Retry-agency invariant: a stage may only retry a gate it has the capability
to change. A write-less stage failing a build/contract/static gate (e.g.
freestyle final_verification with allowedTools=[shell]) can never fix it, so
retrying in place is futile until the budget drains (Vikunja #41).
Instead: open a FailureTicketOpenedEvent (category + requiredCapability derived
deterministically from the gate id, no LLM) and route to a recovery stage that
holds the capability, bounded by a small per-stage route budget.
- Slice 2: SalvageDecision.RECOVER (ternary CONTINUE/RECOVER/FAIL) lets the
review-gate salvage judge hand off to recovery. Shared routeToRecovery()
unifies the deterministic agency guard and the judge on one destination;
decideGateExhaustion now returns StepResult?.
- Return-to-sender: recovery's exit is dynamic (recoveryReturnMove) — it goes
back to the exact ticket-origin stage to re-run its gate, so a write-less
gate anywhere in the graph is handled without skipping intervening stages.
The synthesized recovery->terminal edge is now only a no-ticket fallback.
- Freestyle wiring: ExecutionPlanCompiler injectRecovery flag (Main passes
true) synthesizes a write-capable recovery stage; ticket evidence reaches it
via buildRecoveryTicketEntry.
- Read-only tools always present: StageConfig.effectiveAllowedTools adds
file_read/list_dir to any tool-granting stage (fixes the verifier reaching
for `shell ls -R` to inspect the tree).
Tests: RecoveryRoutingTest (deterministic gate, no static return edge — proves
dynamic return) + GateRetryBudgetExhaustionTest RECOVER case + two compiler
tests. All green; detekt clean.
Closes the COMPLETED-lie where a freestyle stage passes by producing a
schema-valid artifact regardless of whether its build actually succeeded:
a verify stage could run 'npm run build', watch it fail, then self-attest a
build_verified artifact and transition to done. Tool failures never failed
the stage.
The compiler now flags the terminal stage autoBuildGate=true when no stage
declares an explicit build_expectation. Code-ness is decided at runtime, not
compile time (the declared kind is always the generic file_written; only the
written paths reveal code): runExecutionGate folds the FileWritten manifest via
sessionProducedBuildTarget() and promotes to a PROJECT build when a build
manifest (package_json/gradle_module) or an imports_resolve-bearing path was
written, then runs the real command from .correx/project.toml [commands]. A
non-clean exit fails the stage retryably; a docs-only plan is left untouched.
Live-proven (run 3, session 28812b44): gate fired on the real
'npm --prefix frontend run build', exit 2 on a bad tsconfig, RetryAttempted
instead of a false COMPLETED.
Modules green: transitions+workflow 67, kernel 60.
Replaces the single shared per-stage retryCount (reset on TransitionExecuted,
shared across all post-stage gates) with a per-gate budget. Motivated by run
2e468f9f, where a promising freestyle run was terminally FAILED because the
contract gate burned all 3 shared retries on one trivial miss before the
semantic-review gate ever ran.
- StageExecutionResult.Failure gains a `gate` id; each gate tags its failures.
- OrchestrationState gains gateRetryBudgets / gateFailureFingerprints /
gateSalvageUsed (all rebuilt from events, reset per-stage on TransitionExecuted).
- FailureFingerprint normalizes+hashes the failure reason; RetryCoordinator.decide
charges a gate's budget only when the fingerprint is unchanged (no progress),
so a moving run is never penalised. Returns Retry | Exhausted.
- Hybrid exhaustion: deterministic gates fail; the review gate consults a
SalvageJudge (LLM, or a deterministic allow-one-reset fallback), recorded as
RetrySalvageDecidedEvent (invariant #9). CONTINUE resets the gate budget once;
a second exhaustion is terminal.
- Review gate is now the sole authority on review-retry termination; the old
REVIEW_BLOCK_RETRY_CAP is repurposed as a high absolute backstop only.
- ServerModule escaped-exception path now records a truthful terminal
WorkflowFailed (real stage/reason/retryExhausted) via recordUnhandledFailure.
Tests: DefaultRetryCoordinatorTest (fingerprint charging) +
GateRetryBudgetExhaustionTest (deterministic exhaust / review CONTINUE-then-
terminal / review FAIL / null-judge fallback) + reducer coverage.
Plan-compile gate (#19): PlanCompilationCheck seam (null-on-replay),
runPlanCompileGate guards a produced execution_plan slot and compiles its
cached content via ExecutionPlanCompiler, emitting PlanCompileCheckedEvent.
On failure the architect gets a retryable hand-back and self-corrects;
exhaustion terminates the dead-end workflow instead of shipping an
uncompilable plan.
Semantic-review gate (#20): SemanticReviewer seam + StageConfig.semanticReview
opt-in (TOML semantic_review + freestyle plan JSON). runReviewGate reads the
FileWritten manifest (never blind context), asks a review-capable model for
PR-comment findings, and is advisory — blocks retryably only on FAIL plus a
correctness finding >=0.7 confidence, capped at 2 blocks so a stubborn stage
completes advisory-only rather than trapping. SemanticReviewerImpl talks to
the provider directly; any reviewer error degrades to PASS. REVIEW_MAX_TOKENS
is 8192: gemma is a reasoning model and 1024 truncated it mid-reasoning before
it reached the JSON verdict (empty content -> parse degraded to PASS).
