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Closes #113. Stacked on #110 (base feat/103-publish-pr). Retarget it to main once #110 merges.

What it does

#113 worried that commits the ledger does not record reach the published PR. Decision (user, 2026-10-03): keep publishing the whole head, as the design intends, and add a test and documentation.

  • Where the head comes from. Before the runner's first commit, the review records the user's checkout (base..HEAD). Those commits have no ledger entry, so they count as foreign. The runner's commits come on top.
  • What the PR carries. Both the user's commits and the runner's.
  • How the foreign commits are handled. Review shows their changes in the Unplanned row, and the merge gate blocks (unplanned) until each is assigned or accepted.
  • No "missing commit" push failure. The runner repository fetches the head before any run.
  • Rebase mapping stays with Add pre-merge rebase and head-bound command checks #22.

No code change.

Tests

test/runner-publishing.test.ts publishes the demo task, whose last commit a person made. It checks that:

  • the ledger does not own that commit;
  • the PR branch is the whole head;
  • review shows its debug.log change as Unplanned;
  • MergeCoordinator.status reports the unplanned blocker.

Removing that blocker fails the test. All 13 tests in the file pass.

Found along the way (not changed here)

The merge gate (GhMergeGateway) inspects and merges the PR named in github.pullRequest, not the task's published PR. So its Unplanned protection covers the published PR only when the two are the same. The docs now say so. Pointing the gate at the published PR is a separate follow-up.

Review rounds

Round Source Findings Outcome
1 /code-review high the docs said the ledger records the user's commits as foreign (it has no entry for them); the docs implied the merge gate guards the published PR fixed
2 /code-review high none —

Review-lesson audit. Both findings fall under "Treat every behavioural claim … as something to verify". No new rule is needed.

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mchwang and others added 2 commits October 3, 2026 15:34
TaskPublishing (runner/publishing.ts) publishes the task's PR with the real
publisher: GhAlreadyFixedGateway, GhPullRequestGateway and a GitBranchPusher
that pushes from the runner-owned repository to the configured repository on
GH_HOST (never a configured URL), overwriting only ledger-owned commits.

- Mode by status: a running task whose plan items have all run gets a ready
  PR; a task in needs human gets a draft PR with what sent it there.
- When: after a start/resume run ends; when a refused start/resume moves the
  task to needs human; on the new `publish` runner action; once at startup,
  after the CLI re-verifies the lock, if a publish is owed.
- Schema v10 `publish_outcomes`: the last outcome, shown as `publish` in
  GET /api/runner and replayed by the publish action. Tasks already running
  or in needs human at the upgrade are recorded as `not published`.
- Shutdown: publishes are aborted in step 1 and awaited before the Store
  write gate closes. Start, resume and a second publish are refused while a
  publish runs. Demos never publish.
- github.baseBranch is required with a runner block, checked before the lock.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ommits (#113)

A task's head is the user's branch (base..HEAD, recorded by the review
before the runner's first commit) plus the runner's commits on top, so the
published PR carries commits the ledger has no entry for. That is the
design: they count as foreign, review shows their changes in the Unplanned
row, and the merge gate blocks until each is assigned or accepted.

A test publishes the demo task, whose last commit a person made, and checks
the branch holds it, review shows its change as Unplanned, and the merge
gate reports the unplanned blocker. The docs say what is published and that
the gate still inspects github.pullRequest, not the published PR.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
mchwang and others added 27 commits October 3, 2026 19:47
…env, CLI test

- A draft PR's problems name the current attempt's safety finding before a
  spent budget, so a budget that ran out later cannot hide the violation.
- The already-fixed and PR gateways take the setup's env, the same as the
  push, so GH_HOST and credentials agree; recorded errors are redacted with
  that env's token values (RunnerAssembly.env, TaskPublishing).
- A CLI test shows the startup publish runs after the lock is verified.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…13-ledger-only-publish

# Conflicts:
#	docs/implementation/pull-request-opening.md
#	test/runner-publishing.test.ts
… feat/103-publish-pr

# Conflicts:
#	web/cli.ts
…103)

The publish action's ID lived only in memory, so a crash after its
'publishing' reply committed and before the publish recorded an outcome
left the replay saying 'publishing' for ever. A reply that still says
'publishing' now counts as unsettled: any later outcome of the task
settles it (one publish runs per task), and startup settles it as
'stopped' (interrupted) when no publish is owed. Copilot review on PR #110.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ver record at startup (#103)

An automatic publish (after a run, at startup) had no durable in-flight
marker: a crash after its PR opened and moved the task to in review, but
before its outcome was written, left publish.last empty or stale for good,
since startup then saw nothing owed and no unsettled action. Every publish
now records 'publishing' before its first external call (and does not run
if that write fails); startup publishes again when one is owed and
otherwise settles a leftover 'publishing' record as 'stopped'. Copilot
review on PR #110 (previously missed finding).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…lock before the lock (#103)

- A task whose earlier run owes a safety escalation or a scope pause (its
  write failed, or the process stopped after the item settled) is not
  finished work, but every item has run, so no later run would pay it and a
  ready PR would show unreviewed out-of-scope changes. Publishing refuses it
  (mode), and a run's end, startup and a refused publish action have the
  executor pay it first (ItemExecutor.owes/payOwed).
- The CLI refuses a runner with no github block before taking the lock, so
  the missing block is reported as itself, not as a lock conflict.

