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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Acts on the 2026-07-30 senior review (REVIEW.md findings 1, 2, 4, 5, 7).
Docs (finding 1): CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md both claimed Design B "has zero
clients - no worker binary exists". cmd/orchestra-worker/main.go is the
deployed worker, and the non-local-herdr guardrail has landed in
Coordinator.adapterFor. Both sections rewritten; AUDIT.md gains a matching
federation-status record. The Phase 5 retention / Phase 6 deletion decision
for Design A is preserved, not flattened.
clients/ un-ignored and tracked, including the .service unit and README:
deployed code belongs in version control. Design A is NOT deleted here.
progress.md (finding 2): the file was deleted after 636ed8a, yet CLAUDE.md
instructed every session to cross-check against it. References removed from
CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, internal/orchestrator/rotation_test.go (comment only)
and deploy/hooks/orchestra-codex-poll.sh; AUDIT.md now carries the log role.
web/go.mod (finding 4): a module stub ends the parent package graph at the
directory boundary, so go list ./... no longer yields
web/node_modules/flatted/golang/pkg/flatted. A build tag cannot work - the
package is in the package list before tags are evaluated. Local/CI-only
breakage: Dockerfile.api builds ./cmd/orchestra by explicit path and
.dockerignore already excluded node_modules.
orchestra-worker (finding 5): untracked (8.9MB, mode 100755, still on disk);
both binaries now gitignored.
Token compare (finding 7): cmd/orchestra/main.go:139,582 use
subtle.ConstantTimeCompare, matching the authz.go idiom. The token != ""
guard stays first, so an empty configured token still means auth-disabled
rather than auth-bypass. Three further plain != secret compares remain in
internal/federation/federation.go:343,346,368 - tracked, not fixed here.
Also included from the review pass: orchestrator.go records adapter-resolution
failures in SessionHealth.LastError instead of dropping them on a bare
continue, plus an Observed flag so lease-seeded health is not mistaken for a
live reading, with a covering test. GET /v1/tasks/<id>/health now returns a
record with last_error where it previously returned a bare 404.
REVIEW.md's own second pass claimed every checkable fact held up; four did
not. AUDIT.md never contained the false Design B claim (AGENTS.md was the
second copy), the guardrail is at orchestrator.go:312 not :309, the
progress.md site list missed the codex-poll hook, and only orchestra-worker
was tracked. Verified: go build, go vet, go test, and
go list ./... | grep node_modules all clean with every change applied
together. No live herdr or pane was touched; nothing was deployed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GEugbHVYfAXFpTqDYbByEB
Introduces the browser-facing surface and the worker-side protocol that
backs it:
- internal/ui: joined read model plus per-task lifecycle and approval
controls, kept separate from the raw endpoints workers and harnesses
depend on.
- internal/webui + web/: Vite/React app, build output embedded via
go:embed and served as an SPA fallback.
- federation: per-(worker, task) captures with a monotonic revision that
advances only when pane text actually changes, and a command queue
restricted to grant_approval / deny_approval, each bound to the capture
revision the operator acted on.
- orchestra-worker: publishes captures and executes commands only after
re-reading the pane and confirming the revision still matches. Sends
keystrokes only for a visible y/n prompt or OpenCode's fully labelled
selector, and refuses to deny through that selector rather than guess
at unobservable navigation.
This is the ownership boundary AUDIT.md's B14 and B17 call for: approval
becomes an explicit, revision-bound operation executed by the worker that
owns the pane, instead of a side effect of prompting over a
coordinator-driven remote socket.
Also ignores the web build inputs and outputs. node_modules ships vendored
Go packages, so go build and go test walk into it if it is merely
untracked; both node_modules and .node_modules are excluded.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01535A3Y8RtkAi8wYuWhtkEd
Closes the last two S11 triggers. internal/herdr/activity.go normalizes
tool/function calls per harness (ClaudeActivity verified against the
existing transcript format, CodexActivity best-effort/unverified,
OpenCodeActivity refuses — no confirmed per-tool-call source exists) and
implements the three thrash rules plus a narrow milestone check
(successful git commit as the last call).
