Nine questions answered against the tree at 3c7cf95, no implementation.
The ledger is two event types, one projection beside Task, one pure
eligibility function and one read-only endpoint. Nothing in the task
lifecycle changes.
The first slice writes nothing: a projection over the existing log that
must reproduce the release loop, the opencode adapter gap and the
retry-idleness dynamic from runs 10 to 14. A model that cannot represent
debt already known is wrong before any schema is committed to.
Also corrects run 14: the OpenCode Zen free tier is not blocked, the
selected model is.
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Ten defects now, all fixed. The tenth was a five-second retry loop against a
blocked task that ran for twenty-six minutes and pinned the single last_error
slot to a dead task, which is F18 turning a small leak into a blind spot.
Run 11 went on through review, submission and merge without intervention, so
the frozen lifecycle is re-proven above every fix in this session.
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The last rung. A plan sealed through the phase endpoint asserted a helper the
script does not define, and the implementer reported it rather than improvising
or working around it.
Every authority property held. The report carried an observation and no
replacement plan. Orchestra chose the transition. The old plan stayed accepted
until the replacement sealed, then moved to PlanHistory, and progress did not
carry across the ref change. The replacement rendered verbatim into a fresh
implement session.
The three failed attempts are kept, because each was the agent being right: a
file it can restore is reversible, a human correction is authoritative, and a
competent planner does not author a false premise.
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Twelve rungs proven, one not. The typed mismatch never fired, and both
attempts to force it tested the wrong thing: a file the agent can restore is
reversible, and a human correction is authoritative. Neither is a case where
the repository contradicts the plan.
Nine defects, all fixed. Three of them are one shape, a constraint the code
enforces and no brief states. The fourth is what made them expensive: a
refused handoff had no feedback loop, so the same rejected bytes were re-read
at every boundary until the task hit retry_limit.
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The tag orchestra-conformance-v1 marks the full original lifecycle, live-proven
by run 6. Both deployed halves sit there deliberately.
The four plan-machinery commits above it pass build, vet and test, and have
never run against a live agent. The handoff records what they need before they
can: a verification policy on test-e2e, both halves rebuilt together, and F18
fixed first, since the burn-in will generate the retry loops it exists to make
visible.
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Ledger current through F42. Handoff records the two defects found in the
completion tail, the deployed revisions, and the two links the tail still
cannot reach because test-e2e has no gate and no delivery configuration.
PLAN-SPEC-DESIGN.md is the operator-approved design for the ACE-FCA plan gap,
committed as a note. No implementation yet, by instruction.
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The worker finalises a task when .orchestra/done appears. No brief ever named
that file: grepping a rendered launch.md for it returned nothing, in any phase.
review is terminal. Its only legal move is backwards to implement, so a review
that passes has nothing to ask for and, until now, nothing to write either. Run
5 halted exactly there after four clean rotations, with no error anywhere,
because stopping was the correct reading of its instructions.
The brief now names the marker in the terminal phase, says when to write it,
and says it is exclusive with asking to go back. The test asserts the negative
too, so a phase that can still ask is never told to finish instead.
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Frame to implement, four phase transitions, two artifact refusals the agent
corrected itself, and an operator correction delivered to a live plan session
in three seconds and rendered above both accepted artifacts.
Durable human authority, phase isolation, disposable sessions and reliable
handoff are now observed rather than argued.
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Handoff produced, validated, anchored, committed, predecessor slot freed,
successor leased and started with pickup validated. Autonomous.
F33 and F34 proved themselves incidentally in the same event.
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Run 5 reached the phase transition, further than any previous run, then stopped
on F36: the adapter emits a rotation reason the validator refuses.
Each defect tonight was reachable only after the previous fix. Tests passed
throughout.
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Run 5's first attempt never started: ConfirmInput's first poll beat the TUI's
render, saw an empty editor and called it editor_cleared. The prompt sat unsent
while the lease renewed against a pane doing nothing.
Recovery is left to lease expiry rather than a keystroke, so the relaunch stays
autonomous evidence.
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F29 and F30 are both live-proven on the new build. F30's session cleanup then
exposed F32: a running but empty tmux server answers "no current target", which
hasSession did not recognise, so an already-dead pane could never be reaped.
F32 is a side effect of dea56e4. The reply only exists because the runtime now
outlives its last pane.
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Runtime death is live-proven distinct from worker deployment: no renewal in the
20:45 window, expiry and requeue at 20:55:50.
F31 explains run 4 and the F28 disposable task both dying at rotation. The
handoff action is two agent-written lines joined by the code, held to one
line's budget, and the error named a branch the answer cannot reach.
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F28's worker-restart direction is live-proven: three restarts, one pane pid,
one lease epoch, no lifecycle events appended. The runtime-death direction is
still running and will be appended when it lands.