Copilot review on PR #110.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- A ready publish needs every item of the current plan revision completed
  at that revision, checked in the Store's publish guard before every
  guarded write: a revision that adds an item during a publish's first
  GitHub lookups no longer gets a ready PR.
- Only a publish action refused because of owed work pays it; a refusal
  for a stale view, a busy task or a replay starts nothing.
- A task recorded as 'not published' at the v10 upgrade stays unpublished
  until a person asks, whatever changes since.
- A failure while paying owed work no longer stops startup from settling
  an in-flight record or a stuck reply.
- A publish refused while a lost opening settles is retried at that
  opening's deadline (settleRemaining).
- Startup settles a reply that is the only thing stuck with the outcome on
  record, leaving that record (and its version stamp) as it is.
- The owed-work scan runs only for a status that could publish, not on
  every poll.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- A publish that ends with an opening still in flight (its own reply was
  lost, not only a refusal while one settles) is retried at the opening's
  deadline; a list-lag OpeningUnsettled is retried after 30 s.
- 'not published' (v10) holds only until a run starts after the upgrade.
- Only the publish action's own owed-work refusal pays that work; a stale
  request or any replay applies nothing.
- A draft waits only for an owed safety finding, not an owed scope pause
  (which a needs-human task cannot record).
- startup() leaves a publish of this process alone; the stopped record it
  writes keeps the interrupted publish's draft flag; the retry decision
  cannot throw out of run().
- owes() reads only owed findings in memory and completed out-of-scope
  attempts (Store.scopeFindingHeads), not every attempt, on a poll.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…/codeboost into feat/113-ledger-only-publish

# Conflicts:
#	test/runner-publishing.test.ts
- Bound the automatic retry (AGENTS.md: back off recurring external
  polling): one timer per task; a lost opening is waited for only while its
  deadline is ahead, so one still stuck after it (two PRs carry its marker,
  the repository changed, GitHub keeps failing) no longer re-publishes
  every second; the list-lag retry runs once per chain.
- A person's start or resume that moves an upgraded task (v10 'not
  published') ends that hold, so a refused resume that sends it to needs
  human gets its draft.
- Owed work is paid only where a run would (running, queued) or a draft
  waits on it (needs human).
- The 'not published' tests space their timestamps, which are compared.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Retry budget per chain (until a publish settles): at most one retry at a
  lost opening's deadline and one short retry, so a GitHub outage that
  fails every open no longer republishes every settle time for ever.
- An 'opened' outcome that left the PR or the task where the publish did
  not mean them (GitHub showed another head, so the PR was drafted and the
  task stayed running; a draft change failed) is recorded with
  `reconcile`: still owed, and given the short retry.
- A refusal just as an opening's deadline passes gets the short retry.
- The short retry's delay is a test seam (RunnerAssembly.shortRetryMs);
  tests now cover the list-lag retry, the outage bound and reconciling.
- Tests that proved less than they claimed: the owed-work failure test now
  reaches the failure; the CLI baseBranch half holds the lock; the CLI
  startup test stops only after the outcome is recorded.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- A run's end, a person's action or a restart starts a new retry chain with
  its own budget (AGENTS.md: reset on a lifecycle change or user action);
  a retry timer's own publish does not, so retries stay bounded.
- No short retry while a lost opening's deadline is still ahead (it would
  only be refused again).
- `reconcile` only while the task can still be published; the action reply
  carries it; the settleHead comment no longer overstates.
- The owed-work path of a refused publish action carries the person's
  intent (personAsked), like start/resume.
- publishOwed runs the lock check itself, first: no order of the CLI's
  lines can start a startup publish before the lock is verified.
- Tests: the one-short-retry bound, the new chain on a person's action, and
  the lock check running first.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- A person's publish action drops a retry the old chain armed, so it cannot
  fire later on the new chain's budget (at most two automatic publishes per
  chain, not three).
- Tests for two round-5 fixes that no test covered: no reconcile for a task
  that can no longer be published, and the action reply carrying reconcile.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Tests for the owed-safety-finding gate: a ready publish is refused while
  a finding is owed, the action pays it and the draft follows; a
  needs-human task's owed finding is paid at startup before its draft; a
  replay of that refusal pays nothing.
- The draft of a task whose owed finding was paid names that finding: the
  executor settles it in memory only, so TaskPublishing keeps the reason
  payOwed returned (it was lost before).
- A run's end starting a new chain drops the old chain's armed retry, as a
  person's action does (#newChain): one timer per task, tested.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A paid safety finding names a draft only while the task stays in needs
human on the same current attempt; a later return has its own reason.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A publish refused by a guard (a race) gets the one short retry; a draft
names a finding whose save failed even after the budget ran out; a
needs-human task pays only an owed finding, not a scope pause.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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mchwang changed the base branch from feat/103-publish-pr to main October 4, 2026 16:15
… feat/113-ledger-only-publish

# Conflicts:
#	docs/implementation/pull-request-opening.md
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