population is derived from the filesystem and the workflow/hook call sites and compared for set equality by scripts/tests/test_guard_inventory.py, so a new guard cannot ship unclassified and a renamed test cannot leave a row claiming coverage it has lost. Guards implemented inline in workflow YAML are deliberately outside that population — the doc states the limit rather than implying coverage.
  • docs/tracker-retrofit-triage-237.md — audit trail for the #524 triage of ersatztv#237's 111 comments (method, per-comment classification, totals). Evidence for the docs.tracker-comment-retrofit decision; read it only when triaging another over-cap tracker.
  • docs/handoffs/rest-api.md — original handoff prompt for kicking off the REST API work (#2).