CLIAdapter.RequestHandoffReason asks the agent to write a handoff with
meta.reason set, same "ask, don't invent" pattern as the existing handoff/
report requests. rotate() and TurnDecision generalize the manual-bypass
shortcut to manual/milestone/thrash and request (never directly release)
on a detected trigger.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01W1rkJ2hBMybnJctPbcy4tT
rotate() and TurnDecision now check the agent's own handoff for
meta.reason=="manual" before evaluating occupancy/turn-boundary — per
spec §5.3, that reason is itself the boundary signal ("a coherent unit
finished and the next is independent"), so it bypasses both checks and
releases immediately. Extracted the shared release-and-anchor-certify
tail into Coordinator.finishRelease so the manual path gets the same
anchor safety guarantee as the threshold path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01W1rkJ2hBMybnJctPbcy4tT
Coordinator.Soft (default 0.55, ORCHESTRA_OCCUPANCY_SOFT) makes rotate()
and TurnDecision request a handoff advisory-only once occupancy crosses
the soft threshold, well before Hard forces a release/rotation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01W1rkJ2hBMybnJctPbcy4tT
Closes Phase 2 items 1-2 (AUDIT.md): Coordinator.TurnDecision evaluates
occupancy/turn-boundary/handoff state synchronously per turn and returns
continue/prepare_handoff/rotate_now/refuse, exposed via POST
/v1/harness/turn. The Claude Stop hook now calls it on ordinary turn
boundaries instead of no-op'ing, and exits 2 on refuse.
Also closes B7's post-hoc producer: /v1/harness/complete now appends a
QuotaReported event from the completing lease's harness usage, so the
router's quota-availability filter and the brief's quota_consumed stop
evaluating against a permanent zero. Live per-harness push producers
(Claude statusline, Codex rollout tail) remain unbuilt — investigation
recorded in AUDIT.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01W1rkJ2hBMybnJctPbcy4tT
MarkdownChanges was deleted as dead code, but the underlying spec
requirement wasn't abandoned — rebuilt it independently. Adds
continuity.ConventionsHash for AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md/VOCAB.md, tracks a
per-session snapshot on herdr.Session, and adds
Coordinator.checkConventions (run every Monitor tick) which compares
each active session's snapshot against its project's base repo and
pushes an in-pane notice via a new herdr.ConventionsNotifier
capability when they drift.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01W1rkJ2hBMybnJctPbcy4tT
Release already validated and uploaded a §6.1 handoff, but nothing ever
told the agent the .orchestra-handoff.json convention existed, so the
file it waited on never got written. rotate() now prompts the agent
once via a new optional herdr.HandoffRequester capability
(CLIAdapter.RequestHandoff) when the file is missing, and defers
Release until it appears, mirroring the .orchestra-report.md/B3 ask
pattern rather than inventing a handoff.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01W1rkJ2hBMybnJctPbcy4tT
Fixes AUDIT.md's B6: nothing wrote a TASK.md into a worktree, so
continuity.ValidatePickup had no caller and no file to check.
- continuity.RenderTaskFile/TaskFileHash: render and hash the immutable
§6.2 TASK.md from a domain.Task.
- GitWorktrees.Create writes and commits TASK.md into every freshly
created worktree (must be committed, not dirty, for ScratchCommit's
immutability check and for a stable hash).
- Coordinator.Start now runs continuity.ValidatePickup (anchor SHA,
dirty-file hashes, TASK.md hash) against the real worktree before
bootstrapping a successor onto a handoff_ref, and blocks the task
instead of bootstrapping on a validation failure.