Both gates live-QA'd on the real repo: plan-compile passed on a freestyle
web-UI scaffold; semantic review caught all 3 planted bugs in a maxOf() and
exercised the block->retry->cap safety valve end-to-end.
Gate 2 (contract) and Gate 4 (execution) of the 4-gate staged-verification
design, plus the two gate-quality fixes found in live QA.
- Gate 2: KindContractTable (kind→assertions registry, universal floor,
additive project overrides) + KindInference (path→kind, pure/replay-safe)
+ ContractAssertion model; ContractGateEvaluatedEvent (registered);
ContractAssertionEvaluator seam + FileSystemContractEvaluator (FS/TEXT,
COMPILER skipped); runContractGate in runPostStageGates — a stage that
produces file_written artifacts must have every declared+written file
exist/non-empty/parse, else retryable hand-back with per-assertion feedback.
- Option A: ExecutionPlanCompiler puts concrete (non-glob) plan `writes` into
StageConfig.expectedFiles, so a declared-but-unwritten file fails file_exists.
- Gate 4: BuildExpectation enum (none|module|project|tests) + plan field +
closed-set compiler validation; runExecutionGate resolves the alias against
the bound project profile commands and runs it as a deterministic gate.
- Live-QA fixes: react_entry kind so main.tsx/index.tsx aren't required to
export a default component (was an unwinnable false-positive); JSONC
tolerance (allowComments/allowTrailingComma) so tsconfig.json passes valid_json.
Seams are null on the replay harness (no-op) — recorded events are truth (#9).
New TasksReady condition driven by EvaluationContext.readyTaskCount,
fed at resolve time via a kernel-declared ReadyTaskCounter interface
implemented in apps/server over TaskService (keeps core:kernel
decoupled from core:tasks). Loops a graph while ready>0, exits at 0.
Root Child DOX Index assembled, plus a per-module AGENTS.md across the tree
(core/*, infrastructure/*, apps/*, testing/*, and docs/examples/frontend/etc),
each following the DOX section shape: Purpose, Ownership, Local Contracts,
Work Guidance, Verification, Child DOX Index.
Run operator-configured static-analysis commands (compiler/detekt/formatters) as a
deterministic harness step on the producing stage, before the LLM reviewer. A stage
declares `static_analysis = [commands]`; after it produces its artifact, each command
runs in the workspace root and the results are recorded in a StaticAnalysisCompletedEvent
(invariant #9 env observation — recorded live, folded on replay, never re-run). A
non-clean command fails the stage retryably with its output fed back verbatim (§2:
compiler/test output is ground truth), so the implementer fixes it and only static-clean
code ever reaches the reviewer. This makes §5's "reviewer context excludes static findings"
mechanical — the findings are resolved upstream, so the reviewer can't waste inference on
what detekt catches for free; no output-parsing, no context plumbing.
- StaticAnalysisCompletedEvent + StaticAnalysisFinding (core:events) + registration.
- StaticAnalysisRunner seam + ProcessStaticAnalysisRunner (whitespace-split argv, stderr
merged, timeout→nonzero exit) in core:kernel; wired (nullable) into OrchestratorEngines
and the server. Null runner / no workspace root → logged no-op, never blocks the run.
- StageConfig.staticAnalysis + `static_analysis` TOML field; runStaticAnalysis folded into
a runPostStageGates sequence (produces → grounding → echo → static analysis).
- Documented `static_analysis` on the role_pipeline implementer stage (commented; commands
are workspace-specific). The reviewer prompt half shipped in 3467826.
Scope creep — an implementer writing files it never declared — is the
dominant local-model failure that compiler/tests don't catch. A stage can
now declare a `writes` manifest (workspace-relative globs); a FILE_WRITE
that resolves inside the workspace but outside the declared set is raised
as PATH_OUTSIDE_MANIFEST → BLOCK, so the model gets the violation as tool
feedback and retries within scope (the §2 bounded-retry signal).
Implemented as a plane-2 rule beside PathContainmentRule (same effect-based
dispatch on FILE_WRITE, same symlink-safe WorldProbe resolution, same
recorded observations so replay reads them back — invariant #9). An empty
manifest is unrestricted; out-of-workspace targets stay PathContainmentRule's
concern, so the two rules don't double-flag.
- StageConfig.writeManifest + TomlWorkflowLoader `writes` parsing
- ToolCallAssessmentInput.writeManifest, threaded from the active stage via
SessionOrchestrator.runPlane2Assessment
- new ManifestContainmentRule, registered in the server assessor
- shared candidatePathStrings extracted so both path rules judge the same
target set
- role_pipeline.toml documents the option on the implementer stage
The dedicated ManifestViolationEvent the spec names is not added: the
violation is already recorded replayably in ToolCallAssessedEvent (issue +
observations + BLOCK) and surfaced in the TUI rationale band. A first-class
event is worth adding only once reconciliation consumes it.