F29 and F30 are both fixed and both unbuilt. Run 5 needs a deployment carrying
them, or it hits F30 the first time a handoff artifact is rejected.
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F28. The worker spawns the tmux server on its first command, so the server and
every agent pane sit in the worker unit's cgroup. Restarting the worker
destroyed the sessions it was restarting to manage, and F16's missing-pane
branch has been firing on deployment rather than on real execution loss.
KillMode is not the fix. Under mixed systemd still SIGKILLs the cgroup
remainder once the main process exits, and process only encodes accidental
orphaning. The runtime becomes its own service instead.
The worker gains After= and Wants= on it, ordering only: a worker that finds
the runtime missing must report that rather than be stopped by it. The unit
holds an idle session so the server outlives its last agent pane.
User must match between the units, since the socket lives under /tmp/tmux-$UID.
The installed worker on workpc runs as kami while this file still says
orchestra; the staged copy is set to kami to match.
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F25. rotationTick returned early for claude before reaching federatedTurn,
which has one call site below that return. On the harness both burn-in runs
used, no phase request could ever be read and every human decision recorded
against a live session went undelivered. Claude still skips the occupancy
state machine below, because it owns its context rollover through the
installed hook. A turn boundary is not a rotation.
F26. The phase brief listed every domain-legal target, so run 4's frame
session read "research, implement" and asked for implement, which the
project's path refuses. The path is Orchestra's to know: the brief now names
one step and says a wrong target comes back with the right one.
F27. A refused request only reached recordError, leaving the agent to rewrite
the same rejected file forever with nothing telling it why. federation.
StatusError makes a 409 classifiable, and the refusal is delivered through
sendPrompt under the F20 guarantee. A transport failure is not an answer: the
request survives and the agent is told nothing.
The F25 regression test fails against the unfixed rotationTick.
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F24 is the last Orchestra-owned editor write outside the delivery guarantee,
in the coordinator-local CLIAdapter.LeasePrompt. It cannot execute on the
deployed topology, so it is logged rather than fixed: run 4 exercises the
federated worker path, whose launch delivery already confirms.
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The brief told the agent to ask for a phase change and never carried the
asking. The agent asked in prose, no code represented the request, and the
session idled until its lease expired. That is what failed run 3.
F21. The agent asks with .orchestra/phase-request.json, and seals
research.json or plan.json where the phase it is leaving produces one. At a
verified turn boundary the worker checks the phase belief, the transition and
the artifact, then calls the coordinator with its lease epoch and a derived
operation id. AdvanceWorkPhase is unchanged, so a request cannot reach a move
the operator surface could not also make. Redelivery is idempotent.
F22. A session now records the phase it was launched to run. One that no
longer matches its task rotates with reason phase_changed, whether this worker
asked for the change or an operator made it.
F20. CLIAdapter.prompt sent handoff and rotation prompts without confirming
them, which is the failure F20 exists to catch. Fixed at the shared call site.
F23 needed no change. Issue comments already become decisions with no
submission, through Reconciler.Reconcile at PreLease and at every turn
boundary. The earlier finding searched internal/operations alone and was
wrong. Tests now cover the boundary it turns on.
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F12 through F19, each against the revision it landed in, with what was
verified live and what has tests only. AUDIT.md is uncommitted and owned by
another session, so the ledger goes here rather than colliding with it.
The entry worth keeping: run 3 failed three times with prompt_not_submitted
while six isolated probes of the same code path submitted on the first Enter.
F17's evidence line settles it, submit_attempts=2 in production against 1 in
every probe.
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The v3 stack, previously an uncommitted working tree, plus this session's two
units and the burn-in instrument. This commit is the burn-in build identity:
coordinator and worker must both report this revision before a task is created.
Workflow (earlier sessions, uncommitted until now): human decision events and
reduction, source cursors and reconcile-before-launch, turn-boundary
reconciliation, internal/agentctx as the single renderer, ace-fca phases with
sealed artifacts, the trajectory gate, bounded grilling, independent review,
task pr enforcement, and human review reflection.
Capability restrictions at the agent boundary: an authz.Agent surface at
GatedWrite may ask and may not act. It also fixes two bugs the unit exposed --
gated surfaces could not reach the two endpoints written for them, and
RequestHumanDecision would block an unowned task while rejecting a question
from the session that did own it.
Turn-boundary reconcile-failure escalation: a streak of consecutive failures
asks the session to hand off, fenced on the lease epoch, with reconcile_failure
as a real handoff reason. The worker was dropping the coordinator's verdict on
the floor; it now acts on it.
Burn-in: herdr.WriteLaunchContext dumps the exact agentctx.Build result to
<worktree>/.orchestra/launch.md at every launch, local and federated. BURNIN.md
is the runbook. deploy/build.sh stamps both binaries from one commit.
go build, go vet and go test ./... pass, 20 packages.
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