Still open from Phase 4: handoff production (agent writing the real
handoff; Release still refuses per B5), ScratchCommit wiring before
release, and the §6.2 bootstrap-prompt rewrite — see AUDIT.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01W1rkJ2hBMybnJctPbcy4tT
Verified against a live herdr instance (192.168.1.105:9245) that pane.kill,
pane.release, and pane.rotation_signal never existed in the protocol, as
AUDIT.md's B5 suspected. Real method list captured in deploy/herdr-schema.json.
- Kill now calls the real pane.close({pane_id}).
- RotationSignal interface/method/call-site deleted; no real equivalent exists.
- Release now refuses loudly instead of calling a nonexistent method — the
real pane.release_agent can't return a handoff_ref either way (herdr
doesn't write handoffs, the agent does), so a real fix needs Phase 4
handoff production first.
Also documents Phase 0 findings in AUDIT.md/progress.md, and adds
CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md with project-specific knowledge (herdr protocol facts,
deployment topology, a currently-stuck live task, the federation fork) for
future sessions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01W1rkJ2hBMybnJctPbcy4tT
CLIAdapter.Occupancy called a.Usage(s.PaneID), but ClaudeUsage/CodexUsage/
OpenCodeUsage all take a filesystem path to session state, not a herdr pane
id. Every call failed with "open <pane-id>: no such file", and
Coordinator.rotate silently `continue`d past every failure, so occupancy
always looked unmeasurable and rotation never fired.
Add herdr.Session.SessionFile and CLIAdapter.resolveSessionFile:
- claude: ClaudeSessionFile resolves the transcript by newest-mtime under
Claude Code's own encoded project directory
(~/.claude/projects/<abs-worktree-with-/-as-minus>/*.jsonl). This is the
Phase-1 fallback; the Stop hook's transcript_path (Phase 2) is the
authoritative source once wired.
- codex: routes through the existing CodexActiveUsage sqlite/rollout
discovery instead of the pane id.
- opencode: resolution needs a live session id from the SSE/status API,
not derivable from the worktree alone — refuses loudly with a pointer
to AUDIT.md Phase 1 rather than guessing a path, per the spec's "verify
against a live session before wiring any trigger" (§5.2.1).
A missing/unreadable session file is now a hard error, not a silent
zero-usage Usage{}. SessionHealth gained Occupancy/OccupancyError fields,
populated every refreshSessionHealth tick, so GET /v1/tasks/{id}/health
makes the number rotation decides on observable before trusting it.
Tests: TestClaudeUsageIsLastTurnNotCumulative guards the exact trap named
in §5.2.1 (large early-turn total, small last-turn usage -> low occupancy).
TestClaudeSessionFileNewestByMtime and TestClaudeSessionFileMissingIsHardError
cover the resolver.
AUDIT.md B1. Live verification against a real Claude Code session (the
spec's own acceptance bar for this phase) still needs to happen on a host
with an actual session — not possible from this sandbox.
AdapterFactory.Herdrs is keyed by herdr instance id (e.g. "homesrv-claude"),
but Reconcile, expire, and rotate all looked adapters up by session.Harness
(the harness kind, e.g. "claude"). In production this key never resolves,
so every one of those call sites silently no-ops via a bare `continue`:
orphaned panes are never killed on restart, expired leases never kill their
pane, and rotation exits before it begins.
Add Coordinator.adapterFor(taskID, session), matching the fallback already
used correctly by refreshSessionHealth (HerdrID, then the lease's
HarnessID, then Harness as a last resort), and route all four call sites
through it.
Regression test TestAdapterResolvedByHerdrIDNotHarnessKind registers an
adapter under "homesrv-claude" and leases with Session.Harness == "claude"
(reproducing the real key mismatch) and asserts rotation still fires — the
existing rotation tests used a keyed-by-nothing fake adapter that matched
any lookup string and so masked this bug entirely.
AUDIT.md B2.
Pre-existing uncommitted work found at session start: rotation now emits
anchor_sha on TaskReleased (previously silently dropped by store.Append
validation), multi-repo Gitea provider support, per-project git worktree
roots, and associated test coverage. Committing as a checkpoint before
starting remediation work tracked in AUDIT.md.
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