Implements the replay-safe half of preemptive redirect (graph re-routing). An
operator-confirmed PreemptRedirectEvent overrides the resolver's edge at the next
transition boundary; the pure resolver stays untouched.
- PreemptRedirectEvent / PreemptRedirectBlockedEvent (+ serialization registration)
- TransitionExecutedEvent + TransitionDecision.Move gain optional redirectId — the
durable 'consumed once' marker
- PreemptRedirect.decide: pure decision over the event log (override / block / none),
so replay reaches the identical outcome without re-classifying (invariant #8)
- override wired in DefaultSessionOrchestrator.step above resolveTransition; back-edge
jumps count against the existing maxRetries cap via executeMove
- blocks jumps to unknown stages or targets with unsatisfied needs
- DomainEventMapper: redirect events mapped to null (operator surface ships with the
LLM-proposal + approval-confirm front-half)
- tests: override+consume-once, block-on-needs, block-on-unknown, ignore-consumed
Front-half (LLM proposal -> approval-gate confirm -> emit PreemptRedirectEvent) is
deferred; needs live LLM verification. Until it ships no redirect event is emitted in
production, so the override is inert. Spec: docs/plans/2026-06-10-freestyle-graph-rerouting.md
StageConfig.modelId; InferenceRouter gains a backward-compatible model-aware
route() overload (default ignores modelId, so static routers and test fakes are
unaffected). New ManagedInferenceRouter (infra commons) resolves a target model
per stage (stage.modelId > capability match > default) and ensureLoaded()s it
before routing, returning the live managed provider — its id changes with the
resident model, so there is no stale health cache to invalidate on swap.
ModelManager.ensureLoaded default delegates to the idempotent load(). Main wires
the managed router on the [[models]] path; the static path keeps DefaultInferenceRouter.
Plan: docs/plans/2026-05-31-model-lifecycle-management.md (slice 2 of 5).
Wire SemanticValidator into the production validator pipeline and
consolidate cycle-policy types under core:validation.
- Add SemanticValidator(CycleExitRule(requirePolicyForCycles=false))
to the prod ValidationPipeline (no-op default, preserves behavior)
- Move CyclePolicy/Binding/Signature/Factory from core:transitions.policy
to core:validation.policy (validation already owns ValidationContext)
- Rename CyclePolicyBindingRule -> CycleExitRule (issue code unchanged)
- Delete dead CyclePolicyResolver + PolicyValidation
- Add field to ProcessResultArtifact ("success"/"failed")
- Materialize ToolResult.Failure as a failed ProcessResult artifact
in the orchestrator, with artifact lifecycle events emitted
- Non-recoverable ToolResult.Failure now fails the stage ("FATAL:")
instead of being silently fed back as LLM context
- Fix enterStage to return Continue on non-retryable failures,
enabling back-edge transitions (fix/retry loops)
- Add ArtifactFieldEquals transition condition with flat and
nested dot-notation field access + FieldOperator enum
(eq, neq, gt, gte, lt, lte)
- Wire artifact_field_equals through ConditionFactory and
TomlWorkflowLoader (condition_field, condition_operator)
- Cache ProcessResult artifact content for evaluation context
- Add 16 tests covering all condition operators and error cases
- DefaultTransitionResolver catches condition evaluation errors
and returns Blocked instead of crashing
fixed detekt issues where possible.
fixed disttar failing build because tools is added twice in the server module.
added workflowId where required.
fixed some tests not being recognized because of runBlocking without explicit return type.
formatting + imports.
Implements the full conversational router facade: RouterState, RouterReducer,
RouterProjector, RouterRepository, RouterContextBuilder, RouterFacade, protocol
types, WebSocket wiring, infrastructure factory, and deterministic test suite.
Also fixes spec divergences found in post-implementation review:
- Add SteeringNote domain object to core:context (epic prerequisite)
- Rename RouterFacade.handleChat → onUserInput per spec interface contract
- Add in-memory ConcurrentHashMap conversation history to DefaultRouterFacade
- Make RouterRepository.getRouterState suspend
- Rename RouterConfig.keepLast → conversationKeepLast, fix defaults (6, 4096)
- Refactor InfrastructureModule.createRouterFacade to self-assemble internally
- Fix FileReadTool: allowedPaths was dead constructor param (@SuppressUnusedParameter);
now stored as private val and enforced in validateRequest
- Disable koverVerify on modules tested via testing/ submodules or with
hardware/integration dependencies (24 modules); build gate now passes clean
Deletes 21 Module.kt scaffolding objects that were never wired into any DI
registry. Removes unused imports across 8 production and 3 test files.
Restores StageExecutor, CyclePolicyResolver, PolicyValidation, and
ReplayContractTest — these are deferred features, not dead code.
Removes 6 files audited as fully unused: StageExecutor interface (shadowed
by kernel), CyclePolicyResolver and PolicyValidation (deferred cycle policy),
ApprovalRoutes (never registered), TuiNavigation (superseded by reducer),
and ReplayContractTest abstract class (no concrete subclasses).
ArtifactRelationshipType and CyclePolicy were audited but retained —
both are actively referenced by production code.
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